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Revolution VS. Evolution

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 12:26 AM








WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?

YES, I’M STILL FEELING THE FEMININE. I’M FEELING THE SACRED, THE CRY FOR BALANCE, THE PANG OF LONGING FOR THE GREAT MYSTERY RETURNING TO THE AFFAIRS OF HUMANKIND.

The revolution we seek is not a  revolution solely of the ever shifting human condition, is not one of three-dimensional form. Neither is it tied to the fourth dimension. Even time must give way to timelessness. The revolution sought is the fulfillment of the natural drive of consciousness to universally propagate the true nature of reality within all spheres of existence, animate or inanimate. 

This activity of consciousness vibrates through all beings and all forms; through all events and conditions. All is spiritual in the ultimate sense, because the point of origination of all life is in spiritual spheres beyond dimensional time, space, matter, and cosmic energy. The human condition with its social, cultural, and political aspects is, in the end, pure consciousness filtered through mind and emotions, and beliefs.

Revolutions come and go. Economies and nations rise and fall. There is a time for all things. The Obama revolution came in its seminal rise of possibility to its nearing final degree of current cyclical realization, as did the prophesy of 2012. The juxtaposition of this is important for reflection. A window will have opened and closed on that cycle of spiritual quickening. Bernie Sander’s claim to a new revolution—in essence a commitment to fulfilling Obama’s—is flyblown. Artful labeling for effect, but false. The Bernie revolution is not new or original. It is “Yes we can” again, hoping for a better result. Like women’s suffrage, a woman president signifies evolutionary revolution—new, historic, metamorphosing, and thereby, a change that is irreversible.

Planting the seeds for replacing the governing patriarchy … Now that would be revolutionary. The imbalance between masculine and feminine evident in centuries of patriarchy can only be rebalanced by the feminine. Restoring the balance between male and female requires a seismic shift, requires disengagement with the conditioned spell of the patriarchy to keep the power of the feminine in check. Breaking the spell is the road to the freedom we seek.

“Where are the women?” said the two Iroquois advisers to Ben Franklin. They understood that the absence of women in the delegate body hashing out the U.S. Constitution was indicative of a critical imbalance for ideal self-governance. A short-coming that has not changed for almost 228 years (Philadelphia Convention—U.S. Constitution created Sep. 17, 1787 / ratified June 21, 1788).   

Gloria Steinem relates her come to truth experience on Native American self-governance in this way: 

“Still when a Laguna law student from New Mexico complained that her courses didn’t cite the Iroquois Confederacy as the model for the U.S. Constitution—or explain that this still existing Confederacy was the oldest continuing democracy in the world—I thought she was being romantic. But I read about the Constitutional Convention and discovered that Benjamin Franklin had indeed cited the Iroquois Confederacy as a model.12 He was well aware of its success in unifying vast areas of the United States and Canada by bringing together Native nations for mutual decisions but also allowing autonomy in local ones. He hoped the Constitution could do the same for the thirteen states. That’s why he invited two Iroquois men to Philadelphia as advisers. Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?”

As was women’s suffrage, electing a woman president is revolutionary, and will change everything on the subtle level of modulating the evolutionary force of awakening consciousness. The Bernie revolution is the haunting of the past. It is out of step with this emerging call of spiritual awareness. The Bernie revolt is exciting but doesn’t address the centuries-old fundamental problem—patriarchy. Only the feminine assuming its proper place in the affairs of humankind can turn things around. This is beyond politics rooted in the human condition. All isms and ideologies fail in the ultimate ascendency of consciousness. It is not perfect polity that Hillary Clinton brings to the table. It is the feminine, here now—at this time, at this point in history, in this cycle of human evolution. The clock is ticking.

ALL MY RELATIONS

Carl Hitchens

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NOTE: The U.S. Senate recognized Native American’s contribution to our form of democracy as follows:

“To acknowledge the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the United States Constitution and to reaffirm the continuing government-to-government relationship between Indian tribes and the United States established in the Constitution. 

“Whereas the original framers of the Constitution, including, most notably, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, are known to have greatly admired the concepts of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy;

“Whereas the confederation of the original Thirteen Colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the Constitution itself; and

“Whereas, since the formation of the United States, the Congress has recognized the sovereign status of Indian tribes and has, through the exercise of powers reserved to the Federal Government in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution ( art. I, §.2, cl. 3), dealt with Indian tribes on a government-to-government basis and has, through the treaty clause (art. II, §.2, cl. 2) entered into three hundred and seventy treaties with Indian tribal Nations;

“Whereas, from the first treaty entered into with an Indian Nation, the treaty with the Delaware Indians of September 17, 1778, the Congress has assumed a trust responsibility and obligation to Indian tribes and their members;

“Whereas this trust responsibility calls for Congress to ‘exercise the utmost good faith in dealings with Indians’ as provided for in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, (1 Stat. 50);

“Whereas the judicial system of the United States has consistently recognized and reaffirmed this special relationship …

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My Life on the Road, VII: What Once Was Can Be Again, p. 223

Gloria Steinem 

<https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/my-life-on-the-road/id1003000570?mt=11>

2100TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION, H. CON. RES. 331, In the Senate

of the United States, Oct. 5 (legislative day, September 26), 1988, October 21 (legislative day, OCTOBER 18), 1988, Concurrent Resolution

<http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/hconres331.pdf>