WAR CRIMINAL n.
A person commiting any of various crimes,
such as genocide or the mistreatment of
prisoners of war, committed during a war
and considered in violation of the conventions
of warfare.
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 A Virtual Ecotopia
  By Kelpie Wilson
  t r u t h o u t | Perspective

  Wednesday 24 November 2004

  Like many, my first thought on seeing the electoral map of November 2nd was a blue state secession. The blue left coast hanging there off of Canada looked just like Ecotopia to me.

  For a certain brand of idealist coming of age in the 1970s, Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia was required reading. This unpretentious novel is a travelogue through the imaginary nation of Ecotopia: the three west coast states that secede from the Union in 1980 to create a sustainable, cooperative culture while spurning militarism, pollution and male domination.

  In Ecotopia, there are no private automobiles. Pavement is torn up to grow food in the middle of cities. Power comes from the sun and the thrills of consumerism are replaced by home-made music, art and games. Forests are protected and the air and water are clean. Cooperation and community subsume competition and alienation. It's not a perfect society, but it is sane and sustainable. About the opposite of the red hell we are mired in today.

  Actual political secession on the part of the blue states is not realistic, but in the days and weeks following the electoral debacle, many environmentalists have called for a turn to state and local politics to achieve environmental goals.

  There are real gains to be made at the state level. Frustrated by lack of federal action on global warming, some states have already taken bold steps. Increasingly a coalition of states that includes California, New York and half a dozen or more northeastern states have created their own policies to regulate CO2 emissions.

  Many states have also taken action on renewable energy, passing renewable energy portfolio standards that require a certain percentage of energy use in the state to come from renewable sources. These states are offering subsidies to companies and homeowners for installing power sources like wind generators and photovoltaics.

  States can also regulate all sorts of pollution, though they may be challenged on the basis of trade laws like NAFTA for taking potential profits from foreign corporations.

  Environmentalists have fought hard for federal protection for roadless wild lands, but the Bush administration is almost certain to turn the issue over to the states. Blue states can be successfully lobbied to keep their roadless areas and wild forests intact. It is sad to think of what will happen to wild lands in red states like Alaska and Utah.

  So our setback, while huge and unprecedented, is no excuse for giving up. There is plenty of territory for action yet. Perhaps the biggest territory is the territory of the mind. Again, like many others of my stripe, I have had to ask myself how it is that an Ecotopian vision that is so attractive to me has no meaning for many Americans. In answering that question for myself, I go back to the 1970s again, to the Arab oil embargo of 1973.

  The gas lines and skyrocketing prices should have been a wakeup call alerting us to the vulnerability of our industrial economy to the limits of natural resources, and for many they were. But too many Americans responded not with rationality but with primate anger at the Arab states that had jerked our chain by cutting off the flow of oil. Back then, before the Republican embrace of multiculturalism suppressed it, it was still common to hear racial epithets and slurs. There was much angry talk of "sand niggers" and "ragheads."

  Many Americans felt then and still feel today that cheap fuel is their birthright. Jimmy Carter asked us to put on a sweater instead of cranking the thermostat and we gave him the boot. Ronald Reagan took the solar panels down off the White House roof and we have not had a serious national conversation about energy since.

  There's a poll I'd like to take that would ask this question: "If the only way for America to maintain its economic dominance were to seize the oil fields of Iraq and Iran, would it be worth the cost in human life and America's reputation to do so?"

  If you could get them to answer it honestly, I would bet that most Bush voters would say yes. In fact, I would bet that what most Bush voters are really terrified of is not being blown up in a shopping mall but losing the privilege to drive to the shopping mall and gorge on cheap imported goods.

  Their fears are well founded, because the end of our consuming way of life is inevitable and most people know it on a gut level even if it never penetrates their consciousness. For someone with those fears, what could be more reassuring than Dick Cheney telling them that conservation is a mere "personal virtue" and not a civic requirement?

  Giving Bush another four years will not prevent the inevitable. In fact, it may hasten the American collapse. Despite the neo-cons' best efforts, regime change is on the way. Inevitably, inexorably, the regime of big oil must succumb. It is only a matter of when and how.

  Red America, led by Bush-Cheney, is only too happy to put off the day of reckoning, but it will be their last four years to live the dream, if they even get four whole years. According to senior energy analyst Charles T. Maxwell, the current oil price rise is the warning wave. The big blast will come around 2010 when oil tops $70 a barrel or more. The smart move would be to raise gas taxes now and use the money to invest in renewable energy, but it is not going to happen with this administration. So it's back to the virtual Ecotopia.

  As usual, California is taking the lead. In September, the state approved a strict new fuel economy standard for cars, which will reduce CO2 emissions (by increasing fuel economy) by 30 percent over the next decade. Canada announced last week that it is raising fuel economy standards by 25 percent by the end of the decade. Add Canada to California and the seven northeastern states that are likely to adopt California's regulations and you have a geographic region that encompasses nearly one-third of the cars and trucks sold in North America. The map of high fuel economy standards starts to look like the blue state map plus Canada that circulated the Internet immediately after November 3rd. The blue territory was labeled the United States of Canada; the red state heartland was called the United States of Texas.

  Individual US states are also joining up with Canada and the European Union to cap and trade greenhouse gas emissions. Led by the Governor of New York, George Pataki, nine northeastern and mid-Atlantic states are taking part. They hope to introduce a plan this spring to trade emission allowances, essentially bypassing the federal government to participate in the Kyoto agreement for reducing carbon dioxide.

  One of the environmental success stories of this election was Colorado's approval of a renewable portfolio standard requiring 10 percent of the state's power to come from renewable sources by 2015. Power companies will also have to offer customers a nice rebate for solar electricity that could pay a third or more of the cost of installing solar power in their homes.

  Many states now have such programs. If you have the dough, you can create your own virtual Ecotopia right now. Go to www.dsireusa.org to find out what rebates and tax incentives your state has. Go to www.seia.com to get a referral for a contractor to install it for you. Do-it-yourselfers, your home is www.homepower.org. If you want to hook up your efforts with those of others, take a look at www.fatspaniel.com. This company is aggregating energy output data from solar and wind installations by city or region. You can be part of a virtual solar power plant.

  If you don't have the big bucks, buy a little solar panel and play around with it. Teach your kids about solar. They may grow up to be solar power installers. One of my favorite energy education sites is www.energyquest.ca.gov. The National Renewable Energy Lab, www.nrel.gov, also has lots of educational resources for kids and adults.

  Photovoltaic power won't answer every energy need, but it is a very nifty technology. In five years, a solar module produces the energy it took to make it and it lasts, if well made, darn near forever. Some of the first modules produced 40 years ago are still going strong.

  A little solar power can go a long way. The difference between having no power at all and having some power is huge. There is an amazing housing project in Portland, Oregon called Dignity Village (http://www.outofthedoorways.org/). Homeless people have constructed low tech houses for themselves out of mud and straw that are quite nice. Soon, some of these houses will have solar electricity, something these folks never had when they were living under bridges and in doorways.

  The most important Ecotopian principle is making conservation a moral imperative. You know, that granola hippie thing of simple living, reducing, reusing and recycling. Believe it or not there are people who never stopped trying. Type "sustainable" or "biomimicry" into any search engine to find them.

  If we virtual Ecotopians do our job well, we will build the basis for a new sustainable civilization. Our thousand points of light, burning like the blue flames of highly efficient combustion, will shine for Red America on the day when the oil bubble bursts and the consumer dream lies shredded in tatters and it becomes clear that Ecotopia is not a fantasy but a vision.

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    Kelpie Wilson is the t r u t h o u t environment editor. A veteran forest protection activist and mechanical engineer, she writes from her solar-powered cabin in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon.
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RELIGION AND POLITICS: THE DANGEROUS MIX

Thu Nov 4, 8:00 PM ET

By Richard Reeves

NEW YORK -- Like generals fighting the last war, political reporters almost always cover the last campaign. And so we did this time. Pre-election stories focused above all on voting itself -- registration, turnout, ballot challenges, touch screens -- until we had chads coming out our ears. In 2008, we might be covering the campaign from church pews.


Little did we know at CBS News, where I worked this time, that exit polls would show that the 2004 election would not be about war and terrorism, the economy or the demonstrated incompetence of the commander in chief. It would be, for at least half the nation, about "moral values."


We blew it, really, because the important part of President Bush (news - web sites)'s brilliant re-election campaign was not about deeds or even words. It was a campaign of the heart --- as in Bush's 2000 debate declaration that Jesus was his favorite philosopher. "He changed my heart," said the man who would be president. Interesting that, but President Bush did not overdo the religion thing in speeches and appearances. He mentioned his faith on occasion, but why shouldn't he? Faith is obviously important to him.


The real work, we discovered too late, was going on away from the cameras. For a long time, I have hated the stealthy politics of direct mail and telephone banks. I learned that lesson years ago in California when my wife was running for state office. There was no way she could counter truly vicious messages she never saw or heard herself, stuff timed to arrive on the Friday before Election Day.


Bush's mail and phone messages were not vicious, at least not the ones that I heard about or saw. They were in a code. A typical mailing was in Ohio, where this election was decided. A professor at the University of Akron, John C. Green, described one mailer as a beautiful photograph of a church, with the words: "George W. Bush Shares Your Values. Marriage. Life. Faith."


I think that's great, unless you translate the message into political language, directed at church mailing lists, which translates as: "I'm against gay marriage. I'm against abortion. I'm like you." Repeated often enough, those messages are divisive -- if they are broadcast to everyone in the country. But they work magic with a targeted audience. In other words, religion works in politics.


But it is dangerous and divisive. I come from a line that dependably produced ministers for two Protestant faiths, Dutch Reformed and the Church of the Nazarene. My generation, though, opted out. So did the founding fathers of this great country. They had their reasons.


The founders, at least the most important of them, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, loved the idea of God but were afraid of Christianity. "During almost 15 centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial," wrote James Madison, the father of the Constitution. "What have been its fruits? More or less in most places, pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."


John Adams had this to say: "The United States of America governments have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses."


Those guys chose "E Pluribus Unum" -- "Out of many, one" -- to put on the new country's currency. It was only in 1957 that the words on all our bills were changed to "In God We Trust."


Many of the founders, including those named here, called themselves "Deists," which meant that they believed in God only on evidence from nature or reason -- and they thought of Jesus Christ as a man, a smart and admirable man. Some of them, particularly Jefferson, thought of religion as a useful tool in governing, a way to moderate and discipline the instincts of men. But most of all they worried that fervid Christianity, with all its moral values, could also be used to turn one man or woman against another, a divisive force to be feared. That is why the First Amendment of their Constitution, which is ours, guaranteed freedom of religion -- and freedom from religion.

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OK (regarding this next article) I haven't taken leave of my senses (I don't think so anyway) I just came across this article and it seemed to have  "enlightening tidbits" in it...  Since we all (i.e. we the thinking folks) feel as though we are living in LA LA LAND because of the outcome of the 2004 election... maybe there are some things within this essay/opinion that can help us cope...  Carolyn 

PS: parentheses in blue are my comments... Take or leave from it what you may... just another approach to figuring out the nightmare we are about to encounter... (for 4 more years)!
  Surrender of Control

The Ultimate Key to Enlightenment

To the degree that you desire to control and act on that desire, will be to the degree that you will be enlightened and centered in your divine beingness, or lost in the "Matrix" and living a life of illusions and suffering. Letting go of control and allowing Divinity to guide your life, is the key to your realization. To the degree that you do this, will be the degree that you have a divinely inspired, magical life.

To the degree that you and others are energetically "annoying", will be to the degree that you or they try to control you, others and reality, and your/their entire life will be about engaging in various "Control Dramas" of: "Poor-Me" (victim), "Perpetrator", "Aloof" or "Interrogator". These 4 "Control Dramas", are the primary ways we as humans act, to manipulate people and energies, to steal and obtain energy and love from each other, to deny and avoid our suffering, to have a sense of worth, to try to have power and control and some degree of happiness in our lives. All of these dramas, are of course, done out of fear. Fear for emotional and physical survival. In relationship, stealing and exchanging energy and love, by having energy/love agreements, is the primary method of denial of suffering and divinity, a way to "ensure" emotional survival - to feel loved. But these "solutions" are a poor way to try to have some control of your life, and heartache and more suffering (karma) is always around the corner.

If you are centered in your Divine Beingness, taking complete responsibility for your entire reality and manifestations, then you are not operating from any of these dramas of energy control. To the degree that you are able to embody your I AM Presence, surrender your personal will to Divine Will, and accept the awesome responsibility of being a divine creator/co-creator of reality, will be the degree that you will be naturally fulfilled and whole.

"Perpetrator" and "interrogator", are active ways to control. "Poor-me" and "aloof", are passive ways to control. "Poor-me" and "perpetrators" go hand in hand, they are the opposite ends of that polarity of control. You can't have one without the other. Interrogator and aloof also go hand in hand, they are the opposite ends of that polarity of control. "Interrogators" create "Aloofs", and "Aloofs" create "Interrogators". People generally operate from one of the 4 dramas, and one of the two polarities, (for instance: perp and poor-me), switching between the two, (based on their early experiences as children, genetic programming, education…, life experience, and past life karmic memory), but will use all 4 control dramas throughout their lives at one time or another.

"Perpetrators" are aggressively oppressing and manipulating to control and obtain energy, thusly creating victims. They act this way, as do all the dramas, because they feel like helpless-powerless-victims themselves, and have determined that this is the best way to get energy, and not be victimized themselves. (Better to be the ass kicker than the kickee). Because their energy is being depleted by being "victimized" by "perps", people typically use the opposite polarity to try to obtain energy, by acting "poor-me" and making perpetrators the bad guys. They then become energetic perpetrators because they are trying to turn the energy and public opinion against the oppressors (perps) through judgement (rescuer/attention energy).

People who primarily use the control pattern of "poor-me", do so because they are trying to protect themselves from real or imagined threat or attack. It is "imagined" if their fears and actions are stemming from left over trauma from their past experience, and does not necessarily have any real direct correlation to this current occurrence. They are living from a time loop, as if life is always like that, no matter what; and not allowing for grace, for the possibility for things to be completely different.

"Poor-me's" feel like victims to other people, reality, fate, God, etc., and try to control energy and love to come their way by playing victim. Often "poor-me's" will switch to "perpetrators" when they feel overly victimized, and "have had enough!" - lashing out violently at their oppressor. And "perpetrators" will switch to "poor me" when they feel overly victimized by the tables being turned against them, and being accused of being "oppressive" and "bad".

"Working class" society tends to approve of being a victim, but frowns upon aggressors, while in upper class capitalistic society, the opposite is true. Being a victim is no better than being a perpetrator. Crying "poor me" is just as dastardly a way to manipulate and control energies as being an aggressor. Both are illusions. Both stem from the illusion of separation and unworthiness. There are no victims in any universe! We are all indeed Divine Sovereign Beings, the Christ Children of God-Goddess. We are indeed the creators and co-creators of our own realities.

One of the ways that "poor-me's" get energy is by attracting rescuers. Rescuers are really "goody-goody-perpetrators". They want to feel good about themselves, and have some self worth, by rescuing victims. This elevates them above the victims. And interestingly enough, "poor-me's" don't really want to be rescued, they just want energy, to feel loved, and feel empowered, just like everyone else that is not operating from Unconditional-Love/Unity-Christ-Consciousness.

Rescuing people does not empower them, it dis-empowers them by supporting their beliefs and programs that their feelings of powerlessness and helplessness are real and true, and the illusion that victimhood is real. So they will usually first try to get energy from you, then they will reject you when they feel disempowered by being rescued. Or they will reluctantly accept your help, flat out reject you from the start, and even aloofly act as if they do not need help.

"Interrogators" try to control energies by suspiciously and judgementally interrogating people, (verbally and psychically), to elevate the interrogator, and devalue the receiver by causing them to introvert, question and doubt their behavior. "Interrogators" create aloof people, because they are trying to avoid being interrogated. Because their energy is being depleted by being interrogated, people then use the opposite polarity to try to obtain energy by being aloof. They use this pattern of control to try to protect themselves from real or imagined threat or attack.

They try to avoid any direct confrontation by acting aloofly, to imply to people that: "I'm no threat to you", and "don't worry about me".

Being aloof is another way to passively obtain energy. People using this control drama, act aloofly to create mystery and intrigue, so that people will wonder about them, thusly giving them "attention energy". Aloof people breed "interrogators" because people "naturally" are trying to discover "what they are up to" and "who they are". They interrogate them internally and psychically. "Interrogators" often flip to the aloof pattern when they feel overly victimized by "non-direct", "non-communicative", "deceitful" (aloof) people. Aloof people often flip to become "interrogators" when they feel overly victimized by being questioned and judged so aggressively, and aggressively interrogate them, to introvert them, to get them to question and doubt their behavior, and turn the table against them.

The example of the "interrogator", is the over protective controling father/mother or wife/husband, always interrogating you where you've been and what you've been doing…, (implying that you can't be trusted). And the oppressive boss, who is always scrutinizing every move you make, making you prove your worth, that you deserve to receive your meager pittance, with the threat that you could be fired and on the street any day now (perp).

In society, the governmental, judicial, corporate, military, spying, and policing organizations, are prime examples of "interrogators" and "perpetrators", who elevate themselves above the "peasants", (i.e.Ashcroft, Rove, Chenney, Rumsfeld, click for a list of the whole pathetic lot ) (stemming, of course, from their feelings of unworthiness), who act as "rescuers", ("rescuing" the down trodden, usually, as a front for their own greed), providing us planetary services and resources, that we "can't live without", and doing so out of "poor-me" - to "protect us" from ourselves, from famine, terror, invasion…, all lack oriented.

These oppressive organizations, breed "aloof" and "poor-me" people, who are trying to avoid being scrutinized, controlled, and oppressed, who, if they feel victimized and disempowered enough, will rise up against their oppressors, to obtain some degree of freedom, and often become oppressors themselves. These "average" citizens, who primarily live their lives from "poor-me", (stemming, of course, from their feelings of unworthiness), who refuse to accept responsibility for their own sovereignty, their own lives and their own governing, manifests the controling, lack-oriented, governmental and financial systems we have today. (i.e. Bush fundalmentalist voters) 

This is why the forefathers of the United States, who were wise enough to realize this, created the United States Constitution to read, "for the people, and by the people" - making no class distinctions and honoring the sovereignty of all beings.

To the degree that people empower themselves by accepting their divine sovereign power as the true creators of their entire reality, will be the degree that the control dramas of "poor-me", "perpetrator", "interrogator" and "aloof" fade from reality, and we experience cooperation, peace, unity - (heaven on earth), or we continue to have war, famine, injustice… - (hell on earth). (IN OTHER WORDS...  Bush for another 4 years)

Why Do We Control?

We try to control because we suffer from the pain of separation - from each other, from God-Goddess, the Universe…, and our own Divine Spirits. And because we are typically disconnected from our true essence of Unconditional Love. Because of this, we do not experience a life and reality of wholeness, but one of powerlessness, helplessness and unworthiness. This is the essence of lack and enemy consciousness.

From this "reality" of lack consciousness, from our perceived separation, we believe that all energy, power, wholeness, completeness, love…, comes from outside of us. We have been duped by society, family, friends, lovers, our negative egos, our genetic and religious programming, and other adopted veils of denial, to believe that the way to prosperity, to peace, to happiness (to get what we want that will make us happy), is to control and manipulate ourselves, other people, the elements, energy, reality, (to bend them to our will). And creating agreements and deals is the way to get our money, energy and "love" "reward", the things that will hopefully help us avoid and deny our suffering, and experience some degree of self-love, wholeness, security and empowerment.

But of course this does not work, because this strategy of stealing, begging, manipulating, organizing, arranging, dealing… energies and love, is a quick fix, a temporary bandaid over the wound that will not heal. And to satisfy this ravenous addiction, you must continuously be controling and manipulating energies and reality, and making new deals and agreements, to get your next fix. You must be continuously getting more and more energy and "power", to feel "fulfilled", and something or someone new to make you feel loved and worthy. All of this of course, has created the agreed upon reality that humanity creates upon planet earth, with its inherent competition/lack/enemy/survival orientation, and subsequent starvation, wars, environmental degradation…, because most everything and everyone in this world, is not seen as part of us, but separate - as an enemy, a possible threat to my survival, and impediment to me getting what I want.

All forms of control stem from some form of separation/victim/enemy consciousness (or unconsciousness). Every time you judge, lie, steal, (including energy), envy…, consciously or unconsciously, it is because some aspect of you feels the need to control that thing or person by condemning /envying their behavior, or stealing something you perceive they have and you do not, even love. All theft of any kind (including energy), all lies and condemnations of any kind, are acts of terrorism, designed to manipulate, control and de-value others, to elevate you above them - all stemming from your own suffering, from feelings of unworthiness and powerlessness. (i.e. evangelicals)

All projections of any kind, (including prayer), to alter the behavior or others, is a form of judgement and control. They are forms of conditional love - "I will love you if you act this way!" Unconditional love does not project conditions and change, even to create "peace", especially against war. Unconditional love, loves regardless of behavior, regardless of spiritual awareness. This is not an easy thing to do in this reality of "good and evil". But as the fairies told my friend, "there is no bad, there is only good, and not so good". There is only goodness, and goodness in denial. There is only divinity, and divinity in denial. So I would define control as resistance. Resistance to what is already there. Resistance to Love, Truth, Divinity, Emotion…

Inherent with control is always some form of resistance to some opposing force. There is always an enemy. This enemy may be very unconscious, but nevertheless, it will be existent, at least in our minds. "The universe rearranges itself to accommodate your picture of reality". If you are fighting against war, the universe sees that war is important to you and will give you more war to fight against. If you desire peace, you must live peace within your consciousness, and act from this base of peace, then the universe will see that peace is important to you, and give you more of that which is important to you.

This is how reality is created, how free-will functions. This is how we are truly unconditionally loved by All-That-Is, to be given the free-will to do whatever we want, no matter how lovely or dastardly. Fighting against war or fighting for peace, either one is still a fight. Either is trying to manipulate someone into being a certain way, or acting a certain way. Perhaps sometimes fighting is necessary and empowering, (especially if you are acting from divine direction, and learn that you are not a victim, and empower yourself by the realization that you manifested even the most traumatic situations for your spiritual growth), but as a whole, it is not a recommended course of action if you want to create peace in your life. There are three ways to win a fight: have a superior strategy, a superior force, or don't show up.

Is There A Divine Counterpart To Control?

Is there a way to function without any desire to oppose anything and exist in a reality where there are no opposing forces? Yes, divine direction! Conscious knowing, conscious channeling, conscious divine action, in the moment, with little or no agenda, other than that is what your Spirit is guiding you to do now. That is the most accelerated vibration/direction of the moment. Often this is associated with feelings of great passion and even fire of your Spirit. It will be very enthusiastic (from en-theo-ism: in God Consciousness). If things have gotten off track, then this enthusiasm can be linked to "Divine Anger", which really isn't anger at all, but merely Fire, designed to get you back on track, or to guide (if possible) everyone concerned back to the highest vibration.

Those without the eyes to see the truth, may judge this fire as not being "spiritual", even egoic. If you are unattached to any outcome, with no desire to control others, yourself, or the situation, then there is no ego, no separation, only "Divine Direction". Living a divinely-truthful-surrendered life, is not necessarily passive. If there is a job to do, you do it with gusto, with divine direction. If there is nothing real to interact with, then you do nothing. All other actions are social programming, or some form of manipulation, (including yourself).

So living a life of surrender is not one of renunciation, living a life of surrender is living surrendered to acting upon divine direction - always. If this surrender dictates that you yell and scream and cuss and spit, then you surrender to this divine direction and do so without hesitation. If this divine direction dictates that you run away as fast as you can, then you "burn rubber". If your divine guidance and feeling is to fall in a heap and cry your eyes out, then you do so. If inspiration guides you to strip off your clothes and run around howling at the moon, then you do so with all your heart, soul and body.

So your mastery will be in surrendering your life to your Divine Spirit, (who you truly are), to God-Goddess, and discerning when it is time to do something, and when it is time to do nothing. Discernment of who to interact with because there is divine direction and enthusiasm to do so, and who to get away from because they just want to take, control, manipulate, and prove their worth (or your unworth), because they do not know unconditional love yet, because they do not know their true essence of Divinity yet.(i.e.THE NEOCONS)

Your mastery will be in recognizing when you are being controling, (when you are lost in the political world, playing games to try to avoid your suffering), and when you are totally tapped into divine direction, tapped into the essence of creation. Often there is a bit of both, especially until you get it figured out. So figure out what's what and act on Divinity, trusting your guidance, your Spirit, your intuition…, practice makes perfect. The more you take full and complete responsibility for your entire reality, and accept your divine responsibility as a creator God, and the more of your God Presence that is embodied because of this, will be the degree that you will function from Divine Creation and Expression.

Your ego/personality, and fearful aspects of your soul, (the parts of you that suffer in this world of separation), will always want to control, until they have healed their fears and have surrendered control to your God Presence. Until then, you are dualistic, one part wanting to surrender to Divine Will, the other controling from personal will to avoid your suffering. You may satisfy your desire to control by discerning where you actually have some creative control, as directed by your Spirit, and where you do not, and doing nothing to control anything in that situation.

Satisfy this desire to control, by saying: "If I had any control over this situation, I would like…….. to happen. By speaking this, you have given a voice to those aspects of yourself that are fearful, are trying to deny their suffering, and desire to create a peaceful-beneficial-pain-free situation. You've spoken for your desire to control, but have done nothing to try to manipulate anything outside of yourself, to obtain a desired outcome. By doing nothing to control your outer reality, you have admitted the truth that you have no "outward" control over this situation and reality in general. Your attention now can be on your "inner reality", which is where you have real "creative control", and you can now be open to Love, compassion, feeling, intuition, and guidance from your Spirit. You are then empowered to be a real creator of Prosperity/Unity/Christ Consciousness. You are then empowered to be the awesome master that you already are, a Co-Creator of Heaven on Earth.

God grant me the Serenity to accept the things in my life where I do not have creative control, the courage to take responsibility for where I do have creative control, and the Wisdom to know the difference.

Co-Create Heaven on Earth!

In Divine Co-Creation,

I AM ZaKaiRan

Please see my article "Divine Sovereignty" at www.ZaKaiRan.com

(For more information on "Control Dramas", please see the "Celestine Prophecy" by James Redfield),

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!

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