Are Politics and Spirituality Strange Bedfellows?

Can they work together peacefully?

Have you been watching history unfold these last few weeks? Amazing, fascinating, and also weird, as the latest buzz word labeled it. Meaning bizarre, odd, peculiar, strange, never-in-a-zillion-years-seen-anything-like-it kinda weird.

I’ve been around since John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Even as I write these words, I flashback to sitting at my desk hearing the principal come on the P.A. to announce what happened. Our parents were called to pick us up, and we went home crying, not anticipating the significance of what would unfold. A few years later, another announcement: Dr. Martin Luther King was murdered. Robert Kennedy followed next in line.

Those events were even more traumatic than when my favorite Uncle Frank died.

Looking back, this was the start of my social and political activism. I became a Viet Nam war protestor, a Love-In participant, a civil rights marcher, and a John Lennon fanatic.

At the same time, I dove further into my ongoing spiritual search, trying to understand life, why people are the way they are, and what I could do to help.

Most spiritual leaders encouraged non-involvement in the physical world. I was supposed to sit silently on a mountain top, full lotus position in orange robes, meditating to reach an enlightened state.

So, I relinquished activism and substituted meditation, creative visualization, and positive affirmations. I trusted that I could manifest anything I wanted, attract my soul mate, and change the world without getting off my couch.  

Sometimes it worked, and, just as often, it didn’t.

My frustration inspired the creation of my own brand of spiritual teaching. The more I looked within, the clearer it got that doing inner work, having transformational experiences, but not taking Real World action with these awakenings, could nullify them. 

I compare it to reading a gourmet cookbook, imagining the yummy taste of the food, memorizing the recipes, but never buying ingredients, cooking something delicious and feeding the results to your family.  

Translation: It’s imperative to discover your unique, Higher Purpose and take the intuitive, wise actions you are led to take. This gift given from your Higher Consciousness must be given away in some form otherwise it becomes a guilt-ridden burden.

Hearing Mother Theresa also inspired me when she declared: “I will not attend anti-war demonstrations; I will only attend pro-peace marches.”  A subtle yet powerful shift from anti to pro seemed important.

But would that be effective? Are humans capable of comprehending a world living in peace? Was it possible? Are we too far gone? Does our primitive nature run the show completely?

Based on thousands of years of history, I somehow doubted it. Maybe someday…

Since my heart was still committedly married to activism, it became my obsessive pursuit to see how I could be spiritual yet also take action.

Thoughts About Now

What’s going on lately adds a whole other layer to my ongoing spiritual/political/social predicament. I could have just resigned myself to using spiritual cliches - it’s all happening for a reason. But I wanted to understand those reasons.

I could have resorted to saying there are lessons to be learned, but what are they and how do we learn them?

Most importantly, my ongoing question remained: What was I supposed to do during this time of turmoil?

As an attentive news junkie, I sensed that this unprecedented time was about humanity finally shifting from our war-based consciousness. We needed to consciously choose to not even consider the option of violence or revenge when something caused us anger.

On a deeper level, we needed to recognize that being triggered is showing us something we are in denial of, or suppressing, about ourselves. Once we see what’s being “mirrored,” anger dissipates, and we feel forgiveness, compassion, and gratitude toward whoever exposed us.

How do we get to that place during these challenging circumstances?

Is it even feasible to disconnect from our fear-based, primitive consciousness? The part of us that functions from possessiveness, territory concerns, survival and needing to be right?

Personally, I know it is possible. Without bragging, I have pretty much done so. But it took lots of inner digging to neutralize my reactiveness; big shovel-fulls to be in authentic peace, love and rock ‘n roll. 

But even those most committed to a spiritual path may find it difficult, if not impossible, to maintain their inner peace during this political commotion. I notice some are pulling further away from being involved in the real world, while others debate whether their spiritual discipline is practicable at all right now.   

Since us spiritual “types” are often pigeonholed into passive and pensive categories, we are myopically perceived as spouting it’s all good without reading much past the headlines. 

Combine those stereotypic views with the insistence that we must renounce worldly concerns, it’s hard to imagine spiritual activists. After all, we’re all busily sitting in full lotus position just closing our eyes and transcending, right?

There’s a Way

Here’s what I came up with in order to do both: Activism minus attachment to results, combined with taking action coming from a heart-centered place.

Sounds like doing both of those things in everyday life would be phenomenal as well!

Keep in mind that spiritual activism doesn’t necessarily mean having to do lofty or grand things. It could be as simple as lovingly, consciously, and gratefully living day-to-day life, doing whatever is put in front of you from a selfless desire to assist others.  

However, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that Higher Consciousness Beings are supposed to be venturing out in the world, bigly taking a loving stand.

Why else would we have chosen to be on this planet during these tumultuous times? Our actions can become critical mass to help the world. 

The Lessons

Just as students can’t advance to geometry until they pass basic math, life lessons repeat until they’re mastered. On a global level, history repeats itself until enough people pass the Big Lessons being presented. Only then will the consciousness of the world truly shift.

Like the one we’ve been trying to master for centuries: “How can we get along with others we disagree with?” AKA “Can peace ever really happen?”

I like believing that’s possible.

How? By inspiring people to keep looking within (not isolated on a mountain top), locating their mirrors, learning their individual lessons, and making sure to take a purely loving stand in the world. 

As John Lennon said: “Imagine all the people living life in peace.”

Be one of those mirrors.

Here’s a gift for you: My presentation for the Reincarnation Symposium where I talked about reincarnation (and, of course, mirroring!)! Enjoy!

Group Regression with ROYCE MORALES

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