07-15-2010, 01:14 PM
An analogy came to mind that is a fun way for me to think about this Choice we face in each moment of our life on 3d earth.
In the British government, the political party that is out of power is the monarch's Loyal Opposition. The premise is that the king or queen deserves the best possible government. Unfortunately, the voters have put the wrong party in power! Nevertheless, the losing party continues to express their point of view about what should be done.
As soon as the voters fix their mistaken choice, the formerly losing party is now the ruling party, and their plans become the law of the land and the actions of the government. In this way the out-of-power party is ready to provide as much guidance to the monarch as the public will accept.
(Of course this storyline is one of the charming but irrelevant stories that Brits like to use as a form of entertainment and myth, justifying some of their snazzy ceremonies that they do so well every few years. Outside of official speech day, I bet most Members of Parliament never think or talk at all in these terms. But the analogy is helpful.)
In the same way, STO and STS spiritual forces each provide a suggestion for how we should focus our soul's attention in order to serve the ultimate Creator. In our lives, we are each the voter of our own personal sovereign state of our own lives. There is one vote per government - our own vote - for which party's platform is the way we run our lives.
In Britain, both parties have a mixture of people and ideas, both good and bad. Neither party is entirely the party of Peace, Love, Unity, and Harmony. Nor is either party entirely the party of Total War and Conquest outside the nation, plus Ultimate Authoritarianism against the population. Both main parties have elements of both ideas.
In our spiritual universe, the Service-to-Self Party provides a non-stop self-aggrandizement platform of fear, control, manipulation, violence, deceit, etc. And the Service-to-Others Party offers a 24/7 platform of mutual respect, creative expression, compassion, networked participation without coercion, etc.
On earth, the STS party will ultimately reach a dead end. When outward growth depends on conquest, and there is nothing left to conquer, an empire can't grow any more. When the government has to rely on an obedient, taxpaying population, excess authority makes people leave, or refuse to participate, or have a revolution so widespread it can't be beat back down.
And the same is true spiritually. Eventually the STS forces will reach a spiritual cul-de-sac, a dead end of evolution. For any further growth, they'll have to open the hearts to the light and love, the compassion and caring, the goodwill based cooperation that they've denied.
Until they get there, however, they are the Loyal Opposition to the STO forces of light & love. They have an alternative plan for everything, in every moment: the plan of imperial conquest at all levels. The dark plan includes scheming manipulation of politics and economics over hundreds and even thousands of years. It continues all the way down through the rudeness and arrogance of how one treats one's encounters in daily life, and down to the micro level of hating, despising, controlling and micro-managing one's own thoughts and feelings moment to moment.
In every moment of awareness, we can choose to fulfill the STS or STO roadmap. Over the course of a lifetime, the total tally of our votes demonstrates our true party affiliation.
In the British government, the political party that is out of power is the monarch's Loyal Opposition. The premise is that the king or queen deserves the best possible government. Unfortunately, the voters have put the wrong party in power! Nevertheless, the losing party continues to express their point of view about what should be done.
As soon as the voters fix their mistaken choice, the formerly losing party is now the ruling party, and their plans become the law of the land and the actions of the government. In this way the out-of-power party is ready to provide as much guidance to the monarch as the public will accept.
(Of course this storyline is one of the charming but irrelevant stories that Brits like to use as a form of entertainment and myth, justifying some of their snazzy ceremonies that they do so well every few years. Outside of official speech day, I bet most Members of Parliament never think or talk at all in these terms. But the analogy is helpful.)
In the same way, STO and STS spiritual forces each provide a suggestion for how we should focus our soul's attention in order to serve the ultimate Creator. In our lives, we are each the voter of our own personal sovereign state of our own lives. There is one vote per government - our own vote - for which party's platform is the way we run our lives.
In Britain, both parties have a mixture of people and ideas, both good and bad. Neither party is entirely the party of Peace, Love, Unity, and Harmony. Nor is either party entirely the party of Total War and Conquest outside the nation, plus Ultimate Authoritarianism against the population. Both main parties have elements of both ideas.
In our spiritual universe, the Service-to-Self Party provides a non-stop self-aggrandizement platform of fear, control, manipulation, violence, deceit, etc. And the Service-to-Others Party offers a 24/7 platform of mutual respect, creative expression, compassion, networked participation without coercion, etc.
On earth, the STS party will ultimately reach a dead end. When outward growth depends on conquest, and there is nothing left to conquer, an empire can't grow any more. When the government has to rely on an obedient, taxpaying population, excess authority makes people leave, or refuse to participate, or have a revolution so widespread it can't be beat back down.
And the same is true spiritually. Eventually the STS forces will reach a spiritual cul-de-sac, a dead end of evolution. For any further growth, they'll have to open the hearts to the light and love, the compassion and caring, the goodwill based cooperation that they've denied.
Until they get there, however, they are the Loyal Opposition to the STO forces of light & love. They have an alternative plan for everything, in every moment: the plan of imperial conquest at all levels. The dark plan includes scheming manipulation of politics and economics over hundreds and even thousands of years. It continues all the way down through the rudeness and arrogance of how one treats one's encounters in daily life, and down to the micro level of hating, despising, controlling and micro-managing one's own thoughts and feelings moment to moment.
In every moment of awareness, we can choose to fulfill the STS or STO roadmap. Over the course of a lifetime, the total tally of our votes demonstrates our true party affiliation.