The Electric Electorate: Can We Consciously Navigate The Political Process?
Politics (particularly in America) has become a hyper-polarized process that breeds division and manipulates ideas via group-think.
As the conscious community, what role can we play in unpacking our experiences and integrating them within our communities? There is a growing sense and concern that our institutions are failing us – and that concern is well-founded. From government and religion to media and education – we are seeing institutional failures destabilize our society, breed division amongst us, and deprive so many of their basic human rights and dignity. Many have resorted to rebellion and protest while others have abandoned the system entirely, seeking a life outside of normative society’s parameters. Many within the conscious community have withdrawn from the political process altogether, opting to focus on self-exploration, experience and conscious expansion.
The Trump presidency has caused us to look at our ugly face in the mirror – and has served as a shock to the system, exposing some of the unsightly truths that exist beyond the veil, including a shadow government and global oligarchical cabal that has largely evaded public consciousness. This has produced a system that has been successful at controlling narratives and producing both an anti-intellectualism and group-think herd mentality that suspends critical thought. Now more than ever – the ability to think for ourselves is paramount. “The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness” ~ Barbara Marciniak While there is indeed an entire universe out there for us to experience and explore, there is also a very real world manifesting right here in 3rd dimension – in the now – that we can access, influence, and enhance – and this world desperately needs our contributions. On the turbulent path to questing for higher consciousness, most are greatly assisted by access to independent media, fast internet access, free thought exercise, clean water/food supply, and healthy lifestyle habits (diet, exercise, rest). All of that requires resources that so many in this world do not have access to – and the notion that one could just hit the seat-eject button to parachute up, up and away from this reality is an option that so few can even make without the privilege and resources to do so. While there are many avenues to explore to effectuate change in this world – should we reconsider the potential to bring forth change in the political and civic arenas? Staying out of politics is a luxury that many have when their liberties aren’t impeded and their very identity isn’t politicized. The child from Guatemala who is separated from her parents at the border and is subject to traumatic incarceration, displacement, and in some instances human trafficking is proximately affected by the political climate of the time. We may be able to see how broken the political system is, but that realization in itself doesn’t stop bombs from flying over the homes of millions of innocent civilians who fall victim to proxy wars waged by corrupted elites bent on destroying humanity.
The banking cabal still rigs economies and foments cycles of debt and scarcity. Civil liberties and human rights violations continue.
The military-industrial complex grows stronger, richer, and more corrupt. Our food and water supplies become more toxic and polluted – and the list goes on. This is not to say that there isn’t a compelling argument for staying out politics (the word politics signifies polarity – pole – polls and has a tendency to polarize the mind engaged in the red versus blue dichotomy) – but is that argument going to produce solutions that address the political decay within government? Let’s consider for a second what would result from the conscious community engaging the political process and contributing to an awakening within their respective communities. Let’s take a look at the polling data from the 2018 U.S. Presidential election: As a percentage of eligible voters, Clinton received 28.43% (65,845,063) of all votes compared to Trump’s 27.20% (62,980,160). Total voter turnout was estimated at 59% of the voting eligible population. Many within the conscious community were repelled by both Clinton and Trump – and again – there were compelling reasons for that rebuke of the polarized system. Some voted third or fourth party, opting to cast a vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson. Others opted out after revelations that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) actively tipped the scales and unfairly adjudicated the democratic primary process, refusing to referee an equal playing field at the expense of the Bernie Sanders campaign. What if all of that disenfranchised energy was funnelled into infusing the political system with a conscious awakening? We just saw a micro-experiment of this in New York’s 14th Congressional District which represents large swaths of the Bronx Queens. This past week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated a powerful, bought paid for Corporate Democrat Joseph Crowley in an election all of the cynics thought was impossible to manifest. Alexandria is a post-partisan activist who walked the walk on campaign finance reform and bravely posited her authentic self against Crowley – who was the overwhelming favorite and establishment branded Democrat funded by corporate interests. Crowley outspent Ocasio-Cortez 18-1 – but it didn’t matter as the wave of energy at Alexandria’s sails was a force of nature.
The future doesn’t belong to old-world models of polarity and left/right duality. Alexandria is representative of her district (+70% people of color), challenged the deeply embedded status-quo candidate who was never elected (Crowley was appointed) – and proved that when you give voters a reason to engage in the political process – they will respond. She described her ascent into politics as “an awakening” and actively engaged historical non-voters who felt alienated and unserved by the political system. Crowley had all the big money; Ocasio-Cortez had the people – and they weren’t all that interested in party-politics flag-waving.
They wanted authenticity and bold leadership from a candidate who speaks truth to power and works to correct the planet’s wobble – and they got it with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We need an energized, active, and joyous populace in order to take on the larger/macro issues – but it often starts w/ the microcosmic work on the ground that galvanizes from the ground-up, via organic community growth and development that addresses the localized problems that we can actively influence – just as Ocasio-Cortez has done. While there is limitless experience to be embarked upon within the spiritual dimension, there is also a very urgent call for us to contribute our uniqueness and individuality to the collective hue of humanity. That doesn’t always require us to crack through the ceiling of the universe via astral projection or to spiral through other dimensions in an ayahuasca circle. Sometimes it can be as simple as ensuring that your community has access to clean drinking water – or safeguarding the basic civil and human rights of our neighbor so that we may build the framework for a prescription of universal rights that enlarge the aura of the body politic. Many within party politics quibble about the fracturing of the vote that takes place intra-party via contentious primaries, the more efficient strategy would be to facilitate an awakening within the entire electorate, and not just summarily dismissing the non-voting 40% who have (understandably) felt alienated and unserved by institutionalized politics. Political commentators within Big Media rarely inform, enlighten, or alert the public to civil and human rights abuses. Instead, politics has become a checkerboard of two choices, both of them usually unpalatable. Just as baseball fans relish the rivalry between the Red Sox and Yankees, fervently pledging allegiance to their “team”, American politics has been framed as a dual rivalry fueled by identity politics: us versus them, red versus blue, which generates a hyper polarization within the electorate. We are in the midst of a chaotic tornado and are challenged to steer that tornado with sturdy balance, and that tornado cannot be steered with an endless loop of left-right cyclical argumentation. But what would happen if we put our system in neutral to address the immense imbalance and dysfunction in our world? “The body’s ability to be alive depends on its ability to acquire charge. If a seed isn’t centripetal – it can’t suck in first nourishment. The reason structures like the Stonehenge cause seeds to germinate is electrical. That is, it’s a centripetal conjugate field. Your brain — like every centripetal structure — is like two pine cones learning to kiss noses. In physics that’s called phase conjugation and governs self-organization. ~Dan Winter, Golden Mean Ratio Looking at the esoteric and exoteric significance and impact of the body politic – we see that it is an extension of the human body and the state/health of the body politic corresponds with the state and health of the human body. When we step into our power, we can see a correspondence, as-above, so-below resonator between the dimensions – and that resonance can take hold within our immediate reality where it is so desperately needed. Politics literally means (etymologically) the ability to a make a body polis – which is to say – a coherent plasma field, which is generated from bliss and measurable electro-magnetically. So when the body is engaged in bliss and conscious awakening illuminates the body politic – people are full of bliss with the expansion of universal rights. Such bliss makes us feel connected and is a critical part of our health as a humanity. We mustn’t be so beat down by the state of our political system such that a conditioned cynicism leads us to snicker anytime a bright-eyed activist like Ocasio-Cortez builds the courage to challenge the status-quo – no matter how small they may seem when measured by a cosmic spectrometer. Enhance the universal aura; the electro-magnetic output of the Universal Organism – then topple the oligarchy effortlessly. Related CE Podcast .
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