Enlighten the Path Today
This poem inspires the idea of philosophy as the path finder for the future. The art of philosophy is simply asking questions and particularly questioning yourself. Always when I feel inspired to write freedom always is there. I love that feeling as essentially we are all free, we just don’t believe it. Often I feel to speak about stepping out of the comfort zone, that is really trying on something new. It is like driving in a new city, you are in unfamiliar territory and naturally we get uneasy if we don’t know our way. However, after a while you get used to it and not knowing your way becomes the fun. You let go of the map. The more you try new things the easier change becomes and your inner security strengthens. My friend was saying today that her boss doesn’t like change, yet in reality he is in a sea of constant change. The myth is that we are in control, as I often say when I did the parachute jump I saw the forces of nature in control, in that moment I saw I am here for the ride. The oxymoron (contradiction) is that we are not in control yet we can create our reality through thoughts and actions, we also choose how we respond to events in our lives. The same event can be experienced differently depending on our positive/negative thoughts. A simple way of seeing creation is to imagine I want an icecream, I see a icecream shop and I go and get one. We manifest what we want. The thought pops into your mind. Just imagine if you followed higher thoughts and acted on them and discarded the negative. I view negativity as not real, only love is real in my understanding.
This philosophy sees no idle thoughts, each thought creates possibilities that you can choose to act on or not or you feel impulsed to follow. If you think long enough and imagine it here and now, walla, something happens. This is called the Law of Attraction. The philosophy I experience includes feeling or a vibration would be more accurate, it is not just about thinking, in fact the feeling is stronger than the thought in my experience. When I write poetry I feel it first then the ideas flow. It is almost imperceptible but enough to inspire me to write, as I am tonight. Also when I inspire people to act, it is simply to act on what you know in your heart. It is not about rebellion, it is about aliveness which is full of life and excitement, this shows in the eyes.
So here is the poem for you.
ENLIGHTENMENT IS THE PATH
Reinventing humanity,
Reinvigorating imagination,
For real social engineering is
Reverse engineering,
That dismantles structures of belief,
Manifesting as dis-belief and speculation,
For discomfort is a sign of the personal boundary,
For ideas exchange moving parts for a solid state,
Economics is merely the medium of transactions,
Binary exchange for profit maximisation,
And the social fabric is not a sweat shop,
For freedom self regulates,
As new patterns of enquiry hardwire what we see,
For sleepers awaken from their slumber.
Life is not linear nor articulate,
But moving images that percolate,
Parading on the stage of your life,
For your life is not your own,
But organic, spontaneous and emerging,
Nor is it separate islands of automation,
Nor collective endorsements of reality,
Reinforced by media spinning glass tops,
Promoting rose coloured glasses,
Painting the pictures we all want to see,
Without question.
To question is to discover respons-ability,
The ability to respond means we must act,
To act one must step outside the comfort zone,
And most are seeking the zone of comfort.
The natural is not normal,
And the paranormal is natural,
Yet it has been placed into the air of mythology,
For the unseen is discarded as unfounded,
It is the shifting sand through the hour glass,
Yet e=mc2 speaks of energy not sand,
A relative theory that leaves footprints,
For there is no time like the pre-sent.
Founding fathers considered ‘I think therefore I am’,
Yet the mystics and tribal seers envisaged
‘I am therefore I drink from life’s waters which flow from within the heart of time’
For the planet is conscious,
Gaia is alive and transforming,
And we integrate with a physical world,
Coded for change that sustains all life.
The kooris call this the dreaming,
The new agers speak of the power to create,
For thought, word and action,
Activate life force,
Gandhi called this soul force,
Which was not an outcome,
But an understanding of life experience,
Valuing truth and love,
Over force and power.
The lost city,
Is the City State,
For Plato and Socrates knew the reasons,
A Socratic dialogue defined the new season,
For it is not a debate but a virtue-al reality,
A chaos theory that takes one further
than self interest.
The managerial classes,
Are the educated wafer encoded on chips,
The intellectualism of the 18th century,
Enabled one to be well versed in the arts,
For this was the pinnacle of high society and breeding,
For one could demonstrate one’s worth by clever conversation,
Valuing entertainment over boredom,
A playful jousting between men,
Debating emerging frontiers as conquest,
For the questions were pertinent,
The answers were carried on the backs of explorers traversing new horizons without end,
For the new world was undiscovered,
The old world a fading rhyme of repetition debunked,
Yet the enlightenment dismissed universal suffrage.
The enlightened illuminated many path-ways,
For the path finders,
The knowledge bearers,
Were the real teachers,
Adventurers and pioneers,
For when knowledge is applied,
One discovers the solitude
Of wisdom.
Philosophy is the art of exploration,
For one only asks why when entertaining the notion,
That answers may be limiting,
For energy in motion is e-motion,
A willingness to explore possibilities,
For the world is more than you can possibly see,
And openness expands beyond the equation,
When life experience travels further than light,
To a range of universal points of view,
For the point of attraction,
Opens another door,
And this is not probability theory,
It is to determine natural selection.
In truth education is social engineering,
Truth is a reflection of the self,
For when one looks within for answers,
The truth sets you free,
For the heart mirror reveals humanity
to itself,
For we determine what we see,
And we see what we determine,
For determination is the seed of evolutionary ideas,
Embalmed in those with the courage to act.