Waiting for Universities Of Enlightenment

To step out of your comfort zone,

Is to feel the conditioned constraints pull you back into line,

To conform or reform?

Is the greatest question in forums of democracy,

Yet to go to the edge you are forced to make the choice to
fall or fly?

You cannot know which it will be until you step off the cliff

Of your own fear.

Many keep away from danger fearing for their lives,

Fearing persecution,

Fearing isolation,

But these are only conditioned mind patterns,

None of it is true,

For there is nothing to FEAR but False Evidence Appearing Real,

There is no isolation when truth stands by your side,

There is no persecution when you understand that fear is the great purveyor of intimidation and censure,

It is only the truth that sets you free,

And as night follows day,

You cannot bare false witness to any man or woman,

For they are you,

And you are they

And it could be you,

For what you do to another returns to the self,

For life is circular not linear,

Life is responsive not silent,

For how can nature stonewall the sum of the parts?

When it sees itself as whole.

When we sing with one voice

How can there be any discord?

One only needs to know the score,

To feel for the rhythm of harmony,

The selflessness of community,

To realise that there is more to life than money,

That money is really only plastic,

It has no value that is fantastic,

Yet people attach their value to it,

What if what you do has no status in reality?

Unless you attach value to your industry.

The only value is in truth,

For this is the Philosophers Stone,

A standing stone outside your circle,

For historical artefacts do leave testimonials in time,

Of civilisations that were in harmony with celestial origins,

That understood only nature is the real god,

For the Indians knew that when the last tree falls,

You cannot eat money.

There have been many attempts over history,

To bring back into modern memory,

The virtues and values of our true identity,

To pull down the masks of insecurity to face life as truth,

A few brave souls have stood up to be counted upon 

forging:

The Magna Carta,

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen,

The Bill of Rights,

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The philosophers of antiquity were of great note,

many quoted them,

For they understood the universal way of peace,

As above so below,

As within so without,

For to know thyself and be true was not paraded in eloquent words

in search of agora’s of applause,

But to pause –  

to sit in the dark alone to face one’s inner mirror to deeply ponder

the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,

For wisdom arises,

Not from academic journals,

Or quoting aphorisms,

But from lived  experience

Expressing what is really true for you.

Many are moved to speak up by great pain, suffering, corruption and calamity,

Affronted by indifference reining over the common sense of humanity,

For the rights of ordinary people were trampled upon by vested interests.

Narcissus was blind and consumed by his own reflection,

He was not naked before truth!

The Emperor with  no clothes was indulged by a compliant populous

keeping up the façade of lies and deception as to not displease,

He was not naked before truth!

King Midas’ touch of economic success could never transmute common values into the fool’s gold.

He was not naked before truth! 

The greatest wealth is inherent in generosity of spirit as real abundance

not materialism,

Alchemy transmuted negative beliefs into positive virtue,

The mythical Holy Grail was the quest for self realisation,

King Arthur’s roundtable was the symbol of equality for all women and men,

Leadership never governed ‘over’ but sought wise counsel from ‘within’,

For the greatest leaders had unshakable ethics and duty of care,

They forged their swords from truth rather than cowardly legal battles,

For it takes great courage to stand alone with virtue as one’s only protection,

Only the noble leader at heart when stuck between a rock in a hard place liberates Excalibur,

For the elixir of life resides in compassion and valour

not title, properties and ceremonies.

So from my great suffering I speak up to find sanity in a sea of indifference,

To remember that these battles have gone on since time immemorial,

That I can find peace and justice within my own truth,

For my truth sets me free,

To be the best I can be,

Without fear or favour,

For the future of your children depends on the ethics of all of us,

And if we cannot LEAD by example then who can?

For if not YOU then who?

If not NOW then when?

I have been waiting still,

I am still waiting,

To see if the truth sets you free,

To be,

Happy,

For this is the meaning of universal suffrage,

Electing a comm-unity of

enlightenment in

shared interests.