INTEGRAL CONTEXT - THE ONENESS EXPERIENCE
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From: Bob K.
Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 1:27 PM
Subject: Integral Context - the Oneness experience
Reply to: 265709
ID: 265710

Yes Jeanie, it is. An amazing time to be alive in the body... an amazing conversation we're having here... so immensely grateful for this resonant space,

You are not the only one feeling this way, Jeanie, So I just wanted to share a letter intended for Obama by his soul sister ---

Dear Mr.Future President,

I would advise you to remember that you did not create the disaster

that the world is experiencing, and you alone are not responsible for

bringing the world back to balance. A primary responsibility that you

do have, however, is to cultivate happiness in your own life. To make

a schedule that permits sufficient time of rest and play with your

gorgeous wife and lovely daughters. And so on. One gathers that your

family is large. We are used to seeing men in the White House soon

become juiceless and as white-haired as the building; we notice their

wives and children looking strained and stressed. They soon have

smiles so lacking in joy that they remind us of scissors. This is no

way to lead. Nor does your family deserve this fate. One way of

thinking about all this is: It is so bad now that there is no excuse

not to relax. From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real

success, which is all that so many people in the world really want.

They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the

attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is

because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside

job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone.

I would further advise you not to take on other people's enemies. Most

damage that others do to us is out of fear, humiliation and pain.

Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess

a certain religious or racial devotion. We must learn actually not to

have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in

disguise. It is understood by all that you are commander in chief of

the United States and are sworn to protect our beloved country; this

we understand, completely. However, as my mother used to say, quoting

a Bible with which I often fought, "hate the sin, but love the

sinner." There must be no more crushing of whole communities, no more

torture, no more dehumanizing as a means of ruling a people's spirit.

This has already happened to people of color, poor people, women,

children. We see where this leads, where it has led.

A good model of how to "work with the enemy" internally is presented

by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he

confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet . Because, finally,

it is the soul that must be preserved, if one is to remain a credible

leader. All else might be lost; but when the soul dies, the connection

to earth, to peoples, to animals, to rivers, to mountain ranges,

purple and majestic, also dies. And your smile, with which we watch

you do gracious battle with unjust characterizations, distortions and

lies, is that expression of healthy self-worth, spirit and soul, that,

kept happy and free and relaxed, can find an answering smile in all of

us, lighting our way, and brightening the world.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.