Culture, the Law,
and the concepts
of Human Freedom.
By Dale G. Cox
What is culture?
cul-ture (kul'cher) n. 1. The
cultivation
of the soil; tillage. 2. The breeding of animals or growing of plants,
especially to produce improved stock. 3. Biology. a. The growing
of microorganisms in a nutrient medium. b. Such a growth or colony, as
of bacteria. 4. Social and intellectual formation. 5. The totality of
socially
transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all
other
products of human work and thought characteristic of a community or
population.
6. A style of social and artistic expression peculiar to a society or
class.
7. Intellectual and artistic activity. -trv. cultured, -turing, -tures.
1. To cultivate. 2. To develop (microorganisms or tissues, for example)
in a culture medium. [Middle English, cultivation, tillage, from Old
French,
from Latin cultfira, from cultus, cultivation. See cultivate.]
Our everyday day lives are almost
completely
submerged in culture. Every aspect of our day to day material lives, is
a product or byproduct of culture. The way we dress, the houses we live
in, the cars we drive, traffic lights, drinks, food, and literature,
literally
everything. The only thing that isn't a direct product of culture, is
our
spirit. Our perspective, emotional limitations and social disposition
are
products of material culture. But the Human spirit is apart of a
greater
world invisible to the physical senses of the human body. This sprit
can
perceive the nature of other forms of spirit separate from its
experiences
of the physical world. To our spirit, culture is a context for our
emotional
world. The experiences we receive from our senses have tangible
bio-chemical
effects on our spirit, and vise verse our spirit has tangible effects
on
the way our bodies feel. As children, we are raised by our parents to
model
the forms of a specific cultural expression. In infancy we are
primarily
focused in the material world. Growing up is a lot of work for the
human
organism. The growth of our bodies requires the undivided attention of
our higher spiritual natures. But as we approach maturity, the spirit
that
used to be focused on physical growth, can now turns it's attention to
the growth of intellect, the expression of being. The ego is realized
through
the search for self-expression, and through interaction with other
humans.
These other humans, like parents, siblings, and friends reinforce our
perception
of the culture we are submerged in via the reflection of their own
experiences.
Hearing about other people's experiences helps us realize there are
many
ways to see a thing. That our specific way of seeing a thing may not be
the best way. This hopefully encourages a personal crisis sufficient to
cause the personality to release its old form and shift to something
new.
This shifting of the personality is called change. We evolve through
change.
We are black, we are white, we are
Asian,
Christian, Buddhist, Packer fans, soccer fans, racists, and
humanitarians.
We become these things because of our direct experience with our
immediate
culture. We respond to physical stimuli. Thus, any manipulation of our
physical environment, is a manipulation of our cultural experience. The
manipulation of the cultural experience produces change via emotional
conflict
for any variety of reasons. Emotional conflict is nothing more than the
alteration of previously stable perspectives. The human learns through
crisis. You should be on your way to work, but for some reason related
with your previous days-emotional experiences and how they effected
your
dream world, you unexpectedly sleep rather heavy, and miss your alarm.
Now you are late. For most people, this becomes a source of varying
crisis.
You anticipate the reaction of your chosen cultural surroundings. This
will cause you to remember other such experiences and the results. The
free flowing laws of karma and circumstance influence the unpredictable
part of this reality. The predictable part is influenced by culture.
External
forces can influence this predictable aspect of culture, the same way
the
inner experience can be influenced by inner spiritual forces. Thus, the
interaction called human consciousness. This is the nature of our path
towards evolution. The only problem is if the human being doesn't
understand
this concept, because the nature of the culture he/she has experienced
does not allow this knowledge to be taught. But, instead increases the
individual's experience of the physical world so as to keep him
consistently
distracted from the workings of his inner self, his spiritual culture.
This is one of the many natures of magic, and its adverse uses, simply
changing someone else's perspective. Violence creates the spell of
fear,
because the cultural paradigm has gone to great trouble to make sure
that
fear should be associated with violence. Television is a good tool for
this. Prior to television, humanity discovered a long time ago that
physical
violence could have a debilitating effect on those who were forced to
watch
violence done to their loved ones. The father would be beaten in front
of the son, to increase the son's reaction to violence. This was the
psychology
used to adjust the perspectives of African slaves in a young America.
This
is also the means whereby oppression is perpetuated in our world today.
What is the Law?
After the great deluge that
destroyed the
Atlantean civilization, humanity was smashed into small-scattered
tribes.
In the old Testament we read about the "Law", and how god sent the
"Law"
down to humanity through Moses, or at least in that particular cultural
stream. The law came down to humanity from god through a variety of
religions,
all the same law, just seen from a different perspective. The law
represents
the organizational concepts necessary to create culture. Humanity is
being
guided through every stage of its evolution. The law governs both order
and chaos. The law is the Tao. The Law provides the means of taming the
human animal. A hand reaching down from the heavens to help humanity
rise
up out of its animal nature and become human. Having mostly forgotten
the
social forms of Atlantis, humanity was reduced to a more basic need for
the Law. The law set parameters of behavior, ideas for organization,
ideas
that built upon each other, generation after generation. You could
almost
think of the Law as social software, injected into the human psyche to
guide it along the path to building what we today call civilization.
Moses
told us that if we did not follow the law god would punish us. Which is
absurd. We punish ourselves. But the law did contain within it some
very
sound principles of conduct and the resulting karma of putting those
principles
to work. Throughout history, humanity has consistently redefined the
law
to meet its current conditions at various times. Visible by the rise
and
fall of major civilizations throughout history. Civilizations came and
went, but what remained was a consistent increase in the way humanity
organized
itself, the Law.
This was the purpose of the law. To
become
a stairway, to weave within humanity the ability to organize itself,
develop
the means to recognize itself. Riding upon the pinnacle of human
achievement,
the higher intellect reached for new knowledge of itself in the
phenomena
it experienced around it via the physical senses. The knowledge passed
down in the higher law was revered and passed on only to those who were
worthy of carrying it. Thus the creation of religions, priests,
shamans,
poets, musicians, and wonderment. Each generation of seekers passed on
to the next what it had learned and added to the great knowledge. For
10,000
years humanity has moved through history, constantly evolving, walking
the path. Each religion added to the creation of the next religion,
Hinduism,
Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity. Each a window on how we viewed
the
world of spirit at a particular point of history. Today we have arrived
at the point where we no longer feel we need the world of spirit. We
have
perfected the law and the law has given us dominion over the earth. But
humanity has become imprisoned by its externalization of the Law. We
have
grown to corrupt the law and make it serve evil intentions. The law was
originally designed as a vehicle for the evolution of the human ego.
The
ego has awakened. Now it must be set free, to come to terms with a
higher
form of law above cultural law, the law of karma. Humanity must realize
that every action in creation yields a reaction from the whole of the
universe
itself. Cause and effect is the basic concept of karma. The same cause
and effect that was taught to us by the cultural law. Do unto others,
as
you would have them do unto you. Our culture is a product of us. All
adversity
in life is a product of the struggle with the darker self within
humanity.
The physical nature versus the spiritual nature. Humanity needed a
guide
to take it through the struggle with it's darker self. That guide was
the
law.
What is Freedom?
But, in Palestine, sometime around
2000 years
ago, the death of the Christ entity nullified the old law, and
internalized
the new law. The sacrifice of the Christ entity was necessary for us to
control the ego. Christ entered into and altered our nature to
subordinate
our will to our heart. The heart became the embodiment of the
conscience.
The conscience balances our ego. Causing us to have feelings about our
actions. Recognizing when we cause others pain. Acquiring the resolve
to
steer our actions in a direction that returns good karma to us. If you
treat others well you will be treated well in return. The concepts of
the
external Old Testament law, replaced by the essence of the Christ
nature
within each of us. In a space within where we stand naked before god,
we
recognize that we are naked to god. We can deceive the material world,
the physical senses, being something on the inside that we don't reveal
on the outside. But, the intent of our hearts is not invisible to god.
God sees every lie we make, as conscience, it stands there with us as
we
intimately analyze ourselves, testing our reasons, judging ourselves.
That’s
why no man may judge another, we're already doing a good job of judging
ourselves. If you think this creates a sense of lawlessness, with
everyone
being responsible for their own actions. We already exist in a state of
emotional lawlessness governed by the higher law of Karma. Karma is a
consistent
reality. You are already facing it everyday. If your life sucks
recognize
it could be because you were an ass in you're past life or in this
life,
and now you're paying for it. It is difficult to be humble in the face
of adversity, but it’s a great exercise in maturity. The choice is
yours.
This is only one aspect of the gift of the Christ entity. An evil man
can
be continually vigilant, and still he will not succeed. A moral human
walks
freely with good intentions when he doesn't have to fear the penalty of
his own unjust actions. A moral human has realized there is more
strength
and courage required to love, than there is to hate.
When we look at the tableau of our
culture
today, it stands on stage like a flamboyant Shakespearean production;
blood
and gore splattered everywhere. The psychology of nationalistic
propaganda
in the environment of illusion is the project of derailing the
expression
of human endeavor. By corrupting the concepts, culture can be used to
corrupt
the human soul. In our current time of almost abject materialism, our
culture
has been pulled away from spiritualism, into the corruption of
materialism.
Materialism says we are only intelligent animals and we should stick
with
improving our animal abilities. Our material perspectives about sex,
our
most sacred communal ritual, have been corrupted to drive us into
animality.
At least 80% of our culture is focused in a perpetual mating ritual
that
equates spiritually to a violent ego riot. We frequently abuse the ones
we love the most. This causes us great despair over the cruelty in our
emotional world. The cause of our addiction to sex is it gives us a
moment
to be in contact with god within us. Love opens a door within us we
want
to keep open, a door that connects us to god. When that door is closed,
we fear that god does not love us, because we cannot touch it, cannot
sense
it with our material minds. We have killed because our door was closed.
The despair of the human soul is a product of its karma, its choices.
An
angry human soul is a product of its own violent expression. It knows
that
violence is born of a lack of love. It knows that god is love. It knows
it must come to love to be healed, or its world will only continue to
get
darker. We know only love and our motivation to be loving can save us
from
hell. Its no wonder we don't aspire to a greater cultural model than
the
one we are currently locked in. We are imprisoned in our fear and
loneliness.
But this cell has no door and no key, it is a cell in our minds, it is
culture affecting the way we think and perceive ourselves, the choices
we make. We must realize we are all living dancing divine expressions
of
god. When we are not in conflict we are in dance. We must subdue the
lower
nature with our hearts. The lower nature is jealous, because of its
connection
to materialism, it is afraid that god does not love it. We must
overcome
fear. The body should not be a prison for fear it is supposed to be a
vehicle
for enjoyment.
Moral action is defined in the
heart. Moral
action is the only path to evolution. You have only two choices, evolve
or don't. There is no third option. The universe is in motion, my
little
amber blades of wheat. Fall and the harvest are coming as sure as the
sun
rises in the east and sets in the west. Time is the constant keeping
humanity
in check, forcing us to keep moving, when our strongest desire is to
sit
down and stop. From this vantage point, the full scope of human
evolution,
hasn't even been imagined. Our future is wide open, but only if we
evolve.
If you don't you will get dragged down into materialism. Imagine the
torment
you go through now desiring to feel love, in hell even the possibility
will no longer exist, imagine how you could feel then, for quite a long
time. There is no fire in hell, only darkness and isolation. God is
fire.
God is light. God is love. Moral action leads us through the initiation
of fire, which is pain to the physical. This has to hurt, or we won't
appreciate
it. The pain guides us to deeper strength within us. Guides us to see
the
results of actions taken in folly. Actions sown with ill intent yield
ill
returns. Anger, hate, jealousy, are some of the animal emotions brought
on by fear. They arise from a false sense of lack. The soul is made to
feel inadequate in some way, thereby corrupting its concept of self.
Corrupt
the concept of self enough and you can reduce a weak human into an
animal,
a smart animal, but still an animal. Moral action guides us to become
self-aware
of the greater goodness that resides within us. Whereas lies only make
us doubt our own worthiness, as we judge ourselves in truth. The Holy
Spirit
stands ready nearby, always watching over us. Standing with us. Despite
our karma, we are never given more than we can bear; the process of
bearing
up under our karma strengthens us more the harder it is. If you can
bear
up under your karma, learn to treat all people with dignity and
respect,
no matter what's happening to you. If you can seek a higher expression
of love, that rises above ownership and codependency. You will be on
the
path towards evolution. It will not be an easy path. The further you
get
the harder the lessons, but the stronger you get. Eventually you learn
to accept karma gracefully, then you realize the moral behind the story
is worthy of recognition.
The concept of Freedom comes from
the knowledge
that we will eventually rise above the animal nature within us. While
we
exist there we are victim to negative emotions. The first instinct of
our
animal nature is to flee from emotional pain, to be angry and
retributive.
The trick to walking through karma is to realize there is wisdom in the
pain we endure. If your heart is broken, now you know what it means to
break a heart. In our modern materialistic world we live with the
notion
of breaking or being broken every time we approach a stranger. As a
culture,
we have not explored any new relationship concepts that would eliminate
this source of frustration for us. Instead, from our material
perspective,
we don't believe anything can change the context. So we seek to change
ourselves. This is invalidation. We have imprisoned ourselves in
invalidation.
We endeavor to "fix" ourselves so that we will possibly attract the one
human with whom we will have everything in common, and we will have the
perfect relationship. No anger, no emotional hostility, never a cloudy
day. This is illusion; this illusion is ripping our culture apart.
Fewer
and fewer people believe it can ever work, which has led to the
increase
in manipulative emotional violence. Women perpetually diet, men work
out
to look fit, we seek wealth and materialism to make us more attractive,
we alter our personalities, all the while denying our true selves,
creating
a schism within our being. We will do almost anything for material
love,
because we now just want to feel love.
Being able to rise above the animal
will mean
the end of nationalism for our culture. Our recognition of race, sex,
color,
religion, basically all of the social forms we use to divide ourselves
in material individualism, must fade away. These are material forms of
recognition, and they say absolutely nothing of the soul that resides
beneath.
White man looks at a black man and feels cultural hate. Even though
he's
never met the black man and doesn't know what is in the black mans
heart.
A so-called leader on television says these particular people are the
enemy,
and we must hate them. We have never met them, how are we to hate them,
yet alone all of them. We must realize that left without the
perpetuated
prejudice of social organizations, most of us prefer to just get along.
It is illusion to believe that millions of people should rise up and
hate
millions of other people they have never met, simply because a few
individuals
tell us it is our national imperative to stand against this enemy. We
must
stop following the will of individuals. We must not hate for others.
Hate
is an individual evil, which should be left to those too immature to
rise
above it. The perpetuation of violence on this world, is the
perpetuation
of violent karma. We must realize that without governments and strict
forms
of social grouping, we would not have widespread social conflict. The
history
of conflict on our world is a testament to the perpetuation of the
animal
nature within humanity. It has been guided by men who want to keep
humanity
imprisoned within its animal nature. This is evil. Likewise, a
man
or woman should never submit himself or herself to having someone else
tell them when to kill another human being. The person telling reaps
worse
karma for manipulating someone to kill, but the person doing the
killing
reaps karma they may not have entered into on their own. This person
might
have a good heart, but now they have been tricked into walking a path
of
violent karma. In grade school we managed this concept. Two bullies
fighting
in the schoolyard did not require the entire school fighting to resolve
it their conflict. Only by ending the cycles of violence will we free
ourselves
from a world of violent karma. Our heart can overcome the animal nature
within us. We have the ability; we must now make the choice.
A moral human walking freely with
good intentions
doesn't have to fear the penalty of his own unjust actions if he
doesn't
plan to commit any. A moral human walking into the face of adversity
prepared
to meet conflict with compassion. Understands that the adversity makes
him stronger when he seeks the wisdom in understanding the other
persons
position. The moral human builds, through patience and understanding,
the
strength to understand his/her own position with compassion. The
building
of wisdom through this form of correct action builds the confidence
that
one does not have to be victim to fear. The moral human realizes fear
is
just a state of mind, not to be confused with common sense. Fear should
be experienced when one is walking along the edge of a cliff with a
long
drop, or when one is about to step out into speeding traffic. Fear
should
be overcome when it interferes with the communication between two or
more
human beings. This is the path to Freedom.
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