CHAPTER 11
A RECONCILIATION OF OPPOSITES

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln, 16^th U.S. President
1st Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1861

o far, we have examined some of the dubious currents which influence our American political and socio-economic “system”. Now let us examine them briefly as they are collectively expressed as forces within our government. From the perspective of those in

our society who are governed, there is rapidly increasing mistrust and uncertainty. Those who govern appear to be more and more out of control.

Why is this so? To answer this question we must give some consideration to certain observations that have been made regarding the two primary economic concepts driving the societies of our world today - capitalism and communism. It has been said that neither capitalism nor communism is evil in itself, but rather it is the greed for wealth and/or the lust for power that leads to totalitarianism and dictatorial-rule in any system of governing that is evil.

The "systems" by which men contrive to govern each other may be benign in themselves, but can, and most often do, become less than benign, even evil, as a result of the attitude and behavior of their officials. Of course, we view communism as evil because it has been their intent to destroy us. But has it not been our intent to destroy them as well? Where lies the greater evil? Those who are governed, whatever may be the underlying concept or ideal, relinquish power to those who govern by ignorant, willing subjugation (acquiescence by consent).

Those who choose to live in ignorance have always been, and always will be, governed by those who seek an advantage for themselves. Our history books and our current media are pounding our senses with this truth daily. This will only change - can only change - when people individually begin to exercise their God-given intelligence to become self-realized, self-responsible and self-reliant, NOT by becoming dependent upon a self-appointed, centralized, all embracing authority otherwise called the State.

To continue with our examination, it will be helpful if we first recognize that no matter how we choose to define our government in America today, whether we call it a republic, a democracy, a democratic republic, or a constitutional republic, when we scrutinize what is actually happening, we begin to see several elements interacting and vying for influence, position and power. In fact, what we see is a rather chaotic montage of systemic doctrines and principles in competition for supremacy with each other at present.

To begin with we can still find the basic elements of our capitalistic principles reflected in Wall Street stock market investing, continuing growth of the mega-corporation concept, and the ideal of a freeenterprise system intact. Yet accompanying all this, we now find evidence of communistic doctrines in the modern form of corporatism, business employee share-ownerships, agricultural produce co-operatives and land and estate trusts. Socialism is also present in the form of Social Security, State Welfare, Medicare and the recently introduced National Healthcare Program.

The more astute observer will also become aware of the vicious evils of fascism lurking in the secretive, paranoid corridors of our F.B.I., the insidiously perverted orchestrations of our C.I.A., the treacherous and murderous operations of the B.A.T.F., the obnoxious bullying, seizures and outright thievery of the I.R.S., the autocratic regulation and divestment of benign substances by the F.D.A. and the D.E.A., and, yes, we might even find elements of a ruling aristocracy (oligarchy) when we consider how wealthy all of our politicians are becoming through indiscreet means, while purportedly acting in our service. Birthrights are established behind our backs through the acquisition of wealth in this manner.

Observing this kaleidoscopic display of political and militant juggling for influence, position and power, we must wonder at how such elements could continue to exist in a country such as America that professes (and would appear) to be free. At first impression we might suspect confusion and chaos, perhaps even anarchy. Our leaders, it would seem, are out of control. We then might realize that these elements probably exist by virtue of the fact that we ARE a free country. In a free country, you are as free to do evil as you are to do good, as long as you can hide the evidence of your evil so you don't get caught. In such a scenario, it would be just as well that our leaders ARE out of control insofar as they keep dethroning, toppling and obstructing each other’s attempts at gaining absolute control.

It seems that it would behoove us to fence off a Federal district (such as Washington, D.C. – “The State of New Columbia”) so these elements could have their hey-day among themselves, exercising their insidious ingenuousness and treachery on each other, stealing each other’s illgained wealth, overturning each other’s unworthy authority and eroding each other’s unmerited positions, while the rest of us simply get on with living? If we, the people, would just build a mental fence around them, isolating them and their insidious machinations and just get on with the necessities of life, they might soon find they had no one to lead. They might soon devour and destroy each other and themselves.

Certainly we are capable of creating our own goods and necessities. We may even become able to re-educate ourselves to be courteous, respectful and to stay out of each other’s way. We surely know how to seek our own pleasures and we might even re-capture some of our curiosity about the life that surrounds and embraces us. Do we really require this niggardly, self-appointed, ruling elite to go on robbing us, harassing us, deceiving us and keeping us in blind, unquestioning servitude? Why not intern them to their own self-designated territory and let them destroy their own self-appointed stations? It could be fascinating and educational to watch.

This can be achieved peacefully, firstly by the realization of what is really going on, how they have duped us, and then simply purging ourselves of the belief that we need them doing this to us. It happened in the European Renaissance, the American Revolution and it is happening among the indigenous peoples of the Hawaiian Archipelago at the present time. (More on this in another chapter - *Authors note.)

This all begins in the mind, and the body follows in spontaneous obedience. It has been found that, when the chips are down, the majority of people do not live by any abstract principles or doctrine unless it is forced upon them by some overwhelming power. Instead, they gravitate to where rewards or comforts come. A capitalist will become a socialist overnight if the rewards are greater there. The reverse is also true. It is quite simple, really... we are creatures seeking our own advantage first. That is the bottom line for humanity at present, or so it would seem.

The earliest form of organized government known to man was, no doubt, communistic in nature because it would have best served to ameliorate the harsh conditions in which humanity lived at that time. The villagecommunity is evidence of this because it provided the greatest measure of comfort, security and socio-economic intercourse these people needed to survive. Although it has been largely forgotten, the village-community also did not seem to interfere with its member’s attunement to the Forces of Creation in nature, their innate awareness of a Divine Essence.

Man’s innate awareness of his own spiritual heritage began to disappear and was, for the most part, lost when he was persuaded or coerced by others of his own kind to submit their allegiances to the man-made citystate. Western man, with the exception of a few remaining primitive subcultures, has been wandering in spiritual isolation and darkness, prey to the controlling elite of his own kind ever since. (See an example of this in Chapter 15, THE FIRST PEOPLE OF HAWAI’I by Oral Traditionist and Historian, Kupuna Billie Beamer; this serves as an excellent metaphor for us all.)

It would seem that we have all become the prey of each other. It would also seem that we might have come full cycle with regard to governing systems. It appears as though we are rapidly returning to a communistic form of government. All that has changed from past to present is that the political methodologies have been defined, and the concept has become more sophisticated, to suit the complexities of the world we live in. What has not changed is that people are still willing to go to war with each other, kill and maim each other and destroy each other’s homes and property over an idea. This is really very interesting, is it not?

Communism was probably the first instituted governing order. Capitalism is an anomalous idea of more recent origins, but has become the supreme antagonist of the communistic concept. As a matter of fact, it has become so much so that both capitalism and communism have become evil and opposite extremes in their death struggle with each other.

I would here, once again, like to quote the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Frederich Hegel, according to Webster’s Dictionary, which states that every existent idea or fact belongs to an "all embracing mind" in which each idea or situation (thesis) evokes its opposite (antithesis) and these two result in a unified whole, (synthesis) which in turn becomes a new thesis. Now we must ask ourselves, is there a "lesser of two evils" or is there an aggregate or "synthesized thesis" which is the result of the earlier "thesis" of communism and its later "antithesis" of capitalism. It would seem that communism has degenerated from being the "embracer" and has become the "oppressor", and capitalism has fallen from being the "liberator" and has become the "exploiter".

Let us browse through Mr. Webster’s garden of words, thoughts and ideas once again and visit his definition of socialism, which states that it is "any of various theories or systems of the ownership and operation of the means of production and distribution by society or the community (could that be us?), rather than by private individuals (could that be power brokers such as Rothschild, Rockefeller, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, etc.) with all members of society or the community sharing in the work and the products." (Could examples of this be found in virtually all the relatively recent and highly successful, independently owned and run,

direct network marketing and distribution systems such as Amway, Jewelway, Maleluka, etc.? - *Author’s note)

Webster goes on to say that socialism is "the stage of society, in Marxist doctrine, coming between the capitalist stage and the communist stage, in which private ownership of the means of production and distribution has been eliminated. In essence, it is simply people supporting and empowering each other without the hindrance of over-ambitious and advantaged private exploitation.

Please note that Mr. Webster mentions not one word about state or governmental planning or control in his definition of socialism. We must ask ourselves at this point, "What is it that is common to both capitalist systems and to communist systems of government?" Do I need to spell it out again? … Planning and control by the state!

Is it possible we have allowed ourselves to be deceived here? Who or what is the "state"? The "state", my friends, is simply the condition we are in! It is a condition in the minds of people that is introduced either by suggestion or by coercion. It remains there either by subliminal or by consensual agreement. If the holder of this concept of "state" is led to believe that he or she benefits from it, then it will, no doubt, remain there by voluntary agreement. If, however, the concept of "state" no longer benefits its holder, then it may remain there as a subliminal belief within a helplessly enslaved person or it may be rejected in a deliberate act of liberation. A freethinking, sovereign individual may rightfully choose to break his "contract" with this deceptive, less than benign, concept.

Those who advocate and represent this dubious idea of the state are, thence forward, "out of a job" with respect to this individual. It has no tangible substance. It is an idea... a concept! Yet the lives of the multitudes of humankind are planned and controlled by one or the other of two major concepts that have no real existence at all, except in our minds. Those who desire to control us wield this invisible idea of the state over us like a threatening weapon. All of us in one form or another adhere to the doctrine of statism, the sovereignty of the state, and give all socio-economic planning and control to a centralized state government.

(Webster’s)

Unless the state is "God", how can something that has no substance, and no tangible existence, be sovereign? If the state is our "leaders", then they must be the sovereigns and can do with us what they will. If the state is "us", then we must be sovereign and our leaders should be serving us, not controlling us. Our present definition and true understanding of socialism does not seem to offer us the security of state planning and control. We only find this in the definitions of capitalism and communism which both apparently require the security and sustenance of the controlling state concept. If we are intelligent and civilized human beings and were to take the opportunity, why would we recreate the totalitarian injustices, avarice and treachery found in our current misinformed interpretation and dubious character of the state. It can be expected, of course, there will be sufficient determination among the adherents of this concept that an attempt will be made to impose and enforce its profane doctrines. If they are successful we will, then, be faced with the final great war between capitalism and communism and what could have coalesced into the best qualities of these two systems will be torn to shreds in the pit of battle. The dream that might have emerged out of this matrix may never manifest, and man will be forced to start over in the wake of his own ignorance.

Is it possible that socialism, in truth, is not what we have been taught or led to believe it is? What if it is not just the next step toward communism and totalitarian rule? What if it is not just a ruse to draw us into the evils of communism or for us to draw them into the glories of capitalism? Suppose it has been the logical and inevitable objective of both capitalism and communism from the start? Is it possible that the evil totalitarians in state communism, because they themselves feared socialism, chose to deceive us into thinking it was a secret weapon of theirs, thus inducing fear of it in us as well? In truth, we both may have succumbed in fear to the one great concept, or "thesis", which could bring peace, prosperity and Divine Awareness to the masses of men and women here on earth. In fact, it is perhaps the "state", or rather the adherents to statist models and doctrines, at our expense, the (privately) exploitive "Power Elite", who fear and hate pure socialism the most because it will rob them of their power, their property and their purpose.

Could it be that we may yet see the evil extremes dissolve and the best of both emerge to the benefit of the people of the world? Might we yet witness the replacement of the misguided leaders of our respective state planned and controlled "systems", our maligned advocates of the deceptively invisible, but all-powerful, "state". It will take some time for the conditioning of the human mind to adapt to such a phenomenal synthesis, should it happen to occur. It could happen naturally, however, in the ensuing peace, prosperity and enlightenment that could be the result of such an occurrence. Resistance and competition for power and wealth might fall away like chaff in the wind when it is available to all. Even our leaders may eventually believe they thought it up and try to convince us of this. In time, however, even they will be compelled to submit their wills to a Greater Power than they have imagined… greater than the state and greater than a nation… greater even than a one world government. Yes, even those who have imagined and conceived a power or "ism" greater than the world has ever seen or experienced before will bow down low to a Greater Power still.

What makes this so very interesting and amusing is that when one is awake, this Power is clearly evident in all that we perceive and all that we experience. We are permeated with it. It is our life. We are given free will to interpret it as we wish or to allow others to interpret it for us. The worst that can happen, however, is to lose our awareness of it. Even then, we cannot make it go away, for it is “us”. It is what we are! So, why not give ourselves the freedom to be it. It is the Power of man’s will to be free. It is Divinity seeking to be liberated through each of us. When will we stop arguing about what form it must take or how we must experience it?

Let us step beyond the realm of concepts for a moment and just allow ourselves the reality of Pure Being, unhindered by "isms" or doctrines or rituals. It is here that we find what is truly Divine. All the rest is what Pure Being is cloaked with... veiled beneath. This is what hides it from us and yet it seems we need all this so we will know where to look. Concepts, or opinions, are what mankind uses to hide his divinity from himself. It could be said that we play peek-a-boo with God in this manner.

It seems we must retreat from Essence and create "isms" or there would be no comfort or convenience, no hot and cold running water, no bus to take to the office, no television to absorb our mental faculties, and no bank balance with which to perpetuate our self-deceptions. We would soon become hungry and uncomfortable simply contemplating the mysterious, omnipresent Essence in Nature with no one to cook a meal for us, or no pillow for our head at night and no roof over us.

Contemplating the Divine Essence can be fine once the necessities of life are met, but an empty stomach, a crick in the neck, and rain in the face can be a bit distracting. Thus, we must have these "isms". They are the means by which a certain desired "state" or condition is achieved. Some "isms" are better than others. At best they are cumbersome and unpredictable and at worst they are downright miserable and destructive. All, however, have their origins in truth, fulfil a certain necessity and are inspired by Divinity. What we do with these "isms" is of our own choosing and responsibility. It is the flawed and perverted interpretations of the leaders of men who cause what we see in the world today. It was true of communism and of capitalism and it will be true of socialism as well.

Who can say, at present, what the probable antithesis will be that might arise in the midst of this emerging concept of socialism. After the initial surge of dynamic exuberance and enthusiasm generated by the new thesis, it may be noted that some principle or doctrine of apathy or antipathy, stemming from boredom with all the new found freedom and creature comforts, may be introduced by those who are unable to attune themselves in the spirit of it all. So, do we cling to the doctrine of state control and its adversarial instruments, communism and capitalism, and fight it out to the death, or do we accept and welcome their "offspring" instead, work with it, experiment with it, educate it and make the best we can of it? What are our options? What else do we have to work with, in freedom, to create a world that is peaceful, worthwhile and responsible to itself, its inhabitants and its Maker?