{"id":326,"date":"2008-06-07T05:26:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T05:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/06\/new-beliefs-will-create-a-new.html"},"modified":"2008-06-07T05:26:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T05:26:20","slug":"new-beliefs-will-create-a-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2008\/06\/new-beliefs-will-create-a-new.html","title":{"rendered":"New beliefs will create a new politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things look pretty much like “politics as usual” these days…but in the years ahead don’t be surprised if we all see a pretty big shift in the way politics are done…and the way our collective life is created and experienced…
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\nNOTE: Saturday is Prose & Poetry Day here on the blog, a time to take a moment once a week to relax the mind, open the heart, and access the soul through the gift of prose from one of the many books of The New Spirituality, and through the poetry of Em Claire, author of the forthcoming volume, Silent Sacred Holy Deeply: Heart.<\/em>
\nFor this week’s prose we offer…a continuing excerpt (see last Saturday’s blog) from Tomorrow’s God<\/em> about politics…
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\nIn the days of The New Spirituality the idea of using politics to define yourselves as you have defined God will be widely accepted.
\nAs I have been explaining, you are using politics in this way now, but the idea itself is widely denounced, so you have to pretend that you are not doing it. Yet, in truth, you have attempted to create a human society based on Godly characteristics\u2014as best as you understand those characteristics.
\nYou want God to give you those characteristics, through the process that you call politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wouldn\u2019t put it that way.<\/p>\n

You wouldn\u2019t? The fact is, you do. You talk all the time in America about \u201cGod-given rights.\u201d You believe that your political process should grant you these same rights.
\nThat\u2019s what your politics are all about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, I really never have thought about it that way.<\/p>\n

Well, others have. The other people of the world see what you are doing, they see that you have crafted a constitution and created a nation based on your deepest cultural values and most sacred beliefs\u2014in other words, on your spirituality. They see you declaring this all over the place, in the halls of government, in your own Pledge of Allegiance, even on your money.
\nAnd these other people also see that your spirituality is markedly different from theirs. They do not believe that people should have the same rights and the same freedom as God. They do not believe that humans should \u201cset themselves up as gods.\u201d They believe that humans should humble themselves before God. They see Americans as anything but humble before God.
\nAnd so, when they see American cultural values spreading across the globe, they see their own cultural values threatened and diminished. They see their own spirituality compromised. They see their own God challenged.
\nThis is what creates religious wars, because, suddenly, it\u2019s about survival. Survival of the most important and the most personal individual way that people identity themselves\u2014their most sacred beliefs.
\nHere we have a clash of cultures, which is to say, a clash of beliefs. And it is occurring not only with the United States, but with and between many people holding differing fundamental beliefs about God and about Life.
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\nThis is the source of humanity\u2019s continuing problem.<\/em> And it is why The New Spirituality will be humanity\u2019s solution.
\nHumanity\u2019s struggle is not a military struggle, it is a struggle for the mind.
\nIf it were merely a military struggle, then the struggle would be over, because the mightiest military would easily win. Yet your histories, and world events to this very day, prove that the mightiest military cannot win anything. It can subdue, but it cannot be victorious.
\nSubjugation and victory are not the same thing.
\nOnly when you change people\u2019s mind can you claim victory in the struggle to bring peace and harmony to humanity. And this will only occur when humanity understands that its problem is not a military problem, it is not a political problem, and it is not an economic problem. The problem facing humanity today is a spiritual problem.
\nYet when this is understood, then military, political, and economic tools can and will be used to help solve that problem. Indeed, all of Life will be rearranged to become part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. And this, in the end, is what will save humanity from itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How will this occur, particularly in politics? What changes in our political process will The New Spirituality bring about?<\/p>\n

Humanity will produce its own solutions to the dilemmas created by its present political process.
\nIt is from humanity\u2019s new underlying beliefs about God and about Life that these solutions will emerge.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know. I was asking you what some of those changes might be.<\/p>\n

The New Spirituality will bring unity to your most sacred beliefs.
\nIn the days of The New Spirituality humanity will begin at last to hold more basic beliefs in common, creating a more uniform standard for all political expression around the world.
\nAs has been explained, right now your politics express sacred beliefs and cultural values that are remarkably different from place to place. Dismayed by this unworkable divergence, some of your human societies have chosen to ignore God altogether and to form a political system based on no involvement with God in any way.
\nThese governments have not done well in the long run, and cannot, because people\u2019s lives are based on their values, and their values are based on their deepest understandings about Life, and their deepest understandings about Life are based on their cultural stories, and no amount of bleaching Deity out of those cultural stories can remove this influence for long, for the connection with the Divine is instinctual in humanity, and to try to ignore that linkage is futile.
\nThus, governments which have tried to eliminate God from the social and political landscape have either fallen\u2014\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014as in the case of the Soviet Union, East Germany, etc.\u2014<\/p>\n

\u2014or, in order not to fall, have relaxed their restrictions to \u201callow\u201d God back in.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As in the case of the \u201cnew\u201d Russia, for instance. And even, a little now, creeping back in, in China.<\/p>\n

Yes. I repeat: Governments which have sought to eliminate God from the lives of people altogether have found that it is practically impossible to do so. The impulse toward the Divine is cellular, and, even in the case of genuine atheists, can only be overridden by the sheer power of a mental process of overcoming and denying innermost instinct.
\nEveryone\u2014and everything in Life, for that matter\u2014is imbued with an innermost knowing, an inner awareness, of what you call God. The challenge continues to be, however, that Yesterday\u2019s God looks different to everyone. And so, the human race is like an orchestra, the sections of which are each reading from a different score. Each section plays its melody perfectly, yet the result is not a symphony, but a cacophony.
\nYour God\u2014Yesterday\u2019s God\u2014is not creating harmony, but discord.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What would benefit us now is a new score, combining the best of many melodies, and harmonizing them. And you are saying that this is what our embracing of Tomorrow’s God will produce?<\/p>\n

Yes.
\nI said earlier that humanity has attempted to create a society based on Godly characteristics\u2014as best as you understand those characteristics. You want God to give you and your society those characteristics, through the process that you call politics.
\nThe problem is not that you seek to emulate in your societies Godly characteristics, the problem is that you have an incomplete awareness and understanding of what those characteristics are.
\nIn the days of The New Spirituality the nature of God and of God\u2019s characteristics will be understood much more fully.
\nThis will a have profound impact on politics worldwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nIf you experience that you received benefit from this excerpt from Tomorrow’s God<\/em> you are going to love Happier Than God<\/em>, the newest book in the CwG cosmology. Described as “a Master’s Guide to Spiritual Awakening,” this extraordinary new work has just been released and is available now. Click on the Happier Than God icon at the right of this blog page for more info, and embrace one of the most empowering books you will ever read.
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\nThis week’s gift of poetry<\/strong><\/em>
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\nI am preparing for a Grief.
\nI know I shouldn\u2019t think that way
\nbut most of us who notice
\na darkening sky
\nfirst feel it
\nin our Soulbody.
\nIt\u2019s not that I want
\nto sit down
\nset aside the Chalice
\nand
\nfind such words
\nfor such a thing.
\nThe day breaks glorious
\nacross my earth
\nand yet
\nthere\u2026in the distance\u2026
\nthat far-off rumble.
\n<\/em>(I Am Preparing for A Grief – Em Claire – copyright 2007 – all rights reserved)
\nFor more of the work of this new poetic voice you are invited to visit www.mclairepoet.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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