Power and Religion

The belief we have in our homeland or ethnic identity can be a powerful thing. It's ben used to bind people together in times of national emergency. But also to justify eliminating any who've been found ethnically "undesirable." Any student of history can reel off dozens of examples.

We've separated ourselves from each other by race, country and religion, by sex and social class, by designations like blue collar and white.

Maybe now it's time to re-think it all.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Power and Religion.

Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco has been speaking a lot recently on our program about how the framework for a true society is already here. For me as a Canadian, this has been something of a revelation. We Canadians are well along in the process of multiculturalism, which is our attempt to build a pluralistic society through law and legislation. Everyone with the right to health care and education, importated cultural values being respected no matter how different from our own, suppressing and even prohibiting our traditional customs if it makes new, culturally different Canadians uncomfy, that sort of thing. And this is not only laid out in law, but held to be true in the hearts and minds of all progressive Canadians.

Many non-Christians in the community? Sure we'll prohibit Christmas Trees in the schools! It's the only decent thing to do, after all. The City of Toronto years ago lobbied to change the words of the National Anthem from, "O Canada, our home and native land," to "our home and cherished land so immigrants wouldn't be so offended.

They failed.

Immigrant groups become "minority groups", and some chafe at the label. It's a stew of emotions and opinions where we slip a cultural organagram over the more universal rules for a true society that Dr. Claudia Pacheco has been talking about in our recent programs, and which I find, frankly, relieving and clarifying.

There's so much struggle in this area of culture and society that it's become one of the most pressing issues of our time perhaps. When we see politicians exploiting centuries-old cultural and religious differences to drive a wedge between happily integrated Serbians and Croatians and the subsequent horror of ethnic cleansing that erupted as a result; when we see extremists inverting the intention of Mohammed's concept of Jihad away from the true meaning of inner war with the demons within to external war with the western demon without; when we see the European Union trying to forbid Christian symbols being displayed in Italian government representative offices, we can start to perceive that there is much more going on than just the movement and flux of cultures adjusting and trying to make way for others in our globalized reality.

And it all serves to highlight again the integrative nature of Norberto Keppe's Analytical Trilogy, which has accomplished a re-union of science with philosophy and theology, affording us an opportunity to bring real understanding again to our human condition - not the constant confusion created by layering law over amendment over legislation and back again which so characterizes our modern multi-cultural societies.

Before I continue this fascinating and essential discussion with Dr. Pacheco and my colleague, Susan Berkley, I'd like to advise you that we'll be laying out Keppe's science of Analytical Trilogy in its entirety at our Psycho-Social Forum, Healing The World Through Consciousness, May 13 - 15, 2010 here in São Paulo. This is an open invitation for any who'd like to participate and find out more about Analytical Trilogy and how they can apply Keppe's research and clinical discoveries into their areas of expertise. The website is up now, and as always you can get more info by emailing me.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Power and Religion.

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