~Why not write on politics?~

If you keep up with the themes and moods of my posts, it is probably clear that, and I don't really blog on the economy or politics. This is not because I don't think about or am not affected by the economy or political issues and current events. Nor is it that I feel thought and action in the economic and political spheres are worthless. Truly I do not believe this.

Generally, I have written on a small number of topics: homesteading/permaculture, spiritual view and practice, curanderismo/plant-spirit medicine, and personal current events (mostly for family and friends). I have stuck to these topics largely because I have direct exposure to them; they are where my time and energy is spent. But in the last year or so, I find I am being drawn to write almost exclusively about one thing. This one thing is consciousness...aka awareness, presence, tao, being, buddhanature, atman, etc.

I do not subscribe to a western or Cartesian model that views consciousness as something produced by the physical organism. In my own experience, I have come to know that it is the other way around...that the physical organism arises within consciousness. Thus, for me, consciousness is the prime, the source. All things and the world come to be known by virtue of consciousness.

I know many other areas of discourse exist...two large ones that are forever on the front page of our lives are economics and politics. Here are the two main reasons that I write on issues of consciousness/unfoldment of awareness and not economics or politics.

First, my gifts/virtues/tendencies/leanings all point me away from the political sphere as it now stands. I simply am not drawn to it, do not feel natural in it, do not have the skills that a savvy politician would need, and really have not been adequately schooled in politics. Generally the same goes for economics as it currently stands. I have this qualifier, because I find that I am interested in local currencies, demurgent economies, consensus governance, decentralization, etc., and believe that if the political and economic realms were to shift in this direction, that I would find myself more naturally drawn in.

The second, and more important reason, I touched on already in this post. I believe that, if we are to succeed in bringing about a deep and wide revolution of compassion and wisdom, we must focus our energies most skillfully. While political action and economic action are important, valuable, and necessary, they are not the source as I have found it. By 'source' I mean the greatest point of leverage...where we are each most powerful, or have the most agency. Where is this greatest point of leverage? The place from which you are knowing right now the words you are reading. Do you understand what this point is? Do you know from where it comes? Can you understand the wonder, mystery, and potential of consciousness?

The cart before the horse: we try to understand the world before we understand what we, at our core, truly are. We try to change things half asleep, and then we rage at ourselves and at others when we make it worse instead. Even when our actions are coming from a desire to bring about goodness, if they are committed holding to energies of separateness, fear, longing, doubt, etc., they will only resonate and reverberate this same quality of energy, no matter what. This is the law of causality, as firm as the law of gravity.

Only when we really have remembered what we are, free of any projection, assumption, filter, concept, doubt, fear, desire, etc., will our actions produce freedom. We will act in full awareness of our inherent satisfaction, fearlessness, and joy, and thus whatever we do will produce the same. Sow the seed (of consciousness), so the fruit (of matter)...

This is why I now write mostly about consciousness; either from my own personal experiences, or from others now living or long gone. To me, this is the most important thing: to recognize what we are not, and to remember what we are. All goodness and virtue will flow from this one thing. I challenge each of you to challenge this axiom.

P.S. I do not wish to alienate anyone with this post. Truly, I support and am grateful for the work many of us are committing our lives to in the desire for peace, equality, health, and happiness...not because these actions will bring about true peace, etc., but because such intention and resolve causes us to grow and deepen and awaken to our inmost truth.

With a warm heart,
Eka