One of the most dangerous human creations is a rigid and absolute code of ethics that disallows freewill and the natural development of intuitive integrity.
The rebellion of the human spirit against other determined laws or codes that wield punishment, without exception or compassion, have brought countless civilizations and religions to their knees.
The intuitive integrity that evolves through personal experience and freewill allows humankind to make and correct mistakes in judgment and behavior. The unseen Code of Ethics that urges humankind to evolve is quite simple. Everything we do to another is eventually experienced inside ourselves because the “grand illusion” is separation.
Jamie Sams in Earth Medicine
It’s almost funny. Some of the most outspoken advocates of “heroic” individualism also seem to be members of the most fundamentalist churches. But, when you strip away the rhetoric, the most individual thing they worry about is making money with the least amount of interference from anyone else. Make things my way and damn the workers or the environment. Let me use my property any way I want to, even if it means opening an underground music club that operates at all hours of the night even if it’s in a residential neighborhood. Declare that you believe everything in the Bible is God given and literal’ except for the parts about feeding the poor, caring for the sick, protecting the weak; heck they’re just a bunch of free loaders they can look out for themselves.
Then there’s the rest of us who are just hoping we can keep the roof from collapsing. Maybe if we can keep it up long enough everybody else will finally wake up. But, don’t hold your breath.
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