KADEF

Devin B Waldman

KADEF 

K Karma 

A Agape D Discernment  E Enactment  F Freedom

Why Karma Agape Discernment Enactment Freedom? 

Why freedom? Human beings are inherently free. We never legitimately own one another. Slavery is but a claim: one enforced through violence. We are sovereign: above the ownership of others. But humanity’s inherent sovereignty is not honored by the political and economic systems that we live under. As anyone can see, the world’s ruling class systems are based on authority and control. Under these systems, people are imprisoned for putting substances into their own bodies. If we don’t own each other’s bodies then how could such a proposition be legitimate? A vast portion of people’s labor is coercively extracted from them—through taxation—and covertly siphoned from them—through banking—in order to fuel Empire. If people own themselves, how can this make moral sense? People subsidize their own subjugation—and that of their fellow human beings—and are imprisoned if they refuse. They are coerced under the threat of physical punishment to fund wars they morally oppose. Others are bombed with those funds. Who in this equation can be said to be free? All of this implies ownership over people’s bodies. To elucidate what freedom is, let us continue to outline what it is not. Banks siphon human energy by printing—or typing—money out of nothing and charging the world to use it. When considering the matter, we come to see that money—as it currently exists—is slavery. This is because all money is debt that must be paid back to the banks with interest. People pay this debt with their unending labor in exchange for paper that banks print from nothing but the cost of paper and ink. The monetary system links human energy to paper (or digits on a screen) which is owned and controlled by international banking cartels. If you and I had a monopoly on money-printing and created this money without any labor of our own and “loaned” this money to governments, and to common people who came to us for loans and mortgages, who, in turn, exchanged their daily labor for money at their workplaces and forever owed us back a significant portion of this money, we would build a vast Empire, now wouldn’t we? Banking is like fishing. You cast out the bait—a thing of fake value—and then capture the thing of real value, which is human energy—hook, line and sinker—and reel it back in. It turns out that it costs money to use money. Banking is not loaning. It is stealing. It is selling the world something of no inherent value—which required next to zero effort to create—in exchange for unending human labor. When trading our energy in for paper, we retain a portion of our energy in this exchange, of course, and that is the money we spend on our personal lives: on rent, food, etc. Yet, every slave must have food to eat and somewhere to sleep in order to show up the next day. People lose a significant portion of their energy in trading their labor in for money through the devices of debt, interest, inflation, deflation, and fractional reserve banking—which is the practice of spending people’s money while we keep it inside what we consider to be our bank accounts. Banks create money. We work for it. We store it inside our bank accounts. They use it while we work. When we go back to claim our money, it is worth less than when we first deposited it since banks must create more money—or else take it from someone else—to repay us since they have already spent the money we first deposited. Every time banks create more money without a subsequent increase in a society’s goods and services, the money loses value compared to those goods and services. Central banks which loan money to governments have a checkbook without the need for a checking account. They invent money out of thin air and “loan” this money to governments plus interest on top. This provides governments with an endless fountain of spending money on the taxpayer’s dime. This is because governments have no way of paying back the banks except by taxing us since governments produce no wealth of their own. The governments are a predatory class—the violent middlemen, as it were—within a global scam. This means that the masses in fact work for the banks without any compensation at all and work for governments with horrifically unjust compensation. Our energy is converted into paper through our jobs and then it is coercively taken from us by governments who then hand it over to the mega banks and corporations—through corporate subsidies, bailouts and interest payments—in a steady stream. Banks and corporations, in turn, spend our energy on the expansion and maintenance of global Empire. We also labor for the banks without compensation whenever we take out loans and mortgages directly from them. Due to inflated prices, most people cannot afford the cost of an education, vehicle, home, medical bills, and whatever else. This makes people increasingly turn to the banks for loans and mortgages in order to survive. People rent their homes from banks who seize it from them when they default on their loans. It only costs banks the price of paper and ink, but it costs you a lifetime. Money is a game of make-believe. We all make-believe it’s worth something; even though we, ourselves, are the things of real value. What this means is that one has to labor several times to eat but once: once to buy the paper from banks and once to buy the food. Exchanging one’s labor in for money is also to trade one’s time in for a currency that is constantly losing its value due to inflation. When taking inflation into account, we see that human beings labor at least three times to eat but once. Because of inflation, one must continually labor longer for less in return. Inflation is the same as diluting a pot of soup with a gallon of water. Without also increasing the materials within the soup, each spoonful loses its substantiveness as you pour more water in. Inflation appears like prices going up, but, in truth, inflation is the currency becoming increasingly worthless, which means that people’s time and energy is constantly losing its value in relation to the goods and services they require. Trying to build a free society on top of a monetary system owned and controlled by international banking cartels is like trying to build a civilization on top of quicksand. Combine this now with the fact that vast numbers of people hate doing what they do every single day in order to make this money. With this in mind, the spiritual enslavement of humankind comes into focus. Now we come to governments who tax regular people nearly every time they turn around. When taking taxation into account, we see that people labor at least four or five times to eat but once. Whenever people earn something, own something, buy something, sell something, import something, export something, inherit something, bequeath something, there is inevitably an invisible hand there to take its cut. All around the world, it is customary for people to pay between 30% to 60% of their lifelong earnings to governments in various forms of taxes. In turn, governments use this money to pay for a number of harmful endeavors. They create wars, militarize the police, expand the surveillance state, spy on us, construct prisons, hand billions of dollars over to banks and corporations, legalize crimes against humanity, and pay themselves while doing it. As mentioned, people labor without compensation for mega corporations in the form of corporate subsidies through tax dollars that are coercively taken from them. In this manner, people labor, under duress, for the consolidation and expansion of international corporate monopolies over the news, big tech, communications, oil, energy, land, food, water, real estate, pharmaceuticals, medicine; you name it. We work for corporations without compensation and, in turn, become their captive consumers. Additionally, people are under duress to seek direct employment from corporate monopolies since other working opportunities are increasingly destroyed. Funding the corporations through taxes translates to laboring everyday for our food to be sprayed with toxic chemicals and to have mass media mislead us all. We also labor for our own State indoctrination; that is to say, the 15,000 hours of State-controlled curriculum within the school systems that teaches us—good teachers aside—to obey authority and adopt the logic of the status quo in order to fit in within a global slave system. Between banks, corporations and governments, the average individual is like a coconut stuck with dozens of straws while the juice is slurped up day after day by a parasitic ruling class superstructure. Within this construct, there is, of course, a caste system that ranges from bad to far worse, but humanity as a whole cannot accurately be said to be free; not if we are forced to labor for a ruling class; not if our energy is confiscated and used for harm. 

Freedom is none of this. Freedom is voluntary. Freedom isa basic deal that we do not own each other. Freedom is a cosmic contract. I do not own you and you do not own me. Because this is true for both of us, we definitively know that it is true for everyone. Since we do not own each other’s mind, body and spirit, consent between us is necessary. We voluntarily coexist within our own interpersonal lives all the time. We do it inside living rooms, in movie theaters, on sidewalks, within music venues, in bookstores, in cornerstones, inside bakeries, on boardwalks, on stoops, on streets, on roads, inside apartments, at the workplace, and so on. If we can voluntarily coexist on a microcosmic scale, there’s no reason to believe it’s impossible to do it at a societal level. Most people obviously prefer voluntary interactions to involuntary ones. This is true to the extent that most people do not actually go around murdering, invading, robbing, assaulting, and abducting each other. Yet, people are perpetually forced to subsidize murder, invasion, theft, assault and abduction at the hands of the State. Human coexistence can never be perfect, but slavery produces more trauma and violence than freedom does. This is because it requires violence—and threats of violence—to keep us unfree. As human beings, we limit violence amongst ourselves through a connection to conscience; that is to say, through developing the innate knowledge of right and wrong within us, and the articulation of that knowledge among us. One reduces violence in this world by reducing the dynamic of physical and psychological domination. This is because physical and psychological domination creates trauma which perpetuates the cycle of abuse. One reduces domination in this world by reducing the belief in authority. After the 15,000 hours of school by the age of 18, we are unlikely to have taken a single class on the inherent difference between right and wrong. We are programmed to confuse authority with protection even though they are polar opposite phenomena. Authority is claiming the right to dominate the freewill of other people. Protection is in defense of such a claim. Authority is in violation to consent. Protection is in defense of consent. Consent is necessary if we are to be free. Agreement is not necessary. We do not have to agree on anything except the fact that we do not own each other and therefore do not have the right to harm each other. When we cannot agree on this, protection is necessary. Freedom starts with the mind. We cannot be unfree in our minds and expect to manifest freedom in external reality. If a coherent principle of freedom were to take root in the hearts and minds of a critical mass of human beings alive on Earth at once, the endless particular solutions to the endless particular problems would gradually work themselves out. The difference between authority and protection is one of the key fault-lines in our logic that self-enforces a state of unfreedom. Freedom is a principle of acknowledging the same rights to others as oneself, whereas authority is claiming more rights than others. Freedom is a principle of acknowledging no more or less rights to anyone at all because doing so would inherently be unfree. This alone makes government illegitimate since members of government claim the right to do things which regular people do not have the right to do. Authority is the alleged right to rule: to force others to obey one’s commands regardless of the content of those commands. Freedom comes with boundaries: the boundaries of bodily and psychological consent. The former being the right to choose what does or doesn’t happen to one’s own body, what we put or don’t put inside our own bodies, and where the energy of our labor does or doesn’t go. Psychological consent is the right to be able to perceive reality accurately without being held under a state of duress, deception, and gaslighting. Our bodies and the fruits of our labor are never rightfully trespassed by bullies. Human beings are better off voluntarily pooling their own resources and consensually helping others in need rather than being forced to fund an Empire of domination that provides us some services on the side—with our own money—while also perpetrating crimes against humanity. People can avoid unfreedom not through obedience to authority but by upholding basic moral principles for coexistence: common sense principles that can be wisely built upon. Freedom, as we said, begins with the heart and mind and spreads into our words and actions, and ripples into the hearts and minds of others, and into their words and actions, and outwards, and inwards, and back again. Freedom is respect in motion: respect not for the authority of others, but for the autonomy of others. In a love-deficient world, freedom is in short supply. Love is no stranger to humanity, though we could always use more of it to go around. 

This brings us to enactment. Enactment is action. Words and actions set love into motion. They also set fear into motion. This polarity of choice—in its infinite variations—is forever at our fingertips and tips of our tongues. We are all magicians in this sense. We create physiological, chemical, emotional, mental and physical realities with our words and actions. Care is that key ingredient to willfully and skillfully enact our intentions into physical manifestation. The care we put into our endeavors—a musical instrument, cooking, carpentry, pottery, parenting, etc—is that all-important ingredient in shaping the overall impact that our actions have. Care is the magician’s most potent ingredient. Care is the focusing of consciousness. Care, on an emotional level, is also what spurs us into action. If one refuses to improve upon oneself over the course of a lifetime—if one stubbornly clings to one’s own ill-advised repetitions—one inevitably leaves a trail of negligence in one’s wake. Negligence is the antithesis of care. Negligence sets chaos into motion. The more we neglect important aspects of our lives, the more our lives will be haunted by chaos. The more chaos there is, the more overwhelmed we will be, and thus, the more we will tend to neglect. The longer one waits to learn a life lesson, the more psychological incentive there is to delay learning it lest admit that one has been wrong the entire time. This has everything to do with why the control system is effective in maintaining its control. The pace of life is so fast that people neglect many aspects about themselves, their children, their friends, the health of their bodies, their joys, their abilities, their life’s purpose, their spiritual evolution, their knowledge of the world around them. Negligence creates drama and messy karma and also tends to lead to a lack of self-respect. The more drama between people, and the less self-respect we have, the more divided we are. This, of course, plays right into the hands of Empire. There is an ego reflex that so often shoots down opposing views: worldviews that put us on the spot to self-reflect and reassess. The ego is doing its job protecting us from pain, so we are wise to approach our own ego respectfully and ask it permission to enter into the fortress of trauma that it protects. Part of doing this work is to acknowledge the abuse—whether material or spiritual or both—that we have lived under just by virtue of being alive in such a world. If one has also been a perpetrator of abuse—even subtly—acknowledging an intergenerational societal dynamic of abuse helps identify the source of the spiritual wound. One can make this connection without making excuses for one’s own abusive behavior. The adults who abused and abandoned us—whether emotionally, mentally, or physically—were also, in all likelihood, psychologically abused and abandoned themselves, since every child basically is in this world, whether by family or by society itself. This is not to say that we all suffer equally as children or as adults. Yet, in spite of material advantages some have, no one spiritually benefits from living in a global caste system. Our spiritual wellbeing and evolution comes from attempting to break out of this system; not from perpetuating it. As children, we grow up within a society where injustice is called justice, bondage is called liberty, and chaos is called Law and Order. It’s a testament to the resilience of the human spirit that any halfway sane adult emerges from this level of gaslighting. This certainly does not get people off the hook for their own atrocities, but it does provide context. The ego can be thought of as the societal self. The societal self has been stuffed with statist mythology of why we are too dangerous to be free even though being unfree is precisely what makes us so dangerous. The ego has reasons to pretend the system is legitimate and trustworthy. If one has based decision-making on false premises over the course of a lifetime, one has the psychological incentive to double-down on these beliefs rather than rethink a lifetime of words and actions. The ego can also be thought of as a vigilante guardian spirit, though it can be a vigilante self-punisher as well. It has its purpose within our spiritual makeup, but creates many problems when refusing to come under the apprenticeship of the conscience. The conscience is the ego’s teacher but the ego doesn’t necessarily like the sound of this. The ego may claim this sounds hierarchical. It is to the advantage of the ego to obfuscate the difference between wisdom and authority. Ego has an easy time ignoring conscience because the conscience is not aggressive. When the conscience asks the ego to listen, the ego can play the victim. When the ego angers and betrays the conscience, the ego will act like the conscience is the aggressor. The conscience doesn’t claim authority because the conscience is the antithesis of authority. The conscience merely has wisdom to share, but cannot force the ego to listen. On the other hand, the ego has the tendency to dominate, to distract, to deflect, and to deceive. Coherence is born through self-honesty and bringing our various spiritual components—such as the ego and conscience—into balance. An inner Universe exists inside each of us. It’s our own inner domain to master. Our jurisdiction as rulers does not extend to other human being’s inner world: their thoughts, emotions, words or actions. Only our own. We interact with each other, we influence each other, we collide with each other, we conflict with each other, we plead with each other, we cut ties with one another, we go our separate ways, but never do we rightfully violate and dominate one another’s freewill. Without healing, collective action is rife with claims of authority. Without a willingness to bring ourselves to justice internally, we are unable to sustain justice externally. But, you may ask, what action can people take in the here and now—other than healing and evolving ourselves—to counter the well-advanced global slave system that we live under? Under perpetual economic coercion, it is hard to find the time to have a revolution. As many have pointed out, revolution is a suspicious word. It revolves around and around. What about evolution? Even if momentous change were to happen soon, it is rather easy to imagine people rebuilding structures that enslaved each other all over again. This comes down to a critical mass of us not yet vanquishing the belief in authority. And so, spreading a coherent message of freedom far and wide, is, when we think about it, the action which bears most wisdom at present. So many of us have the opportunity to do just this; and so this gives us something tangible to do. If we freed our minds among a critical mass, this mental freedom would increasingly produce physical freedom among us. If a critical mass of minds were already free, our actions would have naturally manifested a higher degree of physical freedom for humanity to enjoy by now. But since mental freedom is currently out-weighed by the belief in authority—whether coming from the left wing or the right wing—a message of freedom from all ruling class systems regardless of the ideological pretext must first alchemize inside more hearts and minds before we can expect aggregate freedom to manifest at a societal level. In order to alter one’s physical reality, one must alter one’s actions. In order to alter one’s actions, one must alter one’s thoughts. Freeing our minds sets our hearts free from the dogma and deception that confines us. It frees us from the fear which restricts our emotional and electromagnetic heart organ: our own inner Love-generator. And so, it is a spiritual—that is to say, a mental and emotional—inner unity which allows us to unite externally and break free from a condition of bondage. Assisting others in a process of evolution through speaking out against an unjust system far and wide and spreading a coherent message of freedom based in Natural Law is currently the move that could actually checkmate the State in the long run if done in large enough numbers.

A tipping point in human energy is needed in order to shift the balance and tip the scales. A profound psychopathic force in our world will run amok until an equal or greater power of love is set into motion to counter it. As increasing numbers of people turn their consciousness to a specific point of focus, the energy of their consciousness builds upon the consciousness of others, which attracts still more consciousness to the mix. Like pushing a boulder uphill, the weight of the boulder is enormous until more and more people join in on the effort. If a critical mass of people—who knows the exact percentage—alive on the Planet at once were to focus their day-to-day consciousness on human liberation from the system as a whole—not only from the right-wing and not only from the left-wing but from the entire control system that enslaves the human race—our efforts would undoubtedly bear fruit. The human world is a testament to the power of our beliefs. By believing in authority, the net output of our actions produce—like an infallible computer program—the aggregate result of human bondage. As more people unloosen the locks within their own hearts and minds, those around them necessarily become freer as well. One helps free others by freeing oneself. We are intertwined in this manner. By loosening the psychological ties that bind you, you loosen the entire string. No one is the savior of another, yet we can assist each other by evolving ourselves and sharing our findings. Just like the belief in authority has spread throughout the globe, so too can a philosophy of freedom. As greater numbers of people communicate the will to freedom far and wide, exude it, defend it in their thoughts, words and actions, voluntary coexistence necessarily increasingly manifests. What if one chooses neither capitalism nor communism nor liberal nor conservative nor fascism nor socialism nor government at all? What if one chooses freedom over slavery period? What if freedom becomes the word on the tip of everyone’s tongue? What if we used the art of conversation towards liberation? What if everything we did, we did for liberation? What if everything we said, we said for liberation? That would get it done. Needless to say, there are any number of ways one can share a message of freedom far and wide: through writing books, through conversations, through videos and films, through radio broadcasting, through podcasts, through live-streaming, through digital publishing, through book publishing, through websites, through blogs, through albums, through pamphlets, through zines, through memes, through audio recordings, through homeschooling, through discussion groups, through screenings, through lectures, through soup kitchens, through presentations, through artwork, through Q & A’s, through neighborhood meetups, through book clubs, through investigative journalism, through interviews, through demonstrations and rallies, through public performance, you name it. If a message of freedom is sufficiently loud enough, more and more people hear it and are moved by the vibration. We are of natural phenomena; of natural power. Power not to be used over others: but spiritual power. Power that empowers others. Like hurricanes and tornados, we are receivers and transmitters of immense energy. Imagine the amount of labor one human being performs over the course of a lifetime. Imagine if much of that energy wasn’t extracted away from us and used to harm us all. Imagine where that energy could go instead. We are of raw power like wind and sound. Indeed, we are wind and sound. Our voice is the greatest power we have in influencing others. Action is a freewill choice, but principles, of course, do apply. The more knowledgeable we are, the wiser our words and actions will tend to be. This might be an intuitive knowledge, a contemplative knowledge, a historical knowledge, but action without knowledge will bring us, like clockwork, the manifestation of error. Life is our teacher. When we act without knowledge, we are presented with a learning opportunity to ascertain the knowledge that we lack. Knowledge of the world comes, in large part, from knowledge of ourselves. Knowledge of ourselves comes, in large part, from a willingness to be honest with ourselves. Being honest with ourselves leads to self-healing and unity. Lying to ourselves stagnates personal and collective evolution. There are, of course, endless practical concerns to take into account with regard to how to break free from the control system. There is no manual that walks us through each step since the specificities of our actions depend upon our individual circumstances. Nevertheless, human beings do require but a short list of things to survive and thrive in this world: food, water, shelter, clothes, tools, and mental and emotional connection to other human beings. To reclaim humankind’s sovereignty, voluntary structures are needed to procure all of the above out from under the clutches of global monopoly: be it food, land, water, energy, protection, housing, technology, travel, communications, etc. In order to pull this off without recreating involuntary systems, humankind is called upon to evolve itself both internally and externally. Personal evolution also includes developing life-skills that lead to self-sufficiency: ones that can be put to pragmatic use within a community and society like making clothes, operating technology, building homes, growing food, cooking food, teaching, healing, plumbing and sanitation, fixing equipment, defense, etc. To know what precise action to take in any given situation, regardless of how epic or how minuscule one’s problem is, one is tasked with a process of contemplation to determine which course of action will improve upon one’s situation and which course of action will lead to stagnation. 

And this brings us to discernment. When speaking about universal principles, some may assume one is oversimplifying things. Could it be that universal principles are elegantly simple? The Universe is reliable. The Laws of the Universe don’t change from day to day. Day and night follow each other in an eternal dance. When you walk down the road, the ground doesn’t just vanish from one moment to the other. Discernment is the ability to ascertain basic principles in physical and nonphysical reality. It is the ability to distinguish wise from unwise in any given moment, true from false, half-true from altogether true, half-false from altogether false, honesty from dishonesty, just from unjust, one concept from another, etc. If confusion is mixing two or more distinct things into one thing, then discernment is the ability to ascertain their distinctness while also recognizing any overlapping characteristics. In an atmosphere of mass conflict and contradiction, deception and chaos, it may seem like a lot to ask people to wade through all the conflicting information. Discernment is certainly not about believing what other people tell us. In such a world, one cannot expect to discern reality by simply believing our parents, grandparents, friends, children, writers of books, news broadcasters, colleagues, etc. Our worldview is our own responsibility. For this, a reliable methodology for ascertaining truthfulness is useful. This brings us to what has been called the Trivium. Knowledge, understanding and wisdom: a three step methodology in truth-discovery. Another way to put it is simply: input, processing and output. A high intake of information from a wide variety of sources is a healthy input for people tasked with discerning truth from deception, fact from fiction, etc. As we absorb information from eclectic sources, contradictions inevitably arise. Grappling with these contradictions is now in order. In the scientific method, this step has been called the elimination of confounding principles. Further trial and error, measuring and remeasuring, experimentation and observation, study and research, daydreaming and contemplation helps one come to the most plausible theory to explain an existing phenomena. If contradictions within a data set cannot be resolved by eventually proving or disproving one theory or another, one can acknowledge one’s uncertainty of what is true and hold that tension within one’s mind without jumping to conclusions. When such contradictions are finally resolved through grappling with ample evidence, coherence is born. Output or wisdom is now speaking from—or taking action upon, or publishing the results with regard to—this knowledge and understanding. Like a gifted math student who knows the right answer without going through the logical steps to prove it, knowledge can also be ascertained intuitively through automatic knowing. Yet, in a world fraught with competing ideologies, a reliable methodology for processing information is helpful since our intuition can at times be overpowered by the beliefs of the people around us.

People in power maintain their power by disempowering others. Knowledge empowers and uplifts. Deception disempowers and divides. When we empower others we are using our power to uplift and inspire rather than for hierarchical gain. Which one of these approaches—empowerment or disempowerment—would you choose if you sought power over others? Which one would you choose if you owned the channels of information that the masses consumed? Throughout history, we see that Empire is empty of truth. Empire is sophisticated though. It tells on itself. Each political party will tell aspects of the truth about the other party, though generally not about themselves. This spreads confusion since it seems unlikely that a single Empire could control both political sides since they are continually in conflict with one another. Among us regular folks, each ideological side is emboldened to defeat the verifiable injustices of the other. Each political side has legitimate concerns about the ideology of the other side, but, overall, also fails to concern themselves with the illegitimacy of their own ideology. Since both sides are partially right and partially wrong, fewer people reconsider their worldview than if you could prove either side entirely wrong. The left-right cultural deadlock renders unity all but impossible. Neither one will ever lead to liberation. Unity exists somewhere outside of either. One cannot help but wonder if we are truly as divided as we think. How often do people of opposing ideological sides sit down and break bread and have debates and conversations amongst themselves? It isn’t hard to identify a common enemy since we are all forced to labor for an Empire that subjugates us in one way or another. Neglecting to do this work is the ultimate recipe for divide and conquer. Maybe some people hate the other side so much that they are willing to have their own lives jeopardized as well; but if so, one should sit long and hard with this. We have no choice but to share this Earth together. We can blow each other up, but that would not work out so well for any of us. Why support either the left wing or right wing when in either case one is supporting mass murderous political organizations? Why be a Marxist when Marx prescribed communism which calls for even more State control? Being constantly misled and lied to by Empire creates an inversion of reality. It creates a consensus reality that is more convenient to believe than what is actually taking place. Common sense tells us that the systems we live under are illegitimate since they are involuntarily. How can an involuntary system ever be legitimate? The math unequivocally adds up to this since government—by its very nature—operates coercively and violently. Yet, people on TV and mainstream radio don’t come out and say this. Sure, they talk about political problems, but they offer political solutions to political problems. But what if politics is the problem? Politicians promise us a better world, but the world would be so much better off without politicians. Common sense tells us that no one can legitimately own another. Because this is true, a societal dynamic of rulers and subjects is unnecessary and reprehensible. Common sense tells us that human beings require not rulers; but wisdom. This means that an educational shift is in order. The human child does not spiritually benefit from being taught to obey authority figures. Children require guidance—not domination—along their journey of self-discovery. For this, they are tasked with building their own neurological pathways. As human beings, we are born with our own particular combination of self, intuition, logic, imagination, reason, inspiration, creativity, physical abilities, emotional range, sense of humor, language, conscience, etc. This is a lot to work with. If we neglect to develop these aspects of ourselves throughout our childhood and biological adulthood—which the school system, on the whole, certainly encourages us to do—we never tap into anywhere close to our full potential. Instead of stuffing your head with external information that you are expected to memorize and repeat back to someone who is constantly measuring your answer against a centralized State curriculum, why not encourage each child to develop and reveal what is already there inside them: that same spark of human intelligence that created—in endless iterations—all other positive human contributions throughout history. In other words, the child is already the profoundly intelligent earthling that is capable of vast knowing and auto-didactic learning so long as we don’t mess them up too badly. As adults, our role is to provide them with guidance when they flounder; but, for this, we require wisdom ourselves. No other known species in the Universe has quite the combination of mental, emotional and linguistic components that we have. This makes our place within the Universe—though wise we are to stand humbly before the unfathomable vastness of it ALL—nevertheless a high honor. 

Which brings us to Agape. Agape is Love. The Universe communicates in Love. The Sun, The Moon, The Stars, The Earth, The Air, The Water: everything we could ever need is right here. The human being is wired to receive love: to soak in rays from the electromagnetic heart. We come into this world with outstretched arms. A loving vibration helps the mind and body grow in a positive manner. An unloving vibration puts us into fear mode. As infants, we require constant care. Love is an energy that animates all levels of existence. The human being, in particular, requires a very high degree of it. Agape is a level of consciousness that extends beyond—but also encompasses—the love we feel towards our loved ones, and even stretches beyond the love we feel for humanity itself, although, once again, is also inclusive of it. Agape is Cosmic Love. Agape is Love of the Universe itself. The Universe is interactive: Love the Universe and the Universe will love you back. Agape is Love for Universal Law and for the self-owning sentient beings who live within the Universe. We are not so different than plants and animals in our need for nourishment. The Love plants and fungi receive is the direct cosmic nourishment of the elements and the mutual aid of the rhizomes and mycelium networks that extend from them. The animals are characterized by a greater degree of individuated mind than the Plant Kingdom (which is characterized by collective mind). With the higher degree of individual freewill that comes into the picture within the Animal Kingdom, the expression of Love becomes more personalized. Mammals, in particular, are characterized by an empathic vibration. The human mind, which is even more individuated than that of the Animal Kingdom, has access to the comprehension and communication of universal principles: such as quantum physics, chemistry, electromagnetism, gravity, speed of light, speed of sound, justice, etc. None of these are principles that human beings themselves invented. We merely observe, name and communicate these principles. Like measuring the speed of light, the human mind has the ability to trace the choice and consequence of our words and actions and ascertain right from wrong—based on what causes harm and what does not—and communicate these principles far and wide. Justice is no different than any other physical or nonphysical law. The capacity to observe, comprehend and communicate principles of justice brings us a greater responsibility—and a higher moral standard—than that of the Animal Kingdom. When animals eat each other, for instance, though vicious and tragic it is for the ones who are eaten, it is not the same as when human beings inflict violence on one another. If we were to hunt each other down on the street and devour each other’s flesh on the sidewalk it would be another level of viciousness, now wouldn’t it? This is because we have the cognitive capacity to comprehend justice. This is why the word evil has its place in human reality. Evil—when all is said and done—is the abject absence of love deliberately set into motion. Raccoons, giraffes, cats, tigers, bears, lizards: they don’t start nuclear wars. Bears, elephants, horses, pigs, octopi: they also don’t compose A Love Supreme. To be fair, we don’t do what animals do either. But as human beings, we have at our fingertips a vast range of vibrational choice that no other known species has. This range of choice affects all other Life on Earth; whereas their freewill, in the case of animals, does not. We can pursue a prison planet for human beings and biologically reengineer the natural world and poison the world’s food supply with chemical fertilizers and drop atomic bombs in the ocean; or we can pursue wellbeing and liberation for ourselves as well as for all sentient beings of the Earth, who, mind you, are also being poisoned and enslaved by the control-freak policies of the global control system. This choice, at its root, is between Love and Love’s absence. Justice versus injustice, therefore, is a cosmic equation. As Love among us increases, so too does justice. Love is not merely positive feelings, however. Love is also telling the truth even when it hurts. Justice is balancing mercy and compassion with judgment and severity depending on the severity of the situation. Both judgment and compassion are needed to uphold justice since one side of the scale without the other inevitably leads to chronic dominator complexes or else chronic submissiveness. 

The fact that suffering, tragedy, struggle, cruelty and evil exists on Planet Earth undoubtably causes some people to assume that the whole of the Cosmos is inherently unjust and lawless. Some speak of dog-eat-dog and the law of the jungle as the prevailing code for coexistence. No doubt many of us feel betrayed by humankind and have grown cynical of human nature, and thus, of nature itself. But when we think about it, tragedy, cruelty, struggle, suffering and evil all prove the existence of Love. Because Love exists, so too do the effects of Love’s absence. With access to a high degree of individuated consciousness via the human neocortex—the center of intuition and logic—as well as access to the emotional center of the brain—the mammalian brain or limbic system—we, as human beings, possess the anatomical capacity to feel, comprehend and communicate moral principles. Some might assume that describing a dynamic of morality and immorality is a form of dualistic thinking. Yet, acknowledging polarity on Planet Earth is not the same as thinking dualistically. Thinking dualistically is assigning arbitrary value to things. It is to arbitrarily and dogmatically declare something immoral, such as a lifestyle choice that results in no harm to others. Acknowledging morality itself, however, is not arbitrary or dogmatic. Morality is nothing less or more than acknowledging the real-world difference between behavior which results in harm and behavior that does not. There is a difference between stabbing someone in the face with a knife, for instance, and cutting open a papaya. Morality is to acknowledge this basic difference and to identify a line that should not be crossed. Morality is a simple code for coexistence: one which acknowledges the reality of our self-ownership. In order to protect and strengthen one’s Love vibration in this world, one is unwise to fall prey to the trap of chronically hating ourselves or particular groups of people. Recognizing or experiencing injustice inevitably comes with feelings of anger and/or depression and/or self-loathing. There is, of course, a marketplace for capturing these emotions and channeling them in ways that disempower us and sow division. The ultimate divide in this world is not between demographic groups but between bullies and non-bullies. All subjugation of particular groups of people is based in bullying. A bully can also appear within any particular demographic group. This is not to say that bullies are equally distributed among demographic groups or that all demographic groups are equally bullied. Nevertheless, one is not necessarily a bully regardless of the particular demographic group that one belongs to. Therefore, it is the behavior itself—not the demographic group—which determines who is or isn’t a bully. Bullies and non-bullies have two distinct conceptions of coexistence: one of freedom versus slavery. However, many non-bullies become bully apologizers and bully supporters, and so they too, without even necessarily realizing it, join the ranks of the bully. To stand against bullies helps us Love ourselves. Whether it’s happening in a school yard or at the macro political level, we, as witnesses to injustice, have the choice between uniting against bullies or ideologically aligning with them. 

Which brings us to Karma. Karma is choice and consequence. What we put in—in the aggregate—is what we can expect to get out as a species. Because humanity has made a habit of supporting political and ideological bullies, we have quite the hole to dig ourselves out of. Because, at present, humanity is trapped within an economic protocol, we produce, like clockwork, the aggregate result of the status quo. Karma is not a law based in retribution or revenge. Nor is it a law that guarantees justice for everyone. Karma is the Law of Cause and Effect. Karma doesn’t mean people inherently deserve whatever horrible things happen to them. People are constantly being unfairly affected by the actions of others due to the ricochet effect of those actions. Karma doesn’t guarantee safety to the innocent nor physical injury to the guilty. Karma doesn’t guarantee anything except the aggregate results of human consciousness. It is true that we are unable to fully comprehend the totality of the Laws of the Universe—and how Karma extends beyond the death of the body—but we can observe principles within our plane of reality. Karma is based on our interconnectedness: how our thoughts, emotions, words and actions affect others, and how that ripples and affects us in turn, and how that piles up among the billions of us who come and go. The Universe is a freewill zone. We are free to choose, but we cannot escape the consequences that our choices have on ourselves and others. One can call it Karma or Natural Law. One can call it the Law of Conscience. Con etymologically meaning together. Science meaning to know. When we think about it, no other law is needed. Do not enslave and do not condone slavery in any form. That is the one and only Law a critical mass of us must coherently heed if we are to be free. Do not abuse and do not condone abuse. This rules out a short list of behavior. Rape, murder, assault, coercion, invasion, deception and theft. If you look at this list, the control systems that we live under maintain their control precisely through these means. On a Planet of abundance where food grows in the ground, a system based on artificial scarcity creates a ripple effect of pitting people against one another for their survival, which increases the amount of harm we inflict on each other. If people want to free themselves they necessarily must act from an energy antithetical to domination since domination (or authority) is the key ingredient of slavery. Many people know better than to bully others themselves, and yet they condone bully behavior via the State. They wouldn’t demand a substantial portion of their neighbor’s paycheck, but they’ll vote for someone who will. When people do not cause harm to others, they have not committed a crime. No harm, no crime. Human-made laws do not necessarily make this distinction. Human-made laws change according to the whims of lawmakers and judges. Political law seeks power over others, whereas Natural Law is rooted in our inherent sovereignty. Government itself is unLawful since it claims the right to violate people’s consent. Political law makes it legal to harm others. Natural Law, on the other hand, is such that we have the perfect right to do what we please so long as we are not harming others. Political law teaches people to follow commands whether or not they are Lawful. A student of Natural Law, on the other hand, learns the objective difference between right and wrong and lives accordingly. Rights are not entitlements, mind you. Just because someone has the right to travel, for instance, doesn’t mean someone else must buy them a ticket. If we follow the logic of self-ownership all the way through, it stands to reason that human-made laws are entirely unnecessary. When human-made laws are accurate, they’re redundant. When they’re inaccurate, they’re in violation to what is naturally true. The truthfulness of Natural Law is not dependent on whether or not we write it down. It is worthwhile to write down Natural Law principles, but this is distinct from claiming that a law is true because we wrote it down. If a law can be changed by humankind this must mean that we are the arbiters of Law. Yet, we are not the arbiters of the Law of Physics, for instance, but rather the observer and communicator of this Law. In this same way, we are not the arbiters of Natural Law. Karma is embedded into the code of coexistence. Karma is simple: do no harm and condone none done to others. This is because abusing human beings creates cycles of trauma which tear through people’s lives and destroys their wellbeing. It is a Law that can be tested and verified. Living by this Law produces freedom. Defending ourselves from harm—both physically and psychologically—is necessary to protect this freedom. Karma is a Law that one can choose to violate but not without accruing culpability. This is true in the same way that one can jump off a mountain but not without suffering the repercussions. 

Who gave politicians the right to make laws, change laws, build prisons, and declare wars? Who gave them the right to decide what can happen with our bodies? Who gave them the right to determine how millions of people’s energy is to be used? Who gave the intelligence agencies the right to deceive, blackmail, murder, stage military coups, and perform psyops that manipulate the masses? Who gave the police officers the right to stop and frisk, terrorize, abduct and assault? How about the military? Who gave them the right to invade people’s land and blow them up? Was it you who gave them these rights? The voter? How about the prison system? Who gave the prison guards the right to lock people up for refusing to pay taxes and/or ingesting substances within their own bodies? Who gave the politicians the right to coercively take from people’s daily energy and give it to the richest and most powerful banks and corporations in the world? Who gave the politicians the right to speak words that start wars? Was it you? Did you give the government these rights? And others just like you? Other people, that is, who don’t have these rights to give? How is it that people can delegate rights that they don’t even have? Royal dynasties of old were based on the myth of the divine right to rule: the claim that God had given royal families the right to rule over humanity. Now we are told that our rulers are our representatives; that is to say, that they obtained the right to do what they do from us. But since we don’t have the right to do what they do, it stands to reason that we cannot grant them the right to do what they do. It therefore follows that they have no right to do what they do. They couldn’t have gotten these rights from us since we don’t have these rights ourselves. Would I, myself have the right to demand 30% to 60% of your lifelong earnings at the threat of harm and spend it in ways that are also harmful to you and your fellow human beings? If not, then how can I delegate this right to a ruling class? In truth, no such right exists. Karma—the Law of Cause and Effect—is, when we think about it, the key that unlocks the mental cages imposed upon us. This is because Karma addresses the causal factors of our unfreedom. The root source of our unfreedom is humanity’s belief in authority. It is this belief, in all of its variations, upon which every single slave system throughout human history has been constructed and maintained. Many of us still cling to this belief out of fear. Those who follow orders to the point of inflicting death on others are taking their belief in authority to an extreme. Shoot when I say shoot. Invade when I say invade. Drop bombs when I say drop bombs. All murder, invasion, abduction, coercion and assault stem from the belief in authority: either the belief that one must follow the orders of others regardless of the content of those commands or the belief that one can legitimately dominate the freewill and/or bodily autonomy of others. All racism, sexism, violent fanaticism, predatory and bully behavior is rooted in self-deception and a delusional claim of authority: claiming, in other words, that you have the right to do things which you have no right to do. When will a critical mass of people abandon the dogma of authority within their own thoughts? When will a critical mass of people refuse to invade and conquer and enslave at the behest of their illegitimate rulers? When will a critical mass of people refuse to fund perpetual warfare? When will a critical mass of people finally escape from the left-wing/right-wing deadlock? When will a critical mass of people refuse to subsidize their own enslavement? When will a critical mass of people stick up for other people’s sovereignty? We can never know that it is impossible to free ourselves unless we wholeheartedly attempt it and fail. If humankind wholeheartedly attempts liberation from this system and fails anyway, we will at least know that we tried. If we don’t wholeheartedly attempt it, we will never know what would have happened if we had. It is easy to assume that it isn’t one’s place to involve oneself in the pursuit of liberation. One may assume that other people—more experienced activists, political theorists, philosophers, researchers, journalists, etc—are in a better position to speak out and act. But once one vanquishes the belief in the right to rule, one begins to see that the only chance humankind really has to undo the global control system is through the evolution of consciousness; and this can only happen if large numbers of people take personal responsibility within this evolutionary effort. As one advances one’s own knowledge, one quickly sees one’s responsibility in assisting others to do the same. The old adage of each one teach one to reach one is a simple formula that works but requires strength in numbers. Knowledge is the antidote to ignorance, yet knowledge alone is not enough. Speaking and acting upon this knowledge is how wisdom is born. Wisdom is what transforms human Karma. Good Karma sets us free. Conscience is the guiding principle of good Karma. Freedom is being free from external rule as well as being free from delusion. Authority—the alleged right to rule—manifests unfreedom in endless iterations. It’s evolution time. Pass it on.  

Karma: choice and consequence based in Agape, meaning Love: to honor the sacred boundaries of Human Beings and the intelligence of the Universe; for which we require Discernment: in order to disentangle truth from deception and identify the voice of conscience towards Enactment: to heal and evolve hearts and minds in the effort to manifest wisdom, which leads us to Freedom: the birthright condition of the human species and all sentient beings of the Earth