The Invisible Rhythm of Politics

Newton's Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. What if this is true in politics as well as physics?

The coming movie "Cristiada" chronicles the three year Cristeros War in Mexico when the government attempted to secularize the nation, much the same as the Obama Administration is working to secularize America. This was a shooting war, a people's war against a Utopian government. The movie trailer states: "When the government outlawed faith ... the faithful became outlaws," which is meant to be understood as "the faithful became freedom fighters." An equal and opposite reaction?

The Obama Administration's headlong plunge into leftist Utopian dictatorial policies, which in another time and place would have been called "fascism," has given rise to it's own equal and opposite reaction: many people joining liberty movements and freedom causes. Tea Party gatherings. Passionate crowds at Ron Paul rallies. Mushrooming sales of guns and ammunition. Popular authors turning to themes of American societal collapse and/or even coming civil war.

The prolific author, William Johnstone, published in 2011 the first in a planned fictional series about America after an Obama-like President allows the country to degenerate and be attacked by Islamic nukes. This first book in the series is entitled Phoenix Rising, with the subtitle statement "When freedom's under fire, America fights back!" An equal and opposite reaction?



"Newly elected U.S. President Ohmshidi is sharing the wealth, rewriting the Constitution, and changing the National Anthem. But when he begins to implement his agenda - banning oil production, slashing military budgets, and establishing a 'New World Order' - our nation becomes the target for a new wave of Muslim extremists, who rename America 'The Islamic Republic of Enlightenment.' Enter Jake Lantz, a seasoned army major and ace helicopter pilot who assembles Firebase Freedom, a ragtag team of action-ready soldiers and patriots in order to take on the violent 'Army of Allah.' Jake's mission: Take back America." (Amazon.com review of Phoenix Rising)

Best selling author, Brad Thor, writes in his 2011 novel Full Black:



"What we discovered was that beginning in the 1940s, radical elements inside the United States had recognized that there were these huge piles of money just sitting inside multiple large foundations and endowments all across the country. These big government collectivists, globalists, socialists and communists realized that if they could get into positions of power, say on the boards of directors at the foundations or the endowments, they could steer the money any way they wanted. And that is exactly what they did.


"On top of indoctrinating kids, Standing wanted to get as many people dependent upon the government as possible. Government handouts, even for corporations, are like heroin. Most people, once they're hooked, remain hooked and don't even realize it. They rationalize that they are entitled to the handouts.


"History also shows us that once a democracy goes down this road.... Each and every single time, the democracy collapses. It always happens. Democracy is always followed by dictatorship. And guess what the dictator promises?"

Is Brad Thor one of many making up an equal and opposite reaction?

Maybe Newton's Third Law helps us understand Lesson 23 of the Course in Political Miracles: "I see my enemies working for my success."

Never despair when progress seems to be made by those with false ideas.  For every action by those with false ideas there is an equal and opposite reaction of truth.




The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, A Course in Miracles , talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from every kind of slavery:

You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery.



Also available free of charge online:
Course in Relationship Miracles

The Winning Message of Ron Paul & Mitt Romney in New Hampshire

"I make an offer which can't be refused."

Liberty cannot really be refused ... not really. Because liberty is my inner state of being and try as I might I cannot ultimately refuse myself.

So when I offer liberty to someone, that person could reply, but can't really mean it: "What in hell would I want to be free for!" Therein lies liberty's assurance of success.

If I offered a million billion dollars, I could be refused.

If I offered cradle-to-grave security provided by stealing from more productive workers and giving to less productive workers, I would certainly be refused by any moral person.

But no one can ultimately refuse one's natural state of being. So all I have to do is offer freedom and keep offering freedom.

Do I have to produce freedom to back up my offer? Not hardly. Why would I have to produce something that already exists inside of people?

Obviously I might be guided to work for political freedom, but it is the act of offering freedom that really does the work. Ronald Reagan stated to the American public, "I want to give you back what America once had ... freedom!" He won elections by landslides.

Did people actually experience more freedom when Ronald Reagan was president? After all, the government continued to grow, taxes increased, and there was little perceptible movement toward more political freedom.

The answer is people did feel freer. They had voted for freedom. They had chosen the natural state of their spirit. Having so chosen, their predisposition is now to be open to feeling more of their natural state regardless of conditions outside themselves.

Strange as it might seem, the dictator who offers freedom does, at least in people's subconscious minds, get taken up on his offer.

Whatever is being experienced in the subconscious mind gets reflected in the outer world, doesn't it? So the same dictator who had no intention in the first place of actually granting freedom ends up being the facilitator of freedom after all, either by voluntarily surrendering or by subconsciously setting himself up to be taken down.

Whoever offers freedom, by virtue of the offer, ends up facilitating freedom.

During the 1998 elections, the Libertarian Party chose one of the weakest possible campaign themes. The one consistently publicized campaign issue favored by the party leadership was, "We offer an alternative to Republicans and Democrats."

Big deal! Joseph Stalin would be an alternative to Republicans and Democrats. Adolph Hitler would be an alternative to Republicans and Democrats. Not voting at all would be an alternative to Democrats and Republicans.

The truth is Democrats and "go-along-to-get-along" Republicans might have forgotten their source, but will someday remember that they too are libertarians down deep. To offer merely an alternative to Democrats and "go-along-to-get-along" Republicans is to offer no clearly defined opening into people's deepest desires. Is it any wonder that most libertarian candidates got a mere 3 or 4 percent of the vote?

This week I want to check my premises and check what I am offering. When I waken each day I ask myself a few times:

"What am I offering and how clearly does my offer call upon people's natural desire for freedom?"

During my daily meditations, I specifically search my mind, asking, "What issues are my ego's favorites and do my ego's favorite issues really awaken the desire for freedom in most other people?"

If I find myself focusing on positions which do not serve my overall purpose more than the position of merely offering a little something other than "go-along-to-get-along" Republicans and Democrats, I ask myself inside:

"What issues would really, really, really resonate with people's inner desire for freedom?"

This week during my meditations I listen inside and allow my inner voice to tell me what I really need to be focusing on and I make a list of issues that just about everyone is going to respond favorably to, at least on a spiritual level. I remind myself that issues given by my inner voice are issues worth campaigning for because these are issues that are going to open people's inner desire for freedom.

Before retiring each day, I practice feeling what it feels like to be offering freedom in ways which will really open people ... instead of in ways my ego might have preferred. What does it feel like to be offering something people really cannot refuse? Before sleeping I let myself feel one last time for the day the joyful certainty of this week's lesson:

"By offering freedom, I am making an offer which really can't be refused."





The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, A Course in Miracles , talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from every kind of slavery:

You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery.




Also available free of charge online:
Course in Relationship Miracles

Ron Paul and the Sentinels of Liberty

In a so-called "democratic" political system, a political power-monger is one who seeks political power ostensibly to "serve the public," but actually to pass and enforce man-made laws which further the agenda of a particular man-made political philosophy. In other words, a political power-monger is a dictator hiding behind the facade of democracy.

In such a system, one who involves himself or herself in politics solely to defend against such disguised dictatorship, solely to facilitate basic natural laws (some would say God-made laws) and otherwise protect individual liberty might best be called a sentinel. Sentinels are the real defenders of the public.

A problem arises in such a system. The attackers almost always win, while the defenders almost always lose. There is a reason for this.

Political power-mongers have an all-consuming ego-vested interest in becoming super experts at gaining and maintaining power. They live and breathe political strategy (and are usually not beyond lying, cheating, fraud, and other corruption). They will bend every truth and buy or blackmail every possible vote in order to win elections. They are masters at appearing self-righteous and above reproach while secretly operating in the deficit-morals zone of "anything to win."

Sentinels, on the other hand, have no ego-vested interest in politics. Politics is unnatural to them. They engage in politics solely to defend themselves, their families, and society in general. But because politics is uncomfortable to them, and their natural inclination would be to put their energy elsewhere, they rarely put their entire heart and soul into politics ... at least not until the attack on political liberty has reached the point of desperation.

But when it does reach that point, when liberty is reeling from the punches and about to be counted out, the sentinels suddenly start manning the ramparts as never before. Having no natural attraction to politics, they haven't spent years preparing themselves, majoring in political science, working the precincts, focusing on politics 24-7, "learning the ropes," so to speak. But they do have the Spirit of Liberty working for them, and they do have A COURSE IN POLITICAL MIRACLES.

Ron Paul is one such sentinel. But many more are awakening. Charles Dickens began The Tale of Two Cities with the line: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." Take heart, Ron Paul supporters. If, under the Obama administration, it is the worst of times for liberty, it is also the best of times. So many sentinels are right now taking up the shield of liberty.





The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, A Course in Miracles , talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from every kind of slavery:

You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery.




Also available free of charge online:
Course in Relationship Miracles


"My inner voice guides me perfectly."

How a Ron Paul Supporter Climbs to the Top in Politics

"I experience invulnerability when I surrender outcomes."

Just as the ultimate goal of a libertarian activist is far beyond the intermediate issues talked about in a particular election cycle, so the ultimate goal of this course is to benefit me far beyond the realm of politics. The principles I am learning with these lessons work for business or work situations, relationships, indeed all areas of life.

There is nothing I cannot accomplish if I live by these principles.

In fact, the more I learn about spiritual opening ... not religious beliefs, but true spiritual opening beyond any particular beliefs ... the happier and more efficient my life becomes. When I release guilt, fear, anger, wanting, fixed belief systems, and other pain-causing habits; what remains is love, joy, and inner peace. Why wouldn't my whole life be more efficient?

Does this mean a spiritually opened person can live within the depressing gray cloud of a Marxist society or the prohibitive darkness of any kind of dictatorship and still thrive and be happy? Yes. Because a spiritually opened person is in touch with inner happiness which does not depend on external circumstances.

Does this mean I can still feel free in an unfree world? Yes ... if I'm seeing clearly that an unfree world doesn't have to affect my freedom. But such clear seeing requires being open spiritually. A truly free person, a person in touch with inner freedom, does not need to worry about external circumstances.

In a political activism context, does this mean I can be joyous and happy and not the least bit depressed even if libertarians or libertarian-leaning candidates lose everywhere in an overwhelming election landslide? Why not? Who decides whether I am happy or not? Some voter external to me? Or am I myself in charge of how I feel?

If I am in charge of how I feel ... if external events or circumstances cannot really affect my inner happiness ... then I am in a very, very strong position indeed.

If the only way I can become depressed or unhappy is to allow external events or circumstances to have more importance in my mind than they need have, then I can choose to see specific outcomes as nowhere near as important as my inner state of being. What an incredible position of strength! Now I'm like Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, living for the sake of my spirit ... not for the sake of external events.

Recognizing the possibility that Ron Paul might fall short, my task with these lessons is to fortify in my mind the idea that external events, external circumstances or external outcomes do not really matter because I can choose to be happy no matter what.

To this end I start each day with an affirmation of reminder such as:

"No matter what's going on in the world ... I'm the one who decides whether I am happy or not! Knowing this, I am invulnerable."

"My strength today comes from my choice to stay happy in the face of any and all outer occurrences."

"Today my priorities are: (1) choose happiness, (2) choose happiness, and (3) choose happiness. What power this gives me!"

It doesn't matter what affirmations of reminder I use. My inner voice may give me very powerful statements indeed. The important thing is to allow my imagination to give me mental pictures while using the affirmations and then to use the statements until I feel the truth of them.

As always, I also take at least 20 minutes during the day for meditation, quieting my mind, and really feeling the peace and joy of my inner being.

When I retire each day, I rejoice in my strength and power. I rejoice that I do not give away my strength by thinking that externals are so important as to affect my happiness. I rejoice that there is nothing that can get in the way of my achieving my goals precisely because their not being achieved couldn't hurt me in the least.

Before going to sleep with a smile on my face, I might say aloud to myself one last reminder:

"Having surrendered the need for particular outcomes, I am invulnerable."





The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, A Course in Miracles , talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from every kind of slavery:

You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery.




Also available free of charge online:
Course in Relationship Miracles

"My inner voice guides me perfectly."