With the Host of the Spiritual Politician
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Friday, June 28, 2007, 4 pm PST
This Week's Show
Guest: L. B. Bork
Today you are living in the Matrix; the tubes are pulsing a little bit more slowly each day and the life is pumped out of you. Your electric bill, the taxes and variable mortgage on the house where you live; the car that sneers and burps as you fill it up, costing you enough money to feed a village in Ethiopia. At least the money would buy that once upon a time.
When you get back to your home from the grocery store you look through the items and notice that most of the food was produced off shore. You get a call from your boss and find out that your job has been outsourced to India and you re not going with it.
On the way home you were stopped by the cop, whose job seems to be secure and now you are looking at a traffic ticket you know perfectly well you did not deserve. It will cost you $450.00 you don't have, barely enough to pay for just the interest on your credit cards.
Everywhere you look you see dollar signs fluttering away on wings; the future is bleak, bleak, bleak. The house you bought new will be obsolete in thirty years; your car will last, perhaps, five years. Every day your money buys less; every day the walls of the cell seem to constrict.
You saw The Matrix and you somehow know that was you in that tiny cell. You look down at your arms almost expecting to see tubes and blood pulsing.
Today, you can escape. Today, you can say good by to the Matrix, the Grid of Greed that is consuming you and your family. First, you have to see it. There is an exit and that exit is here. Deprogramming: The Red Pill
Now that you know what is happening, find out what you can do to take back your life and America. Whatever symbols we use, the guilty parties are the same. Hear the creator of Deprogramming and The Red Amendment on The Spiritual Politician, Friday at 4pm Pacific Time. You need to know.
Step out of the Grids. Find the Exit. Affirm the truth of being an American today, as we approach another anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, listen and declare your own as you hear L. B. Bork, who takes you off the Grids of Despair into the network of hope.
Bringing government into alignment with the Lessons of Jesus:
The focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment with truth of our spiritual nature. So America started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a contractor, providing service.
That framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each of us connects to God directly, needing no agency as an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit and so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights, existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation or violence we need to be conscious about our relationships with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection and community that makes us One in Him.
This is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone else as well.
Nearly every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we are connected to each other and should be good to each other. Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception, He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
We are Americans but we are also members of a human family that connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government as a human tool we use every day. We need to consider if government is working in a way that speaks that common understanding about our connections to each other and, if it is not, we need to change it.
Americans have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can consider that question. So here at the Spiritual Politician we look at the truth behind of rhetoric.
Given what is going on today in Government what we may decide to do it reboot the whole system.
To provide the examples of what has gone right and what has gone very wrong we here at the Spiritual Politician have put together several different kinds of segments you will hear on our show from time to time.
Founder and president of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation
Books by Melinda: Links to Melinda's sites:
How the NeoCons Stole Freedom
Shards of Verse Melinda's Poetry
Greed: The NeoConning of America
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