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The Meaning Of Labor
By Diane Harvey <merak@sedona.net>
9-5-00
 
 
 
We ourselves are a labor of love. Even our material bodies, the least part of us, are fashioned from living stardust. The same energy that pulses in the hearts of stars pulsates quietly in our own wrists. The same unimaginably creative dynamo spinning out galaxies, spins out in our own thoughts. The Milky Way itself flows through our veins, eddies in our muscles, and spills over in our conscious acts. And not a single particle of this vastness has been found in isolation, somehow separated from the whole. It is all working together, unceasingly in a single multidimensional connectedness. Each human being then is an investment in the future, backed by the entire cosmos.
 
We bright specks, self-aware god-sparkles, here on our exquisite floating mote in the dazzling sea: can we do less than honor this with our life s work? By means of our labors, we can consciously participate in this vast ongoing act of creation and perfection. The work of creation is still unfinished, because we are born. That we are here at all implies a work to be accomplished, and a love meant to be let loose in a new way. What then shall we turn our hands to?
 
The infinite ocean of loving intelligent energy we call life moves in us and through us. This motion, a tide carried forward onto a new shore, becomes our labor here on earth. The universe works well. By working well ourselves we honor the inestimable treasure of self-conscious individuality within this great whole. Mysteriously bestowed upon us here is the god-like power to choose how to participate in the ongoing work of creation. When we work beautifully and honorably, we dissolve the illusionary barriers between us and the greater existence we are already part of. As above, So below. In the rhythm of meaningful labor, there is a deep harmony with the workings of the stars.
 
Gazing outward into a sky-full of galaxies, or inward into the infinite subjective worlds: can we shamelessly impose the words For Sale on this? Is the concept of commercialism anywhere implied in a green leaf, a hummingbird s motion, or the love of a parent for a child? Can anyone own the perfume of a flowering almond tree, the light from Sirius, or the wisdom of a sage? Equally absurd is the concept of a human being claiming rights to the fruits of another s labors. One person is not the absentee landlord of another s finest aspirations, worked out into the light of day. The work we do is the emanation of our very existence. No one has the right to drive a claim stake into our flesh. No one owns the goldmine of our best inventive thinking. No one should have proprietary rights over the sacred labor of any other being.
 
Yet this is what we have been convinced we have to accept. This is what we are allowing, because as a species we are still born into various types and degrees of slavery, trained up into differing varieties of slavery, and know nothing else. Many of us accept this, and depending on how well our own desires have been trained to fit into the machinery, and even love it. If our only god is still our own crude material profit, then the overall darkness will not even be apparent. If material well-being is still the leaden idol enshrined in our unawakened hearts, then we will fight to fit right into the overall heartlessness, seamlessly. It is not possible to insist on the right to a way of living one has not yet already discovered within.
 
A new way of living together becomes imperative only when we experience the inner connections to greater, higher and deeper realities. Slavery is unnoticeable until illuminated by the consciousness of freedom. Most of humanity is far from even conceiving of the freedom to work in useful, beautiful and meaningful ways. If all humans were magically freed from all forms of slavery tomorrow, most wouldn t know what to do with themselves: such is the eternal problem of generations of slavery. The majority would look around for someone to organize them and tell them what to do. The sad fact is that mankind is going to need leaders for some time to come, and the only question is: what kind of leadership will there be? Unconsciously or otherwise, under every social system, in part or wholesale, we are currently forced to support a gruesome parody of leadership . We live under a vicious slave owners version of life on earth. With our life s labors, to our last breath, we are obliged to feed the raw greed of hidden parasitical overlords. The ease and comfort of being told what to do, in exchange for a strange stifling security inside the workings of the dark global machinery: this is what humanity is settling for.
 
This situation cannot change until a significant portion of humanity become aware of themselves as essentially spiritual beings, whose lives are intrinsically of inestimable value. Until the wellsprings of inner creativity, loving imagination and innate talents are released in sufficient numbers of people, humanity will settle for a life of fetch-and-carry for a chain of bosses, which leads upward out of sight into an invisible black hole. The best fruits of the labors of all human beings continue, business-as-usual, to roll uphill into the same few secret pockets of evil. We pick our way as carefully as we can, carrying our children, through the minefields of these variously dismal social systems we were born into. Almost all of us are also carrying the heavy baggage of unused capacities, thwarted talents, and stillborn aspirations. Not many of us will be able to say at the end of our lives: I was able to develop and express every beautiful and useful potential which was in me, to its fullest extent. Yet this is one of the most significant meanings of labor. Our personal labor is to become who we really are. The practical individual work of a human being is to outwardly manifest what is inwardly already there. And as things stand, this is practically impossible to all but a very fortunate few.
 
Most possibilities to manifest personal soul qualities are educated out of us, or swallowed up in the quagmires called earning a living . There is not a single social system extant which does not ultimately support the machinations of the vampires who rule this globe. All the political ideologies, the -isms which so easily inflame us to passionate debate, are, in the end, merely effective and distracting levels of mind control through paradigm-hypnosis. There is no freedom on this planet, under any system, from the basic fact that human labor is deliberately and forcibly kept to the lowest materialistic levels. New inventions, new culture, new ways of living on the earth: whatever has the potential for nourishing the freedom-loving, mutually helpful and expansive spirit of humanity is stifled by the machine, one way or another. We can still speak freely, and this gives us the illusion of freedom. Real freedom, however, is the freedom to work for what you love: to express the gifts of your body, heart, mind and spirit out in the world. Even if a few of us manage this- where are the great human experiments in new ways of living and working together? This is what our own country once was: a grand experiment in a new way of living together. But this is what all social experiments say they are, and not one is eternal. When any experiment goes sour, when dark elements seize all control, it s time to start again.
 
The forces of evil know perfectly well how to give every potential good a very bad reputation in many human minds. They do this by means of infecting every social system ever attempted of so far. Free enterprise and the emphasis on individual rights has slowly devolved into a sick capitalism which has devoured all the most beautiful human qualities, for the sake of fattening an invisible demon called greed. Human beings are not profiting from the profit motive, but the profit motive is thriving on a diet of the bodies and souls of human beings. A democratic system has become a rubber-stamp licensing system for every imaginable type of degeneration and degradation. Thus the noble good of an experiment emphasizing individual rights has become the individual right to support insane local, state and national levels of greed, corruption and degeneracy, or be homeless. This is the result of free enterprise , and it dirties the beautiful concept beyond recognition.
In the same way, experiments whose emphasis was on cooperation and sharing have gone down in ignominious flames. Yet consider this: who is it, behind the scenes, who would like the very word cooperation to be felt as anathema to human beings? If you entertained the basic concept of cooperation, as if for the first time, would you shrink from it as evil? The entire visible universe is a naturally unforced cooperative enterprise, energetically speaking. Yet exactly like the concept of individual freedom, the concept of human cooperation has been carefully and deliberately distorted in the minds of vast portions of humanity. The reason for this ought to be obvious. If human beings ever notice what we could do if we cooperated outside these systems of evil, then the end would be near for rule-by-vampire. There are very few of them and there are very many of us. They keep us where we are essentially because they have successfully managed to make us afraid of each other, and literally incapable of considering the only thing that can save us: conscious cooperation. The greatest and most meaningful labor ahead for the human race is to destroy the evil that rules on our planet. And we will never do this until we are no longer hypnotized into paranoia by the concept of cooperation. The dark forces at the very top obviously cooperate fairly well, infighting aside, to keep us enslaved. That s the real intelligence demonstrated by the ruling few. They fully understand the power of their con-spiring or breathing together . We, on the other hand, don t breathe together or cooperatively conspire to overthrow our dark masters. Divide and conquer: it has worked wonders for the forces of totalitarianism, and keeps the machine humming along nicely.
 
There are two kinds of meaningful labor then, with which we must concern ourselves if we are to achieve anything resembling a free sentient species on this planet. There is each individual s struggle to find a way of life that means something, and to have work that satisfies the real needs of the body, the heart, the mind and the soul. The other great labor of love is inextricably intertwined with this: the expulsion of the dark forces from this world. So long as we accept the rule of evil, so long as we allow ourselves to be comfortably hypnotized into believing nothing can be done, we will remain childish slaves. The very thought that this is inevitably just how things are , will give birth to further generations of enslaved beings. There is nothing hopeless about our situation. Of course we may choose collective cowardice and apathy, and thus ensure the self-fulfilling prophecy of hopelessness. If we won t labor to discover our spiritual identity in time, and assume our great responsibilities as conscious and innately free beings, then no one will do it for us.
 
What we face is probably the pass-fail test of maturity for all sentient species. There is what looks like a coming-of-age initiation presented to us here and now. We either will prove ourselves to be worthy of the treasure of self-awareness and the great gift of individualization and free will, or not. Either we continue as we have been, and fail to make the grade, or we will successfully emerge from our local provincial cocoon. If we go on much longer accepting rule by evil on our own planet, we will probably die out, no matter how lovely our potential. We will have chosen cheap comfort and bodily security to self-sacrifice and responsibility, and that would demonstrate utter failure to comprehend our own existence. We still may suddenly become interested, before it is too late, in assuming responsibility for what free will actually requires of us. If we can manage to synthesize true individuality and the spirit of cooperation, we have a chance even now to escape failure and its probably fatal consequences.
 
If the human race accepts the responsibility and hard work of ridding our own planet of evil, then we can suppose we will go on to join the greater community of cosmos. Since the same struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light most likely goes on everywhere in the physical universe, of what value is a species so feeble and ignorant it won t even stand up for itself on its own planet? Are we going to insist on and powerfully ensure the freedom to work as beings of light and love in all levels of our existence? This is what it would mean to be useful, healthy, strong, and in good working order as a viable sentient species. If we refuse to work well enough together to even rid ourselves of our personal local gangsters, then we wouldn t be of the slightest use in any larger war between good and evil. The gist of all this is, we have our work cut out for us, and the only question is whether or not we will assert our spiritual will and insist on accomplishing the final Herculean task of a planet-bound sentient species.
 
 
 
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