Love is the answer

Love is the answer
Sounds cliché doesn't it?

But when you stop to think about it, here are some of the things we say/think on a semi-regular basis

In perfect love and perfect trust
Unconditional love
Peace is the way

Lets take a look at each one

In perfect love and perfect trust -- what does it mean? How can anything be "perfect"? What baseline do
we use to determine "perfect". Is it simply an ideology? I feel that the word perfect here would better be replaced with unconditional.. Then it takes on somewhat tangible meaning, clarity if you will.

Unconditional love -- now this one is given lots of spin but, in reality, it's just been that. We talk about people who have "unconditional love" for one another, though we usually find that they have taken a vow to "forsake all others" and are expected to live by some moral rules that someone else has made for them, usually the church, but sometimes one's culture. So how is this Unconditional love? It's not.. It's basically saying I love you as long as you do/don't do whatever prescribed thing is being discussed. Not that boundaries are "bad" but this shouldn't be considered unconditional..

Peace is the way -- This one gets a lot of play as well. But the world really doesn't want peace, not really, there's no money in it…

If we really wanted peace then would we be taught hate? Think about it… We are taught to hate other cultures,
hate other people, hate our bodies, hate hate hate!!! There's no peace in that… only bloody war..

If we really want peace then we've got to wipe away the hate and promote love, in all it's forms. We've got to get the state and the church out of our collective pants. Is this to say that sex is the way to peace.. Not in and of itself.

What I am saying is that we should be free to love one another, be it sexually or otherwise, this is how communities are formed. This is how things have been in the past and how, I feel, things will need to be in the future if we plan to survive after the system crashes.

I think industrialization, globalization, the interstate highway system, etc are what put an end to a lot of community.. If you follow the sustainable, local, CSA movements you can get a picture of "how it use to be" and what , I feel, we need to get back to.

To be fair, most of us aren't aware of all this. We've been prone to our inculturation.. Which basically says, we are individuals, it's everyone for themselves, consumerism, follow archaic moral codes.. etc

So imagine the surprise when we discover something different!! Very eye-opening, very refreshing..

I'll end this entry with a few quotes I find inspiring. These were taken from the book "Polyamory in the 21st century - love and intimacy with multiple partners"


ZEGG Community

"At ZEGG, free love is considered an essential step toward a new culture of peace, partnership, and sustainability." Their belief is that the only way to a free society is to create a world where love is freed.


Samuel Widmer

"We are lovers. Our guru, whom we serve, is the power of love. We are no longer in competitive relationship with each other, we have envy and jealously behind us. We have learned to rejoice in the happiness and success of others. That is why love and intimacy between us is possible, a common flowering, in which we share all the happiness and love together. Those of us who have become a vessel of love are kings and queens. Because they are the love, they are our gurus, our teachers."

Dane Rudhyar

"What is needed now … is a new type of group relationship in which the individual ego-patterns, and the conjugal tensions can be absorbed, smoothed out and harmonized by a sense of common dedication to a vital social-cutural and spiritual purpose -- a transforming purpose. What is needed is a group of a few adults, perhaps from four to ten, which can provide a varied and loving, but not possessive and complex-ridden environment in which children may grow up in multiple interplay … The seed group should not be conceived in terms of 'hedonistic' purpose -- ie, for the sake of pleasure and comfort -- but rather in terms of what I would call a heroic determination to help create a new type of social consciousness based on an open, unpossessive and polyvalent love."

John Lennon - Mind games

We're playing those mind games together,
Pushing barriers, planting seeds,
Playing the mind guerilla,
Chanting the Mantra peace on earth,
We all been playing mind games forever,
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerilla,
Some call it the search for the grail,
Love is the answer and you know that for sure,
Love is flower you got to let it, you got to let it grow,
So keep on playing those mind games together,
Faith in the future outta the now,
You just can't beat on those mind guerillas,
Absolute elsewhere in the stones of your mind,
Yeah we're playing those mind games forever,
Projecting our images in space and in time,
Yes is the answer and you know that for sure,
Yes is the surrender you got to let it, you got to let it go,
So keep on playing those mind games together,
Doing the ritual dance inn the sun,
Millions of mind guerrillas,
Putting their soul power to the karmic wheel,
Keep on playing those mind games forever,
Raising the spirit of peace and love, not war,
(I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before)