#78 The Suppression of the Sacred for Secularism #2

Modern Alchemy with James & Bersabeh Ray

Chaos Theory: all creation and all order come from chaos which must be structured and ordered.

Order is just organized Chaos.

We began a discussion on the transmutation of the sacred into secularism last week.

This transmutation has been in operation since the Renaissance and the concept of Humanism; but has accelerated in most recent years.

This is problematic; and it creates many current issues.

First, without a vertical relationship with some type of organizing principle—call that God—all we have is a horizontal view of the world.

What does a horizontal view alone give you?

• • It tends to eliminate morality and get you to focus solely on ethics.
  • When I was in prison the gang members had a code of ethics. But they weren’t very moral.
  • Because our species has a need for a guiding and structuring principle, we have only our peers—or what we perceive to be our peers—to look to for what we assume to be moral and just.
  • If there are no overarching principles that we have been taught or trained into, then we make them up.
  • Ethics without Morality are effect of a lack of a vertical principle and actually there are more.

So, what do we have to measure on horizontal plane to determine our ethics? Money and materialism have become the organizing principle which means they have become our God.

The destruction of the family unit and traditional gender roles have become ethics. All in the name of “inclusion” but actually driving exclusion.

Gender dysphoria and blending and transforming—even at the risk of depression, body mutilation, and increased death wishes drive us even further away still from each other.

One of the greatest causes that Bersabeh and I find of suffering for those we work with is a lack of integration.

Peace, Prosperity, and Power come from inner unity.

External diversity is a good thing. Different opinions, beliefs, and perspectives. But internal diversity is chaos.

To be Whole is to be Holy. This is a sacred journey that receives little to no attention in the secular world.

The human heart is the center of our bodies; and in the mysteries it’s the throne of God. When we return to the center we return to the sacred.

Maybe it’s time for all of us to consider doing what’s necessary to get back to center.

It begins with a decision. It’s followed by action. It begins with you.