I was surprised by something someone said to me....

Yesterady evening, after having had a wonderful lunch with some friends, Rhonda and I were sitting down to watch a documentary I’d wanted to see for awhile - Kumaré. Rhonda said to me, “I hope you’re not offended by this, but I think you’re really preoccupied with politics.” This perked up my ears and I asked what she meant.

“Well,” she explained, “I’m interested in what’s going on but after awhile I get so depressed about it all that I have to turn it off in my mind and think about something else. This doesn’t seem to happen to you. You keep being interested, no matter what.”

No offense taken. Yes, I am concerned. I think everyone on this planet should be concerned. When I was in my 20’s, I had no interested in politics at all and I didn’t even vote. I always said there was no point in voting because my one vote didn’t make a difference. One day someone I greatly admired said to me, “You’re very smart and have a lot going for you. But you have one glaring fault: you don’t follow politics enough. You don’t know what’s going on in the world and that could be a problem for you.”

What I’ve learned since then is every vote matters and I do need to know what’s going on politically. Why? Because what happens in politics touches every aspect of our lives from the price we pay for butter and gasoline to our ability to live our lives in freedom, the way we choose to live. Right now, these things are being threatened and, yes, I fully intended to stay on top of what’s happening and do whatever I can to protect our democracy from those who would trample it in exchange for money and power.

Some of my spiritual friends tune out politics, saying that Divine Mother is in charge, we’re just going through what’s called Dwapara Yuga, and all is well. Yes, all is well as long as we play our parts. Each of us is here for a reason and I don’t think that reason is to ignore what’s going on. I believe we’re here to be engaged from the level of spiritual understanding and action. It’s too easy to forget the action part. We need to speak up. We need to vote. We need to visualize and affirm right action on the part of those who hold the offices that make the rules the rest of us live by.

We polished off the evening with the documentary which I highly recommend. But that’s a post for another day.

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