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| Is Obama an enlightened being? |
| 2008-06-08 |
| What the hell's the big deal about Obama? Warning: If you are a rigid pragmatist/literalist, itchingly evangelical, a scowler, a doubter, a burned-out former '60s radical with no hope left, or are otherwise unable or unwilling to parse alternative New Age speak, click away right now, because you ain't gonna like this one little bit. Barack Obama isn't really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway. No, it's not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. Even Bill Clinton, with all his effortless, winking charm, didn't have what Obama has, which is a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity. Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul. The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history. Guess from the newspaper of which spiritual city this came. |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #7 In His Own Words (from his own writings ((books)) This guy wants to be our President and control our government. He also talks about unifying everyone. Does this sound like one who really wants to unify? Pay close attention to the last comment. From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.' 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.' 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.' 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.' 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.' From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-06-08 21:19 |
| #6 That's what you get when you mess around with him. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-06-08 18:40 |
| #5 Ooops, sorry double posting. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-08 17:10 |
| #4 They're sure they don't mean Light-Bringer? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-08 17:09 |
| #3 They're sure they don't mean Light-Bringer? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-08 17:08 |
| #2 Not a "Lightworker", a lightweight. |
| Posted by: Formerly Dan 2008-06-08 15:42 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-06-08 14:11 |