Click here to watch Swami Beyondananda (a.k.a. comic/activist Steve Bhaerman) talk about how “being in the now is the wave of the future.”
This guy is interesting. Before he embraced comedy, Bhaerman wrote books and founded an alternative high school in Washington D.C. Raised in Brooklyn, he claims to have earned a “black belt in Borscht Belt” before moving to California. Here are some dead-serious excerpts from the his sly 2006 “State of the Universe” address:
“…people are growing dissatisfied with the positionality of ‘my side vs. your side,’ and are seeing the whole issue of ‘sides’ from a new angle: Maybe we’re all on the same side. For example, this argument between creationism and evolution is just another way for dueling dualities to steal our energy. I believe in both. I believe the Creator created us to evolve, otherwise Jesus would have said, ‘Now don’t do a thing ’til I return.’ I have it on good authority that the Creator is pulling for us: ‘Come on, you children of God! It’s time to grow up and become adults of God instead…
“The time for revolution and overthrowing has past [sic]. Now we need an evolution where we ‘overgrow’ the current dysfunctional system from the grassroots up. You are probably familiar with the story of the Native American grandfather who tells his grandson that there are two wolves fighting inside all of us: The wolf of fear and anger, and the wolf of love and peace.
“‘Which wolf will win?’ asks the young boy.
“‘Whichever one we feed,’ replies the grandfather.
“…So I will tell my vision for 2006: This is the year of the American Evolution, where all those who prefer the Golden Rule to the rule of gold get past left and right, and come front and center…I see us in a new reality show–Extreme Planetary Makeover…Just think! Something more compelling than reality TV. It’s called reality.”
For more of His Holy Swaminess: wakeuplaughing.com
posted September 28, 2006 at 5:44 pm
So he’s going to do what no other truly great leader’s been able to do yet…transform the world into a big ball of peace & love. Way too optimistic! Actually, he’s more like endearingly delusional
posted September 28, 2006 at 6:35 pm
I thought this world was a big ball of dirt and molten iron. It’s not really a ball either. There’s a bulge at the center due to the rotation of the earth. More like a “big oval of peace(dirt) and love (molten Iron)”
posted September 28, 2006 at 6:51 pm
One day me and my great-grandfather were walking around our farm, when we saw that there were 2 chickens fighting. My great-grandfather says: One chicken is jealousy, and one chicken is envy. Which will win? Well, noticing that one of the chickens legs were broken, I said that one would probably lose. He just said “yeah probably”. When I asked him which one was jealous and which was envy, he just said “i duno”. Later he told me a fox ate them both in the middle of the night. that just goes to show you