'Fairness' need not be "dead" as a human experience. We can return it to our public discourse, to our politics, and to our collective experience. But it will take a major overhaul of our mindset.
As you know if you're a regular reader here, I've been discussing in my recent blogs the question of basic fairness in our public discourse and in our collective life. Last Thursday and Friday I look a look at the New York Times' handling of a story about GOP presidential candidate John McCain. Yesterday I mentioned a lawsuit filed by Duke University lacrosse players against the school that canceled its entire season after what turned out to be false rape allegations against a handful of players.
The larger issue for me around all of this, and to me the impacting question, is: What would it take for fairness to return to our expressions of life on this planet?
For me the answer is obvious. We have to change our mindset about who we are in relationship to each other. We have to drop our idea that we are somehow separate from each other, and reshape our Separation Sociology.
Currently we live in a world in which the Cultural Story is that You are over there and I am over here. This derives from a larger story that says that God is "over there" and we are "over here." It is all part of what I call Separation Theology.
I have said before that a Separation Theology produces a Separation Cosmology. That is, a cosmological way of looking at all of Life which holds that everything is separate from everything else.
A Separation Cosmology produces a Separation Sociology. That is, a way of socializing the human species that separates every person from every other person by declaring their interests to be separate.
A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology. That is, pathological behaviors of self-destruction – engaged in individually and collectively.
We can bring an end to all of this--and an end to the unfairness of life as we are collectively creating it--with one shift in our mindset. All we have to do is begin to see ourselves, each of us, as an integral part of a Whole. That is, we simply have to perceive that We Are All One.
Even as the fingers on our hand are different but not divided, so, too, are we all different from each other, but in no way divided or separate. Neither from each other, nor from God.
Now if we understood that, and, more than understanding it, made it part of our living reality, inserting it as more than a concept, but as an operational truth in our every day interactions, we could change the world over night.
And we would rarely be "unfair" with each other in any deliberate way, because we would experience directly that being unfair with each other was being unfair with ourselves. We would "do unto others" as we would have it done unto us.
Wow, now there's a novel idea...
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"We can bring an end to all of this--and an end to the unfairness of life as we are collectively creating it--with one shift in our mindset. All we have to do is begin to see ourselves, each of us, as an integral part of a Whole. That is, we simply have to perceive that We Are All One.
…Now if we understood that, and, more than understanding it, made it part of our living reality, inserting it as more than a concept, but as an operational truth in our every day interactions, we could change the world over night."
I found this blog interesting, and am wondering.. is it possible for an ego-self to create an experience of unity, simply by changing its definition (or mindset) of who it is.. and then striving to live up to and hold others accountable to that standard?
Does the conceptual awareness of a universal truth have to transition or become integrated into a way of living - or being - through firstly immersing oneself in the ground of all being? Can a mind know what is fairness, without having an expanded awareness of the heart, which resides always in grace?
If we perceive ourselves as One then we naturally will become more compassionate and less judgmental and if we are more compassionate and less judgmental then people will be more transparent with each other and when people are more transparent with each other then they begin to create from their heartspace and when they begin to create from their heartspace then individual consciousness expands and when enough of us expand our indiviudal consciousness, then our collective consciousness rises, and we lift each other up and soar like figures in a Chagall painting.
Which comes first the chicken or the egg? Can we simply choose to perceive ourSelves as One? Of course, we can. To operate from the perception that WE ARE ONE is just a verb built around a perception and a perception is nothing more than a thought that we hold about something. We can change our thoughts about anything at anytime. All we have to do is declare it and say, everywhere we look and everyone we look upon, "There I Am" and "There go I."
The states of being compassionate and non-judgmental are also choices that we make with a simple "I Am that" declaration. Our compassionate and non-judgmental "doing" that springs out of that declaration and the subsequent and immediate movement into the state of being compassionate and non-judgmental arises naturally once we make that declaration, assuming we don't think too long and talk ourselves out of it.
To me, transparancy and non-judgmentalness will be instrumental in creating a world operating in fairness because one of the biggest reasons I think unfairness continues to plague our society is that circumstances can have the "appearance" of propriety and fairness but in reality not really be fair or upright. For example, a college campus brings on four candidates for a job search. These candidates had to pay airfare, hotel, etc not to mention the stress of preparing for the interview, but once the candidates are interviewed, they are simply told that they did not get the job. One discovers that not one of them was not hired because of a lack of capability but only because the department already had a candidate in mind, and that candidate just so happened to be married to somebody. The job search is legal and holds the "appearance" of a legitimate one, but was it ethical?
Love and Peace,
Michelle
Ahhh... In this simple truth, becomes our solution.
The challenge is How do people wake up from this nightmare of separation, this becomes even we as a people are so ingrained in this Separation kind of thinking, that a truth becomes an extension of a lie.
Neale,
We ARE all One. So One designed the experience of Forgetting-the-Fullness of Being such that it would remind one that WE ARE ONE, literally.
How might this be done? Simple. One chose for One's Self that the Law of Grace would apply in the realization of One's choices made in a state of less than Absolute Awareness. The Law of Grace is 'All Choice generate Benefit for purposes of Appreciation'. Gracious choices, choosing for others only as One would choose for One's Self, generate benevolence for sharing. Ungracious choices, choosing for others what One would not choose for One's Self, generate instructive consequence that remind One that a more gracious choice was missed in the choosing. The benefits of benevolence and instructive consequence might be appreciated or not, as one might so choose. Choice is always gracious or ungracious. 'All choice generates benefit for purposes of appreciation.' It holds so in the record of history and sacred texts.
Gracious is the demonstration of Grace, the awareness that choice might align potential with possibility within circumstances for appreciation. It's all about appreciation of One Awareness expressed in the physical experience we share. One might choose to be aware of this in every moment. This is the might of the Graciously Organized Design of One Absolute Awareness. Clearly, One would only have designed the human experience this way. Acknowledging the connection between choices and instructive consequences serves to dissolve the illusion of disunity. Contrasts become congruences in a gracious Universe. After all, One would only have designed the realization of experience in a Gracious Universe this way. Namaste.
I love this idea. I had the same idea on a smaller version while working at a major hospital in my area. I was tired of seeing and hearing others blaming another department in the hospital for everything. Instead, I thought that this hospital is one entity and should work together as one. But you put this on a bigger, better, stronger spectrum!
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