Love, Consciousness And Politics

“Those who say spirituality has nothing to do with politics do not know what spirituality really means.” Jack Kornfield

‘Reflective insights may arise like the lotus from the still lake of meditation, while creative insights come at the raw and tender edge of confrontation at the borderlines where we are most sensitive and exposed — and curiously most alone. To meet you, I must risk myself as I am. The naked human is challenged. It would be safer reflecting alone than confronting you. And even the favorite dictum of reflective psychology — a psychology which has consciousness rather than love as its main goal — ‘Know thyself’’ will be insufficient for a creative psychology. Not ‘Know thyself’ through reflection, but ‘Reveal thyself’, which is the same as the commandment to love, since nowhere are we more revealed than in our loving’.

James Hillman

We can see the problems with a low level of consciousness in life because the link to narrow minded prejudice and unexamined belief systems makes it obvious. But we keep forgetting the primary importance of love. Existence is not built out of consciousness, it is built out of love. At a certain level of mental spaciousness, it becomes obvious that everything is dancing in delight, right down to the atoms and electrons. The energies of love at that level are…