All You Need Is Love

All the Earth is a Treasure... led by the children, we would know only peace and justice, kindness and mercy, forgiveness and reconciliation... instead we are led by adults: so we are led by opinions, and are oh so ready to oppress, exploit, manipulate, or kill if such actions are deemed by us as "justified"... All the Earth is a Treasure... and yet we have dropped our tools of cultivation for the intention of domination -- in every way possible -- from international corporate capitalism to immigrant hate, from the technocracy of power to LGBT fear...

Perhaps the high point of Western Civilization were those few brief moments of the 1960's when a new spirit of communitarian possibilities gave birth to a powerful resistance to war, injustice, and cultural / political oppression. "All You Need Is Love" sang by the Beatles and millions of hippies, students, workers, resisters, organizers, protesters, feminists, activists, homeworkers, ministers, and a multitude of others became an Anthem of Hope: a rEvolution was happening! "My Sweet Lord" later revealed the hidden unity of Hare Krishna and the Christ -- which then revealed the deeper unity of every world faith that fed and served the spirit of Love: our common humanity was known to be the reason for striving for the full revelation of Peace and Justice for All, including this precious blue Planet...

All women and men: of every land, of every race, and of every religion (or none), are sisters and brothers! What inherent right have we to exploit, oppress, dominate, or kill? The willingness to justify the many ways that we are capable of reaping a profit at another's expense is the root evil that justifies every other evil. Unbridled greed has become the spiritual foundation of too many people, religions, cultures, and nations: hippies had the clarity of heart and mind to say, "Enough!" Seeking communes, alternative and free universities, simple lives in tune with Mother Nature and feminism, there was for awhile a transformative critique of the rising technocracy... "The Greening of America" and "The Making of a Counter Culture" sought to explain the changing consciousness... Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan, Dorothy Day, Thich Nhat Hahn, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Jr., A.J. Muste, Bobby Kennedy, the American Indian Movement, Malcolm X, were among those who strove to articulate the new spirituality the practiced a deep engagement with the world...

Just a few decades later, there is FOX "News" and a Tea Party in Congress: when what should have happened was a "Love-in" in Congress! We need the long-hairs back in their resistance communes! We need a new, more radical, wave of international feminism! We need a deep spirituality of Earth: what the hell are we waiting for -- a "heaven" and a burning Earth? We need a radical economics of "Enough"! We've bought a truckload of shit from the corporate class -- oh they will be so very happy if we keep buying, or better yet, teach our children how to get into their ranks. We deserve better. Our children deserve so much better! And this precious blue Planet deserves a new race of humans walking, working, living upon Her...

We need land: we need soup kitchens: we need to practice the possibilities of "All You Need Is Love": we need an economics of "Enough", of a spirituality of solidarity and sustainability seven-generations forward: we need to practice justice, kindness, mercy, forgiveness, and reconciliation: we need the radical New Thought of Divinity Alive and Well within every person and every creature and every thing: we need to "Imagine" as John Lennon wrote and sang and truly change our minds and liberate our hearts: why not? Like the labor movement sang in decades past, "All You Will Lose Are Your Chains"...