Bringing
government into alignment
with the Lessons of Jesus:
The
focus of our show is how to bring government into alignment
with truth of our spiritual nature.
America
started with the idea we are all, inherently free. We are free
to choose, free to live, to breath, and to live our lives as
we see fit. Government does not own us; government is just a
contractor, providing service to us as sovereign individuals.
That
framework is in alignment with the spiritual truth that each
of us connects to God directly, needing no person or group as
an intermediary. To be free is to be free in the spirit and
so in the flesh that temporarily holds the spirit.
When
Thomas Jefferson said we were all possessed of inherent rights,
existing before government he was extending a spiritual truth
into a civic form. It is that Mission Statement from the Declaration
of Independence we need to keep in mind.
Because
we are free and reject, as did Christ, the use of deceit, manipulation
or violence, we need to identify and use other means for organizing
ourselves for all purposes. We must be conscious about our relationships
with others and find ways to grow into the sense of connection
and community that makes us One in Him.
This
is especially true for Christians but it is true for everyone
else as well. All spiritual ways share these values.
Nearly
every major spiritual viewpoint enunciates the idea that we
are connected to each other and should be good to each other.
Christians just have an even more exacting mission. Christians
are to love every one, treating them as they would Jesus.
Jesus
was very clear about how we were to treat others. He did not
say that it was alright to be abusive, deceitful, and violent
if we used government as our tool and agent. There was no exception,
He wanted all of our hearts, minds and souls. Christ did not
lay out any plan of government, but left it to the conscience
of the individual, the same way He connects to each of us.
Jesus
never said it would be easy. But neither would He have set goals
for us that are impossible.
We
are Americans but we are also members of a human family that
connects us to something truly wonderful and immense.
So
our job here at the Spiritual Politician is to look at Government
as a human tool we use every day. Thomas Jefferson said in the
Declaration of Independence that government was ours to change.
We need to do that.
Americans
have had many successes over the last 231 years since our founding
and, learning from both mistakes and successes we can take up
the work and bring America into alignment with the Lessons of
Jesus and with the highest visions of all humanity.
At
the Spiritual Politician we look at the simple truth of what
government has become and identify ways to bring it back to
where it should be.
Email
to: the.melinda@yahoo.com
About
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Melinda
has been active in politics all of her life. She is also the
founder and president of the Arthur C. Pillsbury Foundation,
dedicated to the legacy of her grandfather, an early environmentalist,
social visionary, inventor and photographer whose work made
the world as we live in today.
She became an atheist when she was eight and spent much of her
adult life as an Objectivist. She had a spiritual encounter
with Jesus in the mid 80s and came to accept Him as Master.
She woke up one morning to find she had been crucified. She
had holes in her wrists and feet, her ankle bones were broken
as were her collar bones. She died, gasping for breath as her
lungs filled up with blood.
Later,
she discovered that this was how crucifixion took place and
came to accept the Mission Jesus had called her to fulfill.
She wrote a book about this experience titled, Seventh Voice
which recounts her memories with Jesus as an Essene.
