Metaphysics, the Election & America?s Fate
We’re in the final stretch of the 2008 presidential race. In just a few hours we will make a most important decision about our nation’s future. Not only will we select a new president on Tuesday, November 4 but we will also choose between two fates. What are the spiritual politics behind the 2008 election, and what do they indicate about the way we should go? The race, the candidates and the choice we face all personify the crossroads in consciousness that we as Americans have reached. While the candidates have shared the direction in which they plan to lead the nation, the recent presidential and vice presidential debates revealed a hidden dimension of dialogue between Cosmic Consciousness and America about the path we need to take.
The Real Debate
During the first presidential debate, there came a moment of deep insight that opened my spiritual eyes and ears about what we’re really facing as a nation. The surface issue: Should we meet with the Iranian leader (or leaders of other hostile nations) without pre -conditions? Absolutely not, according to McCain. Perhaps so, argued Obama. “…this notion by not talking to people we are punishing them has not worked,” Obama said. Instantly, I saw something underneath the surface that I hadn’t noticed before: Isn’t that how a five-year-old handles conflict–by pouting, not talking to the “enemy,” and demanding to get his or her way? And isn’t that what we continue to do as adults if we never learn more effective ways of dealing with conflict, challenge and change? So a big metaphysical question behind the election is this: Are we as a nation ready to grow up, yes or no? That’s the real debate.
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