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A NEW FILM-ILLUSTRATED READING OF RICHARD DELL'S POEM 'I AM US’. THE FUNDAMENTALIST NOTION THAT ONLY ONE RELIGION IS TRUE, REFLECTS THE NOTION THAT ONLY ONE CULTURE OR NATION OR PEOPLE HAVE WORTH. IT IS A LINGERING MANIFESTATION OF A COMPLEX THAT WITHIN ITS OVERT SUPERIORITY CONCEALS A CORROSIVE INSECURITY. THIS IS THE SPIRITUALLY PROFOUND AND TRAGIC TRUTH THAT LIES DEEP WITHIN THE REALITY OF THE FOUR SEPARATIONS THAT IS THE REALITY OF OUR TIME: SEPARATION OF BODY AND MIND, SEPARATION OF OURSELVES FROM GOD; OUR SEPARATION FROM NATURE; AND OUR SEPARATION FROM EACH OTHER. THESE SACRED TRUTHS MUST BE UNDERSTOOD. ONLY WHEN THEY ARE UNDERSTOOD SO SHALL WE COME TO THE SPIRITUAL HEALING OF OURSELVES, OF EACH OTHER, OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OF OUR MOTHER EARTH, OUR HOLY GAIA. THE KEY TO OUR INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL HEALTH LIES IN INCLUSIVITY. THAT IS THE SPIRITUAL TRUTH OF OUR LIVES; AND THAT IS THE MYSTICAL KEY TO OUR ENLIGHTENMENT.

The fundamentalist notion that only one religion is true, reflects the notion that only one culture or nation or people have worth. It is a lingering manifestation of a complex that within its overt superiority, conceals a corrosive insecurity. This is No. 16 in Richard's book STARS IN OUR SOULS: a new look at our perennial religious and spiritual questions. Oneness is the key to our inner spiritual healing, to the spiritual healing of our communities and nations, and indeed to the spiritual healing of all the flora and fauna, of our Planet Earth, of our Gaia.We have to understand this if there is to be any hope for us as individual humans, and us as human society on Earth. We have to understand that no religion holds an exclusive monopoly on the Truth of God and the heavens. The spiritual, mystical and sacred ways have always understood this. They have always known that the path to God is not paved with the bones of martyrs to any particular religion, nor carpeted with the ancient texts of any particular religion. The sacred and spiritual path has no signposts and is different for every pilgrim. Deep in our hearts we know this, yet our times and our past times are riven with claims for one religion or another against all other religions. Thus is one of the terrible fault lines in our lives.

I AM US (VIDEO) MANY ARE THE PATHS TO GOD; MANY ARE THE SPIRITUAL  AND MYSTICAL WAYS; MANY ARE THE SACRED AND HOLY WAYS: BUT ALL WHEN  UNDERTAKEN IN THE SPIRIT OF INCLUSIVITY AND LOVE, IN THE SPIRIT OF  ONENESS WITH ALL, IN THE HUMILITY OF THE TRUE SPIRITUAL PILGRIM, ARE  TRUE AND HOLY AND SACRED WAYS. THIS IS THE GREAT LESSON OF OUR TIMES.  ALL IS ONE, AND ALL TRAVEL TOGETHER WHEN WE ALL REJOICE IN EACH OTHER’S WAYS. EXCLUSIVITY IN EVERY FORM: RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL, DIVIDE US FROM OTHER, FROM OUR TRUE SPIRITUAL AND HIGHER NATURE, AND FROM THE ALL, THAT WE CALL GOD. OUR SPIRITUAL AND SACRED MISSION IS TO UNDERSTAND THIS AND TO THEREBY MAKE SPIRITUAL INCLUSIVITY IN EVERY FORM OUR REALITY AND DESTINY. 

A film-illustrated reading by Richard Dell of his poem I AM US: the  fundamentalist notion that only one religion is true, reflects the  notion that only one culture or nation or people have worth. It is a  lingering manifestation of a complex that within its overt superiority,  conceals a corrosive insecurity. This is No. 16 in Richard's book STARS IN OUR SOULS: a new look at our perennial religious and spiritual questions.

The  fundamentalist notion that only one religion is true, reflects the  notion that only one culture or nation or people have worth. It is a  lingering manifestation of a complex that within its overt superiority,  conceals a corrosive insecurity.Here is a great truth that we  forget at our peril. Many are the paths to God; many are the spiritual  and mystical ways; many are the sacred and holy ways: but ALL when  undertaken in the spirit of inclusivity and love, in the spirit of  ONENESS with ALL, in the humility of the true spiritual pilgrim, are  true and holy and sacred ways. This is the great lesson of our times.  ALL is ONE, and ALL travel together when we ALL rejoice in each other’s  ways. There is no true spirituality, no mystical touching of the most  sacred, no spiritual awakening into the true meaning of our awareness of  God, where there is no inclusivity. As the spiritual history of our  planet Earth unfolds, as the sacred story of all our lives unfolds,  there will be a folding-in of our spiritual and sacred and mystical  selves as we truly become ONE. Oneness is the key to our inner spiritual  healing, to the spiritual healing of our communities and nations, and  indeed to the spiritual healing of all the flora and fauna, of our  Planet Earth, of our Gaia.We have to understand this if there is  to be any hope for us as individual humans, and us as human society on  Earth. We have to understand that no religion holds an exclusive  monopoly on the Truth of God and the heavens. The spiritual, mystical  and sacred ways have always understood this. They have always known that  the path to God is not paved with the bones of martyrs to any  particular religion, nor carpeted with the ancient texts of any  particular religion. The sacred and spiritual path has no signposts and  is different for every pilgrim. Deep in our hearts we know this, yet our  times and our past times are riven with claims for one religion or  another against all other religions. Thus is one of the terrible fault  lines in our lives.We also have to understand that there is no  hope for us if we cannot see that we are all humans, that we all walk  this planet and we can only walk this planet in peace and with heads  held high if we accept that we all walk our planet together as brothers  and sisters.Racialism and religious bigotry are manifestations of  a corrosive insecurity that can eat like a cancer into our souls. We  can only be proud and cherished members of our races if we embrace and  hold dear all members of all other races. Likewise, we cannot take the  sacred path to God unless we embrace and hold dear everyone else’s  pathways to God. It has been said that ‘by their fruits ye shall know  them’. That is all that needs to be said. We ‘judge others by what they  do, not by what racial or religious label they might bear.These  are profound times for us. The mood-song of humanity is shifting slowly  and at times painfully towards inclusivity, thereby towards a living  recognition of the ONENESS of ALL. The fault line across the social,  political and religious arena of our present time, is the fault line  between inclusivity and exclusivity. At times violent and vicious  battles are being fought over these fault lines. But the terrible wounds  of division between societies, countries, races and religions are in  the process of being healed. Our social, political, racial and spiritual  destiny awaits us within our liberation from the divisions that so  fracture us. The important thing is that these divisions are healed,  that the ONENESS of ALL can be made manifest in our lives. What many  will not realise is that this will be a key moment in our spiritual  journey, our spiritual pilgrimage. We can call these things with many  different words: but as we enter at last into a living inclusivity, so  shall we surge forward in our sacred and mystical and spiritual journey  to ONENESS with the entire Creation. That is our destiny. This is where  we are: on the threshold of ’God with Us’, on the threshold of the  ultimate spiritual healing of ourselves, our societies, our nations, our  races, and our religions.Our destiny was always meant to be a  holistic destiny. Our destiny was always to be a spiritual awakening. It  has been our divisions that have held us back from that destiny. We can  see this with how we at last reach out to the flora and fauna of our  planet, of our Holy Gaia. We recognise our interdependence with nature  and the environment. In other words, we recognise and seek to live and  make manifest our ONENESS with nature and the environment.Our  troubled time presages an age of true spiritual enlightenment. We join  together in healing; we recognise in our religions and races our true  ONENESS. The old world of exclusivity is in its long-drawn-out death  throes. Our being ONE with each other in every sense, is all but upon  us.

 

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