THE CATCH-22 OF HUMAN PEACE

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

Through the use of aggression and force,
not the least of which is mental and emotional brutality
taught, rewarded and enforced by parents and other adults,
especially those honored with the title, "those we look up to",
we have substantially shut down our hearts
suppressing our greatest inner treasure trove of wealth
instead, we are loading up on self-medicating, addictive behaviors,
over the counter
and under the thumb
pharmaceuticals
and a vast array of things designed to numb and deaden us,
as we practice repeated, habitual grim fun and avoidance.

We spend more and more time hiding out,
obsessing in the anxiety-filled corridors of our mind.
We don’t die here,
we are kind of anesthetically embalmed,
to wither away in our mental illness-fortress.
We’ve forgotten that to be vulnerable and alive
We must shed our skins and die
In order to continue opening to the sacred.

Instead, we practice caving in
Barely crawling on our fours
Rather than standing tall
Radiating our authenticity

Our child, still mired in perpetual resistance
Burns alive with the escalating fever inside.
These baked in habits escalating,
Fed and fueled not by U-232,
but the radioactive reactor of the Human Catch-22.[1]

Deep inside there is a growing knowing,
the human race need not continue to project
the world as it currently is.

Surrender all inner aggression.
Rely upon heart-felt insight to find your way.
Be peace!


[1] The Human Catch-22
Our emotional body,
desperately in need of healing and rescue
pays forward our toxic experiences,
binding us to our past,
now the continued and ongoing defilement of self.

In the meantime,
everywhere else except in the domain
of human operating systems,
peace reigns supreme.

We don’t need to
create,
manufacture,
pray for
or
even acknowledge Peace.

It is a constant given,
a bright and continuous signal –
that more and more of us
are beginning to sense
and receive this signal,
feel it,
take it inward
and radiate it outward!

In my heart, I hold the signal and create expansive space for peace.


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