A Neo-Gandhian Soul Force

A Neo-Gandhian Soul Force

A NON-VIOLENT WAR AGAINST IDEOLOGIES

Coming out of Brian’s movement in grace an urge in God suggests we follow Gandhi with common wealth, the book.

1 INTRODUCTION TO SOUL FORCE

It begins with me. I discover a new continuing encounter with God. This new relationship reveals that I am free and equal with others and with the earth. My family, my community and the earth now enjoy this way: a just life. When you and I with the earth are free and equal, this is the just way of life.

The next step is you: to explore your inside for a new continuing encounter with God. It starts with your mind, and how you think. Try thinking freely, before you think about God, without any other ideas restraining your freedom. The bible, your favourite music, religion or ideology, makes you an alien thinker. That’s not bad but it is not freethinking. When all other thoughts are put away and you are really freethinking, God is very near. Alien thinking seduces you away from God.

Then we gaze at God, still a thinking act, but now a profound depth reveals difficulty in understanding something: a book, a painting, music, logic or a scientific conundrum. Despite the difficulty, in understanding something in your brain says, “I know the answer! I seem to have leapt above understanding to the answer (of the painting, a logic, a book or a scientific puzzle).” Understanding and knowledge meet here. You are at the interface with God. This is where huge discoveries in the world take place. But God remains elusive. We have to wait. In the mean-time write down the new learning from the meditation. Wait for God. It may take months, Gandhi waited years! When God breaks through you will know it by certain subjective experiences in you. You enjoy a greater a greater sense of freedom, an acute awareness of others, a new way of relating to people and God, an ability to transcend seeming impossible problems, an erotic wave and you doubt everything even God.

When you and I and the cockroach agree with God we then act against ideologies for justice, using the book as guide, called common wealth!

2 IF SUCCESSFUL WITH COMMON WEALTH THEN:

  • Even atheists will agree to a love Theonomy directing those with faith to just structures
  • We are free and equal including nature.
  • Transcending Ecology, Economy and Equality (the Triple E) leads to sustainability
  • We practice Ubuntu: a person is a person by people with cockroaches.
  • All knowledge to be open and free to all people in a universal learning centre on line.
  • Ideology falls away. Ideas are welcome.
  • Religion, the nation, politics, economics and the law fall away. Common sense works.
  • Small is beautiful, the village replaces nations.
  • An inclusive, non-hierarchical, non-violent, restorative justice holds us accountable.

3 A NON-VIOLENT WAR AGAINST IDEOLOGIES

Across forms of faith, we search for truth. Either on the internet or in groups across the world we look in God for the enemies in all ideologies. We seek ways non-violently to overcome all ideologies. Although assumed there is an ideological split within science between pure science and ecosystemic science, where symbolically, asking why represents pure science and asking how represents the social science. Transcending ideology here brings both knowing and understanding to meet in God.

4 THE ENEMY

Anyone who obliges us to believe in their ideology against others; anyone who oppresses us and others from freedom and equality; anyone who distracts us from God including science, nation, economics, politics and the law – is the enemy.

5 VALUING THE ENEMY INTO FRIENDS

The neo-Gandhian Soul Force does not have ashram vows. Instead we confront the enemy with joy. We celebrate the ‘demonstrative value of being’, which flies in the face of ideologies and the law! As people recognise how serious and futile ideologies are, they join us.

6 LEARNING IN INTERNET ASHRAMS

Learning the value of being, and being present as joy, leads to an encounter with God. Learning to sustain an encounter with God and to learn just answers requires intensive practice. Discerning God’s justice in practical terms is a communal listening to God and acting in justice. The movement in grace website provides all learning.

7 THEORIA-PRAXIS

The internet carries all the learning and guides but until one person takes out another person to act out justice, it is useless. There has to be an oscillating back and forth between prayer and action for a real Soul Force.

8 THE COMMON WEALTH FUTURE REPEATED

When you and I and the cockroach agree with God we then act against ideologies for justice. A benign love Theonomy drives us to the truth and a just world without religion. Justice not judgement reveals an inclusive, non-hierarchical, non-violent and restorative world, rejecting exclusive, male dominating, violent and retributive judgement.

All information (knowledge) is openly recorded in a completely computerised matrix of software made available to all human beings for education and training, on a learner-directed basis.

The village is the ultimate authority in a collaborative economy worldwide.

Plentiful water, warmth, weeds and worms symbolise the flow of free and equal earth with human beings. Because of the love Theonomy, human beings regularly transcend equality, economy and ecology, in the Triple E sustainability.

Democracy, marriage, the Triple E sustainability and the worker-owned co-operative are practical demonstrations of transcendent village life… common wealth the book, will hold us all accountable to the revolution as we work through it together in internet ashrams across different forms of faith

Queen Elizabeth as Model

Queen Elizabeth as Model

“That shall be to you better than light, and safer than any known way.” – M.L. Haskins.

Minnie Louise Haskins wrote the poem in 1908 as a Wesleyan missionary to India. Another girl, though, made Haskins famous, Queen Elizabeth. As a young girl, worried about her father doing a major speech, in December 1939, Elizabeth slipped the poem into view for King George VI to include in his address. Only 13 years old, she inspired her father and the nation as they prepared to enter the worst nightmare of their history; here is the beginning of the poem with my own corrections:

“I said to the person who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” The person replied, “Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you, better than light, and safer than any known way.”

Since then, for ninety years, Queen Elizabeth has put her ‘hand into the hand of God’. Like Gandhi, Elizabeth is a model for life for all of us. The answer is both simple and daunting. While the Queen emphasises her Christian faith, she readily accepts that other forms of faith have the same opportunity. I know I am putting words into her mouth but, in reading her tribute1 authored by the Bible Society and the LICC (the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity), I am convinced that the above quote was the driver of her faith, something Muslims, Hindus and Jews would enjoy too, ‘putting their hands into the hand of God’! Even though the authors push Jesus all the time and the Queen is, of course, a practising Christian as we approach a new paradigm, let me assume that proselytising is no longer needed and that the whole world is approaching huge problems as radicalised religion, both Christian and Muslim, should rather follow both the Queen and Gandhi by taking Minnie Haskins’ poem as a practical way forward to bring about just change.

The poem does not come up with trite sayings to make us feel better. The poem knows that good or bad, being in the hand of God is better than light! Being with God is safer than any ‘known way’. As we look back at a long servanthood of the Queen, the result is justice, but not determined by human politics, economics or the nation but by prayer-action and being a little aloof, apart like a monk! Or Mahatma!

If we were to ignore or reject all politics, economics, the nation and religion, we would come very close to the Queen’s position for over ninety years! Here we have, literally, “that shall be to you, better than light, and safer than any known way.” By restricting her to only ‘putting her hand into the hand of God’, the Queen brought justice into the world way beyond any politician did.

IF YOU DO MY COURSE, ROOTED, YOU WILL SEE THE QUEEN’S WAY, RELYING CONFIDENTLY ON GOD TO SHOW THE WAY THROUGH BOTH THE GOOD AND BAD TIMES.

1 The Servant Queen and the King she serves. A tribute for Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday. 2016: Bible Society, HOPE and LICC.

We can all follow the Queen’s life by living beyond all ideologies and walk with God and acting in God with all forms of faith for justice. In this new paradigm, church or mosque are irrelevant, being with God with other people regularly looking for God’s hand for a safer than any known way. We will not ‘know’ but we will be in God’s hand. For me, being with God is joy. Helping others see the futility of ideologies will bring them to joy too. Haskins again:

So I went forth, and finding the hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And God led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.