INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 986 Amsterdam, May 27th, 2022 ADI DA'S PEACE LAW - Spiritual Choices, Part 5 - BRAD REYNOLDS We, as individuals and collective societies, must break beyond, undermine, transcend, see through the illusions of the separate self and accept, act upon, and celebrate our unity as one human race, as interrelated creatures of Nature (among countless species and types), and as being part of God’s glorious and magnificent Kosmos of Spirit-in-action (set within the Mysterious Silence of the nondual “Bright”). Yet it is our responsibility to engage in such self-transcendence via, as Adi Da says, “a ‘radical’ understanding (or root self-understanding) that is neither strategically self-destructive nor strategically world-denying.” Ken Wilber, too, is quite clear: “For unfreedom, aggression, and anxiety are not characteristic of the nature of humanity, but characterize of the separate self of humanity.” Indeed, even an Enlightened Avatar agrees that democracy, as a cooperative effort among human-scale communities with a representative form of government, is an effective way to secure our freedoms, as long as our representatives are responsible to the people as a whole, and not merely invested in economic or war-like interests. Read more: https://www.integralworld.net/reynolds42.html