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I am an American Hippie
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I am an American Hippie. It is not a choice for me, it is not a fad for me...it is simply what and who I am. I bathe and I work. I vote and I stay informed. I volunteer in my community and I work to know my neighbors. I give to my community, my society and my church.
My church is the Universe. I don't believe in God, in fact I resent the word God. It is so limiting, so presumptuous. I choose to invest my belief in the Spirit that has touched me many times when I was communing with a psychedelic sacrament. For it was this Spirit that whispered to my soul that there is no greater force than love, no aim higher than peace and no attribute greater than compassion.
The Spirit I believe in needs no name. It is above and beyond such trivializations. It cannot be captured in a book, or contained in a prayer. It cannot be bought or sold or wholly represented by any human.
It does not limit it's message to any particular creed or race or class. It is certainly not limited to only those who are high on psychedelics.. It is LOVE, and it touches us all in ways large and small, but too often too subtle for our busy selves to take notice. I choose to worship as a Vajrayana Buddhist, and that is not incongruous to the above, in my experience.
The Spirit I embrace tells me that the Earth is living, and all that it contains is part of the Gaia, the living embodiment of creation...whatever creation is. The Spirit I embrace tells me that all life, no matter how large or how small is sacred and should be revered...out of appreciation if not respect.
I believe that there is a single original Universal source of Spirit that humanity has always tapped into intuitively immediately. Spirituality was often developed in advance of language, alphabet, music, etc. in early civilizations, and I feel that all divine inspiration has emanated from the same source, and that all religions are attempts to describe the same original source signal of Spirit.
The exact same force that touched Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Helen Keller is eternal and the same, I believe. I believe all the great orators and sages, leaders and warriors who have laid down their most precious possession, their life, in honor of this truth were touched by the same Spirit. The Spirit of LOVE.
This is not the same kind of love that a parent has for their child, or a lover has for their mate. It is not the same kind of love that is packaged and sold on magazine covers or in adult videos. It is selfless LOVE, compassionate LOVE...unconditional LOVE.
The Spirit I embrace tells me it does not particularly what book you read or robe you wear. It's not just how you sit or breathe or what you stare at. It makes no difference what building you occupy or what place you pilgrimage to. What matters is not who your prophets are or how many followers they have. For without one component any spiritual teaching is bound to fail.
The Spirit I embrace tells me...."All you need is LOVE", love that transcends all pain and despair, all fear and anger, all hopelessness and misery. For in LOVE can be found hope and healing, nurturing and kindness. Teachers, Gurus, Elders... all should be taking you to a place of Love, or you should begin shopping around for a replacement quick. You have not that much time here to mess around at all.
I am an American Hippie and I LOVE.