The bushman with the cell phone

Watched a bushman dig out a bulb of vegetation in a very dry land. Scraped and squeezed some of the fluid out brilliantly to survive in the completely hostile environment. Marvelous wisdom of survival, yet the generations away from modern technologies.

Human beings have survived the ice age, and can survive the modern-day global warming as well, but we have to get our act together. The droughts and extreme weather in the world should be enough to warn us, to band together and take care of the dead dogs of our problems.

Our survival instinct can and should force us to plan as a humanity or as a united nation because our survival depends upon that wisdom. The fundamental flaw in the knowledge of the sense of belonging to a group is that it works against spirituality and humanity as a unit. It inspires nationalism and religion, which are political entities. Today the problems we face don’t have solutions for a group of people because these problems have no boundaries, thus the solution is to evolve from this flawed knowledge and emerge as one humanity.

If the pipelines are being built for the oil, there should be pipelines for the water as well. From the excessive water areas to the drought ridden areas, if humanity works together it would become a spiritual thing to do.

Business has its place but you have to look at it logically. The ghost towns of our past can teach a thing or two about history and common sense.

Cities or communities are not made of buildings, roads, railway lines or bridges. They are all built by the people for the people and used by the people, one individual at a time. Wherever there are resources people would live, otherwise everything loses its value because the value is to the individual. If the individual does not want to live in the area because there are no resources or comfort, the bigger problems will rise. If you see our communities, most of them are situated around the water sources.

Oil has its place but human beings survived millions of years without it, but it is a fact that we can’t survive without water.

Even the pope is joining the scientists of today, previously that was unheard of. If the pope can change his tune, Muslims should learn to make some amendments in religious knowledge as well, because these days people are living higher up in the north. I think, higher up in the north the prayers time and fasting times need and should be amended by the scholars. It just doesn't make sense and it's not fair to the individual to follow something that can’t be followed. We have twenty four hour daylight which dictates the times of prayers and fasting. If the religious runners can’t fix the problem, they have credibility problems. The disputes about the moon sighting is another problem which can be solved easily. This day and age we should be able to take help from the scientists about the moon, instead of bickering about the moon sightings.

Our history shows that religious people never looked eye to eye with scientists because the scientist community doesn't really believe in God. Past history shows that religious leaders have sided with the rich and powerful to maintain power and control over the ordinary folks. Power and control has always been the reason for politics and religions have always been part of the politics. Today’s Shia Sunni clashes are related with the purely political war, more than a thousand years ago, yet one of the first lessons of the Islam and the meaning of the Islam is peace. Where are the scholars of both sides, why can’t they cross the lines of the sense of belonging to their groups and join humanity. The spiritual jewellery and hallmark of the religions or religious education has been compassion, forgiveness, sacrifice and love. Yet our religious wars are the bloodiest and longest lasting. What happens to the main lessons of religion? It is a shame because interestingly both sides have the same slogan, “God is great” . Well God is great but the politics of group belonging have been greater than spirituality and God almighty. Remember, especially when it comes to our religious conflicts, the only wind under the sails of our long lasting political conflicts has been the weak individual who simply can’t become a CEO and stand against their own belonging group’s wrong doing. You have to be honest and cheer for the better play, not for the team of your belonging group regardless of the bad play. A CEO can see through the emotional attachment and do the justice.

Even if you look at the religious vote internationally today, it usually goes to conservatives in Canada and to republicans in the United Stats.

I have always wondered why the most spiritually inspired ideas come from the democrats, yet interestingly they have been called as Godless people. Health care or the taxing system to run the government funded help system for the needy is as spiritual as it can be. Yet so-called subcontractors of spirituality vote against those spiritual things. Republicans and conservatives have all the religious people who don’t want to help the poor. Even as an open minded individual it is mind boggling for me.

I believe when you are sick you are the most vulnerable and in need of help. If the community is able to take care of its sick individuals in the difficult times, it is a healthy community, regardless of the politics. If any one suffers needlessly and could not be helped by the people around, it is not a spiritually healthy community because the spiritual essence and the physical thread of the communal fabric of the community is the individual. When the individual suffers, eventually the community suffers as well.

The brain drain is one of the most undeniable proofs of today’s world. Educated people leave their communities because they want to be valued by their belonging community. If most of the educated people end up in modern civilized countries, the people left behind would still believe that the earthquake can happen by someone taking naked pictures on the mountain.

Our ancestors had a belief that God is mad at us, if there was a storm or earthquake so throwing the virgins over the cliffs was a traditional sacrifice to please God. We have come a long way from that. I think we are doing pretty good because now we are able to predict the path of the storms or tsunamis to save lives instead of throwing one over the cliff. Fortunately we are not living in past and are taking our individual responsibilities before relying on God.

I was torn about the title for this article. It could have been the walls of humanity but I went with the bushman with the cell phone.

The walls of humanity.

Say you are walking by, and see a guy banging his head against the wall, I am not talking about the wailing wall, I mean literally you see him bleeding, you wonder oh the poor guy, there must be a really bad situation. You go to the next block and find ten or twenty of them banging their heads against the wall, now you are really worried about them. Then you find millions of them doing the same thing, now you start to wonder about your own sanity.
Our racial, gender, national or religious security is related to our perceptual walls created by our ancestors, so our political loyalties compel us to carry on with our group traditions.

We can build majestic buildings or walls for prayers or banging our heads until we bleed. But literally God is nowhere close to these places, God is physically living through the living people. That is why the spiritual arms of the religions insist on helping humanity. A building is a building without the people, or a wall is a wall of the boundaries.

If you look at yourself and I mean really look at yourself, spiritually there are no boundaries, fences, freezing or caps to keep you down. A bush man with technology has no limits, from genetics to space to spirituality nothing stops the bushman other than his own perceptions.
Racial killings, as a matter of fact any kind of killings is robbing the God, humanity and the bushman’s potential, thus the political education of the belonging groups is not only limiting but also divisive.

So, I believe it's the time for us all to get out of the notion of being right because of our group belonging, because an evolving knowledge can never be right until it hits its potential and we are nowhere close to it.

The difference between God and mankind has been created by mankind itself. Interestingly just like the other animals mark their territories, our walls of perceptions have been around and are marked as territories since the infancy of our civilization. By now as humanity at the least spiritually we should be mature enough by now to see those walls.

Any kind of wall is unnatural for human beings, whether it's a wall of perception or security. The understanding of mankind is rising, the walls of China or Berlin have become a part of our history.
We have been breaking walls in all areas of our life, our awareness and evolution to the point where we are breaking our group walls to join humanity and equal human rights. We are heading towards humanity as one organism or an entity. The important things we should try to secure are our planet and the oxygen, and they can’t be saved by building any kind of walls. Our own advancements of making rockets to nuclear bombs to global warming related weather extremes simply can’t be harnessed by our walls. We can kill each other over the control of a ghost town or ghost planet. The interesting thing is that we are all mortal regardless. Just by looking in the past, one can easily understand our vulnerabilities and fragility. Simply because our history shows that, whether it's the graveyard of human individuals, or their past empires.

Spiritually speaking there are no walls between mankind and God, but our religious and political knowledge tears us apart. We are taught that we are functioning on our own yet the reality is that we can’t function without oxygen. On the other hand, whether the leaf moves on its own or not if the human beings are not there to appreciate its existance, it is meaningless. Spiritual part of religious education is for us to become a good person. Whether you have committed or not when you are told that you are a meaningless and worthless sinner it is not from God at all. That is completely a political statement so you can feel worthless to be controlled and used politically.
You are a bushman with an atom of autonomy, your personal fiver or a two percent. So, because of your status you have been spiritually helped to become a human being with potential. Remember, you could create a cell phone, help yourself and people around to save lives from storms and tsunamis, break the genetic code, reach and land on the racing stars, while our ancestors helplessly worshiped and even sacrificed human lives for nothing. It has always been those few who took charge and defied the status quo to get humanity to this point. Remember those forces to hold us back are still among us and are in the way of Godly ordered evolution. If you ask lady google, she says in our past, twenty five different and non connected human societies practised human sacrifice. Try that today, and see what happens around the world? Today we have human rights over and above all the beliefs, no one can follow the human sacrifice or make someone a victim of the traditional sati. Nevermind human sacrifice, the most commonly and proudly practiced things like racism, prejudices and discrimination are becoming a matter of shame. At the end of the day it is you who assesses your life, so don’t stand on the fence because of your politics of belonging to any one particular group. Remember it will be you who will judge your life with your conscience and character. So, if you are the bush man you have been blessed with wisdom because you have survived in a very hostile environment but if you get the cell phone with all the perks you can be a force to reckon with. All you need is your spiritual awareness.

Today we are the bushmen with cell phones but our knowledge has gone to the sense of belonging to our groups and we are dying to kill our own kind even with the weapons of mass destruction. If our fivers or two percent are used by our belonging groups, how are we going to fight the global issues when we all have to chip in to pull together to survive? Would we have our two percent, atom of autonomy or a fiver available when we really need it?