Religions Of The Moment

We have begun down a slippery slope, embarking into conditions never before present, it only seems right that our world view should keep pace with our misadventures. One of my favorite new religions (of which I am a reluctant co-founder)is one that sets as a premise that we are entering into the Lettucene Epoch, which will be characterized by wilt. Amongst "followers" (although that word is wrong, these people are leaders)of this religion hold all vegetables as their gods and goddesses. Lettuce is exalted amongst the plant kingdom and hold the Black Seeded Simpson as their most exalted deity. Some of the basic tenets of these vegetable-arians are that lettuce will only be denied those who would not sanctify it; There will always be more; They hold to a variety of "Better Left Unsaid"s, several of which revolve around eggplant, and Honor thy Mother, thy father and thy vegetable, to name a few. If someone feels the need to mediate between me and my sanctification of plants, I cannot abide their interference.

I am fed up with predominant assumptions that individuals have a world view based on two thousand year old lies, or folk tales. The expedience of getting us to accept arbitrary interpretations of texts that were formulated to exert social control over illiterate populations is undeniable. By catching people on the tenterhooks of religion, a taught, progressively more rigid tension comes over them. They are held firmly, in a state of suspended animation and expectation out of step with reality. The passion that we have for defending our beliefs, no matter what they seem to be, seems inexhaustible. Since the recording of "civilization" these passions have been fuel for most of our wars, a great deal of art and what poses stiffly as history. I posit a new religion, even more world warping than revising history to include the hundreds of millions of survivors of those who lost their lives in war, the true histories of towns with no men and families with no father.

Or perhaps the most stark and non-prejudicial of all, instead of worshiping end times, as many of the dead religions do, let's talk science. Perhaps we will call this one the scigeon, or religience. We already know that the Earth will cease to exist one day as the sun supernovas out to beyond our orbit. Let's start there and work back...Do you want to go to the light now? or later? That would get a few things straight right from the get go. All this hate, this negative ego, this pablam and distraction, why do we tolerate it? We have been experiencing a new enlightenment even at the time our test scores are falling. We have a cadre of idiots and assholes that have swept to power that hold the very government that they control in contempt. Any discussion of "beliefs" must include the concept that if we are not part of the solution, we are part of the problem. not to be preachy or hypocritical, but I must briefly be both...

Whether your thing is greed, plastic, hate, petro-chemical based food shed, judgement, fossil energy, pointing fingers, water gluttony, addictions of any sort or if you are just feeling too stressed to live in community, you don't have to believe in anything to make better choices, to teach others, spread the good word, one day the sun will explode and come out to greet us right here. With a bit of luck, we will still be here and some young whipper snapper will have invented a way to ride the shock wave of that explosion to propel us toward another middle aged star, containing another blue marble of mostly water to reside upon. Until then, we are always afforded the opportunity to step into the light, walk in grace, or whatever you like to call it. Do the right thing, be in the moment, balanced, grounded, harmonious and vital. It is our birhtright, why not use it? If you have to, get mushy, tell people, "I was moved to..." don't say by the Lord, I guess, if you want you could tell them that it was by the Lady, that would at least raise a few eyebrows. Whatever you do, learn and teach as much as possible about the revolution that is not being televised. Sustainability, growing food and power, and loving the Earth back to health!