PART ONE: THE GRAND AWAKENING
I have been a ginormous fan of this much maligned and misunderstood comic book superhero since the 1982 cult classic film of the same name. Perhaps I relate to his Superhero's Journey of finally forging the courage to strip down his former SELF in order to become something greater. Something innately connected to the core essence of this very planet. (He is a super scientist studying the seemingly otherworldly effects of a regenerative accelerant/virus quickly spreading amongst the township of a small Louisiana town, sparking a visit from a CDC 'Center of Disease Control' doctor named Abbey Arcane; sound overtly familiar to our current state of virus outbreak 'shock and awe?' )
In the first truly pivotal scene from the series, Abbey confronts her former friend, now super conscious creature connected to the eternal vibrations of this planet's core essence:
Abbey: Why is this virus fighting against us? (to the Swamp Thing)
Swamp Thing: Not fighting. Fighting BACK!
While watching this scene fully play out in the comforting confines of my man cave, nerd tears started to pour from the ducts of my deepening, heartfelt eyes. It's truly a transcendent feeling to experience the magical elixir whenever art mirrors the reawakening of our collective consciousness!
Because this not so slyly prescient mass media exchange contains the very pragmatic understanding leading us to the basic answer toward the insidious PANDEMIC facing every single soul currently traversing this planet. This beyond horrendous infectious disease, still staring us all down within the deep recesses of our soul is actually a grand spiritual wake up call!
One that enlightens us to the fact that we have been leading unconscious lives for way too long. In which the semi-collective battle cry is imbued with a subtext that favors the privileged. Did you know that just 2 percent of our current population controls 90 percent of the world's wealth?! Which leaves the remaining 98 percent of the world's population desperately trying to survive on mere scraps! "Let them eat cake," is a subversive war cry Such massive disparity is simply NOT SUSTAINABLE! And egregious in any effort to balance a population screaming out for any semblance of equality. I hope at least part of what I just wrote resonates with you.....
For just as in the Swamp Thing's retort to Abbey's solicited inquiry, this planet is truly starting to FIGHT BACK! We have been polluting not only our oceans, but the once fertile grounds meant to sustain an abundance of nourishing nutrients to feed a global population now nearing 8 billion Super Heroic Spirits.
We have been blessed with the most amazing opportunity to live, learn, and expand our own individual soul filled consciousness. On the only blue spinning energetic matrix of playful experience within this very galaxy! Pretty cool, wouldn't you agree?!
And yet, we continue to take this once in a lifetime soulful incarnation for granted. Let's just call a spade, a spade. It's so much easier to continue to cruise down the middle lane of life's offerings. Outta sight, outta mind! RIGHT?! The very reason that every single plea toward easing the plight of our planet's most needing SOULS, eventually find themselves combined to the steel lined cages of shelters meant to simply keep some semblance of hope alive! I recently watched the current episode of the hard hitting journalistic stalwart 'VICE' and was beyond horrified by the images it uncovered. Mostly those of the 'illegal immigrants' current being held just beyond the WALL currently being constructed by our federal government on the precipice of Mexico and the US.
One can only consume so many images of babies and toddlers being kept in concrete cages. I bet very few of us would succumb to these not so comforting confines for even our furry friends! A true, twisted horror show of human cruelty at its most bereft! If only I had access to the Bat-copter! My mind became ensconced with images of covert operations toward a release and reform tactical mission to free these innocent members of our society who have been caught between the lesser of many evils. Too many to name!
How sickening to even contemplate that the lives of human beings who are being kept alive in unforgiving chains of barren blessings, reside less than yards away from our embracing borders. All because we refuse to fight for the downtrodden; the disenfranchised, and forgotten.....
Especially when each and every one of our greatest spiritual teachers have espoused the exact same message:
MARTIN LUTHER KING's LAST SPEECH: THE DRUMB MAJOR INSTINCT......
"Now that’s a fact. That the poor white has been put into this position, where through blindness and prejudice, (Make it plain) he is forced to support his oppressors. And the only thing he has going for him is the false feeling that he’s superior because his skin is white—and can’t hardly eat and make his ends meet week in and week out. (Amen)
For just as in the Swamp Thing's retort to Abbey's solicited inquiry, this planet is truly starting to FIGHT BACK! We have been polluting not only our oceans, but the once fertile grounds meant to sustain an abundance of nourishing nutrients to feed a global population now nearing 8 billion Super Heroic Spirits.
We have been blessed with the most amazing opportunity to live, learn, and expand our own individual soul filled consciousness. On the only blue spinning energetic matrix of playful experience within this very galaxy! Pretty cool, wouldn't you agree?!
And yet, we continue to take this once in a lifetime soulful incarnation for granted. Let's just call a spade, a spade. It's so much easier to continue to cruise down the middle lane of life's offerings. Outta sight, outta mind! RIGHT?! The very reason that every single plea toward easing the plight of our planet's most needing SOULS, eventually find themselves combined to the steel lined cages of shelters meant to simply keep some semblance of hope alive! I recently watched the current episode of the hard hitting journalistic stalwart 'VICE' and was beyond horrified by the images it uncovered. Mostly those of the 'illegal immigrants' current being held just beyond the WALL currently being constructed by our federal government on the precipice of Mexico and the US.
One can only consume so many images of babies and toddlers being kept in concrete cages. I bet very few of us would succumb to these not so comforting confines for even our furry friends! A true, twisted horror show of human cruelty at its most bereft! If only I had access to the Bat-copter! My mind became ensconced with images of covert operations toward a release and reform tactical mission to free these innocent members of our society who have been caught between the lesser of many evils. Too many to name!
How sickening to even contemplate that the lives of human beings who are being kept alive in unforgiving chains of barren blessings, reside less than yards away from our embracing borders. All because we refuse to fight for the downtrodden; the disenfranchised, and forgotten.....
Especially when each and every one of our greatest spiritual teachers have espoused the exact same message:
MARTIN LUTHER KING's LAST SPEECH: THE DRUMB MAJOR INSTINCT......
"Now that’s a fact. That the poor white has been put into this position, where through blindness and prejudice, (Make it plain) he is forced to support his oppressors. And the only thing he has going for him is the false feeling that he’s superior because his skin is white—and can’t hardly eat and make his ends meet week in and week out. (Amen)
And not only does this thing go into the racial struggle, it goes into the struggle between nations. And I would submit to you this morning that what is wrong in the world today is that the nations of the world are engaged in a bitter, colossal contest for supremacy. And if something doesn’t happen to stop this trend, I’m sorely afraid that we won’t be here to talk about Jesus Christ and about God and about brotherhood too many more years. (Yeah) If somebody doesn’t bring an end to this suicidal thrust that we see in the world today, none of us are going to be around, because somebody’s going to make the mistake through our senseless blunderings of dropping a nuclear bomb somewhere. And then another one is going to drop. And don’t let anybody fool you, this can happen within a matter of seconds. (Amen) They have twenty-megaton bombs in Russia right now that can destroy a city as big as New York in three seconds, with everybody wiped away, and every building. And we can do the same thing to Russia and China.
But this is why we are drifting. And we are drifting there because nations are caught up with the drum major instinct. “I must be first.” “I must be supreme.” “Our nation must rule the world.” (Preach it) And I am sad to say that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. And I’m going to continue to say it to America, because I love this country too much to see the drift that it has taken.
God didn’t call America to do what she’s doing in the world now. (Preach it, preach it) God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as the war in Vietnam. And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation.
But God has a way of even putting nations in their place. (Amen) The God that I worship has a way of saying, “Don’t play with me.” (Yes) He has a way of saying, as the God of the Old Testament used to say to the Hebrews, “Don’t play with me, Israel. Don’t play with me, Babylon. (Yes) Be still and know that I’m God. And if you don’t stop your reckless course, I’ll rise up and break the backbone of your power.” (Yes) And that can happen to America. (Yes) Every now and then I go back and read Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. And when I come and look at America, I say to myself, the parallels are frightening. And we have perverted the drum major instinct.
But let me rush on to my conclusion, because I want you to see what Jesus was really saying. What was the answer that Jesus gave these men? It’s very interesting. One would have thought that Jesus would have condemned them. One would have thought that Jesus would have said, “You are out of your place. You are selfish. Why would you raise such a question?”
But that isn’t what Jesus did; he did something altogether different. He said in substance, “Oh, I see, you want to be first. You want to be great. You want to be important. You want to be significant. Well, you ought to be. If you’re going to be my disciple, you must be.” But he reordered priorities. And he said, “Yes, don’t give up this instinct. It’s a good instinct if you use it right. (Yes) It’s a good instinct if you don’t distort it and pervert it. Don’t give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be first in love. (Amen) I want you to be first in moral excellence. I want you to be first in generosity. That is what I want you to do.”
And he transformed the situation by giving a new definition of greatness. And you know how he said it? He said, “Now brethren, I can’t give you greatness. And really, I can’t make you first.” This is what Jesus said to James and John. “You must earn it. True greatness comes not by favoritism, but by fitness. And the right hand and the left are not mine to give, they belong to those who are prepared.” (Amen)
And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. (Amen) That’s a new definition of greatness.
And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, (Everybody) because everybody can serve. (Amen) You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. (All right) You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. (Amen) You only need a heart full of grace, (Yes, sir, Amen) a soul generated by love. (Yes) And you can be that servant."
And verbose panderings aside, the great Martin Luther King, Jr, in his very last speech, cut our selective consciousness to the very bone of eternal blessings.
THERE IS BUT ONE ANSWER TO THE VERY TRUTH THAT SHALL LEAD US ALL TO THE SALVATION OF HEALING THAT TRANSCENDS ourSELVES AND THE PLANET UPON WHICH WE INHABIT...............
LOVE.................... It's truly as simply as that............
LOVE IS THE ONLY HEALING BALM THAT HAS THE POWER TO SAVE THIS PLANET......
Now please don't misinterpret my verbal musings. Changing the 'status quo' has been an everlasting endeavor that has confounded every great spiritual master to traverse this planet! And believe you me, watching such a soulless travesty has brought me down to my very own knees on several occasions.
Most of you in the New Age Nerd community know that my spiritual totem is The Batman. I often get questioned as to this very personal choice in superhero based slavish idolization.
"You seem to be more of a Captain America or Superman kind of guy!" I quite often get thrown in my direction. And I get it! Truly! My retort? It goes something like this.....
'I Adore Captain America and Superman! But, I generally stick to this edict. Both the Captain andSuperman are more like religion. And The Batman is more akin to spirituality. And I believe that religion is for those who are AFRAID OF GOING TO HELL. And spirituality is for those of us WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN THERE!'
Please ponder that for a moment or three! LOL
Many moons ago, I decided to join a wagon train of like minded spiritual travelers. They professed that true wisdom in this realm is gained only through first facing our darkest demons, and then befriending them as part of our personal arsenal. Please read that last sentence again! Because the understanding of its premise, as well as incorporating it into your daily mind-set is one crucial aspect towards both finding and fulfilling your own personal calling!
For our greatest fears are no-thing less than a grand opportunity of reacquainting ourSELVES with the dark shadows that are thrown from us having the courage to face the LIGHT! It is ONLY then that we learn the blesson (blessing and lesson) the darkest of our nights share with us all. Our once thought scary shadows contain all the insight and spiritual wisdom born from the hardships we have been courageous enough to face! And it's only once we make 'amends' with the darkest aspects of our own being, does the communion of EGO and SELF meld into a power that suffocates any further space of SHAME! We no longer associate with feelings of being anything other than a unique emanation of spiritual TRUTH! We see our past misgivings as no-thing less than grand opportunities for spiritual growth and understanding. And rather than the harsh judgement of a collective whole, we are free to sit in our own experiences and bathe in the ethereal lessons they were brought to bare! Sans of any fear filled wrath from a never world only constructed within our earthly minds............
Everyone has an 'Unfair Advantage.' Something that sets them apart from any and everyone else. It's a part of their unique energetic imprint; never seen before and never to be experienced again in this dominion of Universal experience! I call mine the 'BUFFET LINE.' Because I have truly been down the 'buffet line of life!' What I once considered a curse, has now been transcended into my greatest gift of power; to be shared with the World!
I have literally and figuratively experienced and bare witnessed to almost any kind of pain and suffering this earthly experience can dish out. And, I AM STILL STANDING!
With much gratitude, my wounds have now turned into WISDOM! Garnering me with a WICKED SENSE of SPIRITUAL INSIGHT! And I have earned every single thread on the Super Heroic Cape that is now always a part of my sartorial essence. And as you have probably already ascertained, EACH OF YOU ALSO BARE AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE THAT IS JUST AS POWERFUL!TRUST! Believe and you shall receive my reverent peeps! ;0)
And spending much of the 'down time' that currently befalls us all, a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-awaken to your Super Heroic Higher Self, may very well be the most precious use of 'TIME' you shall ever receive! So please waste not! I beg of you! The very planet we all use as a whisk of wonderment to cast our own 'spells' is about to expire! Way before its intentioned expiration date! So if you have a wayward life long calling, I urge you to put it upon a plate, and advise us all of its meaning! For it may very well be that the SPIRIT on your right, or left, hold the sacred key to access the blessing it holds for us all!
WE ARE ONE...... AND YOUR DREAM IS A CONFESSION THAT EXHUALTS US ALL!
LOVE ........AGAIN and AGAIN IS OUR ONLY ETERNAL CALL.............
YOUR SUFFERING......YOUR PANDERING FOR SPIRITUAL SCRAPS... WILL NOT FALL UPON UNHEARD EARS....... FOR EVERY PRAYER YOU USHER NEVER FALLS FALSE UPON THE GLISTENING GLOW OF THE GRAND CREATOR........
SO I URGE YOU.... LET YOUR SOUL SING OUT LOUD....... FOR YOU HAVE ALLOWED YOUR GREATEST PAIN AND SUFFERING BE A SIGN.... BECKONING AN EXHAULTATION TO THE TRUTH THAT SURROUNDS AND BLESSES US ALL..........
BE SUPER HEROIC!
NERDMASTE,
JEFFREY LOUIS MARTINEZ
LOVE IS THE ONLY HEALING BALM THAT HAS THE POWER TO SAVE THIS PLANET......
Now please don't misinterpret my verbal musings. Changing the 'status quo' has been an everlasting endeavor that has confounded every great spiritual master to traverse this planet! And believe you me, watching such a soulless travesty has brought me down to my very own knees on several occasions.
Most of you in the New Age Nerd community know that my spiritual totem is The Batman. I often get questioned as to this very personal choice in superhero based slavish idolization.
"You seem to be more of a Captain America or Superman kind of guy!" I quite often get thrown in my direction. And I get it! Truly! My retort? It goes something like this.....
'I Adore Captain America and Superman! But, I generally stick to this edict. Both the Captain andSuperman are more like religion. And The Batman is more akin to spirituality. And I believe that religion is for those who are AFRAID OF GOING TO HELL. And spirituality is for those of us WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN THERE!'
Please ponder that for a moment or three! LOL
Many moons ago, I decided to join a wagon train of like minded spiritual travelers. They professed that true wisdom in this realm is gained only through first facing our darkest demons, and then befriending them as part of our personal arsenal. Please read that last sentence again! Because the understanding of its premise, as well as incorporating it into your daily mind-set is one crucial aspect towards both finding and fulfilling your own personal calling!
For our greatest fears are no-thing less than a grand opportunity of reacquainting ourSELVES with the dark shadows that are thrown from us having the courage to face the LIGHT! It is ONLY then that we learn the blesson (blessing and lesson) the darkest of our nights share with us all. Our once thought scary shadows contain all the insight and spiritual wisdom born from the hardships we have been courageous enough to face! And it's only once we make 'amends' with the darkest aspects of our own being, does the communion of EGO and SELF meld into a power that suffocates any further space of SHAME! We no longer associate with feelings of being anything other than a unique emanation of spiritual TRUTH! We see our past misgivings as no-thing less than grand opportunities for spiritual growth and understanding. And rather than the harsh judgement of a collective whole, we are free to sit in our own experiences and bathe in the ethereal lessons they were brought to bare! Sans of any fear filled wrath from a never world only constructed within our earthly minds............
Everyone has an 'Unfair Advantage.' Something that sets them apart from any and everyone else. It's a part of their unique energetic imprint; never seen before and never to be experienced again in this dominion of Universal experience! I call mine the 'BUFFET LINE.' Because I have truly been down the 'buffet line of life!' What I once considered a curse, has now been transcended into my greatest gift of power; to be shared with the World!
I have literally and figuratively experienced and bare witnessed to almost any kind of pain and suffering this earthly experience can dish out. And, I AM STILL STANDING!
With much gratitude, my wounds have now turned into WISDOM! Garnering me with a WICKED SENSE of SPIRITUAL INSIGHT! And I have earned every single thread on the Super Heroic Cape that is now always a part of my sartorial essence. And as you have probably already ascertained, EACH OF YOU ALSO BARE AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE THAT IS JUST AS POWERFUL!TRUST! Believe and you shall receive my reverent peeps! ;0)
And spending much of the 'down time' that currently befalls us all, a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-awaken to your Super Heroic Higher Self, may very well be the most precious use of 'TIME' you shall ever receive! So please waste not! I beg of you! The very planet we all use as a whisk of wonderment to cast our own 'spells' is about to expire! Way before its intentioned expiration date! So if you have a wayward life long calling, I urge you to put it upon a plate, and advise us all of its meaning! For it may very well be that the SPIRIT on your right, or left, hold the sacred key to access the blessing it holds for us all!
WE ARE ONE...... AND YOUR DREAM IS A CONFESSION THAT EXHUALTS US ALL!
LOVE ........AGAIN and AGAIN IS OUR ONLY ETERNAL CALL.............
YOUR SUFFERING......YOUR PANDERING FOR SPIRITUAL SCRAPS... WILL NOT FALL UPON UNHEARD EARS....... FOR EVERY PRAYER YOU USHER NEVER FALLS FALSE UPON THE GLISTENING GLOW OF THE GRAND CREATOR........
SO I URGE YOU.... LET YOUR SOUL SING OUT LOUD....... FOR YOU HAVE ALLOWED YOUR GREATEST PAIN AND SUFFERING BE A SIGN.... BECKONING AN EXHAULTATION TO THE TRUTH THAT SURROUNDS AND BLESSES US ALL..........
BE SUPER HEROIC!
NERDMASTE,
JEFFREY LOUIS MARTINEZ
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