To rebel politically or socially we must also remember to rebel mentally and spiritually as well. You see, it has very little to do with being "religious". You could be a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, or an atheist. The basic idea is the same. We must not only look for truths and disregard the errors of the spirituality we practice, but we must use our spirituality as a divine reason to do what we do.
Even an atheist can realize that we have a soul. An atheist actually might have a better grip on this idea than a Christian, since atheists reject the idea that there are beings superior to us, and the world is shit compared to the spirit world. Atheists usually believe that this life is all we've got.
First I said that we must look for truths and disregard the errors of the spirituality we practice. This means that we cannot rest comfortably with faiths or practices which were taught to us. We must explore all theologies with an open mind and then put together what we believe. If you believe in evolution and creationism, or if you're a Wiccan who follows Buddha's path, that's okay. Just because no one else has put the ideas together, doesn't mean you can't. Of course people will call you a heretic or a blasphemer. But if everyone worried about that all the time, people like Jesus would never have gotten anywhere (since he was technically a heretical Jew).
Secondly I said that we must use our faith in God, Our own Souls, Buddha, Jah, Allah, Rah, Nature - to back up and enrich our social action (or unaction). I believe the spiritual advancement of the modern anarchist is something that is necessary for our creed to survive. The year 2012 is coming fast. Many believe that the end of the 5th Mayan long count calendar is a sign the world will end. Nostradamus also predicted armagedon in 2012. Many new age folks believe that it will be an end to the era of materialism, greed, and hatred.
I'm somewhere in between. I believe that the astrological and solar cycles (new solar cycle begins in 2013, age of aquarius is coming now) will bring both spiritual AND physical change to the earth. I believe that many could perish in natural disasters, but I also believe that they will happen for a reason. A way of the world saying "If you don't know me, or how I function, this is what can happen". We have moved so far away from an interconnection with our planet and it's many cycles and rythms. We have moved away from the ideas of faith or divinity. We say it's all part of advancement for the human race. But I fail to see how this antfarm they have built for us full of fake worries and bills and taxes and cubicles and Pokemon is any better than times in history where we knew our land. Where we knew our planet. Where we knew our solar system.
Now the average person knows almost nothing and relies on the idea that the people who should know, know. Instead of knowing why and when earthquakes happen, we rest on the fact that there are hired "experts" watching over us. But this leads to several problems, the most obvious being that we are usually not given sufficient warning of things like earthquakes. Maybe if we all learned our planet's ways, we would be able to evacuate ahead of time based on our personal knowledge instead of an annoying emergency broadcast on television or radio.
But either way, I think that spiritual advancement is a positive tool in anarchism. I believe it can reinforce our socio-politcal ideology. And I believe that anarchism is also a positive tool in spirituality. It gives us the thinking that we need to question the dogma and errors which exist in all faiths and practices.
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