Help others help themselves

As a matter of fact, helping others help themselves is the very reason I'm a member of the Gaia Community. You can't beat experience. I've been around 83 years. My education has been in the school of hard knocks. I've found my bliss. If life could be any better, I don't know how.

Many of my Gaia friends call themselves progressives, the idea being that we've progressed since the Founding Fathers of American principles wrote the Constitution.

Indeed, we have progressed, in fact so much that we don't need authorities to direct our lives. The idea behind the Constitution goes back to the Roman jurist Cicero.

In his De Legibus, Cicero, identifying "right reason" with those qualities of human nature whereby "man is associated with the gods," he assigns the binding quality of civil law itself to its being in harmony with such universal attributes of human nature. Cicero asserts that "we are born for justice, and right is not the mere arbitrary construction of opinion, but an institution of nature." (This thought comes from The ‘Higher Law' Background of American Constitutional Law.)

There are some principles that don't change. It is fine to be progressive as along as you keep in mind that you can't change the laws of nature.

Not many understand quantum physics. Quantum physics takes the universe apart and examines the pieces. We are forced to admit that in the mix you cannot leave out consciousness. Says quantum physicist, Evan Harris Walker, in The Physics of Consciousness, under "A God for Tomorrow," "We have discovered proof that we exist as something more than pieces of matter. In the development of quantum theory, the observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation."

Therefore, if you say we've progressed beyond the principles written in the Constitution, you are really limiting yourself to the past authoritarian ages. I refer you to Genises 1:26: "And God said, Let us make man in our image." St. Augustine said: "Distinguish the ages, and the Scriptures harmonize." The progressive order of the universe, and how it deals with humanity, leaves us with increasing purpose which runs through and links together the ages, from the beginning of the life of man to the end in eternity. (This thought in the introduction of my Scofield Reference Bible.)

Existentialist Nietzsche wondered if God made a mistake in man or man made a mistake in God. If you think there is no god, you are denying that you exist in a state of limitless awareness. Reverend Scofield in the introduction to his Bible wrote: "The saying that ‘anything may be proved by the Bible' is both true and false-true if isolated passages are used; utterly false if the whole divine revelation is in view."

If you look to the authorities for help, whether they be religious or secular, you are helping them, not yourself. When I was age 49, I decided to ignore the authorities and help myself. From that point on, when everything should have gone wrong, everything went right.