{"id":320,"date":"2017-04-02T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/?p=320"},"modified":"2017-03-29T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T17:43:57","slug":"integrity-responsibility-and-the-akash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/integrity-responsibility-and-the-akash\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrity, Responsibility, and the Akash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the next few years and decades, organizations, systems, and people who do not demonstrate integrity will have a harder and harder time of it. Even materialists understand that something is changing on the planet. There is a new energy here. That which in the old paradigm was the province of metaphysics is slowly becoming more manifest, and is becoming more and more a part of daily life.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t mean that earth will turn into a planet of metaphysicians who all love new-age stuff. Even in the new paradigm there is going to be contention, because along with a more harmonious background energy will also come enhanced creativity. Creative people can be very insistent on their point of view! There are going to be more new ideas and new approaches, and that will lead to clashes: Whose way is right?<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there will also be greater harmony. There will be more willingness to at least consider the other person\u2019s point of view. We all know what happens in the old energy: Opposing viewpoints are fought for, people get emotional, people get insulted, there is a lot more acrimony than there should be: Because \u201ceverybody knows\u201d there is only one right way to do anything! But in the new paradigm there will be a general acknowledgment that \u201cmore ideas are better.\u201d There will be less insistence on \u201cmy way or the highway,\u201d because this viewpoint is non-inclusive. Like it or not, more harmony leads to greater inclusiveness and acceptance, which can be summarized under the general heading of tolerance.<\/p>\n

Paradoxically, more harmony means more creativity and more ideas, which leads to MORE diverging viewpoints. But more harmony also means a greater tolerance for different ideas. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s going to be in a couple of decades, and it\u2019s going to be so generally accepted that conflict and \u201cI\u2019m right\u201d will seem childish. There will be a Renaissance on earth. It may not always be peaceful but it will sure be exciting. The possibility for conflict and war will lessen as the years go by, even as more ideas circulate, because the old guys will die off and the new children will come in. It\u2019s exactly what Max Planck meant when he said that old scientific theories only become accepted when their proponents leave the planet. Apparently the transition from the old paradigm to the new paradigm of thought must happen slowly.<\/p>\n

Big Pharma<\/h2>\n

The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it\u2019s disgraceful.\u00a0 \u2014 Arnold Seymour Relman (1923\u20132014), Harvard professor of medicine and former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Medical Journal<\/em> [1]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Peter Gotzsche, who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration (the world\u2019s foremost body in assessing medical evidence), found in a separate analysis that 100,000 people in the United States die each year from the side effects of correctly used prescription drugs, noting that \u201cit\u2019s remarkable that nobody raises an eyebrow when we kill so many of our own citizens with drugs.\u201d 1<\/sup><\/p>\n

Big Pharma is one of the first outfits that will experience problems doing things the old way. That portion of the pharmaceutical industry which makes products only to make money \u2013 even when there are serious side effects that harm people \u2013 will experience an implosion.<\/p>\n

I have noticed on TV and in magazines an almost desperate effort by pharmaceutical companies to hawk their drugs. An advertisement for a quit-smoking drug had, as one of its side-effects (and I quote), \u201csuicidal thoughts and actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Think about that for a moment. If you or I promoted a product that could cause people to kill themselves, we would \u2013 rightly \u2013 be put in jail. Because such a person would clearly<\/em> be a danger to society. How do pharmaceutical companies get away with this? Because that\u2019s how the system works here in the US. Even on sports websites now, I\u2019ve seen the lead ad be one for drugs.<\/p>\n

Some of the pharma ads on TV are scary. I saw one ad where people are looking (rather crazily) up into the sky at skyscrapers, where the drug ad is positioned. The ad starts with, \u201cif you have (blah blah condition), consider taking (drug).\u201d The look on their faces is blank, as if the people in the commercial are hypnotized. It is totally discomfiting to a rational viewer. Then the list of side effects is shown, and that\u2019s pretty scary too!<\/p>\n

According to prescriptiondrugsProCon.org, the United States and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world that allow DTC (direct-to-consumer) advertising on TV for prescription drugs. Canada allows more limited advertising that are called \u201creminder\u201d ads. The television airwaves (which are supposed to be public property) are being used by drug pushers here in the US.<\/p>\n

(I just want to say I am not banging on all prescription drugs, only those advertised that cause serious side-effects. When I had a kidney stone last year, I thanked God for my Percocet!)<\/p>\n

The point is that certain sections of Big Pharma clearly lack integrity. We\u2019ve all heard of the problems with various prescription drugs. Amazingly, properly prescribed and used prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in the United States, after cancer and heart disease. This is per Dr. Peter Gotzsche, Professor of Design and Research Analysis, University of Copenhagen. This appalling statistic is an example of how humanity has let itself become engulfed by a false medical paradigm. This is not<\/em> an attack on doctors \u2013 who are great people often overwhelmed by this paradigm, and who are doing the best they can within it \u2013 but on the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n

Pharmaceutical drugs can do wonderful things but sometimes they kill. To knowingly advertise a drug with serious side-effects (like suicide) is unsupportable in a sane society. Those who participate in systems that lack integrity will, as the years go by, become an endangered species.<\/p>\n

What happens in organizations will also occur for individuals.<\/p>\n

We often say in the metaphysical community that \u201cconsciousness is rising,\u201d but what does that mean? It means more tolerance, more compassion, and more harmony. Institutions and individuals that already manifest integrity will continue without extraordinary difficulty, but those who do not \u2013 or which are based on a \u201cdog eat dog\u201d consciousness \u2013 will experience greater and greater difficulty. The \u201cdog eat dog\u201d people will complain (and are already complaining) that the world is getting \u201csoft.\u201d Well, they are right! The \u201cmacho\u201d consciousness is going to have a difficult time of it because fighting and conflict \u2013 however it manifests \u2013 is vibrationally incompatible with greater harmony and tolerance.<\/p>\n

In the political arena, institutions such as the US Congress, which spends 99% of its time in childish contention and blame, will either have to adapt or it is going to collapse internally. Interestingly, the Congressional job approval rating, according to RealClearPolitics.com, has risen to 20.8% (in the period 3\/1 \u2013 3\/21) from around 14% before the election. This is still a horrible percentage however! Either Congress will manifest greater cooperation and tolerance or it will go by the wayside. That\u2019s true of any political body. People are very tired of contention and they want solutions! Solutions can only occur when people actually listen to each other and work for the greater good. These are characteristics of greater tolerance and greater harmony. Look for it! In a group, the integrity of an organization is proportional to the level of cooperation it exhibits internally and with other groups.<\/p>\n

100% Responsibility<\/h2>\n

Part of being a being of integrity is accepting responsibility for your actions. Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, a practitioner of the Hawaiian healing method of Ho\u2019oponopono, says that taking 100% responsibility for anything you do is the only way to become free. That\u2019s because, if something is unwanted in your life, you share the same \u201cprogram\u201d with anything or anyone that is causing your problem. A program is a way of looking at things.<\/em> For example, in the sentence above, \u201cBut more harmony also means a greater tolerance for different ideas,\u201d I originally wrote, \u201cBut more harmony also means a greater tolerance for competing<\/em> ideas.\u201d The latter statement came from an internal program of mine that says, \u201cThere is only one right idea on any subject, so all ideas must compete with each other and fight it out.\u201d I\u2019m beginning to understand that the manifestations in my life come from my \u201cprograms,\u201d which is just another way of saying, my \u201cbelief systems.\u201d I like the word program better because a program is an instruction set that dictates action.<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Len, one way of dissolving unwanted programs and feelings is to take 100% responsibility for them.<\/p>\n

In this vein, my friend Khurshid in Germany has written a profound statement: \u201cTo feel elated when in favorable circumstances is child’s play, but creating that feeling in adverse circumstances is a heroic deed.\u201d When you get fired from a job (which just happened to me) it is difficult to feel good about yourself. However, when I realized that the other person had nothing to do with my problem \u2013 that I was creating a program that caused the client\u2019s reaction \u2013 I was able to very quickly step out of it. The program I was running (and which was responsible for the problem) immediately made me feel hugely upset, then feel angry indignation. My first reaction was to make myself right and blame my situation on the other person. But when I kicked in the\u00a0 program of \u201ctake 100% responsibility,\u201d I determined that the situation was an opportunity to open up my heart. It was a blessing, not a curse! It was an important life lesson. As soon as I realized that, I felt a wave of relief flood into me. I can honestly say now that I have no diminution of affinity for the client, and that\u2019s because my situation had nothing to do with the client! As Chris Rock used to say on an old Saturday Night Live sketch, \u201cIt\u2019s all about ME,\u201d not about the other guy.<\/p>\n

When you start living life in 100% responsibility you eventually reach a feeling of personal power. You understand that nothing happens to you unless you had a hand in causing it. At first (at least for me) there is petulance and indignation (\u201cLook what that idiot did to me!\u201d) but with practice the Responsibility Program kicks in. The important thing about this program is that it prevents your affinity for people, and for life, from diminishing. Taking 100% responsibility seems like a burden, but when you apply it to yourself honestly it can be very freeing.<\/p>\n

So how can you tell if you have a \u201cprogram?\u201d If there is a situation in life that keeps coming up. Relationship issues, work issues, whatever the area of life, programs dictate states of being, and actions, that get you in trouble. The 100% responsibility program is a way to cut to the chase; it\u2019s a relief program that allows you to look inside and recognize what it is inside you that keeps causing the problem. The Infinite is inside of every individual; we are all pieces or aspects of God, Spirit, the Creative Source.\u00a0 Therefore, by looking inside we can contact any person or thing known to us on the planet.<\/p>\n

Ho\u2019oponopono works by clearing your negative feelings. It has nothing to do with the other guy. If you aren\u2019t clear within yourself in an area of life you can\u2019t be happy with yourself in that area. This has been brought home to me in crystal clear clarity \u2013 my negative emotions, which are self-generated (they don\u2019t come from others, or from evil interdimensional beings) prevent me from seeing others, and situations, clearly. The Responsibility Program tells me to get to work on myself and clear the negative feelings. It\u2019s hard work. Just when I think I\u2019ve gotten things cleared up something else comes up! Well, too bad. All that means is that I still have more work to do. The great part is that my work doesn\u2019t involve the participation of others. It\u2019s something I can do within myself, so it\u2019s something I can take 100% responsibility for. I don\u2019t have to get permission from anyone except myself! Ho\u2019oponopono is freeing and it\u2019s clearing and the more you do it the better you feel.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in this program of self-clearing and responsibility, check out these interviews with Dr. Len on YouTube:<\/p>\n