What the Arabs DON’T know about their revolution

March 13, 2011 - PRLog -- The desire for self-improvement
The revolution to seek freedom was inevitable, and all dictatorial regimes will eventually fall. Because of the increased ‘quickening’ in the earth’s energies, people are being drawn inwards to listen to their own heart’s desires. Principal amongst these is the desire to be free to express self, which those of us in the west know better as the desire for self-improvement, or self-help.
It is easy to overlook the desire self-empowerment.
We are slowly leaving behind the world of crime, dishonesty, distrust and surrendering our power to authority figures. For this reason, the church in the west has lost power, because too many people see it as an institution which exerts control over them. The church, in general, also misrepresents the highest spiritual teachings, because it is managed by individuals who have little spiritual understanding or insight. Like the Pharisees and Saducees, modern Christianity is burdened with rules, expectations and values that are out of touch with human needs. A simple example of that occurs in the area of sex, where the human need for sex is breaking free of the church’s needs for rules and contral.
Seeking freedom from control, the Arabs may create more of the same
The terrorist movement and dictatorial regimes are a last ditch effort to force conformity on peoples, but the inner desire for freedom and self-actualisation is so strong now at a planetary level that the old guard is losing its grip. It can only keep control by deceiving those who still think that God or Allah will be impressed and will reward those who follow the rules, and are ‘good’.
True freedom must reach out beyond politics
The Arabs, then, are wanting to come out of the closet, but may very easily trip over their religious expectations and replace one authoritarian regime with another as the Iranians did. When I wrote The 12 Choices of Winners, I did so because I knew that full personal empowerment was the only way forward for all of mankind. But I also knew that most people did not know how such empowerment could be achieved. The steps to empowerment are not difficult, but when you are so used to following the dictates of others at work, in your religion, as a result of family expectations, or because of the authoritarian role of political regimes, many lose track of who they are, where they’re going, or what their heart is really wanting.

Will Arabs fall into the religious fire as the Iranians did?
The rebellious Arabs are just the beginning. Soon we will have humankind around the globe demanding the freedom to live and breathe as they choose. But it will take time for people to fully come to understand who they are, and what they’ve incarnated into the world to achieve. You can’t go from being blindfolded to racing ahead full steam in one step. The Arabs know they want freedom, but to do what? Once they’ve got rid of their oppressors, what then? They are most likely, in the first instance, to form political parties based around another of their shackles – religion – just as the Iranians did. But they will soon find that this is not spiritually fulfilling, and so they risk falling into a whole of their own making.
Freedom is still being sought in so-called democratic countries
A similar renewal will occur in America. Conservative religion over there puts idiots like George W. Bush into power, with the extensive collateral damage such a red-neck president can cause on the world stage. These bible-bashers have yet to recognise that humans only progress spiritually by freely experimenting with who they are. The highest pregnancy rates in the US are in the bible-belt because control and illogical constraint causes young people to be determined to experience freedom (without the knowledge of how to do so safely), giving birth (excuse the pun) to a thirst to express their sexual needs.
True freedom is spiritual freedom
The saddest part of the loss of life in Libya and other places in the Middle East, is that the martyrs to the rebel cause may never know just why, at a spiritual level, they gave their lives. Those who live on must recognise that true freedom, self-empowerment and self-improvement requires a free democracy in which individual self-expression and self-actualisation is the cornerstone of the constitution through which the country sets its own truly freeing goals.
Democracies can create prisons without bars
This also raises the question as to whether those in democracies are truly pursuing their own best spiritual interests seeing they have the freedom to do so, or are merely sitting back and enjoying the material benefits that a democracy can also provide. Are people who are free to be happy but imprisoned by their own limited beliefs and behaviours really free? Makes you wonder doesn’t it whether too much freedom is almost as bad as too little.

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Jeff Saunders is a counsellor, psychotherapist, life coach, free lance writer and author of The 12 Choices of Winners. His website www.jefferysaunders.com contains spiritual, self-improvement and political articles, excerpts from his books, and free spiritual and personal development e-books.