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Purpose & Structure
It is proposed that there shall be no more than 12 or 14 councilmen with
each councilman having a designated role in the total makeup of the
Council.
The over-all purpose of the
Council is to identify the concerns of the individual, individual groups
and the society at large that can and should benefit from the healing
proposals and guidelines that are suggested by the individual
councilman. The proposals and guidelines should reflect the healing
power of love and that being the number one commandment of Jesus of
Nazareth; “Love thy neighbor as I have loved you.”
And was proposed by
Councilwoman, Emma Gutierrez, we should first learn about each other so
as to create cohesiveness and balance within the total Council. In
keeping with that proposal the first portion of any meeting of the
Council should be dedicated to the individual Councilman or
Councilwoman. We must first seek healing for ourselves whether it be a
spiritual and physical concern before we would continue with the
over-all general purpose of the Council. The second portion of any
Council gathering should be dedicated to the identity of individual
concerns for either the individual, individual groups and or the society
at large. The third portion of any Council gathering should be
dedicated to the proposed manner of healing of any stated concerns.
And lastly, each
gathering will close with a proposed “good of the order,” in which each
individual Councilman or Councilwoman may express absolutely anything of
concern for themselves, other Councilmen or a concern affecting the
Gathering as a whole, and that that individual’s expressions will be
received by the gathering without any retort or comments from any other
councilman.
Each Councilman or
Councilwoman should identify a general area of concern to which they
will be responsible for sharing their own persona knowledge, what they
may have learned from others or research on the subject with the
gathering. It should be fully understood that no member of the
gathering should be limited to only their proposed areas of concern. We
shall all seek to understand the needs of individuals and society in
order to fully experience and benefit from being an Integral part of
this Age of Reality. We recognize the reality that the greater society
will possibly never fully surrender to the basic tenets that should
govern and rule the Age of Reality and at the same time, we also
understand that the greater benefit should always attempt to serve those
individuals that have achieved their own individual right-of-passage to
becoming a more spiritual mature individual.
It is hoped that the
council will provide a strong positive image for those individuals who
would otherwise more likely feel isolated from the general population in
that they have not received the recognition they deserve and have
necessarily generated an appropriate need for having achieved a degree
of Spiritual Maturity entirely on their own merits. It is recognized
that one of the basic changes that is likely to take place in a
Spiritually Mature individual is his or her contention that they no
longer feel a need for nor recognize that the usual avenue to
spirituality as being provided by membership and dedication to one of
the many organized institutions of religion; “I am spiritual, but not
religious!” is the commonly heard statement. It is to these
individuals that we dedicate our efforts to better define and understand
this Age of Reality.
We should all make a concerted
effort to understand and to dedicated ourselves to this one governing
principal of the Council of the Spiritually Mature and we will always
adamantly avoid any semblance of forming a new religion. We will also
make every effort to avoid the ever so easy temptation of criticizing or
demeaning any religion for their rather common and immature practice of
proselytization; the ever present and insistence that they alone have
the exclusive hold on the truth and the only avenue to the ultimate
means of salvation of one’s soul.
On the other
hand we contend that any sources of divinity are in reality simply “my
way, your way, our way and ultimately YAWAY.” An even more simple
contention of this assertion of yaway is the presence of that common
thread that is shared in and through Buddhism, the theology of our
Native American Zuni and the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth; there
exists NO external god or gods to, through or for the individual with
the exception of yaway. And yaway is simply the individual’s expression
of his or her very own and unique divinity coupled with one’s own
expression of and the ultimate means to our loving of one’s neighbor and
nothing more or less. In the simples of past terms; “god is love.”
And this last statement brings us to another important purpose
and that is simply the need for a new vocabulary for the Age of
Reality. This need should be obvious in that almost one-third of the
English vocabulary is derived from the liturgical terms incorporated by
the Catholic Church mostly by their exclusive use of Latin as the
language of choice. For example; the word faith conjurers up as having
trust in the worship of the one god in Christianity and of course you
probably recognized that I did not capitalize the word “god” as, as that
for me would signify the recognition of the one and only “god” of our
Judeo-Christian heritage. And thus is my suggestion of using the word,
“yaway.”
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