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The most important win of all

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On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, President Barack Obama was re-elected to serve four more years as President of the United States of America.  This particular result may be cause for celebration for some and perhaps feel disheartening for others, depending on where you personally stand in this year’s heated election.  It is not unusual for clashing belief systems and opposing views to quickly turn an election into an experience of conflict and discord, even among those who most often are agreeable.  But no matter who the perceived “winner” of this presidential race is, let us not lose sight of Who We Really Are.

There IS something much bigger going on here.

Many people hold a belief that politics and spirituality do not mix, that they are opposing energies.  However, the freedoms and liberties we enjoy in this country provide us the perfect opportunity to flex our spiritual and intellectual muscles and to demonstrate and experience individually and collectively why we are here.  Because while our Ultimate outcomes are guaranteed, we do have the ability – the gift – to choose how we desire our human experience to be, where we want our human experience to go, and, of course, who we desire to be in relation to ALL of it.

Therefore, the most important “win” of all is the one in which we use an experience like this, the election process, as a catalyst to unite and connect, not to divide and segregate.  Even if in this year’s election there was an absence of a candidate that embodied ALL of the concepts and ideas and visions that are important to you, continue to lean your energy in the direction of what you would like to see our world evolve into and watch that consciousness create and give birth to that future leader.  That is spirituality in action!

The most important win of all is the one that facilitates an experience of Oneness, not division; the one which holds our relationships with each other as Holy, not negligible; the one which uses our differences and diversities as a context within which to experience our Highest Self, both as aspects of Who We Are and Who We Are Not in this never-ending process of experiencing, expressing, demonstrating, and remembering.

It is not possible to lose in this Life Game…so who will you choose to BE in relation to what it is presenting you now?

(Lisa McCormack is the Managing Editor & Administrator of The Global Conversation.  She is also a member of the Spiritual Helper team at www.ChangingChange.net, a website offering emotional and spiritual support. To connect with Lisa, please e-mail her at Lisa@TheGlobalConversation.com.)

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10 responses to “The most important win of all”

  1. sunseed Avatar
    sunseed

    tho I voted for neither obama nor romney, I am as pleased as one could be that the least out of alignment with my conscience has claimed 4 more years. romney’s appointment to the presidential position would have alarmed me, for sure~
    this election process especially has provided me with an opportunity to see how very much our electoral system is out-of-sync/does not resonate well with the true needs of the people it was created to serve.
    this in turn gives a more clear picture of what needs some serious work…the electoral college (vs popular vote) is amazingly outdated & doesn’t serve well to present what the people desire…corporate control by funding largely centrist views,very effectively drowning out any alternative perspectives…etc…
    I do sincerely appreciate that we have been able, this theatrical electoral season, to give rise, if even a little bit, to some alternate voices chomping @ the bit to have their voices heard; voices that far more closely match the understandings of so many, including me…
    so, as much as I do acknowledge the darkness exemplified in the world today, I also see much emerging light…
    light wins today~

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  2. Therese Avatar
    Therese

    Yes, I am happy, of course, but I am happiest, now, that the rhetoric from all seems to be about how we can change our ideas about the meaning of all the election events. Republicans are asking where they made the disconnect from women, and people of color, and youth.

    I would suggest to them that those groups are the ones that are naturally optimistic, and would also, naturally, be the ones who would find themselves not feeling connected to the politics of fear.

    The part of President Obama’s acceptance speech that resonated most strongly was near the end, when he looked at the audience and told us WE still have work to do, that the change we are looking for still must begin with us, and our actions from this point forward.

    I remain realistic, yet still inspired to do my part.
    Therese

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  3. Marko Avatar
    Marko

    Lisa said “Therefore, the most important “win” of all is the one in which we use an experience like this, the election process, as a catalyst to unite and connect, not to divide and segregate.”

    I like this very much.

    Cheers, smiles, blessings,
    -Marko

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  4. Michael L. Avatar
    Michael L.

    I see a great divide is forming which is getting deeper.

    With no embracing of the other side of the aisle, more fermented rage is building.

    You may find that pushing down the throats of the legislative minority will lead to some radical actions. If you thought grid lock was what you saw before, if the same policies are administered,,,, stuck in quick sand is coming.

    I think you fail to understand that an honest man, not just his policies will get things moving. You have to trust what he says, period. I feel that is only way real change will happen, every thing else is just fleeting every 4 years.

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  5. Nova Avatar
    Nova

    Brilliantly written, Lisa – thank you for this!

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  6. Therese Avatar
    Therese

    Michael,

    The Republicans haven’t been the ones pushed away. They are the damaged child, turned woman, who doesn’t trust anyone any longer and keeps pushing anyone who wants to get close away.

    She has pushed women away.
    She has pushed the young away.
    She has pushed most of color away.
    She decided she was just fine just as she is, thank you very much.

    The problem is, she isn’t just fine! The problem is that the more she slaps away the hand that is pleading with her to hold hands and work together, the more the other hand gives up trying to help.

    In my personal case, people who are close to me, who are Republicans who obviously disagree with me feel that to make me see things their way, it is okay to raise the decibel level and call names. It was also what I observed in the national race.

    What was encouraging to me last night was something I hadn’t expected. I decided to tune in to Fox News, just to see the other side (I was watching MSNBC). While the mood was as somber as expected, they were not only not vilifying President Obama, they were looking honestly at their own party. They praised their candidate, yet saw his flaws and their party’s flaws. They noted that people like Trump and Limbaugh should not, and did not represent their party well. They called for giving up of the division of blue and red. They called for their own party to admit just how many people the antics of shock jocks and pundits and special interests had disenfranchised so many from their party in the last 20 years in particular. These analysts were calling for true compromise and introspection in the next Presidential term.

    THIS I found productive.

    I did not see President Obama say a word about pushing anything down anyone’s throats. I heard him say that it is okay to disagree, and necessary. I heard him saying to make our voices heard…and then begin to look at and for the common ground. I heard him say that we are all Americans.

    It is hard to be the President of all Americans, when we don’t look and behave as such. It is time for US to look at one another and see ourselves mirrored. It is time for us to see Divinity in every face.

    T.

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  7. Michael L. Avatar
    Michael L.

    The trouble is “I heard him say”,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Hes been saying for 4 years,,,”I heard him say”, I personally I don’t believe him.

    That could be his 4 year mantra “I heard him say” !!!

    This election held in place the victims both sides dems believing they always are and now the other side.

    Course we know there are none so now what!!!

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  8. Therese Avatar
    Therese

    It can’t be him, if it isn’t us.

    T.

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  9. the president election | Live Free

    […] Many people hold a belief that politics and spirituality do not mix, that they are opposing energies.  However, the freedoms and liberties we enjoy in this country provide us the perfect opportunity to flex our spiritual and intellectual muscles and to demonstrate and experience individually and collectively why we are here… […]

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  10. mewabe Avatar
    mewabe

    No one can really understand America without living for a little while outside of America…just as you could not grasp the size, shape and environmental impact of your own house if you never saw it from the outside.

    America has very limited freedoms and liberties, and loosing more every day…only keeping a minimum to keep the populace sufficiently sedated, fed and supplied with cheap junk made in China to avoid social unrest. But it is not really a free country, no nation is, not anymore. It is a nation of tens of thousands of laws and immense bureaucracies, and as long as you abides by their endless rules, you may be okay, perhaps.

    However, these laws, these rules, these bureaucrats dictate your behavior, not you. They test the waters to see how far they can push, then back off if met with resistance or rare outrage…such as in the case of mandatory flu vaccines. But they will keep pushing until they no longer meet any resistance from a population that is increasingly being medicated from a very young age for compliance and obedience (see “oppositional defiance disorder”, etc..)

    My belief is that spirituality and obedience do not mix…that the spirit within (the inner divine flame or whatever we choose to call it, the breath of the soul) is sovereign, just as the divine source of all life is sovereign, because sovereignty is part of the divine essence or presence that permeates all life.
    We are meant to fully manifest this sovereignty, and as long as we do not, we cannot be who we truly are.

    Native Americans understood this sovereign dimension of beingness, which is shared by all that is born wild and free in nature (they were not “wild”, they had cultures, by most were free).

    These beliefs of mine are in direct contradiction with religious beliefs, that all teach that God is boss (a “king”) and that we must obey…and by extension obey religious and lay authorities on earth.

    But I see this energy rise in the rising of the ideals of anarchy in the young, and the ideas of someone like Noam Chomsky. Life is trying to re-assert itself, and manifest its full power, which it could never do while living under anyone or anything, in the spiritual shadows cast by all authorites.

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