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I have read many of Mr. Chopra's books and have enjoyed them. He is knowledgable concerning many spiritual traditions. However, his knowledge on political matters is desperately lacking. Mr. Chopra, please stick to writing about matters of which you have sufficient knowledge.

I have read many of Mr. Chopra's books and have enjoyed them. He is knowledgable concerning many spiritual traditions. However, his knowledge on political matters is desperately lacking. Mr. Chopra, please stick to writing about matters of which you have sufficient knowledge.

THE WORLD OF FICTION IS COMING TO AN END.
Embrace your truth before it is embraced for you

Lying is to support a fiction.

The wise (conservative) and those that value freedom (liberal), and those that value both, (party free independents for collective control), do not vote for the President that has their mind clouded with fictions, the consciousness of old.

The constituency would not want a leader that would support the fictions in their minds, the minds of others, or a fictional framework, the candidate being blinded to external by their own internal fictions. For it is a great leader, that leads by extinguishing the fictions in the minds of those that would look to one to lead.

Who has not cast fictions? Who does not support the fictions from which only a few benefit to the detriment of the many? Who can cast out the fictions that divide us?

What you say may be the truth, from some perspective, and false from another, depending on the mind, so the question is are you being honest? If you were me and I were you, knowing what you know, what would you as me want to know? To impart that knowledge to another is being honest.

Obama has a certain innocence about him, a light, and that is why people like him, and that is what this country needs a light to cast out the darkness of ignorance.

Dr. Chopra: thought-provoking article except I'm not fully convinced of your rationale as I am aware that you and your family have donated to Hillary. I believe the donation was near/around 12,000.

Dr. Chopra: thought-provoking article except I'm not fully convinced of your rationale as I am aware that you and your family have donated to Hillary. I believe the donation was near/around 12,000.

Dr. Chopra: thought-provoking article except I'm not fully convinced of your rationale as I am aware that you and your family have donated to Hillary. I believe the donation was near/around 12,000.

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Hi Deepak,

I thought this was a great article, and it pretty well mirrors my own views about Wright. You write very well about politics, and I wish more spiritual teachers did so.

" haewon lee:

"It is too sad he might become a preseident of United State."

No, what's too sad is how the corporate media have turned a man who's a strong voice for unity and diversity into some focus for the very fearful divisions his popularity showed America's sick of ruling us.

All of this is about some *suspicion of 'guilt' by association,* remember. As opposed to the utter debacles and injustices the Republicans expect us to let them skate on.

Think about it.

You missed the point, Gary, that was a comparison: the question was, "Why can't Obama be considered to be his own man, after all the weeks of people wanting the Church as a whole let off the hook?"

Double standard, in other words.

It's 'anti-Catholic bigotry' to suggest there's something systemic going on there, but it's beyond the pale to listen to Obama, what he thinks about his former pastor, and take him at his word when he strongly disagrees.

Interesting, I think.

Considering the fact that this is the first time we've had an honest-to-God black presidential candidate, it would have a true miracle had nothing negative come to the surface - the amount of rancor out there should surprise no one.

The sanctimonious whitebread blowhards have now found 'real evil' in Obama's background - he sympathizes with all the wrong people, according to these Teutonic zealots - his covert sympathies range from Black Liberationists, to Muslim fundamentalists to characters from the long extinct Weathermen - they're all on his Christmas list, according to these whack jobs. And let's not forget - Michelle just doesn't like America, according to these same stellar sources.

Hey, there's a lot not to like - especially about our present government...but then, not everyone is edging up to the Oval Office. Unbelievingly, our poster Candide didn't like the idea of her Big Black Feet disgracing the Royal Blue carpet in the Oval Office....can anyone spell KKK???

Are these attempts at demolishing his good name and his character surprising? Hardly - we've struck a deep vein of racism here, and if you'll notice, the tendency to project racism on Obama and his persistent 'spiritual mentor' gives the lie to the tale.....it doesn't take a PhD in psychology to see what's going on here. Lots of white folks don't like the idea of a black president, not one little bit. They'll take a doddering has-been like McCain any day!

And sure enough, Rev. Wright gets his big old ego into the act and does an Al Sharpton on Obama - hey, with friends like that, who needs enemies??

The net effect has taken a toll, and the media is whipping it up into a media inspired frenzy all out of proportion to its real magnitude - this is pretty lightweight stuff in the big scheme of things.

McCain's proposal to stay in Iraq for the next 100 years has real gravity, on the other hand - now the poor man has to explain himself. Well, we can expect the media to be sympathetic, can't we?? Where McCain is concerned, they usually are.

Hillary is not out of the woods by any means - next thing you know, she'll have to explain what all those feminine tears are all about...how can she keep her finger steady on the red button when it's all slippery with tears, informed minds would like to know? Can she be rational about going to war?? She says YES, but can we believe her??? After all, she is a woman. That's W-O-M-A-N - could be a problem. Let the media run with it. Surely they’ll know how to cover this angle fairly!

No, should Hillary pull out this nomination by some miracle, her troubles have only just begun. Were Bill not seemingly a mere shadow of his former self, he'd probably know what to do.....these days, you have to wonder.

Tabloid journalism, that's our present news-related media reality...we haven't got a straight story in going on 8 years.

Nope, none of this is surprising in the least....

It is too sad he might become a preseident of United State.

Sorry, the word secular never comes up in the constitution or the debate. In fact most of them expected that religious people would be fully involved in government. The very much expected that people's religious views would define how they approached government. That, in no small part, was why they went to such great lengths to try to keep government from interfering with people's personal religious choices.

I agree with this article one hundred percent and the best thing about Obama is that he transcends the racial issue and avoided playing the God's card and the closest ever any politician came to be secular in recent American Presidential campaign. However, people don't seem to want to let go of their hangups and if there was any group in our society or history that have been abused, condemened mistreated and enslaved by both the Gods and their followers and society are women. It seems these people bring their own misery by embracing this miserable God and its Churchs that brought nothing but sexism, racism and hate and not love. It is almost like the same attitude of gays who embrace the Church and that God that condemens them from the first place.

It's about time for Americans to read their history thoroughly to find out what America stood for from the first place A SECULAR GOVERNMRNT.

Sorry, Pagan, I'm not a Catholic. Frankly I'm quite in favor of the one percent of Priest who engaged in child predation and the ones that let them get away with it and tried to sweep it under the carpet being tried and spending a very long time in the slammer. And in the case of serial pedophiles execution wouldn't hurt my feelings a bit.

Biblically the only duty I have towards gays or any other sinner as far as that goes is to warn them of impending doom. It is NOT my duty inflict that doom upon them nor is it my duty to make them any more miserable than what will be occasioned by my issuance of said warning. It is not my job to throw you in jail to prevent you from your sin provided said sin involves harm to none other.

Oh and by the way in order to make your point stick you've got a pretty long road ahead. You'd have to prove that what you call the Roman Catholic Church's homophobic stance did not go back to the very beginning or that pedophiles have been making Church Policy at least since Leo I.

" Garyd:

"Someone please explain to me why the only reason people can have to not vote for Obama is racism, rather than having suddenly just found out that he has been the more or less captive audience of a racist bigot for the last twenty years and fearing that he might be one as well."

Cause, ...he has articulated exactly why and how everything he has ever said and done is in opposition to what Rev. Wright just started to say when given a national spotlight?

Seems you think it's 'anti-Catholic bigotry' to even consider that maybe Catholic homophobia happened to be taught most virulently by the very people trying to cover for their own crimes, yet you won't accept that just maybe Obama *isn't* a robot and 'captive audience' of the very sort you insist Catholics must not be?

To wit, if you wanna back Catholic homophobic fixations, as if it was just a couple 'bad apples,' GaryD, why all of a sudden can't Obama have been his own man, since he's said the precise opposite all these years?

It's *McCain* who went back on principles he claimed to swear by, in order to appeal to white Fundie preachers, even as a torture victim reversing his stand against torture.

Someone please explain to me why the only reason people can have to not vote for Obama is racism, rather than having suddenly just found out that he has been the more or less captive audience of a racist bigot for the last twenty years and fearing that he might be one as well.

If there was a Caucasian dude running for president and I found out he'd been attending a Christian Identity Church for the last twenty years I'd certainly feel justified in believing that he just might be a racist.

I certainly think this is a *chance* ...if the media will cooperate, to really see that there is a *difference* between Wright's speeches, ...some of his opinions are certainly mired in a past that shouldn't be forgotten or dismissed, ...when he spoke of the history of his church, that was certainly history... When he spoke of some other things, perhaps he was unable to see what Obama can, how things have in fact changed and progressed.

Certainly, it's wonderful that a black man can be the frontronner Presidential candidate, speaking of honoring our diversity and carrying our nation *forward* through some necessary changes, but he also is an embodiment of the changes that have already happened.

In some ways, I have some empathy for Reverend Wright, in that he knows fears and concerns that some younger folks might actually find a little foreign. Even in my lifetime I've watched certain oppressions against queer people kind of go away... it's probably reasonable in many places not to expect certain abuses... say as a queer rape victim who was dressed kind of punk rock to not face judges and cops that'd blame the victim...

Times have changed, but some experiences just stay with one.

Sometimes I think that a more fearless generation doesn't know exactly how quickly and how badly things can turn really ugly. Especially when to so many, still, the idea, 'You have no morals' is an excuse for darn near anything.

I think, in some ways, Reverend Wright *actually is still there in the past,* and maybe, in fact, is *still attached* to what he witnessed, not that that's so wrong, but out of perspective, and perhaps he fears that even the younger idealists like Obama will forget.

Maybe this is really all very human, and the media does a disservice turning it into quite the confrontation it has. It's always very easy to try and Swiftboat Obama as being attached to a 'reverse racist' and therefore obviously concealing deep 'reverse' racism himself, but he *says* better. And that's something that talking about Wright, rather than how Obama *reacts* to Wright's recent behavior, seems to keep ignoring.

I was raised around a certain amount of racism, myself. I rejected it.

And that's something that continues to impress me about the man.

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What lies would that be?

" garyd:

El Deepo finally is close to target for once. Still making excuses for lies is an exercise in furthering bigotry."

I'm glad you've come around, Gary, after all the lies you've defended that happen to fuel bigotry against my own person here in the now.

Is this a reason to decide not to take Senator Obama at his word, when, consistent with everything he's ever said and done, he says he respects the struggles Rev. Wright has witnessed, but chides him from *not moving on,* as, in fact, the good Senator wishes to do?

Still, Gary, you've made a number of excuses for lies about my own person right here, even defended them, whereas Obama took the time to say, 'What he says is not what I believe, and here's how and why.'

I'm just not getting the idea that in all this, it's Senator Obama who's 'making excuses for lies,' here.

El Deepo finally is close to target for once. Still making excuses for lies is an exercise in furthering bigotry.

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Eclectic Elder writes:

"Wright isn't just talking about the "ancient history" of 50 years ago."

Every day in every way, this is the case. Moreover, racism and bigotry extend beyond African Americans, some of whom are guilty of it themselves, directing it inside as well as outside their own group. Every group has members who have prejudices against those whom others see as belonging to the same group. As an African American child said to me last week, "Did you know that white people are prejudiced against each other?"

That said, my question remains whether Wright is doing Obama's campaign any good, a difficult question to answer. What I can say is that the media's joining Wright and Obama at the hip is making it difficult, for us, the voters to attend carefully to the candidates, something the media has done its best to prevent throughout this campaign.

Discussions on race, sex, ethnicity, religion and bigotry are urgently needed. Speculation on Obama's possibly being Muslim, the close attention the media has given to Clinton's dress, breasts, thighs, etc., are ample evidence of other -isms.

Who the candidates are, their fitness for the presidency is what is at issue with respect to the presidency, not whether Obama is Muslim or Christian, has the right pastor, or whether Clinton's blazer is right for the occasion, etc.

Racism and injustice is not something in the distant past we need to get over. It was acted out today. It was acted out yesterday. It will be acted out tomorrow.

Sitting in a coffee shop with my white male coworkers. We speak of a coworker injured in a taxicab accident. One of them asks if the driver was a "rag head."

Sitting in an room after having interviewed a young black female with a M.S. degree for a union job. My white male coworker says we shouldn't hire her because something must be wrong with her for wanting this job (that will pay twice what she would get in her field).

A white male coworker asks a customer making a credit card purchase for identification. The customer gives him his driver's license. The coworker says that he needs proof that the guy is an american citizen. When the customer complains, the coworker tells his supervisor that he thought the guy might be a terrorist. The customer was from India.

He who does not understand history is doomed to repeat it. Being well versed in history gives one perspective.

Wright isn't just talking about the "ancient history" of 50 years ago. He is reminding us all of the continuing duplicity of the wealthy planters who still view "we the people" as disposable income.

That he teaches from a Black perspective? Well, from what other perspective would he approach these realities? His experience is as a Black person in America. It would be ridiculous and insulting for him to assume that he could present the white perspective or latino perspective, etc.

It is easy to be "deep" and "spiritual" and "ascendent" when your stomach is full. When you have to swallow the burst of rage that comes with subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) racist words and behaviors, it helps to be assured that it is not you who contains the pathology but the culture. The world cannot be re-created unless it is faced in its reality.

Hi Perspective,

I responded. I guess we and anyone else interested in Yeats and/or a poetry break might want to hang out there for awhile, on Susan's thread from last week, that is.

Farnaz

Farnaz - I posted on Susan's last thread as you suggested.

If Rev. Wright is stuck in the past, then are not
Blue Collar White working class folks. To not vote for a man because of the color of his skin is stuck in the past. No one ever addresses the motivation for injustice and why some people gravitate towards it more than others. Whether it's Agent Orange, Nuclear Bombs, Tuskeegee experiments, Waterboarding,Japanese internment, Slavery, Apartheid, Native Americans, African Americans, Japanese Americans, etc. The sting of Hatred has been devistating and unaccountable. I just want to know why? What motivated it? And how do we rid ourselves of it and keep it from coming back? Is it a disease, a defect, Godlessness, WHAT?!

If it is our historical destiny to listen we will? Just who determines this this elusive destiny. God? Man? If it doesn't happen it wasn't meant to be? What a cop out way of living. Backward traditions
simple mean-spirited prejudice. Who and what people harbor such notions and why? As long as we don't confront these Traditional, Blue Collar, White Working Class folks and one follows the blueprint given by them to appease their intellect and you might gain acceptance. Will they ever have to change? Is not their perspective self serving? They've been referred to as Alabama, never voting for a Black Man and no-one was alarmed! They continue to harbor Racist sentiments excused by Tradition left unchecked by exploitive Politicians and the lack of courage by new age Humanist to practice what they preach. Their comfortable lives have made them complacent. What cataclysmic event in History excuses the Racist view of these people. Is it not possible that Rev. Wright and Blue Collar White working class people are both WRONG? This kind of cheesy pandering helps no-one!

We in Denmark cannot figure out why you are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.

On one side you have a bi-ch who is a lawyer and married to a lawyer opposing a lawyer who is married to a bi-ch who is also a lawyer.

On the other side you have a true war hero who is married to a beautiful woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship.

Is there really a contest here??

Being the author of 50 or 100 books does not necessarily mean you are wise. It simply means you wrote stuff that people wanted to hear. Chopra suggests that Wright is part of the divisiveness cult instead of part of the unity cult. The reality is that the Bible is hardly unifying. As a minister, I know how divisive it can be. Just try preaching the truth of scripture that reconciliation, non-violence and peace building is the Christian way when a U.S. president is going to war regardless of his reasoning. Actually, try preaching that at any time. It is an almost certain road to hell for a pastor with her/his congregation.

There is no doubt that Wright is correct when he says God damns the U.S. for certain actions it has and is taking in the world and in the nation. No nation is assured of God's blessings. If people would sing "God Bless America" with some attention to the words, they would note that it counsels an attitude of reflective and measured response instead of the nationalistic rabble rousing behavior of the U.S. churches.

Perspective,

Also, if I'm not mistaken, it was the Christian Cabbala, not the Kabbalah, and I'm not quite sure what the former is. Do you know?

Susan Jacoby's last thread? The one before this? Shall we post there?

Spiderman and E Favorite are having at it, so it's still active. Just go to "The Panel," and click on Susan Jacoby.

Farnaz

There is a Hindi movie called 'Guide" and everyone should see it. It runs on the same theme as 'The Emperor's new clothes'. Instead of asking who is Wright, I would like to ask who is Chopra? A self-designated spiritual scholar! Guide, holyman and teacher to the stars! Living lavishly and well and most of all a money-making business man. I have never prescribed to his teachings/books because they are all taken from Hinduism for money-making purposes only.
Religion and politics should not mix. As a 'holy' man Chopra should realize that where ever people are, there will be divisiveness. Such is human nature. But it is evil to make money off of it, and to fan it as he does here. Spiritual leaders should teach tolerance not hatred, which is what Wright did/does. It is ironic that Wright and Chopra are rich blokes, making money out of controversy.

There is a Hindi movie called 'Guide" and everyone should see it. It runs on the same theme as 'The Emperor's new clothes'. Instead of asking who is Wright, I would like to ask who is Chopra? A self-designated spiritual scholar! Guide, holyman and teacher to the stars! Living lavishly and well and most of all a money-making business man. I have never prescribed to his teachings/books because they are all taken from Hinduism for money-making purposes only.
Religion and politics should not mix. As a 'holy' man Chopra should realize that where ever people are, there will be divisiveness. Such is human nature. But it is evil to make money off of it, and to fan it as he does here. Spiritual leaders should teach tolerance not hatred, which is what Wright did/does. It is ironic that Wright and Chopra are rich blokes, making money out of controversy.

There is a Hindi movie called 'Guide" and everyone should see it. It runs on the same theme as 'The Emperor's new clothes'. Instead of asking who is Wright, I would like to ask who is Chopra? A self-designated spiritual scholar! Guide, holyman and teacher to the stars! Living lavishly and well and most of all a money-making business man. I have never prescribed to his teachings/books because they are all taken from Hinduism for money-making purposes.
Religion and politics should not mix. As a 'holy' man Chopra should realize that where ever people are, there will be divisiveness. Such is human nature. But it is evil to make money off of it, and to fan it as he does here. Spiritual leaders should teach tolerance not hatred, which is what Wright did/does. It is ironic that Wright and Chopra are rich blokes, making money out of controversy.

Hi Perspective,

I guess, then, you have read The Tower?

I confess, I have, but I'd really be interested in your thoughts.

Where to post? Here or Susan's last thread?

Farnaz

has everyone forgotten Elmer Gantry? preachers can and will do and say anything to promote their cause... which is usually themselves. Wright is willing to ruin the chances of Obama being this country's first black president in order to draw the spotlight to himself. how could any self-respecting black person support such a clown? this man holds a minority opinion in a minority population, and all he's doing is proving that no one should pay attention to a word he says. this is the perfect example of why blacks and whites and everyone else shouldn't cordone themselves off from one another and create these separate, freaky little worlds in which people grow increasingly xenophobic and begin regarding their own race too highly

It's not that hard to mix politics and religion, but when it is done any number of controversies can arise, as we see in this case.

Rev. Wright is not just stuck in the past but insists on remaining there. His running theme -- 'different' being 'different', not 'deficient' -- is fine as far as it goes, but I didn't know the argument had turned toward this distinction in any way. Insistence on remaining 'different' is a self-perpetuating reason; this distinction will remain so long as we want to stay defined by it.

Wright doesn't want to think past the racial, religious divide and differences. Obama is, on the other hand, represents 'post-racial' hope.

Wright has become an unfortunate distraction. We should be focusing, instead, on what Obama says and does. Guilt by association is not fair, although we know Wright may say and do things that could in effect suffocate the very 'hope' that he has of 'change'.

Senator Barack Obama is a most outstanding American and if elected I believe will be an outstanding president. Former Pastor Jeremiah Wright confirms in his every utterance that he is a racist filled with hatred of whites. My guess is that he has a good chance of killing the presidency of Senator Obama. I think he would be thrilled at that prospect. It would reaffirm his biases. He would then be in a" see I told you so" time of rejoicing. Remember Barack is half white. Rev. Bernard F. Hillenbrand