A Regime Change of the Highest Order

At a fundamental level, politics can be described as the way we choose to live together and govern ourselves. Looking at the world today, we perceive various forms of governance in. play – ranging on a scale between open and participative democracy to downright dictatorship. Each nation finds itself somewhere on that continuum.

What if we were to also examine the ‘political state’ of our own lives through a process of deep reflection and introspection. The question naturally arises as to who is really in charge and what decision criteria and processes are in place that control and direct the choices affecting our daily activities. We may be holding an ideal picture of the Soul as a kind and loving ruler governing all of our affairs and yet, when honestly observing our thoughts, feelings and behaviors, it would appear as though there are less enlightened forces presently steering the ship.

Instead of the liberated Self calling the shots, the process of governance may well have been hijacked by the fears and prejudices that constitute our yet-to-be redeemed patterns. It may even reach a stage where differing ideas and emotions are openly hostile to each other and then we have an internal ‘civil war’ to deal with. When fragmented, our individual lives contribute to a collective state of unrest that plays out in political feuding, ideological polarization and actual boots-on-the-ground warfare.

When we truly understand that each person is a unique expression of the unified field we call the One Humanity, then anything we do to each other by way of harming – such as warfare – is really an act of collective self-harming. Our unresolved issues can so easily paint us into a dark collective corner and it is at times like this that we find ourselves earnestly praying for ‘a regime change of the highest order’.

Pema Chodron, in her book “Practicing Peace in Times of War” provides the following sage advice:

“We can talk about ending war and we can march for ending war, we can do everything in our power, but war is never going to end as long as people’s hearts are hardened against each other.

If you have a bird’s-eye perspective on the Earth and you look down at all the conflicts that are happening, all you see are two sides of a story where both people think they’re right. So, the solutions have to come from a change of heart, from softening what is rigid within us.”

It takes lifetimes and countless tests in the classroom of daily life to evolve a consciousness that sees the inter-connectedness of everything, opens the heart and naturally calls forth a beneficent response to all that we encounter. So, what would a change of heart and a softening of what is rigid look like if we dared to bring harmony into our own lives? The poet Rainer Maria Rilke offers us this insight to ponder on:

"Maybe all the dragons in our lives are princesses just waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that scares us is, in its deepest essence, something defenseless that longs for our love.”

How do we break the grip of fear and prejudice that keeps us imprisoned and at war with life? I sense that it will require an uprising of compassion and an upwelling of loving kindness from us that can only flow from a heart that has been broken open by pain and suffering. It will require a fiery change of heart to recalibrate and move us from a place of self-centeredness to a wholeness-centered way of being in the world.

An ancient invocation, commonly known as the ‘Mantram of Unification’, contains the following line, “Let the Soul control the outer form and life and all events and bring to light the love which underlies the happenings of the times.” This radical shift to leading a Soul- directed life so needed in the world right now, can be likened to downloading and installing a new Operating System which has been programmed by the Higher Self.

I firmly believe there is a crucial tipping point that happens when we shift our focus and locus of living from investing energy in the dominance and survival of the separated self and make the needed re-investment of life-energy to serve and support the Good of the Whole. Terry Tempest Williams puts it this way:

“The human heart is the first home of democracy.

It is where we embrace our questions.

Can we be equitable? Can we be generous?

Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds,

and offer our attention rather than our opinions?

And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act

courageously, relentlessly, without giving up—ever—

trusting our fellow citizens to join with us in our

determined pursuit of a living democracy?”

So, what does it take to change the way we govern ourselves – both internally and externally? At Meditation Mount we believe that the optimal Operating System to ensure the creation of a planetary society which is in harmony with itself and with the other realms of Nature, needs to be based on a set of Spiritual Principles and Ethics.

Meditation Mount is dedicated to equipping people with the tools and spiritual wherewithal for building this preferred future. Creative Meditation is central to our work. It is a toolbox of techniques and practices that supports the subtle work of shaping our dreams and aspirations and bringing them into manifestation as a positive response to the present world crisis. The collective practice of Creative Meditation serves the Common Good by aiding in the construction and precipitation of those new and hope-filled thought-forms that represent the potent promise and magnetized seed-ideas of something finer waiting to be revealed.

Our assignment also includes promoting the three Principles: Essential Divinity, Goodwill and Unanimity that live at the heart of Creative Meditation and form the foundation and ethical bedrock upon which the new era will be built.

The Principle of Essential Divinity declares that an aspect of the Creator lives inside each person as our Sovereign Self and that the fiery Presence of Eternal Love burns at the core of our essential nature. Each of us is thus a unique and sacred fractal of the One Life.

The Principle of Goodwill affirms that Love is the lifeblood flowing and circulating throughout the entire Universe and that Love is the sublime substance which nourishes and sustains all Creation. Goodwill is how you and I demonstrate this Eternal Love and Benevolence through a daily practice of mindfulness and heartfulness in all our relationships and dealings.

The Principle of Unanimity asserts that we are each integral aspects of one coherent web of life, glued together and held in place by the power of Unconditional Love. Therefore, seeing ourselves as adversarial, separated and isolated units is both an illusion and a great heresy.

The three Pathways: Spiritual Approach, Right Human Relations and Group Endeavor help lead us to a lived experience, realization and application of the three spiritual principles in the daily round of life. The Pathway of Spiritual Approach is the upper way of striving to our highest potential. The Pathway of Right Human Relations activates the natural urge of the soul to connect and commune lovingly and respectfully with all life. The Pathway of Group Endeavor allows us to honor and celebrate the interdependent nature of Creation through our concerted and wholehearted efforts as we work together in support of the common good.

At Meditation Mount we believe that a society solidly founded upon and governed by these universal principles will be one where mutual respect, joy, and a common spirit of caring and sharing suffuse the ethers and positively condition all relationships. The golden rule of any healthy community is Love, and so without this essential ingredient there can be no golden age for any one person, nation or civilization.

Our clear task in the coming months and years is for each of us to cultivate an open and radiant heart wherein the inextinguishable flame of the Fire of Love may burn ever-more brightly. It is the courageous awakening of this loving heart which provides the necessary regenerative power for initiating a ‘positive regime change’ and offering the needed inner security and assurance during these testing times of turmoil and transition.

The 13th century Zen master Dogen taught these “four commonplace truths”:

- No situation is impossible to change;

- A communal vision, outstanding strategy,

and sustained effort can bring forth positive changes

- Everyone can help make a difference

- No one is free of responsibility

You and I are being urgently summoned by the Presence of the Soul of Humanity to inaugurate the golden Age of the Heart by choosing to live together in more kind and caring ways upon this precious Earth. Ushering in an enlightened era of spiritual governance requires an act of daring on our part to break free from all the stubborn and limiting patterns of thinking and behaving that could so easily stymie its successful flowering. It begins with us igniting the Fire of Love inside the ‘sacred hearth’ of the human heart and by warmly embracing each other in the arms of loving kindness instead of the cold steel arms of war.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out

hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and

toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....

The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must

be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."



~ Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is Love-in-Action that will create a more harmonious ‘beloved community’ and joy-filled communion among all people on Earth. It is Love-in-Action that inexorably brings about the deeply desired ‘regime change of the highest order’ for the highest good of all.

Michael Lindfield

Board President

Meditation Mount