Food for Thought

How One Muslim American Thinks; How One Non-Secular American Thinks

The Muslim: “Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians - whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord. And there will be no fear for them, nor shall they grieve” (Holy Qur'an 2:62, 5:69, and many other verses).”

“Now, some Muslims may behave differently. Can you judge Christians by the actions of KKK? ”

“How do I know that you are misinformed? Because you allege that Islam is not tolerant, allege that Iran is out to get a nuclear bomb, allege that people burn flags on the streets. You admit that you believe what you see on TV. Can you pause a moment and think outside of the TV box?”

“Can I show Columbine event on TV and then say: “Look! American teens are out to kill, they are savages.” Would this be fair? There is always more to the story, my friend.”

“What did Saddam want? I don't know. Ask the CIA, they are ones who put him in power and gave him chemical weapons. It's no secret, it's now all declassified. Saddam was the homeboy of the US and UK. It was the US government and the Europeans who fed him with chemical weapons, and he used it on innocent Iranian women and children…and Iranians in return and in anger burnt the American flag.”

“Let me ask you this: what makes an Iranian child a lesser of a human being than of a white child? Didn't God create ALL men equal?”

“Eight full years of support for Saddam by Reagan administration. Saddam was a tyrant created by the CIA. So was Noriega in Panama and so were the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Chicken comes home to roost, doesn't it?”

”You have to see the whole picture not just what is picked and chosen in a 30-minute news at night.”

Our universe has grown over the ages to vastness beyond comprehension, to minuteness that is incomprehensive. Physics, the study of mass, energy, motion and force, has finally added consciousness to the mix, this from the study of the microcosmic, which doesn't behave like the world we know. There appears to be communication in the particle world. Put it all together in the terrain of one's consciousness and the truth is stranger than fiction.

The ancient sages of India reasoned, As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. Both ancients and modern science have found that isolated parts recognize one common wholeness. Thus, from isolated parts to common wholeness, somewhere in-between exists human consciousness; that is, the state of human awareness. I've named the story of my life Highway to the Stars.

Quantum physicist Niels Bohr said, “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” They wouldn't be so shocked if they but knew the molecule transcends the state of awareness of the atom. The cell transcends the state of awareness of the molecule, the quantum mind transcends the state of awareness of the cell. Quantum, the smallest excitation of a quantified wave, in quantum physics we humans have been found to possess a mind that actualizes possibilities. In turn, these actualized possibilities act on the physical nervous system to produce internal perception and external action.

So the whole transcends the parts but the parts are all included-all the way up to the stars and all the way down to the atom, in a perfectly ordered universe. On our Highway to the Stars, we are reaching out for increasing wholeness, for greater consciousness of nature's Higher Law, for progressive order in man's dealings with God and humanity, “the increasing purpose,” wrote Reverend C.I. Scofield in his Introduction to America's most popular, The Scofield  Reference Bible. But Scofield warns us to avoid taking isolated passages from the Bible for God's law. We are advised to keep the whole divine revelation in view when considering our increasing purpose. Therein lies the crux of the problem.

This Non-Secular: Just as we Americans take things out of context, Muslims do the same. Our Muslim friends should take the Qur'an as Reverend Scofield advises Christians and Jews to take their scriptures; that is, if we individuals want to take charge.

In response to my Muslim friend: “Would I harm a hair on anyone's head? What would I have to gain?”

“Have I one time said that I trust any authority? You are building a strawman. I'm 100 percent for the individual. What could it possibly be that makes one authority better than another authority? If they are not killing and maiming innocent men, women and children, or condoning it, they are killing each other. The name of their game is power, the individual be damned. The United States is as guilty as any nation on earth of exploitation of the individual. This is not my America. If it were my America, the world would love we Americans. My sworn enemies have taken control of my America. By the way, “Dirty Bird,” Senator Robert Bird was a leader of the KKK. He claims now to be holier than thou. You can say what you want about the frauds in control in the Middle East. I give them my middle finger.”

“Nothing the world thinks today can possibly last, not with the technological development. It can't last. We'll obliterate all life on the planet.”

“I'm pushing a higher state of consciousness. It is dwarfed by present sanctions of the world's cultures. The truths I've pieced together are woven into the tapestry of the ancients and the cutting edge of science, from the very beginning of civilization, which, by the way, began in the Middle East.”

“It is not I but you who should be living your life with increasing purpose, leading the world's peoples to live together in peace. Your authorities, as much as America's authorities, have miserably failed to serve the cause of peace. I suggest that you explore your own Middle Eastern primordial awareness. Address that place you have never left: your deepest nature, your own original, most sacred God-self. Peace be with you, my friend.”

This non-secular has had the notion, based on information I've received, that you can't tell a Muslim anything. They know it all. I've been misinformed. My Muslim friend's response:

“I agree. Very inspiring thoughts and very true. Thank you.”

This is what comes from one on one communication. Thank God for the means!

All people want to prosper and enjoy peace of mind. The United States has carried its “duty” to the individual too far both at home and abroad. What it has done is to make the United States a self-serving super-power the world wants to take down.

Let the military leave, but no way should we cut and run from Iraq! We have not and will not get the guidance we must have to save us from utter destruction. One and all, the authorities have totally failed in their responsibilities. If we American Muslims, Christians, Jews, and non-seculars want to lead the world to peaceful co-existence-change the world-we need to look within for guidance and communicate with one another.