The Greening of America is a 1970 book by Charles A. Reich. It is a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s and its values. Excerpts first appeared as an essay in the September 26, 1970 issue of The New Yorker. The book was originally published by Random House.
In 1970, Charles Reich wrote The
Greening Of America, a book that profoundly
influenced and inspired me at 36 year's old, for Reich predicted a revolution
of the individual and culture that would be a revolution of the new generation
against the corporate state ~ and it would change the political structure as
its final act. I believe it's final act is fast approaching and this revolution
will not require violence to succeed ~ it will only require great courage and a
legitimate anti-war movement which will fully expose the folly of our present
fear based and militarized world economy: Allen L Roland, PhD
Of all the qualities of human beings
that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is
consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.
Charles A.
Reich
It was 1970 and the country had seemingly lost hope with the loss of its
political and spiritual leaders ~
JFK assassinated in 1963
RFK assassinated in June, 1968
MLK assassinated in August, 1968
Richard Nixon was sworn in as president in January 1970 but the country had never fully recovered from the loss of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King, Jr ~ we were in a state of moral apathy and perfect fodder for Nixon and Kissinger to manipulate our collective fears by bombing Cambodia and then Nixon increased domestic spying.
I,
like many Americans sensed the country's moral vacuum, and personally was more
than ready for another choice versus buying and selling stocks as an Investment
Banker. Our country had surrendered to the
dark side, the military-Industrial complex was in full control and Nixon's
paranoia was already becoming evident. We had lost our soul bearings and a
collective alarm for light workers was sounded ~
Charles Reich's The Greening of America was
part of that call.
The corporate
state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet
utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human
values. Charles A.
Reich
I
heard the inner call in 1971, read Reich's book, opened my heart in
relationship and fell into a rabbit hole of soul consciousness beneath
my deepest fears and unworthiness and also realized that I had a part to play
in this Revolution of both the individual
and culture. My task was to completely surrender to love, begin to see
through different eyes and share what I saw through both my writings and
transformative work with individuals as a heart centered therapist.
My
PhD dissertation in 1998 was the Unified Field where I demonstrated that
the basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy
field of love and soul consciousness (The Unified Field) which lies not only beyond time and space but
also beneath our deepest fears and whose principle property is the universal
urge to unite.
I have had many personal experiences of the sensory sensation of
being in the Unified Field of
love and soul consciousness that exists not only beyond time and space but also
beneath our deepest fears but this one clearly stands out ~ for it was a
matter of life and death and it became the foundation of
my belief in this state of consciousness that lies beneath our deepest fears.
I call it the Final Option which I experienced as a Navy
carrier pilot in 1961, on the South China Sea, and where I faced, totally
surrendered to and went through my deepest crushing fear of the unknown ~ and
broke through to an all knowing and fearless state of soul consciousness that
existed not only beyond time and space but obviously deepest within myself.
My
whole life has been a journey, a quest, to find a lost little boy within myself
who once knew, and longed to share the truths that I am now sharing with you; a
4 year old boy who profoundly experienced at the deepest level within himself,
a love and joy that indelibly connected him to everything around him. That
experience was my first awareness of a Unified Field of love and soul
consciousness which I was an integral part of ~ and I fully surrendered to
the bliss of being in that Field of love and soul consciousness and never
forgot it. See VT Article ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/01/18/on-turning-82-and-owning-a-great-truth/
Just as becoming a Navy Fighter pilot was an important part of
my destiny and brought me to the San Francisco Bay area ~ my precognitive
vision of the Golden Gate Bridge was a door that was opened to me as a young
child and not only let the future in but proved to me that this state of love
and soul consciousness not only existed beyond time and space but was also the
sole constant of the universe. See VT
article ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/12/26/walking-into-my-precognitive-vision-of-the-golden-gate-bridge/
Which
brings me to our current social revolution
in 2016 which has revealed an anti-war
movement against the corporate state, initiated by Bernie Sanders and carried
on by Jill Stein and the Green Party which
will hopefully eventually grind to a halt
the gears of war and enlist millions of our youth in its implementation.
We
have once again reached a state of choice less Apathy, similar to what we felt
in 1970, but now it's time to implement the final act of this revolution
particularly with two such unpopular candidates running for President in 2016 ~ the time for true change is in the air.
Let's
summarize the The Danger of a Clinton or Trump Presidency in a recent Real News interview of Col. Lawrence
Wilkerson with Paul Jay as they discuss Hillary Clinton's militarist track
record and Donald Trump's bellicose political theatre rhetoric. 25 Minute video ~ http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16919
Excerpts from this must see interview;
"Trumps
principle purpose is to destroy the Republican Party and he is succeeding " ~ Wilkerson on Trump
"I
don't think Trump really wants the job and his agenda is Israel first and
America second " ~ Wilkerson on Trump
"Her foreign policy is straight out of the
neocon playbook where the war option is foremost ~ she's a war president "
~ Wilkerson
on Clinton
"Mike Pense is a scary proposition and many of his
positions scare the bejesus out of me " ~ Wilkerson on Mike
Pense
Paul
Fay's last comment of interview ~ " Whoever wins the election, there
better be a massive anti-war movement already in place
" ~ to
which I add we are already in the process of
accomplishing this with Jill Stein and the Green
Party but we desperately need her
progressive voice in the upcoming Presidential debates.
There is a revolution coming. It will not be
like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with
culture . . Charles A.
Reich
My
good friend and fellow columnist Doug Childers perhaps offers the most
insightful comment regarding our current
presidential election ~ which I am reprinting in full;
"Right
on Allen!
I don’t grudge Bernie for stepping out. I don’t know what happened behind the scenes, but he raised political consciousness in this country to an unprecedented level and started a political revolution I never thought I’d see here. Those who paid attention just witnessed a corporate coup in the democratic primary. The oligarchy, operating through the DNC and corporate media, and colluding with the Clinton campaign, stole an election, defrauded the American people of their rightful democratic process, and is intent on installing Hillary, their corrupt hopeful successor to their current servant Barak Obama. (I voted for him the first time and learned a new level of discernment.)
I don’t grudge Bernie for stepping out. I don’t know what happened behind the scenes, but he raised political consciousness in this country to an unprecedented level and started a political revolution I never thought I’d see here. Those who paid attention just witnessed a corporate coup in the democratic primary. The oligarchy, operating through the DNC and corporate media, and colluding with the Clinton campaign, stole an election, defrauded the American people of their rightful democratic process, and is intent on installing Hillary, their corrupt hopeful successor to their current servant Barak Obama. (I voted for him the first time and learned a new level of discernment.)
Now
this united corporate system is using Donald Trump as a bogeyman
scare-card to frighten people into going along with the the
program, and millions are becoming unwitting accomplices to
the theft of their own democracy, imagining they are preventing the
rise of a new fascist state.
They
don’t realize that what we now have, hidden behind the facade of democracy, and
what Hillary will further empower, just as Obama has, is worse than anything
Trump could accomplish.
The
media, and now their frightened citizen cheerleaders and apologists for
Hillary, wants to convince us that our only choice is between an inflated
narcissist desperate for attention, and a calculating sociopath committed
to handing more control over the world to the corporate
military state.
If
people were willing to face this ugly reality and realize the real choice we
face is to either vote our conscience or betray it we would begin to
actually become a real democracy and a people worthy of it.
I’ve
been posting a quote from time to time that you’ve probably once heard, from
Edward R. Murrow: “A nation of sheep will in time breed a
government of wolves.”
And
that’s how we got where we are.
Keep
up the good work!"
Doug
In
short, Charles Reich's The Greening of America in 1970 predicted a social
revolution unlike any others in our past, originating from individuals, such as
myself and others, as well as all classes and cultures.
This
revolution will indeed begin to change the political structure in 2016 by
challenging the corporate state ~ and the new generation propelling this
change, as dramatically demonstrated by the Sanders campaign, are the
Millennials who are now carrying the glowing Olympic torch of true political
change as represented by Black Lives Matter and the populist, anti-war theme of
the Green Party's Jill Stein.
And
ironically in 2016, the rich and poor classes and corporate states have gathered,
as we are now currently witnessing at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro ~ while looming high above is the ultimate social revolutionist Christ the Redeemer,
created by
Polish-French sculptor Paul Landowski in 1931.
98 Feet tall and standing 2300 feet above
the city and the Olympic stadium,
its sandstone hands outstretched and seemingly imploring us to Love one another but
in a far different tone ~ for now it adds, with the advent of the nuclear age as
well as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
in 1945, Love one another or you perish.
And
it is Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit priest, paleontologist and explorer of
the soul, whose life's work was the reinterpretation of Christianity in the
light of evolution, as well as my mentor from beyond time and space ~ who
also stands impatiently at the summit of man's quest for the ultimate truth
proclaiming to all that god is love.
As
a fellow social revolutionist and explorer of the soul my evolutionary task has
been to demonstrate through my work and writing that this love is indeed the
long sought for Unified Field ~ a state of love and soul consciousness that
lies not only beyond time and space but also beneath our deepest fears and whose principle property is the universal
urge to unite.
This
is the ultimate inner revolution and spiritual greening of America and it is
already underway.
"Therefore,
despite all checks and improbabilities, we are inevitably approaching a new
age, in which the world will throw off its chains and at last give itself up to
the power of its inner affinities.
Either
we must doubt the value of everything around us, or we must utterly believe in
the possibility, and I should add, in the inevitable consequences of universal
love." Teilhard de Chardin
We
are all in a sense Hibakushas (Moral survivors of the August,1945
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki )
Allen
L Roland, PhD
Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and is a featured guest on many radio and Television programs
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest within themselves, Teilhard de chardin
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