Insanity Explained

It came to me on reflection that I left a false impression from my previous posting, "A Gnostic Dream" that was hanging in the air. I said that the world was insane thus leaving the impression that I think that people individually are insane. This is not the case. People are not insane unless they have a condition that leads to that result. Most people are clear headed and understand fully what they think and believe. However, we as a people end up supporting positions and ideas that have no true basis in reality. There are many examples of this, but I will use a few. War heads the list. There is a book that everybody should be required to read. It is called the "Guns of August" and it was written by Barbara Tuchman. It tells the story of how an assassination of an Archduke in Sarajevo led to a war that cost millions of lives. The man who killed the Archduke was quickly caught and could have been tried, convicted, and executed for his crime easily. Unfortunately, an entire generation of young men had to place themselves in harms way before the matter was settled. If this is not insanity, what is? Crime is another. Recently I read the story of how two young men lost their lives simply because they interrupted another young man while he was talking to a young lady. The young man who killed the other two had a gun at home. It seems like we have as many guns in our society as we have people. We outlaw drugs like marijuana because they are harmful, but we are told that regulating guns is off limits. However, there is one factor that outweighs war and crime by a substantial margin. That factor is food. We have more than enough food to feed every human being on earth, yet people are starving. I do not suggest that the average person supports war, crime, or starvation. We are a good people who have charity in our hearts. However, most people live in a bubble. This bubble has impenetrable walls around it. We simply do not see the effect of these things clearly, and we do not take responsibility for them as we should. If we did, the world would look very different to us. This is where gnostic christianity comes into play. If we transform ourselves, we will transform the world. This is the challenge that God lays before us. First we look through the glass darkly, and then we see ourselves face to face. To find gnosis is to break the bubble and enter the world as it is. By so doing, we can not only transform ourselves, but we can transform the world. John Lennon was an advanced soul. He wrote and sang a song called, "Imagine." I invite you to listen to it. In my opinion, it is the voice of God speaking to you. My prayer and my dream is that you will listen.