There is an amazing, fascinating and important schism occurring in the “Evolutionary,” “Integral” and “New Age” communities right now. It has come to a head by the endorsement of Hillary Clinton by a five-star line up of luminaries. Here’s the link:
and here’s the list of luminaries:
1. Stephen Dinan, CEO, The Shift Network; author, Sacred America, Sacred World
2. Devaa Haley Mitchell, co-founder, The Shift Network
3. Marianne Williamson, author, Tears to Triumph
4. Jack Canfield, author, The Success Principles
5. Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., author, The Millionth Circle
6. Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit
7. Ram Dass, author, Be Here Now
8. Chip Conley, hospitality entrepreneur, bestselling author ofPeak
9. Jean Houston, author, The Possible Human
10. Robert Thurman, author, The Essential Tibetan Buddhism
11. John Robbins, author, Diet for a New America
12. Jack Kornfield, author, A Path with Heart
13. Michael Singer, author, The Untethered Soul
14. Shiva Rea, founder, Global School for Living Yoga
15. Larry Dossey, MD, Author, One Mind
16. Marci Shimoff, author, Happy for No Reason
17. Sylvia Boorstein, author of Happiness is an Inside Job
18. Gay Hendricks, author, The Big Leap
19. Kathlyn Hendricks, co-author, Conscious Loving Ever After
20. Craig Hamilton, CEO, Evolving Wisdom
21. Claire Zammit, founder, Feminine Power
22. Lissa Rankin, MD, author of Mind Over Medicine
23. Tami Simon, CEO, Sounds True
24. Dr. Stanislav Grof, author, Beyond the Brain
25. Deborah Rozman, CEO, HeartMath Inc., author, Heart Intelligence
26. Howard Martin, co-author, The HeartMath Solution
27. Rinaldo Brutoco, CEO, The ShangriLa Group
28. Rev. Canon Charles Gibbs, spiritual leader, poet, global peace activist
29. Rabbi David Ingber, founder and spiritual director, Romemu
30. Donna Eden, author, Energy Medicine
31. David Feinstein, co-author, The Energies of Love
32. Michael Dowd, author, Thank God for Evolution
33. Anodea Judith, author, Wheels of Life
34. Gangaji, author, Hidden Treasure
35. J. Manuel Herrera, Silicon Valley elected official
36. Bo Rinaldi, visionary talent agent and angel investor
37. Terry Patten, co-author, Integral Life Practice
38. Marcia Wieder, CEO, Dream University
39. Corinne McLaughlin, co-author, Spiritual Politics
40. Gordon Davidson, co-author, Spiritual Politics
41. Steve McIntosh, author, The Presence of the Infinite
42. Carter Phipps, author, Evolutionaries
43. Ocean Robbins, CEO, The Food Revolution
44. Dan Millman, author
45. Cassandra Vieten, co-author, Living Deeply
46. Azim Khamisa, author, peace activist
47. Sadhvi Bhagawati, managing editor, Encyclopedia of Hinduism
48. Olivia Hansen, president, Spiritual Life TV Channel
49. Connie Buffalo, president, The Renaissance Project
50. Sandra Ingerman, author, Soul Retrieval
51. Patricia Albere, founder, Evolutionary Collective
52. Derek Rydall, author, Emergence
53. Jan Philips, author, The Art of Original Thinking
54. Margaret Paul, author, Inner Bonding
55. David Gershon, author, Social Change 2.0
56. Derrick N. Ashong, Founder & CEO, Amp.it
57. Dr. Nina Meyerhof, author, Pioneering Spiritual Activism
58. Shelley Lefkoe, co-founder of the Lefkoe Institute
59. DC Cordova, CEO, Excellerated Business Schools for Entrepreneurs
60. Lisa Schrader, author, Kama Sutra 52
61. Kurt Johnson, author, The Coming Interspiritual Age
62. Daniel Stone, principal, Making Change Real
63. Lion Goodman, CEO, Luminary Leadership Institute
64. Steve Bhaerman, author, Spontaneous Evolution
65. Elisabet Sahtouris, Gaia’s Dance
66. Marc Allen, president and publisher, New World Library, author
67. H.E. Rev. Patrick McCollum, global peacebuilder
68. Dr. Sue Morter, founder, Morter Institute for BioEnergetics
69. Carista Luminare, president, Luminary Leadership Institute
70. Rev. angel Kyodo williams, author, Being Black
71. Debra Poneman, founder, Yes to Succes Seminars
72. Rev. Marcia L. Dyson, founder, Women’s Global Initiative
73. Ken Page, author, Deeper Dating
74. Dawson Church, author, The Genie in Your Genes
75. Brian Burt, CEO, MaestroConference
76. Avon Mattison, global peacebuiler
77. Sera Beak, author, Red, Hot & Holy
78. Dr. Effie Chow, Qigong Grandmaster
79. Philip M. Hellmich, author, God and Conflict
80. Scott Coady, founder, Institute for Embodied Wisdom
81. Pete Bissonette, president, Learning Strategies
82. Zen Cryar DeBrucke, author, Your Inner GPS
83. David Nicol, author, Subtle Activism
84. Saniel Bonder, Author, Healing the Spirit/Matter Split
85. Dr. Rick Levy, president, The Levy Center for Mind-Body Medicine
86. Bill Kauth, author, A Circle of Men
87. Rob Evans, author, The Collaboration Code series
88. Carolyn Buck Luce, author, Reimagining Healthcare
89. Lisa Garr, author, Becoming Aware, Host of the Aware Show
90. George Cappannelli, CEO, AgeNation
91. Raz Ingrasci, Chairman, Hoffman Institute International
92. Jim Garrison, CEO, Ubiquity University
93. Cynthia James, author, I Choose Me
94. Noah Levine, author, Dharma Punx
95. Mirabai Starr, author, Caravan of No Despair
96. Rob Fisher, author, Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples
97. Manuela Mischke-Reeds, author, 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness
98. Dawa Tarchin Phillips, author, CEO, Empowerment Holdings
99. Stuart Davis, artist
100. Gayle Rose, CEO, EVS Corporation
In addition, it should be said that Al Gore and Noam Chompsky, both of whom I greatly admire, have given either a full or partial endorsement to Clinton.
Impressive, huh? One would have to be a totally degenerate nutcase to not vote for Hillary with all that combined wisdom and spirituality telling you it’s the thing to do, right?
Well, no. If you read their statement, it boils down to, “We know Hillary isn’t perfect, but we’ve got to vote for her or we will elect Trump. Vote for her because she is the lesser of two evils!”
How is that for a persuasive argument? Granted, there indeed may be good evidence that Hillary Clinton and the DNC rigged the polls in at least two states (according to Stanford University) to deprive Bernie Sanders of the nomination and has broken international law by personally authorizing drone strikes as Secretary of State. We know she has “joked” about murdering Julius Assange. We know she laughed at the murder of a head of state that she endorsed. We know from Podesta’s emails that there has been a “pay to play” arrangement between access to Clinton at State and funding the Clinton Foundation. Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, says that the entire Clinton Foundation is an illegal scam. We know that the violation of governmental laws regarding classification and treatment of emails by Clinton is a Federal crime, for which she has not been prosecuted because Obama has put the FBI on a leash. We also know that the allegations that the Russians hacked the DNC are not backed by any proof or evidence, implying that it is a diversionary tactic to shift the public’s focus away from the multitude of disclosures of the criminality of Clinton and the DNC that she controls.
So the argument of voting for Clinton because she is the lesser of two evils begs the question, “Just what do you have to do to be evil enough, if you are running against a Republican, in this case Trump, to not be endorsed by these enlightened evolutionaries?”
I am hardly a Republican, and I am certainly not a Trump supporter. The binary thinking of Clinton supporters makes me wonder who is sane and who is not. A vote against criminality and corruption is a vote against criminality and corruption. It is not a vote for any other candidate. If you vote for a candidate that you know has committed criminal acts and is corrupt, how does that not make you a party to, as you have given your legal consent as a voter, whatever crimes that person commits in office? Are you really going to tell yourself, “Well, Hillary may have been corrupt and a criminal and a drone murderer in the past, but gee, once she’s in office I know she will be wonderful! Why can’t you see that? Where is your loving, trusting and forgiving heart?”
Progressives tend to vote based on civil rights, egalitarian and pluralistic issues: equal pay, gender rights, non-discrimination. But Clinton is an exceptionalist. See her article in Newsweek. She is more of an exceptionalist than Obama. How can one be an exceptionalist and stand for equality at the same time? You can’t. It’s one or the other. The reality is, if you broaden your focus to the world stage, Clinton isn’t for equality. She is for the killing of those who disagree with her version of American empire, which she justifies in the name of democracy, freedom and justice but which is really about the hollowing out of the economies of other countries in the service of American corporations. There is a vast literature and documented history of policy decisions made by Clinton that proves this.
If you read the non-Western world press you will find that Trump is viewed as far less of a threat to global stability and is considered, based on both candidate’s statements and Clinton’s actions and votes while in office, much less likely to trigger WWIII than is Clinton. That is not an argument to vote for Trump; it’s an argument for looking at this election from a global perspective, because WWIII not only kills everyone, it takes care of the problem of global warming and the importance of voting for the green energy candidate.
All of these “enlightened evolutionaries” have proclaimed, whether they intend it or not, by endorsing Clinton, their preference for continued governance of the US by oligarchs and plutocrats and the continued hollowing out of the United States, because they think they have no choice but to vote for Clinton. Clinton herself said, in at least one of her corporate speeches, that you have to have a public policy and a private policy – you have got to tell the public one thing while really intending to do another. She’s on record saying that she’s lying to you.
“Evolutionaries” have an excellent option to voting for either one of these reprobates. Jill Stein’s platform is not only rational, it is healthy. This is not the 2000 election; a vote for Stein – or Johnson, for that matter – is not like a vote for Nader; you do not rob a competent candidate of victory by voting for a third party candidate this time around. What you do is vote against two incompetent, corrupt and evil candidates.
How is this not obvious? How have these enlightened evolutionaries not destroyed their credibility and claims to represent spiritual anything?
Integral is very clear about this. To develop beyond the prepersonal, meaning a life based on faith and prerational belief, means to become a rational, logical individual who can tolerate ambiguity and entertain conflicting points of view. It sees love in terms of respect for universal laws, not American exceptionalism. These abilities, this world view is a prerequisite for anything transpersonal or trans-rational. You don’t get beyond prerational belief and faith if you don’t learn how to think things through logically, to question, to doubt your own beliefs, to not take things personally, and to extend your definition of freedom and love to everyone. A vote for Clinton fails on both counts: it is not a rational choice nor is it a loving one. It is the same type of capitulation to evil that caused the Supreme Court to elect Bush and that brought Hitler to power in Germany.
Please make the case for the evolutionaries; educate me. Explain to me why a vote for Clinton is either rational or loving. A lot of good, well-intentioned and highly educated people are doing the nation and the planet a vast disservice by endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. They would have been far wiser to not endorse anyone.
J
