Mark Morford: Is Obama an enlightened being?

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whereismyparty  (1000+ posts)       Fri Jun-06-08 10:23 AM
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Mark Morford: Is Obama an enlightened being?
 Advertisements [?]Is Obama an enlightened being?
Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician. You buying it?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

I find I'm having this discussion, this weird little debate, more and more, with colleagues, with readers, with liberals and moderates and miserable, deeply depressed Republicans and spiritually amped persons of all shapes and stripes and I'm having it in particular with those who seem confused, angry, unsure, thoroughly nonplussed, as they all ask me the same thing: What the hell's the big deal about Obama?

I, of course, have an answer. Sort of.

Warning: If you are a rigid pragmatist/literalist, itchingly evangelical, a scowler, a doubter, a burned-out former '60s radical with no hope left, or are otherwise unable or unwilling to parse alternative New Age speak, click away right now, because you ain't gonna like this one little bit.

Ready? It goes likes this:

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Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

The unusual thing is, true Lightworkers almost never appear on such a brutal, spiritually demeaning stage as national politics. This is why Obama is so rare. And this why he is so often compared to Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., to those leaders in our culture whose stirring vibrations still resonate throughout our short history.

Are you rolling your eyes and scoffing? Fine by me. But you gotta wonder, why has, say, the JFK legacy lasted so long, is so vital to our national identity? Yes, the assassination canonized his legend. The Kennedy family is our version of royalty. But there's something more. Those attuned to energies beyond the literal meanings of things, these people say JFK wasn't assassinated for any typical reason you can name. It's because he was just this kind of high-vibration being, a peacemaker, at odds with the war machine, the CIA, the dark side. And it killed him.

Now, Obama. The next step. Another try. And perhaps, as Bush laid waste to the land and embarrassed the country and pummeled our national spirit into disenchanted pulp and yet ironically, in so doing has helped set the stage for an even larger and more fascinating evolutionary burp, we are finally truly ready for another Lightworker to step up.

Let me be completely clear: I'm not arguing some sort of utopian revolution, a big global group hug with Obama as some sort of happy hippie camp counselor. I'm not saying the man's going to swoop in like a superhero messiah and stop all wars and make the flowers grow and birds sing and solve world hunger and bring puppies to schoolchildren.

Please. I'm also certainly not saying he's perfect, that his presidency will be free of compromise, or slimy insiders, or great heaps of politics-as-usual. While Obama's certainly an entire universe away from George W. Bush in terms of quality, integrity, intelligence and overall inspirational energy, well, so is your dog. Hell, it isn't hard to stand far above and beyond the worst president in American history.

But there simply is no denying that extra kick. As one reader put it to me, in a way, it's not even about Obama, per se. There's a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that's been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Obama's candidacy. People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration are automatically draw to him. It's exactly like how Bush was a magnet for the low vibrational energies of fear and war and oppression and aggression, but, you know, completely reversed. And different. And far, far better.

Don't buy any of it? Think that's all a bunch of tofu-sucking New Agey bulls-- and Obama is really a dangerously elitist political salesman whose inexperience will lead us further into darkness because, when you're talking national politics, nothing, really, ever changes? I understand. I get it. I often believe it myself.

Not this time.

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GreenEyedLefty  (229 posts)      Fri Jun-06-08 10:48 AM
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5. The common denominator is "hope."
 Hope is an innately high vibe kind of thing.

The Kennedys were all about making the world a better place (heck, still are for that matter) and I haven't seen any evidence of cynicism on any of their parts.

The times, they are a-changin'....

BullGooseLoony  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jun-06-08 11:07 AM
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11. Our culture is undergoing a massive shift, right here and now.
 Bring on the Lightworkers.

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I presume we are well past the dawning of the age of Aquarius, although whether we are still in it I don't know. 

[franksolich]

I presume we are well past the dawning of the age of Aquarius, although whether we are still in it I don't know.

Given the life-span of such things, we're in the twilighting, near darkness, near the end, of the Age of Aquarius, which has been around for more than 30 years now, since the mid-1970s.

Things seem to last about a generation.

Since the mid-1970s, there isn't anything on the hippie agenda that hasn't been fulfilled, becoming either legal or at least socially acceptable. 

All things come to an end.

Despite the way the elections of November 2008 are "looking" to some, I still think the mid-term elections of November 2006 were the last counter-revolt, the Gotterdammerung, of the hippies.

Not being God, I have no idea what lays ahead, but it won't be an extension of the Age of Aquarius.

[Rebel Yell]

[Lauri]

i'm going to wait and see what the Light-giver actually does in the debates with McCain when he has to answer tougher questions and has more than a full minute to respond.

he's terrible at off the cuff responses - he only sounds 'special' when he has a roaring crowd behind him that he has to yell over to be heard. seriously, that's the only time he sounds that way.

in a quiet room/hall... he sounds like any other politician. there is no 'there' there yet.. no substance to hang all this adulation upon.

[USA4ME]

Individuals who desire some type of great awakening here on earth are in for a huge disappointment.  Believing that some politician would be the one to deliver it is even more out of touch.

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[Odin's Hand]

i'm going to wait and see what the Light-giver actually does in the debates with McCain when he has to answer tougher questions and has more than a full minute to respond.

he's terrible at off the cuff responses - he only sounds 'special' when he has a roaring crowd behind him that he has to yell over to be heard. seriously, that's the only time he sounds that way.

in a quiet room/hall... he sounds like any other politician. there is no 'there' there yet.. no substance to hang all this adulation upon.

Plus, his inner-moonbat easily bursts at the seams when he is on the hot seat.

[jukin]

If enlightened means marxist then YES.