The Spirituality of Politics
By: Phoenix Goodman
Tags: Spirituality, Politics, Humanity, Political Philosophy, Philosophy

Remember the big picture.

We’re beings that evolved from single-celled organisms, on a billions-year-old planet, spinning in outer-space. The laws of the universe allowed for the creation and the evolution of life, of complexity, of thought, and of consciousness.

As our collective consciousness expanded, so did our ability to organize ourselves. That’s what politics is.

But the way evolution works is that optimization isn’t just handed to us. We have to grope our way through history, learning and growing from our mistakes.

It’s not a neat process, but the net outcome is progress. That’s why after millennia of human history, the countless struggles of genuine freedom fighters and visionaries have delivered us higher standards of freedom, and we anticipate that those standards will continue to rise further. We’ve come a long way, and we have a long way to go. In this process, humanity strives for ultimate freedom.

As individuals, we are not “in” the universe, we are a part of the universe. Our civilizations and cultures are an expression of our collective consciousness- so they too are not “in” the universe but are a part of the universe. The more conscious and rational we and our society become, the more conscious and rational a part of the universe itself has become.

Evolution is a process of simplicity to complexity, ignorance to wisdom, weakness to power, unconsciousness to consciousness, subjugation to freedom.

From our humble beginnings, what is it ultimately that we’re striving towards? In other words, what is it, ultimately, that the universe is striving towards through us?

What’s the logical conclusion of ever-increasing knowledge, power and freedom? It is ultimate knowledge, power, and freedom. This is the Light upon which humanity is converging.

When we view our evolution and optimization as sacred, we have higher standards for what we demand of our institutions and ourselves. When we have higher standards, we become more vigilant, proactive and solution-oriented. With clarity and purpose comes the willpower and fortitude to become transformative.

Evolution was an unconscious process until recently. The Darwinian struggle is a brutal competition, and those evolutionary pressures built us into beings capable of self reflection, planning, and complex cooperation.

We’ve now crossed the miraculous threshold: we can conceive deeper meanings and make conscious choices in designing our world accordingly. To be conscious is to be responsible. This responsibility is the universe’s “test” to determine our worthiness of advancing to the next phase.

Every expression of culture, religion, economics, ideology and politics is a program in the collective consciousness. Some programs increase consciousness, freedom and empowerment and some decrease them.

To optimize politics is to optimize our world, to optimize our world is to optimize our collective consciousness, and to optimize our collective consciousness is to “level up” life and the universe.

No one is coming to save us.

We are the ones we’ve been looking for.