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Forced Motherhood and
Social Transformation

The Anti-abortion Controversy
Is Actually a Forum for

The Evolution of Human Consciousness.

Wakeup Call ...

A Bad Judgment Call:

When the Roe Versus Wade Supreme Court ruling came down legalizing abortion, the Christian Leaders would have been way better off, tucking their tails between their legs and slinking back into their churches. Instead they challenged that ruling on a moral, ethical and legal basis, and in so doing they have opened up themselves, their behaviors, and their beliefs to also be challenged on that same moral, ethical, and legal basis.

They didn't realize, and many of them still don't realize, that their entire anti-abortion war is based on an unbelievable, unprovable, Medieval fairytale,° made up by their ancestors for their own (the ancestors) reasons. Neither did they expect that their conception magic fairytale, their own ethics, and their behavior patterns° would also be challenged. The present-day, available evidence leaves the religious dominance of those spearheading the anti-abortion movement in a rather vulnerable position.

For a discussion of the nature of that threat and how it affects you, please see the page titled: Is Christianity threatened by abortion rights?°

An Invitation:

Although the information on our web sites is challenging and exposes several widely held illusions, our goal is not to make anyone wrong. There aren't any bad guys. There are only fellow humans with a different beliefs, views, and perspectives on life.

We invite you to look at the abortion question from the perspective that every one of us has a vision of the truth, but none of us has the complete truth.

.Three Blind Men. .Three Blind Men. ...

Decisions Based on Inadequate information: We get into trouble when we claim our piece of the truth is the complete and only truth. We become like the three blind men in the Sufi story about examining an elephant. One blind man, while touching the elephant's side, declared that an elephant was like a wall. The second touching its leg, declared an elephant was like a tree, and the third blind man, while holding on to it's tail declared an elephant was like a snake.

All three were correct, and, at the same time, all three had an incomplete and very distorted perspectives of an elephant. Please note that the significance here is not in what each blind man said about the elephant. Their statements, in and of themselves, were true and accurate. The significance is in what they didn't say and couldn't say because they didn't know. Their problem was in thinking that their small piece of the truth was the complete truth.

If you continued this elephant analogy, you could probably come up with several dozen more equally limiting ways to describe an elephant. When you substitute religion (and it's abortion connections) for elephants in this analogy, the possibilities become infinite. This leads us to an obvious conclusion:

No matter how strongly we are convinced
that we know the truth,
we could be wrong.°

Every time additional information becomes available to us, our picture of reality changes. Often, the added information also changes what we refer to as "appropriate human behavior."

Our goal is to look for additional pieces of the truth regarding the forced motherhood controversy, and ask, "In the light of this additional information, what is the appropriate social-political response to the abortion controversy?

Wakeup Call ...

A Wakeup Call

Stepping Out of the Collective Mind:

We were each born into a collective, already created social structure° that is based upon a set of group-accepted beliefs and behavior patterns. Most people are content to live their lives according to the dictates and traditions of the group into which they were born.

The Possibility Thinkers:

In every group there are always those who just can't seem to stay within the pre-defined structures. These are the unrecognized geniuses, the possibility thinkers, the rebels, the misfits, and the quasi-criminals who, collectively, are often referred to as the lunatic fringe.° If you look back into history you'll find that, time after time, individuals (or small groups lead by a dynamic individual) have produced changes so radical that the social collective was forced to change. Galileo, Columbus, and Einstein and are just three examples. Tyrants such as Hitler, Stalin and Hussein have turned the world upside down. Inventions such as the steam engine, radio, television, and computers also force the collective to change. Imagine what your life would be like without our Founding Fathers and the American Revolution. Throughout history, change has been the norm.

Concrete Boxes:

Symbolically speaking, religious beliefs systems have been stuck in concrete boxes for centuries. The conservative end of Christianity has proclaimed itself to be the one and only true religion. It has also claimed itself to have exclusive access to God, and now, via the forced motherhood issue, it is in the process of attempting to force its ways onto everybody else.

For centuries, religious leaders have told their followers stories that are simply not true. If history is any indication of present beliefs, then many of the things we now accept as real will turn out to be false.

Change Is Normal:

Like it or not, change is normal -- change is inevitable. Changes are happening all around you, right now, today. You can fight against these changes, but you can't stop them. Those who fight change are wasting their time defending the un-defendable. The two core beliefs in the abortion controversy are classic examples of church leaders defending the un-defendable.

u God's Conception-Magic Act Is True° and

u A human Being Is His/her Physical Body°

Some Recent Observations:

The greatest and most profound changes that we are being exposed to are in the area of awareness of how the universe functions. The latest findings in astronomy, sub-atomic physics, and quantum physics are exposing us to concepts and perspectives on reality that boggle the present-day, linear, physically limited, human mind. Here are some of the statements that scientists are now making:

u There is no such thing as physical matter.

u Everything is energy.

u Everything is part of a unified whole.

u Human experiences are a function of consciousness.

u Thoughts are the first cause of our physical experiences.

u The universe is not a static solid, out-there thing that controls our experiences, rather, it's a dynamic array of possibilities that are determined by consciousness.

u Ninety-five percent of known universe is invisible to human senses.

u Whatever created our universe transcends human understanding.

u The observers affect the observed.

u The human mind is incapable of examining that which transcends physical reality.

u The consciousness that you call yourself is not in or part of or a function of your physical, human body.

u Scientific research has been unable to find the source of consciousness.

The Inevitable Clash with Christianity:

When the carved-in-stone beliefs put out by Christian religious leaders, bump up against the dynamic concepts such as those stated above, conflicts are inevitable. The Christian, forced motherhood (anti-abortion) war and Christian Creationism versus scientific evolution are just two of these conflicts.

The Harmony with the Eastern Philosophies:

None of the above-noted, scientific findings conflict the Eastern philosophies. Many of them directly support the beliefs that the Eastern philosophies have been teaching for centuries.

Forum for Change:

The forced motherhood controversy (anti-abortion) is actually a forum for the evolution of human consciousness. It's one of today's major catalysts for human, social transformation. Of course this conflict is about abortion, but it's also about much more than that. On the higher, grander scheme of things, this conflict offers an opportunity for us, as a global society, to re-examine the unprovable assumptions (the illusions) that we believe and act upon as if they were provable truths.

On the higher, grander scheme of things, the anti-choice leaders are forcing us to examine our own ignorance, our arrogance, and naiveté° -- to re-examine the unprovable assumptions (the illusions) that we believe and act upon as if they were provable truths. They are forcing us to look at ourselves and see that much of what we believe about reality has absolutely nothing to do with reality.° The abortion conflict is a wakeup call and a blessing in disguise. For that, we owe the no-choice people a word of thanks. THANK YOU !

Broadening Our Perspective:

Our goal is not to make anyone wrong, but rather, to show that everyone is right and to show that their rightness, although a vital part, is only one part of a greater truth.

Before coming to any "carved-in-stone" conclusions around the forced motherhood issue, (abortion) we would do well to consider all the known factors involved. We need to consider the environmental, the social and the political contexts° in which we live. We need to consider the long-term consequences of our actions.°

We need to reconsider a long list of cherished illusions and assumptions.° We need to re-answer such questions as: What is the purpose of government? What is the purpose of religion? How do religion and government interrelate?° We need to consider relating in a cooperation-partnership mode° instead of our current dominator-manipulator mode. Those on both sides of this issue need to look at the people on the other side of this issue as fellow humans with a different point of view.

If the religious theory of reincarnation° is true, (and the overwhelming evidence points in the direction that it is) then: William Shakespeare was correct in saying, "All the world is a stage." We are all, every single one of us, simply actors on the stage called planet Earth. We are all aspects of one infinite source of all that we commonly call God.

What triggers changes?

We change the way we do things when circumstances (the context°) changes and when new information becomes available to us. As an analogy, let's look at why our ancient ancestors made boats out of wood? Aside from the fact that, in most locations, wood was a readily available material, our ancestors made boats out of wood because wood floats. Today we make boats out of material that, in and of itself, does not float. What is the difference? Awareness of why things float. Today, we know that flotation is related to the weight of the water displaced and has nothing to do with the material used to make the boat.

The Flat Earth Becomes Round:

Is it not equally as appropriate to make changes in our belief systems when new information becomes available to us? In the days when God's instantaneous, supernatural, transcendental, conception magic act° was introduced into the Christian belief system, the people who created that story also believed that the Earth was flat. They believed that physical reality was like a three-layered cake with themselves on a flat Earth, with God sitting on a throne in a place above the clouds called heaven and the devil in hell beneath their feet. They believed that if a boat sailed too far out into the ocean that it would fall off the Earth. Can you find anyone today who still believes that religious fairytale?

Conception Magic:

Then what about the conception fairytale that these same men created. Is in not time to re-examine that story?° In response to our request for a re-examination, we hear words like, "It's a religious truth, and you can't question God." When we examine the evidence, it turns out that God's conception magic act is unprovable fairytale and belongs in the same category as the tooth fairy story. It's not in the Bible. It's simply a story that was made up by our superstitious ancestors as part of their attempt to explain the unexplainable. But, don't believe what we are telling you. Examine the evidence° for yourself.

When one examines the unprovable beliefs that have been piled on top the wonderful, practical, and easily understandable teaching of Jesus, one has to wonder where reality is in the right wing faction of the Christian religion. It's time to add conscious thought to one's spiritual beliefs. It's time for the real Christians to take back Christianity!

Where to Question and Challenge:

In some areas of life, challenging and pointing our dysfunctional behavior is a way to make life better. For example, pointing out dysfunctions in government and business can make both more practical, more efficient and more functional. Pointing dysfunctions in religion, can bring a touch of reality to beliefs and behaviors that are extremely detrimental.

We may give lip service to it, but it's rare for the general public to seriously question the activities of either business or government. In most religions, questioning and challenging authority and/or the beliefs is considered blasphemy.

Unfortunately, in the place where we should master the art of allowing and not find fault -- in our intimate, personal relationships -- humans tend to be excessive at finding fault, blaming, condemning, and even punishing.

Imagine what would life be like if we challenged the dysfunctions in governments, businesses and religions, and allowed our spouses to be who they are.

Everybody is a Good Guy:

The vast majority of those strongly advocating either side in the forced motherhood controversy are very caring and loving human beings. Because the people on both sides are "the good guys" and because most people have honorable intentions, all of us need to look at everyone else as fellow human beings, some of whom, simply hold different points of view.

Issues Versus Personalities:

The Anti-abortion controversy is about religious and political issues. It is not about the personal lives of those actively promoting either side. It's about where they stand on the issues and what they do in the religious and political arena that is subject for discussion. We do; however, consider hypocrisy to be fair game for public discussion, even when it involves personal and normally private behavior.

Standards of Conduct:

In any conflict, the person or group with the lowest ethical standards sets the level at which the conflict is played out. For a detailed discussion regarding the standards of conduct for both sides, please see the page titled: Hypocrisy.

What the Evidence Tells Us:

Actually, there really aren't any good guys. That's because there aren't any bad guys either. There are just human beings doing the best they can given their knowledge, conditioning and circumstances.

The evidence tells us that the story about a superhuman sitting on a cloud in the sky° dictating rules for human behavior is a fantasy fairytale.° The evidence tells us that there is a set of universal laws (such as gravity and The Law of Thought)° that all humans are subject to. Our goal appears to be to learn to use these laws to produce joy, freedom and abundance for everyone including ourselves and our so-called enemies.

You Are The Final Judge As To
What Is Right For You:

Please avoid blindly accepting anything you see, hear or read, here or elsewhere, simply because someone says so, regardless of his or her title, position, reputation, etc. On the other hand, it is equally foolish to reject another's point of view simply because it does not substantiate your own opinions, fixed impressions, and beliefs about reality. Remember, reality is whatever reality is regardless of what any of us believes it to be.

Look for yourself at the evidence here and elsewhere. Accept what fits for you right now and then trash the rest. If it is truth, if it is meant for you and you've just trashed it, that's okay. It will come around again. On the other hand, if the same message has come to you several times from several sources, you would probably do well to listen this time.

Imagine a God . . .

For centuries, scholars, philosophers, and just plain common sense has told us that three questions: What is God? -- What is life? -- What happens to us after death?" are the ultimate human mysteries.° In spite of this, all the major religious organization (and most of the others as well) have assigned numerous answers to these three questions and declared their answers to be reality.

They have no scientifically provable evidence to support their claims. In some religions there are clear words to the contrary in their own religious texts. ( Such as that which appears in the Christian Bible in Ecclesiastes 11:5, RSV,)°

In spite of this, the leaders of these religions have declared that they know what God is, how He functions, and what He wants you to do and not do. They have create a set of beliefs, rituals, and behavior that are to be strictly adhered to by the believers. And they tell their followers, "You'd better get in line because that's what God wants."

In order to see the absurdity of such claims, we have compiled a rather long list of human beliefs about God.° Look at the list and ask yourself: "How many of them do I believe in?"

So You Want to Change The World

Or is it that you want the world to change? Either way, we each need to start at home, with our own belief system. We have to look for, find, examine, and then drop the fairytales we presently live by. A close examination of our beliefs an the physical evidence regarding our beliefs will reveal that:

* Business as usual is what got us into the personal and collective social, economic, political and environmental mess we are in. Business as usual is not going to get us out of it.

* All the physical stuff we cling to for security is just another false god;

* "The Great God Money"° is the most revered deity on the planet today;

* The ultimate source of life is not a angry, jealous, fickle, vengeful, superhuman sitting on a cloud in the sky;

* The entire anti-abortion war is based upon an unprovable, Medieval, fairytale handed down to us from the same people who believed the Earth was flat. Anti-choice leaders have declared that God's Conception-Magic Act° is true in spite of the fact that there is no physical evidence to support it.

* "God" has more than one messenger;

* Our way (and your way, as well) is not the only pathway to "God.";

* Abortion is a religious freedom issue;

* You and I and every other human being are the collective co-creators of this mess we are in;

* Within the context of human life on Earth, we each create our own personal experiences by our thought, word, and deed.

* We are really only guessing about "what we are" or "why we are here," or "where humanity are going to be one hundred Earth-years from today."

* The overwhelming evidence indicates that we are eternal beings living temporarily in physical bodies.

* If humanity continues to function as it has been, the human species could be extinct in a hundred years;

* Most humans are, symbolically speaking, frightened little rabbits running in circles in a forest of foxes;

* The only thing we can change is ourselves;

Anyone who has never examined, questioned and/or challenged the stories they learned when they very young children, is almost certainly living their lives based on inaccurate information.

Once that internal self is acknowledged and accepted, an entirely new context arises. We see, hear, taste touch, smell and know that the only thing we need to change is ourselves. Out of that realization the world around us begins to change all by itself. Our personal transformation literally alters the world we live in.

Our job then becomes three-fold, first to study and become aware of ourselves -- who we are, --what we are -- how we function -- what we believe -- etc. Our second job is to become role models for others to follow and third, to regularly ask, "How can I be of service?"

How does that relate to abortion and how does that relate to activities such as questioning the behavior of local Catholic priests?° In order to answer that question, you are required to find that answer within yourself.

Here's a hint: "Practicing altruism is the most selfish thing you can do." When you find your own answer, you'll know why, and you'll willingly play "Pro-Choice" with us.

What the Evidence Tells Us
is Most Likely the Truth

The Pro-Truth Team has done an intensive investigation and made a list of what the evidence tell us is most likely the truth about reality, about how the universe functions, about human life, and about abortion. Most of the statements on the list below are not present-day provable reality. They are what the evidence tells us is the most probably reality.

Believe them or not, as you will. We do; however, suggest that you do not take your own counter beliefs that are just as unprovable and claim them as absolute provable reality. (See the list referred to in the section above titled: Imagine a God.°

Here's The Pro-Truth Team's list:

There aren’t any bad guys. God is on everybody’s side.

“All truths are only partial truths.” Regardless of what you know or claim to know, there is always more you can’t possibly know.°

Trying to stick God into a single religion is like trying to fit the universe into a shoe box.

Duality and separation are illusions, God, your neighbor and yourself are all one and the same thing.

Everything is sacred or nothing is sacred. Prayer is not something done at special times and special place. Prayer (Honoring our Source) is a way of being, a way of living in harmony with all of God's creations.

Unless you genuinely seek the truth and question the validity of the stories told to you by your religious leaders, you are stuck in a demonic trap of illusion.

Regarding abortion, nobody can prove with absolute certainty° that their beliefs are true and that other peoples beliefs are false.

Abortion is a highly complex religious issue. It’s also a religious freedom issue.°

If the Christian Bible is correct, then God is my grandfather.° Before you dismiss me as just another lunatic,° you might be wise to read the above-referenced story. He could be your grandfather, too.

We are all one people. Race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc. are all simply rolls we play in the game called life.

Eternity does not start some time in the future. Eternity is now. Time and space cease to be when we step outside of physical reality.

Humans are NOT their physical bodies.° Humans are eternal divine beings temporarily inhabiting human bodies. The human physical body can be likened to a house. A tenant moves in and later move back out again. The tenant is not the house. The house is not the tenant.

There is no such thing as death, only a change of form and “location.”

There is no such thing as “life beginning.” The consciousness that animates physical bodies always was and always will be. It simply moves in and out of physical bodies.

There is no such thing as “physical matter.” Everything is energy. You and all other life forms are energy beings who reach into physical mater and then withdraws themselves again. The journey into and back out of physical reality is like a cycle of breathing in and out, or the cycle of sleeping and waking, or like rising and falling of an ocean wave. No matter how high the wave rises, it's still part of the ocean. Form and focus change, but who and what you are transcends the cycles. (Reference)°

Reincarnation is true. The story the life begins at conception (God’s conception magic act)° is not reality; it’s only an ancient story about reality° that dates back to time when people believed the Earth was flat

Abortion is nothing more than stopping work on a construction site. The eternal divine being (a being just like you and me) who would have entered that body will simply enters human form in another
body at another time and place.

Coke and Pepsi are both just flavored, carbonated, sugar water that rot your teeth and throw the PH balance in your body way out of kilter. (We just added this sentence to see if you are really paying attention.)

Christians do not have exclusive access to God. And neither does any other religion.

God inspired the writing of numerous sacred writings in addition to the Christian Bible, writings such as the Vedas, the Qur'an, the Talmud, the Bhagavad-Gita, and The Book, of Mormon.

The anti-abortion war is an evil-inspired campaign based on illusion and deception.° (Reference 2)° (Reference 3)° (Reference 4)° (Reference 5)°

The Anti-abortion war does not save lives. It merely transfers death to other beings at other times and places° and in the process, brings pain, suffering, and misery to millions.

Christ-like behavior has been removed from the anti-abortionist’s version of Christianity.° Our intention is to put it back in.

A Call to Responsibility:

If responsibility was everyone's watchword, we could end this controversy almost overnight. For the full text of this section, please go to the page titled: Responsibility --The Path to Resolving the Abortion Controversy°

Regarding ending the anti-abortion war, viewers are also referred to the page titled: A Proposal for Resolving the Abortion Controversy°

The Overriding Issue

The anti-abortion war brings up a very important question:

“Who owns a woman’s body?”

Does a woman’s body belong to her or to the state?

Isn’t
it obvious
that the state should NOT
use police power to force women to become mothers?

The Points of Focus

Be pro-life if that’s your preference. Speak out against abortion if you choose to. BUT honor those who hold different beliefs. Regardless of what you believe, it’s not the governments place to force your religion onto others. It’s not the governments place to force unwilling women to bear unwanted children. Honor freedom of religion! Honor the Constitution! Honor everyone else's God-granted right of self–determination!

Let's focus on finding the truth° and letting that truth take us where it will.

Let's focus on saving the innocent lives of 40,000 already-born babies who starve to death every day or die from curable diseases.

Let's focus on some core problems such as overpopulation, environmental destruction, and poverty.

Let's focus on eliminating unwanted pregnancies.

Let's focus on developing a foolproof contraceptive.

Let's focus on ways to engage in sane, safe, sexual sharing° that avoids AIDS, unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

A Few Relevant Quotations:

u "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." ( Albert Einstein)

u "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." (Thomas Jefferson)

u "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." ( Bertrand De Jouvenel)

u "In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." ( Martin Luther King Jr.)

u "Like beauty, ugliness, obscenity, and sexual immorality are all in the eye of the beholder. That which is labeled as "unclean" is only unclean to he who thinks it to be unclean, and it is unclean only because belief and perception make it so." (Paraphrased from The Christian Bible, Romans 14:14 and 14:20)

u "When the government fears the people it is liberty. When the people fear the government it is tyranny." ( Thomas Paine)

u "Men never do evil so completely and do cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." (Pascal)

u "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ( Martin Luther King Jr.)

u "Politicians and diapers have one thing in common: they both should be changed regularly and for the same reason." ( Mark Twain)

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