The New Age Messiah?By Nancy Matthis | Friday, June 6th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
or, Does he really have an aura?
The Obama candidacy is getting weirder by the minute. Large numbers of us puzzled over the fact that so many citizens voted for a very young politician with such minimal experience. Now, from the left coast (naturally) comes this supernatural explanation:
Is Obama an enlightened being?
Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain’t no ordinary politician.
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist | Friday, June 6, 2008….Barack Obama isn’t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway….
… you want to know what it is? The appeal, the pull, the ethereal and magical thing that seems to enthrall millions of people from all over the world, that keeps opening up and firing into new channels of the culture normally completely unaffected by politics?
No, it’s not merely his youthful vigor, or handsomeness, or even inspiring rhetoric. It is not fresh ideas or cool charisma or the fact that a black president will be historic and revolutionary in about a thousand different ways. It is something more. …a sort of powerful luminosity, a unique high-vibration integrity….
… 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 here is an image of Obama as Lightworker.
Well, if we are going to evaluate this storyline, which does seem to be enthralling masses of the credulous, it will be helpful to consider the definition of Lightworker from Wikipedia:
A lightworker is a person who feels inspired to help others through spiritual meditation, teaching, healing, prayer, writing and speaking through unconditonal love….
Lightworkers can come from a variety of spiritual traditions and backgrounds, yet generally agree that the healing light they work with is comprised of eternal energy connecting everyone and everything in the universe, and that it is possible for people to connect consciously with divine light energies through intention.
This energy is sometimes viewed as the energy of the divine creator (or God) within us all – sometimes referred to as “inner light” or divine spark.
The term Lightworker also refers to a person who works with light energy according to a wide variety of New age and Alternative healing practices. Some of the more common forms of this form of light work are: healing modalities that use different energetic processes such as reiki, and balancing or connecting energies from one place to another, such as from the universe to the earth grids. Pleiadian Lightwork … is another system that employs the term itself. A new form of energetic lightwork is Vortex healing which is derived from the Merlin lineage and also encompasses angelic healing.
Probably the most common form of Lightwork would be a person who chooses to “shine their light.” The premise behind the concept of “shining your light” is that our world and society are improved by people being kind, compassionate, loving, and considerate to each other. It is choosing to use actions, thoughts and words to create situations that show others they are appreciated, cared for, and loved. A person who chooses to use the label lightworker, often indicates a person who sees being loving and compassionate to others as a spiritual path – a path to connecting with the divine….
This is all very wonderous and heart-warming stuff, but — REALITY CHECK — somebody has to run the country, folks. It is a natural human longing to identify a higher being to whom we can look for guidance and to whom we can trust our welfare. But that should be the Creator that we worship in our chosen religion, and we should select a human being with outstanding and deeply proven management experience to run the nation. Remember, God helps those who help themselves. We cannot abandon the responsibility of our franchise to choose wisely on the basis of earthly qualifications. Of course, good morals are a real plus.
Having spent a long and fruitful life watching every conceivable variation of political water flow under the bridge, we are deeply suspicious of this narrative. A much more likely explanation: the Obama campaign staff includes an outstandingly creative public relations team with imaginative graphic artists and talented Photoshop experts to mine this vein of the collective subconscious and further this meme.
And the messianic message was especially targeted at an audience preconditioned to be seduced by this technique, black churchgoers whose lively Sunday services include a lot of heavy breathing that stimulates endorphins and creates a euphoria which they misconstrue as religious experience. So the campaign message was heard on already patterned mental channels associated with spiritual activity. All the clues are there, the same rhetorical techniques, the hypnotic repetition, the pulpit pounding. The Clintons in their day were masters of mental manipulation, but they were completely outdone by this new charismatic black religion paradigm.
All Americans need to snap out of this mass mesmerism and make political judgements based on real data. Hopes and dreams are no substitute for qualifications and experience, no matter how appealing those fairy tales seem to be. This election is about what will best secure the general welfare — about national security, job growth, the economy, restoring infrastructure (has everyone forgotten the bridge collapse?), education, health care, energy resource development, emergency preparedness, immigration policy. It is about filling an executive job, and not about adopting a new religion.
Related discussion:
Obama no longer a mere politician — oh, no. He’s a GOD!
It’s been confirmed: Barack Obama really is the Obamamessiah! Confirmed by who? Well, it’s been confirmed by this dolt writing for, surprise surprise, a major U.S. newspaper, the San Francisco Gate.
There is a very earnest article out of San Francisco on why Obama is “more” than the rest of us in some way. Although I could easily make fun, there is no point. However, it might go a little way to understanding what folks see in the Democratic nominee.
He’s Not The Messiah, He’s Just a Lightworker
Obama willing, my re-education facility will be somewhere in the mountains, with a nice view.
The Deification of the Democrats
By now, most of the blogosphere knows that Mark Morford is one of the most venomous, hateful moonbats currently writing for a major US newspaper. But today he’s got a column you’re not going to believe, about the transcendent being we unenlightened ones know simply as “Barack Obama….
“A light will shine through that window,
a beam of light will come down upon you,
you will experience an epiphany …
and you will suddenly realize
that you must go to the polls
and vote for Obama…”~ Barack Obama, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
January 7, 2008.
UPDATE: More from Michelle Malkin — Obama The Lightworker
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4 Responses to “The New Age Messiah?”
June 6th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. John 1:3-5
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1:9-11
June 7th, 2008 at 8:43 am
A Lightworker is one who is a god unto themselves in violation of the First Commandment. They believe in the philosophy of “intention” or that if one intends something to happen, it will. One brings their own reality and connects with a shared and common reality. It is bovine scatology that holds concepts of “right or wrong” are an illusion not recognize the existence of a supreme creator. Lightworker = Marxist
June 7th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I appreciate your article, and as both a liberal and lightworker myself, would like to point out that:
The majority reaction of the Democratic party base to obama is revulsion, not deification.
The majority of Democrats voted for Hillary Clinton, whom you, apparently, have a low opinion of, but whom many from left, right and center, through this primary campaign season, have come to respect for her strength and endurance, in the face of the Democratic party’s currently corrupt leadership.
The majority of individuals who have long term experience with obama are also repulsed by his negativity, his history of bigotry and radicalism, and his long-term associates, who reflect well, what he really is and what he stands for.
The majority of individuals who claim that obama represents anything uplifting or positive for humanity are novitiates in spiritual training, ungrounded in the real meaning of lightwork principles and, most signigicantly, these people are totally ungrounded in national and international politics, as well. So, it is easy for them to project their hopes and dreams onto obama. They, frankly, do not want to be troubled with the facts and they do want some bright shiny MSM empty suit to make false promises that further enable them to remove themselves from any responsibility for themselves. This also perpetuates their interest in letting the world’s problems be worked out through some, ephemeral Divine Intervention, without any effort on their part.
Thanks for your article. I hope my footnotes are well received and clarifying because this is a time for all true patriots to come together, at the Center of things, and not remain prey to either the far right or far left. What this country needs is to get Centered. What obama represents is a far left backlash in reaction to the errors caused by excessive far right influence. That is NOT an answer, of course, nor a solution. It is simply a reaction and ought to be seen for what it is.
June 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Up until this election cycle, I did not think much of Hillary. And I still certainly don’t agree with her platform, which I consider socialistic. But she certainly did earn my admiration as a tough campaigner.
I particularly resonated with her attitude that she could accept losing, but could not accept quitting. I believe that, in terms of presenting her case to her party, she did everything just right.
And I agree with you that the segment voting for Obama are the ones that want to “project their hopes and dreams” onto someone else, instead of rolling up their sleeves and working for them.