Four Castes

Every social group has, implicitly or explicitly, four castes:

Workers,

Business men,

Defence,

Priests.

Priests are to con-temp-late (beat in time with) a particular line of progress and indicate what the outcome will be. But because churches have disgraced themselves, many focusing on Old Testament fear instead of New Testament love, we've seen a flight away from them. Churches are crying out because they're empty. Curiously, we have one in Chester that's being used as a bar, enlivening the patrons through a different form of spirit.

Let down by their priestly caste, in their stead, drifts of large portions of disillusioned populations have chosen atheism. It is hoped that clinging to knowledge in the form of science will be the new saviour. But there is no wisdom in knowledge, it sees a future statistically, based only on what has already happened. Knowledge only suggests, based on past results, what might possibly happen.

Science (knowledge) aims to control what is known, in order to free ourselves for new creations. What it has succeeded in doing is raising the level of our attention from the heart zone, from which all creativity springs, into the head. Latest generations of tablets and smart phones continually add to this flight from feeling to the intellect, away from our creative centre, away from 'the kingdom of god within.' 

If God=love, it's equally true that love=God.

Faced with the unreliability of the scientific method, incidences of mental breakdown have increased. In the sixties, the number was given as 20,000. In 2013, renamed 'anxiety disorders', there were 8,000,000 sufferers, over 6,000 of whom committed suicide. (medaid.org)

Many flock to the music festival, a respite which has taken over from the church with their offer of solace. Music, bringing us down to our heart, communicates more deeply, touches us at the feeling level in way that very few other media can. 

A few minutes of meditation-contemplation daily, connects us to that place within. The place where we are our own priest, in light, peace and love.