I don’t think reading another book written by yet another spiritual master steeped in “white privilege” is going to get the job done. Looking to white Evangelical Christianity for solutions towards racism is identical to looking to active arsonists for help in fighting forest fires. And looking to teachers who claim that we all just need to meditate more, or just be more present in the “now”, is equivalent to sticking our spiritual heads in the sand. Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil means
HEAL NO EVIL.
I have written a few books about toxic masculinity, toxic capitalism, and toxic religion, and they just get poo-pooed by those supposedly in the “spiritual know”. That is why nothing ever changes, the people that many of us look up to, and worship, keep us stuck in our prejudices, inaction, and deadly silence in the face of ignorance and evil. Those who proclaim that liberation is at hand forget that we must see the matrix of unconsciousness that guides and controls us, before we can consciously and completely let it go, and see into whatever Infinity has to offer to us in this moment.
How do you reunite a spiritually and racially splintered country?
Here is what Mike Pence stated:
Pence, a devout Christian of the born-again stripe, calmly replied that he would orient the country toward God and away from “voices of division” demanding transformational change — or, in his words, talking “too much” about systemic racism. “The faith community, I believe, has before and can again pay an enormously important role in healing the divide in our country,” Pence said to the clergy and congregants seated around him. What doesn’t help, he volunteered, is “this talk of institutional bias, or racism, within law enforcement.” And Pence is the moderate voice within our present administration!
President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said Wednesday that he doesn’t regard “systemic racism” as a problem in the U.S. Donald Trump’s main adviser and often times speech writer, Stephen Miller, is a white nationalist and a racist of the first order, and he will continue to bring hatred to the national discussion. Nobody should expect any kind of structural changes in regards to our national problem of institutionalized racism for a long time to come.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven
It is time to exit our caverns, fellow white Americans, and other white dominated cultures from around the world.
We all must develop the courage to not only recognize evil/ignorance wherever it might appear, we must confront it, both within ourselves, and within our world, and challenge it, and keep challenging it, until it becomes dislodged, and love and understanding can be revealed.There are so many “Hank Williams Jr.” types, however (even is disguise within our own hearts and minds) that our work will never be completed. Do not despair, Spirit is with us until the end.There remains a lot of work to do, but there is a lot of gain for all of us.
We must be prepared to “leave the flock”, and to “punch a Nazi”, at least figuratively speaking, if the situation warrants it. Otherwise, we remain only lemmings that follow others, perhaps even off of the cliffs of rationality and love.
“We have to be willing to lay our lives on the line for our friends, and make whatever sacrifice that is necessary to protect each other from danger!”
Spiritual freedom has never been about guns, money, or religion, 
Punch A Nazi Sign at June 2018 Portland, Oregon Rally for Immigrants and their families 
Caricature of men working things out between themselves. 
The Far Side Wait, Wait, We don’t have to be just sheep
