Taken from the book: The True Dynamics of Life by Mike Robinson:
Self-Prostitution
We need money for the basic fundamentals in order to survive, so we trade our learnt knowledge for this commodity. This could be a fair trade, but in fact the whole monetary system has become polluted by corruption and greed and we often compromise ourselves in order to get money to survive in this vast machine of man-made society.
What exactly is prostitution? The word breaks down to describe something which is for sale. The most widely accepted social term for prostitution is that of selling the body for sex, but the real understanding of prostitution is an individual matter because on some level we are all doing it. Ask yourself exactly what you are selling to the world? It could be the sale of your gifts, your knowledge and your personal energy. Is the exchange fair, or are you giving yourself over to be used and abused by those who will take without care for any damage or responsibility?
Are you selling out of fear, desperation or need? We are all born with gifts and vital life-giving energy, but what would happen if you stopped selling that vital energy? Every thought, every act and every feeling is energy in movement. When you sell yourself for something in return you need to ask what will happen to the energy which you have sold. For example, if you are a weapon scientist and you are selling your knowledge to make equipment that can kill millions of so-called enemies and destroy nature, then you have to be very clear on how your energy has gone into that product and moved outwards, making you a part of every murdering bullet or bomb. This is the responsibility of selling yourself. This applies to everyone no matter how inconsequential you believe your energy to be. This energy exchange happens whether we are consciously aware of it or not. We are not just living a human materialistic life, we are spiritual beings. You may argue this fact, but just because you cannot see air does not prove its non-existence.
When we look outside of our windows we can honestly say nature has, without a doubt, been prostituted by humanity. Heartbreakingly, we never asked her permission for anything, we just took, nor have we traded fairly and this is called rape. Almost everything we have done and taken from her has resulted in a cry of protest. We are not separate from nature, but we believe we are. We kill animals, pollute the oceans, rivers and the air, we drill great big holes in her and we fill her with filthy rubbish. We have even claimed her land and put up fences and called a scrappy piece of acreage ‘mine’ and then we have the cheek to sell it to other humans for huge amounts of money, just so they too can call it their own, yet in truth we have never owned it. It is an illusion.
What right have we got to abuse something so life-giving? When will we realise we are being abusive to the one thing which has given us the ability to live on this planet? She has given each of us a human body and the bounty of nature was laid at our feet. We came here to help her and work with her, yet she has suffered at the hands of humanity. If you were to really look at nature you would see that there is something so deeply wrong. If a God supposedly created this Earth and nature, then why are there acts of non-love here? An animal killing another animal, a plant strangling another plant, birds pinching eggs from other nests, etc. If God is all-loving, how could he possibly create a non-loving energy? How can love create non-love? Is that possible, or has something else happened which we are ignorant of?
We came here as humans to sort out the problem, not make it worse. We have become so caught up in the games of society, religion, money and position that we have stopped doing what we were supposed to do. Nature is the proof of that. She is in a terrible state and slowly dying at our hands, simply because we prostituted her and now we have become her fat rich pimp.
Whatever we do externally, we are doing internally, so the abuse of nature in the world is the abuse of our own inner self. How many times have we traded the very beauty of our essence of pure light to get something materialistic or to have security? Is this an act of love or an act of fear? Is the actual fear of not being able to survive here and the fear of death driving us to sell our spiritual heritage to the darker basal desires of the human mind?
We are conditioned from birth, right through to the day we die. We live life from rules set down by institutions, which add and subtract limitations through each generation. We follow blindly, whilst we suffer at the same time. Will this conditioning ever stop? Because it is not the solution to the healing of humanity and this planet, as each generation is getting more restless and more destructive, and we can see this happening in music, films, technology, media, food, alcohol and material possessions. Humanity is insatiable and it keeps on desiring more and more. Underneath this greed is fear. It is the fear of not knowing which keeps us driving forward for a security that does not exist.
The root of the human conditioning is this very same fear. It is deeply embedded in the soil of duality, which is right and wrong, pleasure and pain. Each child is brought up according to this model which is outlined by its nation. We are teaching our children separation from each other and we are teaching them to live from the mind, fear and learnt descriptions. This is because we are doing it to ourselves. Somewhere along the way we abandoned our connection to the real ‘us’ and now we are lost. Well, there is a way out of the mire of illusion; you just have to be prepared to drop your conditioning. Not through years of therapy, but through seeing the very fact of this conditioning, and the very fact is, you have become something other than what you really are.
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