Is Obama an enlightened being?

[Inuca]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/06/notes060608.DTL&nl=fix Mark Morford's yesterday's column. Posted in GD-P, but I thought it worth to bring it here as well. Whatever the level of your "karmic anntenae" (mine are I think dull to almost non-existing), I think it is thought provoking. Some quotes:

Here's where it gets gooey. 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.

But there simply is no denying that extra kick. As one reader put it to me, in a way, it's not even about Obama, per se. There's a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that's been held back by the armies of BushCo darkness, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod, is now effortlessly self-organizing around Obama's candidacy. People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration are automatically drawn to him. It's exactly like how Bush was a magnet for the low vibrational energies of fear and war and oppression and aggression, but, you know, completely reversed. And different. And far, far better.


Don't buy any of it? Think that's all a bunch of tofu-sucking New Agey bulls-- and Obama is really a dangerously elitist political salesman whose inexperience will lead us further into darkness because, when you're talking national politics, nothing, really, ever changes? I understand. I get it. I often believe it myself.


Not this time.

[grantcart]

1. Unfortunately I think the introduction of new age vocabulary

is a problem in it makes it seem that the point is rooted in some rather flaky new spiritualism.

I think he is a person who has been able to transcend his own experience to an unusual degree and is able to see essential moral and political issues in a light that is consistent with his metaphysical values. I am also troubled when people appropriate somebody into their own metaphysical structure. Since Senator Obama defines himself as a Christian we should describe him in those terms.

In that context I find that his faith has enabled him to transcend his own experience and life narrative to see this country and its opporunities more clearly than any recent politician.