January 18, 2014

Dear Sir,

The biblical adage “To everything is a season and a time” implicitly says that the order of life is fixed in such way that for things to occur all the elements must be present to facilitate whatever that thing is. Doesn’t mean you can’t plant out of season, but what it does mean is that if you do, you must recreate the essential environment needed. All life is patterned like that, accept politics, but only as it seems. Our politics in particular wants to operate off arbitrary rules laced with expediency, where whatever smoke and mirrors of deception that suits the moment will do.

Political consultants employed to gauge public mood has evolved to a science. Buzz words and popular sentiments can be put into capsules and fed to the public to strike a sympathetic cord to gain a desired but artificial result. They do that similar thing with chickens, make a light to come on in the middle of the night and they lay eggs twice a day, same with fertility pills which cause women to ovulate several times a month.

However there is something inescapable underneath which is the natural life of the organism which suffers when proper balance is not observed. When human intelligence is circumvented a neurosis develops in society which erupts from time to time.

Benevolence is at the core of our being and the essence of genius, it may appear as though greed and avarice is also at the core because it’s our experience, but really they are only a reaction and acquired. Natural leadership is connected to benevolence and is kindled by our collective experience. We often think of for example Moses as a messenger of God, which is true, but we never think of Moses as a product of Pharaoh, which is another truth. Without the suppression of the Jews by the Pharaoh, what need would there be for a Moses? Indeed the whole narrative of Jesus was that of the one who would deliver the lost sheep i.e. the children of Israel from their oppressor. They were looking for a messiah to bring them self-dignity and restore their kingdom. But true deliverance as in the case of Moses or Jesus is an innate issue created in our subconscious world to restore balance and the natural order of love.

Real Leaders are actually born from a cosmic affair charged to bring societies towards fulfilling their innate human potential. While their senses are stimulated by the environment in which they are born, their purpose, which defines their character, is nature’s benevolent response to bring balance. Society achieves worthiness when they recognise and support their natural leaders and become blameworthy when they don’t. Society can rise to unlimited levels with creativity when they are guided by the light stemming from love and benevolence and will plummet to horrible depths when they deny their own light and inborn genius. Benevolence is connected and irresistibly supported by every element in the universe and with time will manifestly triumph. For that reason the idea of freedom as expressed in the US constitution as manifest destiny and will prevail in-spite of the ignorance and contrary motivations of greed. If the USA do not live up to its global purpose it will fail as a nation and be replaced by those that rise to the higher ideal.

Today while we each are a part of a fraternity of nations the mandate for each of us individually and collectively is global. Gone are the days of the glorified position of simple governors and managers. If leaders of today do not have a message suitable and relevant enough for the world, it’s not good enough for the nation either. The challenge is to define our leaders and have the forum to lift all of them up. The world wants to see a good example we don’t have to wait for it we need to create it.

KHALID WASI