Saint Peter don't ya call me cause I can't go
I owe my Soul to the company store.
(Lyrics taken from http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/classic-country/sixteen-tons---tennessee-ernie-ford-14930.html)
Does this song speak to you regarding credit card debt and loans that take a lifetime to pay off? Are you just a sharecropper on the land the bank owns in your name? Dare you continue being a standardized consumer being manipulated by the "man behind the curtain?"
Who is that Wizard ultimately spouting fire, smoke and abusive words at Dorothy (the Soul, Dor-thea, beloved of God). The power is not in the man behind the curtain for he is ultimately exposed as a farce. He is nothing more nor less than a living human being. Who disclosed him? It's none other than the little dog Toto (Dorothy's instinctual power). Dorothy ultimately knows better.
Once we truly open our eyes, we too will know better.
Who is our Wizard? Dare we expose him without and within ourselves and move on? Or do we continue to worship the illusionary "man behind the curtain?" How do we find him? "Just follow the yellow brick road," (i.e., the gold.) Follow the money and you will find the charlatan.
http://lifeintheboomerlane.com/2011/02/10/i-get-royalties-and-you-dont/monopoly-man/
Is the Wizard truly the man smoking the cigar? Or is the Wizard about all of us, our shallow ego minds that are exclusive of nothing or no one? Consider the following poem called "Mind Without Fear" in a collection called Gitanjali: Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;"Where knowledge is free;"Where the world has not been broken up"into fragments by narrow domestic walls;"Where words come out from the depth of truth;"Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;"Where the clear stream of reason"has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;"Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action---"Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Ultimately, it is we that need to change. We must discard the holier-(wiser, wealthier, needier, worthier, stronger, better)-than-thou curtain behind which we conceal our interdependent humanity and step out as "we the (common) people." When we awaken, the Earth come alive.
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