Discussion 3: Saving the Spiritual Story of our Democracy

The Basis of Reality is in Our Perception.

This is an updated version of the article published Nov 16, 2024, no different than its form republished on June 4, 2025. Keeping both published is to preserve restack links.

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Next in our journey, we seek to learn how our house of knowledge can save our democracy. With the reflective nature of our singularity sound, we are ready to understand the blindness working in the political parties of our national conscience (suneidesis)¹ and, with this, save our perception of the spiritual story. Spiritual perception is everything.

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From the Prologue of The Spiritual Story of Democracy—

When the dramatic language of spiritual stories resonates truth in your heart, possess it the same way by manifesting its spiritual essence, but in its aspects of story essence.

The Setting of the Spiritual Story of Democracy

Spiritual stories work in dimensional permeations according to the Now of Word. When picturing two beams of light permeating each other in time, we see them in the same time-experience or space-time, even when, let’s say, one of them is conveying a memory. For the past is past and the memory of it is light in the present remanifesting the images. So every image in our permeating beams must be in the linear sense of now.

However, the Now of Word in our house of knowledge is the now of the world suneidesis,² without distinction of past and present. It allows for the spiritual events behind the events of time to be present in the same nonlinear sense of the spiritual now.

All the events of a spiritual story do this in the same absolute position of our house of knowledge. To save the spiritual story of any democracy, therefore, depends on first perceiving it in the full reflective nature of Word’s undivided singularity—revealing its permeations in the world suneidesis, the Now of Word.

The Images of Woman and Man in the Spiritual Story

In such spiritual stories, the protagonist is a bodily name of light who has world vision. In The Spiritual Story of Democracy, it is a group of bodily names conjoined as the house of knowledge. They host the conflict between Democrats and Republics, who are both the antagonists. However, between them, the Democrats are the protagonists for those fighting for compassion even while misusing the image of woman, while the Republicans are the protagonists for those fighting for Christian moral standards as they see them even while misusing the image of man.

Neither of them has principle world-vision since neither loves the other as enemies of their national suneidesis, so in the main storyline, they are both antagonists. And yet, simultaneously in the supersession of the Now of Word, they both use the principle and there is no opposition. Likewise, the beginning, middle and end events of transformation are all happening at the same time. These different paradigms serve as the paradigm windows of our house of knowledge. See the Epilogue of The Spiritual Story of Democracy.

The Power of Story Perception

Now it is one thing in the spiritual story not to resist blindness or the actions of blindness blindly and quite another to see others suffering from blindness, theirs and others’, in the world. Remember, spiritual stories are neither fact nor fiction, as is necessary for stories in the world. Although symbolic for Name’s indescribable light, they are bodily names of light living a story through their attribute of knowledge in light-fold relationships.

Using linear time, let’s consider how the outcome of the spiritual story is real in the world, unlike the outcome of stories of the world.

The importance of saving the spiritual story of our democracy is about winning the spiritual battle. Consider how Israel was taken captive and led into Babylon, losing the battle in the world but winning the spiritual battle by staying awake and being returned to Israel years later, as can be said of their recent return in 1948.

To stay awake in Word’s teaching of the principle, if, during a spiritual battle, we cannot spiritually answer the question, “How can a loving God allow this?”, we lose to blind bodily names who prey on such ignorance, even though they themselves have no clue nor believe there is a valid answer. The outcome has consequences in our daily lives. For one, it can lead us into doubting the nature of our conscientious awareness, pushing us to use the money-time reality over co-conscientious reality—in governing our decisions over the lives of those in other countries.

Consider how we look at those being killed or suffering in Gaza and the Israelis killed or taken hostage by Hamas. If we cannot apply the principle to both sides, we will not be able to envision them in Act IV of The Spiritual Story of Democracy. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is resolved in the story and manifests that way through one paradigm window of our house of knowledge—while simultaneously through another, it is unresolved as it is in the world. The inability to envision this with the principle, as well the Democrat/Republican conflict, works from a blind part in our suneidesis, having negative consequences in the world.

Saving the Spiritual Story of our Democracy

Therefore, perceiving the spiritual story of our democracy in the full reflective nature of Word’s undivided singularity—reveals its permeations in our world suneidesis, the Now of Word. This is how we save our spiritual story. See how both parties are wrestling Name through each other (see The Practical Guide) and bear their burdens with the agapé light of Word, by blessing who they both are in Name.

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1. Suneidesis, pronounced soon-eye-day-sis, is a Greek word that joins our natural awareness with our sense of conscience. Click on the link for a detailed explanation. It is central to this teaching. Using this foreign word regularly in discussions helps us get accustomed to experiencing something new and positive working in our awareness itself. When the word conscience is used, it will refer to the aspect of suneidesis that involves right and wrong, but this aspect cannot be separated from our co-conscientious awareness of all things.

If I understand that my awareness of something as simple as a cup includes co-conscientiousness, I do not allow myself to get blinded by the cup alone but know it as part of all creation at the hands of the Creator or the universe, depending on one’s beliefs. Spiritual maturity does this naturally.

2. The repetition of suneidesis is meant to challenge you to consider this dimension in your awareness. Apologies, but it will only be a necessary annoyance until it becomes natural.