I've been asked to speak about "How to confront Empire?" It's a huge question, and I have no easy answers.
When we speak of confronting "Empire," we need to identify what "Empire" means. Does it mean the U.S. Government (and its European satellites), the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and multinational corporations? Or is it something more than that?
In many countries, Empire has sprouted other subsidiary heads, some dangerous byproducts — nationalism, religious bigotry, fascism and, of course terrorism. All these march arm in arm with the project of corporate globalization.
Let me illustrate what I mean. India — the world's biggest democracy — is currently at the forefront of the corporate globalization project. Its "market" of one billion people is being prised open by the WTO. Corporatization and Privatization are being welcomed by the Government and the Indian elite.
It is not a coincidence that the Prime Minister, the Home Minister, the Disinvestment Minister — the men who signed the deal with Enron in India, the men who are selling the country's infrastructure to corporate multinationals, the men who want to privatize water, electricity, oil, coal, steel, health, education and telecommunication — are all members or admirers of the RSS. The RSS is a right wing, ultra-nationalist Hindu guild which has openly admired Hitler and his methods.
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The trick, it seems to me, is to fully accept and feel all of the reactions of your mind, your emotions and your body; without being seduced into experiencing these as constituting the core of who you really are. Denial doesn't work, resistance doesn't work, pretending doesn't work, magnifying doesn't work, acting out doesn't work; but maintaining a sense of humor (if possible) and remembering that at your core you are Light, and that as Light, you are compassion, joy, creativity, etc. does work. All the great teachers, the nde experiencers, and the channelers that I know tell us the same thing about who we are at our core.
