INSIGHT 37: MONARCHY IS NOT OUTDATED. INSTEAD, OUR IDEA...

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INSIGHT 37: MONARCHY IS NOT OUTDATED. INSTEAD, OUR IDEA AND EVEN NEED FOR MONARCHY HIGHLIGHTS THE SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS AT THE CORE OF OUR MODERN STATES AND SOCIETIES. WE HAVE NO HOPE UNLESS WE AT LAST AWAKEN TO OUT TRUE SPIRITUAL BEING, TO THE SACREDNESS OF OUR LIVES AND OUR UNIVERSE. AND WITH THIS AWAKENING, SO SHALL COME OUR SPIRITUAL HEALING OF OURSELVES, OF EACH OTHER, OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OF OUR MOTHER EARTH, OUR HOLY GAIA.

These insights, that were begun by Richard Dell right back in the early 1990s, touch on all the most meaningful and indeed important religious and spiritual issues of our times. They are the same now as they were then. These Insights see religion just as firmly grounded in the Earth and in the stars as it is in the spirit and in the heavens. Richard sees no distinction between the material and spiritual realms. ALL is ONE. This comes through so clearly in these Insights, and that is why the environmental movement – our awakening at last to the needs of Gaia, of our planet – is as important as any spiritual quest, as important as all our need for healing, and is and must be an integral part of that holistic oneness that we must achieve in all that we do. It is also why issues such as Black Lives Matter are deeply spiritual. Richard sees inclusivity as being at the core of all our spiritual and religious endeavours. ALL is indeed ONE. And that mantra is the key to humanity’s future evolution: spiritual, social and political. The overly materialistic and mechanistic societies that we have created are ill fitted to meet the needs of a people that might overtly respond to the materialistic and mechanistic, but which in its hearts senses an unease, a profound loss, even an existential or spiritual emptiness. We as people need to recognise that loss in ourselves, and our monarchies need to recognise that it is that spiritual need that they must relate to and respond to.

MONARCHY APPEARS SO ANACHRONISTIC BECAUSE OUR MODERN WORLD, OUR MODERN UNSPIRITUAL NATION-STATE, THE WAY WE DO THINGS IN OUR UNSPIRITUAL MODERN WORLD, IS ESSENTIALLY MATERIALISTIC AND MECHANISTIC. CLEARLY MONARCHY CAN HAVE NO PLACE IN OUR MODERN WORLD IF THAT MONARCHY IS ABOUT POWER AND PRIVILEGE, AS SO OFTEN IN THE PAST IT WAS. THE MONARCHY THAT ACTUALLY CAN HAVE A PLACE IN OUR MODERN WORLD IS THAT MONARCHY THAT MANAGES TO REPRESENT THE SPIRITUAL ASPECT OF A PEOPLE, A SPIRITUAL ASPECT THAT IS TOO OFTEN LACKING IN OUR MODERN TIMES. WITH A SPIRITUALLY INCLINED MONARCHY WE CAN UNKNOWINGLY TOUCH THE SACRED AND THE MYSTICAL.

Having a monarch as head of state might well appear anachronistic in our modern world. But the reason why it does appear anachronistic, even blatantly so, throws a spotlight on something about our modern world that is profoundly out of kilter with what our world should be. Monarchy appears so anachronistic because our modern world, our modern nation-state, the way we do things in our modern world, is essentially materialistic and mechanistic. Clearly monarchy can have no place in our modern world if that monarchy is about power and privilege, as so often in the past it was. The monarchy that actually can have a place in our modern world is that monarchy that manages to represent the spiritual aspect of a people, a spiritual aspect that is too often lacking in our modern times. The overly materialistic and mechanistic societies that we have created are ill fitted to meet the needs of a people that might overtly respond to the materialistic and mechanistic, but which in its hearts senses an unease, a profound loss, even an existential or spiritual emptiness. We as people need to recognise that loss in ourselves, and our monarchies need to recognise that it is that spiritual need that they must relate to and respond to.