I am exploring several ideas about egalitarianism. I hope I am presenting these ideas in a way that presents a fresh perspective. The ideas I speak of are violence against women (VAW); black lives matter (BLM); polyamory; and spiritualism. These are seemingly disparate ideas but, I posit they are treated similarly. All create an immediate condition of otherness where the person confronted by the idea does not see the impact of the idea upon themself.

Each of these is immediately framed culturally and then the frame has a perceived cultural/socially defined problem or kneejerk judgement. For example: BLM: the problem is racial, the focus is on black not people of color; VAW: the focus is women not men, though implied and what did “they” do to deserve such treatment; polyamory is swingers with the focus on a lack of morality rather than commitment, and spiritualism is kooks or extremism of those who do not live in reality. I suppose an anthropologist might appear to be the objective one in the room until she went home and sat around the dinner table to discuss #MeToo. The subject of polyamory will likely never come up because of its relevance to relationships. Spiritualism is often at the dinner table but offers a simple dichotomy that expresses we are right; we see an echo chamber for each of these phenomena.

I would further posit that these are all spiritual issues but not in the typical fashion that we discuss spirits. I do not see spirits as good or bad but just actors in their own right. Angels are spirits that take their form from a reality “manager”. Demons are spirits defined by a reality “manager”. Spirits are a phenomenon that exists in every culture. We believe that at times these spirits work within our physical world. We can also say that universally, they work on our emotions. They are in our imaginations and in some sense take on physical aspects such as sirens, ghosts, and leprechauns. One could argue that this is because of common fears and even aspirations. But suppose for a moment that perhaps spirits do exist and operate in our world physically, emotionally, and temporarily. Is it possible? Maybe. Consider the Lines of Nasca. Some say that these are the work of aliens. Could these be spirits? Who knows? I think that spirits exist and I think they have a lot to do on the way we frame our thoughts… our thoughts lead to behaviors.

The question is where do you think we get these frames. Perhaps they are inherited from our parents. We may get them from passed on information as we develop from child to adult. But is everyone a clone of their parents, teachers, or friends? Not quite. But suppose our frames come from spirits. We come in contact with other spirits based upon the people we meet and perhaps an intervention of some spirits. Could the state of Nirvana be from a spirit or the idea that we can be ‘born again’ through the spirit? Suppose, there is someone managing those spirits.

I rationalize that the place spirits mostly have an effect on is the human heart where we frame everything we think about. The heart is our emotional center. Mankind can never overcome this. Can we prevent, change, or alter VAW? From what I have presented, only through spiritual means, which I have not defined yet. Can we repair relationships by making marriage stronger, more open, more defined, or more anything? I don’t think so unless we affect the spiritual aspects of the core issue. I could go on, but I won’t.

Let’s define my idea of spiritualism. Consider the popular labels of Christian, Islam, Agnostic, etc; these are considered to be competing ideas despite these all operate, for the most part, separately. We also have Universalism and mindfulness that seek to harmonize or eliminate the idea of competition, but they do offer an alternative view so they are competitive also. You can be a universalist and be Muslim. But what if we put forth an idea of a hierarchy of spirits? None good. None bad. Just one controller at a time that defines reality? Yeah, this is weird stuff. Each manager is equal so you can get the benefits of any spiritual reality you step into. If we thought about competing spiritual understandings as separate and equal, perhaps we could begin to build bridges to each other’s reality. Maybe we could affect VAW, BLM, polyamory, and spiritualism in an egalitarian fashion that would make our spirit happy and glow.