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Love Conquers All

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(seen via Jason Evan's blog)

In the consideration of activism and revolution that is self-consciously spiritual in nature the revolutionary/empowered cycle remains. This metamorphosis is no mere state/political reality--as if spiritual matters were somehow categorically different or apolitical. The historically verifiable reality of the movement from oppressed-to-oppressor is the inevitable outcome of any revolution that seeks to not only disrupt, but to disempower an entrenched power system. The institutional outcomes of this cycle often catch the, would be, spiritual revolutionary by surprise (consider Joan of Arc) and, in one form or another, is the source for innumerable transitions from idealistic revolution to disillusioned political despondency.

(original article at ::seven::)