President Obama functions with White Light of the Holy Spirit
Loved Ones…Obama's meditative demeanor throughout his campaigning was exemplary.

Repeatedly, he has talked about Gandhi as one of his chief inspirations: "In my life, I have always looked to Mahatma Gandhi as an inspiration, because he embodies the kind of transformational change that can be made when ordinary people come together to do extraordinary things. That is why his portrait hangs in my Senate office; to remind me that real results will not just come from Washington, they will come from the people."

Time magazine even captured his "lucky charm" of Hanuman, an Indian diety, that moved many South Asians. :) Chronicle even published an article in June wondering if he was enlightened!

In a candid conversation on faith that Obama had with Cathleen Falsani during his 2004 Senate campaign, that illuminates the clarity of his values and spiritual practice. Some excerpts that were found to be insightful:

Obama: It's interesting, the most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.

Q: What's that power? Is it the holy spirit? God?

Obama: Well, I think it's the power of the recognition of God, or the recognition of a larger truth that is being shared between me and an audience.

That's something you learn watching ministers, quite a bit. What they call the Holy Spirit. They want the Holy Spirit to come down before they're preaching, right?

Not to try to intellectualize it but what I see is there are moments that happen within a sermon where the minister gets out of his ego and is speaking from a deeper source. And it's powerful.

There are also times when you can see the ego getting in the way. Where the minister is performing and clearly straining for applause or an Amen. And those are distinct moments. I think those former moments are sacred. [...]

A standard line in my stump speech during this campaign is that my politics are informed by a belief that we're all connected. That if there's a child on the South Side of Chicago that can't read, that makes a difference in my life even if it's not my own child. If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

And if there's an Arab American family that's being rounded up by John Ashcroft without the benefit of due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

I can give religious expression to that. I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, we are all children of God. Or I can express it in secular terms. But the basic premise remains the same.

Q: An example of a role model, who combined everything you said you want to do in your life, and your faith?

Obama: I think Gandhi is a great example of a profoundly spiritual man who acted and risked everything on behalf of those values but never slipped into intolerance or dogma. He seemed to always maintain an air of doubt about him.

I think Dr. King, and Lincoln. Those three are good examples for me of people who applied their faith to a larger canvas without allowing that faith to metastasize into something that is hurtful.

Loved Ones…include the most loving President Obama and all his loved ones in your prayers…at this time I petition for the White Light of the Holy Spirit to be above him, below him, in front of him and behind him, I petition for the White Light to be to the right of him and all that is left of him…I petition and ask that in the name of Mother and Father God.

You and all your love ones are always in my prayers,

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
www.WhiteLightoftheHolySpirit.com
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 4:59 AM