These spin doctors are making me sick -- and more than a little bit sad.

Yesterday I wrote about my reaction to the race-baiting being done by some talk show hosts and guest "experts" who somehow felt threatened by the 8/28 rally organized by Glenn Beck this past weekend in D.C.

Granted, these people were seeing it from the opposite end of the political spectrum from Beck and his crowd, who were openly committed to values like faith, hope and charity, as well as politically conservative in their approach to government and public affairs.

A rally was held in Washington over the weekend at the Lincoln Memorial. It was about restoring honor and faith in our society, things most probably would agree we need more of.

But it was organized by Glenn Beck, so the 500,000 "white people" who attended were automatically branded as racists by those seeking to discredit the Tea Party movement (though this was not a political event).

Set aside your beliefs for a minute. Forget what you've been told by your religious training. Ignore the thoughts that make you question the very existence of God, much less how a loving one could allow so many bad things to happen to good people.

Now, without benefit of input from your mind, answer this question.

Where do you come from?

Without the reassuring and self-righteous (and often wrong) thoughts that are ever-present in our minds, we're forced to enter an experiential world that seems very strange to most people.

Liberty may be the buzz word for a lot of people, but it seems to me that self-determination is really what is behind their concern – the ability to choose our own path through life and travel it without interference by others.

Control is the means by which that ability is denied or altered. Begging the question of when control crosses the line into oppression, a bigger one keeps rolling around in my head.

And that is, what can we do to stop the controllers, or at least be beyond their influence?

Do you believe in reincarnation? I do.

Then again, I know I've had other lives -- many of them, in fact. And some aren't far below my conscious awareness, as if the veil that separates them from this one is paper-thin. Often experiences "bleed through" through with memories and emotions that clearly are not associated with this one. Somehow I'm usually able to shift my awareness to another place so I can understand how it all fits together.

One of those was in Scotland where a good friend wrote a series of mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes. You may have heard of him. His name was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My favorite was The Hound of the Baskervilles. Maybe you've heard of it. Or even the howls of the hound across the moors on a dark, foggy night.

Our focus today returns to creating a new world. The first step is to decide what we want it to look like.

Here are just a few of the good things I want it to bring. Peace. Prosperity. Health. Freedom. Opportunity. Good relations. Joy. Happiness. I suspect they're on your list, too.

The question is, how will we get there without taking along the aspects of our system that too often keep us from them?

I call them Control, Inc., an alliance of often well-intentioned forces that combine and conspire to keep us under their thumb.

Mainstream politics is slipping deeper into polarity wars for control over us and the direction of our nation's future. Each side professes to fight for their respective core principles when in reality they fight for power and influence, and the perpetuation of their seat at the table where they get it.

It is their addiction to power that allows them to be manipulated by those who want it wielded in their favor.

Discontent. It's like a virus that eats away at us inside, making us dissatisfied with our lives and causing us to want more in or from them, even when we're not sure what that something is.

In many ways discontent is a good thing, for it keeps us motivated and moving toward the future. But it also robs us of the joy of the moment where life is lived. It's like having a burr under the saddle, constantly irritating and distracting us from what is going on now.

A number of years back a friend remarked how unusual my choice of the law was as a career path for me. It's not that he thought there was anything wrong with the law. Only that it didn't seem to fit me, that he saw me more as a healer or teacher than hired gun.

We come into 3D world to create the lives we need, but no one teaches us how to do that. Perhaps in those moments we think the one we've created doesn't feel so right, it might help to consider just what we've gotten ourselves into.

As we look at our lives from an energetic perspective, we can see that the path to where we are today is the result of a complex blend of forces, each interacting upon the others to steer us down the road of life.