In a time when massive numbers of trafficking victims are being abused, tortured, and killed in – or mostly underneath – our world, when the United Nations Human Rights Council features among its members a number of refugee-producing countries who have little or no understanding or interest in human rights…
… of what use is it to discuss human rights?
It’s of key importance because the world we’re going to will not allow entrance to people who violate what we call the “human rights” of another. If we truly want to bring as many people along with us as possible, then we need to see that human rights on Earth become observed again.
So what is a “human right”?
To my way of thinking, a human right is distinguished from a “divine right,” on the one hand, and the limited rights conferred on a person by local, state, and national laws, on the other.
A “human” right is a socially-agreed-upon power or privilege held by anyone by virtue of being born human. (1) Everyone has human rights that transcend religion, nationality, ethnicity, social custom, etc.
They work to protect our freedom by taking away an element of the freedom of the transgressor of the human right. You’ll go to jail if you threaten to kill someone. You’ll lose your freedom if you try to take mine away (illegally).
We show we’re not really clear on the matter when we argue for such things as unlimited “freedom of speech.” Well, no. You don’t have the unlimited freedom to threaten me. As a society we’ve forsworn threats and violence and declared it a “human right” to have sanctity of person and freedom of speech (within limits).
“Human rights” are a human creation. They function by punishing breaches.
If we were in Eden still, as the song goes, we wouldn’t need rules and laws, etc. We could reach up and pluck a fruit.
… That description fits the higher dimensions we’re going to. We won’t need rules and laws and we can actually reach up and pluck the fruit.
But the people who are attacking human rights in the name of social control, people who need rules and laws to be contained, won’t be able to come with us. They’ll have to wait and catch the next train.
Eventually they’ll come around. They just may not make it this lifetime. But God’s trains leave no one behind forever. (2) Mother/Father One simply accepts our freedom of choice to make our lives joyful … or miserable … for as long as we want.
Footnotes
(1) An example of socially-agreed-upon human rights is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights.
The definition given above differs from that on the audiotape.
(2) “All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know the real Self.” (Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 818.)