A Perfect World

By Rev. Bagan Tewa

This is why he said, Let the weak say they are strong. Keep saying it and you will become it and you will have no choice but to release it because power and strength never stays within.

A ruler and a scale are two different forms of measurement. The scale is used to create balance with the thoughts and with the ruler you measure everything else. You can measure the life and not the thoughts because the thoughts have no ending. But the mans life, you can measure it, because there is an end to his life.

There is no position that you are stuck in until you die. As a matter of fact, you get out of life just what you put in. We are all Gods children.

Talking about your fear with other people is the best thing you can do. It does not matter how ridiculous the fears in your mind sound.

Ponder this: I think greed discovered man, rather than man discovered greed.

There are many reasons why I think most men feel that women should not run the world. Firstly, their own insecurity, secondly, their thirst for greed, thirdly selfishness, but most of all is that fear inside that women do the same to them that they did to females in the past.

Being a slave to your own fear is one of the most deadly things in life, it prevents you from achieving your dreams, it is sometimes worse than alcohol or drugs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469194851

Rev. Bagan Tewa

Having lived in New York City most of his life, Rev. Bagan Tewa author of Spotting The devil Spotting The devil From Far and Near, A Perfect World, and Man At The Cross, has experienced multiculturalism as only New Yorkers can. As an immigrant he sees from a common but unique perspective, a creative, intuitive person with a yearning for a better world, one in which people face truths, not half-truths but complete truths. As an artist he can paint pictures with words which is the easy part. In this book he attempts to awaken the ‘feminine awareness in our modern society’ so vital to undoing the imbalance in today’s world. All of his work is dedicated in some way to achieving this goal. Although this is not so easy to do, he seems to be well on his way to doing it.

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

FOREWORD

1

Life Inside The Bird Cage

2

Creating A Utopian Reality

3

Saying What The People

Want To Hear

4

Answering A Higher Calling

5

Segregation, Culture and Hinduism

6

Race, Religion and Position

7

You CAN Find God

8

Women take Charge

9

Stepping out of the bird cage

10

Letter To The Politicians

11

Only You Can Open The

Cage Door

12

Love

13

A new beginning

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank first of all my wife Shari Boodram Tewa for her continued love and support and assistance in this project. To my family and close friends, my children, Biko for his help and support, and to the people of Trinidad and Tobago, who I call Trinidadians, not Indo-Trinidadian or Afro-Trinidadian but the beautiful multi-cultural rainbow people, thanks. And I thank the creator for giving me the opportunity to journey to Trinidad and to be inspired by Trinidadians in a manner that could not be accomplished abroad and to be able to complete this work on the island.

FOREWORD

There are many reasons why people in society react the way they do in the course of everyday living. One might say that the human being is conditioned to act according to his surroundings or that he is genetically disposed to do so. But the question remains, why? Can the scientists who study the human gene tell us if there is something in our genetic makeup that wills us to respond or not respond to man-made conditions of the societies of the twenty-first century?

In this book, which was originally entitled The Bird Cage, and regretfully had to be changed for all the obvious reasons, there is an attempt to deconstruct man’s conditioning by examining certain religions, political situations and the basic habits of the average man that over time develops into the society’s culture. Here we find that one of the biggest reasons that man is confined to his conditions are his fears, these being the most detrimental to his existence and progress both as an individual and collectively as a society.

It is suggested here, probably for the first time, that the key from moving from a primitive society to one where individuals are enlightened and progressive members of a society is in the changing of its culture. Has anyone ever questioned whether this is even possible? We are taught that old habits die hard. Culture is an institution that has existed from time immemorial and is forced to continue to exist as is. Rev. Tewa does not hold fast to that teaching and here shows us in a very practical way how old habits do not HAVE to die hard. And he shows us how this can be done and must be done from the root to the branches of the trees in order to change destructive cultures in society.

This examination does not segregate or isolate anyone. The overall goal of this book is the unity and respect of races and religions culminating in a peaceful existence on the planet achieved by freeing oneself from the cage that we often find ourselves trapped in.

1

Life Inside The Bird Cage

Fear

A bird which has been in a cage all his life feels threatened when he goes outside of his cage. Even if his master leaves the door open, he will not fly away. It is a pity and a shame that although a human brain is much more developed than a bird, just as the bird when given the opportunity to spread his wings and fly will quickly go back into the cage where he feels that he is safe, the human being also does the same. He too will not leave once he adapts to his negative situation.

There are many fears in the world. But two of the major fears that most people in society fall prey to are fear of self and fear of society. I know you are wondering what is this fear of society that I am speaking of. Fear of society is what most people live everyday while not being aware that they are living out that fear. Most are just aware of their own fears and sometimes try to escape in a society where the fear of that society is much worse than their own fear. In addition to dealing with their own fear, they have to deal with everyone else’s fear. This is the beginning of life inside a bird cage.

What is fear of society? It is not just in the present, but it is also in the past when men have committed crimes that hung over the society which are impossible to erase. For example, the bombing of the World Trade Center and subsequent mass murders. Crimes committed by the likes of Son of Sam and Ted Bundy who terrorized a nation one summer afternoon in the United States remain a long time on the register of society and crimes not committed yet, but that people can anticipate in the future. Once a nation or a society experiences this life the culture is decreased in value. This creates an uncivilized society. Once this fear comes upon a nation, the people will no longer have that interest in developing a greater society. Human beings tend to go back into that cage where they feel safe. This is evident in the smallest gestures that people make in their relating with one another.

A person in the society no longer behaves in a warm manner; they no longer greet strangers in the street with, Good morning or Good afternoon.The greeting becomes more shortened, they only say Hi and Bye then retreat back into their cage. Once there is food and water in the cage, they become complacent, not realizing or understanding that human beings who no longer relate to other human beings on a regular basis will create what you call a stagnant pool of humanity that will never become a civil society.

People realize that their own fears turn them and their cultures into a beastly civilization. Some would not welcome that positive change and will fight not to change it when they accept ignorance as part of their culture. What is this behavior I am talking about? I am talking about when someone feels that they have the right to talk to you in any manner that they feel is right and they bawl and scream instead of talking civilly because they have no social communication skills. They cannot explain what they are feeling living inside that cage.

They develop all kinds of mannerisms such as not sharing because of being in their cages by themselves for so long, losing the natural response to laughter or to someone giving a speech. Even the value for life changes; this includes both casual and intimate relationships. Because everything they do is done within that small space.

It is also said that a human being who lives in a small space sometimes develops a split personality. This is all part of the cultural fear, those fears that force habits that become the fears of a society. Trust no longer exists and love becomes less because it is easier to live in a cage without love and trust because there is not enough room in there to share. Prisoners also experience this even though while in prison, the prisoners get recreation time outside of their cells. But they are not free because someone holds a gun and keys over their heads in case they have any desire to escape.

Fear of society is the worst thing someone can live with, even though some cultures were designed by their governments in a particular way for their own people for whatever reason. For example where there is no emphasis on educating the people in the society. Human beings are much easier to control when they are uneducated. Some will believe anything you say; especially when it is coming from their boss or someone they truly respect and love. No society can develop progressively in this condition.

You must not mistake a modern society for a civil one. A man who is primitive never knows the worth or understands the worth of modern technology. The arts have no importance for him. Birds whistle to pass the time, and just like a bird, man whistles just to burn time, he also dances and sings in his cage to burn time because there is nothing else to do, not because he loves it and appreciates the classics.

If there is a choice, between having meat on his plate or music in his ears, you know he will choose to have the meat on his plate. This is all he cares for, a place to sleep in a nice cage and every now and then he looks for another bird to have sex with. Human beings do the same thing because of the fear society imposes upon them and because of the desire to fit into society. This is how cultural fear develops.

Individual fear is somewhat different. It is easier to get rid of this type of fear than cultural fear because the individual is always aware of what is going on in his mind at the moment, so he can fix it by releasing it. And sometimes his peers will make him or her know that something is definitely wrong with him. At that moment, the individual rebels by saying, no I don’t have a fear. And it is easy for him to say this if he does not believe. All his friend has to do is say to him. You see that girl Suzy over there? Go talk to her. Then he realizes he is afraid to approach her he thinks, damn, I really have a fear. But just like taking an exam or test, that fear can be easily be overcome.

Unlike the cultural fear, it is not just one thing coming at you, but many different fears from the person’s past or present which can create a block in one’s mind, leaving the individual no choice but to retreat into that cage, submitting to their fear. It is like attending a funeral, people pay much more attention to the coffin, the type of clothes the dead person is wearing and how many friends attended the viewing of the body. This diminishes the reality of the death because sometimes it is too painful