Jackie and the Founding Fathers

(Уважаемая администрация сайта! Надеюсь, публикация картин известных художников (или фотографий) в качестве иллюстраций, оживляющих подачу материала, не будет считаться нарушением - ведь я УКАЗЫВАЮ ФАМИЛИИ ХУДОЖНИКОВ (обычно - в конце текста)! Это - общепринятая практика на всем просторе интернета!.. В крайнем случае - если руководители сайта сочтут это недопустимым - прошу просто УДАЛИТЬ КАРТИНКИ - либо известить меня, и я сделаю это сам!.. С уважением, Игорь Катанугин)


Предисловие для русскоязычного читателя. Друзья - ПРОШУ ПРОЩЕНИЯ, что публикую материал на английском - просто когда-то я общался на международных сайтах, форумах по творчеству Джеки Иванко, и давал там ряд материалов на английском языке...Очень интересно было! Это - один из тех материалов моих, оформленный сейчас в виде очерка - дружеского письма - петиции (да-да, можно рассмаривать его и так, и так...) - "Джеки и Отцы - Основатели. МЕЧТА О ЛУЧШЕМ МИРЕ"... Просто сохраню его здесь - может быть, кому-то и на английском захочется почитать!..

Jackie and the Founding Fathers

A Dream about a Better World

(This script was written on August of 2013 as a Letter to All Devotees of Jackie Evancho’s Art in the USA and All Over the World. Nevertheless now I dedicate it to ALL precious Children of the Aquarius – all innocent  merciful compassionate children - beautiful pure of heart! Children Jesus has set for us as an example to follow for all ages to come!!! I allow myself to leave every word as it was… )

 “ Father, as You see, I’m just a child
And there is so much to understand
But if Your Grace should surround me
Then I’ll do the best I can
I promise, I’ll do the very best I can.”

 (Jackie Evancho, “To Believe”)

 Yes, Dear Friends, a little eleven-years girl take this solemn oath to God, she does it openly, clearly, before the spectators, before the World, before both the earth and the Heaven!..  And I trust, I believe her, I believe fully, completely that this is indeed the Holy Vow of the pure sincere heart of a child – the precious Loving Heart united to its Heavenly Source! As they say in my Homeland Russia, I perceive it as an authentic coin, indeed as the Holy Covenant between a human being – or rather a spiritual being in human form – and its Heavenly Source!

 So I dare to say – despite all atheistic rhetoric on Jackie’s sites and forums -  I believe all that I see and hear during this wonderful enthralling Concert “Dream with Me!” as well as all other Concerts, songs and interviews of Jackie!.. I believe her – I believe in God within her heart – as well as within every Loving Heart pulsating in the chest of any man, woman and child having such a precious magnanimous heart!

 And when David Foster – Musical Host of the Concert – asks her what she feels while singing, Jackie – this little eleven-years girl – gives him a straightforward open-hearted answer that something just overpowers or enters her entire consciousness, being and world so that she feels herself happy, inspired, joyful! – So what do you think is that “something” that inspires Jackie? What do you think is this little girl grateful to? Whom does she give her fervent sincere Gratitude? – Well, Dear Friends, I think it is THE LORD GOD whom she gives her thanks to!!!

 Yes, I am from Russia – not from the USA! – but I think it is all right that a foreign citizen writes this humble Letter! Indeed it is all right, it must be so in order that all may see that truly THE BEAUTY IS THE GREAT UNIFIER! The pure longing for something Beautiful, Harmonious, Joyous, Peaceful, longing for something Eternal knows NO barriers – uniting people all over the World!

 So we in Russia also learn, know and we love – WE LOVE all the heroic pages of your American history because surely every achievement, every treasure of the Spirit is indeed universal, is truly precious FOR ALL!!! So we admire the courage and pure intents of your glorious Pioneers, their noble thirst for Freedom, for the New, for Happiness, we hold our deep profound respect to the Founding Fathers of your Nation, the USA!

 Why do I mention all this? – Well, it is all very simple – and very beautiful indeed, just as a dewdrop at the dawn reflecting the rainbow of the Sun Light!!! The thing is that the Founding Fathers of the USA did embody, accomplish and write into both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence precisely, exactly what our dear Jackie sings, embodies and radiates, shines out into the World! We might call it by many different names but for the purpose of this Letter I would prefer the words UNIVERSAL SPIRITUALITY! Yes, Universal Spirituality! – So what does it signify?

 Let us look at the Declaration of Independence: “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Just ponder carefully upon these wonderful words! The Founding Fathers were truly Spiritual People, we might say Spiritual Seekers, they believed deeply in God and that every human being is CREATED BY GOD! So it is precisely THE VERY CREATOR who endowed all people “with certain unalienable Rights”  - the statement which is THE VERY BASIS of true Democracy, of any Democratic State and Nation!

 The Founding Fathers clearly saw that the Constitution had to recognize the existence of an authority that is ABOVE and beyond any human, or earthly authority! To establish a truly free nation, it must be recognized that every human being has rights that no earthly leader or institution is allowed to take away! In other words, neither a civil government, a dictator, a king or even a religious leader has the authority to take away the rights that GOD GAVE TO HIS PEOPLE!!!

 So we see clearly that every human being is in essence A SPIRITUAL BEING created by God whereas the earthly parents provide the earthly body for the soul that descends from Above – the body and all their parental Love, support, nurturing and guidance – the task and responsibility which truly are so great, so wonderful, so Holy!!!

 The Founding Fathers wrote the separation of church and state into the Constitution precisely because their approach to spirituality was the universal, non-sectarian, balanced approach! The Founding Fathers did NOT want to create a nation dominated by one particular church! They wanted all people to have THE FREEDOM TO WORSHIP without having their relationships to God dictated by any earthly authority! Likewise – as we just have noted above – they did not want to create a nation in which all mention of God or spirituality was banned from any governmental and educational institution!

 Oh let us behold this peerless Beauty of the Heavenly Wisdom embeded in the very intent, in the wonderful historic endeavor of the Glorious Founding Fathers, in their IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL SPIRITUALITY! And I hope we – devotees of the Art of our Jackie - should be very interested in this theme ESPECIALLY while hearing her sing the National Anthem on the Day of the Independence of the USA! So these are some of their brilliant enlightened Ideas – pitifully almost forgotten now by so many both in the very America and in the World:
 

(1)            Every human being – not only Jesus the Christ! – is created by God  holding therefore his/her divine, or spiritual origin, heritage and nature! Everyone is a child of the Most High, and the Lord God loves UNCONDITIONALLY anyone of His Creation and hopefully envisions that everyone does grow in consciousness, following the path of self-transcendence, of becoming MORE of God! So every human being is of infinite value in the eyes of God!

(2)            Because of all mentioned above every human being is worthy of profound respect, high esteem and is endowed by his/her Creator with certain unalienable Rights which NO earthly authority is allowed to take away!!!

(3)            These inherent human Rights – regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, age, religion, social group or social origin – these Rights are the very Basis for every true Democracy, for every democratic state and nation!

(4)            The Founding Fathers clearly saw that the most basic human right is each person’s right to have a direct, personal relationship with God, a relationship which NO authority on earth has the right to distort or manipulate! The freedom to worship truly is the most basic of all human freedoms.

(5)            Every human being – once again NOT ONLY Jesus! – has his/her inherent potential to grow in the Spirit of Truth, to become – gradually, not at once! – to become the Open Door for the Light from Above – using the language of the Gospel!!! And the very Founding Fathers – they themselves have given, have set for all to see a brightest wonderful EXAMPLE of it - just being the Open Doors for the Light of God illuminating, sponsoring the very beginning of the New American Nation!!!

(6)            Precisely by acknowledging, embracing, by embodying, internalizing these high Principles by many people, by many active responsible citizens – this is the way for a nation to realize, to manifest its highest potential to become A NATION UNDER GOD!!!

(7)            What has truly built this Nation of the USA is the Light of God flowing, streaming through the American people, through all of them who were and are able to serve – maybe unrecognized by their outer minds – as truly the Open Doors for the Light – at some degree, at least! So sincere Gratitude is indeed the key to all further successes and achievements – both at the level of the entire Nation as for every human being (and SURELY not only American!)!
 

Dear Brothers and Sisters in this oh so sweet pure Love for the Beauty and Harmony! Do you see that what we behold, what we admire in our dear Jackie, what causes our tears of Joy and what awakens us to our own inner treasures – precious treasures of our hearts and memories – the cause of all this is precisely the fact that this little fearless girl simply does allow her Light to shine - just as Jesus would admonish us in the Gospel - serving the Open Door for the Mighty Stream of Light from Above!

 This is NOT something unique, something exceptional! This is just the lawful destiny and the real - we might say - scientific potential of all human beings! Simply the thing is that Jackie does make it in this wonderful brilliant - oh so beautiful, so powerful way - that all can see it and can have the real possibility to shake themselves up, to awaken themselves – by the Beauty! - in order to discover each one’s own highest potential! She just serves as a brightest shining EXAMPLE of a Spiritual Being the Founding Fathers were talking about!

 And this is potential for all! Truly – potential FOR ALL! AS ONE HAS DONE, ALL CAN DO! – This is a wonderful hopeful Spiritual Law, this is the Promise of the Gospel, this is the fervent hope and Dream of the Glorious Founding Fathers! And needless to say, all this is EQUALLY needed and important for all people, for all nations all over the World – surely including our Russia!

 Dear Friends, Dear Brothers and Sisters! Do you hear the sound of the ancient mystical Chime?! Do you see the motion of the Cosmic Clock uniting the Past and the Future in this Miracle of the Eternal NOW?!!

Do you see with your inner sight the parental hands of the Founding Fathers meeting these little childish hands of our Jackie showing us an example of Obedience, true enlightened obedience to the Law, to the Gospel of Christ, to the Covenant of the Founding Fathers?!!

 So surely – we are MORE than “fans”! We have the potential, the real scientific possibility to embrace, to embody ourselves this precious Ideal of Universal Spirituality uniting people from different religions, different spiritual and cultural traditions and even those who are seemingly atheist! We have both the right and potential – and responsibility also! – to discover, to find out the precious unique INDIVIDUALITY of each one of us and to present it as a gift to All Life!

 We have the right to fearlessly strive for the UNKNOWN going BEYOND – above and beyond every artificial barriers and rigid earthly traditions – just as Jackie is fearlessly accomplishing in the sphere of the Classical Art! We may just flow joyfully with the River of Life itself – as an eagle soaring high in the sky, as a wild deer running free in the forest, as a lark in springtime expressing the Joy of Resurrection! – And as our dear Jackie singing out of her Loving Magnanimous Heart:

 “To believe in a day
When hunger and war will pass away
To have the hope amidst despair
That every sparrow’s counted
That You here each cry and listen to each prayer
Help us do Your will oh Father
In the name of all that’s true
And we’ll see in one another
The loving image of You!!!”
 
Igor Katanugin, Russia, email: igorkatanugin, see it on yandex.ru;
171984 Russia region of Tver, Bezhetsk.
 August the 29,  2013.


ФОТО: Джеки Иванко Песнь как молитва (прошу прощения - автора этой фотографии я не знаю; уверен, однако, что - даже если он или она увидит эту публикацию - чему я был бы ОЧЕНЬ РАД - не обидится, но, напротив, будет рад этому произведению, отдающему сладкую дань уважения и восхищения творчеством этой чудесной певицы!...)