The Forgotten Origin
We say Happy Labor Day because, for some, it’s a free paid day off and a chance to have a BBQ with our loved ones, family, and friends. But the reality is what it is. Labor Day wasn’t born out of goodwill. It wasn’t a gift from politicians, nor was it a token of appreciation from industrialists for the workers who laid the tracks, stoked the furnaces, or bled in the factories. It was born from blood, fire, and fear — fear of what the working class could do if pushed beyond the brink. To understand why Labor Day exists, you have to strip away the sanitized barbecue gloss and step back into the late 19th century, when America’s industrial rise was fueled by the crushed backs of laborers and when men, women, and children alike worked twelve, fourteen, sometimes sixteen hours a day just to scrape by.
Factories in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York were not the shining temples of industry that history books sometimes paint — they were furnaces of human exhaustion. Wages were low, safety standards nonexistent, and workers had little choice but to endure, because the alternative was starvation. The 8-hour workday, which today we take as a given (though even that is being chipped away by “flex time” and gig structures), was then a radical demand. When workers gathered in Haymarket Square, Chicago, in 1886, calling for eight hours of work, eight hours of rest, and eight hours of personal freedom, the bosses and the police didn’t hear a reasonable request — they heard insurrection.
The Haymarket Affair became one of the defining moments of labor history: a peaceful rally turned massacre, when a bomb was thrown into the crowd and police opened fire. Workers died, police died, and the state wasted no time in painting labor leaders as anarchists and criminals. Four men were executed after a sham trial, becoming martyrs for the labor cause. The lesson was clear: when workers stood up, the system would not hesitate to crush them. Yet, the fire of resistance did not die — it only spread.
Fast forward to 1894, when the Pullman Strike erupted. Pullman, Illinois, was a company town, the kind that wrapped workers’ lives around the employer’s finger. The Pullman Company controlled the housing, the shops, the utilities — and when they slashed wages without lowering rents, workers revolted. The strike spread across the railways, grinding transportation to a halt. What followed was not negotiation but war: the U.S. government sent in federal troops to break the strike. Soldiers opened fire on strikers, and by the time the smoke cleared, over two dozen workers lay dead, hundreds wounded.
The brutality didn’t just silence a strike — it sparked nationwide outrage. President Grover Cleveland, staring at a country on the edge of rebellion, scrambled to pacify the working class. His solution was not systemic reform, not real concessions to labor, but a symbolic gesture: he pushed through legislation making Labor Day a federal holiday. The timing was no coincidence. Six days after federal troops crushed the Pullman Strike, killing their own citizens in the name of protecting railroads and commerce, Congress rushed to pass a holiday meant to honor labor. It was a political sedative — a way to cool tempers and bury rage beneath the promise of recognition.
So when we talk about Labor Day today, we’re not talking about a holiday born in kindness. We’re talking about a holiday created as a pressure release valve, a way to let the working class blow off steam once a year while the machinery of exploitation kept grinding. It was a calculated move by the state to prevent the fires of labor revolt from spreading into full-blown revolution.
But what made the workers dangerous in the first place wasn’t a calendar date or a picnic in the park — it was the realization that their collective power could shake the nation to its core. The men and women who fought for shorter hours, fair pay, and human dignity weren’t fighting for a day off; they were fighting for survival in a system designed to wring every drop of sweat out of them. Labor Day, as it was instituted, was a concession — and like most concessions from the powerful, it was designed to take more than it gave.
The Hollow Middle
After the blood in Chicago, after the rails ran red in Pullman, after the fear of mass uprising forced a holiday into existence, the system shifted gears. For the first half of the 20th century, particularly in the post-World War II years, America entered what’s often sold to us as the golden age of the middle class. The story goes that the working man could own a house, raise a family, and send his kids to college on a single income. The truth, as always, is more complicated.
Yes, there was a period between the 1940s and 1970s when wages tracked alongside productivity. Union membership surged, and collective bargaining had enough teeth to win real concessions. The auto industry, the steel industry, construction, shipping, manufacturing — these were jobs that could build a life. The government itself, battered by the Great Depression and WWII, invested in infrastructure, veterans’ benefits, and social safety nets that, for a time, gave the working class a foothold. The GI Bill opened doors to homeownership and education. High corporate tax rates and strong regulation meant that prosperity wasn’t entirely siphoned upward. The image of a stable, thriving American middle class was not just propaganda; it had some teeth.
But even in those years, the system had cracks. Many workers — particularly Black Americans, women, and immigrants — were excluded from the same protections and opportunities. Unions themselves often mirrored the prejudices of the era. And all along, corporations were quietly laying the groundwork to retake what had been conceded. They didn’t forget the humiliation of the strikes, the marches, the forced compromises. They waited.
By the 1970s, the waiting ended. Productivity continued to climb, but wages flatlined. Deregulation became the new gospel, sold under the banner of “freedom” and “efficiency.” Globalization sent factories overseas, where corporations could pay pennies on the dollar for labor while shipping jobs out of the communities that built them. Union power, once the shield of the worker, was systematically dismantled through legal assault, political betrayal, and outright corporate warfare. The air-traffic controllers’ strike of 1981 — when President Reagan fired over 11,000 workers for daring to stand their ground — became a symbolic breaking point. From that moment forward, the signal was clear: the government would no longer protect labor. It would side with capital.
The middle class, so proudly upheld as the backbone of America, began hollowing out. Wages stagnated even as the cost of living climbed. Health insurance shifted from being a standard benefit to a crushing burden. Retirement security eroded as pensions were gutted and replaced with 401(k)s tied to volatile markets. The social safety nets that had stabilized working families were slashed in the name of austerity.
Labor Day, through all of this, became less about the fight that birthed it and more about the illusion of prosperity. Barbecues, parades, and department-store sales replaced remembrance of martyrs and strikes. The holiday became a symbol of normalcy — a ritual to reassure workers that they were still valued, even as their power drained away. It became the velvet curtain pulled across the reality that the middle class was being gutted in real time.
By the time the 1990s rolled around, the shift was undeniable. Two-income households became necessary just to maintain the same standard of living a single income could provide in the 1950s. Debt ballooned as wages failed to keep pace with inflation. The middle class was still marketed as a reality — but for millions, it was already an illusion. And behind that illusion was the hard truth: the concessions of the mid-20th century weren’t gifts. They were temporary shields, granted in fear, and always meant to be taken back once workers were pacified.
The so-called golden age of labor was never as solid as the myth. It was a tactical retreat by capital, a breathing space in which workers believed they had won permanence, only to realize decades later that the ground had been pulled from under them. The middle class was never built to last. It was built to keep labor quiet long enough for the machine to reset its gears.
Today’s Labor Trap
If the 20th century middle class was an illusion carefully maintained, then the 21st century reality is a cage carefully hidden. Workers today don’t march into factories under the whip of overseers, but they are no less shackled. The tools of control have changed. The chains have been re-forged into mortgages, credit cards, medical bills, and a cost of living that rises faster than any paycheck ever could. We live in the age of the debt slave — not in name, but in function.
The numbers tell the story brutally. Since the 1970s, worker productivity has more than doubled, yet wages have barely moved. The gap between what workers produce and what they’re paid is no accident — it’s engineered extraction. The surplus goes upward, swelling corporate profits and CEO compensation packages that have ballooned to hundreds of times what the average worker earns. The “middle class” is still preached as the foundation of the American dream, but in practice it is shrinking, suffocated by stagnant wages and rising costs.
Look at housing. For generations, homeownership was the badge of stability, the cornerstone of the middle class identity. Today, prices soar so high that even dual-income families are locked out, forced into lifelong renting while private equity firms buy up entire neighborhoods to flip for profit. Healthcare — once a benefit tied to steady jobs — is now a predatory market where a single medical emergency can erase years of savings. Education, sold as the ladder out of poverty, has become its own form of shackles, chaining young people to decades of student loan debt before they ever get the chance to build a future.
And then there’s work itself. The promise of stable careers with pensions and benefits has been swapped for gig labor and precarious contracts. Drivers, delivery workers, freelancers, coders — millions now scrape a living with no safety net, their labor monitored and rated by algorithms that reduce human effort to a data point. Zero-hour contracts, “flexible” schedules, and digital surveillance mean workers never truly clock out. The company may not own your house anymore, as Pullman once did, but your phone has become the new company town. Work follows you everywhere, disguised as convenience, cloaked in the language of independence, while in reality it is just another leash.
Taxes, too, have become part of the trap. The middle class carries the burden while billionaires use loopholes and havens to vanish their wealth offshore. Every paycheck is shaved by deductions and costs of living that pile up like hidden tolls. Gas, groceries, utilities — all subject to inflationary shocks that workers absorb while corporations post record quarterly profits. We are told this is the “cost of doing business,” when in truth it is the cost of keeping workers subdued.
Even leisure — once the reward for hard labor — has been commercialized into another point of extraction. Subscriptions, microtransactions, endless cycles of consumption — the worker’s escape from toil is monetized at every turn. And so, the modern laborer is left with the cruelest paradox: the harder they work, the less they seem to have. They are running on a treadmill designed to move faster than their feet ever can.
The labor trap today isn’t about brute force — it’s about engineered exhaustion. People work multiple jobs, put in overtime, sacrifice weekends, yet find themselves drowning in bills with nothing left over. Parents fear they’ll never pass on stability to their children. Young workers see no ladder, only walls. Retirement, once a goal, now feels like a myth. And through it all, Labor Day rolls around each year like a cruel joke, a reminder of the system’s ability to celebrate workers while simultaneously bleeding them dry.
We may not call it slavery, but when a person’s time, body, and future are consumed for the enrichment of a select few, the distinction is semantic. The whip has been replaced by the bill collector, the overseer by the landlord, the plantation by the office park and gig app. The result is the same: labor for survival, profit for someone else.
The Illusion of Celebration
Labor Day should be a day of remembrance — a reminder of the battles fought, the blood spilled, the voices silenced so workers could claim even the smallest protections. But what we have now is not remembrance. It’s distraction. It’s a holiday rebranded into sales, barbecues, and end-of-summer nostalgia — a ritual that numbs instead of awakens. What was once forged in the fire of strikes and riots is now reduced to a marketing tool for mattresses, cars, and department-store clearances.
This didn’t happen by accident. From the very beginning, the ruling class understood the danger of letting Labor Day retain its radical roots. They feared it would become a rallying point, a day when workers would gather not just for picnics but for protests, not just for parades but for power. And so, they sanitized it. Cities organized “safe” parades, full of banners and brass bands, designed to pacify rather than mobilize. Employers began granting long weekends, framing it as a gift rather than a concession bought with blood. Gradually, the meaning of the holiday was stripped out, replaced with rituals of consumption that kept people spending rather than fighting.
By the late 20th century, the transformation was complete. Television ads declared Labor Day the kickoff to back-to-school sales. Auto dealerships promised discounts “in honor of the worker.” Big-box stores turned the holiday into one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. Corporations mastered the art of hollow gratitude: slick posts thanking employees for their “hard work” while those same companies outsourced jobs, busted unions, and lobbied against wage increases. Labor Day became a theater of hypocrisy — a stage where the very forces exploiting labor performed a pantomime of appreciation.
And the public, exhausted by endless workweeks and rising costs, accepted the distraction. Who wouldn’t? When you’re running on fumes, a long weekend feels like a relief. When you can’t afford much else, a sale feels like a blessing. Slowly, the collective memory of why Labor Day existed in the first place was erased. The strikes, the martyrs, the sacrifices — buried under football kickoffs, cookouts, and corporate logos.
This is the cruel genius of the system: to take a day meant to honor resistance and turn it into a day that reinforces submission. A holiday that was supposed to remind workers of their power now serves to remind them how little they have left. You’re given a single day off, while the other 364 belong to someone else. You’re told to celebrate your “place” in the economy, even as the economy is rigged against you. The illusion is complete when you smile at a barbecue and forget, even for a few hours, that you’re drowning in debt, taxes, and bills.
Labor Day today is not a holiday. It’s an anesthetic. It dulls the pain just long enough to keep people from asking why the wound never heals. It replaces rebellion with ritual, sacrifice with sales, solidarity with shallow comfort. It is the velvet glove covering the iron fist — and every year that passes, the glove grows softer, while the fist tightens harder around the throat of labor.
The Reckoning Ahead
For all the illusions, for all the distractions and hollow gestures, something has been stirring beneath the surface. Workers may be exhausted, but they are not blind. The mask of corporate benevolence is slipping, and the cracks in the labor system are widening. If the first birth of Labor Day came out of blood and revolt, then the future of labor may be heading toward another collision — one the system is not prepared to contain.
In the last few years, the signs have been undeniable. Teachers across the country have walked out, refusing to accept classrooms starved of funding and salaries that cannot support their families. Nurses and healthcare workers, burned out and betrayed by the very institutions they carried through a pandemic, have staged strikes that echo the desperation of an industry on life support. UPS drivers, long treated as expendable, brought corporate giants to their knees with the threat of a nationwide shutdown. Hollywood writers and actors — the storytellers who shape culture — stopped the cameras rolling until their demands for fairness in the streaming era were met. Auto workers, airline staff, Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse crews — all have drawn lines in the sand.
What connects these movements is not just anger but clarity. Workers are beginning to see that the promises of the past — stable pay, dignity, retirement, security — were not lost by accident. They were taken. They were stripped away by deliberate policy, by corporate greed, by political betrayal. That realization is dangerous to those in power, because once people understand that the game is rigged, they stop playing by the rules.
Technology is fueling this reckoning in ways that terrify corporations. Social media, for all its toxicity, has given workers the ability to organize, expose hypocrisy, and amplify their demands without relying on traditional union structures. The playbook of divide and conquer is harder to run when a video of exploited workers can go viral in minutes, when solidarity can spread across borders in real time. Algorithms may track productivity, but they also track outrage — and outrage spreads faster than corporate PR can contain it.
The system knows this. That’s why union-busting is more aggressive than ever. That’s why politicians are bought and deployed as shields for corporate power. That’s why artificial intelligence is being rolled out not as a tool to liberate workers, but as a weapon to deskill jobs, automate away livelihoods, and deepen surveillance. The next front in the labor war will not just be fought in factories and warehouses — it will be fought in the code of algorithms, in the policies of digital platforms, in the surveillance architecture of workplaces wired for control.
And yet, history is clear: you can only push people so far. There comes a breaking point where exhaustion turns into defiance, where quiet suffering erupts into mass refusal. That point may be closer than anyone realizes. Inflation, debt, housing crises, broken healthcare systems — each adds weight to a scale that cannot tip forever in one direction. When workers see that they can withhold labor and stall the machine, they rediscover the power that built the first Labor Day.
The reckoning ahead won’t look like the strikes of the 1890s. It may not even look like the union movements of the 20th century. It will be hybrid, digital and physical, messy and unpredictable. It will be fueled not just by wages, but by the demand for dignity in a system that treats human beings as disposable assets. The ruling class is hoping workers remain sedated by sales and long weekends, but history has a way of snapping awake when conditions turn unbearable.
Labor Day, then, is not just a relic of the past. It is a warning. It reminds us that the fires of labor revolt never truly go out — they smolder until the wind shifts. And today, the wind is shifting. The reckoning is not a question of if, but when.
Timeline of the Fires That Made Labor Day
- 1886 — Haymarket Affair (Chicago): Workers demand the 8-hour day; rally ends in blood after a bomb and police gunfire. Four labor leaders executed.
- 1892 — Homestead Strike (Pennsylvania): Steelworkers clash with Pinkerton agents; dozens killed.
- 1894 — Pullman Strike (Illinois): Railroad workers revolt against wage cuts and company-town rents. Federal troops crush the strike, leaving 25+ dead. Within six days, Congress creates Labor Day to pacify outrage.
20th Century Crossroads
- 1930s–1940s: New Deal reforms, rise of unions, and WWII industrial boom give workers a foothold.
- 1945–1975: Productivity and wages rise together — the so-called “golden age” of the American worker.
- 1981: Reagan fires 11,000 striking air traffic controllers, signaling open war on unions.
- 1990s onward: Globalization, outsourcing, and corporate consolidation hollow out the middle class.
Data: The Wage–Productivity Split
- From 1948 to 1973, productivity and wages rose nearly in lockstep.
- From 1973 to today, productivity has increased by over 250%. Wages? Barely 10–15%.
- Translation: workers produce more than ever, but the surplus is siphoned upward — not shared.
Corporate Pay Gaps
- 1965: Average CEO earned 20x the typical worker.
- 2024: Average CEO earns 350–400x the typical worker.
- Some firms exceed 1000x. This is not growth — it is legalized looting.
Modern Shackles
- Housing: Median home prices have surged to 5–7x median income. In the 1950s, it was 2x.
- Healthcare: U.S. workers pay the highest costs in the world, with medical debt topping $195 billion.
- Education: Student debt sits at $1.7 trillion, binding generations before they ever build wealth.
- Debt Load: The average American household carries over $100,000 in debt when mortgages, student loans, and credit are combined.
Forecast: The Next 10 Years of Labor
- 2025–2030: Rising wave of strikes across healthcare, education, logistics, and service industries.
- 2030–2035: AI-driven automation accelerates layoffs; unions either adapt digitally or collapse.
- Critical Variable: If labor movements unite across industries — using tech for coordination instead of isolation — a modern general strike becomes possible. If not, the trend is further atomization and deeper control.
Labor Day began as an act of political damage control after state-sanctioned killings. It has since been hollowed into a consumer ritual. The numbers prove the betrayal: workers are producing more, earning less, and sinking deeper into debt. The fight never ended. It was buried. And now, the ground is shifting again.
TRJ VERDICT
Labor Day was never a gift. It was a bribe written in blood — an attempt to cool the flames of a labor movement that had proven it could grind the nation to a halt. It was a calculated concession, meant not to empower the worker but to pacify them. And over the decades, the holiday has been stripped of even that meager honesty. What remains today is a hollow stage play, a weekend of sales and shallow gratitude, designed to distract from the reality that labor has been chained tighter than ever.
The truth is unflinching: the worker produces everything, yet owns nothing. Productivity has soared; wages have flatlined. CEOs gorge on pay packages hundreds of times greater than those who build their fortunes. Housing is out of reach, healthcare is predatory, education is a trap, and retirement is a fading dream. The system has rebuilt the company town without the fences — your debt, your rent, your bills, and your exhaustion are the new walls. And every September, they give you a holiday to pretend those walls aren’t closing in.
But the façade is cracking. Strikes are rising, solidarity is spreading, and the anger is sharpening into clarity. Workers are beginning to see what was always true: that without their labor, nothing moves. No train runs. No package ships. No hospital heals. No network streams. No profit is made. The power of labor was never lost. It was only forgotten. And forgotten power is the most dangerous kind, because when it resurfaces, it does not ask politely.
Labor Day is not a celebration. It is a warning. It reminds us that the struggle between labor and capital has never ended, only shifted forms. The question is not whether workers will rise again — history makes that inevitable. The question is whether this time, they will settle for a holiday, or whether they will demand the justice that was stolen from them.
Verdict: The holiday they gave us is a monument to manipulation. The only way to honor it is to break the illusion it has become. So — Happy Labor Day.
The Pullman Strike in Southern California and Arizona (topics.pdf)
- Source / Credit: National Archives and Records Administration – Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel)
- Contact (original doc): National Archives and Records Administration, Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel), 24000 Avila Road, 1st Floor East, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 (Free Download)
Annual Report of the National Archives, 1958 (1958-annual-report.pdf)
- Source / Credit: National Archives and Records Service (General Services Administration)
- Context: Ninth Annual Report of the Administrator of General Services for the year ended June 30, 1958. It includes archival notes on the Pullman Strike Commission records (Free Download)
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920–1933 (b1v2_full.pdf)
- Source / Credit: Herbert Hoover, Copyright © 1951, 1952 by Herbert Hoover, published by The Macmillan Company, New York
- Note: This is a published work, not a government document. Proper credit must cite Herbert Hoover as the author and The Macmillan Company as the publisher (Free Download)
TRJ BLACK FILE — LABOR DAY: BLOOD, LAW & THE HOLLOWING OF WORK
This is the record. Names, dates, mechanisms.
Timeline — The Fires That Forged the Holiday
Timeline — The Fires That Forged the Holiday
1886 — Haymarket (Chicago): 8-hour demand. Bomb. Gunfire. Executions. A movement branded as sedition to cauterize worker power.
Footnote: Casualties remain disputed — at least seven police officers and four workers killed, with dozens wounded. The bomb thrower was never identified; four labor leaders were executed after a trial widely condemned as unjust.
1892 — Homestead (PA): Steelworkers vs. Pinkertons. Industry hires force to break labor. Streets carry the proof.
1894 — Pullman (IL): Wages cut while company-town rents hold. Federal troops deployed. Dead and wounded. Six days later, Congress creates Labor Day as a pressure valve.
1935 — Wagner Act: Legal shield for organizing, born of crisis and fear of unrest.
1947 — Taft-Hartley: A brake on union strength written into law.
1981 — PATCO firings: A signal that the state will side with capital in a new era.
1990s→now — Globalization, consolidation, algorithmic management. The company town becomes the phone in your pocket.
Evidence — Productivity, Pay, and Power
1948–1973: Productivity and wages rise together; the gains are shared.
1973→today: Productivity soars; typical wages barely move. Surplus captured at the top.
CEO–Worker Pay Ratios: ~20× in 1965 → ~350–400× by the 2020s; some firms exceed 1000×.
Modern Shackles — Where the Margin Disappears
Housing: Median prices inflated to 5–7× median income; ownership becomes a moving target.
Healthcare: A single emergency can erase years of savings; medical debt piles up.
Education: Student debt binds the young to decades of repayment before wealth can form.
Debt Load: Mortgages, loans, and revolving credit turn labor into interest streams.
Mechanisms of Control — Then & Now
Then: Pinkertons, troops, injunctions, blacklists.
Now: Noncompetes, temp contracts, surveillance software, algorithmic shift control, just-in-time hours, rating systems that punish resistance.
Cultural Sedatives: Three-day weekends, sales, and PR “gratitude” posts that mask extraction.
Forecast — 2025 to 2035
2025–2030: Organized labor pressure rises across logistics, healthcare, education, and retail; hybrid physical–digital walkouts gain coordination speed.
2030–2035: Rapid automation and deskilling intensify conflict; unions either adapt into networked, data-literate formations or fragment under platform governance.
Critical Variable: Cross-sector solidarity. With it, a modern general strike becomes plausible. Without it, atomization deepens and control hardens.
ARCHIVAL CREDITS (Download PDFs)
• The Pullman Strike in Southern California and Arizona — National Archives and Records Administration (Pacific Region, Laguna Niguel).
• Annual Report of the National Archives, 1958 — National Archives and Records Service (General Services Administration).
• Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920–1933 — © 1951, 1952 Herbert Hoover; The Macmillan Company, New York (published source for federal posture and context).
Labor Day was not granted; it was engineered to cool a fire. The record remains, and the pattern repeats.
Honor the day by breaking the illusion that keeps it tame.
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Same in the UK. All the ‘rights’ people bang on about these days were won by workers risking their jobs and livelihoods. People actually support the ones who would take them all away in a heartbeat. Reagan and Thatcher are responsible for the systematic destruction of a lot of those rights.
You’re absolutely right, Paul. The rights people take for granted today — weekends, shorter hours, basic protections — weren’t handed down, they were won through strikes, sacrifice, and the risk of losing everything. And as you said, too many now support leaders who would strip those gains without hesitation.
Reagan in the U.S. and Thatcher in the UK weren’t just politicians — they were architects of a systematic rollback. In 1981, Reagan fired over 11,000 striking air-traffic controllers in the PATCO strike, a signal to every employer in America that the government would side with capital. In 1984, Thatcher faced down the miners’ strike, deploying police on a scale that turned picket lines into battlegrounds. Both moments broke the spine of organized labor, and both were celebrated by elites as “reform.”
The aftermath proves the point: fractured unions, stagnant wages, deregulated industries, and an economy where workers are told to be grateful for less while producing more. What looked like modernization was in truth the dismantling of worker power — and the costs are still being paid today.
100% right John 👏
Two corrupt Av tuma avoda zarah teachers of Torah. 9.1.25 Maimonides and Maharishi II
rabbielimallonRabbi Eli Mallon, M.Ed., LCSW
Maharishi Mahesh YogimeditationspiritualityconsciousnessMaimonides
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Maimonides discuss the same thing —the unchanging basis of all that exists.
Maimonides discusses this as an idea/a subject for contemplation. Maharishi discusses the same as a personal experience in meditation.
The experience confirms the idea.
The idea clarifies the experience.
At the same time,
the experience clarifies the idea;
the idea, in its universality,
confirms the experience.
I
“1. The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of wisdom is to know that there is a Primary Being who brought into being all existence. All the beings of the heavens, the earth, and what is between them came into existence only from the truth [i.e. reality] of His being.
2. If one would imagine that He [or: It] does not exist, no other being could possibly exist.
3. If one would imagine that none of the entities aside from Him [or: It] exist, He alone would continue to exist, and the nullification of their [existence] would not nullify His existence, because all the [other] entities require Him and He, blessed be He, does not require them nor any one of them…
4. This is implied by the prophet’s statement: ‘And God, your Lord, is true’ 1 – i.e., He alone is true and no other entity possesses truth that compares to His truth. This is what [is meant by] the Torah’s statement: ‘There is nothing else aside from Him’ 2 – i.e., aside from Him, there is no true existence like His.” 3
II
“This thing that the relative is born of (the Absolute), this is to understand what is behind the relative –changing, changing, changing. [i.e. the ‘Relative’ — always changing — is born of the ‘Absolute’ — never changing]. Now we analyze what this change is and what is the ultimate value of this change. Then we know that the change is very heavy, or very gross, very clear change on the surface.
Deep within the change is lesser change, lesser change, lesser change. At the deepest value of change there is least change. Only when we try to know what exists underneath the change, what is the reality of change, then we come to know that there is no field of change.
This is what physics does. All these molecules and then atoms and then electrons and then the subatomic particles and then very fine particles, and high energy, fine particles are high energy and then eventually ground state, least variation. Least variation means maximum order. Order increases. Disorder becomes less and less and less and less. That means activity becomes less and less and then eventually, vacuum state. This vacuum state may be said to be Absolute, non-changing, no change, nothing. And a little, little manifest value we may say, is that ground state where the things are not moving, no activity. But the ground state itself breathes life. There is something there, very fine, relative.
So, this is analysis of the relative which eventually locates the Absolute in an area where relativity is nonexistent, beyond the finest relative existence, Absolute. So, this is physical analysis or analysis of the activity.
In Indian philosophy it’s called Karma Mimamsa; Karma – action.
Mimamsa – of action, analysis of action, analysis of action. What kind of action? Gross action, subtle action, subtler action, subtlest action. Now all this on the basis of a field of life which has no activity in it, vacuum state according to physics, Absolute according to the Science of Creative Intelligence, ultimate reality.
Now it’s like the top of the mountain, very windy and as you come along the slope the wind is less and less and less and less. You come down the foot of the hill, no wind, it’s all protected. Great activity, less activity, less activity, no activity at the foot. Just like that, top of the mountain, the top. Now what is happening you’re on the top of the mountain? You are able to see vast distances. And as you come along on the slope you see less, you see less. Vision becomes restricted, vision becomes, because the height is less. You come to the foot of the mountain and you can see only this much.
Now, the reality of vision at the foot of the mountain is completely different from the reality of the vision on the middle of the mountain.
And this is completely different from the reality vision from the top of the mountain. So, when a man standing on the top of the mountain, he says, “Oh I’m seeing this much”, a man at the foot of the hill says, “I’m seeing this much”, both are correct. No one is false, correct because he sees only this much, he can only see this much and he can describe only this much. So, this is the reality of this stand. A man on the middle of the mountain, he has a different level of stand. From his level whatever he sees he describes. He is capable of describing more than the man on the foot of the mountain. But still that more is much less compared to the man on the top of the mountain.
So, it depends upon at what level of awareness one experiences the environment. In Unity one experiences the environment. One finds no differences, nothing, he has a different picture of the world. In God Consciousness, completely a different picture of the world; the world is very fascinating, it’s beautiful. In CC, it has a completely different status, it’s always changing, I’m not changing. I have great superiority over all that which…. I’m the lord of all I survey and all that… CC. In transcendence the world doesn’t exist. In waking state everything is so dear and so fine and so nice, localized values, all localized. In dream it has a different fascination. In sleep nothing exists.” 4
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Both Maharishi and Maimonides are telling us that full human perception embraces both the ever-changing creation and its/our unchanging source, too. Short of that, we’re not fully developed human beings.
Is there a Biblical model for this?
Yes — the perception of Adam and Havah/Eve in the Garden of Eden. Afterwards, Torah describes those for whom this perception was a normal experience as ones who “walked with God.” Later, the prophets exemplify this. King David — writer and singer of the Psalms — represents this, too.
The promise of Torah and TaNaCh is that this will someday be the norm for all humanity, forever. As the Hasidic text “Tanya” teaches:
“This, in fact, is the whole [purpose] of man and the purpose for which he, and all the worlds, both upper and lower, were created: that G‑d should have such a dwelling place here below…” 5
1 Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah 10:10
2 D’varim/Deuteronomy 4:35
3 Maimonides: Mishnah Torah/Book of Knowledge 1:1-4; see also Yesodei ha-Torah 1:1
4 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
La Antilla, Spain
March 3, 1973 (transcribed from a video tape)
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5 Tanya; ch. 33
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Maimonides on parallel tracks. Both of them failed to distinguish two radically different systems of law – the fundamental day and night distinction between Jewish common law from Roman statute law.
T’NaCH\Talmudic משנה תורה Legislative review-Constitutional common law – inductive, precedent-based, always applied within the צדק צדק תרדוף “Torah Faith” of courtroom context (עדות, דינים, פרשנות). Knowledge of God (ידע), directly bound to how justice defines Faith as an eternal obligation of Israel’s acceptance of the Torah at Sinai. Based upon the precedent and testimony of Moshe and Aaron standing before the Court of Par’o and the abuse of beating Hebrew slaves.
“Foundation of foundations” in Rambam’s Yesodei HaTorah a false codified abstraction—but in the Mishna/Gemara world, “foundation” means judicial justice; procedural rules wherein judges and common law Sanhedrin lateral courtrooms build precedent-based “Brief” wherein the prosecutor and defense attorneys – Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel argue their precedent “Briefs” before one another in court. This latter common law “foundation”, it and it alone functions as the legal bedrock יסוד, not assimilated Greek or Roman metaphysical speculation abstractions.
Roman statute law (and Indian metaphysics) – deductive, top-down, treating truth as an absolute principle or essence outside of human courtroom process. The 8th middah of the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev defines truth as “PATH” or “Halacha”. Both Maharishi and Rambam slip into the Greek/Roman assimilation mold; a direct Torah violation of negative commandments. Their philosophical Absolute – a static ontological given. Not a lived בניני אבות Sinai oath alliance to rule the conquered lands of Canaan with Sanhedrin common law courtroom justice; which like a korban dedicates the Chosen Cohen People to pursue tohor time-oriented commandments to pursue justice – fair compensation of damages – among our People. Both these latter day men, they replicate Catholic dogmatism – “unchanging source” – in purely ontological terms (what exists beneath existence), instead of Torah faith which defines acceptance of the Torah at Sinai as צדק צדק תרדוף.
Maharishi frames faith in terms of direct experience in meditation (phenomenology). Whereas Rambam frames faith in terms of rational proof and contemplation (philosophy). He prioritizes gnostic knowledge above “Fear of Heaven”; meaning the walk to build and protect ones’ ‘Good Name’ reputation.
But both of these “Latter Day Saints” bypass the Talmudic way of the Cohen worship through tohor middot; specifically applicable through the concrete practice of common law courts, precedent based “Briefs”, and justice—which strives to make fair compensation of damages inflicted by Party A upon Party B among the chosen Cohen seed of the Avot.
If we bring the T’NaCH model of mussar-aggadic common law in properly: Adam & Havah “walking with God” does not compare to these assimilated “Latter Day Saints” mystical union. Shalom among our Chosen Cohen People within the borders of the oath sworn lands: “walking in trust” the יסוד bedrock upon which stands שלום and NOT hatred without cause among our people. Later “Enoch walked with God,” “Noach walked with God,” and Avraham – chosen “to keep the way of the Lord … to do justice and righteousness” (la‘asot tzedaka u-mishpat). The real Torah framework: knowledge of God = justice done in community to restore שלום among our divided people who always struggle with our Yatzir Ha’Rah to fight Civil Wars among ourselves.
Contrast this with the ערב רב שאין להם יראת שמים – the assimilated Roman/Indian metaphysics = Absolute/essence/unchanging source. This נידוי narishkeit stands outside of the oath brit alliance to pursue justice among and between our people. Unlike Maharishi’s “phenomenology,” aggadah does not chase mystical states—it illustrates the human cost of injustice and commands judges to persue precedent-based בניני אבות judicial fairness. Maharishi and Rambam both speak in terms of “Absolute Being” but collapse Torah’s judicial Faith framework based upon the false foundations of Greek/Roman metaphysics. By stark contrast Torah faith = צדק צדק תרדוף. Sanhedrin common law, courtroom-precedent based legalism; fair compensation for damages inflicted, mussar-aggadic framework of walking with God by doing tohor time-oriented commandments with k’vanna.
Thank you for bringing back the memories of some of the events I used to teach about in U.S. History class to 8th graders, John.
In recent weeks I have been reading about how top earners in America use loopholes to avoid paying their share of taxes. It is my opinion that these loopholes should be closed and that the wealthiest among us should have to pay the same percentage of their wages as the (shrinking) middle class. I cannot fathom how we can continue to increase our national debt when so many are struggling, but more about that later.
My parents started our family in 1958, bought their first new home in 1959, and raised six kids before retiring in 1990 to lake property they had bought years before at the suggestion of my Mom’s step-dad. My Dad was raised on a farm and was acquainted with many long days of plowing corn rows on the Nebraska plains. His father allowed him to go to school but he was required to get his chores done on time. Thankfully, my Dad graduated from a small high school and when his father died at a relatively early age, the first thing my Dad did was to scrape up enough money to buy a tractor. The thing paid for itself many times over. After a stint in the Korean War where he was wounded and awarded a purple heart, he was done with farming life. His brother had taken over the farm anyway so it was off to California and an entirely new world for my Dad. Dad met Mom in California and the rest is history. My parents raised our family during the years where productivity and wages rose together.
My parents were able to raise the three of us kids and were also able to take in three more when my Uncle and Aunt died in an automobile accident. During most of those years, my father was the only wage earner except for minimal wages my Mom made by teaching music at a Christian school once we were all in school.
My Dad worked most of 35 years for one company, which was quite common for many fathers back in those days. He had union benefits which included medical and dental insurance. He was a milk delivery driver to large customers and eventually took over the school routes when he got seniority. I can still remember hearing him warm up his truck between 3 and 4 a.m. each weekday before heading off to his full day. Over the years, he put in some long days and would fall asleep watching the news many nights.
Our three bedroom 2 bath house was one of 4 or 5 models that were replicated over and over in our neighborhood.
It was possible, at that time in the U.S., to raise a family on one income and still save some for the future. We were happy with the size of the house, which would be considered small by certain standards today, and when more space was needed my Dad converted a large patio area in the back to a family room. My parents were good stewards with their money. We were brought up in church and my mom directed choirs at the churches we went to.
I am very thankful to have had the upbringing that I had. As a teen, I was always able to find work and I had a truck paid off before I was 17.
In the early 80s’ when I headed off to college, I had no idea what I was getting myself into except that I felt comfortable moving 1,000 miles from home. I had saved what I thought would get me by but was I ever wrong. By the grace of God I got a job taking care of a terminally ill man who lived past my graduation day. The salary was fair and it included room and board.
Fast forward to seven years to my second teaching job. My wife, whom I met in college, and I were hired as a duo to teach in the private schools we had prepared for. One thing we hadn’t prepared for was the difference in pay between public and private school teachers. I know of private teachers who do well but the Christian school system we were in didn’t come close to matching what public schools paid. I had to scratch my head when I figured that my wife and I couldn’t afford my parents 25-year-old home on two teaching salaries. After seven years of teaching we hadn’t saved much between the two of us and we weren’t careless with our money. I remember taxes becoming due and having a very difficult job writing that check each year.
Life happened, we had two children, and we were dedicated to keeping my wife home until the kids got into school. We had moved to a different city and I took a job working for an air-conditioning company. Thankfully, we were able to put together a down payment on a condo.
Years earlier my Dad had purchased a plot of land on a clean lake as an investment. He ended deciding to leave California to retire and moved half way across the country and had a modest home built for him on the Lake. Of course, we kept in good contact with my parents and found out the cost of housing in Arkansas at the time compared to housing in California. Wages were lower in Arkansas but, at the time, real estate was reasonable.
As costs in California increased, I started looking at options for my young family. We had been able to keep my wife home to raise the kids but barely. My daughter would be starting school soon and I knew it was then or never. We sold the California condo and bought an Arkansas home on 1 1/3 acres at an auction. We moved into the small 2 bedroom 2 bath home and I started looking for work. I ended up working in a wet lab for the next ten years and my wife was hired by a school principal who noticed how good she was with my son when she dropped my daughter off for school. She started teaching the year after my son started school and put in a full 20 years before the pandemic. I went back to school and got my teaching certification and spent several years substituting. We both now have lifetime teaching credentials.
Over the years, I have realized how good things were for my parents and our family during those early years. Yes, my father worked hard and then he’d have to come home and fix something on the house. Their home increased in value by a factor of 15 but they had paid a good deal in interest as most of that generation did. Selling their small California home allowed them to eventually have a modest home built for them on what had become one of the most popular lakes in the state. I was happy for them as they had helped so many people along the way in their lives.
It has been obvious to me for some time that you are not exaggerating in this post. I really don’t know how the younger generations are affording anything close to what my parents were able to afford back in the day. My wife and I have struggled and it hasn’t been for the lack of effort. It takes two good paying jobs to afford what used to be a middle class life. We have had some difficult times. I can only imagine what goes through the minds of young adults these days.
I spent my Labor Day this year changing transmission fluid and oil in our cars. I was happy to do it to save us some money. Even though things have gotten rough financially throughout the years, I can honestly say I am content with what I have.
And that brings me to the debtor nation we have become. Neither my wife, nor I, nor my son graduated from college with any debt. My wife and I went to school at a time when college wasn’t as expensive and my wife had to keep a 3.75 G.P.A. to keep her scholarship. My son did so well in high school that his college was paid for even if he had to work a job or two to supplement his income.
Anyone who has to take out large debts to get a college diploma should probably choose to go another direction. You mentioned the size of college debt in the U.S. It is irrational and ridiculous. It seems our national debt is something few are concerned about and I’ve been concerned about it for years. In 2014, I put up this post:
https://chrisreimersblog.com/?s=Tyrannosaurus+debt
I’ve been watching our debt since long before 2014.
Thank you for this post, John. I have seen and understand so much of what you have written in this post. I’ll never forget the day I woke up, a young parent, with $15,000 of debt on a credit card and I had to wonder how that happened. Had I not worked hard enough? We certainly weren’t spending money carelessly. Thankfully, the debt got paid but it took a good deal of focus and effort. I wish the best for the next generation but I can’t help but think of the challenges (and debt) that awaits them.
Thank you for sharing this, Chris — your story carries weight because it’s not theory, it’s lived history. Your father’s experience was the reality for an entire generation: one income, union benefits, and the ability to raise a family while still saving for the future. That stability wasn’t handed down by goodwill; it was the product of labor protections that workers fought and bled for.
What you described about the 1980s — two teaching salaries not buying what one income once could — is the fracture line I wrote about. Wages broke away from productivity, unions were cut down, and the middle class was slowly hollowed out. Your own career in teaching and the struggles you and your wife faced are a mirror of what millions went through as the “golden foothold” years slipped away.
I also saw the Schoolhouse Rock: Tyrannosaurus Debt video you pointed to on your blog. It’s wild how even then the warning was there — explained in simple terms for kids — and yet decades later, the monster only grew bigger. The fact that you’ve been sharing that alarm for years reinforces exactly what this article is about: the trap wasn’t an accident, it was engineered. The wealthiest shelter their money, the middle class carries the burden, and the debt keeps mounting as younger generations inherit less and less.
Your family’s resilience — from your father’s tractor to your own hard-won path — makes the contrast to today even sharper. Gratitude and contentment are rare in the face of these realities, and the way you’ve kept both only makes your perspective stronger. Your testimony proves the record: what once was possible through labor has been stripped away piece by piece.
Thanks for your response, John. I shared a bit of my history to show that I experienced some of what you have written about here. Many of my contemporaries chose better paying careers and some never got a good paying job. Today, job security isn’t near as stable as it was during my Dad’s generation. This report states that late boomers average nearly 12 different jobs in their lifetime. It is hard to be consistent with the instability of the job sector. As you have stated, things have gotten worse for the younger generations.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsoy.pdf
The current financial situation has been caused by many unwise decisions. We are to be wise with our resources but there is a limit to what they can provide for us. I’m reminded of the parable of the rich man that Jesus told in Luke 12. These days people at both ends of the spectrum will never have enough. The parable is humbling:
16 And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive. 17 And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’ 18 Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’ 21 So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
.Thanks again for sharing the history of Labor Day.
You’re welcome, Chris — and you’re exactly right. The BLS numbers make it plain: nearly 12 jobs in a lifetime for late boomers compared to the one-company security your father had. That instability alone explains why consistency is harder to find and harder to hold. The younger generations have inherited an even harsher version of that cycle — no guarantees, no anchors, just constant churn.
And your reminder from Luke 12 fits perfectly. The barns may look different today, but the warning is the same: storing without purpose, extracting without limit, is a fool’s game. Debt, loopholes, and greed have hollowed out what once passed as stability. Thanks again, Chris — these kinds of conversations are great, and I wish more people would start having them so we can at least try to crawl out of the hole we are in. God bless you and yours, and I hope you have a great day. 😎
You’re welcome, John, and thank you for this reply. One of the holes is the 37 trillion dollar national debt we’ve both mentioned which is now causing over one trillion per year in interest alone.
I must admit that I haven’t always understood what I was living through. Eye opening moments along the way have helped me to understand how much things have changed over the years. The rent we paid through the first 10 years or so of our marriage was always painful as my work was difficult at times (whose isn’t) and rent prices for a one bedroom apartment in Southern California was high, even back then. It was like a large percentage of my income evaporated each month. After moving to the Sacramento area, I’ll never forget looking at the prices of mobile homes during one of the peaks of home prices. I knew I would never pay that much for a mobile home. And I knew I was living in a different world than the one my parents raised me in. (I’ve seen cheaper and better ones on the market today.)
I could have gone several different ways career wise early on but I figured teaching, even in a Christian school, would be a satisfying profession in more ways than financially. And I can say that it was and that I wouldn’t change any of my profession decisions. At the same time, I didn’t have the foresight to understand how little two college graduates would be able to afford on salaries like ours. During most of my work life I can’t imagine that I would have been able to afford the 30 year type of loan my parents and many of their contemporaries had. I can see why so many people have lost their homes along the way with the unstable job environment and the continued inflation of most things.
I think I have a better handle on what has happened now than I’ve ever had. Many are overly stressed and find themselves in situations they never imagined.
I also think that conversations like this are necessary to help people understand that they need to ask God for the ability to be flexible in any case. I am thankful for the strength the Words of the Bible have given me during times of great stress. Paul’s words to the church at Philippi are a good example to all:
11 “Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. 13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. 14 Nevertheless, you have done well to share with me in my affliction.” (Chapter 4)
It seems that Paul’s content came from a good understanding of the Old Testament, his role in the New Testament, and a willingness to abide by the 10th commandment:
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Imagine what a better world this would be if people spent less time desiring what others have and spent more time asking God for wisdom in dealing with the hurdles of this world.
Putting everlasting things in perspective can help us deal with our challenges. There will still be days of depression and anxiety. We are flesh after all. At the same time the eternal truths found in scripture are as true as the times in which we live. The future prophecies will be fulfilled. It is our great and only everlasting hope.
I had no intention of going on so long, John. Please forgive me for taking up so much space on your blog. Thank you for your kind words. God bless you as well and I hope you and yours have a great day!
Chris, there’s no need for apology — your words don’t take up space, they add depth. What you’ve shared here isn’t just reflection, it’s record. The way you describe rent in California consuming so much of your income, or watching housing prices climb beyond reason, is a vivid picture of how working families were squeezed. Your parents’ world of steady mortgages and predictable security had already given way to a different reality, and you’ve captured that turn with clarity.
The $37 trillion debt you mentioned — and the trillion-plus in interest alone — shows how far the imbalance has been allowed to grow. Generations are now stuck paying for decisions that were never in their hands. Your choice to teach for meaning and service, even when the pay didn’t match the sacrifice, says more than any statistic ever could. It exposes a system that values profit more than purpose.
And your grounding in scripture gives perspective that money cannot. Philippians 4 and the Tenth Commandment still cut through the noise — reminding us that strength comes from contentment, not comparison, and wisdom from faith, not envy. You’re right: if more people lived by that, debt and despair would not rule so easily.
Thank you for writing this out. What you’ve shared is not ‘too long’ — it’s testimony. And testimony matters, and it’s always greatly appreciated. Thank you very much, Chris. 😎
You’re welcome and thank you so much for your kind comment, John!
I have to add this:
I just reminded my wife about how we never had to take out a 30 year loan and she asked me where I was when we bought our small condo. I didn’t remember that the loan was for that long and that the interest rate was 11.5 percent. I’m glad I had forgotten that but I suppose it’s a good thing I don’t remember all of the details of things better left in the past.
11.5% says it all, Chris — that kind of weight shows the grit it took just to keep going. And it’s worse today, with every sign it will get even harder. Thank you for sharing that detail. 😎
You’re welcome, John, and thanks for the reply. One of my goals is to help my son never have to pay that kind of interest. Much more importantly, I’ve tried to share my Christian faith with him and thankfully he is a believer!
Amen 🙏😎