A MEDITATION on November 1, 2011

Kim Kardashian

“Kim Kardashian’s wedding generated money. Kim Kardashian reportedly made $17 million from the wedding, $15 million in the deal with the television cable company, E! that produced the four hour show, and $2 million Kim made selling her wedding photos to People magazine. On her show, THE VIEW, Barbara Walters added to the discussion about the brevity of Kim’s marriage the amount of money Kim Kardashian, the ideal, the corporation, made per day: $236,111, from the whole process! Barbara Walters reading the numbers to her co-hosts reminded me about the contractual relationship made with the state by couples when they wed. That contractual agreement is acknowledged during the bliss but it bites, like the proverbial scorpion who beseeched a man to ride him across the river promising not to bite him. Safely on the other side the scorpion bit the man.


“Why did you bite me? I helped you. You promised not to bite me.”

Scorpion looked up amused at the man going into shock and deeper fears and said, “You knew I was a scorpion.”

Yet people keep walking into marriage illuminated by the promises in the stories told in their lifetime feeling refreshed by the dreams of everlasting, of communion, and companionship into the sunset years. They find the communal work the soul requires of them is the construction of the spiritual aspect of the feminine energies and the masculine energies and how it exceeds the simple mathematics of romantic love when the work of merging commences. But in the human marketplace dreams land hard into the backs of wagons carrying commodities to market. It changes the structure of holiness into a frivolous notion easily overwhelmed by the business of the market place, image, and domination of one over the other. Ego finds comradeship with Harshness and it isn’t long before the truth of most marriages comes to the forefront and all parties with vested interest in a marriage admit they all base relationships upon conflict. Marriage in its original form has descended into a deep depression. The She and He of the original Marriage are always called upon being a part of Creation and the creative process of being alive, but made subservient to base emotions and needs many modern marriages succumb to divorce and evoke the mechanics of the State’s part of the marriage contract. The very crudeness of its make up finds nuptials best suited for the market place.

Fortunately, the need for marriage, for union and companionship, keeps marriage current and necessary, but within Western societies enormous amounts of money are traditionally made by the businesses that make marriage ceremonies possible, and for the knowledgeable and amongst the rich the money flows both ways. It is incredible a revelation to the naïve and the uninitiated.” ©Gregory E. Woods