I hardly watch the news, but when I do, there
is usually some tragedy happening, like a bombing of children, or the genocide
of a race of people. Whenever the media interviews witnesses, they always speak
of how they just don’t understand why such things have to happen. Their human
minds simply cannot fathom the purpose behind it all. That is because they have
not yet begun to live through the consciousness of the Spirit; they are still
only postulating their world with the limited data that has been planted in
their physical mind. My daughter mentioned to me that two kids she met wanted
to start a chain letter advocating World Peace. But as I considered the state
of the world, I could see that fighting for peace would not yield peace.
The reason is this:
We do not have world peace because people do
not actually want it. If they did, we would have it. As a population, we can
have whatever we wish. There is no one to stop us if we truly desired peace. If
violent leaders announced they would be peaceful and not start wars from now
on, which people would rise up and say, "We will not let you be
peaceful!" No one would. We are not forced to be violent, we choose to be.
After all, we create destruction and there is no one stopping that.
This is our
world; we are a global community and no one Lords over us from the moon
making us behave certain ways; it is us alone. Sure, there are those that want peace;
however, a peaceful person cannot force someone who wants war, chaos and
violence to act otherwise. If we "force" someone to do something then
we are no longer peaceful, we are forceful. If we fight against those who are
already fighting, that just puts the entire world at war.
So what can you do if you are angry or
bothered about the unrest and violence of the globe?
First, let us look at these marvelous words:
"You don't Have a Soul.
You Are a Soul.
You Have a body."
- C.S. Lewis
So, knowing that all of us are first Souls, we
know that we are divine and perfect in our nature, and that the things we do
with our bodies do not reflect who we really are. Even the most insane, obscene
or violent things we do, are just experiences we, as souls, want to accomplish.
To accept this idea, you first have to believe that your Soul can see the
outcome to every choice it makes in advance, because nothing is invisible or
unknown to the Soul; which rules out anything happening by mistake, accident,
happenstance or luck.
That means that, all things that violent
people do, are done because they wanted the outcome of it, and nothing a
peaceful person does can change that. There is no possible way to thwart the
will of another Soul. Naturally, peaceful people can lock up violent people in
an attempt to control them, and that makes peace lovers feel better. But even
that hasn't overthrown the will of the violent person, for the Spirit that is
directing its body to do violent things could already see that the outcome
would be imprisonment. The Soul was not taken by surprise. Being locked up or
put to death as a result of its actions was an outcome that the Soul accepted
when it first decided to do violent things with its body.
Remember, the human mind only knows what it
is given by the Spirit. The body is a slave to the Spirit. You know this is
true because, when the Soul relinquishes the body, the body cannot decide to
get up and continue to live. The body cannot make a decision to leave the
morgue and go buy a car. The body responds solely to the Spirit's demands. The
body and human mind are the tools the Spirit uses to create experience. The
body is temporary and turns to dust, therefore cannot be judged for its part in
the experiences. The Soul is a Divine being of Light; and since light cannot separate
from itself, and was created by the Source of All Light, judgment of the light
cannot occur, lest the Creator judges Itself.
In essence, then, protesting against violence
is not necessary. You should only engage in a fight against something if it is
an experience you wish to have, having already let go of the outcome. Just keep
in mind that we are all having our own experiences for our own reasons, and you
cannot force your beliefs or desires upon others. And know that everything that
is happening, no matter how much it offends, hurts, scares, angers, or destroys
you - it is all happening perfectly.
