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After 11th September 2001, some lovely words from like minds,
both here and in spirit:-
"A Deeper Wounding"
Posted by Deepak Chopra, M.D. on Wednesday, Sep-12-01
at 05:19 PM (EST) on the Institute of Noetic Sciences
website discussion board about the attack.
As fate would have it, I was leaving New York on a jet flight
that took off 45 minutes before the unthinkable happened. By the
time we landed in Detroit, chaos had broken out. When I grasped
the fact that American security had broken down so tragically,
I couldn't respond at first.My wife and son were also in the air
on separate flights, one to Los Angeles, one to San Diego. My
body went absolutely rigid with fear. All I could think about
was their safety, and it took several hours before I found out that
their flights had been diverted and both were safe.
Strangely, when the good news came, my body still felt that it
had been hit by a truck. Of its own accord it seemed to feel a far
greater trauma that reached out to the thousands who would not
survive and the tens of thousands who would survive only to live
through months and years of hell.
And I asked myself,
Why didn't I feel this way last week?
Why didn't my body go stiff during the bombing of Iraq or Bosnia?
Around the world my horror and worry are experienced every day.
Mothers weep over horrendous loss, civilians are bombed mercilessly,
refugees are ripped from any sense of home or homeland.
Why did I not feel their anguish enough to call a halt to it?
As we hear the calls for tightened American security and a fierce
military response to terrorism, it is obvious that none of us has
any answers. However, we feel compelled to ask some questions.
Everything has a cause, so we have to ask,
What was the root cause of this evil?
We must find out not superficially but at the deepest level.
There is no doubt that such evil is alive all around the world
and is even celebrated.
Does this evil grow from the suffering and anguish felt by people
we don't know and therefore ignore?
Have they lived in this condition for a long time?
One assumes that whoever did this attack feels implacable hatred
for America. Why were we selected to be the focus of suffering
around the world?
All this hatred and anguish seems to have religion at its basis.
Isn't something terribly wrong when jihads and wars develop in the
name of God?
Isn't God invoked with hatred in Ireland, Sri Lanka, India,
Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, and even among the intolerant sects
of America?
Can any military response make the slightest difference in the
underlying cause?
Is there not a deep wound at the heart of humanity?
If there is a deep wound, doesn't it affect everyone?
When generations of suffering respond with bombs, suicidal attacks,
and biological warfare,
Who first developed these weapons?
Who sells them?
Who gave birth to the satanic technologies now being turned against
us?
If all of us are wounded, will revenge work?
Will punishment in any form toward anyone solve the wound or
aggravate it?
Will an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and limb for a limb,
leave us all blind, toothless and crippled?
Tribal warfare has been going on for two thousand years and has
now been magnified globally. Can tribal warfare be brought to
an end?
Is patriotism and nationalism even relevant anymore, or is this
another form of tribalism?
What are you and I as persons going to do about what is happening?
Can we afford to let the deeper wound fester any longer?
Everyone is calling this an attack on America, but is it not a rift
in our collective soul?
Isn't this an attack on civilization from without that is also from
within?
When we have secured our safety once more and cared for the wounded,
after the period of shock and mourning is over, it will be time for
soul searching. I only hope that these questions are confronted
with the deepest spiritual intent. None of us will feel safe again
behind the shield of military might and stockpiled arsenals.
There can be no safety until the root cause is faced. In this moment
of shock I don't think anyone of us has the answers. It is
imperative that we pray and offer solace and help to each other.
But if you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred
against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to
the wounding of the world.
Love
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
11th September 2001
Dear friends around the world.
The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their
daily lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply
the larger questions of life. We search again for not only the
meaning of life, but the purpose of our individual and
collective experience as we have created it - and we look
earnestly for ways in which we might recreate ourselves anew
as a human species, so that we will never treat each other
this way again.
The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level
our most extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.
There are two possible responses to what has occurred today.
The first comes from love, the second from fear.
If we come from fear we may panic and do things-as individuals
and as nations-that could only cause further damage. If we
come from love we will find refuge and strength, even as we
provide it to others.
This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of
teaching. What you teach at this time, through your every word
and action right now, will remain as indelible lessons in the
hearts and minds of those whose lives you touch, both now, and
for years to come.
We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour.
In this moment.
Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause.
Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience,
we will never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates.
Instead, we will forever live in fear of retribution from those
within the human family who feel aggrieved, and, likewise,
seek retribution from them.
To us the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic
human lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human
truths. We have not understood the most basic spiritual wisdom.
In short, we have not been listening to God, and because we
have not, we watch ourselves do ungodly things.
The message we hear from all sources of truth is clear: We are
all one. That is a message the human race has largely ignored.
Forgetting this truth is the only cause of hatred and war, and
the way to remember is simple: Love, this and every moment.
If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to
understand why they have done so, what then would be our response?
Yet if we meet negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack
with attack, what then will be the outcome?
These are the questions that are placed before the human race today.
They are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands
of years. Failure to answer them now could eliminate the need to
answer them at all.
If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be
experienced by our children and our children's children, we
will have to become spiritual activists right here, right now,
and cause that to happen. We must choose to be at cause in the
matter.
So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice,
for insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep
wisdom. Ask God on this day to show us how to show up in the world
in a way that will cause the world itself to change. And join all
those people around the world who are praying right now, adding
your Light to the Light that dispells all fear.
That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person
today. Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to
preserve the beauty and the wonder of our world and to eliminate
the anger and hatred-and the disparity that inevitably causes it
- in that part of the world which I touch?
Please seek to answer that question today, with all the
magnificence that is You.
What can you do TODAY...this very moment?
A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: What you
wish to experience, provide for another.
Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own
life, and in the world. Then see if there is another for whom
you may be the source of that.
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know
that they are safe.
If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible
things, help another to better understand.
If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal
the sadness or anger of another.
Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for
guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding,
and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you
for love.
We love you, and we send you our deepest thoughts of peace.
Neale Donald Walsch, James Redfield, James Twyman and Doreen Virtue.
Greetings from Orin and DaBen!
You have all responded beautifully in this time of great sorrow.
You have joined together on the inner planes with other lightworkers
and the beings of light, you have lifted solar plexus responses
such as fear and anger into your heart center, and you have been
a source of light and love for those around. Your individual
responses have collectively created a wave of love that is greatly
needed, and that will touch the heart centers of many with new
love and awakening.
During times such as these, enormous numbers of people are open
to new ways of thinking, and are listening to the voice of their
hearts and their souls. The great loss that has occurred has
given everyone a chance to reflect upon the purpose and meaning of
their lives. It has impelled millions to turn upward, reaffirm
their belief in God/Goddess/All-That-Is, and feel their oneness
with each other.
We see a humanity that is more united than ever before. Even if
the unity experienced at this high level is for just a brief while,
the joining together that is now happening will have effects for
years to come. Humanity is learning how to form a collective voice,
and the inner connections that are being formed during this time
will be carried out with new actions, thoughts, organizations,
choices, and decisions that will change the course of history.
The group of souls who gave up their lives, and the loved ones
they left behind, are part of a remarkable soul group. Take a moment
to sense the courage, love, and sacrifice this group of souls has
made. Those souls who have passed on have given humanity an enormous
opportunity to awaken their inner strength and the will to act with
wisdom to bring about world peace and unity.
These are remarkable souls, and you will note in the stories you
hear aboutthem that they seemed to be special people known by their
kindness, willingness to help others, and by a certain light and
radiance they possessed. These souls and their loved ones are being
honored and blessed by the loving thoughts of millions. Through
their sacrifice, and through the prayers of millions, they will
move to a new level of spiritual awakening as souls. Those who are
left behind will find many rewards of light, awakening, love, and
spiritual progress coming to them out of this great sacrifice that
they are experiencing.
There are powerful energies of Divine Will that are pouring into
the earth plane starting in the year 2000 and coming throughout
this year. These are the energies that destroy old thought forms,
release illusions, and bring to the surface that which has been
hidden. Dense, negative energies that have been ignored and hidden
are coming to the surface to be dealt with and negated.
This is the aspect of Divine Will that releases obstacles and
assists people in finding the shortest path to the goal, which is
unity with respect for differences, guardianship of other life
forms, and a humanity that can act collectively to create the
highest good for all life.
The powerful waves of Divine Will are the carriers of Divine Love.
A wave of Divine Love is flowing into humanity, and you can and
will experience this love and goodness being expressed in many
new ways. The crystallized thoughts that have allowed hate and
separatism to exist are being shattered, never again to be as
strong. Do not underestimate the power of Divine Will and the
transformation that is possible with Divine Love.
This has been called the year of the Great Decision, culminating
with the full moon of October 2nd. This is the year you need to
decide - are you going to love and focus on your unity with others,
or are you going to feel separate and focus on your differences?
Are you going to listen to your heart and do those things your heart
has been calling to you to do? Are you willing to be a source of
love and a beacon of light for those around? Whatever decision you
make will determine your path, and will collectively determine the
path of humanity.
These are wonderful messages that represent the only way
forward that will heal...especially Deepak Chopra's final statement,
which sums everything up and gets to the heart of the matter.
Only with love can we save our earth.... this is a
very crucial time for us all. When we send our thoughts
to those who are suffering, let us send love and peace to the
hearts of our world leaders, that they may make wise decisions,
and love and peace to the hearts of the perpetrators of all
cruel acts around the planet, that they may awaken to their
true nature and know that we are One.
a meaningful link....
If you want to experience Peace, become Peace
In view of all the above............. how can our country, England!?? be on the brink of subjecting innocent human beings to similar terrorism, the crime against humanity we call war?
If you know in your heart this is wrong, please follow the above link and sign your name for Peace.
