There are varying ways to look at the chaos in the world right now - from anger, disappointment, fear to compassion, love and forgiveness. If like emotions attract similar emotions, what do we think is most helpful for the collective? For anyone to act out in such hideous violent ways as we recently witnessed in CO or in Newtown CT, they must be experiencing incomprehensible pain and suffering internally - whether they are aware or not.
When I heard the news of CT shooting and of the subsequent accounts of death to innocent little ones and their care providers, I was overcome with grief. What a sad world in which we live...I sat in meditation and allowed those feelings of pain, grief, sorrow and anger to arise and released them. My shamanic teachers sent out a wonderful email about different activities that we could engage in to release these patterns of fear, in whatever forms they take, that do not serve the collective.
It seems to me that our most critical purpose at times like this, when the world seems so overwhelmingly negative, is to find the place in our hearts that is capable of raising the frequency out of the depths of hell and toward the light of abundant love by focusing on compassion and forgiveness. Forgiveness is a challenging concept - one perspective is that you are forgiving someone for some bad deed that they did. But, another way of looking at it is forgiving yourself for believing in separation from Source/Spirit/God - whatever your preference. The pain and suffering people experience stems from the ultimate belief that they are separate. This inspires fear and a belief in scarcity rather than it's opposite of love and abundance. If we can look at this somewhat objectively and ask ourselves if we too believe that we are separate from Spirit - that Spirit dwells only outside of ourselves or the opposite - that Spirit dwells within me and I within Him, what might this yield? Personally, I believe I walk with Spirit. As such, I am connected with all of my brothers and sisters as I believe we all walk with Spirit - we may just not know it on the surface.
While the outward acts of killing innocent people are aggregious and haneous, who among us have not ever expressed anger outwardly. And that anger - what was at its base? Anyway you slice it, bottom-line is that it came from some form of fear or cry for love. If we own that, can we not find compassion in our hearts for those who suffer so deeply internally that they lash out against a world they feel imprisoned by/wronged by? Is this not what Jesus meant by "turn the other cheek". If we engage fear with fear, anger with anger, pain with pain, are we not perpetuating the same cycles from which we seek escape?
What better purpose in our lives than to shift the tide - to allow the frequencies of love, compassion and forgiveness to emanate from our hearts and begin to shift the field of the unconscious, the sleeping beings who believe they are alone and without solace, eternally locked into a living hell?
