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FORGIVENESS IS KEY TO OUR SURVIVAL<\/a><\/h1>\n

The consciousness of attack is a spiritual disease and it’s killing us<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Every morning we wake up these days, we can turn on our tablet to see who\u2019s attacking whom. Which country is bombing another country, which politician just attacked another politician, which celebrity just attacked a race of people. The air itself seems saturated with \u201cJ\u2019Accuse!\u201d and \u201cGotcha!\u201d no matter where we turn.<\/p>\n

Then people wonder why we all get so depressed.<\/p>\n

We are beings of love and we are hardwired to connect, to embrace, to build community. Love is the natural state of our humanity, the stuff of which we were created and essentially remain. The world we live in is so vigilantly counter to our true nature that we are spiritually suffocating, breathing in the toxic air of negativity and fear day after day after day.<\/p>\n

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The only way we can heal a problem is if we recognize its root. Our society itself is sick, which then causes people within it to be sick; but we call this a \u201cmental health crisis\u201d as though the crisis belongs to the individual alone. In fact, our mental health crisis is not rooted in the individual who experiences it so much as in the society that causes it. The very forces that cause it thrive on it, as in everything from media to politics to human relations there are clicks and dollars and power to be gained from the consciousness of attack and the behavior it produces.<\/p>\n

The 20th century was dominated by a mechanistic worldview, where the world was seen as one big machine. Theoretically, if we wanted to change the world we simply had to tweak the pieces of the machine. But in the words of British physicist James Jeans, “It turns out the world is not one big machine. It\u2019s one big thought.\u201d The 21st century is the Age of Consciousness, with a growing realization that thought is the root of every problem, and changing our thoughts is the root of its solution.<\/p>\n

There is a principle in\u00a0A Course in Miracles<\/em>\u00a0that \u201can idea doesn\u2019t leave its source.\u201d The United States has been at war with other countries consistently since WW2. We have been at war in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan, blithely and naively assuming that, given the size of our military, we wouldn\u2019t have to worry about war being visited on us. But others haven\u2019t had to visit war upon us; we\u2019ve visited it upon ourselves. We have brought the wars home.<\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s military equipment now becomes today\u2019s domestic police gear, militarizing our law enforcement agencies. Many police now treat American citizens, particularly black and brown, more like occupiers than peacekeepers. Twitter is a 24 hour battlefield of toxic bombardment. Make any mistake today, and don\u2019t be surprised if someone sues you or puts the video on the internet.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just what we\u2019re doing to each other! It\u2019s not to even mention what we are doing to the earth.<\/p>\n

My God, what are we doing? How long do we think we can survive this constant war on ourselves, on each other, and the planet on which we live?<\/p>\n

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Years ago, a gentleman who is now passed named Robert Plath began something called \u201cForgiveness Day.\u201d It seemed like such a sweet, spiritual exercise and every year when Bob called me to participate I would say \u201cSure, Bob!\u201d He would hold an event in California at which a few people would speak, knowing full well of course that we were simply planting seeds that would take a long time to bear fruit.<\/p>\n

Now I can\u2019t imagine our species surviving unless we decide to make every day Forgiveness Day. Yes, I understand how much money is to be made from gratuitous violence in song lyrics, TV and movie plots. Yes, I understand how much money is to be made by sexualizing violence. Yes, I understand how much money is to be made by funding a military establishment far beyond what\u2019s needed to guarantee our security. And yes, I understand our urge to attack when we feel we\u2019ve been wronged; I\u2019m as emotionally prey to that as is anyone. But we cannot continue this way; our collective behavioral patterns of attack and defense are literally maladaptive for our survival as a species. We will spiritually mutate – we will evolve beyond them – or we could literally go extinct.<\/p>\n

On any given day, there is something that each of us can do to solve this. At the very least, we can try to lean in to greater gentleness. We can refuse to participate in the ways of violence, either active or passive. We can forgive who we have not forgiven; we can ask forgiveness from anyone who needs to hear it; and we can commit to a level of harmlessness beyond what we practiced yesterday. Our mental and emotional attachment to the consciousness of attack, to the adrenaline it produces, is in fact an inner demon inside us all. But we can listen to our hearts \u2026 let it go \u2026 surrender it to God.<\/p>\n

Jeans was right; the world is one big thought, and any thought that any of us think leads either to the purification or further toxicity of our society. Every instant, consciously or unconsciously, we make a choice whether to help heal or further destroy the world. To bless is far more powerful than to blame. \u201cNamaste\u201d as an operating principle is so much better, and ultimately more survivable for all us, than \u201cFuck you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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THE JOY OF\u00a0<\/strong>FORGIVENESS<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n

Oh, Father Of Light And Mother Of Love, I Invoke Now The Full Momentum Of Mercy And Compassion To Flood My Being With The JOYFUL Experience Of Forgiveness…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Forgiving, I Let Go Of All The Effects Of Misused Energies Impinging On My Life, Of The Ignorance, Confusion And Pain Of The Outer World. I Have Come To LOVE IT FREE, And So I Shall…<\/strong><\/p>\n

This Is Now The HEART CENTER Of My Experience… The Joy Of Forgiving Life As It Enters My Awareness, Setting It Free Into A Higher Vibration With<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gifts Of Sacred Fire That You Have Given Se Freely Into My Keeping…<\/strong><\/p>\n

I Live In The Violet Embrace Of Freedom’s Holy Light,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And “I AM” THE JOY OF FORGIVENESS… (3x)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Mighty I Am Presence, Beloved Great God\/Dess Being That I AM, I Call Forth Now Access To The Divine Rays Of Integration, See To It That I Integrate This Night, At Least A 10+ Fold Increase In My Feeling Of ________________.” And See To It That I Awaken In The Morning With The Absolute Knowing Of This Integration, And The Experience Of Greater Light, Love, Truth, Joy, Happiness, Harmony, Prosperity And Well Being In All My Life, World, Affairs and Relationships. To The Good Of All Concerned, To The Glory Of God. I AM! So Be It!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Mighty I Am Presence, Beloved GreatGod\/Dess\u00a0 Being That I AM, I Call Forth Now Access To The Divine Rays Of Resolution, Absolution and Completion. See To It That I Resolve and Complete This Night, While I Sleep, Any And All Misqualified Energies Around The Issue(s) of __________________.” (name the issue, i.e.: fear, anger, guilt, shame, unworthiness, etc…) “And See To It That I Awaken In The Morning With The Absolute Knowing Of This Completion, And The Experience Of Greater Light, Love, Truth, Joy, Happiness, Harmony, Prosperity and Well Being In All My Life, World, Affairs and Relationships. To The Good Of All Concerned, To The Glory Of God. I AM! So Be It!\u00a0\u00a0Ah-Om…Selah.. Allelujah !!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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FORGIVENESS IS KEY TO OUR SURVIVAL The consciousness of attack is a spiritual disease and it’s killing us Marianne Williamson Oct 10 Every morning we wake up these days, we can turn on our tablet to see who\u2019s attacking whom. Which country is bombing another country, which politician just attacked another politician, which celebrity just … <\/p>\n

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