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June 29, 2004 Sitting on the fence is bad karma - if you believe in karma! As Carolyn Myss says, the time for evolution is over and it’s now time for involution - time to get into business, into politics, into education, into medicine, into life. We’re being asked to get off our collective and individual bottoms and actually participate in life - give it a go, take a risk, and while the wise ones like Sai Baba, Maharishi Mahesh Yoga and Neale Donald Walsch are telling us just ‘to be’, we must remember that they are saying this from within a bustling, thriving community of people who are doing things and making a difference. This push to get off our backsides has been happening at least since the 1970s when the hippies started opting for a new way. This “new way” is that which is moving people to dabble in New Age practices, to try to discover a new “them” and it has manifested itself in the rise in divorces, suicides and government controls, culminating in the devastation of the World Trade Centre, part of the Pentagon and, finally, the imminent World War III. To put it all in context, here are some facts: Since WWII, USA has promoted, financed and participated in over 20 separate wars, killing over 8,000,000 people: - 1952-79, 70,000 Iranians killed. (Ayatollah Khomeini, US public enemy for the 1980s, was on the CIA payroll while in exile in Paris in 1970s, as were Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden at different times and in different places) - 1954, 120,000 Guatemalans killed - 1954-1975, 4,000,000 Vietnamese and Cambodians killed - 1965, 3,000 Dominican Republicans killed - 1965, 800,000 Indonesians killed - 1973, 30,000 Chileans killed - 1975, 250,000 East Timorese killed - 1970s, 1,000,000 Angolans killed - 1984, 30,000 Nicaraguans killed - 1980s, 80,000 El Salvadoreans killed - 1989, 8,000 Panamanians killed, in an attempt to capture George H. Bush’s CIA partner, now turned enemy, Manuel Noriega - 1980s, over 700,000 Libyans, Grenadians, Somalians, Haitians, Afghanistanis, Sudanese, Brazilians, Argentineans and Yugoslavians killed - 1991, over 1,000,000 Iraqis killed, including over 500,000 children about which Madeline Albright (then, Secretary of State) said “their deaths are worth the cost”. While George W. Bush owns over 80% of the oil wells in Kuwait, trouble will continue there. Don’t be surprised, therefore, that USA has so many enemies but don’t confuse those actions with “American people” who are just like you and I. There is a relatively small group of “internationalists” who operate in every corner of the globe and the centre of their web is/was the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. On the human level, their agenda is to run the world their way. Why? So that, on a different level, you are forced to run your life your way. As your spirit is enslaved, so you are forced to find your own freedom. It is interesting that the Manhattan/Pentagon disaster coincided with the collapse of Ansett Airlines and both incidences had us looking at who we could blame. However, behind the scenes we know that our “enslavers” were attempting to put together a One World Airline and were thwarted by NZ’s anti-foreign ownership attitude. As Air NZ went from healthy profit to tragic loss in an implausibly short time, we’ll never know what pressures were put on management to pay themselves obscene bonuses and to do other things to ensure a loss so that, when the dust had settled, the “white knights” could charge in and save the company. At that desperate stage we’d be happy to overlook our foreign ownership rules in order to save an important kiwi icon... we might even pay them to take it! In the same way, New Zealanders are angry at Australians (through ERMA) for forcing us to take unlabelled genetically engineered food and for removing herbs and health supplements from our shelves, a battle that continues today. ERMA, as you’ve guessed, is controlled and financed by those who worked in the Twin Towers in Manhattan. Wherever we look, the things that are happening to us are things we can blame others for and one answer is to raise our fences, our tariffs, our ire, our insurances and our fear of others. The events are making us enslave ourselves which is the opposite of what the universe is asking of us. Just as the warmongers know no boundaries, so the “new way” knows no boundaries. Whatever you do, something will enter your life and push you into prison so that you find your own way out. It is not surprising that USA has so many enemies but, please, do not mistake the aggressors - it is not the American people as they are just as blind as you and I. The warmongers and enslavers are our greatest gifts for they show, in stark relief, the fear, destructive behaviours and enslavement we perpetrate on ourselves... and they show us a way out of our deepest anguish by showing us what doesn’t work. They show us that no matter how many people they kill, how much vegetation they destroy and how many structures they bring down, the terrorists will still get them. You cannot banish, destroy or deny a negative - whatever you do to push it away, it will remain in your face. The only way to have it out of your face is to accept it as yours (not someone else’s), name it, claim it and then transform it. Energy doesn’t disappear, it is only transformed. So, if we can accept that the exaggerated negativity we see on our TV screens could be showing us aspects of that which is within us (a huge step in itself), we can start to own and control our world. Just as George Bush turned his friend, Manuel Noriega, into an enemy, we can turn our enemies and our fears into our friends. What can we do? We can see that killing people and the environment doesn’t stop them getting us - so perhaps we could think of the opposite. Instead of bombing people with explosives, perhaps we could start World War III by bombing people with food parcels. Perhaps we could use some of the millions of tons of meat, butter and cheese stored in USA and Europe to lower some walls, rather than to raise their prices. Perhaps we should all start committing senseless acts of kindness and crimes of compassion. As we get off our fences and start participating in life, we might realise that the fences disappear and that they were only there in our imagination. When cornered, our natural reaction is to cower and to protect ourselves. When the attacker has gone we don’t let go of all that protection and insurance and we soon realise we have cornered ourselves. Rather than looking back on the last fifty years and listing our atrocities and losses, perhaps we’d prefer to look back and count the number of friendships made and the number of people we have empowered in some way. Instead of throwing insults and levelling blame, perhaps we could be throwing invitations and levelling relations. Start expressing our dreams. Listening to others’ dreams. Opening doors. Pulling down walls. Welcoming strangers. Welcoming new experiences. Taking risks. Being silly. Smiling at people. Talking to strangers. Cancelling insurance policies. Getting rid of car and house alarms. Giving things away. If WWIII is fought with the weapons of generosity and compassion, no one loses. Perhaps this is part of the “new way” – my way, your way and the natural way. ------------ About the author: Philip John Bradbury has written 5 books, the last being "Whose Life Is It Anyway" - based on the workshops I have been running in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa for over seven years, helping people find their passion and to find and implement ways of living it. Available through the following website: www.bradburywow.com Email: philip@bradburywow.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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