Focusing on Light and Truth

Focusing on Light and Truth
How to put what I am sensing and thinking about into words? Sometimes when you become aware of a deep truth, words can express it in simple terms – all there is is love – yet the awareness of this truth has many deep layers of ‘knowing’, On one level, one just embodies love and the bliss that it carries, void of any awareness of negativity for that negativity is seen to be ‘unreal’ – merely part of the illusionary game that we are living in. But as we carry on in a world with so much pain and destruction going on, ignoring that reality seems to ‘allow’ it to continue, unhindered.
When the soldiers came back from war in the world wars, they were told to forget about what had happened in war, for they were to embrace the new found freedom and peace that had been ‘won’. There was a saying in the 60’s: There can be no peace without war! – a rather sarcastic anti-war statement. “Fighting for peace’ is an oxymoron.
Being in a ‘duality’ reality where both good and evil flourish side by side is a crazy place to be. Within this experience is the opportunity to develop the capacity to know such horrendous evil also develop a deep compassion for all sacred energies that suffer in face of cold evil efforts to control and manipulate in all self-serving ways.
The journey into the depths of love is an amazing process. Healing comes from knowing the truth about it all. Healing is natural but only when truth is not repressed. Having the strength to ‘handle the truth’ is something you build during this great awakening.
I remember speaking at a gathering once that was a volunteer-appreciation celebration. I and my partner agreed to do a presentation about domestic violence – an issue that many of the volunteers were assisting with. We took the audience into a rather candid view of what domestic violence is all about and the importance of our caring and support to those who endure it. The heart of a volunteer is quite beautiful and this was acknowledged and celebrated. Volunteers often show the courage to face the hardships that our fellow human beings experience and offer compassion and support wherever needed.
So the response to our presentation was interesting. Many people were very appreciative of what we had presented and thanked us very sincerely. There were some, though, who were upset that we would bring such awareness into ruining their evening with such truths. I suppose their attitude was more like – well thank God others are helping these poor vistims and law enforcement is dealing with it so we don’t have to. It’s not so much that people can’t handle the truth, it’s that they just don’t want to.
Vicarious trauma – an interesting term that is about the trauma one goes through in ‘witnessing’ the traumatic experience of another. This can be the person, for example, who is watching someone being hurt – like a child watching mother being beaten by someone else – or it can be the person listening to the experience of that onlooker or the victim as they go through their healing of that experience. A lot of therapists and volunteers go through vicarious trauma in their work. It’s important for them to get caring and support from each other in this or they will ‘burn out’ and just want to make it all go away. Once your eyes are opened to such realities, however, there is no real going back to innocence or ‘not-knowing’. The capacity to ‘know truth’ comes with time and also the human connection with others also learning this capacity at the same time.
When I listened to the stories of survivors of satanic ritual abuse, it opened a deep awareness of cruelty and evil that was very traumatizing to learn about. Along with that learning came also an awareness of such sacredness and beauty that is also very deep. There is a sense of soul to soul loving and compassion that runs to the depth of the human spirit. It’s where I learned about angels and where I truly saw the incredible healing power of love and of allowing truth to be uncovered. The human heart is so very healing.
Lets take something more simple – like the planet. Do we look at all the destruction we are participating in and allowing to be done to our planet or do we just ignore it? It is often said that the opposite to ‘love’ is not ‘hate’ but ‘indifference’. Whether it is someone just being unmindful of the amount of garbage they produce in everyday life or the extreme of not caring that we use fossil fuels or dangerous nuclear reactors for fuel (when alternative are available) – well this indifference allows the harm to continue to get worse and worse.
We, as human beings, have an incredible capacity for healing – whether it be the love and compassion we have for a suffering human or animal or our planet. However that healing energy doesn’t get activated unless we face the truth of that suffering reality that needs us. It’s just nor good enough to think that ‘others will do it’. We can’t just throw money at it and hope ‘someone’ makes it go away.
The audience at the volunteers’ celebration, mentioned above – some were grateful to know the truth and to acknowledge and celebrate the wonderful efforts of the volunteers to deal with it. Others just wanted to know it was being dealt with and didn’t want to know what was really going on.
With seeing that some of the worst horrors and suffering on the planet are now coming to light on a global scale, I sometimes think that most people need to be spared the vicarious trauma of really knowing the truth – for example the human trafficking experience. The problem is that we also lose their healing energy that comes with knowing the truth involved. People who are ‘spared’ from knowing of what evil lies here also miss the absolutely amazing awareness of the love and beauty of Source or God. They miss out on feeling their connection with that love and healing energy – a blissful knowing that runs so deep within the human spirit.
We’re all in this together, as family, as important parts of the energies of the planet. Let there be light! Let us be the light!