freedom | How to Work With Your Spirit

Modern City of Light

Last Sunday’s display of solidarity in Paris most certainly eclipsed the demented savagery that took place earlier that week in the City of Light. The citizens of Paris further illuminated the world’s trademark center for art and liberty when they stood together and declared their defiance against the threat of terrorism. Refusal of fear at all levels can help us deal with the impact of such heinous acts.

The fear generated by threats against our right to live in a free and modern society triggers a further reaction at the higher level. Everyone has a choice in how they direct their own spirituality, but some are using religion as a pretext for murdering innocents. Such ideologically motivated acts of terrorism generate spiritual negativity that can cause unexpected and problematic outcomes as it fuels higher-level antagonism.

When people are afraid of any unknown assailant, the ensuing anxiety creates an atmosphere full of doubt, mistrust and suspicion of everyone they encounter bearing a similar description. We all want to feel safe but we don’t want our uncertainty to translate into paranoia that attracts and fuels more negativity.

Statue of Liberty in Paris

As a result of abandoning the tradition of religious participation, I’ve refused in the most absolute sense all of the higher-level negativity that would otherwise be drawn to me as a result of such association. When people bring religion into a conversation, I tell them I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual – but that seems to cause some confusion! When I work with my spirit, I rid myself of higher-level negativity that would otherwise seep into my world at all levels in either subtle or blatant ways.

In order to take the fight against tyranny to the higher level, we can refuse all the negativity generated by terrorists and return it to them multiplied by whatever factor we decide, with positive energy (pure white Light*) as the delivery method. In this way the negatively oriented terrorists will receive back all their perverted intentions, along with a healthy dose of positive energy – won’t that be disturbing to their dismal cause!

When we witnessed a million Parisians rallied together to display their defiance against coerciveness, they emanated a resounding resistance against fear. As we choose not to be afraid and take positive steps toward counteracting fear within ourselves, we contribute to freedom at all levels.

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*Light: The pure white light of the universe; purely positive energy; not associated with any one religion or deity

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LandSat Image of Cape Town & Cape of Good Hope
Credit: NASA/JPL/NIMA

Early in my life I was strongly opposed to the notion of apartheid or any other form of racial discrimination. As a child I watched the race riots every night on the local Detroit news casts, and in high school I wrote a book report on the novel, “Black Like Me”, in an effort to understand bigotry.

Late in my teens I met a young man from South Africa, and came to understand the white man’s viewpoint about their status in the country. He invited me to travel to South Africa with him to visit his parents and to enjoy the idyllic beauty of their recreational capital of Cape Town.

South Africa sounded like the most beautiful country, but I flatly turned down the offer for a free holiday. The young man couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to go; I couldn’t explain enough my reasons for declining. I knew only too well about apartheid because of Mr. Mandela’s struggle for equality and subsequent incarceration. I couldn’t go to a place where one race enforced its superiority over another.

Even when the young man explained how wonderful it was to have someone do everything for me, I couldn’t explain my opposition strongly enough. When I asked if the servants were paid, he said they were paid the equivalent of 50 cents per day, that they appreciated having such work and called him “Master”. This was in the 1970’s! He still couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t want to go to his country, where the native people had to walk through lanes behind the main streets, so as not to offend the dominating white race.

About a year later, when his parents came to visit, I learned that his father, a former Olympic athlete, had worked to help the black trade unions prior to the Soweto riots. I enjoyed a walk through Vancouver’s Stanley Park with his mother, a very nice lady who worked in downtown Johannesburg. They also invited me to visit them in their home and I kindly explained why I couldn’t accept their invitation. While their son seemed conditioned to and oblivious to the injustice, his parents felt embarrassed about their helplessness of having to live within the laws of their government.

When Nelson Mandela was released from prison and became president of his country, I was so elated that his personal struggle had brought an almost immediate end to apartheid.