◄ by Chris Jorgensen – Gladstone, MO ►
The political debate is on – what to do about Syria? World opinion is split, some in favor of a punitive military strike and some not. The US Congress is split over what to do. The headlines in the news this morning announced: “Obama confident Congress will vote to strike Syria. President Obama is meeting with key members of Congress today, telling them he wants to send a clear message to Syria.”
If you watch the news, as I often do in the morning, to catch up on what is transpiring (energetic and otherwise) in the world, you will need to be careful to not get an acidic stomach. The word “terrorism” is bandied about a lot today. It is hard to listen to any television/ radio news report or commentary without the subject surfacing in comments or discussions. Usually deep, scary feelings are provoked when such a word is used. What is a terrorist really? Terrorism is defined as act of terrorizing or a system of government that seeks to rule by intimidation. Words like terrorist and terrorism reflect an individual(s) and/or a collective group(s) choices in living; choices based in or governed by fear. When people are fearful they can be manipulated and controlled.
How can I handle such emotionally challenging events unfolding on the world scene? Or perhaps it is an emotionally charged event locally that grabs the heart, like a school shooting (which seems to be more common these days). A great beginning is to have some quiet time for Self reflection – remembering who I am, using Self Attunement to balance and harmonize with the radiance of Love, and giving thanks for the many blessings life has bestowed upon me. I can’t receive a blessing if there is no space in heart and mind for it to land. As the world continues to move in an intensifying manner keeping balanced, attuned, and in a creative frame of living is essential for sanity.
There is a quiet consciousness revolution unfolding today. The world is perched on a steep precipice from which it can fall into chaos, destruction and violence if the path of terror and fear govern or it may rise up into the experience of Love, union and oneness. The choice begins with each individual’s personal identity. As Attunement Practitioners, each of us may invite our world to share Attunement, stay in the living Attunement lifestyle, and let our conscious presence be a beacon of light.
Thank you for your perspective and wise words.
Many thanks, Chris, for these two articles addressing the world pattern of fear. I also took note of the fact that shortly after the first article was written, forces emerged and came together, particularly Russia, China, and the UN, to blend into a diplomatic agreement surrounding the Syrian crisis. When love is honored and given expression, things come together and work out in ways unseen or even thought of by the human mind. This is not a “re-arrangement of the furniture” kind of outworking, but one that has penetrated deeply through the many patterns in the unconsciousness to the place where the pure stream of Love, Truth, and Life flows; the Place of Attunement. As you say, a new day has come! Thank you.
Let me start by expressing a word of thanksgiving to all who read the Syrian article and in particular those who wrote comments. Fear is a tough taskmaster and if intimidation and fear are in control, a person has little chance of being independent. If a government is based in fear, the citizens have no freedom. Where there is Love there is the freedom to be oneself.
I wrote this article to cast some light on the world pattern of fear (including my own) and its many ramifications, pointing to the Syrian international situation. The President spoke to the nation last night explaining his rational for taking the position he has relative to Syria. I did not perceive ‘fear’ in the President, rather a resolve that such governmental behavior – using nerve gas on its citizens – by whatever country is not acceptable. I thought it the course of wisdom when the President invited Congress to have a voice in this matter (which indirectly gives each of us a voice as well -Congress is a governmental house representing each one of us).
I so appreciate anyone in the world who is sending the radiation of Love into this tense world circumstance. When I bring the current of Love into whatever is at hand, it will change the outcome. When a group of individuals bring the radiation of Love into the situation it changes everything. I have seen this work time after time in my experience with the Kansas City long-distance Attunement Team. How interesting it is that in the last 48 hours something of a diplomatic approach has surfaced that may be the answer for the moment. No punitive military strike where more deaths would be incurred.
I know there are different ways to view the Syrian crisis. Tony Polombo, a friend who writes his own blog, had the perspective that the one world body of humanity was handling the situation like a person’s immune system would handle an infection. I have different view. I see the opportunity to heal a pattern created by the US when the second President Bush went to war with Iraq on the rationale that it was a pre-emptive action to save the world (and the US) from weapons of mass destruction. There are no pre-emptive acts required if one lives in the radiation of Love.
There is a great fire sweeping across the world, a fire of purification, cleansing all the various patterns of fear that have governed human hearts for so long. Let Love radiate without concern for results. A new day has come!
Blessings, Chris
After watching several variations of national news this morning, I saw a clear pattern of increasing victimhood emerging throughout the U.S. I’ve observed victim-as-choice for years as I worked with true victims of abuse and learned to tell the difference. Victims-by-choice carry the patterns of rescuers, and persecutors. You can see this three-headed monster taking shape in current affairs.
I cannot speak for other countries as I don’t know their histories, but the U.S. is a young country and is prone towards divisive thinking…a.k.a. “we/they”. We have an abundance of conspiracy theories, personalization of the acts of others, and burgeoning paranoia. This is not the same as mistrust due to being lied to nor is it true victims of abuse. It is a choice to personalize what others are doing. It is a choice to think we have to rescue others from their own choices. It is a choice to persecute in the midst of the rescue.
These days are a magnificent opportunity to remember to anchor deep within ourselves and reach for truth. “Victim” is a pattern, not the truth of who we are. Just as we have subconsciously chosen victim, we can consciously choose balance and wholeness focused in truth. Truth is not facts. Truth is an energy that guides and directs from the stillpoint within ourselves. It is this guidance that leads us through the dark days of transition and change.
Once again your words ring a clarion bell. I was just talking with a friend about the destructive force fear can weave into our lives. It insinuates itself into a place that goes so deep that its influence is upon us before we know it. She asked what she could do – I had to think a minute – I know she is on a limited budget and that many ways in which to find help cost a bit – but then I remembered how I felt when I sat in an Attunement group. Find Light and Love, I said. It begins within yourself, your daily meditation, your daily invitation to invite the Source of all Oneness in. But, it doesn’t have to stop there. Create opportunities for Attunement, call your fellow Attunement Practitioners, create a space where “two or more are gathered” and generate Love. And so – Chris, I echo your words: As Attunement Practitioners, each of us may invite our world to share Attunement, stay in the living Attunement lifestyle, and let our conscious presence be a beacon of light.
Thank you for your words and your example of living the Attunement lifestyle. With Gratitude as well – Erin
Thanks for the perspective on the Syria tension, Chris. It’s interesting that keeping balance involves boundary setting within one’s own emotions – not allowing the drama of the day carry us away. And, so many of the dramas have at their core, boundary issues and violations as the conflict. There’s a 12-Step phrase that I like to remember, “Focus on yourself and mind your own business.” Even there, defining what my “own business” is involves healthy, mature boundary setting. In any event, meditation, reflection, self-Attunement all part of the daily practice to keep centered in Source.
Chris: Thank you for your gentle reminder about the simple tools we have available to continually surface the radiance that lives within us, sharing it with all that is. It can be so easy to think “we are just one person” yet every “just one person” in the Attunement Community and conscious beings around the world, can so easily offer up the healing love and light that is inherent in the Oneness we are. Your words remind us of the importance of remembering to dip into this beauty and expansiveness for ourselves and the entire web of life. With Gratitude, Bonnie Jo