O Personal v collective karma

No 15: September 2003

More death, more suicide bombings, more shattered bodies and shattered
lives. My partner awakes these mornings with a sense of grief and
sadness and both of us connect to a sense of loss and hopelessness on a
daily basis. Without any visible cause in our own lives?.

'You see grief, hopelessness and despair as personal, but in fact they
are collective too. They are the out-breath of humanity at this time.
The expression of the collective karma created by the wars, the deaths,
the human loss and suffering.

Collective grief is like a pollen cloud it floating across the Earth,
over all the continents, affecting all in it's wake, If it stayed
trapped above the battlegrounds and the war zones it would completely
suppress the emergence of hope. It would be like a storm cloud blocking
out all the sunlight, all chance of renewal.

Then there is the collective grief of those removed from the war zones
but concerned in their creation, or the fight to provide aid and
humanitarian support.

There is a shadow created by their collective feelings of hopelessness
and disbelief that they suppress minute by minute and decision by
decision in order to carry on. It is their unspoken words and private
thoughts that billow outward and upward to join the dissipating cloud
of karma.

Is it really so surprising that the world and it's people are so
inter-dependent. The West is not isolated from that which surrounds it.
The impact may be energetic and subtle instead of immediate and direct
but there is an impact none the less and it must be so. This is not a
creation of the news media but the reality of the interconnectedness of
mankind.

In the places far from the war zones, where the cloud is dissipated by
distance, is the place where those in exile dwell. They can feel the
impact of the pain in the distance and the pull of their country in
their hearts and it is often possible for these people to overcome the
hopelessness and to return home. It is often their energy that can fuel
the hope within their homeland and in turn life the cloud of despair
from above their country with the emergence of peace."

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