IRAQ

My previous post talked about 911 through the eyes of the Remembered Self. You may have noticed that the strike on the Pentagon symbolically represented our beliefs about protection, or defense, if you prefer. If you dig deeper into what you believe about protection you might find that supporting that belief is an even more fundamental belief that revolves around the issue of trust. A lack of trust in our ability to create what we want results in the emotion of fear. Whenever we experience fear it always involves a lack of trust. Our lack of trust in our ability to create what we want is presented to us outwardly through all forms of our vaunted MEDIA and in everyday living. We protect ourselves from germs of all sorts; from tumors that we believe come uninvited; from terrorists; from burglars; and from anything any everything that has the potential – we believe – to harm us. If you hold those beliefs you better batten down the hatches for you will express them in what you do and what you invite into your life. Underlying this massive lack of trust is our belief that we can control some things, but not all things. Shit Happens! Shit does happen, but it only happens because we don’t know what it is we are doing. We do it all, but The Forgotten Self doesn’t know how it is created. We are the pilots of our own vehicles, but our vehicle has blown a head gasket and we don’t know how to fix it.

The emotion of fear and the belief that we need to be protected was the fuel that drove the US to attack Iraq. There are other, possibly larger beliefs, which also played a part in our decision. Weaving its way through our collective psyche is the strong religious belief in The Good Samaritan; that we are our brother’s keeper and if he can’t extract himself from his dire straits then it is our responsibility to do it for him. What does this say? It says that the Iraqis are not creating their individual and collective world the way we think they should create it. It says we know better than they what is best for them. It says we don’t ACCEPT what they have created in the Middle East any more than the terrorists don’t accept us. It says shit happens and it is up to us Good Samaritans to wash off the shit.

I refer you back to my post on choices and agreements because nothing can happen in this world without agreements. These are not agreements where Iraq agrees to have the US invade by sitting down at a table and saying, “sure, come right in, we’re really looking forward to some good old death and destruction.” It doesn’t work this way. The agreements take place within another area of consciousness and they are made to the benefit of every individual involved in order to move them toward their own intent and value fulfillment. Everything is a communication to self and we jointly create a war to present our beliefs in stark relief.

We could not have attacked Iraq had it not been agreed upon throughout the entirety of consciousness. So, let’s go to where Eckhart Tolle tells us our power lies. Let’s go to NOW. We are there and that is what is happening now. There is no greater waste of energy than the blame game. It throws us into the past where we have no power to create. The East and the West is as polarized as is the US itself. To what purpose are we polarized? Old thinking says one side will win, one side will lose and if not the house of cards will come tumbling down. If we create it all then there is a purpose to the polarization. Think of it this way. There is a tribe of 100 people and all but one pretty much think the same way. It is easy for the 99 to ignore the 1, but when 50 think one way and the other 50 think the opposite way there is no way to ignore the split any longer. WE have to pay attention.

This is why we have created the polarization. It forces us to look at our beliefs and at each other and to look at how our beliefs act in creating our lives. Beliefs are not absolutes unless you don’t know it is a belief that is ordering your life. Paying attention to what I do will show me the belief that is underlying what it is I created in the moment. It is my belief; my truth, but it is not absolute, just as your belief is your truth, but it also is not an absolute. Cooperation means both my truth and your truth, although polar opposites, are true, but not absolute. Hold to your truth if that is your choice, but judge not the other whose truth is also true. This is Acceptance and this is what the Iraq war is putting starkly before us to see. Do we see Acceptance, or do we judge? Do we see truth as an absolute or as an individual matter with no right or wrong?

I’m not affiliated with any religion, but I do know when a religious figure speaks a truth. “Judge not lest ye be judged” is probably the most ignored of the Christian tenets. And who judges us? We do. And how do we do it? By drawing to us that which we judge. So, hold fast to your truths if that is your choice, but let go of the judgment you attach to those that do not hold your truths. Do that and we will begin to see the result of a world unjudged and accepted.
Bill Marshall