Since my last entry here on this topic the world has suffered the tragedy of Nice in France, the death toll in Turkey after a coup attempt there, and the ambush that killed three police officers is Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Before that, Dallas. Before that, Orlando.
Before that Zliten in Libya (60 dead), Sharaban in Iraq (100+ dead), Eei-Adde in Somalia (63-dead), Deir-ez Zor in Syria (300 dead), and the list goes on. And that’s just in January of this year alone.
Every day people are dying for no reason other than that they were in “the wrong place at the wrong time.” Innocent people, including children and the elderly. Totally innocent people, guilty of nothing save being in the line of fire (or courageously placing themselves in the line of fire as a matter of their sworn duty) when the anger of others has erupted.
How can such a thing continue to occur in a species that fancies itself to be highly evolved?
On this planet today, there is a belief held by 95% of the people that is killing us.
Literally.
Unless we find a way to alter this belief, the terrorism plaguing our species will not abate.
This belief is not the direct cause of the violence we inflict upon each other, but it absolutely creates an environment in which such savagery — rather than feeling unnatural, wildly inappropriate, repulsive and repugnant — feels totally acceptable to those who perpetrate it. And that number is increasing daily.
The belief that produces an environment of acceptability is the belief in separation. The vast majority of the human race has embraced this belief. We believe we are separate from each other, separate from Life Itself (in that we have nothing to do with its process except to endure it), and separate from God (if we even believe there is a God).
This belief is our aloneness in the Universe has led to our creation of a defense mechanism called tribalism. We’ve decided to join with others who we think, though they are separate from us, are similar enough to us to share common interests. And so we are not quite so alone.
The Tribalism of Separation has caused us to think in terms of “us” and “them” in nearly every area of our lives. And this is what has caused Orlando and Dallas, Nice and Ankara, the killings of and by police, the terror of and by ISIS, the verbal attacks of and by Mr. Trump, the anger of and by people all over the world leading to revolts by ballots and bullets against The Establishment everywhere.
Humans are no longer willing to submit to the established order of things — an order of things that has created global groupings of The Have’s and The Have Not’s — a few people living in Plenty while plenty live in Poverty.
Sadly, those living with poverty and its pains do not know how to revolt against it without causing further separation, and those living with plenty and its pleasures think only about how to stop the revolt of those in poverty and pain without doing very much about it. Thus, both groups perpetuate the very thing that has caused all the terror to begin with.
All of this can be solved with one simple remedy: an approach that if adopted by all of the world’s people, both the Have’s and the Have-Nots, would bring an end to our tribalism — and the anger of isolation that so frequently accompanies it — virtually overnight. The challenge is that our species does not seem to know exactly what the real problem is.
So, as I mentioned in the first article of this series, we keep trying to solve it as if it were a political problem, or an economic problem, or a social problem. Or, worst of all, a problem of insufficient power or force being used to get our way.
Yet all need not be lost. We can still heal the anger that is producing the conditions that is fueling the violence that has been flowing both ways between the tribes of humanity throughout human history — and that continues to affect and infect so many people to this very day.
We will not be able to do so, however, unless we stop to collectively understand that nuance and nature of the problem itself.
NEXT, Part Three: What is really going on, and why it is happening.
There is a TV show on Netflix right now, called TOUCH. Its about an autistic boy who sees the connection of all of life, with Kiefer Sutherland. ITs very well done, and shows people from around the world and how they can help each other in ways they never dreamed of.
Not a perfect show, but certainly in alignment with the new way of thinking and being in the world, where we come to realize all is ONE.
Neale and All,
Life has been very challenging of late, including on a personal level that appears to mirror the chaos of the world. Which points out what IMHO is part of the current problem that’s been so well expressed by Neale here: in our separateness, we don’t have to accept responsibility for our own lives because life happens to us rather than through us.
Facing our own power to change can be terrifying because it means accepting responsibility for our own inner and outer dramas, vulnerabilities and pain. Many recovery programs and psychological therapies require one to conduct an inventory of oneself and making amends or finding forgiveness for those we’ve harmed. Some of the hardest work I’ve done is to include myself in the list of those I’ve harmed and find compassion for myself.
I definitely agree that we need not wait until we’ve finished our inner work to start awakening others. In fact, I don’t believe that we can because inner work is never finished. Everything is a process, without end. If our inner work must attain some unreachable goal of completion before we act, we’ll never act because we’ll never reach that goal.
If, however, we’re willing to accept responsibility for creating our own lives, as we heal and grow we can see our inner work is reflected in our inner circle of friends and family. Others start commenting on how much more at peace we are, how we are happier or how we’re better able to handle a crisis. Even our smiles and our posture speak of our inner balance and the beginnings of Joy. This energy we put out has ripple effects that then move beyond ourselves, farther than we imagine.
If We Are All One, that ripple effect has no end. We affect our inner selves, our inner circle, our outer circle, our FB and Twitter feeds and the world beyond, including our environment and what most see as outside of themselves.
It’s scary work sometimes, this spiritual path we’ve chosen. Fortunately for us, we have shining lights like Neale and his conversations, as well as our own inner guidance. We needn’t invent how to get where it is we say we desire to go. We need only to be open to those who have traveled there before us, and to trust that we truly are part of the Divine Energy that created everything.
I’m suddenly reminded of the old adage that, when one is pointing at something, there are usually more fingers pointing back at oneself than there are pointing outwards. (Point at something with your index finger and you’ll get it.) In the same way, I’m also reminded of the Five Levels of Truth Telling in CWG. First we must be truthful with ourselves about ourselves, then truthful about another with ourselves, before we can be truthful about anything outside of ourselves. It’s natural to begin within and move outwards.
Again IMHO, we cannot help but change the world when we consciously choose to change ourselves. The next choice is then whether or not to consciously participate in how we affect our lives and the rest of creation. If we remember that we affect all of creation, it becomes natural for us to begin to pause and consider that effect before we become the cause of it. When we accept responsibility for our thoughts, words and deeds affecting everything because we are part of All That Is, we’re more likely to act from Compassion and Love.
We’re very fortunate here at EvoRevo in that we’ve found others we can support and who can support us during this time of worldwide chaos. When we feel like we’re not having an effect, when it feels like our work is going nowhere, we can come here and share our frustrations, hopes and successes. We can find the assurance that we are not alone. That support is, of course, in addition to the connection we’ve developed with the All That Is.
Love and Blessings Always,
~Annie Stith
This is absolutely wonderful Annie thank you so much for sharing I truly love reading these and having a personal connection to all here, I had to look up IMHO though, love it, had no idea what it meant. “In My Humble Opinion” you learn something new everyday. And yes I totally get that we are always going to be sharing,teaching,growing and enfolding in miraculous ways yes we are all going higher yet. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks, Julian. I love the video work that you do here for us, and I’d like for us all to get to know each other better.
~Annie
Spiritual Annie
Lovely words, thank you for sharing its good to know others are working on this too. Sometimes I feel so alone on this journey. I listen to CWG over and over and it gives me great comfort, and Ive been stuck feeling PTSD. Now I realize I just need to let myself have the time I need to feel safe probably for the first time in my life, before I need to do anything out there as it were.
God Bless you
YB
Yes there is a lot of stuff going on on the planet and at times its seems absolutely maddening,when these things happen, my mind goes to the wtf energy whoa then I stop it…..the second place I go to when these things occur is into compassion for all people affected by this and yes that includes the person/slash people who have become so separated from life that they feel to seemingly kill/harm others, second I go into the nobody dies energy knowing that NOBODY DIES, I like to think that these souls of the people who have left the planet signed up for this before they came to have a physical experience, “there are no accidental deaths” I also like to think that when this occurs there is more love and compassion sent,shared, expressed, by all people around the world and that this is greater then the departing of loved ones, I’m not saying we should run around killing people either, Something just came to me as I paused writing here and I will share it it is from Ernest Holmes who states. “I transform any apparent imperfection into the perfect idea of true being. “I am knowing people as Gods knows them. I am seeing it as Gods sees it. His/her Law is written in my mind and felt in my Heart. I see God everywhere.” I have a question that I have been asking myself for about two weeks and I guess I will place it here.
What do you think a person/terrorist would do if they knew nobody dies. What form of action would they take as far as what there trying to do.
I couldn’t come up with an answer quickly it made me actually think.
What I came with so far is that, this one belief would change there entire life in a positive way.
Well I will close this comment with the knowing that all is in divine order on the planet and these thing show up to heal what needs to be healed and reveal want needs to be revealed, I feel deeply that the whole universe knows what it’s doing by means of me and you and everyone awake, and everyone on the planet. and that we must do our work, with ourselves first, we must always take action locally and think Globally. There is a lot of work to do on the planet and that’s ok. Peace everyone Thanks Neale and to everyone here you guys are all awesome. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, Julian. Your comments are deeply felt and grandly appreciated. I agree, we must do our work with ourselves first. Yet it may be possible for the next step to occur immediately after we take the first. In other words, I am not convinced that we must FINISH our work before we can begin to do the good work of awakening others. Quite to the contrary. The CWG Cosmology tells us that “the fastest way to awaken yourself is to be the cause of another awakening.”
This is the core around which the next book in the CWG series revolves. I am working on it now. I know that you, and everyone who agrees with your assessment, above, will be moving with me to the Next Level in the work of the Evolution Revolution Movement when this new book comes out. Until then, I am so pleased that you are here, lending us your insightful and empowering energy.
Sending every good thought………neale.
yes i agree i often feel that there is more i can do and i know there is, and the universe always brings it to me, whatever it may be I’m always sharing this message “cwg”
may i make a comment about your books, I’ve noticed that your newest book is not on apple products i love the audio and the the books on my iPhone i have about 6 or your books where it is easily accesable and the new book not so much, is your new book going to be accesable on apple products it makes it so easy to share this massage when i can copy and paste it on social media plus it puts links to purchase your books thanks Julian
I will make every effort to make that happen. Consider yourself heard, Julian, and thank you.
Absolutely wonderful not sure about other people but I have to have this info in my back pocket its everything to me, and I lied earlier I said I have 6 down loads I have 18 total
Here is why I enjoy them most I can search a word in any book and find it within seconds, in this case I searched books and here is what I found in 10 seconds.
“The universe has used every contrivance to place this Truth before you. In song and story, in poetry and dance, in words and in motion—in pictures of motion, which you call motion pictures, and in collections of words, which you call books.”
Excerpt From: Neale Donald Walsch. “Conversations with God.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1996-10-29. iBooks.
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Check out this book on the iBooks Store: https://itun.es/us/pShtJ.l
Like so many, I was raised in a competitive world which included consistent comparison, us against them mentality, and beliefs in separation that left nothing but loneliness. As a student of the CwG material, I am now more self-aware. I realize how my beliefs in separation, stereotypes, and limitations has sometimes caused me to show up in mean-spirited ways. I do believe that the tribalism of separation is the root of violence and destruction in our world. It seems to me that the belief we are all in this together and we are all one, is much more comforting as well as accurate, than the reverse, yet it seems to be the belief most of us are afraid to examine. Why is that? Let’s face it, together we can do and be anything. Together we can reach the stars.
Michele has said something here that it so important, it deserves repeating in highlighted form. She wrote:
“It seems to me that the belief we are all in this together and we are all one, is much more comforting as well as accurate, than the reverse, yet it seems to be the belief most of us are afraid to examine. Why is that?”
I am going to suggest that the reason we are afraid to examine this is that we have never been taught, told, or given a good and viable model of what could live on the other side of that belief. That is, what would life be like, how could it be managed, if we actually thought that “we are all One,” and lived that way, overlaying this awareness on our politics, our economics, our social systems, and our spirituality. We need a new, a fresh, a complete and sparklingly clear statement of what this could look like. Then we have a marker on the distant shore to head for.
I am in the midst of creating such a statement in my next book, how in the writing. Wish me luck, and send me your good energies. This could be the Signature Book of the entire Conversations with God series.
Lovingly offered………neale.
Wonderful this is exciting news blessings all
How exhilarating! I can’t wait to read your next book! Concrete examples of what living as one could look like, and what we will achieve as a species once we overcome the fear of there not being enough to go around! This will be a classic book for our world (not to mention our Evolution Revolution online weekly book discussion) Godspeed Neale!
Lots of Love
I’m with you. Looking forward to part 3. Tired of feeling like the bad news is the new normal.
love
nannette
Thank you, Neale. Together is the answer. Looking forward to part 3.
love
nannette