FINDING YOUR TRUTH

Memory As Such

If I could only remember everything I’ve read throughout my life, what wisdom I could spout now.

Unfortunately my memory spits and sputters like an asthmatic lawnmower engine proving it has just enough spark to announce important potential to the situation at hand, but not enough cranking power to keep the entire thought moving forward toward the desired destination; or you can’t cut much grass with an asthmatic mower.

Anyway, when I saw the image and thought above I wanted to offer a good reference book that described how we use anger to mask so many of our inner vulnerabilities, like feelings of grief, helplessness, fear, sadness, loneliness, and uncertainty. And of course now I can’t recall the book itself that described the situations or the author who conducted the study, but it had to do with helping veterans with severe trauma episodes and using EMDR to diffuse the energies of the most traumatic memories. (O’Hanlon’s books are good reference books along those lines, but this one wasn’t him.)

The gist of the thought was this: None of us like to feel vulnerable or in need of help from others to simply get on with our daily lives—just to make it through the day from one moment to the next, or from one day to the day after that. So when we feel like we might be internally shaky and/or falling apart emotionally, we tend to self-protectively regroup in our minds and shift our emotional states to the strongest emotion we can muster to better solidify our forward momentum; and that emotion is often ANGER.

Nothing pulls you out of a miserable funk faster than being ticked off over someone else’s behavior or thoughtless words/actions. It refocuses your attention and efforts toward protecting your more vulnerable self, and directing more hostile energies and intentions at any others daring to cross your path.

Anger is essentially a great ‘refocusing agent’. It provides the mental clarity to aim our uncertain, wobbly intentions toward some forward momentum and away from the stagnant hole we were stuck in before we engaged our fury over most anything that matched our momentary need to strike out against our own feelings of complete helplessness.

Do you know people who walk around pissed off most of the time? Guess what they are likely hiding beneath that hostile exterior? They could be hiding feelings of victimization, or inadequacy, or raw pain, or never-ending memories of loss or injustice; but they don’t want you to get close enough to them to see or feel it radiating from their quivering bodies, so instead they mask it with a ferocious fierceness and an acidic glare that can peel paint off a tool shed with a single glance.

They literally beam these words in front of them as they approach you: STAY AWAY FROM ME! CAN’T YOU SEE I’M DANGEROUS?!! And you do stay away for sanity-preservation and personal safety. That’s what anger can do—it warns, then threatens, and lastly lashes out. “Approach at your own risk!” it visually claims. “Are you really brave enough to confront me?!!”

But most of the time the angry person is simply wallowing in pain or shivering in perpetual fear or sinking ever lower in deep, deep sadness, but they don’t want you to see that vulnerability in them. Vulnerability represents ‘weakness;’ and weak people don’t last long in this combative world.

If you are intrigued enough to learn more about all of this, hopefully you’ll run across the book about a male therapist who helped many veterans deal with their debilitating PTSD using EMDR techniques (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing); or I found a good book on my shelves about combining brain science with psychotherapy called Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., that gives a comprehensive explanation to how the brain actually functions in various situations; and how we can take control of our own lives again once we better understand how previously we were auto-reacting to the world around us without assessing WHY we were doing so. It’s worth a read. (My book is full of underlines and side notes so it must have been interesting enough to have held my attention.) Looks like he also writes of similar therapy situations that I mentioned dealing with veteran’s PTSD. Hope it fits your needs to learn more about the subject matter.

As an energy worker, I know that emotions are energy spurts, bursts, or leaks, so better understanding our range of emotions helps us to raise our personal energy frequencies higher out of the doom and gloom range; and to make our lives and the lives of those around us, more desirable and pleasant for all.

You may not be able to prevent how others treat you, but you can choose to react or respond to that treatment in a manner that best suits your own purposes for living a more loving and peaceful life. That is a choice worth intentionally making.

They DO Exist!

“They DO Exist!”

For those familiar with holiday commercials that sounds like the Santa Claus/M&M’s Christmas Eve meet up by the fireplace and tree.

For me, I’ve been working at this ‘other dimensions exist’ realization for at least three decades; plus I’ve also read the book mentioned above, so I was not a newbie on the ‘multi-dimensions of existence’ concept, nor on how it was handled in the book by the time I read The Afterlife of Billy Fingers, which was basically Billy’s take on his ‘spirit life’ after death.

But just to note here, that when these sudden ‘body-knowledge realizations’ that life is far more than it seems to be, make it past your (“No, …this can’t be happening”) rational mind, they can be both scary and mind-blowing at the same time. So the book for you may be confirmation of an already known fact or it might represent NEW thought into previously unknown concepts. Only you will know for certain how it presents for you if you read it.

“When you realize that other dimensions exist, you’ll never think of life, death, yourself, or the universe in the same way again,” is a statement of TRUTH in my world. To me it is NOT theoretical—it is factual. But to YOU?….

That not-so-simple realization that other dimensions DO exist all around you and that YOU in fact ARE multi-dimensional yourself, can shift your comprehension ability in unfathomable ways for better or for worse because it can be mentally destabilizing if you have no frame of reference for the situations that you may experience through sudden multi-D experiences.

As I’ve mentioned years before in this blog, I teach REIKI—a Japanese Energy Therapy and Spiritual Practice that I learned in the mid-90’s. Through that practice, along with further pursuits in energy-work training, my own natural psychic abilities enhanced and developed so that I then became aware of ‘other stuff’ beyond this normal window’s glimpse into the world around us. Some of those “realizations” were mystical and amazing, and some were downright unsettling—even to me.

Also through my studies into hypnosis, and by my having conducted Past Life/Spirit World Explorations with clients, I became even more acutely aware that REALITY itself is a permeable mesh gauze that we populate with our thoughts and emotions. We are the actual ‘creators’ of what we experience; and we can change those life experiences by how we focus our thoughts and our energies toward what we intend to happen in our lives.

‘Intention’ is the key here because our intention not only creates our reality; it also drives the bus (our life) toward a chosen destination. So that makes INTENTION vitally important for us to clarify and to maintain strong emotional (energy higher-frequencies) connection to it.

So I’ll repeat that quote one more time: “When you realize that other dimensions exist, you’ll never think of life, death, yourself, or the universe in the same way again.” And then say this: To fully grasp the multi-dimensionality of ourselves is to realize that in one sense we are living in an elaborate dream that we have colonized with challenges to help us grow our consciousness; and in another sense ‘we are in charge’ of what we are dreaming/experiencing during the dream so we can make changes along the way, if we so desire.

Maybe that is the hardest aspect to consider about the totality of yourself: That your life is changeable in many ways if you are not content with your current situation. Just learn to shift your mind (your attitude), shift your energies higher (raise your energy frequency), and shift your possibilities (broaden your playing field) to open up to new experiences that better match your heart’s deepest desires.

I mean, it’s your life on all levels of existence. How do you want to live it?

Jumping Time

The first time it happened, I was unsure of what had actually occurred.

The next time it happened I was, “Come on, this can’t really be happening.”

The third time it happened I knew it was real and I’d have to make a change or I could never rely on what I was seeing.

Over the last week my bedroom electric clock had jumped time from a few minutes ahead the day before, to an hour and a half time jump ahead twice in 4 days.

‘How can that be?’ I asked the Ethers hoping for an answer. It’s an electric radio-alarm clock I’ve had for at least twenty-five years. Is the cat cleverly pushing his dinner time ahead to fool me? Actually with him that would not be surprising, but I think it was purely the clock’s OWN intentions that shifted time forward, and I found that thought unsettling for many reasons. So I started paying much closer attention to my surroundings—physical and Ethereal.

While the NEW electric replacement alarm clock is wifi smart and automatically resets itself to world time zones as soon as you plug it in, the OLD one was strictly a manually-set electric clock. When it jumped ahead in all those recent instances it wasn’t auto-resetting for Daylight Savings Time or Mid-Atlantic Time zones, it just wanted to move on out of here faster, period.

And with the state of the world right now, I can’t really blame it for that.

But since I always assume that my reality is a reflection of what is happening beyond this 3-D world we lumber through daily, I began to look for other tell-tale signs that something BIG is happening behind the dimensional scenes alluding to a major time-shift, (or dimensional shift) and I simply haven’t managed to see the broader picture yet.

I mean TIME in general just FEELS different to me now. Have you noticed it? Hopefully I’m not alone in this feeling because it’s hard to explain other than there is malleability to my waking hours now that wasn’t always present. Sometimes time moves SO slowly for me it’s as though I’m dragging my feet through wet cement; and other times it shoots ahead of my expectations like a fleet gazelle on an African savannah evading a lion.

Something strange is happening to our dimension right now—maybe it’s a shift higher, maybe it’s a merger of timelines. All I know is that TIME itself is changing and my NEW clock may not prevent it from jumping ahead if that is the ultimate higher intention.

Or maybe I need to bell that ornery cat so I know when he’s near my electric alarm clock.

Freedom of Response

If you haven’t yet read Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning, I suggest you soon do so.

Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist whose entire family was taken and eventually deported to Auschwitz, the World War II German prisoner of war labor camp for captured Jews. He was one of the few who survived after spending three years in four different Nazi POW camps.

In the book he described the horrors of the experience, but he also used it as a psychological study of ALL participants, captors as well as prisoners; and he explained how humanity was in short supply except for those with unshakable resolve and the strength of mind over whatever was happening to them at the time.

He later formed his own theory on the ‘aberration versus the resiliency of human behavior’ and developed his own psychological approach to treating his clients, called “Logotherapy,” based primarily on his personal experiences in the camps.

I read this book over twenty-five years ago and I still can recall how I felt while reading it. So as a fellow world resident who had also ‘searched for meaning’ much of my adult life, I can say that this book might help shift your perspective on YOUR life in a way that few others can.

It’s well worth a read.

Excerpt from Wikipedia below describing the book’s contents and value:

“…Frankl concludes that the meaning of life is found in every moment of living; life never ceases to have meaning, even in suffering and death. In a group therapy session during a mass fast inflicted on the camp’s inmates trying to protect an anonymous fellow inmate from fatal retribution by authorities, Frankl offered the thought that for everyone in a dire condition there is someone looking down, a friend, family member, or even God, who would expect not to be disappointed. Frankl concludes from his experience that a prisoner’s psychological reactions are not solely the result of the conditions of his life, but also from the freedom of choice he always has even in severe suffering. The inner hold a prisoner has on his spiritual self relies on having a hope in the future, and that once a prisoner loses that hope, he is doomed.

Frankl also concludes that there are only two races of men, decent men and indecent. No society is free of either of them, and thus there were “decent” Nazi guards and “indecent” prisoners, most notably the kapo who would torture and abuse their fellow prisoners for personal gain…. “(Wiki)

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Sitting in Your Soul

NICABM (National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine) offers Facebook image blurbs to encourage healthy living and enhanced mental resilience; plus occasionally offering online classes and speaker summits that I’ve participated in previously.

Today’s image above is focused on the importance of MINDFULNESS with the Ram Dass quote: “When you are down here in your soul, in that plane of consciousness, you forget the fear or anxiety or feeling of inadequacy.”

‘Mindfulness’ achieved through meditation is an acquired skill, but one that is easily transferable to others once they learn the techniques. It is well worth learning mindfulness—being able to stop the devastating effects of rampant mind chaos and chronic self-doubt by calming oneself without taking drugs is a desirable goal for anyone.

It not only makes you more mentally unshakable and resilient to life’s daily challenges, it also helps you to shift your perspective on how your life is unfolding before your eyes. Such as:

Are you a passive observer of your life or are you an active participant in your life?
Do you see yourself as the one to which all bad things are done, or are you the intentional doer of what good things might develop for you?
When something unkind is said or done to you, do you instantly take it personally and feel anger, shame, self-loathing because of it; or can you shrug off the unkindness as that person having shared his/her unhappiness with you but also know that it was not really ABOUT YOU—it was about what was happening inside that person at the time that made her say or do those things to you?

Mindfulness is a great tool for dropping down out of life’s insanity and sitting calmly in the pure waves of your own conscious awareness. From that vantage point ALL is undulating ocean—far and wide—and you are merely the local wave riding life’s flow to some unimaginable destination that awaits you.

Feel only the floating sensations surrounding you—suspending you in ceaseless bliss—and allow your body to observe without judgment as you settle in to that frequency of sentient awareness without care or concern.

Mindfulness can be a very nice respite—very soothing and rejuvenating.

The world around you even appears different and less threatening when you can control how, or whether, you let it affect you.

I think I previously mentioned that reading Thich Nhat Hahn helped me better understand the concept and practice of Mindfulness.

Why not try it for yourself?

Standing in the Stream

During summer’s heat, if you don’t mind getting your feet wet you’ve likely stood at least one time in a gentle stream and allowed the cool running water to casually flow over and around your feet and lower legs.

There where the current is mild with water tickling your ankles and calves as it envelops you, encasing you, embracing you, you notice how much a part of the stream itself you feel—the gentle force—the liquid intensity wrapping around your legs, tugging at you to let go and become one with the water’s perpetual flow.

On our land in Missouri we had such a stream that wove through the bottom land along the hay field and grazing pasture where the cattle would spend their hottest days standing in that stream to cool down. The only time it ever rose to four-foot bank height was during flash flood deluges, so for most days it was more trickle than torrent.

But the ‘stream’ itself is what I’m referring to now. “THE STREAM” is the steam of LIFE—the ebb and flow of life itself as you move along with it or stand strongly against it until it forces you back into the flow. You can’t escape it because it is the force of LIFE evolving in ceaseless waves of energy. You can either ride the flow or you can struggle against it until it overpowers you. Those are your choices.

Sometimes the stream is gentle and soothing, and sometimes it is powerful and overwhelming; but it is always the ‘stream of LIFE’ with all its variety and voracious appetites. When you ‘go with LIFE’s flow’ you ride life’s currents wherever they may take you: bumping and tumbling over boulders in your path and being swept around craggy cliff faces.

When you buck LIFE’s flow, you set your feet as firmly as you can wherever you currently are, and strain to maintain your footing while the water’s volume and strength increases until it rises high enough to lift you up and away. From there your choices are minimal, and the likelihood of escaping the current’s grasp is practically nil unless an outside force plucks you from the water—a limb, a rocky outcrop, an extending sandbar, or a generous stranger.

So as you now stand in that gentle stream hopefully you learn to recognize the stream’s future potential even as it slowly trickles around your tired calves—don’t underestimate the stream’s latent power and how quickly the water can rise with unseen, upstream rain. Respect the stream’s changeability and propensity to alter your personal future plans, no matter how carefully you might have set them, because that’s what happens to those who try to stand against LIFE’s natural flow—it upends you.

Or you can simply ignore the increasing pressure of those rising waters—so sure of your own abilities to withstand the pounding current and the growing depth that make wading through the stream more difficult, because after all, it’s only a steam.

Good luck with that thought.

Sense the Tender Soul

“To sense joy in the purest form is to sense the tender soul,

for a wealth of abundance lies in your deep,

calling you to come and claim it.

There the river of fragrance flows through you,

Drinking from the cup of silence

you enter the kingdom of light….”

….’Song of Eternity’…Excerpt Jayita Bhattacharjee

Inspiration Showers

Not So Magical After All

Let’s see, about a month ago I wrote about Winter Magic, but also mentioned that by mid-January it was the opposite. How prophetic.

Today is Sunday, January 14, 2024, and we’ve had 28 inches of snow in the last 4 days—including blizzard conditions with 45-50 mph winds for the last two days.
It’s currently -14 degrees at 6am with a high expected at -9 degrees today—all exterior storm doors were frozen shut yesterday morning forcing me to spray de-icer along the inside storm door frame in hopes it would penetrate to outer problem and fortunately it did, or we couldn’t have left the house until spring thaw.
We lost power for an hour and a half 3 days ago and our backup generator would not start so we had to hand-bucket 30 gallons of sump hole water out of the basement sump pit to keep it from overflowing onto the basement floor, until the power was thankfully restored. (That means carrying it up the stairs and tossing it outside to flash-freeze on the snowdrifts in minutes.) I hope the generator guy’s life insurance is paid up because he may not live much longer when he finally shows up here, ”Ahhh….maybe Monday”.
We have personally shoveled (and we’re not young any longer) so much snow off the walks, patio, and in front of garage doors to fill a dump truck and our backs are killing us.
Our steadfast neighbor guy dug our driveway out with his open-cab skid steer loader twice already, and will likely again in a day or so. (We love our neighbors—but too bad they don’t have a kid who likes to shovel snow or we’d hire him to do it for us.)
Woke this morning to 3 more inches of “magic” out there at -14 degrees, and decided that it’s just gonna stay there awhile. Enough is enough!

And where we live in Iowa we aren’t even the worst temps and/or snows throughout the nation. Come on 2024—you’re better than this!

Remember the Mountains and Valleys

“When you start to feel like things could have been better this year
Remember the mountains and valleys that got you here
They are not accidents
and those moments weren’t in vain.
You are not the same
You have grown and you are growing.
You are breathing , you are living.
You are wrapped in
Endless
Boundless
Grace
And things will get better.
There is more to you than yesterday …”

~ Morgan Harper Nichols ~
Artist Credit : Anna Speshilova
Serendipity Corner

Acknowledging Ourselves

We exist. We ARE. We live and die, and somewhere in-between the two, we learn.

WHAT we learn depends on so many factors such as our living environments, our support teams on earth and beyond who protect us and nurture our growth, and that soul spark within us that drives us forward toward some unseen goal or aspiration that only our hearts may recognize.

When very young if we were well supported and encouraged to make the most of our talents and proclivities, we developed self-confidence and open-mindedness. We were often then eager to face the wonders of this amazing world stretched out so beautifully before us.

If we were left to fend for ourselves from childhood onwards, we learned to survive by any means necessary. What we learned from those circumstances were more along the lines of primal self-preservation rather than consideration of others. We learned to compete, to win to live, and to take no prisoners in the process because they only consumed precious resources we may need in the future for ourselves.

I was fortunate to be among the first description—the well supported and protected. That has likely made all the difference in my life.

But as a baby had I not been offered up for adoption to a family that could provide those very things, I might have been among the second description—left to fend for myself in a more dysfunctional family situation.

Was my particular destiny the ‘luck of the draw’ or preordained? Depends on your beliefs, I guess. Either way, advantageous or unfavorable upbringings are part of the reason that we become who we are as adult people in a sometimes loving/sometimes harsh world.

While I’m not a fence-straddler on rightness and wrongness aspects by any means, I do try to see others’ perspectives and viewpoints when I consider judging them for their actions or deeds because we eventually become who we are allowed to slowly blossom into, or we become who and what we most need to be at our earliest opportunity—even become our own defenders when necessary, at any age.

Children learn quickly to utilize whatever works best for them in each situation with adults—what attitudes, what demeanors, what masks, what words, what tactics, what emotions to display. We learn early on how to gain attention, and sometimes how to avoid it.

We learn to stand out in a crowd or to hide away in a closet under a pile of clothes, depending on the audience we must play to. We learn so many life-sustaining tricks to evolve from one day to the next, from one week to the next, and from one year to the next—if we are able to live that long. Children are resourceful—we learn what must be done to survive or thrive.

So how do we look around ourselves at such diverse human life experiences and try to come together on supporting common social causes and gathering group consensus for creating a better society and world culture? How do we know what is BEST for ALL of us?

My only suggestion is to ‘listen more and talk less.’

Maybe then we can really hear what our neighbors are saying to us, and begin to better understand how they actually feel.

And wouldn’t it be super nice if they did the same for us?

The Mysteries

Sounds like an exploration of the ancient Greek mystery cults which were of great interest to me earlier in life, but instead what I’m referring to now are fiction crime novels written by skilled wordsmiths. There are many authors in that CRIME MYSTERY genre and darn few that are truly gifted at writing.

And I appreciate a darn good writer—knowledgeable, well-researched, with lyrical prose—using all five senses-based images, metaphors and similes—and the ability to effortlessly tell a complex, intertwined-characters story with ease and grace so it slides into your conscious awareness like sipping cool spring water on a hot summer’s day. John Connolly and Karin Slaughter are two such gifted authors, for example.

But unfortunately what goes along with that amazingly well-written plot ‘mystery’ aspect is the setting/scene gruesomeness part; and that is a little harder to digest. Much of their subject matter is based on actual documented cases of human depravity and cruelty—like a psychopaths’ rampant defiling of innocents and the unaware. So this more acrid story content isn’t necessarily a figment of a writer’s twisted brain—it is the actual documentation of what a true twisted brain can do and HAS DONE—it is often a limited study of human depravity and perversion on 450 pages of recycled wood pulp.

To me THAT is the real mystery—why people can be wired that way—to kill and maim and randomly terrorize whoever is convenient and within their reach. But then you can’t watch the national news without seeing more of the same, just on a far larger scale depending on the location: Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, old Bosnia and Serbia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Syria—it’s all there in real time with real people doing insane acts on other people, and we close our eyes and shake our heads and think ‘Thank God it’s not happening to me.’

WHY people feel the need to be so cruel and heartless at all, is the real mystery to me.

Now as a pretty experienced energy worker who is also well aware of what ‘else’ besides us shares our overall energy operating-zone, I’m not naive about the influence other ‘forces’ can have on susceptible human minds. But I also know that people have to want to awaken to a higher state of being before they can change their personal lives for the better, along with the rest of humanity in the process.

It has to be a choice to change their life to a higher behavioral standard. It has to be a choice to accept or not accept what is happening around them or remotely near them or even thousands of miles away from them.

As that same ‘experienced energy worker,’ I read this gruesome ‘fiction’ stuff to toughen my sensibilities and better enable me to recognize and face down whatever ‘evil incarnates’ that I may encounter now, because I’ve already had some pretty hairy experiences in my past with foreign entities on people that I worked with—felt them tingling like electrical currents under my hands—reaching out into my solar plexus at my own energy center to zap me with their nastiness. These things are real—they DO exist—and they CAN affect other people who may not be aware of their actual existence.

BUT,….there still has to be a greater awakening to the overall population that cruelty, inhumanity, and depravity are NOT acceptable human norms; and the heroes and heroines in these crime novels who hunt down and eliminate the psychopaths perpetrating the horrendous crimes are equated to real life people who also must deal with such horrific situations to protect the rest of our communities and society in general from them.

Tell me now, who saves us from our lesser selves in the real world—who stops the hatred—the cruel words—the threats and intimidations to those who dare disagree with others or to those who try to hold law breakers to account? You? Me? WHO?

WHO actually holds the offenders accountable for their anti-social actions? WHO is it?

Those protectors of humanity—the ‘Do-ers’ of right actions—the ones who make all wrongs right again. Write about those people, please. They are the ones I want to learn more about and personally know.

Beliefs and Concepts

“Our beliefs and concepts are the greatest obstacles to awakening.” (AwakenTheWorld)

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This won’t be another rant against organized religions, although it’s clear how detrimental I feel that many of them are by discouraging an individual’s self-inquiry and personal consciousness development.

We can actually be biased and closed-minded about most anything that we encounter in life, but when personal beliefs are concerned, nothing says “My way, or the highway,” better and faster than a religion—especially a specific doctrine that spells out what you ‘can and can’t do’ with your own precious life.

It used to be what you ‘should and shouldn’t do’ rather than ‘can and can’t’ but the US Supreme Court changed that 50+ year ruling when they gave in to the Religious Right and banned the ability of a woman to decide the fate of her own body and life.

Beliefs and concepts can be made substantive like suddenly encountering a cloud of mist and freezing it in place in our minds with our opinion of what that mist cloud should actually look like and how it should act or react, rather than allowing the mist to simply increase or dissipate on its own by flowing up, down, right or left and us simply observing it during the ongoing process.

When we limit the possibilities of whatever we encounter rather than simply observing them without judgment, we stop our self-growth in its evolutional track and say in effect, “No thanks. I know all I will ever need to know right now, so whatever that is in front of me that might educate me further is of no consequence to my current knowledgebase or my future learning potential.”

And religion isn’t the only fall-guy in this consideration; it’s just the easiest one to describe. We can make judgments about anything and everything that we encounter throughout the day—and especially make those judgments about the people we meet and with whom we associate our time because TIME is so valuable to us that we dole it out sparingly, and only to those most deserving of us.

Unfortunately we make these instant daily judgments on autopilot—because we are such creatures of habit and are always looking for ways to quickly classify whatever we encounter so we don’t waste time getting to better understand its significance aside from how it directly affects us. We really are that self-centered and self-focused. There wouldn’t be so many mass species extinctions occurring now if we were concerned for earth life beyond ourselves at this moment in time.

THAT is an actual belief: That human life is more precious than any other earth-based species existence.

Another actual belief: That personal greed and power are more important than sharing our abundance with those less able to produce their own. Genocides are efficient ways to reduce the demand for limited resources. It is happening all over the world right now. Do we condemn it or condone it? And how far are we willing to go to change the situation for the better for those under siege? Are we willing to make their battles for existence, OUR battles?

Sometimes I wonder why this experiential mode of learning was used to awaken a soul. I’m not so sure it is effective.