- or rather, my big long defense of my beliefs about evil. Which is how it started. From a position of defense. At one point, I just stopped working on it and found I didn't feel I should return to it, and this continued for several days until I saw what I was doing. This blahg couldn't happen until I reminded myself that there was *nothing* to argue or defend. As there never is. Defending means there is a *right* or a *wrong.* I don't need to stick up for the truth. It just is. What I *can* do is point to it:
- We are each responsible for every aspect of our own experience, and we control through thought *all* that we introduce into our experiences. Our *very belief*, personally and as a species, in evil, is the exact thing which causes it to exist in our experiences;
- The things and people we point to and call "evil," ALL of them, even the big ones, are definitely and without a doubt the physical products and direct results of many people's choices, individually and as a whole species, to believe without a shadow of a doubt that there *is* inherent evil, to look for that evil everywhere, and to constantly and increasingly fear it, to see it in each other, and believe we need to be protected from it;
- Most of us have forgotten that we are each powerful creators with powerful minds that are ALWAYS creating, turning thought energy into physical, *no matter what* we are giving our thought energy to, *no matter what* we choose to believe- or worry about. And since we choose to believe 'terrible' things are everywhere, we are absolutely and without a doubt creating "evil" in our own experiences constantly without realizing it. Since we create our world and experiences based on what we truly believe *each of us are getting exactly what we expect, always.* This could not be more fair, it is universal law, and means all is *exactly* how it should be, always;
- We, as individuals and as a species, are only a realization away, (the above realization in fact) from *completely removing* that which we call "evil", from our experiences- simply by choosing *not* to fear it, not to believe in it, and not to uphold creation of evil through this unflinching belief in it. By, ahem, "fearing no evil."
Now.
There is a reason I started off this blahg writing from an illusory position of defense of the above. It's because in the past people have reacted very strongly and often in violent opposition of the truth in this area. It's the hardest thing to get anyone to understand because it's so deeply ingrained in how we live. Religion, law, Mommy and Daddy- everything we have ever learned from everyone who ever taught us anything depends on good and bad, and which we are. It's how we live! And most importantly it's the basis of the reasons we have why we can't be happy. Which means once we see this truth there is complete freedom to be happy all the time. Which is what happened to me. :D
A lot of people take issue with the idea of being in control of their experience. On accounta their experience is sooo miserable. Who would choose that? And what-am I saying it's their "fault?" (P.S. That's never what I am saying!! Fault means good and bad right and wrong, does it not? I'm only ever pointing out the *freedom* we have, each of us, to change everything for the better. Aaaaand I don't mean better like right and wrong, but better like how you *feel*, the only kind of better that matters. *What you feel now is all that matters.* l'm talking about you being truly joy filled every day and every moment of your life. The only reason I ever try to help you see truth is so you can have this joy for yourself.)
When it comes to Universal truth, there is no need for argument, there is no defense.
It is universally true that we have, with our powerful thought energy, created everything around us. It is universally true that, as a good friend said to me this week "Whatever you believe without a shadow of a doubt becomes your personal truth." If you choose to believe in evil, you invite evil into your life. Life will give you the evil you are looking for. You will always see evidence of it. Since we as a species believe in great evil without a shadow of a doubt, there is great evil. If you have spent much of your life fearing evil and hating evil and talking about it and concentrating on it and trying to abolish it than you will have attracted much of it to you. I would not be surprised if there is a lot of 'evil' in your life. Which would mean also that I wouldn't be surprised if you have a strong aversion to hearing that you can control how and when and if it comes into your life, and how it affects you.
If you want to believe other people are wrong and you are right, you are creating more "evil" in the world. Whether what they have done is a small thing or a huge one, it makes no difference. If you can release them needing to be "wrong," you can love them, no matter what. There is no *true* reason you shouldn't love them. No matter who they are. Am I saying you could love the very worstest of the worst criminals? Yes, I am. (Side note: Many of my closest friends would be considered criminals.) But- even the 'worst' criminal you can think of. Go ahead, think of them. Your hatred of them, your condemnation of their wrongness, doesn't lower them, doesn't stop them, doesn't change what they did. It doesn't help anyone or anything feel better or be better. You hating them and noticing their "wrongness" doesn't "give them what they deserve." It doesn't help those they hurt. It doesn't elevate you, or make you a good person, to notice/hate/condemn them. It does only one thing. It invites more of the thing you hate/condemn into your experience and into the world.
If you choose to be angry and disappointed with people, they will anger and disappoint you.
If you choose to believe others can hurt and diminish you, that you need to look out/be afraid of them, that you are "unsafe"- you will become so.
If you choose to believe that you are being judged for everything you do, you will feel guilt. We can't find wrongness in others without finding it in ourselves.
If you choose to believe that people or situations can "make you" be/act/feel a certain way, then you'll always be at the mercy of those around you, and of what happens, in regards to when you can be happy and when you can't.
Or, just by recognizing 'evil' for what it is- a product and result of illusory beliefs and thoughts about life and about who we are, a product of having been taught to live our lives in fear of others and of ourselves- and by releasing our fear based need to be right and have others be wrong, we can abolish 'evil' and all its power from our experiences. Forever.
Our choice. And that is the truth.
-Amber
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