I had a moment of clarity recently; I had just turned a
corner and a man riding a bike fell right there on the sidewalk as I witnessed
it. He didn’t fall horribly (he got up a little shaken and brushed himself off
and rode away) but it was sudden and shocking as those things are. I was
curious why I witnessed that. While I don’t think I “made” him fall, I do
understand now that we co-created the moment. I wanted to explore this further,
so pulled over the car.
I took a moment and looked inside and what that moment
triggered was a sense of violence. What I saw was the part of my unconscious
limbic brain that somehow appreciated violence. As I looked deeper, I witnessed
the larger scale violence in the world then saw that same energy of violence in
me. I felt, at a deep level, a oneness with this group agreement regarding
violence, and again saw it in myself and felt a sense that we are all one. I
believe that we are all connected, kind of like the Pando (Trembling
Giant) Quaking Aspen Grove in Utah, that is actually one huge tree that is part
a system of “treeness.”
In that moment I saw, that because I am part of everything I
have a hand in creating all of it (including violence). What comes into my radar
or within my purview is a personal creation. As I look within I can really see
the energy that I commit to creating everything in my life. I can see the
strings of attachment that project out from me making things, thoughts, and
beliefs real.
As I explored within myself how I felt about violence and
wars and crime, I saw the strings of my personal deep seeded unconscious
beliefs move into the world and attach to violent “things” and events. I then
saw thousands of other strings attached from other minds that in aggregate made
the picture whole (a hologram), life a Renoir painting all the individual dots
together form a picture.
In each day since that first exploration of violence, when I
have a moment of frustration or an angry outburst I immediately do my inner
work, and recognize the violence that is within me. I see how my emotions and
infrastructure of beliefs can show up in the world and result in, that ass
cutting me off, or that person at the grocery story being unpleasant, or even
the war. As I acknowledge and recognize these strings of belief manifesting and
creating my reality, and shift those feelings, changing my mind, I witness my
belief string disengaging. When I
observed this internal vision of my personal belief string releasing, I also
noticed others were disrupted into disengagement (like a pyramid of apples, if
you remove one from the middle, the rest either settle into a new configuration
or fall).
If, my postulation of “we are all one” is true, then if my
string of belief disengages then it causes a ripple effect on the whole. My
release of my feelings and beliefs around violence allows an easing of the
tension of the whole. That is the 100th
monkey theory and Car Jung’s collective
unconsciousness theory in action. Our own internal work resolving our part
in the resonant global beliefs and extreme emotional energies can change the
whole. Each of us plays a part and the more we take personal responsibility for
our internal beliefs and feelings and change those, the greater the opportunity
for achieving critical mass and sudden shifts for peace (the cautionary tale is
that same critical mass is also applicable to war).
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Every word is true.
I’ve studied Jung’s work. The collective unconcious is a powerful force. Unfortunately, it applies to war and violence as well.
That’s why Mimi made peace globes.
(grin)