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Editorial
Edit: the following article was written in Early November, before I was aware of the NIE report. Thankfully, Bombing Iran is no longer a possibility. In this article, I was giving them the benefit of the doubt, being human... In retrospect however, I'm not sure exactly what they're motives are as they appear to be incredibly dark.
A Unitive Perspective on the Subject of Bombing Iran
Last night I was watching a video of Dennis Kucinich speaking on health care and in answer to one of the questions posed to him, he mentioned that there is a budget in congress right now that has appropriations for financing the bombing of Iran. They have already budgeted to retrofit 30,000lb bombs onto B52 bombers. So any thought that the Bush administration is not moving forward with bombing Iran is out the window. There are many things that can be said about this. What I’m going to do here is offer a unitive perspective.
Why is the administration moving us towards bombing Iran? They’re doing it because they honestly believe it’s the best course of action. They’re doing it because they’re honestly, deeply afraid and they are trying to do something about that fear. They believe that they are making the world a safer place.
The power of fear is that it’s unpleasant. No one wants to feel shaking and powerless. Probably 99.9% of the population would rather be numb to a certain degree than to feel that feeling. I know from first hand experience. So, as a person who opposes the use of violence as a means to any end, I have a tendency to want to resist their methods of action. I have a tendency to judge those methods as foolish and incorrect. However, what I haven’t been doing until a particularly poignant moment this morning, is just feeling that what our leaders are doing scares me. Literally. I felt the feeling of nausea, and the feeling of terror. I've been resisting those feelings up until now, and by resisting them, I've been making them stronger. In feeling those feelings, I realized that those feelings are what I have in common with Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz and all those people. Ahhhhh, we’re in this boat together! We're all resisting feeling terrified.
The higher perspective is that underneath the fear is pain. The truth is that we have free will. We have the choice to numb out from fear. We have the choice to try and not feel pain. The way this works is that we will continue to externalize and project out our internal fears so that we can experience them. We have a fundamental need to feel our own feelings and as long as we choose not to feel them inside, we will systematically create them in our “outer” reality because that energy has to move. It has to go somewhere.
Ultimately we’re talking about healing. We may have to continue to walk down a path of ignorance and destruction until we learn. The Germans just did it 60 years ago. We have an opportunity to learn from that. I learned from that when I read about it in the history books. What I didn’t learn form the history books is how to feel fear. How to shake and feel nauseous and powerless.
The question is, do you personally need to wait until you’re in an external situation, like being bombed, to let yourself really feel your fear? How about creating some space in yourself today instead? Create some room for feeling fear and bring peace and calm to it within yourself. How? There's not a lot to it really. The feelings will come to you. Someone will say something, or you'll see something on the news and a sense of discomfort will present itself. What do you do in that moment? Just notice. Notice what you do. It's important. Chances are you distance yourself from what you're feeling in some way. Perhaps by thinking "I can't do anything about that". One powerful option you have is that you can stop what you are doing and just breathe. You can allow that feeling just to have space inside of you. There is your opportunity for change. When you do this, you reduce the need for whatever you're feeling to manifest in the world around us.
If you can't do this, that's ok too. Then we'll go into the chaos together and learn one more time what it's like when the world around us is terrifying. Why?
-because love is that powerful.
If you can give some space to your unpleasant emotions, you'll start to notice other feelings coming through. You'll start to remember your birthright to happiness and joy and to live in a society that is full of love, creativity and inspiration. And you'll remember that you have the power to create that world. The choice is yours.