A New Kind Of Spiritual Revolution -- We Can't Pray Terrorist Attacks Away.

We are our own answers to prayers of compassion, understanding, safety, decency and peace. We each have a responsibility to be the change that's being called forth. We can't become paralyzed.
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Month after month, terrorism continues; it takes new shape, growing in ways we cannot predict, feeling like an uncontainable epidemic. There's a palpable shift toward a spiritual revolution of a new kind. And although there is great power in prayer, we can't pray this away. We are our own answers to prayers of compassion, understanding, safety, decency and peace. We each have a responsibility to be the change that's being called forth. We can't become paralyzed.

We gotta be about it.

The solution we're looking for will require us to look deeply inside ourselves. It will require us to execute the spiritual concepts we believe in - not just proclaim them. We have to examine the deep root of why extremism persists, and take accountability for our individual influence collectively before we can arrive at peace. Until then, in a sense, it is not just the terrorists who are at fault. If we are all one, we are also a part of the problem.

Every conflict exists because of the perception of separation. Spiritually, these attacks are showing us the ramifications of the "us and them" narrative. Pointing the finger, coupled with continual protection of a fearful-self will only prove futile. Instead, the sustainable and collective resolution lies within an honest look at where we may hold fear or judgment in our own lives.

Dissipating separation: The importance of inner work.

When we blame, we immediately forfeit our power to create change and healing. Our own sense of lack creates separation and fear consciousness. We do this because we have habituated lifestyles with tendencies toward making our joy extrinsic and conditional. We all have emotional wounds we try to fix by modifying conditions, but these patterns will leave us endlessly chasing our tails, fighting for power and identity outside ourselves without yield. Not only is this perceptual pandemic dangerous personally, but globally. We cannot collectively arrive at peace if we have not arrived within.

Our Spiritual Responsibility Through Love.

To be a light worker means to be of the light and it often requires us to light the path for others. It asks us to see past the blame to activate our own healing and we have to be spiritually accountable in order to activate change.

Change comes through expanding our ability to love. Not only within our hearts energetically, but by activating love in our lives. We have to take it to the streets. I don't mean just praying for France, Orlando or Istanbul. I mean activating love in our immediate lives. This means forgiving our perceived transgressors and releasing blame. Holding blame only keeps us immobile and feeble. It doesn't work to think 'we' are spiritual and 'they' are not. We are not separate.

How We Can Use The Atrocities To Activate Change:

1. We have to level up our love. We must pray for the suffering of the attackers as well as the victims.

If it's not possible to see the attackers' divine nature hidden behind their deep fear, can you re-direct this intention to release any judgment in your own life? Is there one person in your life you can forgive today? Are you holding anyone hostage in order to falsely claim your worth? Can you forgive a sibling, a friend or a co-worker?

2. As you recognize the world around you it also looks back at you as part of it. If the root of our issues is separation, how can you realize your connection to all things? What makes you feel purposeful? What is important to you? What is your life mission statement? It's special, and it's needed. Big time. Your creative expression is a piece of our collective balance.

3. Try seeing the events through the eyes of the soul. How would your soul see it? What would your inner being want to learn through witnessing such contrast?

4. We live in a democratic society and there is nothing unspiritual about politics. We can write congressmen and elect officials that offer peaceful solutions. We can educate ourselves about legislation, our international role as a country and our domestic morals and where we need transformation. We can speak candidly about our beliefs from love, we can evaluate why we hold the beliefs we do. There is plenty we can do.

Blame is spiritually lethargic. It is vital for all of us to activate love and accountability, how else will we find peace? The truth is we have the answer to peace but it doesn't come through pointing fingers, it comes by feeling your own intrinsic call. Remember, there are no small acts of love.

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