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Scribbled:
So, about ten minutes I logged into my Scrib account and realized there was a response to my article. Not to beat a dead horse, but it deserves a response (I think anyway) and with the latest eclipse bringing to light a lot of beginnings and endings, particularly in the house of relationships I think it’s a good time.
Here's my twitch. You’re taking the negative aspect of a great movement and lumping it together like it’s the entire movement. That would be like me saying every Evangelist is a money grubbing fake. Or every Catholic priest will molest a child. It’s not true. There are some beautiful, genuine, and I think important concepts of the New Age movement but they need to be well understood, with a balance of mind and heart. And with all the dis-information out there it’s very important the right message gets spread.
Lookit, here's what we can agree on. If your spouse cheats on you, it is absolutely not your fault. When my spouse cheated on me it was not my fault. However, in every situation there presents an opportunity to learn, to expand, to rise above. I fully believe that there are some situations that will be presented to us so that we can clear up things within us that need clearing up. How else would we know they needed clearing? That doesn't excuse the perpetrator if it’s a transgression through no fault of our own. For example, a drunk driver runs a red light and hits my car. Obviously this is not my fault. It’s this guys fault, for choosing to get drunk and doing something so incredibly stupid and dangerous. But on my end I have a choice. Forgive him, but damn sure call the police and let him deal with the consequences. But I still forgave him. And maybe that day is a catalyst for him to fix some of the things imabalanced in his life. We're all in this together. It does not excuse the bad things we do, but how we react to the “Bad” things are just as important if not more so, than the bad things themselves.
Let me address your embezzler example; perhaps you did need to learn to not be so attached to material things. That doesn't excuse the man who embezzled the money from you. It doesn't make him innocent or even what he did to you okay, not even close. But, there is still a lesson you can take from that, WITHOUT making yourself a victim. In fact I think this empowers you. Yes, without question sometimes unbalanced people do unbalanced things. It doesn’t make them okay. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and stop them from happening. But for every negative thing that happens to us, (and no not all of it is pre-planned) offers us an opportunity to step out of the role of victim and into a role of empowerment. If we can look at those situations from larger eyes, and take higher lessons from them, then we don't give them so much power over us. This doesn’t have to be easy, a child who was molested should have never been is not in any way shape or form okay. That’s just sad and makes me twitch harder that someone could use new age logic to try and justify that, because that’s simply incorrect. No true seeker on this path would ever do that, no true teacher would sprout that logic and if you’ve ever seen one, then you need to lump them in the group of molesting catholic priest, or con man, or that guy on TV reading the gospel then asking you for money, where they belong. If a man murders my husband it doesn’t make taking a life okay. But maybe that allows me to learn that nothing really dies, which is true. Death is not an ending, it’s a transformation. You see my point? At the end of the day if there is something that we can take from those negative situations that opens us up, that allows us not to approve, or condone but forgive then we have just raised ourselves a little higher, and thereby made the world a little better.
Those of us in the new age movement are not control freaks. (I also think the term New Age doesn’t cut it. I think what we the people are experiencing right now is a shift in consciousness but back on point) I was a control freak. (Scorpio, heelllooo). And letting go was one of the hardest things for me to learn how to do. Stepping onto this path has taught me to do that, and I practice it every day. It is only by surrendering that you open yourself to all the possibilities life has to offer. We have to let go, it’s all about letting go. How else can we let other things in? And if every now and then I'm feeling a little lazy and want to manifest a parking space nearby, why not. But it’s really not going to be a big deal if I don't find one and usually that sort of energy can be put into something a little more productive. (And when making a point like this it’s so important you’ve got the full picture, and you really understand it because surrendering doesn’t mean you don’t speak your truth – throat chakra – or stand up for yourself – stomach chakra- etc).
Look, you’re completely right. Some people will compl
