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There's something about death and horror which I think is important here. Once it happens, whatever we feel, the power in death and devastation is that it cannot be undone. The bit we can change is this. So many deaths in our world are meaningless, coming seemingly to nothing, ending uncomplete lives. Yet if we use the moving impact of death/destruction as a way of motivating new change and understanding, the damage or loss takes on a new light. There is an element of positivity to it, a way to turn it round. This perhaps is the true notion behind 'martyrdom' - an idea so abused today - a form of redemption. The energy generated by death and a forward-moving response to it can turn things around. This does not justify disasters or wars. But it does offer something to do with them once they happen. Sometimes powerful events become catalysts of what needs to happen. An example was the death of sixty people in a marketplace in Sarajevo in August 1995, under Serb bombs - and the Bosnian war was ended within five days. Or the Declaration of Human Rights, born in the ashes of WW2.
I had an interesting psychic surprise on Tuesday, repeated on Wednesday. I went inside myself and went to NYC to see what 'soul-rescue' work I could do. (I'm prone to do such things.) To my surprise, the whole area was completely 'cleaned out' - there were no souls at all lingering there. Just empty space, where once there had been a hive of busy activity encapsulated in two buildings. I usually experience stunned, angry, disoriented, lost and thrashing souls around such disasters. This was completely empty and uncannily quiet. I 'asked up' for clarification, and 'got' that it was all 'in hand' - the souls had been rapidly taken out for special treatment. Then, next day, I watched on TV the many grieving, lost, living people, waiting for their loved ones to come home and battling with their own feelings and dilemmas, and I saw that, strangely, they too are perhaps experiencing a bewildering 'zero signal' from the people who died. No pain, no joy, no forward, no back - just a blank. The thrashing around is amongst those left behind in a body, in this world.
I've always felt people thrust into disasters are, in a sense, at the forefront of human evolution, pushing the boundaries, extending our repertoire, forced to improvise. Patterns change, necessity dominates, and enormous growth and rebirth can happen there. Now that the past has happened, it's what we do with it, how we grow through it, which matters. This perhaps is a hidden message in this tragedy in New York: it's time to do some learning, some acceptance, to take off our respective blinkers - or do we need hitting even harder? Nostradamus Quatrains are today flying around Internet, mentioning apocalypse. Apocalypse is revelation - a disaster only for those that can't stand it.
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