It can be easy to forget, when sat in a peaceful part of the planet, that there are places all around (including nearby) that are - for the beings involved there - essentially Hell on Earth. A key part of increasing consciousness and personal power is being open to sensing and responding to the suffering of other beings. Here I will look at this fundamental topic in more detail.
If you look at and FEEL into the people operating the many heartless torture facilities on Earth, for example fur farms in china and slaughter houses all around the world, it can be realised that they are operating without heart presence and thus with no real emotion (perhaps beyond some rage and other feelings bubbling beneath the surface).
They might appear 'perfectly normal' if you met them in the street, but they also might not and they certainly would not be warm, open hearted, creative or free in their mind and soul. The only person I have known who worked in such a 'factory' actually hung himself not long afterwards - which raises the question:
How do those who work in these places carry on doing it?
In order to be surrounded by such death, stress and torment on a daily basis requires either a strong heart and will (in the case of those who are present to improve the situation) or complete disconnection from emotions and massive denial in the case of those who are causing the suffering and 'working' there.
A human body can operate somewhat robotically, without any guidance from intuition, love and emotion - such that the individual 'reasons' that all manner of things are acceptable and 'ok' - when in truth they are not and anyone who is awake and can feel will know they are not ok. Skinning countless animals while alive and leaving them to die in agony is CLEARLY not OK and yet many people do this every day for 'money'. Denial is the problem here and also denial of denial. When we deny something is happening, we not only choose to live a lie but we also block out our own capacity to understand truth in the future. This leads to catastrophe at some point, guaranteed.
The extent of the denial and suffering in the fur farms, for example, is so extreme that for a moment I thought that it would be wiser to carpet bomb them rather than to allow the huge suffering there to continue, but another part of me already understood why this would not solve anything. Death is not a solution to anything and it is ultimately another form of denial.
Denial & Death Cannot Solve Anything
Some have learned that we reincarnate - that when our physical body dies, our spirit continues and is reborn. However, this is not the full story.
Life is vibration. Death is the absence of vibration.
Everything that is alive is vibrating to some extent and everything that is dead is not. Interestingly, this means that even 'things' that we THINK are dead (such as rocks) are to some extent living due to their vibration - although there are important reasons why they are far from being able to move in a way that we would typically call 'alive'.
This universe is formed from an infinite and unified self (we can call 'the one') - an electromagnetic field of great splendour and creativity - which thinks and feels. The forms of the universe are WITHIN the self and not outside at all.
Therefore, killing a dense form (such as an animal or human) within this massive space (massive from our human perspective) does not actually stop very much, other than the expression of that thing in the short term. The underlying mechanics that caused that thing to exist will still also exist and thus the energetic seeds that originated the life form will, in some way, cause a form of this nature to come to life again. The only way to resolve this is to heal at the deepest, causal levels - such that the 'seeds' are changed at the 'blueprint' level. The infinite field of life contains levels which are not physical and from which the physical plane arises - if we act only on the physical plane, we are only scratching the surface - as evidenced by the continual failure of 'modern medicine' to achieve real healing, despite the marketing strategies of the corporations involved.
You can see and feel the way that death does not solve problems by noticing that 'the war to end all wars' (world war 1) really was no such thing - it just led to more wars. Despite the huge and tragic loss of life, little changed in the long term. You cannot have peace through war, it is completely impossible. The imbalance and scarring caused by war requires immediate attention and healing on a vast scale - not more violence and destruction.
Note: This is part of why we must never trust the lies of political figures who claim they are going to solve our problems and 'bring security' through bombs and militaries. Yes, the issues in some parts of the world are highly complicated and not simple to resolve, but more violence only makes that worse. You might think that after 1000s of years of attempting to use violence to 'solve' things on Earth, that those involved might have by now learned that this simply cannot work! The reality is that many of them do know this but continue to kill and murder on a massive scale for their own reasons - sometime ideological and sometimes just pure greed due to their investment in the corporations that make the weapons and 'rebuild' the destroyed land once the carnage ends.
Life needs love and acceptance of self. Death rejects love, denies self and is nothing. You need to feel this to understand it.
What is Denial?
Denial is essentially nothing. Denial rejects an aspect of reality and does not allow it to be received, felt or understood.
Sometimes we go into denial due to thinking that we have no other option. It could be done semi-consciously, consciously or unconsciously. For example, if you are beaten as a child, you might disconnect from the pain and hurt coming from your 'loved one' and that part will effectively become sealed off from the conscious part of you - trapped in unconsciousness.
When we are in this state, we might be able to encounter all manner of evil and appear to not be bothered by it - but that is not really the case. What is actually occurring is that the part of us that IS bothered by it cannot speak up because it is now effectively lost from the rest of the being. The only way to resolve this is to heal through the heart into wholeness using unconditional self acceptance. By bringing loving acceptance for whatever parts of us that we can find - perhaps during meditation or other quiet times - we can start a process of reintegrating and finding our lost, injured, dying and unconscious parts of self (fragments).
When we block out parts of ourselves into unconsciousness, we may become involved in evil deeds without really understanding that this is what we are doing - our unconsciousness prevents our understanding our own action. This is a perilous situation indeed, since there appears to be no way to help someone in this state as they themselves may have no understanding of the need for change.
Promotion of Real Life
The marketers and social engineers of this world put huge effort into misleading as many as they can - so much so that the products being sold typically make us ill and yet the glossy advertising makes out as if they will solve all our problems. Even 'Reality TV' is usually scripted.
The path of healing this complex situation starts with me, you and every individual doing what we can to live life in full reality - with no denial. So we do due diligence checks to find out where the products we used were sourced from and we do what we can to live in harmony with the planet, perhaps by growing food - for example.
Gradually, those who choose real life and live well as a result will be the new leaders simply because they are more empowered to act, more balanced, more graceful and more alive. Therefore, while it is extremely difficult to share a planet with those who do not feel and who are, in fact, barely alive - the reality is that by continuing to choose to heal, balance and evolve as individuals - major waves will be made and major transformation will be accelerated. Even just simple acts of loving kindness and also always listening to your own feelings and never over-riding your own feelings may be enough to open an important doorway for us.
If I had my way, I would teach the children that emotional integrity and balance are more important than language, maths and sports. Without emotional (and spiritual) integrity we will suffer and die - yet where is this kind of necessary wisdom in our education systems? It is usually only found in cartoon martial arts movies and kind of laughed at as being kooky.
None the less, those who live without denial DO become more powerful in every way and will make the called for changes. Who among us is aligning to that destiny path? Anyone who chooses life needs to ask themselves on a regular basis - "Am I being truly honest in every moment?" and if the answer is no - then, without self judgement, simply change and evolve. <3
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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