Dear Reader;

There is a phenomenon unfolding in media, journalism, social media, and even in conversations with family and friends, when the fear of offending someone takes precedence over facing a deeper moral or spiritual truth. This has become so widespread that it is almost universal. Conversations become minefields, social gatherings, an exercise in walking on glass.

We fear the discomfort of alienating loved ones or peers, more than we fear our own inner reckoning. This is a downward slide from the most fundamental and high human principle, that it is more important to align with a spiritual truth than that which compels us in fear.

The primary causal factor here is the sense that we must take sides. That we must choose a political party or policy, defend a particular religious perspective, or appear to represent a certain righteousness in our opinions. We wish to be on the ‘right’ side of the conversation. We want to be liked, even to obey, more than we want to tell the truth.

A very clear and disturbing example of this principle was demonstrated in the infamous Milgram experiments. Participants were led to administer shocks to another participant, that ranged from uncomfortable to lethal. If they questioned the instructions they were advised to continue, even as the one being shocked screamed and begged for mercy. The majority of those administering the shocks did what they were told.

Is this unconscious capacity for cruelty inherent in the human condition, or is it simply a primal fear that has driven our species in the past, but now rises to be seen, acknowledged and released?

What if the days of duality are coming to a close? What if our collective shadow is rising up in a final blowout rampage, before we turn to a deeper awareness that it doesn’t matter who is doing the harm, or for what reason. All that matters is that wounding, killing, destroying, causing rampant suffering goes against the most primary spiritual tenets our hearts can know. To stand up and say this aloud, does not make anyone anti or pro anything, but rather humane. Conscious. Compassionate. All the things that have been buried under the rubble of karmic wounding and vengeance. The habit of hurting others instead of addressing our own inner fear and pain. For decades I have led students of the Kore Process, a form of deep shadow work, to learn how to face what is difficult to see in their own karmic history. The liberation that awaits when we tell ourselves such truths is worth every moment of the journey.

It is time for us to look to this principle as an expression in the collective. It’s time for us to face our own demons, and the demons that are currently acting out in the collective experience. When we call them by name, we take the first step in dissipating their energy. When we dare to look together at what is most difficult to see, we throw a bucket of water at the wicked witch of the West, and prepare to watch her dissolve into the illusion she has always been.

Cruelty begets cruelty which teaches us that we are all Divine and we are all capable of the demonic Only when we are finally able to understand this may we exorcise the power of the dark It is not just that we no longer take sides When we agree to see the shadow we tell the truth When we tell the truth we are humbled when we are humbled we return to peace There is no one to fight and no one to fear Conquerors sewers of vengeance when you reach toward God know that the devil reaches with you When you suggest that God is on your side whenever you use God’s name in this way be it Yahweh Allah or Christ to justify harm the devil speaks through you and this is the inherent risk of any attempt to organize God For the heart of Man is most weak when he presumes to suggest that his own fear his own broken need knows anything of the Divine for the idea of God uttered in human fear is the furthest thing from holy There is no holy war There is no holy hate And there is never ever such a thing as holy vengeance for there is no god of any name who celebrates this base human emotion And to suggest otherwise reveals only how far we are willing to travel from the truth of Divine Love to justify our own unholy games... ~ excerpt Demon of Division from DEAR HUMAN CHILD the book

In the willingness to harm one child just one all grace is gone no matter what is written no matter what is believed A weapon which touches a child is held in the devil’s hand for religion is the attempt of Man to organize his own dreams of power through the lens of his own fear and unconscious hunger and while there is divinity in every moment religious warfare is nothing but evil on all sides and in all forms True faith does not divide it embraces True consciousness never blames but only heals True love owns nothing not land and not people True wisdom seeks no power but rather transforms suffering through faith consciousness and love Love takes no sides for it is whole Holy Whole... ~ excerpt Demon of Division from DEAR HUMAN CHILD the book

This powerful song will no doubt disturb many viewers. But how much more disturbing is it, to consider how the world has turned away from what has been called the first live-streamed genocide in history?

There are times when it is more important to be strong, than to be comfortable. More valuable to tell the truth, than to be liked. More transformational to break free of a collective hypnosis which compels us to be untrue to ourselves.

Nothing is as it seems because the old illusions must fall and the more tightly we hold to how we think it should be the more painful the rebirth will seem in the grip of our comfortable fears The truth is Love is easy so much easier than you might think While vengeance is hard and eats up everything good within the soul Forgiveness has nothing to do with the blame to which you cling And brutality is never new for it breeds and grows in the gardens the prisons and the ghettos we create But once revenge is spawned it will take armies of peace a great rising of the many millions of aspects of Divine Consciousness to come together resistance of the highest order as the devil dissolves starved to death by our refusal to feed what is not born of compassion Be not afraid for there is no power greater than our willingness to love beyond borders beyond religion beyond our forefathers’ ancient hate The day must come when we do unto others not what has been done to us but rather what pure love commands ... ~ excerpt Demon of Division from DEAR HUMAN CHILD the book

There are times when it is more important to be strong than to be comfortable. More valuable to tell the truth, than to be liked. More transformational to break free of a collective hypnosis that compels us to be untrue to ourselves.

We can do better. We can come together. We can transform the vast history of tribalism and vengeance that has ruled our world. Time is now, my friends. Time is Now.

much love, Adi

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