ORDER FORM | HOME PAGE | SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
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Neale Donald Walsch |
I don't think there is any question but that this is one of the most important moments in human history. The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most extraordinary thought about who we really are. The events of recent days and times cause every thinking person to stop everything, to ponder deeply not only the meaning of life, but the purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have created it.
We must certainly find it impossible to further ignore the basics of our co-created lives, which is that we are continuing to put into place in our human family the seeds of discontent and anger. Unless we take this time to look at the causes of our experience, we will never remove ourselves from it. But we will, in fact, forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family who have not been given or allowed their fair share.
It is easy at times like this to fall into rage. Anger is fear announced. And if we are not careful, our rage could cause us to simply do more damage to ourselves as a species. Anger is not inappropriate. It is a natural human response. It is what we do with our anger that will either heal or further wound. Anger that is misdirected becomes rage and inflicts further wounds. Anger that is appropriately directed produces solutions and causes healing.
So at this time it is important for us to direct our anger toward the cause of our present experience. And that focus is not necessarily individuals or groups who have attacked others, but rather the reasons they have done so. Unless we look at these reasons, we will never be able to eliminate these attacks. To me the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human truths. We have not understood the most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not been listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do ungodly things.
The message of Conversations with God is clear: we are all one. That is a message the human race has largely ignored. Our separation mentality has underscored all of our human creations. Our religions, our political structures, our economic systems, our educational institutions, and our whole approach to life has been based on the idea that we are separate from each other. This has caused us to inflict all manner of injury, one upon the other. And this injury causes other injury, for like begets like and negativity only breeds negativity. Because we have hurt others in our human family, others seek to hurt us. It is as easy to understand as that.
So now we must pray that all of us in this human family will find the courage and the strength to turn inward and to ask a simply soaring question: what would love do now? If we could even love those who have attacked us and seek to understand why they have done his, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what then will be the outcome?
These are the questions that are placed before the human race today. They are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years. Failure to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at all. We should make no mistake about this. The human race has the power to annihilate itself. We can end life as we know it on this planet in one afternoon. This is the first time in human history that we have been able to say this.
And so now we must direct our attention to the questions that such power places before us. And we must answer these questions from a spiritual perspective, not a political perspective, and not an economic perspective. Only the grandest wisdom and the grandest truth can address the greatest problems, and we are now facing the greatest problems and the greatest challenges in the history of our species.
It is not as if we had not seen this coming. Every spiritual, political, and philosophical writer of the past 50 years has predicted it. So long as we continue to treat each other as we have done on this planet, the circumstance that we faced on the 11th of September will continue to present itself. The difference is that now our technology makes our anger much more dangerous. In the early days of our civilization, we were able to inflict hurt upon each other using sticks and rocks and primitive weapons. Then, as our technology grew, it because possible for clans to war against clans and ultimately for nations to war against nations. But even then, until most recent time, it was not possible for us to annihilate each other completely. We could destroy a village, or a town, or a major city, or even an entire nation, but only now is it possible for us to destroy our entire world so fast that nothing can stop it once the process begins. That is what makes this point in our history different from any other. And this is what makes this call for each of us to have our own conversations with God so appropriate and important.
If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to go on, and be experienced by our children and our children's children, we will have to become spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to happen. I repeat, we must choose to be at cause in the matter. And that is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today. What can I do to preserve the beauty and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred and the disparity that inevitably causes it in that part of the world that I touch?
