Will It Be Different This Time?
I had a vision: thousands of people tore down a border fence in front of confused soldiers
The headline of an op-ed I saw the other day read: ”Every second of this repulsive tragedy is the result of wrong policy”.
Many formulate their disgust for the renewed war in the Middle East in terms like these. I agree, but it is a scratch on the surface. What this never ending conflict really is, in its essence, is an extreme expression of the illusion of separation and a rejection of the force that makes it possible for us to even be here and create earthly lives for ourselves: unconditional love.
When you contemplate this conflict deeply — feel it, but also weigh in all that has transpired in ancient times as well as over the last 75 years — it is extremely difficult, more so than for other conflicts, to draw any definite conclusion as to which side is the more culpable.
This becomes clear when you read various social media posts from advocates for either side, who are all adamant it is obvious you have to see it the way they do.
This is a profoundly archetypal conflict. It is polarization 101.
However, it is important to note that it is the controlling elites that feed and perpetuate the conflict, not ordinary people. In some news clips it may look like it has popular roots, but that is because leaders manage to poison the minds of not so few authority dependent people. The genuine incentive to stoke conflict is always from the top down.
Even if it feels as if history constantly repeats itself in this fateful dyad, it doesn’t do exactly that. Humanity, like everything else, evolves spirally, so that every time things seem to come back to an earlier point, they are at a slightly different point.
Does slightly different mean at a slightly higher level of consciousness? I lean towards that, although I realize it is a hard sell. Maybe, just maybe, this iteration of the conflict will lead somewhere else than it usually does.
I have perused conflict statistics for decades. Some 15 years ago, I wrote a book that told the story of a world that is a better place than we realize, because we get our worldview from negativity biased sources. One example was armed conflicts.
When I wrote the book, wars were at an all-time low. Nobody knew that at the time, but it has become apparent since. In the period from circa 2001 to 2011 (with the lowest point in 2004), the number of battle-related deaths was very possibly smaller than at any time in recorded history (or at least since Roman times).
Then the Arab spring happened, which led to the wars in Syria, Libya and Yemen, and since then the world has had to endure protracted bloodshed in Ukraine twice and a repeat civil war in Ethiopia. And now this.
We are back in a world with markedly bloodier conflicts than the world we left fifteen years ago
I did realize it was possible wars would make a comeback, but that each new peak would be lower than the previous. I still think that is true, in principle.
One important reason many perceive today’s world as more violent than they can remember is not only that memory is short, but that we have less tolerance for violence — violence anywhere — today than a couple of generations ago.
My guess is that a large majority of humanity today sees wars as an abnormality that should never happen. I don’t think that was the case fifty years ago.
Notwithstanding that, we are obviously back in a world with markedly bloodier conflicts than the world we left fifteen years ago (without having appreciated or even noticed it). But the overall number of war casualties is still lower than during the cataclysmic 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
And there is another thing: major armed conflicts seem to have concentrated geographically lately.
Look at a map. Basically all full scale wars in the last ten to fifteen years have taken place in a corridor from north of the Black Sea down to the eastern parts of Central Africa.
If you superimpose that map on various maps of energy lines on the planet, you will find that there seems to be a very important line running more or less in that corridor: from western Russia southward through Anatolia, the Middle East and eastern Africa. Northern Egypt (many would say Giza, specifically) is a crucial node.
Incidentally, the regions along that north-south energy line and its nodes are also highly significant when it comes to traces of lost ancient civilizations (the same is true for other lines and nodes).
Coincidence? Sure, if there is such a thing, that is a possibility. I am no longer sure that pure coincidences even exist.
If we are to raise consciousness on this planet, we need to acknowledge and address the fear, hate, anger, envy and other destructive emotions that simmer under the surface. If we put the lid on, that noxious soup will eventually boil over.
Most of Europe, America and East Asia seems to have done that work, at least to some extent, left the timeline of bloody wars and moved on. Knock on wood.
Are the regions in said corridor the ones that ”are left”, the ones where people still haven’t dealt with their demons? If so, it is as if Gaia is raking together the muck that remains in humanity for it to be purged, perhaps through certain energy portals.
Leaders have tried and failed, tried and failed. At least they claim they have tried
According to Revelation 16, the very last battle will be fought where Galilee and Samaria meet (Armageddon, specifically). I wouldn’t bet against it.
But again, this time around it may be different.
There have been several grassroots attempts over the years at showing a more peaceful way, sometimes with an undertow of sorrow and frustration.
Recent media interviews with family members of killed or kidnapped people also constitute a glimmer of hope. A sibling of a killed peace activist staunchly rejects revenge: ”Killing innocent people will not bring us peace and security.” The father of a kidnapped young woman says that parents on the other side are in pain too. ”I am fighting in my own way. Not with anger.”
During a walk a few days ago, when I pondered this gruesome predicament, I had a vision.
I saw people marching to the border, but this time from both sides. When they arrived, they tore down the border fence. The marchers from one side blended with the marchers from the other side. They camped. Supply lines were arranged. The border guards didn’t know what to do. Who was a friend, and who was an enemy?
Leaders have tried and failed, tried and failed. At least they claim they have tried. Maybe it is time for the people those leaders have been deciding things for to stop and say:
‘”Enough already! No more of this loveless, materialist, bloody game. Can we please be allowed to just get on with our lives? We know the situation is insanely complicated, but we’ll figure something out. Because if we don’t stop this seventh-circle-of-hell madness, we’ll never be able to get anywhere.”
In short: Maybe it is time for a generational timeline shift: This stops with me!
It may not happen this time, but one day it will.
A low, fear-based frequency, which blocks the innate sense of oneness
”Wrong policy” is what many say when they actually mean ”a low, fear-based frequency, which blocks the innate sense of oneness and knowing that hating the other is hating yourself”.
We are so not used to uttering these kinds of deep, universal truths publicly. It feels uncomfortable. Many even think we should ”separate” spiritual and emotional truths from political and humanitarian truths.
We need to get over that. There can be no such division.
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