A Wider Perspective of World Events

What is taking place is a multi-layered process of change. We have always talked of the change as being a vibrational change of the underlying psychic energy. Although this is certainly a fundamental change of energy, there will always be triggers or catalysts to set things in motion for the next stage.

Until now many of the catalysts have been unseen, taking place inconspicuously in society. Changes in cultural assumptions and expressions have been taking place, but until now these have been seen as a continuation of the old order rather than a quantum change.

So now there has been a spectacular event. In terms of human tragedy it is not exceptional. It is equivalent to a major earthquake that might happen every two or three years where tens of thousands of people might be lost. So, strictly in terms of human tragedy, this is not the worst.

However, there are two aspects that are special about this event. First, it is being universally experienced via television so that it has become a high profile incident. The spectacular nature combined with the universal spread of the images around the world creates a special power and significance. The second is that it has been deliberately created by persons unknown in order to create mayhem and distrust. One might feel it to be appalling and evil, but the real significance is the unknown and hidden nature of the cause.

If it were caused by some clearly identifiable person, it would be different. Although the authorities are trying to focus on a single person to be responsible for the events, the reality is that this is a process taking place. One individual may have masterminded it, may have created the doctrines and may have even funded it, but that alone does not make people adopt a cause or even deliberately decide to kill thousands of people. So there needs to be an extra dimension to account for what is happening.

If someone were simply seeking personal wealth or power, it could be explained but, so far, no-one has begun to examine the mental and emotional processes that lie behind a person deliberately choosing to slaughter thousands of people.

So there is a dichotomy between the high level of publicity and the apparent absence of explicit cause or rationale.

It is this unknown aspect which will have the greatest effect on the universal psyche for two reasons. One is because it is so pernicious and unidentified. For example, it could be a neighbour or any man on the street who is carrying out these acts. The second is that you do not understand why. Although politicians may attemp to explain, they do not offer any understanding of the real cause or the process.

This now represents the ultimate challenge. It is as though someone has thrown down the gauntlet to challenge everyone by asking "Who are you? Why are you here? What is the source and purpose of your life?" And even "What is the purpose of the terrorists’ lives?" This is about getting back to the fundamental issues of life, death and why people choose particular patterns of existence.

Over the next 18 months there will emerge a great deal of introspection and soul-searching about individual life purpose and what people wish to achieve in life. People will then start to re-evaluate what they consider to be important in life rather than money or status symbols which have become the icons of the era. The banal assumptions that have been accepted as reality will need to be re-examined. This will lead to an upsurge of people searching for an understanding of the inner purpose of life. I repeat, the challenge is to ask who we are, what we are doing and why we are here.

The immediate explicit consequences of these events are not pretty. There will be retaliations and then counter-retaliation, and many more innocent people will be killed. There will be a rumbling process of attrition which will be widespread around the world. This action and reaction will become like a cancer that spreads: starting locally, a few cells will split off to infect another organ, from which in turn more cells spread to infect another area. It will continue to spread through the world until eventually people will realise that it is not working and that they cannot continue in the same way. Like two boxers in the ring, after ten rounds neither has any energy left to continue - people will realise there is no future in continuing to fight. They will understand the need to start reaching inside for a new level of understanding of the source and motivation of everyone and everything.

Leaders are only in power because they can draw oxygen by tapping into the beliefs of the people they lead. That applies equally to terrorist leaders as it does to democratically elected leaders. The process for a democratic leader is more explicit: he will manifest the hopes and fears of those he represents otherwise he will not be re-elected. He would be replaced by someone who more truly represents the ideals and ambitions of the electorate, however flawed those ambitions may be.

Similarly a non-elected leader of, for example, a terrorist organisation only has power whilst he has safe-havens, a flow of funds and followers who will do his bidding. When that lifeforce of energy is cut off, however charismatic he may be, he will have no ability to translate his psyche into actions.

This process may take about ten years before it all grinds to a halt and everyone becomes exhausted by the pointlessness of it all. It will not be Armageddon or atom bombs, it will be more like Northern Ireland where the attrition eventually reaches a point where everyone is exhausted and simply says "enough".

So this is the process, but it is not the story. The real story is that a lot of other things will be happening as well. The earth changes we have talked about will certainly happen, with earthquakes and extreme weather conditions. These have been building up over the last few years and have almost been accepted as normal. People have learned to live with these so-called ‘acts of God’.

There will also be massive change in the way people begin to think of themselves which is linked to the overt process of terrorism and earth changes. On the outside there will be great upheaval while the inside will be turning inside-out. People’s inner aspects will become explicit, manifest and expressed in their lives.

This is a great opportunity and the real challenge is to understand the process of life itself. Implicit in this new understanding of life is the understanding of death. When people finally understand that death is just death and not the end of existence, it will become part of a new understanding. The external and internal processes of change will become manifest as one. This may seem uncaring to someone facing what seems like the ultimate tragedy, but that is the reality.

Even those not affected directly will become affected by the change of assumptions in society. When you do not know who the enemy is, when he may even be your neighbour, there will be much fear, anger and a gamut of other emotions. Eventually, you will need to reach an understanding that those emotions are your own creation and not something thrust upon you by the outside world. People will need to learn that they are responsible for the emotions they produce, for example, feelings of vengeance, hatred and victimisation.

So a polarisation will emerge between those who can open up to an underlying universal wisdom and those who are still trapped in reaction. Their reaction will become their prison. The fundamental issue concerns the meaning that people bring to their lives. If people perceive themselves as separate, they will have one type of experience. Alternatively they may begin to perceive themselves as connected with other members of society who are experiencing trauma and loss (providing this is a real connection rather than a false emotional projection or mawkish interest). The universal sharing of that deep sense of non-separation represents the hallmark of man’s fundamental process of evolution and the underlying reason for all these experiences manifesting.

The second aspect is the effect of these events on people’s hopes and desires. When something as explicit as this takes place, it becomes part of the universal human experience and will deeply affect people’s sense of themselves and what they wish to achieve in life. For example, the desire to be of service to mankind can quickly become a well or a source to be tapped into. There will be upsurge of people choosing to be of service to society, each in their own individual way.

The last war was effectively national but this situation is more universal and there are no boundaries. That universality actually begs all the questions. Then the enemy was conspicuous and identifiable and without question you did what you had to do. The situation now is different because it asks all the questions about yourselves, the universe and the nature of society.

Most of western Europe will be affected in some way along with other areas of the world. The problems will not be confined to the developed world but will be experienced universally. There will be some major incidents in cities, both here (England) and in Europe. For the majority of the population it will not be a direct personal experience, but importantly, it will become an empathetic or shared experience.

Many people react as though these events are in some way a disaster or accident that should not have happened. Our view is that, though tragic and painful, they are inevitable and part of the process - rather like experiencing an illness in order to build up an immunity for the future. The process itself is not accidental, it is being entered into consciously by humanity as part of the healing and learning process.

When you come to understand that these events are not accidental then you can be more deliberate about how you choose to use and experience them. If you believe them to be a terrible mistake you will place the events outside yourself, looking for external, avoidable causes. Knowing that it was part of the process, and had to happen, takes away the need to allocate cause and blame. People will start to search for new meaning in life - they will no longer accept the superficialities of life but will start to seek and be drawn to new ideas about the deeper purpose of life.

So CONTINUE to hold the candle, hold the light, and know that everything is part of the process.

KNOW that it is a continuum and not an accident and that it is primarily designed to give us the experience we need to learn from.

RECOGNISE the power that these events have to heal us and to make us grow.

EXPERIENCEeverything at this level - not as a catastrophe to be avoided and not in the role of a victim.