Some thoughts about how I understand cruelty in the world, and my part in undoing it. This was in answer to a question about ISIS and soldiers beheading people.
Here is how I think of it. From where my mind is now, I seem to have thoughts and take actions and speak words. You seem to do these things, too, and what you seem to say or do has little to do with me. Those soldiers and that organization is the same. They do some pretty horrible things, and aside from how I react to hearing about it, what they do seems to have little to do with me. Even if I were there and affected by the actions of the soldiers, it would be the same. I would react to them, but their behavior would not be my behavior, their thoughts not my thoughts.
When my mind is clear I remember that separation is an illusion, and that there is actually only Mind rather than a lot of separate minds. So each seemingly separate person is just an aspect, a thought form within the one mind. It is hard to think that our mind can make thought forms like the soldiers you mentioned and that we have the kind of hate and rage that is projected through these thought forms, but we see the proof all the time. This hatred and rage are effects of the unconscious guilt in the mind.
The soldiers and others who are consumed by guilt are part of the same mind that we are. We heal the mind of guilt, of hatred and rage, when we look at these things in our mind and release them to the Holy Spirit. It makes no difference if the form guilt, hatred, and rage take in our mind seems milder and less destructive than it is in others, it is still the same guilt, the same hatred and rage, the same fear. And it belongs to us, all of it.
And we can heal it by forgiving it everywhere we see it, recognizing that seeing it in someone else does not mean it belongs to someone else and not to us. “Someone else” is just another out picturing of our shared mind, and so is us.
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