Greetings!
I would like to start this post with words of wisdom from my guides in The 'real beauty' of life is 'what you do not know' published on 9/23/2011 -
You want to know what's to come before it comes. You want us to confirm what you think you know. The 'real beauty' of life is 'what you do not know'. For instance, if you know you will be very rich in May, you will look forward to May. What happens in between now and May you will not handle them with emotions of not knowing.
With not knowing, you will handle whatever happens with creativity. You will deal with them with your true emotions. And to do that - living your life truthfully - is what life is all about.
I began writing this post on Jan. 23, 2025. I just realized I received the above guidance on Jan. 23, 2003 which was exactly 22 years ago! In It is the not knowing that makes life intriguing , I shared some interesting experiences of not knowing too.
I supposed it was our human nature that we wanted to know what lay ahead. If we searched online, we might find lots of videos on what were to come. The end of time talks were nothing new. Decades ago, I heard this story. A woman lived in fear because she believed in the 'end of time' talks that she had heard. She spent her money getting ready for 'what were to come'. She died when she was around 40 years old. People found her basement filled with packs and packs of bottled water, lots of canned food, and equipment for survival. In another news many years ago, a group of people came to USA from another place. They gathered on a mountain top. Their (cult) leader had told them that a spaceship would come to pick them up by a certain date; they were the chosen ones to be saved. That date came to pass. They eventually went home.
I did not say all prophecies were false. There had been notable true prophets throughout history. However, we should not simply believe in everything that others said particularly words that caused us to live in fear.
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In my previous post, I wrote -
The guest speaker's dreams did not stir fear in my heart. Pease note that it did not mean I disputed his dreams. I decided to join the meeting with an open heart.
The host had sent out emails inviting others to email him before the meeting what they had received in dreams or visions about what were to come. He would compare the data to the speaker's dreams. The host himself had read many books on prophecies and earth changes.
When zoom started, the host introduced a woman who corroborated with the guest speaker's dreams. If I heard correctly, she did not live in USA. I supposed she might have similar dreams / visions / she could be a psychic.
The guest speaker began by sharing some of his stories that we had already learned from the host's email and attachment. Later, he talked in depth about what the world would look like after the mass destruction and the safe havens. He said there would be only a few safe havens, and his country was one of them. He suggested for people to move there so that they would be saved. He shared his views why USA and its people would come to a horrific tragic end as he saw in his dreams.
When I wrote to this point, I felt I should pause before I continued. I did not want to put this brother in a negative light. He joined the meeting believing that a nuclear war was imminent, and wanted to warn others ahead of time. As far as I knew, he did not gain anything by joining the meeting.
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I had wanted to go straight to 'what we need the most at this time'. I did not want to write about the guest speaker's personal views of USA which might put him in a negative light. That was the reason for the pause in writing. However, I had come to understand the value of sharing his views. His views / experiences mirrored part of us in our reality. In truth, his experiences were not just his experiences. If we set aside our judgment, we could all learn something from OUR experiences.
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The guest speaker told us what he saw in his dreams - USA was totally destroyed and its people were massacred by people from different countries. He said it was because USA had done lots of wrong to other countries and their people. Hearing what he said, I realized
his dream world might have been
tainted by his personal views.
Everything Is Energy . What he held in his mind (i.e. his views of USA)
could have been reflected in his dreams. (In
The Conclusion of the Great Gray Cat , all of us in the family had dreamed of the cat after he moved on, and our dreams were different.)
As grown ups, we saw ourselves as independent individuals. (Definition of independent - free from outside control; not depending on another's authority).
However, our upbringing as well as our experiences had an effect or even an impact in how we looked at the world and life (e.g. the environment we grew up - the country we lived in, our culture, the society, church / temple, religion / no religion, what we learned from our parents / teachers / schools, our experiences with our family / relatives / friends / others and etc.). At times we formed judgment / wrong views, but were not conscious that we did. (e.g. In She loves her daughters more than her son , the waitress formed a view against her son simply because of other people's experiences. In A talk among girls about the Criteria of an Ideal Husband, some girls were not aware that they had let a wrong view take root in their mind.)
I must add that some * people that lived under extreme dictatorship might not / could not be as free or as independent as they could be. Sometimes they were being brainwashed since childhood through the educational system. (*Some only. There were always free thinkers that did not abide to what they were told, and fought for their freedom from whatever harsh conditions they were born into.)
The speaker had told us he was in his 50 s. USA and the country where he was born had long regarded each other as the prime enemy. When he was in his late teens / around 20, that country dissolved into different countries. By then, he had probably taken in the political views of his country about USA. He now lived in one of those countries that declared independence during the dissolution.
The brother was not any different from us. We had all taken in other views (incl. political) as if they were our own, e.g. a country's political stance, views from our family / friends / the society, and even cult leaders' / dictators' views. In order to understand his views about USA, I could not simply think that he was wrong. Upon contemplation, I realized he was not alone in his views against USA.
The 2001 9/11 Terrorists Attacks came to my mind. I remembered I was shocked and sadden because of what happened. Every morning before I went to the restaurant, I sat in front of the TV watching the latest news. At night I did the same after coming home. Sometimes tears flowed down my face listening to the stories. How could the terrorists do that? My heart went out to those that had lost their loved ones during the attacks. I prayed a lot at night. I did not remember much about USA anti-terrorist wars in other countries. I did remember I cheered as most did seeing the statue of Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, being pulling down to the ground in 2003. By then, I was going through my own challenge watching my husband spent his time practicing the moves day and night. Terrorist attacks still drew my attention, and I continued to pray for people that suffered when such incidents happened.
The brother's words about USA led to my pause in writing. As days went by, I realized there was far more to terrorism / hatred toward another country / its people.
In the name of righteousness, many wars were declared. However, were there not wars fought mainly to maintain a country's political dominance in the world? Yet, the same country / countries had turned a blind eye to great injustice such as the massacre of a certain race in another country. There were also wars started for revenge. Who suffered the most during wars? The common people. How many times we watched on the news that men and women held onto the dead bodies of their loved ones crying in the war torn zones. Most people carried the sadness for the rest of their lives, but resigned to the brutality of wars. Some grew up in hatred waiting for their time to avenge. They blamed the country / countries that bombed their country, destroyed their homes, and caused the deaths of their loved ones / friends. Hatred blurred the sense of right or wrong. Later, they joined terrorist groups or carried out terrorist acts on their own. They did not realize their terrorist acts killed innocent people just as what happened in a war.
Like the guest speaker, many of us had taken in a country's political stance or the doctrine of a church / a religion as if they were our own. In a political climate where one country easily called another country the enemy, we might have unknowingly regarded another nation and its people as our enemies too. Therefore, it should not be that hard to understand why the guest speaker said USA and its people had done lots of wrong to the other countries. Many cheered after the death of Saddam Hussein the dictator, and felt victorious over terrorism. BUT, most of us might not have given much thought / attention to the price of war - the innocent lives that were lost. I searched online, and learned that 4.5 to 4.7 million people had died directly and indirectly as a result of the post-9/11 anti-terrorists wars in different countries, including over 7,000 service members of USA. How would you / we feel if we were the ones that lived through the wars seeing our homes were being destroyed and our loved ones getting killed?
In August 2021, US withdrew its military from Afghanistan. After a long 20 years, the wars seemed to be over. Was the war against terrorists really over? The soldiers came home, but many carried the scars of wars physically and / or mentally for the rest of their lives. Could we have taken another approach instead of starting a war?
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After the guest speaker talked, people were quiet. It might be we had not expected to hear what he said of USA. One person asked when the nuclear war would take place. The speaker said it would happen in 2 to 3 weeks. I had something to say, but did not want to raise my hand. Knowing my English was not sufficient, I hoped and prayed someone else would speak up in response to what the speaker said.
A few minutes before the meeting was about to end, the host asked one last time if others had any questions or wanted to say something. I finally raised my hand. I asked the speaker if it was possible that what he perceived as a nuclear war was an explosion of a natural cause. He said it was possible. I was nervous. I did not recall all that I said, but my messages were always that of 'peace and do not live in fear'. Unexpectedly, I heard someone cheered after I finished talking. It kind of eased my nerves. It was not that I was proud. What was there to be proud of anyway?
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I paused writing this post because I did not want to put the brother in a negative light. While trying to understand why he felt that way towards USA, the 2001 9/11 Terrorists Attacks came to my mind. During the restaurant years, my husband and I worked 7 days a week from morning to night. When we arrived home, it was almost 11 p.m. Except during the 9/11 period, we did not spend much time watching TV. Therefore, I knew very little about the other wars that USA was in. In retrospect, the pause in writing and the surface of the 9/11 incidents in my mind were very much in divine order.
Many of us went through life seldom examined our views / attitude / patterns. At times we thought that we were in the right, and others were wrong. If we examined closely and truthfully, we might find that we were not that right either. In writing this post, I realized it helped to listen to others with an open heart, and the importance of spending some time to examine the views we held.
These days the world seemed to be in chaos particularly in USA. Some of my friends said they had stopped watching the news.
Sorry, it takes me a long time to finish a post. I hope to finish 'What we need the most at this time - 3' before the end of February. (Next post What We Need the Most At This Time - 3 )
Peace and Love,
Q of D
