MAY 2024
ONENESS
PEACE IN OUR TIME
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By Lydia Lowery Busler
FORWARD
“An awakened species sees the unity of all life and lives into it. Humans in an unawakened state often deny it or ignore it.”
Neale Donald Walsch
There is no beginning or end to a body
Consider the top of your head. Is it where your body starts? Or is it at the tip of your toes? Are your toes separate from your head? Even as they are separate, they are not separated from the health impact of injury to one end or the other.
One could argue that the beginning of a body is at the cellular level, or the nutrients that feed that body. Another may state that the brain is most important, or the heart, or the blood. Still, others may believe that the beginning of a body is the soul.
Now consider if one of those parts becomes unhealthy. The rest of the parts can function, correct? If the one becomes unhealthy and remains in a state of unhealth, the rest of the body ceases to thrive. A soul that is sickened will affect the entire body. An infection of the heart, brain, or blood will do the same, and a lack of nutrition or disease at the cellular level is devastating to a body. Even a papercut or hangnail can cause long term illness to a body or even death, if allowed to become infected and not cleaned.
Life on Earth
Now consider the position of humanity on planet Earth. We are the top of the food chain, right? Perhaps we are stewards. Or are we simply the smartest things around, able to use resources willy-nilly at our disposal?
Those resources still require renewal and upkeep or somehow an infinite supply. And there’s competition for those resources, including from the environment itself. Societies, governments, and corporations, among other entities, all work to contain a system of ebb and flow on planet Earth.
Why do we need to control the ebb and flow of life and resources? Well, for one thing, we suffer if the health of any of these parts becomes unwell. No part is truly separate from another part. Sure, we may not see the impact of the death of a species, the illness of an ecosystem, or the suffering of part of society when it’s first at peril. However, eventually we do, and profoundly so.
We Are One
Humanity, life on Earth, even air and water are all one interconnected life form. Just as our nose does not feel the destruction of cells from an illness or an infection on our knee, eventually it will fall ill if other parts of the body are not managed for health. When we realize this, we view ourselves in a more holistic way, one part not doing harm to the other and doing harm to ourselves.
Likewise, we become acutely unable to do harm to another human, species, or ecosystem when we realize that is one whole. To harm doesn’t even occur to us because it makes no sense. We begin to realize that each has come to its own understanding of the divine based on where we have been placed on the earth. These understandings are neither wrong nor right any more then the shoulder’s understanding of its connection to the toe is incorrect or negates the connection. That part of us that does feel the connection will neither harm nor fault one part or the other.
Peace is Natural
War is futile. Nothing in a logical species, an aware species, or an awakened species can justify doing harm to the energy which is itself. To deny our connection to another living being is akin to denying the existence of our own hipbone. It makes no sense.
Still, regardless of whether we acknowledge our own hipbone, it is still there and if we break it, we will suffer. This is the way with war. Whether or not we justify it, it still does harm to ourselves and the ecosystem and society in which we live. Whether that harm is irreparable has to do with the extent of the damage wrought.
Before justifying a conflict based on a sense of what is right or a feeling that ownership belongs to one side or the other, it is our duty as an interconnected species to consider that each side is connected by care and by life and to that end, so are we. You are divine because you are connected to everything ever born, created, or in existence.
Allow your divinity to guide your heart, mind, and soul.
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