MAD WORLD
Someone recently wrote a lament about how the world has gone mad on a message board.
In actuality, this is not cause to lament, but rather to celebrate.
The mad world "out there" only exists in order to drive us within, wherein the Truth lies, wherein Life resides.
It is really a reason to celebrate when the world we see is totally mad, when there is no respite and no satisfaction to be had "out there".
The mind creates everything we see and experience. Those images are created for our ultimate best interest and that of every other Being in creation. When our minds are creating that which causes us intense sorrow, fear and hopelessness outwardly it is only because it is calling us Home, back within.
When we see pretty, enchanting and tempting images that is the time when the Soul is leading us down into the physical world further. This is one of the types of experiences that is called the descent for the sake of the ascent.
When the the images we see with our eyes turn ugly, though visceral emotions are aroused, in fact this is the time when we are being led out of our enchantment with illusion to a higher level of awareness and Being.
The outside world is breaking up not just for a few individuals but for our generation as a whole. It is rapidly becoming uninhabitable. I just read that an area the size of Germany and France together in Siberia is melting. Greenhouse gases will be released that will increase the warming trend (see: http://tinyurl.com/bs5v7).
Only those who know how to take refuge within are going to have where to go when the outer crust breaks up, when the tidal waves come, which is both imminent and inexorable.
It does not matter at all what the politicians are doing. It is of no moment whatsoever that the industrialists are corrupt. That is all for only one purpose - to make us realize that there is no hope and no salvation whatsoever in the "outside" world and to get us to turn within where the only refuge lies.
Don't concern yourselves at all with the images that your mind is generating. Be neither fascinated by, nor repelled, by them.
Look within. Now is the time for turning within, soon there will be no without and only those who have a world within will have where to set foot.
Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
