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Imagine for a moment that in the 20th and 21st centuries there has been a critical mass of leaders of nations around the world who are enlightened peacemakers. Not in the conventional understanding of the geo-political, but of the spiritual. In the parlance of M.K. Gandhi, they tap into the power of soul force (satyagraha) that enables them collectively to confront and disarm even the most hardened autocrat.
What would be the outcomes? Would two World Wars have been averted? Would there be no nuclear weapons? Would genocide and other wars have never happened or been averted? Would Russia never have invaded Ukraine? Would the world not be seeing the rise of authoritarian and fascist dictators? Would Hamas have never attacked innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023 and Israel never turned around and murdered over 40,000 innocent Palestinians?
Can you imagine such a scenario? It is hard, isn't it?
I am here to inspire all of us to consider that we can create a radically different reality for the future. That we will see the rise in influence of enlightened peacemakers in positions of power. But even more, the reason they have that much authority is because of the billions of people on the planet who have been engaging in peacemaking in themselves, their families, communities, nations, and the world.
Gandhi states that the courage and strength to face down evil through nonviolent means, even at risk of harm to oneself, comes from God. By surrendering to God, he says, we discover Truth. If we widen the language of his monotheistic, religious lens, Gandhi tells us that we can experience what he called satyagraha, or soul force as a vital and eternal vibrational frequency of love within, through and around all of creation. When the inner and outer portals of consciousness open up to our innate, visceral and mystical remembrance of this life-creating, abundant energy, we see all things through the eyes of the Great Heart. A potent transformational, healing energy then arises. This vibrational frequency will then slowly, call forth, as Gandhi puts it, the moral rudder within almost every human being and change their mind--and the course of history.
In my view, this Great Heart is the radiant bridge between our physical incarnation to our soul and spirit. At this level, we know ourselves as fundamentally indestructible and we recognize the greater purpose within all arising experience. We shed fear. It is a natural imprint within all human beings. Though forgotten by some, it can be reactivated in them when in its presence.
When we are anchored into soul force while negotiating with others to turn back the will to domination, warmongering and destruction, we have the power to penetrate the deepest darkness of fear. For fear is at the root of all attacks on another’s sovereignty, whether on an individual or a group.
Soul force also allows us tap into new and creative solutions that might otherwise have been invisible. Violence and war burn a tremendous amount of creative energy, as does fear. When we are afraid, we are stressed. When we are stressed, our ability to access the unlimited potential within us and throughout creation is truncated. Our spiritual, energetic, mental, and emotional bandwidth is narrowed. We are thus more apt to act out of old conditioning and the psychological patterning arising from unhealed personal and ancestral traumas. We are thus blind to emergent, creative possibilities and more peace-enabling choices and actions.
It is no accident that pandemic, war, and increasing authoritarianism have intensified even as the wisdom of ancient spiritual lineages once hidden have been revealed over the past century to the whole world. When great light shines into shadow, a healing crisis is triggered. Yet now, as chaos seems to be increasing, millions of people are reaching for meditation, prayer and ceremony to create both inner and outer peace. As we seek to heal ourselves, we know we are healing our families, communities, and the planet. This is one spoke of sacred activism for peacemaking.
So, imagine now that a critical number of the world’s population have been undertaking this work of sacred activism for peacemaking for the past century or more. They have been, as a result, vibrating at this higher consciousness of soul force and acting out of the Great Heart, even while enlightened leaders are, as well.
Soul force, when collectively harnessed, has exponential impact. And because we are all interconnected through this vast matrix of consciousness and love-light, we do not have to be in the same room or even geographical location as the leaders who are working to heal and ignite the fire of peace in another leader’s heart. An estimate based on studies of how many people regularly practicing meditation is statistically connected to a reduction in violence is 3.5%. This means that if 2.7 billion of the earth’s 7.9 billion souls were consistently engaged in practices to activate the vibrational frequency of soul force and thus, the triggering within others an opening into the Great Heart, there would be a tidal wave shift in the destiny lines of humanity.
With this much vibrational support worldwide, the leaders and people involved in quelling the authoritarian or warmongering aspirations of some individuals or groups would be able to transmute their fear and activate their moral center. Indeed, he believed that somewhere inside of every human being, no matter how confused or even depraved, there is the seed of humanity and the spark of God within. This is what the energetic frequency of Great Heart seeks to awaken. It is awareness of the greater self and thus activates the presence of soul force—a mystical state of unity mind. Fear abates, minds are changed, and the course of human actions shift. Even the tiniest adjustment could have monumental effect.
The implications are actually profound. None of the wars, genocides, hate movements, and other forms of mass violence we have seen in the past century would have happened—or at least, they would not have escalated to the point they did. It’s not that there would be a lack of conflict or disagreements, but that creative solutions we could not even now imagine would have been harnessed.
Like, Gandhi, the great peacemaker, let’s keep up the faith and the work of sacred activism for peacemaking so that people around the world, leaders and ordinary citizens alike, will awaken and activate the Great Heart of soul force. Let’s reach that critical 3.5%. This is what will save all of us and future generations.
I have faith in you.
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