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GINA JAMES: As long as we see “us vs. them,” we prolong and perpetuate war

As our thoughts, expectations, and belief in outcome are creative, we need to allow the possibility that humanity is not intrinsically destructive or destined to war with itself.

As long as we—individually and as a species—believe there is a side to choose, a right or a wrong one, or that there could ever be a victor or victory in any idea of war, we choose to continue to destroy ourselves. When we choose to blame, reproach, are unwilling to forgive, or hold onto the desire for retaliation or revenge, we are believing there is a side and we are the righteous one. When what is perceived is thought to be the good or righteous side or the oppressed underdog side versus the “evil,” powerful, untrustworthy side, there is justification for a war. Evil acts may be committed, but to claim a person as an evil enemy or a whole people as evil is to deny them the right to exist and to claim them in the density and darkness we put them in while we choose to view them as separate and beyond any capacity for change or redemption.

Through our inherited and fearful belief in our weakness and unworthiness, we have chosen to turn our authority over to those whom we think are strong leaders to exercise their power to protect and control us. We have collectively allowed or chosen the fortification of borders and boundaries, allowed the massive production and supply of weaponry, and we have continued to allow or chosen the perpetuation of division, oppression, and its manifestation in war and in hunger.

As we collectively begin to understand that we are never separate from one another and we cannot be separate from our Source as nothing can be separate from its Source, we are coming to see that we are only and always fighting and hurting our individual and collective self. By “Source,” I mean sound, light, vibration/tone/frequency, consciousness, intelligence, truth, love, God (by whatever name), all that has ever been and is and will ever be, seen and unseen, known and unknown.

We have begun to reckon with the fear and greed and separation of our collective inherited beliefs that have created the density and structures of the world that we have known which perpetuate control and domination and all the intolerance justified by old beliefs that some are more worthy than others. By clinging to such ideas and to the systems and structures—whether governmental, educational, religious, judicial, economic, etc.—created in the belief in separation and its fear, we recreate that which we have known and slow the process of their releasing.

The release has begun, and we currently witness the dissolution of structures and the attempts through fear and violent force to hold the power and authority of the old. We are beginning to collectively know that we are co-creators and are learning that our tone/vibration, consciousness, thoughts, speech, expectations affect what we see before us and its experience. And in this dawning collective understanding, we do not need to cling to the old structures that have been created and perpetuated to keep us in the belief in fear and separation. This belief is a denial of the truth that all is of one Source. It is a belief that denies our right to be, our worth, and our true nature and that of everything else.

As our thoughts, expectations, and belief in outcome are creative, we need to allow the possibility that humanity is not intrinsically destructive or destined to war with itself. As long as we think humanity will continue to war, and even to war until it destroys itself and the world, we prolong and perpetuate war. And as long as we believe that peace is merely an interlude between wars, we deny our individuated and collective divine nature as peace, and we deny all that is before us in its true and inherent divine nature, which is as peace.

In this time of reckoning and turmoil, humanity is moving toward peace, but moving toward it through destructive wars. To the softening and opening of our hearts to lift everyone, everything—without any exception—to the light and to move on to peace. To humanity coming to know itself as being in peace and as of peace. Always.

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