Cynthia's critique Marching on

[BARNETT WEISS]

Dear Cynthia and others:
   
  I really liked a lot of what you have said and your response as well James and others of a similar vein.
  I do feel and experienced that Marching did and does make quite a difference as people in the countries under assault saw that there were millions around the world who were against the horrible devestation that was about to take place NOT IN OUR NAME and this sustains people even in the midst of such chaos.  I remember marching with Dr. King and others in the Civil Rights marches and labor marches.  People mobilizing and picketing stores made even more of an impact when it was possible and the marches often made it more possible and vice versa. After all, the bus boycott success in Montgomery was what inspired so many others to take on the impossible. Dr. King never fell to hating anyone that I can recall. He hated the deeds, and not the individual's soul. Don Imus being removed because people spoke out seems to be a victory and will encourage others to speak out. However the real victory would be for him to be assisted in turning the way that Tom Turnipseed did, or the
 way that the man for whom Tom worked so diligently to get elected president,Governor George Wallace, did at the end of his life. We should hear more about folks like that. THe recent movie "Amazing Grace" gives us such a history: From slave trader to abolitionist, John Newton inspires us all. If he can change and make amends, we all can. And we can change even those who have died. This is a very powerful ritual that many indigenous people perform in many ways. They believe that these rituals allow those ancestors who fell from grace to move over to the grace filled Ancestral world and from there to be of support to us in this world. In fact, if we transform our image of those perpetrators who have passed, we do find real power in the best of ways, we turn their pain and rejection of humanity through our ritual into loving and give birth to a brave new world each time we do so. 
   
  The sense of finding a villain and cursing the night rather than lighting a candle to see the way is appropo of what is being examined here. 
   
  I have rarely seen people using what I saw Zerka do over and over which is to change the demon aspect of someone who had done horrible things during their life time and now when consulted from the other world so to speak, they became very wise and offered a chance for the protagonist and others to receive and give love from and to them as was not possible during their life times.  At those moments, often the protagonist would deny the possibility of obtaining that kind of "Candy coated" solution. " They just couldn't be that way. I can't accept it. In fact, this is not at all candy coated or polyanish.It is one of the most powerful tools which is a kind of counter spontaneity that which I believe we use far less than we should.  It is the process of real healing that is spoken about in every spiritual and moral examination of our being. At those moments as John Payne is wont to say. "You can either have peace, or be right." That is such a powerful moment of learning if
 allowed to go on.  Unfortunately, most people without the proper support and strong support will choose to be right and maintain their story and ultimate victim stance. Then they continue to drag their story around over their shoulders looking for others to validate their victimhood after crying and burying the perpetrator over and over again. And far too many in this field in my experience do just that. 
  Can you find it in your heart to love Hitler? Can you find it in your heart to love Sadam? Can you find it in your heart to love George W. Bush? Finding a way to do so would probably lead to more improvement in the world than anything else. Who Shall Survive? and Who Shall Prevail?
   
    Blessings, Bud


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