Never Forget - 9/11/11

There's not much I can say to honour those that lost their lives 10 years ago in the terrorist attack on my country.  Words seem inadequate for conveying how I feel about what transpired, and furthermore how we responded to it militarily.  But that's not what I'm going to be talking about here, because that's really not what this page is for.

Instead, I'm going to address the tragedy the only way I know how, by contemplating how it affected our consciousness.  I believe that huge events embed themselves into us on a cellular level.  Like we'll always have the shared memory of certain catastrophes because they're in our DNA.  I think our collective consciousness has the memory of the Great Flood, the destruction of Atlantis/Mu, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the nuking of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and hundreds of other examples that were pivotal moments in our history, as harrowing as they were significant.

These things had such a tremendous effect on our psyche that they imprinted themselves within our very being, giving us the memory and the knowledge to prevent such atrocities from ever happening again.  We may not have a conscious ability to recall this information (given our present mindset) but the emotion of the event will always be readily accessible to us if we choose to remember.

And we must remember.  We must never forget the FEELING of these horrors, we must never become numb to the pain and loss we've experienced as a race due to our own ignorance, our misguided beliefs, and our refusal to acknowledge our divinity.  Because when we choose to forget, we risk recreating the same situation over and over again.

Remembering who we are and what we've been through as a species is the only thing that can prevent history from repeating itself indefinitely.  For when the memory of a deep, collective suffering arises within us, our spirit is awakened to our inherent Oneness and a solidarity foments between us that is otherwise impossible to achieve.

God bless the souls that died on 9/11/2001, God bless those that were left to mourn their loss, God bless this great nation, and indeed, God bless the world.  I only hope it doesn't take another cataclysmic event to bring us back together again in unity and purpose.