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Metaphysical Perspective
While this letter is, of necessity, a practical communication, I would like to take the opportunity to put a personal and metaphysical perspective on recent events. Following the tragedy of September 11, all coordinators were requested to contact those graduates in rei-ki II who had volunteered for World Service to rei-ki the situation in absentia, especially the perpetrators and decision makers who will be affecting the future, as well as those who had been immediately bereft. The imprint on the psyche of constant repetition of shocking images in vivid forms on television and print has an emblazoning effect which practising rei-ki on oneself and others will help offset. Awesome as it might be, don't lend power to the situation by being dramatically mesmerised - turn it off. However perversely, it took the unpredictable madness randomly directed at innocent bystanders in Port Arthur and given sensational media coverage, to instigate the political will to legislate gun control nationally, against high powered lobbying by vested interests. It may be that history will deem the most lasting memorial to Princess Diana was not the all pervasive media attention to her mode of life and death, but rather the international ban on land mines which immediately followed her passing, and for which she had been a passionate advocate. How many lives have not been destroyed as a direct result? 'Things get as hard as they have to get to bring about change - how hard do they have to get?' From a rei-ki perspective, I see a genuine accord amongst the leaders of most nations and their people to oppose the tyranny of terror and a real hope that this will reverberate behind the scenes in many countries with military dictatorships. And in those countries from which the terrorists originate, there is the challenge to the moderate majority to stand up and be counted, rather than allowing a corrupt ideology to subsume their rights as happened twice in the twentieth century and which led to two world wars. Meanwhile there are far greater odds that any one of us could be run over by a car whose driver is drunk or drugged or by a runaway truck, than suffer death or injury from an act of terrorism. However, if we allow the mere threat of such action to instill fear or deter us from our normal enterprising, joyful and peaceloving way of life, who wins? To live your life today as if there were no tomorrow is the only reality, existential as that may seem in print. If you go to sleep on an unhealed argument, can you be certain both parties will awake to a new opportunity to heal the rift tomorrow? For those in rei-ki II, please include in your world service healing dedication some of the other situations where a disempowered majority are impoverished or imperiled by a tyrannical minority - as in many countries of Asia and Africa. For women in some parts of the world to have gained so much by way of equality of opportunity but to then witness a warped theology condemn women in other parts of the world, not only to disenfranchisement but to virtual slavery and mutilation, has been a grievous and worsening wrong for decades. Apply the energy of unconditional love transmitted via rei-ki at every opportunity and know that you are bringing light and harmony into a world on the verge of radical transformation.
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love and light,