RE: () of killers and bunnies and dragons

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Dear Linda,

 

Welcome to the list. I have been enjoying your writing and insights

this week.

 

Jill

 

 

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() Re: of killers and bunnies and dragons

Author: "nierika" <nierika at OFFICE

03/21/2001 10:46 PM

 

 

Wim wrote:

 

 

>> ...(the killers and the killed)...and then some ... may as well free the

lot... not by embracing or distantiating ourselves with and from them

but... seeing them

within us... <<

 

 

 

I appreciate this whole conversation and the rest of this post by Wim. One

of

the most terrifying and difficult aspects of my life this time around has

been to face the dark within myself. This was not some theoretical or

symbolic concept. It was real; it was ugly; it was specific; I felt it

wholly; and I had to struggle, both with this "darkness" and with my own

judgement about myself for carrying it. It was during this time that I began

 

to read eastern spiritual texts. "The Wisdom of China and India" spoke to my

 

suffering mind and heart, and I still have my old copy of it today. When I

read, "verily I say unto you Agni, all the world is either food or eater,"

at

some level I began to dissolve my judgement and my terror. Before I could

get

through it, though, I discovered that I must accept it. I had to accept that

 

I was fully capable of any of the most dispicable acts ever committed. I had

 

to face that I could be capable of these actions due to losing control or

with cold hearted calculation. I was fortunate that, during this intense

"dark night of the soul," I met a number of "helpers." One was Elizabeth

Kubler Ross. I attended a conference on death and dying where she and Jerry

Jampolsky were both speaking. At the time I was working with the families

and

friends of crime victims. (No accident, this, because, while my empathetic

side was feeling/expressing compassion for the victims and doing all I could

 

to help facilitate empowering action on their part, at the same time, the

darkness within me identified with the perpetrators of the crimes.)

Elizabeth

told a personal story that (in my heart) brought me to my knees in

thanksgiving and awe. She spoke of how she had been working with

incarcerated

criminals, of how she had been attempting to facilitate getting them past

their own violence. Then, during or after one of the sessions, she found

herself connecting to what she called the "Hitler within." She symbolized

the

darkness this way because she was a Jew and because she grew up around and

fled the holocaust. She was horrified. Then she suddenly remembered a

buried,

traumatic experience from her childhood. She had a pet black bunny. She

cared

for it and loved it, and it was her pet. One day her father ordered her to

take the bunny to the market and have it killed so the family could eat it.

That was the day her rage was born and buried and the day that the "Hitler

within" was born. Discovering this was like a great gift because it gave her

 

an understanding of the convicts she had not previously had. And as she

continued working with them, she found that they all had "black bunnies."

So,

she said, we all have the "Hitler within" and we all have our "black bunny."

 

At the same conference, Jerry Jampolsky, who had been strongly affected by

the channeled work, "A Course in Miracles," which I had also been reading at

 

the time, said this (which I later found, as I read on, to be almost a

direct

quote from the "Course"): "everything that is, is either an expression of

Love or a cry for Love." This too brought me (in my heart) to my knees. It

gave me an instant sense of understanding my abusive father (who was abused

by his father). It gave me an instant understanding of my own struggle, and

it gave me the blessing of unconditional acceptance. Soon after this, I was

able to envision this darkness within myself as a dragon, and was able to

transform the dragon from something fearful to a friend. Shanti ~ Linda

 

 

 

 

 

 

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