Let’s Play Soldiers 2
25th Aug 2009
Hello lovely people
Of course I can say but I did not ask any soldier to go and die for me, and I do not believe in war. All that is true, but still one-dimensional.
This reminds me of a company that I once worked for where there was a company-wide celebration, complete with balloons, computer games during work hours, lollipops in company colours (yes, this was for adults, and you would not believe how seriously they took it all). And then someone commented on how ridiculous all that may have looked to outsiders, and one person piped up and said “but think of the effort we put into ordering those balloons and lollipops – you are really ungrateful and make us feel bad after all our hard work.” Really? Shame.
What the email brought home to me was the contrast between Michael Jackson and the soldiers.
What did the soldiers do? They fought and killed. Their actions were entirely centred in the base chakra, which governs fight or flight. Our base instincts relate to self-protection and preservation of the self.
We may try to justify our actions at that level by saying “but I do it for you”, but that does not ring true. The sacral chakra does relate to relationships, but it is not about fighting against the world to have a relationship.
The base chakra is about exploring the self, and the sacral chakra is about exploring the self in relation to others. When you use violence against one person, you do not do it to protect another person. As long as you feel the need to use violence, your focus is on the self and on self-preservation.
When you move up to the sacral chakra, you in fact become less destructive and more co-operative. Saying that you voluntarily kill people to protect others does not mean you have moved from the base chakra to the sacral chakra, just like singing in the shower does not make you an opera star.
What did Michael Jackson do? He sang, danced and entertained. He touched the hearts of millions of people in many different ways. He loved and was loved. He gave of himself, even when he was in pain, because he wanted to make people feel happy. Michael Jackson worked from the heart chakra. He touched people’s lives because people wanted to be touched.
I would not go as far as saying he was an angel or without fault – if he was, he might not even have bothered to incarnate. But if you look at his entire life, and if you really feel that you are in a position to judge, you would probably find that the good in his life weighed far more than the bad. And if you compare the sales of his records in the year before he died to the sales in the year after his death, it will show that he is still touching people’s lives.
Why does the American Congress have a moment of silence for Michael Jackson but not for the soldiers? Why did millions of people crash the Google website when news of Michael Jackson’s death leaked out, but the newspapers come up with politics and crocodile tears every time a soldier dies?
Could it be because humanity chooses to function from the heart chakra rather than from the base chakra?
Please leave a comment if you feel inspired.
Love and Light
Elsabe
