The Inner Terrorist
Our world is riddled with terrorists. These masters of fear are a small percentage of the population who intimidate the masses. They tyrannize through unpredictable, indecipherable patterns of attack on innocent people. They keep us on the edge of our seat, looking over our shoulder, fearful of populated areas, distrustful of anyone else who crosses our path. They willingly sacrifice their existence for a cause/ideology that is larger than life. Blind absolutism supposedly justifies their destruction of anyone they deem the enemy. Like a cancer, their presence unremittingly eats away at our collective effort to be in a state of true planetary health — harmonious unity. Their divisive attacks fragment the global community, perpetrate humanity’s history of separation and block our birthright of wholeness.
It’s easy to condemn terrorists’ “evil” actions. But how many of us take responsibility for the climate in our collective unconscious that hatches such “monsters?” After all, our outer world is created by the internal political environment in our psyche. Why do we harbor inner terrorists?
We all have internal “voices” that eat away at our inner peace and deep sense of security. Like terrorists, they pose a constant threat to our well-being. Lurking in the shadows, these inner terrorists are slippery—difficult to confront with the rational mind. Just when we assume that all is well, they torment us with uneasiness. Blindly entrenched in perceptions slanted toward everything harmful, adverse and malefic, their false beliefs counter the truth of who we really are.
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