More on The Celestine Prophecy's Insights

Today I would like to write about the fourth and fifth Insights in James Redfield's book, The Celestine Prophecy.

Let us start with the fourth Insight:

"Too often humans cut themselves off from the greater source of this energy and so feel weak and insecure. To gain energy we tend to manipulate or force others to give us attention and thus energy. When we successfully dominate others in this way, we feel more powerful, but they are left weakened and often fight back. Competition for scarce, human energy is the cause of all conflict between people."

Since the beginning of times, there has been conflict going on among people, tribes, nations, kingdoms. The drive behind all this conflict has been for more energy, more power, more land. It seems there has always been that insatiable hunger for more to satisfy men's voracious appetite for power. Since mankind has disconnected itself from the Source of energy coming from the Creator, men, throughout all the ages, went on this non ending quest to regain it.  There was this belief that the bigger the conquest, the greater the victory. This drive has been so strong, millions have lost their lives to feed its hunger. If history had to summed up in five words, I would say:" It was a hellish nightmare."

The remedy to this madness is in the fifth Insight that says: "Insecurity and violence ends when we experience an inner connection with divine energy within, a connection described by mystics of all traditions. A sense of lightness--buoyancy--along with the constant sensation of love are measures of this connection. If these measures are present, the connection is real. If not, it is only pretended."

This reminds me of a story that was told in the 60s by a concentration camp survivor. There was a group of prisoners in one of the camps who were locked up in a cell, left there to die. Among them was a priest who had volunteered to take the place of another prisoner who had a family. Days passed, the guards expected them to be dead  but they they were still alive. Something happened in that cell, something magical the guards had no control over: the prisoners connected with Spirit, they sang songs of praise, their faces radiated, there was no trace of fear. They had transcended death, they had risen above the human violence and the man made hell.  They died free men,  free from the hunger for power because they connected with the Supreme Power.
This is also the state of ecstasy  the mystics have reached in their lives.

We may not be able to reach that state so intensely as the mystics have but we can realize that fighting for power is a useless battle because the source of it is within us. What is preventing us to get in touch with this reality? Is it insecurity, doubt, hopelessness, anxiety or any other such negative emotions?
The emotions that weaken us and make feel at war within are what eventually creates the war out there; conflicts with others around us. Lasting peace will only be found when we find peace deeply within . As James Refiled said, it has to be real.
The less negative emotions we have, the easier this goal will be achieved.

Doris Crompton