As a young newspaper reporter in South Africa in the early 1980s, I once covered a trial of a man accused of brutally raping and murdering a young girl. Once during the trial, our eyes met and a cold shiver ran down my spine. I had the feeling that I was looking into a dark cold abyss. The man was eventually found guilty and sentenced to death.
Eyes reveal your true nature
Eyes are a window to the soul and we intuitively feel whether they are kind, compassionate and loving or the direct opposite. We live in a world of polarities. There is good and there is evil. The pull between the tides, night and day, summer and winter, expansion and withdrawal is part of the yin and yang that make up our world.
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The story of Good and Evil is deeply embedded in our subconsciousness from the first story in the Bible. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was planted by God with the commandment to Adam and Eve not to eat from it. Pain and evil started in the world when Adam and Eve broke the commandment and ate from the tree. The question often asked is: “Why did God plant the tree in the first place?”
Co-creating with the power of choice
One of the answers: By giving man the freedom of choice, God separated him from other beings, giving him the power of being a co-creator. Choice separates us from other beings who do exactly what they have been designed for. Choice separates us from being mindless zombies to being human with all our doubts, our pains, and emotions. By experiencing the dark night of the soul we appreciate all the more rejuvenation and happiness. It is in the dark night that we often gain the greatest spiritual insight and wisdom.
The lines between good and evil are getting blurred
By seeing and confronting evil we know what needs to be done. But in today’s world of information overload, professional deceivers have been given a massive platform for mind control. The lines between good and evil get blurred when a lie becomes a truth through repetition in the echo chambers of social media.
Where there is spiritual disconnect, the loss of alignment between the above and the below, lack of purpose, and emotional turmoil the power of evil will manifest itself. Put in another way: There is evil where there is a complete absence of God. It is that power that destroys the air we breathe, the waters we drink and the earth from which we are nurtured. As within so without.
In the past religion taught us that doing good was by following commandments, certain rituals, and a certain belief system. It excluded all others who did not follow this belief system. The preachers, themselves very often fallible human beings, were those who defined right and wrong.
The spirituality of the New Earth is internal rather than external. It is alignment with true self and soul purpose. From that grows the intuitive wisdom and power of discernment. We do the right thing and make the right choices from the base of mindful inner awareness that comes with continuous spiritual practice.
Reino Gevers – Author, Mentor, and Consultant
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