Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself, Please?

We are all in this together. - Jeff Frank

God, I won't ask you for strength but I will Thank You for the strength that is already within me.

I attended a beautiful service this morning for my father, Jeff Frank, who recently passed on. It was at the Spiritual Renewal Center at the First Parrish Church across the street from The Grange. The Grange is the ole timey meeting place where my father held his Lyceum classes, (where we will continue to hold them going forward.)

It was a casual but beautiful service. The tragic shootings of innocent children and their teachers in Newtown brought an extra heaviness to the service. We began with a moment of silence for all of those innocent lives whom were lost, their names were read aloud and a bell chimed after each one read. I am sure a very similar scene was played out at gatherings everywhere around the world today.

Friends were asked to speak and they all brought a different wisdom. His good friend read something from a book called The Immortal by JJ Dewey. The Immortal is a book about the return of John the Apostle to teach the keys of knowledge to prepare the world for the new age of peace.

In it he writes, “Even if your Master and your God seem to completely ignore you as if you do not exist…Through all this, you will continue to serve with the highest you know. You continue even if God himself seems to be your enemy, putting every obstacle in your path and laughing while you stumble and fall. You rise up and you continue.”

I was moved as I could not help but think about the poor parents, teachers, and first responders who are now dealing with the question why God? Why these innocent babies?

A few years back I was talking to my Dad about a man named Gregg Braden who is a scientist who has made his life’s work to bridge the gap between science and spirituality. He says that there is a bioelectromagnetic field that is in and around all of us, essentially connecting us all. It can be measured and when they look back in time they see spikes that correlate to specific events in our world. Believe it or not, events like the super bowl, and even the season finale of The Bachelor create a significant spike and of course the biggest spike in our recent history was around the time of 9/11.

So when we are all united with heartfelt emotion we collectively make the bioelectromagnetic field spike. When this spikes you notice, (just like after 9/11), there is a coherence among us. It affects moods, crime rate, tides and weather. Do you remember when we were all united after 9/11? There was a collective humble, reverent cohesiveness to all of us. Not just those of us who lost someone but everyone around the world had a heartfelt emotion about the events that took so many innocent lives. It connected us all.

But we have a short attention span and we forget, so we have to be reminded. That heartfelt emotion that connected us gets further and further away from us. We slip back into our old habits. Then we have this terrible fall out from the presidential debate where people are just so angry. What we heard over and over again from both sides was, I don’t really like my guy all that much, I just don’t want your guy to win. I am against you, you are wrong and not only that if you like that guy and not this guy your not only wrong your stupid. Bottom line, I am against you. Our collective heartfelt emotion was angry.

Our “field” was at an all time low.

Then Sandy hits, and in the northeast we come together and help each other as a community. Around the country people want to help and be a part of the relief efforts. Over all, our cohesiveness grows, yet something is still missing because there has to be National Guards and policemen at the gas stations. We haven’t quite gotten the whole message yet.

Then for me, and our family, and other members of my father’s community, we lost Jeff. Now our part of the world, our community, and our tribe became even more united. We had a strong heartfelt bond to and for each other. Our love for Jeff and all he did to make this world a better place uniting us all. Our field started to grow and become larger and more encompassing.  I believe he knew what his passing would do. I think essentially he sacrificed himself so he could give us that extra layer of protection.

Jeff touched so many lives but not enough! To unite the rest who still would not listen God brought the souls of 20 innocent children and their caregivers to heaven. Angels who were brought up so they could unite the rest of us here on Earth. 

Right now our “field” is vast and strong. Everyone and anyone who had a heartfelt response to the events that occurred in Newtown are now connected to each other. This is a global connection.

Let’s stop having more lessons to learn and now understand what my father knew all along that we are truly all in this together.

Everyone doesn’t have to believe this, just enough for there to be a tipping point. Just enough so it starts to spread. Suddenly we “feel” more than “know”, that what happens to your neighbor affects you and what happens to you affects your neighbor. Only then when we see that we are all connected will we start to really take care of each other the way we were meant to.

I will end with the words of Niels Bohr who said to his friend Albert Einstein,

“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.” 

We have the ability to heal the world we have created. It's just time to look at things from a different perspective because the lens we have been looking through up to now, doesn't seem to be the right prescription.