A Form Of Protest

The recent attacks in Europe and the United States, as well as the horrific wars that are being waged around the world, are having a dynamic impact on our global society. The survivors of those attacks and wars wonder why they were spared the final curtain. The families of the loved ones that perished in these mass events wonder why the tragedies hit so close to home. Our religions don’t really explain why these events happen. The explanations for these events usually have something to do with God. Religions tell us to have faith and believe there is a greater message in the pain and suffering that the people left behind manifest, and then experience for years to come.

Religious notions are partly right about mass suicides, killings, plagues and wars, but God, the supreme being we have created through these faith vehicles, has nothing to do with them. In this reality, we create our individual social, economic and biological situations as well as the mass events that take place. Social, economic and biological factors are involved in these tragic events, but there are other factors in place at different levels of consciousness that put these events together. The purpose of all these individual deaths that occur at the same time and place is to express a mass statement. In one sense, these deaths represent a protest to the particular time they occur. Each individual has private, esoteric reasons for participating, and those reasons vary from one individual to another. But all the individuals want their death to serve a purpose that is greater than their private reasons. Each individual wants the survivors to question the conditions of the time, and then do something positive to change the way we perceive ourselves.

Mass deaths are a learning tool as well as a gift from the individuals that chose to end their physical existence in a mass event. We have never been taught to understand death and its meaning. Fear always gets in the way. But at some level in our non-physical existence, we all choose how and when we will leave this reality. We all want to experience other realities or relive this one with certain alterations that conform to our beliefs. Every death leaves an imprint on physical knowing. Every death is a form of protest as well as a form of growth. In legal terms, the definition of protest is the declaration of an objection and a reservation of rights. Mass deaths are the ultimate public demonstration of our right to die to change objective beliefs about being human.