[sunnyrap]

There seems to be a dichotomy when it comes to addressing 'negative' topics happening here. I think this is worthy of discussion. I'm not referring to expressing disrepect to anyone posting. IMO, showing everyone courtesy and respect is paramount in a successful community.

What I am referring to is the idea that you should not give 'negative thought forms' 'energy' by talking about them or even focussing on them. As if that will give them more life. As if not talking or thinking about them will rob them of life and they'll go away. I must respectfully disagree with this idea, which I believe comes from the whole "Matrix", "The Secret" and "Law of Attraction" concepts, which are certainly valid, but I feel might easily be getting misinterpreted or maybe over-simplified in how the laws play out in our current universe. Perhaps one day we will be so evolved that simply changing our thoughts changes reality instantly, but I think as a collective, this happens at varying speeds and doesn't relieve most of us from having to respond in many cases if not most, the old fashioned way: physically and in cooperation with each other.

But even being simplistic and going with the idea of putting awareness on anything makes it bigger, instantly: current cutting edge physicists are saying that consciousness or observation changes expected reality (Bruce Lipton has some great vids out there on this). It seems to me God set us up that way: things we love and enjoy we simply love and enjoy without much thought (and recently we've been admonish that gratitude for these things keep them increasing). Things we don't enjoy and that are injurious, we feel actual pain/distress from, so we pay puhlenty of attention to it. You cannot ignore that a fire will burn you and kill you. If you go on about your business and ignore it--it's not going to go away and you will get burned. You also cannot ignore when a member of your tribe goes insane and starts attacking you or your loved ones. So there are two solutions represented even here on this forum:

One seems to be: 'finding the insanity within oneself'' and healing it inside while ignoring the outer 'manifestation'. The Other seems to be, act as if everything is real and respond to it within your own life rules as best you can and see what happens, even knowing that all is an illusion.

While finding how you are like the insane person and 'fixing' that is certainly a worthwhile activity and will help you and others from becoming insane, how do you address that part of you 'out there' that has lost it before it does real/imaginary damage? I know full well how strongly illusions can affect people, having worked in several industries that utilizes illusion to the maximum. Even in the films about The Matrix, Neo actually physically fought though he knew all was a carefully staged illusion. He simultaneously sat in the special chair 'dreaming' the action--and participated in the action of his dream. And the film made the point that if you died in the dream, you died in the chair also. If it's 'out there', even though they are 'acting out' YOUR 'inner insanity', it deserves attention.

Maybe the thing is to try and conquer that outside insanity with the same compassion you would show yourself. Maybe that is the morality play we are acting in on our World Stage.

If you run across something that displeases you, then putting your awareness on what it is-what you would rather it be or not be--what you would like it to be MORE, is just the prescription.

Just my two-and-half cents/sense