The Devastation of Humanity
This blog is a more sombre tone to all the others but nevertheless it is something that I wanted to share.
Today, as I was walked home from work from the train station I heard the sound of a young child crying and yelling. As I walked further I saw a boy lying on the concrete pavement, he looked about 10 years old, and there was a man standing over him kicking him repeatedly in the head and body. It was his father. He picked up the child and threw him into the side of the car, punching him in the face. The boy begged him to stop but he kept going. He dragged him 50 metres up the road, hitting him all the way along and throwing him up against fences and walls. I followed at a distance to get the address of where they were going. When they reached their house the father threw his son through the doorway and I saw him fall to the floor. The door closed and all I heard after that were screams.
After calling the police, I wondered what life would be like for that boy. I wondered if he would become one of the 29% of London's school children that carries a knife out of fear of being attacked or one of the 100 each year that dies at the hand of a mother or father. One quarter of all children in Britain experience physical abuse at some stage at the hand of a parent or carer. Every day the media is full of these statistics but how much do we grasp of the reality of this horror? We hear the numbers so often that we can become immune to it. Unless we are confronted with it we can almost be fooled into thinking that humanity is doing ok. But each one of those numbers represents a life, just like that of the boy, and this is repeated all around the world.
We are shown here, in Gnosis, the tools to change and be free of the monstrous psychological states that cripple us and result in these devastating situations and the terrible state of humanity. We are shown how we can avoid being just another person that lives and suffers and dies with no purpose. I hope for me the chilling memory of that child's cries, and for others the description of it, acts as a reminder of the urgency to change and seek something better.
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That terribly grim story
That terribly grim story stuck a chord with me Jo. It is unfortunate to think that it often takes something so horrible like that to serve as a wake up call...
But it's also a good illustration that simply changing education systems, society, governments, etc. doesn't do much - look at those figures you presented about the UK, with London of course considered amongst the 'most civilised, free, and modern' of all world cities.
I think that just goes to show the real need to change within, one person at a time. Of course we all talk about it which is easy to do (like, for example, me right now!), but to really commit ourselves through efforts to doing it in daily life is another story.
I'm very thankful for this site and organisation, and of course the teachings of the Masters, without which, I really feel there wouldn't even be the opportunity for humanity to do anything about it. So the ball's in our court; let's see what we can do...
Jordan
Good on you Jo for for 2
Good on you Jo for for 2 things, firstly finding out their address and calling the police (I really hope they do something about it and not ignore it - at least relocate the boy), and second for sharing the story. It's unbelievable that that sort of thing can happen in public and not be acted upon by the 100's of people nearby - another grim reminder of the state of humanity.
Yes. unless we are confronted with the misery that many people are experiencing it's easy to forget and become insensitive to statistics. I've found my life improve infinitely with gnosis to the point that I don't actually see alot of that sort of thing around me because of change of friends, living conditions, etc. In that regard life is easy, but how quickly the suffering of others fades from memory.
As grim as they are, witnessing events like that certainly remind us to improve ourselves and help others as much as we can to alleviate needless suffering in the world.
My prayers go out for that boy...
Chris
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The saddest thing about it
The saddest thing about it probably is, that there are even worse things than that out there. People are capable of horrible things.
It is scary to see how far
It is scary to see how far the negative inner states can go to produce such behaviour in a father towards a child! The total opposite to what it should be.
I think it is important to realise that any amount of negativity, even small amounts, are on the same road to being like that man. I don't want to sound like I am passing judgement on that man because he must be suffering terribly too at the hands of all that negativity. Our negativity harms both ourselves and others.
Thanks for the reminder Jo of why this spiritual work is so important.
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I read your blog and
I read your blog and sometimes we don't think too much of something because it happened on the other side of the world or not as close to us but these thngs happen all the time, everywhere.
Just yesterday there was a gunman that shot an awefull lot of people at a college campus very near to me and it makes you realize the urgent need for not only us to change internally but also the key need to work on helping other people spiritually as well.
It also wakes someone up to the realization that we place a select few number of people that dictate the seemingly unfair laws and punishments that everyone will be subject under and if we don't choose those people right, then we do ourselves more harm in the end.
The thing to remember is
The thing to remember is that that man is the everyman and everyperson, that we all can share these egos within us and that we need to change. Thank you very much for the blog entry Jo, it is amazing. The sombre chill is needed to wake us up, we need to feel the cold as well the warm at times.
I remember walking home from when I saw Handels Messiah in Trinity College, Dublin. I live about 40 so miles away from there, and it was one of those moments where I walked back to the bus silently aware but also identifying myself with some egos in the emotional centre. I won't post all of my thoughts, but I remember thinking about the city as I was walking home, it was a beautiful city with incredible people, they really are amazing, people bowl me over at times, but it wasn't all of that which captured my attention. As I was walking home I remember a drunk man walking past me and this caused the thoughts to flourish. I remember thinking about why he was acting like that, and why everybody was acting like that. The whole world it seems can act bad at times, even though it isn't true. I remember looking at the people who were lying homeless and the chewing gum and pollution marking the streets and I was wondering why it was there, and it struck and saddened me to find such an undercurrent of negativity running through the streets because of the collective unconsciousness of the people, myself included. The people were in such pain to run and get drunk, as is typical on a weekend night in Dublin though this was midweek. And I myself was equally as drunk or becoming it by my depression and sadness, it was something I had to deal with. One way or another I was becoming this man. We all can butcherand destroy ourselves with our inner negativity and negative thoughts, we can follow different trends or different thought patterns, different dominant egos, or whichever but we all have an importance to the world; To live up to our position in it and to make it everything.. The being collectively unaware is bad for people, and we make up individual parts of all of it. We are only responsible for ourselves in this regard. We can never force anything onto anybody else but to each of us as the individual we have an immensely important position for the fact that we are living here and have a chance for real existence. The ordinary life is rarely worth a thing, except beyond knowing why we need to escape from it. We're doomed to constantly flood the macro or the microcosm with negative ways if we don't change, and where will that lead? There is a lot we really need to go and achieve, and to do that we need to start a serious work on ourselves, and I'd like to thank Jo and everybody else who has ever done something for reminding me of it, but even that thanks can only go so far, as the real work of the world is done upon ourselves by us, we have a lot of responsibility in the world. It takes effort and real practice. We really need to make conscious efforts and for those who don't know how to make them now to keep going on to learn how. We really need to make great efforts, and I really think it would be greater if we started now.
Thank you.
Thanks everyone for your
Thanks everyone for your comments.
A few people have been asking me about the outcome to this and if I knew what happened to the boy.
The night it occured the police told me they would go immediately to the house to see if the child was ok and social services said that since the boy would have bruising, they would go there within three days to get evidence of that and to assess the situation.
I saw the child again a day or two later with the same man and he was cowering behind him in a doorway. I can only hope that he will be helped and will not become yet another sad statistic.
Jo