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	The London Bombing, London Bombed .... by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D The 7 Golden Secrets to Knowing Your Higher Self
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The London Bombing, London Bombed ....
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D

Terrorist events are never pleasant news. But this London bombing struck home to me for several reasons. First, I was born in London, and both worked and lived there for most of my life. Second, I have regularly used those very stations that were hit by the London bombs just a few days ago.

For instance, Liverpool Street station is one I used each weekday for four and a half years. And I have spent a lot of time sitting reading in tube trains at Aldgate station (a stopping point to change driver etc.) waiting for them to move on. And I used to change train every day at King's Cross for another job.

So I have some empathy for what people are suffering at this time. All we can really do is send out good wishes and prayers for some healing to the situation, especially to those still waiting for news of the missing (and most probably, dead).

There was a certain inevitability about it all though, which I am sure has not been lost on Londoners, or those in the wider country of Britain. They say that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Well, it seems that in recent years, Britain and America have become the ultimate stone-throwing glass house dwellers, or should we say their governments have. The people on the street generally have more good sense.

The bitter irony is that the those making the big bombastic statements, and taking the wild decisions that directly endanger their own citizens, will never be the ones spilling THEIR blood on the streets. Instead, they pledge OUR blood - yours and mine - in their "firm resolve" in the "War Against "Terrorism". They do it from the safety of their bullet-proof offices, or from behind a line of twenty bodyguards.

It's easy to be brave when someone ELSE has to die for it, don't you think?...

Conveniently, they never have to face the DIRECT consequences of their behavior. Instead we do - you and I - as has been so graphically illustrated this week.

And if we are going to use the word "war", then we cannot forget that a war is not all one-sided. People die on BOTH sides. THAT is what is meant by a war!

Perhaps that was a point missed by the big talkers. Maybe they think that war only works in one direction, i.e. they order the killing and it gets done. Sadly, it isn't so.

It's always the blood of the ordinary people - yours and mine - that will be shed for this kind of thing. In airplanes, on trains, as we work in our offices, or take our vacations. One group of people deliver the rhetoric. Another group of people die for it. Never the twain shall meet.

This is NOT to absolve, or to agree with, the people who committed this dreadful act. However, it has to be understood that the motives behind this kind of behavior are far more complex than most of us would be prepared to admit. The causes are complex, and so too must be the solution. Simply shooting people dead either in England or Iraq ain't gonna to cut it!

However, the world has moved on from 9/11. People seem to be seeing for themselves that simplistic word formulas from self-serving politicians don't accurately describe complex solutions. Nor do they provide a solution to deep-seated problems. They're beginning to see through their leaders and demand more than empty words.

Blair damaged himself and his party badly in the last election through supporting the Bush war. However, the people seemed to have forgotten the war and its consequences come election time. Otherwise, they might have delivered Blair the ultimate bloody nose by throwing him and his party out of power. Like the Americans during the same period, they became predictably focused on their own self-serving local agendas - health services, immigration, taxation, and so on. The actions being perpetrated in Iraq in their name slipped out of their minds.

I guess the London bomb incidents will remind them?...

As for Bush - the single most unpopular American President in history since opinion polls began - he was only re-elected through the FEAR of the American people. HIS campaign was to essentially terrorize the people into believing that he was the ONLY valid solution to keep the terrorists at bay.

Anyway, moving back to the London bombs, what was very striking throughout is the mature way in which the British public on the street seemed to respond to the situation. There seemed to be a quiet determination not to be cowed or intimidated, but to get on with their lives as before. There was not much baying for blood. No hysteria or rage, even from those who had lost loved ones. It is something to be proud of; this maturity in the face of ultimate stress.

Maybe it is because Britain is very used to terrorist acts on its mainland, unlike America, who seemed to have been living in a fantasy world up until 9/11; totally unwilling to believe or accept that its international behavior would eventually reap consequences. Indeed, when 9/11 hit, many Americans simply refused to connect the event to anything that the US might have been involved in, and blankly wandered around asking "Why would anyone do this to us, after all the good we've done?"

That's the commendable but innocent view of the public, naively unaware of what their own government has been getting up to around the globe.

The British are perhaps less easily fooled because they could always see and understand the history of Britain's activity in Northern Ireland and the direct consequences it reaped upon THEM on the mainland. In other words, Cause and Effect were much easier to track in Britain than with America, where vast oceans separated the Causes from the Effect. In Britain, they were faster and closer.

But Americans are finally beginning to pick up on this too. They are beginning to understand the Cause/Effect relationship. And it certainly has not been lost on Spain, who pulled out of the "war" after the Madrid train bombing, and are now pledged to trying to tackle the causes of terrorism (poverty, ignorance, etc.), rather than simply going around killing people, and somehow thinking that this will make things better!

Again, it has to be repeated that none of this is even slightly approving or excusing what these violent killers do to innocent people. However, the balance needs to be redressed. The simplistic formulas of Good vs. Evil trotted out by politicians are hopelessly worn out. We have heard them too much and too often. They hold no water.

We have to start to THINK for ourselves, not let other people brainwash us.

No, terror is NOT a valid means of resolving grievances, such as this London bombing, and it can never be. BUT neither can the actions carried out by our own governments be properly justified either. A "quick fix" such as a "war on terrorism" can never work, but can only create more of the very thing it seeks to eradicate.

Instead, we have to seek to eradicate the causes that radicalize young people into joining these terrible terrorist groups. We have to deal with the REAL causes - not simply engage in name calling.

Anyway, let us keep our thoughts and prayers with the people who have lost loved ones in the London bombs, with those lying critically ill in hospital, and with those who are making the great transition. There is not much we can do about the world scene, to be honest. So, let us direct our mental and spiritual energies where they are likely to do some good.

Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2005. All Rights Reserved.

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Dr. Asoka Selvarajah is an active author/researcher on personal development and esoteric spirituality. Asoka's work helps people achieve their full potential, deepen their understanding of mystical truth, and find joy in their true soul's purpose. You can subscribe to his FREE ezine, and get his FREE ebook "Inner Light Outer Wealth" at: Aspire to Wisdom You can visit his website at: Mystic Visions

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