The Root Of All Evil

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While we are talking about the shift to unity and love, it seems appropriate to discuss evil.

Honestly, I have avoided this topic. I don’t think I have ever even used the word “evil” on this blog. I know it opens a big can of worms, with questions like:

• What is the cause of evil?
• If God exists, why does God allow evil to exist?
• How does the Law of Attraction work with the evil? Did crime victims and sick children “attract” those events?

In this article, I am using the word “evil” to mean disastrous events such as wars, crimes, diseases, poverty, and so on. And no, they are not caused by darkworkers. Sometimes things may look so, such as Hitler killing so many Jews, but that is only what it looks on the surface.

Our sense of lack

As I wrote in “Who Am I?”, we all come from the one Source. So, even today, we remember the connectedness deep inside. This is true even if you were born to an abusive family or were abandoned in childhood and never felt the connectedness as a child. Regardless of your background in this lifetime, your soul remembers the original oneness.

In this physical world, however, we appear to be separate. You think you are different from the person next to you, for better or worse. This causes great pain inside us. We yearn to feel the connectedness again.

You may not have thought of it this way, but I am sure you recognize the deep sense of lack within you. And because you didn’t know it was a spiritual yearning, you probably have tried to fill that void by getting “things”.

The things may be material things — cars, houses, jewelry, dresses. . . or money. Or it may be certain qualities — good job, good mate, fame, social status, knowledge. . .

The persistence of lack

A strange thing happened. No matter how much more things you’ve got, you still have that sense of lack. You may even have tried to reason things out with yourself, that “I have enough”, but the nagging sense of lack is still there.

In the meantime, because everyone wants “more”, we have exhausted the resources (or so it appears). This, of course, adds even more to the sense of lack. Now it’s not just spiritual yearning, it’s more “real”.

So we started to fight for the things. . .

We are all causing evil

This is why I don’t think specific people or group of people are responsible for the evil. I am just as responsible as Hitler was.

For example, there is no significant difference energetically between me getting upset in the traffic jam and someone in the government starting a war. Let’s analyze:

Me in the traffic
I want to get to the market quickly
→ I don’t have time to be sitting in this traffic jam
→ I get upset
(one more step: I need to do something to get my share — I yell or drive recklessly)

Hypothetical war situation
I (we) want more oil for our industries, to be more prosperous
→ I don’t have time to negotiate or develop other energy sources
→ I need to fight to get it.

The results of each may look staggeringly different, one resulting in a frustrated woman and another killing thousands of people of both sides of the war and devastating the land, but the underlying psychological dynamics are the same.

Is it wrong to want something?

So the root of all evil is our sense of separated-ness and resulting sense of lack. Add that the misunderstanding that this lack could be satisfied with “things”, this causes all evils.

Original state
Oneness and wholeness

In this physical world
Sense of separated-ness and lack
+
Confusing this spiritual issue as physical / psychological issue
= fighting for more

You may be thinking, “Then, is it wrong to want anything? Is all wanting greed?”

No. it’s okay to enjoy this physical world. We incarnated for a good reason. And this world is beautiful. Admire it. Just don’t be attached to it.

There is nothing wrong to want to start your business or to be with your beloved partner and family. Or even to enjoy material things. (I love my new iPod nano!)

Just know your sense of lack and separation will never be eased by all these, or even more.

If God exists, why does God allow evil to exist?

I guess this explanation answers the common question above. I don’t think God as a person-like figure (like the old man in white robe — he usually has score cards). God is the energy that has created all the manifest and unmanifest universes. Individuality and resulting differentiation are part of the nature of the physical world.

God didn’t create evil but God allows us to deal with it on our own.

God is super intelligent and loving. God watches over us, but God doesn’t babysit on us.

Okay, this is a big topic, so I will stop here and write about evil and the Law of Attraction next time. Let me know if you have any questions by leaving your comments. Thank you.

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