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LIVESTREAM: Healing Racism and Bigotry, Part 1

LIVESTREAM: Healing Racism and Bigotry, Part 1

Last updated on: August 22, 2016 at 3:33 pm by Mastura Debra Graugnard

LIVESTREAM: Healing Racism and Bigotry, Part 1 2016-08-22T15:33:55-05:00 Mastura Debra Graugnard

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Healing Racism & Bigotry

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

5:30pm US Pacific / 8:30pm US Eastern

CLICK THE ARROW (above) TO WATCH THE REPLAY

You’re invited to join us for the 4-week program CLICK HERE to meet us in the facebook group for discussion and support.

See you there!

I saw this quote on facebook the other day:

What would we have said if Obama had
5 children from 3 different wives
speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 2008?

Sit and ponder this question for a minute. You might not need much time to realize a difference between how you might have judged Obama then and how you may judge Trump now.

Regardless of how you feel now about either Obama or Trump, whether you know nothing about either or they are your best friends, judgments are difficult to escape.

When you see a child filled with judgment of someone with a different skin color, a different style of dress or a different belief system, where does that judgment come from? Realistically, it likely comes from parents and caretakers, from media, or from personal experiences.

But is there a purpose? Is there a higher perspective?

We are born and integrated into these physical bodies as spiritual beings, here to learn and evolve. Initially, we know our divinity and connection with love. But once the umbilical cord is cut, we begin to forget. We are helpless and dependent, yet we’re here to survive.

We perceive the world through our human senses and perceptions. Our human nature is designed to store information based on the pictures we’ve taken into our psyche during our lifetimes. The information lives in the subconscious and influences our reactions, actions, choices and relationships as long as we carry those imprints in our energy fields.

How we use the stored data is all about keeping us safe. Whether we classify people (including ourselves) based on social status, fame, profession, economic level, skin color, ethnicity, gender – we create categories and develop rules for each category as a way to help us navigate this foreign journey we’re on in the safest way possible.

This is by design. We’re here to learn about love – an unconditional love where there is no separation between anyone or anything.

Yet…
In order to truly know love, we must experience the absence of love.
In order to get the meaning of unconditional, we must understand the conditional.
In order to know unity, we must experience separation.

And if we truly want to know God and to know our relationship with God, we must heal the imprints that fix perceptions of separation in our minds and hearts, so that we can know love through every face we see.

This is what we are called to do once we wake up to the reality of the journey we are on. We are not here only to eat and sleep, to work and play, to make and spend money, to procreate. None of this has meaning if we do not learn about love in the process.

Fortunately, the love and connection that we knew coming into this life is still present in the deep heart. It’s the inner truths we seek to find and live by.

This is true for every human being.

To return to subsist in love, we must heal the subconscious beliefs and pictures. It’s not enough to change the mind. Teaching the mind alone does not clear the imprints held in the body and energy field, which influence the majority of our actions.

In order to truly heal, we must wash away the pictures that are held in the body and cover over the divine truths that exist in the heart.

My colleague Shams Tara Wesley and I have been inspired by recent world events to offer a series of discussions and a framework for exploration and healing of the conscious and subconscious patterns that keep us in separation from each other and from love.

You’re invited to join us – right here on this very page. Scroll down just a little more to get the details.

Tomorrow evening, Wednesday, August 10, 2016, we’ll begin a dialog and exploration of what separates us brothers and sisters from each other. We’ll be using a process of exploration taught to Arun Gandhi by his grandfather, the famous Mahatma Gandhi – you can learn more about that here. We’ll be teaching some ancient Sufi practices to help us wash our hearts and restore love and unity within ourselves and amongst our global family.

WATCH THE REPLAY AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE

You’re invited to join us for the 4-week program CLICK HERE to meet us in the facebook group for discussion and support.

Blessings and gratitude, Mastura & Shams

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