Hello to everyone at DTN.
I’m Irish, living in Ireland. The first time Trump was elected president, it upset me greatly. I found myself part of very negative conversations and they were doing me no good. I wondered how to conteract this negativity. So one thing was, to not allow myself to be drawn into the negativity. Refuse, privately in my mind, to participate in those conversations. Then I decided to start praying for him. I started to send him positive energy and love. My belief being that love can change all things to good.
My prayer was the same prayer that I would wish on anyone: “May you be happy, may you be well and may you be at peace. May love act freely in your life. May you seek to be guided by love.”
Another thing I did was to send out a message to everyone I knew, asking them to consider this as a spiritual practice, rather than allow ourselves to drown in negativity or even hate.
Only some very close friends responded to my messages and said they would give that a try. So many said nothing to me about it. So I decided that they were just not ready for that.
I really hoped for Trump that he would discover, true peace, true happiness and true love and that he would we well. Anyone in that mindset would have to become a better person.
It dawned on me one morning immediately after I woke up, that Trump would more than likely not change. I’m not ready to say ‘never change.’ We always have hope. Vaclav Havel said that hope is that thing that makes us carry on doing the right thing, regardless of the outcome.’ We cannot let go of our humanity.
So I decided to keep up my spiritual practice for him.
Now allow me to go out on a bit of a tangent – although it is relevant to what I am saying.
Oscar Romero was appointed Archbishop of in El Salvador in the ’70s.
He was chosen by the Vatican because he was conservative and upheld the teaching of the Magistrate. They were sure he would not rock the boat or speak out against the injustices in his country, or to speak out against the US for the part they were playing to keep the status quo or to speak for the poor.
It was the death of a priest friend of his that changed everything for Romero. He was murdered by the military government. This caused a conversion of sorts in Romero’s thinking and actions. He became very outspoken of the injustices in his country and worked tirelessly for the poor.
He once said the if you decide to take the side of the poor, you have to accept that you will end up just like then – dead in a ditch. Romero was shot dead saying Mass in a hospital chapel, in March 1980.
This is a story of a man that did change. And it is what inspired me to take Trump to my heart and wish better things for him. Romero, however had many advantages that Trump does not have. He had a good family and a grounding in spirituality, even though it was somewhat clouded over until his conversion.
So as this recent election brought results that many did not want, either for the good of their country or the good of their world, we are again faced with this delimma. How are we individually going to respond?
I occurred to me the other day, while talking to a neighbour about these things, that I have had a far more privileged life that Trump has had. In that way, my heart can easily go out to him.
In Fields of Compassion by Judy Cannato (ISBN -13:978-1-933495-21-7 OR ISBN-10:1-933495-21-9). She speaks of Morphogenic Fields.
“What if we were to be intentional about about maintaining an emergent morphological field? What if we were to engage our energies as consciously as possible in order to influence and help manifest this new emerging consciousness, a consciousness rooted in the past yet filled with promise … for all life on our planet? Would this not be resonant with the call to live in freedom so that we might experience the depth of love? In such a critical moment in our own history, can we do anything but this?” (page 38)
There are so many more people in our world, as well as Trump, who need to be touched by this morphogenic field of compassion. All the leaders of countries who are waging war at present against their own people or against their neighbours. So many people, right now who are torturing people as I write this. So many… so many…
I think this is what we are doing in this Deep Time Network. Everyone has a part to play. The Universe has a role for each of us. I feel this is mine. I have no Degrees, Masters, Doctorates, etc. I have spent my life among people who have intellectual disabilities. In the Western world their lifestyles are improving slowly but surely, but there are still people in many countries around the world who are locked away and living terrible lives, all because they are being judged by the tyranny of normality. Many are being killed either before or after birth because of that judgement.
I think I do make a difference here and have done over the past 40 yrs. So that is where I can offer something and also intentionally maintain a morphogenic field of compassion for all those who are destroying life as we know it. I really do hope that they will be touched by love and choose to respond to it in a life giving way, for themselves, and for life on our planet.
It’s a real gift for me to be part of this group. Thank you all for being here.
Peace to each one.
Anne McKeon
Ireland
