Changing the World from the Inside

I left the church five years ago, but last summer I had a spiritual awakening that gave me pause and made me turn around and take a second look at Jesus. Not the one the religious zealots have painted as a white savior, but the magician who taught people how to love.

I believe there’s a frequency or an energy of love and of fear, and everything we do comes from a place of love or a place of fear. This week half the country gave us a president based on their fear, fear of people who are not like them and who don’t follow their rules. The rest of us have been so busy loving people we were blindsided by that fear. We didn’t think it would happen because we were caught up doing good for people.

Love requires being aware of all the things that go against it. Jesus knew there were people coming for him, he knew there were people who didn’t agree with his message and who wanted him gone. He loved anyway. And his love was powerful. Taking religion out of it, what he did was magic.

There’s a phrase in the spiritual community, “as above so below.” This doesn’t mean "on earth as it is in heaven". What it means is more powerful. It was explained to me that it’s similar to how scientists get a cure for a poison from the poison itself. You can also think of it as “the way out is through.” The way we change the world is not by ignoring evil, by pretending everything is OK. We change the world by diving head first into evil and changing it from the inside. This is alchemy.