InnerSelf

by bobby jennings.

One reason to focus on the past is to learn from it and to see how the future is connected to past events. We can look at the consequences of actions as ripples in a pond caused by raindrops. Each raindrop starts its own separate ripple and progresses out until it merges with all the other ripples in the pond. And so it is with all the events in the universe. Each action intertwines with...

by Wyatt Webb.

In April of 2002, I had the opportunity to spend three days in New York City, presenting a workshop for the staff of a national magazine. The day I arrived, documentary filmmaker and friend Barry Boyle greeted me at my hotel in Times Square, and we proceeded to go to Ground Zero...

by Marie T. Russell.

There's dancing in the streets, crying, laughing, celebrating... Why? Is it because a simple mortal man is dead? Is it because "justice" has been done? While on the surface that may be what seems to be happening, the celebration is really for something else. The happiness comes, I believe, from a feeling of...

by bobby jennings.

I have been hunched over a computer since 9-11 moving InnerSelf to a new server so I've just been keeping up with things through various news sources. True, we have been getting various disturbing reports from friends and subscribers but frankly hearing about how things are and experiencing them first hand are two different things.

by Jim Mason. The world tries to mold every person into a commodity: useful, efficient, obedient - never rebellious, never asserting itself, never declaring its own individuality, but always being subservient, almost like a robot.

by Guy Finley.  The important issue for those of us who wish to bring Peace into our world is the fact that any negative energy met with negative energy only causes these same dark forces to grow. What to do with the pain and anger one naturally feels?

by Bill Douglas. I've seen the fruits of war. My Daddy came home from years of the war in 1945, and raged for many years after that. The rage that children of war, which is all of us, are feeling, and that has been re-ignited by this horrible event is not healed -- I struggle with it every day of my life, and now my children have been damaged by it as well...

In the Native American tradition, one member of the tribe assumes the role of "Faithkeeper". This person's role is to remain at peace, centered in spiritual vision, no matter what events befall the tribe. This is our role now.

by Marie T. Russell.

While humans have always had "reasons" to be afraid, we have been bombarded daily with more reasons to choose fear as our response... whether the fear comes up when we open our mailbox, or when we attend a crowded event, or when we see the military as airport security, or when we board a plane. etc. It is manifest in the reactions...

written by Marie T. Russell and bobby jennings
on September 12th, 2001 (the day after 9-11) .

After the shock of yesterday's events, the questions foremost on every one's mind are "why did this happen?" and "what happens next?" Many people have felt powerless in the face of yesterday's violence and want to "do something". Yet the question is: What is that "something" that we are to do?...