Quote:Hi Mystic Dreamer,
maybe you will receive further informations about it. I want just take what you wrote and what ideas I have why this is shown to you:
You are caring for children. So, you know there is a lot of children's abuse. Now, your experience could be a message for you to become more aware of what's going on inside you. Maybe it should force you to make a decision. You watched that scene but couldn't really help (we don't know what effect your presence had). So, the decision could be: If you are concerned about children's abuse but you are not active in prevention or healing those children and you can't do it in the future, then stay away from this topic because it will make you sad and you're not helping anyone then. OR you should become active in this matter, maybe it is a deep wish inside you to do it but covered in C1. Both decisons would avoid the situation you were in, to be near a brutal act but not able to prevent it.
Bye, Spooky
Spooky's suggestions are very good, whether they apply to you (not just the original poster, but to all readers), or rather, *how* they apply to you (not necessarily limited to the subject of child abuse), is up to your own willingness to see it, and work with it.
Everything that you see, experience and react to in the world (or OBE) around you, is always a reflection of something within self; there is always a potential lesson in everything that happens, a potential for you to teach yourself (the other person, the experience, the circumstances etc, don't teach you, they facilitate you with the *opportunity* for you to teach yourself, to learn from yourself, but only from your own willingness).
As regards to the widespread extent of the difficult abuse (of all kinds), terrorism, genocide, and suffering that goes on in the world today, in which the extent which reaches the media is but the tip of the iceberg; the guides, helpers, angels and Serenissimus are fully, and acutely, aware of all of this happening, but they waste no time in feeling miserable about any of this.
Feeling miserable or sad may be associated with, but does not equate to the quality of compassion or love, a common misconception among pre-Serenissimus humans.
This is not to say one 'should not' feel sad for the abuse that one hears, observes, or witnesses. Indeed, the very feeling of anger, sorrow or sadness, is useful if one practices Clarification, via Inquiry, and leads one to clarify one's true position and understanding (ie. the TurnAround) on such matters, and *evolve* the anger, sadness or sorrow into only compassion, love and (actions towards) assistantiality.
Hence, the guides & helpers et al, being acutely aware of all of the abuse and suffering that is going on in the world today (not to mention elsewhere in this Universe), do not waste precious time and energy in feeling miserable; they feel only compassion and love, and by the best of their ability, in line with the highest CosmoEthic, work with each other to maximze assistantiality in all possible ways, in all arenas, including the original poster's topic of child abuse.
There are abuses of many different kinds and severities going on, with the vast majority not being reported in, or even known by, the media... are you going to start feeling more and more miserable to know about their existence (and hence go into denial and fragmentation), or are you going to have the more evolved attitude of the more evolved guides & helpers, angels and Serenissimus, to instead be understanding (and accepting), strong, clear-headed and clear-hearted, and now moreso than ever, seize every single moment in the maximal expression and participation in assistantiality of all forms to the best of your capacity, in accordance to the greatest good possible, the highest cosmoethics, serving the evolution of one and all?
Your will, your intention, your willingness to do this, will unlock many doors (of a multidimensional nature, the 'doors' or opportunities to assist not necessarily physical or direct), and your journey (in service and assistantiality) will never be alone.
It is important, that one recognizes the possible abuse that is going on within oneself, whenever one reads of child abuse, sexual abuse, or any form of abuse, terrorism, or suffering.
That is to say, apply the TurnAround, and take self-responsibility. So do not limit your help or actions to merely (the intent on) subduing the (for instance) abusive father, or capturing the militant terrorists, yes, that may be appropriate and have to be carried out, but just as importantly, look within, Turn It Around, and check yourself, for ways in which *you* might be abusing others (in all possible ways, not merely child abuse or sexual abuse), and also, in ways you might be abusing *yourself* (and mistakenly projecting the blame onto others).
"The father should not abuse his daughter, he should be loving and kind to her".
TurnAround #1
*I* should not abuse my daughter/family/friends/associates/subordinates/fellow humans, etc, *I* should be loving and kind to them.
TurnAround #2
*I* should not abuse myself, *I* should be loving and kind to myself.
Hence, your feelings (eg. upset when hearing of abuse cases) serve to teach you more clearly about yourself, your true intentions, and your situation, but *only* if you're willing to listen, to learn, and evolve.
Or, you could just put the blame on "that bad person", "that abuse father", in other words, excuse yourself of self-responsibility, carry out retributive actions against the abuser or 'perpetrator', and perpetuate & perpetrate the chain of suffering on and on, in the world.
The choice is yours. The first step is to see it.
(The Inquiry process, the Clarification process and the TurnAround, are explained in detail in
Byron Katie's, "Loving What Is", and is strongly recommended to all wishing to act as guides & helpers in the name of love and assistantiality).