On all sides, I am asked to participate in meditations for world peace. With each new crisis - China, Kosovo, Palestine, Guatemala, Iraq, etc. - my email and mail are overflowing with calls for global meditations. - my email and mail are overflowing with calls for global meditations. 

On all sides, I am asked to participate in meditations for world peace. With each new crisis - China, Kosovo, Palestine, Guatemala, Iraq, etc. - my email and mail are overflowing with calls for global meditations. - my email and mail are overflowing with calls for global meditations. New global meditation initiatives are springing up every week.

Big names are joining in to give these actions more impact. Twymann, Bradden, Williamson and others are bringing out an updated hundredth monkey theory, hoping to achieve the percentage of positive thoughts needed to tip the balance of planetary reality into a world of peace any minute.

Other people, promoting initiatives to heal the planet, use equipment derived from sacred geometry and geobiology to transform environmental conditions and eliminate pollution. Esoteric tourism is also on the rise, with ever-increasing numbers of groups led by "guided" people who go to meditate on the location of sacred sites to reactivate them.

In itself, all these initiatives are praiseworthy and generous. But more often than not, they show a disturbing ignorance. First, the promoters and participants in these initiatives are often unaware of their polarized nature. In seeking to reinforce the positive side of events, they have no idea what they are causing - an intensification of polarizations.

I was in these thoughts when I came across a text excerpt describing the view of the Tibetan master Djwal Khul, Alice Bailey's era, on how benevolent energy can be misused. Describing how, during the last war, spiritual groups sent love to Hitler thinking they could change him, he then explained how Hitler was able to use the energy he received to accomplish his goals. Djwal Khul advised his students to be very careful about how the energy was used. He added that unless one really knew the divine plan for a given area, it was best to focus the energy on the Great White Brotherhood and let them use it appropriately. Sometimes situations need to be discharged of energy and not further stimulation.

When I look at the places that have received attention from the planetary meditations, I have to say that the situation has deteriorated, that it has become even more polarized. That said, perhaps it would be even worse without the meditations, but I don't feel that way. When I look at the places that have been used as laboratories for cleanup experiments, I notice that there has been unprecedented climate disruption in the vicinity. All these benevolent initiatives have the same flaws: on the one hand, even though they are based on the idea of using the power of thought, they stop halfway and give precedence to the external conditions, then propose to cure them. On the other hand, these initiatives demonstrate a lack of understanding of the polarized nature of the human psyche, for they miss the overriding fact that the world is so unbalanced today precisely because of this subconscious duality.

Of course, it is exciting to work for world peace. But when this takes the form of an inflation of cosmic fantasy outside of our daily reality, a further division occurs: thrilling experiences versus the dense dullness of daily life. Who sets the boundaries between these realities?

If I tell you that you are yourself, you will probably be disappointed. If I tell you that you are part of the Legion of Michael, you will be elated. Why? Everything is God. Including me. I don't see the difference. The surrounding reality is not external.

Of course we can create an enlightened reality - that's what we're here for; just, to do so, we must first eliminate this compulsive tendency to determine the pleasant from its opposite, and regain the divine use of our attention.

The universe is a safe place!