-Caveat Lector-
Making Unwanted Things Go Away
June 21, 2001
A few years ago I was given a book for Christmas whose purpose was to warn
parents about the dangers of New Age concepts for young children. I won't
give the name of the book for reasons that will become apparent.
Among the targets of this book were Barney the Dinosaur, E.T. the
Extraterrestrial, and the channeling of Ramtha by J.Z. Knight. I read the
book in a day and threw it away, something I rarely do.
There are certainly some fraudulent people promoting New Age ideas; but this
book picked targets that were either ridiculous or so easy to discredit
anyone could do it, Christian or not.
After finishing the book I realized it may do more to spread awareness of
the things it was trying to stamp out than to realize its stated goal.
You see, awareness is spread not only by promotion but by attack. When a
child or adult for that matter is presented with the idea of "not Barney" it
is not much different from "Barney." Those who knew nothing about Barney,
after being told how bad he is, may want to know more about Barney. This is
awareness not possessed by the reader beforehand.
It has been said that the universe does not know the word "not." The
universe, as its root word would indicate, is a unity concept. Yes and no
are the framework of duality, not unity.
For this reason it is awareness and not positivity or negativity that counts
most. You don't get someone to think about something besides elephants by
saying, "for the next two minutes DO NOT think about elephants." Try it.
You see this in the natural world where animal parents raising young take
your attention elsewhere instead of sitting by the nest and squawking "don't
look right here."
So those who want anything to go away, whether it is gays, Democrats,
Republicans, drugs or aliens, are not going to accomplish their goal by
spreading awareness of that particular plague.
My first experience with this came as a young child when I read obscene
graffiti aloud in the presence of my mother, who ascribed evil intent to
this innocent act. "Don't ever say that word," she said, which only made me
very curious about a word I was previously unaware of but that was so
powerful.
Someone has said "If you want more of something, declare war on it."
Remember that next time you join a crusade against a particular lifestyle,
religion, political ideology or government policy. It may be better for your
purposes to be FOR something else. But that requires a 180-degree switch
from negative to positive, which some people find very difficult.
To apply that to a recent earth event, those who badly wanted Tim McVeigh
not to exist only served to publicize his cause far beyond what he could
have done on his own from a death row prison cell. Did he know that?
Possibly.
A child learns at a very young age that he/she can get attention by being
either good or bad. To a child it matters not which, it is the attention
that is important.
**No "facts" included**
**Opinion only**
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