Is it possible to turn the tables on perceived evil? Naturally it isn’t something we ever think we will experience. Rev Pat Bessey shared a story during a recent talk that highlighted a way one can change the course of a dangerous encounter.
The story begins: There is a woman named Tammy Anderson who had arrived in France to go to a Tase community. She had taken a bus from the airport that didn’t go all the way to her destination. She had five miles left to walk. As she was walking along, a car stopped, and the man asked if she would like a ride. She put her backpack in the back and chatted with him. When they passed the turn and kept on going it began to get dark and turned into a dirt road. She mentioned that she thought he was supposed to turn back there, and he said but I know a short cut. “So, they kept on going deeper into the woods and she thought, oh no, this is not going to be good. This was not going to be good; her knees were beginning to tremble. Her whole body was on high alert.
She said to herself, “I knew this was not going to be good and if it starts today, one of us will die. I will kill him, or he will kill me. In a stillness I cannot express came over me and the power; and the reason is because I found one of the secrets and the secret is I have nothing to lose if I am already dead. And that is the most dangerous person in the world to fool with.”
Part II will be in next week’s blog on what happens next. Tammy has followed her intuition all her life and decided to make it more of a way of life by helping other people as a medium and took formal training later in her life. Her website is here: https://healing-wellness.com/
In the Unity teachings, Charles Fillmore, our cofounder defines evil: -That which is not of God; unreality; error thought; a product of the fallen human consciousness, negation.
Charles writes in Atom Smashing power of the Mind, “The oft-discussed metaphysical question of the origin of evil and the source of good is settled in a concise statement by Hamlet: ‘There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.’ “p114
Aristotle was one of the first to define evil as an untruth and thus did not exist in and of itself. In the church it was referred to as privation boni: deprivation of the good. This was coined by Origen who was a scholar and Christian Theologian. St Augustine, like Origen, expanded it more than any Theologian at that time. This written thought about evil gave it more of a foot hold and then of course most Christian religions tend to take the Bible literally therefore giving it more credence.
In Tammy’s story, she was using the principle or law that Spirit or God is always with us. Therefore, we have nothing to fear. Holding steady to that thought can empower us through many situations that we perceive as dangerous.
I recently learned another way to look at our fear response when it brings up our protection shields. So when you are feeling fear, ask yourself if something that you love or care about is being threatened by perceived evil or taken away? Paraphrased from Paul Hasselback, fellow Unity Minister.
Did Tammy encounter evil or someone who was misappropriating the infinite supply of Divine ideas that we have in us?
Rev Airin
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