Ever wonder if evil is an entity? It does kind of move fluidly, from place to place, person to person. For example, the old totalitarian dictatorship of Iraq is now found in Iran. The starving China is now N. Korea. It’s kind of like that movie Fallen with Denzel Washington, where he plays a detective chasing a demon that moves from person to person, murdering as it goes. Whenever he chases it out of one person, it pops into another. The analogy holds on the surface.

But what of the New Age movement and various religions who say God is everywhere? Jason Morant typified this in his song Love Song with the lyric (about God) “where can I run from You, You’re everywhere”. If this is so, how can both co-exist? I’m not asking this in a Theological sense, but in a real sense. How can my body be a simultaneous conduit for both good and evil. Various religions attempt to resolve this apparent paradox using their fundamental assumptions and methodologies, but none do with satisfaction. I think it’s, once again a matter of our context surrounding the conceptions we have of this world (See my previous Post “Twisted”). We attempt to operate, out of necessity, from our conceptions, but no one context can account for all the experience.

So why does globalism foster terrorism? Because when we shine light on and begin to effectively govern all the places evil can agglomerate, it diffuses, spawning small cells of radicals known as terrorists. This is just one conception, so don’t get stuck on it, but consider that this is just a beginning.

Here is where the New Age (or New Spiritual Movements) and religions diverge. The “New” movements propose that good and evil are just contextual constructs used by those in power to control the masses. But if this is so, why do we all respond with a sense of injustice when someone we love deeply is brutally murdered? Call it what you will, there is something that each of us, if pressed to the limit, would refer to as evil. Take the word away, but you won’t be able to remove the reality of the impact it has on us.

Good is the same. If you doubt it, try now to remember the time in your life when you felt most surrounded by love. Now, try to separate that from “good”. If you succeed, you’ve accomplished what those who have perpetrated evil and called it good have managed to do; fragment yourself (you should now go see a councilor for help).

So what’s the point, you may now be asking (or may have asked at the outset). The point is, there are powers here among us which are beyond our current paradigm’s ability to absorb and account for. Many people, in response to modernism’s attempt to dominate it’s world through knowing, are hoping to create a new paradigm that re-incorporates not-knowing. In doing so, we are re-inventing the wheel. With each new “invention” comes the next generation’s confining construct because each sees the world through their own generation’s experiences.

Christianity is a paradigm that has for centuries encompassed knowing and not knowing, but most people rile against it because it’s actual practice is, firstly, hard to find (with all the self-righteous, comfortable ”christians” out there), and secondly, EXTREMELY RISKY! You may have to exit the known worlds of interaction with others and approach relationships with people completely from scratch with only two foci: Love God completely (as your real, alive, active aware primary focus), and love others as you love yourself (in your real life, not just your spiritual life). If you dare try this, wherever you go, shining the light of God, darkness will flee, but in response, you will not be unnoticed by it. Life will cease to be comfortable, but start being ALIVE! Do you want to be AWAKE??! It’s hard sometimes dealing with life in the Matrix, but it’s real, it’s close, it’s what you’ve always yearned for in secret. Which pill will you chose? Either way, you serve: yourself(ishness) with comfort, or Go(o)d with joy. Choose, or you will be chosen.