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https://heatherawen.wordpress.com/20...f-the-new-age/A friend recently said to me that she’s going to go for it and do some really hard things to make her dreams of working to improve children’s lives a reality. She said that she had to believe the Goddess would provide for her. I used to believe that. I want to believe that, but I don’t anymore. I asked her to explain this, not to be a bitch, but because I was hoping she’d be able to convince me that the Goddess works this way.
One third of the people on this planet don’t have access to drinking water. The Goddess is clearly not providing for them. Now, being a white lower-middle class American is working for me in this regard. Does the fact that they have no water to drink mean that the Goddess hates them? That they are bad people? And that the Goddess likes her and me because we have drinking water?
Why does accident of birth (being in the higher caste of a ruling imperialistic nation) mean that I deserve to live and they deserve to die? How did the Goddess decide who to provide for? So why should I trust that “we always get what we need” when clearly the facts say that we don’t?
Children born with AIDS are not getting what they need. Women and children sold into prostitution are not getting what they need. A junkie in prison is not getting what he needs. You cannot make me think life is fair. There is no loving force in the Universe helping us. WE have to help each other. Not God/dess, not Spirit, not New Age (NuAge = sewage) bullsh*t. Those things can help you do the work of love, peace, and justice, but they won’t do it without us. We must be the action of good in the world, because we also are the actions of evil.
A friend once pointed something very wise out to me. When people get sick in our culture, we blame them. If they had a heart attack, we blame them for eating a hamburger, being unable to afford a gym membership and not managing stress properly. And I would add that in the NuAge community when you get sick or have bad luck it is some lesson you karmicly have to learn. Blame the victim? You betcha!
We shame people for having misfortune. It’s a “lesson” they chose to have before we were born. They decided pre-incarnation to learn about having cancer. They made a contract their father to be sexually abused before they were born. That allows us to not feel compassion or responsibility for the people who are hurting. They deserve their fate. They chose it! They want it! To grow! So let them be miserable and grow like they chose – How nice for us! If they are abused by a lover, it is some lesson they came here to learn. They asked for it!
Aughhhh! Lies!
No, if someone is abused by a lover it is because they are born into a sicko society that hates sexuality and has a lot of power and control issues. If you get raped walking in a park after dark, it is not your fault for being in a park after dark – It is the rapist’s fault for doing this and society’s fault for allowing this to be the norm. Your white light did not fail you. You are not a failure as a Witch. The NuAge is saying that people ask for horrible events to happen to them – so we justify not caring about them.
“Creating your own reality” is blaming the victim. Blaming the victim keeps the system in place. It justifies harming of innocents. This is another form of that “God’s will” bullsh*t that the church has used for centuries to keep people from fighting for their freedom. We don’t have control over our genes, our economics, our race, our sex, our time period, our childhoods – There are a lot of things that were set in motion that affect us. We can work with what’s there, but if you were born in a place without clean drinking water, you will die of thirst. It’s not an issue of spiritual skills used to manifest things – It’s an issue of capitalism.
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