“…if we look upon Evil as a force to be reckoned with, and therefore requiring to be studied, we are in effect creating it; while if on the other hand we realize that there is only one force to be considered, and that absolutely Good, we are by the law of the creative process bringing that Good into manifestation.”




Judge Thomas Troward, “The Dore Lectures On Mental Science”

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Are you afraid of a terrorist atrocity somewhere near you? Do you think the world is a more dangerous place since 9/11?

After all, every day we see new kidnappings, videos of masked men standing over hostages with a timeline for execution, horrific bomb incidents across the planet, and more. The world seems to be a darker place, and our governments struggle heroically on our behalf to combat this seemingly endless menace.

But is all this really so? Is this the objective truth?

If you think about this a bit more, you might see it a different way. Just ask yourself a couple of questions:

(1) After all of the government initiatives against terrorists across the world in recent years, including a couple of major wars, are terrorist organizations stronger or weaker since 9/11?

Answer (a) Stronger, (b) Weaker

(2) Is the general level of fear about terrorists and terrorism higher or lower since 9/11?

Answer (a) Higher, (b) Lower

For most people, their answers to these two questions will present something of a paradox. They would agree that terrorist organizations MUST logically be (b), weaker after 9/11. After all, consider the billions of dollars and countless hours of manpower committed to anti-terrorism since that date. Yet, their level of fear of terrorists is nevertheless (a) HIGHER! How can this possibly be?! It defies logic….

Perhaps before 9/11, we were blissfully unaware of the danger, and after it, we are better acquainted with the truth? Maybe. However, another argument presents itself…

Terrorism is a collaborative effort. It does not just come from so-called “terrorists”. That is just the first part of the equation. For you to end up being terrified, there is a specific process involved. It goes something like this:

(a) Some form of highly negative act is committed. This may be a kidnapping and subsequent execution, a terrorist bomb, and so on.

(b) Permission has to be given by someone for that information to be broadcast to the world through the media.

(c) The media must choose to broadcast the information and then do so, giving to the bare facts whatever interpretation they choose.

(d) A feeling of “escalation” must exist, i.e. that the situation is out of control, directly threatens your life, and requires immediate urgent action.

(e) You have to choose to focus on what the media and government are reporting and believe it is accurate true reporting.

(f) Having chosen to engage in (e), you have to absorb yourself in these events to the point where it adversely affects your emotions, thoughts, and mental state. You must ALLOW yourself to be terrorized. It does not just happen. It’s a choice.

If any one of these steps is missing, there is no “terrorism” because nobody is terrified! So, let us examine some of these steps in order to understand what is really going on.

Looking at step (a), we must also acknowledge that many other negative acts occur in the world that do not slightly bother us. There may be a serial killer in the jungles of Borneo, killing off tribesmen on a daily basis. Does it bother you? No. Why? Because it’s happening in some country you don’t care about, and you don’t know about it anyhow. OK. So why would terrorist acts in Iraq - a country you will almost certainly never visit in your entire life - bother you so much? Indeed, why are they even being reported to you so constantly on a daily basis? Good question…

With step (b), we come closer to the truth. The dissemination of this frightening information serves the purposes of “somebody”, or else it would not be released at all. It would not be ALLOWED to be released. Here is a classic example of such a news freeze.

After all the hype about the search for Saddam Hussein, what did he have to say for himself after his capture? The answer seems to be… nothing. We were shown some cynically crafted shots, taken in unguarded moments when he was unaware of what the footage would be used for, and specifically designed to humiliate him in the eyes of the world. Yet, beyond that, nothing. Not a single word or image!

Why? Was nobody in the world interested in what he might be saying or doing? Not at all. Public interest was very high indeed, thanks to the media frenzy about the hunt for Saddam. So what suddenly happened to the news flow, when he WAS captured?

The answer is, government intervention. That’s what happened.

You saw and heard nothing about Saddam because it did NOT serve the US government’s interests for you to know what he might be saying. The reason was that he might say things that would embarrass them severely (perhaps regarding his previous amiable dealings with them in the 1970’s during the Iran/Iraq war); embarrass them because it might just be TRUE!

Contrarily, you see carefully controlled images of the menace of terrorism because it DOES serve the governments’ interests to show these. Hence, the media are allowed to do so.

When the media broadcast these events, they are making a deliberate choice as to how to fill a given time slot. There are many other equally valid things they could be showing you in that time. Believe it or not, there are MANY GOOD THINGS happening in the world, RIGHT NOW! Amazing, scarcely believable, but true.

However, the media instead focuses on, and incessantly analyzes, highly negative unhelpful events. They give the impression that the menace is constant, the world is a terribly unsafe place, that we are in constant mounting danger, and must depend upon our caring, heroic governments for our long-term survival. This promotes the feeling of “escalation” that we discussed in step 4.

What if the media chose NOT to broadcast the home-made videos of masked gunmen standing over helpless hostages, dictating their demands and giving their deadlines? Could terrorism even continue to EXIST if it received almost no media attention? Why do we say we will not negotiate with terrorists to save hostage lives, but we WILL televise every terrifying home movie they ever make? In the former instance, we swear blind NOT to further their cause, and in the latter we do so without the slightest hesitation.

It happens because it serves “someone’s” private purposes for manipulation of the masses. That “someone” is your government. If it did not serve them, you would not (1) see these terror images, (2) remain on a constant state of alert, or (3) even hear about these events (e.g. the post-capture Saddam 6-month silence). There would be no state of terror in the world.

In other words, a state of terror exists in the world because your government WANTS IT TO EXIST (however much they claim they don’t)!

Finally, step (f): for a state of terror to exist, you must choose to be believe the truth of what the media says and allow it to agitate your peace of mind. You must believe in imminent danger, even if it does not actually exist. In the US in recent years, there have been constant states of “red alert” and “yellow alert”. People are being put constantly on edge and the fear grows each day. Yet, did anything actually HAPPEN since 9/11?

The answer is, no. So, if the security services are doing their job properly (which is what you are supposedly paying them to do, and which they definitely did NOT do on the day of 9/11), why don’t they just get on with it? Why should YOU be constantly agitated by all these red and yellow alerts?

In the US, there are now plans afoot to introduce MORE levels of alerts, i.e. different alerts for different areas of security threat (e.g. airports, power stations, whatever) In Britain, the goovernment have just released a booklet to 25 million homes, detailing what to do in the event of a terrorist attack.

What purpose can all this possibly serve? Or could it be that the hidden purpose of keeping the population on edge is precisely to engender MORE fear, not less? Perhaps again, we see an example of it serving “someone’s” purposes to keep you in a state of terror.

Here is what metaphysician Thomas Troward had so say about this sort of thing nearly a century ago:

“…the fallacy that good is limited by evil, and that you cannot receive any good except through eliminating the corresponding evil by realizing it and beating it back. In this view, life becomes a continual combat against every imaginable form of evil, and after we have racked our brains to devise precautions against all possible evil happenings, there remains the chance, and much more than the chance, that we have by no means exhausted the category of negative possibilities, and that others may arise that no amount of foresight on our part could have imagined. The more we see into this position the more intolerable it becomes, because from this standpoint we can never attain any certain basis of action, and the sources of possible evil multiply as we contemplate them. To set forth to outwit all evil by our knowledge of its nature is to attempt a task the hopelessness of which becomes apparent when we see it in its true light”

Judge Thomas Troward, “The Dore Lectures On Mental Science.

So much for the “war on terrorism”. Can you now see the folly of this venture?

In esoteric teaching, we are told that “what you focus upon EXPANDS”. That is the whole basis of the science of success elucidated by Napoleon Hill and others. We also learn that there are only two forces at work (in truth, just one, since the second is merely the absence of the first): Love and Fear. If you choose to focus your efforts on Fear, it will GROW and its causes will MULTIPLY!

So, “terrorism” is not nearly so simple a concept as it seemed at first. The “terrorists” are only one active factor in the equation. You play a passive part in the process, through your willingness to be conned and terrorized, and your government plays an extremely active and highly culpable part.

So why would your government - supposedly your friend - do this to you? Well, the sad fact is that they are NOT your friends and never have been, but that is a subject far too large for this article. However, this trick of terrorizing the masses with a continual stream of brainwashing propaganda is as old as the hills. In Stalinist Russia, they had their “capitalist wreckers” and in Maoist China “Western Imperialists”; all supposedly working to undermine the State and the happiness of the people. It all serves to create an atmosphere of subservience, dependence and unquestioned compliance to the aims of the government.

This is the hidden agenda behind the “war on terrorism”. It has more to do with ultimately limiting your freedoms, tagging and bagging every citizen, tracking every cent of YOUR money so that it eventually ends up in the right place (i.e. the governments’ sweaty hands, rather than somewhere offshore etc.) than it ever has to do with your freedom and your safety. Before you know it, you are walking around in an open prison, “free” to agree with everything the government tells you to say and do.

America is now effectively a police state, and it will become ever more so as the years go by; all for your own safety, of course. Whether consciously or unconsciously, structures are being set in place for a totalitarian dictatorship, which can declare indefinite martial law and engage in the very same excesses we have seen throughout history, all for the “protection” of its citizens. We may soon see neighbors and foreigners being denounced as spies or terrorist sympathizers, and government initiatives encouraging you to do this very thing.

All this will could happen within the next 20-25 years unless the poisonous ideology that has been set in motion within the last 3 years in the US is firmly uprooted and hurled forcibly into the depths of outer space, never to return. Happily, there are many voices of sanity in America today, who are determined to achieve this object, while it is still possible, and while the structures of democracy remain largely intact to be able to do so. Hence, there is cause for much optimism and NOT fear.

However, having read this far, please never let yourself be confused or conned about the realities of terrorism. Hopefully, you have now caught a glimpse of the self-serving motives behind the daily media force-feed of Terror & Fear. The committers of terroist acts are just a small part of the total equation of Fear. If they received no publicity, terrorist acts against the innocent would almost certainly )be decimated worldwide.

Always remember: it serves someone’s purposes. That is all you need to know to break free of the cycle of mental terror paralysis that they seek to impose upon you.

The world is a wonderful place. It is no more or less dangerous today than it was before 9/11. Anybody who tells you different is deceiving you for their own self-serving purposes. The facts simply do not bear out all this negativity and fear. You do NOT have to be terrified, in order to unwittingly serve someone else’s private agenda for you.

You can just choose to live in the world, accept it as it is, and just BE.

Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2005. All Rights Reserved.

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