{"id":2076,"date":"2012-11-08T08:51:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2013-09-22T03:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T03:00:35","slug":"day-tweny-one-dont-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2012\/11\/day-tweny-one-dont-hide.html","title":{"rendered":"Day Tweny One – Don’t Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been a society running from our demons, not wanting to face them, because we\u2019ve got no experience with the how. In the past we\u2019ve been able to explore, conquer, quest, discover new worlds, new lands. With the earth being covered and our population stretching resources. There is no where to hide. It\u2019s time to stand and say.<\/p>\n

“Love don’t run, Love don’t hide,\u00a0we won’t turn away or back down from a fight…<\/address>\n
Love’s too tough, it won’t give up, not on us<\/address>\n
Love don’t run.”\u00a0 — Steve Holy<\/address>\n
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We don\u2019t get a lot of things as kids and with limited instruction it is interesting the stories we create and tell ourselves.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In\u00a0James Cameron\u2019s first Terminator film, the terror and horror of The Terminator wanting Sarah Conner dead because she carries the seed that will save the world is a universal archetype for that which is in us that our ego is continually terminating.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all there\u2026 run from your fear because you don\u2019t understand what\u2019s chasing you and why, and when you do get it you realize it is not going to stop.\u00a0 You need to take a stand against the demon, hoping for a victory, so you can live to save the world. Sarah Conner survives and she is different from having faced her assassin.\u00a0\u00a0In the sequel,\u00a0The Terminator II in which the evil and bad Terminator from the first movie becomes the savior of the heroine and hero in the second.\u00a0 You begin to see the archetypal pattern\u00a0as Arnold Schwarzenegger playing The Terminator appears before a terrified and tortured and mentally unstable Sarah Conner fleeing for her life… \u00a0Reaching out his hand. \u00a0\u201cCome with me if you want to live.\u201d\u00a0 You have a choice.\u00a0 Crucifier or Savior.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s all a matter of your perception, shifting the illusion of\u00a0time and space. \u00a0In one movie, he\u2019s the killer. In the other movie his is there to save her.\u00a0 Our terminator can be our savior or our crucifier depending on our perspective.\u00a0 Whatever you want to say about James Cameron he has his brand of rock star metaphorical archetypal story telling.\u00a0 We all relate because on some level we all get within us lies the ability to save the world by facing our fears.\u00a0 Our Terminators can be a guide to peace or they can be our guide to pain.\u00a0 It\u2019s so wild that we choose which story arc it will be.<\/p>\n

Since we are not living in a movie with a science fiction script containing and demonstrating the hero\u2019s journey in 100 plus action packed pages\u2026 We are on our own to figure it out.\u00a0 No one teaches us how to face our fears. When you have no instruction and there is no operating manual it seems perfectly reasonable to hide from The Terminators of our lives and to keep up the cycle of forever running away from our self, becoming fused to our fear, allowing it to build an empire of untruths.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of years ago there were fairy tales to help children process through their childhood terrors and remember the truth about themselves. Today with everyone\u2019s personal hells being medicated, avoided, deadened and our collective unconscious wounds raging largely unprocessed we are at a turning point.<\/p>\n

Don’t hide from your fear.\u00a0 Stand and see the truth.\u00a0 Face what you need to face and watch the resilience of your spirit rise to meet the needs of your soul’s expression.<\/p>\n