{"id":306,"date":"2008-11-29T21:10:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/11\/a-spiritual-response-to-terror.html"},"modified":"2008-11-29T21:10:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T21:10:13","slug":"a-spiritual-response-to-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/11\/a-spiritual-response-to-terror.html","title":{"rendered":"A Spiritual Response to Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">With our thoughts, we can build a system of spiritual quarantine for terrorists and would-be terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\"><br \/>We don&#8217;t have to know who they are.\u00a0<span class=\"yshortcuts\">The Creator<\/span>\u00a0does.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">Just do this.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">For a minimum of five minutes every day, meditate in the following way:<br \/>Pray that anyone even thinking of committing a terrorist act, anywhere in the world, be surrounded by a huge golden egg.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\"><br \/>The eggshell is made of the spiritual equivalent of titanium. It is impenetrable. Any malevolent, hateful or violent thought that emanates from the mind of the terrorist cannot get past the confines of the eggshell. Before the violent thought can turn into violent action, it is stopped by the force of this meditative field.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\"><br \/>Energetically, the terrorist is quarantined.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">On the inside of the egg, see a shower of golden Light pouring from the eggshell into the\u00a0<span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"line-height: 1.2em\">heart and mind<\/span>\u00a0of the terrorist. Pray for your lost brother. See him or her being healed by the force of divine Love, wrapped in the arms of angels, reminded of who he truly is.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';font-size: 16px;line-height: 19px\">Five minutes. Every day. Tell everyone you know.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our thoughts, we can build a system of spiritual quarantine for terrorists and would-be terrorists. We don&#8217;t have to know who they are.\u00a0The Creator\u00a0does.\u00a0\u00a0 Just do this. 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