I get where yr coming from here, but I think/hope Suzanne is saying something slightly different. One of my favorite books is The Untethered Soul. I like the way Singer handles this issue -- "the secret of the ascent is to always look up."
No, sorry, I've got to push back a little here. In fact, I was going to just let this whole thing go, but I had the opportunity to listen to the podcast last night, as opposed to skimming the transcript, and I was infuriated.
I'm a fairly open minded person, so it isn't often that another persons viewpoint upsets me to level she did. The only other time I've ever been this pissed off was after reading Hazel Courtney's first book, which I cannot and do not want to remember the title. I love books. I never give away books, sell them or toss them. But I couldn't wait to get rid of her book. It was awful in so many ways. But I digress...this interview reminded me a lot of that book. Completely superficial with virtually nothing of substance except your typical New Age talking points that are so overwrought and tiresome. Warm fuzzy words that amount to nothing, really.
But what really pissed me off about this interview was how flippantly she dismisses the idea of evil. As if it's some kind of immaterial force of no consequence. But that's BS. Evil is all around us. Children are kidnapped, raped and murdered every day. Women and even men are kidnapped, rape and murdered every day. Our very own government is using drones to kill innocents by the crapload, and what do we do? Look away and "choose to look upward". Until when? Until it comes to our backyard? Why has so much time and energy been put into 9-11, to this very day? Because it happened to "us" and not those icky people in some third world country.
As long as "evil" doesn't come knocking at our door we can just "look away" or continue to "look upward". That's crap. Evil comes in many forms, and ignoring the evil done to innocents every day by the rich and powerful and the poor and unknown alike, is also evil.
So yeah, sure, as long as we view evil as something separate from ourselves, as some sort of unholy, immaterial, irrelevant force, we can just choose to "look upward". But that isn't reality. The reality is that evil exists, here. Potentially in any one of us. Ignoring that aspect leads to, I think, precisely what you see in the world today.
One last note: regarding her military career and her role in 9-11, either she's a liar (proven so by her testimony to the 9-11 commission that proved false) or she herself is unwilling, perhaps to come to terms with her so called former career. At this point, I would be willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and say she has since learned many things that have changed her worldview but isn't in a place that she can hold herself accountable. Perhaps this is work she is doing privately, I don't know. I do know that there have been many in her place, former military that have since undergone a change in worldview and what I would call an increase in consciousness, that have come out vehemently against what much of the military has done and continues to do.
I think of guys like Adam Kokesh who is very up front and honest with himself and those willing to listen about his actions while in the military. As well as Jimmy Massey and over 200 former military men and women that were a part of Iraq Veterans Against the War. They have been honest with themselves and the public about their actions while in the military. She just kep saying "I don't want to talk about that" or "it's just a career change" or "that's not my path." She was completely elusive, yet she touts her military career as a way to set herself apart and garner more attention. She pretty much bragged about her long waiting list of clients.
Yeah, I truly got the impression that she is a "lightworker". /s
True light workers are those that have risked life and limb to stand for the innocent and against those who perpetrate their violence on these innocents. People like Rachel Corrie.