Ripples

Ever wanted to save the world? Perhaps just preserve your peace? The interesting conundrum is that often what we as an act of heroism for one person or group, creates a ripple, a circle of harm for others. The razor‑edge truth most people don’t want to look at, every act of protection, rescue, or healing creates a shadow somewhere else. Not because the intention is wrong, but because impact radiates outward in ways we can’t fully control.

When a group fights to protect the habitat of an endangered species of bird and that forested area is not properly maintained to prevent fire danger, no controlled burns, no thinning, no fire‑cycle management. The area is hit by lightning, the forest burns hotter than it naturally would, species is wiped out along with the homes of hundreds and the lives of many. The original act was heroic. The ripple was catastrophic.

We live in a world that attempts to legislate morality. When laws are written to enforce a moral worldview, the people who pay the price are often the ones with the least power, the least protection, and the least time. 

It all begins with hate and a lust for power. Hate and the lust for power are the ignition sources for almost every destructive ripple humans create, whether in politics, ecology, culture, or intimate relationships. Something deeper than a single issue or event. It’s the root pattern.

When a group is fueled by hate; fear, resentment, moral superiority, or the desire to punish, their field of vision collapses. They stop seeing complexity, unintended consequences. They stop seeing the humanity of those affected. Hate makes people believe the world is simple. The lust for power turns values into weapons, protections into control. It turns morality into enforcement and fear into policy. Power ends up fighting nature itself, ecological nature, human nature, emotional nature.

When hate and power drive decisions, the ripple effect becomes violent. A law meant to “protect life” ends up endangering women and families. A conservation effort meant to “save a species” ends up creating catastrophic fire conditions. A moral crusade meant to “purify society” ends up fracturing communities. A political movement meant to “restore order” ends up destabilizing the vulnerable. The intention is irrelevant to the outcome when the fuel is hate and the engine is power.

The real danger is not from those who lust for power and hate with a fierce fire. It is from the ripples it creates in the hearts of humans. The Universe, God, Source, Infinite Love, doesn’t speak with words. It relies on what lives in our hearts and minds. Words are too small, too slow, too literal, too bound by culture, language, and interpretation.

The ripples of hate and lust for power is like an emotional contagion; destructive energies don’t just stay with the people who generate them but radiate outward and reshape the inner landscape of everyone who comes near the ripple. These emotions don’t stay contained. They spread through families, communities, nations, and generations. The real danger isn’t the tyrant or the zealot. It’s the emotional distortion they create in ordinary people. A frightened heart hears threat; a victimized heart hears injustice. This is why the emotional ripple is more dangerous than the original act of hate or power.

When fear and victimization take root, they interfere with the signal from the Universe, God, Source, Infinite Love. The Infinite never stops speaking, never stops listening, but the human receiver is no longer able to hear and understand, it becomes distorted. What we are broadcasting to the Universe cannot be perceived because it can only receive what is attached to a thread of Love.

How do we speak back? How do we communicate to something that doesn’t use words? We don’t communicate to the Infinite with language. We communicate with a state of being. We don’t communicate to the Infinite by speaking up. We communicate by opening up. The Infinite doesn’t need your words. It needs your frequency.

We should probably just give up and subject ourselves to the power of hate. How are we supposed to broadcast love while holding hate for those who seek to control our narrative. The people who seek control want one thing, to distort our frequency. Not because they care about us, but because a distorted population is easier to manipulate.

How do we fight back? The answer, we don’t. We become!

We maintain focus by tending to what matters. The Ripples. We don’t need to love the hateful. We don’t need to forgive the controlling. We don’t need to heal the destructive. You only need to not become them.

When I started on this healing journey in 1995 with the death of my mother, my intention was to heal myself. A healing journey that began with my mother’s death, expanded through decades of inquiry, and eventually crystallized into a triad of women each holding one essential pillar of the human experience. Finding ways to increase my understanding of Birth, Life, Death, and Love. I found a community of like minded people who were seekers, people in search of self-healing. My two best friends helped complete the ARC. Nichelle Whitehead is an OB/GYN who welcomes people to Earth (Birth) at Blossom Birth and Wellness. Valerie Revering pioneered Biomechanical Restructuring, understanding how our support structure functions (Life) and I explore the shared wisdom of those who have completed the journey (Death).

My healing journey was never about saving the world;  it was about making sense of it. Because In The Light, We are All Love