Friday, December 5, 2008

Closure and Mental Self-Responsibility

Yesterday was 12/5/2008, a year after the deadly outburst of gunfire at the Westroads Von Maur store in Omaha. Interestingly, news reports--as I feared--are now mentioning "closure" in this anniversary of so much sensless death and injury.
Closure is a media catchphrase that does not correlate in any real way to reality as we know it. One cannot help but continue to be deeply impacted by this tragic series of events--if we are human beings, not humanoids.
The only sure way for any individual to personally overcome the monsters of the id that were unleashed that terrible day is the spiritual process. We learn mental self-responsibility through years of self-transformative work. Paradoxically, the process which leads an individual into the shining light of spiritual sanity is NOT encouraged by the local media--which is regrettable. Mental self-responsibility should be the #1 take away lesson from this terrible incident.

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