“What Have I Learned in 6,000 Years of Memories?”
by Kelvin H. Chin
Life After Life Expert
I have learned that humanity on Earth is a fear-based culture. And that as we are experiencing now, some people among us have learned how to manipulate that fear, those insecurities, and to use hatred of others as a cudgel to mold cultures and societies to be even more fear based, and therefore moldable into their own image of what they want the world to look like.
They tend to prey on the fearful and those who are content to “look the other way” or make excuses for the cruel behavior. I have learned there is no excuse for cruelty.
And I have learned the hard way that Free Will is a universal principle which means that we cannot really control the thinking of others by making them change their belief systems, even though we might appear to control their behavior temporarily through force. I say the “hard way” because in my past, I have tried to change the world by changing beliefs through persuasion or by force. Which never works in the long term.
I have also learned that life does not always go in a straight line. Not in one lifetime of 100 years and not in 6,000 years. And so I have no illusions about humanity presently being in the process of some so-called “Renaissance.”
No. We are in the process of seeing how cruelty and selfishness can be wielded as tools mixed with their often-linked compatriot “fear” to shape a society that benefits the few, the powerful. Materially powerful. But spiritually vacant.
Which is why I choose to focus on reducing fear and increasing awareness and understanding about key concepts that can help change our lives. And in the long run may educate and persuade the cruel that it is not in their self-interest to be cruel.
In my past, I have taken different approaches. Sometimes going to war against those whom I saw as threats to my nation’s stability and prosperity. And sometimes I won the battles and sometimes I lost. I have personally experienced and been the target of a well-planned mass extinction of a culture in the 1800s here in North America.
So all of this has taught me that our culture of humanity is fragile. That most of us are still living out of fear. In a survival of the fittest mentality. Falsely believing that only the most physically powerful and mentally manipulative should survive. Still not realizing that by lifting up, supporting and incentivizing the weakest among us, we lift all of us and together make us stronger.
Until we learn that interest-based thinking is the way to physical and spiritual prosperity, instead of “win-lose” distributive thinking, we will continue this pattern of using fear to manipulate others for our own personal gain. And we will continue to fail to meet our potential as a species.
I have hope that we can change our course. Which is why I now teach the way I teach. Overcoming fears, reducing our anxieties and increasing our conceptual understanding and ability to discern. So that our exercise of Free Will eventually becomes a benefit not only to our individual self-interests but also to our collective interests as well.
Kelvin H. Chin is a Meditation Teacher, Life After Life Expert, and Author of “Overcoming the Fear of Death,” “Marcus Aurelius Updated: 21st Century Meditations On Living Life” and “After the Afterlife: Memories of My Past Lives.” He learned to meditate at age 19, and has been teaching Turning Within Meditation and coaching others in their self-growth for 50 years. He helps people understand their life challenges through their individual belief systems, and helps them find their own solutions. His past life memories reach back many centuries, and he accesses those memories in his teaching and his coaching in the same way all coaches draw on their own available experiences for perspective and effective analogies. He can be reached at www.TurningWithin.org.