Somewhere around the time that Elon Musk decided to buy Twitter, I was curious to see how that would turn out. So I rejoined — for the umpteenth time. I had left it previously because there had been a climate of hatred, and it's never been something I'm comfortable with.

What is interesting is that I have since joined three social networks (I have already left two) and all three sites are infused with hatred passing to and fro. So I want to speak about the metaphysical or spiritual zeitgeist of hate, and how to get rid of it.

Hate starts with an angry individual whose anger is unresolved

There are many emotions that can trigger hatred — all of them negative. That is why it is important to deal with them before they poison one's mind, body, and the community. Emotions that lead to that darkness include jealousy, resentment, and anger. Interestingly enough, emotions like depression, fear, guilt, and some others, don't lead directly to hate — it's when the devolve into anger that the danger begins.

The point at which anger transforms into hate is the moment one first wants to harm someone else. It's easy to miss those signs. One backstabs someone because one is jealous. One spreads malicious gossip. One undermines someone at work. One cheats and deprives someone else of a prize that should have been theirs. These are all signals that one has stepped from anger to hatred.

Hate is also infectious — it spreads from one person to another

I am going to talk about the electrical body here. Yes, I know that my more objective friends are going to say, "What? Tessa! I thought you didn't believe in those things." I believe in all sorts of things — I just don't talk about them because until there is evidence that I am on the right path, it is only my opinion, and it is an opinion not backed by evidence. However, in this instance, while I won't talk about spirit and soul (what are those things, anyway), I'm going to say that science does admit that our bodies generate some sort of electricity.

Briefly, if someone spews hatred at you, your electrical body will receive it, and then, because it is feels uncomfortable, stressful, and ugly, we struggle to get rid of it. Sometimes, it can take days to discharge, and we have to let go the feeling of being abused by the person who spewed their hate towards us. It is not easy.

There's an easier path to get rid of it, though, but it has a high price. That means spewing it out to someone else. It rids our body of it immediately. The only thing is that hatred is now passed on to someone else, and they, in turn, are stuck with it.

If it is as simple as passing hatred from one person to another, and it can only affect one person at a time, why, you might ask, are the levels of hatred increasing at an all time high.

You see, once we open up the habit to passing off the hatred we receive to another, it becomes easier and easier to do. It also becomes easier to convert a mild frustration into resentment, then resentment into anger, and anger into hatred. To draw an analogy, imagine an overgrown bit of long grass in a field. You walk that way the first day, and you have to struggle through. The next day, you have laid a bit of a path, and it's easier going. By the end of the week, the path is quite clear, and you can march down that path at speed.

So, someone who has allowed a twinge of envy to grow into jealousy, and then the jealosy into resentment, and then the resentment into anger, will soon have developed that habit. It will seem like every pinprick is a barb, and every barb is a stab, and every stab is a mortal wound, and soon they will be engulfed in a storm of hate.

This is the dark side.

As we are all constantly exposed to pin pricks, it can be a quick road to the dark side if we are not inclined to letting things go. By the same token, letting things go also develops into a habit, and the more one is able to let the pin pricks go, the more resilient one becomes.

We live in terrible times

If we venture into any cyber space now, it won't be long before the cudgels of the dark side are arrowed at us. It's easy to feel as if one has been struck in the gut. That's because we have. That electrical field surrounding us received it loud and clear. We are infected, and how we deal with that infection will determine the path we walk in future.

Unfortunately, most people have not been taught how to deal with those arrows of evil, and so they struggle for a while, and then they, too, become that bows that hurl that arrows.

Undoing the path — it's not easy — a cure

The path back is far more difficult than the path we took to arrive in Palpatine's place. It involves a sort of ruthless honesty of who and what we are.

Me? I've always been one for the easy path. So I use tools to clean myself of any negative emotions. For three decades, I have sworn by the work of Dr. Lloyd Glauberman.

Glauberman's recordings directly access the earliest patterning of negative emotions, and then overwrites them with positive suggestions. It's very much the same technology as your harddrive. If you don't want something, you can delete it, but it's never truly gone until you save (overwrite) something on top of it.

It's also true that the more negative patterning you have, the longer the process takes. However, if you listen for half an hour each morning and half an hour each evening, then you should see results within three days (I did, anyway.) It took me six months

It took me six months of listening for three hours ever day to undo most of the trauma I went through — well, to make it manageable, anyway. After that, I used lucid dreaming techniques.

I am not going to tell you that it's an easy thing to undo the anger we carry within. It's not. That is why I always advocate what I know works. This is an act of love towards humanity. I want people to shed a burden they unknowingly took upon themselves. I do not believe for one moment that anyone knowingly decided to trip the roadway to hell.

For those not infected yet…

Some of us are borderline. We're entering into deep waters now. The world has become a maelstrom of stress, fear, anger, and resentment. So many are now blaming others for their own predicaments. When those arrows of anger reach us, as they are meant to, we feel attacked. Initially, we shrug it off, and, depending on how whole we are inside, we can let it go.

However, even the most well-adjusted human being will eventually succumb to the weapons of war. So how can we avoid becoming the thing that we know, intellectually, is not in our best interests?

We have to be aware of what is happening. When we are aware, we can deal better with it.

When someone hurls something hurtful at you, be instantly aware that your electrical field has accepted it. See it as the hardware it is. Then, with some discipline, focus on the person who sent it, see them for the infected person they are, and the venom inside the arrow dissipates. I have no idea why. The secret is to understand that the people who say these things are infected, and to some extent, they are no longer in charge of who they are.

If you feel inclined to insult them back, note that you are already walking on the dark side, and a little bit of discipline and reflection is not going to help. Also, understand that if you have reached the dark side, you took a wrong path. There is no condemnation in that. When we take the wrong turning, it is mostly because we do not understand our whole selves. Incredibly, despite many religions and gurus, there is little understanding (yet) of how, if we do not deal with our negative emotions quickly, they will spread.

How do we fix our world?

There are those who will tell you that there is a great spiritual/metaphysical battle going on. I don't believe that. I believe that we humans have not yet fully understood how our minds and more ethereal parts work. When we begin to do that, I feel sure, we can fix our world. I remain a humanist — someone who believes human beings can fix our human problems. I don't believe that there are any gods at work. I don't believe in karma and devils and hidden hells.

I believe we have simply not reached a working understanding of how we function as individuals and how we function as a species. I also believe that before we can fix the splinter in someone else's eye, it is important to remove the log in our own.

I wish you much progress in 2024. May your body-electricity be functional, fortifying, and fabulous. :)

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