*Explaining Violence to Children*


B:  Good day.

Q:  Hi. I would like to observe something...

B:  By all means.

Q:  This is so fun.  I have an almost three-year-old son.

B:  All right. Three orbits old.

Q:  Very charming, wonderful child that I am crazy about, and I'm trying to
raise him in an atmosphere... I'm bothered by all the violence everywhere.
So in some ways I'm trying to shield him from it, and in other ways I know
that you can't shield somebody too much from violence because then it
increases it...

B:  Then teach him why it happens, so that he will be empowered by
understanding the mechanism of the reasons why violence on your planet
exists.

Q:  But doesn't it seem like three is too young? I mean, I put Bambi on,
which is an old... I don't know if you know about Bambi but...

B:  We understand.

Q:  ... I was horrified, it was like my favorite thing; and the mother gets
killed in the first ten minutes of the... and it seems he's too young to
have to deal with that... and I'm always turning these movies off. And it
is kind of irritating...

B:  All right, we understand in some context what you mean, but please also
understand the context in which we mean what we are about to say.

Q:  Okay.

B:  So pay attention with more than just your physical ears to the
following comment. All right?

Q:  Sure.

B:  Are you ready?

Q:  Yes.

B:  Are you sure?

Q:  No. No I'm kidding, yes.

B:  All right.

Q:  I'm listening.

B:  All right. There is no such thing as a three year old.

Q:  That's true.

B:  Do you understand the context in which we mean this?

Q:  Yes, absolutely.

B:  Then there must be some way if this subject has come up within you and
your relationship at this time... doesn't that mean that there must be some
way /your creative inspirational imagination can get the point across?/  

Q:  Right.

B:  Do you understand the reason for why violence exists on your planet?
Let's begin with your understanding, to see if you have the understanding
that can then be transferred to your child.

Q:  And you want to know what my understanding is?

B:  I do.

Q:  People working out... I mean so many... first of all...

B:  What is the basic fundamental reason? There is only one.

Q:  There is only one?

B:  Anything that you may be calling so many different reasons are simply
all the different styles and methodologies that are attached to express the
idea of the violence that may, on one level, seem to be the causative
reasons, but there is only ONE reason.

Q:  Well, then I would say it is because of an attachment to things that
they want, and unrealized desires coming out in...

B:  You are closer by saying unrealized desires, than the idea of
attachments, which is a side effect. The reason the violence exists is
because they have been taught that they are unworthy of love. That they
are, therefore, not loved, not connected to the love of the Infinite; thus,
they do not feel self-empowered. Thus, they seek to gain power in the only
way that they believe it is possible, through the idea of the domination of
the exterior reality, which is the only reality left to them, because the
inner reality has been made unreal. They do not understand how to express
the alignment of unconditional love, because they themselves feel unloved.
Do you follow?

Q:  Yes.

B:  Thus, use your creative imagination to get that point across in
whatever way, shape or form you believe is representative of your child's
particular methodologies of interests and strengths of communication. And
trust your insight and instinct and your intuition in this endeavor.  After
all, you are the child's parent, the child made the agreement with you,
knowing that you would be capable of doing the job.

Q:  All right.

B:  So trust that faith that the child has in you, and have that faith in
yourself and the inspiration will come.

Q:  Right.

B:  Does that make some sense to you?

Q:  Yes, a lot, I appreciate that.

B:  Why then, thank you, does that help you?

Q:  Yes, thank you.