Hi Megha - wow, what you describe with the situation in India sounds like being in a War Zone. I'm sure everyone in the community is sending their heartfelt support

I would say it's a reflective and useful analogy - being in a War Zone. Speaking from experience, a few key things tend to happen in people as they enter a war zone: 1) Some freeze and become zombie like, unable to function or manage what happens to them; 2) others panic and flap and become uncontrollable; 3) there's a quiet few who actually come alive within them. For the last group I believe this happens because you see the precariousness of life, the close proximity of death, and that you're so close to the edge, it's as if you could already be dead. So... what's the point of worrying? It becomes immensely liberating. Plus reality bends and breaks down - the old constructs you held within you, and your rigidity to the construct, start to break apart - they don't hold you any longer. Now the normal rules of reality no longer apply. You look out into the landscape around you and see the inverse reflection of yourself - where everyone is either in fear or zombie mode, it actually has the reverse effect on you - it brings you alive. It can make you ecstatically free.

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