In response to the recent Tradegy at Virginia Tech where 32 innocent young lives were taken at the hands of a mentally deranged student, I wish to share my views on what I believe to be the Deeper Meaning of this Tragedy - Why did this happen?  What is the Root Cause of this Act of Meaningless Violence, more importantly, what are the lessons?
First and foremost, I wish to take a moment to send out my deepest heartfelt prayers to all the victims, victims' families, students who were injured and those who witnessed this horror.  Their lives are forever scarred.  I pray for their HEALING.
As with all Tragedy, we ask the question WHY?
It is of utmost Urgency that we respond to this by looking at the Deeper Issues at Hand, realizing this is not an isolated incident and there are important Spiritual Lessons in this for this Country and Humankind.
Whenever we witness random acts of cruelty, we must realize that the answer lies in the problem.  The "cure" if you will to this act of violence is RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS.  On a deep Spiritual Level, We as a Nation and as Humans must become more compassionate, mindful, thoughtful of our fellow Human.  Do unto others as you would have them do onto you.
We must become more sensitive and aware of those around us and realize we are all connected - "my brothers' pain and sorrow is trully my pain and sorrow."  In the Spirit World, KINDNESS AND LOVE IS THE CURE FOR VIOLENCE AND HATRED.
We learn that the killer was a mentally deranged student with severe violent tendencies and had a history of setting his dorm room on fire, stalking girls on campus, writing essays and stories that were recognized as disturbingly violent and sick, to the point that his professors referred him for counselling.  We learned that his piers recognized he had issues and even commented "One day he's going to get a gun a shoot somebody."  He was a loner, clearly depressed.  Nobody responded appropriately.  It was a timebomb waiting to explode.  We as a society must open our eyes and hearts and see that this is OUR PROBLEM.  We must care for our mentally ill, our sick, our neglected, our homeless, our hungry.  We cannot put a fence around our home and say "it's their problem."  No, we must take social responsibility for those who clearly are not functioning, with no blame, no feeling of burden, realizing that it is all of our problem.  In many cultures around the globe, it is unheard of to ignore your neighbor.  If one is without, the village will cometogether and help that person.  If a person is not well or acting inappropriately, the village comes together to find a solution.  They do not shut their door, turn a blind eye.  NO.  They realize that we are all connected and my brothers' pain is my pain.  In one remote African Village, if a young boy commits a crime such as theivery or worse, the village will come together in a circle and put the boy inside the center of the circle.  Then the Village will sing the boy his "birthday song" (each child is given a song for his special soul coming into the world on his day of birth.)  The philosophy is that they wish to remind this boy, this soul of who they really are.   They do not punish, they HEAL.
There are other lessons in this tradegy no doubt.  We must recognize as a nation that as long as we allow the TV, Internet and Media to Pour out messages that tell our youth "Violence is Heroic" by portraying this by making villains heros, and as long as we pour out Violence as a form of entertainment to our youth....we will continue to see our Youth acting out these very role models.  The Subconscious Mind of the Society is trully being Poisoned by these Violent, Inappropriate Messages and Lack of Positive Spiritual Role Models.  We see this everyday with young children playing violent video games and immeadiately acting out this behavior.  We must take RESPONSIBILITY for the FUTURE GENERATIONS AND STOP allowing our Children to be fed these violent images.  We as a nation use violence as a form of entertainment and until we change that fact, we must take responsibility for the result.  I realize this is not an easy task, but recognition is the first step to healing.  If eachone becomes more mindful of their role, their choices, the effects are quite powerful.
Lastly, many claim "guns dont kill people", "people kill people."  I beg to differ.  The ease at which our youth or for that matter anyone can buy a gun in this society is mind boggling.  The film documentary "Bowling for Columbine" which addresses the need for gun control in our society is a wonderful, intelligent and honest look at this issue from the tragic incident at Columine where students were massacred in their own school building (a precursor to this recent tragedy unfortunately.)  We see bored, youth (with no parental guidance or positive role models) watching violent TV and films and this is their "role model" and only guidance.  These same youth go buy guns and plan these horrific crimes for lack of a better way to express themselves.  It is simple, WE MUST FIGHT FOR GUN CONTROL LAWS.  The evidence speaks for itself.  We also see many, many tragic accidents as a result of a loaded gun being in the home and chlildren find them and accidently get killed or kill someone else.  Or, students bringing their fathers gun to school and killing other students.
Lastly and the most important point, WE MUST PUT OUR CHILDREN FIRST AS A SOCIETY or there will not be a society.  We must think about our future generations well being, we must take steps to give the children what they rightly deserve, a future.  We Must make Wise, Thoughtful Spiritually Sound Decisions and Choices that will allow for future generations to survive
This includes being mindful of what the Media Promotes through TV, Internet, the Press and not be motivated by pure greed and egotistical self fulfilment.  My actions and choices today are the future.
The Selfless Acts of Kindness and Thoughtfulness we choose today will be our  Future - Our Children, which are our true WEALTH as a Nation.
Peace unto all of you and I invite all your comments, questions and thoughts.
Warm Wishes,
Mystic9