Innocents at risk: The hardest pictures to see?

Sometimes, browsing the photo wires yields unexpected connections between images. This morning, unfortunately, I was struck by a number of pictures showing children in difficult circumstances, danger or pain.

MaxPPP / Trias Philippe / EPA

French Police officers lead a group of rescued children from a school in Besancon, France, on Monday. A 17-year old male, armed with two swords, had taken hostage a number of children attending the nursery. The incident started at 9 a.m. and finished with the liberation of the children and their teacher, and the capture of the teenager.

Ajay Verma / Reuters

Five-month-old Roshni, child of the woman laborer at right, rests in a basket at a roadside construction site in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on Dec. 10. India's domestically driven economy grew 8.9 percent for the second straight quarter in the three months to end-September on higher consumption, with the government forecasting higher growth in the next two quarters.

Muhammed Muheisen / AP

Pakistani girls watch a man working at a brick factory while they collect the remains of the coal to be used for heating, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday

Peter Andrews / Reuters file

Medic Sergeant Tyrone Jordan from CCO., 1-214 AVN Dustoff, treats a child wounded in an explosion as his father comforts the boy during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province November 13, 2010. Reuters moved a number of pictures from this November story today.

These weren't the only such pictures on the wires in recent days. Phaedra Singelis just published one of Eman, a young schoolgirl injured in a bomb attack on a Pakistan school bus. An EPA photographer made a report in slums on the outskirts of Mumbai to illustrate some disturbing facts from there:

According to the state government's data, 3.5 per cent of Greater Mumbai's slum children under six die every year because of poor nutrition and increased risk of infections - a figure largely accepted by academics and social workers.

I figured these four were enough to publish here--maybe more than enough--but think it's worth a post to show and discuss one of the more difficult sets of subjects we come across and publish.

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The very young among us; have a Miracle Self identity within their form that, for a time, is not compromised by the adults of a prevailing Story Culture Way of Life. Whereas, the older generations learned to concede and accept as normal, their disconnect, and then plan the direction for their survival through a fog in the maze of misunderstandings, that once accepted, produce a void in understanding the real value and true purpose for themselves in being here, and about honoring all others in their lifetime as well.

Every society has its own Cultural Story to protect, and does so at great cost to the diversity of all life. The Story Culture of any society will make sure that --every member of that community carries forward the prescribed Story World Dream, and are socialized to defend this view as being greater than any other man made dream in their societies isolated Story Culture World Mandate.

On one hand society’s value and protect their children, and marvel at a child’s ability to be in their life and remember where they came from and the important Mission that they are here to do, that only that Being has the Miracle Based Abilities to accomplish. The elders know that they, somehow, lost this connection and now turn only to their prevailing Story Culture Pattern for sanctity in their daily experiences. Deliberately, they continue “the process of disconnection” in their home environment and educational systems, in direct defiance of Source Law --to do no harm. They intentionally countermand higher guidance, and opt for their Cultural Story's determination, conceding that it is for the good of their “Story World Record” in their struggle against what life has become. Doing so to assure that the same loss of Inner Intelligence will continue in the next generation --or their Story Culture Way of Life will end. Just so, the Cultural Story Characters in that Cultural Story Play do not want to deal with their own psychological fears about having themselves and their man-made beliefs that destroy life --measured and judged to be inadequate, and then experience the strife of punishment by other Cultural Story supporters, and then be rejected in their own lifetime.

When Story Characters in control, have what they invest in challenged and are forced to confront their fears about their Cultural Story never being valid in making life the Heaven they seek. Heaven being: The very best that all life can be. (This is not the Cultural Story definition of Heaven.) The Story Characters will respond with brutality in defense of their own Story Culture way to exist, and they blindly follow. They lost their Inner Intelligence Connection to the truth that they were born with. This knowing is now supplanted and suffuse with only their Story Culture World Views that they are socialized to accept in total, and defend in total. “The Story” requires so many scarce resources and so much sacrifice, pain and suffering to maintain, is always a lie about what is really going on in a community and in the worlds around them. Competition, infighting and corruption is accepted in their Story World as something that is perfectly okay --the way life always is, and can only be.

Moreover, the Story Characters concern themselves --not with how and why this separation from their Miracle Self identity and the Truth about life what they once knew, is now all about death in their society --mistakes and accidents, illness and disease, torture and maiming, scarcity, pain and suffering in all ways. Their concern now is about training others who are going to be sacrificed next in the feeding of their Cultures Story Image of themselves and their belief about what a successful --Story Culture way to live is all about. The aware may remember, a long time ago, that this was never part of the Source Master Plan for life that they knew when they were young, where each Being has everything they need, and where no one need be in competition for scarce resources.

The young of course, is where socialization and the desensitizing to the Source Master Plan for Life begins. Where the Miracle Intelligence that each is born with, and the Miracle Based Abilities that each is given to perform their own, very special Source Directed Mission in this lifetime, that only that specific Being can fulfill --is forefoot to the feeding and perdition within every Cultural Story. Living becomes a conflict, as there are so many missing pieces to the puzzle of life. So many generations were never allowed to be place their unique piece of the puzzle in their proper space in the picture of humankind’s --“Journey of Discover” about the beauty that life is designed to be. Because ‘that something”, that we all know exists is abandoned and lost. That something that is greater, more Interrogated, Comprehensive, Omnipresent and Omnipotent than what we understand ourselves to be on this jewel of a planet Earth. This is a very sad legacy representing Human Beings choice in going out into a world and making it Mankind’s --a man-made world on the surface, filled with friction and dysfunction.

This loss of the connection to the Source and the Source Master Plan for life, that is so valuable to the building of a sustainable, peaceful and love-based world --always starts with the young. This is why this photograph is hard to look at --the viewer is aware of what is happening to these children in their culture, and feel that they cannot do anything about it.

    Reply#1 - Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:55 PM EST

    Fully 90% of what is experienced in life is in the Spiritual Plane of Reality, the Soul of all life. Only 10% of what is perceived in any of our experiences is in our Physical Plane of Reality. Reconnect with your Miracle Self identity, the most precious of all resource. Cultural Story’s never end well. This is why the Story Characters lie so much about the real costs and effects of their Cultural Story exploits

      Reply#2 - Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:56 PM EST
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