Today a friend and I went to the movie, Wicked. Wow! What an experience it was! I could talk at length about the costumes, the special effects, the acting, the singing — it was all fabulous. But I want to focus on the animals. In this tale, staged in Munchkinland, Shiz University, and Oz, the animals can speak. Not only that, they are learned teachers and everyone lives together as equals. And then someone wants to promote an agenda, hence the animals become victims of someone else’s power-hungry desires. Many analogies can be made throughout this exciting and delightful story, and I’m sure the internet can put a number of these at your fingertips. In the scenario with the animals and the selfish humans, the metaphorical meaning is fairly blatant: Our voices are being taken away by the rich and powerful. The key to stopping this process is knowing that we can! May we use our voice at every opportunity, because being silent is how we lose it. If we stop speaking up, we end up in cages, speechless and afraid. As Nancy Reagan told us, “Just say NO!”
“Everyone experiences fear. Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs. Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it.There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.
A Course in Miracles T-2.VI.9:1-14
“God is the Life, or intelligence, which forms and preserves the individuality and identity of animals as well as of men.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 550:5-7
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