Symbols Gone Good

Finally, residing in a country where the “Swastika” is a benevolent symbol as intended.  I say this with relief, fingering the silver swastika that hangs around my neck, as a result of having lived in Germany for eleven years, where the symbol used for “black magic” purposes under Hitler’s rule could not shake its malign meaning.  I did a bit of reading on the Third Reich’s “Swastika”, WWII and the Holocaust, fascinated by the symbol and found that it’s presently against the law to use the Swastika or the word “Nazi” in Germany. Strange, by creating a law against it,  it still gives it a dark power it doesn’t deserve.  In my dream I’m running up and down a Berlin street screaming nazi nazi nazi to exhaust it’s meaning and envision correctly colored Swastikas placed upright plastered throughout Germany dispeling the lingering negative effects of a symbol gone bad.

Isn’t a logical approach to the healing of the Swastika’s misuse by introducing it into German culture as it was intended?  Symbols are powerful, and only so because of the thought intention behind it. 

In Reiki, symbols are used energetically to invoke healing and can only be introduced by a Master to a student before it’s used for healing.  Reiki is a universal energetic force available to all, some more than others depending on sensitivity, intention and attention.  The symbols are treated with the utmost care and respect with a spiritual oath that they be used only for the highest good, as their power is evident and has been so for centuries.

Here in Korea, the Swastika is often seen as a Buddhist symbol..and I’m relieved..and somehow feel that it’s all connected somehow…my life, its path and connection to my own past lives.  Traveling the globe feels like a journey into previous lives, places I’ve lived before, taking me back to my roots, further and further, until one day, I reach home…

I’ve  always felt deeply connected to countries I’ve travelled to, as if I am Korean, German, Japanese, American, Italian, British, French, Spanish, etc.  It’s a bondedness, a feeling at a soul level.  The connectedness can feel warm, knowing, familial, dangerous, sad, persecuted and always, always love…

~ by svetsky on November 17, 2007.