From:
Carter Kagume
To:
People In Prison
Dear people in prison,
Change is coming to the entire world and it's going to affect us all. Our internal qualities are going to change from the quality of selfishness to the quality of bestowal/love of others/altruism.
The Quality Of Selfishness
Currently, we're all immersed in the quality of selfishness, we seek to benefit ourselves with no regard for others. We seek personal profit and gain, even at the expense of others.
Selfishness leads to crime, hatred, revenge, corruption and other destructive behaviour that harms people, animals, the environment and society as a whole.
The quality of selfishness is a prison because a person becomes trapped in their selfish ways and they become separated from God and from others.
Selfish destructive behaviour causes fear, tension, stress and unhappiness in people and in society as a whole. Selfish behaviour has to stop.
The Quality of Bestowal
Our internal qualities have to change from selfishness to bestowal, we have to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves. We have to think of others instead of ourselves.
It's not just about making other people happy because there are many destructive things that make people 'happy'. It's about benefiting others - doing what's good for them.
The One True God, The Infinite God, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the only one who can change a person's internal qualities. Ask Him for help and He'll change you.
When our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, we'll become connected to God in quality because our internal qualities will become similar to God's quality.
Also, we'll become connected to each other in mutual concern and responsibility and we'll become genuinely concerned for each other's welfare and well-being.
This connection, with God and with each other, will bring us spiritual nourishment, fulfillment and pleasure, which will make us very happy.
The quality of bestowal is true freedom because it frees a person from the quality of selfishness. A person become free to connect with God and to connect with others.
We connect with others by seeking to benefit them, by taking care of them. When we take care of others, we free them, and when they take care of us, they free us. We free each other in mutual care and responsibility. This interconnection creates a sense of freedom.
Crime
Crime happens because of the quality of selfishness, because people seek personal profit and gain with no regard for others.
The quality of selfishness is a destructive force that has a negative impact on us, on others and on society as a whole.
Some people cause physical harm to others - murder, rape, assault, robbery, child abuse and neglect, family violence etc. This has to stop.
Some people cause harm to other people's property - burglary, theft/larceny, auto theft, arson etc. This has to stop.
Some people cause harm to themselves and to others - prostitution, illegal gambling, illicit drugs etc. This has to stop.
Some people exploit others - embezzling, insider trading, tax evasion, fraud, corruption, bribery etc. This has to stop.
Some people get involved in organized crime - mafia, thugs and gangs, drug cartels, money laundering, weapons smuggling, human trafficking etc. This has to stop.
We have to stop harming others. Instead, we have to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
We have to become genuinely concern for the welfare and well-being of others, and we have to take care of each other as one family, in mutual concern and responsibility.
Police
The police force, the criminal code, law enforcement etc. exist because of the quality of selfishness. These systems exist to protect us from one another because we harm each other.
If our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, the police force, the criminal code, law enforcement and prisons will disappear.
They'll become unnecessary because we won't harm each other. Rather, we'll seek to benefit each other and we'll take care of each other in mutual concern and responsibility.
Laws
Laws exist in all of nature and we're expected to comply with them. For example, if we don't respect the law of gravity, we're going to get hurt.
Everyone is obligated to comply with the laws of the land, it's a standard requirement expected of all citizens. Laws are necessary to organize communal life.
Even love has it's laws. The law of the quality of bestowal is: seek to benefit others instead of yourself. This law will replace all the laws that now exist because of the quality of selfishness.
Rights And Freedoms
Individual rights and freedoms are an illusion because we're all immersed in the quality of selfishness. The freedom to pick our poison isn't true freedom because we only move from one form of misery to another form of misery.
True freedom comes from being in the quality of bestowal, from connecting to God and to others. We become free from ourselves, free form the quality of selfishness.
Our true rights? We have the right to leave the quality of selfishness for the quality of bestowal and we have the right to benefit others in as many ways as possible.
Influence Of Our Social Environment
Our social environment has a big influence on us. If our social environment is selfish, it teaches us to be selfish. If our social environment is altruistic, it teaches us to be altruistic.
We should be aware of two things: first, the influence our social environment has on us, and second, the influence we have on our social environment.
We should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves and by doing so, we'll influence others to do the same. In this way we'll have a positive influence on others and on society as a whole.
Poverty
Poverty is often linked to crime - 'if you have nothing, you have nothing to lose'. However, criminal behaviour harms everyone, individuals, communities and society as a whole.
If our internal qualities change to bestowal, and we seek to benefit others instead of ourselves, poverty will disappear because we'll take care of each other in mutual responsibility.
By caring for each other, everyone around the world will live above the poverty line and everyone will enjoy a dignified standard of living.
Youth
Young people often engage in crime - due to peer pressure, negative influences, drugs and alcohol, out of boredom, to fit in, rebel, prove themselves etc.
We all have to change - children, youth and adults alike. Our internal qualities have to change from selfishness to bestowal.
Children learn from their parents. If adults seek to benefit others instead of themselves, they'll influence their children to do the same.
In this way, children and youth will become kind, caring and compassionate. They won't harm others, instead, they'll seek to benefit others in mutual concern and responsibility.
Drugs And Alcohol
Some people engage in criminal behaviour due to the influence of drugs and alcohol. They hurt themselves, others and society as a whole.
When our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, people will want to be sober because they'll want to be in the right frame of mind so as to benefit others.
We Are One Family
Communities that have been oppressed and/or have been made to feel that they don't belong, become fractured and they suffer from social challenges such as crime, drugs and alcohol.
No one should be in prison, but for comparison purposes, if purple people made up 30% of the total population, then you'd expect them to make up 30% of the prison population.
However, some communities are over-represented in prison:
In the USA, blacks are 12% of the total population and 40% of the prison population.
In South Africa, coloureds are 9% of the total population and 18 % of the prison population.
In Canada, Aboriginals are 2.5% of the total population and 20 % of the prison population.
In Australia, Aboriginals are 2.3% of the total population and 25% of the prison population.
These communities have been made to feel that they don't belong and the consequences are obvious.
When our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, we'll connect with each other in mutual concern and responsibility. Everyone will feel that they belong.
We'll become interconnected and interdependent, so everyone will feel included. Everyone will contribute and everyone will participate in building the new society.
In this way, we'll become connected as one family. We are all one family and we should start behaving like one family. We should treat each other with kindness, respect, compassion, tolerance, empathy and love.
Divine Intervention
Everyone has to take personal responsibility and accountability for their own actions, and there's no excuse for destructive behaviour that harms others. However, there's more.
We're all operated from above - everything that happens, happens for a reason. It's meant to be. Meaning, we're not responsible for our actions because we're operated from above.
Through divine intervention, God turns negative events into something positive. Crime and other negative actions tell a positive story of our internal qualities - how we'll change from selfishness to bestowal.
I'm not saying that we should engage in negative behaviour, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
I'm saying that God Himself will reveal The Truth and The Truth will set us all free.
Summary
Our internal qualities have to change from selfishness to bestowal, we have to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves. All selfish destructive behaviour has to end.
We have to stop harming others and we have to become genuinely concerned for each other's welfare and well-being.
In this way, we'll connect to God in quality and we'll connect to each other in mutual responsibility. Poverty will end, prisons will empty and law enforcement will disappear.
Life as we know it will change for the better and we'll become united as one family.
May The One True God, The Infinite God, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob guide you, may He lead you and may He show you the way. We'll succeed, but only together.
Know that you are loved.
God is with us and to Him we shall all return.
Carter
Copyright © 2013, Carter Kagume. All Rights Reserved.
