Chain Emails

Chain emails seem to come in all shapes and sizes. Some are quite beautiful, sharing uplifting thoughts and momentarily sprinkling spiritual sparkles in our lives. Others are fun and funny, bringing a smile to our lips. We now take for granted the fact some of our friends are more inclined to send these “chain emails” through on a regular basis. The messages are welcome, but not for me “the insidious soul sneaker" endings. Beautiful emails are sent with positive sentiments and images and then the final line brings us down with a bang. The final line depletes our energy in a way that few correspondences (other than bills and legal letters) can do. “Pass this on to X number of friends and you will experience x number of rewards. Fail to pass this on and you will experience X amount of misfortune”. The words may not be exact but you get the gist and you know the type of emails that I am referring to.

These emails are only a continuum because someone has forwarded them and failed to delete the “warning at the end”. In other words, someone has not wanted to take a chance on “failing” to send them on. Why?

The reason, I believe, is that we have still not learnt to claim our own spiritual strength. We still hand over “ownership” of our soul to an outside entity. It doesn’t matter which God we worship, or what religion we do or do not follow. All roads lead to God. What I am talking about is the fact that there is a fine line between superstition and spirituality. Spirituality is no mealy-mouthed weak path. Again, no matter what our belief system, the spiritual path is one that demands strength, decisiveness, accountability and purpose. The moment that we succumb to superstition we weaken our own spiritual purpose.

This is why I call these types of emails “soul sneakers” Each time we succumb to the temptation to avoid a perceived wrath of the Gods we give away another little bit of our personal spiritual integrity. After all, we justify to ourselves – “what is the harm in forwarding it to X number of people”? The harm is that we are MORE likely to weaken our good fortune by forwarding any type of email than if we did not? As the current Eclipse cycle asks that we let go of some personal in order to benefit the whole, perhaps we could let go of the personal fear (no matter how slight or small) of incurring ill fortune. So courage mon brave – delete the emails OR if you think that the message is truly a gift then delete the end warning and send it freely, with love and blessings to whomever you want – as many of as few of your friends as you want. Then the message really gets across.