The Compassionate World

THE

COMPASSIONATE

WORLD

By

KARL GARY

© 2015 Kary Gary. All rights reserved

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The book is dedicated to my wife who believes the universe

was created for chocolate.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Bobby’s Story

Dark Justice

Light Justice

Seeing Clearly

Humans Helping Human

Transforming Governments

Disarming Religion

New Worlds

The Handbook Back to Reality

Epilogue

From Fray to Fray — a poem

The strongest argument any human can make is the compassionate one. No one can fight the view without looking terribly wrong. The wrong vision adds weight to the compassionate goal since the opposite outcomes are exceedingly unpleasant.

The most important aspect to compassion, we must begin the move to a free world because money is so destructive. To reclaim our original free world, the money illusion must stop filtering to the greedy needs and transforms to address the compassionate needs.

Capitalism left in the disposable form of selling Earth, will continue to prevent this adjustment through its divisional process. Only, a compassion agenda can properly avert the ugly environments we are creating through fictional money.

The human species will never expand its consciousness while living inside the compression of money, nor will we happily survive.

— Our Family of Light

PREFACE

My mind has mastered many physical endeavors to appear successful and worthy. I can fly a motocross bike over triples, have played golf under par, I play a mean game of chess and many musical instruments. All these activities were enhanced through meditation. But then, one day, they became meaningless. During meditation I accidently bumped up against my human Soul and experienced the greatest of all fears — the fear of death. It is quite scary to find a Light energy source within yourself that expresses most of your endeavors have been pointless. I am now trying to master this fear and learned some interesting things along the way. What I have learned, there is absolutely nothing special about me, but there is something very special about my future self. Something that is in all of us and will replace the unintelligent contraptions we have adopted under the artificial wisdom of the human mind.

Accessing the deeper layers of your human nature does not instantly transpose, heal, or restores the mind to the Soul level of consciousness — it does not work this way. Freewill of the personality is a strong force, with multidimensional layers of time. The inner human voice of intelligence, can only persuade the individual pieces of a personality to consciously transform through the physical activities that contain Light Principles. We all possess this voice and its nature is our entire Family of Light.

Gaining access to the inner workings of our human species, does not make one an instant God or healer. The process only offers the thoughts and ideas that allow one to begin their own healing. This is the standard principle of the Light universe and how it mixes with darkness, but cannot overtake darkness. The deeper portions of our human Souls cannot overtake our dark minds; the inner energy merely relays what is real, and then organizes the perceptions that we individually must learn to dissolve the illusions that we all participate with. The perceptions that we individually must learn, happen to be the same lessons that our human species must learn.

There is also a new occurrence to this process. I have met a human who does not meditate, and who does not believe in the exact inner nature described in the book, and yet, is offering virtually the same information that our human species requires for advancement. What this means is that our inner realm is beginning to voice the solutions and it really does not matter how the human mind interrupts the inner signals of higher intelligence. The inner intelligence is so clear that it may filter up through any system of thought that is open to change. The process is migrating to more of an innate nature, straight from the heart of humans.

The Compassionate World as a book clearly details how Earth, the human species, and the universe are communicating. It is an automatic system of communication that one will find completely logical because we live in an intelligent universe. Our human minds are still young and immature and we miss the deeper significance of every thing that occurs on Earth. Understanding the messages, directly states our current mentality cannot transform Earth and the book reveals many options to change human thought so we may alter our world. My inner Soul has taught me Light Principles and how to embed them into our social structures and create a new fabric for society. The future is already created and humans simply need to move past our childish nature to build it.

My biggest regret in a universe filled with dynamic possibilities is that I didn’t follow my childhood plan of higher education in science. Sometimes families go in different directions that create altered paths for everyone involved. Always with A’s in math, I loved the approach of calculus in the last years of high school, but rebellion emerged and the lessons of youth went unused and passed away. I definitely could have used a sharper scientific mind to better explain some of the very advanced concepts.

The book is based on the principle of turning God into the correct definition of Light. The Light realm consists of eternal compassion and will lead to The Compassionate World. I hope one enjoys the explanation of how and why the mixture of Light and Dark is important. There is much to learn. The introduction moves right into the basic concepts and language that the chapters will expand on.

I feel honored that new technology allows me to express words without the bureaucracy of the publishing industry. Accessing the inner nature can be an uncomfortable feeling when the family’s voice expresses honesty. My writing format purposely gave that voice the human teeth it needed. Commercial marketing would have pulled some teeth and it is important to present our grinding ways alongside our warm loving hands. That is genuinely how a human grows higher awareness, by facing their personal ugly truths with honesty. Our nation and the world must do the same. The use of defining and reversing the negatives, beautifully express compassion and I hope many will pass the words along.

A heart warming thank you to my friend Ryan Twomey-Allaire who made the book possible and to my parents for raising a compassionate kid. May our journey begin?

"If every 8-year-old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation."

— Dalai Lama

INTRODUCTION

We are the human species. But what does that mean? For 200,000 years, we have looked up at the moon and wondered why we are here and who made us. What stories we have invented around the campfire! Do we actually include a more important purpose than waiting around for God to save us? If that is true, then we must re-ask how and why we were created. Well, I asked these questions and Light confirms our answers have been utterly wrong because we contain delusional minds. There is a universal force at work that will fix this problem. That force is the universe itself. And humans are the deciding factor in more ways than we can imagine. Most of our efforts are completely invisible to us. This is the purpose of the book, to explain the invisible how and why, that confirms Human Energy as the most important dynamic in our corner of the universe. The universe is very proud of our achievements and we are just getting started.

Everything we see, touch, and experience, is a mixture of two living membranes — a Dark Membrane and a Light Membrane. They are fully integrated as a negative energy field and a positive energy field that transforms material to the needs of human life. The two membranes form an advance structure of physics that gave birth to the human species, then to the human soul, and now every human participates with Light. The altered dimension(s) is something I call a Light Structure. While I am not an earth-trained scientist, I offer a Light source that can detail the basics of this science from the spiritual existence it truly is. The Human Experience is our inner science and the significant variable has already occurred, human thought finally emerged from the sacred doctrine age.

New teachings from organizations and advanced Souls such as Gary Zukav’s book The Seat of the Soul, Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Shanti Christo Foundation, and the Foundation for Inner Peace with A Course in Miracles, are manifesting a thought evolution away from the concept of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth toward new realms genuinely embracing higher states of compassion. Some of the latest teaching intentionally contain Light language next to our sacred biblical terms and ease the linear idea of God into the more abstract paradigm of Light.

The progression of science to the standard of constantly reworking judgment directly implies that human thought patterns are linked to technology. Human evolution to abstract thought that can navigate mind-boggling complexity is the greatest advancement of extrasensory reasoning. The abstracts offered by scientists have expanded into the normal everyday mind through the wonders of the information age. How else can we explain human multitudes knowing what an atom is, and the many particles becoming common knowledge?

Science is improving the flexibility of numerous thought structures across the globe. Our mental processes are becoming extra scientific, abstract and elastic. With increased objectivity there is less judgment and advances the mind to free and open thought. Now the human standard is to believe the wider magnification of intellect and most joyously embrace that Earth is not the center of the spin, but a speck of dust in a Goliath rotation. Science has made it clear; everything we see and touch is highly relative via telescopes and the electron microscope.

For the first time in human history, a Soul who divides Light into physical Earth awakens in an environment filled with science. The mind of today can soak in all the new thoughts that did not exist in any generation. Conceptions that were black and white, God and Satan, heaven and hell, are now fading shades of gray waiting to be replaced by higher awareness and the clarity found only in Light. Flexible thought enhances the mind’s ability to hear the signals from our heart, our Soul, our higher being. Science is our Soul and we will become more spiritual as every advancement is another step toward new ideas that really are not new at all.

The advanced thought structure optimizes a profound and deep-seated obligation taught two thousand years ago in the Christ concept, judge not . . . The lesson is compassion energy and intelligent enough to liberate incredible transformations by taking our ancient mental processes out of play. The lesson simply states, in an expanded version from A Course in Miracles, that our minds are incapable of judging anyone, any place, any time or any thing — we are to judge nothing; much like modern science where there is no final discernment to complex issues, but rather more exploration into what works and what does not.

What does not work is the divisive nature of the Dark Membrane. Have you ever wondered why the human mind can suffer such horrendous nightmares while sleeping? The nightmares come from the universe as a living membrane. Our minds are naturally full of fantasy and delusions because we are born inside the Dark Membrane. To be more precise, the Dark Membrane is our physical universe and a gigantic illusion; therefore, we experience illusions of many types. Beautiful dreams and ugly nightmares are one type and the waking self is another.

To borrow a powerful truth from A Course in Miracles — our minds are completely insane and have created a replacement version of compassion and reality, which is not compassion or reality at all. Since the physical mind is a product of the universe and contains a pair eyes and narrow sight as an integral piece of its worldly existence, the mind becomes a reflection of the world and what it has been taught. Consequently, every incorrect teaching of compassion we memorize and practice, renders our minds full of perception errors — errors that have been collectively created, passed down from generation to generation, as an intact recycling of thought that are centuries old and oppressively outdated. To break the patterns of obsolete thought, we must surrender all forms of judgment by affirming most of mental decision is nothing more than insane thought. This mirrors science releasing the crazy notion that the sun revolved around Earth. A major judgment was released.

Since division will not toil correctly then what will work? To answer this question we must ask: have you ever wondered where compassion comes from? Behind the veneer of human is an advance species of Light. Light fully attached to our organism and created the Human Soul. The Human Soul was literally dragged into a real and permanent home inside Light’s Membrane. Since the Light Membrane is a universe of compassion, this produced a Human Light wave of compassionate energy. This is the essence of the Human Experience. We are a multilayered awareness inside a Dark universe with a core of Light universe as our center. The Light Membrane extends compassion infinitely in all directions and this creates a wonderful existence inside the Human Soul. This is where compassion comes from.

Light expresses in very simple terms that all humans now come from the same home — a home of Light. Light made humans one unit in its membrane. What the Dark universe divides to insanity, the Light universe reverses the process by bonding through compassion and unity, and thus we are one. What we believe to be separated experiences on Earth are actually shared experiences in the human frequency range of Light. What happens to one of us, happens to all of us, and this includes our time on Earth.

On Earth, this occurs as an unconscious expression but further inward at the Soul level, every individual is connected to one human experience. Inside the Light Membrane, the human experience is like an ocean of water with many levels of depth and it is impossible to separate. Only on Earth are we separated. So it becomes accurate to say that an individual’s negative action drags us all down, while a positive action elevates everyone up. This is perfectly portrayed in the Christ lesson what you do unto others, you do unto to me. We are a single Family of Light.

Earth’s primary function is a transformation center of consciousness with many hidden platforms. The one we physically live is Gary Zukav’s version as an Earth School constructed with and from compassion. His version is entirely accurate and my goal is to clearly define the actual mechanism of the construct and how it was built.

The primary fundamental, Earth’s assembly is the major component that allows compassion to enter the Dark Membrane. Earth and Human Souls are gateways of a Light Structure that connects the Light and Dark membranes. Though the universe is cold and heartless, its inherent nature, humans make the choice to perceive the universe as compassionate. This defines how we bring compassion into Earth. A full state of compassion does not happen on its own accord anywhere inside the Dark universe. Compassion is currently the slimmer choice inspired by the inner workings of our Soul that pass to the human mind. Humans are one system of a structure that transfers compassion into the compassionless membrane. The Light Structure becomes more effective when it directly inspires human choice. In our corner of the galaxy, humans are the most prized invention because we influence the dark surroundings.

Every occurrence in Earth School is an opportunity to master the higher vibrations of Authentic Compassion and Forgiveness. In fact, this is the ultimate goal and why we are here — to transfer real compassion deep within the human Soul, the wisdom outside the mental process, into all circumstances of life. Life is a curvature of walking and talking, incessantly providing us opportunities to apply Light wisdom and eliminate the effects of our minds. When life is done correctly, it releases Authentic energy: bumping into humans becomes helping humans as a new social fabric.

I will fully detail the true nature of Authentic Compassion and her cousin, Authentic Forgiveness. How they are produced and operate is remarkably unique. It is extremely important for human civilization to understand what Authentic Compassion is, if we are to heal our conditions.

When society applies our fake versions of compassion and forgiveness, this does not heal the human experience. It does not heal you or the other Souls. The entire range of human frequency does not move and the fuller humanitarian reflection to Earth remains dormant. The world lingers unhealed and prevalent with negative energy that is not of our true nature. No matter what you currently believe, or have rationalized through standard education, any personal lack of forgiveness is the most serious infraction in the universe. The highly toxic energy of fake forgiveness has been utterly devastating to the advancement of our species. And much of the devastation is written into law.

The new education is crystal clear about what is real and what is not real. Since the Soul only knows compassion and is entirely made of unconditional love — passive, loving creatures did Light make — the negative thoughts from Earth are thoroughly foreign to the Soul, thus unreal to the Soul. This also indicates the human rules we have created are only real to us, but not real to the Soul. So when we follow the rules — as an example: a judicial structure — those rules were organized by our physical minds and serve no purpose to the Soul.

The hideous acts performed on Earth by the delusional mental process are simply the mistakes of another membrane. Hypothetically, if the Soul were able to judge as a human, it would deem ghastly acts created inside the Earth illusion unnecessary and unworthy of judgment. What is the purpose of judging something that is not real? The human Soul is designed to teach lower awareness the value of compassionate Light so that it may leave darkness and become Light. Judgment would be an opposite lecture and certainly derails compassion. Our inner nature is a wise system incapable of judgment and division that would cause chaos to our Light Family. We certainly do not want the Light Membrane acting like the Dark Membrane, or disorder would be twofold.

The Soul’s judicial system is instant and complete forgiveness, reflexes that are instinctive and automatic with no involvement of thought. The inborn nature is the fabric of Light and gives life to a Soul. The human Soul cannot change its nature. This is the unchangeable essence of Authentic Forgiveness. Our true nature is a complete lack of judgment because the Light fabric is empty of judgment. This is also the essence of Authentic Compassion.

The new thought structure divides the Mind from the Heart, or the Personality from the Soul. The new and advanced mind is an abolition of all negative personality traits that follow the emotions of anger, greed, jealousy, revenge, guilt and even sorrow. The heart is the gateway for the Soul, and operates not with thought but from intuition and is felt.

We have all felt and done this. When we see a homeless person, there are times the mind forgets to judge him/her unworthy and the heart instantly pulls for the individual. This creates a nonjudgmental environment where one can perform a compassionate transfer in the form of a good deed. My wife and I do this all the time. We cannot walk by a homeless person without offering some sort of help. We will buy a sandwich or offer the snacks we keep in the car just for these occasions. This is the Earth School principle hard at work helping to heal the human experience. And I thoroughly admit my personal efforts are short of complete compassion. A big whoop, I offer snacks. My intentions are changing and the book proposes a movement that I am willing to engage that addresses all compassionate issues. I hope you will join the process.

The highest knowledge our species can attain is the education of enlightenment. To lead with the heart and caress a blank mind that follows is not an easy trick. It is the toughest and most demanding course to improve one’s mind. It requires majestic levels of mental diligence to watch over every thought, and sincere assessments of reflection to rearrange incorrect perceptions; all accomplished with a genuine face the facts under complete honesty. Mastering the mind to overcome negative personality traits and replace all thought with the empathetic emotions of compassion, acceptance, forgiveness, peace, joy and harmony — signals from the Soul superior in all of us — is aching to become the priority of education.

For centuries, we have taken the easy way out by relying on religion, God, hell, or the judgment day scenario to deliver final prosecution to human evils. It is a giant educational leap to the real universe that never demands punishment and is always compassionate in life and death. Clearing the hurdle also states that we are not controlled by a higher deity and are soley responsible for all we create. Our feet finally land on correct ground, amid lessons boldly declaring that we create the world, we create our environments, we create our realties, we create ourselves, and we create each other through every aspect of civilization. The lesson continues into the afterlife and will detail how humans even get to create heaven. This is the true definition of freewill.

If you listen very closely, the voice behind the door whispers one dominant fact: Our social institutions must be dismantled because they do not help us — they wreck us. It is very accurate to say: the manner in which civilization is structured prevents us from attaining higher consciousness. The dominant deterrent; capitalism creates liars and then we believe our lies. We battle the daily stress of these structures, the tension, and the strain, as if negativity was hand-woven into society to externalize the survival instincts of man. Our worries of food and sex have fused with additional worries of how to get to work, how to pay the rent, college for the kids, and care for the older self with dignity. Our combined intelligence is on the verge of constructing a new world thanks to an ecstatic epiphany: a human struggling along is absolutely unnecessary with so much technology and creative ideas at our disposal.

As we live inside the membrane of matter, the universe brims with compassion and heaven is all around us. Humans are evolving a mental structure that complements the invisible consciousness seeking to extend its wisdom of Heaven as a new physical reality — a reality that is the inner essence of every human. And the reason we do not see Heaven on Earth, is purely related to the cerebral structures we have built, blinding us from the peaceful reality that exists right where we stand. To reveal The Compassionate World, we only need to dismantle the thought structures that create our fake environments. Within this outlook, Heaven does not become a place to die to, but rather a place to be unveiled. Heaven is one membrane away and always close at hand.

Unfortunately, modern education lacks Authentic Wisdom and does not teach compassion and forgiveness that can build heaven. Our educations teach survival. And survival teachings are not the lessons of the future. The lessons of the future require years of meditation toward a complete dismantling of thought. The mental configuration obtained from the conversations with the human Soul, allows for the refinement of intuition that bring deeper levels of reflection into a normal state of consciousness. All humans must learn this form of communication and by realigning our social structures, we can teach the maturity innately.

Current diplomas imply one has learned a topic thoroughly. The human Soul expresses this is impossible because the information is based inside a false platform. Ph.D.’s understand maybe 10% of the highest intelligence available and most exist within a delusion that they are close to a complete understanding. The remaining 90% has yet to come in all fields of study. Most of modern education falls short of the true intelligence in the Light energy I will write about.

I am a humble artist who has let his mind drift into many ways of perceiving reality and now a gate is open to clearly see what is real and what is not. It is a loud and clear signal free of the material that surrounds us. Like the music I love, the words are loose and free flowing. The Soul of me who loves the spontaneity of blues notes has applied the augmented principle in music to the writing of this book. And the most important note I play comes from our history in the eye for an eye doctrine.

This outdated creed has been the judicial rationalization that regulates the cruelty we inflict upon those we deem to have done wrong. The unenlightened mental processes that define what is right and what is wrong, are strongly embedded in contemporary law, enforced by taxes and practitioners, and similar in cultures worldwide, each believing they have found judicial wisdom. The eye for an eye mildew of justice impacts our governments, corporations, education, and generates environments of revenge and attack. Nonetheless, our saving grace resides in the fact that everything in this world is mere perception, and they can be changed, if we could only get our minds out of the way.

I quote from two minds that enjoyed entirely different lifestyles and their oneness says the same thing:

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power,

the world will know peace."

— Jimi Hendrix

(rephrase of a William E. Gladstone concept)

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest — kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

— Albert Einstein

BOBBY’S STORY

Bobby was born in Compton, California. His mother loved him very much and made sure to take good care of him in the womb. She did not take drugs, ate right, and tended to her and Bobby’s every need. Bobby’s mind was born a clean slate just ready to absorb the world and all the great things it has to offer.

Bobby’s father was not so nice. From an early age, the resentful man was extremely cruel and abusive to the boy. As a former drug dealer and gang member, most of his life was spent in and out of prison. This left him with little self-worth and a willingness to show mindless aggression toward others. Bobby’s father suffered deeply from the pain of poverty and used alcohol and drugs to mask his distress. The loving portion of his mind was not strong enough to keep him from the destructive energy of hitting, shoving, kicking, and verbally abusing Bobby.

During summer vacation, he knew he could get away with putting cigarettes out on Bobby’s stomach. During the school year, Bobby’s mother, reluctantly trapped in her own world of not being able to break free from her abusive mate, covered up Bobby’s cuts and bruises well enough that when Bobby went to school, these issues went unnoticed. Through 6th grade, Bobby hung in there the best he could and did rather well at getting good grades; he had a bright mind proven by his natural ability to excel in math.

By 7th grade, things started to change a bit, not a lot, but just enough to see things differently. He started to realize how poor the neighborhood was and how people were treating each other, much like his father was treating him. He never saw this before because he was preoccupied with his father’s anger and what he would do next.

Bobby always contained a great fear of his environment, but one day, while walking to school, he could see there were other kids in a similar predicament. Perhaps the bruises were in different places or they wore their scars inside, but the pain was familiar. This made Bobby feel better about himself and rather normal. Yeah, it’s not so bad, he thought, and he lost some fear of the environment. It felt more like a home instead of the scary place it had been.

He really did not understand how poor his neighborhood was, yet knew enough out of sheer instinct that he needed stronger friends to help protect him. He started hanging with a new group, who, for the most part, had a lot in common with Bobby. They were really nice kids, but it was better to push your weight around as a group so the older kids would back off a bit, and this was definitely easier in numbers. The comradery grew, making close allies from a loyalty that was supplemented by the innocence of youth. He found friends he could trust and would have his back in tough times. Bobby grew to trust his friends more than he could trust his father.

By the time Bobby and his friends reached 9th grade, they were smoking pot, drinking alcohol, which they could steal from a grocery store, and banged around parties. School was a place to hang out, brag, talk trash, and skate by, doing little as possible. The boys became a little more defiant every day; it was easy to do with so many classrooms verging on unruly. They would get into trouble for small stuff, writing on lockers, cutting class, and occasionally talking back to teachers, but nothing too serious.

At home, Bobby played it very straight because of Mom. Mom was always on him about homework, school, and his friends. She did not like a couple of them but was okay with his best friend Marcus.

Mom did the best she could, working hard at a low paying job, just to put food on the table and make the rent. She stopped taking money from Bobby’s father last year when she started cleaning for a local motel, but she was still having a rough time getting rid of the guy. The way he saw it, He’s my son and I’ll visit him anytime I want.

With the little time Mom had left for Bobby in her busy day, she tried to guide him in the right direction. She started to save a little money for community college and laid down the law by saying, You’re going. But Bobby always seemed distracted and never gave the future too much thought, even with his mother’s encouragement.

Dad was not around much and Bobby was a little bigger now. When he did see his dad, his father was less physically abusive. It was the emotional and verbal abuse that hit Bobby, not a bottle, belt, or fist.

"Why don’t you play football, are you scared of getting hurt?"

"Stop being a little punk and get out there and do something."

The incessant whittling away of Bobby’s self-worth continued during the four years of high school, and as time passed, Bobby lost more innocence. Year after year, his anger grew from his father’s teachings. He became more distant from his mother, and cared more about what his friends thought and lost interest in improving his mind through learning. Bobby became a senior and graduated with not much of an education, sure he got Cs and an occasional B, but reading and writing wasn’t better than a 10th grade level. Bobby had just turned eighteen, had few options, no help, and was preparing to leave home holding a lot of suppressed anger and hatred for his father.

Bobby, with plenty of time on his hands, desperately wanted out of his home environment to break free of the situation. Dad was around more, and he and Mom were constantly fighting, mostly over the money Dad was taking from Mom. Dad distracted Mom so much; it was like Mom barely knew Bobby.

So, Bobby and Marcus were going to make a go of it. They both tried to get any job they could and planned to get an apartment together. They applied at fast food restaurants, warehouses, retailers, and even the grocery store where they once stole beer. They both got lucky, Bobby found a job in fast food and Marcus found work passing out flyers and running deliveries for a local business. The jobs did not pay much, but if they saved their money together, they could make this happen.

Six months later, Bobby and Marcus had an apartment and were barely making enough to pay for food and rent, but they were on their own and Bobby did not have to put up with anyone’s abuse. Months went by and things were going good for Bobby and Marcus. Sure, they were not the perfect citizens that society expects. They had some parties with drinking and smoking, but all in all, they did not cause too much trouble.

Bobby was not the best employee, always quiet because he did not like a lot of attention, so he kept his head down, worked hard and getting better at not making mistakes. One night, while making french fries, he mishandled the grease and started a small kitchen fire. He and his fellow employees managed to put it out with some damage to the fryer, but the boss was in a bad mood and was not going to have any of it.

He fired Bobby on the spot. Bobby sort of snapped; all that anger he had been suppressing just rose to the top. Bobby went back to his apartment and out of rage and blind anger, completely tore it apart. He tore the doors off the cabinets and smashed in the sides, broke the mirrors, cracked the sink, and kicked over the toilet. By the time Bobby’s temporary rage ran its course, the apartment was left in shambles.

Marcus came home about an hour later to find Bobby in the corner, all rolled up in a ball just crying his eyes out. Marcus tried the best he could to console Bobby, but Bobby was too far gone in despair. Unsure of what to do, he just sat back on the couch and collected himself.

Marcus thought it would be best to go get some help. The manager of the complex was always a nice guy, so Marcus went over and explained what had happened. The manager went up to the apartment and saw the damage, and with Bobby still crying in the corner, his circle of rage started cursing and yelling at Bobby.

You’re going to jail! You’re going to jail! he screamed and ran downstairs to call the police. By the time the police arrived, Bobby was gone.

Bobby spent the next two weeks living on the streets, sleeping in parks, and panhandling for money. He now was fully aware of what it meant to be poor in a neighborhood stricken by poverty, and the only real money floating around was in the hands of the gangs. One of his high school buddies ended up a full-time gang member. Bobby went to him asking for help and a little money. Smokey the gang member, did one better than that.

Why don’t you help me steal cars? The money is good and not much risk when we do it right. His words were like shelter to a homeless person. Two nights later Smokey taught Bobby all about stealing cars. They’d pop a door and wire the vehicle to start, drop it off at the chop shop and Bobby was paid a lot more cash than he could make in a week working fast food. On a good night, they would bring in two or three cars, which provided Bobby with lots of cash.

It was not long before Bobby was a gang member and involved with all the activities they pursue. He moved in with Smokey and started to help with the selling and transporting of drugs, he joined the gang wars to protect their turf, helped to extort local businesses, and ran larger sums of money across town. Everything that was required, he had to do. That was the code and the code brought Bobby a fulltime job. The gang showed Bobby how to use anger to produce fear, so he relied heavily on the anger his father taught him to accomplish these tasks for the gang.

Tragic as this turning point was for Bobby, leading a life that contained little care or concern for fellow humans, his life was about to fully reflect this turn. Bobby was chosen to be the lead man in a liquor store robbery. Two gang members were to go in and threaten the clerk and take what was in the cash register, while the higher-ranking gang member waited in the getaway car. Bobby and his partner went into the liquor store flashing a gun at the clerk and demanding all the money in the register. The clerk refused to hand over the money to Bobby, and Bobby, being confused and not knowing what to do, slightly turned toward his partner in crime as if asking for a little help here.

The clerk, Sam, happened to be the owner of the store and being fed up with robberies, hid a gun underneath the counter. Sam reached for his gun, but having no experience with firearms, fired a shot that missed. Bobby instantly ducked and reached back over his shoulder holding his gun sideways, gangster style, and without aiming, fired three times and shot Sam. Bobby and his partner grabbed the cash, jumped in the car and sped off; not knowing this was to be their unlucky night.

A passing patrol car saw them speeding and executed the classic screeching U-turn to pull them over. In the rearview, the wide-open eyes of the driver caught the cop struggling to make the turn. Instead of complying, he stomped the pedal to the floor and they were gone. Having a big head start on the cops, they turned the first corner. Once they were out of sight, they saw a dumpster and made a quick stop to stash the money and gun. And off they went. The chase escalated and before long cops were in the air and on the ground. Local news stations followed by helicopter broadcasting the drama live, people ran from their houses to catch the event, other gang members cheered for the car, while some citizens secretly wished for a bloody theatrical end. The insane chase lasted until the gang members finally ran out of ideas and pulled the car over thinking they had no evidence on them.

All three gang members were arrested, the police found the money and the gun, and Sam died of his wounds. The prosecutor tried to turn Bobby against his fellow gang members and offered a better deal to become an informant on past crimes, but Bobby knew snitches ended up dead. When all was said and done, the prosecutor threw the book at him — murder, armed robbery, evading arrest, reckless driving — you name it, he got it. As promised by the Constitution, a speedy and quick trial convicted all three.

During sentencing, the judge did not fully take into consideration Bobby’s abusive childhood, his struggle to break free, his lost job, his lost apartment, and his homelessness. Bobby’s rational sense of despair for survival was completely ignored. The judge sentenced Bobby to thirty years with a possibility of parole in twenty.

Bobby was entering the penitentiary system at the age of twenty. His fellow gang members gave him some good advice.

Stay a gang member and we will take care of you in there, he was told.

Watch out for the guards ‘cause they can beat you at any time and get away with it, another said.

And that is exactly what Bobby did. Again, he joined in the gang wars, the drug dealing, the extortion, the brutality continued even in jail. If anything, it was more intense due to the close quarters and compression of confinement. On the outside, you had the option of walking away, but in here, your feet will only find a wall. Brutality could come at you from all directions, fellow gang members, rival gang members, the guards, and sometimes even the doctors were against you.

For Bobby, life was not much different inside than outside, and his anger, despairs and hopelessness grew. The work programs helped to pass some of the time, while the untrained religious inmates tried to restore a little self-worth; however, none of this overcame the ingrained anger and hatred of society. Prison life was increasing these emotions in Bobby and letting it fester.

After serving one year of his sentence, Bobby was called to the warden’s office. The one person who visited Bobby regularly was his mother and their relationship was the single source of light giving Bobby comfort, but on this day, the warden had some bad news. His father, in a drunken stupor, killed his mother.

Bobby was already in deep despair and this event pushed him even further. Bobby was spiraling downward to the most negative mindset. He hated himself, his gang, the prison, the guards, his father; he hated everyone and everything about life. Bobby felt abandon, rejected, useless and unworthy. The innocence of his youth was long gone and his mother was no longer alive to rekindle a few good moments in life. Bobby’s single light of love was extinguished. Four months later, another heartbreaking day occurred when Bobby took his own life.

This is not an original story, it is not a unique story, the story is centuries old and has been played-out in so many variations it has lost its shock value. In modern times, we drive by this story every day. Our gaze through the car window deflects it to an intangible and comfortable distance. This allows us to ignore the impoverished environments that produced this version of the story. We would much rather go to the movies and pay for the same story. And then, in those dark rooms, do we open up and experience the heartache, the despair, and the lack of compassion.

The real live story has lost its power to register within us and we have grown numb to the live situation. How can a movie make us feel empathy and the live situation does not? We seem to choose our moments when we want to feel.

This scenario proves the immense power of choice. A truly sad state of affairs when Americans pay for the pretends rather than fixing the real. Americans spend billions on entertainment and we cannot fix real issues? We would rather entertain ourselves than heal ourselves. Perhaps we should tax those who attend entertainment and the money facilitates housing for the homeless? But we have been taxed enough and will offer a better solution later in the book.

Bobby’s story exposes one dominant element to the clarity realm of undeniable: too many environments in our society are void of compassion; they are literally broken. Bobby’s home environment was broken, his city’s environment was broken, the structure of the fast food company was broken, his landlord catered to a broken system, his prosecutor and judge gaveled a broken structure, and the penal system was a killer. Yet Bobby received 100% of the blame and sentence.

If Bobby’s mother had better access to abuse counseling with better systems that enacted a compassionate removal of Bobby’s father