Page 308 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

MAY 1952

Certain groups and systems of thought claim that their particular
panacea will solve the problems, but any limited, restricted, incomplete or
sectional remedy as a solution to the complexity of Life, however rational

or logical, must inevitably fail and bring in its wake other complications.
To solve any problem, struggle, suffering and misery in ourselves
and in the world we must understand it, not through the limitation of any
particular group, but with a free mind capable of facing the problem as an

undivided whole.
First we must realize that there must be a cause for this confusion
and misery not only in ourselves but also in our relationship with others. lf

we can understand the fundamental cause then the problem can be solved
forever. Let us see how we can approach this all-engaging nightmare of
existence in which we live.

When we try to solve our problem of relationship with others from
the outside we soon realize that there must be a complete change in our social
and economic structure. We see that there must be a complete elimination of

barriers—racial, natural and economic—we must also be free from religious
barriers with their separate dogmas and beliefs.
Wherever there are different groups formed, religious or otherwise,
they become antagonistic to each other. We realize that all these organizations

have not united men, they have separated man from man. These things happen
in ourselves first then they become world domination, thus we are caught
up in the result of our own causes.

If we approach the problem from without, the emphasis must be laid
upon legislation and the importance of the State with its resultant dangers.
We have experienced, that through the action of the State, man is sacrificed for
an ideology bringing with it brutality, corruption and suppression. We must

look into our minds to see how much we contribute to this state of affairs.
Strange as it may seem the majority think that through losing themselves
in an ideology, in service to the State or some religious order that their sorrow,

anxiety, responsibilities and conflicts will cease. Yet this can never be, for no
sacrifice of the self alone to the outer can solve the problem; We only become
slaves to be exploited by those who advocate this sacrifice.

When we look within we are conscious of the “I” with its personal
limitation, its ambitions, hopes, fears, passions and greed. As long as the
ways of the “I,” the self, are not discerned and understood, the State only

becomes a means for its cunning, its self-expression, its glory which again

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