When I communicated with Lydia yesterday evening, she told me she was listening to the DVD of the movie ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ while she was working. At that point, Lydia was listening to Wayne Dyer in the movie. Reminded me of the last time I watched Wayne on screen. I was in Texas, watching his PBS special ‘Inspiration’ to promote his book of the same title.

I feel inspired to share with you this aspect of that program …

One of Wayne’s inspirations, and a guest on that ‘Inspiration’ program, is Immaculee Iligabiza and her book ‘Left to Tell: One Woman’s Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust’ (linking with ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ movie and Wayne Dyer’s most recent books, published by … Hay House). Wayne wrote the Forward in Immaculee’s book.

Have you read ‘Left To Tell’?

I’ve read parts of it.

If you don’t know yet, Immaculee survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994, by escaping and hiding in a 4′ x 3′ bathroom, with 7 women, for 91 days, while mobs of men called their names and hunted them. The women could hear weapons (machetes) in the grass outside and on the flimsy walls outside the bathroom door. It was an on-suite bathroom and the owner concealed the door with a wardrobe. It’s a miracle that they weren’t discovered. The women heard death squads on the other side of the thin wall, chanting killing songs. Previous neighbours and friends fired by genocidal blood lust. Immaculee’s weight fell to 5 stone. She was 22 years old.

Here is some of why the story is so uplifting…

During those 91 days, Immaculee experienced more God. Having escaped certain death in the genocide, emerging from hiding in that bathroom, she discovered that most of her family had been slaughtered. She forgave the people who murdered her community, including her family, her mother, father, and two of her three brothers. She consciously created pivotal desires, from being protected, to being alive at the end of the 91 days, and beyond.

She was left with no home but the clothes she wore for 3 months … and a powerful story.

Immaculee manifested a safe haven, a home, and a job at the UN that required English language skills. She had taught herself English from a dictionary, one word at a time, while in the bathroom, because she felt it would save her in the future and she felt she would need to know that language to tell her story. Immaculee met her future husband after asking God to bring her the man of her dreams. Now married to Bryan Black, the United Nations’ deputy chief of security, they have two children. She moved to New York. Lives on Long Island. Has PBS specials featuring her and her book is available all around the world.

So, is anything possible?

And what could forgiveness do for you in your life?

Immaculee says her faith allowed her to let go of her anger and forgive. “I knew that they didn’t know what they were doing. There was a blindness behind them.”

She came face to face with the man who murdered her father and told him, “I forgive you”.

“The most important lesson I learned during this whole thing I went through is just to be there and reach out to another person and love them.”

What can you consciously create?

Are you choosing to be conscious, to be awake, so that you are not brainwashed by government, by anybody?

Two months after the genocide began, Nicole Brown Simpson was found dead on June 12, 1994. What news was being fed to us after that, 24 hours a day?

Up to a million people, about an eighth of the population of Rwanda, mostly from the Tutsi tribe, died in the genocide of 1994, hunted down by the ruling Hutus.

How little does it take for a neighbour to turn into an enemy, a murderer? Consider the power of influence (government, tv, etc.). And, focusing on what is wanted, how easy could it be to consciously create compassion, love, and appreciation with our neighbours? To turn a neighbour into a friend. To experience love, appreciation, forgiveness, faith.

Prior to the civil war, Immaculee describes Rwanda as Eden, a paradise of lush hills and cedar-scented forests. A place where she ignored ethnic divisions.

Immaculee says that after centuries of inter-marriage, the two tribes were virtually indistinguishable from each other, until colonialists brought in an ethnic identity card in 1926. She talks about them measuring people, by the width of their nose, and by their height, to decided what tribe they would be put into. This decision by anatomical measurement meant that families were separated, as within the same family some would be called Hutus, and others Tutsis, which would one day become brother against brother.

The story that Immaculee tells gave me a new perspective.

Listening to ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ DVD, Lydia said to me, Wayne Dyer’s work is about ending the concept of separation, perhaps he would be interested in an interview with CYRES because that’s part of CYRES also.

Is it possible that Wayne Dyer would be interested in an interview with CYRES? Yes! It’s a possibility. Let’s join together in collective intention. And when you next see Wayne Dyer, on screen, or in person, tell him about Cyres Café, The Café of Dreams.

In our book, more talk of oneness is always desirable. We can take inspired action to experience more unity. We can express the qualities of love, appreciation, compassion, freedom, … Now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7BbWuYyv2U

Watch ‘Wayne Dyer & Marianne Williamson at Hay House: I Can Do It!’ on Cyres Channel. Dr. Wayne Dyer and Marianne Williamson have an intimate conversation about politics, spirituality, and the power of personal change. This conversation took place at the Hay House I Can Do It! in Las Vegas this past year and is on Cyres Channel with the kind permission of Hay House. Also on Cyres Channel is “Louise Hay: You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie” The Trailer. Plus more Hay House videos.

Immaculee says the happiest moment of her life was the day she heard she’d won a place at a prestigious lycee.

“It opened a door; it gave me the opportunity to dream.”

“It seemed as if my life was in my hands.”