The Man Who Raped His Daughter Today I write an article that I deem the most important of any I've written. I believe it will help many of us to rethink how real energy is, and just what its ramifications are in this world. This is the story of a man, who loved his wife in an average sort of way. And the two had an attractive young daughter, aged 16. The man loved his daughter a great deal, in a fatherly sort of way. This ISN'T the story of a man who entered his daughter's bedroom and had his way. It has nothing to do with that. He loved her the way a father should. This man, he was a fairly average man in many ways. He had his moments when he was very kind to other people and went out of his way to help them. He had his moments when his temper got the best of him. He went to church most Sundays, and believed most of what he heard, but he had a challenge always living up to the ideals he said he believed. Among what you might call his weaknesses was a subtle mistreatment of most women. Things he said, things he did, tended to tell the women at work that he considered them inferior -- and to a degree, he did. If he saw a beautiful woman on the street, he might let his mind wander just a bit further than it should. And he wasn't against letting it wander even a bit further when taking a peek at some women online. And why not? None of this really hurt anyone. The Man's World Changes One night, the man came home from work and found his daughter lying on the ground, crying, with her mother consolling her. What had happened? he wanted to know. And that's when he learned the horrible truth. His daughter had been raped! Inside himself, the man went into a fury. It was someone his daughter didn't know, and he had escaped, so the man could exact no revenge. But he wanted revenge so badly. HOW could someone do this to his daughter? HIS daughter? He didn't know which direction to turn. He didn't know what to do. And he didn't have a clue that HE was involved. Not in the sense that he knew the rapist, because he did not. But over the years, this man contributed a massive amount of energy toward the degradation of women -- toward the idea that they were less than men and ought to be the object of a man's lust. The energy of his emotions and thoughts on this subject went out into the mass energy, and do you know what? That energy then has to return, somehow, in some way, via the human family. It's NOT that the energy HE SPECIFICALLY SENT OUT turned around to bite him directly. He generated his own personal karma through his thoughts and emotions, as we all do. But his specific energy didn't necessarily come back to do this deed. But somehow, somewhere, the energy he sent out needed to seek balance, and would return in some way. It is likely that he was, to some degree, involved with some woman's rape, or abuse, or that the energy he sent out in some way had a negative impact on one or more women's lives. Whether or not his energy directly contributed to the rape of his daughter isn't important. His energy in some way continued the pervasive abuse of women ... just as his sometimes-uncontrolled temper no doubt helped lead to a fight or a robbery or some other expression of anger as well. Unfortunately, the man never knew how he contributed to his daughter's rape. He wasn't aware of the way energy is sent into the world and then must express itself in some way. But he did change, just a bit. He continued treating the woman at work as if they were inferior, but after the rape, he found that he couldn't look at a woman and let his mind desire her ... because all he could see, when he did so, was his daughter's rape. And although he had no idea how accurate that sense was, his intuition was now speaking loud and clear on that matter for him. I should end by saying that this story isn't about any particular person I know. At the same time, it's about all of us in one sense or another. That's because NONE of us fully controls our thoughts or emotions. But when we lose control, I'm hoping that we can think back to this story and remember what kind of ramifications EACH OF US has on the world through the energy we send out. And, that can be in a positive sense as well as a negative. Every time we maintain control, every time we do for others, and care for others, and reach out to the world with a helping hand, that energy goes out into the world ... and must find expression via the human family.