Hate

1.  What is hatred?

Hatred is a derivation of fear.  It is not a primary emotion, which fear or love are, but a secondary one.  Hatred might be looked upon as an intense anger, and it is the product of the human mind.  It is not present in our divine mind.

2.  Why do we hate?

I suspect that what is behind this very intense emotion is fear of annihilation of ourselves based on some past history in which the person or persons demonstrated such a threat against either our self or companions in whom we were invested in to ward off our feelings of separation or detachment from God.  They were utilized by us to overcome the feeling of loneliness and lack of self worth which all of us walk about with in one degree or another.  If we feel lonely and “evil”, hatred can turn against ourselves too, feeling ourselves as despised.

3.  Is hatred evil?

Hatred certainly can do harmful acts.  But we need to keep track of Jesus’ analysis of why we do harmful acts.  It is not that we are evil, but we are lost, and don’t know what we are doing in that state of human lostness.

4.  How can we overcome hatred?  How do we heal from others hating us?

Since the human mind creates hatred, based on its fears, the human mind can not turn around and forgive or understand hatred, without undermining its very own beliefs, which never change.

Hatred thus is only overcome from the understanding of hatred coming from fear, and only the divine mind will grant such an understanding.

But the divine mind will not come into our consciousness unless we wish for another way to see ourselves and others, we are given by God the opportunities and experiences by which hate arises, learn to hand them over to God e.g.- “God I am experiencing hatred (of myself or someone else), and choose to see this matter only as You do, instead of me.”  God’s presence inside of us, as us, ends the fear of annihilation, for we are truly eternal spirits, and in the absence of the human experience, hatred fades.  There is no need of it.  And since all healings lead us to the expression of them for the sake of others as well as ourselves, we live and demonstrate that divine love in our lives is our profound fulfillment and joy.

 5.  Is hate necessary to appreciate love?

 Since the Spirit of God resides in us at all times, although beneath the surface of consciousness (yet subliminally influential), hate is experienced as negative in the long run, and when “hitting bottom” with such an experience, in which we choose not to go further with it, we can appreciate the peace of God, God’s love, as the treasure it is and choose to continuously reach for it when the human mind surfaces hate again in the attempt to win us back.  We simply re-pray it each time it surfaces.