September 11, 2001 left many of us longing for a way to be of service to the victims of that day's tragedies, our country and our neighbors. People poured into hospitals and Red Cross centers to donate blood. Many traveled cross-country to lend a helping hand at Ground Zero. And many people put pen to paper to offer words of advice and reflection to help us deal with and understand this most confusing of times.

OfSpirit.com's category, September 11th, offers some of the many articles and essays we have received related to the events from 9-11 to the present. While we at OfSpirit.com do not necessarily agree with or support every statement made by these writers, we appreciate that their words offer us new perspectives for a deeper understanding of the unconscionable events that have left us with so many questions.

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It's Time To Stop Fighting For Peace And To Start Creating It 
by Dr. Trish Whynot

What Was The Personal Message 9/11 Had For You?
 
We may never have a complete understanding of the significance of the events of 9/11, but the most important message is the personal message that day had for you. Some of my clients agreed to share their messages in hopes of helping you to identify yours.

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If Hatred Can Manifest Terror, Then Love Can Manifest Peace
by Dr. Trish Whynot

Let us honor those who have died by making a promise to heal our own inner wounds.  Let us promise to heal the anger and pain that we harbor within ourselves.  It is only when we can replace our anger and pain with love for Self and others that we have hope for peace. 

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Plain Talk For Painful Times
by Eileen McDargh

On the day after this evil, I am compelled to write. Everyone reading this has also experienced both the planned cruelty of humanity as well as its generosity. People stood in line waiting to donate blood. Firefighters and police officers gave their lives. Messages of support swirled across e-mail channels. And the "safety" we thought was ours has disappeared in the dense clouds of smoke that carried the World Trade Tower, the Pentagon, and four planes into destruction. All the technology in the world would not have prevented this attack. The human technology of hatred overrode all systems. 

This day will always bring back a certain feeling that I have never experienced before. My day was going like any other school day, lame and pretty boring. As I entered my second block class, I sat down at my desk looking forward to lunch, which unfortunately wasn’t for another two and a half hours. My teacher began his lesson, but was interrupted by an alarming message that popped up on the computer screen. It was about 9:15 when it read, “Plane Crashes Into World Trade Center. “  Honestly, I didn’t think much of it at first, because I wasn’t aware of how badly this was going to affect our country.

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Words cannot appropriately express what we as individuals and as a nation our feeling today. Many may feel very helpless, feeling that there is nothing that they can do.  Below are some suggestions for reflection and for direction of light and love that can be very active in the efforts toward healing our nation.   

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Victims of the Attack: Martyrs For Meaning?
by Alexis Brooks

The dramatic events of September 11, 2001 stifled routines and awakened senses. We watched with inexplicable horror. We were dumbfounded and caught off guard. For this was an act of evil. It's meaning, nothing more than highlighting the iniquity of those twisted enough to die and kill for a cause that most cannot even begin to fathom and surely we did not deserve it. But did this abhorrent event have meaning far beyond the scope of ordinary understanding? Did we receive a "call to arms" - a forced reminder of the perennial wisdom we've long forgotten?

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Rising From The Ashes
by Rita Louise

We experience the largest inner transformations when we lose a valued way or life of our view of reality is shaken to its core. Change jars our inner world. With it, our old life no longer makes sense and we no longer find satisfaction in the things we once held dear. It forces us to look at who we are, what we are doing and where we are going. It can be thought of as an indication or reminder that something deep within us needs to be modified or let go of. The question is—what do we need to let go of?

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9/11
by Celeste Longacre

In light of the recent events of September 11th, I would like to spend some time focusing on the larger picture. What has just occurred? Can we even begin to wonder why? Astrologically, planet Saturn (God of Form, Structure, Business, Buildings, Law & Order, Logic & Discipline) is currently doing a Dance in opposition to planet Pluto (God of Death & Rebirth, Deep-seated Rumblings & Explosions). Our whole World (Saturn) has been shaken up (Pluto) and we will never again be the same. 

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It Was Just Like In the Movies....
by Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D

One of the things that struck me forcibly about the events of September 11th 2001 was the terrible resemblance the attacks bore to a Hollywood blockbuster disaster movie. It was quite uncanny...... 

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Spirit Communications Before And After The Terrorist Attacks
by Christine Toomey

In December of l997 I received a spiritual visitor that quite frankly, threw me for a loop.  My work involves communicating with spirits of deceased individuals, angels and spirit guides but when one well known deceased comedian contacted me hours after he passed away to request that I write of his earthly and spiritual realm experiences I was momentarily at a loss as to why. 

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Saturn Pluto Dancing
by Eric Linter

History sheds light on what we can expect in coming years. The first observed opposition between these two planetary heavyweights came in 1931. Fascism, racism and genocide took hold across Europe. This Saturn/Pluto opposition was in the paternal/maternal signs, Capricorn and Cancer.  Some commentators believe Hitler never could have developed into the monster he became without the psychological patterns which existed in prewar German family life; specifically the dominating, often emotionally cold, disciplinarian father. In the years that followed, this culture would be dramatically altered, as would others around the globe. Events reached a climax with the dropping of the atom bomb (a device ruled by Pluto) in 1945, a full fourteen years after the opposition.

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