By Gonny 
Is it the cameras on every corner….the alarms…the locks..the passwords?
Or is it something far quieter?
We live in the most monitored time in history.
Cameras watch the streets. Satellites scan the skies. Apps record our movements. Doors are reinforced. Data is encrypted. Faces are scanned.
Never have we installed so much protection.
And yet anxiety has not disappeared. In fact…it seems to have grown.
So we might ask a slightly uncomfortable question: If all this security truly worked, why do we still feel unsafe?
Perhaps because surveillance is not safety.
A camera can record what happened, but it cannot calm a trembling mind.
It cannot soften a racing heart and it certainly cannot whisper, “You are safe.”
No lock in the world can answer the deeper question: Am I safe in existence itself?
That question is not technological….It is existential.
If I believe I am a vulnerable body in a world that can turn against me at any moment, then no number of alarms will ever be enough. There will always be another upgrade to buy. Another system to install. Another blind spot to worry about.
Security then becomes endless maintenance of fear.
A Course in Miracles says: Nothing real can be threatened.
That sentence does not deny that things happen in the world. It
questions….w h a t….we think we are.
If what I truly am is not a fragile object in space, but Awareness itself, then safety is no longer something I build around me. It is something I recognize within me.
And then there is the ancient idea of the “guardian angel.”
Long before CCTV and digital passwords, humans carried the intuition that something benevolent accompanies them. In different cultures it was called an angel, a guiding spirit, a daimon, a protecting presence.
Why has this idea appeared again and again?
Maybe because deep down we sense that Life is not hostile.
Maybe the “angel” is not a winged being hovering above us.
Maybe it represents the quiet Intelligence within awareness, what ACIM calls the Holy Spirit, the Voice that gently corrects fear.
Real safety feels different from control.
It feels like: A steady center…a clear mind..a response instead of a reaction…trust instead of tension.
You can install ten cameras…or….you can strengthen awareness.
One monitors the outside. The other transforms the inside.
And here is the subtle paradox: The more we try to secure the outside without addressing the inside, the more unsafe we may begin to feel.
Because fear does not live in the street. It lives in perception.
Only one kind of safety travels with you everywhere.
And only one kind dissolves fear at its root.
AWARENESS/LOVE
With love and light,
G.