Panic: An Absence of Peace

To me, Panic is the servant of the Lord of the Underworld in the movie Hercules. Yes, I do mean the animated musical from decades ago. Panic was kin to Pain, and both were demented forces from below who did the bidding of the Lord who, in that movie anyway, was greedy and evil. That’s not any Lord of the Underworld I personally know, actually, but I do know Panic in how I feel sometimes, the emotion I experience when worry overtakes too fast without my Presence to guide its torrents. There’s a lot for a Wizard to worry about, you see, and when much of it hits too fast, Panic robs us of our ability to process it properly. If that emotion is this minor divine of Panic, then I revoke its card that would label it even a baby divinity and place it back to what the movie showed him as: a servant of those doing wrong. Panic is wrong, at any time, you see. But we don’t hate him or punish him for being himself; instead, we take his valuable lesson and face value and declare my intentions to continue to grow into someone fully able to take a breath in a moment of Panic that fully summons forth She whose name in Hindi is Shanti, She who is Peace. Peace calms all storms of Panic. She doesn’t destroy them, She doesn’t battle or cry havoc on anything. She simply fills the space where Panic seems to exist. As that is the big secret, the darkness isn’t a force of evil, it’s an absence of Light, and Panic isn’t a force working against us in a time of desperation. It’s the absence of Peace, so a flood of Peace is the answer, of course, to a momentary Panic. The mantra “Om Shanti Om” summons forth Divine Peace, it declares “All Peace All” to ALL. I will endeavor to sing it to my Interverse whenever Panic is noticed in its absence of Peace. Peace will rule the day soon after then, I guarantee it.