Anti-escapism: It is a fallacy to believe that there are any special zones which are not danger zones. Therefore it is a wrong course to emigrate anywhere expecting that such a place will provide safety and security when destruction and poison fall upon the globe. Running away is no way out; whatever place you run to remains as dangerous as the place you run from. It is better to go into the silence and find your protection there. Then, if the higher self directs you in or after meditation to move to another zone, you may accept its guidance. The removal will be a right course, because intuitive, whereas the other is dictated by the blind intellect's cleverness. This is another way of saying, "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all these things [including protection] will be added unto you." In his 1962 book Witness, J.G. Bennett confirms this. He writes: "The group of people working with me was very little affected by the war. None was killed or seriously wounded. This was done without deliberate withdrawal from war activity, and it appeared to be the consequence of having set ourselves to serve an aim beyond our own welfare . . . those who are called to serve a great purpose." He also says: "If the leaders of mankind were so lacking in responsibility and understanding, and the masses so passive and inarticulate, what could the future bring but new and more terrible wars?"
-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 4 : World Crisis > # 409
