{"id":586,"date":"2012-11-07T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=586"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:56:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:56:29","slug":"the-hero-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/11\/07\/the-hero-within\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hero Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke to the news of Obama&#8217;s re-election. America had voted for &#8216;no change&#8217; rather than change for the worse. Four years ago Americans, and many non-Americans, saw Obama as a hero messiah who would bring about real change: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deepak Chopra on Barack Obama\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJFWr2ONPS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When change did not come those, like Deepak Chopra, who believed in Obama said that he was a realist as well as an idealist and was biding his time:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deepak Chopra on Barack Obama Update.mp4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HcwohWix_IA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But real change can&#8217;t be brought about by a President. By the beginning of 2012 even Chopra&#8217;s enthusiasm had faded:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/TUSA7yIN7Ns<\/p>\n<p>Real change will only come about when we, individually, really change and find the &#8216;hero within ourselves&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>This song came to mind:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M People - Search for the Hero\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntuqTuc6HxM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We need to acknowledge the hero within ourselves but avoid the illusions of egoism. Everyone is engaged in a heroic struggle and we should honour this engagement. Change is in the way we see ourselves and each other, respecting difference and heroically working together as a &#8216;collective messiah&#8217; to bring about change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke to the news of Obama&#8217;s re-election. America had voted for &#8216;no change&#8217; rather than change for the worse. Four years ago Americans, and many non-Americans, saw Obama as a hero messiah who would bring about real change: When change did not come those, like Deepak Chopra, who believed in Obama said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/11\/07\/the-hero-within\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}