Day before yesterday on public radio, I arrived in the middle of a show about prisons in California, the recidivism rate and the tens of thousands of our brothers and sisters that we are wasting over what often is “administrative spankings.” I thought that I heard them say that last year, some 90,000 of our brothers and sisters went to prison in this state for a few months (after having served their time) for administrative parole violations, not crime but administrative parole violations! I am ashamed of how we punish, over-punish, those that we can, often because of our (society’s) own internal pain.

So, a man (say) rejoins his wife and kids, is looking for work, doing mostly what he is told to do, then, because of an administrative parole violation is removed from his family and slapped back into prison for a few months! Then the cycle begins again. How is one to get traction under that sort of arbitrary punishment? What are the children to do (“Where’s daddy now?”)?

During the program, there was talk of movements that seek to change the system to “relieve crowding” in prisons. How about changing this horrible habit that we in this state (society) have of punishing others because of our own guilt, shame and emotional pain?

It is the innocent who pay the price of our need to throw away, punish or kill one another.

The Freedom Step is primarily an energy-healing program that addresses unresolved emotional pain, a primary cause of this mess! It is our mission is to bring awareness that I can heal only myself and the healing process is quite simple and painless.

It is also our position that any “ego-driven solution” to unresolved emotional pain, if it is not in our best interest, when repeated, is an addiction (for example, society’s addictive need to punish and use up the unfortunate). Most “normal” folks do not want to hear this.

We can and we must heal.