Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

Nelson Mandela Has Shown Us How
How Nelson Mandela handled the South African situa-
tion when apartheid finally ended in the early 1990s was
an object lesson in how to transform energy through
Radical Forgiveness. Apartheid, the white dominated
political system in place for three-quarters of a century,
kept blacks and whites separated — the whites in luxury
and the blacks in terrible poverty.
 
Mandela himself was
imprisoned for 26 years. Upon his release he became
President of the country. South Africa was ripe for a
bloodbath of revenge, yet Mandela brought about an
amazingly peaceful transition — the hallmark of which
was not revenge but forgiveness.
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It was not so much what he did that prevented the pre-
dicted bloodbath from occurring, but how he handled
the energy. He refused to take revenge, and on behalf
of all the people, he transcended the victim archetype.
This, in turn, collapsed the energy pattern of potential
violence already in place and waiting to be triggered.
South Africa remains in transition today and not with-
out problems, but its progress is far more than we could
have dreamed possible a few decades ago.
Our collective mission to transform the victim arche-
type demands that we all follow Mandela’s lead and
move beyond the experience of victimhood. If we do
not, we will stay hopelessly addicted to our
woundedness and to the victim archetype.
Spirit Nudges
Deep inside our subconscious mind, we are in touch
with our mission. Spirit keeps presenting opportuni-
ties to transform the victim energy by bringing things
like incest, child abuse, sexual abuse, and racial ha-
tred to the surface. Each one of us can embrace this
mission by practicing Radical Forgiveness in any of
these situations. If achieved by enough of us, the shift
in perception that allows us to see the perfection will
transform the situation so the need for such energy pat-
terns disappears.