A few years ago, I was sitting on my computer when I received an email from my brother, Gotham Chopra. I panicked as I read the words. Gotham was writing from a holding cell beneath an airport in an Islamic country – he had been detained by the authorities who were questioning him for suspected activities. This was several weeks before 9/11. Suprisingly, they had put him in a cell with a computer and an internet connection – and so Gotham was able to email me!
Gotham was a news reporter for Channel One News at the time. (He later helped launch Current TV, and helped recruit Laura Ling, one of his best friends, to the network.) Gotham was overseas doing a story on the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and had met several notorious leaders. He was gifted a trigger from an antique rifle by one of them, and had thrown it into his backpack as he rushed back to the city to catch their flight. When he was detained, he had the trigger, was of Indian origin with an American passport, and was carrying $1500 in cash. Considering this nations frayed relationship with the US, their suspicions were understandable.
Within an hour, I had tracked down my father, who was able to contact friends in the government to tell them about Gotham’s predicament. Fortunately for us, the authorities had let Gotham go before anyone needed to get involved. However, I will never forget the gripping fear I had thinking about my younger brother held in a foreign land that had a tense relationship with the US.
When Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained in N. Korea in mid-March, and Gotham was made aware of the situation by his good friend and Laura’s sister, Lisa, we initially had hopes that Laura and Euna would be returned quickly. Unfortunately, their situation took on the worst scenario – they became negotiating pawns in a much higher stakes game, multilateral talks concerning North Korea’ s recent missile test and nuclear program. From what we know, and has been reported in the press, Laura and Euna have now been held separately for over two months in a boarding house outside of the North Korean capital Pyongyang. Without direct relations with N. Korea, the US State Department has in large part relied on a Swedish diplomat who has had two brief meetings with the girls.
Laura is a vivacious, passionate, kind person whom I have admired and enjoyed being around. She is one of my brother’s best friends, and he would do anything for her. And yet, he and Laura’s devoted family and other friends, feel helpless.
Euna, from all accounts is equally an impressive and admirable person with a family situation that has made this predicament all the more agonizing. Both the Ling and Lee family have been urged to stay as discreet as possible by the US government, citing that their direct involvement in any sort of public form may complicate matters.
As a big sister, who experienced the panic of uncertainty for only a short while when Gotham was detained, my heart goes out to the families of Laura and Euna. Their feeling of helplessness must be unbearable.
These are two young women who have suffered immeasurably. They have had little to no contact with the outside world since their detainment and are now facing an unimaginable fear as their case is taken to trial in a legal proceeding that has no precedent in North Korea. They are undoubtedly scared, and hoping that those of us back home can do something before their trial.
I pray that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama, both of whom I admire enormously and have supported with campaign contributions and votes, heed the call to engage with N. Korea in a responsible way to secure these young women’s release, as well as address the long term instability of the region. Talks of a mission by Al Gore, former Vice President and founder of Current TV, would demonstrate to the N. Koreans that the US is serious about a dialogue. Now is the time to come up with creative, long term solutions, and new ways of conflict resolution, to secure the stability for our future generations. Letting Laura and Euna go would be a noble step for the N. Koreans to begin this process.
This coming Thursday, May 21 2009, there will be a series of candlelight vigils held across the US to pray for the prompt release of Laura and Euna. I hope you will join if you can. Please also support my intent – linked here – to pray for the immediate release of both girls so they can come home. For those of us who feel so helpless, perhaps this is a way that we can make a statement and take some action for these two young women. Please help spread the word so that we can peacefully bring awareness to their situation.
If you are on Facebook, you can join the group: Detained In North Korea : Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, please help. Ifyou are on Twitter, follow @LiberateLaura for updates. They will both announce more details on the vigils. Here is the current schedule and locations.
5/21
Los Angeles vigil: 6:30-8:00pm, Stories Bookstore 1716 Sunset Blvd.
Orlando vigil: 6:30-8:00pm, Baldwin Park.
Portland vigil: 6:30-8:00pm, Patton Square Park
NYC candlelight vigil: 6:00-8:00pm, 49th St. at Rockefeller Plaza
Chicago vigil: 1:00-2:00pm, Richard J. Daley Plaza.
Also Read:
- You can help Roxanne Saberi, Euna Lee, and Laura Ling by Gotham Chopra
- What the Captured American Journalists in North Korea Could Mean for Diplomacy by Deepak & Gotham Chopra
Mallika, energy flows where attention goes and see them home and not there..the more you see them there they will always be there so see them as already home, believe they are home and trust that they are home….I visualize everything as the positive side to all….As I train my subcon(subconsciuos) to only have the best of what the Universe does give me and I share it with everyone….
Eternal Flame shine within you Dearest
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On Thursday 21 May, a vigil will be held in South Africa as we pray for Laura Ling and Euna Lee. I send them love and strength.
Love
Bobby
Hello Mallika,
I pray for Laura Ling and Euna Lee,… that they hold on to their faith of God's promise of the freedom that belongs to them. May they feel the love,support, and the courage that find them "home" where they belong. May our prayers reach and be the light that dispels any dark corner that may try come up against the most powerful force "that is of God" on the earth. Amen
Blessings of Love,
Catherine Nagle
Dear Mallika,
My wholehearted prayers will be with everyone for their safe, quick return to home.
Wish you love, peace and happiness.
Trisha
Thank-you Malika, we will support them here in Portland and on my other sites as well.
Blessings, love and prayers to all…for a safe return home.
Dear Mallika,
I am going to join everyone else in this prayer. I must say I truly admire your fantastic call. You have written with intelligence, kindness, gentleness, honesty.
But one thing you wrote about- your feeling of helplessness- touched me most, so please allow me to say a few words about it. I would like to try to show you why you can and should leave it behind.
Prayer is indeed the best and most powerful solution. But in order for prayer to be effective, we need to let go of fear and doubt, we need to have a certain kind of inner attitude. Let me try to explain what I mean.
That time when your brother was detained and you were very scared, your instinct led you to do the right thing: you contacted your father (your symbol of highest power), the one you had the greatest faith in. He had the power and the contacts and he was the one who had never let you down and loved you and your brother completely. You took the whole situation and your desire for a positive solution to your father and gave them to him, knowing in some part of yourself that he will fix it all. And magically… things happened, by themselves, just as you had hoped for.
I am encouraging you to have the same inner attitude in the case of Laura and Euna. Even if you or others are afraid and in pain and feel helpless, a prayer means taking this desire for a good outcome all the way to that entity or part of us which we perceive as our source (your father for you back then). We take it to God or our Higher self or whatever we call the source of the entire world, the one who has all the power and all the connections in this universe.
But then we need to get the ego out of the way. That means, get the fear, pain, worry and helplessness out of the way. Just like you did when you trusted that your father will fix it. We need to let go of pain and go within ourselves to a place of true power, where we are connected to everything in this universe. That is where we need to take our intention, all the way to the source.
And placing it there, at the source, we need to come back to manifested reality and our daily lives, knowing with certainty that the universe (dad, God, etc) loves us, has heard our wish and will not deny us our heart's desire.
No doubt, no fear, no worry and no helplessness. Just knowing that the universe/God has always heard its own wishes expressed through us and has always found the best way to fulfill them, for the best of all beings.
You might think this is not important, but it is essential. As long as we pray and ask from a place of fear and torment, we have very limited power, the road to our source is long and the message gets weakened. The more contact with and trust in our own source, the faster and more effective our manifestation.
So my advice to everyone who wants to help Laura, Euna, and our world, would be: when praying, quiet the mind with its fears and stories of dangers and enemies. Go as deep within as possible, in full trust and love for the source of all situations and all people in our world. In that place, nobody is an enemy, your own fear and aggression have ceased, you and your enemies are loved as much. Get the ego out of the way and let spirit transform the awareness of the one who prays, if you wish this situation to be solved in the best way for humanity.
Laura and Euna are where they are for a reason, and the reason is everyone's transformation.
love, aurora
Mallika,
Thank you for sharing your heartfelt experiences and for summoning the prayers and support for Laura Ling and Euna Lee. I will pray for and visualize their safe return.
Michelle
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I will not be present at the candlelight vigil physically, but i will be there in presence. Tonight I'll light a candle for their safe return.
Aurora,
Beautifully written and concise!!
Exactly-Yes, you must not JUST believe it (the out come/your prayer) will come to you, you must know it! Visualize already surrounded by the tangible (their safe return)- in joy!
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I hear the cheering crowd and see open arms lovingly welcoming Laura Ling and Euna Lee home !
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