A Deeper Definition of Joy
Group Channelling
Johannesburg
Sunday 2 March 2008
The significance of the date
We are aware, if we can begin in this manner, of what we will call the
significance of the day. Perhaps you have had some understanding
already, some development of knowledge, around the implication of
numbers. In many spheres that is called numerology. Our understanding of
it is slightly different, slightly more developed than perhaps what is
available in most bookstores, yet, yet, it is accurate to sense that
there is a significance to numbers. [And] that the arrangement of
numbers, such as to be found in dates, but not only dates, also times,
not only times, but also numbering or quantity, has a significance, or a
symbolism within it.
And so we begin here by marking if you like, the way you would mark on a
calendar an event, we begin here by marking the day. There is a
significance around the date, not only for the ones of you who are here,
but also for a slightly wider human path. But it is not only the date,
it is too reductive and too simplistic to try to understand the
symbolism of numbers by looking only at the date. It’s a combination of
- let’s put it this way - the numerical energy of a moment. And the
numerical energy of a moment indeed has to do with the date, but it also
has to do with the time, as we have said, it also has to do with the
quantity of what’s around. Numbers, like sound, like emotion, like
colour are simply a reflection of an energy. So all they do (it’s
nothing particularly complicated or mystical) is reflect for you an
essence that is within a moment. And we are suggesting that there is a
significance that you will find if you look at the numbers around this
particular date. But we are becoming very eager for what we are going to
call here collections, or groups, of people that are displaying
collective intent.
Getting clear about your intentions
Oh, more than ever, life is encouraging - and sometimes in some cases
encouraging might be a bit of a euphemism - in many areas of the world
at the moment life is encouraging you to become clear, both individually
and collectively about your intent. That is all. So many of the decision
points that are coming forward for you - and we are including here
everyone that is around this table and many others also that aren’t -
many of the decision points that are coming forward for you will have
the base or the foundation of coaxing you or encouraging you to become
clear about your intentions. The intentions of human beings are powerful
beyond your understanding.
You cannot totally control life
That does not mean that everything that happens to you will be exactly
in line with your intent, no matter how well you visualise, no matter
how sophisticated your positive thinking becomes. You will not be able
to avoid experience in life totally that you do not prefer. It’s not
available yet, regardless of some of the current teaching, for human
beings, to totally avoid that which they don’t like. We would yearn for
you to liberate yourselves of the pressure of trying to do that. Trying
to become so good at positive thinking and so profound at affirmation
that when something occurs that you didn’t plan or don’t like that there
is a consequent self-judgment, because possibly you think you didn’t
visualise well enough or possibly you weren’t aligned enough. We are
seeing that kind of guilt - we are calling it spiritual guilt - all over
the place recently.
So to clarify, we are not suggesting that you should get clear on your
intention because that would mean you can avoid experiencing anything
you do not like. That is not so. With respect, we bring to you that one
of the foundations of human living is duality. It is not required, but
at this stage that is still the only method of experience. We call
duality a method of experience. And that’s the only one that is
available at this stage. So it is not that we are calling for clarity
from you so that you may avoid pain, avoid disappointment, or avoid
discomfort, not at all. But if we can give you a wonderful understanding
here, it is possible to have both pain and disappointment and discomfort
in the same moment as you are deeply joyful. And that is going to be the
major point that we make here [see below], is around a clearer
definition for you of joy, that you may recognise it when it is offered
and so that you may receive it graciously when that is what is
available.
Gathering for clarity
So we have greeted you here in a very quick manner. We are aware of the
amount of energy that we have available to us and so we use it as
efficiently as we can. We have begun by suggesting that the moment you
are all in - and when we say moment we are talking about something
longer than just a second on your clock, but more if you like, a phase
of life – the moment you are all in, irrespective of who you are, is one
where what you are intending is being edged onwards, edged onwards,
edged onwards. That is what many, many of the life circumstances that
you find yourselves in are calling for. That is what it is being called
for. And that is how we begin here honouring these kind of gatherings
that assist you to get more clarity on your collective intent. Any such
arrangement of people - whether that is in the form of a channelling is
irrelevant, it can be in the form of a talk, it can be in the form of a
dance, it can be in the form of a party -but if the intent is to raise
your collective sense of clarity, it is something that has got a great
amount of support, or a great amount of energy if you like, or a great
amount of strength, right at this moment. Oh, you are going to see it
happening more and more over the next few years. You will see humanity
needing to gather to ascertain their values. Humanity will need to
gather to ascertain their values. The voting process is not sufficient.
It is neither a sufficient nor an accurate indication of the values of
human beings. And you will find you’ll start - it has already started -
to develop mechanisms to ascertain group consciousness. That is what we
are seeing. That you will start to develop more and more mechanisms, to
ascertain group consciousness so that you can be certain you are in a
group that suits you. That is even more important than being in a
location that suits you.
The energy of geographical locations
And we are glad to address this, we are glad to raise the issue of
location, and moving and geographical considerations here. Indeed,
specific spots on the earth, on the planet, have got a particular
energy, that is so. But is only because, that is a reflection of the
group consciousness in that place, at that moment. So we find it much
more significant for all of you to consider the kind of group
consciousness that you wish to belong to and to join, and then to make
your choices around that. There is no value to loyalty.
Questioning loyalty
If we may bring a startling statement to the table right away and blow
something out of the water. We do not find loyalty a particularly useful
concept at all. Other than if you are being loyal to your own joy. But
even your own joy will evolve. Your own joy is dynamic. That is what
evolution is. So staying loyal to a joy that was true for you at sixteen
is not going to serve you when you are thirty-six or forty-six or
whatever it is, let alone being loyal to a location or a city or a
particular institution or even a family. We are dropping that in here
and we understand that it is an explosive statement to make. And we know
that you are taught - it is subliminal, it is embedded in just about
every mythology and every myth that you get taught - to be loyal to your
families, we are even raising that awareness for you. We do not find
loyalty as an energy particularly useful at all. And so we raise that to
allow you also some clarity - as we see this is a concern around the
table - about the possibilities of movement. You are welcome, of course,
to change your geographical location as often as you wish. We as, if you
like, representatives of your higher-selves, do not have preference as
to where you live, contrary to popular belief. Not at all. Yet we are
alerting you to some of the ways in which you may make these choices and
if you are making choices out of loyalty that is not a choice that is
going to serve your highest interests. You are welcome to use loyalty as
a value, but if you are here in order to raise your life to its highest
spectrum or its highest possibility, loyalty and that life will not be
able to go together. So we raise that.
What are you aligned with?
We have also said that the group consciousness within an environment is
much more significant than considerations of place per se because a
location is not going to yield the same result for everyone who lives
there. It is so obvious when you look at it, but that remains outside of
the logic of many people who are considering that a location is going to
solve everything, or that a location is the cause of everything. It is
not. It is far more useful for you to look at the group consciousness of
a particular spot, and the many that are there. Look at the ones that
you are choosing to align with. And, by the way, if you want to know
what you are aligned with, it is that which you are supporting and that
which you are hating. Both of those indicate an alignment to a group
consciousness. And so if you are attached by something, by hatred or by
love or support, it has the same impact. And so that is more of a
significant angle of inquiry for you than necessarily looking at
supposedly what a specific geographical location offers. Because people
in the same geographical location can have a vastly different experience
of life there. So that is also what we give here.
A deeper definition of joy –
(1) Joy is living as wholly as possible
But we have suggested that we also want to bring to you a deeper, a
deeper understanding of joy. That is a concept that is abroad, let’s put
it that way. What we mean by abroad is that we are seeing - and it is
for us extremely wonderful and extremely exciting - that humanity is
starting to re-value joy. There have been moments in the history of
humanity where joy was all-important. Those have mostly happened in a
most imbalanced fashion and also in an immature fashion, therefore they
have not been sustainable. And it has been appropriate that humanity
held other values as more important than joy, very appropriate. But that
is the wave that is at the moment abroad as we have said. It is a
movement towards joy. But let us bring to you, as we have heard some of
you ask us, let us bring to you what we understand to be a more workable
definition of joy. Because joy is not, as we have already intimated
earlier, living a life that has got nothing in it that you don’t like,
or that is unpleasant or challenging or brings you to tears. Not at all.
That can possibly be happiness if you wish to define happiness as the
absence of sadness or the absence of disappointment or the absence of
challenge. That is happiness, or possibly comfort, or satisfaction, that
is not joy. Joy is the experience that you have when you are living as
wholly as possible. Joy is the experience you have when you are living
as wholly as possible. That is why wholly is so closely related to holy.
When you are bringing the whole of you into a moment, not matter what is
going on in that moment, then you make joy available - even if you are
divorcing someone in that moment, or leaving a location, or rising to a
challenge that brings jitters down into the depth of your heart. That
can be still be joyful.
(2) Joy can co-exist with sadness or challenge
Joy co-exists with sadness, but it is deeper. It is perfectly possible -
and many of you have had that experience - to be in a funeral, for
example, and actually to be feeling a kind of joy. It is not that joy
wants to always make you jump up and down and dance and clap. Sometimes
joy is much quieter than that.
(3) Joy makes you want to say ‘thank you’
Mostly joy wants to make you bow your head and make you say “Thank you”.
That is for us a far more typical response to a feeling of joy than
necessarily elation or feeling extremely high over a long period of
time. So we are redefining joy for you to allow you better directional
tools. It is as if we are giving you here a navigational system, as if
we are giving you a global positioning system of your own to be able to
ascertain whether this movement is in line with joy, or whether it is in
line with fear, or any of the other things that are masks. They are not
wrong, they are just masks. So that is one aspect that we raise about a
deeper definition of joy for you. Sometimes when you are saying ‘no’ to
someone your being is ecstatic, because you are grounded. You are
standing up for yourself. You are trusting yourself enough to say “No”.
That’s not a pleasant experience, but it is joyful. It’s not an easy
experience, but it is joyful. It might not be a harmonious experience,
but it is joyful.
(4) Joy can rock the boat
So many spiritual people are waiting for their joy, and they are waiting
for something that doesn’t rock the boat. They are waiting for a path or
a partner or a job or a new location that comes easily, that brings only
harmony, that is very, very much flowing as we hear it. And we are
giving a slightly different take. Because joy is always the step that is
bringing you to a closer state of wholeness, as we have said. And
sometimes to get into a greater degree of connections with your own
wholeness it is required to experience discomfort. Or it is part of
letting go and a sadness is there. So that is the first expression of
joy that we raise. That it is more about wholeness than it is about
happiness. Sometimes joy leaves you feeling ecstatic. Oh it has that
impact sometimes, in fact many times. But it is not required. What we
are saying is that it is not required to be ecstatic, for everything to
be exactly as you like it, in order for you to experience joy. In fact,
and this is our next point around joy, in fact joy is not conditional
upon what is going on. Not at all.
(5) Joy is independent of circumstance
The search for a spiritual path that brings you joy, or the life purpose
or the career that brings you joy, or a partner that brings you joy or a
location that brings you joy is an exhausting one. Because it is not a
search that will ever find fulfillment. Joy is unconditional. It is
independent of the external environment. It is a choice that you make.
It’s the manner of your being within an environment that creates either
an experience of joy or not. And we have said it is much more about
wholeness than about happiness. So it is much more for us that your
chances of reaching your own joy and expressing that are much greater if
you are bringing the fullness of you to a moment, than if you are
ignoring things and trying to be happy. That is a very common spiritual
approach at the moment that we see people taking - ignoring things and
trying to be happy. Ignoring things and being positive. Ignoring things
and saying affirmations. It’s not going to ever reach for you the state
that you desire and that you know is your birth right. Because that
comes from wholeness, as we have suggested. So our first two major
understandings that we bring forward about joy are, firstly, that it is
about wholeness and not happiness and secondly that it is an experience
independent of circumstance, independent of circumstance.
(6) Joy is about a question instead of an answer / formula
So we would suggest for you, instead of focusing on what it is - what
path it is, what job it is, and so on - that is going to reap for you
joy, we suggest that you allow yourself instead to ask this question. We
give you a question that you can use a lot of times in many occasions in
your life, throughout your life. And it is this: ”How do I use this to
experience joy?” ”How do I use this to experience joy?” The answer to
that will be different for each one of you. The path that that opens up
will be different for each one of you. There is not one formula for joy.
There might be certain teachers at the moment that are trying to sell
one formula for joy. They are saying that if you eat in this kind of
way, oh that’s the only way that you will have joy. Or if you visualise
in this kind of way, that is the only way you will have joy, or if you
don’t do this, and so on, and so on. We are suggesting that life is far
more textured than that. There is no one formula for joy on the planet.
There is no secret if you like. There is no one key that in every phase
of every single human being’s development will allow for them what they
want. Not at all. You are on individual journeys. It is not to say that
you are not deeply connected - you are. In fact the significance of
grouping - group work, group intent as we have said earlier - is going
to become more and more and more important especially in the Western
world where individualism has dominated for a long time. You are going
to begin a return to group dynamic, group living, group parenting and so
on and that is going to solve a lot of things that at the moment seem
unsolvable. So we are not suggesting that you do not operate as a
collective, but to try to package a method of joy that will work for
everyone is disrespectful. So, instead of giving a solution, we give a
question that will allow you to begin to feel the texture of your own
joy. And you will be able to feel it. “How do I create joy from this
experience?”
It’s a big question to ask. It’s so big that sometimes you will not even
be able to ask the question. It takes far more guts and okayness to ask
that question than to get the answer. The answer is the easy part.
Letting yourself get to the point of being able to ask that question is
the part that takes a tremendous amount of courage, a tremendous amount
of maturity. Because you will have to let go of stories that you have
told yourselves for generations and generations and generations. Stories
about what joy is not. Stories about what joy definitely isn’t. Stories
about what is allowed for you in terms of joy. Stories about your
devotion to other people as opposed to your own joy and so on and so on.
The difficulty is not in finding an answer. The difficulty is allowing
yourself to ask the question. That is what takes, as we can see it, a
tremendous amount of courage. If you can authentically raise that
question in response to your life, then there is actually not a need for
an answer. We know that is surprising. We know many of you have come
here for an answer, and here we are suggesting that actually it is more
about the question. But the question is what indicates to the Universe
the consciousness that you are coming from at any moment. The question
you are asking indicates the consciousness that you are coming from at
any moment. So we find it far more significant to raise the quality of
your questions and just to let those questions go. Just release them.
Just hold them and let them go, rather than try to pin down answers
because the question will travel. The question will take you down a
path. The question is what takes you on the journey. The question is
what leads you forward by the nose. Not the answer. An answer only seeks
to keep you in the same place. But a question, a question is a journey.
And so we raise that as a far more significant question than: “What is
it that will bring me joy?” We switch it around somewhat.
(7) Joy can be a permanent state of experience
And the final aspect that we wish to raise around joy, before we move on
to another indication or another conversation altogether, is around the
permanence of joy. We have spoken of joy being independent of conditions
in your life or things such as relationships and jobs and money and
children and so on. And when that is so then joy can be a permanent
state. Happiness, as we have talked about earlier, happiness within an
environment of duality such as yours, happiness is always fleeting. And
rightly so. Because if you were happy every single second of your life
there would be no drive towards expansion. The drive to expansion does
not come through satisfaction it comes through dissatisfaction. So, by
design, happiness will not visit you forever. It takes residence for a
while, and then it moves off and lets in another guest. But you can keep
your joy. Because your joy is in your experience of your life, not in
the circumstances of your life. So it is possible for joy to be
permanent. In actual fact, joy is who you are, so it is not really even
possible that you are separated from it for an instance, but your
perception of your own joy and your experience of it can be permanent,
as opposed to happiness. And we raise also that as we hear that as a
question again and again and again. People suggesting to us ‘we are only
human, we can’t be joyful all of the time’. Yes and no. It is so that
you can’t be happy all of the time. As we have said, there is a built-in
mechanism within life, it is an evolutionary mechanism, that means
dissatisfaction to whatever degree will be there, to allow you to create
new desires, to allow you to expand, to allow the universe to expand.
But joy is something very different from that and therefore can be a
permanent experience.
And so we begin by raising the notion of joy. It is by far the most
significant concept, by far, that any of you can be working with and
holding in your awareness at this stage, by far. We understand there to
be, as we have said already, a tremendous movement abroad that is
starting to recognise joy as a value, perhaps starting to recognise joy
as the value of all values. And so within that it has become available
to us to raise more and more and more awareness around this concept. But
we bring it first because we do not find within this moment in time, we
do not find a single concept more signification for you than the concept
of your own joy - interrogating that, questioning that, getting to know
that, committing to it. That, as we have said earlier, is the only
valuable form of loyalty. If you wish to maintain a respect for loyalty,
that is the only form of loyalty that will serve you is a commitment to
your own joy, understanding though that because joy has got an
evolutionary agenda it is also going to change its face over the course
of your lifetime. So allow your loyalty to be fluid - have light loyalty
to your own joy. So we begin with that and raise it as the first
consideration here today.
Fear – a mask for Joy
We are also feeling quite a number of questions and so we wish to allow
scope for that. But before we do we are going to raise another aspect.
Perhaps it seems like the opposite of joy. Instead of the opposite of
joy we prefer to call it a mask, a mask of joy. So you can see that we
are not of the opinion that some emotions are negative and some are
positive – that joy is positive but others, for example anger, are
negative. Not at all. Neither do we feel that so-called negative
emotions are not useful to you and need to be worked out of your system
as fast as possible. Not at all. Everything is your divinity.
Everything. There is not a human emotion that is not divine and doesn’t
alight on your heart for very good reason. We prefer for you to bless
your emotions and to respect them rather than to attempt to remove them
with positive thinking or any other kind of system. So we raise as our
second point here today what we are calling a mask of joy, not an
opposite. Not an opposition, not an enemy. And we are talking about
fear. Fear is another aspect. As humanity aligns itself bit by bit with
joy, there is also - and we know it sounds paradoxical and strange and
counterintuitive, but it is not - a move at the same time to encounter
more and more fear. How can it be, you ask, that in moving closer to joy
we are also moving closer to fear? Absolutely. Because joy is masked by
many things, but one of the masks that joy wears is fear.
We know we are giving a strange way of understanding it. But let us talk
to you in practical terms and let us ask you if it would be easier for
you to work with your fear by thinking of it as an enemy to your joy,
something you have to work through, something you have to let go of, or
if it would be easier and more workable for you to think that possibly
your fear is masking a joy? Because it is so. A fear will not arise for
you unless something that is deeply significant for you is perceived to
be threatened. You will not have fear unless something that’s deeply
important to you is perceived to be threatened. When something that you
value deeply - in other words something that is aligned with your joy -
is threatened or you perceive it to be threatened, that’s when fear,
that’s when fear is experienced. So fear is a mask, it is a mask of your
joy. If you didn’t value something deeply then you would not fear for
what might happen to it. And here we are mostly talking of fear about
what might happen to you, because that’s the deepest source of fear, is
“What might happen to me?” And that fear is a mask for your own joy. So
rather than berate yourself for feeling fear - and there is lots of fear
around at the moment, you can know we find it very predictable that as
you take forward steps into a closer alignment with your own joy that
you are also getting closer to your own fear. It is so, it is so. When
you are not in touch with your fear in any way, then you are very much
numbed also to your own joy. So there is relation between them - and
rather than berate yourself for being fearful, for being part of a
fearful mentality, rather than trying to make your fear go away and
positive think or positive talk yourself out of fear, we ask you instead
to say to your fear: “Hello. I see you. I understand that you’re a mask,
you’re not truth. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t look at you,
acknowledge you. I don’t want you to stay. I don’t want to live life
behind my mask. At the same time I’m interested in you. I want to look
at what the mask says about the underneath.”
Interview your fear
You will know, many of you from playing dress-up games or going to
dress-up balls that you always choose a mask that reflects an aspect of
who you are, usually an unexpressed aspect of who you are. Either
because you are too scared to play that role in everyday life, or a bit
timid, or you don’t feel confident enough. But always you choose a mask
that gives some sense of who you are behind that mask. Always. Which
also suggests that, if we are calling fear a mask, it’s giving you
clues, it’s giving you wonderful aspects of yourself that maybe you have
not wanted to look at. So, we are not blessing fear in the sense that we
wish for you to live with it, not at all. But while you are at the
masked ball, while you are at the masked ball, which means while you are
having an experience of fear, the more profound way to work with it, as
we understand it, is to, what we are calling, interrogate, or interview
your fear. Interview your fear rather than lambaste it, try to cut it
away, try to pretend it isn’t there, try to sweet talk yourself out of
it.
(1) Disassociate from your fear
In practical application what that means is to, firstly, disassociate
your fear from you. The first important way to deal with fear is to be
very clear that it’s a mask. It’s not me, I see that. One of the very
tangible ways that you can disassociate yourself from a fear is by
expressing it. When you express a fear, either by talking about it to
somebody, or by writing it down, you have put the fear outside of your
own consciousness, your own thoughts. And immediately you dissociate a
little bit from it. There is the common saying that a problem shared is
a problem halved. This is what we are saying. But it doesn’t have to be
shared with anyone else at all. It can just be written down. The
psychological, or consciousness, shift that takes place is that if a
fear is in your head only, if it’s your deep dark secret, if you are
carrying it around internally only, you are more closely associated with
it, than if you express it, which immediately makes some distance. So
that’s the first thing we suggest, in interviewing or interrogating your
fear, separate it from you, either by talking about it or writing it
down or drawing a drawing. It doesn’t matter to us. We have no
preference about the form of expression, but express it. That’s the
first thing.
(2) Ask questions unemotionally
The second thing then to do is to allow yourself as far as possible to
work with it unemotionally. We understand that fear raises emotion, fear
itself is an emotion. Yet part of the benefit of the fear you are only
to get if you are able to interview it. So, one of the ways you can do
this, is to pretend that that fear belongs to somebody else, and then
ask questions around that. Pretend if you like, it’s just a game, but
pretend that the fear you have written down of being hurt, for example,
belongs to somebody else and you are asking this person about that.
Where does it comes from, where do you find it takes root in your body,
how could it have formed, does it make you silent or does it make you
shout and so on and so on. It will assist you to interview the fear
intelligently if you are pretending it belongs to someone else. You will
be able to have access to better questions. And we have talked already
today about the value of questions. So that’s the second thing. First
dissociate yourself from it and secondly interrogate it. And if you
can’t get unemotional about the fear then pretend it belongs to someone
else and pretend you are talking to them. That’s the second thing.
(3) What does the fear tell you about what you want?
Once you have allowed yourself to look at that it’s a very important
question to start asking: “So what does this tell me about my own
intentions or desires?” We have started off here by encouraging you to
become clearer and clearer and clearer about your intents. It’s a
dramatic movement, we are talking here dramatic. We are saying that
things are happening in the world dramatically to encourage a better,
deeper response to this particular question: “What is it?” “What is my
intention?” So allow the fear experiences you are having to get you an
answer to that question. So that is a third method of engaging with it –
“what does this fear tell me about what I deeply want?” And for us, we
are far more encouraging that kind of approach to fear than any other,
than any other.
Fear will play out the meaning that you give it
It’s not that useful, by the way, to share fear with a kind of group
that is not in the same space, or not in the same consciousness as you.
Fear breeds, as maybe you have seen in mass hysteria, or even in
cultures amongst families, or schools, or even countries. When fear is
engaged with in the manner that we have suggested, when it is understood
as a mask, when it’s respected in that way, that is useful. But if you
are sharing your fear with another human being or in a group or with a
forum electronically, whatever it may be, when that is not the response
to fear, then you are going to find that fear breeds. You see fear has
got a purpose, like everything else in existence. Its purpose is to
allow you to be more whole, in order to allow you to experience the
depths of who you are and your own joy within your own existence. Fear
is also part of that agenda. And so if you respect it as having that
kind of purpose it will play the role of a mask. It will be there one
day and it won’t be there another day. But if fear is given another
status, if fear is given a different meaning, well then it will rise up
and play true to the meaning that you give it. That is the power of
humanity. The meaning that you ascribe to something becomes true. So we
are also giving just a sense of caution around the space in which you
share your fear. Take care because fear spreads. Fear spreads and
sometimes it is just a perception that spreads and not a true reflection
of reality at all. But fear spreads very, very quickly. In fact, people
are drawn to fear, they are attracted to fear in some cases. So we are
suggesting that you respect it, but also that you take care about where,
in which forum, you share your fear so that you may use it wisely,
instead of allowing it to become viral, which at this moment it is
doing.
Borrowing the fears of other people
It is useful that you engage with your fears, there’s no doubt, but some
of what is going on at the moment is that you are borrowing the fears of
other people. A lot of you, and you will find this if you start to
interview your fear like we have suggested, a lot of you have taken upon
you what other people are scared of, and you yourself are actually not.
But you have been taught that you should be scared of that. That’s
what’s going on with a lot of you that we see - that you feel that you
should fear for that, and act on that, even though, if you were to be
deeply honest, it’s not one of your own fears. So we are not suggesting
to avoid conversations about fear, in fact we have advocated sharing it,
but take care around the people with whom you choose to express that,
take care that they are coming from the same place as you. Otherwise you
are part of a viral spreading of fear that we are finding actually quite
shallow. What it means when we are finding that fear is shallow, is that
it doesn’t actually belong to the hearts of all of you. But you are
taking it upon you because your culture has that fear at the moment, or
says it should have that fear, or because the country is having that
fear, or the media says you should have that fear, and so on. So we are
asking to respect your fears, but the ones that are authentically yours,
not the ones that you have borrowed or taken upon you from outside of
your own truth. And so those are the aspects that we raise today and it
is perhaps again strange to talk about both joy and fear in the same
breath, but they are close friends in actual fact.
For reasons that have to do with length and privacy, I have not included
the personal questions and answers that were raised after this reading.
This reading has been slightly edited by Angela to facilitate easy
reading and understanding.
© Angela Deutschmann
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