A New Paradigm for 2008 and Beyond
Group Reading
White River
27 December 2007
The Praise Singers
Thank you. We have with us, if you will permit it, the praise singers.
You have known in your particular collection point in the world the
tradition of praise singers - where one goes ahead to extol the virtues
by means of song and praise. We are welcoming you all in that way here.
We hope that as you receive - if you will allow that the praises of our
praise singers - you will allow yourselves to grow as you are here. What
we mean by grow is nothing mental at all. We are inviting you, as you
receive our praise singers who will come on stage in a moment, to allow
the praises to wash over your body expanding your sense of yourselves so
that you fill this room and then you feel as if you are filling this
garden and then you feel as if you are filling the whole world. That is
growth. We are going to talk quite a lot here this evening about growth
as it seems to be so much on the minds of all of you but for now let us
give you the chance to experience growth rather than to think and to
talk about it.
So, if you will allow our praise singers to take the stage, we have a
great show for you. We have the opportunity for you if you will allow it
to receive praise. We understand that for some this can raise
resistance, we understand that you have been taught that it is humanity
who must praise divinity, that it is the human beings who must extol the
praises of that which is somehow above you and beyond you. We are giving
you here the opportunity to make one of the most significant choices
that you will ever make and that is about who you are. If you can, if
you can - and it is only an invitation extended in great kindness - but
if you can receive the praises that are waiting to be given to you today
from the part of life that is your divinity you are allowing something
very significant. You are allowing partnership, you are going forth arm
in arm with your divinity rather than following what you have called for
a long time ‘guides’, if you can allow yourself to receive what will
come now.
We are bringing in a host of dancers first. If you can imagine some of
the most beautiful, luxurious bodies that you can, they are bowing for
you. They have ribbons and they have drums and they are showing by the
grace of their limbs and of their rhythm they are showing you honour.
They are bowing, they are allowing a ceremony to take place that is
focused only on you. If you are uncomfortable receiving what we are
showing just stay with us for a little more. There are dancers that are
flooding the stage. If you can imagine the stamping of feet so that your
hearts race, if you can imagine that the drums are matching the stamping
of feet and that it feels as if there is no roof and no walls around you
so you are growing with the sound and the rhythm and the vibrations and
the love that is expanding and expanding in the room and the dancers are
joined by voices. If you can imagine, all of you, if you can imagine
voices coming from around your surroundings, if you can imagine that the
purest notes are being fed to you and not fed to you they are you! That
is what is the central movement and the central message of the show that
is here. Not that we are doing something for you, we are showing you who
you are. We are not showing you our brilliance we are showing you yours.
We are not showing you the rhythm of the gods we are showing you the
rhythm that you have. We are not showing you the grace of the heavens we
are showing you the grace in your own limbs, the spectacle that you
create as you live and breathe, as you live and breathe. We are creating
now silence. It is not silence of the empty kind. It is such a full
silence that your heart would like to break open in one million pieces
from being so full, if you can allow some of that silence to sit with
you as you absorb what you have been shown.
Dancing with Divinity
Now we are inviting you into the dance. It is starting again. You thought perhaps we had praised you enough, we have not. You thought perhaps that our show was over, it is not. We are starting again. And the feet are stamping along the floor and the drums are matching the feet and the sound is creating an atmosphere around you that is electric and the voices that are so pure that they feel like they are coming from inside your own veins are ringing again. But this time in your imaginations we are asking you to come on the stage. We are asking you just to follow us in your mind's eye, to come, bring your own dance, come and sing your own note, come onto the stage and allow who you are to be shared, allow you bodies to move the way they want to. If you can just take a step forward in your imaginations, you will be giving permission that you have no idea the significance that it will create. You are allowing yourselves to dance with divinity. Not to be led by divinity, not to need divinity to make up your minds, no. You are allowing yourselves to dance and sing with your divinity, such is the most sacred partnership you will ever witness. If you allow yourself to continue to hold the feeling, of the drums and the feet that are stamping, the purity of the voices that are ringing everywhere and allow yourself to come on to that stage stamp your feet or wave your arms, show your ribbon, sing your note, take off what you are wearing, allow you hair loose whatever it is you are wanting to do to join the throng. There is no such thing as praising to there is only praising with. We are inviting you to praise with. We are inviting you to join divinity in clapping hands. We are inviting you to join divinity in celebrating life and all the parts of life that you are, all the parts of life that you are. Just for a moment we will let you take your places on the stage and stay there.
A New Approach to Growth
There are no more amazing ways for us to begin our conversation with you than that. The tradition of praise singing has been a beacon in cultures across time and those [cultures] of which you know and those of which you don't have used the concept of praise singing and dancing to show the highest form of honour, the highest form of honour, and so that is how we begin here. We are setting the tone for what we understand to be a conversation with no limits. We are allowed here to be with you in a way that is not always possible for us. That is a result of many factors and those intellectuals amongst you may be wondering what it is that causes this particular opening here and we are not speaking of that tonight. We have said that we are allowing you to experience growth now, not think about it and talk about it. That leads us into what is possibly our most significant point and where we are seeing very clearly that the path ahead that you call a year is going to lead.
Growth as Purely a Tool for Joy
We are wanting almost - if you will excuse the irreverence of this - to take growth away from your minds. We are wanting to allow you what we might call in a strange sentence ‘freedom from the enslavement to growth’. Oh we know the hearts of those of you who are here. We know your devotion to expansion, we have understood your personal intentions for growth at all costs. You have displayed each and every one of you here - if we can talk to you about the one quality that is like the string that joins the pearls that are here - it is courage. It is courage. This is a collection of courage without exception, we are not excluding the children that are here. If this is a string of pearls the string that is common to all of you is courage and we can only talk to you about growth in this light because you have shown the courage that you have. We cannot talk in this way (what we have called even an irreverent way) about growth to some different collections [of people]. All of you allow information and learning and truth depending upon the choices you have made up until this point and so, based on the courage that we have seen flood through the beings of all of you, you have allowed what we are bringing here. We consider it a central tenet, a central philosophy to the way that the world is moving, especially those who are in spiritual circles. We respect your devotion to growth, it has brought you here. To the degree that we respect it we have praised it tonight with our praise singers. That is the degree that we respect your growth and, in utter respect of that growth, may we suggest to you that you are allowed, you are allowed a new focus. You are allowed a new compass. We know that the true North for many of you has been growth. We know that that has been the way you have guided yourselves, directed your lives, what you have used to make your choices has been growth but let us give to you what we consider a magnificent secret. This is our version of the secret and it is this: growth is a mechanism, growth is a tool towards something of far more magnificence - joy.
The Purpose of the Universe
Some of you feel that joy is a by-product. That growth is the purpose and
joy is the nice, but insignificant, by-product. It is not so. The only
drive towards growth comes from the deeper drive towards joy. The
purpose of this universe is joy. The mechanism is growth. In other words
(let us give you an analogy to assist you to grasp the difference and it
is a very liberating difference), your growth is like the vehicle that
you travel in but your destination is joy. You are travelling towards
joy not growth. Because the truth of it is when you know your
magnificence - and we hope that you had a glimpse of it if you were on
the stage with us, even if your heart was just beating with ours for a
second we hope you glimpsed your magnificence - when you know your
magnificence, you need not grow. Oh we know that that strikes a discord
with some of you. We understand that for so long you have worshipped
growth and you have laid down your lives for growth and that has been
appropriate, it has been beautiful, we have blessed it, we have
respected it. Yet if you are absolutely true in your day-to-day lives
about who you are, you need not grow. How do you grow perfection? How do
you grow magnificence? Of course the universe is evolving continually so
growth is inevitable. But because it is so inevitable it is not the
focus. It need not be what governs your life and what governs every
minute choice that you make.
We would like to extend to you a very adult invitation tonight. Oh it
sounds like we are talking about the realm of the child when we talk
about joy but it is not. It requires of you tremendous spiritual
maturity to allow yourself to commit to your own joy. It requires a far
deeper degree of maturity and courage to allow yourself to give yourself
permission to make your life about joy than about growth. Growth is the
part of your spiritual journey that can be likened to adolescence. Not
that you ever going to stop growing. The universe, as we have mentioned
already, is evolutionary by nature so there is no way you can halt
progression. But to have a life focus of growth, to be so intent on what
has been called ‘learning’, ‘learning your lessons’, that is an
adolescent phase. When you graduate from that - and we hope that you
understand this to be a graduation - we hope that you allow yourself to
move into a focus that we have called significantly more adult. Some of
you will feel like perhaps these children [in the room] will then miss
out on a phase of their life, but they will not. They are perfectly
positioned and they are exactly positioned where you are also by the
way.
The Relationship Between Growth and Joy
We know that joy has been talked about frivolously and that even in some cultures and religious traditions joy is not allowed or it is very much controlled and only allowed to be expressed in certain ways. The way that we greeted you here today, the dancing and singing, the drumming and the stamping, that has been to elicit in you the feeling of joy. That is automatic growth and that's the bonus. The bonus of joy is automatic expansion. You can work on your expansion and you all have done that. You can plod through it, you can go through your issues one at a time, you can rehearse them, in other words you can look at where they come from and you can see how they have arisen and you can work through them studiously and you have done that or we would not be having this conversation. You can do that or you can also commit to creating joy and expansion will occur naturally. You cannot be in an authentic moment of joy and not be expanding, but you can be devoted to your growth and not be experiencing joy.
Freeing Your Own Timelines
So we are giving you the step up. We are giving you the new way. It is deeply related to what you call your year. We have called that word your’ term, ‘your’ word because it is not absolutely in line - if you will allow us to say this - with the timeline of spirit. The way that spirit approaches time as all of you know is quite different from the way that you approach time and some of the delineations by which you live your lives are slightly off course. In other words were urging you to feel when your new year starts. It may not be at the stroke of 12 at a particular date when the rest of the world presumes that the shift occurs. There are shifts, and the shifts occur in denominations of 12 that is accurate (12 is the divine numeral so that is an accuracy that is in your time system) but we are asking you to become independent of the timelines that you exist amongst. It doesn't mean you have to resist them, it doesn't mean you have to judge them, but we are asking you to be deeply authentic to your own sense of time. That is also a new way. It is going to mean that you allow your own clock to shift, that you are aware of when your own cycle moves and that may not be, as we have said, at exactly the stroke of 12 on what is truly an arbitrarily or a random day. Yet there is a big, big revolution of the wheel going on. All of you know that we need not dwell on the point about the world shifting gears (you can see we are using transportation analogies here, we are doing it in honour of the unborn child). So the shift in the wheel is real, that which you feel you are anticipating, what you have called your new year, it is real. We are only saying that some of you may slot into that shift at slightly different moments in time than what you are all collectively agreeing upon is the actual slot.
The Particular Drives of 2008
1. Fluid Grouping
The particular, the very particular, drive - we could even call it a
wave if we can talk now about transportation on water, we could even
call it a wave - of this new year is a significant movement away from
organised religion and even organised spirituality. You will find those
structures are not holding water, to stay in the water for a moment. You
will find that the things that allowed people to collect and organise
themselves before are not able to be sustained no matter how hard you
try to keep those groups together and to keep people on the same path.
No, a wave is moving and you will find it in your year as you go along,
that is allowing what we are going to call fluid grouping. We are
calling it fluid grouping. Which means that the groups do not have
strict and exclusive membership, they do not have ritualistic or
habitual ways of doing things from which they don't depart, they do not
even - get this - have set agendas for their collection and for what
they wish to achieve and to create at a certain time. It is one of the
powers that you have that is the least used in your world today –
grouping. The power of your intention when you are a group is phenomenal
but the reason that it has not burst forth for you, the reason it has
not blossomed as much as it can is because of some of the underlying
control that is attempted to be had over those groups. Controlling a
group - whether that is the membership, the way the meetings are held,
what you do, what you are supposed to do, what you must wear, what you
must eat, that kind of control - necessarily limits the degree to which
that group can have power. So let us urge you to embrace what we are
calling fluid grouping. It means that when you feel like coming together
you do and those that are available they come and those that are don’t
they don’t and you are not disappointed and you are not feeling that
something is missing and what you do when you come together, let it be
fluid. Be moved by where you all are in the moment not a preset agenda
for what the group is supposed to achieve through the year or the kind
of people that are supposed to be there and the topics you are supposed
to cover. Bring what is real. This fluid grouping mechanism is one of
the things that can explode what we are going to talk about as your
lifestyles and that is the second part of this year that is going to
come under some significant change. The first we have talked about that
is that organised groups are going to take a tremendous amount of
strain. You will see it in the big structures of business they are not
always able to maintain the control that they did, they are being
disintegrated, so it is not just organised religion but organised groups
on all scales. Those businesses by the way - for those who are so
inclined – those businesses who can work with the concept of fluid
grouping are going to fly. Where the meetings are not set in advance,
where there is not an agenda that is set in advance with certain people
that may come and those who may not, that those who are together group
and they group about what is there right in the moment. Those businesses
who can harness the concept are going to be able to provide for the
needs of the people as they arise and surely that is good business
sense? So that is the one aspect of next year that, if you wish to
embrace it, would do you good, would assist you to surf on the top of
that wave rather than trying just to swim and struggle through it under
the bottom.
You can always choose which way you go. You cannot ever avoid the swim,
you are in the swim, it's too late to go back even the young one in the
stomach is already in the swim. But you can choose whether you surf the
waves of your life or whether you swim through them with some tremendous
struggle. Fluid grouping is the first.
2. The 'How' Replacing the 'What'
The second aspect we have mentioned is lifestyle. It is a very big word in all areas of experience and existence at the moment. Businesses are cottoning onto the fact that lifestyle is significant and are making a tremendous amount of profit from it and rightly so because lifestyle is eclipsing many other considerations about life. In other words, the way you live is becoming more and more significant than what you do or what you have. The way you live is one of the things that is going to eclipse some of the other considerations that life has held at certain moments in humanity’s history. And these have been appropriate and blessed make no mistake - because there is no mistake - but at certain moments in humanity’s history it didn't matter how you were living as long as you achieved. If you achieved but you were stressed, that was okay. If you had many things but you were lonely, that was okay. If you created a huge amount but you depleted the Earth in the process, that was okay. And you required that process. But now the style in which you do things, in other words your lifestyle, the how of it, the flair of it, the how of it is eclipsing the what. And so we are also giving you here some grand permission, some grand permission, to allow yourselves to give yourselves a little bit of credit for the how of your experience and not only the what. You are still all of you, all of you here to some degree, evaluating your lives by the what. What have I done this year? What have I achieved? What have I got to in my relationship or in my business, in my living environment or my work? We are suggesting that you replace that word with the word how. How have I lived this year? How have I been? How much have I embraced? How have I loved? How have I loved? You are going to find that any focus on the what is going to be very difficult for you to sustain. If you are reading into that that there are going to be dramatic changes in the way you live in the next few years you are accurate, you are accurate. So we are giving you a way to avoid some of the consternation that may come with these changes that are going to take away some of your options for ‘what living’. Let us rephrase that to make it a little more clear. Some of the attachments that humanity has had to conventional achievement, conventional growth or progress and what that means to people and to the earth upon which you live, some of your attachments to what it means even to be spiritually successful - it's exactly what we were talking about earlier about growth - are not available to you to that degree any more. So if you allow your focus to be joy, if your commitment is to joy instead of to achievement whether that is any kind of achievement including spiritual achievement (that is what we have meant by devotion to growth), if you allow yourself to commit to joy then no matter what is available or unavailable in the moment you are free. Then your lifestyles are of the very highest order. If you are committed to joy, the how of your life is taken care of even when things change quite significantly around you.
A Year of Subtle Change
It is not predominantly in this year, this time that you call a year, that these changes in how it is available to live are going to occur. They are already in motion we have talked at length about the wave of integration that is very much available and very strong in its impact, but some of the material implications of that are not in their essence in the next year. So, in other words, some of what you have had this year is replicated - at least in the surface - next year. Some of the conditions of your life, even most of the conditions of your life are not yet going to change that dramatically. The changes are subtle, they are underground they are like volcanic activity that in actual fact starts a long, long time before the eruption and can even be measured. So for seismic or significant change in the way that human beings encounter themselves and encounter life, it is not yet the year. Not yet the year of deep material or visible changes even though the underground currents are changing and getting things powerful. However we give to you options this evening for embracing a different way of approaching the coming phase allowing what may come to be easy for you, allowing you to surf over it as we have suggested. We understand that to be the most significant suggestion we can bring to you - to embrace what energies are available in the year. We can give you a word for next year, a word that for us sums up kinds of potential and it is only potential. Let us suggest to you that asking us what is going to happen next year is the same as a soccer team asking the coach at halftime if they are going to score in the second half. We don't know.! We can give you a game-plan, we can give you some good strategies because we have seen your patterns from the sideline like the coach, but we don't know whether you are going to choose to use those, and if so how, and if you are going to work together as a group and if you do whether you will score. So we are not giving you what is going to happen but we are giving you - like any good coach - a good gameplan to go into the next half.
The Word for 2008 is 'Sparkling'
The two years, the one you have had [2007] or are busy closing down all
of you at different points as we have said, and the one into which you
are moving [2008] they are like two halves of a soccer match in case
that wasn't already clear. So they are related. We have said that some
of what you have experienced this year will be replicated in the coming
year, it is not a separate space altogether. There will be changes but
here will also be similarities. It is the same game in other words. But,
as you know, if any of you are lovers of sport, a game even if it is the
same game can have a completely different energy in the second half.
Depending on what you do in your halftime to a large degree will
determine how you play in the second half. So the game is the same. But
you have been given here - and let's call this halftime, let's call this
your talk with the coach although we are praising you rather than
correcting you and that is one significant difference – you have been
given here a game-plan, a way to approach next year. Rather than the
specifics, we have promised a word, we have not forgotten! We have
promised a word that for us encapsulates what is available in the coming
space of time and it is sparkling. That is the word, sparkling. A
strange word perhaps some of you might feel a flimsy word even. But if
you have any understanding that light is divinity then you will
understand that we have given a very powerful word, a very strong word.
Sparkling is a very particular action of light. We are not going to go
into it too deeply now it is not the space and because we cannot ever
know how you are going to interpret sparkling and exactly how the
particular energies are going to manifest into the nooks and crannies of
your year, but remember sparkling. If you can allow yourself to sparkle,
if you can use that word whatever it raises for each of you, if you can
sparkle in your life exactly as it is now, exactly as it is now, if you
can sparkle or if you can be in such a manner that you feel as if you
are sparkling you are going to be in the groove of what is available
next year. We are, if it is not already apparent, deeply excited.
We are going to make a break at this moment so you're welcome to move
out those who wish to move out and we are going to also allow for any
individual questions that may exist here to be brought forward. So those
who need to leave, we are blessed to have had you, we are blessed to
have had you and the others who remain are welcome to bring forward what
you would like to raise.
Q: What would be a word for this last year that is just past if sparkling is the word for 2008?
Thank you. We are going to give you word that possibly might shock you
or might sound as if it is not divine, it is the word dulled. We're not
talking about dull in the sense of boring, we're not talking about dull
in the sense of uninteresting or in any way not shining. When a light is
dull it is still a light, and there are very good reasons in certain
moments of your experiences for lights to be dull or dim (you can use
dull or dim). So when we give the name or a label for this year it has
been dim. What that means does not - if you already have realised this
from the way we opened here tonight - it doesn't mean anything at all to
do with the way that you have achieved or not achieved. We know
automatically that you will have arrived at that conclusion. Some of you
automatically when you have heard the word dim you felt in your heart
some sense of resistance or some sense of shame but it is not about your
achievements or non achievements, we hope that we have made it clear
here that that is not the consideration of spirit at all. We're not
achievement-orientated at all. Just like we can say that this year is
sparkling before you have even entered it - independent of you to a
degree - we can say that last year was dim which means independent of
you and what you might think of as your performance. The energy that
covered you, that covered the planet for what we understand to be last
year – which, again, is a slightly different delineation of time than
you use - has been dim. It has given a chance for darkness, if we can
call it that, but let's say shadow rather to surface and that has been
beautiful. Many of you individually, and also collectively when you look
again at what has happened in business and political regimes across the
world, will notice that many of you have allowed the shadow to be seen.
You have allowed the shadow to come in to the light and so that is what
we mean by dim. It has been an opportunity for the aspects that have
contained some shame, the aspects of which you have not been proud, the
aspects that have been kept away from the light, they have been given a
chance to surface in this year. On the whole, looking at your planet
from where we are, that has allowed the light to be dimmed or dulled. We
don't have a judgment on that. Please allow yourselves to be void of
judgment of it is well, but that will have accounted for some of the
experiences of all of you in the year. It has been a wonderful
opportunity for what we have previously called integration. The big
wave, - we have called the next year sparkling and this year that you
have been in dim or dull but those are just to describe very small spots
in time - the bigger wave that is blessing not only this planet, but the
other two that you are in partnership with as a triangulation, is
integration. That is very much the spirit of things and so last year
allowed for what is critical to integration and that is the surfacing of
the shadow. Much of that was done so beautifully and is no longer
required yet it was, it was. We hope that assists you to gain some
clarity - and we are being funny there because we are calling the light
of the year dim which is not clear! - but we hope that that gives you
some clarity on what you have raised.
Thank you.
The last year brought out a lot of the shadow aspect, is this coming year more about integration into more I don't know if neutral is the right word, into more balance?
Neutral is a perfect word, neutral is a perfect word and we hope that by
next year this time we won't be any more talking about shadow and light.
We hope that all of it will be understood to be perfection and divinity
and focusing on your joy does that. When you focus on growth, by the
way, you are still coming from a consciousness of judgment. You have to,
it is appropriate, it is blessed, but when you are growing or when that
is your reason for being you are still almost seeking out the shadow of
yourselves. You have needed to, it has been beautiful that you have had
the courage all of you to get here, but it is still encapsulated within
the ‘school-mentality’. In other words with the thought that Earth is a
school and that you are here to grow and learn your lessons, there is
still the understanding of judgement implicit in that – ‘there are
things within me that are not right, not divine, not spiritual, not
worked with, and those things need to be worked on’. Where are seeing
you all go is where there is no more distinction. That you are not
anymore distinguishing between parts that you call shadow and parts that
you call light. So, yes, integration is the key but even more than that
- it is a big step, this it is a total shift in consciousness - we don't
polarise them even at all. Yes, in order to get there you integrate but
even beyond the integration of them is where you even lose the language,
you even lose the language of ‘either’, ‘or’ and you use the language of
with. That is how we began here maybe if you remember [person’s name]?
We began here by saying we are praising with. We are not praising to. If
you can translate that distinction into every area of your life you are
really getting what we are saying. Taking all the distinctions and
making them ‘withs’ - that is where we see it going. Integration is
again the mechanism but after a while you won't even know you have
integrated because you don't separate between the two at all and you
will know when you're not separating by paying close attention to your
language. It will come up in your language.
May I ask another question?
Yes.
Recently I have become very aware of information that has been given relating to Gaia, and the need to heal the planet and to help the planet at this time. Can you shed some light on that?
We would be grateful, we would be grateful to sparkle that up a little.
Let's go back to something we have said at the beginning, which was
around collapsing - you're going to hear this term a lot - collapsing
the divide between humanity and divinity. If you recall that we did some
symbolic actions to collapse that divide as we started here, if you can
recall that we switched it around and praised you instead of praising us
and then if you can recall that right at the end we invited you onto the
stage. The quintessential action of collapsing the divide that exists
between us and you meaning perhaps, as we have already said, that we
don't consider ourselves your guides we consider ourselves your
partners. The very same, the very same essence belongs to the question
you asked about the earth upon which you live. You are not the earth's
guides. Which suggests to you, the same as our relationship to you, that
you are not here to rescue the planet, you are not here to be its
nurses, its doctors and you do not know better than the planet. That is
one of the philosophies that has crept into what are well-intentioned
groups and people that are focusing on healing the planet. They are
working from the position that they know better, that they know better
what the planet needs. It is not so. Just as we do not know better than
you, we have collapsed that divide. And where you would be very well
served to go is to collapse the divide between you and the earth. You
are not in charge of the earth, which it means as you are beginning to
know, you are not here to exploit the earth the same as you wouldn't
exploit a partner. But not because you are righteous and you are a
healer of the earth but because it is not useful to exploit your
partners. Because you are partners. It is not in other words that you
hold a position of authority over the earth, which means also and we
understand this is a strange way to put it, but you as human beings, you
do not have the capacity to destroy the earth just the same as neither
of you individually has the capacity to destroy anyone else around here
or to destroy anything in its essence. You're all magnificent agents of
God. You are sparks of divinity, you cannot be destroyed. The earth can
as little be destroyed as your soul can be. You accept in your human
experience death. You accept that your identity can shift but that the
essence of you survives. Well, you cannot be as arrogant to presume that
that is not also true of the earth. The earth, no matter what you do to
her whether you presume you are being kind to her or cruel, the earth's
destiny is not in your hands the same as none of the destinies of each
of you here is dependent on the other. That would be a very arrogant
presumption to make and many are making it about the earth.
So we are applauding your tuning in to the voice of the earth, she is
speaking louder than before and we are blessing her. She has her own
learnings by the way, she has her own agenda, she has her own path, her
own growth and one of those things that she's coming forward in is
speaking more loudly. You call that climate change we call it speaking
more loudly. And so that is wonderful if you are hearing her - and you
are. It is wonderful if you are starting to bring what has been your
silent partner in to be your executive partner. We are going back to
business terms to make it clear here that it is not that the
relationship is about a master and a servant and the master has been
cruel to the servant and now the master must be kind. It is much more
symbiotic than that, much more equal. So again we would suggest to you
that instead of holding - and it is an impossibility so it will create a
lot of pressure on you - instead of holding the view that you need to
heal the earth, hold the view of partnering with the earth. Hold the
view of listening and talking to Gaia and you are deeply blessed in
that. There are some of you popping up around the planet - we are so
happy to see it and when we talk to you about fluid grouping we hope
that that will also be one of the kinds of drives for grouping- but
there are many of you popping up over the planet who are hearing the
voice of Gaia. But when you are deeply tuned into her you're going to
experience her as a being just like you, unable to be destroyed and
unable to be saved, because in essence, like you, she's perfect, she's
on her own path on her own path.
It would be wise for you to consider earth the way you consider a woman
abused in a relationship. You know perhaps some of you that have been in
that position or that have assisted in that position that going to the
woman and saying to her ‘you have allowed all this abuse, you must stop
it and you must leave this relationship immediately and empower
yourself’ does not mean that she packs her case and moves out the door.
That is not the way that it works. And it is also not useful to go to
the abuser and to judge him. The more that you judge an abuser, the more
he will abuse. So it is not at all about casting judgment on yourselves
as human beings for the way you have been with the planet. If you judge
an aggressor he becomes more aggressive if you love an aggressor he
becomes gentle automatically, gentle automatically. Humanity has not
loved itself very well these past few years in our time (that means many
many many centuries). That is why you haven't loved the earth only
because you haven't known how to love yourselves. The same with a man or
any other kind of creature in the position of abuser. The one who cannot
love himself, abuses. You do not correct that by judging the abuser and
loving him even less and that is why, again, the organised groups around
nature conservation and around earth preservation the ones who have had
at their basis judgment are not going to be able to sustain the
activities and have massive impact because they are based on judging the
aggressor rather than loving the aggressor. It is a radical shift we
know but we bring it to you because you are capable of absorbing it and
because you are starting to hear her voice. Let her sing her own song,
not the song that you think she should sing. Does that respond to it for
you?
Yes thank you.
Thank you.
I would like to talk about the 'how' not the 'what'. It's still bringing up a lot of pain for me to specifically be watched by the outside world- family - especially as to the what.
Yes. Can we go fully into this or is this not the moment for you?
Just a brief one.
Okay. We are going to suggest to you something that you know already,
and it can come like perhaps a punch comes a bit from the left field and
make you reel a little bit, but that which you are experiencing has to
do with your own judgment of yourself ,not external judgment of you.
You're calling it in repeatedly and that is always the sign for you
that, because it is repeated, because it is a pattern, it is a mirror to
you of your own judgment of the what of your life, your own judgment
about the what and how much you have reached and what you have earned
and what you have done in the world. Especially with you, you are
comparing it, you are comparing it to some people that you love. You do
not hate them in fact you think they are wonderful but when you compare
yourself to those people and you love them deeply you are finding
yourself lacking on the ‘what’ and that sense of self condemnation
becomes mirrored to you from the outside world. Is it okay for us to
tell you that?
Yes.
So the step forward, in other words, is not at all to try to disentangle
yourself from the people that you feel are judging you. There is no need
to focus on those relationships very much at all they are the secondary
step, that is a symptom not a cause. It is still sitting within your
heart right at the bottom, not at the surface. The surface of your heart
is wide open, the surface of your heart is like a meadow that anyone can
come and play in at any time. You make space in your heart for anyone
who comes in the room, for us that is quite some gift, but right at the
bottom of your heart is still a sense of judgment about what you have
done with your life or more specifically what you have not done. That is
lodged there, that judgment, and when you are looking for it in yourself
you are only going to find it when you are comparing, that's your clue
that we give you! It's not that on a day-to-day basis - you condemning
yourself - but there are some few people who you love a lot but when you
think about what they can do and what they do do, you are still holding
a lot of condemnation about your what and that causes the secondary
response from the world. So our loving suggestion for you is not at all
to focus on those relationships where you are feeling you are judged.
That is not to say remove yourself from them, removing yourself is still
focusing on them, it is still looking there instead of looking at the
place where the healing can occur. So let them be is all we are saying.
No need to have a strategy about them, no need to work on them and also
no need to disentangle yourself, it will cause a lot of pain, a lot of
pain if you try to disentangle yourself from the direction in which the
judgment is coming, no, no need to disentangle. Let it be and let your
eyes shift, let your eyes shift on to who you are. Let your eyes shift
on to how you live, you are going to find gems there. You are going to
find such beauty, such sparkling diamonds when you look at the ‘how’ of
your daily existence and when for you that can eclipse the ‘what’ then
you are going to walk tall. You're going to be in your life in such a
manner that judgment from others is not even a potential. There are ones
that live like that. They are ones that are so deeply proud of who they
are and what they have created and how they love that there is not an
option energetically to push forward judgment, it cannot even get there,
it is like a bubble. At the moment you have not got that bubble of self
pride, is not fully anyway, that is why you can be affected because it
is touching what is true between you and you. So what we suggest is for
you to shift focus and allow yourself to begin to untangle your own
judgments between the ‘what’ and the ‘how’. In particular, if you could
let your self disentangle your thoughts from the comparative basis that
they have in relation to some people, do you know of who we speak? When
we are talking about the ones that you love but that raise for you
comparative thoughts? You know? Yes. So does that respond to it for you?
Yes.
Thank you.
Could I talk about the massive stress response in my body which I have also seen in a lot of people and maybe a mechanism or a remedy or something like that to assist us as we change focus towards joy?
You have answered your own question my dear. You regularly answer your
own questions, you regularly answer your own questions. If you could
only allow yourself to trust who you are you would not need to consult
anyone, including a channel. So in your own question you give yourself
the remedy. When growth is your focus - this is applicable to all of you
- when growth is your focus stress is still available because it is
still achievement-based. The focus of growth still reflects a
consciousness of achievement. Even if now you have switched from
physical and material achievement to spiritual achievement it is still
an underlying consciousness of achievement - that there is a place you
have to get to, there is work you have to do, clearing that you must do,
inner child work that you must do and so on and so on. When that is the
focus you will still have stress because you will still fail. Any
consciousness of achievement has got always the polar, has always got
the polar of failure. If you are in a consciousness of achievement you
will have the fear of failure that is a very logical statement and when
you have got a fear of failure you stress. That is one of the major
reasons for stress in the body - fear that I won't make it, fear that I
won't make it. For some of you here that is quite literally sometimes a
survival fear but for others it is fear I won't make it is a mother,
fear I won't make it in this role, I won't make it as a provider that
causes a significant degree of stress.
If the purpose of your existence is joy, if that is what you allow to be
your consciousness (and therein you have answered your own questions)
then that assists you to slowly - it won't happen overnight - but to
slowly decrease the tendency for stress. Perhaps you can notice what we
are saying by looking at the history of humanity. When you moved into a
consciousness of achievement, aspirational consciousness, that's when
humanity started showing stress-related diseases is it not? Achievement
and stress are bed partners. You are welcome to achieve, we are not
suggesting don't achieve not at all. We're only saying that, as we have
talked about earlier, your achievements, your growth, that is just your
vehicle. It's not where you are going, it's not the purpose of your
existence. The purpose of your existence is an expansion of joy and that
will assist you to start to work with some of the stress-related
diseases. You can't cure, by the way, you can't cure stress-related
diseases by staying in the same consciousness in which you created them.
So if you have a heart attack and you do not change the way you view
your life you are going to reproduce a stress-related condition in your
body again and again. Only - and this is how you are driving yourselves
to the next level - only when you shift a deep sense of consciousness -
and this is what we have been talking about in terms of lifestyle - when
you shift off the ‘what’ to the ‘how’ then you are shifting off of
growth or achievement into joy and that is the only place in which you
can deeply heal and also avoid totally stress-related illnesses. It does
not mean there are not challenges for you in the paradigm of joy. You
haven't set up an experience for yourself that is devoid of challenge no
matter how good you get at positive thinking or how spiritual you become
you are not going to clear your life of challenge. You would not want to
if you were able to see things from where we see them. But stress is not
a challenge of a joyful existence, stress is a challenge of an
achievement-oriented existence. So we cannot give you a remedy if you're
going to stay within achievement mode, every remedy will be superficial.
Yet, if you allow yourself to change modes, if the very reason for your
existence becomes deep, authentic, pure joy then you're going to be in a
position to cure and to avoid stress-related illness. Has that answered
it for you?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Joy is the Alignment of all Your Faculties
We are running out of fuel so if there are anymore questions can you bring them now. There are some of you here wondering about a pregnancy or wondering about the energy of pregnancy involved for you in the New Year. That is very strong in this room very strong. One last word, it is a word about animals. Perhaps you have read, or just seen from your own observations, that one of the aspects that separate animal consciousness from human consciousness is the capacity to reason. It is the capacity to reason that also allows for an achievement-orientated focus and you have required that. It has been a step along your evolutionary ladder. But animals do not have that capacity or not in the same way you do. They certainly reason but they reason in a very different process, they reason through their bodies not through a faculty that is called mind or mental reasoning. So the fact that animals do not have that capacity certainly limits their experience on earth. What you have as human beings is you have the capacity for reason but in the last few moments of your experience your faculty for reason has dominated. And when it dominates to the exclusion of some of the other faculties you possess such as body wisdom and imaginative wisdom or intuitive wisdom - and those are the same for us - when reason dominates these you also do not have a very merry existence and that is what we have been suggesting to you about swapping around your achievement paradigm for a joy paradigm. Joy is the alignment of all your faculties. So we are not saying you need to switch off your minds or judge them in any way or take away your reasoning. You cannot even if you tried. No matter how much you meditate you will not be able to - as it is told to you - control your mind completely. It is not designed to control your mind either. But when all your faculties are in equilibrium, when they are integrated, that is the recipe for joy. And so animals are a particular example to you of what life can be like when reason doesn't dominate and it can be very playful and very joyful and you can still have good common sense and keep yourselves alive. Animals continue to keep their species on the earth don't they? In fact there are some animals pieces that are better adapted than you are and they don't have reason, which shows you that your reason is not the thing - at least in dominance - that is going to allow you to embrace the new paradigm. It is not that you are going to be able to think these things out, in other words you are not going to be able to figure out with your reasoning mind the way to embrace the future. When your thinking mind, your imaginative mind and your body mind are in integration you are going to be able to be fully present and that is joy. Thank you.
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© Angela Deutschmann
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