Peace, Compassion & Ascension Amid War & Terror
By Jim Ewing (Blueskywaters)
On Sept. 11, our nation and our world received a blow that will require all our gifts to amend, with the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Since then, our nation has gone to war, with untold effects in potential harm to all beings. The pain and suffering that occurred on Sept. 11 and is ongoing today extends far beyond America's borders, to the world community, and beyond.
It will require all our gifts to be brought to bear to exercise the utmost of which we capable in prayer, compassion and forgiveness to heal and to create a new reality of positive good.
Each of us in our various ways has gifts to share: -- For those practicing Reiki, it's time to use the long-distance healing ability and focus on the most troubled spots of the globe: New York, Washington, Boston . . . Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan.
For those practicing Consegrity®, create best frames for healing, making sure the merkabah is functioning, extending beyond time and space, to all points of the globe, offering healing mirrors to all who need it.
For those practicing Shamanism, meet with your helping spirits and guide those souls that have left their bodies who are lost and confused toward the light (psychopomp) so that they may find rest and healing, and understanding beyond human understanding in the Creator's eternal love.
For drum circles, raise your vibration rates to direct the Earth energies of the Great Mother to bring peace and healing to all her children, across the globe wherever pain and suffering is found.
We as lightworkers, healers, Children of Light, must do this work; it is our duty as citizens of the Earth, responding to the call of our destiny and our life purpose to come forward. If not us, then who?
We must reach deep to find forgiveness, compassion and prayer. And it may be difficult. Why? Because it is a test by the Creator for each one of us.
Consider it an Ascension test.
It's easy to "forgive" where there is no harm. When we are harmed and harmed grievously, as our nation and our world is harmed by the worst terrorist act in history, it is easy to hate and difficult for any human being to truly forgive.
Yet, already, nations around the globe and people of all faiths have joined to condemn the terror and focus on the unity of spirit.
What we are seeing is the potential for a new global awareness of the unity of all peoples, the divinity within each of us, the similaries, not the differences.
This is our true test: focusing on unity of spiritual awareness and rejecting hate, separation and differences.
Out of will for war can come peace.
But what about those who caused this atrocity and those who perpetuate and cheer on such misery and tragedy? Can we -- should we? -- find healing, compassion and prayer for them, too?
As spiritual beings, it is our duty. We are not just human beings; we are spiritual beings in human bodies, each and every one of us, no matter how "high" or "low" or what personal dramas we create for ourselves. We each and all are evolving as spiritual beings.
Our soul purpose at this time and at this place is not to perpetuate polarity, but to foster holistic healing -- for the planet, for ourselves.
Can we love one and hate the other? Love, true love, compassionate love that reflects the Divine within us, knows no polarity. The Creator doesn't love one of His/Her children and hate the other. For us to do so is to turn our backs on Divine love, the unconditional and unlimited love and will of the Creator. We cannot have love in our hearts and hate on our faces toward anyone, least all when looking to God for help. And, in fact, when we hate another, we hate ourselves, for all our brothers and sisters are mirrors or aspects of our own being.
On Sept. 11, while our nation mourned, children in Palestine were seen jumping for joy at the death and destruction, egged on by parents and teachers, being tossed candy, and led in a chant extolling the death in America.
No single photograph could spur more anger here, but it should exact compassion.
Are these children, these innocents, worthy of our hate? Are they not as much the victims of this horrible act of Sept. 11 as those who died and were maimed?
They will grow to kill and be killed and if we do not insruct our children and will ourselves to break the cycle of death and destruction, of affront to human dignity confronting itself again and again in escalation. If not us, then who will?
To have compassion for those who have done us wrong does not mean we condone the act. We share the pain that all feel and reject the hate in ourselves and others by committing to ease the suffering and heal the pain of all involved, to bring oneness, kindness and understanding to the loving hearts we share.
Applying the separation and division of hate does not bring wholeness and healing, wisdom and understanding to anyone.
Those who committed this horrendous act will be punished. It is up to us to bring healing and understanding to all who suffer.
Our commmitment to compassion is deepened by the enormity of the loss, for those who hate are reflections of each other, united in a polarity of love and hate, peace and war, whatever their motivations.
There is no "them" and "us," for we are they and they are us as human beings caught in a drama of pain and suffering that takes victims back and forth.
So, how do "we" forgive "them?" First, we forgive ourselves. We forgive the hate and polarity in ourselves that drives hate and polarity in the world. We see those who hate us as reflections of ourselves, our own actions turned against us.
Second, we realize that by giving away our pain and our anger, our want for retribution and revenge, that we are healing ourselves. We are giving away (for-giving) the cause of suffering on our part, our want to hurt others, which only hurts ourselves.
Third, we pray effectively. By that we do not ask that something to go away. We ask what may be and ask Divine assistance in making a positive outcome BECOME. We surrender to the greatest potential good of the moment.
Remember, there is no past or future, only ideas we cling to; reality is only the present, the stillpoint from which all reality arises.
The great reference beings of all our cultures -- from Jesus to Buddha to every indigenous teacher -- have all said that the Kingdom of God, the source of all BE-ing is within us (each of us, individually, the spark of the Creator) and all things are possible through prayer.
Through uniting our hearts and uniting our prayers, we can bring a new reality into existence. And we must do so, to heal the Earth and ourselves.
Through prayer, forgiveness, love, compassion, we can create a reality better than what the current chaos and pain is leading us toward. As we raise our own awareness, our vibration, we move closer and closer to a quality of consciousness that approaches "the absolute," a point in frequency that is high enough to resonate with the highest levels of creation.
We are on the verge of creating a new consciousness that, using transmutation of our inner and outer lives, can create any type of world we wish. We are on the threshold of Ascension, not just individually, but for our entire world.
We cannot discount the power of a single human being to create change, even momentous change. The terrorist tragedy and its aftermath of war is a personal test by the Creator, aptly named "The Great Mystery" in Native America.
We can react in polarity and hate (loving one, hating the other -- even witholding love is polarity) or we can be the holistic healers we need to be and practice our faith and beliefs with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our ability.
We are spiritual masters each and every one of us. We create the world in which we live by the energy of our thoughts as well as actions. As we hold in our hearts, so the world will reflect. As above, so below. We must be the best BE-ings we can be to heal the Earth and ourselves in this time of personal and global crisis.
Mitakuye Oyasin!
Aho.
Handling The Earth Changes Under Way...
By Jim Ewing
(Note: On Nov. 5, we had another solar flare that unleashed an X-class wave of radiation at the Earth. At time of writing, Nov. 11, another, even larger set of sunspots was marching across the Sun's surface capable of unleashing radiation at any time. This one is 10 times larger than the diameter of the Earth and is visible to the naked eye, through appropriate filters. Although the following was written immediately after the last X-class flare hit the Earth in August, it still holds true -- and was even prophetic, given the events that occurred Sept. 11 and since -- so, it's worth re-reading and remembering whenever the Earth/Sun entrainment shifts. We are probably in for several more such events. You might want to cut and paste this and send it to your sacred circle of friends, family and loved ones. I only ask that you credit the webpage. Thx. JE)
Aug. 26 -- Something that came up that probably needs to be brought to everyone's attention. Just about everyone it seems has been having a very tough go of it emotionally over the last few weeks. You are not alone, if you are feeling this. It has to do with the energy of the sun. Today, NASA released this alert:
"X-FLARE:
Sunspot group AR9591 unleashed a powerful X5-class solar flare at 1645 UT (1245 EDT) on August 25th. The explosion triggered an hour-long radio blackout over parts of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It also hurled a brilliant halo coronal mass ejection into space . . . . Forecasters estimate a 20% chance of severe geomagnetic activity when the expanding cloud hits Earth's magnetosphere late Sunday or (more likely) Monday. Sky watchers above ~45 degrees geomagnetic latitude should be alert for auroras around local midnight."
We can expect more problems in our relationships as these energetic gyrations go on, even after this particular large and powerful storm subsides.
It has happened in virtually every single person's lives in our circles over the past few weeks and/or months and it's for a reason: the earth is going through great shifts. If you have seen Gregg Braden's videos or read his books, the dynamics of this are outlined by him.
The Earth's magnetics are falling and the base resonance of the Earth is increasing. When these two points intersect, or reach "zero point," he predicts, the Earth will have a shift in the poles, as prophesied in the Mayan Calendar, as part of the 26,000-year progression of the Equinox which will occur in 2012. The closer we come to that date, the more Earth changes occur and the more our personal relationships (with others and with ourselves to ourselves) change.
This is because our Sun is entrained (or energetically "in synch" with) the center of the galaxy; our Earth is entrained with the Sun and our hearts (each one of us) are entrained with the Earth.
When one "string" so to speak of this marvelously tuned instrument of our planet, our sun and our galaxy is plucked, we all quiver. In the past two weeks, the sun has been going through some incredible changes which have baffled the scientists. It started on Aug. 15 when a massive solar flare erupted on the back side of the sun. Ordinarily, this wouldn't affect Earth, since the flare went off in the other direction. But, for some obscure reason which NASA can't explain, according to the scientists who monitor solar activity
(http://www.spaceweather.com),
the "flux of high-energy protons around our planet soared to 1000 times normal on Aug. 16, hitting the Earth with a tremendous shock wave." It caused aurora borealis to be seen at various parts of the globe. Since then, the solar wind has been above average and sunspot activity has been above the peak scientists had predicted for this time.
In fact, if you go back into the records of sunspot activity, a summertime high of 200 sunspots per day has only been reached in a few periods going back 300 years.
Counting sunspots is relatively easy and you don't need a telescope to do it; just a pinhole on a blank sheet or wall and people have been doing it for hundreds of years (thousands, when you count the Greeks; but consistently, day by day, only since the 1700s or so).
If you look at the records, you will see that the period we are in now with peaks of up to 300 sunspots per day HAS NEVER OCCURRED in recorded history, and those times with heightened sunspot activity roughly correspond with such events as the American Revolutionary War, the rise of Nazi Germany immediately before WWII, and Cold War tensions, Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. (See the chart for yourself:
sunspotcycle.com.
The scientists among us may say, "well, sunspot activity peaks every 11 years, so there's no correspondence; that's just how events fall -- SOMETHING is happening every 11 years."
That's true. And the peaks don't fall precisely on these events, some before, some after. But, we know, too, that the big events of history aren't necessarily the "big event" itself that is remembered, but all the little events that led up to those events.
For example, the Holocaust can't be put as a "spike" on a time line, per se, because it occurred over a period of time. But who could say that the cumulative effect of 6 million people killed in a horrendous manner didn't have an effect on human consciousness and evolution that is independent of any particular "battle" of World War II?
The point is: Our sun is behaving erratically and outside the expectations of science.
NASA had predicted when the sun reversed its polarity in February (it does so every 11 years, with the next one in 2012 -- surprise, surprise!) that the average number of sunspots per day would peak at 150.
Throughout the summer, the number has rarely been below 150 and during June and July approached 300. Now, the number of sunspots seems to be going down, but the size of the sunspots seems to be increasing. For example, the sunspot that unleashed the X-class flare on Saturday (Aug. 25) was non-exisent a few days ago. Now, it is four times larger than the planet Earth.
We know that people behave differently during a full moon than at other periods (through anecdotal evidence of murders, etc.) and we know that our sun has a far greater influence on our planet than the moon (and the moon's influence is considerable, from tides to birth of sea life, to ... well, you name it).
These buffetings of solar wind and cosmic radiation are like full-body slams on the planet. And we, our psyches, are like little leaves or feathers blown in a hurricane.
The upshot is that people who are doing energetic work, doing the process of clearing out old emotional trauma and making way for a higher vibratory rate are going to feel these shifts, perhaps, more dramatically than people who aren't.
We are more attuned to our physical bodies, our etheric bodies and the vibration rates of the Earth Mother than those who stuff or deny their feelings, emotions, perceptions, etc., and it's going to come out in our relationships.
The way to come through these Earth changes as easily as possible is to accept what changes are occurring within ourselves and our relationships and recognize them for what they are: basically, a healing crisis ... only on a super, mass scale.
Those involved in energy work are familiar with the healing crisis. Reiki Masters routinely tell anyone getting an attunement that they "might" (you always say "might" because they might not) have some physical and psychological effects from the attunement. They can come in the form of headaches, flu-like symptoms, diarrhea, fever, or they can be a sense of disorientation, melancholy, etc. It is the body's way of accepting or integrating new information (healing) within the system.
It has been likened to a glass of water with a lot of dirty sediment in it. If you pour in fresh water, the sediment is stirred up, so the water seems dirtier than before. But if you keep pouring in the fresh water, the water in the glass gets clearer and clearer until it's clean.
Things (physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally) may seem to get worse before they get better. This happens with any energy work.
Another way of looking at it is through polarity versus wholeness. If perfection is introduced into the system, chaos can seem to result. Anything which is not perfect will seem to be chaotic or negative. What occurs, though, is that the negative is pushed out by the perfection. It is first differentiated (comes to the surface) and then is released, allowing the perfection (healing) to become a dynamic within the system.
Inertia (stasis) plus healing (action) equals differentiation (change) equals wholeness (integration), to start the process over again. The key, when these things come up, is to acknowledge and let go. If the "bad" is "coming up," we must acknowledge whatever it might be and let it go. That releases the negative charge while allowing the memory to remain, or growth/healing, making room for new energy (advancement).These "negative" things (thoughts, emotions, feelings, memories, etc.) "come up" to be healed. We will continue to bump up with whatever they are again and again in ourselves, in others, in our relationships with others until we resolve (heal) them. The healing crisis only quickens the process and allows for more rapid healing/integration/advancement.
So, what do we do when these events take place? First and foremost is compassion. We must feel compassion for ourselves, first. Our hardest critics aren't others, but ourselves.Usually, things we see about ourselves that seem monstrous and huge others may not even be aware of or, if they are, they see them differently, often not worth worrying about.
Have compassion toward yourself. Let yourself feel whatever pain there is, and cry, act out the anger (but not on another person), whatever helps release the pent-up energy, and love yourself for who you are.
Imagine that if the same thing (whatever it is that is coming up) had happened to someone you love, perhaps a child, your child, a neighbor's child, your nephew or grandchild, anyone you care for. Would you hate or condemn or be angry with or love that little child any less because of what happened to him or her? Of course not! You would feel compassion toward that child, embrace him or her, wipe those tears away and say that you love them, will always love them, you're sorry for what happened and he or she should never feel unloved again, that you will always be there. If you can do this for your neighbor's child, your child, your grandchild, why can't you do this for your "self"? You are worthy of love, of compassion, or loving and being loved. No matter what you have done, said, been a victim of or experienced, you do not deserve to be unloved for it. And you're not.
You always have forgiveness, with the Creator, your guides and angels, and, usually, with loved ones, too, if you will give them a chance. But the main person you need to get "right" with is yourself, that judgmental self, that part that echoes what you think others might say, that "ghost" voice of condemnation. Eradicate it! It's a shadow, a ghost, it doesn't exist. Blow it away! And open your eyes to the love that is waiting for you, inside you, around you -- everywhere, only waiting for your blessing. So, feel compassion for your "self." Let you love yourself from that bountiful wellspring within yourself that you are so free to give to others. If it helps, find a photo of yourself as a child, a happy photo, and put it somewhere you can refer to it. Pull it out from time to time and love that child!!!
Even if no one in the world ever gave that child one moment of love, you can, can you not? You have within you the power to love that child and make that child whole -- moreso than with any other human being on Earth. How can you turn your back on that innocent child so needing of your attention, care and love? It's never too late to start loving you.
Now, compassion for others. If your friends and relations are going through these difficulties, what can you do? You cannot stop their hurt and pain, their "healing crisis." But you can do one thing. You can respect their need for integration by neither taking what they say and do personally, nor adding to their pain/justification for not handling the situation well. Just as their healing crisis is not an opportunity for you to be a punching bag, it's not an opportunity for you to make them feel worse.
It's hard, yes, I know. When we feel slighted or hurt, we want to strike back; or we feel fear, fear that we're being rejected, that we will no longer be loved, that the person will decide we're not good enough -- any of a dozen things. But what WE are feeling is less important than what we do. We musn't react, but act!
By projecting our fear/anger on the person who is going through a healing crisis, we are only making that person respond to our fear/anger and not who we really are... the caring, loving human being who cares for that person and is really interested in his/her welfare.
Our fear/anger/insecurities have the opposite effect of what we intend; rather than showing we are loving and care, we present the face of fear, anger, rejection, which prompts the person going through the healing crisis to see the same in him/herself. "How can that person love me when I'm so hideous/awful/angry/sad/unlovable? And, see, there he/she is proving it!"
Have compassion for the person going through the healing crisis. If you truly love that person, you will give the greatest gift you have to give: Love, trust, acceptance of that person as he/she is IN THE MOMENT. That is unconditional love. It doesn't say, "I'll love you only if you prove to me (whatever)...." It says: "I love you. I love you now. I accept you as you are." It takes compassion to do that; to treat the other as you wish you would be treated. And it requires some forgiveness. I've heard it said that forgiveness doesn't work. That's false. It's a misunderstanding of forgiveness, true forgivness.
True forgiveness requires compassion. If you say, "I forgive you for this, I forgive you for that... etc., etc., etc.," that's not forgiveness. That's a laundry list of resentments said as a curse. And it doesn't go away; it just gets buried to resurface again sometime, perhaps in a different form. No, forgiveness requires true giving, giving from the heart.
True forgiveness says "I am giving away my anger. I am giving away my hurt. I am giving away any resentments I may be harboring because I love the divinity in you and the divinity in me and I do not wish either one of us to be harmed by MY ACTIONS."
You see, when you forgive someone, you are not forgiving that person for anything he or she may have done, although that is its effect. You are giving away any hate, hurt, resentment that YOU HOLD for anything that person may have done. You are creating a clean slate.
Consider: If someone does you harm and you resent it, who is harmed? Not the other person. Unless you tell that person you have been hurt by something that person said or did, that person may never know you have been harmed and certainly won't carry around any hurt, guilt or pain for it.
If you tell that person you forgive him or her for this hurt or pain, are you absolving the pain? No, you're just trying to inject the pain into that person, to hurt that person or induce guilt. Who is at fault there? The other person? No, you are. You are performing the hurt by "forgiving" that person in that way.
True forgiveness requires having the compassion to understand that if that person had felt the pain you did, it would hurt that person as grievously as it did you and so "for" you and "for" that person, you "give" away the pain. You for-give.
The Hebrew word for compassion is "womb-like." It is an all-encompassing love. It "feels" pain of others, of all, as if all were one, in the womb.
If you have all-encompassing love toward YOURSELF, if you can touch that place in yourself that is hurt and know it so well that you would not want to inflict that pain on anyone else, then you can FORGIVE the pain.
You can forgive another because you do not want to hold the pain, in yourself or others. You are one in your compassion.
Compassion is a very self-ish thing... Not manipulating others for the self, but doing what's best for the self. Which, in this case, is best for others, too.
Forgiveness, compassion, prayer. Those are the keys to getting through these changes.
Prayer.... We practice prayer in our drumming circle, with our drums. But, that's for another time. I pray that this helps.
Aho!
Namaste! |
