Hi all,
This is a challenging message to write. Not even sure why I'm writing it other than a desire to share the good and help all of us steer away from obstacles on the path.
I loved the online course that brought me here a couple of years ago, a combination of learning unity in love and being aware that on some levels there are forces opposing that love. Initially, I also found many posts supportive of the path to the spiritual experience of unity. Very encouraging stuff.
Here's the hard part of the message. At some point after a few months, I began to see an overwhelming number of what I would call paranoid messages about space creatures, conspiracies coming out of the woodwork, and drug use. I had to leave. Since then, I've gone farther along the path and have discovered that the path to union with God includes obstacles which are our mind's own projections--"demons" you might say, or our own dark unconscious images to use a sort of loose Jungian terminology. I believe this is what some on this forum are experiencing as they get so totally caught up in these "distractions" which our mind sets up to throw us off the path. I too got caught up in them in my own way, particularly in judging some of them--my own particular distraction.
This message is just a note of loving concern hoping that those who are so affected, including me, will be able to let go of the distractions and return to the path of experiencing unity with God/the universe. I'd like to participate in this forum, which I believe was conceived as a loving guidebook and discussion groups for those on the way but has become bogged down in distracting unconscious fantasies. I believe I may have been led to return here after a long absence for some as yet unknown reason, so I'll be watching the dialog again for a while to see if I can participate in some meaningful way without getting drawn into the fantasies as I did before.
Wishing a joyful journey and straight paths for all of us in our realization of union.
Chuck
Thanks so much for that beautifully written and compassionate message, Chuck. I very much resonate with your words. For all that I know there are dark and destructive forces out there and people who choose to focus on those, I also know that all of these are reflections or projections of things going on inside of me and inside of all of us collectively. When I feel compassion and take responsibility for literally everything I see, then I can move powerfully from a place of love and support for myself and for all.
Probably the main reason I don't spend much time on the Gathering Spot is that I don't have much interest in reading about people's fears and conspiracies unless they are able to somehow take responsibility for those and bring it back to a place of love. I have zero doubt, as the Transformation and Insight Courses repeated point out, that in our deepest core, every being in the universe is a divine being trying to do the right thing. I do my best to always bring my posts back to this, even when sharing about the deepest darkest stuff. Sometimes I fail, but this is always my intention.
I am not at all averse to disturbing or fear-based information. I want to know and understand the shadows, as I know that everything I fear is somehow a part of me waiting to be healed. Yet I would so love it if when people post this kind of stuff, they would then explore how this might be reflecting something inside them/us and discuss how by seeing and evoking the divine in everyone involved, we might then join in working together to bring love and compassion into every disturbing situation we see.
Let us learn to dance beautifully with the shadows so that we inspire ourselves and all around us to focus more fully on the journey towards ever more love and connection with ourselves and with all around us. Thanks again, Chuck, for this beautiful post.
With deep, heartfelt love and warm hugs to all,
Fred
P.S. I invite any interested to review lesson three, which goes into this in a beautiful and inspiring way, at http://www.transformationteam.net/ttcourse/ttcourse03a.
Fred, you echoed and expanded perfectly on what I was sharing! Thanks so much for the beautiful words!
Chuck
I have often found myself railing against foes I believe control my destiny-believing they control my happiness. It's a loathsome belief to be saddled with.
I've started to notice this habit and sometimes I can bite my tongue instead of ranting. It's a step in learning to take back my peace of mind and I expect to be more free over time to becoming emotionally triggered by dark stories. In my own case being afraid of the operators or perpetrators of dark plots or conspiracies can be greatly amplified by hardship and strain in your personal life. If you're already stressed out...
Fred and LC-glad you shared your experience on this because I've been getting tired of the negative offered without balance.
Chuck, I was inspired by your message, it woke from a dark sleep. I pop in and read posts quite regularly although it has been a long while since I posted or replied. I remember viewing a clip quite some time back, having trouble recalling the speakers name, not even sure what the overall subject was, yet one thing he said just shone out.
"If you are in a room that is without light, complete darkness, you can light the smallest candle and the room becomes bathed in light the darkness is banished. If you are in a room full of light and try to bring in darkness, it has no effect"
Thank you for being the Light in my room .......................
"All the darkness in the world cannot put out the light of a single candle."
And I highly recommend reviewing the two-page essay on choosing between victim and creator at:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/g/victim_or_creator_vs
Have a beautiful day!
With much love and warm hugs,
Fred
eyejay-hi-
take a look at this little video-a guy says just that near the end
Brian
Thanks Fred for the link back, was worth absorbing again. I have long held the belief that there is no such thing as a victim, we are all playing out our own roles here on Shoolhouse Earth. However I have begun to realise and understand that I have been playing the victim to myself, very subtle and never acknowledge, yet still going on in the depths of conscious.
I take this moment now to say I am NOT A VICTIM, and I ask that my Spirit Guides shine their Light onto all areas of Victimhood within me....................
..................... Wow!!!! The Kingfisher just returned, have not seen him in an age ............. maybe it's just spring is in the air Lol
Hey Brian, yes that was the guy I saw, a different vid though, Cheers
"Our souls are born of a creator which places a totally peaceful state deliberately out of reach so we will strive harder. We learn from wrongdoing. The absence of good traits exposes the ultimate flaws in our nature. That which is not good is testing us, otherwise we would have no motivation to better the world through ourselves, and no way to measure advancement."
~~ Michael Newton in "Journey of Souls" - a most awesome, inspiring book