A
message from Jesus, Monday, March 28,
2005.
NOTE: This dictation was delivered through Kim
Michaels at the Shangra-la Easter conference.
I AM the Being that all people know as Jesus
Christ. And although in the ongoingness of God,
the constant self-transcendence of God, I have
now become more than I was 2,000 years ago,
I am ever happy and grateful for those who will
listen to me in the form of Jesus Christ.
I am come to give you a teaching on healing,
specifically why so many people cannot be healed.
And as you know from the scriptures, there were
many people who met me 2,000 years ago and who
were not healed. And there were those who had
healing, yet their condition reappeared. So
why is it that so many cannot be healed?
The greatest threat to your salvation
To fully understand this, I would like you to
consider what is the greatest threat, the greatest
single threat, to your salvation. There are
many answers that human beings would give, but
very few human beings have discovered the real
answer. The real answer is that the greatest
single threat to the salvation of humankind
is religion—an outer, fear-based
religion that sets up and upholds the idol of
the external God who resides outside of the
inner kingdom. [For more on this concept, see
this
section.]
This creates a schism in the psyche of every
soul that has been exposed to this form of religion,
especially if they were exposed to it from early
childhood and were brought up in a fear-based
environment. The schism is that the soul knows
from within that it came from somewhere else,
that it is not a product of the body, that it
is not the product of one lifetime, but that
it is ancient and that it came from a higher
source. Yet the outer religion, be it a religion
that claims to worship God or be it a religion
that denies God, such as scientific materialism;
that religion tells the soul that God is outside,
that God is separate and that you cannot reach
God on your own.
And many religions furthermore set up an ideal
for how the perfect human being should be, the
perfect human being that is acceptable in the
eyes of God—that is: according to that
religion. And they portray the image that only
those human beings who live up to this outer
definition of the perfect human being, only
those will be allowed to enter the kingdom of
Heaven. And so, what is the soul to do, when
it is presented with this approach to salvation?
The soul then tries, with the outer mind, to
mold itself after the ideal that has been put
before it since childhood. The soul does not
know that this ideal is an idol and a violation
of the first two commandments. So the soul tries
its best, using its outer mind, its outer will,
to mold itself after this idol of the perfect
human being. And not only does the soul fail
to understand that it is an idol, but it also
fails to understand – because it has never
been told – that it is an impossible idol,
that no human being could ever live up to this
outer standard of perfection.
And the reason for this is that this outer standard
originated in the mind of anti-christ, the mind
of the devil himself, who believes that there
is a mechanical path to salvation. And this
then leads the soul to perhaps spend an entire
lifetime to strive for the outer righteousness
that was the righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees, that I denounced when I said that,
“Unless your righteousness exceeds the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees,
ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom.”
And why will you not enter the kingdom? Because
the kingdom is within you, and until you unite
with the consciousness of the kingdom, how can
you BE in the kingdom?
You cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven
In fact – in reality – you cannot
enter the kingdom of Heaven. You can BE in the
kingdom of Heaven or you can BE outside in consciousness.
Because, truly, God is omnipresent. God is already
where you are. And so the illusion that you
are separated from God’s kingdom can only
exist in the lower mind, the mind that has been
trapped in duality.
And when the soul identifies itself with this
mind, the soul is in a catch-22. It knows from
within that it is more than this outer mind.
And yet it has come to believe that in order
to be saved, it needs to live up to this outer
ideal, and the outer ideal is a denial of the
soul’s true creativity and true being.
So the outer mind is trying to force the outer
matrix upon the soul, and at subconscious levels
the soul knows that this will not lead to salvation,
so the soul rebels against the outer discipline,
and thus you become a house divided against
yourself.
You become your own worst enemy. And so you
see so many people who are trapped in this no-man’s
land, where they are neither hot nor cold. They
are lukewarm, and the true inner meaning of
being lukewarm is that you are trapped in the
catch-22, where your outer mind – assisted
by your religious upbringing – is trying
to force something upon the soul, against which
the soul, in the core of its being, is rebelling
because it knows it is not God’s will.
And as long as you are trapped in that duality,
that catch-22, you cannot move forward on your
own. Thus, you cannot be healed of the conditions
that your mind has created out of that duality
consciousness, be it mental illness, physical
disease or outer problems. And so you cannot
be healed until you get out of that impasse,
you get out of that catch-22. And what is the
key to escaping from this condition of being
neither this nor that, neither fully alive nor
fully dead?
Ownership is the key
To explain this to you, let me ask you to consider
an analogy. Imagine that you are walking down
the street with a child that is dear to your
heart. You pass a toy store, and in the window
is a beautiful toy, and the child falls in love
with the toy and says, “Will you give
me that toy?” Can you reach through the
glass and take the toy and give it to the child?
Can you go into the store and grab the toy and
run out with it and give it to the child? Well,
you can but there will be consequences. So what
will you have to do before you can give that
toy to the child and thereby fulfill the desire
of the child and your desire to give the child
a gift?
What you will have to do is simple. You will
have to go into the store and pay for the toy,
and when you have paid for it, you can take
ownership of it. And when YOU own the toy –
instead of the store owner – then you
can give the toy to the child. And the essence
of the story is that you cannot give away
that which you do not own.
Remember this sentence, “You cannot give
away what you do not own.” To give something
away, you must first take possession of it.
You must take ownership, and when it is fully
yours, then you have the option to give it away.
And this is what you must do before you can
be healed of any condition in body, mind or
soul. You must take ownership of that condition,
you must take possession, and when it is yours,
then you have the option to give it away. And
it is in the giving away of the condition that
you can be free of the condition; you can be
healed.
Good Christians are never angry
And so you see so many conditions in the Earth
that spring—not just from the duality
consciousness, but from the fact that the soul
has been programmed by outer religion to believe
that it should not be experiencing this or that
condition. This comes in many disguises, but
let me just bring up one example. So many Christians
have been brought up to believe that in order
to be good Christians, they should never be
angry. [This is one example of an impossible
standard that no human being can fulfill.]
And yet they experience situations in their
lives that bring up the feeling of anger. But
because they are “good Christians,”
they do not recognize the anger, they do not
take ownership of it. So what do they do? They
deny it, they stuff it into the subconscious
mind. Yet anger is a form of energy, anger is
thought imbued with the power of feeling, and
thus it will eventually cycle through the energy
system of the material universe, until it manifests
as a physical condition in the body or a severe
schism in the mind.
How can you be healed of a physical disease
that is the product of anger? You cannot be
healed fully through surgery or by taking a
pill. You can be healed only by recognizing
that the condition is the product of anger.
Then, you must take an honest look at the anger,
going all the way into it, until you discover
the cause that made you feel that anger in the
first place—and that cause is often an
expectation that is not in alignment with the
reality of life or the higher will of your soul.
But until you own the anger, until you take
possession of it and accept that you created
it by making a choice, and until you discover
the cause for why you made that choice, how
can you ever give away the anger?
And thus, so many Christians have been brought
up with a belief system that does not make sense,
that does not answer their questions about life,
that does not explain why they have personally
encountered tragedy or why one child is born
with immense handicaps and another child is
born rich or gifted. And so they see the inequality
in the world, and their only option is to reason
that God must have created it that way. And
yet, when you reason that way, it is inevitable
that you will feel that God is unjust, and so
there is anger against God.
And so many Christians, in fact over 90% of
all of those who call themselves Christians,
have an unrecognized anger against God. Yet
because they have been programmed with the need
to be “good Christians" – because
if they are not good Christians they cannot
enter the kingdom of Heaven and be saved –
they have only one option and it is to ignore,
deny and suppress that anger.
The master key to healing
Yet how could you possible enter the kingdom
of God when you feel anger against God? You
do not want to come close to something that
makes you feel anger or fear—you want
to run away from it. So how can you enter the
inner kingdom until you have resolved your anger,
and how can you resolve the anger until you
take ownership of that anger and see that it
was something you created because you came to
believe in one of the serpentine lies.
And now that you own it – now that you
understand why – all of a sudden you can
do something you could never do before. You
can say, “This is anger is mine. I take
responsibility for it, and at this very moment,
I own it fully.”
And then you can say, “But I also realize
that although I created the anger, the "I"
that created the anger was the human ego, the
human “I.” But I am more than that
human ego. I am an immortal soul, created by
God in his image and likeness. And it was not
my soul who created the anger, and thus I don’t
want the anger any more, I don’t want
it to be part of my being and my life experience.”
And once you realize that the anger is separate
from yourself – it is a thing you own
and not a part of yourself – at that moment,
you have the option to give it away. And instead
of giving your anger, or rather trying to give
away your anger, by taking it out on other people,
you can give it to the one Being who will gladly
take your anger. And that being is God, because
God loves you and does not want to see you live
a life burdened by anger or the effects of anger,
such as mental and emotional and physical disease.
God wants you to be free of the anger, and God
is an unlimited fire, an all-consuming
fire [See also this
section], that can consume the anger in
an instant. So God will gladly take it from
you, but God gave you free will and will not
take your anger until you give it to him. And
you cannot give it to him until you take ownership,
until you take possession, and you say, “This
was created by a part of my being, and thus
I accept accountability and responsibility.
Yet it was created by a part of my being that
is not my true self. Thus, neither my ego nor
the anger created by the ego is part of my [higher]
being. And I will no longer identify with the
ego or with the anger, I will separate myself
out from it. I will come apart and be a separate
and chosen people, elect unto God because I
have chosen to separate myself from the consciousness
of death."
And when you do this, then you can take the
anger and you can turn to God [the God in the
kingdom within you] and say, “Oh Lord,
I offer this to you, please take it from me.”
And if you can fully let go, it will be taken.
And as the cycles turn in the material universe,
even a physical condition that is the result
of anger will be taken from you.
Healing and your divine plan
Yet, as we have explained over these last two
days [see the other messages in this section],
there are conditions where healing may not occur
or may not occur instantly. And the reason for
that is that your soul either has not fully
learned the lesson it needs to learn from that
condition, or it has not fully balanced the
karma that it was meant to balance by carrying
that condition in its body or mind. And this
can be personal karma, but for many spiritual
people it truly is world karma that they are
holding for others. Many of you chose to come
down into embodiment in order to carry a certain
portion of world karma, as was so beautifully
explained this morning by a soul who has volunteered
to take on infertility so that others might
have children.*
And the beauty of this experience should show
you that all of you who are here, and all of
you who are on the spiritual path, have volunteered
to carry a burden, to carry a cross, so that
others might not have to carry that burden and
therefore have the opportunity to rise.
Yet what often happens to such beautiful and
loving souls is that when they come down into
embodiment, they get overwhelmed by the intensity,
by the weight, of the energies on this planet,
that are truly so heavy now that it can overwhelm
almost any soul. And then they get influenced
by the programming of the world, which says
they shouldn't really be having that condition.
And perhaps it is an unjust and angry God that
put it upon them, or perhaps there is no God.
And so, the soul who volunteered to come down
to carry that condition, to carry that cross
for others, now is tricked into entering the
same catch-22 that I described earlier, where
the outer mind of the soul rebels against the
condition that it has volunteered to take on.
And so the outer mind is trying frantically
to overcome that condition through outer means,
through mechanical, physical means, by running
to doctors or health care practitioners or healers
of any kind. And yet – deep within –
the soul knows that it volunteered to carry
that condition, and therefore it does not want
to let go of that condition until the purpose
has been fulfilled and the soul has carried
that burden long enough, so that others might
rise and make use of the opportunity that they
were given.
And so the soul rebels against its own divine
plan and the decision it made while it was in
the lighter energies of the spiritual realm.
And so many wonderful and loving souls go through
an entire lifetime of rebelling against that
which is their own choice, and which they chose
out of love. And so they have negative feelings
about their condition, be it fear, anger or
resentment. And those feelings only make it
so much harder for them to bear that condition.
And unfortunately, the harder they make it for
themselves, the easier it is for the soul to
begin to identify itself with the condition,
so that it thinks it is a part of its being
that it cannot overcome.
And so you see, there is a very subtle difference
between identifying with a condition with the
outer mind and stepping outside of that condition
and taking ownership by realizing that, yes,
you did create that condition or you did take
it on, but the condition itself is the expression
of a state of consciousness and that state of
consciousness was not created by your soul.
It was created by your ego and by the forces
of this world, including the egos of other people.
Be not divided against yourself
And so, again, many souls, who volunteered to
take on a condition to balance a certain amount
of world karma, will get stuck in carrying that
condition far beyond the point that is necessary,
far beyond the point where they have actually
balanced that portion of world karma and are
now free to focus on the positive aspects of
their divine plan, which is to bring their gifts
to this world.
A soul has two purposes for taking embodiment.
One is to carry the cross, one is to bring its
gift. And spiritual souls often choose to take
on the cross first, and once they have conquered
that task, they are then free to be whole in
bringing their gift. But if they are tricked
into rebelling against carrying their cross,
and if they are not willing to let their human
ego and their attachments die on that cross,
then the soul will be stuck. And this is what
happened to Peter—that he recognized the
Christ, but he was not willing to fully identify
with me, even to the point where he was willing
to be crucified next to me if that was God’s
plan.
And so the key to moving out of this impasse
is to learn from my example, where you saw me
in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before
my trial and crucifixion. And again, the serpents
of this world have created the false image of
Jesus Christ that makes it impossible for most
people to identify with me. And thus they tend
to gloss over the fact that, while I was in
that garden, I was deeply disturbed and deeply
distraught.
I cried tears of blood. I was suffering, as
so many other people are suffering, by carrying
the burden that I was carrying, by carrying
my cross, and by the thought of what would happen
next. And I was so burdened by this that even
though my soul had volunteered to come into
that situation, I still asked God to take that
cup away from me. And this will show you that
Jesus Christ was indeed human like yourself
and not some God and not some superhuman, for
whom the path was easy.
The path was not easy for me. I was as frustrated
and distraught that evening as any human being
has ever been frustrated. And yet the inspiration
you can take away from this is that I eventually
came to the point, where I took ownership of
my situation. I decided that I was willing to
let God’s will be done, and not the lower
will of the outer mind. And so I surrendered
myself to God and said, “Nevertheless
Father, not my will but thine be done.”
Yet I could not have surrendered myself to God
unless I had taken ownership of my situation,
unless I had taken ownership to the point where,
if I had had to keep the condition forever,
I would have been at peace with that.
Be willing to carry your cross
And so if you have a condition in your life,
be it an outer condition, be it a mental, emotional
condition or be it a physical ailment, you need
to come to the point of inner peace and surrender
to the higher will of your own being, your own
soul and I AM presence, where you are willing
to say, “God, if I have to carry this
for the rest of my life, I will not only be
at peace with that, but I will take the situation
and make the best of it because I will love
that condition. And I will approach it with
love, so that even if I have to carry that condition,
I will not use it as a reason to turn off the
flow of God’s love through me. And I will
let that love flow, come what may in this world.”
And when you come to that point of total ownership,
at that point you can surrender yourself fully
to God. And at that point, you might indeed
get an inner direction of how you can actually
balance the karma you are carrying in a different
way than through the limitation you are facing.
It might be through rosaries, it might be through
service, it might be through the resolution
of psychology, whereby you not only resolve
your own psychology but help resolve the mass
consciousness, the collective unconscious of
humankind, making it easier for your brothers
and sisters to overcome the same condition.
And so, once you come to that point of total
surrender that does not spring from fear or
the desire to get away from the condition, but
it springs from total acceptance of the condition
that can only come from love—once you
come to that point, you are setting yourself
free to flow with the will of God, the higher
will of your I AM Presence and soul, for your
present embodiment. And at that moment, you
will no longer be at an impasse.
You will be back in the flow of life, and you
will feel like a burden has been lifted from
your shoulders. Because even if the condition
remains, you will no longer be as burdened by
it, you will be free to be the loving soul that
you are, to feel the fulfillment, even the fulfillment
of carrying that condition because you know
you are giving someone else the opportunity
to rise higher and come closer to God.
The making of a saint
And suddenly your life will open up, and you
will no longer be in resentment or anger or
disappointment or fear. You will be in the flow
of love, and you will feel that love flowing
through you. And that is when you will see the
transformation that leads to the condition called
sainthood, where you see so many people who
have suffered a condition for many years, and
for many years they were so focused on themselves
and their own suffering, but suddenly a change
occurred. And they opened up, and now they were
no longer focused on themselves, they were only
focused on how they could help others who are
going through that same situation, or even others
who had worse conditions to deal with.
And suddenly you have the making of a saint,
the awakening of a soul because the soul is
now back in the flow. It is not at an impasse,
it is flowing with the love of God out of which
it sprang. And thus the soul knows that even
though it might not be perfect in an outer sense,
and even though it might have this or that human
condition, it is on the road to salvation, and
it knows that it is coming home.
And you know how the old horse starts walking
faster when it smells that the barn is near.
And that is how a soul feels when it is awakened
to the acceptance that it chose to come here
for a positive reason, a reason that sprang
out of love. And when it reconnects to that
love, all of a sudden the weight of the world
falls off your shoulders and you can stand upright,
no matter what conditions you are facing. And
you can say, “But these imperfections
on Earth don’t matter because I now see
the barn, I am coming home and I see my God
standing in the doorway and next to him is my
older brother, Jesus, and my older sister, Mary.
And they are greeting me, and they are beaming
their love to me, making it easier for me to
walk the last steps of the road home.”
My beloved, ponder these teachings. Go within
your hearts, be willing to face any condition
in your psychology, in your consciousness. Be
willing to take ownership, to accept it in love,
and then give it to God. And if God take it
away, be content. And if God does not take it
away, be content. Because either way, you are
going home when you are in the flow of love.
This is my teaching for this Easter, and I would
that all human beings could understand this
and get back into the flow of love. For truly,
what is that flow of love but the true meaning
of the resurrection. And even the physical body
can be resurrected and made new from any condition,
including the condition that human beings call
death. There is nothing on Earth that cannot
be transcended through the power of God. But
to unleash that power of God, you must first
take ownership and then give away that which
is not of God.
So I seal you in the love of my heart, and in
the name of the Father, the Mother, the Holy
Spirit and the only begotten Son of God, which
is the Christ consciousness, Amen.
* One of the participants in the Easter conference
had a healing session, during which she realized
that her soul had volunteered to take on infertility
so that other people might have children. As
she explained this to the group, another participant
had the inner revelation that she had been allowed
to have her two children because of the first
person's sacrifice. This was a very moving experience
for all.
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