Freedom
is found only by forgiving everything
A
message from Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy. NOTE: This dictation
was given on 03/22/08 as part of the Shangra-la conference in Lake Junaluska,
North Carolina.
My beloved hearts, as the representative for the Divine Mother for the
East, I, Kuan Yin, come to you. For you have earned a visit from my
Presence, from my Being, from my Flame of Mercy and Forgiveness.
For you see, my beloved, what is the one thing that can help people
transcend the old patterns and rise to the new day of a Golden Age?
Well that one thing, my beloved, surely must be forgiveness. For how
can you possibly greet the new day if you are trapped in attachments
to the past and always looking back towards the night, and refusing
to turn around and face the rising sun of the Presence of God in your
own being and in the collective consciousness?
A lost paradise will always be lost
And so, my beloved, again you see outpictured in the native people in
America, how they today are stuck in looking to the past. Do you see
how they count before the white man came and after the white man came?
And they look at their lost culture as something that was perfect and
idyllic and never would have changed—if the white man had not
come.
And thus, you see an attachment to what was there in the past and which
can never be recreated and would not have survived anyway, my beloved.
For truly, the forces of life itself would have caused the Native Americans
to transcend that old lifestyle. And so, my beloved, when you consider
a paradise lost; I will tell you that if you think paradise was in the
past, then paradise will always be lost for you—until you let
go of the past and start facing the future and realize that the seed
of the future is the now, the eternal NOW.
And so, my beloved, can you see that for the native peoples to have
moved on, a hundred or two hundred years ago, they would have had to
have been willing to leave the past behind? They would have had to say,
“It is time to change. We do not have to become like the white
people. But we do have to change. We do have to transcend our old outlook
on life.” And had they been more willing, more able, to do that,
they could have found a way to become integrated. So that they could
have actually lived up to the name, Native Americans, by maintaining
some of their old culture, but adopting the new and accepting themselves
as fully part of not just the American nation, but the I AM people,
as Mother Mary spoke about. And this, my beloved, would indeed have
made it possible for them to find a much more constructive way to integrate
in this new experiment of America.
For, my beloved, do you not see that although the white settlers, many
of them, came from Europe – where there was a somewhat rigid culture
– they came to a new world, where there was no established culture,
no established cities, no established laws or customs. And thus, they
had the opportunities to start anew. And thus, much of what was going
on in those early colonies was an experimentation, my beloved.
And if the native peoples had been willing to experiment, they would
not only have found a way to integrate in white society; they could
have found a way to shape this new society of America. But you see,
my beloved, because there was not the ability to let go of the past,
the willingness to let go of the past; they could not integrate. And
so, instead, they became, so to speak, overrun by the influx of white
immigrants. And my beloved, that is why there was not the balance where
the devotion to the Mother held by the native peoples could have balanced
the unbalanced devotion to the Father of the Christian immigrants.
What Balance Could Have Done for America
And so, my beloved, had there been a greater balance on both sides,
a greater integration; you would indeed have seen a very different nation
that would have had a greater balance between Father and Mother. And
thus, you would not have seen many of the manifestations that have taken
place in American society.
For example, you would have seen a greater respect for the value of
the individual, for the value of all people, and the need to spread
abundance among all people. As you indeed saw in many of the native
tribes, where they did not have anyone who was particularly rich and
above the rest. Nor did they have anyone who was particularly poor and
below the average, for they took care of each other. Many of the early
settlers did likewise in their small communities, for they needed to
stick together to survive.
But as America grew, you saw a moving away from this. And you saw how
the power elite started to gradually gain an inroad in the American
government, so that they undermined the value and the respect for the
individual. They created a mentality that was so alien to the first
American revolutionaries and their desire to create a society with equal
rights for all.
They created a society that was much closer to the feudal societies
of Europe, where you now have – not a noble class that is noble
by birth – but you have a rich power elite, many of whom are born
into their positions. But you do have some openness that someone can
move into the power elite by accumulating enough money and thereby becoming
a member of the club. Although, perhaps not as valued as those who come
from old money, as they say.
And had this development of the power elite and the power elite mentality
been averted, then many other calamities could have been averted. For
example, the United States would not have entered into the First World
War at all. For it was truly the power elite who manipulated the United
States into that war for the sake of monetary gain and increasing their
power over American society. Likewise, the Second World War might have
been averted or it could have taken a different form with the killing
being much, much less than it actually was.
Change is the Order of the Day
Yet, my beloved, the reason why I am bringing up the past is because
I am seeking to help you – especially those of you who have a
closeness to the native peoples – to see, my beloved, that change
is the order of the day on planet Earth. Not only change, but growth—transcendence.
Thus, my beloved, I wish to give you a glimpse of what would have happened
if our beloved Saint Germain, embodied as Columbus, had not discovered
America. What would have happened if Columbus had been thrown off a
horse and broken his neck early in life? Well, surely the American continent
would eventually have been discovered. That was virtually inevitable,
based on the development of better ships and a better understanding
of the Earth being round and not being the center of the universe.
Yet, let us for the sake of argument assume that the white explorers
from Europe had come to the United States, had come to the American
continent, and had seen the native peoples living there. Now, sometimes
when the native peoples of today look back at that time, it seems as
if they almost have a certain expectation that if the white people had
been good people; they would have looked at the native culture and said,
“These people are living in such a wonderful society, we should
go home and leave them alone.” So let us, for the sake of argument,
say that would have happened, my beloved—that the first European
explorers would have said: “We will go home and stay home.”
Well, my beloved, just project what you know about the history of Europe,
my beloved. You would have seen – inevitably – that the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, would have taken place. You would have
seen Russia become a communist nation. And you would have seen, my beloved,
that Russia would have developed, as it surely did, a desire to conquer
the world and make it a communist planet. And do you not think, my beloved,
that the communists in Russia would have come to the continent of North
America? Surely, you can see they would, in the 1930s or 1920s, they
would have come to these shores.
And my beloved, if you think that the white settlers coming from western
Europe were rough to the native peoples, it is as nothing compared to
what the communist invaders would have perpetrated upon the native peoples
of North America. For my beloved, consider the weapons that the white
settlers had when they first came to this continent. Surely, they had
guns. But, they had flint lock muskets that could only fire one shot
at a time. But when the communist invaders would have arrived in the
1920s or 30s, they would have had machine guns, airplanes, grenades,
artillery.
My beloved, can you imagine the slaughter that would have taken place?
For you must recognize that if the native peoples of North America had
been left alone, they would not have developed sophisticated weaponry.
They would not have developed gun powder. They would have had bows and
arrows. And what would that have been like—to go up against modern
weapons with that?
So you see, my beloved, I am in no way trying to make light of what
happened to the native peoples. I am in no way trying to defend what
the white settlers did that was not right. I am trying to give you an
overall perspective that when you look at the inevitability of history
on this planet, you can see that surely, in this year, the Native Americans
would not have been better off if the white settlers from Western
Europe had not come when they did.
On the contrary, when you consider the world perspective, you can see
that had the United States not been founded when it did – and
had it not grown to become a powerful nation – well then there
would have been no force on this Earth that could have stopped the communist
hordes from overrunning every continent. And thus you would –
today – have had a planet controlled by a communist ideology and
by a class of people who have no respect for the value of human life,
as you truly saw even in how Stalin and other Russian leaders treated
their own people.
Looking at the bigger picture
So my beloved, what I seek to give you here is the Alpha perspective,
the Father perspective of the big picture, of what inevitably would
have come to pass. And thus you see, my beloved, instead of feeling
that the native peoples were treated unjustly and unfairly – that
they were slaughtered – you could look at this from an entirely
different perspective. You could look at it that the native peoples
of America made a sacrifice for the benefit of all humankind and for
the benefit of this planet. For I must tell you quite clearly, my beloved,
that if this planet had been overrun by communism, the days of intelligent
life on this planet would be numbered.
You would already today have seen natural disasters of far greater magnitude
than what you are seeing. Because Mother Earth herself would have revolted
against the way people were being treated on a world-wide scale. And
it would have been a matter of time before the planet would simply have
gone through such a major upheaval that civilization in any form would
have been destroyed, and you would only have had small and scattered
bands of survivors here and there around the globe.
And, my beloved, had that indeed come to pass, well then there would
have been no cosmic justification for the continued existence of the
Earth. And therefore, this planet would have been dissolved. For it
would no longer have been a suitable planet for the spiritual growth
of significant numbers of lifestreams. And it would have taken too long
for it to get back to a state of a reasonable civilization that actually
gives people the freedom, the material freedom, to pursue spiritual
growth, instead of being consumed by making a living. So you see, my
beloved, this is the greater, Alpha perspective.
The Omega Perspective
But now, my beloved, I will, as the feminine Presence that I AM, also
give you the Omega perspective. And that perspective, my beloved, is
that everything that happens on Earth happens as an opportunity for
growth. For you see, my beloved, if you will study Maitreya’s
book, where he gives you the big picture of the world of form and
of planet Earth, you will see how he explains that at one point in the
distant past there were people on this Earth who had become so entrenched
in their consciousness, so set in their ways, that they had created
a downward spiral, for they were not willing to transcend.
And this is to a large degree the same mentality that you see in native
peoples around the world, as Mother Mary explained. And thus, it was
decided by cosmic councils that – instead of allowing the downward
spiral to eventually destroy intelligent life on this planet –
we would allow waves of lifestreams from other systems of worlds to
incarnate here. To therefore, so to speak, stir the pot and provide
a counterbalance to the people who were not transcending themselves.
And this has, by and large, been a successful process. Although, of
course, the differences in people’s consciousness – and
especially their attachment, their unwillingness to transcend the old
consciousness – has precipitated untold physical suffering. But
yet, my beloved, this is still preferable to seeing a planet destruct
in a self-reinforcing downward implosion, or destruct in a warfare that
blows it apart.
So you see, my beloved, what is going on on this planet is that the
different people, the different groups of people, as Mother Mary talked
about – those who identified themselves base on characteristics
in the material realm – they are here, my beloved, to interact
with each other. And in that interaction, they make visible what is
unbalanced in each other’s consciousness.
So do you see, my beloved, it was precisely the imbalance in the native
peoples of this continent in the Mother aspect that attracted to them
an influx of people with an imbalance in the Father aspect. So that
in those two groups of people coming together, each group had an opportunity
to see the imbalance in the other group. But then use that to take a
look in the mirror, to look for the beam in their own eye and to say,
“How are we then imbalanced and how can we come into greater balance?”
This, my beloved, is the hallmark of the top 10%, the most spiritually
aware people—that when they encounter other people who are different,
or when they encounter different or difficult material circumstances,
they look in the mirror and they say, “What can this teach me
about myself? What can this teach me about how I need to change, so
that I can come up higher and no longer precipitate this particular
circumstance that I recognize is a reaction from the cosmic mirror?
Overcoming the Victim Consciousness
Yet, when people are not willing to do that, my beloved; they go into
the victim consciousness. And now people from one group say, “Oh,
we are the victims of this other group. They are the ones who are perpetrating
their actions against us. They are the ones who are destroying us. They
are the ones who should change.”
The Native Americans saying, “We should have been left alone by
the white people.” And the white settlers saying, “Oh, these
Native Americans should have given us their land and moved west.”
Each group, of course, being naïve; but being blinded by their
unwillingness to look at themselves. And thus, you see that each group
went into a victim consciousness, where they saw the other group as
opposing them.
And thus, there was no possibility – realistically – of
them cooperating and bringing each other into balance and therefore,
both of them, transcending the old consciousness. Instead, what you
saw was the inevitable confrontation – that is not unique to this
continent – that you have seen throughout the world and see throughout
the world today, my beloved.
And so, what you see then is that when such a confrontation occurs,
there is a crystallization, so to speak. There are those who actually
move on. And you will see this even in America today, that some native
people have moved on and become part of American society, seeing themselves
as Americans first, but Americans from a native background. But still
seeing themselves as Americans, as you indeed see with many of the settlers
from Europe who no longer see themselves as Europeans, but clearly see
themselves as Americans with a European background, but Americans first,
my beloved. And so this means that they have transcended the old consciousness
and moved on with life.
But you also see those who get stuck in the old consciousness, who hold
onto the old and look back to the paradise lost, thinking that if they
could only find a way to recreate that paradise that is lost, then they
could go back to the good old days—that, quite frankly, were not
so good when you were living in them.
How to move on from anything in the past
And so, my beloved, the perspective I want to give you here is a perspective
that applies very much to those who are of a native descent in America,
whether they have been mixed with other races or not, but those who
can trace their lineage back to the native people. But my beloved, it
also applies very much to those who can trace their lineage back to
the black people brought over as slaves from Africa, or those who can
trace their lineage back to other cultures that may not have integrated
as well in America as some.
For you see, my beloved, there is only one question that really is relevant
for all people of all backgrounds and that is, “Are you willing
to do what Jesus said and multiply your talents? Are you willing to
become more? Or do you want to bury your talents in the ground of the
past and hold on to the past?”
And so you see, my beloved, if you are willing to move on, then you
need to find a way to let go of your attachment to the past. I am not
saying you need to say, “I am no longer a Native American.”
You do not need to disavow your past. I am saying you need to not
be attached to the past and look at it with negative feelings.
You need to find a way to forgive both your ancestors and those who
came in and did whatever they did to your ancestors.
For you see, my beloved, the Forgiveness Flame, the Mercy Flame that
I AM is the only way to freedom, my beloved. For the past is the past.
It is gone. You cannot change the past. Therefore you cannot go back
and set right what was done wrong in the past.
My beloved, do you hear me? It is not possible. Therefore,
there is only one thing you can do—and that is to let go of the
past by forgiving everything that happened.
By not forgiving, you hurt yourself first
My beloved, those who are in the victim consciousness will immediately
say, “I cannot forgive. Why should I forgive? They are the ones
who violated us. Why should I forgive them? They deserve to be punished.
And the white people have taken over America. They have not been sufficiently
punished.”
But you see, my beloved, when you are in that state of consciousness,
those others will never be sufficiently punished. For the only way you
could feel that they were sufficiently punished was if you could turn
back the clock and set right what was done wrong. But since that cannot
be done, your desire to see the others punished can never be fulfilled.
It is a never-ending desire, an unquenchable thirst for revenge or punishment.
And what does it do to you, my beloved? Well it traps you in the consciousness
of non-forgiveness. And you have to realize, my beloved, the profound
truth given by Jesus—do unto others what you want them to do to
you. But the hidden meaning, that even most Christians do not understand
today, is that before you can do something to others, you must already
have done that something to yourself, my beloved.
And so, before you judge other people as being bad or evil, you must
have judged yourself. Before you can have a desire for revenge over
others, you must already have become angry with yourself and exacted
revenge on yourself by placing yourself in a very small mental box.
And what is the signal you send into the cosmic mirror from that mental
box?
My beloved, if you will look honestly at many of the native people in
America today, those who are the black people in America today, who
have not let go, what are they saying subconsciously? My beloved, what
they are saying to the cosmic mirror is, “The atrocities committed
against our people in the past was not enough. We have not let go of
them. We want to experience more atrocities, more discrimination.”
This is the message that you are sending into the cosmic mirror when
you have that state of consciousness of non-forgiveness!
And thus, my beloved, given that the law of free will is the reality
on this Earth, what can the cosmic mirror do but comply and give you
that suffering? Yet, since it is no longer possible to experience that
suffering in the United States – for there is no longer the persecution
of native people or blacks – then those souls who would not let
go must incarnate elsewhere, where they can then experience the physical
atrocities.
Whereas, instead, my beloved, imagine that all of the people –
and I am not again talking just native people or people of a black background,
I am talking about all people in the world, for surely, my beloved,
look at the world history and see that there is not a group of people
who have not at some point in their history been violated by some other
group – what if all those people, my beloved, could forgive? Well
if you forgive, if you let go of the past, you set yourself free from
the consciousness that is holding on to the past.
And thereby, you say to the cosmic mirror, “We no longer wish
to experience the kind of atrocities we experienced in the past. We
want to experience a positive life circumstance.” And then the
cosmic mirror will say, “Oh, my beloved, I have been waiting for
thousands of years to give you the abundant life, for it is my good
pleasure to give it to you. And now that you want it, surely it will
be yours.”
People discriminate against themselves
So you see, my beloved, the deeper understanding here is that you need
to ask yourself, “Who is discriminating against native peoples
in America today? Who is discriminating against blacks? Who is discriminating
against Hispanics, or those from certain national or ethnic origins?”
Well my beloved, they are discriminating against themselves by maintaining
their attachment to the past, their non-forgiveness! Thereby maintaining,
or even reinforcing, the very consciousness that caused the discrimination
in the first place.
This is not to say, my beloved, that those who are discriminating against
others for any reason are not at fault, have no responsibility. But
I am telling you, my beloved, that until the people who are being discriminated
against are willing to let go of the consciousness; they themselves
cannot be free of the discrimination.
Neither can the people who are discriminating against them. For you
see, my beloved, it is again the outplaying of the basic dynamic on
this planet that whatever imbalance you have in your consciousness attracts
someone who has the opposite imbalance—in order to set up the
inevitable clash that then gives you the opportunity to transcend.
The directness of the Divine Mother
And so, my beloved, I know that this is not the soft and gentle perspective
of the Mother. It is the stern Mother, the realistic Mother.
But you see, my beloved, when the Mother is in synchronicity with the
Divine Father, then the Mother is the practical realist. The Mother
is the one who says, “This is what we need to do in order to move
on from the situation we find ourselves in.”
And the Mother is the one who knows how this can be accomplished. And
the Mother is the one who is no-nonsense about it, about telling people
what needs to change in order for us to move on. For you see, my beloved,
the Mother is the one who knows how things should be done and how they
can be done in a material realm.
She is the one. She is the expression of God that has the mastery of
the material realm. The Father is the one who has the overall vision,
and therefore can see what needs to be done. But the Mother is the one
who knows how and when it needs to be done.
The Mother, in balance, is the master of time and cycles, and of the
practicality of how to accomplish a task. As they say, my beloved, necessity
is the mother of invention. And it is true in the sense that
when there is a necessity for change – and when is there not a
necessity for change, my beloved? – then the Mother –
the Mother element, the Mother aspect, the Divine Feminine in all people,
regardless of their physical sex – is the one that knows how things
should be done in the practical, nitty-gritty, day-to-day details.
Why women must change Christianity
And this, my beloved, is of course one reason why, in today’s
culture, women need to be given greater influence in society. And my
beloved, especially in religion, especially in the Christian churches.
As you see in this particular place, as Mother Mary spoke about, a particular
Christian church that represents much of what is going on right now
in the Christian movement in America, where many, many women in Christian
churches are feeling disenfranchised, are feeling like they are exiled
by their own religion. Because they know that they have a greater place,
they have a greater role to play in their religion. But they are not
allowed to do so by tradition, by the leaders—who again have become
stuck and rigid and, therefore, will not change.
For you see, my beloved, the reality of Christianity today is that it
is a religion that can no longer meet the spiritual needs of today’s
people. And the reason for this is that Christianity has become stuck
in the unbalanced application of the Father element. And therefore,
it has lost the practicality of the Mother, of the Divine Feminine.
And the only way out of this for the Christian religion is to open up
for women to hold any position in any church. Only, my beloved –
and this is a prophecy I will give you – only the Christian churches
who will open up for women to hold any position will survive the next
few decades. Others will shrink to insignificance.
For it is only the women, the female influence, who will have the practical
knowledge of knowing how to meet the spiritual needs of today’s
people, so that they can transcend the Christian movement into a movement
that is relevant to today’s spiritual people. Because it actually
meets their needs and allows them to apply spirituality to their everyday
lives, so that they can move out of the rut, my beloved, of the perversion
of the Father—portraying God as the remote being in the sky. Which
has led to the situation of the division between church life and daily
life.
So that you go to church for a few hours on Sunday, and then when you
leave the church, you basically say to God, “OK God, leave me
alone for the next six days and then I’ll come back.” And
this, my beloved, is not the kind of spirituality that will do anything
for the people in the Aquarian Age. For spirituality needs to become
something you live in every aspect of your daily life. Otherwise, it
will simply die, for it will no longer give you what you need in this
age, for this is an age of spiritual freedom, my beloved.
Understanding spiritual freedom
Thus, spiritual freedom is not something that exists by you traveling
to the Himalayas and sitting in a cave and having no worldly obligations—and
thinking you have spiritual freedom. Spiritual freedom is something
you attain when you spiritualize every aspect of your life, so that
everything you do is an expression of your spirituality.
And therefore, you have freedom in all aspects of your daily life. This
is spiritual freedom, my beloved. And it cannot be attained as long
as there is the division – not between church and state, although
that division also needs to be broken down – but, as long as there
is the division between church life and daily life, or as some would
say, real life.
But you see, real life is when you recognize that everything
is an expression of Spirit; everything is an expression of the Infinite,
as we say in The
Art of Non-War. For, my beloved, let me assure you that The
Art of Non-War is an expression of the totality of the Ascended
Host, the Ascended Masters, the Great White Brotherhood, and the essence
of the most universal message that we wish to bring forth at this particular
time.
There is no more universal expression available in the physical realm
of the consciousness that is needed to bring humankind out of the past
and into the Golden Age of Saint Germain. It is only when they decide
to not declare war against war, but to challenge the consciousness of
war through the consciousness of non-war – by accepting their
own infinite origin, their own infinite source, their own infinite being
– accepting that they are the open doors for the Infinite to stream
into this finite world—and only that stream into the finite world
will manifest the Golden Age.
Start acting your spiritual age
Thus, my beloved, I leave you with this fire of the Mother’s heart,
which surely you can sense springs from love, the love of all the Mother’s
children, who will not let them sink into a downward spiral without
taking them by the ear and pulling them up and giving them a stern talking
to and saying, “It is time for you to start acting your age.”
For, my beloved, it is time for millions of lifestreams on this Earth
to start acting their age by realizing that they are ancient souls,
who have been here for a very long time. And you have had plenty of
time to indulge in the pleasures of the physical realm. But now it is
time to recognize where you came from and why you came to this planet,
which surely was not to indulge in all of the things that are available
in modern society.
It was to find your greater purpose and to bring forth the truly abundant
life on Earth, which is not a materially abundant life, but a spiritually
abundant life, where you have the integration of spirit and matter,
of Infinite and finite, of Father and Mother.
Thus, my beloved, I also thank you for you presence, for your willingness
to bring forth your heart flames, to let the light flow through you,
and to give these rosaries that you have given. For indeed, in giving
the two rosaries today,* you have opened up for a clearing of the heart
for many people around the world that will give them the opportunity
– the reprieve from the intense feelings of non-forgiveness –
so that they can wake up and say, “Ahhh, maybe we should just
let it all go and forgive the past and walk into the bright shining
sun of the new day of love, light and peace.”
Thus, my beloved, I Kuan Yin seal you in the great Forgiveness Flame.
And I give you the opportunity – as we play the music after I
stop speaking – to pour into my Forgiveness Flame any non-forgiveness
that you have personally, or any non-forgiveness that you sense is present
in the mass consciousness, in the collective consciousness of the people
among which you grew up, where they have not forgiven for whatever reason.
And thus, my beloved, I seal you in my Forgiveness Flame and I assure
you that that flame can consume any non-forgiveness that you care to
send into it. So prove me herewith, sayeth the Lord, and I shall pour
you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough in your hearts
to receive it. So that your hearts will be the cup that runneth over
with forgiveness, so that you can go from this place and give it to
others, as well.
Thus, I seal you in my heart.
* The participant gave Archangel
Michael’s Rosary earlier in the day and the Rosary
for Clearing the Heart immediately before Kuan Yin’s dictation.
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