Q: Can you speak about the need, or lack of need, to work directly with the dark side, both on the physical and astral plane?

A: Yes, I can do that. [Pause]

Q: Will you?

A: That is another matter.

Indeed, beloved friend, first look well and understand the place within that would draw a line and decide what is light and what is dark. For remember that suffering comes from a split mind, a mind that sees conflict, division, separation. If it is true that only Love heals - and I assure you that it is - can you look upon what you have called darkness and discover the light within it by shining light upon it? Are there dark forces in the realm of experience, within the realm of Creation, as you know it? Yes, but I do not mean by this that there is a force separate from you or separate from the reach of God's Love that holds the power to direct, influence, or control you in any way.

Darkness ... As the journey that you're on begins to end, you will come to see that darkness is nothing more than a part of your own beingness which has been neglected and not loved. For when you love what you perceive as darkness, you reclaim it as a part of yourself. And by loving it, you transform it. And the power you had given it by separating it from you, returns to you where it truly abides.

Is there a difference between what could be called darkness in the realm in which you live and move and have your being, seemingly as a body in space and time, and that which you call the astral realms? No! Everything exists right where you are. For you abide as fully on those realms as you do sitting on the floor in this moment. An astral realm is made such only because you have withdrawn your awareness of it and sought to constrict it merely into the physical dimension. Therefore, peering out from within a body, it looks like there is another dimension, that you choose to call the astral realm, where things are hidden from your view. They're not hidden at all. They are merely inaccessible if you use the apparatus of the physical eyes. But if you use the eye within, nothing is hidden.

What is astral and what energies abide therein are, therefore, nothing more than that which abides within your own consciousness, your own mind. And what is the way of working and dealing with those dark forces? Where you are in your third dimensional experience as a body- mind requires only that you look lovingly upon your brother or your sister, that you touch them, For those many forces and beings that seem to reside in realms unseen, called by many an astral realm, the strategy, if you will, is perfectly identical. It is one and the same thing, because only Love can heal.

Think well upon what is given unto you in this answer. Contemplate it deeply. Within three weeks’ time, given the current momentum of your mind, you will begin to have some rather interesting revelations. You will literally feel the mind, shall we say, being rewired, shifting to a whole new level of perception, understanding, and natural ability. For what seems to be unseen on the astral realms . . . you will then begin to move in the direction of seeing it as clearly as you do the hand before your face. Pleasant journeys!

Q: How can I tell the difference between old ego habits of feeling and feelings which need to be felt to completion?

A: First, beloved friend, is there a difference? Your experience is always of and in the present. For what arises is not past, it is now. Is it an old ego pattern? Perhaps. If there is a sense of constriction, a sense of resistance, a sense of judgment of self or another, rest assured, that which has arisen to temporarily dominate your attention is an egoic pattern, since the ego is, by definition, the constriction away from Love. And therefore, the loss of peace is its result.

Look well, then, and simply recognize, What is arising in this moment? Am I willing to look upon it, to feel it, to embrace it? And as we would perceive and observe, you're beginning to recognize, Am I willing, yet, to breathe? For to breathe is Life!

Feel, then, what you are truly feeling. Observe what is truly present within the mind. In this way, you take your hands and cup them around whatever that is. And you've done that, then recognize this great Truth: I can choose again. And I can choose peace instead of this.

Now the "this" is not so much the picture of what you might call a memory or a feeling or something that's coming up. The "this" speaks to your judgment, your perception of what is arising. You can choose peace instead of the perception that steals your peace. And that is the place of infinite and perfect power to literally transform your life!

Beloved friend, the past does not exist at any moment. If the mind is causing, bringing forth, a picture or a thought that seems to be reminiscent of the past by your own decree, rest assured that it is arising in this present moment, which is the only place creation and experience occur. The past, then, can exist for you only if you re-create it now. This re-creation does not mean that an image or a picture can not arise in the mind, what you call memory, although, it is a very present experience. We are speaking here of the experience you created when that same picture appeared in your experience in a different time frame. Your experience is never caused by what arises in your field of awareness. Your experience - listen well - your experience is how you have chosen to react in the emotional and mental field, to a neutral event that has arisen. All events are neutral. The reaction to them is what generates experience.

When nails were driven through my hands, that was an entirely neutral event, although, by the way, many friends scurried about. It didn't appear to be so neutral. But it was neutral for me. Therefore, understand beloved friend, that whatever events have ever unfolded in the realm of your experience, each and every one of them was perfectly neutral, until you responded with the reaction that you were choosing in order to create an experience in the emotional body, in order to create a learning experience about the potentials of your own consciousness.

Forgiveness, healing, peace, and awakening are equally potentials within your own mind. Equal to and, indeed, even greater than, anything that you have experienced heretofore.

Therefore, understand, beloved friend: Nothing has been caused by anything or anyone outside yourself. What arises is always present experience. Embrace it, look upon it, claim it, own it, feel it, breathe through it, and then recognize that you are free to choose again.

Herein lies the straight and narrow path that leads to Life! And you have a friend, currently without a body, who wants nothing more than to witness your true Living. And you have countless friends, with bodies, who share the same desire.

Be you, therefore, that which you are! And live from the power given unto you, from the freedom in which you abide always - as the Love that you are!


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