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How to balance political action with non-judgement

I originally emailed this to Gloria after one of her newsletters, and she suggested I post it because others might be interested in the predicament.
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Wonderful newsletter, I feel lighter reading them, but I do have a problem
understanding some of the last one. For instance when you say things like...

>It is not for you to make indictments.

That to me says that we should ignore the destructive behavior of bankrobbers, violent criminals, and politicians (the criminals who direct other people to do their violence for them) who have run amok in DC and are using my tax money for colossally destructive purposes.

On the other hand, I can see that's a judgement of mine and I'd be
happier not making it. But then if I don't take some responsibility for
improving the world by adding energy to opposing these criminals,
these thugs will continue their path of destruction of the planet. Sending light to these criminals doesn't seem to accomplish anything. I've seen no improvement, have you? There's lots of newsletters saying how our vibrations are being raised and great things are coming, etc., but I see no evidence of this.

It's too convenient to me to just sit back, not wanting to "soil my hands"
with judgement and allow other people to do this, but I feel like I'm not pulling my weight to help heal the planet. As an engineer, I feel driven to do *something* to fix problems I see, but nothing seems to help.

If I don't speak out and do something about these atrocities, then I
feel that I am complicit in them. But then I get totally frustrated and feel like I really don't belong on the planet. When my soul was on the bus coming to incarnate in physical form, I think I was supposed to get off someplace else. My soul got off at the wrong stop - this planet.

It also reminds me of that famous quote about the rise of Nazi's:

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945

How to balance political action with non-judgement

paul,

you wrote in one of your sentences " improving the world by adding energy to opposing these criminals,"

and in bringing energy in this direction you bring that point you want to "solve ...." the energy,

you are an engineer - when you begin a project, what do you see? - the final product, isn't it?

and in sending love, in enjoying YOUR life ..... you give energy for finishing all these "things"....

and may be the stop had been here on earth - but you are here - we all are here - may be exactly because we can send lots of love and laugh

this I send to you from here to there and everywhere
veroniKA

How to balance political action with non-judgement

Veronika, what a beautiful response. So simple and profound.
 
Meanwhile, I promised Paul I would look for some Heavenletters that address this question. I will look for them, Paul.
 
Paul, I feel your question. I feel injustice the same way you do. And your question raises many questions within me as well.
 
God bless you, Paul and Veronika.
 
With love, Gloria
 
 
 

From: shalanee [mailto:shalanee [at] gmx [dot] de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 5:33 PM
To: TheHeavenLetters [at] heavenletters [dot] org
Subject: Re: How to balance political action with non-judgement

 
paul,
you wrote in one of your sentences " improving the world by adding energy to opposing these criminals,"
and in bringing energy in this direction you bring that point you want to "solve ...." the energy,
you are an engineer - when you begin a project, what do you see? - the final product, isn't it?
and in sending love, in enjoying YOUR life you give energy for finishing all these "things"....

and may be the stop was here on earth - but you are here - we all are here - may be exactly because we can send lots of love and laugh
this I send to you from here to there and everywhere
veroniKA

love/laugh light and JOY and FUN - Confidence/ Trust and TRUTH
VerroniKA

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DEAR PAUL, I PROMISED YOU SOME RESPONSES FROM GOD

Dear Paul, here are questions that my friend Bev asked through Heavenletters many years ago. The questions were not all at once as presented here. There may have been months inbetween. I believe that these questions and answers relate t to your question. You may be sure I, and others, will look forward to your response.

Bev to God:

God, I feel a deep connection with the animals on this planet, and it causes me a lot of pain to think of their suffering.

I find the more I get involved in animal rights activities, the more it seems there is to do. You told me once to "care without investment", and I think I understand. But sometimes I feel confused about how much to get involved.

How involved should we be in trying to protect the planet? What priority should this have in our lives? Do we serve You by protecting the earth you created?

Love, Bev

God:

It is not My Will that any creature on earth be frightened, wounded, or killed needlessly. Taking advantage of anyone or anything is not My Will.

You are on earth to perform goodness for all Beings, human and animal and mineral. Humans, animals and earth are in your care. I have given them to you to bless. And also for you to learn your own heart and Oneness with all that exists.

I do not endorse willful hurt to any creature or thing on earth.
Every act of love, every sense of love, casts My light on the world. Love animals. Give them care. Do for them all you like in joy. And for the planet Earth.

Be involved without involvement. That is how I do. Can you imagine Me, running around, being in pain? Emotion is not the same as pure love. Compassion without tearing your own heart is pure love. Do all you can do, but keep your heart intact. Attend to the joy and not the pain.

As for the abusers of animals or flowers or any growing thing or still life on earth, others’ feelings towards them will be communicated. Lovers and protectors of all life will do well to consider the abusers and neglectors as injured beings, which they are, or they would not injure. Extend your tender heart to them.

Have a silent campaign of blessing the injurers. Do you see how your blessings will protect the endangered? If enough of My children could extend blessings to the hurters, they, the hurters, would begin to see and feel differently because hearts extended to theirs.

Open your great heart to include the unlovely as well as the lovely. Send your pure heart their way. That is forgiving. Forgiving is not an idle act or words. It is a pro-act. It is seeing the bigger picture. It is developing greatness within you. Perhaps the unkind ones are there to increase your kindness. Be grateful to them even for giving you an opportunity to notice your heart and so increase its capacity.

Remember that pain and upset are not virtuous. Pain and upset are not My Will.

Remember also that it is the physical that gets injured. Truth is not touched. Truth is unassailable. Love will take over, and you are part of that love. And you are doing well.

Bev to God:

Dear God, I feel confused about your response to my question. Are you saying that it is better for us not to become involved in causes? Not to become involved in trying to improve a situation that we care deeply about?

Love, Bev

God to Beverly:

My dear Bev, what I mean to say about causes is that they are a man-made thing. I created love because that was what I was capable of creating. I didn’t create causes. Make no mistake: I am all for kindness. Yet something sometimes happens when my children get caught up in a cause. Causes can be a fertile field for judgment. Attention may go off the main track and onto the error. The cause may be wonderful, but the getting caught up may not be so wonderful.

Bev to God:

Dear God, I read about another animal abuse episode in Iowa this week, and I felt intense anger for the perpetrator.

A few hours later, as I was leaving for lunch, I was surprised to realize that I was able to ask from my heart that this person feel Your presence and Your love for him in his life. I asked and still ask that his life be transformed. I honestly don't feel love for him myself, but I want him to see himself through Your eyes. Is this what You mean when You tell us to extend our hearts to the hurters in the world? How do we do this? What should we ask for? Please guide us to create a tidal wave of love and balance in nature.

Love, Bev

God to Bev:

You sent My love to this hurter of animals. Well-sent.

His pain causes one such as he to inflict pain. He wants his pain out. It is too much for him. His pain distorts his heart and mind. He feels very much at the mercy of others. He feels he has no power and he looks for someone more helpless than he to inflict his pain on.

You express beautifully a way for My children to express My love even to those whose actions they abhor. Yes, desire that an unfortunate one such as he feel My presence and My love. That will be transforming.

It transformed your energy of righteous anger into the energy of a request for peace. You filtered your energy of hurt and anger and reprisal down to My love. That freed you. You found a way to express compassion for one who had no compassion.

When there are enough Bev’s who send My love and My vision to those less fortunate, My love will take over. A hurter will no longer hurt so much, inside or outside. He will not know what has hit him. He will not consciously know it is My love, but something will change in him. When something changes within, a life is transformed.

Some may say that he repents. Repentance is not what people think. Repentance is really seeing differently. It is not bemoaning the past. A new light comes in, and Whose light could it be but Mine?

Send it, send it, send My light.

How to balance political action with non-judgement

http://www.controverscial.com/The%20Two%20Brothers.htm

This is a link to a story about light and dark and how we must have the dark as well as the light for life to exist in balance. Even if you do not see that the balance is there. I like what God said to Bev. I am just coming to that awareness now.

Does the planet need healing? Or is that just our concept?

Why not all positivity?

Indigo Child, this is a mighty question you leave us with. Wow.

If all this in relative world is illusion, then the idea that the world needs healing must be illusion as well. But don't think I understand this.

I have read that we need the balance of positive and negative, but I personally don't buy it. We don't have to have wars. We don't have to have illness and pain etc. That idea makes no sense to me.

Love you, Indigo Child.

Gloria

How to balance political action with non-judgement

There are some who do believe that it is all an illusion. I am not sure of that. I was posing the question more as that humanity needs the healing not the planet. The planet would heal if humanity was healed.

I agree we do not need wars but wars do happen. We do not need sickness but it is there so is poverty and all the other forms of lack that humanity can create. So if we did not have balance between the so called dark and light then how would it all turn out? In order for Earth to be as Heaven, all would have to be healed of the lack that creates the unhealthy actions that causes the decay of man, beast, the earth, air, the wars, diseases, poverty, etc. By people like yourself and others here as well as those elsewhere who pray for harmony, peace, healing, etc and take action to try to resolve the 'darkness' I would say is bring balance to a certian degree . But will not resolve it completely because there will always be those who feel that have the right to domant the Earth and beyond due to their ideas. I feel this creates an endless circle.

PS I did read today's Heaven Letter. I am not blaming the lack, I am saying man creates lack.

Too much contrary evidence

I've read over people's replies (and the suggested link) several times, but I don't see much in there that speaks to me. The general attitude that I hear is that we should just send out love-vibes and everything will be OK but I see no evidence that the love-vibes that have been sent out so far have done anything.

I can visualize all I want, but the bottom line is that our current so-called leadership is accelerating down the path of destruction and extinction. And most people are too busy scraping together enough money to pay the cellphone bill and a new SUV to take the kids skiing, to care about thinking objectively and questioning our "leader", tho recently at least more people are beginning to question our direction. We still end up sending the same morally bankrupt people (with a few noteable but insufficient exceptions) to DC and then the people who voted for them wonder why nothing changes. Rarely does a non-incumbent or somebody who spends less money on their campain than their opponent does, win. Why is that? Because of slick and dishonest marketing.

In addition to the quote by Rev. Niemoller in my original post, I also subscribe to the Chinese proverb, "If you don't change your direction, you're likely to end up where you're headed". And I firmly believe that we're headed for extinction, if not by the environmental destruction, then by the US's and terrorists's mutually-justifying roles with respect to terrorism.

I agree with the folks that say it's more a matter of when rather than if, as to whether the terrorists will do another big "event" here in the US. And our society is so fragile, that if there's an even minor but significant perterbation, we're in for a heap of trouble. Even if I were able to grow enough food to support myself, I couldn't do it if I no longer had access to oil/energy. And even if I could, my neighbor who can't, would come and take what I grow for myself.

So I strongly believe that we as a society do not have the collective intelligence to survive long-term without "external" help at this point. I don't care whether it's Jesus, Mohammed, aliens/space brothers, Great White Brotherhood, whoever. If somebody cares about us and our survival, then they need to get down here pronto and "change our direction" because we're not successful as a society.

There are lots of anedotal events of people doing wonderful and inspirational things. Tons of them. But it's like saying there are tons of stars in the sky, why is the overall sky still so dark? It's because the darkness continues to overwhelm the bazillion individual points of light.

How to balance political action with non-judgement

And how dark would it be without the stars?

No matter where I go I seem to keep running into posts like yours. Why are you people so angry? It is not helping. All you are doing is adding to the conflict that is already out there. And why are so focused on the material for? Those who have respond be if we agree with each other or not has tried to help you see beyond the physical. The world is going to change -- it is in the process of doing so-- I really do not understanding trying to save it. Save what? It is like a caveman wanting to save a dinosaur and preserve it for future generations. What would we do with a dinosaur, have a Jurastic Park experience? Yes, things will have their ending, life evolves, stop worrying and enjoy it.

How to balance political action with non-judgement

>And how dark would it be without the stars?

Not far from what it is in fact. We need a real leader (like the sun or at least the moon) before we really get light - realistically and metaphorically.

>No matter where I go I seem to keep running into posts like yours. Why >are you people so angry?

I'm very discouraged and frustrated.

>It is not helping. All you are doing is adding to the conflict that is already >out there.

We're still focused on war as a society. I don't see how to contribute to light without opposing the darkness that permeates our society and is destroying our planet.

>And why are so focused on the material for? Those who have respond >be if we agree with each other or not has tried to help you see beyond >the physical.

Because the physical is all that I absolutely know I have. I've done tons of reading and workshops, etc., but I still don't have the experience that some of you have about what's beyond our senses. I'd love to, and I express/pray-for that intention just about every day, but I don't. Plus, if we destroy the physical, we won't have it anymore.

>The world is going to change -- it is in the process of doing so-- I really >do not understanding trying to save it.
>Yes, things will have their ending, life evolves, stop worrying and enjoy it.

I'd feel a lot better if I actually *knew* there was something out there and there was a reason for going deeper into darkness.

I read a piece by Marianne Williamson (one of the most consistently inspiring people I know) which really clarifies it for me. She talks about how our country is like a 2-story house where those more "enlightened" have moved to the 2nd story because things are nicer there, and we're "above" the negativity on the first floor. But we also haven't been watching what the people on the first floor have heen up to. "My God, they're burning the house down!". And if they burn down the first floor, we all go down.

How to balance political action with non-judgement

Dear Paul,

We're still focused on war as a society.

Who is we? All of us? In principal yes. The sum of all of that, what a society thinks becomes reality. If the majority of a society still is focused on war, do I need as well? No, I don't. I I definitly will not! Cause the only way to change a society is to chance it's thinking. And I as a thinking being are able to influence the "body" the thinking of a society.

See an example here:

http://www.damanhur.info/

a societiey build on love, peace, education and art. So it IS possible.

Because the physical is all that I absolutely know I have.

You should better not be to sure about that. Just take some time and watch the movie "what the beep do we know?". A film talking about the insides of quatum physik. Metioned there as well the studies of Mr. Emoto, researching about the power of thoughts:

http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/consciouswater.html

so better take care about what you think. And read. Maybe next time chose something from Sheldrake about Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance instead Marianne Williamson?

http://www.sheldrake.org/

A lot of people think, this light people and believers in Love and peace are stupid and don't want to face reality. But that is only, what they think. In "reality" sience already has proofen the power of thinking. And the interconnection between all that is. So what this stupid light people are doing is just changing the world and having fun doing it!

Much Love and Light

Adrachin

How to balance political action with non-judgement

I am in awe at the magnficence of the questions Paul raises and the responses given. There are beautiful hearts and minds here on this forum. I wish Paul, Veronika, Indigo Child and Adrachin were all on some advisory counsel to the world, and that your wisdom could be heard.

Paul, I thank you for your courage in saying what you think here on this forum where you are likely to meet opposition! And I thank everyone for their responses. Pro or con, you express beautiful facets of a diamond.

I want to be sure, Paul, that you know your point of view is heard. We all want the world to be different from what it appears to be. No argument there.

All I know is that in life and on this forum, we are in a bigger arena than politics. This isn't a discussion of a political party or a head of state. We can't really hold one political party responsible for all that occurs nor one head of state responsible. If that head of state were removed, would the world suddenly become what we want it to be?

In any case, Heavenletters is here to raise consciousness, and all hearts and souls are welcome here. It's a wise decision to keep politics out of our community forum.

Love and blessings to all,

Gloria

How to balance political action with non-judgement

hello to all

please go to the forum "books"
as I think there is a coneection to the book review from David Hawkins -
concerning

conciousness