Annette to God:
Dear God, is the story of the Fall just a symbolic representation of how we, all the souls You created out of Your infinite love, turned our attention away from You, like spoiled little children who think they know better than their parents, and followed our illusions instead? Doesn't the Garden of Eden represent the abundance of everything we needed that you gave us when You created us? And isn't our turning our attention "outward" or away from You, getting lost in the parts? Is this the Fall, then? That to turn away from You is to fall into the "mistake" of dense matter and continually recycle (reincarnate) through our misunderstandings until we finally "get it" that You are All That Is?
Is this also the story of denial? We began by judging and denying God and ourselves and those feelings we judged against, rather than accepting? And whatever we judged against or rejected in ourselves fragmented into other beings that keep incarnating with us and "sticking" to our experience because we refuse to recognize and accept them as pieces of ourselves?
And is soul retrieval some process that everyone must go through before they heal into wholeness? And, if so, how is this accomplished? Some say we must feel every feeling and own up to it as ours. We must get our judged-against emotions moving again. Some people employ shamans to recover the fragments of our souls. Personally, if I need anything to be retrieved, I would rather ask You directly, dear God, not entrust this to a shaman, who is just another person.
It seems to me, in light of Your recent words in Heavenletters about wholeness, that You are the Doer and our role is simply to accept You as our true Selves. What can we possibly need to retrieve except our attention from details to wholeness, from illusions to God? God, is this understanding correct?
God to Annette:
Very good, Annette, yet you mix too many things together, dear one. I can say the Fall was a looking outward, and that I fulfilled your desire to look outward by providing all the relative, for the Fall was even before the relative was manifested. The relative was the manifestation of your desire to look outward. And, yes, Adam and Eve is a story of illusion. But I would not say that My children were like spoiled children. They were just children. They were just innocence wanting to discover itself.
And My children do indeed become lost in the parts, or think they are lost. I know they are not.
Do My children continue to take other bodies and keep on doing so until they "get it"? The souls of My children beg to reincarnate. I do not mandate. It is their desire. I am happy to fulfill your desires. But you have choice. Even your souls have choice.
In the world, My children certainly do judge themselves. They misjudge. They see awry.
Many things can help you clear away the dust that blinds your vision.
The word "energy" will be helpful to you, Annette. Have you ever given away energy in this lifetime? Have others ever taken some energy away from you? And does your energy sometimes seem to fly away of its own accord? Do you sometimes feel renewed by the presence of another? Do you sometimes want more from another than they can or want to give? Do you perhaps sometimes take the energy of another and hold it to you? Subconsciously?
Energy plays back and forth. You might even say that someone or something drains you. What is it draining you of but your energy, whatever name you choose to give it?
Your own thoughts can drain you. And others' thoughts concerning you can also drain you. Thoughts are very powerful energy.
How differently do you feel when you think of Me, your God, than when you think of your debts?
Now you understand energy.
Debts steal your energy, or you give it away, or the holders of the debts seize it and keep it.
The details do not matter. Stolen, taken, given. The energies matter.
Now, here's a secret: When you no longer seek control, the energy of those that might want to control you cannot take hold. Energies magnetize each other.
Pure being is without control. Pure love cannot be violated.
Of course, I am the Helper.
You do not need to run to this and that. I have told you this before, dear Annette. This is not to say that shamans and all are not helpful. Those with gifts who follow the energy I give — and many, many do — are helpful. And some think it their own skill, and they take your energy to them.
I could say that about all of My children, for the present — some are connected to Me above all, and some are not. Some help in My name and others in their own name.
Diane finds that singing opens her to Me. Some find that a particular shaman does. A word in a book can. Someone's eyes can. Or voice. But it is always I, dear Annette.
The main thing I want to say to you in particular is not to make a hobby of this or that. Your well-being is not dependent on anyone or anything outside you. This is not to say that nothing out there can be of help. But for you, dear Annette, you who have been so dependent on the outside, it is especially wise to keep your heart with Me. Bring it back to Me.
Do you remember how you used to allow yourself to eat only certain foods and not others, and how you freed yourself from that control, and how good you feel?
You stopped thinking that some foods were bad for you, or there were others that you must have and cannot live without. Your thoughts freed you from boundaries you had made or took on. In the same way, you are freeing yourself from needing this and needing that from teachers and healers in the relative world.
You do not need to run away from any shaman or healer, but you don't have to run to them either. You do not need to disdain any healer or form of healing any more than you need to adore the healer or their mode of healing. You can be neutral.
I want to express the great respect and gratitude I have for all who wish to help humanity and to uplift the consciousness and energy of My children. Yes, help Me in the healing of the universe. I remind you to look to Me first and to heal in My name, not as a concession, not only in words, but as awareness of truth. I heal, and you go through motions.
And the same I say to you, dear Annette. Of course, look to Me first. Of course, look to Me directly. You are on the right track.
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Polly to Heavenletters:
Just read your letter about prisoners. So glad to hear you are going to try to get heavenletters to them. Much needed.