One of Heaven's translator angels has started his own blog, and that is Normand Bourque, who, along with Chantal, translates Heavenletters™ into French. In his blog, Normand generously endorses Heavenletters. By 5 a.m. this morning, we had five new Heaven subscribers. I bet they came to Heavenletters via Normand's blog published in Lady Isis' newsletter.
The following is Normand's latest blog entry, copied from Lady Isis' LoveLightAroundtheWorldNewsletter:
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Peace Begins With me: Ho'oponopono and Self I-D-entity
by Normand Bourque
January 10, 2013
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"Ho'oponopono is a profound gift that allows one to develop a working relationship with the Divinity within and learn to ask that in each moment, our errors in thought, word, deed, or action be cleansed. The process is essentially about freedom, complete freedom from the past.
“If we can accept that we are the sum total of all past thoughts, emotions, words, deeds and actions and that our present lives and choices are colored or shaded by this memory bank of the past, then we begin to see how a process of correcting or setting aright can change our lives, our families and our society.” ~ Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona, Ho'oponopono Master Teacher. ~
Healing mentally ill criminals in prison without even seeing any of them
In Hawaii, at the Hawaii State hospital, there is a therapist, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, who cured a whole ward of mentally ill criminals at a distance only by studying their inmate's chart. He never tried to see the inmates personally. And these inmates were extremely aggressive to the point that the people working in this prison were terrified to go to work (read the full story at http://rosariomontenegro.hubpages.com/hub/How-Dr-Hew-Len-healed-a-ward-o... and in Joe Vitale, Ihaleakala Hew Len, Zero Limits, The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace and More). But he did something else at the same time.
While examining an inmate's chart, Dr Hew Len would look inside himself to see how he himself could have caused mental disorders in the inmate.
At first sight, this seems farfetched if not 'insane.' But, in reality, this therapeutic approach, which is based on the principal of "Total Responsibility," originates from Hawaiian traditional healing wisdom bearing the name of Ho'oponopono.
The Principle of Total Responsibility and Self I-d-entity
Ho'oponopono is a healing method based on the belief in Oneness and that there is "no other". If we think as "One" then we can say that the entire world we see as the "outside world" separate from us is entirely our creation, a projection of ourself. In that sense, everything that we live and react to in life is OUR responsibility. Criminals, terrorists exist seemingly out there but, in reality, they are projections from inside us.
While Dr. Hew Len studied an inmate's chart, he would ask himself, "What is going on in me that have caused this problem, and how can I rectify this problem in me?"
As unbelievable as it may seem, this approach makes sense. If we are One, there is only One of us, there is no other. God has only One Son and we are all parts, yet whole, of this Sonship. And even if we firmly believe that we each have our personal self, our own ego, there is only one "apparent personal self," only one ego that we could call the Egoship. Therefore, it makes sense to say that we have total responsibility of everything in our life.
But what does this mean in our day to day experience? Am I a criminal if someone else is? If yes, how can it be and how can I heal somebody else?
Letting go of the past
We could say that, at a certain "level" which is not a real level, the past has no levels, no hierarchy. There is something called the past which is collectively consisting of replayed memories. It is like if all the past history of mankind had been played only once, in an infinitesimal fraction of time, when the idea of separation from Oneness traversed our mind. Outside that infinitesimal, tiny instant, we simply reenact endlessly that episode where we thought we created ourself, independently from God. But it is only a memory on tape in our mind. It is over since a long time but we think it is actually happening.
There are only two different approaches to solve the problem of the past. The first one is to study the past and analyze it endlessly. That is what the analytical theories and methods do. They try to understand the past without being able to resolve it. They try to improve life of the ill person from memory by using the memory itself.
The second method, used by Ho'oponopono, uses a form of Inspiration and Intention. If we believe that the past is just a bad dream and that it never really existed, or that it belongs to an illusion of ourself, what is the best cure if not to heal by what we really are, which is love?
The therapy of Love
In Ho'oponopono, the healer proceeds to clear the past of the ill person by clearing the past of the healer. This is done through the following ritual formula:
I am sorry
Please forgive me
I thank you
I love you
Isn't it how Jesus proceeded when he resurrected Lazarus, seeing equality and perfection in the only One of us?
It is amazing that the foundation of Ho'oponopo is also found in 'A course in Miracle' and in Heavenletters™.
"Healing is the one ability everyone can develop and "Must" develop if he is to be healed. Healing perceives nothing in the healer that everyone else does not share with him. Magic always sees something "special" in the healer, which he believes he can offer as a gift to someone who does not have it. He may believe that the gift comes from God to him, but it is quite evident that he does not understand God if he thinks he has something that others lack." A course in Miracles, VII-5.
In Heavenletters™, God says repeatedly that we don't exist personally (except seemingly) and that there is no other outside you.
“God said: ...You are the One. No matter how many others you may seem to see, there is no other. There is no otherness. Certainly there seems to be, and, yet, you pulled a curtain over your own eyes." ~ Heavenletter# 4359 “Life Began on Earth.” http://www.heavenletters.org/life-began-on-earth.html *
And about Love as the only therapy for all of us:
“God said: ...It is enough that My immense heart loves you, loves the One of Me Who is before Me right now. It is enough that My heart loves, for love exists irrespective of anything and everything else. Of course, else is a fiction. There is no else. There is no other, yet, so vast is that concept, it is hard for you to swallow it.
Come back to your awareness of love. I cannot say to you: “Come back to My love,” for there is no derailment of My love for you to come back to. Love is your shining light, and love is the essence of you. Reduced to its simplest, love is your DNA, and All That Is means that there is nothing else. I am not a body, and yet I gave you a body in which you can proclaim My existence. Let Me be known through this perceived individuality of Me called you. You are the Deliverer of God." ~ Heavenletter #4360 “The Magnificence of One.” http://www.heavenletters.org/the-magnificence-of-one.html *
Quod Erat Demonstrandum (Q.e.d): Which Was to Be Demonstrated.
Normand Bourque
This blog is about exploring the possibilities of thinking with what we are rather than thinking about what we can do. * http://www.wordsbeyond.us/ *
P.S. For the simple purpose of relative orientation in this 3-D world, my name is Normand Bourque, born in Montréal, Québec, Canada in 1947. Studies and teaching in Anthropology, then consultant in information technology until 2002. Live presently in Perth, Western Australia. Retired, I work as a French translator and collaborator for the Heavenletters™ website www.heavenletters.org and work on a web project on the etymology of languages derived from Indo-European. *
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Incidentally, David O'Neil of the U.S., who posts often on the Heavenletter forum, recently asked a question of God, and, with his permission, I will send each of you a copy in case you would like to translate it for your readers. Heaven Admin is traveling again. When he comes back, I expect we will make this a special mailing. Just so you know, God begins His answer with:
Beloved David, I would like My answer to you to be heard from the rafters.
The parallels between God's answer and Ho-Oponopono that Normand describes are clear. We are responsible to everyone for everything. There is no "they."
I also add that it may well be that God's response will open up some controversy.
This is indeed a year of New Beginnings.
Will love, appreciation, and blessings to all,
Gloria