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NOTE: This
answer was given on May 19, 2007, during the Shangra-la conference in
Ireland.
Answer from Jesus:
This is a question that touches
upon many different topics and therefore truly deserves a longer answer.
But I will give you a brief answer here and perhaps elaborate before
it is put on the website.
One big part of the answer is always karma. There
are people who are courageous souls who want to make quick progress.
And they volunteer at inner levels, or before coming into embodiment,
to take on a serious illness in order to balance as much karma as they
can for the remainder of their present embodiment, therefore attaining
a better situation in their next lifetime. There are even those who
can take on such an illness in order to finally balance their karma
that will qualify them for their ascension.
Yet there can also be many psychological considerations that come into
play, where there are people who volunteer to take on a difficult condition
in order to somehow help other people by stirring compassion or a desire
to help. You see, my beloved, the greatest enemy of spiritual growth
is truly self-centeredness. For the ego is completely focused on itself
and thus it becomes a black hole. It becomes the closed system that
Saint Germain LINK spoke about when he gave his beautiful teachings
on the second law of thermodynamics.
And therefore, there are many ways that have been devised by the spiritual
teachers of humankind to help people overcome their self-centeredness
by finally feeling some sense of compassion for others—so they
are stirred to help others rather than being so focused on themselves.
And so, there are indeed those who have volunteered to take on various
forms of conditions – such as this – in order to stir compassion
in others.
[Added 6/22/07] There are,
of course, also people who have not volunteered to take on anything
but whose karma has simply become so severe that it manifests as a
crippling illness. These people have not been willing to listen to
any spiritual teachings – often for many lifetimes – and
thus their karma must descend upon them in order to give them another
opportunity to change course in life. We who are the spiritual teachers
of humankind serve the Earth in large part to give people an alternative
to learning from their karma. Alas, there is little we can do when
people insist on enrolling themselves in the school of hard knocks.
There is also a psychological
element of showing that life is more than the physical. And this is
something that has come into play in modern society. For what do you
see in modern medicine? Well, you see an attempt to create a state where
disease and suffering is taken away from the view of the people.
You almost see it at both ends of life, my beloved, where you have had
societies where talking about the reproductive act is a taboo—so
that, literally, people believed that babies were delivered by the stork.
And even in modern times, there are many children who have no idea how
babies come forth. In other words, you suddenly spring into being and
then one day you die and disappear.
And yet, the reality is, of course, that what you create in your consciousness,
you must experience in the physical. For the universe is a mirror. And
so what modern medicine has done, my beloved, is to try to create a
condition where they can cure any ailment or dull the pain so that people
do not experience the consequences of their state of consciousness.
For you see – again
– any disease is a manifestation of some condition in consciousness.
And in many cases, a disease can indeed lead people to the point of
realizing that they need to change, that they need to reevaluate their
lives. And this can cause a growth that otherwise had not happened when
they were healthy and focused on living the good material life as they
saw it.
So this ties in with the previous question
of suffering. For there are people who will not learn in any other
way. They will not learn through a spiritual teaching or the inner prompting
of their Christ self. And in that case, the physical realm, the Mother
energy, becomes their teacher. And that is why their physical bodies
start to outpicture the imperfect psychological conditions, as again
is explained in the new
book that talks about the connection between physical diseases and
psychological conditions.
So my beloved, there can be a psychological value in people seeing that
some people experience this suffering of an extreme illness. Obviously,
we would prefer that people would learn through spiritual teachings,
instead of seeing their own consciousness outpictured in these extreme
ways. But when people are not willing to learn, we must allow the law
of free will to outplay itself so that they see that life is not always
easy and that you cannot truly escape the consequences of your choices.
You cannot always numb yourself with painkillers and experience nothing.
So this is my answer for now.
One addition: As for the answer to what you can do to help such people,
you can be at peace. So that when you are with them, you do not fall
into any of the dualistic traps. One of which is human sympathy, the
other being to numb yourself so you feel nothing.
You can allow yourself to feel an inner peace that gives you true compassion.
And you can then seek to help and inspire these people to reevaluate
their lives as long as they are clear enough to do so. When they go
beyond the point of not thinking clearly, then you can again be at peace
and hold the spiritual balance for them.
And of course, you can certainly give rosaries that the soul at inner
levels will be awakened to learn its lesson—even though the outer
mind cannot learn it because the clarity is gone. You can also work
with the people around those who are ill and try to help them reevaluate
their lives and gain a more spiritual perspective on life.
Additional answer, given June 22, 2007.
When experiencing a severe illness or witnessing people who go through
a severe illness and extreme suffering – even to the point that
one’s loved ones deteriorate into something that is barely recognizable
as a human being and certainly not as the person one used to know –
it is natural that one is emotionally affected. Many people can be so
traumatized by such experiences that they have no other option but to
shut down their emotions and numb themselves to the emotional pain of
either going through the illness or witnessing other people suffer.
This will inevitably cloud people’s ability to think clearly about
the situation.
Another common reaction is that one has very strong feelings, but the
overall feeling is that of being paralyzed, of being powerless to affect
a positive change and feeling this is unjust. This paralysis about the
outer situation is then often channeled into an inner anger or rage
that can eventually become so intense that it has to be let out and
consequently is directed at someone. Some ill people become angry at
relatives or even their caretakers. Others take their anger out on God,
often asking with great indignation why God has let this happen to them.
My point is that while both reactions are understandable, the real question
is whether they will ease people’s suffering and improve the physical
condition or whether they will only make matters worse?
We of the Ascended Host are by no means insensitive to human suffering.
In fact, as the representative of the Cosmic Christ for the Earth, I
Jesus do indeed feel – at a particular level of my being –
the suffering of every human being on Earth. As I said 2,000 years ago:
Inasmuch as ye
have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done
it unto me. (Matthew 25:40)
Yet I am also fully aware
that I am more than the suffering and that the people on Earth are more
than the suffering. Thus, I clearly see that for people on Earth to
escape the suffering, they need to connect to the reality that they
are more, a reality I described as follows:
Neither shall they
say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within
you. (Luke 17:21)
Thus, while we do feel a
Divine compassion for people who suffer, we never get lost in that compassion
and always hold the vision that people will grow in consciousness, thus
overcoming the outer limitations.
It is only by going within
that you can connect to the fact that there is more to your total being
than the limited self that is stuck in the physical body, the body that
is going through an illness or witnessing another go through an illness.
Coming to this realization is very much a matter of raising your consciousness,
of increasing your understanding of life. And this does involve a certain
amount of rational reasoning about the situation—which will be
impossible when you shut down mentally/emotionally or when you allow
your emotions to run wild with anger or blame. I fully realize that
this teaching will not be able to help everyone, but let me suggest
how people who are not beyond rational thinking might proceed.
As I have explained elsewhere,
your emotions are at a lower level than your mental body. So whether
you shut down your emotions or let them run wild, the real cause is
found in your mental body. And that cause is the fact that you cannot
make sense out of the situation, that you cannot understand –
and thus cannot accept – why it is happening. You feel that the
situation is unjustly put upon you by some external force, be it life,
or fate or God.
Let me suggest that the reason
why so many people in modern society cannot understand and accept suffering
is that neither of the dominant belief systems of that society –
whereby I mean both mainstream Christianity and materialistic science
– can give them sufficient answers. Because people do not have
answers, their mental bodies are paralyzed and thus they cannot control
their emotional bodies.
So even though people can be very emotional and even though it can be
very difficult to reign in the emotions once they have gone out of control,
the only realistic answer is to start by changing your view of suffering
and disease, which requires you to go beyond the view of life presented
by both religion and science.
Where to start? Well, there is currently no better place to start than
Mother Mary’s book,
in which she explains the basic reality of life:
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Your mind has the ability
to form mental images.
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You have been given
free will to form any image you like.
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The universe is made
from one substance, called the Ma-ter light. This substance can
take on any form.
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The Ma-ter light forms
a kind of cosmic mirror. Any image you hold in your mind –
even below the threshold of conscious awareness – will be
superimposed upon the Ma-ter light, which will take on the material
form that corresponds to your image.
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Whatever image you hold
in your mind, you will eventually experience in the form of material
circumstances.
- The key to changing
your material circumstances is to change the images in your mind,
meaning all four levels of the mind.
I realize this is a world
view that is in stark contrast to the world view given to people by
both religion and science. The world view with which you have been brought
up is designed to pacify you so you think you have no control over your
own destiny and physical circumstances. This is explained in greater
detail elsewhere,
so I will not go into the deeper aspects here.
If you get ill and go to a priest, he will tell you to pray and if prayer
doesn’t work, there is supposedly nothing you can do. If you go
to a doctor, he will tell you to use modern medicine and if that doesn’t
work, there is nothing you can do. Both belief systems pacify you by
denying that you are responsible for your illness, that it is an outpicturing
of conditions in your mind and that you can change the physical condition
by sufficiently changing your inner condition.
The problem is that both philosophies have taught people that they are
not ultimately responsible for their lives, and this is a message that
the human ego loves
to hear. So I understand that it can be difficult for people to make
the switch and acknowledge the fact that ANY material circumstance is
self-created by the mind and can thus be uncreated by changing the mind.
Do you see what I am saying here? Religion tells you that illness is
caused by external circumstances and if prayer doesn’t work, you
are out of options. Science tells you that illness is caused by external
circumstances and if medicine doesn’t work, you are out of options.
Both lead to paralysis, and as I explained above, suffering is caused
by such paralysis.
The world view I am suggesting removes this paralysis by stating that
any form of suffering carries the possibility of learning an important
lesson in life, a lesson that will benefit you far beyond this lifetime
and your current state of suffering. Of course, the price you have to
pay is that you have to accept ultimate responsibility for your life.
Yet once you do that, you will never feel paralyzed again. Thus, your
suffering will either be diminished or will be replaced by a joyful
focus on growth.
Furthermore, as you apply yourself to discovering and learning the hidden
lesson behind the outer situation, it is entirely possible that you
will overcome the cause that created the material illness. And this
can literally make the illness – no matter how severe –
disappear as if by a miracle. Yet there are truly no miracles, just
an application of natural laws that are beyond what is currently known
by both science and religion.
The reality is that if a person is ill and accepts either of the belief
systems dominating modern society, the inevitable result will be paralysis.
This will block a resolution of the condition in the mind that caused
the illness and thus effectively prevent a cure. Consider how many people
believe their doctors when they are told that they have an incurable
disease. And by accepting this, you block the possibility of a resolution
of the cause.
Be aware that I am not here talking about the false hope promoted by
so many Christian ministers. Giving prayers – even having an entire
church pray for you – simply is not enough. Can you see that this
is simply an expression of a pacifying belief system that says God,
Mother Mary or myself must cure the illness for you through a miracle?
In reality, you are the one who must bring about the “miracle,”
the miracle of a resolution in your mind that changes material conditions.
Do you see that both science and religion are telling you that the material
world is real and that material conditions have ultimate reality? What
I am saying here is that the material world has only a temporary appearance
and truly has no more reality than what you give it in your mind. All
suffering on Earth was created in the human mind. What has been created
by the human mind can be uncreated by the mind—but only when the
human mind is transformed into the mind of Christ. This will happen
only when you discover and fully accept that the kingdom of God is within
you and that the kingdom of God is at hand, meaning that you can raise
your consciousness right now and thus change your outer conditions right
now.
You will then be able to hold the immaculate concept – as Mother
mary explains in her book – either for yourself or others. This
is the most powerful thing you can do for anyone, and it involves never
accepting any physical limitation as real but always focusing on the
positive vision and the absolute knowledge – beyond normal faith
– that the Ma-ter light will eventually outpicture the perfect
image you are superimposing upon it. Yet to fully hold the immaculate
concept, you cannot be a house divided against itself, and that is why
you must seek to resolve the psychological conditions that created the
illness in the first place.
When you come to the realization I describe here – a realization
that is beyond faith because it is based on an application of the key
of knowledge – you will know the truth in my statement that with
men this is impossible but with God all things are possible. This entire
website is dedicated to helping you discover and accept this reality,
so study and apply!
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