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NOTE:
This
answer was given on October 27, 2007, during the Shangra-la conference
in England.
Answer from Jesus:
You might recall, my beloved, that in Ireland the Ascended
Master Patrick was asked what he would say to the Irish people.
And his remark was: “Get over being Irish!” Likewise, I
would say to the native Americans: “Get over being Indians!”
For you see, my beloved, what is it we desire to see for all people
on Earth? It is that they transcend their human, earthly limitations
and come to see themselves as spiritual people. You see, my beloved,
the people who are currently embodied in what they see as native American
bodies, they are not native American souls, they are universal spiritual
souls. Just as the people who are embodied in black African bodies or
Asian bodies or white bodies are not white or black or red or yellow
souls. They are all universal souls.
So what we desire, my beloved, is for all people to reclaim their true
spiritual identity and to express it. And this does not mean that all
people have to abandon their current culture and that we eventually
envision a world where there is only one world-wide culture, for that
is not our vision at all. It is quite possible that the native American
people can express their universal spirituality through some aspect,
some version, of their traditional culture. But it will not be the culture
the way it is right now, it will be a new – transformed –
culture, that is far more universal than what you see now.
So you see, my beloved, before the native American people can reach
for that universality, they need to overcome their emotional attachment
to carrying on a tradition and a history that time has run away from.
My beloved, why have we talked about the British people needing to question
the Monarchy, which has been such a fixture of the British consciousness
for a thousand years? Can you not see that the native American people
are facing a very similar challenge as the British people, and as people
around the world, of overcoming the limitations from the past and embracing
growth?
For you see, my beloved, the real problem with the native American culture
is that it had become stagnant even before white people arrived. And
thus, the American Indians have gone into a state of consciousness where
they feel they are victims. They feel that somehow the white people
came in and destroyed their culture. But I tell you, my beloved, when
you consider the teaching of the cosmic mirror, can you not see that
if the native American people had not had a division in their own consciousness,
they could not have precipitated an external force that would come in
and overturn their culture?
In fact, I can tell you that the highest potential for America was that
the native Americans would have let go of their tradition and adapted—creating
an entirely new culture, where they did not uncritically take over the
European culture or the European religion, but where they were willing
to transform their own culture, to realize that they could no longer
hold on to the old, but that simply the change in times, demanded a
transformation.
My beloved, look at the history of Europe and ask yourself why Europe
became such a dominant influence in the world. Surely, you will see
that one aspect of this dominance was the dominance through force that
is precipitated by the power elite. But you see, my beloved, the power
elite in Europe did not have actual physical power to create the expansion
that lead to the colonization of other continents. They were, so to
speak, riding on the expansion of consciousness that was driven by the
fact that the European people were willing to let go of the old, the
Catholic mental box, coming to the age of enlightenment, and therefore
transcend and adapt—let go of the old culture and create a new.
The highest potential for the native Americans was that they would have
gone through their own period of enlightenment, whereby you could actually
have had the emergence of an entirely new culture that would have created
certain states in America that could still have been part of the United
States of America, but could have had a separate culture, a much more
distinctly native American but also a much more modern culture.
This potential has been lost, but the only way forward for the native
Americans is to seek to create today what could have been created back
then and transcending the traditional culture, realizing that they are
universal souls and that their native spirituality can be transformed
into a higher spirituality that is more universal. They do not have
to take over Christianity in any way, but you could certainly see a
mixture of the universal principles of native American spirituality
with the universal principles of Christianity. So you would see a more
native American version that still honored the Christ consciousness
and the Christ potential in every person.
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