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NOTE:
This
answer was given on July 14, 2007, during the Shangra-la conference
in Los Angeles, California.
Answer from Jesus:
The greatest thing you can do as the spiritual people in the United
States is to raise your own consciousness and help be part of the movement
of bringing forth a new awareness. At this point there is no one ideal
solution to the situation in Iraq.
This is, as Saint
Germain has explained, a consequence of the fact that whenever you
do something based on the duality consciousness, you will create problems
that have no solution in the duality consciousness. And thus, the only
way out of such a situation is to reach beyond duality and reach for
a higher awareness.
So for the United States, the highest potential is that the people will
be awakened, as Saint Germain said, to take command over their leadership
and demand that their foreign policy is in the interest of the spiritual
vision for this nation and not in the monetary interest or the power
interest of the elite. And so that the entire nation can learn its lesson
from this situation.
The other aspect, of course, is the situation in Iraq. But this is where
the spiritual people of the United States have a more limited influence
because of free will. It truly is up to the people in the Middle East
what they will do about the situation. And that, again,
is very much a matter of the balance between the moderates – who
are the majority but have so far remained the silent majority –
and the minority of the radicals who are seeking to plunge the entire
region into chaos which they, for entirely mistaken reasons, believe
will serve their cause, their hidden agenda.
Sometimes it is unfortunately necessary to let people learn their lessons
in the school of hard knocks, where they sometimes will not learn until
the knocks become so hard. And my beloved, the people of Iraq need to
come to the point where they are willing to take responsibility for
their nation and govern themselves, rather than precipitating one oppressor
after another, as they have done for a very long time.
And this, of course, is something that you can hold the immaculate concept
for. But nevertheless because of the law of free will, you cannot prevent
these people from creating the situation that is necessary for them
to learn their lessons—possibly by finally having enough of bloodshed
and violence.
The entire region of the Middle East represents an area of almost extreme
complexity, compared to the situation in the United States where you
have a much greater potential for a breakthrough into a higher state
of consciousness. It is, of course, no coincidence that some nations
have a higher standard of living, have a more highly developed educational
system and scientific system. Because it shows their willingness to
come up higher and change with the times.
Whereas, as I said earlier,
in the Middle East you have still a very large percentage of the population
who want their lifestyle to continue, remaining the same as it has been
for thousands of years—not wanting any change in the way they
treat women, in the economy, or of course in the field of religion.
This is slightly different from what you see in the Western world, where
it is primarily the elite that is in opposition to change and want to
maintain status quo where they are in control. In the Middle East there
is a far greater percentage of the population that want to maintain
status quo. And this makes it, of course, more difficult to bring about
change.
So again, as the spiritual people of the West, focus on your own nations
first. Focus on learning the lessons that need to be learned, especially
about making yourselves and your nations independent of Middle Eastern
oil as quickly as possible. This, of course, means that you need to
hold the vision that some degree of stability is maintained in Iraq
so that the United States does not pull out in such a way that it creates
total chaos that will spread to the region and therefore shut down the
oil supply.
And thus, even though the situation in the Middle East is far from ideal,
you still need to visualize some sense of stability that can be maintained
for several years so that we avoid a crisis that can grow to global
proportions. And as we have said before, for
every day that passes without an outbreak of a major conflict in
the Middle East, it is more likely that we can avoid that conflict.
Yet again, there is, of course, no certainty because of free will.
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