How to deal with people who seek to destroy your spiritual beliefs

NOTE: This teaching was given on August 12, 2006, after the NEW DIRECTION was implemented.

Kim: Jesus, I have had an e-mail exchange with a person, and I would appreciate your comments on it because I sense there is something I do not see clearly. Perhaps your answer could also be of help to other spiritual seekers who encounter people that are negative toward their spiritual beliefs. This is the person’s initial e-mail:

Dear Kim Michaels
I feel your site is run by marie claire prophet.
i said all the prayers for a year and just couldnot see any change in my life or circumstances.i felt like I was being taken for a ride.So I continued my search and finally found the true God and jesus christ in the most wondeful website called www.Christsway.co.za
This is awebsite which is stright from God and help you with the help of jesus christ to develop a one to one realtionship with God without all the paraphernalia like Mothe rmary or saint germaine or all those stupid hindu gods and godesses.
please read the seven letters dictacted by Christ and chang eyour life Mr michaels as you are being led astray by some evil spirits.
Save yourself before it is too late.Your spirit which impersonates jesus is only cheapening the image of Jesus as he has nothing to but dictate messages and do it all the time.Jus timagine the rosaries they are so long and foolish to keep on repeating. I dont say any prayers anymore as i now talk to God and ask Him once and keep thanking Him formall the blessings and i find that I have time to do so muc hof constructive work and add value to this worls than repeat foolsih mantras dictacted by some evil hindu spirits and christian spirits who want you to be occupied in parrot type repeating of their rote prayers.
Please come out of this and get to this real site and change your life once and for all. At least tell your wife to read this site and allow her to reach heaven if u r not interested.
I am publishing a 100 books of the Christway letters and distributing them free to some people her ein mumbai india
Thanks
if you really have an open mind and not a fanatic and if you have the guts do what i have told you and your blind eyes will open !!!

Kim: Do you have any comments on this letter?

Jesus: I first want to know why you felt compelled to answer?

Kim: Well, I think the main reason was that the person says he was using the decrees and rosaries for a year, so it seems like he made a reasonable effort. I felt that was better than people who reject the site without giving it a try, so I felt kind of sad that he apparently did not get results. I also wanted to make him aware that I already knew about the website he is mentioning because I hoped it would make him realize that there is no contradiction between the two. In other words, it seems odd that a person would accept the Christway site and at the same time think this site – which he apparently accepted as genuine for a year – is now made by evil spirits.

Jesus: Those might be the outer reasons you decided to answer, but what is the underlying reason?

Kim: Well, I obviously can’t see it, so please tell me what you see.

Jesus: My point is that this letter is not that different from a number of other letters you have received over the years. It sounds almost exactly like the letters from fundamentalist Christians who accuse you of working with false spirits. In other words, the letter has a very clear accusatory and judgmental tone. You have several times tried to reason with such people, but have you had any success in changing such people’s minds?

Kim: No, I have not.

Jesus: So why do you keep trying? What I mean is, why did you feel compelled to answer this person?

Kim: I felt he was being judgmental and that some of his statements were so factually incorrect that I felt I should correct them.

Jesus: No, that was just the excuse used by your outer mind. There is an underlying reason which I want you to see. My point is that you are correct that the person was being judgmental and that his statements are incorrect. Yet that is not the real reason you responded. You did not respond because of your desire to help the other person. You responded because of an issue in your own psychology that compelled you to answer. Let me ask you how you feel when you read these kinds of accusatory letters from people?

Kim: I feel frustrated because these people seem impossible to reach. You are right that I have experienced all my life that you simply cannot reason with certain people. It is like you don’t see eye to eye, you don’t even speak the same language and thus you cannot even have a reasonable conversation with some people. Other people you can reason with forever, but it seems like nothing you say gets through to them and after a while you end up wondering if you wasted your time.

Jesus: Now we are getting to the real problem. Listen to what you just said and tell me what the real problem is?

Kim: I am not sure what you mean?

Jesus: Your first words were, “I feel frustrated…” This is the core of the issue. The reason you felt compelled – and notice I say “felt compelled” instead of “chose” – to answer is not the other person’s actual statements but your own frustration.

This is an issue that applies to millions of sincere spiritual seekers. As a spiritual person in the modern Western world, you will inevitably run into people who flat out reject your spiritual beliefs. You get opposition from atheists or materialists, from mainstream Christians and even from other seemingly spiritual people who think their guru, philosophy or organization is the only true one.

I see so many sincere seekers who get a negative reaction to their beliefs and lifestyle and who respond with frustration. In many cases this leads people to engage in arguments with others, and they usually lead nowhere. Perhaps both people even end up getting angry and misqualify energy in the process without ever finding any common ground or resolution.

Kim: I think that is a scenario every spiritual person recognizes, so what is the solution?

Jesus: As a sincere spiritual seeker, you need to recognize one fundamental truth about the spiritual path. The real goal is to rise above the consciousness of duality, as I explain in my ego discourses. When you do rise above the dualistic illusions of the mind of anti-christ, you will have attained what the Buddha called enlightenment, and in this state you will have complete peace of mind. Yet as the Buddha explained, the key to attaining this peace of mind is to overcome ALL attachments to anything on Earth.

My point is that as a spiritual seeker you must always be looking for any attachments you might have. As I said 2,000 years ago:

First cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. (Matthew 7:5)

So when you discover any attachment, you need to look in the mirror and uncover the dualistic belief that causes the attachment. You can then reach for the truth of Christ that will set you free from the dualistic illusion, what the Buddha called Maya. Any time you realize that you are not at peace about something, you need to look for the underlying cause and remove that beam from your eye. In your case, Kim, you feel frustrated by the reactions of certain people, and that proves you need to let go of an attachment.

At the beginning stages of the spiritual path, people are often very vulnerable to a negative reaction from people who question or condemn their beliefs. This is understandable, and the underlying reason is that people are still not firmly anchored in their spiritual beliefs. They feel insecure because at some level they realize that they have some contradictions in their world view, they have many questions they have not yet answered and they have not fully integrated the teachings in their everyday life.

The result of this is that such people still have an underlying fear that they could be wrong, that they could be following a false teaching or that the entire spiritual path could be an illusion. Thus, they are naturally vulnerable to people with a very judgmental attitude, and it is a sad fact that many people have been turned away from the spiritual path by negative people.

In fact, there is an entire band of dark spirits, called the Spoilers, who are constantly seeking to get people to give up on the path. These spirits often work through people who themselves did not overcome their doubts. Such people then become “nevangelists” who feel compelled to point out what they see as flaws in other people’s beliefs. If people fall for this temptation, they too become instruments for the dark spirits and start to influence others, which is how this can spread like rings in the water. Entire spiritual organizations – that were perfectly valid and in some cases sponsored by the Ascended Host – have been brought down by people acting as extensions of the Spoilers. In fact, in the above letter, you can detect the distinct vibration of the Spoilers.

People who survive this initial attack on their beliefs end up becoming anchored in themselves. In your case, Kim, you had to go through intensive training in this before you could start your public mission with this website. You know who you are and you know I AM the real Jesus, so you do not feel threatened by the attacks from negative people. The same holds true for many other mature spiritual seekers.

As you mature on the path, you begin to overcome your own limitations and this naturally turns your attention to how you can help other people. However, this brings you face to face with a higher level of initiations that are related to how you react when other people respond negatively to the help you are offering them with the best of intentions. In your case Kim, you still have not passed one of these initiations—as is the case for many other seekers. Can you now see the cause of your frustration when you encounter negative people?

Kim: Well, the first thing I realize is that I have always had a desire to have a good relationship with people. I would like to be able to have a civilized conversation without the accusations that you are wrong and will go straight to hell. That is probably partly because I have a personal desire to be liked by others, but I think there is also a genuine desire for a higher form of interaction with people. I mean, I can’t see ascended masters running around judging and accusing each other and I have a dream of a community on Earth where people treat each other as you do in Heaven.

Jesus: And that is a genuine desire that is shared by all spiritually mature people. It is, as you say, an inner memory of how interactions are in the spiritual realm. There have been a period where certain spiritual beings turned negative and became accusatory and judgmental, as described in Revelation:

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. (Revelation 12:10)

These beings were eventually sent to the material realm, partly as disembodied spirits and partly as people in embodiment. And they are still accusing people day and night. Only now they are not doing it before the real God but before a false god of their own making.

The real point is that all spiritually mature people must rise above the need to judge and accuse other people. And thus, such people can have a civilized interaction without feeling that one belief system or organization has to be superior or the only right one. You can clearly see that the person who sent the above letter has not risen above this need to judge based on appearances.

So, Kim, what else do you realize?

Kim: I think that beneath it all is this belief that it should be possible to reason with all people. If only I could find the right way to present a higher understanding, people would respond positively. I think what is really behind this is that, as you said, I have always had a tendency to look for the beam in my own eye. So when I meet people that I cannot reason with, or cannot even communicate with, I feel like it must be because I am not good enough to tune in to what these people need and how to present it to them in a way that opens their eyes.

Jesus: And that was exactly what I wanted you to see because this is the same trap faced by many other mature spiritual seekers.

There are certain turning points on the spiritual path. One of the important ones is that you become willing to look beyond your existing beliefs and consider new ideas. For some this means they leave the religion in which they grow up and look for new spiritual teachings and organizations. Others stay in their religion but renew the way they approach it. Either way, the beginning phases of this stage is characterized by a strong belief that there must be one true guru/teaching/organization and that all others are false.

Underlying this belief is the sense that you cannot save yourself, so you need help from the outside. There is nothing wrong with people having this belief (although the belief itself is wrong), because it is a necessary phase that all people go through. The problem is that when people are in this frame of mind, they do have a black-and-white world view. This makes them think they are absolutely right and that anyone who disagrees is wrong, is working with evil spirits or whatever the particular expression might be. Obviously, the person who wrote the above letter is still stuck in this frame of mind.

What is truly happening at this stage is that people are not ready to take full responsibility for their path and salvation. Thus, they are still projecting responsibility away from themselves. That is why they think that performing a spiritual technique can magically solve all of their problems. They are not yet capable of accepting the fact that before their outer situation will change, they have to change their inner situation.

The next big turning point comes when people become mature enough to start looking for the beam in their own eyes instead of seeing or projecting splinters in the eyes of other people. Before this point, people learn from outer teachings and from their experiences in life. This is, so to speak, the school of hard knocks. As a spiritual teacher, I look forward to the point where a lifestream becomes teachable, meaning that he or she is now ready for a direct inner contact with a spiritual teacher. This is where you enroll in the school of inner direction instead of the school of outer knocks.

The main element of this inner path is that you always look in the mirror and consider how you can improve yourself. You stop looking for faults in other people that you then use as an excuse for not improving yourself. It is the willingness to change yourself that makes you teachable, so it is a wonderful quality and I am in no way finding fault with it.

However, as you mature, you need to recognize that the tendency to always seek to improve yourself can be taken too far, and this is especially true when it comes to your relationship with other people. As a sincere seeker, you tend to think that if you have disagreements, conflicts or even a difference of opinion with other people, you need to improve yourself. And this is true up to a point, for as long as you have an attachment and is not at peace, you DO need to improve yourself.

However, what you need to improve is NOT your ability to reason with other people but your ability to discern when people are not teachable. And when you recognize that a person is not teachable, you need to let go of any desire to teach that person and be completely at peace with the fact that the person is absolutely convinced that you are wrong and that there is absolutely nothing you can do to change his or her mind. You simply need to let it go and move on.

I fully understand that what tricks many mature seekers is that they have developed a sincere desire to help other people. They have personally risen above the level of black-and-white thinking, so they can easily see when people are stuck in this frame of mind. They know this will only cause these people to be hurt, they know these people need to get out of it, and they would love to help them grow as quickly as possible and avoid all the suffering. Yet what you need to realize is that as long as a person is stuck in black-and-white thinking, that person is not teachable, is not open to the higher spiritual teaching that you can see.

I understand the temptation. You see the fallacy in a person’s arguments, and you can come up with an argument that you think makes complete sense and clearly shows the imperfections in the other person’s beliefs. So you think that if you present this argument to the person, he or she will respond to your argument the same way you would. Yet what you need to realize is that because the person is not at the same level of consciousness as you are, he or she will NOT respond the same way you do!

Your arguments will have no weight with the other person as long as he or she has not risen above the level of black-and-white thinking. Therefore, the best thing you can do is to accept that such people need to stay in the school of hard knocks until they have received so many knocks that they have had enough and finally say: “Who’s there? Is someone trying to tell me something by knocking?”

You need to recognize that planet Earth is a schoolroom and it is wisely designed to accommodate a wide range of students. The beginning students are in the school of hard knocks, and they need to stay there until they are ready to move on. Thus, as a mature spiritual seeker, you should avoid engaging in interactions that seek to reason with these people’s state of consciousness. Instead, you should focus most of your attention on people who have climbed to the level where they are teachable.

As a help in doing this, consider my statement:

To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. (John 18:37)

This is the role of those who represent the Christ consciousness on Earth, and all sincere spiritual seekers should strive to be counted among them. Yet in order to truly represent the Christ, you must strive to attain non-attachment. You do this by contemplating the law of free will. God has given all people free will. This means that when you meet a person who judges and accuses you or your beliefs, you fully accept that this person has a right to have and express this opinion. If the opinion springs from black-and-white thinking and is clearly biased or inaccurate, you fully accept that a person has the right to be at this level of consciousness.

Yet you then realize that you also have free will, meaning that you have a right to have your beliefs and to live your life while being completely unaffected by those who disagree with you. When you can truly accept your absolute right to live your life according to your beliefs, you can avoid feeling threatened by those who disagree. You can also avoid feeling that you have an obligation to save them from themselves. Thus, you can now state the highest truth that you see while being completely non-attached to how other people respond and without even having a desire that they should respond in a certain way.

Do you see my point? There is a subtle, but all-important difference, between stating a truth with an intention to convince other people and stating the same truth with complete non-attachment. In both cases, you might express the same truth, perhaps even use the same words, but your intention is different. And when your intention is completely pure, you have no attachment to the outcome. You perform right action while being non-attached to the fruits of action.

Let me make it clear that this is a goal to strive for, and you don’t need to condemn yourself for not meeting it right away. When you are in the material world, it is easy to become overwhelmed by its many pressures. I myself was not always non-attached when I walked the Earth 2,000 years ago. That is why I was angry when I overturned the tables of the money-changers, why I was sometimes unnecessarily harsh with the scribes and Pharisees and why I was often irritable with my disciples. Nevertheless, it is important that mature seekers realize the importance of complete non-attachment and strive to attain it rather than thinking they have to get better at convincing other people. Returning to you, Kim, I want you to insert your response to the person’s letter.

Kim’s answer: Dear E…, I found the site you mention 3 years ago and read all the material which I felt to be genuine. I also see no contradictions between the Christway material and the material on the askrealjesus site, they are the same teachings expressed in different words because they are meant for different audiences. Jesus even recommended the site through me, which I assume you agree an evil spirit wouldn't have done.
I am happy you have found what helps you, but that doesn't mean everyone needs the same thing. That is why there have always been different religions and why the more mature spiritual seekers don't see any competition among them.
The fact that you accuse something you no longer like as being the product of evil spirits shows that you have not quite developed Christ discernment or the loving heart that leads to harmlessness. I hope you will soon overcome your anger and the fear that makes you feel so threatened.
Concerning repeated prayers, in 30 years of observing spiritual seekers, I have yet to find someone who made serious progress without using some kind of spiritual technique that is repeated regularly.

Jesus: So based on what I said above, I want you to tell me what you think about your answer.

Kim: If I understand you correctly, you are saying that the person who wrote the letter is trapped in black-and-white thinking, which is why his arguments are so absolute. In other words, he is right and I and the website are wrong. Yet instead of recognizing this, I present some arguments that are not at the level of black-and-white thinking. And while they seem perfectly reasonable to me, they have no chance of having the effect of convincing him of my viewpoints.

In a way my response was futile because it had no chance of helping the other person. So I was actually letting my own frustration get the better of me and expressing that frustration. Instead, I should have dealt with my frustration and then have decided whether to respond and if so how. I think you are implying that perhaps I should not have responded at all?

Jesus: I am definitely saying that you should not have responded until you had overcome your frustration, because, as you see yourself, a response based on frustration has no chance of having a positive effect.

I am not saying that you should not have responded because I do not want people who read this to reason that they should never respond to people in black-and-white thinking. There are many cases where a response really is futile and will only waste your time and energy. Yet in some cases a response can be appropriate in terms of bearing witness to the higher truth you see. And when you rise above frustration, you will be free to have an intuitive sense of when to respond and when to simply move on.

I also want to make it clear that you should not use your outer mind to judge whether or not people are teachable. Do not fall for the temptation to judge on appearances. For example, the fact that people are open to new ideas does not mean they have taken full responsibility for themselves or even that they have realized that the key to changing their outer situation is to change their inner situation. There are people who go from guru to guru and from teaching to teaching without coming to the realization that makes them teachable. There are even people who have been in an ascended master sponsored organization for decades without being teachable because they are simply not willing to look in the mirror. Thus, it is necessary to go beyond the outer mind and follow your inner direction.

I now want you to insert the first part of the person’s response to your answer.

Second letter: Dear Mr Michaels, I am angry because I initiated my wife and a few of my close friends to this and one of them lost a sizeable amount of money after repeating violet flame for 12 months.Then since there was no progress for anyone I felt like a fool. Then suddenly i say to them Hey ! stop ! stop ! this is not working now let us try this !
What trust would they have anymore in me or my words ? So for this I felt cheated by the website.All hollow promises.Lots of words and lots of dictations all leading to nowhere.A rosary every month and each so long that it looks like Mother Mary feels that we humans have nothing to do but recite rosaries and do nothing else. Then in ome article germain  says i am no longer in charge of the viloet flame and some kuthumi or someone will take over the VF.What a joke.Tomm jesus will say my time is up and i am handing over the world to buddha or krishna.What a joke that would be as intelligent people like me would see thru such a hidden agenda but innocent gullible guys like you would fall for it and start singing hare rama hare krishna bhajans and that would mean the end of the world.

Jesus: This is a perfect illustration of how black-and-white thinking puts people in a spiritual catch-22 from which it is very difficult for them to escape.

At the lowest level of black-and-white thinking, people believe that the religion in which they grew up is the only true religion. In other words, they did not choose to enter that religion and have never questioned its validity. At this level, there is very little growth because people are not open to new ideas.

At the next level up, people become open to new ideas. They often leave their childhood religion and accept a new one. Yet they have not escaped the black-and-white thinking, so they now have to label their old religion as completely false and their new one as completely true. This is potentially a step forward because people have at least started moving. Yet there is a built-in risk that the ego can take people on a time-consuming detour. The psychological mechanism is that in order to leave one belief system and accept a new one, people have to accept that the old one was false, meaning that they have been fooled by false ideas.

In most cases, people deflect this at the conscious level by projecting all responsibility on the old religion and saying they were fooled, manipulated, coerced, brainwashed or whatever. Yet at the subconscious level, people know that if they have been fooled once, they could be fooled again. So even though they have made progress, their black-and-white thinking means that the progress was bought at a price, namely a deep inner insecurity.

In order to deal with this insecurity, it becomes very important for people that they are right. In other words, they have to be right in denouncing their old belief as absolutely false and they have to be right in presenting their new belief as absolutely right. This insecurity is used by the ego to control people and prevent them from rising to the level where they take responsibility for themselves and thus leave behind black-and-white thinking.

As I explain in the ego discourses, the modus operandi of the ego is to elevate one idea to the status of infallibility, meaning that you should never question it. So the ego now manages to convince people that they must never be proven wrong, for if they were, something terrible would happen. Thus, people enter a mindset in which they are constantly feeling threatened and they are constantly seeking to refute any idea or viewpoint that makes it seem like they are wrong. This, of course, makes it impossible for people to admit their mistakes, and if you cannot admit your mistakes, how can you learn from them and grow?

People now enter a mindset in which all of their mental effort is dedicated to proving that they are right. One aspect is that they feel a need to evangelize. After all, if you can convert the entire world to your belief system, the ego can feel it must be right. So people now aggressively begin to promote their current belief system, but because of the black-and-white thinking they cannot simply do this by focusing on the positive aspects of their beliefs. They also have to point out the negative aspects of other people’s beliefs. The ego's reasoning is that if you destroy other people’s faith in their belief system, they will come to accept your belief system as the only true one.

Such people are essentially putting themselves in a state of perpetual conflict with all people who do not agree with them. They must refute anything which seems to threaten their own beliefs and they must destroy other people’s beliefs. In reality, this is driven by the ego’s philosophy that the end can justify the means. Although people often justify this by saying they are simply trying to save other people from going to hell, the reality is that they have become completely controlled by their egos and often by the dark spirits I called the Spoilers. Thus, they are willing to destroy other people’s faith in order to preserve their own.

In reality, the egos of such people are not trying to prove a certain belief system as the only right one. The ego is simply trying to divert people’s attention so they do not discover the ego and start removing the beam from their own eyes. Likewise, the dark spirits are not trying to prove the superiority of any one belief system. They are simply trying to trick people into engaging in endless conflicts over their beliefs, so that they misqualify energy that the dark spirits need in order to survive.

My point is that as a mature spiritual seeker, you need to recognize that if you engage these people and seek to convince them that their beliefs are wrong, you are threatening their fundamental approach to life. For them, never being proven wrong is a matter of life and death. One aspect of this is that if you seek to correct their statements – even if they are factually incorrect – they will immediately try to refute everything you say without actually giving it serious consideration. They are simply not evaluating your reasoning, for they have already decided that it could not be right. So they are only looking for ways to refute it, and black-and-white thinking can ALWAYS refute any argument given from a higher level of consciousness.

The other aspect is that when you threaten such peoples’ beliefs, they will attack you in return. If people are truly trapped in fear, they will be willing to destroy you in order to preserve the illusion that they are right. If they are less trapped in fear, they will seek to destroy your beliefs or your faith in general. You must also realize that many of these people are not in control of themselves. Thus, you are not dealing with a human being with whom you can reason. You are dealing with the person’s ego and/or the dark spirits working through the person. That is why you will encounter very aggressive and vicious attacks. I am not trying to defend such attacks, I am merely pointing out that the people cannot control themselves. Thus, you need to be aware that if you approach a mad dog, you should not be surprised if you get bitten. And you really should not blame the person, for you should know what you get into.

Now back to the person’s second letter, which reveals why he wrote to you in the first place. This person has for some time gone from one spiritual teaching to another, always hoping that the new one would be the one that would change his outer situation without requiring him to change himself. Thus, he knows at subconscious levels that he is lacking something. In reality, this person is right on the brink of taking the step toward taking responsibility for himself and becoming teachable. Yet he has not yet realized this consciously because he refuses to let go of the ego’s dream of an automatic path to salvation. This has resulted in an inner tension in the person, manifesting as insecurity.

In order to cover over this insecurity he has – instead of making the changes that would take him beyond it – set himself up as the supreme judge of what is true and false, at least in his circle of influence. He thus coerced his family and friends into using the decrees and rosaries offered on this website and on Mother Mary’s site. Yet because he has not let go of black-and-white thinking, he set himself up for a fall from the very beginning.

This is revealed in the following remarks: “i said all the prayers for a year and just couldnot see any change in my life or circumstances.” and “one of them lost a sizeable amount of money after repeating violet flame for 12 months.” These remarks demonstrate how people in black-and-white thinking approach spiritual techniques of any kind, including prayer. They think God is a kind of genie in a bottle and that they can make a deal with God. If they rub the magic lamp – by saying prayers, lighting candles or giving rosaries – God should jump out of the bottle and give them what they want.

In reality, there is no place on this or Mother Mary’s website where we promise that if you use the tools we offer, you will see specific outer changes within a specific period of time. On the contrary, we both go out of our way to explain that the true key to making any spiritual technique work is to realize that in order to change your outer situation you must first change yourself. In fact, the real purpose of Mother Mary’s rosaries is to help people change themselves, and specific outer changes have never been promised.

Thus, it was the person’s black-and-white approach that caused him to project such expectations upon the teachings and tools we give. The website is not making false promises, but the person made false promises to himself and his friends and family. Thus, when the promised results did not manifest, he felt threatened and instead of admitting that he needed to change his approach, he fell back into the old pattern of deflecting responsibility. Thus, he projected unto the website that it was making false promises.

This reveals another aspect of black-and-white thinking, namely that if you can never be proven wrong, you can never look at the truth. Instead, you must avoid actually looking at ideas presented by other people, and you do this by always projecting something upon others and their ideas. In reality, what you project upon others is most often what you are doing yourself. In this case, the person is projecting unto this website that it made false promises, yet he was the one making such promises.

An obvious example of projection is the statement, “ i felt like I was being taken for a ride.” The reality is that this website is simply put on the internet as an offer to people. There is nothing that forces people to look at the site, and there is no attempt made to make people feel that if they don’t accept the site, they will go to hell. Thus, this person found the site because he was searching and he made a voluntary decision to study the site and use its tools. Yet he is now projecting unto the site that he was somehow forced to do what he did. This is a clear example of a failure to accept responsibility for one’s own decisions, instead seeking to project responsibility upon others.

My point is that when you are dealing with such people, you need to be aware that they will project their own state of consciousness upon you, and thus you should not be surprised when they accuse YOU of doing what they themselves are doing. I am bringing this up because when you know what to expect, you can avoid being pulled into a pointless argument of seeking to refute what simply cannot be refuted as long as these people hold on to their black-and-white approach.

This is not to say that you cannot sometimes help such people rise above their state of mind. But in order to do so, you must surprise them by not doing what they expect. Such people expect that when they accuse you, you will seek to refute their accusations and accuse them in return. If you are to have any chance of reaching the real person who is trapped behind all the defenses, you need to shock that person by not responding as expected. That is one reason why I told people not to resist evil and to turn the other cheek. Sometimes this can literally shock people into rethinking their actions and mindset.

My point is that if the more mature spiritual seekers decide to engage people who are in black-and-white thinking, you should be aware of what you are getting into. It is often a thankless task with a low probability of positive change. Thus, it is constructive that you see it primarily as a way for you to test the purity of your intentions and your level of non-attachment. See it as a learning experience and use it for your own growth. Leave the other people’s growth entirely to their free will.

I know there was more said in the exchange, but there really is no point in commenting on the specifics.

Kim: I do have one more question. You always say that when the student is ready, the teacher appears, so how come this person could even find this website if he wasn’t ready for it?

Jesus: Who says he wasn’t ready to get something from this website—only it wasn’t what his outer mind expected to get.

Let me first say that when you put a teaching on the internet, you cannot control who finds it. Thus, there are people who find this website without being ready for its teachings. Yet when a person studies the teachings and uses the tools for an extended period of time, the person was clearly ready for at least some of the initiations presented on this website.

In the case of the person who wrote these letters, he was ready to take the important leap of letting go of the black-and-white thinking and accepting responsibility for his path, seeking to change his inner situation instead of focusing on his outer circumstances. Unfortunately, the person’s outer mind was so focused on attaining specific outer results that he could not recognize the true lesson he was meant to learn from finding this website.

Thus, although he used the rosaries, he did not use them in a way that could ever give results. If you use a rosary correctly, you do it to change your psychology. You engage your heart and thus you will feel the flow of spiritual energy released as you say the words. This will be such an uplifting experience that in itself this is sufficient reward for giving a rosary. Yet when you force yourself to repeat a rosary and do so in a rote manner, you will not experience this reward. And when you are not willing to change your consciousness, you will feel like you are performing a rote ritual. However, what makes it rote is your own unwillingness to engage the heart. It is a poor carpenter who blames his tools.

Let me make it clear that it has never been my intention to present this website as the only or the ultimate spiritual teaching. Thus, I do not hold the image that those who find this website will necessarily keep studying it or keep using the tools forever. There are people who find this website because they need one single idea that can help them see through an illusion that blocks their progress. Once they have internalized that idea, they might need to move on to other teachings or other areas of service.

If people find this website and fail to learn the lesson they are meant to learn, it can be better for them to move on. Thus, I hope that the person who wrote these letters will use his newfound teaching – which is genuine and sponsored by the Ascended Host – to pass the one initiation that blocks his progress. I hope he does not use the new teaching to set himself up for the next fall.

Nevertheless, this person has previously written to this website, and I gave him a perfectly adequate answer which he has not internalized. Thus, I am not giving this teaching in the hope of helping this person or others like him. I am giving it for the mature spiritual seekers who often experience frustration when they deal with people who are stuck in black-and-white thinking.

If you throw gasoline on burning coals, you should be prepared for a burst of flame that can burn you. But if you stand back and let the fire die down, you can still roast your tofu hot dogs.

NOTE: For additional teachings on the topics in this discussion, see the following section. Also see the following message.

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