P: Concerned about the difficult external environment we are living in. Talk more about contentment and peace and that word in between them.
H: Higgins asked someone to read definition of gyroscope. (Reason was not immediately given and conversation moved on.)
“Helps keep systems steady; maintain orientation and stability; movement outside and all around but center stays stable.
P: Question: Peace is the absence of fear but what we are experiencing now in this country I can’t help but wonder that we sit here in peace but are we turning into “sheeple” allowing are leaders to do whatever they want? We have no control in some ways. There is all this grief and shame. I am embarrassed to say I am an American. I’ve had people know that I work for the govt and they nearly get up and leave. I can’t blame them, and I don’t agree with many things that are happening but some things are still OK. How do we deal with the emotional burden? We (this group) may be at peace over all but I’m still concerned how does this help our nation stay on track and how do we deal with our grief and emotions?
P: I second that. Grief and sadness are the emotions that always pull me off alignment. (such as murder in Minneapolis). Sadness, the deterioration of our country and the violence. How do we deal with this?
P: There is so much going on. Difficult to process. At the same time last week’s discussion of peace, contentment and the word in between, how do you go ahead and live in a world that is complex and highly objectionable to of us and at the same time retain a sense of balance and some personal validity and not be just sheep?
H: The energy we talked about was a combination of both peace and contentment, not an energy somewhere in between. (This is different than what you are remembering.) You probably are becoming tired and numb hearing these same words from us. You are powerful, masterful creators. This is a difficult time, of course; but you are capable of maneuvering your way through this time. You all have that capability. You got this. This is not a problem. Everything is fine. Now, yes, it is difficult and uncomfortable. Yes, it appears very ugly. Understand, this is not what is being done TO YOU. It is happening FOR YOU. Because you are such excellent creators it is a challenge but something you totally can manage. YOU CHOSE TO BE HERE DURING THIS CHANGE TIME, B/C OF THE CHALLENGE THAT IT WOULD POSE. Because of the challenge it would pose you wanted to be here to experience exactly what is happening right now. Breathe and say “everything’s OK.” It looks ugly; you don’t like what it looks like, but everything’s OK.
The earth environment is a little bit like a petri dish: it is a place for you to grow. Even though it doesn’t feel like it right now, it is nurturing you in your growth. Every so many thousand years, we have this speeding up of the earth. And this speeding up is vibrational. You are vibrational. So, in order to stay on the planet your vibration has to match the planet’s because, like a bucking horse, if you don’t you are going to fall off. People feel something happening; they don’t know what it is. It’s very uncomfortable and frightening but they don’t know what they are frightened of, so they become reactive. People are trying to save themselves but they really don’t know what they are saving themselves from. They are saving themselves from the political system, saving themselves from people who potentially will mug them or cheat them or drive into them while they are in the car or whatever ways other people can affect you. People are behaving badly b/c they are out of sorts on a vibrational level with what is happening on the planet. What behaving badly looks like right now is what you see on TV. It is people fighting and killing and greed and anger and every awful thing you are seeing and these behaviors are related to this discord.
You knew there would be discord in this time when you came here. You expected it and you knew that somewhere along the line you would come up with a group of people who would help you through this—which is why you are together (in this group) and why you have stuck together for so long. That answers part of your question of “what’s going on?”. People are behaving badly not b/c they are bad but b/c they are frightened on a deep level. They are behaving badly b/c they are energetically bashed by the change in the earth’s energy and bad behavior is the only way they can figure out how to respond. (They way a usually pleasant animal will bite if cornered when frightened.)
OK, that is everybody else, but that is not this group. This group is saying “Hey, we have some kind of inkling that we are more than what we are seeing. We are even more than what we are expressing; and even though we are always doing our best, we think we can do better.” On some level, you all know this to be true and that is why you keep trying. What you are trying to do now is stay stable (centered, balanced).
Have you ever been to a rodeo or watched one and saw someone riding a bucking horse? There is a rhythm to the rocking and when the rider gets the rhythm of the rocking they can stay on it all day long. That is what you are trying to do – get into the rhythm of the earth. That is why you meditate, go for walks, choose better foods to eat – to feel better. That is why you do things to make your house more comfortable and your yard nicer. You choose clothing to wear to feel better. What you are doing right now is to do anything that will help you ride that bucking horse and be comfortable.
P: Is there a way we can know or can you estimate what percentage of our population on earth is centered and balanced and feeling good and what percentage are angry and fearful and causing a lot of turmoil?
H: You won’t like this answer. Maybe 1% is balanced and the reason is emotions are sort of a tricky things b/c as soon as you feel anger or discomfort, which is your guidance system telling you something, you’re no longer calm and peace. Everyone gets these emotions so you aren’t always in calm and peace.
How many people are trying to be peaceful? Many, many more; maybe 70-80%. Maybe 30-40% have the success of this group. No matter how difficult, there is about 30-40% make it to what you are doing now. People are trying. Every meditation that we do puts more opportunity out there for other people to find calm and peace. With almost every group like this one that gets together the ability to stabilize one’s own energy gets a little better and a little better. It is slow b/c it gets better such a little bit at a time, but eventually it will come to a tipping point where the numbers will be much greater. How long will this take? Right now, we expect that in another 50-60 years you will see some substantial shift. This does not mean that you in your lifetimes will not see some substantial shifts b/c we believe that most of you will.
P: It’s easy to focus on sensational things that the media shows. So many good things happen so I was wondering if next week we could report on some good things to each other.
H: We would applaud that. Now, as an example, K your life is fairly comfortable would you say?
P: Yes.
H: And would you say you stay calm and peaceful most of the time?
P: Yes.
H: Would you say that the things on TV you are handling in stride?
P: I’ve been doing very well till today. (Minneapolis). That was quite emotional. I would say that I am 7 out of 10 in maintaining calm and peace.
H: Where we are heading with this is that you have achieved retirement, so you don’t have to worry about money. You have income, a friendship group, hobbies you enjoy, a home that you can maintain. For you, we’d like to see you 80-90% of the time being content and peace, in a sense of enjoyment. We would like to see you sitting at a baseline of contentment – you feel a sense of contentment welling up out of you. That is the state that we encourage you to have as often as you can b/c from that state of wellness things just don’t bother you as much. If you listen to the news and feel discombobulated, you are on the bucking horse. But in that sense of peace, if you say when watching the news, “This is definitely uncomfortable. I don’t agree with it but I know that in my sense of peace all this will work out in my best interest.” When you think like that, when you believe like that, then all of these things are no problem at all.
This situation in Venezuela is neither good nor bad. It is both good and bad. Do you understand why? First off, there is no good and bad. There is a spectrum. You are the ones that judge things as good or bad and you have given those names b/c one feels good and the other feels bad. But it isn’t good or bad, it is just the spectrum of what is. As you learn to maintain that sense of peace and contentedness, no matter what you hear on the news, no matter what you are experiencing, these expressions (behaviors) of how other people are handling this bucking horse, you will be able to sit through them as calmness. Your calmness will allow the opportunity for the things that look to you to be negative to turn out to be positive.
Whether a thing is negative or positive depends on where you are on the spectrum. If you can quit judging a thing to be good or bad and just say, “This is what is,” and know that your peaceful not liking of it, but acceptance of things as they are, that very peacefulness and acceptance will smooth the thing out.
We are reading you and see that most of you are not feeling good about Venezuela. If you can stop judging it and allow the Universe to do its thing, your very calmness about it will allow it to turn into good. You may never like how it happens, but let it turn into good.
P: Comment. Not meant to contradict but add a perspective. K, I would say your grief about the murder is not a bad thing. It is a good thing. It means you are a thinking, caring, loving being who was hurt by what you saw. I don’t think any of us want to lose that.
H: Absolutely
P: I think that that feeling is actually part of our centeredness; we are grounded in centeredness. I think yes we want to be calm as much as possible but when those feelings come up we allow them to move through us and through those feelings that we can move into whatever is next. Those feelings are what makes part of us what makes us who we are. The same goes for Venezuela. Sitting here we have to let it unfold. We can voice our objections but we can’t do it with the energy of resistance but through centeredness as much as possible.
H: Well said. We want you to feel your emotions. They are necessary; but as soon as possible come back to that place of pleasantry b/c everything heals in that place of pleasantry.
P: The emotion I feel is vibrant anger. Maybe the things we see on TV aren’t true; are AI? I heard the Secretary of Homeland Security say that her people are doing what they are trained to do – kill. I have a hard time controlling this rage.
P: Because of the work with Higgins, I would ground and to return to calm acceptance and then I feel guilty. Am I being a sheeple? But as B was speaking I realized if I am feeling the feelings that is good. It means I am not numb and then if I can get back to the calmness, that’s not copping out, it is actually transmuting the energy. If I can transmute my negative energy, not ignore it, but turn it back into calmness then that fully serves. Transmute the negative energy and put back into the Universe calmness and grounding.
H: We appreciate the word sheeple as it helps us understand the meaning about how you feel. When you feel anger, when you weep in despair those are powerful motions and once you have felt that, it is a piece of information. When you take your emotional information about this thing you don’t like and turn it around to what you do like, that gives you direction and being potent rather than being impotent. When you are angry or sad, you are impotent. You don’t have power to make a solution. But once you have taken that information that you have garnered from being angry or sad, turn it around to what you would rather have and then live your life in the direction of what you would rather have—-NOW you are making yourself potent. We talk about this a lot of time b/c it gives you directive. You say, “but I am retired. I don’t want more to do.” We understand that; but when you do that 180 degree emotional turn around and say “ok, what’s in that direction?” then you can start behaving, eating, acting, shopping talking in accordance with the direction that you would rather go or what you would rather express or be than the thing that made you angry. If you do that, then you are powerful, positive creators and you are making space for these negative things that are happening to turn out positive.
P: I have a different perspective. When I see really negative things happening, like pardoning the president of Honduras, it’s so absurd that I like to think of our president as a sort of angel (extravagant, I know) who has chosen to come here and be as ridiculous as possible and to (foment) negativity, and all of those things that I personally abhor, in order to force us to change b/c change is now. It’s working b/c he is getting more opposition from those who are being peaceful about the opposition. I have discovered that I am not afraid or angry. I am observing many people heal their emotions, loving themselves and other people, doing what they can to support what we think is helpful, loving, compassionate, honest. Does that make sense?
H: It makes 100% sense and we are pleased that you said it b/c that is the direction we would encourage you to go -where you are calm with the things that are happening. We are not saying you like it. You don’t like it b/c your emotions tell you that is not right for you. The goal is to maintain equanimity and then work (meaning, create your next step) from a place of equanimity. Look in a direction of kindness; doing your mundane chores with love in your heart; doing what you can to help your neighbor, friends, clients to succeed.
P: Somewhere in there, our sheepleness is a lack of resistance that enables bullies to continue and ramp up their bullying. How is it not enabling them because we are giving no resistance?
H: Good. We acknowledge that. That is a true statement. So, how do we go from here?
P: May I say something? Even by doing what we are doing, meditating, praying, envisioning the future that we want, we don’t realize how powerful we are. We can make a difference just by sitting here.
H: You ARE making a difference just by sitting here. Our weekly meditations are very powerful. We do want to address Friend C’s comment. If someone came at you and was threatening your life and safety and you could not run away or don’t want to run, we would certainly encourage you to save your own skin. Don’t allow someone to damage you or maim or even kill you because of a lack of understanding of peace. We understand that if someone is bullying you, you might have to stand up to them. There are two things here: The first is that peace lays a foundation and is like the butterfly wings flapping and it’s felt all over so it’s doing good. But still if someone is bullying you right now you have a different problem. If you remember the story Abraham (Abraham-Hicks) told of a person walking down the road and sees a big person beating up a little person and the little person shall surely be hurt if you do not intervene. You do not have a cell phone. What do you do? You can go help and surely be injured yourself or you can run away. There are just not very many options and none of them feel good.
We have to step out and let the entity explain the news. (Higgins withdraws and Cheryl speaks.)
Entity: There was a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua that were taking over some apartment complexes in the mid-west. Does anyone remember this on the news?
P: Yes, it was supposed to be in Colorado.
Entity: They said that these gangs had taken over apartment complexes and were patrolling the halls with machine guns. I don’t know if it was a bad as they said but when the press moved out, they did condemn those apartment complexes and got all the people out. This Venezuelan gang came in and did a lot of damage. The point is that gangs are coming from somewhere else and are causing problems in the U.S.
(There is conversation about the country of origin of Tren de Aragua.)
Now I’ll let Higgins come back in and say what they want.
H: We heard your conversation. Maybe the Trende Aragua gang was not from Venezuela but let’s assume they are and have done some bad damage in the U.S. Now, let’s go to the arrest of the Venezuelan President and his wife. Even though it is perhaps not what you wanted to see done or perhaps not the way you wanted it to be done, but definitely the bully that is your presidential group is perhaps standing up to some other bullies on your behalf. And you may not like the way it’s being done but it may, if you let it, turn out to be something good in disguise. If you will keep your peace; if you continue to look for good and continue to not make judgment then you allow the opportunity for what’s ugly to be good. Let the Universe turn it around to be good.
P: I understand the president of Venezuela is not a good president and has done bad things in his country. Once those gangs come to U.S. that is our problem not Venezuela’s. In any case he was not a good president and to have him removed is not a problem for the people. They are kind of glad to see him go. The problem is we are not doing this for the people but to take over the oil and give it to American oil companies so they can make money off it. There is no honor there. It has nothing to do with protecting anyone. It’s about protecting oil and letting our country make money off it. The gang thing was just an excuse. It’s like big gang (us) fighting little gang (them).
H: Yes, you’re right. We maybe are not expressing ourselves clearly or very well. What we are saying is, C, you said are we sheeple and we are saying there is more going on than many of you as individuals know. A lot going on—broad, huge, many, many things going on. So even though you do not like what we are saying, if you will assume that the Universe can manage to make good of it, then no matter how ugly it seems, you might discover that the bully is maybe a sheep in wolf’s clothing. It might be turned around into a good thing and can be if you let it. We’re not saying like it. We are not saying agree with it. We are saying FIND YOUR PEACE. Go out to the grocery store and be peace. Pump your gas, talk to your friends in peace. Do not think of yourself as sheeple. Find your power to go out and do your job with grace and dignity and confidence every day and let this work itself out. K and B your teachers told a story of a Chinese farmer who knows what’s good and bad.
B: Oh yeah, something happens that looks like it is good and the farmer says “well, maybe.” Then something happens that looks like it is bad and the farmer says “well maybe.” He basically keeps saying, “Who knows what’s good or bad?” to everything that happens b/c something unexpected continues to result from each event.
There is a school of thought among people of color that Trump’s emergence is a good thing b/c it exposes the racism that has been underlying are country for 400 years, simmering below the surface and now it’s been brought out into the light. In some ways it is not as different as it looks, it has just been brought out more onto the surface and hopefully bringing it out into the light will transform it. There is a lot of grief and damage being done in the meantime and more will be done. It is a replay of Iraq and discouraging.
Same excuse: Saddam Hussein was a bad man and we went in for all kinds of reasons, money, power and beyond and hundreds of thousands of people died b/c we invaded their country. I’m not sure what good has come of that. I think it is incumbent on us to maintain our equanimity as much as possible b/c there is nothing much we can do. Our actions that come from doing everything in peace and vociferously objecting to what’s going on is the good thing coming from this. I like the idea of transmuting anger, etc and maintain as much of my peace as I can.
H: We want you to understand that as you sit with equanimity with the ugliness around you then move forward with grace, kindness, dignity, compassion and thoughtfulness these are the things that will turn the world around. It will become a tide that cannot be stopped. Yes, in the meantime, there is ugliness that is too late to do anything about. Now is the time to deal with future ugliness. As you do find your equanimity and move forward in peace and thoughtfulness and considered actions, then you will take right actions to shift what needs to be shifted.
Economics is very difficult for everyone. How can you shift your economics into an experience that is positive for everyone rather than a dread for everyone (to try and figure out how to pay for their living expenses and their food and have a proper vehicle, and so on)? How do you shift that? You shift it with your equanimity and calmness: people will start having the ideas and inspiration of how to move forward to progress in a positive way. You will not progress in a positive way if you keep clashing. It has to be in groups like this that are willing to find their peace and are willing to move forward in peace.
Meditation.