"Enjoying The Show" As The World Burns

[Alana]

The thing is, I think most of us here would agree everything you say is accurate, but it only strengthens the question (how can we enjoy this?) as opposed to providing an answer.

Just a clarification. I wasn't trying to answer Joe's question. I am still looking forward to what the C's have to say about that. I was asking "What is the lesson here"? But maybe the answer to both might be more similar than I thought when I started writing my post above.

Your replies, and the quotes from the sessions that Gaby posted, do help though.

 

[Keit]

Enjoy the show seems to be an appeal to perspective - a way to snap us out of the terror of situation in order to free-up or conserve energy.

I don't think enjoy the show means that we should grab the popcorn, put on al Jazeera and have a good laugh. I think it means take in what news and events you can, feel it, acknowledge it, but don't let it become an obsession, don't let it spiral you down into the depths

Step back and remember there's grander plans going on that you can't really grasp

Exactly what you said, or so it seems to me.

Which made me think of the Cs answer to something similar Laura asked in the past and the Cs made reference to "ecstasy"

That's what I remembered, the C's mentioning "ecstasy" in reference to "enjoy yourself blue".

And there is also this (which also includes the quote @Gaby mentioned:

Laura: "The very idea that the whole of creation is a game or a challenge that God has set up for him/herself is totally repugnant to some people, and, admittedly, when any one of us is in the midst of many of the various challenges, it is hard to see the humor. Does the mouse see the humor of God when the cat toys with it before eating it? Is it a monstrous blasphemy to reduce the sufferings of humankind throughout millennia to a cosmic round of hide and seek? The following will certainly illustrate my point:

Q: (L) What is the meaning of the number 666 in the book of Revelation?
A: Visa.
Q: (L) You mean as in credit card?
A: Yes. Isn’t just credit, also debit.
Q: (L) Are credit cards the work of what 666 represents?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Should we get rid of all credit cards?
A: Up to you. How are you going to do this? World will soon have nothing but credit and debit. Have you not heard of this new visa debit cards this is the future of money as controlled by the world banking system, i.e., the Brotherhood, i.e., Lizards, i.e., antichrist.
Q: (L) If I don’t have a credit card then I don’t have to belong to this system?
A: No. You will have no choices: belong or starve.
Q: (L) What happened to free will?
A: Brotherhood AKA Lizards AKA antichrist has interfered with free will for 309000 years. They are getting desperate as we near the change.
Q: (V) It has always been my nature to rebel against that which I did not feel was good for me. Is rebellion against this system possible?
A: If you are willing to leave the body.
Q: (L) Leave the body as in death, croak, kick the bucket?
A: Yes. Changes will follow turmoil; be patient.
Q: (L) We would like to move into the country. Will it be possible to get along without this credit/debit card leading that kind of life?
A: No.
Q: (L) Are they going to have the kind of capability of controlling everything and everybody no matter where they are?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Even if we moved to Guyana and built a log hut in the rain forest and didn’t bother anybody, we’d still get sucked into this thing?
A: Laura you will feel the effect of the Lizard beings desperate push for total control no matter where you go.
Q: (L) That is inexpressibly depressing. Do you understand?
A: Why? Change will follow. Refer to literature Bringers of the Dawn. Challenge will be ecstasy if viewed with proper perspective, which is not, we repeat: not of third level reality, understand?
Q: (L) In the reference cited, Joan of Arc is described as feeling ecstatic while burning at the stake. Is that what you mean?
A: Sort of, but you need not burn at the stake.
Q: (L) That’s small comfort. There are other ways to die.
A: We are not speaking of death, Laura. If you listen to those who are firmly rooted in 3rd level this is when you run the risk of slipping in your knowledge learned no matter how good the intentions.
Q: (L) What do you mean, “Challenge will be ecstasy”? What sort of challenge?
A: Living through the turmoil ahead.
Q: (L) Several books I have read have advised moving to rural areas and forming groups and storing food, etc.
A: Disinformation. Get rid of this once and for all. That is 3rd level garbage.
Q: (L) We feel pretty helpless at the mercy of beings who can come in and feed off of us at will. Do we have someone on our side, pulling for our team, throwing us energy or something?
A: Whom do you think you have been communicating with?
Q: (L) Are you going to be able to assist us through this turmoil?
A: Yes. All you have to do is ask.
Q: (L) Will we go through any periods when we may be cut off from help?
A: You are never ever cut off.
Q: (L) Oh, I don’t want to suffer!
A: You need not suffer. Stop thinking 3rd level.
Q: (L) I don’t want anybody I love to suffer either. I don’t want any pain. I’ve suffered enough!
A: You are stuck at 3rd level tonight.

I guess you can tell that I was feeling pretty desperate and sorry for myself with all of this. So desperate, in fact, that I didn’t really pay attention to the important things. Notice a couple of keys above: “Change will follow”, and the challenge of living through the turmoil will be “ecstasy”.2

As human beings, it seems that an essential part of our nature is to feel that there is more to life than the immediately apparent material world. We don’t like to think that our lives are a game of chance played by the gods. Yet, we can observe that the heartless randomness of the world is at odds with the religious views of a loving, caring God.

It seems, upon observation, that the only constant factor of the physical universe is change. As the Sufis say, “Every day God is upon some different task”. However, we can also observe that change operates in a sequential and progressive manner manifested as patterns recognizable to human consciousness. These patterns take shape as the forms inherent in the nature of the instant of time when they are observed. They are manifestations of the present state of cosmic being and have much to tell us of the nature and potential development of that state. Even those things that seem to be random, according to chaos theory, conform to certain mathematical principles of randomness. We also have synchronicity, which tells us that all things are in some way linked to each other.

The eighteenth century Icelandic mystic, Jon Jonsson said, “God plays at Forkjaering with man in this world”. Forkjaering is a dice game. Later, Albert Einstein said, “God does not play dice” with the universe. I think the truth is somewhere in between. We are pawns in a game, only the players are, in some sense, ourselves. And we are pawns as long as we don’t know the rules of the game. Once we have served our apprenticeship as playing pieces, we are then able to take our place with the players.

The important thing is that we have to gain a perspective on our existence that is not third density in order to fully enter into third density with the “proper perspective”. This is reflected in the saying of Jesus that we are to be “in the world, but not of it”. The Cassiopaeans have reiterated this point by saying:

A: You would not exist if someone didn’t “dream you up”.
Q: (L) Who dreamed me up?
A: You literally are the “figments” of someone’s imagination, and nothing more!!! Remember, “God” is really all existence in creation, in other words, all consciousness. This is because all existence in creation is consciousness, and vice versa.
Q: (L) Then what is the explanation for the “manyness” that we perceive?
A: Perception of 3rd density.
Q: (L) The problem is accessing it, stripping away the veils.
A: That is the fun part.

Well, ha ha ha! Aren’t we having fun? It reminds me of a passage from the book of Romans that used to just make me foam at the mouth!

What shall we conclude then? Is there injustice upon God’s part? Certainly not! … It is not a question of human will and human effort, but of God’s mercy. … So then he has mercy on whomever He wills (chooses) and He hardens — makes stubborn and unyielding the heart of — whomever He wills. You will say to me, Why then does He still find fault and blame us? For who can resist and withstand His will? But who are you, a mere man, to criticize and contradict and answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? Has the potter not right over the clay, to make out of the same mass one vessel for beauty and distinction and honorable use, and another for menial or ignoble and dishonorable use? (Romans 9:14-21)3

Of course, at this point, Paul diverts off into his wrathful theology and starts ranting about divine judgment and doom. But, what he was saying above is actually quite similar to the mystery teachings that were prevalent at the time, and which were preserved and expanded in the Gnostic and Sufi paths. It is in these teachings that we will find the rest of the story."

 

[Chu]

I think the enjoy the show remark was given in certain contexts. There are other instances where the C's gave warnings about things being unpleasant.

Just adding a little something here. That and other comments also reminded me of this other session:
6 July 2010:

Q: (L) So you say "that would be telling", yet you have told us that somewhere maybe in June or July of 2014 will be Year 0 of a new era. So, are we to assume that something is going to intervene that will stop the leak and sort things out on this planet?

A: Oh indeed.

Q: (L) Umm... Is this something that we're going to consider to be beneficial? {laughter}

A: It's like having a baby: blood, water, pain, but joy when it is over.

Q: (Andromeda) How long will it take to be over? (Burma Jones) Yeah, how long is the labor? (L) Some people die in childbirth, ya know!

A: Not if they are utilizing knowledge.

It would be good to have some clarification, for sure, even if we have collected many clues here already.

 

[Joe]

I don't think they had in mind enjoying watching a live genocide with children being tortured and killed.

And since they said in relation to upcoming events "many will not survive" and "there needs to be a cleaning", are we meant to enjoy that? I mean, it seems that a lot of the upcoming events seem to involve a mass die off of humans, and that will form a big part of the "show" they have repeatedly referred to, and not just in response to specific situations being discussed, but as general advice at the end of sessions etc.

 

[Joe]

I don't think enjoy the show means that we should grab the popcorn, put on al Jazeera and have a good laugh. I think it means take in what news and events you can, feel it, acknowledge it, but don't let it become an obsession, don't let it spiral you down into the depths, because all you're really doing there is taking what's going on and making it about you. Step back and remember there's grander plans going on that you can't really grasp.

Spiraling down to the depths is not a good idea, doesn't serve anyone or anything. But we're not really talking about that here, we just talking about the idea of there being some kind of "enjoyment" from watching the world burn and innocent people along with it.

I think the obvious answer to what the Cs said is what some have already alluded to, and Laura concluded long ago: we have to 'detach' from the goings on in this world, including all the suffering, but not in a dissociative, delusional way as if it's not happening, but to reframe that suffering, see it from a different perspective, and hopefully in a way that reduces the belief that that suffering is "terrible", and even to see it as "beneficial" or "useful" to those who suffer. Can we do that without sacrificing our sense of empathy and "humanity"?

The Cs have always seems rather cavalier about the suffering and death of human beings. From their perspective, "the body does not matter, it's the soul that counts."

Can we see our own suffering as beneficial or useful? Sure, up to a certain degree, in fact that's part of our philosophy. But isn't it true that suffering beyond certain limits can be detrimental to the soul? If true, surely it would be a decidedly negative thing that should not be "enjoyed" by anyone.

But how many people have, are, or will suffer in that way? It is common? Perhaps not.

In short, as others have already alluded to, the only way to square this particular circle is to see suffering and death from the perspective of "the body is not important, it's the soul that counts".

It's not easy, but then what is that's useful.

Also, just wanted to add that, for me at least, it's not just that people suffer, the negative or depressive feelings are provoked in equal measure (or perhaps more) over HOW and WHY they are suffering.

In the case of Palestine, the suffering of those people is made much worse, in my mind and heart, by the fact that it is being done DELIBERATELY and in front of the entire "civilized" world, and in fact, being done BY a supposed member of the "civilized world". To compound the egregiousness, the leader of the "civilized world" is fully supporting the butchery and encouraging people to support it!!

So perhaps what is really at issue here is not the suffering per se - we can all accept the fact that humans suffer - but that it is being imposed on people by psychos. So maybe what's really behind the angst is being forced to witness the stark reality of psychopaths in position of global power, and the realization that THESE creatures rule this world and would have all of us under their wretched control if they had their way.

 

[Miracle]

Perhaps a related question here is if the Palestinian people are expunging some karmic debt with their current situation? If yes, that would at least put their current suffering into a lesson profile context. Not that that would make the situation enjoyable, but it would make it more understandable. As far as I am aware, they have not committed any sort of crime in the past 70 years, but are innocents in the sense of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some references to collective karma:

Q: (L) Is there some karmic element that was fulfilled by the Holocaust?

A: Of course.

Q: (L) Could you tell us what karma was being expunged in that activity, and what group the Jews represented?

A: This is not germane, but it was Atlantean overseers "expunging" guilt from that life experience.

Q: (L) Why have black people, in general, for most of recorded history, been living in such primitive conditions with such primitive mind set?

A: Isolation from modern interaction.

Q: (L) Why is this?

A: Karma. Punishment for past society which was cruel master hierarchical.

 

[T.C.]

I think the obvious answer to what the Cs said is what some have already alluded to, and Laura concluded long ago: we have to 'detach' from the goings on in this world, including all the suffering, but not in a dissociative, delusional way as if it's not happening, but to reframe that suffering, see it from a different perspective, and hopefully in a way that reduces the belief that that suffering is "terrible", and even to see it as "beneficial" or "useful" to those who suffer.

Do you think that enjoying the show is more a figure of speech, and not to be taken literally, then?

 

[Ben]

I think the enjoy the show remark was given in certain contexts. There are other instances where the C's gave warnings about things being unpleasant. I don't think they had in mind enjoying watching a live genocide with children being tortured and killed.

That's the way I've always seen it. The 'show' includes many wonderful things, awe inspiring changes on the planet. Any good show has negative elements - moments of tension, jeopardy or sorrow. Without them it wouldn't be the same, there would be no contrast with the positives. The C's probably know that the show is just getting started, they said 'these are the times that try men's souls'. We are now in those 'times', but there will be better ones. We can hardly imagine what they might be like right now. We focus on what is before us, and it's perhaps the darkest part of the narrative arc. Maybe not.

Obviously they have a very different perspective to us, cometary bombardments are not 'disasters'!

Q: (A) There is no schedule, but there was uncertainty concerning the disasters that are coming...

A: Disasters?!?

Q: (A) Yes, disasters... these comets will come and some of them are supposed to cause a pole shift and this is certainly a disaster...

A: Whoa! Wait a minute, Arkadiusz! All is according to perspective! Let us not be subjective. If one transits to 4th density in the midst of said "disaster," then how disastrous is this!?! And, how does one suppose to know the "schedule," when it is up in the air, so to speak?

Q: (A) So, it is not going to be a disaster for some - those who transit to 4th density. I understand.

A: And for those who transit to 5th density, it will not be so bad either. Sort of like, "sit back and enjoy the show".

I sometimes think about what Pierre said:

A: (Pierre) Glory is coming for all. That is all I can perceive.

Q: (Joe) What do you mean by "all"? As in everybody on the planet?

A: (Pierre) Yes.

Q: (Joe) Glory...

(L) The solar system?

A: (Pierre) Yes.

Q: (Joe) So it's a good thing then, glory.

A: (Pierre) Ultimately yes.

Q: (Joe) He's starting to talk like the Cs now. [laughter]

We need these kind of perspectives to cope. The Palestinians have their faith, many see martyrs where we see innocent victims. The C's have given me that faith. I see people really struggling, without these perspectives, when they talk about what is happening right now.

 

[Joe]

Do you think that enjoying the show is more a figure of speech, and not to be taken literally, then?

I have no idea. They didn't put "enjoy" in quotes so, preferring not to second guess, I took it literally. I can't think of any way that that phrase can be used to mean something other than it's literal meaning, unless it is used sarcastically.

 

[Oxajil]

I also think it's a good question to ask. FWIW there was this discussion about "enjoy the show" after a session:

Session 30 January 2021​

[...]

(L) Alright. Is there anything upcoming that we need to know about? Or any closing statement?

(Andromeda) Words of wisdom?

A: At this point you should better understand "enjoy the show." So do it. Goodbye.

END OF SESSION

(Joe) There's not much to enjoy. It's painful.

(Chu) The problem is that shows are short. You watch for an hour or two, turn the TV off, and it's over. This show is going to go on for YEARS!

(Pierre) And there are Dukes and Duchesses in those shows. More entertaining. The real show doesn’t seem to have any Dukes…

(L) The only thing I can say about it is that we learn from it. At a certain point, you get to where... I dunno, you get more detached because you can only endure so much pain. It's like physical pain: at a certain point, something shuts down when you're having physical pain, and it stops. Either you stop feeling it because your brain stops carrying the signals, or you pass out, or SOMETHING happens. [laughter]

(Joe) It's like watching a slow train wreck. For a long time, you might think you'll sound the alarm and prevent the worst that's going to happen. But at some point you realize nobody's listening and it'll happen anyway. At that point, you have to realize it's simply out of your hands. And you see it happening over a long period of time, so you do get a bit anesthetized against it in a certain sense. You can't keep being stressed about it and survive.

(Andromeda) Or even shocked about it.

(L) When you take it all in perspective, all the pain and suffering on each and every side of all the different groups of people throughout history, and then about recompense coming to this or that group... And of course the average person would think, "Well, those people that committed those acts are not the ones who are suffering because they died and it's their children that are suffering." Well, that completely leaves out the idea of reincarnation, that people come back again and pay. I remember when we asked something about Atlantis and the C's said the Atlanteans were doing a replay of their attempt to control the whole world.

(Pierre) The motive is similar. The last destruction of Atlantis was...

(L) It was about power. We asked once about if black people in Africa ever had a high civilization. They said yes. I asked what happened to it, and they said they were cruel overlords and their civilization was destroyed and they were reduced to bare survival in the jungles or savanna or whatever as a result. So... Power comes to one and then it's taken away. It goes to another, and it's taken away. Over and over again. We just happen to be here in a place and time where a whole lot of things are culminating in one point in our history. And the C's have said that this is because it's the closing of a Grand Cycle of 309,000 years or something like that. So ALL the little threads that were left dangling and all the different groups that are deserving of punishment... And I guess the Brits are REALLY going to get it because of their whole empire thing... oh my god. And I should talk about it! My DNA says I'm 85% British, Scottish, and Irish. So... How do I know that I wasn't one of those empire-building nabobs over in India or Malaysia or the colonies in America. And of course you can't even really get all soft and syrupy about the Native Americans. What did they do? They were probably the Atlanteans. That's what their punishment was: to be overwhelmed by the European invaders.

(Niall) What did the Irish ever do to anyone? [laughter]

(L) We don't know.

(Joe) The current ones have been infiltrated. They're all half-castes in power. Laura, you were the Duke or Duchess of Tinklebottom... The Duke of Whibblesworth... Some funny English name. You will pay!

(Pierre) Taking this historic distance, you don't identify as much.

(Joe) You should take that French flag down in the workshop, then. [laughter]

(L) Well, all joking aside, I think the bottom line is that we're being challenged to take a more cosmic perspective on the whole thing. What did the Cs say once? No body-centric persons need apply. If you're body-centric, that means you're stuck in your 3D thinking. We're being invited to rise above that and basically enjoy the show because we're seeing a BIG historical set of events transpiring right before our eyes.

(PoB) Can we change the channel?

(Niall) Only if you change your proteins!

(Joe) A very good way to stop identifying with 3d reality is for it ALL to go to hell! Who wants to identify with something that's a clown show, ya know?

(Andromeda) Which it is!

(L) It IS fascinating, I gotta admit!

 

[Joe]

How do you maintain empathy for people suffering while relativizing that suffering by calling it 'karma' or constating that "the body doesn't matter"? Does relativizing it in those ways give a more objective picture of the situation and therefore represent more objective empathy? Or does it water down empathy and perhaps lead to the loss of it?

How you maintain a clear conscious about and rejection of the actions of psychopaths while relativizing those actions by seeing them as "just part of a natural process" and even seeing them as providing opportunities for people to learn, which is a big picture net positive? Are those perspectives more objectively true, or might they lead to justifying evil behavior and therefore a net reduction in true conscience or its potential?

 

[mkrnhr]

I think using such buffers as karma, or destiny or whatever, runs contrary to conscious suffering. It's no different than the materialist viewpoint that we're just insignificant organic aggregations of atoms and that consciousness, thus suffering, is an illusion. Karma o no karma, murdering people is wrong.

 

[Persej]

And since they said in relation to upcoming events "many will not survive" and "there needs to be a cleaning", are we meant to enjoy that? I mean, it seems that a lot of the upcoming events seem to involve a mass die off of humans, and that will form a big part of the "show" they have repeatedly referred to, and not just in response to specific situations being discussed, but as general advice at the end of sessions etc.

People who built the Gothic cathedrals seem to have done just that, they enjoyed the show doing their stuff while millions of people were dying around them. And they seem to have had no problem with that. So it looks to me that in such times of planetary upheavals, something more is happening than just mass die off of humans. Something that we do not understand at this point.

 

[Joe]

I think using such buffers as karma, or destiny or whatever, runs contrary to conscious suffering. It's no different than the materialist viewpoint that we're just insignificant organic aggregations of atoms and that consciousness, thus suffering, is an illusion. Karma o no karma, murdering people is wrong.

So is it knowledge and understanding that is missing here? If we knew it to be objective truth that a group of people were suffering in order to "expunge" some previous debt or karma and they were doing it "willingly", would mitigate our hand-wringing over their suffering?

 

[Joe]

I think it means take in what news and events you can, feel it, acknowledge it, but don't let it become an obsession, don't let it spiral you down into the depths, because all you're really doing there is taking what's going on and making it about you.

Back to this point, which I think is useful to contemplate. How much of our 'empathy' for those suffering at the hands of psychopaths in positions of power is really 'pure' empathy and how much of it is actually a desire to avoid the negative feelings in us, that such brutality provokes?