Huge thank you Laura & crew for this end-of-year session !!!
And thank you to all of you for your interesting feedbacks, I've just finished reading them.
When my friend saw there was a new session we were in the company of a couple of friends who spent the Christmas holidays with us. The atmosphere was cheerful and light. My friend decided to translate the session with deepl and read it out loud. Needless to say that at the end of the reading the atmosphere was not the same, especially for our friends who have joined us in the Work only a few months ago. A few minutes of silence followed. Then, while I was thinking about how to develop certain topics to dissipate the tension, it was one of the friends who broke the silence and with determination said he was going to make a donation. The reading of the session had made him more resolute than ever. So we were able to discuss about it for a while. I don't know if they have donated (but if it is not the case they won't be long). In anycase we (my friend and I) did and set up for a montly donation. Like others we were not aware that the chateau financial situation was that bad, and even though we have been affected by the successive lockdowns (we run a guesthouse) we will do our best to ensure that the lighthouse continues to shine.
Like others I found this session more sober, almost as if the bells were starting to ring more seriously than ever.
Of course, on the moment, I would have preferred a few reassuring words, but there is a time for everything. In the past the C's have reassured us many times, now is the time to be more awake, alert, courageous and determined than ever.
This reminds me of some scenes from Ertugrul that I have seen recently. Even when everything seems to be going for the worst, he and his tribe do not give up, they know they are probably going to die, but what matters most to them is not to preserve their physical life but to stay on the right path and do what they feel is right in order to preserve freedom, not to give in to tyranny and thus set an example of divine rightness. When there is no more room for the fear of dying, anything is possible.
Or, as they say, feel the fear and do it anyway.
This relates to what OutSky said previously in this thread quoting "Bringers of the dawn":
"Tyranny uses the tool of fear to control you. ... When you buy into any version of fear, it can become your experience because your molecules are intelligent and your energy responds to the predominant feeling in your being."
"Fear has a very powerful vibration, and when one holds fear in the body it transmits everywhere rather quickly"
"Your ancestors lived with the fear of knowing secrets and of breaking the rules for what was officially permitted. There were very few who would stand forward and say, "Ah ha, the Emperor is naked, he wears no clothes." Fear was so great in frequency around the Earth that, whenever someone did speak out, everyone else moved into fear instead of love."
This is true more than ever at present. We cannot change the dramatic events that are taking place, but we can align ourselves with faith, courage and, as Laura said, grace and hope.
On this subject Scott's words also shook me up and I will quote them here once again, because they are very powerful and apply to all is happening right now, plague, vaccines, famine, violence, zombies, etc.... (note I put some parts in bold which were not in the original text)
Preparing for possible futures is fine, but when it becomes an obsession and/or driven by anxiety of what MIGHT happen, then you've lost your way.
What about taking action now to try to inform others, spread new ideas, and be the "anti-MSM voice"?
You might do this because it just seems like the right thing to do. You don't think you're going to change anything, really. At the same time, you can see how certain twists and turns come along that change everything.
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I hate to sound like the I Ching or something, but it's 200% true that if you follow that part of yourself that is small, you will get small results. If you follow that part of yourself that is big, correct, principled, and more concerned with the greater good in the longrun instead of your own petty day-to-day concerns and wants and desires, then everything opens up to you.
That's more like the true meaning of faith: It's not that you put your hopes in some God up there who's gonna save you just because, or even some "hero" down here who will do the same for you. Instead, you work to become the person that will be capable of saving himself and others. You work to help and "save" others, and thereby save yourself - but not in any hard physical 3d way.
That "faith" is the polar opposite of our iPhone selfie me-me-me world, where all we can think about is how I will survive, what about MY oh-so-important presence in the world, how can I survive, I don't want to suffer...
It's wise to prepare for possible futures, but it's even wiser to never need those preparations because you have done and continue to do the hard work of purging yourself of all that is small and petty as you closely and regularly observe reality and adjust your course.
None of that means that you will never die, or never go hungry, or never suffer in any other way. It just means that you will be able to choose your suffering to some extent, and that in the end it won't matter anyway because you will be able to say that you did all that you could to contribute to something better then yourself.
Whenever I feel overwhelmed by anger, fear, sadness and other similar emotions I try to change my perspective inwardly and see things from a greater point of view, as great as I can conceive ... then a few deep breaths and already I feel calmer.
What I try to do on a daily basis is also to dedicate a few moments to focus my attention on something beautiful and inspiring, something that stirs in me feelings like appreciation, joy, gratitude, heroism…… when I can’t find it around me I have recourse to my memory. This may appear futile or inappropriate in some circustances such as those that currently surround us, but didn't the C"s say that it's not where you are but who you are and what you see that matters? Well they certainly refered to something deeper but I think this ability of our mind is part of it.
For many years I have felt that time was running out. It was just a nagging general feeling and I attributed it to a major event in my life, incorrectly.
Same for me, I have kept feeling this since I was a child and, even weirder, without knowing why I always had the feeling that I would live "the end of the world", (this is the way I would say it to myself) even if I had no idea how this end would come about.
To finish this post I am very happy to hear that Ark is doing much better !!!
folks
