On Heavenly Blessings Tuesday, Archangel Michael offered an update on the bringing of Peace to Earth by Valentine’s Day, 2015. He said that:
“The greatest war that is and ever has been waged is the war within you. … It is time, please, we beg you, let this war end. ” (1)
We all know the impact of our vasanas, core issues and false grids that spur us on to harm other people. We’ve been working on that for four or five years, it seems to me.
Most of the world’s population knows nothing about matters like these – as AAM affirmed when he said that we lightworkers were just a tiny part of the whole population. An influential part just the same.
I had a concrete demonstration of bringing peace to myself this past weekend. My brother was over from Victoria to see my new apartment.
I was grumbling and moaning about something I wasn’t happy with and suddenly I saw this picture of a cart going down a rutted road.
And I realized I was in a rut. This is what I do when a situation doesn’t meet my liking – I grumble and complain.
And I realized that I didn’t have to do that any more. I didn’t have to be in a rut.
I said to my brother: “I don’t need to be doing this. I could be … exemplary.” “Yeeesssssss,” he replied, and we both laughed.
Then a more senior realization hit: “I can choose.” I have the power to choose. I’m not a victim of circumstances. The situation is not hopeless. There are solutions.
It’s important for me to say that this was not conceptual knowledge – thoughts, beliefs, hearsay.
It wasn’t experiential knowledge (2) – feelings and sensations.
It was realized knowledge – a flash of awareness, an Aha! moment, a transformational “get.” Perhaps not so deep as to send me into a high spiritual state but enough to wake me up on the matter.
Because it was enough to wake me up, at that moment and for a few minutes more, I felt bliss sweep over me. And then it left.
But what I learned in that moment didn’t leave me. “I can choose.” I don’t have to be in a rut. I have the power to choose. And I began going around after that, choosing.
I chose to have all the time in the world. I chose to detach myself from all worldly possessions. I chose to let go of any feeling states that didn’t please me.
How that escaped me these many years, I know not. I’m sure it’s a result of the higher vibratory frequencies we’re in that I can actually see it now.
I’m sure it awaited this incredible lightness of being before I could see these things. Otherwise I’d feel too heavy and hopeless.
Seeing my ability to choose rather than holding myself as a hopeless victim of circumstances is a fundamental act, a basic example of how we “move,” how we change ourselves, how we evolve. Knowledge becomes seen and known at a realized level and we then make the necessary changes – or, as Werner Erhard would have phrased it, we “rechoose.”
I’ve said before that it’s a long way from a change of mind to a change of behavior (you have to go through change of attitude and change of heart first). But that’s a second cut at exactly this same thing. What we get as a simple change of mind may never become a change of behavior unless and until it reaches the state of realized knowledge.
Or we can discipline ourselves and create a routine, or an affirmation, or some other way to drill something into ourselves. But that way is far inferior.
All of us, I think, need to change our behavior – our own behavior – if the war inside is to end. And, hey, it’s still going on with me.
Last share.
One of my contributions to World Peace by Valentine’s Day, 2015 is to speak Perro continuously these days. Perro is an intergalactic way of speaking that communicates only the facts. It’s neutral, bare, descriptive language. And I’ve been using it in the most trying of circumstances. Graham does it automatically (he calls it “non-violent communication”), but I have to work at it.
I’ve chosen to speak Perro. I’ve chosen to behave in an exemplary manner in the situation I discussed before. I’ve chosen to reposition myself in situations where I may have a conflict of interest with myself or the team. I’m rechoosing, rechoosing every day. And it feels better and better, cleaner and cleaner. It just keeps getting sharper and crisper.
This act of choosing is an act of the Self. It’s an act basic to who I am. And it’s the act that will carry me away from the war inside to all the joys and re-war-ds of inner peace.
Join us in creating Peace on Earth by Feb. 14, 2015.
Footnotes
(1) “Transcript: Archangel Michael: Peace on Earth, Right Now!” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/02/11/transcript-archangel-michael-peace-earth-right-now/. Listen at https://inlightuniversal.com/?powerpress_pinw=635-podcast
(2) Many people who use the term “experiential knowledge” seem to mean different things by it. Some mean what I mean by “realized knowledge.” Here’s Vipassana Master S.N. Goenka on that for instance.
“Bhavana-maya panna is the wisdom obtained by meditation – the wisdom that comes from the direct experience of the truth. … The meditator makes right effort and so realizes for himself that every thing in the world is transitory, a source of suffering, and essenceless. This insight is not the mere acceptance of what someone else has said [intellectual knowledge], nor the product of deductive reasoning [still intellectual knowledge]. It is, rather, the direct comprehension of the reality of anicca, dukkha and anatta [change, suffering, and no-self].” (https://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=2170)
This is a much senior state to what I’m pointing at here. I’m discussing everyday processes but the bhavana maya panna that Sri Goenka is pointing to is, in fact, sajaha samadhi. He continues:
“Neither [hearsay nor deductive reasoning] can give liberation. Liberation results only from bhavana-maya panna.” (Loc. cit.)
Liberation results from sahaja samadhi. Therefore sahaja must be bhavana maya panna.