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What About Animals

by robertleepotter500

A friend from Monroe, who’s reading the book, asked me the following question on Facebook.

I should finish book before I ask..but every book I have read about this sort of thing…I am always left wondering about why animals are never mentioned. i.e what happens to them, reincarnation to or from animal form possible, what role they play other than food and the feelings on that from those 500 years ahead. When I do find information, it always seems to be skimmed over or very vague or dismissed. Any insight in your experiences?

Hi Cindy,

I think that’s a very interesting question. Just like many other books, “Letters” does not address the animal kingdom in a really focused way. But it does refer to animal consciousness in some passages. Bear in mind, no book can address all topics in depth (within 300 pages).

The “Letters” project is directed at the human species, specifically, because we are the ones causing so much trouble for the planet right now. Nevertheless, I just did a quick search for quotes about animals in the book and came up with a few. (See below)

I think this question and its response would be good to post on our web blog. Would you mind if I used your question and your first name on the blog?

These references will probably not address your question thoroughly. I think you are asking about animals’ role in evolution and the place of animal consciousness in “awakening”, as it were. My own view is that animal consciousness, and instinct, is an essential building block and portal to Conscious Evolution—the platform on which human and vigilan consciousness is constructed.

Another thing that could be said, from the grand overview, is that Consciousness is One. It manifests into various (infinite) forms, through incarnation and re-incarnation. The animal kingdom is one of those forms. Each form has its unique function and destiny. No form is lesser or greater than any other form. Each one has its unique time and place within the space of Now.

The cyclic and spiral nature of evolution and of conscious tells me that we all cycle through many different forms ourselves, since we are essentially one with all Consciousness. Our One Self is that which incarnates wherever and whenever, whether human, animal, vigilan or angelan.

Here are the passages that have some relevance to the animal kingdom:

References to “animals” in Letters from 500.

p6
The quickest way to tell you about it is to say that we recognize ourselves and each other, much more directly and intimately than naming can afford. Imagine the way the animals and birds around you identify one another.

p22
Yes, there are examples of ego in other primates and animals, but by comparison to the human ego, they are as nothing. One might even say that the ego invented you, or at least it was the chief characteristic in developing your full potential.

p23
The defensive nature of the ego came to define its relation to the world around it. Its job was self-protection, which led to greed and aggression. This sense of self could also include family, tribe or nation. Animal instinct transformed into intellect in the human mind and thus triggered a powerful expansion of territorial imperative.

The progression from instinct through intellect into intuition is an evolving principle here as well. The appreciative faculty that my species enjoys is an intuitive awareness, transcending yet including intellect. In early homo sapiens, instinct had jumped to intellect. Intellect, however, by necessity was largely cut off from its former instinctual basis. When the next species arrived, intellect made a similar leap to the intuitive state and recaptured its linkage to instinct. Said another way, intuition is instinct made conscious through intellect.

p34
“What happens to the soul of the animal when its species goes extinct?”
The soul is itself a unit within a greater whole. That soul, for example, the soul of the saber-toothed tiger, merges with the greater soul of felines in general. What was the essence of that ancient tiger lives on in the gene pool and in the soul realm. It is available if and when needed for some other form. Evolution never loses any information or point of consciousness. The form takes its experience back into the formless pool of evolving awareness.

p53
Without death there would be no physical form as we know it, no human beings, no animals or plants, no Earth or universe. Death is difficult to face for the finite mind and ego. It threatens identity and the continuity of self. From the personal perspective, it seems to deny us everything we hold dear. It is the Grim Reaper. Yet from a deeper awareness, it is the Great Redeemer. When it closes in upon us, we open up to true being; when death descends, we rise up in consciousness. All creations rise on the shoulders of Death.

p66
Another source of your troubled feelings during this transition will be the new transparency toward other humans and other creatures on your planet. The surfacing of oneness may actually feel like an attack upon your senses, given your unfamiliarity with it. You will begin to sense the anguish of billions of humans, previously hidden from you by the defense body of ego. The instinctual fears of the animal and insect kingdoms will affect you as well.
In the same vein, you will also feel other emotions from the vast body of Life. This comes at you from all directions, so that you feel as if it is your own. It is the budding of pure empathy. At first you have no way of processing this onslaught of feelings. You will be overwhelmed at times, and pulled back and forth. You will lose your balance and may even seem to be losing your sanity. These conditions will force you more and more to focus only on the present moment, the Now, and to look within yourself for understanding. The present represents the presence. There you will begin to find the answers.

p75
Human fear, of course, evolved out of animal, instinctual fear, which derived out of the early manifestations of the survival instinct. These are all stages that evolution needs to experience in order to arrive at its awakening. When the awakened state at last comes, it knows in its heart that oneness is all there is. It realizes its power of choice. All the struggles and labor of the millennia have paid off wonderfully.

p203
All of creation is manifesting appreciation continuously. The forms it takes vary immensely. A tree, for example, appreciates its place in the universe through its roots, through its acceptance of sunlight, the greening leaves and ripening fruit. It absorbs the appreciation of any animal, human or vigilan who touches it and uses it for shelter, sustenance or splendor. A quartz crystal appreciates its essence through the nourishment it receives among the minerals and energies that give it birth. When it emerges into the lighted world, a new appreciation dawns for it through its exposure to illumination. An electron appreciates its place within an atom, relative to the forces that measure its form. Only the human intellect is capable of shutting out this deep connection with oneness, with its innate appreciative sense.

p241
[The old man chuckles.] “That is a naïve question, my son. As long as there have been bodies, there have been continuous adjustments at these levels. As an example, even before the transition, when many people and animals succumbed to deadly viruses, there were always those who survived. Wouldn’t you say that their bodies were adjusting to the environmental changes? Your species also possessed the so-called placebo effect, and so-called ‘spontaneous remissions’. This was nothing more than instinctual realignment with the Life force.”

p285
“The galaxy is alive? The whole thing?”
Certainly. Most humans did not conceive of it that way, I know. You also did not think the Earth was alive. For vigilans, such distorted thinking seems preposterous. Of course it’s all alive—not just humans, plants and animals. The whole Cosmos is alive—every atom!

p294
Yes, there were always some who could see through. Any human could, at times. However, the Veil affected everyone to some extent, even great avatars and prophets. They too sometimes felt abandoned by the Cosmos. Look at Jesus with his plea during the crucifixion, “Father, why hast thou forsaken me?” But the Veil was in constant flux. It was denser in some places and times than others. It was initially designed to be rather porous and transparent. But it became more hardened and brittle as ego and mental dominance took over. For instinctual animals and plants, no Veil ever existed.

Seeking Oneness in Competition

by robertleepotter500

Competition

O points out that the Latin root for ‘competition’ is com + petere, meaning ‘seek together’. Of course this is just the opposite of how we see it in our modern world. For us, it is more like adversarial self-interest. The word has come a long way. It’s a paradox. What if we took the ancient and modern meanings and melded the two into one, shared understanding? It might be a portal into deeper awareness?

It makes me recall an event from high school. I was an athlete then. I ran track—various sprint races and high hurdles. At one particular meet, I was slated to run the last leg of an 880-yard relay against the fastest sprinter in the country at that time. His name was Charlie Greene. He went on to break the world record for the hundred-meter dash in 1968.

I knew well Charlie Greene’s reputation and had already witnessed his blistering speed in the hundred-yard dash earlier that day. I stood next to him on the track, in the hand-off zone, fidgeting. I was getting very nervous as we watched the runners round the curve. My team had been leading for the first two legs of the race, and I imagined the humiliating task of taking the baton before Greene and then seeing him flash past me from behind.

As it unfolded, my teammate lost the front position at that moment. When the runners turned the corner toward us, my team was in second place. This was the only time in my track career when I actually wanted to be second. Greene and I switched lanes accordingly, and leaned forward with our open hands thrust back to receive the batons. This meant he would start out ahead, and I would be spared. The runners rushed upon us.

We charged out of the exchange zone onto the final leg of the race, the hollow rods firmly clenched in our fists. It can be lonely out there on the track, with wind whistling in your ears. You’re in your own little world, far from the spectators or coaches. The thud and crunch of footfalls on cinders, sound loud. In a few strides we were at full speed.

I personally was not a slow runner. I had won many races in my time, and I was prepared to give this one my best. I knew from the start, however, that Greene was far faster than me. His speed was astounding.

I started close on his heals, cinders from his shoes spattering up in my face. But slowly, relentlessly, he moved away—two yards, three yards, five, ten. I was running as fast as I could, maybe the fastest I ever ran. Yet he kept increasing the gap between us. The silence rose up around me as he hurtled away. I might as well have been standing still. It was a zone of a different sort suddenly. It made me begin to wonder. I became an observer of myself, and the whole scene.

There I was; there we were—Greene and I and all the other runners on the track. We were participating in this one event, as one assembly, united in a common purpose. It became suddenly apparent that my loss in the race was playing an important role. In fact, it was destined. Someone would win; others would lose; and all of us together were making the whole experience happen. We were seeking together.

As Charlie Greene crossed the finish line and I was chasing down the final stretch behind him, I was with him. We were sharing in a common victory, a common defeat and a common space. The competition was not pulling us apart, as some might perceive. For those with eyes to see, it was pulling us together, into a new expression of who we collectively were. The tension of separation was just a way of initiating the compression of our union. As all the other runners trailed in panting, each breathed the same air, shared the same finish line, created the culmination of our unified performance.

To relate this back to the Letters, I see that we do have the means of moving out of our modern concept of competition, out of ego domination. The path comes right out of the ego experience itself. “That which stands in the way is the way.” The separative competition was what most observers saw in that track meet. But coexisting alongside it, at a subtler level, was the opening for a unified perspective. This can be applied to any ego event, I’m beginning to see. Ego is just the placeholder for a deeper appreciation of self and the individuality archetype. This is also a way of comprehending the merger of all light and dark aspects of our being. Light does not have to vanquish darkness. It cannot, in any case. We only have to allow it to carry us through to the full realization of wholeness.

R. Potter

Undivided

by robertleepotter500

Undivided   

by Robert

Conscious Evolution puts a premium on individuality, for its purposes. …  As long as one is not awakened into using the appreciative faculty, the individual perspective makes it seem like the thresholds are actually boundaries.

page 236, Letters from 500, Book 1.

We humans have been mistaken about what individuality means. In-dividual means ‘un-divided’. That means unified, not separated, whole, at one. To practice archetypal individuality is to realize we are a face of oneness, an archetype of oneness manifested in the duality world. Behind this, though, oneness is all there really is, especially in the domain of consciousness. It is bound up within the universal presence—no boundaries, conditions or separations. No time. No form. This is who we really are.

We—the royal, collective we—are here experiencing all this duality-rooted complexity, in order to discover the treasure we have hidden in plain view. We think, and are taught to believe, that to be an individual we need to make ourselves independent and different, cut ourselves out from the undifferentiated herd, like a calf being singled out for branding.

Our misapprehension is that we think we’re singling ourselves out. But in the end, we find ourselves branded with the emblem of the whole. And this is a good thing. Our oneness is the Mover through this space of complexity and separation, learning the language of mirrors and paradox. What often seems to be, is not; what seems not to be is. This is the world of experience, existence and differentiation. It is the world that is now awakening from it’s erstwhile dream.

Nourishment

by robertleepotter500

Nourishment

by Robert

For fear to exist,

it must be maintained.

What would happen if we stopped maintaining it?

What if we stopped feeding it?

Would it die of malnutrition?

For ego to exist,

it must be maintained.

What would happen if we stopped maintaining it?

What if we stopped feeding it?

Would it die of malnutrition?

Source maintains itself.

What would happen if we maintained it?

What if we fed it?

Would it be nourished?

What if Source were Love, were Life,

were All?

(11.5.11)

Consciousness Trap

by robertleepotter500

The big word these days is ‘consciousness’, as most of us know. It’s on all our minds. But, if we take Eckhart Tolle’s view, the ‘mind’ is largely unconscious. He points out that consciousness goes unconscious when we are absorbed in thinking. But why is that? Why does consciousness get trapped in unconscious states? How is it that awareness becomes unaware? I don’t know. So, I decided to ask O that question. Here is the answer that came:

“Consciousness is our link with Source. It is the flowing tide of Life, streaming out from the Absolute center into all creation, into all the Cosmos. It radiates out in all directions, in all dimensions. As it does so, it immerses itself in form. Awareness, of course, is formless. But it takes on forms in its outward path from Source.

“Awareness enters states of mind, emotion, intuition, sensation. Upon entering these and other states, it clothes itself in their forms. Some of these states are high and vital, clear as the day. Others are dark, gloomy, obscure. To be truly aware of obscurity, for instance, means to take it on as clothing, to have your awareness obscured. The central spark or ray, proceeding out from Source, is a projection, an image, a shadow on the wall of Plato’s cave.

“The projection—the ray of consciousness—passes through all states of comprehension in the outer, manifested world. It registers, appreciates and then moves on. It is never static, never ‘trapped’ as you suggest. It is, yes, immersed at times in unconsciousness. This means that it takes on the trappings of dark and separative states. It takes on the appearance of mind and matter. But it only does this within the confines of the time dimension.

“From the timeless perspective, consciousness is simply out gathering data. It says to itself, ‘What is there here to behold? What may we experience in this state? Unconsciousness! Ah! That is what it is like to be blind!’ Then, having gathered enough intelligence within the time-bound immersion, it moves on. It never stops.

 

“Now, to return to your question, consciousness does not become unconscious. It only takes on that projection for a ‘time’. It absorbs and appreciates the dimensions of what is there to be examined. It never loses itself or becomes damaged by its experience. It only and always profits. Source profits from these immersions. There is only gain—even while falling through unconsciousness. Especially so, in fact, for that is the whole story of human evolution.”

Copyright © 2011 by Robert Lee Potter

Nuclear Clarity

by robertleepotter500

What’s unclear about nuclear is our misunderstanding of Source. The nucleus of our being lies hidden from most humans most of the time. Many of us don’t even believe we have a Source or center to our being. This is not a condemnation, but a statement of our nature. We are here, immersed in the illusion of separateness, under the Veil of Forgetfulness. Nevertheless, our lack of clarity is a great opportunity to move in the direction of clearing. What is not can be an invitation to move toward what is.

My observation of the nuclear disaster in Japan is that it may be a huge blessing in disguise, a wake-up call of grand proportion. It is time for humanity to realize what kind of energies we’re unleashing. We’re like children in a sandbox, playing with hand grenades. Yes the ‘safeties’ are on, but no form of protection can alter what’s really at stake. The risks are so high that to comprehend them we need to step beyond mere mental calculations and safeguards. We need real wisdom. Where does that come from other than Source?

The fact that the awakening world has been made alert to the ‘grenade in the sandbox’ is most significant at this time of transformation. We could see it as a call to look into our own Nucleus of being. Or perhaps, the other way around, our Source could be looking more clearly out through us. The most dangerous of all humankind’s creations—nuclear fission—could become a window into our ultimate safety and peace. What may we see through that lens? Can we learn from this emergency, the old Chinese wisdom that crisis is a merger of ‘danger and opportunity’?

After Robert sent this to me today I realized  how apropos this is in light of the incredible sandbox play of our legislators this week. There is absolutely no consideration for what is good for the betterment of our civilization, we humans are simply an after thought in this ego drama that drives the circus arena posing as our leadership. If we really cared for each other and could rise to the level of human spirit that our Source has made a part of our DNA we would become Masters of the Universe.

Our Dear Friend Neptune

by robertleepotter500

It seems that with all the hard work started in the 60′s, for human consciousness transformation, the way forward has been nothing less than a roller coaster ride. Exciting peaks of possibilities and hair raising dives into valleys of confusion. There are those who believe that life is what you make it and nothing external to our world has any influence over the outcome. To some degree this is so. We are the masters of our immediate situations and face daily choices that can send us down different roads of experience. On a larger scale there are those external influences that vibrate a particular consciousness into the world around us and create subtle influences to the core structure of our awareness.

This message was passed on to Robert from Suchitra Davenport of the Soul Source Center. She is a well-respected soul-based counselor and healer in the Media/Rose Valley/Swarthmore area of Pennsylvania.

by cosmicobserver

Neptune’s ingress into Pisces last night has opened another door into a new world that is gradually unfolding before our eyes. Along with all of the other planetary shifts into new signs this year, Neptune’s passage into Pisces (the sign of its rulership) for the first time in 172 years sets the stage for a new collective story or mythology to unfold that will change the way we see the world and how we approach the healing of planet Earth.

Neptune in Capricorn, which began in the mid-1980s, was an era in which money (Capricorn) became fashionable (Neptune). Neptune in Aquarius, which began in the late 1990s, began the Internet Age: Aquarius is computers and Neptune is the interconnectedness of the web. Over the next decade it will become increasingly ‘fashionable’ to have a spiritual practice, to choose peaceful co-existence, and to change the world from the inside out.

This new story will demonstrate the power of the collective imagination to heal the seemingly horrendous conditions on Earth that we are bombarded with daily. Through a rise in spiritual practices (meditation, yoga, etc.) the veil between heaven and Earth will thin and we will begin to truly experience, see, and express: compassion, love without conditions, and the joy and the bliss of our truest nature.

You may want to ask yourself: What is loving-kindness? What is compassion? How is real compassion expressed? How do we honor the precious element of Water in our daily life? What small contribution can we make to not pollute or overuse but rather conserve the waters of the world?

This will be a marvelous opportunity to shift the paradigm and recreate our collective story. Let us begin now to dream the possible dream of a better and more cohesive world together!

A request from Dr. Masaru Emoto

by robertleepotter500

To All People around the World,

Gather the friends.  Gather the clear water from our still-running streams.  Gather the water SDGE siphons from us.  Gather a blossom, with humility and gratitude, that represent Japan, and, in turn, represents our awakening.

Please send your prayers of love and gratitude to water at the nuclear plants in Fukushima, Japan! 

By the massive earthquakes of Magnitude 9 and surreal massive tsunamis, more than 10,000 people are still missing even now. It has been 16 days already since the disaster happened. What makes it worse is that water at the reactors of Fukushima Nuclear Plants started to leak, and it’s contaminating the ocean, air and water molecule of surrounding areas.

Human wisdom has not been able to do much to solve the problem, but we are only trying to cool down the anger of radioactive materials in the reactors by discharging water to them.

Is there really nothing else to do?

I think there is. During over twenty year research of hado measuring and water crystal photographic technology, I have been witnessing that water can turn positive when it receives pure vibration of human prayer no matter how far away it is.

Energy formula of Albert Einstein, E=MC2 really means that Energy = number of people and the square of people’s consciousness.

Now is the time to understand the true meaning. Let us all join the prayer ceremony as fellow citizens of the planet earth. I would like to ask all people, not just in Japan, but all around the world to please help us to find a way out the crisis of this planet!!
The prayer procedure is as follows.

Day and Time:
March 31st, 2011 (Thursday)
12:00 noon in each time zone

Please say the following phrase:
The water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant,
we are sorry to make you suffer.
Please forgive us. We thank you, and we love you.

Please say it aloud or in your mind. Repeat it three times as you put your hands together in a prayer position. Please offer your sincere prayer.

Thank you very much from my heart.

With love and gratitude,
Masaru Emoto
Messenger of Water

 

http://www.masaru-emoto.net/

The Road to Prosperity is Paved with Good Intendings

by robertleepotter500

Most of us have heard of “The Secret” and the use of intending to actuate the desired response. To tell you the truth, I have been practicing this notion for several years with a modicum of success. It seemed every time our business entered a lull I would just send my intent out and the phone would ring with a potential client – ah, what a gift. That’s what I thought, until  the end of 2008 when everything dried up including my good intending. Perhaps my gift was everything it was meant to be  and now “The Universe” is directing me to take another path; or maybe it was just a coincidence and the phone would have rung anyway because the market was still strong. Whatever we want to  believe it is it takes over our psyche and gives us that sense of security that helps us sleep better at night.

Last week Robert emailed me an article from Neale Donald Walsch’s newsletter. His series “Conversations With God” stayed on the NY Times bestseller list for years.  And yes, with every successful spiritual adviser there goes a list of detractors, always eager to repudiate their claims and find fault in every word. But this article hits home. It is pure and real, beyond the mind of doubt and criticism. It has such a clear ring to its nature that it echoes into the higher self and sends back the message of YES.

I’ve included Robert’s comment as well, for it is so fitting.

Enjoy the read:

Here’s a little article written by Neale Donald Walsch in his latest newsletter. When I saw the title I thought I knew what he was going to say. I almost dismissed it without reading it. That would have been a shame. I did not know what he was going to say. In reading it, something resonated very deeply in me, something clicked, something switched (a track) in me … so deeply that I may never have to visit certain personal fears again (of course, then again I might… but that is irrelevant… and that recognition changes everything). I invite you to take a look at it.

With great affection,
Robert

article:
Am I not believing hard enough?

Did you ever feel like you needed nothing? If you ever did, you know the experience of Liberation.

Read this note, that I received recently from a dear friend asking me about how the Mind functions, and how “belief” works, in the creation of one’s experience. What’s all this about the Law of Attraction?
I realized when I read that note that a lot of people have that question. So I wrote to my friend that one must be very careful not to fall into self-blame or self-criticism when one earnestly believes in something and it does not occur. People in the so-called New Age Community sometimes get into self-recrimination at this point, saying things like, “What’s the matter with me?!! I’m just not believing hard enough! I’ve got to believe more. We’ve got to have more faith, dammit!”
If we’re not careful, we’ll start making ourselves and each other ‘wrong’ for not thinking “positively enough,” etc. So watch out for that trap.
When things are not happening the way you have envisioned them, it is often simply the Law of Opposites playing its effect. This is to be welcomed, not rejected. (What you resist, persists. What you look at, disappears. That it, is ceases to have its illusory form.) The Law of Opposites offers a Sure and Certain Sign that your good is on its way.
Now, however, if you don’t believe that, if you start seeing the Law of Opposites as evidence that your good is NOT on the way, then it will not be, because you have “switched tracks” and are now experiencing that reality.
A track is nothing but a Belief System. Whatever track you are on takes you to exactly the Reality to which it is headed! Then you get to the station and wonder how in the heck you got there!
So welcome ALL experience—including the experience of NOT getting what you want. My friend said in her note to me that as hard as she tried not to, she struggled with worry (fear) at times over financial matters. I told her that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Fear will eventually produce exactly what we are afraid of. It has no choice. That is simply how energy works.
All energy produces LIKE ENERGY. It has no choice. This is simply the mechanism. This is simply how the doggone machine works. You can’t change it, you can only know that and work with it.
This is why Jesus’ said over and over to his disciples, “Fear not, for I am with you, even unto the end of time.” He also said, “Even before you ask, I will have answered.”
Other masters of other faith traditions have offered the same wisdom, each in their own words. That is why my favorite prayer is: “Thank you, God, for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.”
Whenever I catch myself worrying (which is not very often, to be honest. I’m a pretty happy-go-lucky guy….yes, even in so-called ‘bad’ times…), I immediately jump to that prayer. It is absolutely my favorite prayer of all time…
“Thank you, God, for helping me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.”
But now, the REAL question is: what if the money never comes? What if you went stone cold broke, had to sell the house, the car, everything…? Then what? What would happen then?
This drives to the largest questions of life: Who am I? Where am I? Why am I where I am? What am I doing here? And we are not so far “off topic” here after all, because you can only find those answers by going to the Soul.
There we will be told that we can fool around with children’s toys if we wish…or we can move up to the next level of mastery, where our income and our holdings and our lifestyle become irrelevant to us.

This morning I woke up in a lucid dream state. In this dream state a voice was saying to me….

Bring people a Vision.
From this Vision will emerge a Desire.
From this Desire will emerge a Mission.
From this Mission will emerge a Purpose.
From this Purpose will emerge a Function.
From this Function will emerge an Outcome.
From this Outcome will emerge an Experience.
From this Experience will emerge a Reality.
From this Reality will emerge an Awareness.
From this Awareness will emerge a Way of Being.
From this Way of Being will emerge an Expression of the Divinity that You Are.
From this Expression will emerge a new Vision.
And the Circle will be Complete.
And Life will go on, Everlasting.

I’ve lived on the street. For an entire year. Walking from corner to corner, asking people for whatever coins they may have in their pocket. I understand the Fear that drives us to Worry about things financial. Yet I tell you this: Who You Are has nothing to do with any of that. When this is something you real-ize (that is, “make real”), then you will be truly free.
And here is the irony. When you are truly free, all good things will flow to you easier than ever, ever before. Precisely because you have stopped struggling for them, stopped reaching for then, stopped worrying about them, stopped even needing them.
What we “don’t need” comes to us freely exactly because we “don’t need” them. That is, we live firmly in the conviction that we are “not in NEED” of them…and that conviction sends us to the Time Track where that REALITY exists!
Do you see? It is quite miraculous, this business of what train you get on….

Love and Hugs,

Neale.

The Opposite of Appreciation

by robertleepotter500

Robert and I have been speaking on Resistance and Appreciation these days. It is the essence of our challenge, both to ourselves and the world at large. We know we live within the shell of an egoic human, but we do have the capacity to understand what can become of our natures if we allow the inevitable shift to take place now. Robert has sent me a wonderful response to this and to the specter of doom that seems to be hovering over much of the world.

 

“In response to the downward spiraling, doomsday attitude of many human reactionaries, there is another option. It is to see the upward spiral of your own DNA. Take this attitude—as faith—and be blessed.”

— from Letters from 500, Portal

The Opposite of Appreciation

In book one of Letters from 500, O writes “resistance is the opposite of appreciation.” As we look at the world today, we can see a whole lot more resistance than appreciation. A prime example is in politics. ‘How much appreciation do we see in politics? How much resistance?’

Resistance in and of itself is not a bad thing. Just like pain, it can be a wake-up call. When we feel resistant, it’s a chance to stop and look around, smell the roses. Sistere, in Latin, means ‘to stop’; that’s the root of ‘resist’. Once we step back from our immersion in resistance, we immediately start to appreciate. The more we look, the more we appreciate. This is the beginning of wisdom and of being who we really are, that is, our authenticity and Source. Actions taken from there will be truly powerful, unlike those taken out of resistance.

Stefan told me this morning of a revelation he had, concerning emotions. To paraphrase what he said, there is a balance point between positive and negative emotions. It is like a portal into deeper understanding. Feeling all sides of any emotion—the good, bad and middle—makes it a much richer experience. When we do that, we stop and step back from our identification with the form (emotion). We release ourselves from it and no longer have to react unconsciously. As we let go our resistance, we see through to the other side, which is freedom, which is our true, appreciative nature.

Copyright © 2011 by Robert Lee Potter