Open your eyes

[verklingen]

Light is good and dark is bad, yes? Maybe. I suppose you also believe that if your life were to be filled with light right now all the bad would dissipate, seeming like an uncomfortable dream, right? Well I'm here to tell you that this topic is not so "black and white" as it seems.

You might have some things about your self with which you are not too happy, even if you don't realize what they are and what they do to you. They may cause frustration and trouble in your life, but you get past it and persevere. Indeed, I will tell you right now that such frustration is due solely to your acting with a behavior which is not suited to your true self, what you were created (or what you created yourself) to be. Frustration is not a quality those who walk in the light of their true self can possess.

You can have these obstructions and yet still consider yourself as "happy." Silly, isn't it? Surely there are happy things within your life and you value and treasure them; I do not mean to take that from you at all! But you know as well as I that once frustration sets in, once darkness sets in, that those things in your life which make you happy seem ever so dim while your frustration looms large and imposing before you. You might be moody, or have some bad (as defined by yourself, your REAL perception) habits, a short temper, worry a lot, be anxious, nervous, etc. Whatever it is, all the frustration in your life stems from your decision to engage with these choices, and your own determination (perhaps faulty determinations, the product of false ["fooling yourself"] perception) of their quality.

When things get bad, you might wish for light to shine into your life and dispel the darkness, dispel the bad. This is very possible, but when it comes you do not recognize it! You expect the light to enter your life and work to allay the darkness, but how do you expect it to work? You want it to help you, but does light have a choice in what it does? How can it know what to do? The light is shining right this moment, in your time of distress! It shone brightly and revealed a darkness in your life, laid bare the frustration and doubt. It is only a tool of revelation, revealing the cause and root of your troubles should you choose to look. It can do no more, but is that not enough?

Work with the light, it's there to guide you. In times of frustration, it's there, should you choose to look, to help you recognize what's really going on. Once you start to see with this light, there's no more denial: no way to temporarily cast the darkness aside and forget about it until to crops up again. The darkness is there, stark naked for you to see! Work with the light, and dispel the dark yourself. The darkness won't go away this time, it won't be forgotten. In fact, you don't want it to. This is the time.

For more information: KRYON - Newport Beach 2006

[xMSx]

what you say is very true. but you must also work with the darkness as well. it keeps you on your feet, and from becomming too "untouchable." the light and dark will always be there and we have to accept that. i agree with what you say about the all consuming darkness, because when one bad thing happens, it seems all hell breaks loose in your life, because when faced with darkness its hard to find the light, mostly because you go deeper to look for it.

[Mercury]

Thanks Verk. That post came with impeccable timing because I'm fighting dark thoughts at the moment. Worst of all I feel like I reflect the darkness in other people, if that makes sense. Like I feel that the way I react to other peoples natures makes them feel badly. I want so badly to be a shining ray of hope and happiness but I feel like a black, selfish hole.

[Linkey]

Verk you are awesome!

[JonDough]

Originally Posted by Mercury

I want so badly to be a shining ray of hope and happiness but I feel like a black, selfish hole.

Turn off FoxNews... For real.

[Mercury]

That's good advice doughboy. I seriously am begining to feel like good 'ol Bill O'Reilly. I like the guy, I think he's intelligent and respectable but he needs to get out just like I do and open up to the world that isn't his. I feel bad for him like I feel bad for me.

[verklingen]

Originally Posted by Mercury

Thanks Verk. That post came with impeccable timing because I'm fighting dark thoughts at the moment. Worst of all I feel like I reflect the darkness in other people, if that makes sense. Like I feel that the way I react to other peoples natures makes them feel badly.

Maybe -- just maybe -- that is the light's way of revealing to you a misaligned perception that you hold which, no longer able to remain tucked away in the heretofore "impenetrable" fog of denial, is now providing you with more grief than it may have in the past. Hmm? Frustrating, isn't it?

It can be, if you choose not to see the light for what it is.

Originally Posted by Mercury

I want so badly to be a shining ray of hope and happiness but I feel like a black, selfish hole.

My friend, don't concern yourself so much with others. There is work to be done for them, sure, but it can only "work" if they decide it can be so. You can shine all the light of hope and happiness in the entire universe upon one single individual and still affect no change if he chooses not to see the light for what it is.

Primarily, your duty is to yourself. Your duty is to observe the darkness which the brilliant light of this age is making oh so apparent, and decide if it is truly a part of you or if you are only "fooling yourself." For if you are fooling yourself, will you not be fooling others? How can you help them! This process of dissolving the darkness is not compartmentalized: it cannot be reserved to only one aspect of your life. So see for yourself, help yourself, heal yourself; in total, without omission. Then maybe -- just maybe -- the light which you've cultivated can help uncover the darkness for another, dispelling their denial and helping them to make a choice of who and what they are, who and what they wish to be.

[Ego Tripping]

One of my favorite channellings from Kryon...I have been meaning to read this thread and I understand why I didn't until today, as I too, needed to read it today.

Worry

What are you worried about right now? I know who's here. I know who's reading. I know what you're worried about. So I know that many of you are worried! Do you know what that looks like? Oh, it's a great dark filter over your light. Did you know that this puts the "worry filter" right in front of your sacred light? So when you sit down and meditate and you want to send light to the rest of this planet, it's like a lighthouse. It goes around and around, and it transmits worry, worry, worry, worry. [Lee makes the motions that Kryon gives him, of a light going around and around.] Did you know that? It's a filter! It goes right on that interdimensional communication line that is so precious to the Lightworker, and to the planet.

Perhaps before you sit down and you meditate you might like to clean yourself of all worry? That would be valuable. But you say, "I don't know how to do that. I mean, I would have to go to another space completely, one that wouldn't be me. Because I worry!" Well, I've got a solution. Why don't you go into that ascension status that we have talked about so many times, and pull upon the energy of that hidden DNA, which is yours, and eliminate the worry? Eliminate that filter. There's no reason for it to be on that light anymore.

"Kryon, I can't just make worry go away. There are 3D things that produce it, and make the Human create it. You can't just ‘think' it away. We worry because there are reasons to worry. I can't believe that Spirit would simply tell us to stop. It's like asking us not to be hungry or not to feel pain."

This, my dear Human friend, is where the teaching gets difficult. If you are to be a Lighthouse for this planet, doing what you came to do, you have to get out of the 3D box you were born in and readjust the perception of what you can and cannot do as a Human Being. Many of the masters who walked this earth were constantly under attack. Study their lives. Were they filled with worry and hopelessness? No. They were filled with love, tenderness, empathy and celebration. How did they do that? They claimed a power inside that gave them something you don't even believe can happen! How can you approach this task of being the Lighthouse, when you don't even believe in the light?

It's time to understand the premise that there are things outside your Human perception that are yours for the asking, and yours for the duration of your life. When you see these listed in the rest of this channelling, think, "I can" rather than "how can I?" For these things are what we have taught now for 18 years. And, by the way, masters can stop hunger and pain, too. Study their lives and you will see this over and over. There is mastery in you! Adjust your perception.

[verklingen]

^ Synchronicity is moving like a steamroller these days, is it not my friend? Your pocket is filled right when it needs to be, exactly when you become aware of the need for it.

Rejoice!

[Ego Tripping]

Originally Posted by verklingen

^ Synchronicity is moving like a steamroller these days, is it not my friend? Your pocket is filled right when it needs to be, exactly when you become aware of the need for it.

Rejoice!

Even more ironic you used that metaphor, since we just got a huge influx of checks in the mail toady!

[smokin]

Very inspiring thank you verklingen

[Jenna_Grows]

Well I find low vibrations increase as we near another portal and continue on with the acsention process. Around mid September, things should be coming back into balance.

When you find yourself stuck in the muck and mire, remember a time in your life when you felt joy...remember that feeling and allow it to carry you back to the light.

Carry that negative energy and men can expect lower back pain..women.. neck and shoulders for starters

[fenderbender]

Originally Posted by verklingen

Light is good and dark is bad, yes? Maybe. I suppose you also believe that if your life were to be filled with light right now all the bad would dissipate, seeming like an uncomfortable dream, right? Well I'm here to tell you that this topic is not so "black and white" as it seems.

thats all i read and it reminded me of this movie so i thought id share...



Sunshine (2007)

that link doesnt really explain why this reminded me of it... but if you see the movie you'll know what im sayin

[verklingen]

I'm merging the following discussion which I hope will help illustrate the utmost importance of self-improvement even against worldly affairs. Mods, please forgive coarse language in my opening paragraph.

Originally Posted by verklingen

Anyway, screw Petraeus, screw the troop surge, screw Iraq. I'm personally tired of hearing about all this bullshit. Every single person who has any opinion on any of this surely has an assload of things they could to do improve their lives and their self. None of them can do anything to improve what's going on in the world. None of us can make decisions that directly influence anything other than our own self, so just what the fuck is everyone doing worrying about everyone else? Wouldn't it be enough to fix ourselves before thinking about fixing the world? Is there even really a difference? Has anyone tried it?

/end rant.

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

I don't agree with this at all. EVERYONE can make a difference in the world. It's the fact that most people just don't give a shit and only care about their families and day to day lives. Think about it, some Joe-Schmoe in the US goes to work for 8 hours a day, comes home, tired and exhausted. They turn on the news and get "updated" (laugh) in the worlds current affairs, they make a few comments and have a few opinions, but when it comes down to it, they don't REALLY care that much.

Most people don't foresee the future as something tangible that they can have an immediate effect on. They don't see themselves as having anything to do with their country or the politics within it. They care about the next football game, they care about their next vacation, they care about having BBQ's and pretty much doing nothing. There are however, exceptions.

But let's be realistic, if something doesn't immediately effect them, they aren't going to give two shits. When you said " so just what the fuck is everyone doing worrying about everyone else? " - it did nothing but reiterate my thoughts on how sheepish the world has become. Hell, I'm only 24 but I know a lot more about real things that matter than some random 30 or 40 year old who was brought up by television.

It's those kind of negative ideas that make any real GOOD change in this world not even imaginable.

Be the change you want to see in the world, right? And waking up to the truth and showing it to others is the first step in that direction.

Originally Posted by verklingen

Right.

Here I disagree. First off, waking up to the "truth" isn't the only change you'd want to see in the world, is it? I'd like much more to see neighbors helping neighbors, friends giving friends what one needs and the other doesn't, businesses run with integrity, workers executing their jobs with integrity, etc. If "I" don't have integrity, why should I expect "you" to? It has to start somewhere, and evangelizing people to your views is the polar opposite of the proper first step.

I'm talking very generally of course, and maybe I've got my head in the clouds. But take Israel/Palestine for example. Despite an age-old conflict between these peoples, both want exactly the same thing: food, clothing, shelter, work, and peace for them and their children. Who do you think is going to start working toward that; the leaders of those people who have everything invested in the conflict? No, it starts "on the streets:" man to man, woman to woman, person to person.

So you're right to say that EVERYONE can make a difference in the world, but that difference starts with the self. When the people have integrity the world can't help but follow suit, even if your own personal expression of that integrity has little or no direct bearing upon those making the calls. No one has to agree with who did 911 or why we're in Iraq or any of that. We just have to agree to better ourselves, because when you have that people can't ignore it and can't deny they want what you have. No one envies another for his understanding of 911 or Middle East politics, but everyone wants something called "happiness." And you can have that despite whatever's going on in the world, and when someone notices it and asks how you got there, well, there's your first step.

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

I agree with some of what you said Verk.

You are right that change comes from within, because our world is a reflection of whats happening on the inside of us, (soul, consciousness, what have you). But if people are being fed lies, and being manipulated by the mass media, then how will people even come out of their shells? Let's face it, the majority of people in this world are not inclined to believe that the world is one, that we are all apart of the sameness. That we are all in fact, one. People are very divided, religion and other examples are there to show us this.

What I'm trying to get to is that we can't have people going around trying to make the world a better place when the higher ups are controlling major events and the currency in this world.

For example; you have an aquarium with 100 goldfish in it. All these fish want their dirty water to be cleaned and to be fed. Then you have the fish owner, who cleans and feeds his fish when he wants to. These fish can think as positive as they want and believe in the goodness of the world as much as they want, but the fact of the matter is, they aren't going to get their fish tank cleaned OR get fed if the owner will not do it.

We only have so much power alloted to us, but the power of the world citizens in contrast to the world governments FAR outweighs those in government/military. It's kind of a hard thing to grasp, but basically I'm saying we only have so much control over our lives. We are being led into the future by MIS-leaders. People are so lazy that it just doesn't matter to them. And if reincarnation is true, which I think is highly probable, then it's just going to be a vicious-never-ending cycle of NWO's and Globalists in power, with their little sheeple to nod and agree to whatever they say.

[verklingen]

Ok man, good. I'm glad to see you're with me on the spirit/consciousness side of this because it will help you understand my position better, and I'd much rather have understanding than convincing.

What do you mean by "shells?" I want people to come out of their shells, but to me that means I want for people to realize that we're all in this together and that at the end of the day we're all dependent upon each other for survival: personally and globally. How does "being fed lies" affect our ability to break out of that shell? How does believing one way or the other about 911 or anything else affect our capacity to do good in our lives and to live with integrity: to be honest, loving, caring, and humanitarian?

Again, it's not going to come from the top down because the leaders have a lot invested in perpetuating conflict. And you know what, as far as I'm concerned I'm prepared to let them. If I can't operate with integrity, why should I expect my leadership to? That's really what I'm on about. When I know I'm leading a life worthy of happiness I know those around me will take cue, and that's all I can really do to influence other people.

For every person that's "woken up" to conspiracies or whatever else through an Alex Jones documentary or whatever else, there's thousands who won't ever be reached in that way. The people who don't believe the conspiracies and have their own evidence against the credence of them have just as hard a time convincing believers of their position. How inefficient! It's a waste of time, wouldn't you say? Just a look at any of the myriad threads in A&P (not just on 911, but on the war in Iraq and whatever else [mostly j-wonder and dub of course, but their opinion is as valid and hard to sway as anyone else's]) is enough to prove that discussions like this amount to nothing beyond dead horse beating and talking-point masturbation.

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

For example; you have an aquarium with 100 goldfish in it. All these fish want their dirty water to be cleaned and to be fed. Then you have the fish owner, who cleans and feeds his fish when he wants to. These fish can think as positive as they want and believe in the goodness of the world as much as they want, but the fact of the matter is, they aren't going to get their fish tank cleaned OR get fed if the owner will not do it.

I like this example because if I twist it a bit it helps me explain my point.

Let's say we live in a very large pet store with 300,000,000 fish all living in separate little bowls. It doesn't take long for our water to get dirty, and when it does we just wait around for our owner to come and clean it. It takes a while sometimes, and a lot of us get upset and start complaining. Some have even begun to think that he's keeping the water dirty just to fuck with us and keep us in line for one reason or another.

One such fish though the pet store owner was keeping his and the other fish's water dirty to achieve some personal gain, and he spent most of his time trying to convince enough fish of his beliefs that they could confront the owner collectively and impose a more fair cleaning schedule. But a lot of the fish didn't seem to care. They went about their business day after day, paying no mind to the dirty conditions he felt so strongly about. He felt helpless, and feared that the quality of his life would forever be at the mercy of his negligent owner.

One day he finally realized that all the arguments in the world couldn't force the other fish to unite with him: that the only person he had any real influence over whatsoever was himself and that the only water he had any control over was his own. So he set about enacting a really marvelous idea: he started cleaning his own water! "Too bad for those other fish," he said, able to plainly see their deplorable condition through the clear water in his clean bowl. "They can do as I have, but must be choosing differently. Oh well! I have no control over them. Let them be."

But then something incredible, and quite unexpected, happened: those fish near him saw what he had done and started doing the same! Then the fish near those fish saw and in no time the entire shop full of fish had sparkling clean water. They no longer even had to depend on the owner. They gave up their griping and turned to more enjoyable pursuits and lived happy, clean lives from then on; teaching their children to do the same and thereby beginning what fish historians have referred to as the "Rinseaissance."

The owner thought it was quite uncanny that he no longer had to clean his fishbowls. In fact, he reported this strange circumstance to the local newspaper, which in turn brought these fish to the attention of Ripley's believe it or not. This exposure eventually caused all fish to adopt the practice of keeping themselves clean, and no fish ever had to choke on dirty water again.

I got a little silly with that but I think my point is clear. When you're living something that everyone wants -- happiness -- by taking responsibility, care, and integrity in all you do, people can't help but notice. This is the meaning of "be the change you want to see in the world," because as you said it all comes from within: an outer reflection of what you transmit to the world and those around you. We can be sheeple as long as we want, and complaining about the shepherd doesn't make you the shepherd. Take control of your life where you can and the rest will take care of itself.