Transcript of Healing Circle 9/11/01

Transcript of healing circle, 9/11/01

The opportunity that's here in this situation is for all of us to examine the ways in which we refuse to feel what's in our heart. We all do it – in different ways and in different proportions we all do it. And through these habits of protecting ourselves from our own pain we keep ourselves separate. And in holding ourselves separate we come to indulge in the acting out of rage and of blame. And in these ways we close the door to healing.

The violence and the wars that we experience planetarily are the outcome of our commitment – our, in the larger sense – to not knowing ourselves as one, and to treat others in a way that we don't want to be treated and that we wouldn't accept to be treated at all.

That's the opportunity. And it's also one of the ways that we can very powerfully participate in the healing of this situation - our willingness to feel whatever arises in us all the way through, and not to get caught or stuck in the acting out of anger or blame. There's great temptation here because it feels so powerful. But the more willing we are to open our hearts and feel the sorrow that is intrinsic to this situation, the more deeply we are willing to feel it, the more deeply we access our love and our caring, which is where the healing is available. The more deeply we are willing to experience our sorrow and our grief, so we make the flow of love that is the healing available on the planet. In other words, we know that our pain is the pain of everyone and to the extent that we are touched by war, so is everyone, and to the extent that we are willing to experience the horror and the terror and the dread of that, so we become one with all those who live in war zones, who live in an atmosphere of hatred and who suffer under conditions that are pretty much unbearable. So that's one way that we can participate in the healing, to deeply sorrow and to offer our sorrowing for others who suffer.

The other way that we can participate in the healing is by holding as powerfully as we possibly can the potential for higher consciousness to enter the space, so that our leadership, as unenlightened as it may seem to us, can possibly have an awakening in consciousness, thereby making available solutions of compassion and peace. Whatever your mind might tell you about the hopelessness of that, the simple fact of holding the hope opens up the space. Your willingness to hold the possibility that higher consciousness can enter here creates that possibility. This is important because the leadership of the world as we know it is very much caught in the acting out of blame and vengeance and the inflicting of violence and the abuse of power. And to the extent that we can envision alternative possibilities, those possibilities are empowered. So pray deeply and strongly for the hearts of the leadership to grow. And for the focus and attention on blame to be released.

There's a need for us as a nation to understand that the violence we experience as a tyranny over us is a direct consequence of the ways that we as a tyrant inflict violence on others. There's a tremendous need for self examination nationally around this issue. And again for you to hold that possibility and for you to speak your truth as a person of peace contributes to that healing in ways that are much greater than you know.

For those who were on the planes there's a tremendous level of shock, and because their consciousness was released in death, they are experiencing a great disorientation and also a powerful capacity to be touched by energetic forms. Which means that when you orient yourself to those beings and you offer your soothing to them in consciousness it arrives where you send it. And when you direct them towards the light, your directions can be heard. So bring your prayers there whenever you feel to.

And then for all of you who are engaging in this there's a place of refuge, which is at the highest levels of consciousness where there is an understanding that all of this is a play. It's a play of illusion where nothing is lost. When you find yourself in despair or you find yourself overwhelmed, go to that highest place of consciousness and rest there for a while, and then come back into the human fray.

There's a way that you can enter into a healing process and set it in place and have it run while you do your life. You just have to check in with it once in a while. It's as though you play a CD that has your prayers on it and it's connected to your heart and it just runs in the background, and you just check into it once in a while and you don't have to bring all your energy there and it doesn't drain you, and yet you're holding the highest good for the planet, for those who are suffering and for all beings. So just know that that's an option.

Our sorrow is healing because it connects to our love and our love of life. But our suffering only adds to the pain on the planet. Understand that if you find yourself spinning in the story and the drama of the story, it's a way that our mind holds us away from our hearts and from touching into our deepest pain. So if you're watching TV or listening to the radio and you find yourself moving into the story in a way that is catching you in the drama and into your own suffering, come back into your heart. Don't sit in front of all of those stories, because there's a tendency for the media to hold in that place of suffering, because it's not heart focused. Just be aware of that. If it can touch you into your deepest place, use it. But if it's just going to spin you, then don't do it. Don't put yourself there.

Q. while we were meditating, I got this impression of a big hole in the country and of our energy being sucked out. And the people who set up the operation are really having a great time. They're in celebration. And how to open the heart to them and heal the hatred?

You have to understand it as a sadomasochistic cycle that's being played out, a perversion of love and hate. The joy that is being experienced is also an expression of suffering and pain, and that's where you can open your heart. All that gets acted out is known to us in our own psyche. Whether we live there or not, it is known to us. So the way that we move to the love that is higher, that embraces it all, is to remember and forgive our own capacity to rejoice at someone else's pain and to know the pain that that stems from. It's a terrible grief of separation that's being acted out.