January 10, 2015 Saturday, Interfaith
Energy Pass Exercise with Father John, The Mother on Mediumship
Aaron: My blessings and love to you all. I am Aaron. Barbara asked who is going to incorporate. We asked her, does it matter? Spirit!
We have been gathering like this for several years. Spirit would hope for some time with you at the end today to talk about mediumship, for those of you who had signed up for that gathering, but also to talk about what meaning this work has for you and how you can each personally gain more from it. What will make this darshan with the Mother something that’s more inclusive of all of you and supports your own deepening skills for co-creation with spirit?
That’s all I want to say. It’s late so we’ll talk more later. Father John is going to incorporate and bless the water.
(Father John incorporates)
FJ: Good morning, and I’m going to (tape paused)… Father John, here, speaking, and we’ve been talking about blessing the soup, blessing the water. The mediums are gathered in a circle.
First I want you to feel the energy moving through the group, a vast energy of love. Feel it coming down. Down is not really the right word. We think of divine energy descending from the heavens, but of course divine energy is all around you. It doesn’t have a direction to it. But feel yourself drawing it in with the breath. Drawing it in through the crown chakra. Drawing it in through the feet. Centering it into your heart. Feel the flow of the energy moving around the room.
In some situations it can be helpful to have the left hand palm up, so let’s try that, and the right hand palm down. The left hand is receiving the energy; the right hand is sending the energy.
Can you feel this energy moving around the circle? Some of you, yes, some of you, not yet. That’s fine.
Breath in as you receive energy through the left hand, hold it in the heart and then consciously release it out through the right hand. Bring attention back to the left side. Breath it in again. Draw it into the heart and then release through the right hand.
Because you each have a high capacity, we are not limited to the energy that’s already within the group, but you are constantly drawing more in through the crown chakra, through the base chakra and the feet. Draw it into you. Raising the energy in the circle, and thereby also raising the energy in the room.
Are you feeling it a little bit more now? Now, in this moment, release hands, holding the left hand palm up, receiving, and the right hand directed toward the water. Think about the blessings of water, not just this water but all water, and directing energy toward the water. And because there are many of you, not just one, we can raise the vibration of this water quite a lot. Offer it out to all beings, to the highest good of all beings, and with love.
When the Mother offers darshan or if I am working with somebody, if you feel pain or contraction of energy as somebody moves through the line, simply do this. Offer out love.
You might also try, but try is not the best word—Aaron? … Offer the intention to help that person release pain by holding out the left hand, willing to receive that pain. Is there somebody in the circle right now who’s experiencing some physical pain? Anybody feeling physical pain? Q, thank you; come into the center.
The rest of the circle, hold out the left hand, willing to receive some of that pain, contracted energy from Q. It’s almost like your tonglen practice. Draw it into the heart, and hold the right hand now not directed at a person but up, releasing it. Breathing the contracted or pained energy into your heart, and with the exhale, releasing it. Do it again. Drawing in the energy of any pain. Hold it in the heart for one breath and release it. And again. Inhale, bringing in any pain, drawing it into the heart, and then through the right hand, release it.
And then, holding up the left hand a bit, drawing in divine energy, drawing in love, ease, non-contraction. Breathing it into the heart, and with the right hand facing Q, releasing it to Q. Drawing it in again, and through the heart, and releasing it to Q. And again, and releasing it. This is a very simple version of what we call an energy pass.
Thank you. You may put your hands down. Q, you may sit or join the circle. All of you may sit. Sit closer to me, for the moment. The Mother will incorporate to help with placement.
What we are doing here is not just your gathering as mediums to support me and the Mother in our work, but rather, we are training all of you to enhance your mediumship skills so that what you do and learn here is something you can take out into the world. We are co-creating, you and spirit, for the highest good of all beings, and with love. It’s as simple as that.
I want to share more technical guidance about how we do this work. Sometimes my vocabulary is limited—Aaron?
Aaron: I am Aaron. I am coming in to speak, here– more facility with the language. But I’m also at a loss for words—let me find out what Father John wanted to say! (consulting Father John)
Our hope is not just to inspire but to support the technical understanding so that you have more means to help shift—shift is not the best word. I’m getting Father John’s ideas and trying to put them into words for him. Basically I am channeling Father John! To help release negativity here in this room, throughout your lives, at all times, the release of negativity. To help you learn that you have power and that you are capable of using that power for the highest good; to help you learn to not be afraid of your power. Because this power to support positive polarity, and to assist the release of negative polarity, is a vital tool for this upcoming—upcoming is not the right word, it is not upcoming, we are in the midst of it—for this current transition of Earth into higher density.
That’s enough words for now. I’m going to let the Mother come in, get you placed, and get started. We do not think there will be a lot of people coming, but there will be some coming in another 10 or 15 minutes. Let us get started.
(The Mother incorporates and offers darshan for about 90 minutes; then the Mother speaks to the group.)
The Mother: I am the Mother speaking. We have a number of entities speaking on here today.
There is enormous suffering throughout the world, and we need to ask ourselves, what are the causes of suffering? Fear and separation is a major cause of suffering. The whole experience that I am separate from you, that you might harm me if I don’t defend myself, and therefore I must put up armoring to keep you out.
As human beings, you do have to live with certain boundaries. It’s wholesome to create boundaries so those who are lost in negativity don’t trample over you. But those boundaries can be maintained from a loving place of high positive polarity. They do not need fear, hatred, and negativity. To hold them in that way only contributes to negative polarity, and supports what my brother Aaron calls “the loyal opposition.”
If we are truly to create a world where all beings’ needs are met with love, where there is peace, where the whole world is truly able to move into a higher density positive polarity, into non-dual consciousness, and to live in an Earth based in non-dual consciousness, it has to come from the personal work of each of you. That means that each of you must be willing to look at the places where you close yourself off into separation, me against that; into hatred, into fear; to learn how to say no to negativity with compassion and love, how to release the fear within the self.
Each of you has this capacity. Each of you is given multitudes of catalyst pushing at you, arousing fear, creating pain. These are uncomfortable, yes, but they are not a problem. They are your teachers. Each time something is pushing at you in that uncomfortable way, you have the option to look in the self, see how you are closing yourself off, separating, and to come back again and again and ten thousand times to the innate radiance, the loving heart.
We call this work “remembering wholeness” because the focus of it is for each of you to remember that you are not broken and nothing else is broken. Things do need attention. We look at your roads when there’s a thaw, the pavement is cracked and there are deep holes. Yes, the road crews have to come out and fix the holes. That’s very different than screaming with despair, “Oh! The roads are going to be destroyed! We’ll never have roads again!” Just take care of them. Where there’s pain, where there’s anger, come from the loving heart and take care of it.
I’m using the potholes as an example because when there’s a freeze and then a thaw, there are going to be potholes. It’s part of the mundane world conditions. The question is, what are you going to do with those potholes? Can you enter from the wholeness that I hope you are all remembering and attend to the potholes, rather than forming an army of ten thousand all ready to pounce on the potholes as soon as they appear, ready to fix them? “I hate potholes!” “Well, a pothole. It has arisen from conditions. Let’s attend to it.” It asks just that.
I am going to release the body, invite you to have your soup. We’re going to have a meeting afterward, and if it’s okay with Amy, I’d like to expand this a bit beyond the volunteers and invite anybody who wants to stay, to stay. We want to talk some about mediumship in various ways. I also want to talk more about where these Remembering Wholeness sessions are going, and how they can best serve your needs as maturing spiritual beings, each taking responsibility to live with ever-increasing love in the world, and to learn how more and more to say no to negativity with love.
These gatherings are not about me or about the medium; they’re about you. I would like to hear from you how these sessions support you now and how you envision they could further support you. I’m tossing out a few ideas here, but we’ll talk more later, after your soup.
A question, is Remembering Wholeness helpful for you? We started this several years with this medium, with me incorporating in this medium. But many of you are mediums. Is it still helpful to you for me to incorporate in this medium, or would it be more useful for me not to incorporate specifically, for you simply to gather together and share your energy in broader ways? Maybe a combination of these is best? I don’t know. I simply want to keep our structure very open to explore, not to hold us to any special forms, but to continue to explore what is most suitable to our intentions and needs, and to your growth right now; to explore all the ways that we can best support you and all beings.
In the beginning, we had many new people coming plus the volunteers. Now we have fewer new people. Many of you have come back repeatedly and it is no longer new. Part of the fact of fewer new people is that we have simply ceased to advertise and let people know we’re doing it. I don’t think this session today was announced anywhere except to this group. But perhaps we are at a point where we need two different kinds of groups: one an occasional gathering that’s very open to the public, and one with more experienced people where we can go deeper as we went today. Could you feel that the energy was considerably higher today? It was higher in part because we had very few new people here, so I wasn’t in danger of having people faint from high energy. Spirit was able to bring in higher energy. So maybe we’re at a point where we need to have two different kinds of groups. Of course the open group would need the support of volunteers, but might not meet your needs as well as a closed group. I don’t know. It’s all open to exploration.
Amy, do you want to say anything here, or shall I release the body and we’ll talk after soup?
Amy: Let’s meet at the soup tables, since the heater is blowing in here and it is difficult to hear.
The Mother: So we will meet out there, and I would also invite you to take some of what I just mentioned and talk about it at your soup tables. Talk to each other about what you feel. Brainstorm. What would be most supportive?
Some of you are planning to meet afterward to talk about– how can I best sum it up?—intention to deepen mediumship skills. Barbara and Amy and Aaron were talking recently about a possibility of Barbara’s ongoing class at Deep Spring next year, starting in September, a class that would be 50% mediumship, 50% vipassana. We all feel that meditation practice is a very crucial part of your ability to become clear mediums. People say, okay, I’m practicing vipassana. We’re practicing in the traditional way, toward liberation of the self and all beings. But we are also practicing with what is sometimes called the bodhisattva ideal, service to all beings, a deep intention to help all beings. What does this help look like now? In what way can deeper mediumship better support my ability to serve others? And by mediumship I don’t mean only becoming a medium as this medium is with an entity incorporating, but simply co-creating with spirit. You humans, you’re only part of the composition of the earth. There are billions of loving entities out there who also want to support you. You don’t have to do that, but perhaps some of you would have the interest to do that. It is a free will choice.
So, Barbara is considering the possibility of a class that holds both together. How we deepen our vipassana practice to release that which has some negativity in it, in the self, and how that coming into a clearer place supports us to co-create with spirit in the world.
We’ll talk at the soup tables. I thank you all. Whatever good has come to all of us today, we offer that out to the highest benefit of all beings. May all beings everywhere benefit by the loving energy held by this circle. May all beings find love, clarity, healing, and freedom from suffering.
I thank you. I’ll release the body to Barbara.