September 7, 2021 Tuesday Evening with Aaron
Introduction to the Eden Project; What Does Earth Transition Look Like?; What Happens to Karma During Transition?; Meeting Mary, and Mary’s Guided Meditation
Barbara: Good evening! My dog is very nervous, hearing the thunder. I was going to leave him in the other room, but he came running out, wanting to stay very near me. So, we’ll just let him hang close.
What a joy it is to leap into this tonight! This marks 33 years of Evenings with Aaron. We’ve gone from here to a Deep Spring Center, one space and a second space, then at Interfaith Center, and now we’re back here. I’m 20 feet away from where we started in my living room. But we have almost 60 people on the screen.
Aaron and I and many friends human and spirit have been working all summer, pulling together this Eden Project. Many of you are enrolled in that. Others of you are in the introductory class, preparing to be enrolled in that and maybe taking the Eden Project alongside.
This is wonderful. It’s truly amazing to me. Aaron started to talk about the Eden Project about a year ago, as we were moving into Year 3 of Dharma Path. I said, “Aaron, you’re clearly leading up to something. Do you want to tell me a little about it?” And he told me the name, The Eden Project, and what you’ve all heard.
His idea is, simply, this earth was offered as a Garden of Eden. We’ve all literally been through that Garden of Eden and chosen to incarnate as human, to come out of the Garden to go through this human form.
We keep asking, “Why am I here? What am I doing here?” Aaron’s simple answer: We’re here to help bring this earth into higher consciousness—right now; it’s not the ultimate reason why we are here, but this is our present work, to help bring this earth into a higher consciousness. To help us all awaken. To literally alleviate suffering of all sentient beings on earth.
It’s a big project. Clearly, we’re not alone. Wonderfully, there are groups just like ours all over the world, Aaron tells me, all doing the same work.
He started way back in 1989 just helping us to learn meditation, to learn how to be present, how to rest in awareness, how to open our hearts with love; to learn how to not get caught up in the inner stories of fear and need and confusion; to know who we are beyond these stories.
And, as I look out here tonight(looking at faces on Zoom screen)… I’m looking for C… L… Anyhow, there are a few of you out here who were here in 1989/90 sitting in my living room.
We’re doing the same work. We’re waking up, or, better phrased, we’re remembering we’re already awake and how to live that awakened presence in the world. We’re remembering that we are love and how to live that love in the world. We can do it.
So, that’s just a little welcome from me.
Those of you who have been coming to the Evenings with Aaron will note that there’s a bigger group tonight. That’s because this Evening with Aaron night is now going to be part of the ongoing Eden Project. Instead of giving random talks, Aaron is going to pull together what he’s leading in the Eden Project in the different modules and weave it together for us. He’ll still speak to questions, but there will be more specific focus this year. Many of the class and many other people are drawn to it.
I don’t know what else to tell you. It’s good we’re on Zoom because all 54 of you would not fit in my living room.
I’m going to bring in Aaron. Before we start, your energetic support is helpful to me. We’re holding the space for everybody who is here. We’re offering a sanctuary of sorts for everyone who is here, making sure that nothing negative can come in and grab the microphone, so to speak. In other words, we’re in a protected space.
But we do not want to say that everybody here must be deeply loving. Some of you, including me—there are times when I’m not deeply loving; with such a statement, I’d have to leave.
That which is not of positive polarity, deeply committed to supporting love throughout the world, doing no harm to any being, that which is not of positive polarity still may listen. We hope what we’re sharing is helpful to you. We’re setting up an energetic forcefield based in love, grounded in love. It surrounds and strengthens us.
For any negatively polarized being, that forcefield is going to feel very uncomfortable so it backs away. It can stand outside the forcefield, or it can go, whatever it wishes. Free will. It’s welcome to be here, but it may not interrupt in any way with its negativity, with its energy, with words.
That said, we hold a spacious sanctuary, a dome of light around all of this and around each of you in your homes. Loving protection, light. We are light.
And then the statement that I make before Aaron incorporates:
I consecrate this mind, body, and spirit to the light. Nothing may speak unless it comes for the highest good of all beings and with love, fully resonant with the great masters, such as Yeshua and the Buddha, grounded in love.
I make that statement, and then I release my consciousness from the body. As my consciousness releases, Aaron comes in. So, I’ll check out and let Aaron come in.
Before Aaron comes in and while Barbara consciousness is still kind of here, for those of you who are new to the Eden Project, I’d like to introduce John (Orr)…(John greets the group)
Thank you, John. John and Aaron and I have been teaching together since 1989, a long time. And I’m so happy to have John participating with us.
Aaron: My blessings and love to you all. I am Aaron. What a joy to see all your faces on this screen! To feel the high energy coming forth, and the love.
You are truly a remarkable group, remarkable because you are so dedicated to doing this, I don’t want to call it spiritual work— this human work of remembering who you are and expressing that awakened heart out into the world as part of the healing energy, part of what really brings us forward, waking up out of darkness and coming into light.
Some of you have read my book,Path of Clear Light.It’s basically a reminder: You are light. You live in light. You come from light. There is no duality.
If no duality, then why is there so much suffering in the world? Why is there such a sense of darkness?
Long, long ago and far away we all lived in a space of interconnection, like the fingers of one hand. The finger doesn’t see itself as separate. This finger cannot possibly reach out and hurt that finger; it’s one hand. You are all fingers of the one hand. Living in peace that way for however many eons. Learning how it felt to live in peace.
Eventually, you had matured to a point where you began to wonder, where is the challenge, here? There’s nothing I see that is not me. There’s nothing I see that I do not fully embrace. There’s nothing that I see that is not of the core of the Divine, of Father/Mother Goddess, Love.
You also began to wonder; you heard the words “co-create”, but there was only creation. How can you co-create if you’re not separate from anything else? How can there be free will?
You were reminded, the challenge of free will is that if this will differs from that will, there can be conflict. And you said, “Teach us how to deal with conflict; how to live in love, even where there is challenging catalyst.”
Are you ready, then, to step out of this protected Garden? Are you ready? And you said, “Yes.” Or some of you said, “No, but I’ll try anyhow.”
So, each, as they chose from their own free will, stepped out of the Garden. I use the Garden of Eden just because you’re all familiar with this biblical example, in this Western world in which you live. We don’t have to call it Garden of Eden; we can call it House of Love, House of Non-Duality, but Garden of Eden is a useful image.
Part of the stepping out of that Garden of Eden involved a change in your DNA, as you came into this heavy density form, coming not just as energy but expressing with a literal physical body.
You had so much power within the Garden because there was no sense of duality, and no way that any individual could do harm to any other individual. You knew how to create; to invite the rock, the marble slabs, to cut themselves up and shift themselves into temples and shelters. You knew how to invite the food to grow, what you took in as food, which was not a physical food but energetic.
You had unlimited power, but you did not have emotions. You felt joy and sorrow but never anger, never hostility toward another sentient being, never fear.
If you had moved into form at that point, with the power you had, this world would not have lasted very long. You would have destroyed each other and the world immediately, because as soon as you thought, “I hate you! Die!”, everything before you would die. You had that power. So, you agreed to a limiting of the DNA, a changing of it, so that you could no longer just imagine something and create it.
How many of you wish that you could do that? Barbara was looking at her now-September garden today and thinking, “I wish I could just invite all of the dead plants to rise up and jump into the composting bin.” You don’t have that capacity.
So human form became capable of co-creating, in the sense that you work with whatever is around you. But if you want to plant a garden, you can’t just invite it to grow, you must literally turn the soil and plant the seeds.
If you want to resolve a difficult conversation with another person, you cannot use telepathy, at this stage; you have to really get down and talk about it and about what was painful and how it was painful, and learn how to hear each other and to communicate without blaming each other.
When anger arises, you must learn how to resolve the anger, not enact the anger.
I’m laughing, here—in short, you must learn a form of mindfulness, and that’s why we have spent so many years learning vipassana.
How does this work? A few of you may be newer to me and are not familiar with mindfulness and vipassana meditation. We use a primary object— for example, the breath. But we are not forcing attention on the breath. When something draws attention from that primary object, we turn attention to what has drawn our attention, not to absorb into it but just to be present with it. We don’t get lost in it. We practice not getting thusly lost. But we note the itching, the unpleasant thought.
(pausing to reassure a frightened Banner during the thunderstorm; this is a 60 pound collie trying to climb on Barbara’s lap)
So with meditation, we watch an object arise and we see how it arises out of conditions and passes away. We even see our tendency to get lost in that object—that fear, that anger—to create stories, and how we do that. And we learn that we don’t have to do that, that we have a choice.
I like to phrase it this way: That which is aware of anger is not angry. That which is aware of fear is not afraid.
We watch the difficult emotions arise, holding the intention to do no harm with what has arisen; to hold space for it and take care of it until it resolves itself.
Some of this teaching comes from a beautiful sutra from the Buddha that I love, theBhaya-bheravasutra. The Buddha heard that many monks went to a haunted shrine to meditate and there they encountered fear and dread. Some of them ran away. Some of them made themselves stay, to overcome fear and dread, but such force did not lessen the fear and dread.
He said, “I’ll go there and practice. (This is not his words but my statement on his words.) I will allow the experience of fear and dread, and stay with that experience until it resolves itself.” And of course it did.
This is what we’ve been practicing for three years in the Dharma Path class, and for many of you, many decades before that class: to be present with what arises in your experience with a loving heart, with compassion for the human experiencing this difficult mind or body state.
You do not try to fix it or get rid of it, but to know, “Right here with anger, with fear, with confusion, is this awakened presence that I am. I do not deny these catalysts that are catching me. But I also don’t have to be caught into them. I don’t have to build stories on them.”
We combine this practice with Pure Awareness. That which is aware of the arising of anger or fear or whatever is not caught in it, is not self-identified with it.
But we can also practice Pure Awareness separately from the vipassana. We can see how they go together.
Thus, one of the modules of the class is Vipassana and Pure Awareness, with John. This is not going to be a class where we just talk about this. It is going to be a class where you move further into waking up. So, this is one module.
Other modules I’ll talk about a little later in this talk.
Let’s go back to this emerging being, moving out of the Garden of Eden and finding itself with an emotional body, and perhaps not yet having developed the tools of mindfulness and meditation, caught up in all this emotional turmoil.
But because the DNA was altered you didn’t have the power to destroy. Well, you’ve come a long way since then and unfortunately developed the power to destroy. You can drop a nuclear bomb. Less instant than that, but just as severe, you can poison the earth, as you are doing. You can poison each other with words of hatred. You can kill each other. And you can kill all the sentient beings, the different species around you.
Enough.
The earth for a long time has been moving into a transition that was known would come far before Yeshua’s lifetime 2,000 years ago. The one you know as Yeshua, he came at that time, and with a strong and clear team of supporters, to create a readiness for the earth to begin transition to higher consciousness.
The earth had been devolving into negativity, filled with hatred, greed. He came to help people remember love, to remember the light, just as the Buddha had come 500 years earlier to help people remember that they had the potential to be awake, to be buddhas, just as he was. Some people caught on then, in the Buddha’s lifetime. Many did not, because they were caught up in personal negativity.
So many of your teachings say Yeshua came to free you from sin. Well, I understand the word sin as acronym for “sinking into negativity.” As I just said, the world was devolving into increasing negativity, truly sinking into negativity. And he came to remind you: Stop. Remember who you are. You are of the light; you are divine. You don’t have to keep sinking into negativity. Wake up! Remember who you are.
I’ll use a fulcrum as example here. As the earth was pulling down into negativity, he brought us more into balance, helping many of you to remember who you are.
This was coordinated with the movement of the planets and so much else. You don’t need to know about it. I don’t speak here of things that you cannot know from your own experience, and the movements of the planets are not something you can know. The movement of your heart is something you can know.
You have been moving more and more into the light, into readiness to know the light, which knowing would have terrified many of you 2,000 years ago. The whole earth has been moving into a readiness for a higher consciousness, to become that Eden from which you came but not Eden of the earth plane, so long ago. Now you hold the intention to help this whole earth express as that Eden.
You might say, “Are you crazy, Aaron? Look at the hatred in the world. Look at the pollution. Look at the terrible problems. How can we be heading toward an Eden?” Good question.
Another favorite quote from the Buddha: “Abandon the unwholesome. If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it. Cultivate the wholesome. If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it.” I’m cutting out quite a bit of that sutra, just giving highlights. Abandon the unwholesome; cultivate the wholesome. That beautiful reassurance, “If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it. Youcancultivate the wholesome.” You can cultivate wisdom and compassion, loving kindness, non-dual awareness and non-dual living. Youcanabandon the unwholesome.
Everything in the universe comes in cycles, and this earth has been cycling out of a place of darkness and into a higher vibration for many centuries. While humans have created much destruction in the earth, that doesn’t mean the core of the earth cannot heal and come back into the high consciousness which is this earth’s truth: your true home; a ground of love, of compassion for all sentient beings.
Some of you with a longtime dharma practice have a deep commitment to awakening, either with the Theravada ideal of awakening as an arahant, moving beyond and becoming the high energy that supports everything from “out there”, from beyond; and some of you from the bodhisattva ideal, being one who serves and helps alleviate the suffering on the earth, from within that suffering.
My thoughts may resonate for either ideal. Wake up! But let me not even say it that way, because you are already awake. Remember and live this awakened heart.
That’s what our Eden Project class is here to help you do. It is time. It is time to remember who you are and why you have come and how to do the work you came to do.
Because if you don’t do it now, you are going to reach a tipping point where the earth begins to slide back into darkness.
I do not predict the future; this is not a prediction; this is simply a likelihood. If you sit and watch the tide come in, you might say, “Pretty soon I’m going to get wet.” Well, you’ve seen enough tides that you know how tides work. Eventually the tide is going to wash over you.
The tide of fear, of hatred, let us not be swept away by these, but remember and wake up to your true potential as human, the potential for love, and to learn how to co-create a world of peace, harmony, and abundance. If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it.
The other modules of our Eden Project, for those who have not yet seen this in the class posting:
One module is Dharma Path, a continuation of the past three years. We’ll look at the actual practices, both mundane world practices and more supramundane practices of elevating consciousness and releasing negativity.
The other two modules come together on one night. One, simply the Eden Project; really getting to know this Eden Project and how we participate in it. And the module accompanying that is mediumship—not to teach you channeling, although that could come in another semester, another time. But you are all mediums, and if you’re going to be a medium, you will want to be a responsible medium.
When you handle your trash, you’re being a medium for that trash and whether it’s going to add plastic to the landfill or how it’s going to be disposed of. When you make soup, and you have the array of vegetables and perhaps chicken, spices, herbs, you are a medium for that soup, a medium for all the ingredients. Does the ego say, “Here is the recipe—this much of this, this much of that? No variation allowed.” Or is there only the awakened heart holding the carrots and asking, “How many of you should be in this broth? How much onion? How much of this herb?” Holding it, talking to it, letting it speak to you. Being a medium for the soup. When you play your instrument, you are a medium for the music. When you paint a picture, you are a medium for the paint and canvas.
So we could have called this module “Co-Creation,” but I felt I wanted to use the wordmediumship, because mediumship is a misunderstood term, and I hied you could understand the fullness of the term.
As you practice mediumship, you learn co-creation, but we start with mediumship. Understanding the interconnection with all things, and how you, as the medium, are given the opportunity to hear the world around you and participate with the intention to hold the space for love and non-harm to all beings.
In the mediumship module we likely will touch on connecting with your higher self, perhaps, or your guides, not to channel them vocally but just to connect. We’ll see how the class goes.
The program is set up so once a month there is this Open Aaron night; once a month there is the Mediumship/Eden module; once a month there is the Dharma Path module. That’s three times a month, three Tuesdays. And then John is leading the meditation module on two Wednesday nights. So once a month there is both a Tuesday night module and a Wednesday night module, but only once a month. Otherwise, Eden Project meets once a month. People may select any or all modules.
Your small groups will continue. You’ve received the small group information. Everybody will be in a small group.
Now here I have a request to make. The small groups have met, some of them, for three years with almost the same people, and there are a few new people now added to the group. This year, Barbara and John will not be facilitating the small groups. We’ve seen how well you did that over the summer without a teacher present, facilitating and moving into very deep sharing and learning. Each group will meet at a time that suits the best interest of that group. I’m going to ask you to consider and email Barbara—we need somebody who will take on the task of connecting with the group, each with your own group, and deciding on a time and frequency of meeting. Some groups may want to meet once a month; some may want to meet twice a month. So, there needs to be somebody to communicate with the roughly 11 to 14 members of your group and talk about, when is the best time for this group to meet. We won’t talk more about that now. Please communicate with Barbara….(further details)
For the new students, I think about 18 of you are now signed up for the introductory class, and there are others of you who signed up for the Eden Project but did not sign up for the introductory class. You have free will. The introductory class is offered as support. You may participate in the Eden Project talks, the teachings, simultaneous with the introductory class. You’ll get a lot more out of it, those of you who are new to this, if you join the introductory class. There is no extra fee. It does take extra time, just for three months. The introductory class is just the fall semester, 6 classes… We have a wonderful curriculum and senior students with much experience who have volunteered to facilitate this class.
So, one introductory class, six meetings, and we’ll see what is needed in terms of small groups. The introductory class members will also have small groups. They will have some facilitators for those small groups.
That’s enough about the details of how this will go together. Some of you here are not part of the Eden Project at all.(Instructions on what to do if interested)
The first introductory class is tomorrow night. New people, please note that: tomorrow night on Zoom.
The next class on Tuesday night is next Tuesday… And then the meditation class, probably next Wednesday. We’ll get it all together. It will work out. There’s a lot of organization, and people have been tearing their hair out trying to fit together a jigsaw. We are learning how to co-create without fear, tension and contraction. Everything is going to be perfect. Chaos is a teacher, just one more teacher. Thank you, chaos. Thank you for reminding me to keep an open heart.
(further details)…It’s all on the beautiful rebuilt Deep Spring website. With a deep bow to all of those who have worked so hard to restructure the website so the parts meshed together, so it looks beautiful, so it’s easy to move from one place to another there. We were using the same website for over 20 years; it really needed cleaning up, cleaning out, and renewal. So, a big thanks to those who did this hard work.
This is the base of the Eden Project. Now let me go back and talk a little more about some related things.
What do we do about the poisoning of the earth with pollutants? What do we do about the poisoning of human minds and hearts with words of hatred, prejudice, misuse of power and weapons?
So many of you have been expressing despair about Covid and the seeming overtaking of the earth by a virus; about the environment— the hurricanes, the tornadoes, the fires, the floods; the destruction of the forests, the rivers, the seas. You come to me saying, “What’s happening, Aaron? How do I live with this? What difference can I make? Is the earth going to destroy itself?”
That’s not a question I can answer. And the earth will not destroyitself. Those living on the earthcandestroy the earth, unless you stop the destruction soon and turn it around.
But I strongly feel it is not too late. Every sentient being, and I consider the earth a sentient being— every sentient being can heal, has the capacity to restore itself into its radiance. But it needs help.
If you see a field filled with trash, you don’t look at the field and say, “Oh trash, you need to pick yourselves up and fly away.” You call a number of friends and say, “On Saturday, let’s all meet and clean up this park.”
The earth is calling to you, “Help me! Help me!” And there is so much you can do.
People ask me, “Aaron, what’s happening in Afghanistan? For 20 years we were a presence there, trying to stop the flow of hatred that had seemed to overtake that country. Do we just leave it to fester in hatred?”
But of course, there are loving beings there. Of course, there is light there. Perhaps— I say this as ‘perhaps’; I can’t answer this; it’s just a possibility— perhaps our trying from this country to protect Afghanistan from the negativity there took power away from those who could have stood up to the negativity. In a sense we were saying, “You’re still children and you need our protection.”
I’m not saying it’s a good thing or a bad thing that your country has left Afghanistan, only since it’s a done fact, can you look at all of those who have loving hearts in Afghanistan and say, “Yes, now we trust you, that you can resolve the mass of negativity there from your own love and energy. And instead of an army of men with rifles, we will create an army of love worldwide offering energy and love to help support those in Afghanistan and anywhere in the world who would stand up to cruelty, hatred, and destruction.”
As part of the Dharma Path class, we spent much of a year looking at what I call path of sacred darkness. I plan to take us further in that. This will be a primary piece of the Dharma Path module, looking at the arising of negativity in ourselves and in the world, the way we back away from negativity instead of knowing this negativity has another side; it has a side of love. We can say, “I choose to open up into that love in myself,” each of us using ourselves and our own fears, opinions, negativity, as the heart of the practice. Who am I without this strong negativity? When I move past this fear, what remains?
This path of sacred darkness will be a primary part of the Dharma Path class but not the only part. Whether you’re part of the class or not, I hope you will begin to look gently, kindly, and with compassion for the human, at the places of fear, of bigotry, of negativity, of strong negative opinion, in yourself.
You are not trying to fix these kinds of feelings but to see right there with that negativity, where is love? Right there with fear, where is the one who is not afraid? Right here with the fires burning through the west, where is the healthy land? Where is the moisture, the rain, not in overabundance but just right to quench the fires? How do we re-invite this flow, because all the elements are out of balance? Too much fire here, too much water there—floods and fire. Winds, tornados there. How do we bring the elements back into balance?
This is going to be part of the Dharma Path class also; working with the elements in ourselves. As we balance those in ourselves, we become able to support the balancing of elements in the earth. Whether you’re in the class or not, this is still work that you can do.
And yes, although it will take, I’d say a month for any class transcript to be reviewed and posted in a place where those not in the class can see it, eventually they will be posted.
For the class, all who are registered in the Eden Project in any module will receive the audio files from every class. Not the introductory class; you won’t receive those. But you’ll receive them from the meditation, from the Eden/mediumship module, from the Dharma Path module, and from these Aaron nights. This audio will be sent out tonight or in the morning to all who are registered in the Eden Project.
So, you’ll be able to follow along whatever you wish to follow along without being burdened with the feeling, “I should take in everything.” Of course not; you can’t possibly take in everything. Take in what feels suitable for you.
And those not registered for the class, no problem. There’s no statement, “I should be registered.” No; if it calls to you that’s fine. If not, when you get the transcripts eventually, when they become available on the Deep Spring site, read what interests you, and ask yourself continually: how can I best support this transition of earth into a higher vibration and love?
We’ve been talking for an hour now. I’m going to give us a 5 minute stretch break and then will talk some more. Possibly time for questions’ a bit more talking, also.
My love to you all. Thank you for listening to me. And I do have more to say.
(break)
Aaron: I am Aaron. So, let’s take this a step further: what does an earth transition look like?
You’re not going to see anything major. If the earth does move into the direction we all pray it will, and the sentient beings on the earth, I think the primary experience will be one of greater balance—balance of the emotions; balance of the earth elements; balance of masculine and feminine energies; balance of light and darkness, less of extreme darkness and more just leaning toward the light.
People have asked, if humans move through this kind of transition, if humans become 4th, 5th density beings instead of 3rd density, what will happen to them? And what will happen to those who can’t make that transition?
Again, I do not predict the future. But I want to remind you that this a cycle of many millennia, and you happen to be living at the time of the transition; not by accident, but because you have chosen to be on the earth at this time.
You have chosen to support the power of love and of light on the earth.
You have chosen to assist the alleviation of suffering of the earth and all sentient beings.
So, what will happen?
We’ve talked about the shift from 3rd density to 4th, where you are much less locked into the personal self and more part of a, I like the term that my friend Q’uo uses inThe Aaron/Q’uo Dialogues; he describes himself as part of a social memory complex.
What does it feel like to be part of a social memory complex? Those who have been in the Dharma Path small groups can answer that. You’ve deeply enjoyed and benefited by the connection with each other, still experiencing the separate self, of course, but also the trust of one another to share your experience, knowing nobody else will wish you harm because of that experience. People will support your moving through hard experiences, as you all each support each other. You feel the energetic connection. You feel the love.
So it has seemed to me that for most of you, by the time you finish with this lifetime you’re probably going to move into a 5th and not a 4th density experience, because you’re getting the 4th density experience right here.
To do that, you have to let down so much of the old habitual armoring grounded in fear, and learn to trust yourselves and each other.
The earth itself will heal in the same way, coming more and more to reflect the high vibrational earth that it can be. It’s not going to happen all at once, certainly, but there will be a transition into better balance.
I would think that the extremes of weather will pass. The earth will begin to radiate its light more fully. The water will clear, the forests will grow strong, and sentient beings, species that have been so diminished, hopefully will return.
I can’t tell you this is how it will be; no one can predict. I only know that love and light are the ground which return us to our true essence. No matter what form we have taken on this earth, they return us to our true essence.
In the last week of January, into early February, we’re going to have a weeklong, I don’t want to call it healing workshop so much as “returning to our true essence” workshop, looking at the nature of distortion and how we invite the release of such distortion. I won’t expand on that here; I’m only mentioning it because basically this is what we’re doing not just in a workshop but in our daily life: looking at the nature of fear or anger.
Banner was sitting here, leaning against my knees, shaking. And while I was talking to you I also had one hand on his head, just patting him, not speaking to him because I was speaking to you, but letting him know through energy: You are safe, Banner, you are loved. And while I could see the storm intensifying, I could also see Banner lessening in his fear. Eventually he crawled out from under the desk.
You’re all crawling out from under the desk, shellshocked from the thunder but ready to emerge. Whether it’s emotional wounds, physical, illness, whatever it may be, you have the power to release so much of that distortion and return to the true self.
This does not guarantee that the body can heal, but you cease to be self-identified as that broken body, more aware of who and what you truly are.
Those who are not ready for such healing, as the earth moves into a new, higher density, what will happen to them?
Again, I don’t predict the future, but what it seems to me will happen is, as beings die off naturally, if they are not ready to return to a higher vibrational earth, they will go to other 3rd density planets that have been prepared for them that will offer, not identical situations to earth—maybe better situations; maybe a more pristine and loving environment—who knows? But there are beings preparing these 3rd density planets so that those who will find the new earth’s vibration too high for their comfort will have an alternative planet at a vibration that feels suitable to their level. There will always be new souls coming through, always.
Another question that’s been asked frequently: If we are all transitioning into higher consciousness, but all of you as humans on earth, you have not fully released the karma of this lifetime, of many lifetimes, can you move on into transition? What happens to that karma?
High vibration, love, forgiveness, compassion, heal karma.
There are two aspects to karma, the healing of it and release, and the balancing of it.
As you move into a higher energy and all of your bodies—physical, mental, emotional, spirit—as these all raise in vibration, some of the old karma simply releases.
Someone recently called it grace. I’m not sure I would use the word ‘grace’, unless we understand what grace means.
Grace is the gift of that light and love, which is the essence of you; it is the ability to return to that essence and become who you truly are.
It is not a thing where somebody comes along with a magic wand and says, “By grace, I release your karma!”
Rather, the awakening heart of light and love releases the places where karma sticks so the karma can literally release.
Am I saying there is no such thing as grace? Not quite. But we must understand what we mean by ‘grace’.
Some of you will twist it and say, “Maybe I don’t deserve grace.” Well, if you feel you don’t deserve grace then you’re not in a place to receive the grace that is offered. But it’s not about deserving; it’s about ability to receive.
As you move into a higher vibration and forgive yourself for the negativity in this and past lives and hold the commitment to be of loving service to others, you release the stickiness to which that karma adhered.
The karma must still be balanced. It has released, and as a higher density being there will be ample opportunity to do work that balances that karma.
I want to use Barbara as an example here. I know she will not mind.
One of the pieces of karma that Barbara has come into this lifetime with was feelings of shame and unworthiness. Part of this comes from past lifetimes and often from events that were not within her power to change; places where somebody died, for example, and she had no control over whether that person died but felt shame that she could not prevent that death. Felt anger at that person for dying and shame that she felt anger. So, these were some of the areas of karma with which she came into the lifetime.
She has gone deep in her meditation and, in many ways, released that karma. There’s very little of that adhering karma about shame or unworthiness left for her now.
But in teaching you how to releaseyourkarma and your feelings of shame and unworthiness, she is balancing the karma. Does that make sense to you?
Each of you will be led to balance the karma that you have released and be given many ways to do that. There is no right or wrong way, but when something comes up for you and you ask yourself, “Why am I being offered the opportunity to do this? Why would I want to do this? Can I do it? Am I capable of doing it?” “Shhh… Yes.” If it were not possible, one would not ask you to do it. It would not be offered as possibility, if it were not for your highest good and that of others.
So you look at something that’s been offered and you say, “Oh, I can’t do that.” Well, really? Maybe you can. And if you do, in what way may it be of service to others and to yourself? In what ways may it release further and balance old karma?
As you move into a higher density earth, the high vibration takes away the glue that held the karma, but you’ll still have opportunities and need to balance it.
Again, something we can talk further about, as we move into this coming year.
There is so much wonderful possibility for the earth. I hope you will watch the feelings of dismay, even despair, feel how your energy field contracts when you despair, and that that pulls down the vibration.
Ah, you have a choice: to open more into the high vibration, into the heart of love, or to continue sinking into negativity.
I won’t get up here and say, “Stop sinning! Stop sinning!” But consider, you can stop sinking into negativity. You really don’t need to do that anymore. It’s not who you are.
You are loving, radiant, awakened beings. It’s time to start living that awakeness.
There is so much help to do this, each of you with your own guides, your own higher self, your own spirit and human teachers, your own friends, your sangha, your family, whoever contributes to your more fully awakening.
I do not choose to waste my energy. If I did not believe that you were in process of awakening and capable of taking it further, in process of helping lift this earth into a higher vibration and through its transition into a higher vibrational planet, I would not choose to be here.
I love you, yes, but much more, I believe in you. I trust you. I have known some of you through many lifetimes and watched you emerge from a place of darkness into the light.
So, let’s do this.
Barbara told you that I began to talk about this several years ago. Actually, Barbara and I planned to work in this way before her present lifetime. She was surprised—“What is this spirit doing here?” But all I could say was, “Shhh, we planned it. Just relax and let’s work together.”
I planned it knowing the many steps that would be needed to bring a large group of you through this fuller awakening. We’ve been feeding it to you piece by piece. Some of you may want to go back and read some of my books, books likeAwakened Heart, No Chain at All, Presence, Kindness, and Freedom, Human, Path of Clear Light, and others.
Hopefully we’ll soon have all the archives available online and easy access to these books and to the full 30 years of archives. Many pages!
But it all comes back to this one thing. You have come into this incarnation choosing to live with love. To awaken to your true self. To support other beings to awaken in this way. To come to an earth that is awakening.
Why would you choose to fail? I don’t think you do.
I’ve mentioned that there will be help. We have some guest speakers. One who will have great importance in the program came as big surprise to Barbara this spring, because she is not an entity that Barbara has ever given any consideration to. This is the figure, Mary Magdalene.
Barbara grew up in a Jewish home. All of the figures of traditional Christianity were non-entities to her. She had a great love for Yeshua, but she had no training as a Christian.
So when Mary first arrived, she said, “Well, who are you and why are you here?”, which is what she usually says when an entity appears, just in inquiry mode.
Mary simply said, “I come as a friend. Will you meditate with me?” Barbara began to get to know her energy. Then, “Will you speak with me?” And then, weeks later, “Will you allow me to use your body as an instrument, to incorporate in your body so I can speak to others?”
Barbara has been finding Mary to be a remarkable being, wise and loving. She is not here to promote Christianity; she was not a Christian. She’s here to remind you of and teach of non-duality. She is a master teacher.
She’s agreed to speak for just a few minutes tonight. I trust all of you will feel comfortable hearing her. Please do not confuse her with the Mary Magdalene of the New Testament of the Bible. That is a distorted presentation of her true being,
I will probably come back after Mary speaks, just giving her five minutes or so. I’ll come back and say hello and open the floor to questions. But I’d like to give her a chance to meet you all.
Barbara is tired. I’ve been in her body for an hour and 45 minutes. So I’m going to bring Mary in very briefly—invite Mary in, not bring. She comes on her own; she doesn’t need me to bring her, only to invite. But I want to give you a chance to be with her.
There will be other entities working with us, too—Love, who many of you have experienced before; my teacher Ariel; Yeshua, probably; and others.
For now, Mary…
Mary(B): My love to you. I am simply Mary. I don’t need a chain of names.
I have deep training through many human lifetimes. I have been both male and female but most often and most recently female, because a big part of my work was to work with Yeshua to bring to this earth a balance of the Divine Feminine and Masculine, which had grown so out of balance in our lifetimes 2,000 years ago. We came together with purpose to do that.
If I am knocking into some of your religious beliefs, I apologize. You can think of me as some other Mary, if the Mary Magdalene in the Bible has special religious significance to you. That’s fine with me.
I do not teach with theory and a lot of mental activity. I like to keep it simple, to help you remember the essence of your being through energy—not justmyenergy,ourenergy. To remember what it means to acknowledge, “I am love.”
The one you call the Mother often comes in, telling you, “You are love. You are loved,” but we have a slightly different energy. I have deep love and respect for Mother, but I am not the Mother, I am Mary.
I am a master of many different traditions, and it gives me much joy to be able to offer support to you, as you move through the stages of this program.
For now, Aaron, I know you were going to answer questions, but may I simply do a 5 minute guided meditation with them? I know we don’t have much time. He says yes. Thank you, Aaron.
By the way, I have much love and respect for Aaron. You are in the skilled hands of Aaron as a master teacher, also.
Guided Meditation(pauses not noted but were important)
I’d like you to think of something, anything that’s happened to you in the last day or two that was upsetting to you. A place of some fear, sadness, or anger. Just briefly bring it to your mind.
And then put it down, as on the table in front of you.
A deep cleansing breath.
Now bring into your presence something that feels deeply supportive of love, of joy, of peace—not necessarily all three, but something that comes to you as the heart of love. A flower, a butterfly, a giant oak, a rainbow, a hug from a friend.
I want you to communicate that to me, that ground of love, and feel me holding it out to you, literally offering it back to you. Open your arms to receive it.
You may have your eyes closed, or you may keep them open and looking into my eyes, if that’s helpful. Receiving this ground of love.
Is there anything that blocks the receiving it?
You handed it to me; I am merely handing it back to you.
But if it’s too hard to take it, I’ll hold it for you until you’re ready to take it. Simply remember what it is, this loving word, this thought.
I did this practice to see how it would feel to Barbara. You know her husband has severe aphasia after a stroke three years ago and has not really been able to communicate anything to her more than a hug or taking her hand.
But they have a new process with the keyboard on the computer. And she said something to him, and he typed, “Thank you, honey.” The simple words, “Thank you, honey.” But it’s the first time that she’s heard that kind of phrase from him in 3 1/2 years. And she just broke out crying; it opened her heart. She saw how she had been armoring herself, trying to hold herself strong against the pain of his stroke. His words, “Thank you, honey,” broke open her heart and allowed her to release some of that armoring and fear. This is the kind of process that we are inviting.
Look now at that pain with which you started, that fear or confusion.
Turn to me and say, “I am ready to receive the precious gift that I shared with you.” Whatever love, whatever was given, I return it to you, hold it out for you. This is your true being. I offer it to you. And if you cannot take it now, know that I never tire of holding it. It is available.
Giving and receiving. Letting go of the blocks to giving and receiving, so that that which felt distorted may release, love filling the space.
I learned this practice in the mystery school of Alexandria 2,000 years ago as part of my training in that lifetime.
I invite you to sit with me and be part of that school now, to know all things are possible with love.
You are beautiful, and I love you. Thank you for letting me share this. And I’m rushing more than I normally would, but I want Aaron to have the last few minutes. I’m going to release the body to him. I am Mary.
Aaron: Hello, I am Aaron. I am back. Thank you, Mary.
So Mary will be a somewhat frequent guest speaker in our classes. A big part of what she has helped with on earth in recent years is the balancing of the masculine and feminine. This is an essential part of the earth’s healing. I hope she can help all of you to find the balance of masculine and feminine energies in yourselves, because through establishing that balance in yourselves you can help recreate the balance on the earth.
I apologize that we have no time for questions tonight. Most of these evenings with me we will have time for questions, but there was a lot to cover tonight.
There is a beautiful prayer or song, that Barbara loves. I cannot sing it, especially with Barbara’s off-tune voice, but I want to share the words. The music can be shared at another time.
Give thanks to the Mother Gaia
Give thanks to the Father Sun
Give thanks for the fruit of the garden
Where the Father and the Mother are one.
Give thanks to Brother Water
Give thanks to Sister Air
Give thanks to Sacred Spirit
Dwelling everywhere.
We’ll try to email that out to you or make it otherwise available. It has a beautiful melody but I cannot sing it… We have sung it often at retreats.
I am Aaron. I hold you in love. I embrace each of you. I invite you to deepen in your commitment in this lifetime, a commitment to service for the highest good of all beings, to support the awakening of all beings, the freedom from suffering for all sentient beings and for the earth.
Thank you for walking this path with me. I love you. I am Aaron.