Good Evening,
I have a personal experience to share with you - one appropriate to this discussion. It presents a perspective I've gained re the difference that motive and intent makes, and that there is a path from darkness to light, from personality's desires and drives to higher consciousness' aspiration and right relationship. This is a perspective on the underlying issue that Mr. Gates’ life and affairs has precipitated into this discussion – for our growth and development.
Let me begin by saying I've recognized this experience to represent issues of humanity, not just my own. And it's taken almost all this time for me to learn this principle and to begin applying it - most consciously and recently through the Wisdom.
22 years ago I was sitting in my living room overlooking Setauket Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island just before a summer sunset. My spouse at the time, Cynthia, was asleep in front of me, tired from her afternoon of women's 35's tennis tournamenting. I felt satisfied, enjoying the good life that many of us would describe as the perfect life – over $600,000 per year in net income, successful investor in stocks, bonds, and waterfront real estate development (including the house we lived in), close friends and family relationships, a work schedule of 2-5 months with time for vacations, and a spiritual orientation toward Paramahansa Yogananda and his Self Realization Fellowship. I had been an All American Lacrosse player and popular student adviser in college. Recently, I had successfully coached junior tennis champion wanna bees, ghost written a tennis book called Tennis Kinetics, with Navratilova and Mary Carillo, and managed a very successful tennis academy on Long Island. My parents and siblings were well and stable for the most part. Fred, our dog, was healthy and happy.
I remember looking down at a peaceful Cynthia, then forward - outward to sail boats at anchor in the harbor, with the sunset behind. A quiet voice I had not heard before said, "I'm dying here." My thoughts moved quickly from realizing I could produce and accumulate wealth and achievements, have these good relationships, and continue this formula of success for the rest of my life. I realized that everything that I was told would make me happy in life held no real joy, no real happiness. I recognized that I could have anything I wanted, and that there really wasn't anything that I couldn't have - no desire that I couldn't fulfill.
I said to myself, "If this is all there is to life, take me out now." All this was meaningless. All the promises of the happiness that success would produce were hollow and empty. “There’s got to be a better way.” I determined to find that better way – and the true purpose and meaning of life.
I didn't know where I would find the truth and meaning of this existence, though the Yogananda path held a recognizable truth to it. Within a year I found my life completely changed, throwing myself into a new purpose, perhaps my first conscious purpose beyond the usual human goals. What did I have to lose? I had it all and found it sorely wanting in the fulfillment of 'happiness'. I refused to use this formula for manifesting, until and unless I knew what it was for. (this formula turned out to have the elements of the creative process we’ve learned in the Wisdom – but with a personal motive and intent)
This was a milestone in a journey based on a completely different purpose. It has brought me to a point of realizing a path toward the light begins in darkness - and often appears to others, known and unknown, to be one of becoming darkness moving away from light. It is indeed a path we all walk toward perfect understanding and Pure Reason - our individual Divine Expression of Humanity. I recognize my path is far from complete - my purpose, far from fulfilled.
I've come to recognize there is resistance where I believed darkness and evil to be. That the form / appearance / devic life does indeed carry and protect a unit of consciousness dedicated to it's creator's purpose - whether dark or light, personality or soul - all on a path toward Divine Expression. To my current level of understanding, that resistance - as intelligent substance, devic life – was impressed with a purpose of nurturing and protecting the unit of consciousness. By including this perspective, I come to the perspective that only with the Loving approach of Light, Love and Power does that devic life sense no threat to its purpose, and can indeed benefit its charge - the imprisoned unit of consciousness within. Thus the only approach that does not increase the resistance by the threat of annihilation, but in the loving appreciation and understanding that the devic life and unit of consciousness serving it’s original purpose, can the form begin its acceptance of the influence of devic movement as the influence of the Light and the beginning of the transmutation process for both consciousness and devic life.
I've come to learn just recently that even the darkest of forms and appearance are indeed subject to the influence and Presence of the Creative Light, Love and Power of Divinity - else how could Divine Will, Purpose and Intent be fulfilled?
I am quite familiar with Mr. Gates' journey - through Microsoft and his Foundation - as business development, finance and economics have been a focus of mine this lifetime. Regardless of appearances, his vision and actions empower the world to act and communicate in the realm of appearance in ways that facilitate the recognition of humanity's many connections. They have provided and inspired the sparks and the framework that reflect the speed up of our consciousness to a higher frequency, to share, to supply demands, toward more democratic participation in the systems of the world and other principles of the Law of Economy. In a tangible way, Gates efforts have facilitated the manifestations of the creation of new forms from mental to appearance - and many more aspects that reflect the building of relationships. Among global humanity, Gates initiated a global access to the processes that have accelerated the sharing of the higher thoughtforms, impossible just 50 years ago. Our ability to communicate with other is a tangible example of this positive effect.
I also know he has behaved as a thief, traitor, abuser of current 6th ray systems, and manipulator of the more base of human emotions - greed and power - in accomplishing all he has inspired. From Satan to Hitler - and other degrees of 'dark' influences – these forms have indeed played their roles in the march from darkness toward the light - by crystallizing the resistance as a negative polarity of the dark in relation to the Light. We have been given a perspective of the consistent, eternal movement of Spirit, Consciousness and Matter toward Divine Fulfillment of a Divine Plan. Resistance has never really conquered the light according to this perspective – it only has delayed It.
The experience of mine that I share with you here has given me a perspective of transformative moments in which a dark path of personal economic accumulation can lead directly to a crisis of opportunity that invokes our higher path, purpose, and activity. We each find ourselves moving from darkness to light. In that process, we according to the principle of right planning within the Law of Economy – sequential growth. We pass through degrees of power and influence, their polarities, in order to learn to Master right relationship.
That path is strewn with good intent and harmful activity - " The road to hell is paved with good intention." That part of the path represents a phase of soul and human growth and development, affect and influence in our own lives and all humanity’s. Now is the window of time when this form of Light, Love, and Power is initiating Its effects on the non-essential forms, transmuting the darkness into Light, within time and space and appearance - Harmony and right relationship via conflict.
So the question for me is how do i perceive this or any dark entity and influence in my experience or recognition? And what action is appropriate to the presence and influence of negativity that I perceive? I choose to perceive that influence as an energy field and devic life calling for love - our wielding of love - perfect understanding and Pure Reason that we have become aware of and endowed with responsibility for wielding. I choose to be a vehicle of that Divine Expression on behalf of the higher lineage, from Cosmic to Physical, whose purpose is the enlightening and the redemption of the dark of the physical planes - by us. These darknesses come to us as crises of opportunity - to get our attention - and to apply that which we have learned, including seeing the light within even the darkest forms, including the opportunity to expand the redemption of a brother in consciousness and substance/devic life/intelligent substance.
As I complete this, President Bush is giving his State of the Union Address to the US Congress and the American people. Behind him VP Dick Cheney hosts him as President of the Senate, in a joint session of Government. I think of the meaning of that word 'host'. Certainly hosting can be a form of nourishing, protection, etc. Many people would perceive Cheney's influence as completely dark as any in history. And how must we respond to that perceived darkness?
In my present state of consciousness and point of development within the Ashram of Synthesis, I stand in the Light and understanding that I have been given, and endeavor to see what little light my personality might perceive in this soul inspired vehicle, these brothers. In one view, the current administration has crystalized as resistance to the Light, and their effects and affects have turned their truths into a humanity wide recognition of the illusions. They have called in the Light that they have consciously and subconsciously resisted. We know that their karma has determined their dharma, and that they have brought the consciousness of all humanity to crisis of opportunity - facing the illusions and glamours (in our terms) of their 'truths'. Humanity is responding as a whole, within a whole new human dynamic. The darkness has precipitated the Light, that it may be transmuted within the Divine Plan.
So, I apply what I'm given - Creative Light, Love and Power - invested in the techniques of the Wisdom as best I can understand and implement them. I choose to see the Soul of Humanity within the behavior and appearance, affects and effects, knowing that these forms too are serving, in ways I may not perceive and recognize. At the same time, I appreciate that these mis-aligned, mis-behaving fields are calling for redemption for all of humanity - by crystalizing these mis-alignments in ways that impact our consciousness to initiate our own call for higher consciousness, and invoking the Light to Divinely Adjust our relationships into right relationship within our and humanity's lives and affairs.
For All My Relations
Blessings,
Fred
Fred McEwan
Teacher of The Wisdom
www.wisdomimpressions.com
My Blog:
http://theGoodtheTruetheBeautiful.com/
Do everything you do with only the welfare of the whole world in mind...Perform every action selflessly, disinterestedly, concerned only with the peace, welfare and prosperity of all living beings, everywhere. - The Gita, Sai Baba Gita
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