(ironically not realising that they already were).
So, I want you to look at that seeming paradox: in order to evolve your molecules have to rise to a higher vibrationary rate, yes, but in order to evolve you – as spirits – need to slow down. If you slow down you, in effect, step outside of the Field so that you can look at the Field from an observer’s point of view rather than being a part of it. You are always a contributor to it, but in slowing down, in meditating, in stepping back from it, you contribute peace to it – a slower vibration.
There is a need for joy; there is a need for progress through slowing down. Where do you feel your world is going? At its present speed where is it rushing to? Considering that you go nowhere anyway, where are you all rushing to? What is it you wish to achieve… heart disease, brain tumours, cancer? What is this speed giving you? And, considering that you will go back to a spiritual sphere at the end of your small life on Earth, what do you hope to achieve? Do you wish to be managing director of the world, the top of your tree? This again is an echo back to the Fall where everyone wanted to be important – more important than God.
There is nothing more important than God because God is what you are. Therefore, you have to slow down and, in slowing down, you will still achieve the things in life that you wish to achieve but you will put into the Field the right kind of vibration – joy and upliftment – and banish the suffering from the Field.
With many souls, because of the speed of their lives, they are propelled (almost literally) into the next life without stopping to think. The slowing down I am talking about also applies to the life immediately after this one – that time when you will contemplate what you have done and what you are going to do. Many people go so fast, want so much, that they take with them when they die and when they pass into the next stage of contemplation, that speed – that desire to keep going, to keep going fast – and that very often brings them back to the Earth plane for more of the same.
Sadly, this also applies to violence. The violent man and woman can become so enmeshed in a violent way of life that they are propelled – reincarnated – into another violent way of life. True, the Lords of Karma try to imbue that next life with some pointers, some points of change that will allow the spirit to escape the cycle it has put itself into. But contemplate what a terrible thing this is: that the speed that seems to be so important on your planet and the violence that you want to rid yourselves of often propel souls into a further incarnation, during which they will encounter much the same kind of existence.
It is time to be quiet, to be still, to meditate, to contemplate, to let God in!
I, in certain distant parts of my infinite existence, was a violent man (I am going back many, many years), but following the Fall there was a different vibration to the Earth and I see the violence that I quickly got out of my system now being instilled into people. Many of the young people you see now that are so violent were violent in their last life – that is why they are so violent in this life – and you can see that the Field is preparing them for more violence. The Field is becoming an increasingly violent Field as well as a rapid and a depressed one. So, the Field is nurturing their violence and there seems to be no-one making a stand against this. Your policing methods are inadequate, your politics are haphazard because there is no-one with the heart to put joy into things at the level at which people try and take control of the violence…
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(I am sorry – my connection with Michael keeps disconnecting… almost disconnecting)
…The atmospheric conditions are not perfect today but I hope I have got across what I am trying to say to you. In the first book it must have seemed as though I was criticising so many areas of your world, but I have to de-construct before I can construct: I have to tell you what is wrong before I can tell you how to put it right. This second book is about putting it right – a practical guide to changing your world. It is about practical things that ordinary men and women can do to change your world so that we can get in; so that God, if you like, can reclaim His children by re-connecting with them in a stronger way than He does now.
I had better explain that: most souls are not aware that they are part of God. God is always connected to them; God has never lost them. They have lost themselves; they have placed themselves in an area of deprivation through thought, through volition, through perception. It is not that God needs to reconnect with His children – His children need to reconnect consciously with Him.
…Are there any questions on the subject I have spoken about today?
David: It seems to me that people get into what I call a ‘feedback loop’ and they keep feeding the violence and the depression and really what you are saying is that they need to break that feedback loop and set up a new one in the other direction. So, instead of it enforcing negativity, it needs to enforce positivity – and this is the difficulty in breaking the feedback loop from our point of view.
Joseph: That is exactly it. There is an analogy I would like to give. Most children at one stage or another reach out their hand and touch fire and then very quickly learn that that is not the thing to do, and that knowledge remains with them for the rest of their incarnation. The analogy is that in the Fall the souls involved, in effect, ‘touched fire’ – created fire around themselves – but kept touching fire to the point where it numbed them… so they expected to touch fire, they expected pain because that is what they had created. And you are quite right – it is a circle, it is a cyclic pattern of degradation and of upset.
Built into the human consciousness is an expectation of life being miserable now: of life bringing people illness and violence; that they should fear for their existence and for their next meal and for a bed to sleep in and a house to live in. This has taken place for so long that it is indeed a cycle and souls are reborn into it because their expectation is so strong that, when they come to the spirit side of life, the teams of people here who work with them to try and change their perceptions cannot get in. The best they can do (and here there is another analogy I can make) is to pack a ‘suitcase’ for those souls that is loaded with ‘good things’ so that they can take that suitcase into their next incarnation and open it at pre-determined points in order to learn the lessons that will move them away from the cycle they have got themselves into.
So, yes, we have to break, or, rather, you have to break – I cannot do it for you – you human beings have to break the cycle. But in order to do that you first have to recognise that a cycle is there and that is one of our most difficult tasks – teaching you to perceive things as being wrong. Most people shrug their shoulders and get on with life and say: ‘Well, I have had a good innings. I am now ill, I am now dying, I haven’t any money, things are wrong with me,’ and accept it. Our task is to say: ‘Don’t accept it – it is a lie. Don’t accept it – you can regenerate, you can heal yourself; you can heal this world!’
You are not at the mercy of the Field, you are not at the mercy of society – you are at the mercy of yourself; you decide what happens to you, although mostly subconsciously. What is happening to you today has been decided by your past actions, perhaps in another lifetime. You are experiencing what you are experiencing presently because your past actions have placed you in your present circumstances so that you can learn from them… what is happening to you now – how you approach it and how you transmute it – is for the good of your soul. And that is ironic, isn’t it, because you would say that in most lives people are simply enduring their experiences, and learning from them for the good of their soul is the last thing on their minds. As guides we try to make people see the truth of their situation, try to make them react in different ways, to evolve spiritually, but we can often only influence them from within, via their intuition, by a tiny degree during each life and over the course of many lives. I have to correct myself because, of course, there
