May 7
There are many old things—maybe relationships, certainly ideas and beliefs and expectations, possibly aspirations—which are no longer of value to you.
Many of you hold on because they are precisely the things that have anchored and balanced you in the past. But now, as the very foundations of what it means to be alive in form are being rebuilt, these things can have the effect of unbalancing you. They can drag you down and turn you off course.
You know what we are talking about.
Some of what you accumulated, growing to your current age and through many lifetimes, has been relatively easy to discard. As you see something as no longer helpful, you drop it.
But there are other things that hold a sweetness, a place so deep in your heart that it seems crazy to let go.
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like this:
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Feelings or ties that gave you experiences of connection and wholeness: it is these, the ideas behind them, the people who were part of them, that are so hard to separate from.
Obviously, not all are without value, but you will know, in your center, which serve and which do not.
Which help you move forward and which bind you to a beloved place in your past.
We are talking about something bittersweet. We are talking about honoring the ways, the beings with whom you shared, the times of love and compassion that are dear beyond words and yet belong to another era, another you.
Does this make sense?
And yet, as you honor them you may identify, you may hold them tight, you may stay ensnared by them.
And just so long as you hold onto something obsolete, no matter whether it be good or bad, that is how long you will be kept from your full freedom.
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Your freedom and the power of the light you can and need to hold are paramount right now.
Looking back, holding yourself back, even with sweet remembrances— these are like lopping off a wing that could carry you on the wind.
Today, we would ask you to think on these things, to see what—if anything—might be holding you in another time and perspective with warmth and comfort and love.
See, if you can, how you are thus served and be honest with yourself.
To let go, to contemplate letting go is painful indeed. Heartbreaking, even.
Yet you need not leave the memories, only the energetic ties that twine you to anything of an older time and purpose. It is okay to remember, but unless you are certain that you are led forward by those memories, it is best to let go of any longing or any attachment to what was.
Allow yourself a full measure of sorrow. What you must process in a day or two is akin to the work of a decade a few years back.
All that you do is of necessity compacted. The energies are densely held and felt. It is sometimes tempting, we see, to glide over those energies or feelings precisely because they are so dense.
But when you just slip across the surface of things, you have not done yourself justice or treated your experience with respect.
In fact, you will likely return to it if you have not let yourself have it whole.
Remember that
transformation is a process of death and rebirth, so let yourself die fully in this way.
If you find that there are ties to loosen, do it with love and tenderness for yourself.
To let go of heart connection, even when it is obstructive, is to make a huge sacrifice. One that most would never consider.
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Every person in this family photo (except Margi, lower-right) rejected me, and I let them go.
I lost this….
..and my inheritance from a millionaire, living in the year my father died, 2012, in this wreck of a motel.
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Yet you are meant to fly, to carry your light and love into a new and better future.
You, more than most, must be clear and open for the higher energies to move through.
If you are able, try not to sever or cut your ties to that which is old but rather, let them melt away.
Do it gently, and call upon the sun to soften and dissolve the connections which have to go. And then let the sun’s warmth fill the void.
Much is being asked of you, we know; it is asked because it is needed– because YOU are needed.
We send you many blessings and much love. We hold your hearts in ours today and every day. — E. West
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Hey John, I wanted to learn about Nietzche and the vision of the master and slave morality. I was hoping you could recommend a book about this, if you’ve gone over the topic. I wanted to read it in a more example laden and detailed format than online papers, but I am reluctant to read an entire volume(s).
I feel confident you are the man to ask about this, so any help is much appreciated. Thanks John.
Well, I have very mixed feelings about Nietzsche, who was a hard-core atheist (as in “God is dead”). In 1944, on the centenary of his birth, Alfred Rosenberg expressed this as well in a speech which I translated in the 1990s.
His superman stuff was also very egotistic and individualistic, very ego-puffing, so as a national socialist I am ambivalent about him. He certainly was a good critic, however.
Great, great quote from Colin Jordan. I have to frequently remind myself that the past is irrelevant, and only useful as reference.
It was an anomaly, eight great but so brief years, 1933-41, and out of the norm of human misery.
By not becoming a religion, it stayed limited to Germany and thus was crushable. 🙁