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From: Lyara <lyara@operationterra.com>
September 18, 2001
Dear ones, we know your hearts are heavy when you
consider what is going on in the world around you. We are
with you always, sheltering you with our love and showering
grace upon you. We walk amongst you in human form, too,
although you would not recognize us except by our actions
or how you feel in our presence. But we are here, to share
this journey with you, and you must know this so completely
that you can feel our presence for yourself.
The world will be seeing angels and devils at the same time,
depending on the "glasses" being worn by the viewer. Those
who harbor hate, anger, and revenge within their own heart
will see devils, evil, and enemies everywhere. Those who hold
the heartfelt desire for love, compassion, and a better world
will see angels there to help. What one sees is a reflection of
what is within. It is the way the Creator gets to see Itself,
reflected in Its creations.
This notion of good and evil had served to allow people to
explore duality, and it has served well. Those notions are well
established in the Earth's religions and moral codes. However,
it is time to put those notions aside now, as they have been
exhausted in their capacity to inform you.
Everything that is being put forth in the torrent of words that
has flowed following the attacks has been a summary of all
the knowledge and beliefs that were accumulated before that
time. Nothing really new is being said. No new revelations
are being brought forward. Only former responses, dressed
up in new clothes. The body is the same underneath, and the
responses are totally predictable, based on one's views as
they existed before the attacks took place.
This is a very fertile time, with many opportunities. In one
sense, it is a great summing up of all the knowledge and
experience that has occurred throughout all the lives that have
been lived across the history of the planet. If one looks upon
Earth as a laboratory, in which many experiments have taken
place, this could be considered the time when the results are
written up and published. Everyone can then see what has
been learned from the experiments, and those conclusions
provide the foundation for wholly new experiments, as life
and time move on.
In each of the exchanges taking place -- and there are so
many now taking place -- one is presented with a choice of
how to respond. Will you get sucked into the chaos? Will
you sit there day after day, wringing your hands and reliving
the scenes over and over? Will you stop living and be glued
to the television set, instead? You have a choice. You can
remain caught up in the dramas, passing along the latest bit
of news or "proof" of this theory or that, or you can detach
and let it go.
We are not saying to disregard the requests for help that
come to you directly. We are not saying to not offer your
prayers and love to others. We are talking about the way you
feed your minds and emotions, the way you let yourself be
used as a source of food for those who feed off YOUR
emotions, for there are those who do that, as strange as it
might seem.
It has been some time since we talked of the two polarities,
and now it would be good to return to that topic. If you will
recall, those of the STS [service to self] polarity are about
gaining power over others. For them, there is never enough
power, as the lack of love in their hearts leaves them so empty
of feeling that they cannot ever have anything but the most
fleeting of satisfactions. In some ways, even those who
control the world's resources are among the most poverty-
stricken: despite their great material wealth, they lead empty
lives, built around the acquisition of things -- of inanimate and
abstract things that can never give or return love -- and they
promote death rather than life.
They may have the finest wines, the finest clothing, and live
the life of kings, but they are also "slaves to their habit,"
insatiable in their need for more and more power, more and
more of everything, a lonely existence indeed. These things
do not bring them happiness. These things do not bring them
joy or peace. They bring them cynicism rather than hope.
They bring them bitterness rather than sweetness.
Their children are not free to follow their dreams. Their wives
are picked because of the alliances they build, not for love. It
is like the royal families in times past. They are rulers who
must watch their gates, who must always be alert for those
others who covet their position, who must always do things
that serve their calculated ends. What pleasure is there in
that? What freedom is there in that?
Therefore, the hardness of their hearts, their cynicism and
contempt for the rest of the world, and the sterility of their
lives leaves them empty, isolated, and bored. Business comes
first, and the long walk toward the goal takes its toll, requires
its own sacrifices, and leaves one more alone than before.
The satisfaction of counting one's pile of money is hollow,
indeed, and the simplest child who is free to play in a natural
way is richer by far, in our way of measuring things.
All must play out, and if you but knew the extent to which
these few have robbed the rest, you would be justifiably
angry. They have robbed much more than just money and
power and resources. They have robbed the world of hope,
honesty, and so many of its potential joys. However, they did
not get this way unaided. Every single person has contributed
to their wealth and power by being part of the economic
system.
If you would be free of that, if you would want to stop
supporting the power elite, consider what would be required.
You would have to supply all of your own needs, forever.
You could never make a phone call, mail a letter, turn on your
oven, or take part in any of the fruits of civilization -- libraries,
entertainment, even your food and medicine, your homes and
vehicles...
Think about it. Every day, in so many countless ways, you
pay for things that are the fruits of other people's labor, with
money. And they labor to get money to buy the things that
they need for their lives, which were in turn produced by still
other people's labor.
Money is only an agreed-upon means of exchange. It
has no value in itself. And now that you have electronic
communication, electronic storage of data, and the
interconnection of the computers with one another across
phone lines and satellites, all of your money isn't even
necessary except on a local level. Everything is stored as
ones and zeros in computers. Yours is a society built upon
computers. Even in the most primitive regions, eventually
money comes into play, and then if you trace it back to its
source, there is a computer involved. So while you are angry
at these people and their contempt for the rest of the world,
you must also accept responsibility for giving them their
power in the first place. It did not happen overnight. This
move toward the centralization of power in the hands of the
few has been going on for a long time -- a very long time,
indeed.
One of the things that will come out of the chaos in these
days is an opportunity to reflect on just about everything.
You will notice that, as people struggle to come to grips with
what is unfolding, they run into conflicts of logic. On the one
hand, some of you feel that you should not go to war, and yet
you also feel that the attack cannot just be allowed to go by
without a response. You are caught between two conflicting
desires within yourself. You desire to be free, to not support
the system that deals in wars as a solution to problems, but
you also want the comforts that that system gives you.
And even if you decided to go out into the wilderness
somewhere and live off the land, what would that give you?
Where would you go if you injured yourself? How would
you survive? It is true that there are still some people on the
Earth that live close to the land. Are they necessarily happy
because of that, or are their lives just as filled with struggle as
yours is? They spend nearly all of their time obtaining food
or creating shelter or passing time through telling stories or
performing rituals. They are not so different from you after
all. You spend nearly all of your time "earning a living," and
your stories just come in different forms -- videos, movies,
television programs, books, newspapers, and magazines, and
personal pages on the "Web." There is not really so much
difference after all.
So where are we heading with this? It is simply this: until
you are able to manifest your needs directly from the matrix
of Source, you will never be free. You will always be
participating in a struggle for life and there will always be
some who have more power than others and use it to take
advantage of others for their own benefit. Are they evil? Or
are they just stuck in the same prison as you? Despite their
wealth, they are just as enslaved as you are. None of you has
true freedom.
We have come to a place in the unfolding where you will be
presented with choices of a very different nature. It will no
longer be about what you will wear today, or what you will
make for dinner, or when to wash the dishes. These will be
fundamental choices, a kind of "final exam," with little boxes
to mark on a scoring sheet. When presented with events, will
you choose to descend into the pit of anger and strife or will
you choose to reach higher, to transcend your mundane
existence and grab hold of the next rung on the ladder toward
"heaven"?
We have called this Message "The Crossroads" because that
represents the experience you have at this time. You will be
presented with many "crossroads" in the days ahead. Which
path will you choose? The one that leads downward into chaos
and death or the one that leads upward into order and life?
We have already described the polarities in these terms: STS
is a choice for entropy, chaos, and death. STO [service to
others] is a choice for order (love is the ordering force, acting
on the matrix of light that underlies all form) and for life. It
affirms life. These two polarities are actually two opposing
forces, and their respective outcomes are predictable if you
can see them clearly enough. One spiral leads downward and
one spiral leads upward. You will have the opportunity, over
and over again, to choose in which direction you want to go
-- the spiral upward or the spiral downward.
When you get caught up in ideas that there is an enemy --
and there is certainly enough evidence to work with for that
idea -- you perpetuate the experience of being a victim. You
choose the downward spiral. Are there people working in
concert -- a conspiracy toward certain aims? Absolutely.
But are you working in concert with others to create a new
world, to assist the planet in her ascension? We hope so! Is
that a conspiracy, too? Are you "conspiring" to bring about
"Heaven on Earth"? We hope so! There is nothing inherently
evil in working together with others toward particular aims.
Consider a gun. It is just a piece of metal, cast in a certain
form and design. It can be used to pound in nails, as a
paperweight, or as a lethal weapon. Its design is carefully
crafted to be a lethal weapon, but it does not become that
until someone picks it up and uses it that way.
So it is with all these ideas of "conspiracy" that are flying
about at this time. If you would choose the upward spiral,
you would leave those ideas behind, and not victimize
yourself through them. If there are perpetrators, there are
victims. Only if you wear the lenses that enable you to see
the Creator wherever you look are you finally free of being
a victim. Then and only then are you free of the system
and from contributing toward its progress toward world
domination -- power over others -- that is the hallmark of
the STS polarity.
We are saying this to you with all seriousness. This is the
crossroads you will face over and over again. Will you reach
upward to realize your own divinity and dwell in "heaven" or
will you succumb to the chaos and choose the road to "hell"?
Those are the two choices before you. There are only two.
How do you choose now and how will you choose the next
time the choice presents?
Every time you have to choose how to respond to what is
presenting will be another crossroads for you. You will find
it easier over time, because you will have left the other choices
behind, and as you discover that you prefer to continue in the
direction in which you find peace, it will be easier to choose
for that direction.
We leave you now in peace and honor and blessing.
Amen, Adonoy Sabayoth.
We are the Hosts of Heaven.
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A brief commentary
Sep 20, 2001
From: Lyara <lyara@operationterra.com>
I have just sent out the new Message, "The Crossroads," (it is
up on the site, also) and wanted to share a little of what I felt
and "got" when it came in. First of all, the content surprised
me in two ways. On the surface, it seemed to be more
superficial than the previous Message, but it also felt like
there was MUCH more being said under the surface, for
those "who have ears to hear."
The second thing I realized was that it doesn't just address
the past week of events and our response to that situation, but
that there will be other such times in the future, when we will
need to remember this counsel. We may have gotten tired of
watching the television this time around, but what will we do
when the next shock arrives, and the one after that, and the
one after that?
I also felt so much love and compassion as this one came
through. There was such a deep understanding of how we
feel as we watch the world come unraveled. I get many
e-mails, all across the spectrum of experience. There are
some of you who are more aware than others of some of the
things that are playing out in the background.
Many of you are still caught up in the idea of persuading the
President, Congress, or some other governing body to
choose a different course. Some of you still feel that you can
turn things around if you can only muster enough people to
go in that direction. All of those feelings and efforts are a
form of distraction, that keep you thinking that there is
something you can DO about what is going on. When you
do this, you give energy to a situation that is beyond your
ability to change, and you take energy away from those
actions that can truly empower you.
When "Shattering Glass" came through, I was able to
glimpse where the rest of the story is going: full Mastery.
Everything that is being said now has to do with developing
the awareness of where we must go (to full Mastery) if we
are to be powerful enough to truly help. In the meantime,
there is the discipline of surrender and radiating love into the
world.
All these petitions that are circulating are a form of resistance
to what is going on, and keep one from accepting what must
be accepted. When one is in resistance, he/she is not in their
quiet center, accepting the sacredness of the moment. I can
tell you that there is peace to be found in the midst of this
chaos. And as the chaos increases, which it surely will, it will
be even more important to drop out of resistance, into
surrender and the peace and calm of that release.
I have gotten letters from some people who have just
discovered the material who say they were suicidal until they
found "Shattering Glass." I myself have been acutely suicidal
at one time, when everything in my life had imploded and I
felt overwhelmed by it all, so I do understand. Things are just
beginning, and they will get much more intense, so it is vitally
important that each one of us chooses to stay clear of the
chaos. We do much more for the world by our being calm
and radiating love into the world than all the protests
combined. Calm acceptance is the first step to true power.
We are on the way to becoming Masters, and that requires us
to go beyond the surface phenomena, to see everything for
what it is, and then to transcend it all. I feel certain the
Messages will show us the steps and point the way as things
unfold, and I wanted to tell you that THIS Message is a very
key one, one you will want to return to over and over again,
despite it seeming so simple. It is very rich with many levels
and textures and can help you as you come to the crossroads,
over and over again.
On other fronts, enough people signed up for the OT Family
Forums that we have purchased the server space and are
setting up the forums now. All memberships that are signed
up before Oct. 2 will go through October 31, 2001, so this is
your chance to get some extra days for your dollars.
Information on the Forums is up on the site. Click on the
link from the Home Page or on the Forums button at the
bottom of the page. We will be notifying the people who
have signed up when it is time to register on the server, and
that should be very soon.
I want to thank all of you for your prayers and donations for
our two cats. Some of you sent healing energy, and some of
you counseled me. All was received gratefully, and they are
both doing better today, and so am I. I still need two things:
financial assistance, and help with getting these books into
libraries. If you are in the US or Canada, please ask your
local libraries to order the book, or order some yourself and
donate them. A big thank you to all who have contributed so
far. If you want to know more about how to donate to OT or
about purchasing books, see the links on the home page
("book" and "How to Support This Work").
There is much more to come, so stay tuned!
Peace and blessings,
Lyara
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This Message is one of a series of Messages, available in
full and without charge on the Operation Terra Web site
(http://www.operationterra.com). It is best understood in the
context of the prior Messages, and may be freely distributed,
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