SHIFTING TO HIGHER OR LOWER VIBRATIONS?

(Part 1 of 2 parts)

Starry eyed idealists are not very useful when there is much hard work to be done in our world today. The Shift from lower to higher vibrations can be very tricky, and I find this a delicate issue to discuss at this time when we are preoccupied with fantasies or ideas that help us escape the ordinary in hopes of impressing people of one’s becoming extraordinary or better than others. If we are engaged in a lofty campaign to clean up governmental institutions in a past regime for instance, our grasp of what we can do and cannot do with our own current work in government is being tested. This is a necessary step on the spiritual path, and even political leaders have to be spiritual (otherwise this country will sink into more floods,and mudslides) but getting a fixation on being a righteous reformist can easily become a blind alley.

The Ascended Masters have something to say on the hard issue regarding conscious and subconscious intentions. When you truly understand and accept free will, you see that it is never justified or necessary to judge or criticize or expose others. State your case in court but do not indulge in petty, baseless accusations. For at higher levels of governance, you can only truly help others through your example, not by forcefully seeking to reform them.

You can be so strong as a leader that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, see happiness and prosperity in every person you meet. To think only of the best, to work for the best and yet to be detached from the outcome. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too strong for fear, and yet to be calm in the presence of trouble. Difficult? To be a true leader you need to say YES to all these, and see the Miracle happen amidst the chaos, pain and turmoil of this time of the Shift.

There is tendency to be critical and judgmental that happens to many Filipinos because this is a Gemini Sun country. Gemini is the sign of the Twins, representing the duality of Dark and Light forces. A sign of the communicative lower mind, Gemini, when taken alone without its polarity Sagittarius the sign of the philosophical and optimistic higher mind that serves to balance it inclines the Gemini native to be a chatterbox and dangerously self-serving, and petty. Unless a typical Gemini Filipino is well educated, meaning he never graduates from reading and studying after college, he can display shades of mediocrity even if he believes he is walking on the daang matuwid That’s why a good continuing education is of paramount importance to Filipinos, since the Sun in Gemini’s vices (dark) and virtues (light) are all in one piece.

If he spreads himself too thin, he risks being shallow or mababaw. He needs to beware of stereotyped ways of thinking, because he is apt to be high-strung to leave his thoughts hanging in midair and believe things as complete even when data or evidence is lacking. Thus, he fails to plumb the depths, after having been depleted by fluttering hither and yonder searching for closures of cases he keeps starting without going to the high courts to prove his allegations as it takes years for the courts to work on them, particularly protested election results. His weakest point is a lack of warmth for despite his/her vivacity the typical Gemini person is basically unemotional.

Having arrived at the conclusion that the universe has use even for pain, he may forget to feel how bad it feels to be hurt. With exceptions of course – Pluto and Neptune in Gemini conjunct Sun, if well aspected in the Philippine chart of June 12, 1896, can be indicative of genius or an advance state of evolution for our elected government officials on all levels, because Neptune and Pluto are universal energies for higher evolution. But the Midheaven, highest point of honor of the Philippine chart is not well aspected, it is afflicted, or negatively linked to the above mentioned higher octave planets. Which indicates that on higher levels our elective officials are likely to be lacking in wholeness or integrity. Unless contradicted by other positive influences in the Philippine chart, an afflicted Midheaven by Neptune (symbol of God’s purity or Pure Essence) could mean there can be inefficiency, and irresponsibility on the job, dishonesty or deception. An afflicted Midheaven by Pluto, unless mitigated by other positive influences, can mean dictatorial tendencies on the part of the one ruling the republic.

But not to go into judgmentalism again and worry about faulty political and educational systems obtaining in the country since the whole of humanity at this critical time of the Shift is suffering from the same raging conflicts within governments, within institutions, within corporations, within marriages or families as chaos, pain and turmoil (see the Middle East uprisings) may be necessary to get humankind initiated to a higher form of life, at this time of the Shift in consciousness. Or we will never leave our comfort zone and never attain the magical joys awaiting us in the higher vibrational realms of consciousness beyond this unhappy, warring and whoring Third dimension. Why consciousness? For the kingdom of God is within us. We need to transcend all these lower world, violent-prone conflicts and ascend to the higher realms in consciousness of truth, trust, compassion, and forebearance.

If you look into your own individual astrological chart and find that you have a well-aspected Neptune or Pluto, rejoice! Chances are, you would feel calm and an inner peace suffuses you even in the face of strife and confusion as you go about your daily chores or pause to go into deep meditation and silence. Instead of getting jittery and seeing nothing but negativity you are positive, and pleased with your surroundings, thankful daily to God and happy to be part of life. Some inner mechanism in you is saying that you may have become egoless, detached from the world’s economic woes like what happens now when the US is deadlocked in debt, will the rest of us follow suit? And do I need to look handsomer or more impressive than others by deglamourizing others or by refusing even a grudging modicum of credit where credit is due probably for fear of our lack of achievement? A more sensitive entity is likely to glean a gleam of auric light coming from your diamond-faceted soul. This may result from your constant prayer and meditation and yes, modesty. Instead of dismay, you may have a sense of compassion for erratic, fumbling humanity because in that case you are not alone. All are our brothers and sisters, all are imperfect, all are in the same boat in this journey, regardless of who we are.

As one editorial I read in a daily newspaper recently said: the President in his zeal to filter out corruption deployed wang wang as a metaphor for everything that is wrong with Philippine society in his sona. “Wang wang” symbolizes for him the abuse of high position and corruption that have bred chaos in the country’s streets. The government’s failure to address the ills plaguing the public transport sector these days is rooted partly in the President’s reluctance to do away with members of the KKKK– kapamilya, kaibigan, kachismisan, kabarilan, who have set the course of their assigned agency along daang matuwid. This has to do with the private sector the editorial hinted. If you need a translation for all the words in italics here, ask a Pinoy in the street who knows.

So charged is the typical Pinoy with a proneness for trivia and gossip that we need to understand what makes him such a chatterbox among themselves, on the air or on TV, because our local media seems to encourage the mass consciousness not to get out of the box, and to remain ordinary by indulging in a lot of chismis or hearsay. If you need a translation, ask an ordinary Pinoy who’s acutely changeable or surprisingly discerning. He would say things are dependent on the weather. “Kasi weder weder lang yan.”

Metaphorically, the typical Filipino means the weather depends upon who is in power. We may quote the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, a native of this sign of Gemini, the Twins, in his attitude toward people who accuse him of being changeable. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” A witty lawyer of the Opposition says: “What do they think of Filipinos, anchovies with small minds?” I like that positive assessment about us Pinoys. Also, we might quote a famous Gemini poet, Walt Whitman, who said, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.”

Now you can understand why we Gemini Pinoys have the capacity to attract a multitude of lower spirits or demons despite our religious fervor. If we experience intermittent storms coming one after the other, bringing continuous rains, killer floods and landslides and some tremors in-between shaking up many parts of the country these days it is likely to remind us that our frequencies have been dropping. It is a considerably critical time of the Shift. To say the year 2011 is not easy is an understatement.

Here’s Jesus Christ speaking: Let us say you are unaware that there are dark forces of anger, pride, hate, jealousy, envy, sloth clobbering your subconscious mind, manifesting your intentions as not pure, in spite of your conscious vision of pure intentions to do good. This can indeed be very subtle (meaning hard to detect), and an impure intention can often be camouflaged as a pure intention. Christ Jesus explains this human quandary in his discourse on Pure/Impure Intentions (see the very large website –askrealjesus.com) because we have asked the question – Master, why do we still communicate with lower spirits or demons when our conscious mind is preoccupied with communicating only with higher vibrational holy angelic beings?

Again, the case is that there is a difference between your conscious will and your subconscious vision and will. What does it mean to have pure intentions? You can easily think, Master Jesus says, you have only pure intentions but in your subconscious vision mind you have intentions that are not pure.

Let us give an example: most religious, spiritual and political movements you find people who are very critical and judgmental to others. You will recall 2,000 years ago. I said. “judge not, that you not be judged.” So this problem has always existed.

SELF-ESTEEM ISSUE:

The psychological mechanism, Jesus continues, is that there is a certain stage of the spiritual path where you have awakened to the need to reform your actions, and you have recognized that you have not always been perfect.

For example: some Christian churches talk about recognizing that you are a sinner and that you need redemption. This is a necessary step on the spiritual path, but it can easily become a blind alley. It represents a somewhat precarious period, in which a person has recognized its own imperfections and thus has a self-esteem issue. It now becomes very easy for the ego and lower spirits to make people accept the subconscious belief that if only they follow certain lower outer rules, then they will be saved. And this almost inevitably causes people to become critical and judgmental towards those who are not members of their church or those who are not members of their political team and do not follow the rules (Aside: See the story of the Norway Massacre of recent days). Their egos think they can elevate themselves by pulling down others, by way of trial by publicity.

Once this happens, Christ Jesus affirms, people have a subconscious belief that they are not being judgmental, that they are simply helping to reform other people for their own good. This is the basis for the old saying: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” There are innumerable versions of people believing that it is necessary or justified that they criticize or expose other people—all for some greater good. Yet when you truly understand and accept free will, you see that it is never justified or necessary to judge or criticize or expose others. You have a right to state what you believe. And at higher levels of the path you realize that you can only truly help others through your good example, not by forcefully seeking to reform them. Besides, we owe it to our soul growth not to look back, but always to look forward.

So the point of Jesus Christ is that far too many religious and spiritual people who are also in political positions of power, have been fooled by their egos into thinking that they will further their own salvation or spiritual growth by focusing their attention on others (instead of looking at the beam in their own eyes). These are obviously people who have not been willing to take responsibility for themselves. And once you believe – consciously or subconsciously-- that you can be saved without taking responsibility for yourself, you will be unprotected from the myriad of lower spirits or demons who affirm this belief.

So no amount of spiritual protection will seal you from these lower spirits, because you are subconsciously saying that what Archangel Michael and all his Angels do is not to interfere but to respect your free will.

A MAJOR ISSUE – Why are a multitude of lower spirits allowed to tempt or attack people?

JESUS: Everything revolves around free will. If you truly accept the concept of free will you must accept that you and you alone are responsible for your choices. Yet at a certain level of the path, it is very difficult to accept full responsibility for their choices. This is partly caused by a multitude of dark forces who have created a very subtle culture or mindset that has associated guilt with the exercise of free will. And when people believe some choices are mistakes and that God will condemn you for making mistakes it becomes difficult to accept full responsibility for your choices. It is much more comfortable if there were some external circumstances that “forced” you to make those choices. And as I said, another major problem is that so many spiritual people have made it an art form to justify being critical of others instead of looking at themselves.
The basic mechanism is this: Your conscious mind hears what your subconscious mind wants to hear.

And no matter, Jesus continues to say, what you want to hear, there is a spirit who will tell you exactly what you need in order to feel that you are right. These spirits often parade as ascended masters, or even God so that people can feel they have the highest possible justification for doing what they want to do. Sometimes we must allow our students to listen to us on certain issues, and listen to lower spirits at other times. Yet this can be allowed only for a time, then people must choose whom they will serve.

Jesus: As long as people have not taken responsibility for themselves, they look for an external authority to justify their actions and beliefs. This is allowed with the help of lower spirits that can create justification for any belief they hold, or have felt some external authority has validated their beliefs. This causes people to suspend critical thinking when it comes to a certain political leader who explains why some people completely refuse to see their leader’s or guru’s unresolved psychology or problems of the leader’s behavior. Just look at the New Age community or at a political camp and see how many people have this idolatry of a certain leader or guru even when the leader or guru has blatantly misused his or her power. And Jesus continues: This is why they can be critical of others while being completely blind to the fact that their critical state of consciousness is also a violation of God’s laws.

This explains the spread of Nazism, and Communism, as well as the existence of a multitude of lower spirits. (Aside: A more recent example of this type of the extreme right’s behavior is the Norway massacre that has left the world weeping) This is an extremely dangerous illusion, and I discourage any ascended master student from indulging in it.

Jesus Christ tells us furthermore, that there are 144 levels possible on Earth for developing consciousness. There are certain spirits that will give you exactly what seems to justify the illusion that represents your current level. It is when you no longer believe in the spirits associated with a given level of consciousness that you can move on to the next level. You might say that what I gave up on the Cross was the ghost or spirit that represented a certain level, so I could rise to the next level and enter the Resurrection spiral.





Part 2 -- THE WANG WANG SONA : WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

Above is the title of an Opinion column by Ricardo Saludo, from the Manila Times, Aug.1, 2011. Herein are some excerpts.

Yes, it was a stirring speech delivered clearly and powerfully the message that things are far better and finally going right in the Aquino administration (RS refers to the Sona of July 25, 2011) – until one paused to credit a bit of common sense and expert knowledge. To give credit where credit is due – the economy’s continued albeit slower expansion and the decline in joblessness and hunger owe much to the GDP (government development program) growth momentum built over nine and a half years (referring to the past Macapagal-Arroyo administration).

Part of that momentum is the massive yearly infrastructure program which spurred industry, tourism, and agriculture by efficiently linking producers to markets and travelers to destinations. (then, the author makes a scholarly assessment of growth and gains made particularly in agriculture called “Fields”) As for credit ratings, Standard and Poors, Moodys, Fitch and Japan Credit Rating Agency will agree that the upgrades in the past year would not have happened without the fiscal reforms of 2005 and the economy’s resilience during the 2008-2009 global downturn. After all, the mark for long-term credit worthiness which requires an evaluation period certainly longer than one year of the Aquino administration. So we applaud the Arroyo government for its economic and fiscal management especially the halving of national debt to just over 50% of the GDP in 2009, from its 2000 level exceeding GDP (that’s partly why then Sec Margarito Teves was named Asia’s top finance minister)…

People wonder whether Aquino’s constant harping on past ills could be intended to make his regime look like a huge improvement despite its failings and fumbling in the past year. (Aside) I recall the gravity of the miserable Massacre of Hostage-taking of a Tourist Bus of HongKong tourists last year, which could have been prevented if only it were properly handled. This comes from another serious study on the matter. In fact other prominent first- world countries joined in to assess PNoy’s lack of action on the said tragedy.

Many have speculated why the President (PNoy) is unrelenting in attacking Arroyo, hardly giving even the most grudging praise and lacing his every speech with graft insinuations… And had he given credit where it was also due, that would have been not only magnanimous but also honest.

*Note: Ricardo Saludo heads the Center for Strategy, Enterprise and Intelligence (ricsaludo@censer-solutions.com) publishing the CenSEI Trport which provides analytical research on national business and global issues.