A friend wrote asking what I “was getting” after receiving an email relating how a “galactic Federation” were on the brink of interfering with humanity and saving the Earth…at least that was rather the gist of it.  I did not know how to respond, so I asked.  This is what came through.  I just reread it after putting it aside for a week or so, and found it so clear and consistent in its message that I have to post it.

With respect to all…Stephanie

Ultimately, the only saving there is to do, you must do yourselves.  Not enmasse, not through attacking and blaming another, any other, or others, but to realize that you are so deeply connected that no one of you does anything, no organization is formed, no evil done, without some participation and acceptance by you all.  You quest is not to wait for someone “from the sky” to come save you, individually or as a whole; it is not the try to escape by leaving this earth or your home, retreating to some other life in another place with or without a body.  You are here, and you chose to be here.  You chose to be part of this earth and these times.  You are not separate.

And this is not about “good” and “bad.”  You are not good to “their” bad.  They are not bad to “your” good.  You are one humanity.  Ironically, the only way you are going to heal and rise is through your singularity as human beings operating together individually.  This will make the change. 

The change must and can only come from within each of you, from within your deepest heart and percolating up to your every thought, every word, every value, every action, every choice.  This is hard work.  This is THE work.  When you go march on Wall Street, or any other, then spend your money on food that has been grown in poisons, when you spread those poisons on your lawn, when you buy items without knowing who made them or how that worker was treated, especially when you buy them having a good idea that another human being was misused in the process…in these choices and actions, you are the one you march against.  When you disrespect your husband, wife, friend. when you are unkind to a stranger, or judge another without truly knowing their situation or struggles, when you overlook a child or an animal, when you are less than present in your life and the moment, these things are the “crime.”  These actions, this lack of valuing, expresses greed.  And greed is at the core of what you wish to rally against.  And at the core of that greed is fear…fear of survival, so exquisitely human an emotion. 

What do you cling to?  How do you make excuses to hold tighter to your portion, rather than opening your hands and sharing with others?  What are the excuses you give for claiming a poverty that is not true, for claiming that you “deserve” and “earned” all you have and therefore should not have to be more generous?  What are the excuses you make for your greed?  You are the one you wish to Occupy against.

Those you march against on Wall Street did not do this all alone, they did not do this “to you.”  You were there; you were complicit.  You are complicit every time you take without thought, or make excuses for holding rather than sharing.  In how many ways do you feel entitled?  While you may “have less” than those whose millions condemn them for their greed and dishonesty, have you not envied them their money and things, have you not in your turn run to “get” you share through investing and other monied ways, have you not relished when you have “made money on a deal?”  These actions, and these values are exactly the same as those you now condemn.  You are arguing about size, not true value, not true ethics, not spiritual truth. 

Each human being must heal and change and transform within him and herself for this world to change, to transform as you vision.  While there are many who support, assist, and care…protect and prevent major disaster, “they” will not save you. 

It is you, you wait for.  It is the bringing forth of the Spirit that longs through you.  The body and psyche you are was created as a perfect match for the Spirit that longs to live within and through this form.  It is your task, that survival-fearing “small” you, to learn to be still, to open, to let go, to surrender, to not know, and so to allow the greater Spirit to live through you…without the “ego” of small self.  Thus all the gifts of your body, mind, and heart with be activated fully, and all that can be brought to life through the vehicle of your life will flow forth. 

This has nothing to do with money, or social/cultural success.  These outward signs bear little relation to the true living of life and the true bringing forth of your gifts. 

When you hear words that cause or seek to instill fear, guilt, blame, shame and other such beliefs, know you are not hearing wisdom or the gifts of Creation. 

Know that the workings of Creation are not heirarchical.  Creation and the Creator is more like a great web.

Know too that you, individually and as humanity, are both more and less important than you imagine yourselves to be.  Know that you do not know your place and value in Creation.  Seek instead to learn, not with assumptions of superior intelligence, sentience, or the like.  Your world view still largely assumes the primacy of human importance in all things.  You are part of the web. There is ultimately no greater or lesser, yet too you are not G-d, but G-d is you.  Until you begin to understand what this means and surrender to it, you will continue to seek with your ego, with your survival-based self; the part of you that dies and so lives in fear.  The greater Spirit that longs to live with, through and as you, knows there is no death, only a shift and change…knows too that this life is like one day’s weather, death but one night’s sunset, birth but one day’s sunrise…each beautiful, but if you stay to elongate the experience, it will not stay with you and you will exist always in a state of disappointment, fear and anxiety.  You will miss every other sunrise and sunset that exists, and that is a true grief. 

Just as Creation is a web, so too is this earth.  And human is part of the earthen web.  You were given your role, your place, in the web.  You were given your kind of consciousness just as you were given your kind of physical sight, so different from the way the owl or the whale sees or “thinks”, yet each sovereign and vital to this earth.  One is not less, the other more.  They are each part of the infinity of variety created for this unique experience of G-d. 

There are conscious Beings on and off this planet who are much more deeply attuned and connected to the cosmic voices, much more deeply able to assist and support what is needed for this earth.  The earth does not need you to “help” her; she needs you to stop hurting her.  This means each of you…in very concrete ways.  There is not one of you reading these words who can, if you knew the truth, look in the mirror and say “I am innocent of hurting this earth, and I am innocent of greed.  It is only those others who do these things.” 

We do not say this to place blame or to cause guilt, but rather in hopes of waking you up to start looking in the correct direction for the change you wish to see.  That direction is within, within your heart to be kind in each moment, and in that kindness to consider the life of every other living thing — on this planet and through this universe — when you make your decisions.  When you have a judgmental thought of another, it is to stop and realize it.  Not to whip yourself for it, but to simply say “I am wrong.”  And mean it.  Know that you are wrong…not only for judging, but for whatever your judgment is.  It is not enough to think “Oh, I shouldn’t have judged that person…but I know I’m right.”  What is “right” is to know that whatever your judgment, you do not know the whole story, you do not know who this person is.  To know that if you understood this person utterly, you would feel kindness and compassion even if you found you needed to say “no” to their behaviors and influences.  It is a very different way of being, and it is little, little known among humans. 

To the extent you believe you are free of ego, know you are ego bound.  Those who most profoundly work to be free of ego are those who are most aware of the activity of their ego.  Ego is for the survival of the body.  So long as you have a body, it will be with you.  The goal is not to be rid of your ego but to understand how it functions and able to observe it such that you are not controlled by it and allowing it to extend beyond its purposeful bounds.  This is much easier to achieve when one is placed within a context that supplies one’s physical needs.  Yet it is essential that ultimately humans achieve this balance at all times. 

Those who are looking for outside influences to come and save humanity are assuming that humanity is the most important aspect of this Creation that is Earth.  We would say that their reaching for this assurance that a savior will appear is both a mistaken assumption of centrality, an expression of the human ego’s feeling of being very small and vulnerable (as a human would feel when faced with a saber-toothed tiger…as a mouse to a cat,) and an expression of long-held spiritual mythology that you will be saved by another rather than need to do it your selves. 

We are not saying that there are not forces and Beings who are connected with and working to serve and protect this Earth.  We are saying that they are not here to save humanity but to work with the Earth-Gaia in the evolution and unfolding she is involved in.  Humans are a small part of that, but they are not the all of it.  It is the feeling of being ants under the feet of elephants that causes the fear and fantasy that there must be another who will come to save you.  Ultimately, your growth as an aspect of Creation resides in doing the work of coming into balance from within.  This means within each of you and within humanity as a whole.  This means within your own heart, mind, soul, and body, as well as within the heart, mind, soul, and body of humanity.  This means treating yourself: body, heart, mind, and soul, as the sacred Temple of the Creator, as indeed you are.  This means recognizing that you are not the only vessel of the Creator, but that every creature and creation is a vessel and expression of the Creator and Creation as fully and completely, and Holy as yourself, as humanity.