thank you, Valerie

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Dear, dear Valerie,

 

thank you for doing the work...

>For me there are layers - like onion skins - or now being wired

(weird), more like a defragmented hard drive and pockets of

unassimilated past pains. I was just again in one about being enraged. I

had to leave home age 14 and never stopped to look back. But there has

been meditation and peace and great wisdom, then I fall into another

layer-pocket which must be purged, brought into the Light and

reassimilated into the entire system.

 

(snip)

> you know - for what i am grateful is that i have such as i am - my

small, insignificant and relatively uncomplicated self to heal - and not

a whole nation, or a whole geographical area, such as Israel and the

Middle East. The meaning of life - which is sacred to us here at our

armchairs - is nothing to the zealots and fanatics over there. Murder

and mayhem is seemingly a way of life there nowadays. And they need us

to stop and bow our head and shine the Light over there - say a prayer

for them there - for they shall surely perish into oblivion at this

rate. With the nuclear capacity they have there, and giving lipservice

to the tales of Armaggedon, I don't mind bringing up this bigger

picture!

 

all my best,

valerie

 

You know, I think you underestimate the effects of dealing with the

layer-pockets that you describe. I've been peeling layers awhile now,

experiencing and letting go of darkness, and I've found that it has gone

from a primarily personal practice to what feels like (who can say what

the truth is?) a more universal practice. We truly are in the same

boat, and to push the boat metaphor even further than I have thus far,

you are bailing water, and while it may feel like "your" water, I don't

think that is true. I think it is "the" water, and so while you are only

one of 6 billion on the planet, your bailing alone won't heal the Middle

East, your bailing is to my way of thinking directly affecting the

Middle East, because it seems to me that there is just the one of it,

and any clearing of the individual psyche is a clearing of the universal

psyche. It is said that if you wake up, the world wakes up, and I

believe this is directly true. I don't mean to imply that we don't have

our particular peice of it that is our responsibility, or that you can

take on someone else's responsibility, leaving them without any practice

required to be free, but I do think healing yourself is healing the

planet. I don't feel that I've expressed this well here, but I found

Christopher Bache's recent book "Dark Night, Early Dawn" to be a cogent

description of what I have experienced in my journey.

 

Well, the main thing I want to do in this post is to thank you

personally for doing this hard work. I think it needs doing and the more

folks do it and share it and support each other in the doing of it, the

better life on Earth will be.

 

Love, Mark