[Excerpts from conversations between Rita Warren and “the guys upstairs,” in the years 2001 and 2002, edited from The Sphere and the Hologram.] —-
Sept. 11, 2001 (1)
R: We’ve had an extraordinarily large number of people moving from the physical into the “there” today. And this raises for us questions about the best way for us to deal with such things as a disaster. Do you have some comments you’d like to make about that?
TGU: That’s an excellent question. It’s the best question you could ask, because this is only the beginning, as you know. From your own points of view, the central necessity will be to monitor your reaction to the events that are coming. Your choices are constrained by your prior emotional reactions, so that were you to react in fear, or in rage, or in any of myriad ways, certain lines of development would be opened and others would be closed. This is said less for the particular people who are in this room than for the record, because this is – as we’ve said before – a record for others.
Our primary advice would be, hold your center. Stay on an even keel. And this does not mean do not react, but, in the midst of your reaction, remember who you are – for your own sakes, but also because of the part that you came here to play.
R: Is there a way in which we can be helpful in counter-acting fears and anxieties – both our own and others’?
TGU: Yes. Maintaining what you are has its effect on all the rest. You must remember that you are a part of a thing, and a part can affect the whole, by what you are. You aren’t isolated individuals who can only influence each other by thoughts or words or actions. This looks innocuous and ineffective, but in fact it is the most effective response possible while you are in bodies.
R: It’s one thing for us to be here in Virginia listening to events that are happening elsewhere. It’s really hard to imagine that if we were closer to the events we wouldn’t be in states of fear and anxiety ourselves.
TGU: Oh no. There are people on Manhattan Island doing the same thing you’re doing, but for the same reason that they will not hear of you in the news, you will not hear of them. You were not left as a little island off to the side.
R: I understand that, but we talk about the idea of releasing fear, releasing anxiety, and that sounds great, but how do we do that? That seems a very difficult thing to do.
TGU: How did you do it?
R: Well, I’m at some distance from it. If my children were there, if I were there myself, I can’t imagine that I would be feeling as calm and relaxed and as centered as I feel here.
TGU: Well, that’s true – but there have been times in your life when you were in the center of things, and at those times, we ask again, what did you do? It’s only a rhetorical question, but the temptation in your country will be far greater from anger than from fear. Granted, the anger will stem from the fear, but more people will be in anger than will be in fear, and it will be a much stronger emotion, more easily manipulated.
However, if you ask, what can you do to help others maintain their centered-ness, we say again, maintain your own. It’s not ineffective.
R: Yes, that’s kind of the same theme we have for a lot of things; when we’re trying to heal, when we’re trying to send others good wishes, or love. You were talking last time about being a beacon. That struck a great nerve with me all week. And I thought about it in connection with the exercise that a research group used to do here, trying during a disaster to open a path for those individuals who were ready to move over [to the non-physical] with minimum anxiety and minimum fear; representing ourselves as beacons leading to a simple pathway for people to pass through. Children would be the easiest to think of moving in that way, because they wouldn’t be loaded with fear, and expectations.
TGU: Well, the children don’t miss anything, but they often misinterpret, of course. The beacon is an excellent way to do. You weren’t so much leading them through as you were, by what you are, letting them change to resonate to what you were. A minor point.
R: It seemed as though we were just pointing to an opportunity for them. In that sense just being a beacon.
TGU: In the sense that you were a stabilized point, that got them through; helped them get through. You understand, you were a stabilized point, and that is what we’re asking you to do now.
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