Why are people violent and cruel? What is forgiveness? How do we handle the violence within ourselves? Forgiveness is nothing unless you face your own shadow. How to harness these passionate energies in constructive rather than destructive ways.

I cannot emphasise strongly enough the need for beginning to understand why people are violent, why people are cruel and want to hurt others…H-A

Good evening. I would like to begin by offering you some key words: trust, allowing, being, showing, and living. What has this to do with violence and cruelty?

As we are here together this evening, each one of us is reflecting where we are, how we are, who we are and what we are. Every living soul on this planet, whether it be human, animal, vegetable or whatever, is part of an overall picture of consciousness that is trying to find itself and this is why I have spoken so passionately about the group consciousness of the planet at this moment in time.

I cannot emphasise strongly enough the need for beginning to understand why people are violent, why people are cruel and want to hurt others…

Over the past year and a half I have been stressing that secrets and lies will surface and many well-known people will be caught up in the web of their own secrets and lies. Why does this happen? Why do people lie? I have great sorrow and compassion for those who lie, for they know not what they do, they are unable to face where they are, what they are and who they are. They are unable to discover their true spiritual mission and they step forward, often in the darkness, looking, wondering, daring, and hoping - but never facing the truth.

The gift that each of you has on a spiritual level, is that of free will, of choice. You chose to come here tonight, why? One way or another each of you is involved in trying to stretch your lives, each of you is involved in discovery. And on another level each of you is doubting yourself, each of you does not actually trust yourself. Yet I can trust you, I can love you because I can see, feel, sense and honour your vulnerability. One of the most sinful words you have on your planet, in my humble opinion, is the word 'sin'. For it conjures up a level of fear, a level of guilt - what are the consequences? Oh, dear friends, when will you learn that the consequences are your choice - living your own being, being your own living.

In every decision that you make you have the choice between light and shadow. The light represents the straightforward understanding, the light represents the choice you have, the light represents moving beyond fear and seeing yourself as a humble, beautiful person created by God. Each one of you is part of that very God that you seek. Listen to it, accept it, be it. But to do that you have to face the other viewpoint, the shadow, the many lifetimes you have been here, the challenges you have faced, the challenges of relationships between parents, children, lovers, manipulators and so on.

Another title for this evening could have been: How to find forgiveness. What is forgiveness? Forgiveness is nothing unless you have faced your shadow and that is not a sin, that is a glory, that is a wonderment. In each country on your planet you have different levels of what you call justice, a kind of legal system that reflects the needs of the people and the needs of those who try to control the people. I cannot emphasise strongly enough the urgency for beginning to understand why people are violent, why people are cruel and want to hurt others, when it is themselves that they are actually hurting because they are reacting out of fear.

Forgiveness is nothing unless you have faced your shadow and that is not a sin, that is a glory, that is a wonderment

It is easy for me to say to you that God is a God of love, not a God of fear, but that doesn't help the fear within, does it? Fear is still there - will I achieve what I want to achieve? And if I don't achieve what I want to achieve, am I a failure? And how do I deal with that failure? Do I lash out at people around me? Do I plant bombs in cars? Do I try and blow up those whom I do not understand, whom I feel are between me and what I want to be? Bombs only kill something within you, for I can assure you that the bomber suffers far more than those who have been bombed and will come back to lifetime after lifetime of self-induced suffering, unless that person is allowed to understand why he needed to kill or maim or torture another.

Every spirit in a human body - let us leave the other kingdoms out of it for the moment - has the capacity to want to kill, to want to hurt, to want to maim, to want to torture, to want to be violent. But every spirit in a human body also has the capacity to love, to show compassion and above all, to show forgiveness. I would like to see the start of a whole movement on the planet whereby those who commit crimes, whether on a national scale or on an individual scale, are given the opportunity to understand why they carried out the crime. Should they be condemned? Or do they need help to understand why they did it?

Violence happens because we are unable to see ourselves as we truly are, because we are unable to accept the violence within us. Accept it, feel it, understand it, and realise that it is the same energy that gives us the passion for love, only one is a constructive use and the other is destructive. But if we ignore that violent side, if we try to pretend that it is not there, sooner or later in one life or the next, it is going to emerge in violence. It may not be physical, it may be violence through control, violence through emotional abuse, violence through not wanting to understand or hear or listen, the violence of not being able to forgive; for the person who cannot forgive is in a far more shadowy state than the person whom they need to forgive. It is about finding that balance of love and forgiveness within.

An archetype in your history was Adolph Hitler, an archetype of the shadow and evil, and yet he believed he was doing the right thing. But there is no such thing as the right thing or the wrong thing, there is only that which you do. He saw himself as unburdening mankind of something which he felt was evil. What he was unable to see was that what he was doing was living out the shadow of what he wanted to take away from the world. And if ever a spirit needs forgiveness, it is his.

You have these positions of unrest throughout the world in Ireland, in Israel, in many, many countries, and the only solution in those countries can be through forgiveness. Now why am I saying all this tonight? What pertinence does it have to the year 2001? It has a great deal of pertinence because the planet is poised like a huge pyramid balanced on a pin. The second half of this year is a time for action. It is a time for seeing where you are and what you are. It is a time for really finding that light within and living it, being it, trusting it; it is time for moving beyond blaming yourself and blaming others.

Violence happens because we are unable to see ourselves as we truly are…

The only sin is to believe that there is sin, no other. God does not judge, God only wants to give you unconditional love to help you to find that level of forgiveness within; because if you cannot find forgiveness for yourself, you cannot forgive others. So face that violence within and say, 'OK, I acknowledge that there sides of me that I don't like, there are sides of me that I am afraid of facing; but I am going to face them because I am not an evil person, I am a simple person. I am a vulnerable spirit who wants to move forward, who wants to help the planet move forward, who acknowledges that the second half of this year is going to surface the unwanted stuff if I don't face it and deal with it. And it is urgent that I do so.'

It is urgent on a personal level, it is urgent on a national level, and it is urgent on an international level. The world, in communication terms, is getting smaller and everyone has to learn to be part of that global situation. I am not saying that there shouldn't be families and small groups; but those families and small groups have to acknowledge that they are part of a larger family. They cannot hide themselves away, they cannot pretend that the rest of the planet does not exist. And on the other side of the coin, you personally are the planet - in fact, each one of you is a universe unto yourselves. Each one of you is finding that truth within.

Stand up and say, 'I am what I am, I want to be counted, I want to walk my truth. I want to love the planet and all forms of evolution therein and thereon. I am part of that, and it needs me as I need it.'

I am part of an energy that has had to work through some of the issues about which I speak; I am part of a collective consciousness that has recognised its own shadow. It has not only recognised its own shadow; it has seen the need for it. For what the world needs at the moment is not a bright light that is going to stand above it for everyone to look up to it and say, 'Oh, isn't that wonderful, Jesus has returned!' or 'We have a new guru, a new master, a new saviour!'

This time that saviour has to start within. There is no other way forward, the world is moving beyond personal control. This is why there is so much communication and information coming up about conspiracies. Of course conspiracies exist, they always have done - there is nothing new about it. But those conspiracies are losing control because, especially as we move into the Age of Aquarius, this is about personal issues, it is about personal contact, about personal empowerment. It is about finding the God spirit and essence within, it is about saying, 'Yes I have the violence, I have the light, and I can bring the two together, one helping the other, because without the shadow I cannot see the light, and without the light I cannot see the shadow. I am all these things, I am all these things together. And in my therapy, or whatever it is I am doing to help the planet, I want that integrated energy to flow out of me, to touch every other person I come into contact with, to touch the animals that I come into contact with, to touch the plants and the flowers'.

Let us move beyond 'isms'; let us move beyond meat eaters and non-meat eaters, smokers and non-smokers and so on. Let us understand that some people need to smoke, some people need to drink, some people need to smoke cannabis because it is a part of the expansion and allowing them to see within; and they need to see within so as to see without. There are so many issues about whether it is right or wrong to do something, that it drives people to do these things to excess; and excesses happen when you are not facing the truth.

I have no blame, I have no criticism, I want to be able to give each one of you the energy boost that can make you stand up and say, 'I am what I am, I want to be counted, I want to walk my truth, I want to love the planet and all the forms of evolution therein and thereon. I am part of all of that and it needs me as I need it.'

Everything is complementary, what a wonderful word! But you have to take 'complementary' beyond the ordinary concept because crime complements goodness and goodness complements crime - they are interwoven. It is only by understanding that aspect within that we can move without. Finding one's true spiritual self is not about being better or worse than anybody else, it is about that inner feeling of love, that inner feeling of saying, 'Yes, I am here on this planet to live my life, I have chosen this particular life because the body I have chosen, the parents I have chosen, are enabling me to live my mission, to allow it to come through me from my spirit, through my heart and into my mind and my body - into my very being'.

Healing…is about enabling…it is about allowing the spirit within that person, within that situation, to move forward in freedom.

If you look around you at your lives at the moment and at what is going on around you, you will find that there are many blockages, situations that will not move forward. The way to move those situations forward is not through anger or blame, it is through balancing the energies, through living your truth and being honest about what you feel. Difficult for politicians isn't it? It is a difficult time for them because they are not used to saying what they feel. They are used to saying what they think they ought to be saying and what will be acceptable by the electorate. And on one level each one of you is a politician. So throw aside that political garb, throw aside those political robes! Live your truth, face your truth and be your truth!

Remember - and may I say this to those of you who are involved in healing - in its broadest context healing is about enabling, it is not about curing, it is not about putting right. It is about allowing the spirit within a person, within a situation to move forward in freedom. In one sense, a healer - whether they call themselves a masseuse, or whatever - their task and what they are committing yourself to is not manipulation, it is enablisation. In other words, you are as a healer are helping the spirit of your patient to find freedom, to free itself from all the pressures and stresses that seem to manipulate it and tie it into knots. And whatever has happened in your life, a shock, violence, or whatever, ask yourself, 'Why did it happen? What is it telling me? How can it help me to move forward?'

So the way to deal with violence and cruelty is not by punishment or by ignoring it and pretending that it doesn't exist. It is by facing it, seeing it and enabling yourself to see the part that it plays in your own spiritual growth, so that you can help yourself and help others to see where they are and how they are. So that no longer does their heart want to hurt and take revenge; but it can open and give out love and say, 'How can I help myself? How can I help others to find that true love within?' It has to come through education; it has to come through communication, through listening and by saying to someone who is violent and cruel; 'Why are you so violent and cruel? What is it within you that you are trying to achieve? Was this part of your own background that you are now acting out on others? What is it that you are frightened of if you do not behave in this way? How can we help you to deal with that fear?'

…you need it as a passion that can move you forward to spread more light and more forgiveness, more love, unconditionally, into the world and into the universe.

Religions need to hear this too for they need to understand that they can only truly spread the word of God through love, not through fear. Only God can judge, man cannot. And the irony is that God does not judge; only man judges. Think that one out! I would like you to hear what I have said tonight, collectively, I would like you to honour me by hearing it personally, for there is no judgement in what I say, only forgiveness, only love, only wanting to see energy balanced, harmonised.
Let us all join together for a moment of peace and as we breathe in to feel that universal energy entering, filling, enlightening our being. Just allow that energy to fill you and expand with it....Let us centre that energy into the middle of our circle like a spiral…and feel the energy going up into that spiral to help all those who are looking and seeking and desire peace and forgiveness... and beyond to whatever you are doing in your own lives, to the lives of your friends, your relatives and your colleagues - especially to those who anger you the most, for they are the ones who need the most love and the most understanding.

Can you feel the energy? I congratulate you, whether you are hearing or reading what I am saying. I just want you to 'be'.... Can you feel the energy filtering, cleansing your own being? Feel it shifting, moving the blockages within so that they are all beginning to move around and become an homogenous whole…every part of you relating to every other part of you. . . .

So, dear friends, as you gently come back to yourselves may I remind you that violence and cruelty can only be dealt with by facing those same qualities within yourself, although maybe on some other level, and understanding that they are part of your own makeup and you can move them, shift them, face them and love yourself for what you have achieved. Love yourself for coming into this life; love yourself for what you are doing. You are all lovely people; you are all conscious, sensitive people wanting to help.

That is the way to deal with violence, realising that you need it as a passion that can move you forward to spread more light and more forgiveness, more unconditional love into the world.

And now if there are any questions, statements, thoughts, offerings that anyone would like to make or share, please feel free to join in.

H-A, I felt very disturbed yesterday evening watching the news where Palestinian boys are being encouraged and fired with enthusiasm to become suicide bombers. These kids are really 'lit up' with the idea that that is what they are going to do; they are going to commit suicide in some dynamic place. One just wonders how it is going to fizzle out or…

The whole planet at this moment in time is moving towards a climax that will reach its ultimate climax in about 2012 as we shift finally into the Age of Aquarius. The forgiveness we need to send is for the people who are building up that need in those boys and the ultimate responsibility lies with all those who believe that their way is the only way forward, whether they are Palestinians or Israelis. Until they can come to the realisation that neither side can win, they will never find peace.

And yet they can all win - they can win through forgiveness. They can win by trying to understand the problems of the other side. At the moment neither side wants to hear the other side. So it will require a lot of patience, a lot of understanding and a lot of forgiveness.

Interestingly enough, I think the situation in the Middle East has a stronger opportunity of resolving itself at the moment than ever before because the anger and the need for revenge and retribution has become so strong that it will either blow itself up or blow itself in. What I mean by that is that you can whip yourself up into an enthusiasm; but then you reach a point where you cannot go any further because you have reached the end of the road. So the opportunities for finding peace there are much stronger now than they have ever been. But it does need a willingness, a willingness on the part of the leaders on both sides to listen and to give.

You know, it is interesting that as I was answering this question more than one of you felt a tightening in your chest and in your throats - and that tightness needs to be shifted. Because what is going on in the Middle East is happening within each person on the planet and the only way you can move beyond it is by acknowledging it within yourself. The anger is not just being fuelled by their leaders; it is being fuelled by the energies on the planet, energies that are being brought to a climax.

When God created spirit and gave it the choice to love or not to love, it created the Mikaal and the Lucifer within each person. And over the last few years I have been talking about the containment of Lucifer by Mikaal - the containment of the shadow by the light - and that is still in place at this moment. But it is creating a great deal of international tension because Lucifer generates fear, control, putting down and denial of personal choice. And because Lucifer is being contained, that vengeful, angry, negative energy wants to be back on top and it is going to fight to get back on top. What Mikaal has to do in waving his sword, is to use that sword as a symbol of healing, love and forgiveness, not as a weapon to strike back.

Now I realise I am talking in simple terms about a highly complex issue, but however complex an issue is in any country, in any state, in any society, it always comes back to the basics: the fear and the love. Does that answer your question?

Yes, it does. It brings up another thing though, if I may? And that is we were talking just before about the bad news - all the news about violence and cruelty that is going on which unfortunately makes people tense and depressed. What can one do about that?

I am going to surprise you with my answer! I think it is great and wonderful that so much negativity is being expressed through the media because it is providing humanity with the opportunity to face it. In the past people didn't have that choice, they didn't have that confrontation, they weren't able to see what extreme levels of negativity and cruelty could do - what the sight of those Palestinian boys provoked in you? Now if that programme had only been about all lovely good, sweet things it would not have made you think in the way that it has. I think the mass communication on this planet is its greatest chance of salvation.

I am not a prophet of doom, I never have been. I have always said that the options for this planet are open - they are still open. And the more all those who are incarnating to help it forward, can help it forward into the Age of Aquarius with that openness, with that breaking down of the barriers of secrecy, yes, that is the way forward. It is very sad when you see people being punished for telling lies. In actual fact they need help. It is not that they are telling lies, it is that they are frightened to look at the truth. Such people need help not punishment. Of course what has been done needs to be acknowledged, but then they need help to understand why they needed to behave in that way.

So, you see, the tremendous media coverage of major tragedies is an opportunity to help people on an individual level to understand what they are capable of, how they can deal with it, and how they can find that love within that they can spread to others. Can you accept that?

Yes, but they need to hear you say it because otherwise I am afraid that most people just get lower and lower.

H-A, I find that the mythological Hydra springs to mind and that helps me very much. That if we cut off multi-headed things, if we cut the head off with our judgement, another one springs up in its place, and so it grows. And I find the visualness of that quite helpful…

My son, every time you cut one, two grow.

It also strikes me that judgement causes that to happen more, more heads to appear. But what the Hydra doesn't like is being understood and observed and that is what can really make it wither.

You see fear can only thrive on fear, if you move beyond fear there will be no fear. Fear can only exist while you are frightened. There is the shadow side of those who would want you to be fearful because through fear lies control, the pipe dream of those who reject the God that created them. . . control.

You said our only sin is a belief in sin, so surely our only sin is lack of belief in ourselves, isn't it? I read something that says that we are already fully enlightened, it is just that we get in the way of ourselves.

Yes, my son, you speak with great truth.

H-A, I know that the bottom line is that each person has their own responsibility to live in a truthful way and connect with their own inner Self with unconditional love. But I find it difficult when I hear you saying that one should be tolerant of drugs and everybody, just be more tolerant. I feel that it isn't really encouraging a world that is trying to be aware and more conscious or helping people to take responsibility for their actions. I have been mugged twice and both times I felt that the incidents were drug related and I am still dealing with the consequences of the second mugging because it threw my back out.

The point I was trying to make is that it is not the drugs that are creating the problem, it is the needs in the people who take the drugs. They may take alcohol or some other form of stimulant. Some forms of literature are drugs, I believe you call them adult literature, adult films, these are all energies that are taking people to extremes. So if you make drugs illegal then you must make alcohol illegal, you must make anything which encourages a person to reach out to an extreme, illegal. And if you do that, you are not allowing people to find a balance between light and shadow, you are judging and the planet is suffering from too much judgement.

Now I understand that if you have a community or a society you have to have rules which enable the majority of the people to live in that society in comfort and in happiness; and obviously if a person becomes very violent they may need to be constrained. But they also need to be helped, not condemned.

When I first spoke through this sensitive nearly 50 years ago, one of the big points I made was that if a person has a sickness of the body, you become terribly concerned, you take them to hospital, to the doctor, to the complementary therapist and everybody prays for them to be better. Yet, when a person kills another, whether it is through anger, through drugs, through alcohol, for whatever reason, that also is a dis-ease. Most people who have started to face themselves would not kill a person, or maim them or torture them, and yet humankind is content to see people tortured and killed in the name of the law - as retribution. I cannot see the difference.

'I am sorry, I didn't mean to do it but I have got to wait here for 20 years while the authorities decide what to do with me and then they are going to kill me. And they are going to make a wonderful scene out of it and allow people to watch it on television.'

Remember that many laws reflect the needs of that society and they are not necessarily about justice or about spirituality. We have to move beyond punishment as the only solution to crime. We have to recognise that this person is ill and they need help. Why are they ill? You know full well as a therapist, that if a person comes to you with a certain illness, you can relate that illness to an emotional state. If a person commits a crime, you can also relate that to an emotional state and maybe a spiritual state, also.

So we need to look at the whole situation of crime and punishment rather than saying, 'This person has killed that person, therefore they must be killed and, in revenge, we will find a torturous way of doing it by keeping them on death row for 20 years before doing it.' What happens to the spirit of that person when they pass over? They may have even come to terms with what they did and say, 'I am sorry, I didn't mean to do it but I have got to wait here for 20 years while the authorities decide what to do with me; and then they are going to kill me, anyway, and make a wonderful scene out of it and allow people to watch it on television.'
This is what I am speaking out about because that spirit will then go into its next life carrying the anger, the injustice, the fear, and the hurt. And it may well, in its next life, do something far worse because it has not been given the opportunity for love and forgiveness.

So, I am not speaking about not having controls. I am talking about a philosophic approach to understanding why people behave in the way that they do; and that when a person is emotionally out of balance, it can emerge as a physical illness but it can also emerge as violence. The violent person needs just as much hospitalisation and help and love as the person who is physically ill, in fact they need more because they have not been able to allow their frustration and anger to emerge happily into a physical illness. And it is precisely because they have not been able to allow it to emerge into a physical illness that they have expressed it in another way, through violence or cruelty. Does that help?

Well, you have given me food for thought and I need to take it away and digest it. Thank you.

Every time you give a thought of love out to the planet, it is affecting the future of the entire planet. You don't actually have to say anything, you do not have to stand on a soap box, you don't have to write articles for the media but just by being and believing and loving you give off an energy that can help the planet.

But to do that I still have to deal with my own violence, my own anger, which is as great as it has ever been. I understand when you talk about the violence in the world for us to look within ourselves, but I don't have to look very far because it is always shimmering on the surface. And so this has to be dealt with first and then to give loving thoughts to the planet, OK. But I should start giving those loving thoughts to myself, first - I understand that, I take your point.

So can we start from tonight and say, 'I love myself'.

I knew you were going to say that! Oh boy, I really asked for that!

H-A, I don't understand why you say you have got to deal with your own stuff before you . . .

It isn't about dealing with it, it is about accepting it and looking for the love that is in you. Also, it is enabling you to face it and see it, because if you have that amount of shadow in you, my son, you also have that amount of light in you.... You don't sound very convinced!

It is not that I am not convinced, I am just reluctant - it is a running battle. If I look at the violence in the world I see my own anger and my own violence, and as you have already said, that is where to look first. Yes, OK I take your point and thank you.

And on that point I would like to thank you all for your thoughts and for what you have given to the group this evening. If you haven't had an opportunity to voice any questions, voice them now in your heart and in your mind, and I will answer them for you in your heart and in your mind.

I would like to say to you, I love you, I see the divinity within each one of you, I see the anger within each one of you. But I see, above all, your spirit really wanting to manifest its love to help you and to help the world. Thank you and goodnight.

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