Germane: We
wish to discuss the idea of polarity and paradox. The perspective
we are going to give you tonight will be a key tool in all of
your experiences for the rest of your life if you know how to
use it.
We
may have to use analogy to explain some concepts. In this reality
that we all inhabit together (including us), the template is
polarity.
Examples
of this are black/white, yin/yang, male/female.
No
matter how polarity manifests itself, you are going to find it
everywhere in reality. The challenge for all of you (especially
when you incarnate into a physical reality) is the challenge
of learning to live with this polarity not as if you were a victim
of it, but as a way to learn to uplift yourself into a greater
level of consciousness. There are lots of issues on your world
that are very emotionally charged such as gun control, abortion,
and the death penalty. On your world, from the time you are able
to hear speech, you are unconsciously (and sometimes even consciously)
programmed to form opinions about things and to stick to those
opinions. Often these opinions take on a life of their own within
your consciousness. As they do, they create a wall around them
so that you, from inside the opinion, cannot see the other point
of view. The people on the other end have their own hard shells
around their opinions as well, and when you meet, you clash.
This
has been the nature of your reality for eons, as you can see
with all the wars on your world. How can individuals feel strongly
and passionately about something like gun control, which manifests
the template of polarity, but at the same time see both sides
so that instead of being on one end of the spectrum or the other,
they can move to the center point?
The
Center Point - The Point of Power
The
center point is the point of power because from there you can
see both sides. Now, you might want to lean toward one side or
another. That is quite all right. But the first key is being
able to see both sides and have compassion for individuals living
on both sides. As soon as you can have compassion, you will be
moving toward the center point, the balance point. The more compassion
and love you feel for those individuals at the other end of the
polarity, the more you actually come to center and to balance.
Let us draw a line with the two polarities on each opposite end.
As you move toward the center point between polarities, you are
going to encounter a challenge that has confounded people for
as long as people have been pondering the universe. This challenge
you will find at the center point is called paradox. All of you
know what a paradox is. Most of you have encountered your own
paradoxes. But we would like to give you a new definition of
the idea of paradox:
A
paradox happens when you are at the center point, equally viewing
both polarities.
If
you experience paradox in your life, you have found a doorway
to great truth, because it means you've hit that center point.
Do you know what we mean by this? Individuals on your world who
have engaged in a lot of intellectual discussion often miss the
point of the value of paradox, because when a paradox is encountered,
one who is ruled by the intellect will attempt to challenge the
paradox intellectually, to tear it down, to fuel a certain polarity.
So when one intellectually challenges a paradox, you leave the
moment of that balance point, which is very heart-centered and
compassionate, and go back into polarity. Your mass consciousness
is like a snowball rolling down a hill right now. It is gathering
a lot of momentum as it's moving toward the doorway of the new
millennium. Many of you are being faced with a feeling that you
have to form an opinion about something, or else you are seeing
people around you becoming very polarized and solidified in their
opinions. When you see that, you may then perhaps feel a distance
from these people. Are you experiencing that? It doesn't mean
that they are less spiritual than you, and it doesn't mean there
is something wrong with you because you are not able to tolerate
them any longer. It doesn't mean anything other than you are
coming closer to the center point of balance, much more able
to view polarity outside yourself and more able to view people
still stuck in those different issues, whatever the issue may
be. If those people choose, you are therefore much more able
to assist them. You will find greater peace of mind if you are
able to maintain that center point and view the polarity around
you from outside of it. If your friends and loved ones try to
suck you into their drama or their polarity, you can still be
infinitely compassionate, yet not join them in their drama.
At
first this may sound like juggling too many balls or learning
to ride a bicycle when you don't know how, but soon you will
realize that that state of detachment can be a profound sense
of compassion. As you begin to become more familiar with this
state, you will be able to hold that frequency or state of mind
for longer and longer periods. Eventually this will rub off on
those around you. The more individuals on your world who are
able to hold that center point of compassion, the more you will
experience a paradigm shift as a mass consciousness and as a
species. You will then no longer allow polarity to dominate you.
Instead, you can use polarity to help you experience the state
of paradox, which is a doorway into a greater truth. Please do
not feel that you have to allow your friends and loved ones to
suck you into the different polarity structures. If you feel
that pressure from someone, take some deep breaths and go into
that center, that quiet space inside you, and find where compassion
lives. Then see if you can generate compassion for the plight
of the person who wants to suck you in. Find love for the person.
Loving that person does not mean joining their drama, and this
has been something that humans have been confused about for quite
a long time. You can fully love without joining the drama.
Now
we are going to give you a little exercise for your spare time.
It is very easy. Perhaps it would be good to do at night before
you go to sleep.
Exercise
to Generate Realizations about Dark and Light
Light
a candle and lie in your bed. Watch the flame, and then watch
the play of shadows on the wall. If there is any air circulation
in your room, the shadows will be moving. Begin to open yourself
to more subtle observations about darkness and light by using
the candle flame, the candlelight, and the shadows it throws
as physicalized examples of dark and light. See what you can
learn. See what type of realizations you can generate just
by watching the candlelight and the shadows it creates.
You
can do it ten minutes if you want. The more you do it and the
deeper you allow yourself to let go and just observe, the more
insights you will have into yourself, into your own light, into
your own shadows, and how shadows or darkness play out externally
in your life as well as the light. There will be many, many layers
of realization as you watch this. But more than at any other
time, now it is important to not be threatened by polarity, to
not feel as if you have to be victim to it, but to hold that
center in whatever way you can. You can each find your own trick
to do it, whether by watching the candle or finding compassion
through the heart. Then you will be an infinite light for those
around you who are also seeking that balance. This is a way each
of you can be of service without having to know anything, without
having to be a spiritual teacher, without having to study, but
by simply being you. Very easy. Paradox is such a wonderful tool.
Question:
What do you mean by it being a doorway into a greater truth?
Does that mean integration of polarities?
You
know, we have to be allowed to tease you sometimes. If we told
you what was behind the door, maybe you wouldn't want to go.
[Laughs.] Intellectual paradox can lead to an energetic feeling
of paradox, but there is a moment when you encounter the full
depth of paradox that can actually be felt in your body if you
are sensitive enough. It is very difficult to describe, especially
since I do not have a body, but you will feel a shift, a sense
of dual vision kick in when you experience profoundly the energy
of paradox. In that moment when you have that dual vision, you
literally create a doorway that can lead you to journeys outside
the domination of polarity. Let us just say the doorway leads
into realms in which polarity is not necessarily the dominant
teaching theme. The individuals on your world who have worked
the most with the doorway of paradox have been the Tibetan monks
and other Eastern traditions, but primarily Tibetan. In the past,
of course, monks have pondered perhaps their whole life on this
doorway, but because energy is shifting on your world and individuals
are moving through their lessons a lot more quickly, you do not
have to ponder this doorway your whole life. You can actually
experience it one little step at a time. The truth you encounter
as you move through the doorway of paradox will be different
for each of you. It may relate directly to your personal life:
You may suddenly get a very clear vision about what to do in
a certain situation. Or it may have nothing to do with your physical
life. It may be a spiritual journey that leads to a greater enrichment
of self. It will be different for each person, but once you sense
that doorway of paradox and feel it - and you will feel it -
the journey is unique for each of you. We cannot be more specific.
Question:
I have an illustration. Ten years ago a client told me that
she had dreamed that she went to Germany and saw a concentration
camp, and there were flowers growing. She said, "What to you
think that means?" It took me to an entirely different level,
just pondering those two images at the same time.
Thank
you. We will give you another example, which kind of expounds
on that one. It is drawn from the channel's own experience when
she went to Hiroshima, Japan. At ground zero where the bomb had
been dropped, there is something called Peace Park, a park devoted
to global peace. When you go there, the symbols of peace will
bring you to tears. In the middle of the park stands a ruined
building - the only building that survived incineration. Beautiful
paper cranes made by the schoolchildren all over the country
are draped through the trees. There are flowers, people are meditating,
and praying, and schoolchildren are singing. Then you walk perhaps
50 yards away and there is the Hiroshima Museum. When you go
inside, there is a stone block with a human shadow on it that
was once a wall of a building. The person was incinerated in
the blast. The horror in this museum is beyond comprehension,
but when you walk outside, the feeling of joy and peace is amazing.
When you sit in that park you experience the doorway of paradox.
Or when you sit in that concentration camp, feeling the horrors
and admiring the flowers, you experience that doorway of paradox.
Perhaps this will give you a tangible example so that you can
look at the different situations in your life where paradox exists.
Question:
When I've had experiences like that, it feels to me like a
heart expansion.
Yes,
because the only way you can move and expand into the universe
is through the heart. So the doorway of paradox is a doorway
through the heart, absolutely. Our orientation as entities is
not physical, and this is why we enjoy these conversations with
you so much. You can bring in the physical element, which helps
to communicate more clearly what we are attempting to say. We
appreciate it very much.
Question:
Would the doorway of paradox not be similar to unconditional
love?
Yes,
that's what it becomes. However, in your reality here, though
many of you have had moments of unconditional love, you are often
pulled away from it by polarity. It's the nature of the reality.
It has nothing to do necessarily with your inability as humans,
but when you move through that doorway, yes, you will experience
unconditional love. When you sit in Peace Park or in that concentration
camp, your heart opens for all the people who have suffered there
and you feel the beauty of the place. That is the essence of
unconditional love. Very well put, thank you.
Question:
There's a film called Baraka that was made to create this space
in people. People don't always see it that way, but it is just
images. It begins with beautiful images of people praying,
then it goes into the images of the concentration camps, tearing
down the rain forests, things like that. It has a beautiful
image of the Ganges where people are washing clothes and children
are playing while a body is burning on a pyre. My brother is
a friend of the person who created this movie, and that was
his purpose.
Yes.
It takes a keen eye and an open heart to fully commit emotionally
to an experience such as that instead of judging it. If anyone
in your world can fully commit to the emotions behind these most
profound experiences on your planet, it will always lead to that
space of unconditional love - always. But you have to fully commit
to it emotionally instead of judging it, and that has been very
difficult for humankind. Another fine example is the Dalai Lama
and the other Tibetan priests and lamas who have watched their
fellow priests murdered and tortured. They have not sought vengeance,
but have simply watched with the utmost compassion. When you
watch them, it is as if their very being embodies the doorway
of paradox. They become the doorway, and any individuals who
encounter them can have a choice then to walk through that doorway
and experience that love. But it does take emotional commitment.
Question:
There is a story about the end of WWII when the Americans were
liberating a concentration camp. A commanding officer was liberating
the camp. The medics were helping the survivors. He was so
horrified by what he saw that he went to the commandant of
the camp and struck him to the ground and beat him. Then he
burst into tears, realizing the horror of what he had just
done, what the commandant had done, and what he became himself.
When
you boil it down, what everyone wants is love, whether it's Hitler
or the Dalai Lama. Everyone wants to be loved and to be free
to give love. Often what causes pain is the wounds that have
gone unhealed. People are too afraid to emotionally commit to
others, but that emotional commitment can lead to freedom from
the chains of the wounds. That individual, we are sure, experienced
a great lesson. Each one of you in your daily life already has
the skills to live in the same place, to embody the doorway of
paradox within you. The challenge is not that you lack the skills.
The challenge is retraining yourself so that this becomes the
habitual way to live. Right now the habitual way to live is with
polarity. Polarity will always exist because of the nature and
template of this reality. The doorway of paradox is built on
polarity, so it is an essential component. So we're not talking
about eliminating polarity, we are talking about using it like
fusion to create an energy source that propels you into another
level of reality. That's the key to why you set up polarity to
begin with: It is an energy source. All is energy, so you're
all fusing the atom, so to speak.
Question:
City dwellers like a flash of excitement to get their attention,
which is normally somewhat sedated by the lifestyle here in
this valley [Phoenix area]. I can look 10 feet in any direction
and see intact desert ecology, then see some gargantuan machine
stripping the land. That's pretty tangible, a stepping stone
to the heavier issues being discussed here.
How
we choose to see this will perhaps give our own paradoxical twist
to it. You all want togetherness so much, to learn to live together,
that you are forcing yourselves on each other in order to bring
the lesson home. Perhaps we are Pollyanna-ish, but we stand by
our interpretation!
Question:
It sounds like a viable perspective to the ambitious real estate
agent, actually! [Laughter.]
Well,
we have not discovered ways to capitalize on paradox yet, but
someone in your world eventually will! [More laughter.]
The
Void and the Light: Two Equal Forces
Question:
Can you talk a little bit about experiencing the door to be
able to see the light?
Well,
first you have the void, which one could say would be darkness,
but if you don't have any light to contrast with the void, do
you actually think anything is missing? We're speaking in riddles
here just to get your mind going a little. Now, if you lived
in a reality of intense white light as profound as the void -
its opposite - and there was nothing to cast a shadow, would
you know what darkness was? These things we are talking about
are some of the thoughts that might come to you as you do your
candle exercise. You can see that darkness and light cannot be
defined without each other. Ahh, a paradox! Through time many
have come to think that darkness means bad and light means good,
and that you must focus only on the light. Sasha has told a very
poignant story in the past about her civilization. Every civilization,
of course, has its own challenges. Right now yours is the integration
of polarity and moving back into the heart. The challenge of
Sasha's civilization (a civilization from the Pleiades) was that
they were so focused on the light that their own darkness had
to manifest itself clearly so it could no longer be denied. They
manifested this through a plague that nearly wiped them out.
This was a great many thousands of years ago. They tried all
the medicine and healing but they could not get rid of this plague.
They had to look to their own spirit guides, to their shamans
and holy people, who were finally able to get the answer: The
plague was a manifestation of the darkness they had denied within
themselves. Once they eventually learned to integrate the darkness,
they learned a more healthy and balanced way of living. As we
said, dark and light are both essential to existence in this
reality, and your challenge is to learn to balance and use each
of them. If you look at the void, it's darkness, there is nothing
there. It's not an evil void, it is just a void. If you look
at the light, it's just light. They are both neutral in that
sense. If you look at the type of batteries that run your radios,
they have a positive end and a negative end that's like the void
and the light. Only by using the batteries with two electrical
charges (positive and negative) can you create the energy necessary
to turn on your radio. The same can be said for this reality.
The universe is the same way. You need the void and you need
the light. Ultimately, the void (from which all is born) has
been characterized as female; the light has been characterized
as male. This is neither positive nor negative, bad nor good.
It is simply the void and light, male and female. If the void
is characterized as female and is considered the darkness, you
begin to see the profound power of the female, which all of you
have inside of you. (Some say the void had to exist before the
light, which puts a new twist on the metaphor of "man" creating "woman".)
We are not talking about female gender, but about female energy.
Why has the female energy been so feared and hidden and so controlled?
It is a tremendous source of power, neither bad nor good. But
there are two equal forces. In your own psyche you all have those
forces, and whether you are male or female you have a cycle in
your psyche where you are more dominated by the light and another
where you are more dominated by the void. When you are in the
void, it is an introspective time and you may destroy old parts
of yourself in order to make room for the new. When you are in
the light, it is a time when you manifest, when you birth new
aspects of self. This is a very natural cycle. Women (luckily
or unluckily, it is your choice) manifest this often through
the menstrual cycle. You may not think it is very good when you
go into the moontime and become introspective and crabby, but
one of the reasons it has become such an uncomfortable time for
women in the 20th century is because the power of that time has
been misunderstood and denied. Men also have this cycle within
the psyche. Each man's cycle is slightly different. Cultures
such as the Mayans have taught about these cycles. In a general
sense, some of the Mayan teachings say that the men's cycle is
23 days. Men reading these words might want to take five minutes
every day to go inward to see where you are in the cycle. Then
you can start knowing and predicting your cycle so that when
you are in the void you can use the energy for an introspective
period. When you're in the light cycle, you can use that for
creating the things in your reality that you wish to create.
Females, also. These are nature cycles, and by recognizing their
existence within you, you can consciously use them for your benefit
instead of feeling powerless.
Let's
move now toward the idea of darkness or evil. If you do not harness
the energy of these cycles, or if you do not go into the void
when it is your natural time to do so and view whatever archetypal
battles might be playing out there or whatever issues may need
to be addressed, or if you miss a cycle and then another cycle
and still another, the demons (so to speak) get larger and larger
and larger until they start to interfere with your psyche. You
then start manifesting uncomfortable situations in your life
that could have been taken care of in your psyche early on. Many
native traditions on your planet have taught how to use these
cycles and to confront the void during the appropriate time so
that the void/darkness never has to be manifested in the physical.
Many of you are now relearning this vital skill. Perhaps it is
frustrating because you haven't been taught the tools. Even though
there are workshops and books that help you discover these tools,
it takes tremendous energy to relearn them because you've spent
20, 30, 40, 50 years learning a different way. Often it seems
like the unlearning takes longer than the learning. But, simply
knowing this information about these dark and light cycles within
the psyche will be of immense value to you. Now, open your imagination
to how you can use the knowledge of these cycles for your greater
good. If you meditate or even just daydream, it is possible that
you can be told by your higher self the best way to deal with
these cycles. However, it is essential that they are addressed.
The byproduct of utilizing this natural energy current of your
being is that you become more empowered. You are consciously
using your energy. Whether it's withdrawing and going within
or manifesting outward, you are still consciously using it. This
means that you know how to build and hold power. You can then
be a more effective manifestor. We do not mean manifesting trivial
things, but manifesting your life's path with the clarity of
the eyes of your soul. So it is an overview manifestation - not
necessarily a manifestation of the ego desires, but of the greater
vision of your soul here on Earth. This helps integrate those
energies and actually takes you back to the center point of balance
outside polarity through the doorway of paradox and into the
heart.
Compassion
- The Doorway to Integration
Question:
Let's say a situation arises. If you remain neutral with that
situation, you are not going to pick up the frequency of judgment.
Therefore you are going to be closer to who you really are.
Yes,
and one of the keys to remaining neutral - because there is a
difference between intellectual neutrality and emotional neutrality
- is compassion. That will flip you from the mind into the heart.
Not many of you have difficulty with compassion. All of you are
compassionate; you each have a doorway. Maybe it's with animals,
the environment, racial issues or sexual issues, but each of
you has your own doorway that flips you into compassion. You
can use that doorway at first like training wheels on a bicycle
to get you to compassion, then pretty soon you'll be able to
do it without the training wheels. Compassion is the key, because
then you will be in neutrality and out of polarity. It's simpler
than it sounds; it's just the training-wheel part that is a little
bit frustrating at first.
Question:
I'm a little confused about compassion being the center point.
I was thinking about love and hate or positive and negative.
Compassion is sort of (in my mind, anyway) a negative to love's
positive and a positive to hate's negative. It almost feels
like compassion is another end of polarity itself, to each
of the ideas at the other ends of the spectrum.
You
cannot experience two polarities simultaneously except through
their integration, which is different than experiencing them
as two separate ideas. This means that you have to have a third
element to take you out of polarity. Let's say that the third
element exists up here and forms a triangle between the polarities
of love and fear. This third element has to have enough of a
connection with both polarities to be able to be the doorway.
That means it would have to have love in it, but it would also
have to have room for fear, and the potential to use both of
those energies as fuel to create the third element. You said
you see the connection to compassion and love. But compassion
also has a profound connection to fear. When you're walking through
Peace Park in Hiroshima or in a concentration camp, even though
there might be lots and lots of different emotions that come
up, there is also a profound fear. Whether it's a fear that you
could be a victim, or that the world is going to hell in a handbasket,
whatever it is, you will find fear among the other emotions.
So this third element has to be an evolution of both of those
emotions. Besides compassion, there can be other emotional evolutions
of polarity, but we are focusing on compassion here because it
has to do with the heart, and that is where we want to focus
our energy. The idea of compassion is an evolution. If you take
love and fear, or even love and hate, and evolve them like an
equation, you will get compassion. Compassion is not just an
extension of love, it's an extension of other emotions combined
together to create a new level of being. We're having a challenge
talking about this because we're attempting to talk with words
and intellect about something that has to do with the heart.
Once you experience it, you will understand much better than
when we communicate it with words.
Simultaneous
Love/Fear Transmutes Polarity
Question:
I do understand it better with my soul than I do with my head.
So
play with it a little bit more in your own musings and meditations,
and if you're really brave you might want to say to your higher
self, your guides, "Give me a situation where I can experience
this." If you are brave! [Laughs.] Here is a true example. There
was a woman who was attacked with the intent of bodily harm.
Obviously this created a huge amount of fear in the woman, but
somehow when she was attacked (this woman was very psychically
open), she knew the pain of the attacker. He had been beaten
as a child, or molested, or whatever. And she loved him. In that
moment she gave him love, which is the opposite polarity of fear.
As she was experiencing fear, she suddenly shifted - bang! -
into love, which brought both emotions together into compassion.
In that moment the burglar gave her back her purse and wept like
a baby (this is a true story). He apologized for almost hurting
her (at that point he hadn't beaten her) and left. That's an
example of starting in one polarity, moving rapidly into the
next and then moving into the heart through compassion, whereupon
the entire reality shifts. This is a tangible example that can
get your mind and heart going a little bit. You can play with
it, feel the emotional nuances of this experience, and it will
lead you into deeper and deeper understanding. Over the years
we've heard many stories from many of you about similar experiences,
maybe not as dramatic, but where you experienced something emotionally,
shifted to the other mode, and moved into the heart whereupon
the entire situation changed. This is going to be happening more
and more. The difference is that you can consciously shift it
if you want. Each time you are experiencing an undesirable situation
(maybe you've hit a deadlock with a friend), try to go into love
or compassion. Put yourself in that person's shoes, feel what
they're feeling. That will take you back to that center point
of paradox and open the door. When you get there, the reality
will shift. As long as you have sincerely done that, the reality
will shift. As you become more adept at this, you will quickly
begin to see how effective it is.
Question:
How close is compassion to forgiveness?
It
depends upon the situation.
Question:
I'm thinking of a concentration camp where families had to
witness their loved ones being mutilated. The only way they
could get rid of the hatred and bitterness that enveloped their
minds was through absolute forgiveness of the other person.
They often met the person later and experienced that.
Forgiveness
can indeed be a byproduct of compassion. You will find that it
comes afterward, although sometimes it may feel simultaneous.
In certain situations there may not be anyone to forgive, but
in situations such as that, when you get to that point, forgiveness
is natural. Sometimes a therapist might tell you that you have
to forgive a person. Well, you can't forgive someone like you
cook soup. There is no recipe. First you have to make the emotional
commitment to go into compassion or into the heart, and then
everything unravels from there. It's not something one can control
from the head, but something one commits to through the heart.
Authors
Details: Lyssa Royal Germane Channeled
Lyssa Royal is an internationally known channel and author. Germane
considers himself to be a non physical group consciousness associated with the
Orion Light - a future integrated version of the galactic family of which we
on Earth are a part. He chose the name "Germane" because of it's english definition: "Coming
from the same source, or significantly relevant to." There is no connection to
St. Germain.
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