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Opalescence is like that… as I am learning, as I go. There is always more… I’m so glad for the greater understanding 😀
Peace!

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Dang it all, I’m on a borrowed computer and it just ate all my replies I just typed, aargh! Alright, the brief response then…
@Neiru2012 wrote:

@opalescent wrote:

Do you not know what it is to have regret, grief, or addiction? Or any of the other host of human experiences and emotional anchors that weigh a person’s spirit from soaring, or hide from them the path to knowing their own divinity?

If I feel regret, grief, or addiction, I usually indulge in them until they burn themselves out. Indulging in them allows me to process them most efficiently and I get over them pretty quick. They don’t weigh me down because I don’t treat them as an enemy, but as a vital part of a full and rich spectrum of experience. I’ve never seen them as obstructing any sense of “divinity” I have. I see them as “divinity” feeling those emotions through me, one of its infinite expressions. I believe my “divinity” wants me to feel these things.

Yes I agree. To deny the experience of feeling those things is to cheat oneself and prolong misery.

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I’m not saying darkness itself does that, but “personal demons” sure can.

See, calling them that just alienates them from integrating with your being. Maybe it’s helpful for some people to call them that, but I consider them yet another treasured part of me. They only cause trouble when you fear them, run away from them, fight them, or otherwise treat them as some kind of malignant cancer (and I think/hope this was also the point of your initial post). They are most benign and helpful when they are accepted as an integral part of a harmoniously functioning being.

That’s why I use quotation marks. A lot people who haven’t faced their fragmented experiences see them as a source of something that needs to be medicated out of conscious awareness. This needs to be discussed for the benefit of all. Demons of any kind are teachers and thus, ultimately, friends. My whole intention of using these terms (most of which I know by now you will dissect, but they remain largely misunderstood in common parlance and so they need to be dissected) is to open up healing discussion. In becoming accustomed to the idea of exploring a fractured past, embracing the aspects of self that may be held in loathing, a sense of wholeness may be gained.

Oh I do, I do get caught up in the semantics.

Me too, but I wanted to stay as much on topic as I could manage for this thread. Metaphor is a universe unto itself, and a crowbar for consciousness like none other. So to speak. 😉 😆

Why not let your eyes adjust to the dark instead of complaining you can’t see and flooding it with highbeams?

:lol:, highbeams. A whole realm of light is gained by surrendering to the dark. I know I’m probably using these words in an infelicitous way, but I had it so perfect in the computer’s lunch… What I mean is yes, enter the dark, BE in it–I won’t say fearlessly, because if you have fear of it, be in the fear, too–and in being in the dark, in Dark, experiencing it, the true form of the Self is revealed, which cannot be gained by hunting for it in the daylight. There are universes within that cannot be discovered through a telescope, but by learning to see in the dark. Or more correctly, to “see” in the dark!

@Annan wrote:

I am sensing a little stigmatization against the “night owls” amongst us….what about those that feel comfortable in the dark? Feel natural in the dark? Like the dark?

I sense this stigmatization, too, which is why I speak up.

I hope this does not come from my writings here, and you are referring to a more cultural stigmatization, though to be honest I have felt at times like I have been misunderstood as one who does not appreciate or love the darkness. Just want to be clear on that. God knows I feel the stigmatization too, and I seek only to, as I said, open the discussion to be inclusive of those who are not conversant with themselves on that level.

I don’t champion the light because it has more than enough champions already. I believe the continuum you speak to be quite off-kilter in the spiritual community. That is why I try my best to provide counter-balance by championing darkness.

Thank you for saying that, Neiru 😀

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@Ricky wrote:

there has been no work at the moment( first time in 4 years) and the outlook is not looking good till next year!!! as i am self employed things are starting to get a bit dodgey, and i am entering into “i am a dumb ass ” and “why is this happening to me” mode basically old fears are coming up and slight panic, so i guess this is a good time for introspection and maybe bring things to the light.

Ha ha, yeah, I’ve been there for the last couple of years myself! I’m working but not pumping out pulp fiction airport novels 😆 Same with hubby… we’ve learned a LOT about trusting things to work out, and they usually do! Just… keep… breathing…

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I’m glad y’all are enjoying it! So cool to see these colors emerging. Maybe it can show an aura for the site, our collective colors? 😆

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@Alusa wrote:

Moving away from darkness hides fear, hope can be false, why want strength from something else when you can find your own?

Exactly. I never ever ever say to move away from darkness but to move into it. Please understand that. The dark is where it’s at.

@opalescent wrote:

For are not the shadows and all their kind not also beloved and purposeful?

If its so useful then why try to change it? Trying to turn all darkness into light just isn’t realistic anyway, there needs to be balance, you cant get rid of all of it. It has a purpose for being there, if you did somehow manage to turn all darkness into light all the insight darkness provides would be gone and it would be a boring world indeed.

I never ever ever said, and neither did the Pleiadians, to change the darkness into light… at least I don’t think so…

Opal your confusing me:
@opalescent wrote:

I’m not saying darkness itself does that, but “personal demons” sure can.”

I thought you would say something like this is darkness.

Aspects of experience that hide in the closet of fear and shame. They’re dark because they’re shoved back behind all the clutter of memory. This is true on the individual level as well as the collective level. They’re in the dark, they appear dark. I think “demons” personal or otherwise get a bad rap, because they can impart a lot of illumination–meaning, we can learn a thing or two from them. It’s our own fear that makes them appear dark.

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“Lots of people are afraid of the dark. They are afraid to confront their childhood trauma, their mistakes, their problems.” so wait she just did?

…and here, you just did?

… did what?

@opalescent wrote:

“It’s imperative to go into the dark closets where you’ve shoved all the stuff you don’t want to look at. When you find some miserable part of yourself chained to time and memory, you can release it and free yourself. There are many paths to and through darkness.”

Are you talking about light and darkness for what it really is? Or are you putting other things into it metaphorically that aren’t really light and darkness, its confusing. Problems are what you make them, they don’t have to be dark. Its all in your perception.

Hm, how to clarify this more… When you go into “the closet”, into your past experience for the purpose of healing, and drag out all the crap you’ve either misunderstood or put off dealing with or held onto proudly as a personal vindication of having endured some bad trip, as people tend to do, then you’re entering into the realm of The Dark, right? By some route, perhaps not the one you have traveled yourself, but this is the one I’m talking about. Misunderstood experiences from the past left to sit tend to get dusty and dirty and… dark, meaning the light of understanding (a universal metaphor) is hidden, occulted, darkened. Problems are dark when you close your eyes and refuse to look at them. However, the light of understanding is gained by going exactly there, to the dark places in one’s life experience. I hope this helps

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Party on, sister!

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I will dedicate my healing meditation tonight to you and to him and your kin. And I send you right now my love and pray that he will soon be recovering.

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Yeah, my stinger’s been overactive lately, as we’re gearing up for a jumpfrog family holiday visit (3 stops and an 800 mile drive, and 3 thanksgiving dinners, oof) this coming week, and I’ve been at wit’s end getting everything together! Not my intent to sting. I hammered that message out with chaos aswirling and dinner (almost) burning, kid yelling, man grumpy… sigh. Anyway. Life goes on.

I think the whole idea of delving into the darkness is absolutely the most important work anyone calling themselves a lightworker can do, and I love and value Neiru’s discussion on the darkside perspective. I don’t typically call myself a lightworker, as I don’t really understand the term, it seems kinda new-agey. I serve love, which makes no distinctions. There’s a lot more darkwork than lightwork in healing, I’ve found.

So, what happens when dark and light come together, like matter and antimatter? Point, counterpoint, integration… thesis, antithesis, synthesis… or ??? Thoughts, anyone?

Ricky, wow. The hands, how the moon-side hand gently holds the sun-side, it’s so perfect. Me likey.

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@Annan wrote:

I am sensing a little stigmatization against the “night owls” amongst us….what about those that feel comfortable in the dark? Feel natural in the dark? Like the dark?

Nah. There is no us and them amongst us, I hope. “For are not the shadows and all their kind not also beloved and purposeful?” That’s the point, ain’t it?

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Neiru: Do you not know what it is to have regret, grief, or addiction? Or any of the other host of human experiences and emotional anchors that weigh a person’s spirit from soaring, or hide from them the path to knowing their own divinity? I’m not saying darkness itself does that, but “personal demons” sure can. Granted, “divinity” is a vague term, perhaps, but please don’t get caught up in the semantics. Lots of people are afraid of the dark. They are afraid to confront their childhood trauma, their mistakes, their problems. That is where it’s easy to get lost and give up, or cling to a false light. But lots of people have done that work. It’s imperative to go into the dark closets where you’ve shoved all the stuff you don’t want to look at. When you find some miserable part of yourself chained to time and memory, you can release it and free yourself. There are many paths to and through darkness. This message explores that.

Surely you don’t detest the light as strongly as you champion the dark? To me, they are merely stops along a continuum.

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Is he “dying” or is he “recovering”?

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James, I for one adore the evolution in your avatar, from pensive in the doorway, to checking out the vibe, to that amazing smile in the mirror! Wow, that was quick

EACH ONE OF YOU IN THE TRUTH OF YOURSELF IS OF GOLDEN LIGHT. THIS IS WHO YOU ARE. IT IS YOUR CONSISTENCY. YOUR MAKE UP.As the vibration moves into the correct level, you yourselves move ‘back’ into the frequency in which you were designed to resonate.
PURE GOLDEN LIGHT. Therefore this is how you shall be known … by your TRUTH … By your LIGHT …
YOU ARE TO RETURN TO YOUR FORMER GLORY….Back into the GOLDEN RACE from whence you came.

Perhaps “back” means as we’re swinging around the circuit around Galactic Center, heading again into the photon belt, or whatever you call it. Nine, whom I channel, repeatedly refers to this re-entry into golden light, happens every what is it, 26000+ years? We be there agin, folks, just about… And when I was reading Alusa’s response, I saw an image of warriors coming back to camp, happy to be alive and saluting those with whom they have served. A fleeting image, but there it is.

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Warm welcome, Re, your light is most graciously received here!

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Mel, I just posted a quite festive and Scorpio goddess-y message, and while I was at it, got a teensy birthday wish from the Renegades for you: “Melanie, you will love what comes your way during your next solar circuit. We are with you and greet you with joy!”

My dear sister, I love you and you have armfuls of good wishes from me and the whole gang here. Remember, celebrate for at least a week

Frankie and I made you a birthday cake this morning:

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This struck me:

I recently experienced healing of a minor health problem by sending love to all the sick people in the world. How does this work, not why, how.?!?!

Because there is only ONE of you here.

Understand that, at a deep Core level of your Being, and you will understand how it works. As you do unto others, so you do to yourself.

What would happen if you had something in your life to heal, be it as minor as a hangnail or as major as a broken spirit, and you dedicated your healing to the healing of others, in specific or generally?

Thank you for posting this link, Tiaka love, it is most interesting.

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