TURNING A SHADOW DANCE

My thanks to everyone who responded to the "Shadow Dancing 2004" Article with such whole-hearted and honest fervor. Not only does it show me that we are all paying attention on the mailing list--it also demonstrates how diversified we still are.

As is usually the case, some dear souls simply wish that all these talks of shadows would just go away. I can own that reflection. This is not easy work. I can remember several aspects of my Aggregate Oneself who left this planet as an "Ascended Master."

One lady said: "There are no shadows anymore. Just come into the light, and let's party." God, yes! What a concept! I remember thinking that, along my Soul Journey. And then I pondered how many Ascended Masters there are who have descended again, to assist humanity as we move through this transition. Many think that they're here to help us, and that's a nice thought. But they're also here to help themselves. "As above, so below," remember? The Light Beings have come back to collect the rest of who they are. In their enthusiasm to depart, they cast off a few things that seemed, at the time, to weigh them down. One of those bits of ballast was you.

This is also true of the Denizens of the Underworld. If Ascended Masters leave this world to party, Descended Masters depart to recover that "sweet oblivion" which absolute darkness can afford. No mind, no soul, no memory---no YOU. Have you seen the expression on the face of a drug addict, right after he has gotten his fix? Ever walked through or seen a picture of an opium den--dimly lit, and filled with sleeping lost souls? What brings them back up from their Opium Dreams is all the racket that is being raised on Earth at this time.

The Gates of Hell are just a few feet away from the Pearly Gates of Heaven. And here, in that miniscule "betwixt and between" is where you and I drive to work every morning, and lay our heads to sleep at night. And yet, we are becoming an intense focal point for both realms. There are overlaps where "contact" is being made! The Shadow Dance is not about good and evil. Those delineations belong to Heaven or Hell. Our Journey into 3D is about remembering and forgetting. It's about saying to ourselves: "That (person, situation, condition) is NOT THERE. It is illusion!" Or, it is about seeing, remembering, becoming conscious, and being quickened again to Multiversal Awareness.

This 3D World is made up of illusion, that's true. We maximize one picture on our view screen, and we minimize another. Our illusion is not a declaration of unreality regarding the things we minimize. It's just a case of seeing what we want to see and ignoring what else is also there. We filter it, through the use of the Veil.

Everything is real, everywhere it appears.** The Reconnections tell us that our 3D illusion really consists of our belief that what is seen, in any context of reality, is all there is that exists in that space. They remind us that we are always so much more than we think we are! And then, they leave the rest up to us. If we say it's not there, then that's fine. But folks, it IS there. Everything is there. Hellooooooooooooo...................

The very element that attracted us to 3D is also the element that now holds us here, indefinitely. De Nile is more than a River in Egypt. We became physical to focus on something--a moral theme, a hypothetical situation, or a personal resolution we longed to achieve. To do that, we had to deny the existence of many aspects of What Is. That is how the process works. Once we completed our tasks, many of us then turned to leave. And now we find that the very anchors which held us here, so we could complete our assignment, continue to hold us. Fancy that, huh?

Many of you who responded to that article were quite supportive of Shadow Work. This gives me great hope about the impendingness of our Mass Transition. Rather than saying: "It's not there, let's party," you are now choosing to say: "It's all there, now let's party." That statement, though quite similar to the former one, comes from an entirely different mindset.

Politicians who drop bombs are completely unaware of who their bombs are hitting. Accusers who hurl insults at each other are completely insensitive to the souls that are being wracked by their words. Those who steal cannot feel the loss their actions produce. How can this be? It comes from the anesthesia that is produced by the Veil. That which separates Heaven from Hell, to those who dwell in those realms, is a trick of the mind, mixed with an anesthesia of the heart.

When I joined the Christian Church as a lad, and heard all those promises of Heaven, and all the threats about Hell--I used to wonder how someone (anyone) could celebrate in eternal bliss, knowing that there were people (parts of himself) suffering in eternal torment. I supposed that it all rested in the hands of God--and He knew what He was doing. Now that I'm older, I realize that it actually rests in the choice of each individual. In fact, I've discovered that every single person creates his or her reality--100% of the time.

Middle Earth is our locale for realizing and integrating all of this knowledge. In this place of consciousness, we are Librarians of Infinite Knowing and Experience. Neither the ecstasy of mindless expansion nor the oblivion of opium dreams wishes to ponder such knowledge. They're too busy in their extremes to consider that anything else exists.

Some people ask: "How do you know when you are living an extreme?" That's easy. You live in an extreme when you can no longer see or recognize your reflection in the mirror that is before you. In their Terrorism Transmission, the Guides had this to say about extremes:

However, it also takes tremendous idealism for a person of means to brashly spend money on elaborate pleasure boats and cars when there are children racked by disease---starving daily in cities and nations all around him. The mental state of this latter type of person produces what we call a "Terrorist Situation." In order to support and defend your ideology of "I am not my brother's keeper," in all its modern forms, a person must choose to destroy certain neurons in his brain that could connect his consciousness to the cries of despair and serious need that rise up all around him. It is murder by omission, and the person you kill is always yourself."

Lack of feeling breeds more lack of feeling. To say about another: "Well, he made his bed, let him lie in it," is very short-sighted. John Donne put it very concisely: "Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." The Reconnections, in the transmission on Pleasure and Pain, also made it abundantly clear that true ecstasy or true agony cannot exist in a vacuum. Each requires the other, as a point of contrast, so that full perception can be achieved.

The realization that every person creates his own reality is only part of the picture. No real "party" can get going until we allow for the rest of who and what we are. It's like throwing a wedding, but forgetting to invite Uncle Benny and Aunt Jane. They were once the bride and groom, living on love. Now they're living in Jersey, on a pension, and wondering when the food stamps are going to run out. It's very important to have them there--so today's celebrants can see the other side of the equation. And, of course, Benny and Jane need to remember why they got into their partnership game in the first place. We invite them, then the choice is theirs.

The Betwixt and Between expands, because there are always poles of extremity to feed it. The intensity of the Light, as it expands, keeps disturbing the Sleepwalkers, as they toss and turn in their slumber. This is exactly what is happening as Solar Flares daily bombard Planet Earth. If a person wants to keep sleeping, he has to take some pot shots at the light bulbs, doesn't he? This increases the degree of Dark Density that is occurring in the world. In my article "To War, or Not to War?" I described the real reason that the world is in such turmoil today. It's not about terrorism. But it is about terror. It's about frightened children, acting out, because they refuse to awaken from their dream.

Many people ask me: "Why all this emphasis on the negative?" My answer is: "Because it's there." Some negative people need to emphasize the positive. That element is their "shadow challenge." People spend so much time denying shadows that they are actually helping them grow. What you resist persists. Recon Carl Jung says: "Everyone carries a Shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

One fellow was getting a reading from the Guides last Monday (right after I posted the Shadow Dancing Article). He was telling me that the only reason he didn't commit suicide right now was because he didn't know what he would do with his cat. He was so negative, and so insistent on nullifying anything that would lighten his load that Recon Belteshazzar just backed away and let him be "right."

I, on the other hand, was deeply affected by the tug-of-war that appeared to be going on between these soul aspects. I said within myself: "If he is so insistent the Guides are wrong, why would he pay to be here, doing this?" Well......of course, he was there to show me a part of me. I kept the tape, and told him the session was free. And I guess I needed to dance with that part, because I stayed on the phone with him far longer than I would have needed to stay if it was just about him. I sometimes believe that the Danimal may be the most resistant part of all! Isn't he the one who chooses to spend his days and nights thinking, talking, and writing about Oneness? I guess we all do what we need to do until we are done with it. Of course, writing about and dancing in Oneness is very fun as well!

Some people come face to face with Multiveral Truth, and spit into the Vortex, because they are hoping that some pillar of fire will consume them, and they will no longer have to make a decision. It's like those Nazi soldiers, who pried open that box in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Crispy Critters, they were. But the Guides aren't into that these days. We're all here, doing this work, to offer choices not to take them away.

We don't have to wait to get the party started. It's already underway. It's not "pie in the sky, by and by" anymore. And this is why I blessed that dear lady who reminded me to come on into the pool, the water's fine. I told her: "I treasure the souls who come and sing in this choir, to continually balance the energy and show me all the parts of the whole." As the Watcher Self for my universe, I don't have to convince anyone of anything. I just choose to see, embrace, and realize all the parts of the Danielverse that are traveling along this Oneself Path.

Sometimes what makes a person PATHOLOGICAL is the fact that his PATH has become too LOGICAL. I can drink to that. As a Hermetic Oneself, I can choose to move in and out of mindfulness.....simply by fragging out a version of myself who does not yet know how the story plot ends. Meanwhile, the Director and camera crew faithfully stand by to make sure that his perceptual apparatus gets all the "money shots," and we can all get to experience life through his sacred viewpoint-- forever and forever. Cinema Multiplex!

"Those keynote events, which recently awakened your planet to faith and to action, have torn away the last veils of denial from the Collective Consciousness. A stone has been thrown into the water, and ripples of pure energy now spread around the globe---ushering in what will eventually become known as The Age of Conscious Choice. Doorways are opening, and magic is afoot! This is no longer a game to be played by just the spiritual elite. What was once a privilege of the chosen few now becomes the heritage of all."

Come to the party! We can come in by any door we choose. If we don't want to stay for the whole thing, we can stay for as long as we'd like, and then return to whatever bliss or misery we desire. Shadow Work is not our destination. It's just a tool. It is also a touchstone, ever-reminding us that we always have more choices. We are this, but we also are that. If we run away from part of who we are, it will chase after us, getting bigger and uglier, until we turn around and face whatever frightens us.

One person said: "Fear knocked at that door. Faith answered.......and lo, there was no one there." In truth, I think that everyone is there! Everyone, no one, it's all the same. And it's all me. Just another day in the Multiverse. Just another night with The One.

**Everything is real, everywhere it appears.......but not everything vibrates at the same density. Various dimensions overlap each other, because they vibrate at different speeds.

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