Systems

Each of you is a part of a myriad of systems, for the underlying structure of reality is made of systems. This system patterning is evident in the source of all personality, even in the Trinity, for God is three in one, three and yet unified as One. This is the reality of all existence, unified as one yet consisting of diverse, distinct, separate personalities and functions unified through various patterns of systems within systems within systems.

You, your very existence, is dependent upon being in relationship. You would not exist were it not for your relationship to our Creator. Hypothetically if this relationship were to sever, your existence would cease as if it never had been, hypothetical only.

As you are born, you are born into relationship with your parents. The first relationship is the relationship to mother. As that relationship is developed in the womb and experienced at birth, as you, the baby, grow and develop, your world becomes filled with additional relationships, the other significant persons who make up your initial family. These families are systems, interactive systems. Often patterns of functioning become learned in these initial systems and are reproduced at higher levels of system functioning, even to the social structures. As you can recognize through the evidence of viewing these larger social structures in your current generation, these systems of functioning are not healthy. In order to bring Light and Life to this planet, these large social systems must change. However, these systems reflect the original family unit structure.

So it is at this level that we seek to instruct, that we may assist you in understanding the systems in which you now function, that we may assist you in recognizing what is effective, what brings forth joy, connectedness, love, true sharing of oneself with another, and what, on the other hand, leads to artificial repetition of patterns that have been handed down generation after generation.

As you begin to understand your role in the systems in which you function, then correction, where it is needed, can be introduced by you. You are the agents of change in your personal lives, in your personal systems, in your family systems, in your larger groupings. You are the agents of change. It is through your willingness and your dedication and your commitment to a higher way, to learning what truth means, how truth reflects beauty and leads to goodness. Truth, beauty, and goodness are the goal. Learning to live lives that are truthful enhances the operation of every system of which you are a part. As you live lives that are truthful, you alter these systems. These systems become more real, less artificial. Healthy system functioning is the result. This work is up to you.

 Jill:  We are agents of change from the level of families up to the level of institutions. For those of us in service agencies, please give us some indication of how to make these changes, how to move from a fear based consciousness to a love based consciousness.

Minearisa: Thank you for your important question. How does one change these patterns of functioning?There in no simple answer to the question that you have asked. If there were a simple response, attaining Light and Life would be almost a momentary response. However, it is a response that takes time.

Part of the functioning of the individuals on this planet is to focus on others, focus on other institutions, focus on outside systems as being the problem, that which needs to be fixed, that which is broken. Many individuals put much energy and attention toward trying to fix that which is not within their ability to change, for each of you can change only yourself. So, my answer is to work toward understanding yourself as you function within these many systems.

Yes, love consciousness rather than fear-based consciousness would indeed solve the world's problems. Yet why is it that eventhough you are very committed to be servants to one another and to loving one another, you find that you cannot always do this? You desire to be in love consciousness, yet fear comes out of nowhere and bites you, so to speak. How is this? Where does it come from? This is the relationship between the ego and the personality. It is the human ego that has the desire for self preservation and is the source of fear. Now, the ego is not bad, is not wrong. The ego is necessary for your functioning as human beings. It is the ego that allows you to understand your separateness, to categorize, to organize the structure of reality so that you can function. You cannot function without the ego, yet the relationship between spirit, personality, and ego must be such that the personality is in charge of the ego and is subservient to spirit. It is the personality that has freewill choice. It is the personality who is the agent of change.

So, my answer to you today is to do that sometimes very difficult work of coming to know yourself, to recognize when it is your ego functioning and when it is your personality functioning in adherence to spirit. Let me ask you this: Which voice is it that says, "That's your ego! You get that ego out of the way!"? Indeed, that is the voice of ego. So, you cannot force your ego into submission, but you can love your ego into the proper functioning with the personality. You can understand that the ego is there for particular reasons, that the ego has purpose. The ego needs to be recognized; the ego has fears.

Love that ego. Calm the ego's fears. Allow the ego the protection it needs to be quieted. Do not allow one of the many heads of the ego to get into war with one of the other many heads of the ego.

Love is indeed the answer. Self love is crucial, loving your ego, loving God, loving your creative expression, and through this giving loving service. This is what changes the systems in which you function. It is through self focus that you become unselfish. This sounds paradoxical, yet it is the only thing that will change these patterns of functioning.