Who Do They Think They Are?
March 2013 Channelling
In his final appearance Pope Benedict said that God on occasion had gone to sleep, and there were ‘choppy waters’ throughout his reign. The EU has just curbed bankers’ bonuses for the first time, taking the view that this was the reason for the reckless behaviour that led to the financial collapse. A few days ago Damian McBride, former special advisor to Gordon Brown, appeared before a Parliamentary Committee on the workings of the Civil Service. (He had resigned in 2009 after emails were disclosed of a plan to personally damage certain Tories and their families.) McBride suggested that people in public life can lose perspective when they allowed their lives to be overtaken – and corrupted – by the systems they were in. They can even be disgusted by their own behaviour. ‘And then the media takes off with it’.
It does seem a lot of people have lost their way. Politicians lie and prevaricate when it’s so obvious that this is what they’re doing. Celebrities do more and more bizarre things to get more attention, and more disturbing scandals are uncovered every day in all walks of life. Wish-lists have become so vast, so unattainable, so bizarre, people no longer have any clear idea of what it means to live with integrity.
By contrast, the other day I met a young woman from Afganistan. She told me that most of her family had been killed in roadside bombs; she had separated from her husband, and had to escape the country. But now she is very happy because she has her dream job: working in a launderette in North London.
The rest of us could remember how lucky we are.
Guidelines
“The times have become so deceptive that many people are despairing of ever finding their way in a world that seems so corrupt, so distorted, so unappetizing. Can it ever return to any sense of normality?
It is a difficult moment in the history of humanity. Life seems to have gone off at such a tangent that everyone is taken up with the difficulties of their lives. It seems we have forgotten how to live normal, successful lives in the old terms, where everyone had a job that more or less fitted their description of happy workdays, amongst colleagues they trusted and liked.
No one is sure who to like any more. What are the criteria for amicable friendships, amicable work mates, and amicable peers when so many people have their hand in the trough, or are creating lives of penury because they think they can never have enough of anything they already have in great measure?
It is actually a mean world. People are mean, sights set are mean, happiness is mean in that it means ‘I’ want to be happy despite what anyone else needs or wants.
People have come to an impasse in their meanness. Meanness is small, it makes people small, including and especially those who think they are big – bigger than anyone else – because they have money, or celebrity or height or depth or recognition. Bigness makes people mean, especially when they cannot ever be big enough. Then they get meaner and meaner – to themselves, within themselves and about themselves. They get ‘pinched’ with meanness.
It’s a mean world at the moment because people want everything for themselves, and very little for others. There’s a real feeling of unhappiness in the air that comes from searching for happiness in all the wrong places.
So where is happiness?
We think happiness is residing inside the beautiful core of our being that is so hidden now that it cannot be reached without a real effort being made, a real searching and seeking for the beautiful, rich, happy person inside all the meanness.
Let’s look at that.
Find yourself in a place of great simplicity: a corner of a bare room; a lit-up corner that simply puts the spotlight on you. You feel the spotlight coming into the very core of your being; lighting up the very spot that tells you exactly who you are.
The light feels warm in the lower part of your body; it feels as though you have a warm band of happiness around the base of your body. The warmth begins to make you feel happy just to sit there, being happy. It’s as simple as that. You can be happy just by being into you. You at the core of your being are happy. Trust me! Then take it from there. It’s from there, the core of your being, that marks the spot you begin to realign, regroup, readdress the issues. Meditate on it.”
Read February 2013 Monthly Channelling: The Union of Europe