A sign at Hidden Lake Garden, Tipton MI – more from Barbara below the nonduality paragraphs

August blog 5,  for august 18 -final written  Aug.16  Floating Nonduality: continued

Aaron: I am Aaron. Positive polarity has been defined in the past as service to other and negative polarity as service to self, yet on the ultimate level there is no self or other. How, then, may we define this term? We can define polarity most clearly with discussion of energy and the contraction or non-contraction of the energy field.

The deepest expression of positivity is the willingness to be a vessel through which energy – as abundance, as loving kindness, as light – may flow, to draw for the vessel-entity that which is needed for its own sustenance and to freely pass the rest through with no holding. Thus, one does not deny nor make martyr of the self, nor does one do harm to another or withhold out of fear. Ultimate positive polarity knows the infinite nature of Source so it has no fear that it must withhold or suffer lack. Neither does it serve another in preference to itself for it knows that the needs of both will be met. When this pattern is in process, what I see visually is the clear flow of energy through the vessel-entity, circulating within its physical, emotional, mental levels and passing freely from it to all who would receive it.

Please remember as I speak that negative polarity is a distortion of positive polarity. Negative polarity may be defined as the contraction of fear whereby the serving entity contracts its energy because it does not fully understand the unlimited nature of God. Fear leads it to the bias that all needs may not be met. It may hold back more than it needs, thus depriving momentarily but still causing another real pain through that momentary deprivation, or it may be induced by fear to deep and ongoing harm to others.

It may move to the opposite bias, serving at expense of itself, depleting and even destroying itself. Such movement seems to be positive polarity, service to others, but self is also an other. To do harm to any, even the self, demonstrates the presence of the contraction of fear. There is the distortion that there is not enough or that the self is insufficient as channel for that abundance.  If one denies self, not including self in that sharing of abundance, there is distortion that self is separate from other.  This being may be basically of positive polarity but contains these particular biases of duality and of its own insufficiency. Its energy field is contracted around the issue of meeting its own needs.  It expresses a negative distortion within the positively polarized vehicle, rust on the otherwise open pipe.

Barbara is asking, what of the saint who truly gives its life, in love, to serve another? Here there is no contraction. Its deepest need is being met, which need is to do precisely what it has done, to accept the harm in replacement for another with deep awareness that it is suffering no harm but merely willingly suffering damage to this particular physical body as necessary means of the moment.

Barbara, Writing today, August 16: Yesterday I had the joy of visiting one of my favorite places, Hidden Lake Gardens in Tipton, MI, less than an hour from my home.

I went with a visiting friend. It was special to share this forest with her.

There’s a 2-mile-long path that’s accessible with my scooter. It winds up a hill though well-loved woods, with beautiful signs and many benches (see one in photo) inviting pauses. I felt so connected and open, with deep ease and joy.

… and yet we break; I sometimes fail to find that flexibility with heavy catalyst, mostly because the contractions of fear still close my energy field. This morning a full-time caregiver for Hal emailed that she would be leaving her job… citing health issues and too much travel time for her (45 minutes each way; I do understand her dilemma) . One more major catalyst; more contraction. I know how to open and invite the perfect new caregiver, but right now, I’m feeling so much pressure to find that person in one week, or what do I do??? Fear; anger because of not having advance warning; feeling helpless.

Speaking with Aaron this morning:

Part of the mammalian experience is one of separation, that there may be things that are dangerous out there, and the way the mammal has survived is to be wary of the danger and step back from it. Now, as consciousness rises on Earth, we’re at a place where beings must be increasingly connected to the totality of consciousness, know that they’re part of that totality, and are bringing in whatever fear or love, greed or generosity, anger or peacefulness, contraction or spaciousness they experience . Each is bringing all of that in.

The more deeply you can ground in your own high vibrational, loving essence, and invite that essence into the Earth around you, the more you can make that energy available to others.

It’s a bit like sitting still in the middle of a flurry of bees. If you try to brush away the bees, you’re going to be stung. If you just sit still and say, “Hello, bees. Please relax around me. Don’t sting me. Find food where you need it here. I send my love”, and if your energy is not agitated, but kind and loving to the bees, the bees will probably not sting. But there is no guarantee of that result. You are only able to invite it.

We’re teaching the whole world not to sting by centering in that way. Those of you who are more in harmony with this kind of experience have agreed to the work of demonstrating the possibility of it for others, offering the example, the model for others. You demonstrate that you don’t have to bat at the bees, may just stop and let the bees be bees, and hold the intention, “I choose not to be stung. If you need to sting something, please leave my area. Otherwise, you’re welcome to land on the flowers and the table and even on my lap. But you may not sting me.”

That’s the experience that you are offering to the world. You go into a woods like yesterday and feel that stillness, but you  cannot live in those woods in relative reality. You bring that wood’s essential energy with you to wherever you are, and it helps you to sit with the bee swarm.

The world right now is very much an angry bee swarm. When the bee swarm is very angry, it’s okay to protect yourself, to wear the beekeeper’s hat and long clothing to make sure that you’re not stung. Just make sure that that action is done from a place of love and not a fear of the bees. If fear of the bees comes up, go inside, separate yourself from them for as long as is needed. And that translates to turn off the TV and the news. Just step back from it until you’re more settled and ready to be with the angry swarm of bees again. The bees are simply responding to their own nature which is,  like any sentient earth being, to protect itself.

If something feels frightening to them, they will become agitated, and they may sting to protect themselves. So, let’s call this political energy that we’re seeing in the world that is greedy and aggressive and deeply disrespectful of other beings,  let’s call it frightened bee energy.  We calm that energy through our own presence and being, just like being with the bees.

At the entrance to the tree top suspension bridge at Hidden Lake Garden