War And Peace: Breaking The Cycles

This session explores the current state of the world, examining it from a spiritual perspective. This is done to understand our role and participation in collective reality, as well as to take responsibility for the ripples we create. When we open to the nature of polarized consciousness, shadow dynamics, and reflection - we are gifted with numerous treasures in understanding collective reality. Exploring the nature of Conflict, Persecution, and Suffering, and how these themes can play out in our projections if we are unaware of our shadows. The purpose here isn't to polarize or ignore, but to begin a process of participating in the world from a more non-reactive place, a solution-based ideology. To do this we may have to face some uncomfortable truths about ourselves. These sessions are offered to support you in exploring new ideas, which in turn shift mass consciousness. Music by Chris Collins.

Transcript

Namaste.

I've decided to create some sidetracks,

Shall I say,

Which will focus on the state of the world,

Since again it has become so prevalent.

Everything I share is really about sharing some uncomfortable truths which liberate the spirit.

They may feel uncomfortable at times,

Yet this is a wonderful sign,

One that older beliefs are being highlighted,

Ones that do not wish to be seen.

We are living through times again where collective fear and division is becoming the dominant force,

And so all are affected.

I share these sessions to help alleviate and counter this frequency,

As that is the responsibility for any of us who are wishing to represent the peace consciousness that is birthing on the planet.

And we can all take part in this birthing.

It doesn't mean we have to protest,

Stand on street corners,

Or even record podcasts such as I'm doing here.

The most powerful way is when we decide what leaves our doorstep of consciousness,

What we decide to radiate outward,

What story we decide to end,

What story we decide to fuel.

A timeline of fear,

Separation,

Or a timeline of unification,

Integration,

Solution.

We are all interconnected and feel what is happening on an unconscious level.

I've spoken about in many of my courses,

Articles,

Sessions,

The idea of peace consciousness and its increasing importance as we venture deeper through the gates of unity consciousness.

When I speak of the gates of unity consciousness I'm referring to a passage,

One that is deeply transformative,

Yet one that you are being squeezed through,

Much like the eye of a needle.

We are living in times where it will become increasingly difficult to evade the seductive forces of polarized conflict.

We cannot help ourselves want to take a side.

It is like the proverbial devil on each shoulder,

Each one tempting their side of the argument.

This will inevitably increase as we get deeper through the passage,

Closer to the eye of the needle.

This is necessary for us to purge polarized consciousness,

Or should I say evolve polarized consciousness.

We cannot know peace unless we know war.

This means the war within and also the war outside.

It is crucial to share this point before I continue.

We are all involved in this.

This is me,

You,

Everyone.

So when I refer to any idea or concept it is both within and external.

This is collective responsibility.

There has always been war and unfortunately it happens daily in some parts of the world.

Yet when it becomes conscious the collective reacts and this is happening because there is a consciousness shift,

A space for healing.

Yet can we truly have peace without truly understanding what it means not to have it?

When we look at our own natures for the most part we rarely heal anything unless it becomes a real problem.

It can be under the surface and affect everything we do.

However unless it actually creates a significant problem,

Most will not deal with what's under the surface.

Conscious healing of course is another matter which is looking at what is unconscious before it manifests,

Before it becomes the problem.

Yet for most of humanity what lies under the surface stays there.

We're now living in times where externally what has been under the surface is becoming a visible problem.

This isn't new,

It's just what was hidden.

We can either see it as a world falling apart or what needs to be healed is arising.

As a lifelong energy healer I have been fascinated by the process of healing.

I originally trained in therapy and psychotherapy before moving on to my work as an energy healer,

Integrating both.

This has opened me up to the mental,

Emotional and spiritual healing framework.

I share this with you because over the course of my journey as a healer I witnessed that when someone receives healing they inevitably go through a process of intense transformation that initially can last between three to seven days.

Yet in that first week the healing energies of unconditional love,

Source,

Whatever we wish to call it,

Moves to the areas that are in need of healing,

The densest parts,

And pushes them to the surface.

So the first few days can be quite difficult.

Old emotions arise,

Limiting beliefs,

Disturbing behaviours.

The recipient may feel worse in many cases than they were before as they are facing many,

Many emotions as it is purged through their system.

Here healing is recognised as not being a magic pill,

Where problems disappear.

Our problems arise so we can face and understand them,

Own and learn from them.

Then like a wave they are washed away with a new reasoning,

A new wisdom which replaces the older beliefs.

Here there is invariably an incredible peace that is felt.

Healing here is really about creating the space for the individual to finally face what they have been repressing.

If we look at this as a microcosm of the bigger picture there is a force on this planet that we may call awakening or love or peace consciousness that is forcing in essence all old wounds,

Stories,

Limiting belief systems that are polarised to the surface to be faced,

Met,

Dealt with and learned from.

As we do this collectively we change our behaviours just as we do so individually and we change our societies for the better.

Whenever I see chaos in the outer world for me I know peace is getting closer.

Whenever I see things change on such monumental levels things have been accelerated.

This doesn't make it easy and it certainly doesn't mean that people do not suffer.

We're each playing a part in this grand orchestra.

What appears on the surface is a fractal within us all.

In other words if we take the belief or idea that we're each part of one another like an organism then we're each playing out something that releases karma on the planet and enables the shift in consciousness.

However this also doesn't mean that we just ignore what is happening and often when we use the mantra such as everyone should just love one another this is an easy thing to say from afar.

Think of it this way you're having a tough day and your friend says don't worry about it just think happy thoughts.

That's probably the last thought you're thinking about when you're told this.

This is what we refer to as spiritual bypassing.

Bypassing the very real human emotions that are being experienced.

So it's important to honour what another is feeling.

If we are not touched by war ourselves we cannot begin to understand what those who are are experiencing.

It is deeply traumatic.

They cannot help but side and polarize.

They have a different journey.

Yet for us as observers what is our role?

More aptly what is our responsibility?

We all deal with conflict differently.

Whether it's within or externally.

Some project.

Some withdraw.

Some object.

Some ignore.

Some of us battle with ourselves about saying something or not.

I found the ones who stay quiet have perhaps most powerful messages.

Yet stay quiet because they do not want to side.

Or they bounce between understanding each side and find it difficult to say anything at all.

These ones do not know if they are right and this is why they also stay quiet.

I have battled with this dynamic.

Do I stay quiet or do I say something?

What do I say?

And this is another trap when we are emerging from polarized consciousness.

We become caught in this neutrality trap.

Do I stay neutral?

What does neutral even mean?

This is something that we will explore and I will explore in other sessions.

It is possible to have opinions and also be in the process of exploring what we believe in.

This is a difference between having a belief that is full of conviction.

Unbreakable knowing.

And one that is flexible.

One that is open.

One that is fluid.

Explorative.

Yet still shares valuable insights.

We're living in times with our internet where everyone has a voice.

The loudest in the room are the ones who have great conviction in their own beliefs.

In other words,

They believe they are right and wish everyone to know about how right their beliefs are.

This essentially is the nature of righteousness.

Which we all have in some form or another.

It is deep in our programming.

Whether we choose to spread that belief is an individual choice.

Yet reflects something deeper.

I've spent the last five to six years deprogramming from a sense of righteousness with my spiritual beliefs which I've shared in my courses.

And it has unraveled and uncovered many new ideas and ways of looking at the world.

When I look back in my life I realized just how much I believed I was right.

How much I thought I knew.

If we do not know what is right,

Does it mean that we stay silent?

Does it mean that we ignore?

Does it mean that we sit on a so-called fence?

Fences only exist when there are two sides.

For polarized conflict they will always see a fence and see those as not involved in their polarized war as sitting upon it.

For those not seeing sides will see many shades of complexity in between.

When it comes to war it is a complex area.

When we side we fuel the divisions.

When we say everyone should just love one another we bypass the very real traumas people are experiencing on the ground level.

So what do we do?

To understand division and war it is important to understand our own shadow behaviors,

Our reflective natures and the journey towards unity consciousness by understanding our polarized natures.

The world is healing the idea of persecution on a deep level during this time.

Persecution is a grounding force of conflict.

It is the source of the victim blame persecutor cycle.

Victim consciousness essentially says I blame dot dot dot for my problems.

I know this well for my own time in depression.

I blamed everything around me.

I blamed myself.

I didn't know any other way to explain why I was experiencing what I was.

I didn't know anything else apart from blame.

Yet it trapped me in victim consciousness and I became a victim of my own reality.

Reality reflected this back to me.

Blame requires an enemy.

Always.

It is a human response to pain.

It evokes emotions and can allow for a healing process providing it is contained.

If it is allowed to fester and grow out of control it becomes controlling and severely distorts our reality.

It will see enemies everywhere and disown our own reality.

It was when I began to explore the idea of empowerment consciousness,

Here taking ownership for my reality,

Which is a very challenging thing to do because I still misread this as self-blame initially.

Here I began to understand that this wasn't about blame of anyone including me.

It was about responsibility.

I began to understand it was about me being in the driving seat to change my reality.

We are no longer the victim.

We no longer want to blame.

Cracks open and the light is allowed in.

Compassion enters and we begin to forgive.

We begin to let go.

We begin to understand.

We begin to listen.

Persecution is rife throughout our history in many many ways.

The problem with persecution is that victim consciousness will cloud the possibility that we ourselves can be a persecutor.

Victim consciousness will always see the self as the victim of a problem so it could never be the initiator.

In a way we are always the hero of our own story.

For me in my depression I was the greatest victim in my own personal reality.

If we haven't resolved our victim consciousness we haven't resolved our inner persecutor either as both are connected.

Both are shadows of one another.

This brings me to the modern-day witch hunt.

Are we the new persecutors?

What happened to the women during the Middle Ages were terrible.

Yet the energy of the mob and the persecution still lay within humanity's framework.

Whenever we feel the need for self-righteous justification it takes us into the reactionary witch hunt mentality.

We see a play out in many ways.

In recent years we have seen a play out in terms of shame culture.

It is more persecution.

Persecuting others for not sharing our beliefs.

The cancel culture is essentially a witch hunt and strangely it emanated from the left movement,

The liberal movement.

Yet is this strange when we are depolarizing?

Left becomes right,

Right becomes left.

This is the nature of depolarization.

In social activism which I was involved in for many years it plays out as persecuting the persecutor.

In essence it's like judging the one who judges.

Yet we become the very thing we are pointing the finger at because that is how we meet that energy.

The problem with persecution is that we are fueled by a sense of righteousness.

Perhaps initially to defend those we believe have been persecuted without realizing we are becoming the persecutor ourselves.

As we do we end up persecuting the innocent because that is the nature of the witch hunt.

There is another element here that we need to be aware of in regards to how we heal.

Especially if we are unconscious of our healing,

Which all of us are.

We are only conscious of what we are conscious of.

Often we will use external situations,

Dramas,

To play out our own dramas.

They become a portal for us to heal.

Yet the problem with this as we project onto the collective and become vocal with it,

Is that we become part of the problem.

Or should I say we create new problems.

We deepen divisions.

Again this isn't about self-blame,

It is about self-responsibility.

We all use external situations as opportunities for our own healing.

An extreme example here would be road rage.

Down to the so-called microaggressions we do daily with our projections,

Also referred to as passive aggressive behavior.

It is really about our unresolved emotions finding a way to vent in our daily life so that we may see them.

However if we are unconscious about this process,

We do not see them,

We project and become them.

We blame,

We judge,

We criticize.

Yet these are all reflections of deeper wounds of needing self-healing.

Again to reiterate this isn't about self-judgment or judging others for judging.

It is about changing our behavior,

Changing our beliefs,

Appreciating and taking responsibility for our actions and creating change.

Divisive world events allow us to project our internal war onto them.

What I have found is that when I'm unhappy in my life,

Especially when I'm unconscious about it,

When there are things missing,

I will become absolutely wrapped up in world events.

My earlier journey it was conspiracies or anything that allowed me to feel an us versus them.

Because under the surface I was experiencing me versus me.

Us versus them allows us to feel justified with our anger,

Feel vindicated with our frustration,

Displace personal responsibility and issue blame for our problems.

Initially we feel better,

Inverted commas,

As we project.

We're no longer carrying the burdens of our inner pain.

Yet it takes us down a rabbit hole,

A dark one.

One where we realize we cannot hide from our unresolved pains.

We cannot throw it away.

It becomes amplified as we project it.

It becomes uglier as we displace it.

In a way this also serves us because we reach a point where we realize just how far we have dug ourselves into,

To recognize we no longer wish to play in this dark pit.

We will continue to be enraged by things that have very little to do with us,

Because they offer us opportunities to vent our inner pain and anger.

Meeting our own suffering is essential to relate and understand the suffering of the world.

Most are not in touch with their own suffering and this creates a huge problem collectively.

It means that we project it externally as a way to deal with it.

When we feel the need to tell others around us about the suffering of the world intently,

We create more fear,

More panic,

More division and more suffering.

When we feel the need for others to suffer with us,

This seems selfish and perhaps it is.

Yet it is our only way on this unconscious level to deal with it.

When we take responsibility for our own suffering,

We realize this is something I do not wish to spread around.

I want to deal with it and put out a very different message.

This doesn't mean that we hide our suffering.

It means the opposite.

We own it,

We acknowledge it,

We share about it vulnerably.

We recognize it is directly influencing the way we see reality.

We realize we have something missing in our life and maybe,

Possibly,

Using external events to be seen,

To be heard,

To be recognized by others.

Maybe it is also a sign that this something missing can be filled with something more fulfilling.

This isn't to deny the power of raising awareness around issues that need to be highlighted in society.

It is to recognize with humility that we may not know what those issues really are,

Because we are inherently biased.

We can only know if we truly research and listen to both proverbial sides,

Hear from all,

Then begin our journey.

Yet how many of us truly do this?

In nearly all of these cases we have an initial reaction and this reaction comes from somewhere.

And right now I feel a great question to ask is not what kind of world we want to live in,

But what kind of world are we responsible for creating and sustaining for others to live in?

When we have this as our core drive,

World positive change will accelerate.

Blessings on your journey.

Namaste.

Reviews

Love this! Where are your other talks related to this one?

I so much appreciate this thought provoking talk about living more consciencely and peacefully in these chaotic times. Thank you.

Thank you for your humility and compassion. Your teachings inspire me and create a yearning to become my best self, my highest expression for myself and others. Moving beyond my want to blame, and instead taking responsibility, truly feels like cracking open and new light entering.

Such a nice talk. Gave me inspiration to heal what I can influence in my small world.

This is the very first and only true conversation I have encountered on this subject and I thank you deeply.
I have felt desperately alone, unable to share my thoughts, beliefs and fears as we are surrounded by bitter conflicts on our plannet.
Thank you for this brief encounter which I shall revisit again and again.
Namaste 🙏

So resonates with what I’m experiencing. Holding it all.

Profoundly beautiful honest and lovingly impactful. 🌈🙏🏽❤️

Truly powerful, honest and conscientious! Thank you for this message.

Vaz, thank you for your authenticity and the healing space you hold! ❣️💗💙

So thoughtful & wise.

We should all listen, again and again. I know I will. 🙏

Thankyou for this inspirational message. ❤🙏

He is amazing

Thank you for these powerful messages 💚

Thank you Vaz. We all would do well to meditate on theses knowings. Much love and healing and peace, Rae

A lot to think about here. Thank you.

I’ve been searching for how to deal with violence in our time. This talk aligns with my inclination to not take sides, but to seek peace and healing as much as possible. Do no harm.

Thank you for taking the time and care to create this podcast. I believe that I have been making baby steps internally towards this understanding as it feels like the truth. What indeed is my responsibility in this time, in my time in form on the earth?

A meaningful and healing framework. Nowhere to go but love.

There is Blessing living in this meditation. I wish everyone could listen to this. I will listen again, deeply, as what you speak of is at the heart of my struggle.