An edited channeling which relates to this issue of power and vulnerability.

Empower Love

"Violation is not one's right. One is not fighting for their religion in this sense. These ideologies are not at the root of the conflict. The root is, in a broad sweeping sense, the desire for empowerment. The desire for power. The desire to live your life empowered. Not to be subjugated to another. Not to suffer at the hands of others. Not to be impoverished. The drive is empowerment to live your life as you so desire.

"So far, the means to achieve that has been through power. Power over other. From the beginning of your primitive cultures, to the technological societies you currently have, the seeing of other as not self, and the struggle for survival"...

(Unfortunately I was interrupted and had to temporarily end the session. Upon returning, I forgot to turn on the microphone and lost most of the rest of the session. However I was encouraged to add my own words here, and to try to recollect at least part of the message.)

My words: From the sticks and rocks of primitive man, to the atomic weapons of current day, mankind had used power to destroy that which has been perceived as a threat to his survival and his way of life. Man is vulnerable. We can be killed, enslaved, tortured, and all the other atrocities that mankind has inflicted upon one another. We have developed ever greater power in order to protect ourselves. Power has been the means to protect our vulnerability, our life.

Few believe that love has any power to protect us. Judas betrayed Jesus in the hope that Jesus would use his God given powers to save himself and his people. Judas hoped that Jesus would use his power to restore freedom to his people, to empower them once again so they would not be suppressed. However, Jesus message was one of peace and love, even in the face of death.

Power was separate from love. Power became the means to ensure our survival, our safety, and our way of life. It is this relationship between power and vulnerability that is at the heart of these conflicts, and not the specifics of any religion or government. It is the hatred and fear of suppression and the diminishment of our being, which all have experienced to one degree or another, that on the international level keeps mankind symbolically and literally developing ever greater means of power, to wield the ever bigger stick.

Ultimately, on the collective and individual level, power over another is not the answer. Humanity will be stuck in this inner conflict, between its vulnerability and power, until humanity realizes power separated from love will never keep one safe. Someone's freedom is another's enslavement. Someone's abundance is another's poverty. Someone, somewhere will always be kept suppressed, and the suffering and killing will go on.

The problem has been that love has not been perceived as being able to keep anyone safe. Love has not stopped a ruthless dictator. Gandhi and others who have championed peace, have died at the hands of others. Love is meek, and easy prey.

The answer I receive to this dilemma is, "to empower love". Love is not a force that can be used to overpower another. Within love are contained the attributes of brotherhood, peace, joy, freedom, justice, the right to self determination, treat your neighbor as you wish to be treated, and much more. Love is a collective choice. It is freedom and abundance for all. It honors diversity and choice.

The pattern that humanity has been locked into is seeing other as not self, as other. There is Oneness, and there is fragmentation. But the Oneness is Love, and that Love is within each of us. The path of healing is through ourselves and owning our projections. And choosing Love, and all it embraces, for all of mankind.

(Continuing with the channeling)..."mutual coexistence in love and light for all."

"Let us all pray for peace. That love may be manifested in the hearts and minds of mankind, and that there be an end to the violating of one another. May there be an end to the self hatred, whether or not you are aware of that, it is in you. May there be an end to the projecting upon others all of our own inner woundings. May we be healed within, and may that healing and love be projected upon others. Of course, not in a way which limits anyone, or dictates circumstances, but only as a will of good intention, of healing, of love light, of their being made full in life. Let us say three Oms together."

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