Hilarion: in the Middle East right now, many powerful ramifications of what has been termed “Arab Spring,” the idea that the people in those countries relate more to each other than the leaders of those countries. This is a powerful message that has been very difficult for Israelites to understand and yet it is the fundamental message. What is coming through now in dreams, in the actions of the guides and helpers, energies of the other side,” meet your neighbors.” To the Palestinians, to the Israelis,” cross the border, become friends.”
This is a unique opportunity to set aside what your leaders have told you and discover for yourself, find a kinship, find a family, find a loving, find a possibility here. When this is more available, when people write about it, when it is shared in ways that others can accept it, can expand beyond this, can expand to the neighboring countries especially into Syria and the areas of continued repression and difficulty in the Middle East. When the sense of greater brotherhood, greater fraternity, greater respect and the powerful messages. The powerful messages that have been present in Israel about women can be better understood and accepted in the Islamic countries much benefit can take place.
Israel is entrenched. Much of the Arab world recognizes this, although Arab leaders will speak of it as though somehow it will be removed and Israel will somehow disappear. The people who live there know this is absolutely not going to happen. The opportunity to live with your neighbor, to learn about them, to become somehow friendly, this is ultimately more important than any religious idea, then any thought pattern that is simply there to provide power to the leader who provides that thought.
As this is all occurring, there is greater and greater intensity and focus on communication through the Internet, through various specifics such as Facebook, Twitter. Such as all of the ways in which people can work with this so it expands and expands until it reaches a point of a powerful, critical shift. This has already occurred in some other countries and between the Palestinians and the Israelis some new thoughts around this are now beginning to appear. A way in which the world is told we want to find some deeper connection here. These people deserve just as we do all the opportunities for life, for existence, for understanding.
It is true that at the same time as this there is some backward movement that, “Arab Spring” has produced. In addition to all kinds of ideas of freedom, many aspects of intensification, of fundamentalist religious principles that are essentially exclusionary. It is these very principles that are being mirrored in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because these principles must be discarded.
Those principles that allow greater acceptance, greater love, greater connection are the only ones that can yield any sense of solution to the issues. No people cannot be wiped out. There are simply too many and to accept that this is even possible is going to go again back to the karmic issue, the sense that you are seeking revenge because of what happened to your brother, your father, your mother, or even more difficult, to you in a past life.
It is hoped that as people will recognize this essential sense of greater freedom, the powerful energies that are poured into this place will be better understood. Many eyes are on the countries where there is greater repression and as this shifts more energy for freedom becomes available. What will you do with this? Can it be more than simply an existence in which you have more choices? Could it also be a better use of your time here? When we spoke before about evil, we spoke about it truly being a matter of ignorance.
The powerful question, the aspect that draws you to your center, the energy that shifts you is possible to discover and when people in the world are willing to ask each other such powerful questions, when they are willing to ask themselves these questions this becomes more widespread. It becomes ultimately the thing to do. It becomes for many an act of love and so such questions as, "is it truly appropriate to allow in religious thought that which would exclude, hurt, destroy? How do you feel about that? What do you sense in your heart about it?"
These are indeed useful questions to ask yourself about your own religion and not necessarily what you would call religion in the usual sense, such as your adherence to a particular faith such as Christianity, or Judaism, or Islam but rather the things that you hold near and dear. The aspects of your life, those that when you question them you might feel uncomfortable, do so. Question them. Find a way in which you may ask more penetrating questions such as: what are you really here for? Given that you are going to leave all of this behind who or what is really experiencing you right now? And so on.
As you are able to ask the penetrating questions, you do not have to have answers. You can simply sit in the place of discomfort as you ask and know that this is mirrored or others are willing to produce some similar level of discomfort, probably questions that would be much easier for you to answer. Still though, as this can be shifted many of the aspects in which the hiding from the sense of connection to others in religion, that can be shifted, that can be released and then the opportunity for celebration, for connection, for love might indeed be magnified between the Palestinians and those in Israel until these energies might be shared with the world. What a powerful and important example if love can be found there.
