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“If children were raised in a higher consciousness level, this world would transform tremendously and magnificently.\u00a0 That is bringing in a full dimensionality to it.\u00a0 You are your own advocate.\u00a0 Raise yourself no matter how you were raised.”<\/em> – John Morton <\/p>\n This article comes from a sharing John had in March 2021 with the Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy Doctorate of Spiritual Science Year 2 and Year 5 classes.<\/strong><\/p>\n Clarifying and processing relationships is something we are all involved with.\u00a0 We are in a relationship with ourself that never stops, including whatever goes on physically.\u00a0 We are born into the world; we die and deal with whatever is in between.\u00a0 Whatever is before or after all of that is included in relationship.<\/p>\n I encourage people to consider there is a relationship to a capitalized Self, like Big Self, High Self and God Self.\u00a0 Then you are using relationships to grow, and that is ongoing.\u00a0 You are developing.\u00a0 We are all developing at the Soul level.\u00a0 It\u2019s non-stop.\u00a0 The Soul knows how to use everything that happens \u2013 the best, the worst and anything else.<\/p>\n Having that awareness is valuable.\u00a0 Trust that whatever you are going through with agreements, disagreements and surprises is an opportunity to be in relationship with yourself.\u00a0 You work it out for yourself.\u00a0 This is really important.\u00a0 The way I would say it for all of us is you need to be your own advocate.\u00a0 You need to stand up for yourself because who else is going to be there?<\/p>\n You might say, \u201cI had my parents.\u201d\u00a0 Dads and moms can also be put-down or disruptor artists.\u00a0 They may do terrible, awful things and the records show it.\u00a0 It can be perfect, but it doesn\u2019t always play out that way.\u00a0 Let that go.\u00a0 Be beautiful, magnificent, and majestic.<\/p>\n Some parents will do great and good things for their children they don\u2019t do for themselves or anybody else.\u00a0 There is something really powerful in that relationship.\u00a0 I\u2019ve said many times that parenting is the most important job in the world.\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 You are raising God\u2019s child.\u00a0 It\u2019s like, \u201cTag, you\u2019re it.\u201d\u00a0 The parent has the responsibility.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t always work out in a neat, clean package.\u00a0 Parents are sometimes removed because God does that too.\u00a0 Or they had no business becoming a parent other than providing a sperm or ovum.\u00a0 Otherwise, they are not very qualified. They\u2019re lousy at it.<\/p>\n If children were raised in a higher consciousness level, this world would transform tremendously and magnificently.\u00a0 That is bringing in a full dimensionality to it.\u00a0 You are your own advocate.\u00a0 Raise yourself no matter how you were raised.\u00a0 Whatever influence that was, raise yourself.\u00a0 Raise yourself up so you are loyal to yourself at the highest level.\u00a0 The best loyalty is to your Soul.<\/p>\n We practice that in MSIA and call it out directly.\u00a0 How do you do that?\u00a0 It is not necessarily loyalty to your feelings, attractions, habits or all those kinds of things that people do.\u00a0 Those can be things that aren\u2019t really important at the level of Soul.\u00a0 They can be very disturbing to the Soul.\u00a0 Unnecessarily disturbing, like pain and suffering.\u00a0 We\u2019re all learning that.<\/p>\n Be truthful.\u00a0 The worst deception is self-deception.\u00a0 Really be there with what is true.\u00a0 Go to the level of your heart.\u00a0 If you realize, in your heart, \u201cI love this person,\u201d it\u2019s over.\u00a0 Everybody else in the world might go, \u201cI don\u2019t get it.\u00a0 There should be a law against this.\u00a0 Those two should not be together.\u201d\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t matter if you love somebody.\u00a0 That\u2019s it.\u00a0 It\u2019s over.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about you really giving it all like there are no holds.\u00a0 It\u2019s true love.\u00a0\u00a0 You could say, \u201cThat is very vulnerable.\u00a0 What about my own love?\u201d<\/p>\n You don\u2019t have to stop loving yourself to love somebody completely.\u00a0 The best way to do that is to love yourself so completely that you are also loving them completely.\u00a0 How can you do that with every single person in the world?\u00a0 If you tried to meet every single person, a lot of them would die before you had the chance.\u00a0 You wouldn\u2019t get the opportunity.<\/p>\n Practically, it does become very personal at times.\u00a0 It can be an intimacy where there is only one person to whom you give that intimacy, but it\u2019s on the level of God.\u00a0 That is how I see the opportunity.\u00a0 You would love this person the way you would love God.\u00a0 God is not jealous or envious about this.\u00a0 If anything, God is in celebration.<\/p>\n If you have the kind of loving that becomes conditional, I don\u2019t even call that loving.\u00a0 I just call it, \u201cconditional consciousness\u201d. You pull back the loving and then do the conditions as your way of expressing or relating to your life.\u00a0 I don\u2019t call that unconditional.\u00a0 It\u2019s not loving as soon as it becomes conditional.\u00a0 The unconditional loving is where I just love, and I\u2019m not trying to figure out what\u2019s in it for me.\u00a0 If I say, \u201cYou have to do unto me what I just did unto you or else,\u201d that is not loving.\u00a0 Love freely and openly.<\/p>\n Be your own advocate.\u00a0 You are the one who would know what is true for you. Every person has that responsibility, and it can be different.\u00a0 That is one of the things that makes a relationship fantastic.\u00a0 Our differences are so amazingly great!\u00a0 Or they can be awful, terrible differences.\u00a0 Like if you say, \u201cI don\u2019t want to do that,\u201d and they say, \u201cWell I do.\u201d\u00a0 How do you sort that out?<\/p>\n Where are we going with this?\u00a0 Are we going to stay in the loving?\u00a0 Or are we going to get all caught up in our differences?\u00a0 If you say, \u201cI somehow lost track of the loving,\u201d remind yourself that you are the one that lost track.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t do it to you.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care what they did.\u00a0 It\u2019s your loving.\u00a0 100% your loving. If you lose it, if it goes down, if it\u2019s in suffering, that is something you are doing.\u00a0 You can still take care of yourself.\u00a0 Be your advocate.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let anybody hurt you.\u00a0 That\u2019s that. Don\u2019t allow that, and don\u2019t hurt yourself.<\/p>\n Sometimes we slip up, particularly in the things we say rather than do. \u00a0There is probably much more mental and emotional damage than what people physically do to each other.\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about extreme violence and murdering people.\u00a0 That\u2019s way, way too far.\u00a0\u00a0 The damage I\u2019ve observed with people from what has been said and done to them psychically is often worse in my view.\u00a0 People have been physically really hurt, violated tremendously, but psychically is where it can be the most difficult.<\/p>\n Be your own advocate.\u00a0 Say, \u201cRegardless of what they did to me, I rise up.\u00a0 I redeem, heal, clear, and restore myself.\u00a0 They can\u2019t take that from me.\u00a0 That is in me.\u201d\u00a0 There is a truth there.\u00a0 You can play at a very high level in relationship because you trust yourself and don\u2019t allow yourself to be psychically or physically damaged.\u00a0 Those are violations.<\/p>\n What do we do when we do that kind of thing?\u00a0 Work it out.\u00a0 Forgive it.\u00a0 How many times do I have to forgive?\u00a0 One more time than you judge.\u00a0 There it is.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean you have to sign on for another round of getting the hell beat out of you.\u00a0 Call that off.\u00a0 You can say, \u201cThat\u2019s over.\u00a0 I\u2019m going elsewhere.\u00a0 Where?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Somewhere away from you.\u201d\u00a0 That is self-advocacy.<\/p>\n If you do that out of punishment, like \u201cI\u2019m just trying to hurt you and bother you\u201d, you will get karma for that.\u00a0 That\u2019s not the way to do it.\u00a0 Instead, it\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m leaving to take care of myself.\u00a0 I have some attachment here, so it\u2019s going to hurt.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to feel something like a wound or a loss because I had hoped, wished and wanted something far different.\u201d\u00a0 Then take care of yourself.\u00a0 Do what you have to do.<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to love you because that is who I am.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to love you through this and past this.\u00a0 There is something God does which is released in the blessings because they\u2019ve been tied up in the karma and what the karma wouldn\u2019t allow.\u00a0 The karma has to be balanced.\u00a0 There is a law there.\u00a0 But grace would say, \u201cHey, let\u2019s just clear this.\u00a0 Let that go.\u00a0 It\u2019s back there.\u00a0 Let\u2019s live here.<\/p>\n That is a relationship that can go high and higher without limit.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to love you no matter what.\u00a0 That is who I am.\u00a0 But if your loving is going to be about hurting me, that\u2019s not loving.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to call you on that.\u00a0 I am not going to let you do that.<\/p>\n At some point, you might say, \u201cI am going somewhere else now.\u00a0 Being around you seems to be enticing you to hurt me.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to do that.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want you to have that karma for hurting me.\u00a0 I\u2019m one of God\u2019s beloved.\u00a0 You get some straightforward karma when you try to hurt me.\u201d\u00a0 There is a truth in there.\u00a0 You are helping them by not letting them hurt you because they get karma for that.\u00a0 You have to go out of range where they can\u2019t hurt you.<\/p>\n Maybe the relationship had romance and potential in it.\u00a0 But what is the reality?\u00a0 Was it working?\u00a0 No, because you got more and more miserable.\u00a0 Take a break if nothing else.\u00a0 Get back to your sweetness, tenderness and all the qualities of loving.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t do that, you might say, \u201cLook, I\u2019m not handling this well. I\u2019m getting sick and going insane.\u00a0 It\u2019s not working for me.\u00a0 I need to advocate for myself to get clear of this.\u201d\u00a0 That is wisdom.<\/p>\n If you are not handling it well, getting sick, disturbed and suffering, is that a marriage made in heaven that God blesses in every moment?\u00a0 There is something off there.\u00a0 Not that it cannot be restored.\u00a0 But at least take a break, perhaps a separation.\u00a0 If we had more room for that, not allowing the negativity, disturbance, or violation to take hold, then every relationship would be sacred.\u00a0 It allows for us to slip and be human.<\/p>\n Then what do we do?\u00a0 We come into the grace of it, let it go and forgive it.\u00a0 That is not a license to say, \u201cOkay, you forgave me, so I can do it again, right?\u00a0 I\u2019m going to beat the hell out of you all over because you forgave me.\u00a0 Then the next time I beat you, you have to forgive me because you are such a holy, pure, beloved being.\u201d No.\u00a0 Even though you may have karma, you can take a break from it.<\/p>\n Look for grace in your life. You are not going to get the hell beat out of you everywhere you go because that\u2019s your karma.\u00a0 Look for somebody who loves you past that.\u00a0 Start with yourself.\u00a0 Love yourself past that.\u00a0 Look for somebody that doesn\u2019t want to take it out on you because of whatever karma you brought into the relationship.<\/p>\n I am an advocate for upfront disclosure.\u00a0 Like on the first date, in the first ten minutes you say, \u201cHere are all the worst things about me.\u201d\u00a0 Be honest and open and maybe you\u2019ll find someone that goes, \u201cThat\u2019s kind of adorable that you would tell me about all that upfront.\u201d<\/p>\n It is possible that people see your scars as beauty marks.\u00a0 They really do.\u00a0 Other people may see them as ugly.\u00a0 But some people see what you\u2019ve endured, what you\u2019ve been able to take on in your life and how you keep ticking and wanting to be a loving human being.\u00a0 They know what the scars are from.\u00a0 They have a true compassion for what people have been through. They want to be kind and tender with you.\u00a0 They are seeing, \u201cThis is a match made in heaven.\u201d\u00a0 Someone adores where you came from and that you are not there anymore.<\/p>\n You are here and now, blessed in this beautiful relationship, first and always with the Beloved in your heart.<\/p>\n Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n Father, Mother,\u00a0God, we ask for Your Light.<\/p>\n If there\u2019s a place\u00a0in your heart Just go inside and\u00a0find that place You might see\u00a0yourself standing inside at a place You’re going to\u00a0open this truth. As you stand\u00a0before this rock of truth, As you stand more\u00a0brightly in your truth, that rock gets hot. What you stand in\u00a0is your beauty and the magnificence of who you are. As you walk in\u00a0truth,\u00a0you walk with God.<\/p>\n Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Blessing for Standing in Truth<\/h4>\n
\nwhere truth has\u00a0been locked away and hardened,
\ngo to that place\u00a0now.<\/p>\n
\nwhere you have locked\u00a0the truth away,
\nwhere it’s been\u00a0hardened by your experience of life.<\/p>\n
\nthat looks very\u00a0much like a rock,
\nor it could look\u00a0like a cave that’s closed off.<\/p>\n
\nAnd you open it by\u00a0your presence, by being who you are.<\/p>\n
\nyou begin hearing\u00a0all the things you’ve done or said
\nthat\u00a0misrepresented who you are.
\nIt’s as though the rock just starts casting
\nbits and pieces of\u00a0itself towards you.
\nBut you cannot be\u00a0hurt for you are standing in the Light.
\nAnd the Light\u00a0dissolves all the particles
\nand all the bits\u00a0and pieces of rock.<\/p>\n
\nAll you have to do\u00a0is be yourself.
\nJust stand in your\u00a0presence.
\nYour light is\u00a0brilliant and becomes brighter
\nand that rock gets\u00a0hotter so that it’s red hot.
\nIt just starts changing colors with the Light\u00a0pouring in.
\nIt becomes white\u00a0hot,\u00a0and then it’s\u00a0gone.<\/p>\n
\nThat’s where you\u00a0are at this moment.
\nYou also realize\u00a0that from this day forward,
\nyou can walk in\u00a0the truth of your being.<\/p>\nWATCH A BLESSING WITH JOHN MORTON<\/h4>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t