{"id":15311,"date":"2015-05-15T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2015-05-15T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T22:46:08","slug":"being-with-john-roger-is-j-r-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/15311-being-with-john-roger-is-j-r-dead","title":{"rendered":"Being With John-Roger | Is J-R Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Being<\/a><\/p>\n

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Is J-R Dead?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been weird, it\u2019s been a roller coaster, it\u2019s been mostly great, it\u2019s been scary, it\u2019s been like a bizarre dream, it\u2019s been confusing. Mostly it\u2019s been exciting and very di\ufb00erent from what I thought it would be.<\/p>\n

The day that he transitioned, or died (or however you describe a non-event where someone leaves but doesn\u2019t leave) I felt as though I was emerging from a dream, where I was the same but everything around me was di\ufb00erent. There was a strange lull in the air, like after an earthquake. I felt very detached, serene, lighter. It was disorienting, but there was a calm inside me that felt very elevating and spiritual.<\/p>\n

I remember lying outside on my deck in the sun, having no particular place to go, since the \u201cearthquake\u201d had rearranged everything. Nothing was going to be where it was supposed to be anyway so there was no point in sorting through the rubble. And the intense sense of peace and beauty inside me made me even less motivated to do anything. I remember when my mother died when I was a kid, my \ufb01rst question to my father (asked with some trepidation) was, \u201cWhat hap-pens now?\u201d I had the same question the day that J-R died. But there was such a sense of security inside that there was no urgency, just curiosity. This was going to be an adventure.<\/p>\n

The physical body is solid, part of the earth, a block of stu\ufb00. It blocks things. It blocks the light, and it can also block invasions, bullets, small animals, wind, other physical bodies. It also can carry things, or bear burdens. With a spirit as huge as J-R inhabiting and maintaining a physical body, it meant that all kinds of things could be blocked. It also meant that all kinds of burdens could be carried by it. That body could block a lot of negative things, with just a word or even a look, as J-R often did with those around him, and with MSIA, and probably the planet. And that body could also carry the burdens of a lot of people, as J-R did with our karma, and probably the planet\u2019s. The day that body stopped functioning, I felt a relief, as though as much as possible had been loaded onto it in those \ufb01nal moments so it could be transported out of here, like loading up a train with as much as it could possibly take on its last trip out of the station, or a ship on its last trip out of port.<\/p>\n

He took as much as he could. And as he said in 2012, in one of the many farewell messages that he\u2019s been giving since he started his work: \u201cI\u2019m not going anywhere.\u201d If anything, he just became more present inside. And who is J-R anyway? Is he a guy who evolved and was promoted to higher spiritual aware-ness and now has some kind of bigger position? Or is he a guy who just let go, and became a vehicle for spiritual awareness, and then dissolved? Or is he a character we all invented in our collective dream because we wouldn\u2019t believe spiritual truths if we told them to ourselves, and who we\u2019ve pushed into a deeper, less conscious part of our dream so we can learn about the \u201cdead\u201d parts of ourselves?<\/p>\n

Being an initiate of someone like that is a bond, like a marriage. We\u2019re connected. So when he went some-where a part of me went with him; and another part of me stayed here. In a way I\u2019m more split now, but the part that\u2019s with him is less split because he\u2019s less split. I\u2019ve observed that since he\u2019s been \u201cgone,\u201d I\u2019ve given myself a bit more freedom to get myself into messes. The most frustrating part of my life is still there, which is that after 33 years in MSIA I still can\u2019t consistently duplicate on my own what I experienced around J-R\u2019s body and still experience around the workshops and institutions that he\u2019s set up. So I still have to do spiritual exercises, listen to\/watch seminars, go to workshops. I know the end goal is to do it all on my own, and I still complain about the ine\ufb03ciencies and slowness of this whole setup, and I still participate in it. Unlike him, I have nowhere else to go … for now.<\/p>\n

With J-R\u2019s body gone, there seems to be less of a block to negativity. Since the earthquake everything\u2019s been repositioned. What was a door is now blocked and what was a wall is now wide open. The winds can blow things in more easily, but at the same time it\u2019s easier to step around them, and there\u2019s treasure scattered all over the ground amongst the rubble. There\u2019s less structure, more disorder, more freedom, more emptiness in the outer world. With so many of the structures blown to bits, you can see further; you can feel the wind and the rain and minute changes in the weather now.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a big shift for the planet too, and the adjustment period has just begun. The people who are living in the house where J-R lived (which is a huge vortex of Light energy) and who have some ability to see into other levels of consciousness, described how, on the night when he died, beings from other realms and other planets were coming to the house en masse, confused, looking around, asking \u201cWhere is he?\u201d Since there\u2019s no separation, we\u2019re all in this together, and on more unconscious levels everyone on the planet is asking the same question.<\/p>\n

And on this dualistic planet we also all know where he is, and it\u2019s as peaceful there as it ever was. One of the funniest things to watch in the last six months has been how we have started to act as though he\u2019s more distant (which would mean that spirit is more distant, an absurd idea), and that we can now get away with things,\u00a0or withhold things that we couldn\u2019t withhold before, or that we now have to do something, or that we\u2019re now \u201cin charge\u201d of something. It\u2019s kind of like a baby who thinks you can\u2019t see them if they hide their eyes. It\u2019s all as open and obvious as it ever was, and spirit is as \u201cin charge\u201d as it ever was. J-R being \u201cgone\u201d is an illusion that we\u2019ve all bought into, to varying degrees. It\u2019s in the air, so there\u2019s work required to overcome that illusion. As usual, I don\u2019t have to do anything elaborate to break the illusion, just stay in good spirits, live life, do spiritual exercises, and ask for what I need. It\u2019s all the things that I think I have to do that get me in trouble. \u201cThe training wheels are o\ufb00,\u201d as a friend said. And more than that, the roads have been reshu\ufb04ed. It\u2019s going to be an adventure.<\/p>\n

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By\u00a0David Sand<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Sand in Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1987 (below). He has since been replaced by a stone replica.<\/p>\n

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\"David<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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