(This article recently appeared in the 2013 Windermere calendar.)<\/p>\n
I have said that we were reaching a critical mass of energy, with more people coming onto the land at Windermere to make it start to move. I want to tell you that we reached that. And we\u2019re going to come here and renew and regenerate ourselves in peace, love, and Spirit and also share it with those around us. People who fight against us are going to be fighting against themselves because in order to go into negativity, they have to sit there with it until they get sick and tired of being negative.<\/p>\n
A lot of people in the Santa Barbara area have gone up to Windermere and said, \u201cI had the most wonderful experience.\u201d They say things like, \u201cI walked down to see the horses, and one of the horses came up to see me. I\u2019ve never been anyplace where a horse would just come up to you to see you.\u201d One person went for a walk on a trail, and a horse walked with her. It\u2019s not every day that you get to go for a walk on a trail and have a horse accompany you, unless you\u2019ve got a rope around its neck.<\/p>\n
We had a person come up to the ranch who could be considered \u201cmentally handicapped.\u201d The staff told me that the person was walking around the horses and that the horses were watching out for this person so they wouldn\u2019t get hurt. It\u2019s strange to think of horses as babysitters, but this person does have a very childlike consciousness. The staff realized that the horses were concerned about the person and that they were passing the person off from one horse to another. A couple of the horses the person walked around were ones that I wouldn\u2019t walk behind unless I was very far away, because that horse might back up and kick me.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s wonderful to hear the things people tell me about what goes on up at Windermere. Some part of me goes, \u201cThat\u2019s just got to be nonsense.\u201d Then I go back up to the ranch, come onto the land, and start to renew the energy fields in my body with the vibration there. I look at the horses, and, sure enough, they\u2019re busy taking care of whoever is around.<\/p>\n
People come up to Windermere and volunteer to train our horses, but in other places people have to be paid to train them. And they do such a great job. I look at the person training the horse and say, \u201cWow, you train the horse really well. Why can\u2019t you do that to yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n
When you start to look back at the energy field of what a horse represents and what a human being represents, you may come to some really unusual ideas about what a horse is and what it is thinking or doing. We\u2019ve watched horses figure out how to open and close gates, how to untie knots, how to find the way over a trail or around a rock that we can\u2019t climb over. They can make you believe one day that they know what\u2019s going on, and the next day you do the same thing with them and come up against the dumbest horse in the universe. Then the next day it\u2019s the smartest horse in the universe. It\u2019s amazing to watch them find out where you are in your strength and then push, to see if you\u2019ll fall over or not.<\/p>\n
Does that sound anything at all like human beings in relationships? In the ancient times of the 12 tribes of Israel, they would fight about how \u201cour tribe\u2019s better than your tribe\u201d and \u201cour God\u2019s better than your God.\u201d It\u2019s all the same God, but people sometimes think they have to be \u201cspecial\u201d in order to be special. Actually, I\u2019ve found that you have to be ordinary to be special because if you\u2019re special you\u2019re off by yourself, wondering why you\u2019re so alone and alienated, why nothing\u2019s happening, and why life is terrible for you. Then you become ordinary, and you\u2019re invited to everything. But if you start to make yourself special again, you get separated out again.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve noticed that with our horses at Windermere. When we see one or two of them get special, they will be pushed out to the edge of the herd and made to stay there until they realize they\u2019re a horse like the other horses. One very interesting horse was at the bottom of the pecking order (or with horses it might be the kicking order, the bucking order, the biting order, or the rearing-up order). We worked to train her to carry a person so that she knew the relationship of responsibility with a human being. No one from the ranch has written to me about this horse being outcast or being away from the group, even though she still has some of the same nagging personality problems. Even though she has the same
\npatterns, she is respecting herself in a different way, so the pattern is acceptable.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a big key to your spirituality through your self-esteem: what you do in this world comes back to your personality through your self-esteem; it goes back in and touches the Soul and pulls the Spirit energy through. If you do the same thing without being in spiritual alignment, you get thrown out.<\/p>\n
Humans are going to come to the place where we stop thinking that we own this planet. We have to reframe a lot of things that are presently going on in our society. We have to reframe our thought patterns and positions. Where does the reframing start? I\u2019ll bet that everybody could say, \u201cLook at what all those dumb, stupid people are doing! Look at those no-growth people, those polluters, those business people who only care about a dollar. Look at all this food that\u2019s a little old, and they\u2019re dumping it out in the fields rather than selling it at a reduced rate.\u201d We run down the list, and after we\u2019ve done that and been righteously indignant and really upset, we go home to our loved ones and carry the vibration into them. And, someplace inside of them, they\u2019re thinking, \u201cGod, I was feeling so good until you came home.\u201d<\/p>\n
We have to stop making other people bad, and we have to bring ourselves into the position of monitoring our thought process. In other words, I can\u2019t put the responsibility of my existence onto anyone else. I can request things from them, I can ask them to participate, I can present myself for opportunities, but it\u2019s always from the point of view of me and my responsibility. When I\u2019ve done that, I\u2019ve always been at peace. It\u2019s when we start to range way out there about what the future will be that we fog up and go into negative talk. It isn\u2019t extremely negative; it\u2019s just not focused in a positive direction. That sets up the winds of our own karmas to start to flow, and peace whips right away from us.<\/p>\n
As individuals, we have to come back to responsible creativity in ourselves. One place to start is by trying to get some peace and calm. Every time I\u2019ve been at Windermere, I have never had an anxiety attack, even walking behind or close by the horses. I have concern, caring, watchfulness, and protection, but I don\u2019t have any anxiety or panic.<\/p>\n
Windermere is not \u201cJ-R\u2019s thing\u201d. I didn\u2019t buy the ranch. I didn\u2019t buy the horses; they were given to me, and I gave them to the ranch. They\u2019re all there for you people, because I can only ride one horse at a time.<\/p>\n
People are coming more and more awake that we\u2019re all tied in together, even into the horses and the dogs, and we\u2019re learning how to get the information from them and how to become more grateful and thoughtful about ourselves here and now. We\u2019re going to make mistakes along the way. In fact, we\u2019ve probably made some that we don\u2019t know about, but they\u2019ll be pointed out to us, and that\u2019s nice because we\u2019ll make the correction and keep moving. The only way out is to go through it, and we will go through it.<\/p>\n
And we want your support\u2014through prayers, Light, money, being physically involved in the processes at the ranch. All of that helps. Even a random thought during the day of \u201cGod bless Windermere and the Peace Institute\u201d does remarkable things. On the subtle levels, it is so powerful. It\u2019s like the light of ten million Roman candles going off in one area: it\u2019s total white-out.<\/p>\n
And it takes a long time for the negative stuff to come back in because it can only be Light to exist there. So I want you to know that what you do is really important. Most of all, thanks for supporting Windermere and supporting me and for helping me tap the wisdom sources to get more information down where we can all use it better and better.<\/p>\n
Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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