QUESTION 1:
Phoenix Rising: Is there
ever an appropriate use of mobilizing anger? I know you’ve
said that anger is never helpful, but can’t it be used for
internal mobilization, even without expressing it? And can’t
the expressing of it even be helpful sometimes in moving a person
who is paralyzed because they’re stuck?
Samuel: Anger
is understandable, but it’s understandable in children who
have no control and have no power. It is a reaction, and its outward
usage is absolutely not necessary. With your form, anger happens.
It is a reaction based on fear. Any anger that you have in your
life, any angry outburst, any angry drama, any anger you feel, is
a human response to a security issue. As cloaked in humanity as
you are, anger is something that you are going to feel; but as a
Guardian, it is so far beneath you to express it that you should
just dig a hole and hide in it for a while rather than do that.
It closes your heart down and separates you from others. Anger damages
you. It does not damage the person you’re angry with, which
is what makes it so awful—not that they’re not damaged,
but what it does to you.
Can you use anger? Yes, you can use it. There
are those rare situations in which the only way you can get the
point across is for your anger to be noticed. But that is a controlled
and conscious drama; it is not a reaction. And until you are at
that place, as Jesus in the Temple was, where you have mastered
yourself so much that you are able to consciously use anger for
a particular purpose, then you have no business using it.
You cannot say you are dead to your ego when you
are angry. You cannot say that you are functioning at the height
of your energy, at the frequency that best describes the Entity
that you are, when you have anger in your life and in your heart.
Anger hurts you.
QUESTION 2:
From your viewpoint, what were the most important results
of our recent presidential election? What needs to be done to unify
our nation and make it a respected leader in the world community?
One of the most important things that came out
of the election is what happened before the election. As absolutely
divisive as it was—and it was—individuals mobilized in
greater numbers than they have in years and years. Now, I am not
saying greater numbers voted, because that did not happen. I am
saying greater numbers mobilized to empower people to make choices.
That sounds like Guardian’s work, doesn’t it? I’m
not saying it is. I am saying, though, that in a microcosmic sort
of way, you are seeing what you have been doing.
The unfortunate part of that mobilization is that,
once made aware of a choice, many individuals chose not to do anything
with that power. And that, much more than who won or lost the elections,
is what I see as a very significant point about this election process.
It is rarely about the destination, the end of the journey; it’s
about the journey itself, and that’s very true with this subject
as well.
The results of the elections are going to create
opportunities for choices again, another level of opportunity to
mobilize people into a place of awareness that they have choices.
They can be empowered and active, or they can choose not to be empowered.
Usually what they do is just sit back and gripe, because energy
has to be used in one way or the other; so use it for positive action
or don’t use it—don’t make the choices that are in
front of you and end up falling into a more and more negative spiral.
Do you see how that happens? You get really charged
up about something—maybe it’s the tragedies of tribal
warfare in Africa—and you have a choice. The choices are to
get in touch with your elected leaders, send money to refugee organizations—take
action of one sort or another—or don’t take action. And
when that initial impulse of the heart gets pushed aside, you start
falling into a spiral that comes out of the guilt you feel because
you’ve not done something positive when you knew there was
something to do. That guilt creates separation, that separation
creates justification, and that justification gets the spiral moving
out of control, down, down, down.
So maybe the action you take isn’t as intense
as mobilizing your neighborhood into awareness, or it’s not
as time-consuming or persuasive as writing to your elected officials.
Maybe it’s not about sending money. Maybe your action is to
specifically and purposefully send energy for the highest good of
all for healing and wholeness across the earth. And that’s
positive action, and that keeps that downward spiral from getting
too much momentum and taking you down with it.
So, one of the things that has happened with this
election is that a lot of awareness has come up. No matter what
your political leanings are, you have a lot more outlets for action
than you knew you did four years ago. It’s about what you’re
doing with it. What are you doing with the knowledge you have? How
are you making use of the power you have? If all you’re doing
is complaining about how disempowered you are, then you get to be
disempowered, but if you recognize that there are things for you
to do, do them. Because of the nature of a Guardian doing those
things, you’re going to have the world taking that action as
well and doing more.
It’s really important right now for Guardians
to hold the vision, to not be discouraged and talking negatively,
to not be neglectful of all of the things that will add to that
positive energy flow, because your country is able to function negatively
on its own. It doesn’t need a Guardian’s help, especially
when that Guardian needs to be remembering that what you think and
what you say and what you do establishes a pattern that the world
is going to follow. So if you’re thinking “What a loss
we’ve had. This is terrible. We’ve been cheated. We’re
going to be suffering for four more years. The environment is going
to be raped, and the people are going to be set back,” well,
I’d just really rather you’d not put that out there. There
is enough of that out there already without the additional manifestation
impact that a Guardian’s energy can have.
You were saying that so many people got empowered
to do something, but after the election I personally felt depressed
and wondered if I, as a Guardian, could have done more to bring
about change. Am I making a wrong assumption about the role of a
Guardian in this process?
It’s a very important first step, to get
a grip and say, “Just a moment, it’s my ego that is saying,
‘I should have done more. I had a part in the failures of this
election.’” And it’s important to remember that when
you think that you are the sole cause for something like that happening,
that’s definitely an insult to Source. However, Source gets
used to it.
You are dealing with a weave, a tapestry, and
the side of it you see does not give you a full enough picture of
it to determine that this was not the right color to use or a different
stitch was needed, or even that one stitch was missed so something’s
wrong. No, those are determined by the weaver, and it’s all
a part of the flow at the moment. Your world is not a static experience.
It is constantly changing, and what that means is that you are constantly
being given opportunities. If a stitch was missed, well, that’s
going to be woven into the pattern so that perhaps that stitch is
dropped all along the way.
It’s really rude to assume that you are creating
someone else’s reality. You are responsible for your own reality,
and by doing your best and functioning with it, being flexible,
being adaptable, realizing that there is more beyond the tornado
that you are in the middle of, you are going to be much more useful,
much more effective, and much less likely to get in the way and
cause trouble in the tapestry.
It’s good though—having said all of
that—that many of you feel a little responsible, that you feel
a little sad about your election process. It’s understandable.
You’ve worked hard. You’ve focused a lot on bringing about
change, and that change did not come about. But if you let that
sorrow turn into anger or, worse, keep you from wanting to ever
try again, then that’s when true failure, true separation,
will come about, because that will be when you and your spirit-self
stop connecting, stop communicating.
You said prior to the election that it didn’t
matter who won the election because they were the same candidates.
But in looking at what they stood for, they couldn’t seem farther
apart. On what level, in what perspective are they the same?
What I was referring to was your electoral system,
your system of selecting leaders for office.
You mean the way that they rise to the top? The way
they’re groomed and the party system? The corporate contributions
made to both parties?
All of that, including the actual vote that a
citizen makes for or against such a one. What these systems create
is a pretty bland, somewhat disempowered individual. At the very
least you have people who are able to stand intense media scrutiny
so that any little act of individualization in their life gets blown
up and into the news of the moment. So there is the tendency to
elect people who do not have any character. They don’t have
new ideas that have not already been pretty much squashed. That
alone is why there’s not a whole lot of difference between
the two.
But more than that, your president might lead,
but does not in any way rule. Your system is set up to have checks
and balances, but what that really means is that anything that gets
done has to go through a process of committees and voting that makes
Phoenix leadership look efficient!
If the activity levels of interested citizens
stays up, the time may come that history looks back on these administrations
and says, “That was a pivotal time in this nation’s history
because the system was changed for the better after that.”
And was it the circumstances that pushed the people
to need to have more power since they realized they had to have
the power to change it?
Precisely.
So are you saying that in that sense, the present
government may be just what we need?
You buy a pair of shoes and they hurt your feet
terribly, so what do you do?
You never buy those shoes again.
All right, you never buy those shoes again, and
that’s an answer. But there are other answers. You can take
them to a cobbler and have them stretched, maybe. Or you can put
a bandage on your own foot where it hurts. There are always choices.
If you say, “This is a bad pair of shoes. I’m never buying
them again,” and you stick them in the back of your closet,
and every time you see them you think of what a waste it was, then
you’re just adding to the problem.
This is a time for Americans to have a good look
at what they stand for and to decide if they’re going to be
run by squeaky wheels or not. Do you want to be heard, or are you
happy for somebody else to do the work for you? If you are willing
to do that, I can guarantee you that the squeaky wheels will continue,
because they will have found that being squeaky works. And what
is the squeaky wheel in your country right now? Well it’s a
very conservative, religious-leaning minority.
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