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“Phoenix Rising,” Fall 2009
Samuel Responds
Samuel Responds is a regular feature in Phoenix
Rising, a free, quarterly newsletter created and distributed by
Phoenix Institute, Inc., Samuel's home base in Lexington, Kentucky.
It contains Samuel's answers to questions submitted by readers.
Please click here, or scroll
down this page, to find links to previous Samuel Responds.
- What specifically is the Guardianship Program designed to do
and why do you especially encourage people in the leadership of
Phoenix to take it?
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The Guardianship Program is a gift. It’s
a gift because it’s a shortcut. It does it all: it pushes
you, it shows you that being perfect isn’t the issue, giving
it your best is. It causes you to look within and it causes
you to look without, and it teaches you those things without
strings and expectations attached. It is such a good program
for learning to recognize and put aside human stuff. It’s
a wonderful program for teaching you what your buttons, your
issues, are. And, even more than toning, it creates bonds with
those of like mind that you’re not going to get—yet
you always need—any other way. The Guardianship Program
gets even more valuable as you are sloughing off the old issues
and getting closer to the core of what you’re about.
The leadership, which ideally is a step ahead,
experiences more keenly all of their individual issues going
on that have not been worked out, because they’re closer
to the core. By creating closer bonds through compassion and
“we’re in this together,” and having a program
that has a short length of time with some pretty hard structure
to it, well, time-wise it’s pretty hard, you are going
to come out of it more successful, more aware of yourself, and
having released more. Why would I want leaders any other way?
How could not doing it have anywhere near the benefit that doing
it does? It’s also a means by which your story, your personal
touch in the world, can be taught. You would have learned what
you can get over, you have learned what being conscious does,
you have learned what releasing ego does, so you are going to
be able to live that and give it to the world. How important
is that!?
So, why are so few people taking it?
Yes, why? It’s a hard program for those
few weeks. It’s a sacrifice, and people don’t want
to do that.
- You mentioned that a large piece of completed Grid was put in
place on September 21, 2007. Was that a result of the Rhineland
Dragon work?
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Yes and no. What I refer to as the Grid—and
have given you a visualization about—is a way to recognize
a function of energy that is expressed through a pattern of
frequency changes. There isn’t really a metallic set of
lines like that, and you don’t literally put something
into place. And I do believe that I’ve always been careful
to say, “The easiest way to describe it is . . . ”
or “This is the way to look at it,” or “Visualize
it this way,” not because it is that way, but because that
helps you see a way to direct your energy. When you do Dragon
work, it has a profound effect on you. And the more you do it,
the less human you need to be. But Dragon force does create
a change in the immediate area that then ripples out. So the
changes brought about by the Dragon work add to changes going
on in the world as a whole.
Therefore, yes, but no. Yes, it is a part.
No, it’s not all of it.
- What are you hoping the raising of the Nile Dragon will accomplish,
and in what ways is the Nile Dragon work different from the Dragon
work we’ve done before.
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Well, as with every function of Dragon force
in the world, its seeding was for the creation of civilization,
and its awakening is for the process of recreating your civilization.
To recreate life, more or less.
In that particular geographical area.
Yes. Of course, now anything going on in one
area is quickly going to spread to others. If you will look
back at how old the Nile civilization is and how far it came,
as well as how far it has fallen—and you look at the Middle
East for that, the awakening—the activation of this Dragon
force should have a like-nothing-before effect on the Middle
East. It is vital and needed change to move out of one-by-one,
and into one-with-one. And hopefully that would not be on the
backs of its people, not be through the oppression-makers and
the creativity-killers and the hard-line religious that create
the one-with-one. It would be a lot better if it was from the
ground up.
It seems as if a successful Dragon work is followed
by a period of chaos. If the work in Egypt is successful, won’t
that lead to more stress and unrest in the Middle East, or will
it bring a greater chance of peace?
Well, that’s the question, isn’t
it? So far, all the Dragon work, even with initial chaos, has
only brought positive change. I don’t know why this would
be different, but there is always free will. The good news is,
mass consciousness is changing, so there’s by far more
chance of positive choices being made than negative ones.
It’s also becoming apparent, particularly
in Iran right now, that there is a grass-roots movement that
could expand.
Thank goodness. And that says a lot.
- Many years ago you gave very specific instructions for people
to get together and form Groups of Twelve. As far as I know, there
are only two groups functioning, and both are at home base. Please
go over what those groups are intended for.
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The Groups of Twelve were set up because I
was going to begin talking about the power of twelve and that
at any one time there are twelve Avataric functions in the world.
It opened the door for that, and that’s good. It is also
a means by which those who are taking part in a Group of Twelve
became capable of seeing the power of twelve. However, I made
the mistake of saying toning is the most important thing you
can be doing, rather than that a Group of Twelve is—although
it wasn’t really a mistake.
A Group of Twelve gives you a way to change
your world. Toning gives you a way to create a stronger vessel
in the world. I would like to say that is because more Guardians
come to toning because they realized that they needed to make
their vessel stronger, but the fact of it is that time and free
will once again wins out, and Group of Twelve gave way to “I
don’t have time to do this; I don’t have time to do
that.” However, I do think it’s important to put in
that if Groups of Twelve that started had continued, if people
had given it a chance, I would not need to be forcing, “All
right, don’t eat this; all right, you must do this.”
It wouldn’t be necessary. If you were still doing Groups
of Twelve you’d likely still have your cheese! [laughing]
- I’m very confused about the instructions you gave about
diet recently. It seems as if you would prefer we all became vegans,
but I don’t do well unless I eat yogurt and cheese occasionally.
You say, “Do what works for you,” but I want to do what
works for my Entity and my spiritual growth. Please help me figure
this out.
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Biggest picture: You don’t have to eat
anything; you just breathe the air and get all the nutrients
you need out of it. Problem with that? Spirit might like it;
form can’t deal with it. You must take care of the form,
not only because it rules, but because the stronger the vessel
the more high-frequency energy can function through it. However,
what I see going on with Guardians has nothing to do with taking
care of the form so that it can maintain higher frequency. Instead,
it’s “taking care of personal wants and creating excuses
for them.” The fact of it is, for your physical self—I’m
not even talking about your spiritual self—for your physical
self, the farther away from yourself on the ladder of creation
that you eat, the better your body is going to function. It
has a lot to do with length of life; it has even more to do
with the responsibility that one species has for another. It
just so happens that the thing that makes your body function
at its best also happens to take ceilings off of evolutionary
leaps. It just so happens that not eating a diet of preservatives
and chemicals actually makes you healthier, and being able to
function at a stronger level physically is going to allow that
evolutionary process to move to a higher level.
Somewhere along the line of your personal
spiritual evolution, you are going to come to realize that,
spiritually speaking, there’s no difference between eating
a hamburger and drinking a glass of milk; they’re both
animal energy and too high on the food chain. When will you
come to that point? Well, apparently, for a whole lot of Guardians,
maybe never. Most of the time when I have seen that happen,
it’s been an act of consciousness. But often I see you
starting to get the realization and then backing off from it
really fast, so that you don’t have to be responsible for
it.
All I have done recently is just lay it out.
I still say, it’s your decision. But what I’m doing
is telling you what your decision means. Is that true for all
of mass consciousness? Of course not. Is it true for all of
Guardians? Yes! Is there a point where it doesn’t matter?
Yes, but there are very, very few who function at that high
of a frequency.
If there was something you could do that would
affect not only your physical experience, your mental as well,
and your spiritual, but it wasn’t going to be easy, would
you do it? What I have found Guardians saying is, “Yes!
Absolutely—except if it has to do with my diet.”
I encourage you to try it and then, after
three weeks—or three months—add something you took
off the list back in. Do you notice a difference? You will,
because if you don’t have dairy in your diet for only a
week, you’re going to notice a big difference.
And, as an aside to that: you can be a really
unhealthy vegan and that would be messing things up, too. That’s
not the point. I’d rather have a healthy vegetarian than
an unhealthy vegan. The point is, it’s about your choices,
and under full disclosure making the right choices. How long
it takes you to do it is up to you. How hard it is to do it
is also up to you.
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