Hello dear readers.
Recently - within the last week, I have been going through a period of perceiving intense contraction. I remember hearing Beloved Julie speak of this kind of event many times over the years, yet this is the first time I know within my own being what it really feels like - without fully identifying with the energies. Hurrah!
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I feel as if there are energies all around me that can be perceived by my nervous system and my third eye. These energies compress in on InI and everything "energetically" coming into my consciousness and around me feels for the most part - dark, heavy, empty, negative and devoid of Light. If I don't check myself - my mind can fill up on these energies and I can find I-self thinking - mentally expressing - the negative vibes of the energies.
Whilst I know in my mind and my heart that these are energies - I am human it does affect I - even whilst checking myself and moving in time and space without identifying with the energies. I have found that during this time of contraction it has been the most helpful to be outside with Mother Gaia as much as possible.
ONElove,
JohannaThe Power of Contraction and the Drama of Light and Darkness
Julie Redstone
"...One can look at this phenomenon in two ways -- impersonally, as an electromagnetic effect of Creation which causes an interaction between polarities (see below), resulting in light's capacity to attract darkness to itself as a magnet does. Or, it can also be looked at in terms of the 'will' aspect of this interaction, namely, the intentionality and desire of dark energies to prevent and inhibit the outward expansion of light. Both interpretations are true. What is also true is that the 'will' aspect of darkness is primarily directed toward the light itself, not toward oneself personally, though most of the time when involved in this kind of interaction, we experience it as being personally directed toward ourselves. The latter, however, happens much more rarely. For this reason it is useful to think of darkness as operating in relation to light, rather than as operating as a force designed to defeat us personally. The former attitude allows us to martial our inner strength so that we can try to hold steady and endure through time. The latter invites fear and paranoia.
The suppression of the expansion of light defines the nature and purpose of dark energies within the realm of Creation that are the source of contraction. Darkness came into being when the original Unity from which all emerged radiated outward, manifesting pairs of opposites. Before then, darkness had no effect and could have no effect on anything since it was part of a greater whole. Still, today, at the highest levels of spiritual vibration it has no effect. But once separated out into the duality of light-darkness, the latter became the force that within the realm of duality could act against Divine will. It is one of the purposes of spiritual evolution to reunite polarities and to reabsorb darkness within the greater wholeness of light.
Important to enduring through this cosmic phenomenon is, first, the ability to not personalize it, but to understand it within the larger picture of what is taking place on both the physical plane and on higher planes of energy and consciousness. In this drama, vast forces are at work -- the stuff out of which tales and legends are made. Secondly, to recognize that within this phenomenon, strength and a kind of heroism are being forged, not on the plane of physical battle but on the plane of durability, endurance, and steadfastness. Indeed, it often happens among servants of the light, that a training period is gone through in which steadfastness is honed in the presence of an extended period of contraction.
In the end, a period of contraction MUST give rise to something else, for light is inherently stronger than darkness and forms part of the greater whole in a way that darkness does not. Therefore, it behooves all those who are devoted to the purposes of light to remain faithful to their intentions even when these cannot manifest for long periods of time.
The power of contraction lies in its ability to cause those who serve God and the purposes of love to abandon the light. Its victory lies in the defeat of hope. However, if one were capable of holding to the truth of light's greater strength and the truth of God's presence even during periods of contraction, then light-filled hope and the belief in a positive outcome would act as a force to reverse the situation of contraction, allowing God's divine intentionality to bring into fruition purposes that are sanctified and holy and of benefit to the greatest number of people."
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