Albert Einstein once said: "What we have heretofore called matter is energy whose vibrations have been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter!"
What we need to forgive, is our acceptance of accepting this matter that is seemingly lowered, as being ourselves, that was lowered with it. We are souls, vibrating always from a higher energy, and when we forgive ourselves for forgetting this, and from thinking that we have been lowered in some way, we will take our true role, and position once more again, and our healing will then have begun.
Forgiveness and responsibility. To not forgive is to blame, is this correct? What is forgiveness? Why is it necessary? Is forgiveness a part of love?
Forgiveness is necessary only because full love is not being followed completely by all. By all means here, by all souls. All souls have complete love available to every one of them, but this love is blocked by lack of conscious awareness of the possibility that they may be part of God, and his total love. All love comes from God originally, but love is generated independently in each part of God, when he created soul. This allows each part to love each other part, and also their position, or part in the whole, or to love God.
Forgiveness comes about because soul has closed its eyes to this full love, by trying to live only from itself. This is not really only the ego that pursues this separate path, but a soul that has been "recreated" out of ideas of sin and wrong doing, is set up on the wrong foot when it is newly resurrected, or reincarnated into a new body, and physical existence. The influence of the lower bodies, and of the reality of physical existence creates a sort of amnesial blockage of soul's linkage to God.
Forgiveness is a beginning of healing, because all healing is only ever the forgiving of the unconsciousness or this forgetting, that has created the necessity for healing.
Soul is always linked to itself, but the physical emotions, and the mental thoughts, can create a sort of loop into soul's own creative ability to love, so that for a moment, it thinks the loop goes back to itself, rather than connecting to God, as it really always does. This illusion is projected backwards from its physical reality, and then clouds soul's hidden eyes of awareness, of itself, to itself.
What forgiveness does is to heal this cloudy covering of the illusionary reality of its existing in this lower world creation, and strengthens soul's own position in relation to itself and to God, so that it remembers then, that it was created from God, and forever remains a part of him.
Forgiveness frees you to be your real self.
Soul, what is soul? Originally it is an unconscious part of God. God injected creative love, and the possibility of conscious growth into every soul, or atom in his own body, or into himself.
This allows soul to consciously become aware of love, and allows it to serve itself from loving other souls, itself, and God. But it can be clouded back to unconsciousness, and ignoring its consciousness, by following its own lower bodies and thoughts. Consciousness as such never exists in any of the lower bodies, which all run automatically, and unconsciously.
The only consciousness existing resides in soul, and this feeds through back to the lower bodies only through intuition, coming from soul. The ego, as a part of soul residing in the lower bodies, has the choice to follow itself, or to follow its lower bodies and unconscious drives, or to follow this intuition coming through from the greater part of itself, soul.
Forgiveness is a form of love. When you really love unconditionally, you find this love always contains forgiveness. Loving unconditionally, you cannot not forgive. Love, it's all about love. And you reach love by trying to forgive. This helps you to get rid of your resentment and grudges, and so love then flows back in. The ego is necessary, but must never rule, even if it feels it is a protector, and protecting you in some way, you must always be aware of its role, and keep it as a role, and so not allow it to take the lead role.
Recently as part of my own healing journey, I completed a visualisation exercise, in which I was going through different levels of emotion, starting from how I feel right now, and then dropping down through the emotional levels below this level.
I was in apathy to begin with, and I associated this with my eyes, and thought that it originated from my sulking as a kid, and which I perceived as punishing my parents, in the only way that I knew how to. Then, I kept going and found that under this emotion was fear, and which was in my head, and I thought this came from fearing my dad.
Then under all of this was still remaining love, and I saw love as being in my hands, and associated with my mum. I kept going treating love too as just an emotion for this exercise. Under this emotion of love, I found was bliss, and peacefulness. This was associated with my feet, and with God.
Strangely I kept going even further, and found that under this was emptiness, residing in my stomach, and I associated this with myself. Under this emotion of emptiness, I found was death, and I felt this meant death of the ego, which I felt was centred in my heart.
I then got these messages, from I think, my soul or higher self
Drop the ego. Die to the ego. Out of emptiness comes peace. Be empty, as this is the only place in which peace exists. Love comes from peace. The only way to stop sulking is to forgive. So forgive, stop sulking, and the apathy will lift, only as you forgive.
The point of life is to forgive, and which is to love. It's necessary to go through the pain, and to feel bad at first, so that you can connect to forgiveness, and so let it pull the love out of you.
At this point in the spiritual exercise, I was supposed to give myself a message from the future me. I was to picture myself as being ten years older, and the message I obtained from my future projection of myself, unfortunately was that I can do nothing more for you, than you can do now for yourself. Just trust your higher self more, and that's what we must both do for now.
And then I got this extra message from my future self.
I am your future self. I am now 62 years old, and I have learned a couple of extra things since I was you. I will share them with you now if you would like me to. OK, the first is that if you don't accept this first point that I will make to you now, you probably won't except it either, later on.
The first point is simple, and is the fact that life is full of hardship, and this is necessarily created to enable you to see past hardship, which is the veneer, or illusion, and there for you to help you to see the greater lesson of love, and forgiveness always coming out of this hardship.
The second point is similar. Life can be full of some happy moments as well, but if you keep sulking over the hardship which love is always beneath, you also will not see the happy moments, that come to you right after the hardships, that love sends to you when you learn the love in the hardship, and forgive the hardship for its way of teaching.
We use this method of teaching simply because it works effectively to get past the ego, which has been set up as the defender of hardship, but is also serving you as the defender of your life, and which means that it is strong when you would tend to give into weakness. The ego serves as the opposite pole, and which gives a balancing factor to all of the life that you are forever always a part of.
The technique you used to meditate, and visualise is a form of healing for your past repressed feelings that have developed from your defensive emotional barriers, that you constructed at the time. Yours was sulking, and it still is.
Sulking is withdrawing, and is a form of subtle punishment of the other person. There is a name for it, and we call it malicious loving, as you are loving them still on the surface, but your inner thoughts have actually turned to hate. This is strong stuff, as hate is an emotion that will drive love away, as it festers inside you, and makes you blame them for making you feel this way.
So yes, forgiving is vitally important, and when you forgive, love will move in again to forgive your own hate as well. Rid yourself of hate, and you immediately start to heal. Yes, love comes from peace, as peace is lack of hate. Out of peace, in which there is a feeling of emptiness, and which comes from not needing to feel too much, or this is more meaning, to not reside only in your other emotions. Out from this peace comes a deeper feeling of love, and this then leads to an even deeper feeling of peace, and which is bliss.
The fear at this stage can raise it self again, only if you go back, and feel the inherent birth of these feelings again, as you started to feel them, as a defence for the pain that you felt. You must learn to understand yourself at all ages, and to love, and to forgive yourself for everything you did, and to forgive the others in your life, as well. Forgive them all as soul. When you forgive as soul to soul like this, it is called soul level forgiving.
Forgiving any soul is really partly forgiving yourself for connecting to that soul in this way, and when this is done, the lesson will become clear. And you will grow past it, and you will see the love behind every soul's action, and which has only been distorted by their own ego.
The love has been distorted by the ego trying to handle a situation that it feels inadequate to handle, and so it handles it somewhat wrongly, because it doesn't listen to its real self soul, and falls into the trap of following only itself, ego, and which can then be trapped by reacting, and acting out of fear, and then doing actions that are fear based, and so hurtful to others.
This is how the cycle of fear begins, from the ego trying to handle on its own things that are really too big for it to handle, and that are meant to be life lessons for your soul. Forgiveness breaks this cycle of fear, by reinjecting the element of love into the ego's assessment, and so healing begins now as the ego steps back to allow soul to return, and live as its real self in you, on your true journey towards recognising fully, and consciously your part in God, that you are.
Take your own healing journey for yourself, and so take this first great step of forgiveness. It is always a step upwards on the ladder of love.