*MURDER*


Q:  I've been trying to understand the ramifications of when one person
takes another person's life.  My brother murdered his wife and I am
wondering if that came about as a result of free will, of pre-agreement
before they entered this life?

B: It does not have to play out that way. There were pre-agreements, but in
no way does any pre-arranged idea or pattern that you're going to play out
in any particular life -- in no way must it play out through negativity,
through lack of integrity.  Those agreements can all be reconciled and
transformed in a positive way.

Yes, it took place through free will; but basically speaking, endeavors
which express negativity to that degree take place because the individuals
involved have not been taught that they actually do have free will.  They
have not been taught that they actually do have self-empowerment.  So
individuals that perform those type of acts act generally out of the belief
that they are powerless and they strike out to take others with them so
they do not feel they are going down alone.  Do you follow?  They try to
project upon the external world all the ideas they are not willing to be
responsible for in their internal world because that responsibility is too
much for them to bear.  They have not been taught they have the power to
transform responsibility into positive action and understanding.

So, in a sense, the pre-arranged agreements have to do with the type of
interactions and the things that those individuals work out between
themselves.  But in no way do those pre-arrangements have to result in a
negative act.  It could have been arrived at in a positive way.

However, since it did happen in that way you can still recognize it as an
opportunity for the individual who died to choose, if they desire,
reincarnation or not, and to provide certain levels of assistance to the
individual who committed the murder -- to allow that individual to gain
back their power so that they can recognize they never have to do that
again.  That is, they never have to give their power away to such a degree
that they think they have to control the external reality of everyone
else's life in order to feel powerful within themselves.

There are many levels on which the murdered person can be of great
assistance to the other individual, when and if that murdered individual
goes through the confusion they may be feeling when they first enter the
non-physical realm.  Because, in playing their part of having been
murdered, many times that is also a creation of confusion and the lack of
belief in one's own self-empowerment.  So in a sense, both individuals are
acting out a belief in lack of self-empowerment, each in their own style of
expression.  They have both played out a scenario that has come to its
logical conclusion when you deal with the idea of belief in lack of self-
empowerment.

It gives both of those individuals an opportunity to examine the ideas of
what they have done; to take responsibility for it.  Acting through
integrity they no longer need to create a reality within themselves, or
reflect a reality to each other wherein they believe they are not self-
empowered and cannot create the reality they desire without having to hurt
anyone else or themselves in order to do so.

Anything, no matter how negative, can always be transformed into a
positive.  Do remember: everyone is eternal; everyone is infinite.  And in
that sense, in the long run it does not really matter; what matters is what
you make of what you do, what meaning you give to it, and how you choose to
learn from it and transform it in positive directions. The being that was
murdered still lives.  Many individuals, almost all of you at one time or
another, in the thousands of lives you have had, in the tens of thousands
of years of reincarnation you have created, have all murdered and been
murdered at one time or another.  Here you are again, to choose once again:
confusion, self-empowerment. You   follow the idea?

*Victims & Perpetrators*

Q:  Well, I was thinking about the holocaust, what we call the holocaust in
Germany around 1945.   Why did so many people, almost as a group, choose to
create that collective experience?

B:  There are race and culture-wide belief systems as well.  And recognize
that gatherings are no accident.  Again, remember that when we say you
choose and create your reality, that doesn't mean it's always a conscious
choice or act, "Oh yes, I want to be killed today."  No, no, no.  That is
not what we are saying.  What we are saying is that individuals of like
frequency will find themselves gathering together and existing within a
type of a reality that is generated by their particular frequency that they
give off, that they generate from their individual or collective beliefs.

There are many reasons for that particular kind of manifestation.  One
reason is simply that it was a manifestation of the fear, of the belief in
persecution, that many of those individuals have with their cultural
beliefs.  It was partly a manifestation of that.  It was also, to some
degree, a karmic manifestation.  Again, not that it has to happen that way,
because karma has nothing to do with retribution.  Many of you may believe
that it does, and many of you have created karma and reincarnation to be of
a kind of retribution.  But karma, in and of it self, has nothing to do
with judgment and retribution.  Karma is self-imposed.  Many individuals,
in creating an unconscious recognition of things they have done in the
past, or in past lives, have gathered together as a group and taken upon
themselves the idea of the guilt and the idea of the persecution.
Sometimes to atone in the ways they think they need to atone.

Again, it does not have to happen that way.  But recognize that the
particular culture that you refer to as being persecuted in the holocaust
have had many holocausts of their own where they have been the persecutors
in times past.  Therefore, simply recognize that all we are saying is that
when you create confusion in your own reality, many times in your past that
has been done unconsciously out of fear, out of doubt or out of guilt.

In no way, shape or form is what I am about to say an implication or a
definition that needs to be thought of as a distinct label for any one
particular person or group of people upon your planet.  But you yourselves
in your own cultural awareness are very ready to admit that there are some
cultural groups of people that deal very strongly with the idea of guilt
much of the time.  And that is what you have referred to.  So the idea is
to recognize that there is a grain of truth in the understanding that the
willingness to operate within guilt will usually attract someone to
pronounce sentence.  That is another reason this can happen.

Now, the individual that became the persecutor is in no way excused, nor
their actions condoned for having chosen that role.  It was their duty to
be strong enough to ignore the frequency of any individuals that might cry
out for persecution with their unconscious fears.  But still the idea is,
those individuals took it upon themselves because of their unconscious
fears to become the symbolic representation of all that was reared within
the other culture.  They are victims and perpetrators, two sides of the
same coin -- the coin of "lack of self-empowerment."  One side of the coin
cannot exist without the other.  And when one side does not exist, the
other cannot exist and will not exist.  So, if and when individuals no
longer decide they want to play out the idea or believe in the idea of
victimhood, there can be no perpetuators.  When individuals realize that
they are self-empowered and can create the reality they desire without
having to hurt anyone else or themselves, there will be no more
perpetrators.  When the perpetrators decide not to play that game, there
will be no more victims.  They will not be able to find each other.

*Pre-Life Agreements*

Q:  Do you have a way of generally describing these kinds of pre-life
agreements, between perpetrators and victims, as a chosen life experience
by both of them?

B:  We base our system of understanding upon something we have already
defined and explained at various times: the idea we have called
"knowingness."  That being, knowingness serves to function as a neutral
place.  Belief, emotion and action are three things; each possessing a
polarity, which creates six.

Thus, from your knowing Self, your neutral Self, your fulcrum point, your
lever point, the gateway or doorway through which your existence pours
itself into physical reality, so to speak, you create a prism, a three-fold
prism with, of course, its polarized counterpart. But fundamentally, it is
a three-fold prism of belief, emotion and physical action.  We have
rendered this idea into the formula of manifestation called, "See it, Feel
it and Be it."

The idea is that your knowledge, your neutral, knowing Self, is rendered
into a template that is defined by: 1) a vision or blueprint; 2) by a
feeling or emotion which, in that sense, is the activation principle, the
energization principle; and 3) the being it, the physical acting-out or
action principle.  All three are necessary. And the dance of these three
between their polarities are necessary in order achieve or be able to
create any physiological manifestation that would then express itself as,
what you have called, a "pre-agreement" or overall life theme of a chosen
lifetime for the persona.

Thus, it is recognized that the persona, created out of the three-fold
prism of belief, emotion and physical action portions of the template are
responsible for at any given moment expressing the particular point along
the path that you are at as a soul, the particular reflections you are
creating in your life, and the personality aspect that is reflective of the
themes you are exploring in whatever way your free will has decided to
explore them.  And, as such, the persona is, in that sense, an artificial
or flexible construct which can be transmuted into any other kind of
persona at a moment's notice.

Hence, this is why we say, "It does not have to play out that way." There
may be pre-agreements, but in no way does any pre-arranged idea or pattern
that you're going to play out in any particular life, in no way must it
play out through negativity, through lack of integrity. Again, those
agreements can all be reconciled and transformed in a positive way.

When you align the overall energy of the persona with the knowing self, or
the "highest self," so to speak, when you synchronize and have balanced the
three within the polarity structure -- taking that whole -- the three have
become balanced with the knowing energy.  You thus achieve the balance
between the polarity of the physical and nonphysical reality and evolve
into, so to speak, becoming one with your Higher Self and have completed
the cycle of your physiological manifestation for that lifetime, for that
particular, shall we say, fragment of the Oversoul.