努力从消极中找到积极

 

努力从消极中找到积极

当人处在极度痛苦的情况中，当人在处理自己所有的真正消耗自己精力的情绪时，听从那些局外人告诉你，“没有意外，只有学习和成长的体验。”会是非常令当事人难以接受的。

我记得弥勒在2004年给我举的一个例子。他引出了同性恋的概念。我以前听他提起过“同性恋”这个词，但感觉他好像不喜欢这个词，因为这个词的负面含义（从人类世界的角度来看）。他提出，选择这种生活方式的人应该被称为“自由人”，因为他们真正地在让自己自由地，诚实地面对社会的规范和来自家庭、朋友和同龄人的恐惧。

我在60年代和70年代中长大，当时社会对这种生活方式非常苛刻，原因很多，我相信我们每个人都有自己的经历。在我于1980年从海军退役后，艾滋问题才在美国浮现出来。而此时美国以外已有数百万人因艾滋死亡。直到1981年，美国疾病控制中心才从5名年轻的“自由”人身上分离出艾滋病毒。不幸的是，这是一个完美的“我们对他们”的场景，意味着传统社会对另类生活方式，因此，当时社会对这种疾病并没有给予太多的关注或资源。里根总统1981年上任，直到1985年他才公开提到“艾滋”这个词，直到1987年他才发表了他的第一次有关艾滋的重大演说。而此时在美国以外，已有数百万人死于艾滋，美国也已经有大约2万人死亡，他后来称艾滋为“头号公敌”。从那时起到90年代，我们每年都会有2万到4万的人死于这种毁灭性的疾病。

如果你想从各个层面了解那个时代，你可以看看汤姆·汉克斯、丹泽尔·华盛顿一起演的电影《费城》，伴随布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀的伟大音乐。最重要的是，由于没有早期的关注和资金支持，这种疾病达到了流行病的比例，给很多本可以预防的生命造成了难以置信的损失……或者从最高角度来说，这些勇敢的灵魂只是扮演了一个角色。

回到2004年弥勒的解释，我们在地球上的人类是如何经常错过更大的画面的，因为情绪阻止我们从消极中看到积极的一面。他解释说，这种毁灭性疾病的整个目的是为了让人们认识到这种另类的生活方式。这使得愤怒、痛苦、悲伤和绝望等情绪浮出表面，并在灵魂层面上得以清除。它使像偏执、无知和歧视这样的事情得到充分展示，以便社会能够进化和学习。我并不是说所有的偏执、无知和歧视都被彻底根除了，但是2019年对艾滋的看法与2004年弥勒在提到这个问题时已经大不相同，我们以光的速度超越了60年代。

正如弥勒当时所说，如果你看到人们在爱中的光环，无论他们是男人/女人、女人/女人，还是男人/男人，你都会发现没有什么不同；宇宙明白这一点，希望有一天所有的人都会理解这一点。

当因为情绪吞噬了你而使你的生活变得暗淡的时候，试着在消极的深处找到积极的一面，这可能是唯一能拯救你的。

艾伦·麦克洛伊

 

Trying to Find the Positive in the Negative

It is so difficult to work through a painful situation and deal with all the emotions that are literally consuming us and have someone emotionally detached from the situation try to tell you that “ There are no accidents, only experiences to grow and learn from”.

I remember an example given to me in 2004 by Maitreya. He brought up the concept of homosexuality. I had heard him speak about the term “gay” before from a perspective of his dislike for the term because of the negative connotations (from an earth plane perspective) that the word had. He proposed that people that chose this lifestyle should be called “Free” because they had truly set themselves free to be true to themselves against the norm’s of society and the fear from family, friends and peers.

I had grown up in the 60’s and 70’s and society was very harsh to this lifestyle for many different reasons of which I am sure each of us has their own experiences. Coming out of the Navy in 1980, the AID’s issue was just coming to the surface in the US. Millions had died outside the US, but it wasn’t until 1981 that the Center for Disease Control in the US had isolated the virus to 5 young men who happened to be actively “Free” using Maitreya’s terminology. Unfortunately this setup the perfect “Us versus Them” scenario, meaning society versus the alternative lifestyle and therefore not a lot of attention or resources was given to this illness. President Reagan took office in 1981 and he didn’t even mention the word AID’s in public until 1985 and didn’t give his first major AID’s speech until 1987. Millions outside the US had died and we had lost about twenty thousand by that time to what he termed he later termed “Public Enemy Number One”. From that time forward through the 90’s we were losing between twenty to forty thousand souls per year to this ravaging disease.

If you want to get a feel for the times on all levels, rent the movie Philadelphia with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington accompanied by the great music of Bruce Springsteen. Bottom line, with no focus or funding early on, this illness reached epidemic proportions that took an incredible toll on many lives that probably could have been prevented… or was there possibly a bigger picture with these courageous souls just playing a role.

Back to Maitreya in 2004 explaining how we, on the Earth Plane often miss the bigger picture, because the emotions prevent us from seeing the positive through the negative. He explained the whole purpose of this devastating illness was the Universe’s way to bring awareness to this alternative lifestyle. This enabled emotions such as anger, pain, grief and despair to come to the surface to be cleared on a soul level. It allowed things like paranoia, ignorance and discrimination to be put on full display so society could evolve and learn.  I am not proposing all the paranoia, ignorance and discrimination has been fully eradicated, but 2013 looks a lot different than when Maitreya spoke on this topic in 2004 and we’re light years ahead of the 1960’s.

As Maitreya said back then, if you look at the Aura of people in love, you will find no difference whether they are man/woman, woman/woman or man/man; the universe knows this, hopefully one day all of mankind will also.

When times are really bleak because the emotions are engulfing you, try to find that positive in depths of your negative, it may be the only thing that can save you.

Alan