不幸的是，生活不总是符合常理的
这个月我们在美国又经历了一起枪击案，这让你问为什么？为什么会有人这么做？如果宇宙中的一切都是完美的，那为什么允许这种情况发生呢？如果你恰好是那个刚刚失去朋友、家人或熟人的人，这时你的心一定是空的，因为你不明白为什么会发生这样的事？
我没有经历过失去孩子的痛苦，但我在10岁时确实经历了一个小男孩的死亡。对我来说，这绝对是一次令人心碎和痛苦的经历，因为我亲眼目睹了这个失去了儿子的母亲的无助和绝望，当她抚摸着躺在海滩上的那个比我大不了多少的男孩的无生命的身体时，我听到了她发出的无法控制的声撕力竭的悲痛。回想起来，当时的情况对我来说并没有多少意义，但确实影响了我对水的反应，尤其是在冬天。幸运的是，从弥勒那里我获得了生活是如何运作的人生观，帮助我至少能理解生活给我们带来的许多学习机会，即使在那个生活不符合常理的特定时刻。
几天前，我和儿子的一次谈话提醒了我这一点。他是一所医院神经科的住院医生。我问他他的工作情况如何，他说：“我所在的神经科很令人沮丧，因为要处理很多因受到虐待而造成脑损伤的儿童，这很不容易。而且，知道对这些孩子中的大多数人来说，他们的前景也很不看好，这对我来说也很不容易。”我的回答是，“是的，你会看到生活中最艰难的一面。你需要象佛那样，尽可能努力的让自己成为观测者，并且相信，你在做有所作为的工作，即使有时你看不到这一点。”这种交流确实让你质疑，生活有时看起来是多么的不和常理。它再次让你问这是为什么？
我记得与弥勒在一起的一次生动的经历，给人类的境况投下了一道亮丽而又令人沮丧的光。对我来说，它回答了“为什么”，但从情感的角度来说，“为什么”的答案真的紧叩你的心弦，让你很难接受。玛格丽特和我去了一家商场，商场里的能量很沉重，很消极，以至于我们没有买要买的东西就离开了。在我们开车回家的路上，我从商场里所吸收的负能量浮到表面，我内心开始变得非常愤怒。我在释放，或者可以说，我在把我所感受到的能量 – 愤怒、沮丧、无助和绝望等都发泄给玛格丽特；从我处理内心能量时所处的情绪状态来看，我是很没有“灵性的”或不公平。我记得我在发泄的过程中说，如果这些灵魂选择了回到人世来体验这种在我看来几乎没有任何希望的生活，为什么他们要选择这样做？我告诉玛格丽特，我能想象，在操场上的一个大滑梯上，你站在滑梯的顶端向下看，然后，你害怕松开滑梯滑下去，但是，站在你身后的一个朋友却朝着你的背猛踢了一脚，把你推进了深渊。我告诉玛格丽特，想象的顶部代表着我们所知道的“天堂”，想象的底部是“地球”，我们一定很疯狂，才愿意滑回到这里，体验这种看起来非常艰难的生活。就在这个时刻，玛格丽特离开了她的身体，弥勒进入。他对我说，我刚才在释放在商场里吸收的能量，不管我是否能看到，事实上，我们在帮助商场里的人清除一些能量。我还是很生气，因此，我就用我感觉到的完全绝望来挑战他。他说，这是在商场里的那些灵魂选择了在这个化身中要体验和学习的一部分。我仍然很激动，就向他问了一个非常挑衅的问题。你是在告诉我，如果一个孩子选择了来人世上体验性骚扰，如果同意扮演性骚扰者的人选择了不继续，那么另一个灵魂就会前来帮助这个孩子完成对性骚扰的体验。他说是的，因为这是这个灵魂选择了要体验的，无论你是否能看穿自己的情感。具有讽刺意味的是，在这个时候，许多与教会有关的恋童癖的事情正在发生，他基本上说，大多数在经历性骚扰的人在前世化身中是牧师，他们对人进行过性骚扰。
所以，事情并不总是符合常理的，即使从弥勒那里学习到地球上的生活是如何运作的知识，我仍然会问为什么，并努力在个人层面上从情况中学习同理心。关于最近的枪击事件，我真诚地相信，为了帮助人类前进，这些个体灵魂确实扮演了一个有意义的角色，即使我们不总是能够看到这一点。就像911事件，二战中的集中营和其他人类悲剧一样，无论我们看到与否，宇宙都在不断地推动我们前进。改变绝对是不容易的，而且并不总是符合我们的理解，所以试着保持积极的态度，保持信心，我们现在生活在需要它的时代！
祝你们一个月愉快，
艾伦·麦克洛伊
Unfortunately, Life Doesn’t Always Make Sense
We experienced another mass shooting here in the U.S.A. this month and it makes you ask the question of why? Why would someone do this? If everything is perfect in the Universe, then why was this allowed to happen? If you happen to be someone who just lost a friend, family member, or acquaintance, your heart has to be empty at this moment as you ask why?
I’ve not had to endure the emotions of losing a child, but I did experience the death of a young boy when I was about 10 years old. It definitely was a heartbreaking and traumatic experience for me as I witnessed the helpless mother as she caressed the lifeless body of the boy, who was not much older than me lying on the beach, and I heard the uncontrollable shrieks of grief pouring out of her. As I think back on it, it didn’t make much sense then, but the situation definitely had an affect on how I acted around water, especially in the wintertime. Fortunately with the perspective on how life works that I gained from Maitreya, I can at least grasp some understanding as to the many learning opportunities life presents to us even when it doesn’t make a lot of sense in that particular moment of time.
I was reminded of this in a conversation with my son a few days. He was working in the neurological unit at the hospital where he is doing his residency. I was asking him how things were going and he says “I’m on one of the Neuro units which is depressing, lots of brain trauma from child abuse etc; which is tough. Also rough to know the outlook for most of these kids is pretty poor.” My response was “Yea, you are getting to see the tough side of life front and center. You will need to draw on your Buddha side and try as difficult as it may be to be the observer and know you are making a difference even when it doesn’t seem like you are.” That exchange makes you definitely question how life doesn’t appear to make a lot of sense. It again makes you ask the question of why?
I remember a vivid experience with Maitreya that casts an illuminating, but depressing light on the human condition. For me, it answered the “why”, but from an emotional perspective the answer to the “why” really pulls at your heartstrings and is hard to accept. Margaret and I had visited a store and the energy in the store was so heavy and negative that we left the store without even purchasing what we had come to buy. As we were driving back home I started to become very angry inside as the energy that I absorbed was coming to surface. I was expressing, or you could say dumping the energy on Margaret that I was feeling; anger, frustration, hopelessness, and despair to name just a few. It just didn’t seem very “Spiritual” or fair to me from the emotional state that I was in as I processed the energy within me. I remember I was saying that if these souls had a choice to come back and experience a life that seemed to me, to have little, if no chance of much upside, why would they do it. I told Margaret I could visualize being on a big slide in a playground and you are at the top of the slide looking down and then you get scared about letting go and making the long slide down, but a friend who is behind you puts his foot in your back and gives you a shove into the abyss. I was telling Margaret that the top of the slide represented “Heaven” as we know it and the bottom of the slide was the “Earth” plane which we would have to be crazy, to willing want to slide back down here and experience what looked to be a very, very tough existence. At this Margaret exits stage right and Maitreya pops in. He says that I am just processing the energy from the store and that we in fact were helping people in the store to clear some energy that would be helpful to them whether I could see that or not. I was still pretty angry, so I challenged him with the total hopelessness that I felt. He said that is part of the learning that soul has chosen to experience and learn from in this incarnation. I was still quite emotional and asked a very provocative question. Are you telling me that if a child comes to the Earth plane to experience molestation, that if the person who has agreed to play the part of the molester elects to not follow through, that another will step forward. He says yes, because that is what the soul has chosen whether you can see through the emotions of the self or not. Ironically, at this time a lot of pedophile stuff relating to the church was going on, and he basically said most of those experiencing molestation were the priests from prior incarnations that did the molesting.
So, things don’t always make sense and even with the knowledge of how the Earth plane works from Maitreya I still ask why and try to pull in all the empathy that I have to learn from the situation on a personal level. Relating to the latest shooting, I sincerely believe these individual souls played a meaningful role in moving humanity forward even if we can’t always see it. Just like those from 9/11, WWII concentration camps along with the many other human tragedies, the Universe keeps moving us forward whether we can see it or not. Change is definitely hard and doesn’t always fit into our understanding, so try and stay positive and keep the faith, the times we now live in demand it!
Have a good month,
Alan McElroy