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How do we know what true compassion is?

From the heart of a Columbian:

I share with you my experience in my country, Columbia, where its people have gone through terrorism, guerrilla, paramilitary, drug trafficking and its barons; to give but a glimpse of what the curse of cocaine and other drugs may mean to the world (and I am speaking from a spiritual and material point of view).

This is to show the gamut of emotions, thoughts and half truths I was exposed to and how complex it can be to practice COMPASSION in its true essence, while we traverse through our own psychological dilemmas before we truly find out what compassion is. It also explains why for many years I kept asking God “Why on Earth did you send me to Colombia?” Of course I now know I volunteered, fell and have to work on whatever I didn´t attain. This event showed to me how much I love this country and its people and how much work there is to be done to bring more Light to this area. I know this subject might be foreign to some of you but I felt it was important I shared a bit of our vision so that you could also have a wider perspective about it.

It all started last Friday when, as it has happened to me during this past year, I turned the TV on because I felt the urge to. I have learnt that it is my I Am Presence who wants me to learn something at that same instant. And there he was…. GILBERTO RODRÍGUEZ-OREJUELA, also called “the chess-player”, the second most important drug-baron of Colombia, owner of the "Cali Cartel" being extradited to the USA at that very moment. I am a journalist and have always treasured being there at the exact moment when a historic event is taking place.

You know how much we have prayed for these drug barons to be taken to justice; To the curse of cocaine to finish; And yet, watching this man handcuffed, pale and 63 years old brought tears to my eyes as soon as I saw what the news were reporting; I tried organizing my feelings since I have lately experienced (and I believe it is related to belonging to the forum and the Shangrala Missiona tremendous sensitivity towards just about anyone and everything in this world…

I thought my sudden sadness was very related to any human being who, like Dante Alighieri, was going into forced exile. It was the worst possible punishment during the renaissance, a period I know I lived in. I cried as if I were the one being deported; I know the drug-barons have always considered it the worst possible punishment for themselves. Pablo Escobar, the other worst drug-baron, the owner of the "Medellín Cartel" who was finally killed about 10 years ago, kept saying: “I will always prefer a tomb in Colombia than the best prison in the USA”.

These drug traffickers are profoundly attached to our cultural values and our food and climate, to our music and dancing, to the incredible way of drinking and being merry. They all live in warm wonderful weather and crave the confort and everything else you can buy here, once you have money, of course.

I started thinking about what Rodríguez-Orejuela could be feeling at that same time. He made no comments, looked straight ahead, very dignified but certainly not defying anyone, while flash-lights were all about him. He got inside the plane and I knew he was never to touch Colombian ground again. It was dark (9:15pm) and yet, we could see the plane taking off and dark shades of our beloved mountains against this white DEA´s airplane. I couldn´t feel happy about an event we had so long hoped for.

I prayed to the Great Divine Director and the Ascended Host to give this man the strength to cope with his deserved punishment, especially with his exile, and to give him the insight his soul needed in order to come out of this consciousness. I thought about the pain of his family and the approaching Christmas. I also felt the media could have shown a bit more of consideration (as I did think about the way the US government showed Sadam Hussein´s capture to the rest of the world, while examining him like if he were an animal. The plane left and I knew that he only had an hour before he started flying over the Atlantic, when he would no longer be above Colombia, and where another two hours and a half later he would land into Miami, most probably for the rest of his life.

I called my mother on the phone before I went on weeping to make sure she was also watching this event. She was also feeling sorry for him. I then went on thinking about Colombia: “Where did we go wrong, Oh Lord? When did Colombia start this curse, why here where you know most of its people are so conscious of God? When you know a lot of them are feeling this same sadness for one of the children of their country? Will you, one day, remind me and explain to me this horrid story of fallen angels?”

Then they started speaking about his life: He had been a delivery boy at a drug store. Something the poor do in this country if they manage to buy themselves a bicycle. Slowly but surely, he climbed up to the best positions once he proved how brilliant and hard-working he could be. And he ended up buying his own drug-store and then made a fortune offering medicine at a much lower cost than usual. His children studied Master´s degrees in Boston, all very refined people who continued with the drugstore businesses, which were the legal side of his money. They are now appearing before Courts begging them to allow them to earn their rightful, legal money from their legal business.

I then tried to understand why I was being so kind to a man who had not shown any kindness towards those youngsters who became drug-addicts for the rest of their lives, even worse, might have ended up as criminals, involving lots of other innocent lives around the crimes they committed in order to keep providing for their absolute need of drugs to survive, developing an endless chain of cause, effect, disrupting the Divine Plan of innumerable individuals.

Parallel to these thoughts came more news: He had been the boss of more than 3 thousand drug traffickers and orchestrated and organized all the shipping to the USA. He had given away crucial information on the "Medellin Cartel" and through this action, he had helped the authorities find and kill Pablo Escobar (all because Escobar declared him his enemy, once he didn´t want to kill another drug-baron).

I then remembered my impact when the news of Pablo Escobar´s death was broadcasted on the radio in Bogotá. A strange feeling of “desolation” and “emptiness” surrounded the city and Colombia. It was tangible on the streets that an enormous darkness had left the country. He was guilty of many bombs in our streets and of the killing of the most honorable senators that ever crossed the Congress. He also managed to order the assassination of my newspaper´s boss: Guillermo Cano. The only man who stood up against the moral deterioration produced by the drug trafficking in our country at the time.

Over and over, he kept writing editorials where he kept asking: what are we going to do about it? What are we doing right now? Another lightbearer who was candidate to the presidency was also murdered following his orders. Bombs were killing innocent children and families at shopping malls or other places, wherever Escobar felt he had to take revenge at. Colombia felt desperate but we kept on going. At that time, I didn´t feel much compassion for this man, except from the sadness of witnessing such intelligence to the service of evil. This man was an absolute genious. It reminded me of Lucifer and the amount of Light he had once been able to attain.

Sunday´s paper printed an interview with Gilberto Rodríguez which was fully broadcasted on the radio this morning. This interview he gave some days ago under the promise that they would only publish or broadcast it once he had been extradited. I couldn´t listen to it today but was fortunate enough to listen to excerpts on the TV news.
Here are some of the most relevant Questions:

Q: “At which moment does your life take a different turn?”
And GRO replies:

A: “I believe it came at the moment I inverted moral values in my feelings because I had enough to live on with the pharmacy´s income. Given that it gives discounts, it will always prosper. THE MAN (as he refers to himself) due to lack of maturity and education makes certain mistakes and at that moment I take a shortcut, taking a different path. Something that burdens and hurts me now.

Q: “What is the money relationship between drug trafficking and terrorism?”

A: “Probably drug trafficking is, right now, terrorism´s checkbook”.
He also explains he wanted to hand himself in as soon as Escobar was killed and safely delivered three letters to the President at the time, César Gaviria, telling him he wanted to surrender but he REFUSED to do anything about it. César Gaviria was also the Director of the OEA for more than 4 years. The President of Colombia not allowing a drug-baron who wants to give himself in to be imprisoned.

He said he wants to be in the USA because he has more guarantees and also he will be listened to carefully. He said that if he were to live in prison the rest of his life, he knew he would have a minimum of guarantees there and not here. At one point, he had to hide for over a year from the authorities, running from home to home. He said he was finally able to rest once they found him. He has legally paid for his crimes in Colombia but was requested for other charges in the USA and was extradited. So, he believes he should and has the right to be freed (by Colombian law, you cannot be judged elsewhere by crimes you have already paid in our country so the Supreme Court will eventually have to explain its reasons).

Finally, he added: “These have been years of suffering, of repentance, of growing and I feel I am a new person. I feel I am innocent and I am going to answer to every charge. I want to ask for forgiveness to Colombia (His voice cracked). In truth, I am very, very sorry for all I have done”.

And by then, after all I experienced since Friday, I still felt compassion today but it was a completely different feeling. I had gathered all the information about him, had heard him speaking for himself, did agree that his face, voice and words seemed to be the expression of a man who had learnt something from all of the suffering he had started or helped create in this world and was ready to pay for it in this same world. I didn´t know if he was speaking the truth, was again making a good move (in the sense that this was the most intelligent thing to do at this point), was playing his best chess game ever or had simply arrived at a point of conversion. Then I remembered one of his son´s has also been charged in the USA for continuing the business while GRO was imprisoned, many years ago, and with his father´s knowledge, so it seems. His son could soon be found and sent to an American court.

Meanwhile, the interesting thing is that GRO will speak and a lot of names in politics, mass media and industry will be uttered on those court appearances. Something will indeed change.

And then, I read the letter speaking about a women's nephew and relatives who are on drugs… There seems to be no way to forgive such iniquity from these drug-barons. Lots of lessons and reasons come into my mind: “They came to learn a lesson”, “You need to ask for God´s discernment of spirits”, “We create our own worlds”, “Dysfunctional families”, “Poverty and the eagerness to become someone in this world, morals kept aside”, “The instant we fail the test of our life”….

Right now, I don´t feel, I don´t judge, I observe, knowing I don´t have the full picture, deciding I must keep on praying for the entire planet, begging Mother Mary to create a Rosary to end the curse of drugs, the drug addicts and the drug barons and everything connected to it, the abuse of alcohol, sex and all type of abuse that comes with it (children being neglected or abused at home, people degenerating and creating more and more burdens to the entire society, societies refusing to confront this issue and how and where it all starts), terrorism and politics and whatever sector of society drug has permeated in this era in order to control, submit or pay favors to, which is just about everything except religion.

As far as Colombia is concerned, the entire society is guilty of it. We have come to a point where only the "material world" has value, studying is crucial, as it has always been but, if there are no means to pay for it then, we must simply find other methods. Differences amongst the rich and the poor are getting larger and larger and resentment is only a natural response from the least fortunate... At one point, GRO explains how they bought with the money obtained from drugs the necessary communication equipment to search for Pablo Escobar. It was so sophisticated they could only get it from the USA intelligence and the Colombian government didn´t have the money but Gilberto Rodríguez, the second top drug-baron had it and he provided the means to the Colombian government. That could explain why the President at the time, César Gaviria, didn´t want to imprison GRO. Just imagine if he had spoken about the whole thing. So, little by little it becomes more clear to me why we will never have the full story and won´t know what the truth behind it is, even less the true Spiritual History, unless the Ascended Masters explain it to us.

Monica

Beloved Lord Maitreya

Beloved of the Light,

It is with great pleasure that I share with you a further understanding on the woes of this planet, especially that of loving the self of others who harm another. For you see, compassion is the key to your victory. You can see how many of you have expressed your inability to freely give in this area of compassion, or do not understand who and when to give compassion to another. As Monica has stated, she has opened her heart to compassion for that person who has harmed another, knowingly.

I would speak to you of this harm, and the soul that has caused it. He is not of the Light, and well you know that any soul that seeks to put gain and greed above the lives of another, is not. It is a telltale sign to your understanding of what divides the line between light and darkness. Those who compromise the Light in the selling of souls of the innocence are not, and have not been in stance for truth, honor or justice. It is the seeking of the material gain, the power that gain produces, and the honor among the power elite. Where is the Christ in those who allow the innocent to be harmed? They have no Christ within. The Christ has long vacated their temples. So what have they to deter them from darkness? What have you to feel compassion for any such as these?

I tell you that your role, as sons and daughters of God, is their judgment. When you see such as they, the compassion you need to feel is for the holy innocent that are being abused daily by these power hungry moguls who have no compassion for any part of life, least of all for themselves. They know they have but a short time, and they are going down with all the power and might they can muster to bring as many souls down with them.

Where you ought to be placing your compassion is on the soul that is lost because of such as these. There are many souls lost on this planet from the selling of their souls to the drug lords and the consequent fall of their beings into hell. And from that hell, they continue a downward spiral until their souls are no more, but scattered pieces of empty shells of the former creation of God, sent to earth to experience the Way of Being.

So what can you do to bring about the right compassion in your souls for all life, even the ones that are condemned to death upon completion of their present embodiment? I speak to you of love, of compassion for God. God has not asked you to love and have compassion for anything else. Where God is trapped in darkness, there you must have the compassion to pull that darkness out of the entrapment and into the Light. If there is no Light, there is no God trapped therein. And so would you need to feel compassion for darkness? Absolutely not. Where there is darkness, there is no light.

What I am saying to you is that Light is entrapped in darkness, and darkness is needed to be freed into light. So your role of a compassionate One is to free that darkness and subsequently, the light within. How would you do this, you say? How would you know that one has any light left within them to rescue? You will not. It is not up to you to judge. "Judge not, lest ye be judged."

But the truth of that statement belies the real truth of who is the judge in you. Your Holy Christ Self is always the one and only judge of reality and truth. And when you obtain Christ consciousness, you are one with the Christ, and therefore you may judge the unreal from the real.

When you see darkness, such as this man has displayed, you will know that the unreal has been ensconced to such a point in this man, that there is no light within to save and therefore, you need to call forth the judgment immediately and thereupon this person. That is the true act of compassion, not sending this man more light in your love of him, who is one with darkness.

I leave with you with this thought for the coming week. Can you practice that which you think you are not? Can you practice being that which you think you are not? What is it that you think you are not?

by Lorraine Michaels


I understand the draw to feel compassionate for all life, even those who have fallen. As I read the story, I was much touched by the portrayal of this man as turned around in contriteness for his acts. And so I asked my God Self, was this true, was he really contrite and wanting forgiveness? And I received that he was not. And then I saw that in this way, by faking his contriteness, he gained sympathy and light from his persecutors and the innocent who know not better.

If he was freed tomorrow, the innocent, trusting ones, would automatically give him a second chance, allow him to take the reigns of power and control again, and most likely recreate the same manipulation, greed and harm to life that he had done before.

Do you not see that this is the pattern that has occurred again and again, but from lifetime to lifetime? The souls that have harmed other parts of life to the extent this man has, if they have opportunity to come again, will automatically rise up into positions of leadership and power to allow the opportunity for those of the Light to recognize - from the Christ - that they must not sit idly by and allow this evil to continue.

I see the true compassion in action as the judgment upon those, all or any, who are caught in the greed, lust and other poisons. If they are savable, the light of the judgment will be the telling hand to allow the soul to start making right choices, once the judgment has separated out the not-self, moment by moment in the lives of these people. They choose every moment who they will serve and the judgment only allows a better choice on their behalf. When I give the judgment calls, I feel power and that holy wrath of the Spirit that I was talking about in another post. I feel no anger for the person I am giving the judgment for, I feel consumed by this fire that only feels the need of righting any injustices towards God and His creation.

If I could clarify Maitreya's talking about freeing darkness and freeing the light within darkness. I picture it this way. You have a light, say a candle in a room, representing a soul on earth. It is bright and shining and as the day turns into night, (representing the inpinging darkness on the earth) it begins to overshadow that light. If the candle light dims, we see more and more darkness in the room. If the light goes out entirely, there is only darkness.

So if there is a spark of light within, then that soul can be turned around. If there is no light within, then the time has ended for that one and they will go to the second judgment for repolarization in the light. If the soul with the dim light is covered over with darkness, you can can free the darkness by transforming it into light through violet flame, then the candle can begin to burn clearer and brighter. You can also call forth the judgment call on the not self of the soul that the light of the soul can be freed to make clearer choices that will cause its light to burn brighter and start transforming its own darkness into light.

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