After the greeting, Micciah discusses loneliness & connection in a time of anger & fear. Everyone is seeking connection. “The more you align with oneness, the more you make it possible for others to catch on to the energies.”

   Julie: So let’s know together that this work is done with love, is offered with love. That it is an exploration; needs to be evaluated like any other exploration. And let’s know that the work is blessed.
   I’m very grateful to all of you for being here. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to do this.
   So, whoa! Getting a lot of information. Slow down.

   Micciah: So we greet you dear friends. And we thank you for inviting us to visit with you. And as we have said so often, the room is filled with energies, non-physical energies, guardians. And they are learning from you as you are learning from us, from them. It’s a cooperative endeavor.
   We would like to speak first about loneliness and connection which is what you asked about.

   Julia: Yeah.

   In times where there is great fear and anger, fear is always beneath anger, somewhere. This is often accompanied by an intense experience, although perhaps one that isn’t consciously identified, of loneliness. Of loneliness. Of separateness. Of separation. Because the energy of love, which is the guiding energy, the source energy of the universe, seeks connection. So when anger and fear arise in such powerful ways, as they are now, on this planet, in thus realm, it is accompanied  by the spirit of disconnection. Now listen, in that pain of disconnection people seek to bond with those who are like them because the fear of the apparent other, the other gender,  the other skin color, other ethnic background, is intensified. So, the protective movement into connection will be with people who look like me. Who believe as I believe, my safety will come from people who are like me.
   Out of this arise nationalistic feelings. Racist. Sexist. Stranger anxiety. What is called in developmental psychology, stranger anxiety which children often experience… About that size. [holding her hand 2 feet above the floor] When they hide behind a parent when someone new is introduced… Is rampant in adults causing violence and open hatred framed around the danger of a stranger. An immigrant, the person who is fleeing, the person who looks different me. It is a symptom of disconnection and loneliness and desperation, and you are in the midst of it.
   Those of you who work on a spiritual path, (just on a conscious path, you may identify it as spiritual or not,) are moving toward embracing. As we remind you, probably every time that we meet, there is only one of you. You are all aspects, individuated aspects of the divine. So your task now, which is so important, so needed, is to first embrace yourself. Like the great Tonglen prayer begins, “May I be happy.” And then stretches out, “May all beings be happy.” First, embrace yourself. And we believe it was the last session where we spoke about the shadow. Yes? And you all in this circle started to work intensively on your own shadows. Embrace yourself with all the parts you love and all the parts you do not love, and see if you can make room in your heart to make allies of the parts of yourself you do not love. Begin with yourself.
   And then it ripples out to the people around you, the people you are intimate with, the people you are friends with. Out and out and out. So that you can live increasingly in the experience of oneness which is the ultimate connection. Then there is no perceived enemy. And we understand that you must also take action from a loving place. It is essential to make connection, to really put attention and effort and mindfulness into keeping connection. This group has been connected for a long time, many of you. To connect with your friends, with your family. To connect with people in the street, say, “I am that person walking along with my device. In my heart I connect to you.” Because the energy of connection and oneness, and embracing all of it, keeping as steady as you can connecting and reconnecting is what will… We want to say… First thing Julie heard was, “Pull this forward, or open the door.” Joy you were saying, “Is there a way that this will transform?” Yes, and it depends on every individual and collectives of individuals bringing conscious compassion, holding it… Not HOLDING it, [clamps her hand in a tight fist] but aligning it, moving away, realigning with it, moving away, realigning with it, moving away. The more you align with oneness the stronger the connections become.
   We have said this before. We are going to say it again. There are many, many people wishing, perhaps unconsciously, to move their awareness into compassion. They are either not conscious or are unconscious of it and don’t know how. All of you, if there is only one of you, all of this energy feeds the totality. So for every one of you who stays conscious, aligns with connection; you make it possible for people seeking that connection to catch on to the energies. Maybe in their dreams, maybe in conversations, we don’t always know how. But you make it possible.
   So you own practices, your spiritual practice, however you do it. The connections you make is this groups, in other groups. People are gathering. The changes will come from people… And we know we have said this over and over again, not from the government but from all of you.
   Now, we want to address your issues Jared. What has changed since the big change in November? Well, it’s a paradox. Things have gotten better and things have gotten worse. It has become an invitation, this government and the people connected to it and aligned to it, have had an open invitation to express their hatred. Whatever was bubbling that has been… Well, it didn’t start in November, but the milieu was an open invitation to express hatred for the negative shadow. You know we believe that are also jewels in the shadow. For the negative shadow, it has gotten bigger, yes? Much more overt. Given permission, as it were, to express itself.
   But then you can see it. And seeing it allows you to take action. Perhaps promotes the action… First the action of your heart, and then of your feet and your communication and the petitions that you sign and everything that you do, because it is right there. We said you are entering a time of chaos, yes? How will you prepare yourself, to ride with it, to continue love as it unfolds? To take political actions lovingly.
   So, has it changed? Yes, it’s become more flamboyant. The difficulties have become more flamboyant. And the responses have been strong. People gathering. How many people gathered in New York? Four hundred thousand people? And all over the world. Small meetings, big meetings. Pay attention to those.