Worldwide, discrimination, the legal prohibition of homosexuality, religious opposition, hatred, and even death continue to be suffered by gays and lesbians. The fear that drives people in some societies to legally execute practicing homosexuals reminds one of the massive witch hunts from the middle ages in Europe until the turn of the eighteenth century. Last century, Nazi genocide in the Third Reich deliberately eradicated some 60,000 gay men—yet in my conversation with the soul of Adolf Hitler,* he admitted to his having personally engaged in gay sex during his lifetime.
The Masters of the Spirit World teach us that human gender and sexual orientation result from the basic choices our souls make in their preparation to come down to planet Earth. At Home on the other side the non-physical soul is without gender, being wholly energetic in its composition. The fact of people’s being humanly gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender represents the response of nature to the soul’s desire to learn life-lessons relating, for example, to personal ambivalence or to the understanding of what it feels like to be subjected to discrimination and hatred. Sexual orientation is not so much a deliberate choice by the soul as a natural response to the soul’s selection of certain life-lessons. In a similar way, because of our soul’s other choices, we may be born with a physical defect, or be a child prodigy, or have polio, or be born into an unloving family—all ways in which the universe sets up experiences for us to undergo.
As our spirit guides make abundantly clear in The Masters’ Reincarnation Handbook (see Literature), souls choose to incarnate on Earth because our planet is a classroom where lessons are intensified by its structured duality of positive and negative forces. We have come here from the realm of unconditional love to experience negativity as part of our chosen lessons. That choice is true in some form or another for everybody.
Gay people do have more than one human choice they can make. They can go through a supposed reorientation or pretend to themselves that they are sexually “normal;” they can spend a lifetime covering up their feelings and activities, and even deliberately marry someone of the opposite sex; they can hide their feelings under a smokescreen of homophobia; or, on the other hand, they can come out as homosexual to some degree or another and take their part in the caring gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. The way we handle our life-lessons is up to each one of us. The Masters insist there is no “right” way of learning a spiritual lesson of any kind. We all have complete freedom of choice.
So, what happened to the young man who came to me for hypnotherapy? I told him why I wasn’t prepared to give him a supposed reorientation treatment. He replied that he was very sad because I was the first person to whom he had ever come out. My response was to sing the praises of the loving, worldwide gay community where he could certainly find understanding and support at a depth I was unable to match, being a heterosexual. He should seek to find a caring gay man or gay group to whom he could come out in safety. His reaction was one of bitter disappointment, but he perked up a bit when I told him that I was honored to have had the experience of counseling him, and that there would be no charge for my advice.
*(Talking with Leaders of the Past. Also in a single chapter download for Adolf Hitler—see Literature)
Dissidents and Dictators
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Exiled from his homeland, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has sought independence for his people since the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1949. His attempt in 1954 to make peace with China’s leader Mao Zedong failed, and five years later, during the brutal suppression of the Tibetan uprising in Lhasa by Chinese troops, he was forced to escape into India, where he has been based ever since.
Like blossom against a brick wall, Suu Kyi and the Dalai Lama are witnessing to the world on behalf of peace and truth in the face of the greed and brutality of powerful politicians.
Then there is another tier of power and greed best illustrated by corrupt officials—from bribe-taking policemen in Russia, to powerful politicians in African nations accepting large payments from foreign corporations, to lobbyists in the US Congress making substantial political contributions to influence votes in upcoming legislation, such as health care reform. Such bribery may seem relatively harmless to some: “It’s the way things are done,” people say. In reality the difference between Joseph Stalin and a corrupt representative in the US Congress is only the degree of negative power they exercise.
Can we root out such negativity from the world and free Suu Kyi; people in Tibet, Colombia, and Mexico; powerless poor in Africa; voters in America? Yes, if we have the will we probably can, usually at a stiff price in lives. Pol Pot’s regime ended and he fled into the jungle; Hitler died in his bunker; Saddam Hussein was toppled from power; Idi Amin Dada sought refuge in Libya. But can we set the whole world to rights permanently? This is the dream of the social reformers, the peaceniks, the environmentalists, those who claim to stand for righteousness. As the Christian hymn pleads: “When wilt thou save the people? Oh God of mercy, when?”
For the past five years I have been working with the Masters of the Spirit World (senior spirit guides channeled by Toni Ann Winninger). They have had a lot to say on this matter. The first issue for them is the most central: they say our eternal soul is a little fragment of Source energy. This divine creative energy is shared by all the souls in the universe—a divinity of which our own soul is a part. They say that a God who is outside of us, to whom we can turn for help in time of trouble, simply does not exist. Confronting dictators is a choice that Suu Kyi and the Dalai Lama and some of us make, as part of the lessons our higher self has chosen to learn. If putting the world to rights and toppling dictators is the thing we decided to do, we must draw on our inner resources for that task.
The Masters’ second issue is this: the main purpose of our soul’s journey to planet Earth is to grow wise from the experience of negativity. We may choose in advance of our coming here to be positive and suffer negativity (abuse, illness, oppression), or we may choose in advance to play a negative role. The forces of the universe do not control the choices we make. The Masters told me on one occasion that if every incarnating soul chose to be a dictator … well, there’d be a lot of dictators around on Earth! In my interview of Adolf Hitler,* that is exactly what his soul claimed. A massive agreement among incarnating souls took place in advance, he said, that some of them would be the nasty Nazis, and others would be their victims.
In my interview of Anne Frank,** the young WWII diarist who died in the Nazi’s Auschwitz concentration camp said: “We set up the parameters whether it be that we wish (as I did) to go through degradation, physical pain, or deprivation, or else that we wish to be one of those who are experiencing total control over others and a total lack of what may be considered human compassion. We choose which roles we play, and it isn’t a single God but the energy within us that makes the decision of what the lessons are going to be.”
Woden says: If you are new to all this and find it a bit tough to swallow, that’s OK. Just stay tuned for more details!
*In Talking with Leaders of the Past
**In Talking with Twentieth-Century Women
Both books, and also individual chapters for downloading, are available. See “Literature.”
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