To read aloud
THIRTY FOURTH DIALOGUE
February 4, 1999
Peter: I would like to bring to Your attention some questions asked by
Dr. Beth Ann Voien. Her first request is for a clarification of the concepts
of “attachments” and “addictions.” From her professional standpoint, she
would like to know the differences between those two concepts, if any.
The Lord Jesus Christ: Although this request stems from her
professional interest, nevertheless, the question has multiversal
significance. It relates to the issue of the structure and dynamics of the
typical human nature and how it was wired in the process of fabricating
the human brain and its nervous system. From the onset of this
discourse we can agree with the definition offered by Beth Ann which
indicates that addictions are extreme forms of attachments.
Let’s elaborate more on this issue. Attachments may or may not lead to
addictions, depending on the nature and object of attachment. On the
other hand, addictions always end in some form of either mental or
physical dependence, or on both. The spiritual factor here is in the fact
that humans were fabricated in such a way so as to easily develop some
form of dependence on external inputs, leading them away from
discovering anything internal that stems from their own within. It was
necessary to establish such a condition in order to activate the fullness of
the negative state and its lifestyle, which is rooted in external
dependence.
As you know, Peter, the word “addiction” is no longer used in the
Diagnostic Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), issued by the
American Psychiatric Association. This is not by coincidence. Although
little did the authors of DSM-IV know the spiritual implication of the
change in these terms, they do reflect the spiritual shift that was
occurring during the time of that change. The term “addiction” doesn’t
fully reflect its full meaning and spiritual danger as compared with the
term “dependence.” Although the DSM-IV only talks about chemical
substances and their abuse and dependence, in our conceptualization of
this term, it is not only limited to such habit-forming substances. It has a
much broader meaning. One can develop a dependence on many things
and not only on chemical substances, such as, for example, alcohol,
opioids, nicotine (cigarette smoking), stimulants, depressants or
whatever you have in such abundance on your planet. Dependence can
also develop regarding other people, pets, food, sex, watching television,
the Internet and on many other external factors.
No matter what type of dependence one develops, its spiritual
implication is very clear: It leads one away from self-reliance and the
sense of one’s independence and inner freedom. One becomes a slave of
an external object which rules his/her life in all its aspects and details.
The trap has been set by the negative state. The door was closed to the
awareness of the true spiritual reality of one’s life and life in general. Or,
in some instances, under the influence of mind altering drugs, the door
was shut from the true spiritual reality and opened to the false or
pseudo-spiritual pseudo-reality.
The issue of which you need to be aware in this respect, is that any
artificial external means by which one attempts to seek the meaning of
life in general and one’s own life in particular, leads to the closure of the
doors to the true answers originated in the positive state and to opening
the doors to the false answers originated in the negative state. This rule
applies multiversally. This is the way the structure of Creation was
formed.
As you remember from My New Revelation, in the process of activating
the negative state and putting it into dominance, it was necessary to
come up with something that would be opposite to anything on which the
positive state was built. So, if the positive state was founded on the
principle of freedom, independence, self-reliance and deriving all
knowledge from one’s within, where My seat is, that is, ultimately from
Me, the negative state needed to be established on the principle of
dependence and reliance on someone or something external, on slavery
and deriving all knowledge from one’s without and not from Me. In order
to accomplish this goal, it was necessary to invent all kinds of external
attractive objects of various diversities in order to trap humans into
believing that the meaning of life is not in the inner spiritual reality but
in those attractive objects or substances.
For example, if you watch television programs most of your free time, you
will receive all information and knowledge about anything from it, and
not from Me in you. If you seek answers to life issues, or if you are trying
to avoid those issues, or avoid problems in your life by altering your
consciousness by means of some types of drugs which are put into your
system from without, you lose your ability to listen to the answers that
are contained within you.
Human life was purposefully and genetically structured in such a way so
as to make it very easy for humans to turn their attention to only
external factors and at the same time, very difficult to pay attention to
internal factors. Because of this structural conditioning, if anyone out
there would like to discover anything that happens in his/her within, a
setup was established to make such a journey possible by external means
through the use of mind-altering substances. That way, humans who do
so are led into the convincing illusion that they are in the true reality of
their within or that they have discovered the spiritual reality of life and
the most pleasurable and delightful life of the positive state. Having such
an artificially induced pleasure and discovery, after coming down from
the influence of the used substance/drug, and finding themselves once
again in the reality of their typical human life, they will intensely desire
to reexperience their former state. This situation leads to the vicious
cycle of wanting to have such experiences more and more. At the same
time, as you know, Peter, following a prolonged use of such
substances/drugs, the brain cells of the user stop producing the chemicals
necessary for the normal functioning of the human body and psyche. Now
they rely on input from the outside instead of from within themselves, as
the case was before. Do you see the spiritual correspondence here, Peter?
Peter: Yes, very clearly.
The Lord Jesus Christ: If such use or abuse continues for a longer
period of time, this condition — the brain cells ceasing the production of
those chemicals — may become irreversible for the rest of the user’s life
on this planet. In that case, he/she has no recourse but to continue in
his/her life of total dependence on the respective substance. The moment
he/she stops taking it, he/she develops such severe symptoms of physical
withdrawal and mental anguish that life becomes totally unbearable for
him/her. Many of them commit suicide at such times.
Here we are talking about severe cases of addiction or dependence. But
what about the so-called seemingly ‘harmless’ or ‘benign’ habits,
attachments, addictions or dependencies? One of the most dangerous
conditions that all of you have, is a tendency to fall into the habit of
considering something in your life so pleasurable, delightful, normal,
appropriate and necessary that it never, ever crosses your mind to
question its possibly negative impact on your spiritual, mental and
physical well-being.
Have you ever considered the addiction and even true dependence that
the majority of the members of humankind have fallen into? Take for
example, their habit to have several cups of strong black coffee, full of
stimulation-producing caffeine on a daily basis. At one point, if they
drink it for a longer period of time, they find themselves unable to
function normally without having their caffeine fix. As you know, Peter,
the researchers on this issue on your planet have clearly established the
fact that if you drink two and a half cups or more of strong black coffee
on a daily basis for a long period of time, you develop a physiological and
psychological dependence on it. The moment you stop drinking it you will
experience similar symptoms of withdrawal as in heroin addiction. And
cigarette smoking establishes the same condition in your brain as using
cocaine.
At one point in time, you find yourself unable to live and function
without them. You have become a slave of your habits. The negative
state got to you by the means of such habits and addictions. So, in this
respect, humanity on planet Zero can be considered to be addicted and
dependent across the board on something or someone. For everyone in
being and existence: Here is the spiritual factor of learning about a life
that is totally and completely dependent on external factors without any
input from within.
The problem with this situation is in the fact that once you establish this
type of life, it gradually and slowly atrophies your ability to go inward, or
if you try to go inward while you are using such substances, or anything
else for that matter, you will find yourself in contact with the false
pseudo-within and with entities who come from the negative state.
Unfortunately, very often your experiences in this respect can be
seemingly positive. Initially, they are set up to be like that so that you
are trapped into being addicted to your dependencies, and lose your true
spiritual awareness, replacing it with a false one. At that point, you find
yourself under the illusion that nothing is wrong and that you continue
to be in contact with your true Spiritual Mind, with Me and with the
members of your true spiritual family. If you find yourself at this point —
and I can assure you that by continuously using such means, you most
definitely will — your genuine and initial ability to commune and
communicate with Me will be lost.
Here, the principle you often hear from people applies, ‘if you don’t use it,
you’ll lose it.’ If you stop using the proper means to go inward by your
own effort, without depending on anything or anyone and without any
influence by any substance use, you will lose your access to Me and to My
positive state. Thus, you lose your way to your true self, or your true
nature.
Why do you think you were strongly advised to restrain yourself from
drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, drinking any strong drug-laced
drinks and to be unreasonably attached to anyone or anything? Because
such things, no matter how harmless or benign they seem to be, are
dangerous traps set up for you by the negative state in order to sidetrack
you from your proper spiritual path. Under the presently existing
conditions, during the current shift, this trap will be used by the forces of
the negative state, especially by the renegades, to make it impossible for
you to function properly, effectively and successfully in your role of being
My true representatives.
The situation is extremely sensitive in this respect. Don’t underestimate
the potency of any such means used by them to deter you from your
mission and assignment as My true representatives. The renegades will
use anything available to them to block you in your proper function in
this respect. For that reason, during this time, as the shift is going on,
the things, habits, attachments or anything else of this nature that used
to be really harmless and benign, are no longer so. They have become a
potent tool in the hands of the renegades to adversely influence your life
by their means. Take for example, the habit of drinking strong black
coffee. It is not by coincidence that in the spiritual world, black coffee is
called a ‘demonic drink.’ Here is a spiritual correspondence of the
meaning of black or dark. Spiritually speaking, everything in the
negative state is in pitch darkness and blackness. Because of this
spiritual correspondence, by its means, when you imbibe coffee, your
spiritual, mental and physical condition may be adversely influenced by
it. The door can be left wide-open for the renegades to exert their
influence on you, without your being consciously aware of such an
undesirable influence. This is true about any such seemingly benign and
harmless habits you may have.
Do you remember, Peter, many years ago when Gloria and you visited
Fiji, a South Pacific island, the conversation you had with the front-desk
lady at the hotel in which you were staying? In a conversational manner,
she told you that she had to go and make sure that all guests from
England were provided with their strong tea drinks at three o’clock in
the afternoon, because if they didn’t have it, they would get ‘cranky’? In
other words, without their strong tea, they became irritable, jittery and
moody. If you look at the color of brewed tea, in the mild to moderate
brew, it has a golden tinge to it, which condition gives it some positive
connotation. However, the stronger you make it, the darker it gets and
the more it will approximate the condition in coffee, becoming addictive
and demonic.
Some of you, perhaps will complain that I am trying to take away from
you your daily pleasures in human life. Well, if such things as that are
the only possible source of pleasure you are able to experience in your
everyday life on planet Zero, then there is something very wrong with
your spiritual state of mind. In that case, you are still under the
influence of the negative state or of your typical human nature. What
could be a greater pleasure than going inward, studying, pondering and
meditating on My New Revelation, being in contact with Me, with
members of your spiritual family and with the reality of My positive
state? If you need any external physical pleasures in the form of drinks,
for example, you have all kinds of excellent herbal teas, healthy 100%
fruit juices, decaffeinated or mild teas, non-alcoholic beers or wines, and
similar substances which are not habit-forming and can be as
pleasurable as the other ones, but which don’t lead into dangerous
dependencies and into opening the doors to the negative state, giving an
opportunity to its forces, especially to the renegades, to adversely
influence your life.
Think about it. In your roles as My true representatives, you need to
rethink your life in all of its aspects in order to get rid of everything — no
matter how harmless or benign it looks or seems to be — which would
effectively impede your abilities to do My work on your planet. I would
like very much for you to realize the importance of what I am saying in
this Dialog, regardless of how insignificant it may seem to you during its
reading. You may say, ‘so what is the big deal talking about drugs,
attachments, coffee, tea and similar minor things?’, etc. Don’t
underestimate the importance of this subject. I repeat, what used to be
insignificant and unimportant before, in the scheme of things and on the
stage of human life, has become very important at the present time,
during the currently occurring shift. For that reason, everyone who is
reading these words is advised to change their daily routine and habits
in order to get rid of everything that could be potentially or actually a
means for the members of the negative state to block you from the roles,
assignments and missions that you have from Me. Unless such things
are medically necessary for you to use, due to some kind of medical
condition that requires you to use them, you have no reason whatsoever
to continue using them.
Don’t forget the spiritual correspondences of all these requirements. The
less dependent you become on any such external factors, the less danger
for you to be influenced by the forces of the negative state. And not only
that, but the freer you become from any such external factors, the less
noticeable you will be to the renegades and their minions. Please be
aware that nothing attracts them more than such external factors. With
them, you will stick out like a sore thumb, like a bright light that
attracts a moth, in this case, the negative state.
Peter: Thank You very much for this input. And this brings me to the
second question posed by Dr. Voien. It relates to the issue of intuition. To
quote her, ‘How may we, as therapists or friends, encourage individuals
to use their intuition or to listen within, as they may, to the good of their
understanding, when intuition may be unavailable to them or they may
be in contact with erroneous sources of information from their within?’
The Lord Jesus Christ: Well, Peter, in essence, Beth Ann properly
answered her own question when she pointed out in her letter to you that
it seems to her that her own intuition may guide her in this respect.
However, there is another point to this issue. It also relates somewhat to
the issue discussed above about being attached, addicted, habituated or
dependent on external factors. As you know, some time ago you were
informed by Me that under the influence of these external factors, and
with the condensation of the negative state on your planet and
elsewhere, the ability to intuit had been blocked from the majority of
humans. As they became more and more dependent on input from the
outside, that is, essentially from the negative state, as in chemical
substance dependency, their intuitive discernment was gradually
atrophied and, after a while, stopped functioning at all. No more input is
coming their way from that source. It was necessary to establish this
condition in order to give the negative state an opportunity to win on this
planet and elsewhere. As long as there is some degree of proper intuitive
awareness in the human mind, it would be very difficult for the negative
state to win completely. Only My representatives — you, are being
privileged not only to continue having this ability, but as mentioned
before, your intuition is being constantly enhanced and further
developed. Of course, in the eyes of the negative state, you don’t count,
because you are not typically humans. So, your situation doesn’t interfere
with the process of the takeover by the negative state.
As far as your help to other individuals is concerned, no general rule
exists in this respect because each individual is different and will require
a different approach. However, please bear in mind that unless they ask
you for help, or unless they seek the truth for the sake of principles, it is
their personal choice to be in the position of being either completely shut
off from their intuition or to be under the influence or in contact with the
wrong source. In that case, your attempt to straighten them out could be
perceived as an imposition, which would give the forces of the negative
state the opportunity to harass you personally.
Don’t forget about the choices that each individual has made in this
respect. On the other hand, if someone comes to you and asks for help, in
that case it would be your spiritual and professional duty to bring to the
attention of the inquirer all available choices, alternatives and
possibilities that exist in this respect. Thus, showing that individual all
possible ways out of his/her predicament. The method, approach and
mode of treatment to be used in this case will be different from one
individual to another. It is in this situation when you, as My true
representative, ask Me to take over your mind in general and your
intuition in particular so that I may lead you toward finding out and
applying the most appropriate and effective way to help such an
individual, depending on his/her needs in this respect. However,
remember that it is entirely up to each individual to respond positively,
or not at all, or even negatively, to your intervention. Because of this
important individualized and personalized factor, nothing more can be
said about it at this time.
Peter: Thank You for Your input about this issue and about everything
else.
Source: DIALOGUES WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST PART 1.
