Mataji Channeling from October 17, 2002
(Note: This channeling has been lightly edited!)

Mataji:
I want to discuss the energies that are emerging in your planetary - in your human system right now. Humans are much closer to a global village than you think. While the term global village is almost trite, the result of the emerging energies that I'm talking about is that humans are more tied to one another than even your interlocking economies indicate - than even your telecommunications indicate. This is a new phenomenon that I'm trying to describe - the fact that the nature of what it means to be human is exploding. There is a new kind of closeness that emerges from the consciousness movement of the sixties. Eventually some of its major benefits will be reflected in globally interlocking economies. It is already the case that the primary conflict of the second half of the twentieth century, the cold war between the West and the Soviet bloc has been rendered outmoded by economic integration. The countries of the Soviet bloc, such as Hungary and East Germany, as they became integrated into the structure of modern economies with the resulting dispersal of wealth, information, and education; experienced social change which could not be confined within the Soviet system. While there are some of the republics of the former Soviet Union which are still outside the modern economies of your planet, over ninety percent of the people who were in the Soviet bloc are now integrated into the modern economy. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people in the predominantly Islamic countries are not integrated into your modern economy, and until over ninety percent of the people on the planet are integrated into your modern economy, you're not going to get the kind of democratic societies which will lead to the new age.

Modern economies almost inevitably generate a certain degree of democracy. You may not like the outcome of that democracy, but it's impossible to run a modern economy without a historically significant amount of democracy. Democracy is what is required for the Aquarian Age. All that's required for the Aquarian Age is that people become autonomous, because autonomy requires one eventually to become self-reflective. I'm not prepared to justify that statement tonight - and it would take us in a direction I don't want to go in - but I do contend that when people are autonomous they are forced to become self-reflective.

It could be another twenty-five years before the global economy is fully integrated, but even before that integration, you will have world peace. Peace is generated through movements such as women's and gay liberation. We have long said that the repression of women is integrally bound up with the creation of war. In particular, the degree of women's liberation in large parts of the world made it impossible to have what you had in the last half of the 20th century - the whole world engaged in a kind of economic warfare with huge military establishments poised against each other.

But women's liberation is not enough, because it cannot alone bridge the intrinsic gap of communication across the sexes. In the social systems you currently have, there has to be some bridge. That bridge is the homosexual community. When you have people of one sex standing somewhat in the gap between the sexes, that, at an inner level allows a kind of flow of communication between men and women.

So while women's liberation itself is enough to disrupt the possibility of dividing the globe into two economic camps, it's not enough to entirely clear war from your system. I don't want to be too literal here - it's not so much a causal relationship - you can't say that because women in the developed world are liberated the Soviet Union fell - it's more that the energies that generated women's liberation inevitably generated the end of that kind of global warfare. The energies of successful gay and lesbian liberation render religious warfare impossible and this is the next step.

Therefore it is no surprise or accident - (now, I realize that different people have different political orientations, and I hope that if I say something about your favorite politician you understand that I'm not making a judgment, and I'm not presuming to tell you how to vote, and it's certainly true that another channel might see things differently) it is no accident that war with the Islamic world is rising to a fevered pitch when your country is being governed by people who are beholden to the Christian right, who are anti-gay and anti-lesbian.

I'm not saying that this is a problem - I'm not making a judgment about your officials. Conflicts have to come out into the open. They come into the open through the inevitable ebbs and flows in the politics in a particular country, and in the world in general. This is not the first time George Bush has been - it is not the first lifetime that George Bush has been involved in Crusades. Because I try to avoid observing things in terms of shoulds, have tos and oughts, I'm not even saying that war should not happen - but I'm not saying that war should happen.

What I'm saying is that the war talk that's going on is triggered by a kind of religious fear on both the parts of the Islamic masses and the conservative spiritual congregations of the non-Islamic world. That fear is the fear of letting go of hard and fast rules, of letting go of absolute laws, of letting go of "self evident truths" such as "women are women and men are men". It is a fear of moving to a world in which things flow. It is scary to move into a world in which something may start out as one thing and inevitably move into its opposite, and then back again.

Things change. For many years prior to the 20th century, Germany was the enemy of France, and for the first half of the twentieth century, it was the enemy of England and the United States also. Then, in the last half it, became one of the reasons that the West won the Cold War.

Things turn into their opposite, and maybe even the current saber rattling will turn into peace. My guess is - well, certainly there is a significant chance that there will be a war in Iraq. There is at least as good a chance that there will be no sustained war - maybe as high as eighty or ninety percent.

You can each increase the likelihood of peace, that is a real peace, if you step back from your assumptions about what is going on, and understand that there are ebbs and flows, that there are dramas being acted out, that the participants have karma with one another. If you just think of them as idiots as for example, many people think of the President, then you can't understand why they act as they do. If you only recognize the irrationality of their actions, you can send them all the love in the world, and that will help - but it won't help as much as if you trust deeply that there is a meaning to all of this.

It wasn't an accident that the Supreme Court hijacked the 2000 Presidential election. There were deep, important karmic dramas to be worked through, and those dramas are moving very well. So when you send energy of peace, be careful to send it in a way that doesn't push the participants to ignore the dramas that they are working through; be careful not to substitute where you are coming from for where they are coming from. Own the fact that you, too, are involved in these dramas, simply by virtue of being human.

Observe the way in which you drive your car, or pet your dog, and attend to your own growing kindness, and be sure that you step out of the participants' space. John's co-author Gloria said she wondered what would happen if everybody just got out of Saddam Hussein's space. He wouldn't turn into a nice guy, but, paradoxically everybody being in his space gives him more power to screw things up. So go on ahead, enjoy your life, be kind to your dog, and trust that things will work out, come hell or high water. Thank you.

What should we do? Go into the healing, or take some personal questions or what?

Anita:
We can take a few questions.

Question from audience:
Could you elaborate a little more on how gay and lesbian people - on how their liberation movement bridges this gap between men and women?

Mataji:
Yes, the question is, could I elaborate a little more about how the liberation of gay and lesbian people helps bridge the gap between men and women, and the tension that generates war?

There are in fact very substantial differences between men and women, and yet the biological differences between men and women today, are not as large as they were 150 years ago. There is an impact on your biological natures from your society's social beliefs. Those beliefs feed back into the biology of society. Therefore, when you socially segregate men and women, when you are engaged in a style of thinking that is black and white, when you are engaged in a style of thinking that one thing never evolves into something else, then you increase the gulf between men and women, and you increase the gulf between men and men, and women and women; you increase the gulf between one city - between one nation state and another nation state. When society believes something is always the way it is, that it can never change into its opposite, then whenever there's a conflict, you are unable to have the conflict just evolve into peace. You've increased the stakes.

When you engage in right and wrong thinking - such as it is right that a man should have one type of sex, because he's obviously biologically fit for that kind of sex - and a woman's obviously biologically fit for a different kind of sex - they are obviously biologically fit for each another and nothing else - then these sorts of obvious objectifications carry forth into a rule bound society. Rule bound societies carry forth into a power bound society. So, if you are engaged in objectification, if you are engaged in an entirely rule bound society, then the one with the power gets to make the rules, because rules really don't drop from God, even though many religions would act as if they do.

What is obvious depends upon who is making that assessment. It is said that knowledge is power. It is also true that power generates what counts as knowledge. In other words, the one with the power gets to set the rules, gets to determine what counts as knowledge.

I'm just saying that rules become objectified, then power becomes involved, and ultimately then the only mechanism of solving conflicts of opinion is through dances of power called war. And ultimately, those rules increase the alienation felt by every human and every society.

This is why we are so constantly talking about a book called "Difficult Conversations". The first point you run into in that book, is that the place where most difficult conversations become difficult is where people get bogged down in trying to figure out who is right. The supposition of most difficult conversations is, "If I can prove I'm right, you'll have to change your mind, and you'll love me, or you'll have to do what I want." [chuckle] It's a pretty fallacious assumption.

There is another way of communicating, where you try to understand what the other person thinks and feels, and try to express what you think and feel, without trying to impose either as the correct way, where you have the kind of respectful dialogue that you can't achieve simply by being loving or having good intentions. You have to know the mechanics of how to have that kind of respectful dialogue. Many, many difficult conversations then become much, much easier.

Rules are essentially created by the second chakra. Flow can also be created by the second chakra. Rules are what baby souls try to impose. Flow is what mature and old souls try to do. As your culture moves away from rules, commandments, and into a kind and generous flow, a respectful flow - not a self indulgent flow, not the 60s let it all hang out - but a genuine respectful interchange, then you will have peace in your personal relations, and in your global relations.

Now, that may not sound like I've addressed the issue of gays and lesbians but, it's obvious that some significant portion of your society loves the same sex, notwithstanding horrific rules against that love. This persistence is a sign that those rules prohibiting gay and lesbian relations aren't real. When your society can give homosexuals the freedom to be who they are - and to do that your society has to pass beyond a rule based behavior to a flow based society - to a kind and generous flow based behavior - to a flow that's authentic, that's not self indulgent, then your societies will change, your personal relations will change, even your biology will move more towards health and freedom

Copyright, John Friedlander, 2002

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