August 18, 2002
The Jungle Group: With Teachers Alana, Legion, Devina, Erin
The Smile of Light, Teachers & Manipulation, The Power is in the Allowing.
S. Butterfield, T/R

Alana : Yes, this is Alana. (She leads the group in a heart room exercise,
bringing in many people for the healing power of love.)

Thank you. It is always a blessing for me to be allowed by you to give my
love away as a blessing to those in need. Those in pain needing comfort.
Those in doubt needing reassurance. Those in fear needing love. Thank you.

Devina : This is Devina. You ask me to bring the light that is like the
color of butterflies as they sail and fly through the air in the sunshine.
You ask me to bring this to you, to fill your minds with the lightness of
being, the lightness of being held in the palms of the Mother¹s love and
supported by the confidence of the Father¹s care. So I am here.

I ask you to allow me, now, to pour my love and my light into your brains,
into your nervous system, into your eyes that you may see delight, into
your ears that you may hear with delight, into your minds so that you may
know you are my delight.

You call upon me when the darkness is so convincing that you imagine
yourselves empty and nothing. And I respond. It is often that you can not
hear, and can not see, you can not believe and lose your faith, but still
you are nudged by the power of my love responding to your cry. Slowly
sometimes, or quickly sometimes, you are restored. The power of love is
greater than any darkness.

It is not only Devina. Even when the call is made with no name, God is
present, God¹s love is there responding, embracing, filling. God¹s love by
any name is love. I, like all your teachers and guides, am but one energy
circuit for God¹s love, one energy pattern, different perhaps from another,
yet every pattern is touched by, influenced by, shaped by, encoded with
God¹s love.

You, my beloved, Sir David, call upon Devina when, as you might say, you
have "lost your mind," given up on your ability to "figure it out,"
especially her, my beloved pupil, your wife. You call upon me to influence
her by my personal relationship to her, but it is you, my beloved, willing
to empty your mind for a moment and allow the mindless Devina in, that
creates the sudden shift into light. It is true, if she is allowing Devina
to tell her what to do, Devina might tell her, "He wants this!" or, "He
wants that!¹ But my beloved, you may realize that she is not always so
perfect as to say, "Yes, Devina, I am here. Tell me what to do. I need your
help!"

She may allow me to fill her with my love enough to satisfy her need to
"get off it," as some say, or to get off the "pity pot," as you say, or to
stop "going there," as she might say, when her mind is filled with those
ugly thoughts that support the darkness. But she may not always allow my
love to whisper to her such delightful things as may convey her love to you
and bring you joy. Yes? (Yes.)

You must forgive me, since I do not talk much (Devina is the t/r's personal
teacher and rarely speaks for very long in the group), it is sometimes
quite a long circuitous route to my purpose in speaking, which is, today,
to say to you: I welcome your call. I fill you with delight. In you
allowing me to respond to your call is where the healing takes place.

For you see, to allow Devina is not to create a manipulation, a "fix it for
me please," or a "Yes, beloved, I¹ll go fix her for you now!¹ No, the
healing takes place in the allowing of the light within you, allowing the
light within you to be my delight in you. In allowing the light comes love.
As you fill with light and love, so you begin, without thought, to allow
the light and love to show, and even if your beloved imperfect wife goes
darkly by you, your light shines. It is a smile in the darkness. Seen or
unseen, this smile of light and love changes the darkness.

The healing is not personal. The healing is not a measurement of "you are
so deserving." The healing is free.

Legion : This is the message so difficult for human intelligence to
comprehend: love is free. You do not get a scorecard. Judgement is for your
growth, not your condemnation. Discipline is for your well-being, not
restriction, not bondage, not to weed you out.

We are strengthening each of you. I, filling your spines. Alana, embracing
your hearts. Devina, lightening your heads. Creating a power of focus in
this heart room today that will aim the laser light of love wherever you
choose.

Erin : Hello!

Student : What can we do to make someone feel our love?

Erin : I would speak to you, first, about knowing your self; as you know
your self in the safety of your love for those who have no barrier to the
expression of their joy in your attention. This you recognize, also, in
your animal friends. This you recognize among those few human animals who
fear not to love and to be loved.

When you know your self as that one, you know you love. Even when your
beloved animals can not respond with their usual playful expression of joy
in knowing your love, you have no doubt ­ you know you love. But when you
move in the circles of love that ever circle around and through human
beings in relationship, you suffer doubt. Less, when you know safety, but
still you doubt. When a human being in relationship temporarily shuts down,
or withdraws, your doubt returns, even if only barely, and doubt touches
that fear that would convince you that love is not real.

So, before we speak of how to convince another that he, or she, is loved by
you, we must speak to you about knowing, without doubt, and without the
temptation of fear, that you are loved, that you love. All questions beyond
that are irrelevant. You, my beloved, are loved. Love dwells within you.
That love grows within you as you will it to do. Have faith and certainty
that turning to the love within, turning to me, turning to Alana, turning
to Legion, turning to Michael/Jesus, turning to Mother and Father, is all
you need to do.

This is difficult to comprehend because life demands of you to do
something, sometimes anything will do. But the truth is, this is all you
need to know, and this is all you need to do: turn, turn within, turn
toward love, rest, rest in the knowledge of love within you, loving you,
filling you, and spilling forth wherever you go.

Now she (the t/r) asks me, "Why can¹t you give her something to do?" This,
beloved, is why Devina (t/r¹s personal teacher) spoke so long, for she (the
t/r), also experiences doubt, is tempted by fear, and carries the human
propensity to think in terms of doing. And if that doesn¹t do it, she will
do more! Yes?

It is difficult for the human mind to accept "nothing," to trust the
invisible, what they can not see, can not measure, to know that love is
real, and so powerful, the greatest power of all. So often this has the
quality of doing nothing, simply turning within, resting, and allowing
love. Someone has a baby and does so much to take care of the child, and
you call that love. And yet, each and every one of you has had the
experience where the doting parent, or lover, does too much, yes? It is not
the doing, although that is required, certainly for the small baby, the
human being who for so long can not do for him or her self. Still, I say to
you, love's power is in the allowing. Turn. Turn within. Know your love.
Know you are love. Know that you love. Allow love to do the doing. Allow
love to do the healing.

That is your first step, my beloved. I am so glad you are listening. Now,
tell me, have you understood? (Yes.) Have I been helpful? (Yes.) (A long
stillness.)

You wander in the corridors of the mind. Turn. Turn within. Turn to the
still point within. Turn to the love within. Allow. Allow. Allow. Thank
you. I love you.

David : Thank you for your wonderful message. I found my heart and my mind
responding with many a "Yes" to what you are saying about this phenomena of
turning. The simplicity of this task frequently escapes us because we are
so engaged in doing.

Alana : Thank you. Always remember your gratitude is my gratitude, our
gratitude and yours is God¹s, God¹s gratitude for each one of you. Thank you.

Alana : Legion says, "Good bye."

David : It¹s never really good bye, it¹s just good-bye to this little form
of our communication.

Student : Good bye!! Hey, I¹ve got them duct taped to the house! (laughter)