Book Reviews: Sedona Good Times

rancine: I want to talk to you about the purpose of life. Now, from our earlier discussions,1 we know the basics: We decide to incarnate, we pick our life’s chart, and we decide to perfect our soul, but not for ourselves—two-thirds of our existence is given over for the experiencing of God. So all of you “warriors for God” will take on more difficult experiences in order to perfect.
When we discuss creation, we have to say “in the beginning,” although there was no “beginning.” But for your finite mind, let’s use the word beginning to mean the starting point of physical life. It became apparent to almost every soul that the only way they were going to fully understand God’s knowledge was to come into life—to come into the battleground of good versus evil!
The difference between knowledge and experience is inexpressible. It’s one thing to be told about something (call this intellectual knowledge) and another to experience it (call this physical knowledge), especially through the many stages of your many lifetimes. In life, you experience the positive and negative aspects and nuances, including defamation, rejection, aloneness, racism, and prejudice of every kind. Then, finally, you come to what can be described as an elevated spiritual and neutral place.
Now you’re going to find people in all walks of life who want to find “spiritual knowledge.” This phrase sounds very simplistic, doesn’t it?
Like Sylvia says so many times: “Do good work, help each other, and then shut up and go Home!” This sounds simple, but it will take many, many lifetimes to get it right.

Dark and Light Entities
All white entities come down in a white column of light. All dark entities come down in darkness.
This makes it very easy for us. Of course, even with our intelligence, we’re not always aware of who’s dark and who’s light, unless we see them coming into being. It would be nice if you had eyes that were open in which you could look around a place and see those with a dark column or a white column. It would be much easier for you to differentiate between them, but most of you cannot do this.
The main purpose of life is to help other people combat the darkness that confronts them. Of course, I assume that you understand I’m referring to darkness in people’s souls; this has absolutely nothing to do with skin color. I’m referring to inherent evil.
To combat darkness does not mean to do battle with it, cohabitate with it, or pull it into your circle. It does mean to look at it, push it away from yourself, and try to get those you love pulled away from its sticky, gooey, “connivances.” The world, as you must know, abounds with darkness. We have a huge challenge.

Surviving Life

To perfect one’s soul is simply to survive life. That is the ultimate: to be able to keep standing and make it through to the end, regardless of how hard you’re hit. No matter that your worst fears were realized, no matter what happened to you. To perfect is to survive—to not give up, not cave in, not despair.
Despair is a killer; it can lead to suicide. You must not drink your way out of life’s pain or numb yourself. You need to be a reality-based person. I’m not talking about people who are on medication in order to stabilize a chemical imbalance; that’s totally proper behavior.
I’m talking about people who go to addictive behaviors. That’s tragic. Probably one of the worst spirits you can take into your body is alcohol, because, when abused, it numbs and dulls and keeps you from experiencing your life. To harm the physiological body, although it may feel satisfying, is wrong. Two things can happen as a result: Either your life will be elongated, or you’re going to need another life. There are many ways to commit suicide in this life: Alcohol and other addictions are just as deadly.

Is an addiction ever charted?

Some people are told that they’re predisposed to an addiction of one sort or another. Before they come in, a lot of people are very, very adamant in saying, “I can beat it.”
They chart with the option for a very strong possibility, the same as a suicide does. They’re warned; they’re told. A lot of suicides that we see are people who have incarnated too fast. They didn’t get any rest; they went back in too fast. They didn’t listen to anything, and they’re shell-shocked.
God only knows that enough of you are shell-shocked because you’ve had so many lives. For many, this is your last life, and you’re really tired and worn out. That doesn’t mean that you’re going to take a gun and put it in your mouth. Such behavior always forces you to have more lives.
Survive life. Serve God.
Now I know that a lot of you, regardless of your religious background, have heard so many times that everyone is supposed to “serve God.” Even in my life, we were told to serve the gods. As a small child, I used to wonder, How do I serve God? The answer I have found is this: You serve God by serving His people. You reach God in many forms and many facets by serving people. If you just serve yourself, you are gaining nothing spiritually. This has nothing to do with loving yourself. You’ll find the love of yourself if you love other people. However, if you just serve yourself and express your love for God, that’s not enough. It’s so much better if you do more than speak it; instead, go about your daily work giving, caring, and spreading your truth and your spirituality, whatever that may be to you. At least in this way, your God-center touches other people. If you don’t serve God by serving other people on this earth, that is not so much an atrocity, but you have missed an opportunity to serve God.
It is very easy, because of the way the world is, to say, “I can’t be bothered. I want to crawl back in a hole. Let them all be whatever they’re going to be. It’s not my problem.” If nothing else, your position is not to “save” the dark entities, because you can’t save them. But certainly save the white entities who are beginning to despair. It’s not that they’re weak, but the darkness has a way of making despair come into the minds of white entities. It seems like such an endless task, but it’s not. What you’re trying to do is keep your “army” together so they don’t freeze or falter or burn up or whatever.
People ask, “But don’t you want to save the dark entities as well?” You cannot save the dark; God will. Maybe you can save the gray. You want to be a light in the world.
The “gray” entities are experiencing nothing but meanness and negativity. All they’re doing is feeding negative energy back into the world. What good is that? I’m sure that God’s concept of experiencing through us includes that, but certainly no goodness is being created.
So the meaning of life is service. The perfection of your soul is service—and so many times without any applause. If you come into life and expect applause, you’re going to be terribly upset. Your only “kudos,” as Sylvia calls them, are what you give to God, and what God knows you give—and those truths are between you and God alone.
Don’t expect the world to eulogize you in lights, as you have seen with Sylvia. If that’s what you’re looking for, then you should know that they can make you a saint one day and a harlot the next. She keeps on trudging because her soul is pure before God.
That’s all you can ever expect in this life. So maybe you deal with ex-husbands, people who are prejudiced against you, and people who hurt you. You only answer to God, Who knows where your heart is. When you keep repeating that to yourself, then your strength increases a millionfold.
Your name may not be in lights here, but your name is certainly in God’s Lights!

Is Earth’s population increasing?

Yes. I see it so much, and you must see it in your world. Sylvia was saying the other night to me that she has never seen so many babies at the mall. You must see them, too—there are babies and babies and babies. War has nothing to do with it. The depletion of humankind is not as great as the boom that is coming in. The boom is coming in now because you’re getting to the end of this period. The souls that did not finish up their “coursework,” so to speak, have to come in now.

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