Transcript Excerpt of Jane’s Teachings
during the “Shifting into your New Consciousness” group 7-30-09
(Participants’ names are changed to protect their privacy.)
(Janet told the group about a man she read about who was a talented dolphin trainer. And he was so sensitive to dolphins that he knew that the dolphins hated being captive and many become very depressed and commit suicide by stopping breathing. He quit his job and wrote some publication describing this. And now he steals dolphins in captivity and frees them, putting himself in jeopardy of being arrested. Janet then said that she once had a research job in which they were dissecting live lobsters and running tests on them. The scientists told them that the lobsters didn’t feel anything. But Janet could feel them screaming, and so she quit the job.)
(To Janet) “Both with this fellow and with you, part of what’s in the picture and messing things up is an adversarial belief system that’s causing you to relate to this in an adversarial manner, rather than make a positive contribution. Your positive contribution is that you are so sensitive that you can hear the lobsters screaming. So this information, this is a contribution, and doesn’t have to be adversarial. It’s similar to what I said last week about that it doesn’t have to be that one person is right and one person is wrong. That’s not what it’s about. It’s about people contributing their piece in the puzzle. Now people sometimes put input into the picture, that’s not really their piece in the puzzle, like perhaps the scientists saying the lobsters don’t feel anything. That’s probably coming from a defense system of some sort. But if you have something that’s really genuine from you — that’s invaluable. That’s a treasure. And so rather than feeling you have to fight someone, or vindicate yourself to someone, or prove something — look for the open channel to contribute this miracle of information. This is a piece of the Divine, this is a piece of truth, or the Universe or however you want to put it. There’s a place for it. It’s a gift. It’s a very fine-tuned sensitivity that both you and this other fellow have. He’s putting himself in an adversarial position, but he doesn’t need to. I’m sure if he wasn’t internally experiencing the world from a limiting decision causing an adversarial defense system, he would find a way that he would be embraced and that he could utilize his very fine-tuned sensibilities to contribute something invaluable. And you too, you don’t have to fight somebody. It’s a wonderful gift if you don’t see it in terms of being adversarial. In fact, the adversarial energy is adding to the very thing you’re trying to fight against.
The process of evolution has to do with coming more and more into what’s really true. And so human experience keeps evolving more and more toward what’s true. And what’s true is not adversarial. What’s true is not about criticism. What’s true has to do with people putting into the picture their piece of the puzzle, their perception of things, and this isn’t against someone else’s perception. It’s an addition. And if you add each of these in there, then you get a much better idea of what the whole picture is. Now in the old frame-of-reference, in which you’re right and I’m wrong, and I’m going to criticize you, if someone puts their piece of the picture in there that looks different than what another person puts in, that person then feels they’re being criticized. But it has nothing to do with that. It doesn’t mean there isn’t any space for that person. If you bring the participants all into the picture, and then you see something that has far more dimensions and far more truth, and can catalyze something altogether different.”
