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Message to all Banner Carriers:
This is for people who take up Causes for others.

It's so much easier to fight for a Cause than to face your own issues. It's easier to follow an urge to DO something 'out there' than to work on something difficult 'in here'. Being helpful to others is often used as a panacea for feeling helpless within. ("Maybe if I play savior for someone else, then someone else will play savior for me.")

It is the physical nature of our experiences in these bodies that makes us want to manifest outwardly. We are as yet unpracticed at controlling inward manifestations. They are not observable nor can they usually be detected by the other Five Senses and so, we discount them. We distrust them. We always need external confirmation. However, We are learning differently.

What to do, when and how to do it, are all matters of discernment, but you cannot be objective in these decisions until you have determined where your own shadows lie and what's in them.

This does not mean that you have to be perfect to help others. It means that you need to be aware of Why you are so vehement about some issues. These are clues to yourself. You may in fact use the act of helping others as a way of helping yourself, but understand that this is what you're doing.

In most cases, a feeling of total selflessness while giving aid... is an illusion. You are in fact feeding some need within you, else you wouldn't bother. Now perhaps that need is only to help. This is possible. If this is the case, then any help you give in any direction with anyone on any level, would satisfy that need.

However, if you feel particularly drawn to a specific issue or Cause, understand that this is because there is a personal connection to you in some way. If you are drawn to children's issues, then you likely have issues leftover from childhood (in this life or others). Perhaps you identify with the aspect of that children's issue, even as an adult (low-value, abuse, hunger, being unwanted...) If you are drawn to particular injustices then you have felt (or feel) a form of that injustice, either figuratively or literally, in your own experience(s).

Investigation of Self, openness to accept the information which awaits you there, will show you how you connect to your most magnetic issues. THEN you are free to act with knowledge. Then you can use the bridge from your own issues to those for whom you take up the banner.

The difference is that you trudge WITH them into battle, rather than seeing yourself charging over the hill to save them. One is compassion. The other is ego trying to hide a self-truth.

05.26.2001

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