Beloved Students:

As I greet you this month, I notice numbers of you are dealing with a little depression and a bit more fatigue than you are normally used to experiencing. Much of this is likely to be coming from conditions at play in the world at this time. While it is tempting to feel insignificant in the face of the events that appear to be unfolding, it is important to remember that every effort you make toward your own enlightenment is significant at this time. Do not let yourself fall into the pit of feeling helpless and/or overwhelmed, no matter how chilling the events that may come forth. You are a child of the Cosmos, and you must remember to live in that vastness. Do your utmost to refrain from shriveling emotionally, mentally and spiritually, no matter how compelling the contraction around you.

You must not be afraid. Should fear arise, let it melt into compassion for those who suffer so sorely at this time. In your meditations, seek to alleviate the suffering of those who live in particularly desperate places. Let the spiritual work you do be dedicated to those who are so laden with the tyranny of suffering, that both the opportunity and the privilege to receive spiritual teachings is denied them. Refresh your resolve to make a difference in the world by achieving your own enlightenment. Know that this is the most important decision you could make at this time. May you find the energy and the courage to push through your own spiritual blocks, as well as the patterns of resistance that emerge from time to time.

I would strongly suggest that you begin each day reminding yourself that things are not as they appear. Remind yourself of this fact when you look into the mirror, when you look into the relationships you maintain, even when you look into the beliefs and pressures you feel due to events that appear to be arising in the world. Refrain from thinking you have "the answers," or that such is even available to you at this time. Always remember that you are here to be a voice, indeed a force, for transformation, even though you may not see the immediate results that your ego might prefer.

While fatigue and depression are in prevalent supply at this time, you do not have to be defined nor even compromised by them. You can remember to go soft with compassion, giving comfort and assurance with your warmth and your friendly smile to those who are not able to find softness for themselves. In so doing, you transform the moment for yourself and quite likely others around you as well.

You must believe positively in the power of transformation in your life. How else can you realize it? After all, such is what your current life--not to mention past lives as well--is all about. Do not disengage from the actualization of Peace simply because the world appears to be non-peaceful at this time. Rather, let the situations now arising call you to deeper appreciation for the gift of shared peace; deeper resolve that your presence is important, and deeper commitment to cut through the blocks to your own experience of enlightenment. Such is what is needed to move beyond the horrific threats of a war that could literally involve the entire planet to a kind of collective death-and-resurrection experience from the old themes of war and domination to a new paradigm of harmony and mutuality.

Would I even suggest this, dear friends, were I not convinced you are capable of such? Indeed, I have no pleasure in setting anyone up for failure! Promise yourself today that you will create the conditions necessary in your life to support and facilitate the arising of your own freedom. May that transcendent freedom not only dwell in you, may it flow forth from you to a world parched and thirsty for the healing waters of liberation.

Please join me in listening this month to Transformation Credo, a talk I gave to the California group in August. Know that the greatest gift to others is the realization of your own enlightenment.

For this month, I would like you to continue the same meditation we did last month, which was an enhancement on the meditation set forth for the past several months. Again, I would like to recommend that you tape the meditation in your own voice, to aid you in getting all the pieces in place. We will reprint the changes we added last month below. Since some of you did not actually change the meditation last month, this will give you another opportunity to incorporate these changes to enhance your own practice. Here is the part reprinted from last month's meditation:

When you come to the part where you are exchanging blessings for the suffering you perceive from others, this month, when you breathe in the darkness and drop it down into your lovely heart, instead of a small transformation process going on, see the darkness you inhaled igniting a huge explosion in the heart center. As the explosion transpires, see it completely obliterating the part of you that generates projections which is, of course, the ego.

Since you are working with symbols, visualize yourself simply dissolving into light. What remains after the explosion is your light body with a magnificent heart center radiating immense white, clear, perhaps golden light. The light first engulfs the person in your meditation enfolding them in a supreme healing energy that dissolves not only the suffering that you see but the source of that suffering as well.

The same is true for the configuration you visualize as family and close friends. Let the explosion of the greater magnitude dissolve you (ego) into unfathomable healing light. Do the same visualization with your community, your country and the world.

In each visualization, see yourself first as yourself with substantive body matter perceiving the suffering which comes for healing via an image of an individual, your family/close friends group, your community, your country and your world. Then as the darkness moves into your heart center and explodes, it leaves you as perfect light which sees beyond the darkness of suffering; as light which cuts through all darkness no matter how dense.

Continue with your meditation and close it in the same way we have previously done. As you arise, believe that you are an agent of transformation for the world, and go create your life in alignment with that belief. When other beliefs, such as the patterned beliefs around your insufficiency, etc., arise, choose always to walk in the light of your transformative self. It is no less real than the projections your mind carelessly throws out to keep you trapped in whatever version of insufficiency or impoverishment your ego feeds you. Walk always in love and in the knowledge that you came to transform the experience of physical existence from the darkness of your old patterns to the light of the True Self.

Your beloved guide and mentor,
Djwhal Khul