Masters of the Spirit World

QUESTION: Masters why did I choose my parents and my brother and sister as my family? I find it extremely difficult to get along with them due to different values. They have created a very toxic environment for me. I am thinking of minimizing contact with my parents, but I feel that it is very unfilial of me to do so because my parents try their best to raise me despite being given bad advice. But if I don’t minimize contact, I am exposing my child to a toxic environment. ~Tired of Fighting, Singapore

ANSWER: You wanted to see if you could examine the possibilities available to you and decide for yourself how you wished to live your life. Before you became aware of enlightenment – going from ego judgment into unconditionally loving energy – you were more in line with your family. When you started accepting the feelings you were getting from the way people reacted to you and made demands of you, it was time to make choices.

Until you started realizing you had choices, possibilities you didn’t even previously know existed, you had no choice but to do what you were directed to do by others. Choices are now available that would either comply with or be diametrically opposed to your family’s beliefs.

You have freedom to choose either, neither, or a different direction entirely. One of your chosen lessons was to see if you could develop self-love and self-confidence in your own path. By following others for whatever reason, familial or societal, you are giving up your power and identity to them. A soul’s journey is a solo affair. You cannot live anyone else’s life or make worthwhile decisions for them. You do not grow unless you assume responsibility for your actions.

To progress, you must make each decision because it feels right to you, not because you believe someone else wishes it. Your parents did what they thought was the right thing to do since they followed the beliefs of the society around them. They feel strongly that everything must be rated, graded, and judged to establish its worth in the world.

From the spiritual perspective, you owe them nothing. You can still love the fact that they are being faithful to their beliefs, even though you feel they are not the right principles for you to follow. Be yourself. Do what you feel is the correct thing for your daughter’s future. You have no obligation to any other.

QUESTION: Masters there was no email to respond to you regarding your message, so I have to respond here. Thank you for your answer about Animals! but I completely disagree with quite a bit of your answer. This sentence you say… “But the ones without souls aren’t vital to the learning experience of the soul on their journey toward a spiritual experience” is totally untrue and not accurate. I feel I know more about animals whether they have a soul or not than you. I feel I am at a much higher vibration than you. Sorry so called Masters, your answer was very off. ~Susie, NZ

ANSWER: As we always say, every soul creates their own reality and you have crafted yours. Your beliefs vary from what we can see from our prospective in unconditionally loving Source energy.  All originates from our place of observation.

Living, animate, objects have differing interactions with various people. Some people have no contact whatsoever with what we call pets. In other scenarios, the pets create the world of the human. You have a sensitivity to the energy contained within animals, and whether the animal be animated by a soul or energy alone, you see them all as individuals, which they are.

Souls come to Earth to learn within the duality by using their freedom of choice. They will frequently make contracts or agreements with other souls to interact with them in some fashion for that purpose of learning. But sometimes the soul chooses to create the environment for their learning, using objects that have no soul. This does not make the event any less dynamic for the individual, but it just isn’t with another soul.

Animated objects without souls respond to the actions of everything around them so that they cannot be distinguished from a soul-bearing animal. Many people have the belief that their pet chicken, pig, lamb, or calf has a soul because of their actions, when the majority do not. They will swear that the animal is sentient and responsive to the love they are bestowing upon it, which they are. A soul is not needed for that activity. Even a plant can respond to stimuli from a person.

We honor your choice to feel as you do. But aren’t your statements a bit judgmental? Judging another is the work of the ego, which exists only within the positive/negative realm. Evaluating, and giving some credence, to the opinions of others is a spiritual approach from a place of unconditional love. Vibrations have trouble rising out of a negative environment where judgment lurks.

QUESTION: Masters two of my children seem to have chosen difficult life lessons. One seems to be bipolar and exceptionally demanding; the other is an addict. With regard to my daughter, is she really incapable of supporting herself (she wants to move back into the family home) or is she seeing how far she can go with us? I know she is an old soul and trying to experience difficult situations, but she doesn’t seem to want to help herself. She keeps threatening suicide.  The other child is apparently on a path of self-destruction.  But why do I seem so removed from the emotions that their actions should provoke? ~Jane, UK

ANSWER: Your daughter is trying to see how much you will empower her sense of irresponsibility. You have enabled her in the past, mainly due to her threats, to live the life she chooses. What you do in the future is up to you. The reason this is not having the impact on you that her actions have in the past is that you have become more aware of the spiritual energies afoot.

Everyone has freedom of choice to live their lives as they wish. In the case of people like your daughter, they try to see if they can influence others to do their bidding. This is all about lessons each is working on: one to try and be in control and the other to see if they can learn from being controlled or if they can remove themselves from the influence of the controller. You have learned to honor your choices and ignore her demands.

Your self-destructive child is very confused and is running away from life and responsibility. They deaden themselves so they don’t have to acknowledge the rest of the world. This, too, is a life lesson and their choice. Right now, they are not near to understanding what it is they wish to accomplish, but don’t give-up on them – just don’t facilitate their addiction.

Threats made by manipulators are to play on your sense of guilt and duties as a parent. Once a person starts intentionally making decisions for themselves, it is time to step away and let them see the other side of decision making – that of responsibility. Your daughter can take care of herself if she works at it, but she is lazy. It is time to let her find her way.

This isn’t bothering you so much because you sense the spiritual journeys each is undertaking. You know they will not do anything unless they choose to do it. You have moved out of judgment and are in the area of evaluation covered in unconditional love. You have held their hands long enough. Time to start letting them live the life of their choice.