Channeling from Radio Program
September 11, 2000
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Colleen: Welcome back. I am going to ask some questions that we received by email while we're waiting for some callers to call in.

Question: How is it that our children today have to live and work in so much fear? They are angry and contribute greatly to the dangerous world that we live in. What can we do to change this and to help them to help us be better parents.

Astra: Your children are angry because they are lacking a sense of self. It is because they are fearful and the fear comes from pressures that are very heavy and burdening for young Be-ings. 

Children of your time have a great deal of responsibility because they are not always in the presence of an adult Be-ing, one that is there to guide them, one that is there to love them, one that is there to give them the guidance that they are needing. It is important for you to see that the children are growing up before their time in many respects for it is a world in which you are all now preoccupied with your own energies, you are all preoccupied in survival and you are all absorbed and obsessed with the material world and the objects of the world have become much more important than the Be-ings of the world. 

You are loving more the inanimate objects than you are loving the physical flesh and the spirit of another. This is very difficult for Be-ings to hear for many Be-ings believe that this is not so that they do this work and that they suffer to give more to their families because they love them. They are tranquilized by, hypnotized by all of the objects of the physical, all of the material, all of the "toys" because you are all children. 

Even though you are grown, you are in your physical growth, your perception is of a child in that all that you honor first is the "toys" of the world and the material is just that. 

You do not honor the connection of the spirit in each Be-ing. 

Now we are not saying that you do not love your children, you love them the only way you can, the way that you understand love. What we are saying is your understanding of love has become distorted in your physical world and you are needing to come back to the place where you can see clearly that love is connecting to one another, love is giving to each other- not only in a material way but most of all emotionally, most of all with understanding, most of all with compassion for what another Be-ing is needing in the moment. 

Because man does not understand love in its true form the children of the earth plane suffer, they suffer more and more, for they are out in the world and they are expected to fend for themselves on many levels, they are expected to feed themselves many times, they are expected to learn complicated things, they are expected to be just as good as the other person in the perception of the material. 

So therefore they are constantly hiding their true identity, they are hiding their fear, they are hiding their pain, they are hiding their anger and then they explode, they explode on one another. T

his is what creates what you are seeing with your children now, why they are hurting each other why they are hurting themselves, why they are unable to love, why they become judgmental within their Be-ing. They are lonely, they are so alone that they are building walls and forts to protect themselves from destruction-emotional, mental and spiritual destruction. 

Man must begin to realize that he has to investigate his own Be-ing. He must work on his own inner world and bring forth the creative God that is within him in order to know exactly how to use all of these "toys" in your physical world. We call them "toys" only because you are not ready spiritually for the technology that is here and that is coming. You may speak.

Question: What can we do right now as parents, as guardians, as teachers to help our children go in another direction, in a more positive direction?

Astra: Teach them to communicate with one another, teach them to love each other, teach them to support one another, teach them the skills of the past, teach them how to write letters by hand to one another instead of going over the computer, teach them to read, read books, teach them support by asking them what is it you need, what is it you want, what is it you desire. 

All children should be skilled in the performing arts. Now why is this? Not all children are here to be performers, not all children are here to be artists, some are here to be scientists, some are here to be lawyers, some are here to be truck drivers but all children are of the spirit and all children, need to free the spirit and the creative arts are the pathway to that freedom. 

So when a child is very young, and he is forming, this is the time for him to explore himself and through the creative arts he explores his soul, he explores his emotions, he explores what he likes and what he doesn't like, he explores what connecting to God is all about. 

Therefore when the children are very young in your world and you cut the arts, you do not have drama in your schools, you do not have music, you do not have instruments being played and taught, you do not have artists painting pictures, not to the degree that you should. Man doesn't see the value in how this develops the creative God Be-ing in every living person so you cut the most important thing from your studies. 

The children are in homes perhaps where they cannot express themselves, where they are being abused, where they are being taught things that are negative and defeating, and they feel unloved, unprotected. Now if these children came into school and there was a class, an acting class, where they were expressing themselves, where they were free to be the good person, to be the bad person, to be the person that is getting out of a problem, how do I work the problem out, how do I get what I want from that person, in theatre it is expression that gives you the freedom to explore your inner Be-ing. 

Man must explore his inner Be-ing and he must teach his children to do so at the beginning of his existence here in the physical for that is a direct pathway to the spirit. We can speak on many levels here but at this point we are going to take the next question and we shall return to this subject in the future.

Question: Some children come from very good homes. They have parents who try very hard and love them very well, yet some of these children are terrible, they are very difficult to deal with. What is that all about?

Astra: It is the karma of the child. In other words when children are born, they come into the world and they come with the lessons that they have chosen to balance in this life. There are situations of emotion that are needing balancing.

Let us say that this child who is unruly was in past lifetimes in situations where he was absolute rule and he abused people, and he was cruel, and he never learned how to share, or to give, how to have compassion, he was completely self-absorbed and in his self-absorption he hurt multitudes of Be-ings and when he passed from that life and he was in spirit with all of his Guides. 

They decided what it is that he is going to work on to balance and of course it is obvious that this is needing balancing. So each life he makes it a little it more difficult to escape the lesson, in other words he is not going to come to this life and have all this power where he is able to just control everybody, and this is because he didn't learn the lesson the easy way. He had many opportunities to see that he needed to and could have been compassionate, could have been more loving and more giving, but he did not, so now he and his Guides will arrange a life where he cannot escape the lesson. 

He is brought into a family where the people are very conscientious, he chooses them, he chooses his parents because they are conscientious, because they are very loving, because they are giving, because that is what they will teach him that is what they are about and he can see it, it will be right in front of him and he will not be able to escape his lesson because they keep giving him these values-no you cannot be cruel to people, no you have to be kind, no this is the way it is done. 

His soul wants to rebel because this is what the memory of the soul knows that he had all this freedom to run riot on everyone, so he is trying again to run riot and so he is a difficult child and he will not obey and the parents will become stricter with him, and they will become more and more concerned for him and they will try every method that they can to teach this child to be a good loving Be-ing, to teach him how to cooperate, to teach him how not to be self-absorbed and perhaps he will learn because he has it right there in front of him, because he chose it, then he will be able to balance that lesson in his soul energy-perhaps not, but if not, the next time he incarnates he will make the situation even greater where he has absolutely no choice but to face the lesson and that might be a life where he becomes a victim of the same abuse that he has caused others and humility will be taught to him in that life. 

You cannot learn of God in one embodiment because every embodiment is like a play, you choose all of the players, you choose the plot of the play. You choose what it is that you want in this life, what is your objective, what is your goal, and you play the life out. You grow through the experience, you become more aware of your God Be-ing through the experience that you have chosen, but it is only one limited experience and when you come out of it there is a great deal that you learned from it and there is a great recognition that there is more for you to learn and so you keep returning until you come in alignment with your True identity which is God, until you become the Creator in physical form. Therefore when you are choosing the life that you are in, it is just as your Shakespeare said you are coming into a play because the world is a stage and everyone in it is a player, everyone on it is doing the work, the performance that will bring him into an awake state so he can become who he is in Truth-God manifest-and then he can return to the bosom of the Creator.

Colleen: I wish we were more conscious of our lessons when we come into body. Wouldn't that help us to understand why we are here?

Astra: To be conscious of your lesson is like to know what day you are dying and to know what time you are going to go, because if you know what day you are dying and what time you are going to go, then all you would be doing is obsessing about the day that you are dying and you would be trying to do everything that you want to do and to suck up everything that is here in the physical and you would never ever do the lesson that you have come to do. 

You would never be able to learn and experience in order to be prepared for your passing. 

Man has difficulty right now because he is afraid to die, he is so afraid of death that he is afraid to live. His fear of death blocks him from living his life in Truth and so therefore as he is living this life he is always seeing it as though it is the only life that there is, that after he dies there is nothing and that he no longer exists, because man believes he no longer exists after the life in the physical he becomes the selfish child that wants to suck up everything that is here and claim it for himself. When man understands that he is eternal then man will be able to learn his lessons wisely and use every opportunity to raise his consciousness, to raise the level of his love for humanity and to secure and protect and raise the earth, which has been gifted by the Creator, the children that have been gifted to him by the Creator, man doesn't see the value of what is truly valuable because he is lost in his darkness, he is lost in the misconception, he believes only in the material and that includes the physical body. Man is most obsessed with the physical body which is but an instrument, but a physical object. 

Man's energy-man's soul, man's emotion, man's intention lives within that body and that is what's eternal and that is what man must come to rediscover before he destroys himself. We will take one more question.

Question: Grandparents Day was yesterday and I wondered why do children love their grandparents more than they love their own parents?

Astra: The grandparents, is the image of the Guide, the grandparent is like the old sage, the grandparent brings that type of wisdom to the child. Why? Because, the grandparent loves unconditionally. 

As you struggle with your own children, and you discipline them, and you want them to be perfect, the way you view perfection, you are not able to give them the unconditional love that the grandparent can give. The grandparent comes to a place in his/her life where he/she begins to understand a little more about what life is about, he/she has wisdom now and he/she knows its about love and knows it is about sharing the self, sharing the emotion, sharing the knowledge and the love and so he/she does so with the grandchild, shares himself with the child, never judges, never punishes, never makes the child feel stupid, never makes him/her feel that he has to do more, he/she lets the child know he is perfect just the way he is, lets the child know, you are wonderful just as you are and I love you that way and the child adores the grandparent for that because the child feels God in that Be-ing and that is what God is. 

God loves every living Be-ing, he does not judge even the one Be-ing that is in the deepest darkness because the Creator knows that Be-ing must walk in that darkness in order to find himself, he says alright you needs to walk in that darkness to find yourself my beloved son or daughter walk there, I will be here when you come back, when you come out, that is how the grandparent relates to his/her grandchild and that is why grandparents are extremely valuable to the children of the earth plane because they receive that unconditional love, they receive that conformation that they are already perfect, that they are already Godly, that they have nothing to fear, that they have nothing to hide, that they can be themselves, and that is a beautiful gift that most elderly Be-ings with their wisdom give to their grandchildren in the earth plane. 

The elderly must be cherished even more, more than ever before, because they are the ones and if people would look to their parents who have been here and who have come to a place of wisdom and ask for their direction, that would assist man not to become so lost in all of this active energy that is moving your plane so quickly, moving all of you beyond your ability. So turn to the elderly for their wisdom will help you to save yourselves from going down the wrong path in this time, in this century where there is so much that will be created.

Colleen: Thank you Astra so much. We are going to go to a break now.

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Colleen: Hello, welcome back. My goodness that was terrific. I really enjoyed Astra's talk about the grandparents. Just so happens yesterday was Grandparents Day. Both of my grandparents are dead now but he was right, they gave me unconditional love, whenever I walked into that house. It didn't matter if I had bangs and looked like a dope, they were always very happy to see me.

Anna: Right. I had the same experience with my grandparents. When my mom would be angry at me, my grandmother would say to her, don't you yell at her, what did she do, she didn't do anything, she was okay and I think it's important for our children to know that they are okay, even when they don't seem to be doing the okay thing, even when they are acting out, that someone is there to be able to say to them, you are really okay, you are really a beautiful person, you are really a good soul and this is okay. 

To teach the child how to take care of himself is to teach him from that place of love. Everyone learns from example, so when you see somebody-its like the poem I read - we learn the most valuable things through the example, when a parent is doing something good, when a parent is acting in the proper way, when a parent is loving, then we see it and we pick it up in very subtle ways and it is the most valuable thing because it becomes part of who we are, it's not forcing your child to do it right, or to do a certain thing in a certain way- it's showing, because that is how we learn, by the example. That is how I learned everything is by watching, by paying attention and even when I wasn't paying attention. I learned a lot through the energy around me.

Colleen: Well we watch our parents in the way they relate to other people, neighbors, or teachers, how they react to someone in another vehicle.

Anna: And when we see are parents reacting badly, that's how we learn to react badly. You know that is not okay because when we are learning to react badly it is going against our true nature and that is why we become so angry with our parents and we don't understand why we are angry, but we are angry because we learned from them to react in a way that is not really natural for us and it makes us angry at them and that creates hatred between the child and the parent, many times because the child is acting in a way that is not natural, but this is the way it was taught to him and he does it and he hates himself for it so he tries to hide who he is, the reason he tries to hide it is because he thinks he is bad which comes from the negative that was shown to him, but the reality is he is not bad, he is really something beautiful, something pure and for him to get to that truth he has to dig through all of this, this belief system that is out there in front of him. 

So the child needs to go someplace where he can feel comfortable with people, so he starts to gravitate to people that are different because they make him feel comfortable, it is more of what he is really about and so then that brings up guilt, because he feels that he is abandoning his parents for someone else and it becomes very complex and this is the reason our personalities become so complex. This is only one of the reasons the Angel talks about. It only points us back in the direction of if we go inside and we work to heal our perceptions that are false and we work to find out why we behave the way we do, where did that come from, where did I see that, then that is how we heal. I'm afraid our time is up. I wish it wasn't but we only have a minute or two here and I would like to say thank you to everyone joining us. 

Next week we are going to talk about cause and effect. I feel this will follow our subject today very well because if we know the universal law of cause and effect then we can understand more readily how we create our lives and that we are totally responsible for what we live with, it is our responsibility.

Blessings for everyone of you from your Guardian Angel until next week.

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