The “Big Health” Meeting

MON., NOV. 10, 1997, 1:12 PM
CONVEN. CTR., APHA, INDY

This is a meeting that you haven’t attended for some years, and it is a big and impersonal one. But you’re here, and anxious to talk with some old friends and former students about spiritual matters in life and health. You had one unexpected opportunity with Ian, but you’ve missed some others. Don’t forget My capacities to energize you for this sort of interaction.

The General Meeting this morning was a revisiting of this group’s political, economic, and health values, perceptions, and positions. How do I respond to some of these premises? I knew you’d find a way to hear Me.

In relation to war, armaments, and preparations for conflict I am with the Association in its opposition. Though I do want to uphold right actions, and I have told you that there are some “just wars”… and that spirit can be increased and developed in war… I still prefer peace and working differences out diplomatically, with compromises. I also realize that when defense contracts are diminished and military bases closed it is a hardship on some persons and families. It is a complicated issue, and I recognize the “problems” in taking a clear position, but I do prefer peace to armed conflict… particularly with the state of weapons in this era.

I approve of the opposition to land mines and to desires to remove them so that innocent people, including children, are not harmed or killed by them. Yet I see them also as a deterrent to a “sneak” attack, where hostility is a real possibility. Another issue where one side is not wholely righteous.

Yet you know that My major comment is in relation to an underlying result of successful public health programs. More people would live longer, death would be increasingly postponed, and therefore the national and world populations would increase even more than at present. (1:32 / 1:33) The Association is for family planning, for choice in abortion, and is concerned about environmental health. Yet I see an unrealistic denial of bodily death as a part of sustainable community health. As I have told you repeatedly, death is part of the healthy living of humans in this ecosystem called Earth. So how is death to come about, in ways that can be called healthy?

One example that I’ll cite again (and again!) is My death, as Jesus. Mine was a short life, even for that time in the earth. It was a mystical combination of being executed for threatening the dominant Jewish leaders (which could threaten the Roman governors… somehow)… AND of giving My life as a sacrifice… a means by which sins, even today, are forgiven. How does this apply?

In wartime combat it is seen as heroic if a person gives up his life for others… as a means of saving the lives of others. Increasingly this should be seen as the morally superior kind of action in “civilian” life. I am helping you to understand that living on past 3 score and 10 is fine as long as it is a “natural longevity”. Not seeking costly, invasive, and ultimately polluting medical care is a form of sacrifice, and I approve of this, increasingly.

Some babies and children have handicaps that hinder full functioning. It is not necessarily My Will that all such should be saved, heroically. As populations increase, some will starve to death, and this, too, is part of the balance. I allow microorganisms and insects to mutate and adapt to changes in climate or environment, and their adaptations will be better than that of some humans. It is not My Will that every person born shall have a long, disease free, comfortable life. Remember that My priority is spiritual development, and I see many ways and conditions in which this occurs.

I am not opposed to public health programs that do save and prolong lives, when those involved are spiritually motivated… to serve their fellow humans. Yet I am not bothered by apparent “lack of success” in doing all that your Association deems necessary and desirable.