Tranquil Spirit, Northwich, Cheshire, UK - Spirit Communications: Slavery

Spirit Communications through Trance Mediumship/Channeling:

Slavery

We have now had a number of visits from Thomas who has told us that he spent his last incarnation as a slave in Alabama. On this occasion he seemed to come through in particular to relay his good wishes for the season. However, he also had a further message.

Thomas: I know you're not expecting me, but I thought I would come through just for a couple of minutes to let you know I’m still around and to wish you all a right good Christmas time in your world, yea. I was keen to do that in case I don’t get another opportunity to come through and say that to you. I wanted to wish you your seasons greetings, yea. I would like you to pass that on to them other folks you have who come here. I won’t get chance to talk to them direct I don’t think. So you pass them on for me.

Q: How are you?

Thomas: We are most well. It is kind of you to ask me.

Q: Will you celebrate Christmas?

Thomas: Well, we expect to celebrate it with you.

Q: Did you celebrate it when on the earth?

Thomas: Yea we did. But you know I’ve come through for a purpose. Because you’ve been asking old Hai about folk and the nature of things and togetherness. These things that you talk to him about. I would say to you in response to your discussion with him that you could usefully think about my situation when I was last on your earth plane. For I was a slave, as you know in old Alabam and therefore I had my masters and mistresses who thought they owned me at the time and treated me like a slave at the time. But when they looked upon me, you see, they saw a slave. They didn’t see old Thomas too much. They saw a slave, you see. You see my point here, yea? So they had false eyes you see, for they saw what wasn’t there, yea. But if you could put away that label of slave as some folk could. Some folk could, give them their due. If you could put away that label of slave you could see another loving, dignified human being, yea. You understand me folks?

We cause ourselves a lot of bother. We have trouble with these labels we use on each other. If you can put those labels to one side and put aside your preconceptions, your prejudgments of folk, then you can see them for what they are. You can connect with them as you should, as you can in reality connect with them. For you are all of one nature, one loving nature. But you got to put aside all the barriers, all imaginary barriers to feel that one loving nature. Yea.

So I’ll leave you with that thought my friends. I would exhort you to pass that on in whatever manner you can to make other people think about this, for it is an important thing to think about, where we can get rid of all these barriers that stand in the way of one to the other. So, in whatever way you can put across that message, I’d be mighty grateful folk, mighty grateful. Well I’m gonna be on my way cause I did not intend to disrupt your activities tonight. But I just wanted to take up the opportunity which was afforded to me by the man with the paddle (Davia, our spirit stage manager). To just come through and say my dues.

Q: Are you happy where you are now Thomas?

Thomas: Well, I’m mighty happy now, mighty happy, mighty happy, yes. I’ll be on my way now folk. My good wishes to you all.

Lewis from Oakland, California in the USA asked the following question about Slavery

Q: Slavery has existed for thousands of years in many civilizations. Knowing that as souls we choose to reincarnate, what would a race of people spiritually benefit, from choosing to be enslaved and disenfranchised, for over three hundred years, in the United States of America? Being an African American and now a Spiritualist, I'm sincerely seeking clarification on this cultural phenomenon. Is this suitable for Hai to expound upon?

Hai: This good man, this good man. But this matter of slavery is difficult. There have been many instances of slavery down the years, down the ages, where mankind has exploited his fellow mankind. There have been many different races involved: white, brown, black, through the ages. But it has come about fundamentally because one race has been able, because of its position at the time, to dominate and to oppress another section of human kind. Therefore it is to do with relative power, relative position in a particular age and particular time. Positions may change, may reverse, but while positions are maintained in a certain way, therefore it is possible to oppress, exploit and manage another race.

Much evil comes from this of course as you know, much evil, and Thomas (a "Guest Speaker") has spoken to you of this a number of times. He has also spoken to you of the way in which he was able to transform the conditions. In spite of the oppression and evil which he experienced he was able to transform the consequences in order to enrich his life. Though as he has told you also many times this does not excuse the evil which was inflicted upon him by these misled people. But it is an example of human kind's oppression of his brothers and sisters. It is a lesson for all to look back on, to learn from, to avoid in the future.

Yet unfortunately people do not learn from this in the way they should. They do not take to heart the pain which was inflicted in a bye gone age. And they should take this to heart. For even if we say "that was past" yet there are many instances of oppression, subjugation, dominance, and exploitation today in your world, though perhaps it does not go under the name of "slavery". Therefore, it is one more example of human kind hurting itself, hurting its brothers and sisters, failing to see and respect all as their brothers and sisters.

Therefore, there is an opportunity to learn from this error of the past and to learn from the error of its continuation in its various forms. He seems to ask, to imply a 'why' yes? The why is because of the lack of depth of love, of heart, of those other people who had the power to do this. If we are not guided by our heart of love then our actions may take all kinds of directions of evil, of pain, of subjugation. Therefore if we lack this heart of love the why of this is self evident: that we create these conditions, these circumstances of subjugation and pain for people. Where one group of you is stronger than another group of you, you will have the opportunity for subjugation of the other group. But of course we should rather be offering a hand of help to groups which are less powerful, less fortunate in a particular age, a particular generation. Yet this is so often not the case. So the 'why' is simply that we fail to love. And in so far as that failure to love continues so the evil circumstances continue. And in so far as we are ready to bring about a revolution of our hearts, a reawakening of our love, the conditions which generate such things as slavery will disappear. The weed will not thrive in ground which does not foster it, which does not nurture it. Therefore if we love our fellow human beings the ground will not be suitable to the growth of the weed of slavery. It is a terrible karma of course also; for such things bring about a karmic reaction, a karmic response. Therefore the consequences of such things stretch out far into the future and across the peoples of mankind.