So, step one is to change the way that you perceive things. There will be other steps as this book progresses but, please, I ask you each day to see the best world that you can possibly imagine: a world where there is no violence, where people love each other; a world where there is support for each other; a world where the only demand on people is that they be who they really are and revel in that.
It is strange, isn’t it? My task is to awaken the ‘sleepers’ and you think that you are awake… but you are not! I am penetrating your dream now; the words I bring to you come from outside the perceived reality of the Field, which is only a dream. And I exist within a dream and God exists within a dream – that is how we measure ourselves, that is how we measure consciousness. We dream; we bring forth constructs from nothing. We bring forth existence from nothing – and think that these things are separate from God.
No! Your earthly existence is a dream.
It is time to change your viewpoint.
Chapter Three
You Change ‘the Field’ Through Joy
Michael’s observations: This was the first Joseph communication in which he delivered his words by taking control of my physical body and mind, with me being placed in a trance state so that he could ‘step in’ and talk to us. This delicate connection was severed momentarily on three occasions, possibly because this was the first time that Joseph and I had worked together in this way, and Joseph’s linking comments at the points at which this happened are indicated in the text. He also mentions atmospheric conditions impeding the usual smooth flow of communication.
Included at the end of this chapter are questions from David and Jane and Joseph’s response to these. From this point onwards Joseph repeatedly invited and openly encouraged questions to be asked following the delivery of each chapter. His answers always proved to be highly informative and provided further insights into the topic he had chosen to talk about on each occasion. Subsequent question and answer sessions are, therefore, included where appropriate throughout the rest of this book at the end of the relevant chapters.
Joseph: In this session I would like to speak about joy and about the ability of the human spirit to bring forth joy. You might think that that is a trivial subject to talk about in a book that is intended to change the Earth, but it is one of the most important factors in Creation and one of the factors that is missing most from people’s souls and from their approach to the Earth and to their lives at this time – and it has been missing since the time of the Fall.
God is joyous – again one of my statements – God is joyous. I said in the previous book that God is a circle, but God is also joy. God, principally, is joy. You can say: ‘Well, God is happiness, God is sadness, God is all the other emotions that apply to the human being,’ but I would say, ‘No. Principally God is joy because Creation is joy.’
In the beginning – in the beginning of ‘time’ as you measure it on this level of consciousness – God brought forth joy. Light is joy. Light – when applied to any situation, to any human being, any soul, any conflict – is joy. God’s natural state is one of bliss, one of joy, one of happiness – extreme happiness. In the beginning God imbued His children (because they were and are His children – a part of Him) with a joy at being in the physical universe, a joy at approaching their lives and discovering the things that were intended to be discovered on a physical plane.
Discontent then grew through the minds of men as the balance of the Field (the Field of joy, of course, that was created by human beings in the beginning) was gradually changed through the discontent that came to a few with obstinate minds and a strong intention to know better than God and to do better than God. And so the balance was tipped and, as people began to experience the darker side of creation, the darker possibilities, then those vibrations were also poured into the Field so the Field itself became polluted. The Field of creative joy became a Field of pain and of suffering.
In this particular chapter I want to underline the fact that suffering does not come from God. God knows nothing about suffering or pain; that is not God’s natural state and it is not the natural state of His children.
Many of your religions are built around the concept that God wants people on Earth to suffer. This, children; this, priests; this, ministers; this, religious fanatics, is a nonsense! God does not want any of His children to suffer. God’s vibration is so far above that of suffering that He cannot even conceive of what suffering is. He only feels, perceives, the need of His children for Him. I want you to understand that God does not feel apart from His children, He does not feel separated from them. It is the reverse that is true: His children, deep within their souls, feel separated from Him and He perceives that within His creative field, within His creative aura, if you like.
So, suffering is created (I want to underline this as well), suffering is created by man -has always been created by man. Man tipped the balance by being impatient; by thinking that he knew more than God and, by doing so, poured his impatience into the Field. That impatience was then perceived by other human beings around the world who also became impatient and who then became upset. They poured more negativity into the Field that God have given them to enable them to create whatever they wanted to create …and the Field turned from one of positivity to one of negativity.
Your Field now is one of suffering: it is one of depression and depravity and poverty and violence, but God has not created this state. What a popular phrase is: ‘Why does God let this happen?’
…He lets this happen because you are His children – He cannot go against Himself; He cannot intercede against Himself and you are part of Him. He waits patiently and instructs through His angels and through His ministers of Light so that there will come a time when you will turn that Field around again; when you will stop the suffering; when you will stop it happening.
Why, Brothers and Sisters, do YOU let it happen? – That is a better question!
Because, for one, you do not know better …but you know better now, don’t you, because I’m telling you this! You create the suffering around the world – every murder, every time someone is tortured, every time someone is robbed, every time someone is sexually abused. Maybe to only an infinitesimally small degree but you contribute to these things because you contribute to the Field with your thoughts. And you will say: ‘I am not a murderer! I am not a torturer! I have never abused anybody.’ No, as an individualisation of God you haven’t, but your thoughts contribute to the Field that some draw on more heavily than others.
If you take away that charge of negativity from the Field then you would be surprised at how quickly those crimes of violence and violent acts would disappear because they would have no power …which brings me back to joy and the need for joy in everything that you do. If you daily practise a code of joy then you put into the Field positivity and Light and more of what God is about, and you push away from the Field the darkness, the suffering, the need to buy into negativity and upset every day of your lives.
How can you be joyous when the Field tells you that you are miserable? Well, when you wake up in the morning you say to yourself: ‘I am alive – thank you, Father! And I am happy that I am alive; and I am happy that I am me; and I am happy that God has given me this opportunity to grow on this physical plane during this day.’ Then you should notice – really notice – the things around you during that day that bring you joy. You have a beautiful sphere, a beautiful planet. It has within it plant life, animal life, bird life, marine life that is a joy to behold – different expressions of God you could study for aeons and still find fascinating.
But instead you put your blinkers on as you go to work and see nothing of the joy that is around you. Look up! Look up at the clouds and the sky and see the beauty inherent in such aspects of Creation. Be joyous! Be