Today we have a special treat. Blog member and talented medium, Robert, at the persistence of the man himself, channeled none other than President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln insisted on passing on an urgent message to the Channeling Erik family. I hope you lend an ear.
Me: Lincoln, I love you. You’re my favorite president.
Lincoln: I’m a lot of people’s favorite president.
Me: And you deserve it, too. Has Erik been behaving himself with you?
Lincoln: You know the answer to that!
Robert laughs.
Me: Sorry!
Me: What have ya’ll been doing together?
Lincoln: Chopping wood.
Me: I believe that.
Robert: He shows an image of himself as a younger man chopping wood, and Erik isn’t the age that you know him to be. He’s younger. Like a little kid.
Me: Well you know that’s really interesting, because I have a picture of Erik chopping wood in Norway. He used to love learning to chop wood.
Robert: Yeah, because they both say they love it!
Me: He loved doing it, because it really connected him with his father.
Lincoln: I enjoyed doing it, because it was a great stress reliever.
Robert: Okay. So, he’s ready to say what he wanted to say. I’ve been having images of him in my mind all week when I meditate just so I can make sure I say everything he says the way he wants to say it. I don’t want to screw it up.
Robert giggles.
Me: There’s no wrong are right!
Robert: Oh, I know.
Lincoln: Everyone knows me as Abraham Lincoln. My station in life was as the 16th president of the United States, but my purpose in life was to further the cause of freedom. In my day, that meant the abolishment of slavery, as everyone knows. But in your day, it means something completely different, because slavery doesn’t exist in your day as it did in mine. Now, we still are not free. We, as humans, —and I’m not just speaking of Americans. I’m speaking of everyone of this planet—are not free. We are bound by the chains of labels. These labels come in many forms. Rich and poor. Happy and sad. Fearful and loving. They do nothing but hold us back, and humanity is on the precipice of a great awakening. An awakening that will allow them to shed these bindings. We, as human beings, have had the key all along, and we have been too afraid to place it in the lock. It’s time, now, to unlock the bindings, to let ourselves go. I want to talk about something else that is along the lines of freedom, and that has to do with the divisions that still exist amongst ourselves because of the labels we create and because of the fear that is so pervasive in our experience. Right now, particularly in the United States but all across the world, there are struggles in your governments. In the United States, the struggle has to do with left and right, conservative and liberal, and at the core of that struggle, amongst all of your governments, at its root is fear. What you might call it is right and wrong. It has been said many times through those who come forth to share messages time and again, including Elisa’s son, that there is no right or wrong. When we attach ourselves to one choice or another, we bind ourselves. There’s a middle space where we are free. We must find that middle space. The key to the middle space: We must drop our fear in order to walk into the middle ground. There is a time coming when challenges will appear to be great, but if we truly desire to set ourselves free, to create what many might call a utopia, we must be willing to walk that path. Once we have walked that path, we will look back and see that there is not real energy other than the energy we create that powers fear.
Me: Are you talking about the path to the middle ground?
Lincoln: Yes.
Me: Is that what Buddha calls the “Middle Way”?
Lincoln: Yes. Buddha did call it that as well. The thing that Buddha and I are referring to—Buddha calls it The Middle Way. I call it Freedom—but it’s all the same.
Me: Oh, okay.
Lincoln: One last thing before I leave you: I want you to understand that the things that I have said—my intent is not to preach. I intend no dogma. I’m not a dogmatic person. I wasn’t in life; I am not now. I only mean to help awaken. Awaken you to freedom. Awaken you to the reality that you can shed the bindings of fear and move forward in your experience. All people deserve this. This planet on which we live, and I say we, because even we in spirit attach ourselves to this place, we are worth it. We are worthy.
Robert: That’s all. And then he wants to thank you, because you’ve been a big part of what everyone else over there has been working towards—helping people to open their eyes, to get rid of their fears.
Lincoln: It took a lot of a lot of courage for you to take this path and try to process your grief in a very public way. You’ve heard this before, but it bears repeating. So many people are attracted to you because—I’ll use the metaphor/analogy—of a bug being attracted to a light. That brightness just brings us in.
Me: And sometimes they get squashed and burned!
Robert laughs and says: Yeah, I was asking him that question, too and he goes, “Well, yes that can happen if they don’t understand what a boundary is about, because boundaries are important.” And now Erik’s chiming in, because he’s been wanting to tell you—I don’t know if it’s appropriate to say on the blog—
Robert laughs so hard he can barely get the words out.
Robert: It’s just so dirty. He says, “Expanding boundaries is like the first time you have sex. You have to do it slowly or else you might tear something.”
Robert and I belly laugh, but I doubt Lincoln finds it funny. Or who knows?
Me: Of course I have to share this with the CE family!
Robert: I know you are! He’s just been dying for me to tell you that. He said it yesterday while I was washing some dishes. Just out of the blue.
Me: Wow, that was awesome. Thank you Mr. Lincoln.
Lincoln: You’re quite welcome.
Robert: He’s thanking me, too.
Me: I bet he has amazing energy.
Robert: He does.
Me: Is it gentle?
Robert: Very gentle, but at the same time there’s a mix in there. There’s a mix of gentleness, wisdom, which is really not an emotion, but it makes you feel an emotion. You know what wisdom feels like.
Me: Yeah.
Robert: And sadness.
Me: Really?
Robert: Uh huh. A little bit of sadness.
Me: Well what is the sadness coming from?
Lincoln: We can talk about that.
Me: Let’s do.
Lincoln: My sadness, which I did not say in my speech, is something that has been pervasive in many of my lifetimes. In the lifetime that everyone knew me as Abraham, it was about so much loss, so much pain that I had endured. And I was also a very empathetic person. I picked up on everyone else’s pain, but at that time, no one knew what that was all about.
Me: Yes, of course not.
Lincoln: That would never have even occurred to me.
(I imagine he was taking about empaths picking up everyone’s energy.)
Lincoln: And so I carried that with me throughout my entire life, but I needed to, because it was my fuel. It was what powered me. It was the thing that incentivized me to move forward with what I needed to de. I knew that the only way I could heal my own wounds was to help heal others.
(Sounds a lot like me.)
Lincoln: Even as a young child when I saw what slavery did to families and people, I knew inherently that it was just wrong, at least from my own judgment.
Me: But there is no right or wrong.
Lincoln: From a spiritual perspective, yes. Here on Earth, humans and spiritual teachers talk so much about trying to shed judgment, but sometimes you need judgment in order to incentivize you to do something on someone else’s behalf.
Me: To get something out of the human experience.
Lincoln: Right.
Me: To make the human experience work.
Lincoln: Right. The same thing applies to every emotion that many humans consider to be negative such as depression and anxiety or even things that are attached to us which give us our separateness like the ego.
Me: Oh yeah.
Lincoln: All of those things serve a purpose.
Me: Exactly.
Lincoln: And you must recognize in living in your human skin: are you going to choose what some would call the “right” path or what some might call the “wrong” path? For you, though, it’s always going to be the right path. It’s always going to be the path that’s most beneficial for you.
Me: So, your sadness was brought on by many lifetimes of being an empath?
Lincoln: Yes.
Me: Well, thank you again.
Just a reminder everyone. Jamie and Erik have their national radio debut TOMORROW! The CE family can stream the show live directly from www.TransformationTalkRadio.
