The PHILOSOPHY of RED CLOUD
Michael's Higher Guide and Mentor, Red Cloud, painted by Jenny Ayers
Given as the Address by Michael Ayers at Divine Service at Tonbridge Spiritual Centre at Hadlow in Kent on Sunday, 19th February 2012
“There have been so many changes around the world.
“The cold weather of recent times, which has swept down from Siberia right across Europe and also came to our tiny island, which is on the edge of Europe, whether we like it or not.
“There have been many deaths in the hundreds and thousands, especially in Hungry, Ukraine and Poland, which have affected the old, the sick and the homeless.
“No matter how much these people have suffered, we are truly well off by comparison and we must really realise this.
“We have just come back from Switzerland and there due to the cold weather a water main exploded bringing ice and water, which closed the only bridge across the river in Geneva.
“It took four days to repair it and the traffic in this wonderful city was gridlocked, as people tried to find their way to work and also to the main railway station and the airport.
“The water from the lake was driven by high winds and swept over cars, benches and trees freezing immediately and covering them with ice.
“It all looked very pretty, but very cold. We were told that it was the coldest for thirty years in some places and in Geneva, with the wind-chill factor; it was the coldest ever recorded.
“The winter time is used for reflection, while we sit by our firesides and understand where we have come from and what we have achieved and also look ahead. It is our rest period.
“However it’s not always easy to understand where we actually are, because it all looks as though we are being buffeted around without any logical progression.
“It’s not always the case that as we try to travel from A to B in a straight line, we find that we have to go via C, D and E. Sometime afterwards one can look back and say, “Oh, I was meant to go down that road I can see it now, that was all there so I could end up where I was meant to be.”
“When you are on that journey it is very hard to understand that you are just where you are meant to be. You can feel the vibrations of problems battering you.
“You can’t sleep at night. You wake up in the morning and you try and put them right. You try and make changes and they don’t work out.
“But everything in our lives comes to us for a reason. It’s no good blaming somebody out there saying, “Why have you dropped all this lot on me?”
“He does it very gently really. If we didn’t have these terrible moments with all these problems, what would we learn in life? We are only here for what – fifty or a hundred years?
“It’s nothing in the eons of time throughout the Universe. It’s just like a holiday that’s gone so horribly wrong. So when we leave let our hearts go on, as the words of the song that we have just sung tell us to do and of course they do.
“Our hearts go on. We are only here for a short time in this physical body to experience, learn and move on. Moving on is a sad time because for a short while we miss our friends and family and your love ones.
“It’s only like going away for a short holiday and coming back, because we are all going to meet up. If we are all on the same vibration, on the same path, doing good things whenever we can then we are all going to end up in the same place. We make the place where we go to.
“We can all think of certain people, leaders of oppressing countries that are slowly and gently being asked to move on. As the Syrians are telling Bashar al-Assad that they have had enough – move on. He will.
“It is because of the strength of the Spirit and good men that are making him do that. He wants to do it the hard way. He is oppressing his people.
“Aren’t we grateful we are not Syrians? Are there any Syrian’s here? If there are then we send God bless to your country. You have suffered much like many people around this world.
“You can go back to Victorian England and all those people who suffered at that time, the poor people and the children, who were sent up chimneys to sweep those chimneys.
“The servants were the lucky ones in the big houses. They were protected and looked after. Many people had hard lives. I mention them not to give you a history lesson, but perhaps to say, “Are things really as bad as for other people?”
“Today in these countries or through history, we have many things to be grateful for and one thing that we have and will definitely happen and it is a major wonderful thing.
“As we heard in the reading, spring is coming. Whatever we do, however badly we behave the sun comes up in the morning. The crocuses come up, the snowdrops are already here, the daffodils and narcissus will soon be out.
“Before we know it the bluebells will be out and it will be summer and then we will be saying, “We need the rain. It’s so hot.”
“But you won’t want to give up on winter will you? Wintertime is for looking after yourself, looking at where you have been, what you have achieved and by the warmth of your fire at home or perhaps as you put your head on your pillow and thank the great Creator for all that we have that we could so easily be without as so many people are throughout the world.
“God bless you all.”
