It is interesting to read the complete channeling:
https://llresearch.org/transcripts/issue..._1203.aspx Wrote:Group question: Our question today is about cycles of light and darkness. When we begin entering periods of perceived darkness or destruction and chaos, we have a tendency to reach for the comfort and the light. But is it more appropriate to embrace the darkness and disharmony as a way to accentuate and balance the distortion and allow for transmutation? What is the most beneficial way for us to approach these periods of seeming darkness as [individual] seekers and a culture?
(Jim channeling)
I am Q’uo, and greet each of you in love and in light this afternoon. We are grateful to each for having called for us to join your circle of seeking this day. We thank this instrument for his challenge to us and assure him that he did well. Today you ask the question whether or not one should embrace the reality of the darkness as one may perceive it, or whether it is perhaps better to attempt to provide light to shine through the darkness before dealing with it.
My friends, you, in your question, begin to retrace the steps of the evolution of the Creation around you, for in the beginning there was darkness, there was that which was unformed, that which blew and burned incandescently, [1] and then there was light that came into the darkness, and the darkness knew it not, and yet the light caused the darkness to become radiant and reflective so that there might be what you now know of as a creation of stars and planets and life in many forms throughout infinity.
And here you are on Planet Earth at this time, once again recapitulating that basic scenario—a feeling that there is more confusion, more darkness, more difficulty, more disillusionment than you have known before upon your planet. And yet, my friends, we tell you that what you know now is but the palest shadow of what has been before, for many times have the populations that have come to this planet to repeat third density caused darkness to heavily rest upon the peoples of various cultures, so that the history of your planet is one of bellicosity, adversarial relationships, and separation of entities from each other so that there was not any unifying force that could bring all together.
And, indeed, for much of the history of your planet and its progression through the various major cycles and minor cycles of evolution culminating now in this great master cycle, there has been predominately a separation dividing nation from nation, religion against religion, community against community, families against each other. It has been a theme, shall we say, and everyone seems to know the song. And yet we say to you within this great vast arena of darkness, there shines in each individual heart which you may liken unto a seed, indeed, for it is made of light; it has potential to grow; it has the desire to be released. If only certain confusions within the mind and the emotions of the entity holding it could be untangled and brought into a more understandable configuration, then each could plant the seed. There have been many, as you know, who have been able to move the intelligent energy of the One Creator through their energy system and clear it to such a degree that they have been able to share light with those about them, these are your prophets, your mystics, your revolutionaries, your thinkers, your creators, your musicians, your poets, and in many cases mothers and fathers raising children to reproduce the light they find within their hearts.
So what do you do now, my friends, what do you do now? You have felt a great disillusionment descend into a kind of darkness within your own being and your culture; yet not all see it in this fashion, for some love the darkness, some love the light. Each pursues that which has meaning to each. And so we look at you now as beings of light with freewill paramount in each experience, with the ability to direct that free will in whatever direction you wish. You are, indeed, as free as you wish to be.