More thoughts from Sha'Tara Earthstar... I remind the reader that I did not write this article and in no way do I take credit for that. I simply find most of Sha'Tara's "stuff" to make a great deal of sense.

A Most Unpopular Message
 [thoughts from the Other Side]


Does "life" on this planet have a particular purpose?  Is it one great big purpose which the whole human species works toward, or is it singular?

A good question.  I'll go with the singular -- by choice, and maybe somewhat by deductive reasoning.  As life spoke to me over the years, this inescapable message ground its truth deeper and deeper into my heart-mind: 

That the only things that have value are those I take with me when I die. 

That "dying" is not an option, nor would a wise person choose not to die from here (yes, I mean it the way I wrote it). 

That giving is the only way to properly receive. 

That self-sacrifice and self-denial are the two keys that open heaven's door (make of heaven whatever you will - it means that place where you think you'd like to go to if you suspect there might be life after death). 

That unless these keys are liberally lubricated with compassion, they will become rusty with self-righteousness and they will not open the
lock on your heavenly mansion.  You'll be out in the cold for a very long time.

That any good I am aware of that I can do, is a good I must do.  Failing to do so is to commit a heinous crime against humanity and this world. [I say this being aware that over 30,000 innocent children die of PREVENTABLE causes on this world everyday; their deaths directly attributable to the decadent lifestyles exhibited by the first class passengers on planet Earth in a vicious narcissistic cycle that is still on the upswing.]

I am about to turn "sixty" as people measure time on this world, and I hold the above to be self-evident as personal truths.  I have not been faithful to this message and I am  not judging myself for this as it would be a waste of memory and space. 

If I knew how to make valid "vows" (that really stick) I'd vow, now and forever, to be faithful to the above.  But all I can do is wake up, morning after morning and say, "Today I'll stick to it." and get ready for sleep every night and say, "OK, that wasn't my best material.  I'm going to sleep on this and find some way to fine tune my moves."  After all, I'd love to quit my day job and do this for a living!

I've tried the "confession" thing.  I've tried the "make up" thing. I've tried the "promise to do better" thing.  I've tried the "if only" thing.  I've tried the "prayer for strength" thing.  I've tried the "sponsor" thing (with people and with spirit entities)... Oh, and I've tried the "blame" thing -- you know the "The Devil made me do it" thing. And I've even tried the "cajoling God" thing, the one that goes like this, "Well God, if you help me achieve this dream of mine, look at all the good I can do with the money (power) that I will get from it -- and
I'll give you the credit for all that I achieve."

Thankfully, none of those simplistic gestures worked.  I only fooled myself. 

So now, each day is back to the simple basic character building blocks I learned in church, school and books when I was a child.  Back to what is probably the most unpopular message in the world today: self-sacrifice and self-denial with compassion (you can call it "unconditional love" if you wish though compassion has a much stronger flavour).  To desire to serve before, or rather than, being served. 

That takes a kind of power that is not found within any known systems, be they natural, man-made or divine -- though paradoxically can be read about in divinely inspired material - go figure!  The power I speak of can ONLY be found in self-empowerment.  You see, the bottom line here is, you have to be willing to lose everything you hold as precious and
necessary to life in order to comprehend. 

It's a bit of a catch-22.  If you are not willing to lose yourself in the here-and-now, you will not discover the real meaning of self-empowerment.  Yet without self- empowerment, how can you lose yourself?  And I certainly am not talking of losing yourself into a belief system or giving yourself up to a particular divinity, entity, or concept.  In this, you believe, or trust, that whatever you give yourself to has the power to return your life to you in an enhanced form.  That's easy.

I am speaking of losing yourself to yourself.  To die utterly in order to live.  Not just once, but daily, moment by moment, until you reach a
point where "nothing matters" in any personal way. 

It's a paradox.  But then so is all of life when it is lived and not just passed through.

Erin WilloWitch and Sha'Tara EarthStar