9/10/06

JFK: Good morning Jim.

Jim: Good morning Jack and we bid you welcome my friend in the light and love of mother father god.

JFK:  Thank you and I thank everyone who is here this morning and I also thank that light little energy that just left for every time that speaks before me, I find that things are much easier for me when I speak. 

Jim: Yes, she does add a positive energy to Diane.

JFK: I think that one would add a positive energy to anyone.  Good morning my friends.  I thank you for being here.  Are there any questions for me before we get started this morning?

Phyllis: I think so.  On your last discourse, you went to some great length of talking about how you would like to become involved with the way we understood it, opening people up and to become involved on the physical through your own learning process on the spirit plane.  Did I interpret that correctly?

JFK: Phyllis, I can only say yes.  I am not 100% certain myself what it is that I am trying to, how I am trying to express this because it is very new to me.  But yes, I am looking for ways that I can make a difference in a relevant sort of way to what is going on both through my words that I speak when I have the opportunity to speak with you, but also in ways I can touch others from where I am.  I am learning a little bit more about that process and am finding it is a productive thing.  But again, you have been great friends and great teachers for me as far as how some of these processes work.  While there are many where I am that have been willing to teach me, I find this connection to be a very positive one for me and I appreciate your knowledge because it allows me to get the human perspective with the awareness that most people seem to lack.  Any suggestions that anyone has for me at anytime, I would be honored to take them to heart because as we come together now and in the future, there are going to be very many difficult changes that not only the American people, but people of the world will be confronting.  For me, to look back or to stay focused on the political ideology isn’t going to make the kind of difference that I think is going to be needed over the next decade or so.  I thank you for your perception and your kindness because as I said when we spoke the last time, I have been honored to visualize the process of what has gone on in the work that you have done.  And my friend Jim, I can’t thank you enough for what you have shown me, not only in the process, but what you have shared with me from your heart directly and I thank you.

Jim: Thank you.  I am humbled by this process.

JFK: I am know that there are those in the room who shall remain nameless that are probably going to be quite pleased that I have decided to get off my political soapbox.

Ann: I do have a question for you. 

JFK: Of course Ann.

Ann: If you were in a body and you had the opportunity to speak tomorrow, what would you like to say?

JFK: Can I hold my response to that briefly?  Because I do have things that I would like to share as we approach the anniversary of that tragic day, not only in the history of America, but in the history in the World as a whole.  I feel that I would like that to be more of a close of our discussion today rather than the beginning because it is a heavy subject that I would like to bring some lightness to and some illumination.  Phyllis, as a teacher, do you find that your students, maybe not your kindergarten students because they are younger, but some of your other students that attend your learning center, have any interest in what is going on in the World around them?  

Phyllis: I am not sure whether they have interest but they certainly are aware.

JFK: Because my concern has been as I watch things, that what children are perceiving every day is more fear because unfortunately the parents of these children allow the kids to watch television and listen to the radio and explore the computers without taking the time to interact with them.  This leads children to hear of something and allow the scenario to play out in their own minds without any guidance.  It might be well for each day for you to take some story of the news and find a way to work it into the discussion of the day in such a way to make the children want to look for more but not be afraid for what they will find.  Ever since the mid-sixties, during the time following my assassination and growing largely ever since, there has been a shift in not discussing world events around the dinner table as was often the case when we grew up.  The world that you live in does not afford many opportunities for that daily interaction but I would strongly wish to see that coming back into the life and the fabric of the American family.  If you feel there is any way to make that difference in those lives that you come into contact with, I would strongly urge you to do so.  It is a difficult time in the world that has been growing increasingly more complex since the close of WW11.  And it only promises to become more complex.  Knowledge is strength.  And as we have spoken many times and I as I have learned even more in these years since I left my own physical body, fear is the single biggest detriment to peace. Not only peace on the planet, but to individual peace in the heart and soul.  Even as I served as leader of this country, I confess as to having done so very often with great fear.  As I look back, I find that my greatest errors in judgment were because I allowed fear to let me seek advice from supposed “experts” rather than trust what I knew in my gut to be the correct way to pursue an issue.  I think that is as relevant today as it was then if not more so. 

Jim: I think one of the major things that people have not discussed is what the United States did or did not do to the world that brought this tragedy on us.  Everyone keeps blaming these terrorists but no one has really looked at, what was their perspective, why, what was it in this Islamic world that these radicals lashed out against so intensely? 

JFK: When I joined you the last time, I was asked me for my thoughts on the term of political correctness and we discussed at that time my fundamental belief that political correctness is a key to intolerance.  If you look closely at Islamic teachings, and the Judeo-Christian beliefs, there are striking similarities yet as is often the case, things have taken a turn for the schoolyard bully saying my God is better than your God.  There is great, great evidence of that throughout the world right now but it is as it always has been--only the carrot that leads the dog into the race.  People learned over the ages to control through religious fear and this as true today as it has always been. I don’t see that as being anything that will change for some time to come. 

There is great frustration in many parts of the world with the overwhelming consumerism of the United States.  This wonderful nation of ours has been so focused on getting, spending, getting more and spending more, that they have lost sight of what was a strength that we had.  And this has made not only for great anger around the world but great fear.  The United States of America has always been perceived as being a great leader.  Many of the world leaders today no longer feel that sense of presence from the United States.  I think even despite their own personal motives, I think underlying the Islamic outrage against the United States, their greatest fear is seeing what we have done to ourselves.  Does this make any sense? I am getting stuck on words because it is a difficult subject but I really believe it is a combination between anger of what is perceived as being a wasteful lifestyle on the side of the United States and fear that the United States can no longer be the leader that it has always been, and this has de-stabilized many parts of the world in ways that the average American citizen and particularly the American leadership does not understand.  I don’t know that we’ve learned any lessons over the last 5 years.  In fact we have taken some steps, I believe, that have made the situation must worse.  Understanding as I do now that this is all a part of a larger process, I think it is incumbent upon each of us to try to focus our attention on the good stuff if I may.  Don’t focus on the anger; don’t focus on what everyone is doing wrong. Start taking the steps to focus on those people that you firmly believe are doing right and support them in any way that you can. 

Jim: Okay.

LaTonya: Jack I was watching a speech by someone running for Senate, I believe in Florida, about a week ago, I believe the gentlemen’s name was Ford, and I found him perhaps verbatim or very closely repeating thoughts and expressions that I have heard you express and I was just wondering if you have contact with him or have knowledge of who I am speaking? 

JFK: LaTonya, as much as I can, I am trying to reach many that are running in the political processes throughout this country.  There are some that I am able to reach and some that I am not.  Some that I would like to truly reach seem to be turning a deaf ear.  I am finding that it is not so much that I am making that kind of a difference but I think perhaps that many of us are coming to the same awareness at the same time.  This country has so much potential that must be reclaimed.  I am not going to bore you with the political rhetoric of what is going wrong--you all see it, you all are aware of it.  Yet, I’m hoping that not only in the current upcoming election but in the election in 2008, all of you and the nation as a whole will stand strongly behind the candidates that you believe will stop the betrayal that is taking place today.  This country and the world deserve better. 

Jim: This is getting to the point where more and more politicians are going right back to Christian coalition and if you think any other than the way they think you are evil. 

JFK: Remember, Jim, that America is relatively new to the scene of the World but yet we find ourselves surprised when we see that type of radical fundamentalism beginning to divide our country as it has countries throughout the world for millennia.  It is part of the lost of innocence of the United States.  Yes, there will be factions that will try to turn the tide of American belief into an ultra-conservative, staunch, evangelical Christian belief.  It is not going to work over the long term but yet it will begin to start causing the same kind of unrest that you see played out throughout the world all the time.  As has been the case in every country throughout the world, we have reached the point where we are becoming our own worst enemy and it is becoming difficult to remind the American people that in the face of this they still have more power than every other place in the world.  We still in this wonderful country have the right and the responsibility to be heard to elect those into office that serve the needs of the people.  I’ve spoken for all these years on the apathy of the American voter.  I don’t think you are going to see the same kind of apathy in the upcoming election in 2008 that you have seen in the last 20 years.  I think you are going to see people start mobilizing and that will be a good thing even if it causes some division within this nation for a while.  Because often times when people become empowered they tend to be somewhat radical in their focus until they realize that they don’t need to be.  It will be interesting, there are many, many candidates that you’re not going to hear about in 2006 but watch the political scene change now and between 2008.  I can tell you now my friends that there is hope in this nation.  It is up to each and every one of the American citizens to seize that opportunity to empower themselves and to reclaim the position that this great nation has had in the past.  But it is a choice as it has always been.  There have been few leaders on the horizon who have even thought of the need to unify the American people.  You look at someone like your present president who thought the way to bring solidarity to this country was to go and wage a war on foreign soil and enlist the spirit of patriotism and outrage against others.  I think we’ve seen my friends that that doesn’t necessarily work.

Jim: No, and I’m glad it doesn’t work cause we can have the next guy up there thumping the drum a different way. 

JFK: Of course and it’s this kind of throwing down of the gauntlet around the world that creates the kind of heartbreak that you see in places like Africa.  These people are being torn apart and they don’t know why.  Because unlike this great nation and many of the other more technologically sophisticated societies, this is basically a tribal culture with limited awareness of the whys and wherefores yet they live in the shadow of oppression and torment each and every day.  So every time you tend to turn your back on your responsibility as an American citizen, remember that knowledge is what is going to make the difference.  I honor so greatly those from this great country who have gone into Pakistan following the earthquake, who have gone in to these troubled regions throughout the world, not seeking glory, although they could, but they have taken a humanitarian mission not based on religion, not based on political party, just based on being a human being and a desire to reach out to a human being.  If only we could all make a difference and encourage people to do that for others, without waiting for major catastrophes to occur, this country could be so much stronger if we could take the time to help the child who has fallen off of a bicycle in front of your home, to assist an elderly neighbor in trimming their grass or their bushes.  Remember the freedoms we have and capitalize on them because this is how we will again become strong.  

Jim: Yes, that’s true.

JFK: And now my friend Ann had asked me for my thoughts on this eve of the greatest tragedy that this nation has seen in many, many years.  I believe as a nation we have learned a lot from the events of September 11th.  I think the fundamental thing that we have all been called to remember is that life in this physical body is very fleeting.  We can lose those that we love in a heartbeat--literally.  Husbands, fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, got up that September morning and began a day not unlike any other and each one of those who lost their life on September 11th touched countless others.  We grieved as a nation for each of us was somehow touched by the loss.  But if we forget the one thing that we began to learn on that day, it is too important not to realize that this could happen any day, anywhere.  The sense of community that America regained as a result of this horrific tragedy was a good thing, coming out of the ashes of the smoldering World trade center, the smoldering Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania.  There were many heroes that day, heroes that can inspire each and every one of us.  And as the next day unfolds, I’m certain each of you will hear somewhere, no matter how hard you try to avoid the news, of stories that will remind you heroism of the American spirit.  Focus on these things if you can.  Look back only with a moment of prayer and thoughtfulness.  Know that as many in your group would say, many angels got their wings that day and they did so to help us learn about ourselves, about the importance of what it is that we have, and keeping American strong.  It is unfortunate that the leadership of this country chose to retaliate against a terrorist act by pursuing what is equal to terrorist activity in other lands.  Yet again, it is what it is, you have the ability to make changes.  You have 3,000 on the Spirit side who, if you will keep them in your thoughts and in your minds, will be more than willing to help you in the changes that you are trying to make in their honor moving forward.  While I know this was a day of tragedy, focus on the good things my friends.  In the days following September 11th, everywhere you looked there was a sea of American flags and little by little those flags have been put away. The sense of patriotism has been eroded by frustration.  Remember my friends it is not the United States of America that you need to be frustrated with.  Remember that unlike other places in the world the things that frustrate you, you have the power to change. 

Jim: That’s true.

JFK: There are many who left that day who stand with me in saying do not mourn them, celebrate them.  Each and every one made the choice, they entered into a contract for life that would put them in these troubled times and in those places, they chose the ability to allow their lives and their deaths to be a torch to the beacon of freedom that is the United States of America.  Take some time to celebrate those lives tomorrow my friends. 

Jim: Thank you for that.

JFK: And until the next time, if no one has any questions, I would like to close on that thought.  Then until the next time my friends, I thank you for letting me join you, I thank you for letting me make whatever difference I can.  Have a wonderful day and a blessed tomorrow.

Jim: We will.  We will keep your thoughts.  Thank you and Godspeed.

JFK: Good day.