December 20, 2023 Wednesday Evening with Aaron, Excerpts
Aaron’s Christmas Stories; Ariel on the intention for the Earth; Anna on Melchizedeks, spiritual lineage, and the grounding of light into the Earth
(Reviewed speakers only, others omitted until reviewed)
Barbara: Welcome, it’s good to see you all. This is always a kind of celebratory night. When we gather here for these Christmas stories, there’s such a beautiful memory of us all together in my living room thirty-five years ago for Aaron’s first Christmas story, probably a dozen of us. The joy of that, together in my living room, fire burning in the fireplace, the Christmas tree lit up. So, it’s good to see many old friends and people from all over the world also.
We have a little bit of a different program for you tonight. It’s no longer just Aaron here; we have Yeshua, Ariel, and others, and everybody seems to want to participate in the Christmas stories.
Aaron started these with his own personal memories of being a boy on that first Christmas Eve in the hills outside of Bethlehem. Well, now we’ve expanded—a much larger history of who we are and why we’re here. So, I think spirit is going to pull a lot of that together for us tonight.
As we started and I was sitting and meditating, just challenging and holding the space, I felt this beautiful body of spirit. Some of you must know that beautiful song, “May the blessings of God rest upon you. May God’s peace abide with you. May God’s presence illuminate your heart now and forevermore.” They were singing to all of us. I could hear it; I know you probably couldn’t. But they were there, definitely singing to us. And spirit is rejoicing that we are gathered here.
Aaron is going to start, and then either I AM That I AM or Anna. Nobody talking too long, everybody presenting their perspective of things. Colette is going to be leading this with me. We’re very grateful for your presence and participation.
Okay, let’s get started.
Aaron: My blessings and love to you. I am Aaron. I’ll start just for a minute or two. I’m surrounded by so much love, so many great wise ones, compassionate and loving ones, and we are quite honored and overjoyed to have them present.
Ariel is going to begin this, and others will come in one or two at a time. At times, a dialogue, one each channeling through Barbara and through Colette. We’ll see where it goes.
At the end I will share that Christmas story that I told back in 1989, that’s in the book 47 Stories of Jesus. We’ll close the evening in that way, with the sharing of that story.
Ariel (B): I am Ariel. My blessings and love to you all. For those who do not know me, you could think of me as Aaron’s teacher. You could simply call me a star there in the sky. I’m one of the so-called guardian angels of the Earth; those of us who saw the need/use to help support a very highly positively polarized planet, grounding light into this planet from its conception, yet, deeply honoring free will. Those of negative polarity may come. So, we’re grounded in positive polarity, and yet grounded also in free will choice. This is the whole basis of Earth experience.
From the beginning you are connected to the One. You come out of that so-called “Garden” of non-separation into the idea of separate self. Of course, there is never any real separation. But here is the idea that each individuated spark of the One has: “I am a self.” You need that idea of a self because the Earth experience is one of choosing love from free will choice; not an imposed positive polarity, but the choice of positive polarity.
By positive polarity I mean that which comes with spaciousness and light, deeply committed to the highest good of all beings.
There is no ultimate negative polarity. Such a thing could not exist because in this non-dual universe there is only the One in all its expressions.
The value of the Earth experience is that you come into the Earth with physical, mental, emotional, and spirit bodies, all part of each other.
There will be pain and discomfort in the heavier bodies—body pain, mental agitation, heavy emotions. To be of positive polarity does not mean to forbid uncomfortable experience, but to hold it with compassion and love.
This was the original intention for Earth, which Earth’s multitude of planners put together, that beings might come here in whatever form and hold the intention for the highest good. Or perhaps to slip into something more negative, simply moving into that intention for a while, feeling, what is it like before releasing it. What is it like to feel anger? To feel pain? To feel greed? These things are never forbidden. Certainly uncomfortable, but never forbidden. Each being has the opportunity to explore polarity and make the free will choice, and in making a positive choice, to ground light more deeply into the Earth. What a beautiful idea. Painful, yes, at times; that too..
I have never been human; that is not my role. I see your pain and have compassion for that pain. But I ask you to hold the deeper truth of non-duality, God, One—everything growing out of that core of Divinity, everything expressing as is perfect, even that which seems painful and unpleasant.
So, Earth was created with this idea, this purpose: to become a deeply held ground of light, light grounded through your free will intentions. To hold love even when there was fear, sorrow, and discomfort. Not negating the experience of the human but moving through into knowing the spirit body in its beautiful light essence right there with the human that struggled.
I am speaking to you here as Ariel, one of those guardian angels of the Earth who helped co-create this plane. Then, from the guardian angels, there were those who more or less imagined and shaped what would be the different humans, animals, birds and fish, snakes and insects, trees and grass: all the different forms on Earth. How would they present? How would they move into the optimum expression to experience this Earth plane?
It was planned that you would have these heavy bodies. You agreed to it and to come here to experience. If there is a physical body and you would stub your toe, there will be pain. If somebody goes against your will, negating what you say, there will be some emotional pain. The question is not whether it will be there but how you will deal with it, whether you can find the place of deepest truth and compassion in your hearts. It asks much practice; it is not easy.
That’s the start. We’re going to go from beings that have never walked on the Earth then on to those who have. That’s our progression for the evening. Here I will turn this over to my beloved friend I AM That I AM, who you may think of as somewhat of a higher self of Yeshua, Yeshua being someone who came in as human, human form, human emotions and experience, yet knowing his light, knowing his truth.
Yeshua was an expression of that divine essence. I AM That I AM is not the whole of it either. I AM That I AM is not really a higher self. It’s something greater. It’s more the core essence from which Yeshua expressed. He—It can explain itself further if it wishes. I would not say ‘he’; it is not masculine or feminine. But I thank Colette for bringing I AM That I AM forth. And then we’re going to hear from others, moving on to the human, then, to Anna, Yeshua’s grandmother, to Yeshua, to Aaron, others who may show up. We’ll see who comes.
I am Ariel. I hold you with love and with light, with blessings of this celebration of his birth and of the bringing of light onto the Earth.
( I AM That I AM speaks)
Anna (B): Anna, you have called me, one who may be known to you as Yeshua’s grandmother. A few of you have met me before through Barbara or in books; others not so. But I have been watching this group for many years—decades, really—and it gives me joy to have this opportunity to speak.
A long time before Yeshua’s birth, the energy that I was walked in, came into a body that was, in your words, dying. Was welcomed into that body. I did not cause its death; it was orchestrated between me and the previous inhabitant of the body, that as that being left, I would come in.
It took me a long time to familiarize myself with the human experience. It’s hard. We watch you, but we have no real idea what it’s going to be like until we come into a body that feels pain, sadness and confusion.
It took me a while to remember who I was and why I had come. As I remembered, there was the clarity: I am here to help ground light into this Earth and prepare the way for the coming of this one who would be my grandson, Yeshua.
I came to to prepare the way by helping to bring light into the earth, laterally into the soil of the earth, into the waters and the air, into the trees, into the insects and the birds and the fish. To ground light into this heavy density planet.
That high vibration was needed for the light conception—which we understood and practiced on other planes—for the light conception that would follow.
I was certainly not alone in this. My role was specific: to give birth to the one who would be named Mary. Her name was not pre-ordained. To give birth to her. To teach the light conception practices that I had learned on the inner planes. To help support the community that could help support His coming.
It was—my friend Ra says, “Every honor is a responsibility; every responsibility is an honor.” It was honor and responsibility to come in, in this way.
It broke my heart at times to understand the heaviness of the human experience, and it brought me to soaring heights to understand the joy and wonder of the human experience.
And so, I came into more maturity, and with the Essene community helped prepare the way—one of many who helped prepare the way.
These so-called mysteries of light conception, the mystery that was part of his resurrection, all of these were learned skills, not unknown to us who had dwelled for long on other planes, and yet new to the humans. And so, it was necessary that there be much patience and many centuries as these teachings took root.
I shift here now a bit from my story to that of a friend of mine, a beloved comrade who agreed at a time similar to my coming to come into the earth plane. This being was of a, I can’t call them a race; I’m not sure what you’d call them—a group, like a social memory complex, known as Melchizedek.
Melchi in Hebrew means ‘living’. <Zedekim> in Hebrew are male and female beings that are servants of the light. Zedek means ‘righteousness’. It’s a combination of these terms.
The Melchizedek are an ancient, I cannot call them a race. They are not a race. They are not for the most part physical beings, although they may come into physical form. They may express briefly in physical form, but they are not for the most part physical beings. They are holders of the light, holders of the lineage of light.
When Yeshua was called a “servant of righteousness,” “righteousness” is not a judgmental term to be compared to wrongness, it is truth. Servants of truth. The deepest truth of the Earth is as a ground of love. We understand the universe as a ground of love, and the potential for this to materialize—elsewhere in the universe, but especially right here on Earth.
So this friend—some called him, as a nickname, Saul, or Sol—he is the one who then turned to his beloved friend Aaron—at that time, 500 years of age or more—and asked him, “Will you leave that incarnation as Aaron and come in to help me on this plane to bring forth and support the ground and space for this teaching, for this beloved one who will come?” Aaron, of course, said yes.
And within some decades, released the body of Aaron and came forth as the human, Nathaniel, son of this—Barbara likes to think of him as she remembers him, as like an oak tree. A strong, vibrant being, yet flexible, moving with the wind yet steady, with roots going deep into the ground. A servant of light, of the, I don’t think we can say of the Melchizedek race; they are not a race. They are simply a form of being, ancient, timeless, and always committed to bringing light wherever they exist.
So, Aaron’s—when I say Aaron, Nathaniel’s— father had many skills and his mother, also, for whom it was her first, and thus, her only human incarnation. She came in, and Nathaniel’s parents through light creation created Nathaniel and his two siblings. During that third birth, of his youngest sibling, his mother died. She simply could not hold the body together under this high pressure of Earth and bearing a child.
But she did what she came to do. And in the years between Nathaniel’s conception and the birth of the last child, she taught broadly in the Essene community, teaching the young men and women about light conception, as did Nathaniel’s father.
So, Nathaniel always says he is just plain Nathaniel, just plain Aaron, but there is a lot more to him. I hold him in much love and respect. And he also was a profound teacher, without which we could not have done the work that we did.
Coming back to the Melchizedek, their intention was to ground light into the Earth and then to move on, leaving the humans on the Earth to be caregivers of that light, to nurture and hold that light. And so, Nathaniel’s father moved on. His mother moved on. But the energy brought with them remained and does remain in the Earth.
These beings, Melchizedek, I honor them also for the love and truth they are and for the ways they serve.
What I’m trying to do is give you a bigger perspective of how Yeshua came into being on this Earth. And so, pulling this picture to a close, eventually I gave birth through light conception to Mary. That’s not always told, but yes, Mary was also light-conceived. It is not the place of this discussion here to describe or elucidate light conception in depth. We’ll save that for a workshop when we have many hours; perhaps in one of the spring workshops.
But for now, we have the stage being set. So many beings, from the human to the butterfly and little ladybug to the giant trees, to the tiny flowers, the vast spirit presences, all coming together with the intention to ground more light into the Earth. For the Earth was beginning to devolve itself, moving into more negative polarity, due to inability to hold the light which Ariel and others had initially given. Our question: how to hold more light into the Earth.
So many of you were there, opening your own hearts, remembering how to hold the Earth and all the creatures of the Earth with love. And how to forgive your own pains and sorrows, thus grounding in compassion and deepening this love and light into the Earth plane.
Finally, Mary took birth, was raised with love, and learned what she needed to learn to take it the next step further.
No one being bringing this forth, but a multitude, human and spirit, all working together.
And finally, it was time for his birth. I’m going to release the body here and we’ll see who wants to come in. I guess it may be Yeshua, but we’ll see who wants to come. It may be a different being. So, I’ll pass this to Colette with thanks.
I love you. I am Anna.
(Yeshua speaks)
Yeshua (B): I am Yeshua, and I continue now through this body. I love this process.
You are all light-conceived, but for some of you, you use the matter of the sperm and egg to help aid the conception. The light still flows. Because the training has not been there that negates the need for any physical format to carry the light, that need remains. But the light is always there.
All of you came in with the intention to help ground this light. Not all humans did. Some humans are younger souls still caught in darkness, not yet having formulated the intention to service to the One.
But I know this group and you have come in for this reason. And yes, for your own personal healing and learning, too, your own personal growth and release of old karma and so forth. But each of you are part of the Light, and you have come in as expression of that Light.
Let’s step back to the bigger picture now. There is terrible suffering throughout the multiverse and on each planet, each planetary system. There are beings who are more negatively oriented and delight in pain of others. These beings have no ultimate reality, and yet they certainly can bring a lot of pain in the world around them.
And then there are those of you, in Deep Spring, we’ve used the term ‘bodhisattva’. A bodhisattva in its classical form is a being who is fully awakened, with no karmic need to return. But I consider a broader meaning of the term, a being who, of its own free will, comes into incantation in service to all beings and to the light and to love, to the One, the Unconditioned, God, Goddess, however you would call it. The Father/Mother/Divine Creator. And each of you have come in with that intention. Certainly not to orchestrate it smoothly at all times, but with the intention to serve.
The Earth is shifting into what may be a much higher vibration, higher consciousness, and each of you are a part of that divine birth—that light conception, if I may phrase it that way. To hold the love in your heart and offer it out to wherever there is pain, greed, negativity and fear.
There is no duality. Fear and love are not opposites. Where there is fear, there is always love, growing and opening. And it is this that I came to demonstrate; not how to live without fear, not how to live without human emotion, but how to consecrate even the most difficult experiences and ground that light and love into the Earth and, through your own being, to express them out.
I have said, “Anything I can do, you can do.” You are light creators—maybe not of offspring in terms of children, of human beings, but light creators in terms of the seeds you are planting in the Earth around you, the seeds of light and love.
I spoke through Colette of what it was like to come in as a light-created being. What was it like to live, knowing who I was? And yet, part of me being just a boy.
My beloved friend, Nathaniel, was one who always treated me as a boy. He knew of my divine origins, but he also knew that we all had such divine origins. He did not hesitate to scold me if I needed scolding. I don’t mean severely; I just mean correcting me, helping me to express myself in a more loving way.
He tolerated my occasional temper tantrums. He loved me, and I loved him. I loved to go with him, to leave the Essene community and go up into the hills with his sheep.
I loved his father. We never said it to his face, but we called him “Old Oak Tree” because he was so strong. He seemed to us at times to be unyielding, but that’s not really true. He was just so great of stature that nobody leaned against him in ways to push him. He was firm. He was there. And when I came, he always picked me up and hugged me and tossed me up in the air.
He always reminded Nathaniel to be very careful with me, that I was precious, as everything else was precious, too. And he always reminded me to be very careful with Nathaniel, because I had great power. And helped me to understand who I was and my power.
I will always thank him for inviting Nathaniel into the incarnation, for raising Nathaniel and helping Nathaniel to be my friend.
And so, I moved through the incarnation. We won’t take it too far. Perhaps the next step will come at Easter time, not to be told now.
But yes, I was a boy, as all of you have been children. I was at times mischievous or naughty. I was at times sad and angry. I was at times very playful. But always I was in connection with my divine essence and Source.
And the beautiful friends around me that helped me stay connected to that essence were so helpful, helping me to remember why I had come. As my life played itself out, this intention to ground the energy and light into the Earth, holding the—how shall we call it?—the evolution of the Earth into a higher vibration in consciousness, holding that to the forefront.
I am Yeshua, and I thank you. I don’t know if I will come back in the body this evening, so I want to say one more thing to you, perhaps a bit out of order.
As I am, you are. You think you celebrate my birthday, but instead, you really celebrate the birth of Light onto the Earth coming through each of you, your own awakening into the deepest truth of your being, which is Light and Love.
Each of you is an expression of our Father/Mother/Creator. And each of you is precious and vital in your role to plant that same Light into the Earth. So, celebrate your birth this weekend, your birth as Light.
I hold you in my heart. I love you.
I am Yeshua. I’ll pass this to Colette and see who wishes to come through.
(Mary Magdalene speaks)
Aaron: My blessings and love to you. Once more, I am Aaron. Coming back full circle, here. With so much gratitude to all the brothers and sisters of light who are participating where with me—not just the spirit, but all of you.
Mary offered the suggestion that we are part of a lineage. It’s not a lineage of a specific religion. It’s not a certain blood family. We are a lineage of, let’s say it as those who have formed a deep commitment to living with love no matter what arises.
Most of you have worked with meditation with me, and we talk about the arising of physical or emotional pain, mental pain, body contraction. Each will be pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral.
When it’s unpleasant, there will be a reaction to that, either to try to push it away or to fix it. As you deepen into the true heart of love that is part of the co-creator that you are, as you deepen into that heart of love, you learn to hold compassion for yourself and all humans having this challenging experience.
I like to remind people to ask, “Hello. Hello, body pain. Hello, grief or loss, or whatever. What have you come to teach me? In what way, through my contact with you, may I grow further into the heart of light that is the truth of my being and then deepen that seed of light into the Earth?”
This is the free will choice with which each being comes: to know itself as light, to remember itself as light. And to know sometimes it simply is unable to hold that light and it collapses into the darkness for a while, but always with the free will choice eventually, mindfully, to see yourself dropping into the darkness and again to remember you are light, you are love. And you have the ability to move back not just for yourself but for all beings everywhere, because each time any one of you holds to the light no matter how deep the darkness, each time each one of you does this it deepens the expanse of light.
Now you ask me, “Aaron, if everything is light, how can I deepen expanse of light, if it’s already there, eternal, unlimited?”
This is a hard one. There is no duality. There is only light. And yet, from the human perspective, you do experience the darkness. You do experience fear, heavy emotions, body pain, and so forth. Each time, of your free will choice, you make the intention not to get lost in that illusion—or not to get lost in it for too long, because as humans you will sometimes get lost, but you come back because of the love. Because of your intentions. Because of your truth: you are light, you are love.
There’s nothing bad about the arising of anger, arising of fear, arising of grief. We note them and we do not play them out, giving them energy in the world. To hold space for it is not to give it energy, it’s just to hold space. Whatever has the nature to arise has the nature to cease. And these so-called contracting or negative thoughts and feelings will pass away when the conditions for them pass.
The essential condition for their passing is remembering yourself as light and love.
This brings us back to Christmas, to Yeshua’s coming. He came not only to plant this seed of light into the Earth and anchor light into the Earth, but to anchor it for each of us, to make it accessible. To hold that out to you and remind you: you also are light. Whatever I can do, he said, you can do.
It takes a lot of love and trust. Sometimes the way is very hard and dark.
Let us remember the light together, the Divine, however you name it. For me, as an old Buddhist master, I think of it as the Unconditioned, that which arises free of any conditions, that which exists always.
Many of you have opened to this space. In your meditation practice, as the mental body dies away, the physical body dies away, you come into that space of dissolution of body and ego where there is just light. It’s important to practice, to remember this kind of experience so that you know without any forgetfulness: yes, light is the deepest truth. Because only light is an ultimate reality, not darkness.
It is so easy to get caught up in the darkness. You do not say no to the darkness with anger or fear. You say no to it as you would say no to any illusion. “That’s enough. I choose to return to the light.” Ask for help to return to the light, to remember that light in yourselves.
On this Christmas Stories evening I usually tell some stories, memories of Yeshua. I think the most important thing he taught me was to return to the light. It happened so many times, sometimes in bigger ways, sometimes more subtle.
I was walking with him. Some of you have heard this story before. We heard people crying and went up into the hills. There was a leper colony there and a woman giving birth. She was in much pain. The baby was not in a good position to come forth.
I was terrified to be in a leper colony, held a lot of fear, negativity. He never would have forced me in any way. He never would have pressured me to do anything just to please him. He turned to me and said, “Nathaniel, you know how to help her, because you’ve birthed sheep, and I don’t have any direct experience with this. Can you shift the baby?”
I was terrified, “If I touch her, I will pick up leprosy.” I looked in his eyes, and he looked right back at me with so much love and trust. He didn’t say, “You must do this.” And I knew if I had said, “No, I cannot,” —it’s not even about forgiveness; he would have just said, “That’s fine,” and he would have taken care of it. He had his own tools, his own way of handling things.
But I knew he was inviting me to do something that was important for me. And so, with this young woman’s mother’s help, I was able to wash my hands well, reach them into the birth canal and shift the baby. There was one foot caught backwards, and I pushed the foot in so that the baby could emerge. And very quickly there was a very smooth birth and a very happy infant and a relieved mother.
Yeshua did not stop me from being afraid. Yeshua reminded me that I had the power over my fear. That I could give in to fear or I could find the love in my heart and the knowing of divine love and move forward, even though there was fear. That fear was not contemptible; fear was just fear.
There was another time, walking with him again. As I’ve told you many times, I did not walk with him all the time. I was not one of his disciples. He was my beloved friend, and I walked with him when I was able.
We were set upon by brigands. They took our food, almost all our clothing, our sandals, our blankets. I was so filled with anger. After they fled, I said, “How could you just let them walk off?”
He said, “How would I stop them? This was their intention. But they cannot harm us; they can only take our goods.”
I said, “They can harm us. We could starve. We could freeze.”
“Is that what you wish to co-create?” he asked me.
“No.”
“Then why are you worried about it?”
I had no answer for him except, “How do I stop the worrying?”
He took my hands, looked into my eyes, and said, “Walk with me. The worst that will happen is you will freeze or starve. Can you do that with peace, if that is what is asked of you?”
And so, we walked on. We came to a place where there was some dry wood and we were able to build a fire to warm ourselves up. No robes, but we lay on the ground with some fresh grass and slept for a bit. With the dawn, we walked on.
Very soon, there was a very small village, just a few homes. They gave us some food. They gave us some spare robes and other clothing. And we walked on.
Something shifted for me that night. I saw that it was up to me to co-create my experience. Maybe not the direct physical experience, but how I interpreted that experience. I saw that I was never a victim. That when I lost my clothes or my food, somebody else who was hungry might eat. I had the right to say, “No, you cannot take my food or clothes.” I had the right to give them away. They could not be taken from me; it was my free will choice.
Yes, they could have beaten me and taken them. That also would be my free will choice, to participate in that kind of beating. Why would I do that? I began to understand my divine strength connected to Source.
That day, with some food in our bellies and some fresh clothes, we walked down the road. And what did we find, some hours into our walking? These same men who had stolen from us, almost naked and without food, tied up where they would surely have died if we had not come across them.
They had tried to steal from someone else who had caught them, overwhelmed them, tied them, and left them, perhaps to die.
We looked at Yeshua. What shall we do? But he was already cutting their bonds. Wrapping the coldest of them in his robe. Pulling food out for them.
They asked, “Don’t you hate us? Why are you taking care of us?”
He just said, “I love you.” And the leader began to cry. I’d rarely seen a grown man cry in that way. He just broke down. He fell on his knees before Yeshua. He said, “How can you give this to me?”
And Yeshua repeated, “I love you.”
These people, I’m sure you’ve heard the Robin Hood story. They didn’t really steal from the rich to give to the poor; they simply collected. They changed completely. They began to support the poor. And we heard tales of them from time to time, how they asked of those who had plenty and said, “We’re going to this place where people are starving. Do you have food we can bring them?”
This is a way of bringing light. This is how he planted light into the Earth— by taking from his compassionate heart, from inner light, and reminding others that they had the same capacity. That there was always the choice: fear or love? And that they had the choice to love or to hate. To be generous or to be compelled by greed. Free will choice.
Each of you, as you open your heart to the living awakened one within you, the living Christ within you, will find that inner teacher who knows how to speak to fear, anger and negativity with compassion.
As you do this, you are following up on his ministry, planting light into the Earth. Helping shift the Earth into a high vibration. Helping this transition of Earth into a planet of light. And that’s what you signed up for, whether you remember it or not.
Isn’t it wonderful? We’re all here together doing this.
You are all learning. I’ve known some of you for thirty and more years. I’ve seen the enormity of growth, of opening hearts, and it brings me so much joy. I thank you all for being a part of my family.
Now I would like to simply read you this story. You’ve heard this before. It comes from my Christmas Story in 1989.
At the time of the birth of Yeshua, I was a young boy, five years old. I was a shepherd dwelling in the hills with my father and mother. Walking for some days with my father, we were drawn to Bethlehem.
It was a very peaceful scene that night. We sat wrapped in a blanket by a fire. My father and the other men told stories.
Later, the night grew very still. In the near distance, there was a very brilliant star. We all saw it. Below in the valley, some distance away, was Bethlehem. Never had I seen a star like that before, nor, I would assume, had the elders.
—There is a beautiful creature here crawling on the computer monitor. I don’t know what he is. He’s not a spider, though; he has six legs. He’s elongated in shape, and he’s crawling over the page that I’m reading to you, as if he’s searching in his heart to hear this story for himself.
Never had I seen a star like that before, nor, I would assume, had the elders, because they all grew quiet. As it grew brighter, some felt afraid. But most felt a deep sense of peace and wonder.
You have seen how a full moon shines on a snowy place, the way everything seems lit up. That star did the same thing. The whole scene seemed lit in the distance. There was such a deep sense of peace, such a brilliance to the light, and music seemed to fill the ear, not heard with our ears but with our hearts.
Through all the lives I’ve lived, including time spent in between lifetimes, it has been enough for me just to remember the love and wonder of that moment. It seemed that a doorway between Heaven and Earth had briefly opened, and that some of Heaven was pouring through into the Earth.
We were drawn by it as by a magnet, to descend the hills and approach the town. We did not go all the way but stood on the hill perhaps a mile away.
It was a night unlike I had ever know before or since. The air was filled with angelic presences, which in itself was not unusual. The air is often filled with spirit, loving spirit. What was unusual was the strength of this being who was coming through to Earth. Even those who would have been skeptical of the existence of such a being could sense the strength of the energy that was present, and the love radiating. And so, many were in awe of this being, having some sense that this was someone special.
My strongest memory is one of deep peace and profound joy, that something had happened far beyond the understanding of the young boy that I was, something that would profoundly change the world.
Some went all the way to town, others stayed closer to the flocks on the hillside. But no matter where you were, this light permeated everything. I cannot say it came just from that star. It seems almost as if the earth itself glowed. We were in awe. Many of the adults began to pray.
We sat there for many hours. Some of those who had gone into the town began to return. I was dozing by this time, but I still heard the faint words of elders near me, in the still, early morning hours. “A child is born. They call him Prince of Peace. They say that his light will change the world.”
And then I remember my father’s strong arms lifted me up and carried me back up the hill to our fires. I slept with a sense of joy and peace as I had never known before and rarely since. A sense that somehow much that had been wrong with the world was going to be righted. That a new hope was offered to the world.
Although they did not see each other very often, my father, Joseph, and Mary were friends and brothers in the Essene spiritual community. The next day, I had the opportunity to walk with my father to see the baby, Yeshua. I brought him an orphaned lamb as a gift.
This visit was a great blessing to me. I was given the opportunity to hold the blessed infant, and there was such a deep joy in his presence. I could feel from him a sense of love and profound peace.
He did not cry or move around in the way many newborns do. I’m sure that when he was hungry or uncomfortable, he gave voice to his needs. But mostly he was still and radiated peace.
He met my eyes with a deep, loving focus. And then, you know his history. His family took him away for reasons of safety and I did not see him again for several years.
Mary asked me to keep the lamb for him, and it was my joy to do so and to return that lamb to Yeshua, grown and healthy, when we met again.
May you have all the joy of this dawning of light within you and through the world.
May you be an instrument of light, as you came to be, of compassion, of awakening.
May this season see us entering a new year where there is less suffering on Earth and greater love.
I am Aaron. I thank you. We have about twenty minutes left, so I would like to open the floor here to either questions or sharing, as suits you. I’ll stay in the body for now, but other entities may come in as is useful. We’re happy to hear questions or just sharing.
I would like to add one more thing before I close as Aaron. That lifetime was a remarkable one for me. I was not yet fully awake. Many of you have heard the story of my awakening later as a Buddhist monk, centuries later.
But I knew the power of those awakened ones around me—Yeshua, Mary, others in the Essene community. My father, who we have introduced tonight as a part of the Melchizedek tradition, human and not human; so much more than a human. I want to honor that father. Some of you have noted I’ve not spoken of him before, because it was not yet the time to speak. And now, at our small channeling group meeting last week, the doorway became opened, that it was now a time to speak.
I know this lineage of the Melchizedek is with us, great teachers and masters of love, and we are so blessed to be descendants of that lineage and carrying that lineage.
May it be a blessing for all of us and for all beings everywhere. I am Aaron.
Again, opening this to your questions and sharing.
Q: Hello, Aaron. I am pleased to be here tonight. This is my first time. I was really afraid to come because I myself have started channeling about a year ago. I’m feeling I want to be able to go into a deeper state while doing this. And I’m sorry if this is not the right kind of question to be asking. But any suggestions in that regard?
Aaron: Thank you, Q, I hear your question. It’s not something I can answer in any depth here tonight, but perhaps sometime this spring we will have in one of our workshops, we have three Saturday workshops planned for the spring, and perhaps in one of them we will speak of opening to spirit guidance.
For now, my main question to you would be to ask yourself, what is your deepest intention? Bring forth that intention, perhaps of service to all beings, of deepening connection with the love in your own heart—whatever it may be. Maybe it’s just moving past suffering. And then, ask for help, whatever that help may be. “Pease help me.”
I don’t expect you to hear a voice talking to you, although that’s possible. But I suggest you just have a pencil and paper there and if some information seems to come, write it down. Don’t try to read it as you hear, just write it down.
When the flow stops, whether it’s just two or three words or two or three paragraphs—when the flow stops, lay down the pencil and read what came. If it seems resonant with your own highest truth, then say thank you and ask for more clarity about anything about which you have questions. If it does not resonate with your highest truth, then say no. No, this is drawing me more into fear or personal power, or some such. This is not the kind of answer I’m looking for. I seek an answer that is deeply resonant with service to all beings, with love. Then ask again, and challenge what comes. Continue to state your deepest intentions and invite the co-creation of dialogue with your guidance.
You are welcome to email me through Barbara and let us know how it’s going. My blessings and love to you. I am Aaron.
Q: Thank you.
Q: Thank you, Aaron. In the past, you’ve said the Earth is going to fourth density, but it’s unknown whether it will be positively polarized fourth density or negatively polarized fourth density. So, I was listening closely tonight, and I hear words like the Earth is being anchored with light, so I’m getting hopeful that it’s going to be positively polarized fourth density. Is there any way of knowing at this point how things are going?
Aaron: I hear you, Q! You all have free will. Is it going to be positive polarity or negative polarity? Eventually, it’s going to be positive polarity because there is no ultimate negative polarity. The question is how much suffering is going to have to happen in between.
Nobody wants suffering, and yet even that suffering, we cannot say it’s bad. Through that suffering you reground yourself into the intention to serve for the highest good, to love.
Each time there is some movement between positive and negative, respond with the statement, “I will not hate. Only love,”—really, what Yeshua did in that second story I told—each time you come back, it deepens the power of light on the Earth and helps carry the Earth through. And each time you do this, other beings are watching and reminded, “Yes, I also can do this. Yes, I also choose light.”
Just keep it going, without too much worry about the results, because in the end it’s all good.
Q: Okay, thank you.
Q: I have a question about, Aaron talks about how we come back, life after life, with our intentions. But in my meditations I’ve seen that there’s actually no one here. So, who and what is bringing the intention or bringing the light into the earth plane?
Aaron: I hear you, Q. For the being that is fully awakened, has completely resolved any self-identification with the heavier bodies, there’s nothing to bring you back, and karma resolves. It still may need balancing, but that can be done without being in a human body.
For the one who has not yet fully resolved any self-identification with the physical, mental, emotional and energetic bodies, the karma will attach to that and draw you back. It really is as simple as that.
But I do not want to impart an idea that there’s a fear-based effort to get rid of the heavier bodies so as not to be drawn back. To be drawn back is just to be drawn back. To have the opportunity to continue growing and evolving further and further into the light and in service to all beings.
Now, many of you understand suffering deeply, and you do not want to suffer so you say, “I don’t want to come back.” And yet, many of you also have the heart of the bodhisattva, truly aspiring to serve. Really, not so much against coming back as wanting to come back more awake so that you are planting the seeds of light and not the seeds of darkness.
So, let that be your focus: to consecrate what remains of this life to deepening in planting and opening the seeds of light, in knowing the seeds of light and how to plant them, and releasing the seeds of darkness.
Q: I’m really savoring the memory, of you reminding us—or Yeshua, I’m not sure who was speaking—reminding us of how Christmas is a time to also remember and celebrate our own birth as light.
I tend to remember that light passes through me; I forget that I am light. I just wanted to share that, that kind of duality. It just really became a little bit clearer one of the ways that I experience duality. Thank you.
Aaron: I thank you for sharing that. This is so important, to remember you are light. And as we progress toward the day we celebrate his birth, celebrate the birth, the resurgence of light within yourselves and commit to being a bearer of that light. This is all we can do. I love you.
And now, we have just five minutes left. John, I’m going to ask you, in these last five minutes—you probably do not have your harmonium there and that’s okay. Can you lead us just with voice? We’ll ask people to mute themselves or not to mute themselves—a cacophony of sound. “All I ask of you”—could we sing that together?
John: Hello, Aaron and everyone. I have a cold. I’m not feeling so good. However, I’ll do the best that I can, considering my condition right now. My voice is a little deep. And many of you are familiar with this.
Aaron: It will still be beautiful! Your heart is in it, John. That’s more important than the voice.
John: Probably it’s best for everyone to stay muted. But, singing it together…
Aaron: Let me say the words, for those who don’t know them.
All I ask of you is forever to remember me as loving you.
All I ask of you is forever to remember me as loving you.
And then the Arabic:
Ishk Allah ma bud lay la, Ishk Allah ma bud lay la.
Which means “God is lover and Beloved.”
Ishk Allah ma bud lay la, Ishk Allah ma bud lay la.
All I ask of you, et cetera. Thank you, John.
(singing)
John: Merry Christmas, everyone. Have a wonderful holiday…
Barbara: Merry Christmas, everybody. Colette, thank you for sharing this with me, and all the loving spirits who participated… Much love to you all, and I hope you have a beautiful holiday. I love you all very much.