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A Soul Intervention, Straight from Caroline Myss

On September 9, 2001, Susan Chamberlain had flown home to New York from a meeting with Caroline Myss in St. Louis, Missouri. The teachings of Myss’ five-day intensive seminar, Sacred Contracts, stayed fresh on Susan’s mind in the grief-filled days and months to come, serving as a soothing balm that helped her broken family heal.

“This (seminar) is how I learned to honor my sister’s sacred contract,” said Susan. “Michele was here with us, and then it was time for her energies to shift. She was running away, down an earthly stairway, in chaos. Then, in an instant, she gracefully stepped over to the other realm.”

Forgiving is the fastest way of retrieving our energy. Our strength is always within.

Caroline Myss and Susan Chamberlain shared a moment of delightful connection in St. Louis. It was a light exchange that, ironically, signaled the end of a more innocent time. Myss and Chamberlain, who both grew up with “nunsies,” spoke of the recently canonized Saint Padre Pio and of Myss’ cohort, Ron Roth, who taught Susan the affirmative “be-do-have” mentality over the materialistic striving attitude of “have-to-be.” He leads an ordination program in which Susan is enrolled.

“Chatting with Caroline is intense,” says Chamberlain, “as full and as quick as a New York minute. At first she sort of leaned away from where we were sitting and looked over my head, as if to inspect my eighth chakra, but then she enthusiastically reached forward again: ’Whoa, I can tell you are in very good company’ she said.”

Vibrations is in good company, too, because Myss granted us a rare interview regarding healing from 9/11.

MGM: Your upcoming book, The Sacred Contracts of the United States, is about archetypes and actions, calling 9/11 a spiritual epidemic. Does it include some spiritual solutions?

CM: Every spiritual master wishes to shed light. Just to set the stage, here, we have already experienced a cosmic shift in astrological ages, from a Piscean perspective that is driven by rules, to The Age of Aquarius, which values sharing, collaboration, balance. It is more holistic. But what a total paradox, that our need to combat terrorism has now bridged so many nations against one unseen enemy.

MGM: How can we turn back such a hideous force, so that we don’t break with our higher spiritual knowledge that we are all one?

CM: Part of spiritual alchemy is to examine why we, each of us as individuals, are not managing our own light better than we do. That is our power of choice! Indeed, why grant the external world more authority than the internal world? The Bible says, ‘Let the dead bury the dead.’ I say, let our awareness know that the past is passed. In this present moment, resentment is lethal. Forgiving is the fastest way of retrieving our energy. Our strength is always within. The only way our strength can ever leave us is if we allow it to leak away, or if we choose to give it away or throw it away.

MGM: Nations will always exhibit their power plays but we must develop principles that include all equally. Our United Nations is all about social and political consequences. Why must we operate within catastrophe management rather than destiny management?

CM: We must realize that it is economically impossible to support the planet with a wartime mentality. Water supply is our next global crisis, and our ability to negotiate is in its infancy. You can’t negotiate with guns and with force, which is where we are now. We must release our collective predator archetype and stop beating up on each other. We just cannot go on with a “my way or no way“ mentality.

MGM: Yet we are also the only country that, the very instant we get through bombing an enemy, will instantly turn right around and ship them aid, care packages, so that they can rebuild. This time, do you think our humanitarian reflex is severed forever?

CM: 9/11 definitely rammed our collective spirit. These days, our most hateful enemies are invisible: drugs, terrorism. At least those Nazi concentration camps were more honest about what they were. Until we fought in Viet Nam, we were not focused on killing innocent citizens, only the bad guys who were trying to kill us first.

MGM: We all know that war with Iraq would engage “security systems“ whose fall-out would continue to chip away at our personal freedoms. And of course we also know that once a freedom is removed, we may never regain it…

CM: Here’s a question that I’m asking at my workshops. What would you do if your conscience found conflict with those same higher teachings that have been guiding your life in peaceful times?

MGM: I know what Patch Adams does. He stands in a grocery store line and speaks his mind, as loud and for as long as he can. Some of us write Op-Ed pieces, or we gather up groups for (peaceful) peace rallies.

CM: Absolutely. Form prayer groups. Pray for God’s peace to prevail. Write letters and email politicians, keep ’em on the phone. Engage your neighborhoods in grassroots lobbying for peaceful solutions. Above all, refuse to assume that the worst can’t happen. The America we grew up in no longer exists. The whole world has changed. We have lost trust and spiritual respect for our ungrounded, unconnected government. Citizens are crying out for unity, for spiritual vision. Motivation of spirit is a fundamental fiber in the weave of a global village.

MGM: In summary, this connects so well with a sentiment on your 9/11 CD, which I quote: In creating peace, the power we generate by becoming spiritually congruent is immeasurable. We have to strive to create that (congruency) within ourselves because in doing what it takes to become congruent, we’re living about as well as we can.