A Startling Message from the Other Side - ITC Recording Session, Luxembourg 1994

Jules and Maggy Harsch-Fischbach
(some data about their ITC work is available at idigitalmedium.com)

 

ITC journalist Mark Macy flew to Luxembourg during the summer of 1994 for a meeting with Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach at their home.  Accompanying him was Temple of Understanding organization founder Juliet Hollister and her friend Alison van Dyk.  Throughout the world, news of the Harsch-Fischbachs' paranormal 'Instrumental Transcommunication' (ITC) experiences was becoming known and changing attitudes about the nature of life.  An account of some of the ITC messages heard and recorded at the meeting is recounted in Chapter 3 of Macy's book Miracles in the Storm (2001).

Jules informed us that a few days earlier, the Timestream spirit group had told Maggy that this meeting with Juliet, Alison and me was a very important one.  My impression was that much would be determined that day about the fate or direction of ITC.  As you might guess, that was surprising news to us, and also a little bit awesome.  Was something expected of us that none of us knew about?

We were sitting around the couple's dining room table getting to know each other.  A configuration of radios tuned between stations stood on a table a few feet away on the other side of the sofa, emitting a soft blanket of white noise that filled the room with a gentle sound of static.

Suddenly a tiny, high-pitched voice pierced the noise.

"Contact!"

Maggy walked quickly to the radios.

"Hallo?  Hallo?"  she said, adjusting the dials.

In a moment, the radio sounds faded away, and the voice of spirit colleague Konstantin Raudive faded in:

"It can only work when the vibrations of those present are in complete harmony, and when their aims and intentions are pure," the spirit voice stated with some enthusiasm.  This introductory comment, which presented a basic principle of ITC contacts, was followed by very personal messages for Juliet and Alison.  Then:

"Last but not least, Mark Macy.  You know by experience, Mark, how dangerous drugs of all kinds can be."

Indeed, having grown up in the sixties, I had been exposed to heavy drug use in college among fellow students and friends.  While I never developed any habits or addictions for illegal drugs, I did wrestle for a number of years with the more socially acceptable substances — alcohol, nicotine and caffeine.  After my cancer, I had some troubles with addictive prescription painkillers.  I had indeed seen the destructive results of all sorts of drugs.

Konstantin Raudive continued, "Try to warn humanity that they not only alter their present lives on your side but also influence in a negative way their future lives."

  

One consideration is that the results of drug use could impair clear thinking and contemplation of life where otherwise there could have been expanded spiritual awareness.  Warnings about drugs and commentary about addiction can be found in channeled communication transcripts.  One published 1986 lecture transcript offers a perspective about marijuana use after the 'channeled entity' asked: "Can you say 'no' and walk away, and not care what others think?"  Mental impairment is something known to be associated with the drug along with such expressions as 'pothead' and 'dope.'
 

When your brain is gone, you can no longer receive the essence and the thought of the god that surrounds you; you are dead of mind.  Every time you inhale the weed, you are killing yourself; you are losing the ability to be happy because there is less and less there to facilitate the electrum of the thoughts that incur joy.

Many of you can't even say "no" to a joint. 

  
The statements had been made during preceding sessions:  ". . . many of you are lost in social consciousness . . . if you are looking for knowledge, you must transcend the limited specter of social consciousness . . . You have to be sovereign.  Sovereign!  When you follow, you learn only to follow and you lose your power . . ."
 
The same 'channeled entity' commented about addiction in 2014: 
 

. . . if we turn it around and forget the creative process and simply pursue the pleasure then we are open to substances that are mind altering and body altering and they become the way that we bypass logical thinking, inventive thinking that manifest the new and we are just hooked on drugs to recreate the past over and over and over every day.  Pretty soon you can't enjoy yourself without getting high.

  
Another prominent contemporary 'channeled entity'—'Lazaris' speaking through Jach Pursel—is quoted about the topic of addictions in Lazaris Interview Book 1 (1988).  Lazaris explained how to deal with addictions spiritually —
 

The basis for any change is first of all to recognize the problem and then to acknowledge it.  Once it has been so acknowledged, you are in a position where you can honestly forgive yourself.  And after forgiveness comes change.  These four criteria are the four bases, the four movements of energy, that are required to produce any kind of change, whether you do that spiritually or via the consensus reality.

Often, however, the consensus reality sets forth a structure of change that begins, indeed, with recognition, but then moves into blaming others or finding excuses and rationales.  It turns thirdly to blaming yourself, being self-critical and self-denying and self-punishing.  You are hoping that out of this will come change.  Obviously, it does not work.

If you will recognize your addiction, you must first decide what, if anything, you really want to do about it.  There are certain addictions that may be imposing self-harm and have no particular impact upon anyone else in your reality.  Even so, you may still decide that you don't particularly care to change or work with or alter in any way your addictive behavior.  If that is your choice, then that is your choice.  Make it, and don't bother trying to change your addiction.  Don't put yourself through the twists and turns and paces that will lead you nowhere.  If you really do not mind your addiction, and no one else is really adversely affected, you may want to go ahead and keep your addiction.  That is fine.  You see, we do not judge you or your addiction.

If, however, you do want to change after you make the recognition, really recognizing and owning the addiction, then we advise you acknowledge it.  More than just a word, acknowledgement means you must really own the particular addiction.  It is important to root out the cause, the initial survival mechanism if there is one, and to understand it as fully and completely as you can, and then to see how it went wrong, where it outlived its usefulness, its purposefulness, its value.  Own the fact that it is your addiction.

We have sometimes used an analogy about a grand and glorious bridge in the San Francisco area, the Golden Gate Bridge.  If you rather go downtown anywhere in the world and offer to sell that bridge they might well lock you up, because you don't own it.  But if indeed you could produce papers to prove that it was yours, then not only would you not be locked up, you would rather be treated in a grand and glorious style.

Therefore, you cannot get rid of what you do not own.  You cannot get rid of your addiction until you own that it is, indeed, yours, and that you are the source, that you are the cause.  It is your addiction.  Nobody made you do it.  You chose it yourself.

By this point, just when you are sure  that you are the lowest scum on the Earth, forgive yourself.  This forgiveness, again, is more than just a word, but it is also the word as well.  It is important to really dig in and to honestly forgive yourself and to say so, to hear the words spoken, to see the words written: "I forgive myself.  I am forgiven."

It may take several times, several attempts, several passes, to fully and honestly forgive yourself.  Once you have forgiven yourself, however, the change can take place in a number of ways, in any number of forms, from a simple decision to a very elaborate support system.  The methods may vary, but the common base is desire for, imagination to, and expectation of — and expectation of — change.

Do not become addicted to your method of change.  Realize it is you who are causing the changing.  Therefore, seek and find a method — whether it is a book you read, a television show you watch, a workshop you attend, an elaborate detoxification program in which you enroll — it doesn't really matter.  You are the cause of the addiction.  You are the cause of change.  You are the cause of your freedom.  Give your power to yourself rather than giving it to the addiction or to the cure of the addiction.

Perhaps it becomes clear then, in looking at what the messages of addiction are, at what the criteria of evaluation are, and at what the ways of changing are, that addictions have a great deal to do with power, whether you give it away, or whether you keep it for yourself.