有一個強大的存在可以拯救你嗎？
如果你仰賴陽光來經驗你存在的光，
那麼當太陽下山時，你該怎麼辦？
事實是，我們拯救自己。沒有我們之外的，沒有一個外在的人能拯救我們，除了我們自己。神支持我們，但不是代替我們去做。思考一下，如果一個人沒有意識到自己的內在問題，不願意在自己身上努力，生活在自責、憤怒和仇恨的狀態中，不斷傷害他人 – 但他認真的向某個強大的外在存在祈禱，想要得救。你真的認為他們會被拯救嗎？
明確的原則指導著生活。業力不會被任何的存在帶走。這違反一個人為自己的行為承擔責任的演化原則。恩典是真實的，祝福是真實的，祈禱是你對於得到注意的請求。但是，如果你沒有改變自己，你如何能期望別人為你做出努力？恩典會來到那些無法救自己的人，或是那些已經做盡他們可以做的，但需要額外支持的人身上。恩典不能來到那些可以改變自己，但沒有這麼做，卻期望別人為他們承擔責任的人身上。
甚至當談到恩典時，它仍然只是一種支持的形式。恩典可能有提升你的內在資源，喚醒你內在更多的力量和勇氣，但最終你必須過你的生活，面對你的問題，並經歷你自己的經驗。人類生命是一種選擇，沒有人是被逼來的。這是一個機會，去使自己演化，修復自己，淨化自己，啟發自己。降生是我們與神的協議，以達到自己的更高目標。我們選擇了人類的形式，因為我們感覺到人類的經驗有足夠的深度、範圍、內容和活力，幫助我們實現演化的衝力，去擴展和促進我們已經所是的。
如果我們持續依賴，像新生兒般，吸吮母乳，用湯匙餵食，等待被拯救，那我們如何才能做到這點？我們每個人都被賦予瀰漫一切的同樣神聖意識。持續投射神是超越我們的，並使自己在面對神時變得渺小，這並不是謙卑，而是一種誤解。我們不是一切，但我們是神聖的光、愛和智慧的一個令人難以置信的化身，具有「拯救」自己的最小任務。我們不會被賦予一個我們無法照顧的自我。
每個人都必須在某一時刻意識到自己降生的理由。如果我們簡單的被拯救，從受苦到解脫，採取量子跳躍，那我們就會繞過自己來到這裡要經歷的學習過程。在痛苦中對於憐憫的懇求，不能覆蓋我們自己對於降生的神聖意圖。當我們受苦時，我們不是鬆開過去的業力，就是學習某個對於人類情況所需要的東西。我們的工作是要經歷它，允許經驗在我們內在完全實現和完成。這份不抗拒淨化了我們的能量場，並提升我們的智慧到更高的了解層面。我們不會因為自己的痛苦而變較少;而是我們穿越它，到從它解脫的點的能力而擴展。
而且，我們要從什麼被拯救？沒有什麼在威脅我們永恆的真實。我們只是在自己的頭腦、自己內在混亂狀態的手中受苦。我們創造自己的痛苦，所以我們也銷毀它。請求神或偉大的存在拿起我們弄亂的每個部分，不利於我們的目標。任何承諾為你做這工作，或拯救你的人，都是在欺騙你和他自己。
一條完整的途徑是通往完全的自我負責，你作為自己內在經驗完全的創造者。一條完整的途徑，會賦予你的存在力量，而清晰的看見自己的內在就相當足夠了。你是整體的一部份，是認識到你所是的神的火花，的珍貴機會。你拯救自己。你提升自己。在真理中的一切，都會促進那個知曉。相反的，如果你被引入依賴，進入只有外在力量可以拯救你的想法中，那麼現在是收回你存在的基本尊嚴的時候了。降低你自己陷入自卑，和實現自己內在的神性，但依然對此保持謙遜，是非常不同的。沒有必要降低你自己。
由於政治和人們別有用心的動機，我們在歷史上，一直被引導相信我們是較沒價值的，我們比神沒價值，因而需要由上帝或更高的存在、彌賽亞、阿凡達（Avatar）救世主所解救。孩子會比父母沒價值嗎？老闆會比員工有價值嗎？政府比他管理的社區有價值是規則嗎？父母可以真正解救孩子嗎？父母可以盡量保護孩子，引導孩子，甚至可以從危險的手中解救孩子幾次，然而最終，孩子必須學會獨立，獨自行走，長大，獨自面對生活、面對自己和自己的問題。神可以在生活中幫助我們，但無法為我們經歷生命。
如果人類想在他們經驗神或感知到的更高存在，為拯救他們的力量時，建立起二元性，他們將實際經驗到它，他們會以堅定的信念告訴你他們的故事。無論你將神塑造為在你外在，或在你內在的存在，可以拯救你的是你自己內在走的過程的深度。如果你歸功於神，你可以這麼做。但因為你與神的存在並不是分開的，所有的功勞最終都會回到自己。總之，你是足夠的，你拯救自己。當我們開始自己的旅程時，外在的指引是重要的。但最後，我們必須找到自己的方式。而實現就是可以拯救我們自己的內在的神性。
~ Avalon
Can a Powerful Being Save You?
If you depend on sunlight to experience the light of your being,
then what will you do when the sun goes down?
The truth is that we save ourselves. Nothing outside us, no one external to us can save us but ourselves. God supports us, but does not do it for us. Consider a person who is ignorant to their inner issues, is not willing to work on themselves, lives in a state of blame, anger and hate, and continuously hurts others – but who prays earnestly to some powerful external being to be saved? Do you really think they will be saved?
Clear principles guide life. Karma cannot be taken away by any being. It is against the evolutionary principle of responsibility for one’s actions. Grace is real, blessings are real, prayer is your request to be noticed. But if you don’t change yourself, how can you expect others to exert this effort for you? Grace comes to those that cannot help themselves, or to those that have done all they can but need extra support. Grace cannot come to those who can change themselves but won’t, and expect others to take responsibility for them.
And even when grace comes, it is still only a form of support. Grace may help increase your inner resources, awakening more strength and courage in you, but finally you must live your life, face your problems and go through your own experiences. Human life is a choice, no one is forced to come. It is an opportunity to evolve ourselves, redeem ourselves, purify ourselves, enlighten ourselves. Incarnation is a pact we make with God where we ask to do so in order to meet our own higher aims. We choose the human form because we sense the human experience has enough depth, range, substance and dynamism to help us realize our evolutionary impulse to expand and further what we are.
If we remain dependent, suckling on breast milk, spoon-fed like a newborn, waiting to be saved, how can we do this? We are individually endowed with the same divine consciousness that pervades everything. To continue to project divinity to be beyond us, and make ourselves small in the face of that is not humility, it is a misunderstanding. We are not the All, but we are an incredible incarnation of divine light, love and intelligence, capable of the minimum task of ‘saving’ our own selves. We would not be endowed with a self that we could not take care of.
Each being must awaken to their reason for incarnation at some point. If we were simply saved, taking a quantum leap from suffering to liberation, then we would bypass the very process of learning that we came to undergo. A plea for mercy in the midst of pain cannot override our own sacred intent for incarnation. When we suffer we are either unwinding karma from the past, or realizing something needed about the human condition. Our work is to go through it, allowing the experience to be fully realized and completed within us. This non-resistance clarifies our energy field and raises our intelligence to a higher level of understanding. We are not made less by our pain; we are rather expanded by our ability to traverse it to the point of freedom from it.
And, what are we anyway saving ourselves from? There is nothing threatening the truth of our eternity anyway. We are only suffering at the hands of our own mind, our own internal state of chaos. We create our suffering and it is for us to un-create it. Asking God or a great being to pick up all the pieces of our mess does not help our cause. Any being who promises to do the work for you or to save you for you, is fooling you and themselves.
An integral path is one that leads to full self-responsibility as you being a complete creator of your inner experience. An integral path leads to the empowerment of your being and the clear seeing that what is inside you is more than enough. You are a piece of the All, a precious chance to realize the spark of divinity that you are. You save yourself. You raise yourself. Everything standing in truth will enable that knowing in you. If instead you are being led into dependency and into the idea that only an external force can save you, then it is time to reclaim the fundamental dignity of your being. Lowering yourself into inferiority is much different than realizing your intrinsic divinity but remaining humble about it. There is no need to lower your self.
Due to political and ulterior motives of people, we have been historically led into believing we are less than, that we are worth less than God, and thus need to be redeemed by God or a higher being, a messiah, avatar or saviour. Is a child worth less than a parent? A boss worth more than an employee? A government worth less than the communities is rules? Can a parent truly save a child? A parent can try to protect the child, guide the child, can even rescue them from the hands of danger a few times over, however ultimately, a child must learn to stand alone, walk alone, grow up, face life, themselves and their problems alone. God can help us in life but not live life for us.
If the human wants to set up the duality where they experience God or a perceived higher being as a force who saves them, they will actually experience it and will tell you their story with conviction. Whether you frame God as being outside you or as inside you, what saves you is the depth of your own internal process. If you want to offer credit to God, you can. But since you are not separate from the being of God, all credit eventually returns to the self. In summary, you are enough and you save yourself. External guidance is important as we begin our journey, but in the end, we must find our own way and realize the divinity inside ourselves is what saves us.
~ Avalon