Another manifestation of the new influx I wish to discuss now is exposure. Again you can see this aspect individually and collectively. It can hardly be missed, it is so obvious. Through psychology, and recently through profound spiritual work, exposure of self has reached new depths as never before in your history, with the exception of the initiates, the few minorities in different cultures. Now exposure of deeper levels of self has reached unprecedented degrees. Even the least knowledgeable people have attained a certain degree of awareness that there are deeper levels of being that determine their lives. This is now being taken for granted, but it was by no means always so. This ability to explore the self is a combination of communication and exposure, two aspects of this lecture. The willingness to expose leads to communication, and communication leads to oneness, to alignment with the Christ spirit that sweeps with great force through your world.

“The resistance to expose is always present. It is obvious that denial of exposure makes for isolation. When exposure is denied, it always means that there is a stake to maintain a rotten structure, a structure that needs to be eliminated and renewed. Denial of exposure clearly implies the wish to live a lie. Dedication to the truth must bring in its wake the willingness and the courage to expose. If exposure is not undertaken willingly, it will come from outside, by force, as it were, through crises that throw a secret matter to the surface. Once the force of the new influx is set in motion, it cannot be halted. The more it is opposed, the more painful crisis it brings.

“In your public life this has also become very obvious. In very recent times, much hidden destructiveness has been exposed and communicated to the public. Again, this has never been the case before in the same way and to the same degree. And it continues, something new has been set in motion. Through communication, the whole world knows of political misdeeds that would previously have remained secret. Through exposure it has seen the light of day in the first place. Through evolving group consciousness, a great interplay and interaction takes place so that all of mankind can participate in the drama of development.

“It is important to view world events with this understanding. Is this not exactly the process you follow in this path — exposure of your lower self and sharing it, communicating it to others? Can you think of a better way to establish love, trust, closeness? Again and again I show you parallels between the development of the individual and of the planet. All the processes you learn to apply happen, in some form, on the collective level. Exposure has never existed in the way it does now. Masks are beginning to fall off, lower self aspects begin to show clearly with less concealment than ever before. Thus events and intentions can be recognized for what they really are, without the camouflages that brought so much lying, so much suffering, so much confusion.

“Exposure is very much a part of the new influx. It is a direct expression of the Christ consciousness that sweeps through the inner and outer planes of this planet at this time. Spiritual development without exposure can at best only be a half measure that leads eventually to a stalemate. But exposure must be infused with love, otherwise it becomes self-defeating. It must bear the respect for the person who has the courage to do it willingly. Those who refuse to do it willingly must not be allowed to destroy their environment and to influence events through their concealment. The courage and strength necessary to bring about exposure wherever appropriate and necessary stems from the inner conviction that it is done in the service of a larger cause — in other words, in love. The more you expose yourself to yourself and subsequently to others, the more will you discover your true, intrinsic worth. You will know that that part that makes the exposure possible is the already developed higher self. It is the same with the planetary entity. All the exposures that occur at this time on the political front are being conducted by the planet’s higher self.

“Where you still need to apply more awareness and attention to is how these aspects may be better utilized in your own community life. There still exists too often a blindness to self-exposure and that of others, that fails to bring the truth to the surface. Thereby communication — and hence love and union — are being undermined. Communication could be much better if a more profound effort were being made to explain yourself and to help others through a nonthreatening attitude to do likewise. Communication could also vastly improve if you help others to be more receptive to what you know and have to teach and, similarly, to be more open and receptive to where you could learn what others know and have to teach. Only too often a bland, dull numbness encases you into a half-vague, opinionated, incomplete, secretive holding on to assumptions that close all doors. This is where your spirit friends wish you to improve and make of your beautiful, golden, ever growing community a greater glory, expressing the Christ, serving the Highest.” (PL #257)