Depression and Anxiety

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I realize that @ndy wrote this in 2011, but it seems like a great thread on depression as so many have added their thoughts and coping mechanisms.

Here is another...
Negativity is generated by the combined emotions, thoughts, deeds, etc. of evolving humanity. Because thoughts are things on another level; every time we sit brooding in our own negativity, grudges, anger, fear, lust, hate, etc., we build more of this "cloud." This becomes so great that it becomes a conditioning influence on all of humanity and makes it harder and harder to be in and of Love and Light.

That's where the Reconciliators come in. I believe Christ was one. In the garden, he suffered for our sins--i.e., he transmuted part of this cloud.

Pure souls from other places and of different planes than the Christs have come to help out too...Unfortunately, the Wanderers have to forget how to do this consciously, but many work on this in meditation.

But I think there are those who came in to do this in a very specific way. They take a fuller dose of emotional muck in order to change its nature within themselves--and the extra emotional muck isn't of their own creation, so in a way, they are taking on a "savior" function, even if they may not be able to take in quite so much as one of the Christs.

So in terms of depression, it might actually feel like one was being attacked by external forces. But what becomes imperative is that the one suffering understand that this is not his muck, that if he can alter one thought, one emotion, he does this for the All. Loving in this kind of situation is what these kinds of lives are all about. The ones who succeed in transmuting the muck and living in love trailblaze for others in the same condition and assist in helping lift the burden of their brothers and sisters who are still struggling. It was very heartening to read the thread because so many here seem to have experienced this darkness and have worked diligently to bring themselves back into Love and Light.

What follows is the text that prompted my thoughts...seems pretty obvious that the Wanderers do this now that I write this down, but it seemed to come clear to me in a different way after reading this:

"The Planetary Being may be conceived of as having the mass karma of the Earth, and all life on the Earth must be lived in relation to that karma for it makes the mental atmosphere in which we live and move and have our being" (The Cosmic Doctrine, 106). (NB-the Planetary Being isn't the same as the Great Spirit of Earth that is evolving).

"The Lords of Mind are the initiators of our present evolution...They it is who, able to react upon all planes of manifestation, range up and down the planes, performing adjustments by exercising compensatory stresses when the faculty of epigenesis has disordered an evolution" (Cosmic Doctrine, 82).--which is to say they fix things when free will gives rise to new muck that doesn't match the natural order of the One.

"It will be seen then that the essence of evolution is unification; and the manifestation of athe unificatory principle upon the planes of manifestation is Love. Whether that love be intellectual sympathy on the plane of the concrete mind, or physical unity on the plane of matter, Love in all its aspects is the symbol of the Logos as One...Whoso loves, however dim may be his concept of Love, is manifesting a unification, and unification is the goal of Evolution. God is One. Love makes one--therefore it is truly said "God is Love." Whosoever expresses Love, brings Spirit, which is One, into manifestation. To be separate is to be dead. Therefore, choose Love and live" (The Cosmic Doctrine, 133).