Lee Carroll, author of the Kryon books and co-author of The Indigo Children, is a master storyteller.* With his permission, I'm going to reference selected segments of a story from Kryon Book VIII: Passing the Marker. The title of the story is ‘The Parable of Wo and the Suitcase’. The interpretation of the story is mine.
In the parable, the main character, Wo, is not specifically a man or a woman. For ease of communication, the pronoun used is he, yet Wo, as Lee puts it, is really a ‘wo-man'. Wo represents many of us who feel that we are ready to enter into this new Shift. And, although he considers himself a lightworker, Wo turns out to be a heavy packer.
As I discuss in my seminars, the purpose of attending them is not to get a bunch of new ‘stuff’ to take home and add to the bags of old ‘stuff’ you already have ‘stuffed’ into the backs of your closets. You know what I'm talking about – the bags that don't allow your slacks, dresses, and coats to hang fully down, and which cause everything longer than a shirt to become wrinkled on the bottom – or the bags you haven't looked at in years that you'll ‘eventually get around to' exploring and organizing someday.
Getting lighter
Becoming a healer is about letting go of the unnecessary ‘stuff’ that may or may not have served you at one time, but which definitely serves you no longer – except to keep you in a state of attachment. Attachment equals need, which equals fear. How's that for a new wrinkle on an old (long-hanging) suit?
In the parable, we join Wo as he is about to meet the Packing Angel, who is there to review what Wo has selected to take with him on his journey into the new energy. In Wo's first bag, the Packing Angel finds clothing. Lots of clothing. There's garb for all kinds of weather, but it's not organized in any certain manner, and none of it matches. Wo seems to have essentially grabbed anything and everything he could in preparation for whatever might come.
In other words, he hasn't recognized that he already possesses within himself the completion that he is seeking from things outside himself. He has amassed a mishmash of every conceivable item. These items consist of every imaginable healing tool, ritual, and theory that he can get his hands on. Each item he packed reinforces in him that he is not, by himself, enough. With each item he packed, Wo took more of the power he once owned and gave it away, vesting it conceptually – and unconsciously – in these articles.
Baggage is such a perfect analogy, as it comes in so many forms, and matching or not matching, plain or monogrammed, Louis Vuitton or American Tourister; in one form or another and in varying quantities, we each possess some. In other forms, it possesses us as well. As pointed out in the parable, ‘Honouring the uncertainty is the metaphor ... Blessed are the Human Beings who understand that the uncertainty will be taken care of as they walk the path – that the preparation they have done before is not necessary now.... The changes will be recognized and solved as they are presented.’
We are light
I can't begin to honour all the meanings behind this parable, so let me delve into what some of it might mean for those of us who are attempting to walk a path as healers.
We no longer need to throw salt to the four corners, smudge with sage, or call in entities for protection. We no longer need to shake negative energy from our hands – as there truly is no such thing as negative energy – into bowls of salt water, nor spray ourselves down with bottles of alcohol or wear amulets. We need not use our conscious minds in an attempt to determine what is ‘wrong' with a person so that we know how to ‘treat' them. We may now allow ourselves to simply be – be with the person and ‘understand that the uncertainty will be taken care of...’
Our lesson is to learn to be. The freedom of being will extricate you from the oppression of doing. Herein lies the seed of knowingness that has the capacity to take you beyond all of this world's knowledge.
Now, let's peek into the next suitcase in the parable and see how much of what we've been discussing is addressed there.
The Suitcase of Books
This is the Suitcase of Books – spiritual books. These books represent spiritual learning and knowledge, although they clearly don't impart knowingness. These are Wo's reference books. His ‘stuff’. Our ‘stuff’. The books we've purchased and read (well, at least we've read the ‘good parts'). The books we haven't looked at yet (but will, someday). The notes we've taken, yet left in one of those bags of ‘stuff' in the closet after other seminars.
The Packing Angel explains to Wo that he won't be needing these books that he packed. Wo, of course, doesn't understand, and at the angel's request, Wo displays what he regards to be the most spiritual of his books. The angel tells him that it's obsolete. Wo can't understand why. ‘Would you bring a scientific notebook with you that was 150 years old?’ the angel asks, ‘or a textbook that was more than 2,000 years old that had to do with science?’
‘Of course not!’ exclaims poor Wo. ‘Because we keep making new discoveries about the how things work.’ ‘Exactly,’ says the angel. ‘Spiritually, Earth is changing grandly and greatly. What you could not do yesterday, you can do today. What was the spiritual paradigm for yesterday is not the spiritual paradigm for tomorrow. What you were told as a shaman about spiritual energy that worked yesterday is not going to work tomorrow, because the energy is shifting and being refined. You are standing in the shift, and you must go with the flow of new empowerment.’
Wo then challenges the angel with the phrase the same yesterday, today, and forever. ‘Isn't that a phrase about the consistency of God? How is that obsolete?’
‘Indeed, it is about God,’ answers the angel. ‘But it tells you about the attributes of God, not about the Human's relationship to God. All your books are instruction sets written by Humans about how to communicate, draw closer, and move through life dealing with God. God is always the same... The Human is the one who is changing, and the books are about the Human's relationship to God. Therefore, the book is obsolete.’
Note that this does not mean that the book was never valid. A lot of things are still valid within the older, and somewhat more limited, parameters. It's just that, with the Shift, we now exist within a much larger set of parameters.
New techniques for new frequencies
In the healing realm, many of the techniques that have stood the test of time function just as well now as they always did – it's just that we now have more, and we now are more, so the old techniques are no longer enough. As good as they always were, within our new, expanded parameters, they are no longer appropriate – just as lanterns would not be appropriate as headlights on a car, although, for a horse and buggy, they functioned just fine. The weaknesses these techniques are subject to – requiring the removal of jewellery, the removal of leather, faith on the part of the recipient, protection rituals for both parties involved – are not present in the new frequencies.
Remember, too, why many of us who have been practising healing techniques got involved with them in the first place. It wasn't to become a fanatical follower for the technique itself – it was to become a healer. The technique was simply one of your early steps in this process.
For a moment, picture yourself standing at the foot of a grand, cascading staircase. One of your goals – that of becoming a healer – awaits you at the top. Your first step is to learn a technique. You throw yourself into this technique, mastering it, maybe even becoming a teacher. You now own this first step. It's okay to love it, but be careful not to fall in love with it. Because if you do, you'll sit down, grab a blanket and pillow, move in, and make this step the centre of the rest of your life. But what does that mean about the remainder of your journey up the staircase? It stops. Now is the time to bless your first steps... and continue upward.
The Suitcase of Vitamins
Let's discuss one last ‘suitcase’ from the parable: The Suitcase of Vitamins.
‘'What is in this suitcase that rattles when I pick it up?’ asks the angel.
‘Dear Packing Angel,’ Wo says, ‘those are my vitamins and herbs. I need them to stay healthy and balanced... You know that I am sensitive to certain substances and foods. So, I need these herbs and vitamins to sustain me and keep me strong on this trip.’
Wo is afraid that the angel won't permit him to bring the supplements with him. The angel says, ‘No, Wo, I'm not going to throw them out. But you will, eventually.’ He explains that Wo is in transition, physically as well as in other ways. ‘As you walk the walk and realize your potential', the angel explains, ‘you will slowly understand that your DNA is being changed. Your immune system is being altered and bolstered... Messages and instruction sets will be delivered to your cells – and you will absolutely know that these supplements, although valuable to you now, will drop away as you gain your well-being. ... Rather than becoming more sensitive with enlightenment, you will instead have a bolstering of your system so that nothing will be able to penetrate the light you carry. Slowly you will be able to drop any seeming dependence on the chemistry you travel with.'
How many things do we cart around with us that rattle, slosh, and smell? (Don't laugh. Open some of your briefcases and bags and take a good whiff.) Realize that our bodies have the capacity to make specialized cell tissue out of a Mars Bar. I am, of course, not petitioning to elevate Mars Bars to the status of a new food group, and I'm fully aware of soil depletion, chemical treatments, and all the other things that befall our food.
Just the same, if a few of you simply put on white jackets and taped reflector lights to your posteriors, you could be mistaken for mobile pharmacies. Realize that the majority of what you're taking (and I'm not talking about prescription or doctor-recommended medications for significant health problems) is not necessary.
Every time we reach for an unnecessary bottle or jar, we're giving ourselves confirming feedback of our inherent frailty. We're vesting the power of our very essence in the need for external sourcing. Moreover, we may be keeping ourselves trapped in the very cycle that we realize we're ready to break out of: that of reinforcing in ourselves the illusion that we are not enough. Symbolically, you're becoming a bag person whose existence is dependent upon what you are able to cart around in material form.
It's time to own who we are, to know that we are the Light, and to allow the wisdom that created the body to run the body.
From The Reconnection, copyright 2001 by Eric Pearl, published by Hay House.
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