Opening Your Inner Eye: The End of Loneliness

Opening Your Inner Eye: The End of Loneliness

By Gerrit Gielen

Post on June 19, 2026

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Imagine seeing the world not only with your two physical eyes, but also with an inner eye that looks far deeper. This inner eye — often called the third eye — is the organ through which you perceive your own thoughts, feelings, and inner world. Close your eyes for a moment. You are still here. You notice thoughts drifting by, emotions rising, and images appearing spontaneously. That is your inner eye at work, observing all of it.

In our Western culture, however, we have forgotten how powerful this eye truly is. Influenced by a materialistic science, we have come to believe that our inner world is a private island, completely separate from that of others. Everything outside ourselves is considered “dead” or merely physical: a stone has no consciousness, a tree has no inner life, and another person is primarily a body with a different story.

This belief creates a deep loneliness because  it blocks our inner eye’s natural ability to perceive the inner world of others.

The price of closedness

Many people feel the quiet crisis unfolding in Western society. Despite maintaining a constant connection through social media and busy schedules, we feel alone more  than ever. We have lost our  natural bond with others, with animals, with nature, and even with the universe itself.

When we were children, it was different. Do you remember how you could instantly sense the mood of the teacher or the entire class? How a collective atmosphere affected everyone at once? Children live more connected than adults.

As we grow older, we learn to ignore that connection. We close our inner eye and begin to experience the world as a collection of separate objects. The result is not only loneliness, but also prejudice, racism, judgment, and fear. Without inner sight, we only see the outside: a different skin color, a different gender, a different culture. The immediate thought arises,  “They are different, therefore a threat.”

Why did our inner eye close?

For centuries, the inner eye has  been misused. Those who could perceive another person’s inner world could also influence it, for example, by planting thoughts. Stories of manipulation, witchcraft, and inner control have left deep scars. People who openly used this ability were avoided and eventually persecuted. The fear of abuse led to the collective suppression of this natural capacity.

Yet it is time to release that fear. In its essence, the inner eye is a beautiful, connecting force. It shows us that everything is permeated with consciousness. That at the deepest level, all is one.

How do you free your inner eye?

Fortunately, you can awaken it again. It starts with three simple steps:

1. Accept that it exists

Realize that your inner world is not separate from that of others. With your inner eye, you can also perceive the feelings, intentions, and consciousness of another person.

2. Grant everything an inner world

Not only humans, but also animals, plants, and even seemingly “dead” things like stones or stars possess an inner life. When you look with both eyes — the outer and the inner — a complete picture emerges.

3. Dare to look

Be willing to actually do it. Close your physical eyes and use your imagination. Picture what it is like to be someone else. How does their morning feel? What thoughts go through their mind? Why do they act the way they do? Let go of prejudices and approach the other from curiosity and love.

You will notice mental barriers popping up (“I’m just fantasizing”). That’s normal. Stay gentle with yourself and practice regularly. Imagination is a wonderful gateway to the inner eye.

A gaze of love

When you open your inner eye from the heart, everything changes. Judgment gives way to understanding. Distance turns into connection. Loneliness dissolves in the realization that you have never truly been alone.

Freeing your inner eye is not some airy-fairy  choice. It is a revolutionary step toward a richer, more empathetic, and more joyful life — a life in which you are genuinely connected with everything that exists.

It is a step toward healing. Not just your own healing, but the healing of humanity.

Dare to close your eyes. And then truly look.

The world is waiting to be seen again — from the inside.

© Gerrit Gielen

• https://www.jeshua.net/articles/by-gerrit/atlantis-now-the-homecoming/

Edited by Suzy Conway

Compiled by http://violetflame.biz.ly from: 

• https://eraoflight.com/2026/01/31/atlantis-now-the-homecoming/

The Meaning of Life: Being Human

The Meaning of Life: Being Human

By Gerrit Gielen

Post on April 20, 2026

The question of the meaning of life is as old as humanity itself. Over the centuries, countless answers have been offered. Yet many people still experience their existence as pointless. They feel down, depressed, or even hopeless. Some see no way out and take their own lives — even young people. Especially when life hurts, that urgent question arises, what is the point of all this?

We are often told that life only gains meaning once we achieve a specific goal, happiness, self-fulfillment, or some special “life purpose” we’re supposed to discover. But that would mean life is meaningless for many people who never reach that goal.

True meaning cannot be a reward for success or an endpoint that only a few ever reach. It must be based on something we all share, regardless of our successes or failures. In other words, if life has meaning, it has meaning for everyone, no matter what they do with their life. It comes with no conditions — it is an unconditional gift to every human being. If life had no meaning, it simply wouldn’t exist. Even when everything goes wrong, even when it all seems to fail, life remains meaningful. What we consider a meaningless life still carries meaning within it.

The reason we often don’t experience it that way has everything to do with how we were taught to think and judge as children.

How we learn to think about meaning

One of the first things we teach we teach children is to think in terms of right and wrong. I still clearly remember primary school, a thick red line drawn through everything I got wrong. If you did everything right, everyone was happy and proud. You’d get a perfect score and were allowed to write in colored ink — except yellow, because the teacher couldn’t read it easily. In those days we still used dip pens and inkwells.

Children who made too many mistakes had to repeat the year. They were separated from their group, which was a harsh punishment. Back then, no one really considered the psychological impact this had on the child. The list of things a child could do wrong seemed almost endless.

In short, we were drilled to see everything through the lens of right and wrong, especially our own choices. Growing up largely meant we were taught to internalize norms and values, which for a child felt quite unnatural.

Without realizing it, we started treating our entire life like an exam. If we accumulate too many “red lines,” we fail and have to repeat it. This leads us to believe that life is only meaningful if we do things “right.” Traditional religion extends this same binary thinking: God versus Satan, heaven versus hell, believers versus non-believers. It saddles us with the dreadful idea that a person can fail eternally.

As a result, we begin living according to the rules of an external authority whose main goal is to maintain power. Being an adult means becoming a cog in the machine. It means we’re no longer allowed to be children. And no longer being allowed to be a child means we can no longer fully trust life. Joy, play, and creativity fade away and are replaced by fear and obedience. We gradually start to experience life as empty and meaningless because we’ve stopped listening to our own inner life force.

This is how a permanent crisis of meaning is born.

As long as we keep viewing the question of meaning through the right/wrong lens, the crisis will never end because that lens is the very cause of it. So, let’s take those glasses off and look at what we call “mistakes” from a different perspective.

Mistakes: a different perspective

Sometimes things go terribly wrong in life. A drunk driver kills a child, for example. Both the parents and the perpetrator are scarred for life. That it is a tragedy is beyond question.1)

But what happens if we don’t look at the isolated event but view it from a much wider perspective — from the standpoint of the universe, from the whole in which every individual life is embedded? Can we still speak of “mistakes” as something that has simply gone wrong?

Our judgment of what is wrong is closely tied to our perspective, and especially to our sense of time. We see a time before the mistake, the moment of the mistake, and the time after it, past, present, and future. Within that framework, we hope for healing, reconciliation, or meaning. But what does the same reality look like when viewed from a timeless perspective, where the universe is seen as one indivisible whole?

A common metaphor is the clock. If a clock has defective gears, we call it broken. The whole doesn’t function as it should. Similarly, people argue that if the universe contains mistakes, then the whole is flawed. But if the universe is fundamentally flawed, existence itself becomes problematic, a meaningless endeavor with no alternative. How can the whole be good when it contains so much suffering and so many derailments?

Let’s try a different metaphor, the book. A good book is not one in which nothing goes wrong. On the contrary, a good book is meaningful and insightful precisely because things do go wrong. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is a classic example. The protagonist, Raskolnikov, commits a double murder and is then tormented by guilt and remorse. The story is full of descriptions of suffering and moral collapse, yet that is exactly where its power lies, it explores the inner consequences of guilt in extraordinary depth.

Why do we find such a book valuable? Because the reality it describes is not our personal reality. We enter it temporarily and from a safe distance. We can close the book and step away. At the same time, it reveals something profound about the human condition, about guilt, responsibility, and inner conflict. It enriches us without wounding us personally.

This leads to an important insight; a reality can be full of mistakes and suffering when viewed from the inside yet still be meaningful and even valuable when seen from the outside. The miniature universe of a book draws its meaning not in spite of its mistakes, but because of them.

We can apply the same principle to the universe itself. What looks like a mistake within the flow of time may, from a timeless perspective, be an essential part of a meaningful whole, a whole that we, living inside it, can only experience in fragments and from within. Meaning arises when we combine both perspectives.

Can we compare our own life to a book that we are also reading? And if so, does that perspective give life meaning?

Our life as a book we are reading

If our life is a book, then who is the reader?

That is the fundamental question. Is this life a standalone event, or is it part of something larger that gives it meaning? Only in the second case do our missteps, mistakes, and failures take on a different weight. They are no longer mere errors, but necessary passages in the story of our life.

My answer is yes. There is a higher perspective within us that I call the soul. Not as a religious dogma, but as a living inner reality, a dimension of us that is not bound by time, place, or personal history. It rises above them, and from that place, every experience in our life is meaningful.

You can deny this, but then you must accept that a life can truly fail, that it ultimately has no meaning, and that it simply ends with death. The person disappears without a trace, as if they had never existed. In the end, everything vanishes into an endless night.

Whether you experience life as meaningful or meaningless depends entirely on the perspective you adopt. It is a choice, do you answer yes to this question—does my life have meaning even when things go wrong, even when it is sometimes miserable?

Life can only feel meaningful if you see and experience yourself as more than this accidental individual placed in a random time and place. It can only be meaningful if there is something within you that transcends time and space, which is the soul, the timeless light that you truly are.

When you open yourself to this possibility, something shifts. Victimhood gives way to the realization that you are a student, someone who is here to learn, who is allowed to fail, who does fail, and who grows through those failures. Mistakes become sources of wisdom and insight. You begin to feel supported by a loving presence on your journey. You are no longer alone.

The perspective flips

The book metaphor goes even further. A reader doesn’t want a flawless story. Quite the opposite, a good story needs conflict, misjudgments, and moral blindness. Without mistakes there is no growth, without crisis no depth, without errors no real learning.

What the main character experiences as a disaster is often the very moment the story becomes truly interesting for the reader.

This completely reverses the perspective. What I personally see as a mistake, the soul sees as a necessary experience, the spark for transformation. The story cannot freeze; it must keep unfolding. No stagnation, only growth.

That is why we don’t just make mistakes; we are built in such a way that certain mistakes are inevitable. Our personality already carries the seeds of our missteps. Just as Raskolnikov’s sense of moral superiority drives him to commit his crimes, our own character leads us into trouble at critical moments.

In that sense, imperfection is not a flaw, it is a requirement. Without error there is no insight. Without trauma there is no healing. The imperfect is what the soul needs in order to realize itself.

Let this idea sink in, the meaning-making force within us does not long for a perfect life. It longs for valuable experiences. It wants us to stumble, to get lost, and to meet ourselves in life’s resistance. We are designed for this to happen. Our character is our fate, but we are far more than our character alone.

Happily ever after

Many stories, especially fairy tales, end with the words “and they lived happily ever after.” This ending is deeply symbolic. The story of our life ends with death. After that comes the reunion of the masculine and feminine within us, awakening to who we really are. Then a new chapter of peace and profound happiness begins at least for a while, no more adventures.

When can we say, as we close the book of our life, “That was a beautiful life”? We can say it when our life has brought us new experiences and encounters that have enriched us on the inside. A life full of mistakes is usually quite rich in valuable insights.

The purpose of a life

The purpose of a good book is not to portray a flawless world with flawless people. Its purpose is to enrich our mind and show us aspects of outer and inner reality we didn’t know before.

That is exactly what life on earth does for us. Even a life that seems dull or colorless gives us something if only the feeling of longing. We cannot miss something that isn’t already present within us. That very longing contains a discovery, the discovery of our inner miracle, the radiance of our soul.

In short, when we remove the right/wrong glasses, we see that mistakes are the very material from which a meaningful life is built. They lead to experiences, insights, and adventures we would never have known otherwise. Life is not an exam to be passed, but a journey full of twists and turns is rich with possibilities, growth, and wonder. In every misstep and every unexpected turn lies the seed of meaning. Life is meaningful precisely because it is human, that is, full of mistakes, and therefore, full of opportunities to learn, to feel, and to grow.

Conclusion: the value of being human

From the soul’s perspective, every human experience is unique and valuable, there is loneliness, pain, and failure, yes, but also the beauty of a flower or a kind gesture. Even ordinary, everyday moments enrich the soul. Yet the most valuable thing of all is discovering who you truly are.

A fish doesn’t know what water is until it jumps out of it. In the same way, the soul loses touch with itself in the human being and discovers itself precisely through that separation. Our deepest suffering is this sense of separation from ourselves. Why do we go through it? Because that separation makes a great adventure possible, the discovery of the cosmos, the journey home, and the rediscovery of our own light.

A flower, a sunrise, beautiful music, love in someone’s eyes, wise words, they all remind the soul of itself. The soul sees its own reflection and recognizes its beauty. This is only possible because human consciousness begins with the suppression of the soul’s awareness. To become human is to choose loneliness, ignorance, and freedom, the freedom to make mistakes.

From that place we embark on wild adventures, embrace crazy ideologies, and even start wars until the magnificent rediscovery arrives, the awakening of the soul, the awakening to ourselves. The more deeply we feel its absence, the more wonderful the eventual discovery becomes.

Nothing is meaningless. Every misstep is an opportunity to feel and to grow. In our mistakes, we discover the divine.

© Gerrit Gielen

• https://www.jeshua.net/articles/by-gerrit/atlantis-now-the-homecoming/

Edited by Suzy Conway

Compiled by http://violetflame.biz.ly from: 

• https://eraoflight.com/2026/01/31/atlantis-now-the-homecoming/

Atlantis Now: The Homecoming

Atlantis Now: The Homecoming

By Gerrit Gielen

Posted on January 31, 2026

A great deal has been written about Atlantis; what happened there, and how and why it fell, but this piece will look at Atlantis from a psychological perspective. I am more interested in what psychological issues the rulers of Atlantis have undergone since then and how they continue to resonate today.

We know that history leaves its mark and traces on our psyches. There is no past as far as injury to the psyche is concerned, everything is now. The events in our childhood and past lives remain within us. The layers of who we are and were in past lives are like growth rings on a tree. We are here now; we have survived. However, evidence as to the kinds of lives we lived ages ago remains. We may not see it, but our behavior exhibits it.

If we entertain this analogy of the growth rings on trees, then every historical period in our past corresponds to one “ring” of life that is still within us. Our history is our psyche, our personality. Each ring holds energy having to do with the lives we lived at a particular time. Taken all together, they contain an assortment of personalities and experiences and also reflect and relate to a specific period in our history.

It is important to understand who we were and what we did in the past because it gives us insights into who we are now and how we move forward. When we understand the past, it illuminates our path to the future and if we don’t take the time to understand it, we can remain trapped in the energy of who we once were and keep repeating it.

There are four rings that distinguish Lightworkers:

• The Cosmic Ring—The Core
• The Atlantean Ring
• The Outsider Ring
• The Human Ring

When all four rings work together harmoniously, they connect the Cosmic to the Earthly. Unfortunately, this is not often the case because the energy of one ring can clash with that of another, blocking the energetic flow from the core.

This article is about the rings, the tensions they hold, and how we can resolve them. As always, self-knowledge is key.

The Cosmic Ring—The Core

We are deeply connected to the cosmos. Before we came to Earth, we lived among the stars, the universe was our domain. We have spent many lives among the stars in other realms and dimensions. Lightworkers, therefore, know better than anyone else that infinity and the richness of the universe reside within them. They feel deeply connected to the stars and the eternal universe.

Lightworkers have always had a deep desire to connect their cosmic core with the outer ring, thus forming a channel between the earthly realm and the cosmos. They have set themselves the task of integrating planet Earth and human civilization with the cosmos. This is what the first Atlanteans also desired. Ultimately, we can look at this desire as a psychological longing within humanity itself. Every human being has a natural urge to connect their social environment on earth with their cosmic core in order to bring themselves into harmony. This is how we manifest our creative urges.

We can’t always accomplish this because the traumatic disruptions in one or more of the rings prevents energy from flowing and this is painful for lightworkers. It explains why they turn away from the world because they don’t believe it’s possible to engage their core and connect with it. The trauma they have experienced, and the fear of rejection is too great for them to overcome.

However, despite these past traumas, the longing to be oneself in the midst of this world remains. To be yourself means to have a deep awareness of your cosmic identity, a characteristic all lightworkers share. If you can’t be yourself, it’s impossible to connect to your fellow human beings, yourself, and the environment around you. This causes an inner tension that can ultimately lead to psychological and physical problems.

Wouldn’t life be wonderful if we could be our true selves, if we felt accepted in our social environment for who we are? We have to wonder why this is so difficult. I would suggest that it is difficult because it is connected with distant events in time, which still reside inside of us, and are still close to us. The events I’m thinking of occurred in the time of Atlantis.

The Atlantean Ring: Power and Loneliness—Above the People

When the Atlanteans incarnated on Earth their intensions were good. They wanted to protect people and save them from other extraterrestrial energies. They wanted to educate them, and ultimately to connect the lost planet of Earth with the Cosmos. What they failed to do at the beginning of their endeavor was to first connect with Earth themselves. What I mean by that is that they failed to internalize Earth. Instead, they thought they could achieve their goals by exercising power over Earth’s inhabitants. Their power originated from their cosmic knowledge, their technological expertise, and the power of their third eye. They thought that with these extraordinary powers they would do good. Their mistake was failing to understand what exerting power over others would do to them.

The psychology of power

It’s often said that power corrupts. Rulers take it for granted that they are free to exert power over others. Nothing in the universe encourages self-deception, quite like having power. If you have it, you think you are better and more special than others, otherwise, you wouldn’t have it at your disposal, the universe wouldn’t have bestowed it on you. But having power over others is rife with consequences. It distorts one’s innate spirituality. It creates fear and paranoia, and above all, it creates an inner sense of profound loneliness. We can compare power to a highly addictive hard drug.

Let us further explore how exercising power over others impacts one’s consciousness.

In a power relationship, the one with the power denies the existence of the unique consciousness of the other. They see people as an extension of themselves in the sense that they can make them do whatever they wish much like they can make their hand do whatever they wish. It follows that for this kind of power-hungry ruler, the life of a soldier, or anyone for that matter, means little to them.

When a powerful person relates to people this way there are consequences that affect their consciousness. Human consciousness implies a Oneness with others, which reflects the larger Oneness with the universe, meaning that everything outside of you is also within you. At the deepest level, the universe is One, and your consciousness coincides with Oneness. This knowledge lies at the core of all true spirituality. Exercising power over other people is a denial of that inner Oneness and as a result, the power player suppresses not only something outside of themselves, but also something within themselves. When they deny that people have a consciousness, it is an extremely unspiritual choice. Any man who exercises power over women, for example, suppresses the feminine within himself. Those who exercise power over animals sever their connection with nature and lose touch with the Mother energy that desires to influence them for the good.

It is impossible to promote spirituality through a power relationship. It is a contradiction in terms. The power relationship negates everything spirituality stands for. Spirituality propagated through a power relationship isn’t spirituality at all. It is subjugation, not a pursuit of awareness.

A good example of this type of power situation is the hierarchical organization of the Catholic Church, which operates on a punishment-reward system. The male hierarchy uses ideas of hell and sin to coerce their faithful into submission and obedience. God is painted as a dictator with infinite power over them, not as the source of unconditional love, and the Oneness behind all form, including the physical body. The universe which is Oneness is not perceived or experienced as that but as a hierarchy of male rulers and authorities. When spirituality is about forcing a believer into a particular belief system and into submission, there is no room for humanity’s inner connection with the Cosmos. It is severed in two.

This kind of spirituality creates a false identity in people, a belief in an external spirituality that is handed down to them by authorities, which they inevitably take on. The belief in a world of duality, division, and separation replace any sense of Oneness. This breeds solidarity in hierarchical organizations run by those who do not recognize anyone as being equal, a belief in an external authority over trust in one’s own inner truth, and that conditional love rules over unconditional love.

Conditional love is a tool used to manipulate people into behaving a particular way. The perpetrator forces people to obey their will. Conditional love is not love at all, but people use the word “love” to manipulate others, threaten them, control them with a club of fear, and force them into obedience.

This exercise of power inevitably leads to the loss of an authentic form of spirituality. This is what the Atlanteans did. They tried to succeed in their mission by spreading this type of spirituality but in the end, they failed. Their goal was utterly unattainable because of the way they approached it.

The exercise of power viz a viz relationships with fellow human beings

One wonders what someone in power would think if they paused to imagine what their relationships would be like if they lacked the power to dominate. The answer is that the relationships would vanish. When you exercise power over another, genuine love, true friendship, and the warmth that goes along with it gets stuck and is unable to freely flow. It is likely that those being dominated actually hate the authority that bears down on them, and in time will unleash their fury upon the oppressor. The power-hungry ruler realizes this too, which creates a deep distrust on both sides. A dictator will try to allay this potential fury by exercising even more power over people, which leads to the unleashing of terror.

The power hungry have no idea how to empathize with someone else and engage them in a humane fashion. Their nature is to communicate by command. They do not know how to speak honestly from the heart, which to them would be a sign of weakness. They do not know how to empathize, nor do they ever learn to listen or make any effort to understand others. They see others as inferior. They have nothing to learn from them. Why would you, perched on a higher rung of the ladder, want to speak to someone on a lower one?

When you exercise power over someone, a natural connection is broken making it impossible to communicate honestly and naturally. People who wield power are narrow-minded, fearful, and have no ability to engage in any kind of normal social interaction. Dictators have no friends. They are surrounded by “yes men.” Anyone with an opinion is seen as a threat. Heartfelt connections with others are not only impossible but completely severed. Broken connections lead to loneliness, and loneliness leads to fear. The ruler tries to overcome his fear by exercising even more power over people, thus, creating a negative spiral. The result is paranoia, fear of losing power, and fear of revenge. They lose all perspective, find happiness elusive, and can’t enjoy the beautiful things in life including genuine friendships. It’s all gone. Life revolves solely around power and fear.

A ruler thinks in terms of duality, which is another word for fear and loneliness.

Power makes for loneliness

The truth is that Lightworkers still struggle with loneliness having taken part in the Atlantean experiment. Ultimately, this negative spiral of power leads to loneliness and fear, which in turn fuels a greater need for power and eventually leads to a collapse because the forces of life will retaliate. The universe and Earth itself had had enough of this mad cycle of Atlantis, and the tower of power collapsed with a thunderous crash. That is what happened in Atlantis when the flood broke, and that’s how it still is today. Great empires fall, and those in power are psychological wrecks at the end of their lives.

This was true for many of the Atlanteans. Their profound insights had given way to a rigid spirituality; they hadn’t learned to connect with their environment and fellow human beings in a natural, equal way. After this failed experience, they reincarnated as children of Earth without power but with psychological problems resulting from the abuse of power. The road to healing was long and sometimes very painful.

The Outsider Ring: Among the People

The birth of a new environment is always an invitation to forge new connections and to grow. Consciousness reaches out to the other, connects with it, and grows. Anyone who has ever immersed themselves in another country and culture knows how enriching that can be. People often unconsciously seek out a new environment because they feel a longing from their soul to discover something new within themselves. A new environment aligns with this longing.

The Atlanteans were far too unaware of this fact. They did not connect with the earth but instead tried to dominate it. There was little or no social connection with the earth souls, nor an inner connection with the earth itself. They lost their deep connection with the cosmos by assuming a position of power. Their natural evolution stagnated. The deeper psychological reason for coming to earth was a desire to develop heart consciousness. However, this state of stagnation created tension that ultimately triggered the forces of nature to come to bear leading to the Atlanteans’ downfall. Nature restored the balance.

Our consciousness still holds the energy that resides in the Atlantean ring, and it can sometimes block the energy of the cosmic core. This blockage is based on superiority and fear. People accustomed to having a lot of power, then lack it when reincarnated again, grow fearful. When you’re used to having power, living without it is frightening. This fear that remains within the Atlantean ring is the root of many conspiracy theories we read about today.

After the fall of Atlantis, lightworkers reincarnated without power amongst the people of Earth. In that incarnation they experienced the results of their work as Atlantean rulers. Although their cities no longer existed, the psychological impact remained. In a sense, they had built their own prison because on Earth there were people who internalized Atlantean society, its associated power structures, and rigid social order. In similar fashion, people had created religions to subdue people. Those who realized life could be different on Earth turned out to be prisoners of their own making. They waged war, tried to create change, and encountered resistance everywhere. The population had an intuitive aversion to them, caused by unconscious memories of their former oppressors, and because they were different.

In addition, how to socially interact with people on Earth was not self-evident to them. It was not in their genes because they never learned how to create relationships. They didn’t understand how it worked, mainly because those in power at the top of the hierarchy lacked human understanding, but those at the bottom of it did not. They were more focused on and accustomed to controlling the outer world through the exercise of power and were considered to be alien. There was little to no tolerance for being different. For the former Atlanteans, it was a time of persecution, oppression, and despair about life and existence.

Many people who have memories of this from past lives feel like victims. They remember the persecutions, the cruelty, and the stupidity of their fellow human beings. The psychological mistake they made was that they wanted to restore the original dynamic Atlantean power. People shouldn’t have listened to them because they knew better, but they no longer had any power. Much suffering ensued because they reverted to the old approach of dominating others, but they had no real power left. They had no way to transmit knowledge through love and friendship and were without social skills. They had to experience the value of powerlessness, and they failed to face the real problem before them, which was loneliness. For them, loneliness was worse than the pain of persecution. They had no ability to do anything about it, no experience of how to equally exchange the kind of energy that occurs in a friendship. To connect with another is a skill you learn after living many lives without the skill and continuously breaking your connections with people.

Despite the misery, this was a meaningful phase from a psychological perspective. It was a confrontation with the inner power-driven mindset with an invitation to let go of it and embrace a pure spirituality. The outward struggle with existing structures was essentially an inner one. It was time for them to be silent and go within, to rediscover their cosmic origin. Powerlessness ultimately compels one to embrace the only true power there is—Love.

The solution to go within came with pain and suffering. Sooner or later, they sought silence and solitude whereby they healed the connections that had been broken by Atlantean power thinking. They restored their connections with nature and the cosmos—and with themselves. Being alone no longer meant they were alone and inner peace dispelled the need to convert and dominate.

Often to their surprise, those who had achieved this shift discovered that people wanted to approach them for advice, for healing or sensed what spirituality truly was when they were around them. They felt seen. Things began to flow. Now that they had let go of power thinking, the Atlanteans discovered that earthly nature is very beautiful and that people wanted to be with them for who they were. Being yourself attracts others. And so, the broken connections with the earth, people, and nature were restored. Mutual love, friendship, and respect arose. This was infinitely more valuable than power.

The Human Ring: On the journey together

Power leads to loneliness, and loneliness makes you long for connection. Unnecessary suffering arose because the psychological attitude towards power hadn’t yet been eradicated. Connection is possible when you let go of power-based thinking and approach the world around you with love. That was a painful lesson for the Atlanteans.

Love restores broken connections. Healing occurs when powerlessness and vulnerability are accepted. Friendship and love flow again. Lightworkers were once again accepted for who they were. Inner light shines through the channels of vulnerability and honesty. The merging of lightworkers with earth people was the potential beginning of a magnificent flowering process, the birth of the cosmic human.

Lightworkers have deeper inner knowledge than others and can see into things more because of it. But they can also fall into taking on the role of guru. They can attract followers and create power relationships, which replicates the old Atlantean mistake. Their students learn the false message that truth lies outside of themselves and that they owe allegiance to a guru. Once again, the lightworker loses his soul when they do not believe in equality and Oneness.

We have to act out of friendship and love, not power and superiority. It is the only way our inner knowledge flows to others and how theirs flows to us. Everyone has their own unique experience and their own story to tell. We can be open to them and understand them when we come from friendship and equality, then we benefit from their richness and can change and grow because of them.

Every person, every living being, no matter how small, has a unique perspective from which we can benefit. We can change as a people when we are willing to listen and learn, This is how we show our appreciation and love for them and when this happens, we are changed. It goes both ways. This is the lesson the Atlanteans failed to understand and needed to learn.

Truth flourishes in a field of friendship and equality and connection spreads from there. Even a hermit secluded in the desert who loves humanity is able to share his truth with everyone.

“Believe this, or else!” is how organized religions and dictators operate from fear. This tack is less and less effective and people are turning their backs on traditional religion, finally relying on themselves for their own truth. Ideologies are being abandoned. There is hope amidst the chaos of our times. On the surface, the events appear intense: war, environmental destruction, pollution, the cries of senseless dictators, politicians who have lost their way. But beneath the surface, Truth is gaining strength. When you talk to people these days, you can sense their longing for peace, tranquility, freedom, and harmony with nature. This feeling, this knowing, this longing, is increasingly shared by everyone.

When you become confused or fearful by the misery you see, speak to your neighbors, and loved ones, and you’ll discover there is much more kindness and inner knowing than you formerly thought. The new era does not begin with a revolution or transformation imposed from above, it begins in the hearts of people, in the silent, powerful current beneath the surface. Anyone who attunes to this feels a storm beginning to rage. The light breaking through the clouds is already visible. We have to look in the right direction to see the light, look at the small, simple things of everyday life: the cheerful light in the eyes of playful children, the beauty of nature, everyday acts of kindness, the warmth of our friends. These are some of the tiny, beautiful things that happen to us every day, and most of the time we don’t even notice.

Finally: The road to wisdom

Where does the path lead? We are on our way to the cosmos. What comes along with us when we go? Our humanity, and our heart goes with us. When we came to Earth we brought something with us, and when we leave, we take something back: a developed heart consciousness, and the memory of its beauty. In essence, we bring all of ourselves with us, including the inner knowledge we have gained and all the experiences of all our lives on Earth.

We grow wise when we look within. What do you see there? At your center there is a magnificent cosmic being and that cosmic being is on its way to something unimaginable, something incomprehensible—loneliness. If everything is One and everything is connected, how is loneliness possible? How can it exist? How can there be a state in which the most fundamental truth of the universe—Oneness—is completely denied? And why would you want to know about loneliness? If you understand loneliness, you understand everything. All human madness, all violence, evil in the world has as its root in loneliness. You can understand the world better if you know what loneliness is and how you came to suffer from it. Loneliness is the key.

It’s said that power corrupts, and I would say that power makes us lonely. Step by step our journey towards loneliness began. We were powerful once and exercised that power, which is important to understanding the Atlantean ring. All that was perpetrated, all the exercise of power, all the superiority of looking down on others, and the demand for obedience, were the steps along the path to loneliness. If we can understand the Atlanteans this way, we clear the blockage of energy in that ring. Then, the Cosmic energy flows through the Atlantean ring. To know what happened is valuable and with the right perspective can be understood.

We were the outsiders, lonely and persecuted. Our first reaction was to step back into the old energy and convince others that they were doing it all wrong. We wanted them to listen to us. But that approach backfired and, at the very least, we were laughed at, often chased away, or persecuted. We had no power anymore, but the tables were turned and we experienced powerlessness. Power as an addictive substance numbs loneliness. We did not have that substance anymore and felt bitter loneliness for the first time. When we finally went within, we found the solution to it—the cosmic knowledge of the unity of all life. We finally began to apply that knowledge where we found ourselves. We reconnected with nature, with the stars, and broke through the great illusion called loneliness. We can make peace with all our lives as outsiders if we acknowledge that the worst thing we experienced in those lives was loneliness. But it was precisely because of that bitter loneliness that we rediscovered our cosmic light and became lightworkers. True lightworkers are people who have overcome the illusion of loneliness within themselves.

The light we radiate attracts others. It isn’t our words, or our ideas; it is our inner beauty. Powerlessness isn’t a punishment; it’s a state that allows us to reconnect, to find the cure for our loneliness. Throughout all the lives we have lived as outsiders, felt lonely and in pain, now, we find peace. That peace resides in our hearts. It is the peace of our inner light, of our cosmic truth. Now we are on our way together. We are not above anyone, as we thought we were in the Atlantean era, but we are on our way from below. Gradually, we are changing humanity’s underlying stream of consciousness, the keynote of knowing. The cleansing and healing comes from within.

In the end, we are wise. A wise person respects the experiences of others, knows they are unique, and knows they can learn something from everyone. A wise person never uses force when they share their knowledge and insights, but they always show respect and love for others. A wise person waits for others to come to them. A wise person dares to show their vulnerability and smallness. A wise person loves themselves even with all their flaws.

Awareness of who you are brings about the change the world needs. Awareness of who you are arises when you make peace with everything within you; all lives, even the perpetrators and the victims who were all part of the long journey to yourself.

And the greatest journey of all is the homecoming.

© Gerrit Gielen

• https://www.jeshua.net/articles/by-gerrit/atlantis-now-the-homecoming/

Edited by Suzy Conway

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• https://eraoflight.com/2026/01/31/atlantis-now-the-homecoming/

On Forgiving Others and Yourself

On Forgiving Others and Yourself

By Gerrit Gielen

Posted on June 15, 2025

Much has been written about forgiving others, less about forgiving oneself. What strikes me is that everyone agrees that to forgive is indeed a good thing to do but why it is a good thing to do is usually not clearly explained. We think it is good to forgive because we will be rewarded for it in heaven. A good person is a forgiving one, and we want to be good. Self-forgiveness is altogether a different and more difficult story. Is it even possible to forgive oneself? We may find ourselves asking if it is even right that a criminal forgives himself? If anyone can forgive them, isn’t it the victim’s doing? Isn’t that act reserved for them?

There are a lot of questions that come up around the subject of forgiveness and in this article, I hope to shed some light on them by looking at forgiveness from the perspective of inner growth.

Why is it good to forgive?

Why forgiving is hard to do.

We have all seen movies that revolve around revenge. These movies are fun for us to watch; we enjoy it when in the end, the victim takes revenge and gives the perpetrator a good beating. How liberating it feels to see it, the opposite of forgiving, but for some people extremely satisfying. Why is that so? Is it because revenge is morally legitimized violence and we feel entitled to experience it? It may be true that we watch a movie about violence and revenge, so we don’t have to feel guilty as long as it’s the villain that gets killed, beaten up or something horrible happens to them. It makes us feel good, and after all, aren’t we allowed to feel good about that?

In other words, one reason forgiveness is difficult is because we believe villains are one-dimensional figures with no back story, bad through and through. Thus, forgiving them makes no sense; but taking revenge does. Films in which the victim forgives the perpetrator are less exciting and spectacular than those in which the victim takes revenge. The belief in an eternal hell where villains are punished forever is widespread because we believe in the existence of villains who are incorrigible.

In the Middle Ages, people thought one of the greatest pleasures of going to heaven would be to watch all the people in hell below them. Revenge at last. Is it primitive? Are we that much different than those who lived then when we enjoy watching the villain get punished? At least that is the case when we are outsiders, because desire for revenge lives mostly in the mind of observers who don’t really know what it’s like to be a victim.

If you talk to victims, you discover that they usually don’t want revenge at all. They want to be seen and heard, they want their suffering to be recognized. They want the perpetrator to realize what he/she has done to them. They don’t want revenge as much as they want justice, and at the deepest level, they want the perpetrator to grow in consciousness. That is something completely different. The victim seldom gets their wish, because this rarely happens. As a rule, perpetrators deny or downplay their crimes. Consider, for example, the discovery of pervasive child abuse within the Catholic Church. How many priests have expressed regret to their victims? I can’t recall ever seeing a single report in the news of that happening. On the contrary, they deny their guilt and cover up their offences. If a victim waits for the offender to show repentance and remorse, they will unfortunately wait for a long time.

So to sum it up, we find forgiveness difficult because deep down we hold a dualistic worldview where evil is evil and good is good. In order to forgive, we must learn to accept that there is good in every person and be willing to see that good. It is that good that binds us together and makes humanity one.

Why forgive?

We forgive each other so we can let go. If the victim does not forgive, they remain under the perpetrator’s influence, and their life is determined by that energy. As long as a victim doesn’t forgive, they remain a victim. Forgiveness is not for the offender; it is for you. It is an act of strength, an act of I-saying. It is how you move on with your life, follow your path, and free yourself from the offender’s energy. To forgive is to stand up for yourself. To forgive is to take your sword and use it to sever the bond with the offender. It is a masculine act. To forgive is to choose to no longer be a victim.

How do you let the perpetrator go and banish them from your mind? Realize what the offender has actually done to himself. The universe is one and that oneness is within us. A person who hurts another breaks their connection with it. When a man abuses a woman he damages his own inner woman. He damages something within himself.

When you look into the perpetrator’s eyes you do not see happiness; you see emptiness. Every time a person commits a crime, they break a bond with themselves, with their child within. The bond with the universe is severed too, as is the bond with their fellow human beings, with nature, the past and the future. Every broken bond inevitably leads to a loss of happiness. Maybe the perpetrator is rich, and lives in a beautiful environment, but you will not find happiness in their eyes.

The victim longs for the offender to become aware, but in the end, the universe will take care of that. It will do everything it can to restore wholeness to the person who did harm. Again and again, the offender will be given opportunities to become more aware and have more insight into himself. However, it can take several lifetimes to arrive at this. Reality encourages awareness. As the victim, you do not have to do anything. “Living well is the best revenge” is a well-known English expression, and a profound truth. Live your life to the fullest and let the universe do its job.

Let go of the perpetrator, forgive, live your life. Don’t waste your life’s energy on the perpetrator, give that energy to your loved ones. Forgive and free yourself so you are there for those who deserve you. Forgiveness is an act of strength; it is choosing for yourself. Someone who can truly forgive continues with their life and doesn’t let it be determined by what was done to them. To say, “I forgive you” is to say, I am no longer a victim, I am free from victimhood. You no longer give the perpetrator access to your inner life.

It is becoming whole again, becoming one again; letting go of duality.

Perpetrators and their long road to self-forgiveness

Perpetrators need to forgive themselves because without self-forgiveness consciousness will be blocked and growth is not possible, only stagnation. Self-forgiveness sounds simple. I do something wrong and think, “I’ll forgive myself and get on with my life.” But that’s not how it works. Self-forgiveness is possible only when you know what you have done to the victim, and understand how much sorrow, pain, and suffering you have caused. Until you do, you don’t know what to forgive yourself for, and if you don’t know that, self-forgiveness is impossible.

Time passes, we say, and for the perpetrator the memory of the crime fades into the past, and eventually he will try to forget about it, and be less bothered by it. We say time heals everything. Psychologically, it does not work that way, it works exactly the other way around. A human being’s consciousness wants to continue to grow, become lighter, enrich itself, evolve, go with the flow of life and the universe, but when someone commits a crime, growth ceases. The hurt the perpetrator has caused a victim, the suffering he has caused is like a river that flows in front of him and blocks the path. To heal, he has to swim through it, experience it from within and understand what he has done to the other person, only then is self-forgiveness possible. Immediately after they commit the crime, it is not yet a terrible problem, their life goes on. But if the culprit never lets himself feel his victim’s feelings and remains unmoved, the longer it goes on, the darker his life becomes.

We all have an inner sun, and the light of the soul will follow its path. But the inner sun of the offender will slowly disappear, replaced by an inner emptiness, and the darkness will deepen and deepen. If there are no external stimuli that encourages self-reflection, for example, loss, or illness, the darkness continues to grow. When someone commits a crime, the dark cloud within them grows larger and larger and will eventually totally obscure their inner sun. By the end of the perpetrator’s life, his eyes are empty, and his facial expression is bitter.

When this person dies and enters the astral sphere that reflects their inner state, it is a dark sphere of desolation and lifelessness. When they lose contact with their inner light, they lose their ability to create light and beauty. However, sooner or later, they will want to free themselves from the darkness and will be open to receiving advice from their guides.

Perpetrators do not view their victims as human, they view them as inferior based on racist ideology, for one example. And that is not easy to let go of. Slaveholders were totally convinced that because Black people had darker skin than whites, they were more animal than human. Thus, slaveholders felt they had a perfect right to own them, rule them, and treat them cruelly.

For centuries, men have believed they are superior to women and even do so to this day. They refer to themselves as so-called “masters of creation” giving them the right to subjugate women, forcing them to be obedient, and turning them into sex slaves. The Nazis regarded people who did not look like them, who were of a certain faith and culture to be “Untermenschen” (underman, subhuman) and therefore believed it was acceptable to mass murder them. Virtually every ideology assumes that one class of people is better than others, thus, “the good guys” have the right to hurt “the bad” guys.

Ideological beliefs are often so deep that they cannot be released while in the astral sphere. Reincarnating as a victim is the only way out because when they experience life from that perspective, the suffering and pain they caused is experienced and internalized from within. This is not a punishment, rather, it provides liberation from the stifling worldview of the perpetrator, and it is only with experiencing and feeling what the victim went through that there is the possibility of self-forgiveness.

A perpetrator’s worldview is a prison for their consciousness. Any worldview that provides a justification for mistreating another denies the inner oneness of life. When you treat someone violently, you suppress that oneness within yourself and diminish your consciousness. It is the inner unity of life that enables the growth of consciousness. Inner oneness allows consciousness to continually seek new forms and new experiences.

Three roads

When the perpetrator realizes what he/she has done to the victim, there are three options.

1) The offender forgives himself

The universe will always give someone who forgives himself the chance to make things right. Self-forgiveness leads to the blossoming of something beautiful. The inner light of self-forgiveness is creative. Some offenders go on to create social and societal change, and fight for equal rights, social justice, and cooperation.

2) The perpetrator does not forgive himself

Overwhelmed by the pain he caused his victim, the perpetrator remains stuck in his guilt, continues to punish himself and does not come to believe in anything positive. This is a very unpleasant situation. What helps the perpetrator the most is to receive forgiveness from the victim. When the perpetrator truly feels that his victim forgives him and sees that they have continued on their path and encourages him to continue as well, there is usually movement towards self-forgiveness.

3) The perpetrator distances himself from himself.

This is an undesirable situation that is unfortunately common. An offender chooses to experience the life of a victim, but his consciousness remains stuck. He does not recognize the perpetrator within, so he projects it onto the outside world, people, and situations, thus, no integration takes place. A healing inner wholeness does not happen. He slips, as it were, from one dualistic worldview to another. First there is a belief in the inferiority of victims, then in evil forces outside himself. This creates a holy belief that there are evil forces in the outside world that must be fought.

People who believe in conspiracy theories do not recognize their inner culprit that projects everything onto something or someone outside of themselves. Psychologically, this explains the reasoning behind these conspiracy theories. Many people are caught in this blind alley and cause misery in the world. Their belief in duality reinforces existing duality. Belief in powerful perpetrators creates an energetic space in which such perpetrators can manifest. The outer world energetically follows the inner world. A self-perpetuating dualistic worldview is thus created that is almost impossible to put into perspective. A lack of inner integration, for example, between the masculine and feminine or between perpetrator and victim, always results in a dualistic worldview.

Fortunately, there is a solution, which is to love yourself.

Loving yourself

Self-forgiveness is ultimately choosing to love yourself because if you can love yourself, you can forgive yourself. To love yourself is to look at everything in you with love and bring it into the light, both the perpetrator and the victim. You have been a perpetrator, you have been a victim, and perhaps both at the same time. You have been powerful, and you have been powerless. You have been everything; thus, everything is within you. Loving yourself means loving yourself as an offender and as a victim.

As long as you believe in perpetrators that exist outside of you, you deny the inner oneness of the universe and as long as you do, you deny your own inner oneness. That is a sign you lack self-love, and it is connected to why you reject the offender within. It can also manifest as contempt for the victim within, resulting in feelings of inferiority.

People may despise themselves for letting others walk all over them, take advantage of them, and ultimately, they blame themselves. We live in a world where weakness is scorned, where people who are vulnerable and sensitive despise themselves. Think of the victim in you, think of all the times you have let others walk all over you or worse. Maybe you were beaten, abused, or robbed and in past lives, I am sure worse things have happened.

Go to that frightened part of you now, the one who is hiding out feeling inferior. Love it, comfort it, and let love flow into it. It is a part of you, an extremely sensitive and vulnerable part, and therefore, oh, so precious. It provides you with a deep understanding and insight into others. It is the source of your ability to feel empathy and love. Accept it, love it, and realize that at a very deep level you have chosen to experience it. It is part of being human. It completes you.

There are exercises you have surely heard about where you look in the mirror and say positive affirmations to yourself. That’s fine! But I suggest you do something different. Look in the mirror and say, “You’re a sucker! You’ve let people walk all over you, but I still love you very much.” Learning to say “no” to victim feelings and stand up for yourself begins with feeling love for the part of you that is weak, vulnerable, and sensitive. The part that is considered weak by this world in truth is full of beauty. Love it and it will blossom. Do not despise that part of you, love it. There is a huge shortage of gentle, weak, and sensitive people in this world, and when you are vulnerable remember it is a sign of your inner beauty. Just look at the world around you, everything beautiful is vulnerable.

Then think of the offender in you. How many times have you unintentionally hurt others? How often have you hurt another in your fantasies or been violent to someone in your dreams? What you fantasize or dream about often has to do with past lives. Accept this. Go for a walk in the forest by yourself and imagine you are a tree. Each root of the tree is a past life, and all of them are connected to the earth. Connect with the roots that are connected to a lifetime when you were the offender. Those roots feed you, too. They give you energy and strength and they too need your attention and love. Let your love flow to those roots, and to all the offenders within you.

In conclusion: wholeness

When you accept that you have been both perpetrator and victim, and love both of them, it creates an energetic space within where perpetrator and victim can meet each other and forgive. This is self-forgiveness. This is wholeness. This is being human. When you accept your humanity, you accept that you are both perpetrator and victim. The power and energy of the perpetrator can now cooperate with the empathy on the victim’s side. The result is a loving creative person; one who enlightens others with understanding and compassion. One who loves and forgives himself will approach his fellow human beings in this way, ensuring that the artificial duality of this world is no longer empowered. Instead, a new energy is empowered; one that restores harmony and unity to the world and spreads the belief in the power of love.

Love the offender, love the victim. When you do, they both feel supported by your love, they can look each other in the eye, which makes self-forgiveness possible. An inner flow is created, and you begin to live from your soul. The soul can flow through the personality only when there is inner harmony. The manifestation of that inner harmony creates a new world, a new earth—a world in which humans live in harmony with each other, with plants, animals, and the earth itself. And then, the era where humans have been separated from nature for so long, finally ends.

Man made whole is a creative man, a healing man.

© Gerrit Gielen

• https://www.jeshua.net/articles/by-gerrit/on-forgiving-others-and-yourself/

Edited by Suzy Conway