The Passing of a Pope

By Lee Carroll

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God is in you, and the closer you draw to this, the more your energy will be
the description of Heaven itself

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I was actually in Italy when the Pope got sick. Then a few weeks later I was on the road again, this time in the U.S., when I saw on CNN that he had passed. Of course I am a New Age lecturer and the channeller responsible for the Kryon work. I’m not Catholic, and the teachings I help promote don’t adhere to the doctrine of any organized religion. However, the man who gave 26 years of his life to finding his own divinity and promoting peace on earth is going to get a lot of attention, meditation, thanks, and admiration from me. I’m not a religion basher—instead, I honor all those who seek God in their own way.

     Part of what makes a pope so unique is that there’s only one of these men (and someday, women) who guide more than a billion people in their spirituality. We always hope that each new pope will be a good one, and not necessarily a carbon copy of some of the last ones, who weren’t really interested in anything but “their” church. But Pope John Paul II, also known as “His Holiness,” was interested in the whole package—his own spirituality, guiding his church-state, and also his quest to bring peace on earth. He didn't mince words, either. Much to the consternation of some of the high-positioned churchmen around him during the ’80s, he called for the end of communism. He advised President Reagan to go against the advice of his own presidential advisors and trust Mikhail Gorbachev. That's exactly what Reagan did, and the beginning of some of today's wise nuclear treaties were the result.

     Gorbachev once said, "The biggest mistake communism made was to allow the pope to visit Poland." This set up an energy that, combined with all the other things John Paul II did, helped to bring down the Soviet Union in the late ’80s. No shots were fired, and yet the "Evil Empire" fell—with the help of the consciousness of its people and many great leaders, almost all of whom were influenced to some degree by the leader of the smallest country in the world, the Vatican.

John Paul II was the man who dared to tell Catholics everywhere—often from his perch on his balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square—that heaven and hell were not places at all, but were states of being that were personal, and reflected one's own relationship with God! (You can read more about this online at http://smithbrad.nventure.com/pope.htm.) Other church leaders scrambled to try to explain how this new concept coordinated with basic church doctrine, making statements such as, “What the pope really meant was ...” But what he meant was what he said. God is in you, and the closer you draw to this, the more your energy will be the description of Heaven itself.

     John Paul II also met with the Jews and knelt in prayer with them. He was the only pope to ever visit with them in the Roman synagogue. He apologized to them for the position of the Vatican during the Holocaust, and asked their forgiveness. He also publicly asked for the forgiveness of the family of Galileo for what happened long ago (when the church persecuted him for his scientific findings), then announced that even the Crusades weren’t correct (gasp!). It was something like saying, “The church was wrong on all these issues.” And it was. He knew it, and he wanted to make amends. This was a trait of Christ’s that he emulated and wished to model to those who followed him as the head of the church.

     In these last years, John Paul II was concerned and critical of the United States, too. Again, he was never shy about speaking out on what he felt was appropriate or inappropriate energy, and he compared everything to his divine model and the master he followed and worshiped. Yes, he failed in some areas, and never accomplished others, but isn't that like most of us?

     John Paul II knew he was dying. In the past he’d recovered from many things, including almost succumbing to an assassin's bullet. But he knew he was leaving us. He asked not to be taken back to the hospital, opting instead to surround himself with his Polish friends, and slowly his body shut down. Those closest to him said that his last word was "amen."

     Here was a Human Being who followed his truth, looked for the divine in everything, and made a difference on planet Earth. This is what we teach. None of us will ever be the pope, but all of us can create heaven in our lives, just as Pope John Paul II said. We may not be world leaders, but each of us has God in us to the extent that millions can share this with us.

     Before he was ever called the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, or Sovereign of Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was simply Karol Jozef Wojtyla, an ordinary Human person with a light that he wanted to shine. Kryon tells us that this is who we are, too. We carry a combined light that can bring peace on earth, something that this pope showed us can be done even by one man!

     I don’t think the pope is any place called heaven—according to his own words. He’s instead in a consciousness called love ... something that’s around us all. And if he could speak to us right now, I believe John Paul II would say, "I did my part. Now do yours, beings of the light! Amen." Congratulations, Karol, on your most wonderful adventure on this planet!

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Lee Carroll will present a Kryon meeting at Quintessence in Crystal Lake, Illinois, on Sunday, August 21. Please see their ad in this issue for more information.

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