{"product_id":"emmanuels-book-ii-isbn-9780553347500","title":"Emmanuel's Book II","description":"\u003cb\u003eFear tells you, “I want to make you safe.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLove says, “you \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e safe.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFear would walk you on a narrow path.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLove says, “open your arms and fly with me.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Emmanuel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmmanuel’s great wisdom—coming to us through channel Pat Rodegast—has illuminated thousands of lives. \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel’s Book \u003c\/i\u003erevealed deeply enriching truths about our place in the cosmos and the evolutionary destiny of the human soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow Emmanuel shines his light on the limitless power of love—and the prison house of fear. With startling directness and gentle wit, he confronts ageless questions such as “Why am I here?” and contemporary questions such as “How can we help the homeless?” Whether we struggle with personal confusion and pain or with the dilemmas of a troubled world, this wonderful new collection brings us singular comfort, assurance, and encouragement on our way to wholeness.\u003cb\u003ePat Rodegast\u003c\/b\u003e first channeled the spirit Emmanuel in 1969. With Judith Stanton, she wrote down and compiled her visions into three books—\u003ci\u003eEmmanuel’s Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel’s Book II\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel’s Book III\u003c\/i\u003e—which have been translated into eleven languages. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Stanton\u003c\/b\u003e is the co-author of \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel’s Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel’s Book II\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel’s Book III\u003c\/i\u003e, with spiritual teacher Pat Rodegast.Introduction: Uncle Emmanuel\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When I was a child I had a wonderful uncle who brought me “surprises.” Now, fifty years later, the spiritual child within me that is just waking up still delights in the thought of having a benevolent uncle who would give me gifts. But now, rather than material benefits, I would prefer that my special uncle share certain qualities with me.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The uncle I might look for now would be wise and compassionate, with a dry sense of humor; tough yet tender; someone who would keep me at the edge of consciousness through prodding, titillating, kidding, and loving me; someone who by constantly reframing my reality would help me to see the theatre of illusion in which I am acting, the shadows on the wall; someone who would transform my “problem” into exciting possibilities, and when I took myself too seriously would show me how poignant I am; someone who could guide me through the minefield of my mind with cavalier confidence and joie de vivre; someone who is not afraid. Such a being would be an “elder” whom I could properly honor, and at the same time fully enjoy. So when people ask me who I think Emmanuel is, for all the reasons listed above, I tell them that he is an adopted special uncle of mine of whom I am inordinately fond.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Emmanuel reminds us that his message is not new. Spiritual messages rarely are. For what we need to know has been said again and again. Yet, as our cultural context shifts, so must the way in which the perennial philosophy is expressed. Because Emmanuel’s words are in response to queries put to him at recent lectures and workshops and interviews, and because of his sensitivity to our predicaments, the material is timely and appropriate to who we are and where we find ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Emmanuel’s message of choosing love over fear and of being an openhearted witness to the way of things, is so simple that I was initially dubious as to whether a second book would be useful or merely redundant. I knew there would be more of his wonderfully cryptic one-liners like his “Death is absolutely safe ” line in the first book. And so there are, for example, “No one gets an award for sitting in bliss.” A few such lines, while absolutely delightful, seem insufficient justification for a book.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But reading this material has put my concerns to rest. There is a progression from the first volume to this one that suggests that as Emmanuel’s audiences, channel, and editor are ready, a more uncompromising version of truth comes forth. As Emmanuel suggests, he is accompanying us on a journey from rigidity to yielding, from sternness to softness, from fear to love. And as we become more comfortable with the initial strangeness of being spoken to as souls on a journey rather than as personalities, the transmission can be more direct.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e So much of what we hear in our reading of Emmanuel, or any other spiritual text for that matter, is dependent upon our readiness: having ears to hear. For example, twenty years ago my Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, told me that I need fear nothing and that I should love everybody. For me that turned out to be easier for me to say than to do. I taught that message in writings and lectures but still could only barely hear it myself. But over the years, slowly, slowly, keeping my Guru in my heart, repeating these injunctions to myself as almost a mantra, and deepening my philosophical and meditative understanding of the cosmology out of which such truths spring, I have noticed a dramatic reduction in my own fear and an even dramatic increase in my own love for others.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e At first that love was experienced in relation to friends and fellow seekers. In recent years, however, the field in which I experience intense love for others has expanded to include people I meet on city streets and in a variety of situations where previously the experience of love would seem out of the question.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Coincidental with this feeling of increasing love for others came a diminution of fear. To my surprise I found that in places where there was danger, I was cautious yet increasingly unafraid. Most recently this has happened on the streets of New York City, where I spent several months working with the issues of homelessness and lack of housing. I found myself in a number of situations where previously I would have experienced not only wariness but fear. Yet, to my surprise, there was no fear, only quite intense love. In fact, time and again I was overcome with states of ecstasy right on the streets and in the subways of New York. It was that experience which prepared me to really hear Emmanuel in this material when he says:\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Just be aware of your loving. Do that and watch the change. See faces light up. Notice your cities becoming safe. Feel the kindness of your world. You need not say or do a thing. The power of your love will transform every corner.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Had I personally not been through these transformations, I would have read Emmanuel’s words without an experiential referent, and I would probably not have received these words as openly into my heart. As it is, however, the words are luminously clear and valid because I hear Emmanuel speaking directly to my own experience. I was, so to speak, ready.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This particular example reminds me of another interesting reason why Emmanuel’s words are so valuable to us. As I said above, when my Guru told me to have no fear and to love everyone, I slowly began to change in a profound way. This effect was in contrast to the noneffect on me of admonitions given by a previous teacher. In discussing this at one time, I recall my Guru asking me if I had given up some habit that my previous teacher had told me to give up. I said that I had not made any headway at all in relinquishing that specific habit even though my previous teacher had stressed again and again that I must give it up. At this point my Guru laughed and said, in effect, “How can his words affect you when he himself has not given up such things?”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This story comes to mind when I hear myself admonishing others to let go of fear and to open to love, even as I myself am just beginning to do so. I see the subtle way in which the very words I use say one thing but the person saying them conveys something else, because we, as the medium, are our message. Whatever fear is left in me is conveyed along with words of fearlessness.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But when Emmanuel speaks of love and fear he is speaking not from his intellect, nor from his wishing-it-were-so. You can feel that he speaks obviously from the depth of his being where fear had indeed been relinquished and love rules. Such a message of love, delivered from such a place of truth, is bound to touch us deeply and facilitate real change.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e What real change might we expect? I find that Emmanuel’s words deepen my faith in the spiritual dimension of life. In doing so they make me feel less vulnerable. In feeling less vulnerable I am willing to risk deeper and more compassionate involvement in life. Through the combination of deeper spiritual faith and deeper involvement in life, I am able to witness from a spiritual vantage point the ways in which my separateness and fear perpetuate suffering.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e So Emmanuel has helped me to look again at my ways of dealing with the righteous indignation and pain regarding the unfair suffering in the world, with the anxiety about ecological or nuclear destruction, with fear of my own death, with the drama of relationship, with how I integrate pleasure seeking with spiritual thirst, with the role of intellect, and with the root cause of my fear of loving too much. To see all these things is to gain leverage over them — which, in turn, loosens their hold over me. This in turn strengthens my confirmation in the spirit. And therein lies peace and joy.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It is, therefore, with delight that I invite you to slowly and reflectively read on in this book of uncommonly good spiritual common sense.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ram Dass\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e The Choice for Love\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e What does the voice of fear\u003cbr\u003e whisper to you?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Fear speaks to you\u003cbr\u003e in logic and reason.\u003cbr\u003e It assumes the language\u003cbr\u003e of love itself.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Fear tells you,\u003cbr\u003e “I want to make you safe!”\u003cbr\u003e Love says,\u003cbr\u003e “You are safe.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Fear says,\u003cbr\u003e “Give me symbols.\u003cbr\u003e Give me frozen images.\u003cbr\u003e Give me something\u003cbr\u003e I can rely on.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Loving truth says,\u003cbr\u003e “Only give me\u003cbr\u003e this moment.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Fear would walk you\u003cbr\u003e on a narrow path\u003cbr\u003e promising to take you\u003cbr\u003e where you want to go.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Love says,\u003cbr\u003e “Open your arms\u003cbr\u003e and fly with me.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Every moment of your life\u003cbr\u003e you are offered the opportunity\u003cbr\u003e to choose—\u003cbr\u003e love or fear,\u003cbr\u003e to tread the earth\u003cbr\u003e or to soar the heavens.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Why would fear want to oppose truth? Because truth has the power to transform fear, fear believes it is fighting for its life.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e I want to say something about the subtle inroads fear can make in your lives. If you no longer allow fear to step blatantly before you and shout of cataclysm, it will creep behind you and whisper something reasonable in your ear. Be wary of rational thinking, reasonable supposition.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Ask your higher wisdom\u003cbr\u003e if it is not true that without worry,\u003cbr\u003e you would have arrived\u003cbr\u003e exactly where you are now,\u003cbr\u003e and more pleasantly.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Doubt is the rabbit’s foot of fear.\u003cbr\u003e Worry and fear\u003cbr\u003e are not tickets on the express train.\u003cbr\u003e They are extra baggage.\u003cbr\u003e You were going that way anyway.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305397539045,"sku":"NP9780553347500","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553347500.jpg?v=1767726216","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/emmanuels-book-ii-isbn-9780553347500","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}