Dear friend,

Do you how antivenom is made? Venom is collected from snakes; horses are injected with it. The horses fight the venom. Then the human draw blood from the horses, the antivenom is in it.

This is literally true, and this is also a metaphor. Maybe you are a "horse"? I think I’m one! It's our job to be poisoned and fight within our own souls. Whether we know it or not, we are useful. The suffering is more bearable when it makes sense though. We are making antivenom for ourselves and others...

A famous verse of the Emerald Table goes like this:

"That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing"

A way to understand what it means is to see anything that exists in the material world as a reflection of something that exists in the invisible planes, that is the psychological and spiritual planes...

If some beings, for instance horses, do make antivenom in their bodies for the benefit of weaker beings, then the same process must exist "above", in the psychic and spiritual dimensions.

Another way to look at it is to compare humanity as a whole to a body. Some individuals belong to the immune system. We are "white cells". Our job is the meet the poisons, absorb them so that they do not spread, and recycle them. We become the antidote. We are filters in the psychic world...

Our whole humanity is poisoned. Guilt, shame, fears, excessive pride, illusions.....as a species we are really mad. We have fever! We do terrible things. We are putting our own life and the life of other species at risk. We spread suffering. This is very strange. How could we have expected Mother Nature to give rise to such a mad species as ourselves?
But, as Buddha mentioned, what is important for now is not to find out about the causes, but to heal! We will wonder how it all happened later.

Many people seem to cope with the poison well and live "normal" lives. They work, they have families, they pay their bills... we, the black sheep, could feel very bad about ourselves by comparison. I don't know what color we are when we are horses, but when we are sheep, we are black.

On the physical plane, there is no confusion: my arms are mine, my neighbor's legs are his, he can't go about walking with my legs without asking for permission...

However, at the level of psychic energies, we are not as separated. It is possible to be a sponge and absorb emotions that we have not created. It is also possible to squeeze some of our own feelings out of ourselves... for any passing sponge to absorb!
We are all doing it all the time...

At this level of reality, we, the white cells looking like black sheep, keep absorbing the poisons others squeeze out.
Jumping form one metaphor to another, we are the ones who have to walk with the bad legs, and be blamed.
Blaming is one among many ways to squeeze feelings of guilt, shame or other poisons out of oneself and project them onto others..

Sometimes we absorb the poisons simply by being sensitive, and too open. Sometimes, the poisons are violently forced upon us, like when we are blamed or have to endure all kind of violence. The process is called "scapegoating". In some ancient civilizations, animal or even human sacrifices were practiced.

The people believed they were offering lives to please God or the gods, when they were actually offering the blood of the victims to themselves, as a way to be relieved from their own violence.

A scapegoat can be tempted to become a bully at the first opportunity. Many people switch from one role to the other, submissive at work, obnoxious in private...

And there are the ultimate scapegoats. The weakest one who can't pass the rubbish onto others, and the strongest, who do not want to inflict onto others what was inflicted onto them.

I have learned a lot about the poison and how to fight it within…

Jean-Marc