One day a friend of mine who was a Captain in the 452nd Battalion of the Kentucky National Guard was standing with his superior officer, a Colonel, in the back of an open Army truck. They were plotting Howitzer trajectories.

Standing in the truck bed, their heads were among tree branches. A ladybug landed on their plotting paper. My friend carefully put the ladybug safely on a leaf of the overhanging tree.

The Colonel watched this operation and commented mildly, "I hope you don't feel that way about people!"

It is part of the almost inevitable confusion of third density (earthly existence).

When I, as a person, look at the so-called war in the Middle East I see a human tangle that is as old as our civilization. That area of the world seems to have been in turmoil forever. Every empire since Babylon has fought in that desert land. To my eye, it looks as though the latest Empire to rise and smite the Holy Land is the USA.

As a channel, I am aware of a larger view of war. The Q'uo, my source for the last twenty years or so, says, in a session dated 11-18-2001,

"We do not disparage war in and of itself. It is part of the almost inevitable confusion of third density (earthly existence). A case can be made for war as an excellent game, rich in glory and honor. Going to war is a part of the expression of third density."

In other columns offered for this UPI Forum, I have talked about the densities which constitute the structure of our creation. The first density is air, water, fire and earth. The second density is plants and animals. The third density is our present density, the environment of humankind. Our tribe is the first biological form to have a conscience and to develop and practice ethics.

This density is also called the Density of Choice. What is the choice we must make in this density, according to Q'uo? It is the choice of polarity.

As Bob Dylan wrote, "You got to serve somebody." It's true. We might be serving ourselves, the Creator or the people around us, but we cannot act without causing an effect by the choices we make.

We can seek to love and serve the Creator in other people. This polarity is called service to others. We can seek to love and serve the Creator within ourselves. This polarity is called service to self. The Q'uo group is saying that we are confused in our polarity.

Some things we do are service-to-others oriented. In any disaster you see all kinds of proof that people are wonderfully kind to each other. People pitch in and work together to save strangers' lives and see that they get food, water and other necessities in their extremity.

Some things we do are clearly service-to-self oriented. Marching into someone else's country without being attacked by them and deciding their policy by the power of our weaponry fits that description.