Humor and Laughter -

On April 1st, 2005 Equinox was asked,

We'd like to talk about Humor. Humans are one of the few animals that we know about that laugh . . .

EQ: No, many animals laugh, they just do not laugh in the same way thee do because thee refuse to recognize that it is happening.

Ok.

EQ: Horses laugh. Dogs laugh. Monkeys laugh. Whales laugh. Dolphins laugh.

The differences are our laughs.

EQ: Yes. Many of the animal species are telepathic, is this not so?

Yes.

EQ: They do not need to verbalize. But because humankind has a deficiency which is the lack of remembrance of telepathy, thee have to do it outward. But are there not entities that laugh without making sound? Human entities?

Yes.

EQ: Animals laugh, thee just don't know it.

What does humor do for us?

EQ: Many things. Chemically, it does wondrous healing things to the body. It creates endorphins, it creates a healthy immune system, the T-cells regenerate, many of thy cellular structures grow stronger, it has great capacity for healing. Dost thou understand?

Yes

EQ: Whereas the opposite is the destruction, humor and laughter is construction.

Ok.

EQ: It is as though it is the glue that creates a healthful body mind and spirit, dost thou understand? And it bonds entities together, is this not so?

In a very, very good way.

EQ: It is contagious! If one entity begins to laugh, the whole group will laugh and it creates wondrous feelings with no effort because it is contagious.

Sometimes humor can also be cruel.

EQ: That is not true humor. What that is is compensating pain. Dost thou understand? Pain becomes such that something has to make one feel a little better and thee are calling it humor and it isn't.

Insecurity?

Even though they may seem to be laughing, they're not really laughing in a true sense?

EQ: No we would say it would depend upon what thee are talking about. What thee call slapstick humor, where entities fall and it is made to be that way, it is not that one gets injured. This is real humor. But where a being is making fun of another being and it is being hurt by it and beings are laughing, they are laughing almost due to embarrassment, almost due to their empathy being such that they can't do anything else for then they would cry. Dost thou understand? It is a defense mechanism.

And/or be picked on too if they were to speak up and say . . . . . .

To cover up that it's not bothering them.

EQ: Exactly! And those that do it, are they doing it get laughter or are they doing it to get power?

To take power.

EQ: It has nothing to do with humor. This is not humor. This is not laughter. This is pain and an entity gaining power from the pain.

What's the best way to disarm that then?

EQ: It depends on... It's circumstantial, is it not?

Ok...

EQ: There are ways thee can disarm it and there are times and ways that it cannot be disarmed. So this is not something that we can answer without a specific circumstance.

Right, it's all relative to the situation.

I've seen it happen where it's somebody else's issues and they don't know how to deal with it so they attack somebody else to make themselves feel better.

EQ: This is particularly true in the area of sexuality, is this not so?

Yes.

EQ: And it does not matter if somebody thinks somebody is a threat to their own sexuality they attack when there is no threat except in their mind. Everything is within thy mind anyway, is this not so?

Yes.

EQ: So it is their illusion of a threat, so that they are threatened they attack and others around pretend to find it funny because then they will not be attacked.

So they say that laughter is the best medicine.

EQ: And it is! It is a wondrous medicine but it has to be real laughter and many entities upon Terra have forgotten how to just let themselves laugh! So that tears are running down their faces and their bodies are responding completely. How many entities in this room have had this experience this month?

Yes.

Uh huh.

I have.

EQ: So that thee are rolling on the floor, thy ribs hurt, thee are crying, thee have trouble breathing. It is a rare occasion!

It's fun.

Like a child getting tickled to death.

And that's what's contagious if people are around you, even if it's one person, just that laughing as you were saying is very contagious.

EQ: Yes.

What are the curatives of...

EQ: It increases thy immune system and healing capabilities. It increases thy capacity for pain. And it literally enters the cells and begins the processes of glueing things back together.

Norm Cousins has written many books about it, or at least a couple. He was a gentleman that had cancer...

EQ: We are aware.

And they say he lived a lot longer because of it.

EQ: This is so! And many entities that choose... This is not just the laughter that created the ability to live longer, it was his acceptance of the fact that he had only two choices: The choice to die or the choice to live, and he chose to live. And in living he chose to live in a way that was wondrous, for any other way is to choose to die. Dost thou understand?

Yes.

How do you suggest that we bring to others on this planet the gift of laughter when it's easy for some - I love to laugh and enjoy it constantly in what I do - how do we bring it to the masses that are so uptight that live on our planet?

EQ: We always suggest that thee start with the little ones for they have yet to be completely polluted, dost thou understand?

Yes.

EQ: And if thee can bring the little ones into a group and encourage the parents to attend too, and when a whole group of little beings are laughing does this not create laughter in the parents?

Yes.

EQ: This is a good start. If thee are asking how to do it with thy military or how to do it with thy president and world leaders, this is more difficult! It always starts with the children for the adults are too afraid to let it go, so they can use their children as an excuse, is this not so? The adults can buy toys, not because "they" want the toys! Oh no! No, no! And they will sit in the mud and play with those toys but only because the "children" like them.

(Laughter)

EQ: This is a good beginning.

This is not exactly a question about humor, but when you talk to a little baby or make faces and they just respond in a way that expresses joy and laughter which is not exactly humor but they react to emotions and there are babies that don't respond like that. Why does that happen?

EQ: Safety. Entities' infants that feel safe and cherished, laugh. Infants that don't, don't. Dost thou understand?

Holy cow. Yes.

EQ: Unless of course they have a neurological disfunction from the onset. And there are entities that choose to be born with their bodies not fully intact.

On the other side of humor and laughing, what about scarey things?

EQ: Oh! It makes people laugh!

Is that why we're so attracted to it?

EQ: Think about it! It creates this surge of energy and everybody's embarrassed because they all went, "AAAHHHHH!!"

(Laughter)

EQ: And everyone laughs! They get off of a roller coaster and they've been scared to death and what do they do? They laugh! This is why. It creates the same energy. As opposed to: Now, if thee were almost raped, would it have the same?

No. That's fear...

EQ: But thee can have fear when thee are watching a scarey movie. True fear but thee know it isn't real and thee can laugh at it. There is a great difference between scarey that is perceived as entertainment and scarey that is perceived as reality.

Is there healing involved for someone who might have been raped or had an experience of such for them to realize that that was all an illusion anyway?

EQ: No. No. Because thee are then dealing with a traumatic neurological system. A true physical system that has been traumatized by this. Dost thou understand?

Yes.

EQ: First that system has to be healed before the entity can detach enough to understand that they also have a choice: They can continue to be the rape victim or they can begin to live. Dost thou understand?

When you said that when we laugh it creates a positive energy, what color is that energy?

EQ: It is dependant upon the people.

Ok. So then if everybody's laughing and then all those energies blend...

EQ: It begins as yellow and then it becomes quite golden and depending upon how evolved, it can actually hit the violet spectrum, the spiritual spectrum.

And then do people feel it at that spiritual level then?

EQ: That would depend on the people. If thee have never tasted Coca Cola, and then thee taste it, would thee like it?

I don't know... Maybe. You might...

EQ: Thee are absolutely correct! To some it would be horrendously awful and to others it would be wondrous! So can entities perceive that they have hit a spiritual note? Or could it scare them? Depends on the entity and depends on their illusion.

Well but if that, if that violet, that spiritual part of that laughter... I know what you're saying about it being scarey because that's a touch of the illusion, right, that's kind of like getting a sense of...

EQ: No! It isn't a touch of the illusion, it is reality! It is coming out of the illusion. It is feeling the absolute connectedness to all that is. It is as though thee wake up and notice the matrix and then close thy eyes because that means thee have to change thy belief so totally, and many entities aren't ready for that. They want to remain blind. It is so much safer to not feel the linkage. For when thee do not feel the linkage thee can place blame instead of taking responsibility.

Well you had mentioned before that they are consciousnesses being changed and enlightened so we can see past that, right?

EQ: Oh, absolutely! But again, thee have the choice to open thy eyes or keep them closed. Everything on Terra is choice. This is part of being born into human bodies. It's to learn choice and responsibility. So thee can choose to remain ignorant. It is just exactly like the person who is given a book and says, "No, I can't read." And someone says, "Here, I will teach you." And they say, "No, I can't read," and they turn around. Same thing.

Sometimes, and I guess I'll speak for myself, I'll get the giggles or I'll laugh at maybe inappropriate times, like maybe a funeral...

EQ: It is a stress reliever.

Is that what it is?

EQ: Yes.

Because then you get embarrassed, you know, you're looking around to see if anybody else is smiling widely.

You probably are.

Nobody else finds the humor in it like you did.

Children... I have a nephew that in kindergarten they talked to his parents about how he had such a wonderful spirit and he just could laugh on the drop of a hat. But they had to learn how to help him curb that...

EQ: Oh, of course!

...because he found the humor in too many things.

EQ: They had to curb that so that they could make him like the rest of us instead of encouraging the rest of the children and the teachers to be more like him!

And consequently as an adult he seems to be so much more introverted.

EQ: Exactly. His normal nature, he was told, was unacceptable. Children want to be loved, which means they want to comply.

So when you're telling them that's the wrong time to laugh, that's according to how you preceive...

EQ: It is according to what society says at that moment, which changes.

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