Your Contribution Matters

The following short question/answer from Veronica through April and Allen Crawford at Inner Whispers is an important reminder that you, simply in your happiness, appreciation, love, peacefulness, and joy, add more to the increased levels of consciousness than you can ever imagine.

Dear VERONICA,

Are there any enlightened souls on earth at this time?

Can you tell who they are, or how to recognize them?

Sincerely,

Kathy from Texas


Dear Kathy,

Yes there are many enlightened souls on the planet with hope of supporting the consciousness raising that is occurring.

It is not important to identify them. Their energy is one of subtle positiveness that transcends the need for recognition. Know that their focus is one of support, unconditional love and awareness. Something that is very needed at this time in your environment.

- VERONICA

In other words, you matter, and your contribution matters, whether you can see the result of that contribution or not. Take a moment to appreciate yourself for being here at this moment in time, and for simply being You. You rock!

Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It ...

The following timely and powerful message comes from Jen Freer and her Pleiadian spirit guide Peter at Freer Spirit. It's a followup to an earlier message from Peter called "It's Go Time" that you can read here, but the message stands well on it's own. What a wonderful reminder, it cracked me up. Love those playful Pleiadians! :) In joy!

PLEIADIAN MESSAGE: BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE

April 4, 2012

Through Jen Freer

Congratulations are in order for all of you who worked so hard over the past couple of days to help raise the vibrations on and around your amazing little planet! This is a wave we need to keep going, my dear ones! Doesn’t it feel good to be joyous? Doesn’t it feel good to be loving? We applaud you for your efforts in pulling yourself up out of the doldrums and rising to the occasion. This is not a one-time request, however. This is how it ALWAYS needs to be! It is challenging, is it not? Maybe not for a select few, but we do know that some of you are still struggling. So we want to try to help simplify things — especially for those who have a hard time unplugging or turning off their minds to “meditate.”

My dear friends, meditation does not need to be so difficult. Let’s break it down to three elements. In order to meditate successfully you must:

• Be in love or joy.
• Be in “the now” moment.
• Stay focused on “the now” moment and allow your vibrations to flow.

I know, I know. You are now going to say, “But HOW do you MEAN, Peter?” Or, as Jen calls me, “Pita!” (I am not a flatbread, Jen.) Oh, I can already sense it. How does Peter know what flatbread is? Do Pleiadians eat flatbread? What DO Pleiadians eat, anyway? Oh, but I digress!

Are you laughing now? You should be. Because that is how we express joy. Do Pleiadians laugh? YES, WE DO!!! We laugh long, loud and often. Why? Because we LOVE life! And loving life is joy and laughter. Which is what you all need to be doing MORE of, my dear loved ones!

Just as the dark ones feed off your fear, Mother Earth, Gaia, is energized and rejuvenated by your love and laughter. So this is all we are really asking you to do. Focus on the funny. Focus on anything that makes your heart melt. Puppies. Kitties. Bunnies. Children. Whatever it is…yes, even sex! As long as it’s GOOD, healthy, loving sex…the kind that makes your heart sing and keeps your face cracked open in permagrin. Hey, why not? As long as you’re staying focused on the FEELINGS, you’re good. If you’re thinking, “Oh, God, when is this going to END?” then it is most likely not good sex anyway, eh?

Separate the good from the not-so-good and the bad. If there is any thinking going on that doesn’t pertain to the happy-joy-joy you’re supposed to be focusing on, guess what? You’re not doing it right! For example, if you are playing with your kids or your pets, your focus should be right there, and only there, in “the now” moment. Once you’re there and really focused, you will know. Because nothing else exists. And time really flies, too, does it not? What is the saying? Time flies when you’re having fun? Yes. Yes, it does. And this is how you will know you just succeeded in sending out love vibes to Gaia and her people. Good work! That is what we call meditation. Whatever brings you absolute joy!

Consider this your new job. Go ahead. Call into work joyous! “Sorry, boss, can’t come in today. I’m too joyful to concentrate on anything mundane. Nobody can stop my love train!”

But, seriously, if you MUST still go into work until your new financial system is available…we are sorry.

All kidding aside, though, see if you can somehow maintain it. The love vibes. If you love the work you do, then that is an added bonus! No worries! Keep your spirits up as much as you can. Enjoy whatever you’re doing. This is how you take your power back. If someone or something lowers your vibration, you just focus on your happy-joy-joy again…you know, puppies, kitties, bunnies, children…or maybe it’s music. Maybe you have a favorite song that can help you raise your vibrations again? Listen to it, and bounce right back up. Bounce, bounce, bounce!!! Tell the soggy wet blankets to ride YOUR train for once! After all, you have every right to be joyful if you choose.

And this is, ultimately, what will get you to 5D. Making the choice to change the channel from drama to comedy. From tragedy to triumph!

Have you ever noticed that love vibes are contagious? When you see someone smiling, does it not make you smile, too? When you hear laughter, aren’t you curious? Don’t you want in on the fun? How about when someone has a case of the giggles that wont quit? Are you smiling now? Good. Keep it there.

Meditation is simply focus. Focus from the heart. It does not have to be serious or silent in an uncomfortable position chanting “ohhhmmmm.”

Again, we are just asking for raised, loving vibrations in “the now” moment (no interrupting gloomy thoughts or guilty feelings) as often and frequently as possible. In short, we are asking you to be serious and strict with yourself about being loving and joyful as much as possible. Consider it your new assignment. You must now do what you LOVE. No exceptions. How do you like OUR rules?

Yes, your mission, should you choose to accept is to be loving and to be HAPPY. We’re serious. It will completely suffocate what is left of the cabal. Now isn’t that WORTH it?

As the hipsters say, “Peace. Out. Duuuude.” As Pleaidians say, our love and light to you, dear ones. And now Jen is saying we should take the sex references out, but we are telling her that she is being a fuddy duddy. And there is just simply no room for fuddy. Or duddy, for that matter.

Smile! It really IS contagious, dear ones.

Do Our Guides Ever Get Disappointed In Us?

The following question and answer come from April and Allen Crawford and Veronica at Inner Whispers. It ties in well with yesterday's message about self doubt. Seems we, in human form, are rather unique in the Universe for our ability to throw guilt and doubt into our vibration. Maybe it's time to give that up. ;)

Dear VERONICA,

Do our guides ever get disappointed in us?

I feel there have been many occurrences in my life (especially regarding employment) that smack of help from my guides or loved ones. In almost every situation, I somehow feel I "blew it".

I just have to think that I am letting them down by failing to take full advantage of all the opportunities I have had (and unwittingly squandered).

Thanks for all you do for us!

Chuck


Dear Chuck,

No, there is never disappointment.

Your guides are very energetic when it comes to your evolvement. Their continued positive energy mingled with yours creates opportunity. They would never mix in a negative vibration for any reason.

Guides are perhaps the most hopeful energies in existence! They never take their "eye" off of the goal, which is your advancement.

Following their example may be a good idea.

-VERONICA

Just Say No to The Doubting Self

My dear friend Danielle Garcia at Intuitive Angels channeled the following message from her spirit guides, following an experience where she questioned a miracle she was experiencing. She describes the event in detail in her blog, My Intuitive Life. To me this message addresses a key roadblock to each of us in our journey toward living in the higher dimensions, something worth examining and putting to rest in our own lives.

Doubt of Self
3/21/12

Dear Ones,

Why is it that you doubt so very much? What purpose does this serve? We watch you insistently, over and over, doubting yourselves; your actions, your reactions, your thoughts, your beliefs...even the very things that are directly in front of you. Can you see how much of your energy is entangled in the negative vibration of doubting self?

When you first come into this world as the purest light, you occupy your infant physical form. A baby knows no doubt. They cry when there is a need to be met and the child fully and completely expects this need to be satisfied. Can you imagine a baby in contemplation, wondering whether or not they should ask for nourishment or to be held? Of course not! They believe and expect that their requirements for a happy life will be filled. Quite the concept!

Doubt is a learned concept that children are taught and that energy grows and deepens into adulthood. There is a large difference between making mistakes and accepting responsibility for one's actions and self-doubt. So much effort has been impressed upon you to apply analysis and logic to each situation that many times your core instincts take a back seat to the diagnostic mind.

And have you realized yet, Dear Ones, that human logic cannot be applied in every experience? A plus B equals C, except when it doesn't.

As vibration and frequency continue to change, so does the evolvement of science and spirit. Science may accelerate and advance far beyond what we've ever dreamed. But the core of spirituality remains the same, and remains forever constant. You ARE a spark of God created in God's likeness and vibration. You ARE deserving of all that is good and right. You ARE a being of light and wondrous soul experiencing life as a human.

God's power does not get stronger as the frequencies change. God is still the same as God was since the creation of time. Your soul is much the same. You are still the same soul you were billions of years ago. Your power has not changed. Your soul is vibrant and strong. It is your choice to choose to experience it as such.

If you all began to tap completely into the energy of your souls, think of the amazing things you could manifest and accomplish! To instinctually live within your spirit is to not only abolish the concept of doubt, but also it is to create heaven upon your Earth.

Miracles are not fairy tales, Dear Ones. They are not cast upon the most deserving by the hands of benevolent masters in the skies. Miracles are man-made because you make them so.

"Miracles are man-made because you make them so." Indeed! You are a magnificent being. No time like the present for each of us to take back our power and say "enough already!" to the doubting self!

How to Help Others with the Shift

Wonderful words from Selacia and the Council of 12:

As a divine changemaker, part of your role now is to be an example to others as they awaken - showing them a more empowered and loving way to be. You can do this for loved ones by your presence, showing them how to be with challenges without reacting.

You can give your loved ones this gift - your awake presence - even if they don't come to you for insights about what's going on. Don't underestimate the value of this.

Know that you are doing amazing "work" just in being who you are, bringing your light into all situations. In your awareness of Who You Really Are, you bring a special kind of energetic transformation to everything that you do. As Selacia says, do not underestimate the value of what you bring, even when you aren't aware that you are. You are magnificent!

Here's Selacia's article in full:

Your Next Big Leap in 2012
-Understanding Your Role & How to Help-
by Selacia
March 6, 2012

Change is in the air. It's personal to you, and it's also much bigger than you because it impacts the whole of humanity and the Earth. The magnitude of change you've been adapting to is about to shift again. Get ready for some brand-new energy, coming in over the next month as another level of acceleration arrives.

After all, the year 2012 is a time of revolutionary shifting. Like a cosmic alarm clock, this year's unprecedented events will bring ongoing wake-up calls far and wide. If you've been on the path of transformation for a while, you are used to wake-up calls. Some of your loved ones, still spiritually asleep, will face a steep learning curve.

As a divine changemaker, part of your role now is to be an example to others as they awaken - showing them a more empowered and loving way to be. You can do this for loved ones by your presence, showing them how to be with challenges without reacting.

You can give your loved ones this gift - your awake presence - even if they don't come to you for insights about what's going on. Don't underestimate the value of this.

Revolutionary Cycles

Part of this next phase is that natural cycles you're already familiar with - like full moons and equinoxes - become more potent catalysts of change. They will have a greater influence because humanity has reached a tipping point - a time of no return - during which people must find new ways to live and relate to one another.

Things that worked before are no longer working. People on all continents are becoming aware of society's dysfunctions and aware of humanity's crisis. In tandem with this, the 2012 planetary alignments will help to trigger an avalanche of revolutionary change - in your external world and within you personally. You will want to be conscious and awake as you experience the changes - inviting your heart to guide you in knowing what to pay attention to and to know what is true.

Searching for Truth

Most likely, your whole life has been one of searching for truth. After all, much of what you learned came from conditioning by caretakers who were asleep spiritually. If your parents didn't know how to love unconditionally, how could they teach you about love? If your teachers resourced only conventional notions of history, how could they give you an unbiased perspective of the world?

If your boss today manages with old-paradigm models of fear and competitiveness, how can he or she create the kind of work environment you need to thrive?

As dysfunctions like these come to light, you naturally seek truth and understanding. You want solutions that are based on compassion and caring. You say "enough" to the lies, deceptions, and manipulations.

Balancing the Past with the Future

To leap into future you want, it's necessary to balance your past. What does this mean? First, by definition, anything existing before this current moment is past. That includes what happened when you were three years old and what happened three hours ago.

Balancing your past means putting it in perspective, healing what needs to be healed at a DNA level, and then being willing to let it go.

As long as you allow your past to define you, it is impossible to be who you are meant to be in this precious life. You are alive now to create powerfully and boldly, doing things sourced from love that your ancestors might have called miracles. Indeed, you are the miracle - accept this now.

Copyright 2012 by Selacia * All Rights Reserved * Selacia

Ascension Symptoms Revisited

As the new energy ramps up - which it definitely is doing! - we are all being pressed to release the last vestiges of what has kept us prisoners of third density. Anything and everything that is fear-based has to go, fear does not exist in the upper dimensions. Anything and everything that isn't based in love will eventually be released or driven out. Each of us is being guided toward this release in whatever way is appropriate for us, based who each of us is, what baggage we're still carrying from our past, and what our soul purpose is. And while the trip is different for each of us, since we each have a human component, it's also very similar.

I've posted several articles in the past about the symptoms of ascension, but it's a topic worth revisiting. Along with links to these previous posts:

Symptoms of Ascension
Ascension Symptoms and Tools
More on Ascension Symptoms
Fatigue and Our Physical Evolution
Cycles of Change

I'm including another list of symptoms from Karen Bishop, excepted from her book The Ascension Primer. Karen graciously offers the full excerpt in PDF form which you can download free here. Karen has taken some of her previous lists and expanded upon many of the symptoms in this comprehensive updated piece.

Many physical symptoms are simply the body's way of communicating what it is experiencing in the only way it knows how. For example, you might physically experience being very tall or giant-like for a few moments or hours. This is your body's way of interpreting, through physicality, your energetic expansion.

It is my hope that by reading through these lists of symptoms you'll realize that you're not alone, that you're not going crazy, that all is well and proceeding naturally, and that you have support. Know that no matter what you're experiencing in your life at this time, at some point - through loving yourself, and understanding and giving in to the process - "this too shall pass". And when it does, you, like the beautiful butterfly that you are, will emerge from your human, third density cocoon able to truly spread your wings for the very first time and fly with the wind!

Expanded Ascension Symptoms
Note: Comments below in brackets [ ] are mine. - k

• Feeling as though you are in a pressure cooker or in intense energy; feeling stress. This is one of the first ascension feelings that a person usually feels. In the beginning, when the energy shifts arrive, they bring with them a New and higher vibration. Old patterns and behaviors are being pushed to the surface for release. Feeling all this pressure going on inside of you can feel like great stress or that you are on overload. If you are still in a conventional life with mainstream pressures, this New energy can really add to your pile. You will eventually adjust to this higher vibration and much will be activated for release within you as well. More room inside for more of the higher energy!

• Depression. This symptom is most definitely in the top three and very widely experienced. The ascension process purges so much of the darker and denser energies from us, that we find ourselves in them for quite some time. We may feel like things are simply never going to get better. And to add insult to injury, the outer world is no longer in alignment with the new, higher vibrating you. It doesn't feel so good out there and it might feel like there is nowhere to go that does. Therefore everything around us feels just plain ugly and icky. And in addition, when we are vibrating higher and have to wait for the outside to manifest itself in a higher way of being it can seem like it is taking forever. Feeling let down and like things will never change are so very common. This is a long process. An upside-down reality, world, and human are both having to turn right side up. There is a jewel in the length of the process though, and a necessary and perfectly intended by-product. We cannot create from the ego. We have to get to a place where we are OK no matter what is going on. Feeling disappointment for what seems like forever eventually makes us realize that we will never get anything that we cannot live without. When we learn to detach and release all attachments, we always get precisely what we want. It is like magic and a very key part of the ascension process to let go of all attachments. When we arrive in this space, we are truly in heaven as nothing can affect us here and we also get whatever we desire, even though we desire nothing. This is a true symptom of "arriving" and one can only feel total peace from this point on.

• Anxiety, panic, and feelings of hysteria. When our egos begin to depart, they literally freak out as they do not want to cease to exist. It may feel as if everything is ending (most of everything is!). Your system is also on overload and you may feel as if you are hyperventilating. Things are happening that you may not understand. You are also losing behavior patterns of a lower vibration that you developed for survival in 3D. This may make you feel vulnerable and powerless. These patterns and behaviors you are losing are not needed in the higher realms. When we experience death in a 3D world we can panic and have anxiety as we do not know where we are going. When I went through "the big leap" I knew I was "going". My non-physical ascension guide told me to trust and relax, as it was really quite peaceful on the other side. None-the-less, with no frame of reference if was difficult. Now, I totally trust and go with all of it and it greatly helps. When you finally "arrive" you will feel much love, safety, and unity. Just wait! And know that others are going where you are going - you are not going alone.

• A need to eat often along with what feels like attacks of low blood sugar. A craving for protein. This is another of the first symptoms that is felt by many. Our bodies are using up an incredible amount of fuel for this process. As we are literally being turned inside-out, every ounce of energy that we have is being utilized. I have found it best to eat the protein along with being still during this time. These low blood sugar periods come and go for several years, but get much better as our bodies begin adjusting.

• Unusual aches and pains throughout different parts of your body. This is another of the most common symptoms. Manifesting just about anywhere, this is a sign of purifying and releasing blocked energy that is vibrating at a 3D level while other parts of us are vibrating higher. You may feel pain in various parts of your body for several weeks and then it will simply vanish with no explanation.

• Continual neck and upper back stiffness and pain. We are sprouting angel wings and this is where they are emerging. Sounds a bit fairy tale-ish, but this is a reality. [it's actually a metahor] Our spines are vibrating differently and also connecting to a higher form of light. This area of our body [the top end of the Vegus nerve] is where it all happens.

• Skin eruptions and diarrhea. Acne, rashes, and hives, etc. usually arrive when we are in the purging process and adjusting to a higher energy. Rashes are fairly common and diarrhea can last for weeks and even months. If a doctor visit proves you are OK, fiber can really help until this phase ends. And during it all, you still won't lose weight!

• Heart pain and palpitations. These symptoms are common for many. Our hearts are trying to accommodate a new and higher frequency. At times you can feel as though you are having a heart attack. When I experienced this phase, I had to literally lie still as any movement added too much stress to my already overstressed heart. An ER visit assured me that all was OK, but it certainly did not feel like it. In addition, whenever I had a low vibrational thought or fear during this time, my heart would literally grip and stop beating. It was wild, but not a medical condition, and it eventually passed. Our hearts are where we will be coming from and connecting from in the New world, and they must be in alignment as well.

• Periods of very deep sleeping. When the energy is not moving and we are done for awhile, we get to rest. While we are integrating and preparing for the next phase of intense moving energy, we become very lethargic. It can become near impossible to keep your eyelids open in the daylight hours and daytime napping can become a regular and necessary habit. Even if you think you can exercise your way back into some energy, you will usually find yourself dropping dead on the sofa at every effort.

• Experiencing emotional ups and downs; weeping. Our emotions are what carries the energy. When we are falling apart (and we are doing just that), we can get pretty emotional. When we are releasing, we can cry at the drop of a hat. A sad movie can make us cry, or even a sad commercial. We can cry when we experience kindness. We can cry when we feel relief. We can cry when we see any kind of suffering. These tears are a great cleanser and releaser. I always know when some New energy has arrived because I can simply cry while I am driving along in the car. This seems to be an on-going symptom that is here to stay for awhile. But at least it is fairly painless!

• Night sweats and hot flashes. During certain phases of ascension our bodies suddenly decide that they are going to burn off the lower and denser aspects of ourselves. You may wake up in the night soaking wet or become very hot during the day. It may be 35 degrees outside, but you are just fine and dandy in your short sleeves.

• Feeling cold with an inability to get warm. When we are moving into a much higher dimension after much integrating, detoxing, and other ascension processes, we get very cold. We are in between and preparing to move up. At these times it can be very difficult to warm up no matter what you do. I usually submerge myself in a tub of hot water and then get under a heavy comforter.

• Vivid, wild and sometimes violent dreams. We are releasing many lifetimes of lower vibrational energy through our dreams. If you are one who receives their higher information through dreams, you will likely do a lot of releasing at night. I consider you to be lucky, as some are doing much of their releasing when they are awake. These dreams usually do not make sense, but if you are good at dream analysis you can usually figure them out. These acid-trip like dreams are up and visible because they contain energy that's on its way out, never to return. Through this process we are releasing all of our past lives.

• Dizziness, loss of balance, vertigo, and spinning. The definition of Merkabah is: Counter rotating fields of light surrounding the spirit/body which serve to transport the spirit/body from one dimension to another. And this is precisely what is occurring. As we connect to our light bodies and begin moving into a higher dimension, we begin spinning and can experience vertigo and dizziness. If you know that this symptom indicates that something wonderful is happening it can be quite fun...like a roller coaster ride.

• Overall body pain and days of extreme fatigue. Our bodies are morphing into a crystalline form in order to enable us to reside in the higher realms and to continually be able to receive the higher light. This process is on-going and it cannot happen overnight. If you feel as though you are 100 years old and barely able to walk across the room, this is why. Continual fatigue is also an on-going symptom for the same reasons. We are losing our density and going through extreme restructuring.

• Memory loss and difficulty accessing words. So many are having this symptom that we can only laugh as we try to converse with each other. "I was having a glass of...you know what I mean...that white stuff...uh...what's it called?" "Did you watch the...er...that event where everyone competes from around the world?" At times we cannot talk at all because we are simply unable to access much of anything. When this occurs you are going back and forth between dimensions and experiencing disconnect. Another somewhat related occurrence is trying to type words and having the letters become jumbled in the wrong order. In this case, we are not in alignment with time and our flow is disconnected, as part of our energy is here and another part is further ahead.

• Difficulty remembering what you did or who you talked to a day or sometimes just an hour before. In the higher realms, reality is very much in the moment. If we do not hold something in our consciousness, it simply ceases to exist. We have no attachments. We are creating our own world around us through our beliefs and thoughts and what we do not hold onto does not exist. Everything is brand new as we are starting completely over, moment to moment. We can tap into whatever we choose to at any moment and create and experience just that. This state comes and goes, but is practice for living in the higher realms. It can feel a bit creepy when it occurs. In addition, at times we are neither here nor there, as we are in between dimensions.

• Not remembering the meaning of anything. When I was in an intense period of the transitional process and we were in the throes of a substantial energy thrust into the higher realms, I remember looking at a trash can and not knowing what it was for. I had to access my memory of the "old" and reach far. What was happening was that I was vibrating at a point where everything possesses only the meaning and identity that we give it. In the higher realms, energy is just energy with no label or meaning. All is fresh and new. Sort of a Course in Miracles undoing process, without the trying. [When this happened to me, I had just sat down at my computer and I couldn't remember how to use the keyboard. I just sat there looking at like it was an alien thing. Eventually I remembered that it was supposed to somehow get information from my brain into the computer, but I didn't know how to go about it. At some point I recall thinking "this is ridiculous, I know that I know how to use this thing!" so I put my hands over the keys and tried to make them move. My fingers felt like big sausages, heavy and stiff. All my mental efforts to make them do something was to no avail. Fortunately I knew enough not to panic, and the feeling passed after a few (long!) minutes, but it was profoundly strange while it was happening. -k]

• A feeling of disorientation; not knowing where you are; a loss of a sense of place. "Where in the world am I? I do not fit anywhere and nothing seems to fit or feel remotely right! And I do not know where I belong or where I am going or what I am supposed to be doing either!" Ever had this conversation with the Universe!? You have been knocked out of your old grooves by an energy shift and are in between realities. You have successfully left much behind and are in a very new space but have not integrated yet. You won't have much time to integrate though, because as soon as you get comfortable you will be moving on into the next higher vibrating space. And in addition, the outside world does not remotely match the way you are now highly vibrating.

• A loss of identity. You look in the mirror and have a strange feeling of disconnect as you no longer recognize that once familiar image. You almost feel out of body. Once this phenomenon occurs it never ends. You have released so much of your ego self, that you are no longer the same person, and do not have that attachment or connection to your physical vessel. As you begin to access much more of your soul or higher self, you are not in your body much. You may still use your voice to communicate and other bodily aspects, but you are slowly beginning the process of disappearing and releasing the human form. In addition, you have cleared much of your old patterns and are embodying much more light and a simpler, more purified divine you. All is in order...you are OK.

• Feeling 'out of body'. The same explanation as above. The physical body is the last to catch up. Much of us is now in a higher dimension and residing outside of our bodies, as our bodies are not there yet. They are much denser.

• 'Seeing' and 'hearing' things. As we can now access different dimension fairly easily, it is common for many to see things out of the corner of their eyes or hear things when nothing is there. Many also experience ringing in the ears [tinnitus], which is common when we are going through "the tunnel" and accessing a higher dimension. Depending upon how sensitive you are and how you are wired, this can be a common experience. Many are seeing orbs and vibrating blobs of color as well.

• Feeling you are going insane, or must be developing a mental illness of some sort. We are rapidly experiencing several dimensions and greatly opening. Much is available to us now. You are just not used to it. Your awareness has been heightened and your barriers are gone. This will pass and you will eventually feel very at Home like you have never felt before, as Home is now here.

• Feeling as though you are looking down a long tunnel in order to connect to lower vibrations; feeling as though you are acting or pretending. When we are residing in the higher realms, anything not there with us may feel far away. If you are still in a lifestyle where you are regularly interacting with the outside or old world, you may feel like an actor in a play or that you are pretending your way through the day. Basically, you are no longer residing in that world, even though you are still involved in it.

• An intolerance for lower vibrational things (of the 3D), reflected in conversations, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc. They literally make you feel 'sick' inside. When we begin arriving in the higher realms and in a higher vibration, our energies are no longer in alignment with the old, outside 3D world. Through a severe intolerance to the old, we are being "pushed" to move forward...to be and create the New. In addition, you may feel like staying home or just being alone, as much of everything "out there" no longer matches the higher vibration of YOU. This is simply a very common experience of evolution. We are moving forward before the outside manifestations are. Being in the old can feel downright awful. It is similar to having to "go back" after you have had a near death experience. As the ascension process continues, going back to the lower dimensions will not feel good nor will it be possible for long, as it is difficult to drop our vibration down in order to reside there. This is a simple experience of navigating the dimensional hierarchies. We will eventually become experts with our dimensional navigational skills.

• You don't feel like doing anything. You are in a rest period, 'rebooting'. Your body knows what it needs. During this time you may feel as though you have lost your passion and joy and don't know what in the world you want to do with your life and don't really care! This phase occurs when we are realigning. At higher levels much is realigning as well. Things are being put into position so that all will be ready when you move forward again. In addition, when we begin reaching the higher realms, doing and making things happen becomes obsolete as the New energies support the feminine of basking, receiving, creating, self-care and nurturing. Ask the Universe to bring you what you want while you cannot do it for yourself. And know that you are always being taken care of during the ascension process, even if it does not feel like it at times. Those in the physical going through this process are very highly revered by all the cosmos. We are most certainly being watched over.

• A wanting to go Home, as if everything is OVER and you don't belong here anymore. As we are returning to Source, everything is over. (But many of us are staying to experience and create the New World.) Also, our old plans for coming have been completed. We are basically done with our prior incarnation that involved raising the frequency of the planet with a goal of reaching critical mass. We achieved a lot of this through transmuting the darker and denser energies through ourselves. Now we don't have to do that anymore and may feel like we simply want out of here and away from that experience. What is coming next is simply divine and does not remotely resemble the first phase.

• A sudden disappearance of friends, activities, habits, jobs and residences. One of the most basic and prevalent experiences in the higher realms invloves the Law of Attraction. Like energies always attract like and similar energies. This relates to the dimensional hierarchies as well. We will always be matched with what and how we are vibrating. As we go higher and higher, this phenomenon becomes much more magnified and also becomes one of the basic cores of our reality and existence. Through the ascension process we evolving beyond what we used to be, and therefore the people and surroundings that no longer match our vibration simply leave our space. This can sometimes occur rather dramatically or at times through a simple desire resulting from the inability to relate to them like we used to. When an energy shift occurs, it can feel as though a bomb has been dropped and everything in our world has been scattered from here to there. Eventually we realign with the New. When the New arrives, you will feel so-o-o-o much better!

• You absolutely cannot do certain things anymore. When you try to do your usual routine and activities, it feels downright awful. Same as above. You are no longer a fit and it's time to move on to a much higher vibrating way of living, being, and creating.

• Your plans suddenly change in mid-stream and go in a completely different direction. When this occurs, your soul is balancing out your energy. It usually feels great in this new direction, as your soul knows more than you do! Your soul is breaking your rut choices and vibration. Our souls always know more than we do. During January of 2006, we experienced what I dubbed "ascension shock." At higher levels we had a specific plan and timeline. If we were a bit behind, we ended up experiencing our pre-plan whether we were ready or not. This placed us in sudden and immediate new circumstances so that we would be poised for what we needed to do next.

Additional symptoms:

• Waking at night between 2 and 4 a.m. Much is going on in your dream state. You can't be there for long lengths of time and need a break. This is also the 'cleansing and releasing' hour. [This is a period of enhanced creativity and manifestation, use it to great advantage!] [Many have already passed through this phase.]

• Heightened sensitivities to your surroundings. Crowds, noise, foods, TV, other human voices and various other stimulations are barely tolerable. You also overwhelm very easily and become easily overstimulated. You are tuning up. Know that this will eventually pass.

• You have created a situation that seems like your worst nightmare, with many 'worst nightmare' aspects to it. Your soul is guiding you into 'stretching' into aspects of yourself where you were lacking, or into 'toning down' aspects where you had an overabundance. Your energy is just balancing itself. Finding your way to peace through this situation is the test you have set up for yourself. This is your journey, and your soul would not have set it up if you weren't ready. You are the one who finds your way out and you will. Looking back, you will have gratitude for the experience and be a different person.

~ Karen Bishop
Excerpts from The Ascension Primer
Gamma Books

What to Do?

The most important thing that any of us can do is to know that we are clearing, clearing, clearing, and this is is a good thing. The future is bright, but it takes some cleaning out, readjusting, and rebalancing before we arrive. It's rather like what it might be like to learn to live under water. Before we took on such a venture we'd learn how to use diving gear, practice being in the water for small periods of time, and generally acclimate ourselves to this new environment. In a very real sense, this is what we are doing, we are learning to live in a different environment and doing it little bits at a time so as not to blow all our circuits (overwhelm our body).

No matter what is going on for you at any moment in time, breathe, find your center, ground your spirit back into your body, and remember that "All is well in all of creation and all is well with me". Remembering that simple truth can do wonders.

Here's another little tip from Claudia at Ask Claudia:

When the Ascension energies increase, it is really easy to get caught up in the symptoms instead of doing the work to raise my vibration back up. It is really easy to allow myself to sink back into 3D.

One technique that has helped is to align my energies with the energies of Mother Earth, her Grid System and Cosmic Energies. This is very simple to do. You can simply repeat this statement several times as needed:

"I thank my Master Healers, Guides, Angels and Nature Devas for balancing my energy with the energy of Mother Earth, Her Grid System and The Cosmic Energies in all of my bodies on all levels."

6 Steps to Take Now

This month's message from Selacia and the Council of 12 offers some concrete ways that we can each help co-create the world as we would like to see it - thriving, peaceful, abundant, cooperative, a place where everyone has a place, is treated with appreciation and respect, and knows that they are magnificent. Because each and every one of us is just that. Magnificent! Here's what Selacia and the Council had to say:

You and the Global Shift
-Vital Role of Community-
Selacia's Council of 12 Message

This is a year of revolution on a big scale - impacting you and everyone on the planet. A common theme you will see repeatedly is the need for humanity to come together as one family. This need has never been more important than right now.

The new Earth you want cannot come into being alongside centuries-old patterns of bickering, complaining, conquering, and killing.

A very long time ago people understood and valued the concept of community. People of those times knew about the power of unity and helping one another. In some cultures, threatened by droughts and other climatic shifts, people learned that they could survive through collective ideas, support, and actions.

Rather than fighting each other over dwindling resources, they used their joint creativity to adapt. They understood the power of a cohesive group; they valued the natural world and learned to work with nature.

With the Earth now sitting at a precipice - the future uncertain - humanity is being called to remember these things. Indeed, a remembrance is taking place all over the world, stirring a fervent desire for community. People like you from all walks of life are feeling this.

A New Paradigm of Community

Yes, a brand-new paradigm of community is in the process of being born. You are a vital part of the process, learning new approaches and dissolving old patterns. Deep within you, there is an understanding of how important community is and what needs to change to create peace on Earth.

You are encoded as a divine changemaker to help create a more peaceful and loving world. At the core of your being, you know this to be true.

When you tap that place of inner wisdom, you notice how disconnected the human family has become. You observe the distrust, the disregard, and the distancing. You see these things in your hometown, at the workplace, within government, and between countries.

As you are honest with yourself, you notice a similar disconnect within your own circles - including your family, colleagues, and other associates. When you can be even more honest with yourself, you see your own role in disconnect. You then seek understanding and clearing of fear-based DNA-level patterns that cause you to disconnect and to feel separate. As you do this inner work, you become freer - awakening to the truth of your oneness and knowing that you are loved no matter what.

If you are like most people, you want to feel more connected with others and the world. You want to see more peacefulness and love expressed in relationships, in business, and between countries. You know you are alive now to make a difference - but how? Here are a few steps you can take to help bring about a brand-new model for coexisting on Earth.

6 Steps to Take Now

(1)
Focus on what connects you to others and what you have in common and you shift from being a bystander who feels separate and different ... to an awakening being learning to live fully and as one with all.

(2)
Refuse to live your life in the shadow of conspiracy theories and gossip about what "they" plan to do next to keep you enslaved. You are a powerful being, equipped with a mind that can be focused on goodness and creating great things. Don't let your little self or ego convince you that you are in prison. You are free.

(3)
Change the questions you are asking. Example: "When will they fix this?" This question is not coming from your empowered self but from a victimhood mentality. Better question: "What can I do or not do to help remedy this situation?"

(4)
Avoid going along with the crowd. Remember your divine changemaker role - at the forefront, leading the way. When it's time to take action on something or to act boldly and do something others aren't yet doing - trust your inner wisdom and act.

(5)
Listen more, including to input from the universe about what's really going on. When your only incoming channel is a fear-based news station, you won't have a clear idea of how much progress is truly being made. Cooperative meetings with productive debates don't make as many headlines as failed talks or meetings with angry outbursts.

(6)
No matter what the world looks like, no matter how bleak things appear ... you can be one of those with a new vision. You can take your place at the forefront, envisioning a brand-new type of world.

As you continue the journey of discovering your divine nature, we surround you with our love and blessings. We are The Council of 12.

Continuation Day

On this day of your life, [Fellow Human], I believe God wants you to know...

...that when a loved one leaves the body, it is a cause for a genuine and special joy.

It can be difficult to experience this joy over the death of a loved one, and sadness is both perfectly natural and very "okay." Yet know this: your Beloved is celebrating Continuation Day. This is the most glorious experience you could possibly imagine. It is, truly, heaven!

And there is this: You will once again reunite with the soul of this loved one. Nor will you ever be separate even now, for their Essence flies to you at your very thought of them. I would not tell you this were it not true.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

I'd never heard death referred to as "Continuation Day" until I read this daily message from Neale Donald Walsch. Hard to imagine that someone hasn't heard of NDW, but in case you haven't, he's the author of a series of spiritual books called Conversations with God.

I love Neale's concept of "Continuation Day." Because what he says about death is absolutely true - there is no separation, we only think there is. Why do we think there is? Because we've been playing a spiritual game called Separation in which our personal individuation played an important role. When all that Spirit knows is Union, Separation becomes an exciting game to play!

However, as hard as it might be believe, the game of Separation has come to an end on planet Earth. It's time now to realize that we aren't separate, and to throw off that belief like we'd throw off an old and worn out pair of shoes. Because it isn't true. It simply isn't true. We aren't separate. We don't stop "being" just because we die, and neither does anyone else. So when a beloved dies, or an associate, or a family member, or a pet .. they don't go anywhere, they are just as close as they ever were .. merely a thought away. Yes they don't have a body anymore, so we can't "see" them with our human eyes. But that doesn't mean they aren't there.

Think about it this way .. your best friend moves to another city. This city is very far away, so far that traveling there yourself, or them traveling back to you, is highly unlikely. Do you miss them, sometimes terribly, and feel some grief around the fact that you can't see them anymore? Of course you do! But do you stop being friends because they moved? Do you stop loving them because they moved? Do they stop loving you because they moved? Do you stop communicating with them because they moved? No, you don't do any of these things, and neither do they. Because you realize that just because you can't see them doesn't mean they don't exist. They just aren't physically where you are anymore; you can't "see" them. But you continue to communicate with them using the tools that science and technology have given us, because you believe in these tools. And you do it without even thinking, because the tools have become so commonplace to you.

If you could come to realize and accept that you don't need those tools to communicate, you'd begin to see that you can communicate with those people and creatures around you who have moved out of their physical body and into another phase of being. They are no less than they ever were, they simply don't have energy focused into a body any more. You can't "see" them in a very similar way that you can't "see" a friend who has moved to another town. But those who have died do exist, as surely as your friend who has moved away continues to exist. And you can communicate with them.

The easiest way to communicate with those no longer physical is simply to think of them in a joyful way. When you do that, you draw their energy toward you, and they will respond in kind. If you want to take the communication further, take a moment of quiet to "tune into" them as you think joyful thoughts. You may not hear any words, but if you listen with an open heart, I guarantee that you will feel something, or smell something, or sense something familiar that lets you know they "got" your communication.

It's fascinating to be able to communicate with those you love who aren't physically focused any longer, and to realize that they don't stop loving you just because you can't see them. Have fun with it! and know that they are at least as anxious as you are (probably more so!) to communicate. But they can't reach you if you aren't "listening".

Mantra from Uriel

I am divinely guided, connected, secure and protected, in all ways and in all things.

This week's loving mantra from Archangel Uriel through Jennifer Hoffman at Uriel Heals.

May it give comfort and help you realize the full potential of your being!

In Stillness, Right Action Is Born

Imagine that you are in a large concert hall, and that you have come to listen to the world's greatest violinist play your favorite piece of music. You have always been inspired by this composition, and the virtuoso player on stage can perform it, as no one else can do. What a treat and what a privilege it is to be here tonight. All that is required of you is to sit quietly, close your eyes, open your heart, and listen to the exquisite sounds that penetrate the air.

Now imagine that instead of appreciating the importance of silent attention at this time, everyone in the concert hall is making noise. They are talking to their neighbors; they are talking on their cell phones; they are chewing gum, coughing loudly, sneezing, and otherwise making it impossible to hear the performance on stage.

Your moment of inspiration has been ruined.

So what is the point of this little example? Simply this...

Listening to the sound of your Soul, is like listening to the music of an accomplished violinist in a concert hall. Just because the violinist is playing, doesn't mean you will automatically hear the music. First of all, the environment in the concert hall must be quiet, if you are to hear anything at all. Secondly, you must pay attention. Yes, you must pay attention.

In the stillness of your being, you are able to hear the sweet sound of inspiration that your Soul is sending to you all the time. But if your mind is cluttered with worry, and your life is overcrowded with drama, your heart will find it difficult to perceive the music.

~ Saint-Germain
through Alexandra Mahlimay and Dan Bennack

Such a great analogy and reminder! There's much more to this wonderful article, it can be found here on Alex and Dan's Joy & Clarity website.

Divine Changemakers

As a divine changemaker, you are mastering how to live in the present, to express power appropriately, and to become conscious of your feelings, thoughts, and actions. Each new skill you master becomes a seed that's planted for others who will follow in your footsteps.

This reminder comes from Selacia and The Council of 12. "Divine Changemakers" is a wonderful term. It helps us remember that life isn't just about us anymore, it's about how we can work together to help others through the shift, and create the world that we long to see. Indeed, that we have longed to see for a very long time! Eons of time playing this game called Life on Planet Earth, and here we are, nearing the finish line.

Actually we already passed over a finish line, it was the completion of third density duality as a way of life. What's left to do is help the rest of humanity get up to speed and cross over too. Sort of like when you're sharing a canoe trip with others. You and your team hit the shore first, but none of you stop to rest at that point, you all pitch in a help the rest of the boats land and disembark. In the case where a boat is having trouble getting to shore, you get together and brave the river again to help bring the struggling boat in. Not so different what we're doing here, as humanity traverses the river of ascension and hits the shore of the fifth dimension one human vehicle at a time.

The Coucil had more to say, here's the rest of the article:

Making Sense of Now
-2012 Tipping Point, Year of the Dragon-
Selacia's Council of 12 Message

Living now is unlike any other time. If you are like most people, you have more questions than answers, and you wonder more about what's coming next.

The following are five key themes associated with being alive during 2012. Each applies to you personally while also relating to humanity as a whole. These universal themes impact people at all stages of spiritual growth. The effect may be experienced consciously or unconsciously, depending upon how awake a person is to what's going on.

As you consider the following, invite your inner wisdom to speak to you about what is especially relevant for you right now. Meditate upon that. Bring the ideas into your dream state over the coming days, too, inviting a higher wisdom about your life and optimal next steps.

Five Themes of 2012

(1) Transformation

This is a time of radical transformation of human consciousness, impacting people all over the planet. The shift going on is so big that even the most advanced person will have challenges remaining calm and centered. If you regularly remind yourself of this, it will be easier to cope.

Challenged you may be, but weak you are not. Your inner voice is helping you to become more aware of your unique role in the shift, and as that occurs, your priorities change.

You know that you must take actions to see the changes you want. You are not a mere bystander, complaining about the chaos and commenting on how strange things are. You know that you are alive to do more than that - so your calling is different.

This means that you will likely experience things differently - after all, you are out front, taking responsibility for what happens in your life and in the planet's future.

(2) Change

Transformation means change, and you are going to have lots of it. This will include changes you want, changes you might not want, changes you see coming, and changes that catch you by surprise.

To live now requires that you develop a new relationship with change. You naturally like the comfort of knowing what's happening next and being in familiar territory.

To be skillful living now, however, means you must trade in your comfort cushion and discover the courage to ride the dragon of change. You live, after all, in 2012 - year of the dragon! It is a year with the potential of auspicious new beginnings, dramatic upheavals of the status quo, and fiery catalysts for change on a massive scale.

(3) Awakening

Humanity's awakening, under way for decades, is gaining momentum and 2012 will be a peak year, opening the way for even more waking up in the next few years.

Some people you know - not yet interested in anything spiritual or metaphysical - will begin to ask you questions during these times. They will ask you because your very presence will be broadcasting the new energies. They will want to know about what's going on and how it relates to them.

(4) Time

Time is beginning to mean something quite different to those alive now. No previous generation had this experience.

What's going on? Some of the changing perceptions of time stem from the acceleration in time. The shift in time perception is also about consciousness.

Humanity is becoming increasingly aware of itself waking up and knowing that the time is short to figure out the multitude of dilemmas. Therefore, the perspective of time is shifting. People are putting more of an effort into things that they otherwise might have waited on. Previously, there was a tendency to think that there was plenty of time to solve problems and to reconfigure the unworkable. Now there's more urgency. People have knowingness, as though deep in their bones without thought, that they must change in order to thrive and survive.

During the next several years, key planetary alignments will add to the intensity of things - catalyzing forces of revolution and evolution in a grand way. The energies will be a potent catalyst for positive changes in all aspects of society, including a return to the heart and a heart-centered way of being. As part of the evolutionary process, humans can be transformed into a higher form that embraces the divine feminine and holds a balance between the male and female. Humanity then will embody the remedy for healing the Earth's wars, meanness, and greed.

(5) Relationships

Relationships always were the bond and catalyst for your changes, growth, and thriving. You naturally learned from them, even if it took you a long time - and often a long string of relationships - to grasp some lessons.

Now, however, relationships can and do teach you in an accelerated way. Each one is a precious opportunity, helping you to develop more self-love and to step into your true power to consciously create from love. Indeed, the relationships of this life are the vital key to your ascension into the higher frequencies.

The challenge during 2012 is to appreciate each and every relationship you have, and each lesson it teaches. It is about learning to respect and value your relationships. You are discovering how to relate to others without fear, how to help in a loving way, and how to connect with your larger world.

The key is remembering the connectedness of all beings, and to come from that perspective rather than focusing on how you are different. When you do this, you open up a window to experience more of the synchronicities that naturally abound from human interactions.

What's Next

What you are learning to do now may seem like a monumental task at times. Know, however, that you are encoded at a DNA level to be at the forefront now - learning new approaches and remembering things you have forgotten.

Take it one step at a time, just like you take one breath at a time. When you have doubts, remind yourself of your divine changemaker role. Not everyone is in that role yet, but you are. Don't worry about where everyone else is on the path - focus on your own steps.

As a divine changemaker, you are mastering how to live in the present, to express power appropriately, and to become conscious of your feelings, thoughts, and actions. Each new skill you master becomes a seed that's planted for others who will follow in your footsteps.

As you continue the journey of discovering our divine nature, we surround you with our love and blessings.

We are The Council of 12.

The Golden Key

The most powerful tool in this hologame on earth, the golden key so to speak, is the conscious practice and skill at holding a pure frequency of joy, gratitude and appreciation no matter what is happening, continuing to return to the alchemical chalice of the heart and radiate these vibrations into your daily life, moment to moment to moment.

We invite you and other awakened starhumans to hold the anchor and focus, for these energetic gifts that are being showered upon you. With every breath you take, realize that you are Light, you are needed, and it is time for you to be fully awake. Your every vibration ….your every thought is projected into the matrix of the energy field of planet earth. Continue to ask yourself, "Does this word, thought, action, feeling add to the light of the world, or does it add to the dysfunction of the world?"

Remember you are an important part of this unfolding. Each starhuman carries a code that is needed by many to trigger their own realization. Each encounter holds the auspicious moment in which codes and activation take place between both beings. When you and others are vibrating at your highest and most inspirited frequency, this is when the opening is available to lift any lower vibrations within another human.

Every time a multidimensional starhuman makes a conscious choice to experience an uplifted thought, a high frequency vibration of joy, gratitude or appreciation, there is a shift in the entire matrix of humanity. Every time.

Every time that a multidimensional starhuman stretches to be more compassionate, more understanding, more authentic there is a shift in the entire matrix of humanity. Every time.

One by one humans are taking their mastery; their authority and stepping into their personal sovereignty. We are celebrating with you in this incredible shift that is taking place. We invite you to stay the course, walk the path, and share who you are with others from this high expanded multidimensional starhuman place.

When you and others anchor this frequency, this truth, this knowing, when you vibrate the high resonance of joy, gratitude, appreciation, you welcome and allow others to connect with their own awareness of their multidimensional magnificence. Every time.

~ The "We Are Here" Team (Hathors)
through Peggy Black
at Morning Messages

Unabashed Joy

THIS is what it's all about!

Image of our 3 year old grandson spontaneously living and loving, butt nekkid - even in 44 degree winter beach temperatures! If that isn't what life is all about, I don't know what is. :)

Image captured by his mom, January 2012.

2012 - What's It All About, Really?

One of my favorite speakers about 2012, ascension, and the Shift is Jim Self at Mastering Alchemy. I consider Jim one of the foremost teachers about what the Shift is, and how to master one's way through it. He offers some simple - and free - energetic personal tools, all one has to do is sign up on his web site to have access. Of course he offers paid programs as well should you want to delve deeper faster, but all the essentials can be found in his free offerings.

Jim has a way of cutting to the chase about what we're up to as human beings, and that's a style that works very well with me. I'm not much one to "pussyfoot around" where matters of the future of an entire race is concerned. Being serious doesn't mean we can't have a good time through it all though! We certainly can, and we should! As long as we continue to be aware of what's at stake and what our part in all of that is. Here's Jim:

2012 ~ What Do You Mean the 3rd Dimension is going away?

Jim Self, Mastering Alchemy
December 2011

As 2012 approaches there is an increasing urgency to this message because we’re all, literally, running out of time to play in the third dimension.

In simple terms, the habit of thinking and feeling and behaving that we know of as the third dimension is going away. Everyone is shifting into a fourth dimensional consciousness and experience, and then into a fifth dimensional consciousness and experience.

However, most people on the planet are not prepared for this Shift. But it is happening nonetheless, and for those who are unaware of what’s going on it will not be an easy or comfortable experience.

Yet this can be a wonderful, enjoyable time as well. With some basic information about what the Shift is, and what “dimensions” are, and with simple tools to help manage our thoughts and feelings, everyone has the ability to evolve their consciousness and move gracefully and joyfully into these higher vibrational realms.

If you don’t know what dimensions are, you are not alone. Most people playing the game of life as we know it in the third dimension are playing without a “rule book” that would explain what the game really is and how one can play it successfully.
This article provides these basic, missing rules. It explains what the third, fourth, and fifth dimensions are, and why they are the most important consideration of your life right now.

If you can understand the structure and play of these dimensions, you can begin to move fluidly through the unprecedented changes of this Shift without fear, without effort, without the tension and anxiety that is, for the most part, the daily habit of our lives.

So, first of all, let me define what dimensions are not.

What Dimensions Are and Are Not

Dimensions are not places or locations, and they are not a linear progression - 3, 4, 5, 6 - stacked up like pancakes. And the 3rd dimension, or the 4th dimension, is not the chair you’re sitting in, or the walls that surround you, or even the Earth itself. That is form, which exists predominantly in the 3rd and 4th dimensions, and which will still be very much part of the play in the 4th dimension when the 3rd dimension is no longer an option.

In general, dimensions are states of consciousness available to anyone who vibrates in resonance with the specific frequencies and opportunities available within each dimension.

In a way, you could think of each dimension as a different game with a different set of rules as to what is possible and not possible for the beings that choose to play and create there. So what is the 3rd Dimension?

The third dimension (3D) is a box of rigid beliefs, more or less, with a relatively inflexible set of rules and limitations. Most of us have been playing this game for lifetimes, so we tend to think it is the only game available to us. But nothing could be further from the truth. One of the rigid 3D beliefs that structure our lives – our thinking and feeling and actions - is linear time.

Linear time is an optional belief and structure that let’s us “live” an experience of past and a future... and then we die. Because this belief is the default assumption of mass 3D consciousness, and events seem to validate the belief, most of us think and act as if it’s true.

But now we are all waking up from the illusion of this ubiquitous belief. And as you become more conscious, you realize that time in 3D is actually a time loop. What you experience in “the past” is pretty much what you put your attention on now, and you project that reality into “the future,” and therefore you experience it over and over again.

So the structure of time is quite specific (and limiting) in the 3rd dimension, but your experience of time is quite different (and empowering) as you move into higher dimensions.

You see, in the earth experience now, we have access to both 3rd and 4th dimensional consciousness, but most of us rarely step out of the well-grooved habits of 3D thinking and feeling.

The 3rd dimension also offers no possibility of choice. We don’t choose our thoughts, feelings, and actions in every moment (that’s a skill of 4D and 5D), instead we react from unconscious beliefs and training to the people and situations that pop up in our space.

Duality provides another rigid structure for 3D experience. Up/down. Left/right. Should/shouldn’t. Since the fall of Atlantis 12,500 years ago, we have become very fearful as a way of life, and in that fear we have learned to narrowly define good and bad, right and wrong, etc. Unconscious judgment permeates 3D thinking.

Moreover, we perceive our 3D experience predominantly with the left hemisphere of the brain, home of the rational mind, and so we use only about 5 to 10 percent of the brain’s capacity to play the 3D game. Most of us suspect the rest of our brain must do something but have no idea what it actually does and how it functions.

In fact, what the rest of the brain enables us to do is function in the higher 4th and 5th dimensions, and beyond.

We Have Everything We Need

We already have the potential, all the necessary equipment and wiring, right now, to be fully conscious in all these dimensions.

But our habits of thinking and feeling, grooved over many lifetimes, dumbs us down and limit us to 3D experience. Our left-brain, rational mind only knows what it knows, and it doesn’t know what it doesn’t know. It works tirelessly to keep us within a thin range of objective 3D thinking and possibilities. And we, for the most part, have gone along for the ride. But no longer.

The increasing light energies and frequencies of the Shift are rewiring our brains to allow us access to a much wider range of information and possibility than is available in the 3rd dimension. These light energies are preparing us for 4D and 5D experience, even as they are clearing the rigid 3D “rules” from our consciousness.

So what is the 4th Dimension?

The “rules” of 4th dimensional consciousness provide an enhanced sense of ease, possibility, and capability than the structures of the 3rd dimension.

Time in 4D, for example, is always present time. The focus is only ever this moment, what is happening right now. Our bodies already know only this present time; they can’t know ‘yesterday’ or ‘tomorrow,’ and as conscious beings in our natural alignment in the higher 4th dimension, we function absolutely in this “Now” of present time awareness and attention. When our attention point becomes present time awareness, choice becomes possible again. We can observe any and all events with a sense of detachment, merely as information to consider, and from that still, uncluttered platform we are then, and only then, free to choose our response. In the higher 4th dimension we become response-able.

A concept and possibility known as paradox also becomes available in the present time of 4D consciousness.

Paradox simply means that what was true just a moment ago may not be true right now. And what was false a moment ago may no longer be false. Instead of applying rigid, pre-existing definitions to any experience, we choose our preferred version and vibration in every moment.

So as we move into 4D consciousness in present time, with the power of choice and response-ability, and the flexibility of paradox, the ability to alter the game to enhance our happiness and well being becomes available.

Interestingly, 4D consciousness will not be a long-term option after the Shift clears away the rigid structures of 3D consciousness.

The 4th dimension is serving as an essential, but short-lived, stepping stone or vibrational platform from which we will all move into 5th dimensional consciousness. 5D is the target for Earth and all her inhabitants. The archangels have said the entire consciousness of Earth will be a fifth dimensional consciousness by the year 2015.

But although the 5th dimension is the target, the experience of the 4th dimension is essential. We cannot enter 5D directly from 4D. All mental and emotional baggage from the 3rd dimension must be left at the door to the 4th dimension, and we can only enter the 5th dimension after we have become masterful of our thoughts and feelings in the 4th dimension.

Some assembly is required.

So what is the 5th Dimension?

The 5th dimension operates, to a great extent, in a completely differently fashion from the 3rd and 4th dimensions.

Time in 5D is instantaneous time, meaning that everything (all possibilities) occurs in the same place at the same moment. In 5D, you focus your attention and the answer or experience is given to you exactly when and where you focus.

Ask and you shall receive.

In 5D, you don’t have to move or go anywhere for your answers or experiences; everything comes to you easily and effortlessly based upon the attention point and vibration you choose to hold in every moment.

When you are vibrating in 5D consciousness, you don’t create with form as you do in the 3rd and 4th dimensions, you create with light and light patterns and light frequencies. You apply sound and color and geometric shapes. You consciously interact with the Creator and all the Beings of Light.

In this heightened consciousness, the rational mind plays a very minimal role. It returns to a small, specific focus it was intended to have, namely the well being of the physical body.

But before we can move into our vibrational home that is 5D consciousness, we must first become masterful of the vibrations and possibilities of 4D consciousness. This is the focus of the Shift for most people as we head into the ever-accelerating events of 2012.

So how do you become masterful in 4D consciousness?

The Tools of 4D Present Time

As I mentioned, 4D is the 'right now' of 'present time.' But present time actually has four different levels.

In 2010, we all stepped into the third level. As we move [into] 2012, we will step into the fourth, and final, level. In that level, when you think, ‘I would like an apple,’ the apple is going to appear in your hand. Usually when I say that people get very excited. And it is exciting. However … there is a however.

The vast majority of people on this planet are not prepared to be the masters of their every thought, feeling, and action in every moment. But there’s no option. It’s a required, baseline skill of higher 4D and 5D consciousness.

One of the reasons the 3rd dimension was created was to provide a “playground” in which we each can practice and hone the vibration of our thoughts and feelings. To accomplish this, the 3D playground has a time buffer. Instead of ‘instant manifestation’ there is a time lag between the thought we think and the manifestation or experience of that thought. For the most part, we are very sloppy with this buffer.

Instead of focusing on what we want, and allowing this to unfold over time, we spew anger, frustration, boredom, worry, anxiety, blame, guilt, fear - all kinds of lower, dis-harmonic thoughts and feelings. We behave as if we can think and feel anything with impunity because we do not see the instantaneous results of our thinking.

But no longer. As 3D linear time is collapsing into a single point of present time, the time buffer is collapsing too. We have less opportunity to practice being aware of our mental and emotional habits before what we think is what we get. This is a very big deal.

Fortunately, some simple energy tools can help you manage your thoughts and emotions in every moment so that you can be prepared for the unprecedented opportunity and challenge of living and creating in present time in the higher dimensions.
These basic energy tools are available for free on our website Mastering Alchemy. But let me explain a few of them here by way of example. Allow the Shift to clear your unconscious thoughts & feelings.

In simple terms, the Shift is using one wave of light frequencies to clear away who we are not, and another wave to remind us who we are. The Shift knows where we’ve stored unwanted, unconscious habits of thought and reactionary emotion, and the light is clearing all this from our vibration.

However, as these lesser thoughts and feelings are cleared, they will come into our awareness, and magnetize people and circumstances to us that mirror these chaotic energies. How do you handle these often-powerful energies when they appear. You allow them. If you can simply observe them with a sense of detachment as they come up – knowing that they are just coming up to be cleared - they will clear quickly, and you won’t even remember what the fuss was all about.

But if you grab hold and engage these chaotic thoughts and feelings, if you insist on feeling guilty or worrying, if you continue to argue that ‘I am not OK’ or ‘They are not OK,’ these energies will not be cleared from your space – and the Shift, as it accelerates ever faster, will become a very bumpy, very ‘not OK’ road for you.

Remember most often what comes up is not even yours; it does not belong to you. Acknowledge it and know that it’s coming up to be cleared… forever. Take a couple of deep breaths, go for a walk, listen to music -- but turn your attention point to something of a higher vibration.

Understanding the Lower and Higher 4th Dimension

To simplify another important aspect of the Shift, let’s imagine that the 4th dimension has just two parts to it – a lower 4th dimension and a higher 4th dimension. (This is not technically true, but it’s a useful distinction.)

As I mentioned, form will remain when 3D disappears. We’ll still experience houses and cars and trees. But fear, judgments, blame and guilt, the rights and the wrongs, will disappear. All this dense emotional energy, which is the only thing that prevents us from playing in the higher dimensions right now, will simply be cleared from our space.

However, depending upon the vibration of the thoughts you are thinking as 3D disappears, you will find yourself in either the lower 4th dimension or the higher 4th dimension.

The lower 4th dimension, which is also called the astral plane or dream space, holds all the thoughts ever thought by anyone in the 3rd dimension.

You see, thoughts don’t just disappear after we think them. They live on in the lower 4th dimension, with specific weight, texture, density and emotional charge. And they bond and cluster with all the other thoughts of similar character.

Some thoughts – such as rape, domination, slavery, war, hatred – feel heavy, dense and dark. Conversely, thoughts such as ‘butterflies,’ ‘children playing in the park,’ and ‘flowers blooming on a warm spring day’ feel light and have a simple, airy vibration. Lighter thoughts like these rarely linger in a 3D consciousness. Because in order to align and feel the vibration of, for example, ‘beauty,’ we must step out of 3D consciousness into present time, a higher 4th dimensional space.

Wait, you say, I know ‘Beauty!’ You do, because we’re now living in both the third and fourth dimensions simultaneously, but how often do you align yourself with, and linger on, the feeling of beauty?

It’s a 4D, present-time skill to take thoughts like ‘light,’ ‘airy’ and ‘beauty’ to heart. These vibrations don’t even exist in the hurry up, past/future of the 3rd dimension where it’s very difficult to pause in present time and smell a flower.

But, on the other hand, have you noticed that heavy, uncomfortable thoughts such as ‘I’m not good enough.’ or ‘They don’t like me.’ or ’I’m never going to succeed’ tend to linger quite a bit longer in 3D consciousness? This is because thoughts are electric and emotions are magnetic. A set of light, airy vibrations like ‘beauty’ or ‘graciousness’ has a low, soft, electrical charge that is expansive and fluid. Whereas heavier, uglier thoughts come highly charged and wrapped in highly magnetic emotions. These thoughts are not only harder to clear than kind, loving thoughts; they also bond magnetically to all other thoughts like them in the lower 4th dimension.

So much of the magnetic field we walk around in - I’m not OK, You’re not OK - has very little to do with who we really are. It’s just the magnetism of one heavy, unconscious thought attaching itself to the magnetism of similar heavy, unconscious thoughts.

You begin to see why it’s vital to become conscious of the thoughts you think and the emotions you throw into your vibrational mix.

Fortunately, the second wave of the Shift is making this easier and easier. As we let go of the heavier energies of Who We Are Not, the light is rewiring us, stepping us up into a higher 4th dimensional vibration where lesser thoughts and emotions are not such a distraction in our general experience.

We start to live in alignment with the heart, and experience the vibrations and consequences of concepts such as ‘I like me,’ ‘I’m happy,’ ‘I’m pleased with myself.’

The alignment with the heart becomes natural because it already is our natural alignment in the higher fourth, fifth and sixth dimensions.

However, some assembly is required.

Any limitations, judgments, denials, blame, guilt, or resentments that we each still argue for, in one way or the other, become like weights on a hot air balloon. They limit how far we can rise within the fourth dimensional range of vibration.

Each of us is 100 percent in charge of the process. The more weight - lower-vibrational patterns of words, thoughts, and emotions - we remove, the higher we rise into the expansive experience of the higher 4th dimension. Here, it is as if we look past the boundaries and limitations, which were always just a habit of observation in 3D. It’s a wider view, a calmer view, and a quieter view. In the upper 4th dimension, you can choose fear or worry, and drop into the lower 4th dimension… but you won’t.

As you begin to align with the heart, very naturally - ‘I Like Me’ - you’re going to find there’s no reason or compulsion to choose an uncomfortable attention point in the lower 4th dimension. It comes naturally and readily because it is the language and vibration of you’re natural well being - if you let it, and if you focus upon it.

It’s a choice.

As the shift accelerates and time collapses and everything is in the present moment, you could still choose your thoughts and feelings unconsciously, out of 3rd dimensional habit, and you would have the opportunity to live that discomfort immediately and fully in your experience.

Or you can choose your thought and emotion in every moment, with focus and awareness, and live the fullness of that experience.

In other words, it’s to your benefit to practice and integrate the ability to choose the contents of your consciousness right now, before it really counts - and that moment is not very far away.

It’s all up to you.

Until now, the center of your head, the place from where you can choose your thoughts and attention point, has been pre-occupied by the thoughts of others. Your Mom-Dad-Teacher-Minister loved you and had an opinion about the best way for you to live your life, and as their thoughts moved in to your head, “You” moved out.

Now it is time to take back ownership of the center of your head. As you recognize and let go of the unnatural thoughts that say, ‘Oh, I can’t do this’ and ‘I can’t do that’ and ‘I must do this,’ you’re going to find that soon all those thoughts, with their sticky interlocking connections in the lower 4th dimension, disappear.

Just putting your attention in present time on ‘beauty’ and ‘well-being‘, or just being ‘happy’ in a state of ‘ease‘, eliminates the lesser vibrations stored within the lower astral fields of the 4th dimension.

Start by playing with the vibration of what I call Living Words. The Archangels very deliberately and precisely selected these words - words such as Certain, Capable, Commanding, Present, Senior, Graciousness and Happy - so that you can most easily clear all the unconscious vibrations from your space.

Choose one word each day and live with it all day, think it and feel it often.

If you practice thinking and feeling these vibrations now, when it doesn ’t absolutely count, they will become your habit when it does count.

You begin to gracefully realign with the fullness of “You,” and your natural state of wellbeing lifts you into the higher 4th dimension.

Easy? Kind of.

Simple? Yes.

Does it require awareness and a choice from a present time space? Absolutely.

Can you sit on the sidelines and hope it all turns out? No.

Increased levels of electromagnetic light from the higher dimensions are now flowing within all of us. Many people in the 3rd dimension cannot handle this surge, and they are choosing to step out of their bodies.

And many, many more will follow as the Shift accelerates.

You see, everyone is going home to the 4th and then 5th dimensions, but not everyone is going home on the same timeline , and with the same ease and grace.

How do you choose?

Blessings,

Jim Self

In addition to the tools Jim offers, here's another one that I've found helpful: Ask yourself periodically throughout the day "Is this thought worthy of me?" If it is, yay! congratulate yourself and enjoy the moment. If you determine that a thought isn't worthy of you, simply let it go, knowing that such thoughts are coming up expressly so that they can be released. They won't be coming back. You control your mind, not vice versa, because You Are God Also .. and despite what it might look like in any moment in time, so is everyone else.

On a personal note, I want to thank you for being here on this planet at this time. You cannot, in your wildest imaginings, understand what an important role you play, and have been playing. Your contribution cannot be measured in terms that we are used to measuring things. You matter. You are worthy. You are powerful. You are love. It is both my pleasure and my honor to be a part of the blossoming of humanity along with you, opening to a whole new level of being. Together we are creating a beautiful, joyful, amazing new world, and for that I thank and appreciate each and every one of you.

-k