You sense that something big is happening on planet Earth these days.

Nbsp; A Gift…   From the Stars                 A humble offering of spiritual wisdom for your journey through the coming changes... from a friend of humanity       Thank you honoring and respecting the following request…     Copyright У 2008   All rights reserved. However, any part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any means and form whatsoever so long as it is not done for any commercial purposes.     For Spirit… Who taught me that the journey of Self-discovery brings all of life into question, and gave me answers when I was ready for them. For my children… May the Wisdom find its way into your hearts and light the path for both of you.       With Loving Gratitude   Every individual who journeys through life is touched by others who care. Realizing this, I would like to thank each of you who have spent some of your time at my side as I walked the path this lifetime around. Many of you are still here. Others have passed on. Either way, you know who you are.   With each passing day, I see more clearly how your presence in my life has served my spiritual growth in so many different ways. You have given a great deal of yourselves so that I may better understand who I really am and what I want to do with that profound knowledge. I truly hope that my being here has done the same for you. None of this happened by accident. All of it served a most important purpose. And in some magical way, our souls will join again as we play among the stars.   I would also like to thank those whose writings are referred to in various parts of this book. The wisdom they contain, as well as insights found in other books I’ve read over the years, have blended their way into many of my own thoughts. One thing is for sure: they have taken me deeper into my spiritual journey with a renewed sense of awe, commitment, and inspiration.     Contents     Author's Notes                                                                                                      vii Preface                                                             viii Introduction                                                                                                  1   PART I   1.   God                                                                                                             17 2.   Creation                                                                                               28 3.   Your Soul                                                                                              37 4.   Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?                                                           46 5.   Where Am I Going? The Fourth Dimension!                                          52 6.   Symptoms Of Inner Change                                                            62   PART II   7. Universal Truths                                                                               67 8. Reincarnation And Your Past Lives                                                        76 9. Soul Mates                                                                                             88 10. Twin Souls                                                                                                      92 11. The Masculine And Feminine Energies                                                      107 12. Ego And Relationships                                                                                112 13. Forgiveness – Our Most Important Lesson                                                  118   PART III   14. Extraterrestrials, Advanced Civilizations, And Humanity         121 15. Cosmic Cycles                                                                                              137 16. The Year 2012...and Beyond                                                                       143 17. Final Words: Something BIG Is Coming                                                     163   Bibliography                                                                                                           173 Back Cover                                                                                                 177         "The entire reason for your existence and purpose in life is to develop and evolve your consciousness so that you, it, and your soul become more God-like. In so doing, you will leave and then return to the Source from which you came time and time again. Since your Source is continually evolving without end, your evolution will go on for all of eternity."     ~ Excerpt from A Gift From the Stars     Author's Notes     The book you are about to read is a blend of spiritual wisdom I received from many remarkable sources over the past sixteen years. It also includes several factual experiences in my life that may add substance and meaning to your own inner journey. I have tried my best to weave all of it together in ways that are consistent with those Universal truths and insights which reflect God's love and guidance for us.   Throughout this book I often refer to God by different names, but rarely in the masculine form. I believe, as many others now do, that our Source is neither male nor female, but an equal blend of these two polarities of energy and consciousness. For thousands of years the feminine has been suppressed and considered inferior to and weaker than the masculine. That illusion is rapidly coming to an end. And rightfully so.   I also express the word, Earth, with a capital "E." My reason is simple. I consider Earth Mother a very sacred part of my life. The creation of my physical body would not have been possible were it not for the gifts She gave to my mother and father, who merged them into oneness with their love and brought me into this world.   The dawning Age of Aquarius will be a time of sharing between mankind. It will also be a time when we truly learn to honor and respect Earth Mother and all of her splendid creations. I want to be a part of that sacred way of life.     Preface     You are about to embark on a mystical journey of expanded awareness, if you are ready for it. My sole purpose, my fondest wish, is to inspire thought, feeling, and a sense of wonder about some very important and fundamental questions that go to the very core of human purpose and existence.   You might say that these questions belong to the philosophers, the mystics. I assure you they do not. Sooner or later, this lifetime or next, each and every one of us will not only ask them, but will search for their answers with a passion you never thought possible.   What are the magical questions that mankind has been contemplating over the ages? Here are the most important ones: Who am I really? What am I doing here on this planet? What is my real purpose in life? Where did I come from? Am I more than my body? Have I been here before? Where am I going? Is there other life out there in the Universe? And the most important of all: Who and what is God?   Several more questions can be added to those already asked: Did I come to planet Earth with a plan, an agenda? What is the real purpose of relationships? How do relationships, soul mates, and twin souls play a role in my life? What are the profound changes taking place on planet Earth these days as we approach the year 2012 and beyond? Where will these profound changes take me and the rest of humanity in the years to come?   You will also discover that it is impossible to thoroughly answer all of these questions, awaken to your true divine nature, and complete your cosmic destiny in a single lifetime. But one has to begin in earnest somewhere. And I promise that you will never be the same once the quest for Truth and Wisdom begins in earnest.   As you wander through the pages of this book, it would help a great deal if you bring an open mind to them. Just as importantly, you have to be ready for the wisdom they contain. Then, when all is said and done, take what you read and feel to the heart and listen to what it says. It will never lie to you.   Once again, my thoughts are only meant to inspire a sense of wonder, not to force the reader into adopting a specific point of view, or way to be in one’s life. What you choose to do with this information is totally up to you. As it should be.   Today many find themselves on the inner journey of Self-discovery for many different reasons, and in many different ways. Some have done so because of severe pain and suffering they experienced as a result of unexpected crises that came into their lives. These kinds of traumatic events served as priceless opportunities that brought them to an expanded state of divine awareness, a greater sense of who they really are, and what they are doing here. I am one of them, and I'd like to share what I've learned with you.     Introduction "You cannot hope to grow spiritually unless you are prepared to change. Those changes may come in small ways to begin with, but as you move further and further into the new, they will become more drastic and vital. Sometimes it needs a complete upheaval to bring about a new way of life." ~ Given to Eileen Caddy by God Flight into Freedom   I remember the moment as though it were yesterday. The memory has softened but not faded. In the spring of 1985, the first of many unexpected crises that would last for thirteen long years appeared out of nowhere and changed the entire course of my life. The pain and suffering they caused altered my reality and how I viewed life in ways I never thought possible.   It took an awful lot to wake me up and move me in the direction of Self-discovery. Before it all started I was reasonably comfortable with life. Things were going well, real well. I was able to plan and build for the future. A successful and rewarding career, the excitement of a pending divisional vice-presidency in a multinational health and consumer care products corporation, a nice home in the country, a healthy annuity, the joy my children gave me, a loving mother for those children, my love affair with the sea, and a wonderful family circle were tempering the effects of a gradually softening marriage. Overall, I considered myself very fortunate and could easily have spent the rest of my life that way.   Then "it" happened, storming out of nowhere and catching me totally by surprise.   The unexpected drama that took me down a completely different road in life began in 1985 when the company I worked for in the Northeast was acquired by an industry giant from the Midwest. Just a bump on the road that I would be able to right over time I thought. I had survived these kinds of professional challenges before, and this would be no different.   At the time, I could not foresee how that singular event would serve as a tipping point for all the fears, suffering, and change that I would experience and feel for years to come. The suffocating heaviness and apprehension it began to create threatened the security I had built for my family and myself after many years of hard work and success in the corporate world. As much as I refused to accept it, life just didn't feel as stable and predictable as it once had.   Over the next few years each new day brought a troubling mix of anxiety and hope because of the consuming uncertainty that corporate takeovers create. I did not fear losing my job. On the contrary, I connected very quickly with the new top management and was given more responsibilities because of it. But that was offset by the knowledge that all future career growth could only be achieved through a move to one of the parent company's many domestic or international sites. And that meant tearing down one's world and rebuilding it elsewhere, perhaps several times. I didn't want that for my family, nor did they.   The new corporate culture and the energy it created were quite different than the one that I had grown used to and came to love over the years. The wonderful family-run atmosphere and the spirit of camaraderie and caring that once existed were replaced with an overbearing largeness and impersonal management style of the controlling corporation. It made one feel like a pawn and a commodity rather than a cherished employee. Slowly but surely the spirit of the original company began to dissipate as it gave way to the new. And it was heartbreaking to see that happen.   After the acquisition, corporate credibility was continuously compromised by mistrust every time regular pronouncements were made by management that our Northeast location was secure and would not change. But the personnel moves and other organizational changes made by the deciders in the Midwest suggested otherwise.   A new power structure was in place that would determine where we go, what we do professionally, and where our families were required to live so long as the corporate interests were served. If you did not fall on their sword when requested, your career was in jeopardy or over. If you blindly served their wishes, retirement with a golden spoon in your mouth was the eventual reward.   Every day became a grind. Periodically, someone would accept a change in position elsewhere in the company. Others left entirely. For those who remained, fear, apprehension, distrust, and uncertainty intensified every time that happened.   The people I was administratively responsible for would beat a constant path to my office door, stop me in the hallways or join me for lunch asking if any new information had emerged that would threaten their careers, home life, or buyouts. They hung on my every word. I felt terrible because I truly cared for them, but had no answers to offer that would give them a sense of hope and peace. Only the highest echelons of power knew when the axe of change would fall. And, for many, including myself, change translated into fear of the unknown.   As the months wore on, I would get up in the morning, sit on the side of my bed, hold my head in my hands, and try to muster up enough energy and enthusiasm to go through another day at work. Each weekend was a blessing, which provided a brief respite from the suffocating energy of doubt and uncertainty that began all over again the following Monday.   I often found myself drifting back and forth between feelings of despair and optimism. Although I was well-respected by top management of the parent company, my intuition kept reminding me that something in the background of life was not working. More than anything this bothered me the most. The confusion it created played constant havoc with my emotions. One moment I believed that life was still manageable, still salvageable. The next moment my instincts were telling me that my ability to survive and prosper as well as I once had was seriously being threatened.   In the fall of 1988, I was asked to move to corporate headquarters, complete with significantly expanded responsibilities. Three years after the acquisition occurred the moment of truth and reckoning had come for me.   I declined the offer to relocate because of my son's challenge with dyslexia while attending elementary school. There was no way I would run off and not support him, especially while he was repeating the same grade that particular year. Nor did I want to leave my family behind to work elsewhere. The only other alternative was equally unacceptable. My wife and I did not want to risk moving our son from school and his support group to attend a new one half way across the country after the academic year had already started.   I explained this dilemma to management and was unceremoniously terminated soon thereafter.   My severance meeting lasted all but a minute or two. Strictly business, indifferent, no explanations, just a short, cold pronouncement that I was to leave. The complete opposite of the original company. I was then escorted to Human Resources for a standard exit interview that was devoid of any genuine feeling or compassion. My benefits and the like were explained to me as though it were a heartless, robotic exercise.   Not a minute was wasted when the final insult came. After Human Resources had their way with me, I was marched out a back door by security without being given the opportunity to visit my office and collect my personal belongings. Most hurtful of all was that I could not say goodbye to my people, and thank them for all of their good work and the friendships that we had developed over the past sixteen years.   I walked to my car, got in, drove away, and never looked back. On the one hand I felt a huge relief to be out of that oppressive drama. On the other, I knew things would not be as secure as they had been for many years. And I'm not ashamed to admit that I was extremely uncomfortable with my income being threatened that way and the many fears that it created.   While driving home, I realized that it would be very difficult to find a new job at that point. I was painfully aware that unemployment would be awkward to explain to prospective employers in spite of my telling the truth. On the surface, it appeared that I was terminated for lack of performance and that the parent company had no place for me.   Most importantly, after the acquisition was completed I was legally constrained by a two-year non-compete agreement, which all top managers were compelled to sign on a regular basis. Uncommon for our industry, it was one that was vigorously enforced all the way to court if necessary. And, because of all the information I was exposed to across several different corporate profit centers, I was privy to a great deal of the parent company's business and research and development plans. Other companies were quite aware of this aggressive, non-compete policy, as were the headhunters, and that raised all kinds of caution flags for them.   Finally, wanting to be close to my son while he completed his ongoing school year, I found myself geographically limited within the job market. Living in the southern part of New England was quite a distance from many potential employers.   For the first time in my life, I felt professionally compromised, threatened, and alarmed. I was clearly boxed in by these circumstances. And I knew it.   I continually reminded myself that things hadn't gotten out of control yet. Somehow I managed to pull myself together, prayed to God, took a deep breath, and tried to bring a renewed sense of energy to my direction in life. That always worked before, and I was confidant things would magically fall into place as they had in the past. And as a caring, responsible head of household, I wanted so badly for life as it was to be preserved for my family's sake.

After several months of trying, it was plain to see that I was not having much success with the efforts of well-intentioned headhunters, who began to slowly distance themselves from me.

Thoroughly disenchanted with corporate life, I decided to step aside from the pharmaceutical industry in early 1989. It happened unexpectedly when a cousin-in-law, whom I was very close to, had an opportunity to buy a small, successful construction company that he worked for in New York City. In fact, because of his vast expertise, he had become the company. Their main client was Rockefeller Center where the business was located. We purchased the company with a passive third partner, who owned and operated another business in the same building.

 

Our new company more than doubled in sales in less than two years. I was beginning to feel comfortable and secure again. Life held promise professionally, and it carried over into my personal life. Although I initially brought home less salary, I could still provide for my family, maintain the status quo they had grown used to and enjoyed, and preserve the healthy annuity I had accumulated after many years of work.

 

However, towards the end of 1990 two things happened that shook my world again. I began to feel very uncomfortable with the moral challenges of doing business in the city. In addition the new business promised by our passive partner to supplement his income did not materialize. We soon realized that our company was not large enough to financially support three equal partners. Ultimately, I chose to leave so that my cousin would have a chance to succeed, which he eventually did.

 

As I unwound myself from the business over the next several months, my state of mind began to suffer a great deal. The four-hour round trip commute to work was no longer bearable, and began to wear on me a great deal. More often than not I found myself walking to Saint Patrick's Cathedral several times a day to pray, to cry, to hold myself together, and to deal with fear of the unknown again.

 

I had never known dread like that before in my life. Nothing was working regardless of how hard I tried. I was only fifty years of age, and knew that re-entering the pharmaceutical industry would be very difficult. Leaving another company so soon with a revised resume that would do nothing but raise eyebrows of concern was not good. I sensed that I was losing control over my life. And I was deeply concerned for my family who was connected to it.

 

A month or so before I left the company the strangest thing happened. I came home from work one evening consumed with morbid worry about future employment. As the night wore on and the children were tucked into bed, I lay down to sleep, but could not do so after an hour or so of constant tossing and turning. My wife lay peacefully next to me, deep in slumber.

 

As I twisted and agonized in the dark, the seizure of worry and fear became so intense I began to wonder if I was going to have a nervous breakdown. My mind and the body it was connected to felt like they were literally coming apart. It kept feeding and building on itself as wave after wave of apprehension and anxiety washed through me. This was far more threatening than a panic attack, several of which I had already experienced years before.

 

I couldn't stand it any longer. I went outside to breathe some fresh night air, which didn't help. I then went in and sat by the side of my children as they slept hoping it would calm me down. It had no effect. Resigned to hopelessness, I went back to bed. The swirling inside my head became worse. There was no more strength in me. I stopped fighting expecting right then and there that I would break down and completely lose my mind. Words cannot describe how terrifying that moment was.

 

The battle for my sanity finally came to an end. I could hold on no longer. Silently, I said goodbye to my children, my wife and our dog, after expressing my deep love for them. Tears flowed. I started to pray. I felt myself drifting into an unknown darkness, but could not stop it.

 

About 15 seconds later, a bolt of indescribable energy entered the bottom of my feet and swept its way to the top of my head in what seemed like less than a second. The best way I can describe the surge of energy is that it felt like a rush of high voltage electricity, but one that was not harmful to me. On the contrary, in the blink of an eye I was completely healed and mentally rebalanced. Before I had a chance to question what had happened, I fell peacefully asleep.

 

The next morning I literally felt like Superman, mentally and physically. It was an exalted feeling that lasted for about one month. Most importantly, I knew that an otherworldly "something" had intervened in my life, which gave me momentary hope. Today, when I look back on that experience, that "something" wanted me to stick around in spite of all that would unfold over the next seven years.

 

A month or two passed. I was now at home without a job and the steady paychecks that go with it. The summer of 1991 was unfolding. I had gotten over some of my worst fears thanks to loving support from family and friends, and regular visits to a local grotto where I prayed. With a healthy annuity in the bank and substantial equity in my home, I could support my family and maintain our current home life for five years if I was forced to do so. Then the money, and all the security it buys, would run dry, and we'd be out on the street. I also had some funds put away that would see us through the next several months while I regrouped.

 

During that time, I could not let go of the realization that I seemed to be losing control over my destiny in life in spite of my education, abilities, and the willingness to work hard for what I wanted. Like a dark, menacing cloud hanging over my head, that sobering awareness kept following me around no matter where I went or what I did to distract it. Equally alarming, I kept wondering what was I going to do to earn money and provide security for my family and myself over the coming years.

 

When I thought my crisis had reached full strength, I fell to my knees one day during the summer of 1991. I was in a local grotto at the time, which I visited quite often to find some peace and comfort. I prayed to God for answers, for guidance, for life to make sense again, for the way I wanted it to be, and for an end to the suffering and pain I was feeling. When I finished with my pleadings, and with tears running down my cheeks, I repeated over and over some of the most powerful words one can say, "God help me!"

 

From that point forward, my life was supposed to get better. I expected to find employment so that I could pay the bills and feel professionally fulfilled after spending ten years in college, finishing with a PhD degree in the Sciences, to prepare myself for a satisfying career. I also expected to provide for my family, preserve the comfortable life we were very fortunate to have, protect my substantial savings, remain married, pay for the children's education and my daughter's wedding, keep the house, the cars, the boat, the comforts, and all the trimmings that went with it!

 

What I did not realize at the time is that after asking God for help I should have put my seatbelt on and let go of all expectations. My agenda and God's agenda was not on the same page. Later in life I would read the insightful words of author, Carolyn Myss: "You know how to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans."

 

The next seven years would unfold in ways I never could have anticipated or thought possible. At that point in my life, synchronistic events began to occur that were totally unexpected. Looking back, this was truly the turning point that would lead to a whole new way of being.

 

The first and most important life-changing experience occurred during August of 1991 when my sister mailed me a New Age/metaphysical book to read called Seth Speaks. She hoped it would settle me down and take my mind off things. Even though the words, "New Age," were completely foreign to me at that time, I decided to give it a try.

 

When I received the book, I turned it over and began to read the back cover:

 

"Seth is a personality, an essence, an intelligence no longer focused in physical reality, who has communicated with our world through writer Jane Roberts. During her trancelike states, Seth has revealed to Roberts startling secrets of life, death, the universe beyond the five senses and an amazing potential within us that is just waiting to be tapped."

 

It went on to say:

 

"This astonishing book is a chronicle of Seth's thoughts and beliefs, written exactly as Seth dictated it. Seth reveals: what to expect immediately after death, how to glimpse into past lives and ways to contact friends and relatives who have died. Seth also reveals the truth about out-of-body experiences and astral projection, and how our daydreams and unfulfilled impulses do in fact take place, and our unfulfilled impulses really are satisfied. He tells who Christ really was and what really happened on Calvary. He identifies the three lost civilizations that preceded Atlantis, and much more. Join Seth on a fascinating journey toward a new and greater awareness."

 

On the surface, these strange words and far out concepts were totally new to me. For most people, this was twilight zone, mumbo jumbo talk. I wondered how such a book could possibly calm the anguish I continued to feel because of my unemployment. How was I going to find a job and pay the bills with this information!

 

I could not appreciate it at the time, but Seth's penetrating words of wisdom and loving insights were to be translated into many different languages. The books he dictated through author Jane Roberts would subsequently go on to sell millions of copies all over the world. And in years to come, the reams of hand-written notes that documented his wisdom would eventually be archived at Yale University.

 

As I read the book, a dormant "knowingness" deep inside me began to stir and awaken; one I never knew existed before. It was a very profound experience and one that I was totally unprepared for. Even though the concepts and teachings in this book felt new at first, the ease with which I understood and accepted them was truly bewildering. In fact they felt strangely familiar. It seemed that another part of me had been sleeping for a long, long time. And it wanted nothing more than to open its eyes and be set free again by the truths I was taking in. Seth's words did exactly that and more. What was going on here?

 

In spite of the thrill I experienced while reading this remarkable book, I still continued to worry. One evening the anxiety of unemployed life found its way again into my world again, and overwhelmed me while trying to fall asleep. As was often the case, I lay there tossing, turning, and agonizing over what to do with my professional life.

At one point I lay on my back with my eyes closed. All of a sudden, there was an unmistakable electrical buzzing sound in my head about an inch in from my right temple. It was concentrated in that spot as though a small pea-sized object had been placed in that area. The buzzing was immediately followed by a gentle voice in my head that said, "Don't worry. Everything will be okay."

 

At first I assumed that my mind was playing tricks on me. Intrigued, I silently repeated these same words several times, and moved my hand to the area of my head where it seemed to occur. It was my forehead, not my temple.

 

For a second time, the buzzing announced its presence in the same place that it had originally appeared. The same words were repeated in a very calm and peaceful way, "Don't worry. Everything will be okay." After hearing them again I was quite sure that those words had a different quality than the ones I silently spoke to myself moments earlier.

 

I immediately asked, "Who is this?" The answer in my head was instantaneous, "I am." I kept repeating "I am" to myself trying to understand what those two words meant, but could not. Strung together it almost sounded Middle Eastern to me. A minute or so later I fell peacefully asleep wondering who "I am" was.

 

Early next morning, when all was quiet, I was sitting on the back porch with our dog, Daisy, resting peacefully at my feet. I thought about life for a while and then opened the second New Age book I had recently bought. I didn't read more than a few lines when, seemingly out of nowhere, the words, "I Am," appeared in one of the sentences on the page I was taking in. In complete shock, I saw that those two simple words were used in reference to God!

 

Stunned and astonished, I put the book down and reflected on the surreal experience I had the night before. Tears flowed as I realized once again that an unforeseen, all-loving God expressed compassion and concern for me through another mystical contact.

 

As would happen from time to time, my spirits were lifted by these kinds of otherworldly episodes that would momentarily give me reason for hope. The feelings of love and comfort they created would co-exist with thoughts of fear, doubt, worry, and pain, as part of a repeating theme that would go on for years to come. And yet all of these emotions blended together and pushed me towards a better understanding of who I really am, what life is really about, and what my purpose is on this planet. It was as though answers to these and other questions would somehow ease the suffering a bit, and bring with it a sense of inner peace. Gradually it did. I could not appreciate it at that point in my life, but God was responding to my request for help in ways I could not understand.

 

Once I started, I continued reading more and more alternative-minded books with a hunger I just couldn't seem to satisfy. And they were a welcome distraction at the time. Over the years I've read well over four hundred of them, and am still amazed at the truth, wisdom and information they contain. Each succeeding book brought with it greater inner change, and I found myself viewing the world around me in a totally new and different way. I was going through an intense spiritual awakening, and it was the most exciting experience of my life.

 

Incredibly, as I began to awaken to who I really am, I found myself in more crisis and upheaval. Now it was my inner world that was coming apart and being rewired in ways than I could barely comprehend and keep up with. The spiritual wisdom and Universal truths that these books contained were seriously threatening the ego part of my mind and the many false beliefs it had created for me over the years.

 

And what were some of the false beliefs I had plugged myself into during that time? You know. The rat race to survive in a materialistic world. Getting ahead. The American dream. The sense of security and happiness that money can bring, and what one can accumulate with it. Financial independence will set you free. Expectations from a partner while in relationship or marriage. When you fall in love and get married, it will last forever. Divorce was unthinkable no matter how bad the union had become. That men weren't supposed to cry or show emotions. Women are the homemakers, men work. Anxieties and guilt from fear-based religious dogmas. That I have one life to get it right or I go to hell. That God is in heaven separated from me. Sex outside of marriage is dirty; it's a sin. Confess it. Fear God. That my government never lies. Believe our military when it denies the existence of UFOs. Native Americans were the bad guys; white men the good guys. And many other misguided notions that had become second nature to me.

 

For sure, my life started to change dramatically, as I began to see through the illusion of these and other false beliefs, while simultaneously replacing them with higher truths and insights that felt right in the heart. It was as though a veil of confusion and misinformation was being lifted and I found myself shifting from life "A" to life "B."

 

While my inner world was being turned inside out and upside down, the one outside of me, the external world I placed so much emphasis on, also started coming apart after asking for God's help in 1991. It took seven years to unfold and had a hurtful effect on my family and devastating one on me. Needless to say, it was totally unexpected. As I saw things, it was not supposed to happen that way. Surely, God had it all wrong, and was making a big mistake with my life!

Over the ensuing years I tried to find work as a consultant. Every time I reached out to various companies or into my network of friends I'd pray to God and wait for the phone to ring. Nothing would happen. I'd get depressed. My only source of comfort and security were the New Age books I would read. I'd have three or four of them going at the same time. For the first time in my life I was beginning to have a feel for what God is about. And I found a great deal of comfort in it.

 

When I least expected it, my phone would ring to provide consulting services. However, the company contact, friend, or headhunter who called was not someone I tried to connect with on my own. They simply appeared "out of the blue." I would often wonder about these experiences because of their unexpected nature. What was going on here? Was a Higher source trying to teach me to depend on It; to co-create with It rather than trying to do things entirely on my own?

 

The consulting services I provided for various companies would almost always lead to a greater role with expanded responsibilities. While working for a large natural products company, I was asked to serve as an interim Vice President of Research & Development. This effort eventually turned into an offer to serve as Chief Operating Officer, and then Chief Executive Officer for the North American operations. I also served as a Chief Executive Officer of an upstart biotech company after consulting with them for several months. At another company, I was offered a Vice-Presidency in a well-known, multinational pharmaceutical company not long after doing some consulting projects for them.

 

Interestingly, all of the opportunities that materialized to preserve the status quo of life would somehow "blow up" in my face unexpectedly and ended prematurely for various reasons that would astound me. Something would mysteriously come out of left field and abruptly end the promise of a career starting over again, including the income and security that came with it.

 

Each of these letdowns had nothing to do with my abilities or quality of performance. It just seemed that an outside force was continually sending me the same message: "You are not going down this career path again. Full-time, corporate-world employment is not the right journey for this part of your life."

 

The emotional disappointments, the hurts, and the ongoing shocks to my self-esteem and confidence were starting to pile up inside me. I'd have to explain these "failures" to my family. Each time I did so the pain and suffering increased. And I would read my spiritual books with greater passion. I wanted answers. What was happening to me?

 

I was not employed full-time while providing consulting services. For the most part, everything was done on a part-time basis, and the income I derived from it was never enough to support the way of life my family and I were used to. We didn't live lavishly. Rather, it was a comfortable lifestyle with a touch of simplicity to it. Nevertheless, I began to draw on my annuity in order to maintain it. This translated into serious tax consequences because of the early withdrawal penalties associated with pre-tax savings. My nest egg began to shrink and my fears increased every time it did.

 

Somehow I always felt that things would work out because I prayed to God so often for help. Sooner or later I'd get lucky and things would right themselves financially. But they didn't. Over time my consulting income began to dry up. Nothing I did to sustain it worked. And I found myself drawing more and more on my reserve of savings. Eventually, I began to draw on the equity in our home. I was sick to my stomach.

 

While consulting, I also explored different scenarios for income and considered many different options for employment. These included downsizing our lifestyle, buying a small business, starting one, relocating, and on and on. Nothing fit or felt like a solution. In the end, we stayed put always hoping for a big break.

 

From 1996 to the end of 1998, the passage of crises and hardships intensified, and picked up pace to such a degree that I found myself reaching out to God in ways I never thought possible. I did this to hold onto my sanity and to prevent myself from slipping into a state of permanent hopelessness and despair. This was uncharted territory for me and I'm not ashamed to admit that I was scared. For the first time, it seemed that no matter what I did or how hard I tried to preserve the status quo I had lost control of my life. One thing was certain. Nothing worked anymore.

 

There I was. My external world was falling apart all around me while at the same time my inner world was being turned inside out and upside down. At the same time I was losing all sense and feeling for the rhythms, patterns, and routines of every day, ordinary living. All of it had defined who I thought I was for most of my life and the entire structured world I once knew was dissolving away before my very eyes. It was as though I was still in the world, but with each new day less and less of that world was within me. It was a painful, sordid mess.

 

No matter how hard I tried I gradually lost control of my professional and personal life. Everything that worked in the past to ensure survival and provide a generous income for my family failed miserably time and time again. My indomitable spirit was breaking and I began to lose heart. I was crying now on a daily basis. Regardless of what I did it felt as though something else was guiding my destiny, and it was determined to take me down a different path that needed to be followed for some unknown reason. Eventually, the entire experience shattered the way of life I had known and enjoyed for so many years. I assure you, breaking that mold was a very painful process.

 

Crises can come in different forms any one of which can bring on pain, suffering, and if severe enough, the real threat of mental and physical breakdown. Financial ruin, major decisions going wrong, a hurtful divorce, loss of one's home, the break-up of family life, business failures, the collapse of one's career, lack of employment, loss of control over one's life, runaway debt, back taxes unpaid, qualifying for bankruptcy, lack of purpose and fulfillment, profound loneliness and despair, years of intense depression, loss of confidence and self-esteem, loss of identity, destitute, borrowing from family for one's daily needs or any combination of the above can seriously ravage one's mind and emotional stability. I've experienced all of these things over a thirteen-year period and each was more than enough to get my undivided attention. When added together in such a short period of time, the collective weight of it all suffocated me, became unbearable, and brought me to the point where it was extremely difficult to function normally in everyday reality.

 

I often cried for my family's hurt, their confusion, and the pain I know they went through during their quiet moments. After all, they had always depended upon me for the stability and security I brought into their lives, and I truly enjoyed providing those things for them. Although I did my best to hide it, especially in front of the children, the weight of it all gradually crushed my spirit and shattered my psyche into many pieces.

 

There were times I felt a complete mental breakdown coming on that would finally put an end to my everyday reality and the pain and anguish that went with it. Whenever that happened, I would simply lie down on a bed behind closed doors and helplessly wait for it to begin. It never did. Somehow a little something from God would find its way into my life to gently pick me up, dust me off, pat me on the back, and keep me on the path. Then I would weep in the silence of my space because I knew that God loved me.

 

As I questioned why these things were happening to me, I prayed to God with greater passion and intensity. In the process, I continued to experience an extremely profound and radical spiritual awakening, for which I was totally unprepared. And yet it had a miraculous effect on me. For the first time in my life, amidst all the personal torment and upheaval, I began to discover who I really am, what I'm doing here on planet Earth, and more importantly, who I really want to be. Most importantly I fell deeply in love with God. In spite of all the pain and suffering, life gradually began to make some much needed sense.

There was nothing gentle or subtle about my transformation and the inner journey of discovery it created for me. It has been a powerful, complete, radical, expansive, and breathtaking experience that has touched and embraced my soul in a very deep and profound way. In its wake, the "me" I once knew has been thoroughly rearranged and it will never be the same again. It is irreversible. I've awakened. And it feels right.

 

I shared this part of my life with you for good reason, but I am not the real story here. What happened to me is nothing more than a small but very real example of what is, and most likely will be taking place, all over planet Earth in the coming days.

 

Today many individuals are experiencing some form of trials and upheavals in their lives as I did. The very foundations of their world are shaking and giving way as unexpected events and circumstances suddenly challenge their way of life and the false beliefs associated with it. In many instances, it has created a great deal of conflict, change, fear, pain and anxiety. But that is exactly what it is meant to do. Then and only then will we have the opportunity to turn within and discover who we really are.

 

As we race past the start of a new millennium, the winds of change are blowing harder than ever in the face of mankind. As we lean into this gathering storm of upheaval and transformation, humanity is finding itself at a crossroads that has never been reached before. More than six and a half billion people have come to experience life on this once magnificent planet, and it is literally dying to meet the greed and needs that stem from far too many of them.

 

Although some good things are emerging in our world today, our celestial home is in trouble. Big trouble. It is no longer the secure and stable place many have dreamed it would be. We are at a turning point unlike all others. Humanity has reached a time of choosing. And there is precious little time left to do so.

 

As you read these words, we find ourselves in a twilight zone between the fading Age of Pisces, which has endured for some 2160 years and the birthing Age of Aquarius. We are caught in the tension and friction of their conflicting energies and influences. Individuals, couples, relationships, fear-based institutions, and the like are being challenged, and everyone and everything is being affected by it. There is no place to hide from what is coming.

 

Aquarius, with its penchant for honesty and truth, will bring our fears and the questions about human existence to the surface. In so doing, we will be given the opportunity to discover who we really are and what we want to do with that awesome knowledge. Then and only then will we be able to enter into and experience the fullness of this New Age, whatever and wherever it might be.

Navigating our way through these turbulent and fluid times, both economically and socially, and the unsettled feelings accompanying them, will be a challenge for everyone. Sooner or later all will be affected. As with any birth, there will be the pains of labor before the joy of what has been born among us can be fully appreciated.

 

Just one thing, and only one thing, can help us travel through these times, soften the pains of birth, and intensify our ultimate joy: Our reconnection with the divine and the God-centeredness that comes from it. To help achieve that state of awareness and being, we need to contemplate and answer as best as possible the questions posed in the opening words of this Introduction.

 

I humbly offer my perspectives and insights to help you do so.

 

 

PART I

 

 

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God

"What you call God is the sum of all consciousnesses, and yet the whole is more than the sum of Its parts. God is more than the sum of all personalities [souls], and yet all personalities are what He is."

 

~ Jane Roberts

The Seth Material

 

We will never be able to define or fully comprehend all that God is. Our Source is simply too vast, too enormous an intelligence, and much too infinite in makeup and design for our limited minds to take in and understand.

 

As you will see in the coming pages, describing God is impossible and always will be. Why? Because All That Is is constantly evolving and becoming a greater and grander version of Itself, just as we are. What God was the moment you started reading this sentence is different than what Father/Mother has become by the time you've finished it.

 

What we can do, by divine design, is get a "feel" for our Creator, a sense of who our Source is and what role our all-loving God plays in our existence. In fact, it is easier and far more rewarding and exhilarating to experience and feel God than to define All That Is. A good analogy for this would be to first read the definition of love in a dictionary, and then compare that experience to the profound feelings one has when actually falling in love.

 

Allow me to begin by describing what I believe God is not. That's a lot easier place to start from.

 

I was born into Catholicism in 1941. Within days of my first breath, I was quickly baptized to remove the stigma of original sin that my "impure" physical form and soul brought forth into this world.

 

Like so many other loving parents who meant well for their children, I grew up in typical Christian fashion. My parents were balanced about it, but the "Catholic system" I entered was not. Parochial school, Catechism classes, Confirmation, Sunday mass, mortal sins, venial sins, countless confessions, meatless Fridays, fasting, communion, an unyielding "God" who judges us, eternal damnation in hell for practicing birth control, missing mass on Sunday, divorce, sins of the flesh, and a host of others too numerous to mention. In spite of all these do's and don'ts, I was far from saintly. And as I matured into an adult, my religious mind-set was one of guilt, confusion, and disbelief that was not brought on by my parents, but the religious institutions that were part of my formative years.

 

The older I got the more I began to think for myself. This led to more questions. It really crystallized for me one day while attending undergraduate courses at a Jesuit University in the Midwest. At one point I decided to ask the priest who was teaching a theology class the following question: "Would I be sent to hell for going to mass every Monday of the week instead of every Sunday?" I never received a straight-forward answer to that question and my doubts and suspicions continued to multiply.

 

From that point forward, the religious dogmas and practices that had conditioned my innocent mind at an early age made less and less sense to me. The only thing that felt right was Jesus and His words of wisdom, compassion, love, and forgiveness.

 

Jesus' father, our supposed "God," was a stern and often-times angry and fearful old man sitting on a throne judging what to do with all the Earthly souls who had taken their final breaths. Those who passed his test would go to paradise, while others less fortunate would burn in hell for eternity. In-betweeners were sent to mysterious places such as purgatory and limbo. The Church would gladly intercede and reduce the amount of time a departed soul would spend in these dubious places of purification after receiving donations from their parishioners. And where was God's home? Somewhere in the heavens far away and very separate from me.

 

In Biblical teachings, "God" was also someone who got angry, started wars, was jealous, singled out the Jews as his Chosen People, brought floods, famine, plagues of gnats, reptiles, locusts, hail, and other hardships on his children. He also demanded that living things such as baby lambs and doves be killed and offered as blind sacrifices of worship and faith to him. And on and on.

 

Incredibly, the Torah, which is the most important document in Judaism, actually describes how "God" went through Egypt killing the firstborn children of the Egyptians because the Pharaoh would not free Israeli slaves in his possession. At the same time, he passed over the houses of faithful Israelites and spared their children the same kind of death. This is the origin of the Passover feast, which is celebrated to this day.

 

And how did these godly misconceptions begin? Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, the Old Testament of the Bible was first put into written form. It was based upon word-of-mouth teachings that had existed among the ancient Hebrews for many generations. Up through modern times it has always been steadfastly believed and dogmatically enforced that the origin, inspiration and words for the Bible came directly from God. For many believers it is the infallible truth and should not be questioned.

 

This is exactly where it comes apart and breaks down for me. The fear-based descriptions of God described above can be found in any Bible, which is the cornerstone for Christian religion. When I bring them to the heart, my ultimate source for filtering and measuring truth, something is seriously wrong. It doesn't feel right nor does it resonate with the highest thought I can have, which is love. On the contrary, it smacks of agenda, control, and the use of fear-based, patriarchal manipulation with a self-serving agenda at its core.

 

Historically, we have cast our idea of a cruel and judgmental god in our own image and personalized him. Over the centuries those who self-proclaim infallibility in the Vatican built a worldwide religion around this core belief. It has been this way for several thousand years. All of that is changing rapidly, and will continue to do so in dramatic fashion, especially while the masterful Pope Francis has his way.

 

Although the fearful dogmas and doctrines of these self-serving, religious organizations will eventually die out, our belief in God will not. Blind faith in what God is and does will no longer work for many disappointed followers who find themselves in organized religions. Rather, these disillusioned souls will seek to know God by searching for the truth. And they will discover it in their hearts.

 

For years, I was lost in this maize of religious contradiction and confusion. I had no alternative explanations of God to turn to until I began to read the New Age, spiritual books that came into my life in 1991. That's when it all started to make sense for me.

 

I first began to develop an entirely new awareness of God in 1995. It happened when I was gifted with a newly published book called Conversations with God, Book I. After the first few chapters it felt as though the "wisdom of the ages" had fallen into my hands. More importantly, while reading this book I fell deeply in love with God, and I consider this the highest and most meaningful experience in my life.

 

Conversations with God ultimately grew into a series of three books. They went on to sell millions of copies worldwide, could be found on the New York Times best seller list for years, and have been changing the perceptions and lives of their readers for many years.

The simple yet extraordinarily powerful teachings and revelations in these books touched something deep in many people starving for credible explanations of life's meaning and purpose. Clearly, they were hungry and ready for the answers that God provided about their origins, creation, religion, death, reincarnation, heaven, hell, relationships, sex, how Spirit interacts and communicates with us, and many other mystical concepts and teachings that not only made sense to them but also felt right at the soul level.

 

How did Conversations with God, Book I and the two other books in this trilogy begin to change my feelings and perspectives about God? First and foremost it helps a great deal if one is truly searching for the truth of things as part of an inner journey of Self-discovery. In many instances, a serious life crisis, complete with pain and suffering, serves as the starting point for such a journey. It sets the stage and sensitizes the seeking soul for the most powerful realization of all: That God is not only within each and every one of us, but that we are actually a part or portion of God. Once we accept this we then want to know more about that God because it is the ultimate starting point for waking up to who we really are.

 

For me the most compelling aspect of these books was an awakened sense of who God was and how our Source interacts with us all the time, if only we would pay attention and learn to listen. As I read the words in these books, it was like rediscovering the best and most caring friend I ever had.

 

Sometimes God's words were so full of wisdom, common sense, humor, and ease of understanding that I wanted to punch the air and shout with joy. Then there would be times when God would say things in such a powerful yet non-threatening way that I was genuinely humbled by it. I was truly in awe of my Creator, and so thankful that it was this way.

 

Other times there was so much tenderness and love in God's words that tears filled my eyes. What touched me the most was Spirit's expression of compassion, unconditional love, and forgiveness for us no matter what we do. The wisdom given by God for this purest form of love was easy to understand and accept. It was a very comforting and humbling realization for me.

 

Page after page of experiencing and feeling Father/Mother this way began to add up and create a very powerful rush for me. Feelings of incredibly deep love began to stir and awaken inside of me I never knew existed. It was as though that love was always there but had been lost and forgotten over the ages. The emotional charge behind this realization was so intense that I often found myself sobbing and crying during moments of silence and contemplation. And I would wonder where I had been and what I had done over the ages to lose this divine connection.

At the same time, I could see how God truly began to help me after crying out for it four years before the first of these books found its way into my life. I also understood that all the pain and suffering that was driving my inner journey of rebirth and transformation was serving a much Higher purpose than I anticipated or could fully appreciate at the time. All of it came together in a moment of intense realization and set the stage for my falling deeply in love with God. Why? Because I knew that God truly cared for and loved me...and found ways to prove it to me.

 

Here is one of the passages in the early part of Conversations with God, Book I that touched me very deeply. It was such a contrast to what I was taught in Catholic school during the early years of my life.

 

God speaking:

 

"What do you think brought you to this material? How does it come to pass that you are holding it in your hands? Do you think I know not what I'm doing?

There are no coincidences in the universe.

I have heard the crying of your heart. I have seen the searching of your soul. I know how deeply you have desired the Truth. In pain have you called out for it, and in joy. Unendingly have you beseeched Me. Show Myself. Explain Myself. Reveal Myself.

I am doing so here, in terms so plain you cannot misunderstand. In language so simple, you cannot be confused. In vocabulary so common, you cannot get lost in the verbiage.

I will speak to you if you will listen. I will come to you if you will invite Me. I will show you then that I have always been there. All ways."

 

This is the God that feels right to me, and my heart instantly identifies with it. This is the Creator that makes sense to me, and my soul continues to provide reassurance that it is so. This is the Source I want to connect with and never separate from again. And there is something deep inside me which unerringly knows that this is Truth.

 

Words from the spirit, Seth, offer us some additional insights about the nature and makeup of All That Is that we can contemplate:

"God, therefore, is first of all a creator, not of one physical universe but of an infinite variety of probable existences…

Now: God is more than the sum of all the probable systems of reality He has created, and yet He is within each one of these, without exception. He is therefore within each man and woman. He is also within each spider, shadow, and frog, and this is what man does not like to admit."

"All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, unfolding and enfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and is the core of all action."

 

There is a lot to wonder about here. First and foremost we are told that God is a powerful creator Who uses free will when doing so. This revelation is consistent with virtually all religious, spiritual, and metaphysical teachings that we are aware of.

 

What is different with these thoughts and others I came across in the alternative-minded books I've read is that God is far from being a static, motionless force. Nor is He finished with us and all else that exists. On the contrary, God desires Self-expression, is still very much a highly energized creative force, will never stop being so, and neither will we. Recall, we were made in God's image. Another way to say this is that we are a miniature version or extension of Father/Mother God much like a child that is created by, and a reflection of, a man and woman.

 

We are also told that God is everything that exists be it the smallest subatomic particle of an atom, a bird, the book you're holding in your hands, you, a star, a mighty galaxy, all the universes and dimensions that exist, and all that is contained within them. In fact, God is bigger and far more infinite than this.

 

How can anyone attempt to define and comprehend such a Supreme Being and know what It is? Is it any wonder that the ancient mystics, and all the great teachers who have come to this planet to help us find our way, simplified it all by saying that, "All is ONE."

 

If that isn't enough, this incomprehensibly infinite intelligence and energy we refer to as God is constantly becoming a greater and grander version of Itself. In the book, The Seth Material, we are told that God passed through human stages so long ago that it is impossible to define that period of time. Furthermore, God does not know if He is the only "Primary" in existence, and is constantly seeking to know whether others like Himself exist. What All That Is does know is that something else existed before It existed.

 

It is this constant searching to know what's "out there," and the innate desire to create and know Itself, that drives the divine nature and actions of God. We do the same thing on an infinitesimally smaller scale because we are children of God.

 

Insignificant as we may seem in the eyes of God that is far from the case. You will see in the pages to come that Spirit's dependence on us for His/Her own awareness, knowingness and evolution is intimately connected to each and every one of us, so much so that the next time you smell a rose, Mother/Father God smells a rose.

 

Seth's words also reveal that in some mysterious way God is more than everything that has been created. This suggests that everything which exists came from the mind of a Supreme Being who has the ability to project into existence anything It wants to, and whenever the desire presents itself. It also implies that It can withdraw from existence that which has been created when the time is right and its purpose has been served. Eastern mystical teachings call this outflow and inflow of divine creation the in and out breath of God.

 

Another one of my favorite books was written by Ken Carey. It's called Vision, A Personal Call to Create a New World. Like Conversations with God it is one of a series of books that contain information from otherworldly sources. Once again, the wisdom in this book resonated with a part of me that says, "This is Truth." This is what was said about God:

 

"In the beginning of all worlds, long ago, yet still, the Eternal One Is. Beyond temporal distinction, above location, behind all manifestation, is the All, the Totality, the Holy Source and Creator of all that later came.

One face of the Eternal One is ever formless and beyond definition, but the other face of the Eternal One appears as Two. These Two, between them, are the source of all created things."

 

Interestingly, the words, "These Two, between them" highlights the interplay that took place between two primary creator Beings who were responsible for all that is now in physical existence. The words in this book go on to explain that the "Two" are called "Holy Mother" and "Holy Father."

 

Much has been written about the gender of God. It can be found in the metaphysical books I've read, the mystical teachings from the Far East, and the mythological wisdom of ancient civilizations. In them one finds the consistent notion that God is neither male nor female, but both. And why shouldn't it be that way?

 

In the Eastern world, the Bhagavad-Gita is considered to be one of the oldest and most spiritual books the world has ever known. It contains revelations given to mankind more than five-thousand years ago by Lord Krishna, the Supreme Lord of all creation. Interestingly, Lord Krishna is a loving, caring deity Who gives humanity the teachings needed to establish their eternal relationship with God.

 

The wisdom in the Bhagavad-Gita has influenced the thoughts of some of the world's greatest minds: Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Albert Schweitzer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sri Aurobindo, Aldous Huxley, Paramahamsa Yogananda, and many other highly respected thinkers. One could say that the insights found in this sacred body of spiritual knowledge do not side with any religious affiliation or belief system. On the contrary, it is loving, compassionate, balanced, and wisely avoids the separatist notion that "my God and my religion are the only way to salvation."

 

The concept of God in the Bhagavad-Gita, when blended together with other important sources of Eastern mystical wisdom such as the Upanishads and the Vedas, is very similar to what I've read in New Age books. That is, God, the Absolute, the Supreme Lord, is unknowable, beyond description, is all that exists, and is in the heart of everyone. Each man and woman is divine in nature because they are a part of their Creator. As such mankind has the potential for infinite evolution just as their Source does. The Earth and all of its living things are divine in nature and God is within all of it.

 

Hinduism, a diverse mixture of religious beliefs and traditions, is the world's oldest religion with over one billion followers. Not surprisingly, their most important sources of spiritual teachings are the Bhagavad-Gita, the Vedas, and the Upanishads. Amongst other things, they believe that God contains both male and female qualities and consider God a Father, Mother, friend, and savior. In the Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krishna says, "I am the Father of this Universe. I am the Mother of this Universe, and Creator of all. I am the Highest to be known, the Purifier, the holy OM…"

 

This same Father/Mother description of God can be found in the sacred knowledge of the Kabbalah. We are told that the mystical Hebrew doctrines that form this body of spiritual wisdom originated from angelic sources. The teachings it contains were passed on orally, generation to generation, beginning with Adam, until put into written form during early Christianity.

 

The Kabbalah describes the Mother aspect of God, which is responsible for production or bringing things into physical existence. The masculine side of God, the Father, is responsible for the maintenance and continuance of what the Mother has birthed. Both the Father and the Mother are conjoined in a bond of eternal love for one another and Their sacred work of creation will never end.

 

When we look back into the distant past to a time of more than five thousand years ago, human history gets sketchy and murky. Historians have to depend on old relics and bones, decayed statues and carvings, primitive paintings, incomplete writings needing translation, legends, and mythological teachings from diverse ancient civilizations. Nevertheless, within this maize of information, one can connect dots and discover that there apparently was a time when God was considered a woman, and only a woman. It is known as The Age of the Goddess.

 

During those ancient times, the real power belonged to a human goddess who would rule a particular community, nation or civilization. That feminine supremacy extended well beyond the ruling level and infiltrated all of society. Because of it, women presided over families as wives, and were worshipped as mothers who bore and nurtured children. Men accepted their role as being subservient to their female counterparts.

 

In a more heavenly direction, the concept of Goddess went beyond women to include Earth Mother and her powers of fertility. Then there was the most supreme being of all: Mother God, the Goddess of Goddesses.

 

All of this began to change approximately three- to four-thousand years ago. Men had somehow managed to slowly wrest power and control from the women. Over time the masculine energy gradually became the dominant force. This was especially apparent in Mid-Eastern societies and cultures where brute strength and aggression were considered necessary to protect the women and children from other warring factions and nations.

 

Out of this shift in the balance of power, the oral traditions of the Bible emerged and a God of Wrath, entirely masculine, was born. Under this form of religious and cultural dogma, women slowly became subservient to man.

 

Over the past several thousand years the nature of God was shaped by man's need for physical survival. War, aggression, and separation forced much of mankind to be cruel and powerful in order to survive and dominate. The needs behind such actions prompted man to define God in the same way. Through this day, this vengeful type of god continues to be worshiped by many Christians, Jews and Islamic people.

 

There is a powerful and unexpected shift of energy taking place on planet Earth these days. It seems to have come out of nowhere. However, nothing happens by accident in God's universe. The power of the divine feminine is returning. And it will forever change the nature of humanity.

 

During the past century, women have begun to reclaim what is rightfully theirs and they are gradually becoming equal to their male counterparts. There is still much to balance and right here, but it will happen. And it will not go away.

 

As the feminine rises, in women and in men, humanity will come to accept that God is a sacred and magical blend of the yin and the yang, the feminine and the masculine, that reflects the divine attributes of Mother/Father God. And during the coming times, partners in loving union will seek the same makeup and balance within their relationships because it will feel right in their hearts.

 

It is plain to see that over the ages there have been many different ways to define the nature of God. Interestingly, knowing whether God does or doesn't exist, and what this God is or is not about, are the most important questions we can ask ourselves. And yet, for some divinely perfect reason while we are here on Earth, God's definition and existence remains mysterious yet tangible, unresolved but knowable to some degree. It's as though we are trying to grab at the wind while at the same time trying to hold on to it. There must be good reason and purpose for this. And there is.

 

Advanced souls such as Mother Teresa, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Sai Baba, and the like cannot prove the existence of God to you or anyone else. Nor can they fully define the nature of All That Is. For divine reason, it will always be this way.

 

All of us here in physical body are left with one choice: To search, experience and feel God on an individual level. Then, if we choose to, we can try to put it into words. But those words will not be adequate to describe the profound inner experience it was meant to be. Nor will they be fully understandable to those who read them.

 

It seems that each and every created soul has his or her own idea of what God is and isn't. As we evolve through eternity with our Creator, each of us will be revising and expanding our definition of All That Is on an ongoing basis. That image will change with new information, experiences, and the feelings that derive from them. And that is okay in God's eyes. In fact, it was meant to be that way. But, one thing will not change through it all: God's unconditional love for us.

 

Once again, the reader should take all of this to her or his heart and see what feels right.

 

"I am the Presence where there is no time but the eternal now. I am Alpha and Omega, the source of all beginnings and the completion of all cycles… I love because I AM"

~ Given to Ken Carey by God

Vision

 

 

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Creation

"I ts [God's] energy is so unbelievable, that it does indeed form all universes; and because its energy is within and behind all universes, systems and fields, it is indeed aware of each sparrow that falls, for it is each sparrow that falls."

 

~ Jane Roberts

The Seth Material

 

How did everything in our known physical universe begin? Where did it all come from? How did it happen? What will become of it? These are some of the most compelling mysteries humanity has been trying to understand for thousands of years.

 

For answers, we can look to the teachings of diverse cultures that are scattered throughout the world. Or we can ponder the revelations given by otherworldly sources to individuals who have shared them with humanity all the way up through present time. Then there are the scientists, who also have something valuable to say.

 

Regardless of the source, the information we are left to wonder about has been remarkably consistent when one connects the similarities that exist among them. What does it all say? Here is my best portrayal of these insights.

 

Before the stars were born there was a vast and infinite Silence. Within that perfect stillness, the incomprehensible mind of All That Is was in deep thought. Only love existed, for that mind and love were inseparable, one and the same, everything. There was no time and no space as we know it now. Just God, the Absolute, the Silence.

 

At some point, who can say when, it must have happened. A yearning or perhaps a sense of loneliness began to stir. It must have brought forth an irresistible urge to share and to create. For share and create It did. One can only imagine what went into that incredible act of love. And yet it seems fair to say that Absolute Love can only create and bring forth more of Itself, more love.

 

It also had to be right, perfect, and complete in every way, for this creation was to be an extraordinary gift that was to endure for eternity. Forever. From the smallest particle to the countless stars and galaxies that would burst forth in an instantaneous expression of that almighty power, it had to be just so.

 

It may have started with the thought of a tiny particle so small, so pure that it could not be broken down into a simpler form without ceasing to exist. That particle and others to follow had to be flawless, for all the stars and planets would contain countless numbers of them.

 

It's not hard to understand how that tiny particle would contain the essence and energy of its Creator. And if it came from Absolute Love, it also had to be love. Could it be any other way? Think about it. If that precious, tiny particle was to flow from just one Source, would it not contain its entire Source, and be part of that from which it came? Where else could it come from? At that moment all there was … was All That Is.

 

It would seem that such a particle, in some special way, also had to have an awareness of itself, a sense of its own existence. If it was going to be an extension of the divine mind, would it not have some consciousness of its own? Would it not contain a part of the Original Consciousness from which it came and always be aware of its eternal oneness with its Source?

 

And if an awareness did not exist between the particle and its Creator how could one possibly know and appreciate the other? Each had to experience the other for the act of Love to be complete, for the feeling to be whole, to be right. And God knew the way in which such feelings would be born.

 

There must have been an immense joy in the mind of All That Is when this idea first started. If one tiny particle could bring so much pleasure, then imagine what a second beyond the first must have inspired.

 

As the possibility of this idea began to unfold within the mind of God, the wonder of it all must have been overwhelming. For each particle, one upon the other could then become planets, stars, galaxies, and who knows how many universes and other cosmic wonders. All of them intimately unified and one with their Source. All of them Love, one gigantic extension of their Creator, connected, conscious, moving, alive with energy and feeling, forever changing and becoming something new.

 

And for those special creations yet to come, the ones who would be called souls, there would always be something for them to wonder about, contemplate, and relate to. All That Is also knew that It too would become more love if this happened. There would be more love, more of Itself. And that was good.

But something was still missing in the plan. This creation not only had to unfold without end, it also had to satisfy the Almighty's desire for eternal love and everlasting companionship. This is a very big thought. What really makes it hard to comprehend and appreciate is the eternal nature of it all.

 

If God's creation was to go on forever, then it must always be changing into something new. Not only must it be "breathed" out, but breathed back in so that all that had been experienced and felt could be contemplated and sent out again. The divine plan would have to guarantee an endless sense of excitement, meaning, fulfillment, and adventure with it all. In this way, all could evolve endlessly and become more than what it was.

 

All That Is knew these things. But knowing just wasn't enough. In the Absolute void, one cannot experience and feel anything. All that exists is pure love and bliss. In this state of exquisite joy, there are no opposites, no conflicts, and no ways to compare one thing to another. Just the purest love, joy, peace, and total oneness imaginable.

 

Awareness or knowledge of something is just the beginning, an incomplete state of mind if you will. It always sets the stage for more because the knowingness of something is not the same as experiencing it. And all the fun, all the excitement, all the drama is in the experience and in the feelings.

 

This was an interesting dilemma. Something very special was called for to resolve it. Conflict could not exist in God's mind. And resolved it was.

 

The endless nature of God's creation, and the experience and feelings that would derive from it, had to be accomplished outside the realm of the Absolute. This new place would be called "universe" and it would be filled with countless planets, stars, galaxies and other cosmic miracles for all to behold and experience.

 

The universe was also a place where there would always be a way to compare one thing to another. Every time that was done feelings would be born. And these too could be compared as well.

 

The universe would be a world of duality where everything that existed had an opposite. Warmth could be compared to cold, day compared to night, love compared to hatred, health compared to sickness, strength compared to weakness, deception compared to truth, anger compared to peace, feminine compared to masculine, bitterness compared to forgiveness, happiness compared to sadness. Countless comparisons. Infinite feelings created. Eternally unfolding. A world in which its Creator could also experience and feel it all. Through us.

The plan was nearing completion. Yes, All That Is would always remain as the Absolute, beyond definition, as the Eternal One. But to satisfy the desire for constant creation, and the experience and feeling that goes with it, God would also extend a portion of Itself into this new world of the opposites. This extension of Itself would become the ultimate ordering principle of love and matter, the grandest expression of our Source in the created universe.

 

The ordering principle was Father/Mother God, who would be distinct from, but always an intimate part of, the Eternal One. These two creative beings, the masculine and feminine aspects of God, would themselves be separate in nature and consciousness, yet always united in universal purpose.

 

As two ageless lovers they would be forever caring, always creating, and endlessly united with each other and all things. Through them, through this ultimate of holy unions, all of the material world would be conceived, born, and sustained.

 

These two partners, the ultimate expression of the twin soul, were to be the Parents of the universe. And, with All That Is, the Three would join in a timeless dance of unalterable consciousness, an eternal Trinity of Love to which all else would forever come and return.

 

Now the plan needed just one more part for completion.

 

Along with the experience and feelings that were to be an integral part of the new universe, All That Is also wanted eternal companionship to share this gift with. And so the best was saved for last.

 

Father/Mother was a grand beginning, but God foresaw that They would want to fill the universe with children, Beings of Light, who could have a material experience and be a part of the eternal changes that would take place. Since All That Is wanted to experience the Universe as well, what more intimate way to do so than through these divinely created spirits?

 

All of this had to be accomplished in a very special way. The children would be called souls. Like the tiniest particle, each would exist as a portion, an extension, of their Ultimate Source and always be ONE with their creator. And through infinite wisdom, God also knew that our souls would always define who we really are.

 

The plan was finally done. All That Is knew the time had come. That point when the process of divine contemplation and imagination had reached completion, and It was moved to create. Our souls danced with joy and expectation.

God gathered Its precious plan and the Father/Mother Principle into a single, incomprehensible thought. A sacred singularity that was perfect and complete in every way. Then, in a way beyond description, in one instantaneous, explosive burst of Its almighty will the vast silence was broken with an incredible sound. God had spoken. Time and space had begun with a Big Bang. And our scientists have recently measured this sound.

 

The sound of Love that resulted from the Big Bang echoed throughout the universe. It must have been awesome. Inspired and guided by the original thought of All That Is, Father/Mother brought their swirling worlds of matter into being. Who can say how much time went by, but as they admired their stars and planets love also grew and flourished. All that existed contained their combined essence, and because of it everything became one and the same with their Source. Their loving interchange would become a timeless ideal for all relationships, and the sacred meaning of being two yet one in spirit.

 

As they gifted each other stars and galaxies with unconditional love, Father/Mother sustained their intimacy in ways beyond description. The ecstasy that came from the blending of themselves into their acts of creation caused a new idea to unfold within their cosmic minds and hearts. The most compelling thought two loving parents may have. The possibility of creating living seeds of themselves. That would come.

 

The event that gave birth to the physical universe began with a series of mind- boggling events some 14 billion years ago. Let's go back to the beginning where creation first started by way of several brief, yet compelling, scientific observations

 

Our best scientists have discovered that all of the physical matter in our universe, the countless planets, stars, galaxies, and everything that can be observed through the most powerful telescopes, add up to just a fraction of the stuff that actually exists out there. And yet, at the first moment of creation, all of it, every last bit of what we can see, as well as everything we can't see, was apparently compressed into a single point of incomprehensible energy smaller than the period under the exclamation point of this sentence! Another way to say this is that everything we know of in our physical universe came from virtually nothing!

 

Another thing that should make us wonder about the creation can be found in extremely small particles of matter called atoms. The simplest of these is hydrogen. It consists of a center or nucleus. Flitting around this central particle is a tiny electron whose constant motion resembles a blurry cloud of energy. As one might imagine, a single atom of hydrogen is quite small and it seems to have an endless source of energy at its disposal. That tiny atom vibrates back and forth about a million billion times every second! Left undisturbed, its vibratory motion and existence would
seem to go on forever without end. Where did it get this source of seemingly infinite energy?

 

Even more incredible are recent discoveries that tiny electrons not only react to stimuli, but act as though they have intelligence and the ability to communicate with others of their own kind. Here's more. If a single electron is fired like a bullet at a barrier in which two slits have been cut, it can pass through both slits simultaneously! And if that isn't enough, electrons have been shown to vanish and rematerialize on the other side of solid objects "knowing" in advance which objects they can pass through and which ones they can't. Such observations have some of our scientists seriously wondering if these tiny particles might possess some form of consciousness. If such is the case, where did it come from?

 

The amount of heat that would be created if all the visible matter in the universe was compressed into a speck smaller than the head of a pin has also been estimated. The temperature produced by the force of this compression is simply incredible. Imagine the number one with about thirty-three zeros after it in degrees Centigrade!

 

The enormous heat of compression that would have existed at the moment of the Big Bang forces our scientists into a very uncomfortable position. They know that everything that was compressed into that tiny space could not be physical matter! Why? Because of the intense heat, it would have been impossible for any solid particles to even exist at that moment. It was just a spec of pure, unimaginable, indefinable energy.

 

The grand finale came when this point or singularity of energy was released to begin the birthing process of our physical universe. The bang that shattered the silence must have been stupendous because we can still measure its sound. However you wish to look at it, this event was either the most cataclysmic moment that can be imagined or it was the miraculous handiwork of our Creator at play. And it happened not so long ago.

 

Centuries before our scientists arrived at these graphic descriptions related to creation, the Buddhists expressed the same idea by calling the ultimate reality Sunyata, which is the "emptiness" or the "void." In spite of these seemingly mysterious terms, the Eastern mystics make it perfectly clear that the emptiness they refer to should not be taken literally, but must be considered the Source of all potential creation. Perhaps the nothingness of the infinite void that our scientists grapple with conceptually is nothing more than the Absolute that has long been referred to in the ancient teachings of Eastern mystics.

The Big Bang created more than the stars and planets. It also was the beginning of time and space. The sheer size of the universe our scientists observe and attempt to describe is daunting. Incredibly, no matter which way they point their most powerful instruments they have yet to observe the outer edges of the universe. But it is there and they are getting closer and closer to seeing it, as it moves outward with unimaginable speed into nothingness.

 

Along the trailing edge of our expanding cosmos something utterly amazing is taking place. In the wake of that trailing edge of expanding energy, the birth of new time, new space, new galaxies, and other celestial wonders is still happening, as you read these words.

 

Our scientists are to be applauded. They too have gifted us with incredible knowledge about the origins of our universe. This in turn has stimulated us to think about how we might fit into it all. Mostly, it forces us to wonder how such an incredible event could possibly be the result of a random, cosmic accident.

 

Interestingly, more and more of today's scientists are wondering out loud if this whole creation event had not been orchestrated. It's hard to ignore the intelligent design, the symmetry, and the underlying unity that the universe displays through its many individual parts. It can be found in something as small as an atom, as intricate as a snowflake, or as large as a supercluster of galaxies.

 

George Smoot won the Nobel Prize for his work on the origins of the universe. In his book, Wrinkles in Time, he had this to say about the tiny spec of energy that gave birth to our universe: "There can be no answer to why such a state existed. Is this, then, where scientific explanation breaks down and God takes over…?"

 

For too many years scientists have tried to divide the universe into well defined pieces or separate blocks of matter that can be objectively measured with their scientific instruments. Somehow that is important to them because it makes the world they operate in more orderly and definable. And that is okay.

 

A better approach might be to visualize the cosmos as an unbroken whole that is alive with energy and constantly changing. The Eastern mystics have been talking about the unity and basic oneness of all things in the universe for thousands of years.

 

Interestingly, the ideas and descriptions of reality found in Eastern teachings are beginning to converge and overlap with the recent findings of our physicists. More than any other group, our scientists are brushing up against ancient wisdom and beliefs. Slowly but surely they find themselves invoking mystical words and concepts in order to make some sense out of their scientific observations. This is true whether they are peering into the mysterious world of the atom or that of the mighty universe. Either way they point their instruments, the wonders are there to behold and contemplate. It's all a part of the Plan.

 

We are not to far from the point when the mind of the scientist meets the heart of the mystic. In a moment of enlightenment, the two will embrace in an act of love and blend their insights equally. The ancient shamans and mystics would have smiled at you with a twinkle in their eyes and gently say they've known it all along.

 

Planet Earth is just a tiny spec in the Milky Way galaxy, which in turn is a mere spec in the universe. A spec within a spec. This is where we live. And yet, at this very moment, we and our galaxy of more than a billion stars are being pulled through space at the speed of a million miles an hour by some gigantic unseen force. To where we don't know.

 

This movement is not a normal part of the expansion process because the direction in which we are being pulled is different than the apparent direction in which the cosmos is expanding.

 

All over the universe star systems and their planets are on the move just as we are, while at the same time countless other stars are continuously dying and being reborn. And when each sun ends its life cycle with a massive stellar explosion called a supernova, any planets and moons that may have been a part of its system will pass on as well. As will ours someday. Eventually, new stars and new planets will form in the womb of the universe as a part of the eternal song and dance of creation.

 

Is all of the movement, the ongoing cycle of creation, and the underlying unity of the universe, a result of chaos? Is it all some big cosmic accident that just happened and here we are? Or is there an ordering principle, a Supreme Intelligence behind it all that takes away the guesswork and the wondering? Although all of the recent scientific discoveries and observations have been nothing short of spectacular, our scientists are doing nothing more than studying God.

 

The Inflation Theory, proposed by Alan Guth in the early 1980's, has become one of the most influential concepts in modern cosmology to explain the expanding universe. It also predicts that at some point the expansion will stop and the universe will then start to collapse back in upon itself. How did the Hindus know this fourteen hundred years ago?

 

As we have learned, the universe is still expanding and creating new time and new space in the process. How long will this go on? Will it ever stop and begin an inward journey to where it all started? A Hindu philosophy called Tantra, that appears to have originated around 600 A.D. to 700 A.D., teaches that the universe will eventually fall back into itself as it is withdrawn into the Sakti, which created it in the first place. At that time it will collapse into a Siva bindu, a mathematical point without any magnitude. Does this "point" sound familiar? The similarities between this centuries-old Tantric teaching and modern day creation theory are indeed striking.

 

Other explanations regarding the expanding universe have come from "inspired" teachings and other mystical sources. All refer to the expansion as a part of the out- breath of God. They also say that it will be breathed in someday. Recent otherworldly information says we've just about reached that point, and it is to be a stupendous moment; a convergence of all cosmic cycles, big and small. An experience that simply cannot be comprehended nor described in human terms.

 

In Conversations with God, Book 2, its author, Neale Donald Walsch, had a dialogue with God about the expansion and contraction of the universe. He was told that the universe is now expanding at an incomprehensible rate that will eventually stop, and the forces holding in together will pull it back to where it all started … the Absolute. And the Silence will exist once again.

 

Concerned about the ultimate fate of mankind, the author continues his dialogue with God:

 

"That means we will no longer exist!

 

"Not in physical form. But you will always exist. You cannot not exist. You are that which Is."

 

"What will happen after the universe collapses?"

 

"The whole process will start over again. There will be another so-called Big Bang and another universe will be born.

It will expand and contract. And then it will do the same thing all over again. And again. And again. Forever and ever. World without end.

This is the breathing in and breathing out of God."

 

Surely, this explanation of eternity, and the incomprehensible power and majesty of God that it reflects, is more than enough to touch and humble the most hardened soul.

 

 

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Your Soul

"First of all, a soul is not something you have. It is what you are…

Now: The soul is not a finished product."

~ Jane Roberts

Seth Speaks

 

Have you ever wondered about your soul? Does it even exist? What it is? Why it was created in the first place? Where it is? What it might be thinking and doing now, if anything? And what the two of you will be doing for the rest of eternity?

 

For many years I never gave my soul much thought, never talked to it, and quite frankly never really understood it. All of that changed dramatically when I started delving deeper and deeper into spirituality and mysticism while trying to comprehend who I really am and what life was really about. What a revelation this has been!

 

What does the wisdom from various sources tell us about the soul? Most importantly, it says that each soul is an actual fragment or piece of God. Think of it as being a miniature version of All That Is. As a matter of fact, it is God. And that means you are God.

 

To better understand these awesome possibilities, let's go back in time to a moment just before the Big Bang occurred. Imagine God as a seemingly endless reservoir of self-assured, conscious energy. This infinite, all-knowing intelligence was totally secure with Its existence and anything It might choose to do with it. But All That Is yearned for two things: Self-expression and companionship.

 

When all that is was brought into existence, God willfully changed form by rearranging and reorganizing Its very being into many individual but closely connected parts. God literally manifested a material version of Itself, and one of the countless expressions of this incredible act is your soul.

 

When did this divine rearrangement take place? When did Spirit become matter? At the moment of the Big Bang.

All of the God-fragments formed as a result of that awesome event are unique and discrete. Yet the whole remains intact. Every part is intimately connected in some mysterious way as ONE whole, highly conscious being. In his book, Only Love is Real, Dr. Brian Weiss helps to visualize this by asking us to imagine a tree in which all of the limbs, branches and twigs hold it together, the roots secure it in place, the individual leaves are souls, and the entire tree is God.

 

The willful reorganization of the God-consciousness into countless portions of Itself also explains the eternal nature of the soul. That is, it came from, and will always be a part of, the Eternal One. And even though this will never happen, should All That Is ever cease to be, you, I, the words on this page and everything else that now exists anywhere, instantly cease to be as well.

 

The divine plan continued to unfold perfectly. The Original Soul that gave birth to it began to fragment and become the newly formed realm of duality, the physical universe. First came the clusters of oversouls, each containing countless individual souls still joined together as one. At some point, the clusters divided into smaller groups, which then split into families of souls. Eventually the soul families separated into individual souls and we came into existence. Thus, from the One came the many. And the One will form again by reversing this process when all is breathed back in someday.

 

One can break an individual soul down even further. Within the same soul, there is an array of masculine and feminine soul halves that align and pair with one another, approximately twelve pairs in number. Each pairing is divinely preordained and consists of a masculine and feminine body of consciousness, just like Father/Mother who created them. The vibrational qualities of each of the pairs are unique and unmatched anywhere in God's created universe. Two, and only two, exclusive halves can form this perfect alignment. They are called twin souls.

 

As we left the Silence, God gave our souls and us two incredible gifts: the free will to do anything we wanted to and the power to create whatever we could conceive of. At the same time, All That Is wisely reminded us that we alone were responsible for how those gifts were used. And no matter what we chose to do with them we would always be loved unconditionally.

 

Each newly created soul instantly realized that it was a concentrated expression, a localized "clump," of the God-energy. It also discovered that a portion of the original God-consciousness was the very basis of its essence and existence. And that this part of itself was constantly attuned to the soul's journey and well being.

In some divinely mysterious way, there was no telling where one soul ended and the next soul began. All were discrete, independent, and separate from one another. Yet all were joined together in sacred oneness as God … like individual drops of water in a vast and infinite ocean of Unified Reality. And since the time of creation, no more souls have been created.

 

It is no different today. All that exists and I do mean everything, anywhere, is a part of our Creator. Everything we see and cannot see is nothing more than All That Is expressing Itself. Just as the individual cells in your body are joined together in a unified whole that is all of you, everything that exists is also joined together in one, infinite whole that is our Source.

 

Some of the most compelling teachings we have on the soul, its mode of existence, its nature, and its purpose were given to us in the highly revered Indian treatise, the Bhagavad Gita. This treasured "Song of the Divine One," was given to humanity by Lord Krishna about one hundred and fifty years before the birth of Jesus. The most fundamental and dominant thought in this Eastern Scripture is that the soul is God, it is indestructible, it is eternal, you are your soul, and therefore you are God.

 

Since you are an extension of your soul, is it possible that you can really be God? In one sense, you are a portion of All That Is. In another sense, you are much more than that. To understand this better, it helps to think of God as a hologram. Interestingly, some of our scientists are now talking about the physical universe as being a hologram in order to better comprehend and appreciate its nature and makeup.

 

In simplistic terms, a hologram is a three-dimensional image made with the use of a laser. Let's pretend we are looking at a holographic image of planet Earth. Every part of the picture is contained within the single, whole image.

 

Here's where it gets interesting. If one cuts this holographic image into two pieces and shines a laser on each half, two complete images of Earth will appear. Cut the original image into a thousand pieces, shine a laser on each piece and one gets a complete image of Earth from each of the thousand parts. Do it a billion times, the same amazing thing occurs. What this says is that each individual part of a hologram, regardless of how small, contains all of the information necessary to create the entire image.

 

Spiritual wisdom suggests that we think of All That Is as a conscious hologram. In doing so, let's pretend that all of the countless parts of God were somehow destroyed except one. You. Believe it or not, God would still exist. You contain everything that is needed for All That Is to fully reconstitute Itself. And in that sense, you are God. In fact, the unrealized God-potential that Spirit placed within you at the moment of creation is beyond comprehension. But it is there. And your soul and you will have all of eternity to develop it.

 

In the book, Seth Speaks, we learn that our souls exist in a realm of much higher vibration than the one in which we exist. And yet it is constantly connected to us. It has its own consciousness awareness, part of which extends into our reality, and becomes the source of our consciousness. Our personalities, the part of our identities that are uniquely us, are also part of our soul's identity, and are therefore eternal.

 

Seth also points out that the soul is a replica of God, it possesses the same attributes as its Source, but on a smaller scale. As such, it can make its own free will choices, create what it wants to whenever it wants to, think for itself, contemplate and resolve the mysteries it faces, and is highly aware of itself, its creator, and you.

 

Scientists today are beginning to talk about the existence of unseen realms beyond our own. Some even use phrases such as "multi-dimensions" and "parallel universes" of which ours is a small part. Our ancient mystical friends have been telling us for a long time that this indeed is the case. One thing is for sure. We currently find ourselves in body, in the third dimension of physical existence. That is where our consciousness is now focused.

 

One of the most potent if not the most compelling property of a soul is that it can project a portion of itself into other realities or dimensions other than the one in which it exists. Your soul has projected you into your physical body in the third dimension of reality of planet Earth. And while you read this book your soul is reading it too.

 

The soul breathes life into the body and it can also take back what it enlivens. As such, the immediate cause of death is not disease. At the moment just before dying, it is the soul that decides whether or not to withdraw itself from the body. If it does not, the individual lives on so that more learning and growth can occur. If it does decide to leave, the individual has done all it can for that lifetime.

 

Every time you cry or laugh, every time you are inspired to sing, write a song, paint a picture, knit a sweater, design a building, plant a flower, or bake a cake it is the soul expressing itself through you. In fact, every time you have a feeling, regardless of how small or profound, your soul feels the same thing.

 

Again, Seth will tell you that your soul is not born when you take your first breath nor does it die when you take your last. After coming into existence it can never cease to be. It is every bit alive and aware as you are, and more so. It doesn't need to rest as you do and it is constantly active and awake. Just as you are curious, your soul

is also inquisitive. It has infinite potential for conscious growth and evolution, as you do. The difference between you and your soul is that it is doing all of these things, and more, at a much faster rate. And there is good reason for this.

 

Your soul has one singular purpose. At the moment of creation it was endowed with an incredibly powerful desire that has no equal, and it knows it well. Like a laser beam, your soul is focused on one thing and one thing only. It is trying to become God.

 

This is a daunting challenge for the soul because God is constantly changing by becoming a greater and grander version of Itself. Nevertheless, the soul is unrelenting and tireless in its pursuit of God so that its most basic reason for existence might be fulfilled.

 

As a projection of the soul, you are doing the same thing. And it is this constant, never ending quest that exists between God-soul-you, which makes the cosmic drama so interesting and exciting. In fact, it boggles the mind.

 

In order to stay in hot pursuit of God, the soul does all it can to become a Higher version of itself through experience and feeling. The more experience and feeling, the faster it can try to become God. The soul knows this and takes full advantage of it by projecting more than one of you into different realities of existence at the same time in order to have multiple experiences simultaneously. Said another way, you're not the only projection of your soul. There are others like you.

 

From what I've read, depending upon its stage of development, the soul can send up to 12 projections of itself into various worlds of existence at the same time.

 

You are not on planet Earth by accident. Your presence here is for good reason. Even though you are here to help the soul accomplish its eternal journey, just as the soul helps God do the same, you are not a mindless puppet of your soul.

 

You make your own free will choices and you shape your own destiny. Most importantly, the "you" you are aware of this very moment in time is eternal, and will never lose its identity. You will always know your "self" just as you do now. However, your nature and personality will constantly change and continually evolve into greater awareness and higher consciousness, as you move through the many realms that God has created for you to experience.

 

Being a part of God does not guarantee that the soul makes the Highest choices all the time. A soul can drift from its most valuable reference point, God-centeredness, just as one of its projections can. When it does, it feels the consequences of its decisions and reacts accordingly. If it continues to make lesser choices that create feelings of lower vibrations, the soul's vitality and potential for unlimited love and growth diminishes as well. Eventually, it reaches a cosmic dead end where it no longer feels content and fulfilled within the dark space that it has created for itself. At that point it can choose to return to the opposite of darkness, the Light.

 

God will never punish a soul for drifting. All That Is would not punish a part of Itself or send It to hell for eternity. Rather, the soul can learn a great lesson from the darkness it had fallen into and the feelings that it created. In fact reentering the Light from the depths of darkness will be a far more powerful experience because of the comparisons that can be made. And the greater the darkness that was experienced, the more profound the Light will be.

 

Another way of saying this is that after a great deal of karmic healing Hitler's soul will eventually awaken to its true, divine nature. When it does, it will become a very powerful ally of the Light who will eventually serve God in ways that will be remarkable.

 

This will happen to Hitler and others like him because the soul can never lose its original purpose, which guarantees its eventual return to God-centeredness. The eternal longing to be its Source, to become God-like in every way, is unchangeable and without end. But it can be forgotten or cast aside for a while.

 

In spite of all its powers and knowledge, your soul, as unrealized God potential, has a real challenge on its hands. How does it become something that is never static, ever changing, and constantly becoming something new and more profound all the time? That is exactly what God is. And because of it, the soul must also change and constantly evolve into more and more newness in order to keep up with its Source. Just as you do.

 

Another way to say this is that your soul is not the same as it was just a short moment ago nor will it be the same after you read the words on this page. Nor is God. And this timeless dance of interconnectedness with Spirit goes on for a very long time. For eternity.

 

Nothing can escape the influence of this unending change into newness of being that continually creates opportunities for us to become more than we are. Not the angels, the Masters, the divas of the Earth kingdom, the saints, those in temporary darkness, dwellers in other star systems, you, me, your pet canary, and all else that has been created in the material and non-physical realms. All of it, including every minute physical particle and individual wave of light that exists anywhere, is continually being swept along by the ever-flowing, ever-evolving force of All That Is.

How do God and your soul become something new and constantly change from one moment to the next? How does all of this allow our Source to know Itself? It can only happen through experience and feeling in a world where opposites are available to compare one thing to another.

 

Each and every soul, regardless of where it finds itself, is constantly using the gift of free will to create its own experiences and the countless feelings that go with them. And All That Is learns more about Itself from each and every one of those choices… because God is all of it.

 

Numberless souls throughout all of existence are connected to one another and to their Source. Their individual experiences are simultaneously realized and felt by them and by All That Is. The net effect of this gigantic interchange of knowledge, information, and feeling continually alters the nature and definition of God. In the process, the Eternal One becomes something new and more profound with each passing moment, and something grander that our soul wants to become.

 

In a much smaller sense, these same kinds of things are happening to your soul and you. What an adventure!

 

Why do our souls have the ability to project themselves into different realities simultaneously? The reason for this highly unusual quality is that the incredible amount of God-energy that constitutes our souls could not possibly be contained within the confines and limitations of a single, physical body. It would simply burst and "poof" into the air. Similarly, your soul could not achieve its infinite possibilities of creation and expression through just one entity such as yourself.

 

All of the parallel selves that make up your soul are focused in their own realities just as you now find yourself focused in the physical reality of planet Earth. Each of them, and you, go forth to experience, learn, and grow. In the process, all of you add to and refine your individual natures and personalities as part of the divine plan and the soul's purpose. And all of the knowledge that they and you accumulate is brought back to your soul, who draws upon those collective experiences, feels them, and heads closer to, or further from, the Light because of it.

 

There are some striking parallels here that should be highlighted. God decides to create; your soul does the same thing. God projects Itself into physical form; the soul projects you into physical form. God decides when to breathe Its creation back in; the soul withdraws the real you from your physical body at the moment of death. God makes you in Its own likeness; your physical body mirrors Spirit as matter. God receives experience and feeling from all existing souls to become a grander version of Itself; your soul does the same thing from all its projected, multi-dimensional "yous." In a similar manner, you share all of your experiences and feelings with your other yous to learn and grow too. And the most profound sharing you can have is with your other half.

 

Father/Mother Spirit is one complete being with individual masculine and feminine polarities of consciousness. Your soul, being an extension of that Source, is no different. As such, the entire body of God-energy that makes up your soul exists as two independent creative forces. Think of it as a perfectly balanced magnet that is whole, but has different polarities at either of its ends.

 

One can think of these two opposing but complimentary influences as a positive tension within the soul that leads to all of its creations and expressions. And it is the dynamic interplay between these masculine and the feminine energies and their complimentary yang and yin urges that is responsible for all that the soul chooses to be and do with itself. And you are one of those choices.

 

All of the parallel expressions of your soul, including you, are linked together as one. As such, they and you are constantly relating to one another regardless of what level each has evolved to in the Light or fallen to in the darkness. At a higher level each of the soul's personalities knows what the other is doing and benefits from it simultaneously, one way or another. It is even possible to share and exchange information between you and your parallel selves while meditating or in the dream state.

 

The composite experience created by each of the soul's "selves" determines the overall direction and rate of growth the soul takes into the Light or deeper into the darkness. What you do affects each of your soul counterparts just as their choices, experiences, and feelings affect you. If you raise your vibrations, theirs raise. Should you become more love, they become more loving. And because of the eternal, indissoluble link that exists between you and your twin, the same occurs for both whether you are joined in Earthly relationship or not.

 

The soul has a very specific purpose in mind when it sends the conscious personality that is you into a specific dimension or reality such as planet Earth. For example, your soul and you may wish to experience being poor, physically or mentally impaired, a world leader, a thief, a prostitute, a healer, a woman, a man, an abused child, a slave, a teacher, a homeless person, and so on.

 

Or both may want to experience loneliness, wealth, sickness, jealousy, romance, the sacred balance of nature, or various addictions. There might also be the need to learn patience, acceptance, trust, surrender to God, joy while having little, simplicity, humility, charity, acceptance, faith, and so on. All of it serves a purpose. The soul not only grows and becomes more like its Source from these experiences, you do as well.

There are countless things your soul needs to be, experience, and feel in order to pass through all the various stages of development and achieve ultimate, God-like perfection. The same holds true for you. The first steps of that journey include the many lessons it needs to complete while projecting you and itself into flesh.

 

The physical body is the densest level to which the soul can descend. It is the first of many forms it and you will pass through as you journey from planet Earth into higher realms of being and conscious evolution. The three-dimensional physical world you now find yourself in is just the beginning of its eternal journey, as it tries to become the ultimate, God-like perfection both of you crave.

 

Although you are one of your soul's many manifestations, there is no reason to feel diminished in any way by this realization. In ways that are still difficult to fully understand, you are an extremely important part of your soul. It needs you to complete its journey through eternity. And it cannot do so without the part of it that is you.

 

The soul did not send you to planet Earth to struggle and survive. Rather, the soul has sent you here in physical form to create a life for yourself, as part of its and your ongoing evolution. And should you fall asleep and forget who you really are, the soul will find a way to inspire you to ask, "Who Am I?"

 

 

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Who Am I?

What Am I Doing Here?

"All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came."

 

~ Edgar Cayce

 

Have you ever wondered who you are? I mean really are. I'm not talking about a casual thought here or something you briefly think about over a quick cup of coffee. Rather it's the kind of question you might quietly contemplate while walking the beach at sunrise or when sitting on a rock with your feet in a gentle mountain stream.

 

As you begin to spend some time with this question, another may come to mind. It is almost as important as the first, and the two go hand in hand very nicely. "What am I doing here on this planet?"

 

The search for answers to these questions often inspires two more we can ask, which finally takes us to where we really need to be to round out the quest for personal truth. And yet relatively few people give either of these questions much thought today. "Am I more than my body?" "Is this really my home?"

 

Two forces have to come together in order to ask these kinds of questions. The seeker must be ready to seriously consider them, and something has to provoke the questions into existence. The urge to seek can come in various ways: a painful life crisis, the death of a loved one, an unexpected synchronicity, fundamental questions about one's religious beliefs, profound doubts that arise when life doesn't make sense anymore, a strong and compelling curiosity, a radical turn in one's life, and so on. If your soul has brought you to the pages of this book, then most likely you are ready to consider these kinds of questions and give serious thought to their answers.

 

We have seen how the soul can project our bodies into physical reality and why it does so. But there is some unfinished history that needs to be explored and discussed. What happened before we found ourselves in physical bodies? I'm not talking about what we were doing immediately prior to our current incarnation. Rather, I'm referring to a time long before we incurred the need to be in physical form, and the cyclic drama of birth-life-death-rebirth and the karma that goes with it; the time before and up to the "Fall" of humankind.

 

Aeons and aeons ago, before we ever knew planet Earth existed, we roamed the universe as a communal group of souls in spirit form, free to do as we please. Our "bodies" were similar to what we have today, but much lighter in nature and makeup. Being less dense and of a higher vibration, we didn't have to eat, sleep, die, or concern ourselves with other challenges of physical survival. Most importantly, we were certain of our oneness with All That Is.

 

As spirit forms, we set out to experience and feel what had been created as we played among the stars. There was so much to do and even more to explore that we hardly knew where to begin. Suns, planets, galaxies, and other dimensions of existence were our playground. And play we did. It was a truly joyous experience. Just as God had intended.

 

Each individual spirit in our group of souls was neither male nor female, but an androgynous Being of Light that contained both polarities of masculine/feminine consciousness within the same ethereal essence. This was the original, holiest, most blissful, highest form of existence for the twin soul...a complete, Love-centered, untainted, miniature replica of Father/Mother with unlimited creative potential, and the free will to do so.

 

We continued to roam and explore the physical universe. As we did, we co-created experiences with ourselves and with Spirit. At the same time, our feelings were joyfully shared with our beloved Source.

 

We also realized that God had wisely created a special hierarchy of magnificent angelic beings to help Mother/Father oversee the events that were rapidly developing in the early stages of the new universe.

 

Other angels were lovingly assigned to watch over each and every one of us so long as we remained "outside" the Absolute. Untold numbers of soul groups had already formed, and each went their separate ways in search of endless adventure and excitement. Our angelic guardians followed wherever they and we went—without question, without judgment, ever loyal, always loving, forever guiding—and have done so to this day.

 

As we roamed the physical universe, we learned that our divine balance and connection with Spirit could be distorted at times. An enormous amount of matter had been created, much of which existed as heavenly spheres with different vibrational patterns. Some of these spheres gave off an electromagnetic aura of energy, which beckoned to us and tested our connection with God. When we passed through or into these intoxicating fields of denser influence, the vibrations of our Light bodies slowed down a bit, our ability to think clearly was compromised to an extent, and our connection to All That Is was not as potent as it should be.

 

The more we explored these heavenly bodies and delved into their material fields of influence, the more we longed to be a part of its dense beauty. With time, we continued to over-identify with the magnetic frequencies these physical forms of expression had to offer. Without realizing it, the early stages of our gradual descent into matter had unwittingly begun.

 

At one point our soul group traveled to a part of the universe that had never been explored before. As we journeyed through the stars, we suddenly became distracted by something in the distance that was utterly breathtaking. It was a magnificent planet within a relatively young star system the likes of which we had never seen before. Its beauty and symmetry were totally captivating and we had never witnessed anything quite like it.

 

As we drew nearer to the surface of this planet, blue, green, white, and other colors blended together in a vibrant pattern of perfection that was truly stunning when framed against the darkened background of the universe.

 

We slowed down to study its makeup. Most of it was pristine water; the bluest we had ever seen. There was a peaceful flowing motion to the wispy, white atmosphere that gently swirled above its surface. Everything seemed to be in balance and harmony. We moved closer still. It was incredible. It was alive.

 

We soon discovered that abundant life in countless different forms and colors was everywhere: flying, running, swimming, crawling, furry, feathery, scaly, leafy, grassy and flowery. All living harmoniously and in ecological balance with one another. We had reached a place we now call Earth, and it was one of the finest creations of Father/Mother in the entire universe.

 

Before we mingled with the offerings this glorious planet had to offer our soul group was reminded of its extraordinary plan; one that was ordained for it and it alone at the moment of Creation. While co-creating with Mother/Father, our intent was to establish a sacred expression of Their presence in a three-dimensional world by creating heaven on Earth there. But, to do so, we had to take on biological form.

 

In the process of spending time on Her surface, and interacting with Earth Mother and her splendid creations, we would spiritualize all that existed by blending Spirit with matter. If that could be accomplished, if we could serve as that sacred bridge between God and this physical world, the vibrations of this magnificent heavenly sphere and all the living things that moved upon Her flesh would be raised and brought closer to their Source.

 

We gradually descended to Earth's surface by slowing down the vibrational energy of our Light-bodies in order to make them more dense and compatible with those of a three-dimensional environment.

 

We realized that slowing down our rate of vibration and taking on a denser form was risky business. Fortunately, we had never lost our spiritual balance before when doing so. Nor had we become overly spoiled by the materializing influences of other spheres that had already been visited. And we were quite confident this would never happen. On the other hand, we had never been to this kind of planet before and all the pleasures it had to offer.

 

When did all of this happen? Sanskrit insights from ancient Vedic teachings tell us we came here 2 billion years ago. Theosophical texts say it was 18.5 million years. Edgar Cayce mentions 10.5 million years have past since we arrived. The Urantia Book indicates that humans emerged from primates 1,000,000 years ago. Creationists who reference the Bible would have us believe that Adam and Eve were created from a lump of clay about 6,000 years ago. Our scientists tell us that the body of modern humans, not the human spirit, appeared on the African savannah approximately 200,000 years ago. There are other well-intentioned sources describing our arrival here that one can reflect on…including the role that extraterrestrials may have played in it.

 

From what I've read about the history of mankind, especially that given by Edgar Cayce, the earliest visit by our spirit forms to this planet was the first of two waves that our soul family made a long time ago, most likely millions of years in the remote and murky past.

 

Our initial attempt to blend Spirit with matter was not successful. Seduced by the sensual, materialistic pleasures Earth had to offer, especially those that were sexual in nature, we lost our way and became trapped in this plane of denser existence. At that point, the initial "Fall" of the human species into the heaviness of three-dimensional matter took place. With it came the agonizing separation of androgynous twin souls into male and female physical forms, and we have been searching for our other halves ever since. Over time fear came to dominate love, separation and fighting began, greed replaced sharing, survival of the fittest became the norm, ego replaced God-centeredness, and self-gratification spiraled out of control. In essence our love for one another dissipated, we lost our remembrance of God, and in the process, forgot who we really are. For the most part, it's been that way ever since.

 

Edgar Cayce and others tell us that through the grace of God two things happened to help the fallen souls awaken from their material slumber and free them from the influences of matter. The first was that they eventually found themselves constrained within the cycle of reincarnation and karma that is predicated on a simple Universal law: What you put out comes back to you.

 

The reincarnational cycle was created at the beginning of time as a fair and loving system of justice that applies anywhere in the universe when souls lose their way. No matter where or when that might occur the life-death-life cycle would give those who had gone astray an opportunity to self-perfect, re-establish their divine connection over the course of many lifetimes, and remember who they really are.

 

The second gift of grace was a divine call for volunteers from members of our soul family who remained behind in spirit form. These courageous souls would form a second wave that would enter the three-dimensional plane of planet Earth, take on physical bodies, and participate in a rescue mission. From what I've read, this occurred during the time of Atlantis some two-hundred thousand years ago.

 

The bold rescue effort was led by an entity named Adam who is known today as Jesus. His purpose was to help the spellbound souls regain their divine origins. Sadly, many who came in the second wave also lost their way and became trapped here. Over succeeding generations a small portion of that group, including Jesus, keep taking on physical form and return here from time to time to help those who are still baffled, bewildered, and overly attached to the material ways of life.

 

During those harrowing times, the reincarnational cycle not only applied to those who were part of the Atlantean civilization but other human-like creatures who began to appear on other parts of the planet, including the African plains. Each of these early humans was a mortal being who was purposely composed of three parts: a physical body, a mind, and the spirit of a lost soul who was reincarnating. Through the intervention of free-will choice and time, this primitive human had the potential to evolve over many lifetimes into a higher version of itself and remember its divine birthright.

 

Today, after many incarnations, these evolved humans and many of their Atlantean counterparts are walking the face of this planet still trying to self-perfect. How and why this number has reached some 7 billion souls I can't explain. It would seem that others are also a part of this extraordinary numerical mix. From what we are told in The Calling, by Rasha, the current time period is unprecedented in human history.

She also says that everyone who has ever had a hand in making planet Earth what it has evolved into today is here to experience and feel what is coming. Given the enormous number of souls who are present on this struggling planet, one has to surmise that something BIG is just around the corner. And we won't have to wait much longer to find out.

 

Part of the price we paid for separating from God was the life-death reincarnational cycle, the karma that goes with it, and the sickness, pain, and suffering that comes with 3-dimensional existence and survival. These emotional and physical challenges are not meant to serve as punishments even though they can feel that way. Rather, they serve to jolt us out of the everyday routines and ruts of life, as we scurry around trying to survive. If we accept their presence in our lives, they help us find the way back to who we really are. However, we have to do it on our own. God will help if we ask. But the rest is up to us.

 

The entire reason for your existence and purpose in life is to develop and evolve your consciousness so that you, it, and your soul become more God-like. In so doing, you will leave and then return to the Source from which you came time and time again. Since your Source is continually evolving without end, your evolution will go on for all of eternity.

 

After untold numbers of life-death cycles, we have taken on and shed one physical body after another in order to let go of the material grip we have allowed this planet to hold sway over us. Slowly but surely, some faster than others, we are waking up and remembering our true spiritual nature. Eventually, all of us will. When we do, we'll leave this beautiful planet and bless the experience we had, as we return to the stars.

 

All of this will take time. In the interim, we should not only be asking ourselves, "Who am I really?" and "What am I doing here?" Just as importantly, we should take the time to contemplate an equally compelling question: "Where am I going?" As you will shortly discover, we are evolving towards fourth-dimensional existence. And there are others in that magical place who are patiently waiting for us to graduate from Earth school and welcome us to that far more exciting world.

 

 

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The Fourth Dimension

"In my Father's house are many mansions"

~ Jesus

 

Is it possible that there are other realities or planes of existence we aren't aware of? Today, forward-thinking scientists seriously talk about other dimensions, parallel universes, and multi-verses, all of which were considered nothing more than fairy tales and intellectual curiosities not too long ago.

 

Is it equally possible that advanced extraterrestrials have learned how to live in greater harmony and balance with the material world because of their adherence to Universal spiritual laws and principles? Do they reside in a higher dimension than ours? And are they the same kinds of beings we are evolving into?

 

We need to remind ourselves that God is not a static being. Nor are we. Each and every one of us is becoming a greater and grander version of who we are. We do so by evolving and expanding into higher places of learning and growing, service, and awareness of Spirit. For some, this evolution is faster than others. Eventually, all will make the progress necessary to move up the dimensional ladder and experience the wonders of it all.

 

Exactly what part of us is evolving besides our soul? Our consciousness. Not the brain or the physical body, which return to the dust lifetime after lifetime, but the conscious mind that is as eternal as the soul. And they will be inseparable for all of eternity.

 

From what I've learned, there are seven major dimensions or planes of existence in all of creation. When we eventually reach the seventh level, we are almost face to face with God. Currently we find ourselves in a three-dimensional reality that is sandwiched between the lower worlds of inanimate objects, plants, and animals, and the home of more evolved souls who find themselves in the fourth dimension. Each of these planes of existence, including those that are higher than the fourth, are in turn divided into seven layers of vibration and energy. As such, the highest layer of
vibration in the 3rd dimension brushes up against the lowest level of the 4th dimension.

 

Is the fourth dimension the next step in our evolution? Will we someday raise our vibrations enough to ascend into the lowest level of the 4th dimension and begin anew there? Or will we move on to a planet that serves as a transitional break in our journey somewhere between the third and fourth dimensions of life in order to ease ourselves into a higher state of being?

 

Depending upon our state of conscious evolution, we vibrate at different levels of density and energy. For example, Hitler and Saddam Hussein had very low levels of vibration and their energies were very dense and negative because of it. Compare that to Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Jesus, Mother Teresa, Sai Baba, Buddha, and others who brought much higher vibrations to this plane of existence. Their energies resonated love and service, which is more positive and less dense in nature. I strongly suspect that all of them came here from higher dimensions to serve by example and help humanity find its way.

 

What about you and me? Where do we fit in? Within the third dimension, some of us pulsate at slower rates, while others have higher levels of energetic frequency. The more we choose unselfishness, compassion, forgiveness, love, and service during our many lifetimes, the further up the three-dimensional vibrational ladder of energy we go until its time to graduate into the lowest level of the fourth dimension.

 

As we evolve into these higher states of frequency, we have earned the right to different physical and mental characteristics and the expanded ways of life that go with them. For example, those who currently dwell in the fourth dimension have a somewhat lighter body, live for many hundreds of years, communicate telepathically, eat healthier diets, are advanced technologically, have more meaningful relationships with their partners and their children, heal their bodies with the mind, meditate regularly, explore the wonders of the universe more freely, have a stronger sense of Spirit and the concept of Oneness among all things, and live in greater harmony with the Universal Truths, themselves, and others of a similar mindset.

 

Fourth-dimensional existence does not have billionaires, a middle class, poor people, starving children, the homeless, politicians, red and blue states, prisons, dictators, mortgage payments, credit cards, smokestack industries, slaughterhouses, pollution, sex and violence in their movies, school systems that treat students and teachers like commodities, stock markets, drug problems, landfills, garbage dumping into oceans, cocaine, nuclear weapons, crime, and the seemingly endless list of such things we are familiar with. However, if advanced beings drift too far from their spiritual ways of life, they can slide backwards and slip down the ladder of vibration.

Keep in mind that fourth-dimensional beings do not sit in a lotus position on white, puffy clouds in the ethers and chant 24 hours a day. On the contrary, they have far more interesting, fruitful, and expansive life styles than the more limited ways of life we experience. These evolved souls are able to explore the physical universe at will and do so in ways we have yet to dream of. Star Trek was a hint of what this is all about. Not surprisingly, like all beings with conscious minds, they need something to do. And this need to do applies regardless of what reality they or other advanced souls have graduated into.

 

Fourth-dimensional individuals cannot visit higher dimensions than the ones they currently occupy, but they can drop their vibrational levels to enter ours. And they are able to move around in the places they live in or visit using space ships. Yes, flying saucers. Sound preposterous? Not when one considers it for a while.

 

I recently read some very interesting accounts about four individuals, who claim to have had physical contact with human-like extraterrestrials. At some point they went aboard their spaceships and interacted with these benevolent visitors. They were also given wisdom of a cosmic and spiritual nature, as well as insights into our ancestry and history. There was also a consistent warning in their messages for us: The human race is at a serious crossroads. Save our environment, rid the planet of nuclear weapons, return to sharing and brotherhood, or face rapid extinction.

 

What I found compelling about these four contact experiences was that the messages and information they conveyed had a good feel to them when brought to a deeper place of knowingness inside of me. All had a credible, spiritual theme to them. And the teachings shared were not only from a Higher perspective, but caring and benevolent as well.

 

The contactees I refer to are George Adamski, Daniel Fry, Sixto Paz Wells, and Billy Meir. Below are brief descriptions and excerpts taken from the books they have published.

 

During the 1930s, George Adamski was a young man living in Southern California. He devoted a great deal of his time to understanding and teaching the Universal laws, which he shared with friends and acquaintances. He soon found himself in demand for lectures and often broadcast his talks over local radio stations. Fascinated with the stars, he was gifted with a telescope during the 1940s and often had guests over to discuss his celestial findings.

 

In 1946 Adamski was having a get-together with friends. While viewing the heavens, he and others witnessed a magnificent, cigar-shaped craft hover motionless nearby. This was followed by other witnessed sightings. During the early 1950s, he took
hundreds of photographs of some of these ships. But it was on the day of November 20, 1952 that he had his most memorable moment with the visitors from the stars. Physical contact.

 

George Adamski recounted his contact experiences in a book called, Inside the Spaceships. At one point he described a meeting on board a spacecraft during which he was conversing with extraterrestrials who looked virtually identical to us. This exchange occurred during the early 1950s. One of the spacemen he was telepathically communicating with was a master; a highly advanced, elder soul who provided ongoing wisdom and counsel for his counterparts.

 

Adamski was wondering about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust between warring nations on Earth and the ravaging effects it might have. The master read Adamski's mind and gently told him: "As you know, with our knowledge of the use and control over energies far more powerful than any our brothers on Earth have yet to use, we could, if we wished, nullify your force with our greater force. But remember what you have been told. We do not kill our fellow man, even in self-defense. We are trying, and shall continue to try, to prevent such a war by bringing to Earth men the knowledge of what they would be doing. For no man wages war except in ignorance."

 

The master went on to say: "Just as there are many downward paths, leading away from progress, so there are many that lead upward. Though one man may choose one and a second man another, this need not divide them as brothers. Indeed, one may learn much from the other, if he will. For in the vastness of infinite creation, there is no one way that is the only way."

 

His message for us continued: "There is nothing wrong with your Earth, nor with its people, except that in their lack of understanding they are young children in the universal life of the One Supreme Being. You have been told that in our worlds we live the Creator's laws, while as yet on Earth you only talk of them."

 

Finally, the master said that if we lived by the Universal Laws: "I think the peoples of Earth would be amazed to find how swiftly a change would come throughout the planet…For the great part of the Earth's population is weary of strife and its aftermath of woe. We know that, as never before, they hunger for knowledge of a way of life that will deliver them…So with receptive minds and hearts everywhere on your planet, it is not too late. But there is a sense of urgency…"

 

Adamski was also told that some of our most powerful politicians had been contacted by extraterrestrials and that the "ordinary man in the street, multiplied by his millions the world over" are our real hope for change. Perhaps we saw a hint of that when Mahatma Gandhi galvanized and inspired the Indian people to free themselves and their country from the grip of British colonialism, or when Martin Luther King rallied the black people of America to stand up for their God-given rights of equality and justice.

 

They also said that some of their people are walking the surface of our planet and actually live and work here to help us and to bring their findings back to their space brothers.

 

Adamski asked: "About these people from other planets who are living amongst us…has that been going on for long?"

 

Kalna, a space woman, answered his question: "They mingle with their Earthly brothers to learn their languages and their ways. Then they return to their home planets where they pass on to us what knowledge they have gathered of your world. We have a history of Earth and the happenings thereon dating back seventy-eight million years. Similar histories which were made by men on Earth have been lost with the civilizations that destroyed themselves­–the same pattern of destruction that threatens you today…The thing you call 'war' has not existed anywhere else in our system for millions of years. Of course, all planets and their people must pass through the orderly stages of evolvement from lower to higher. But yours has not been an orderly or natural progress; rather, an endless repetition of growth and destruction, growth and destruction."

 

Daniel Fry was an engineer in charge of installing instruments for missile control and guidance at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. His first contact with extraterrestrials occurred on the evening of July 4, 1950, when he was taking a stroll in the cool night air on the grounds of the military base.

 

Far from the main buildings, he paused to observe a cluster of stars just above a distant mountain range. He was astonished when, all of a sudden, the brightest of the stars blinked out. Then, several more went out. Eventually, an unlit craft began to descend in front of him and landed silently. After a few minutes a voice came from the direction of the ship and his contact experience began.

 

As a result of his experience, Fry wrote a book called The White Sands Incident, which included a lengthy statement by an extraterrestrial named Rolf Telano.

 

The wise visitor from another star system described higher dimensional existence to Fry as follows: "The Nors, in common with the other Elder Races, normally live on a vibrational level, or 'wave length' which is much higher than your own. Since your awareness range is a narrow one, we would not 'exist' so far as your senses are concerned, when we were in our normal state. You would be unaware of us for the same reason that an ordinary radio receiver is 'unaware' of a telecast transmission.

 

You are simply not able to 'tune up to our channel.' Yet we are quite solid and real. There are sounds which your ears cannot hear, and colors which your eyes cannot see. Yet these are actually as 'real' as those which register on your senses."

 

He went on to explain: "Our range of perception is much wider than yours but the difference in levels is so great that we normally are also 'unaware' of you. We do have the ability to extend our perception range down to your level, but for the most effective observation it is necessary that we actually convert or 'tune' ourselves down to your frequency range. This can be done either by direct mental effort, or by a simulated form of the same energy produced by certain mechanism."

 

Providing more insight into the higher dimensions he also told Fry: "It should be noted that when I speak of 'space,' I do so with reference to your frequency levels or 'planes,' beyond your range of perception. Each of these contains many worlds. Some of these co-exist with, or overlap, planets visible to you. Others are in what you regard as 'empty space' on the perception range of some of these other worlds. My present home is not on the Venus you see, but on a higher frequency level world which is somewhat larger than the 'Venus' which you know…Just as several different messages of different frequencies can be transmitted over the same cable without interference, so to can several different material objects of different frequency occupy the same 'space' without interfering with each other in any way. They can, and do, co-exist intradimensionally."

 

And what did Rolf Telano have to say about marriage and relationships? His remarks might surprise you: "Wedding rights are not regarded as creating the state of marriage, but are merely the act of solemnly proclaiming an already existing state. That is to say that we recognize that only mutual love can create and sanctify a marriage. The paramour who truly loves is wed in the eyes of the Unnameable ...Divorce among us could thus be accomplished by a simple public announcement by either party, but it is almost unknown."

 

Sixto Pas Wells was a Peruvian teenager in the year 1974 when he began his extraordinary journey of extraterrestrial contact. His experiences have been witnessed and documented by journalists from nearly every country around the world. To this day, he humbly but persistently describes his contacts with these benevolent beings and has shared their wisdom with us in his book, The Invitation.

 

A wide breath of information was given to Wells by the off-planet visitors. This is what he had to say about the coming changes for planet Earth as we approach the year 2012: "The extraterrestrials are certain that the world is not going to end; it is about to undergo a metamorphosis towards the Fourth Dimension. During the transitional stage, extremes will be radicalized, and only those balanced individuals who choose common sense and humane compassion, will overcome this stage. Religions speak about judgment day. Part of humanity will pass, while others will choose another cycle of incarnations in planes similar to third-dimensional Earth, where they have to wait for another opportunity to make their transition."

 

In reference to war, Wells tells us: "According to the extraterrestrials, a third world war is not going to happen. We have not come out of the second one, which is being continued indefinitely among the developed countries in neutral grounds. What can happen, however, is a series of cataclysms, brought about by the incessant build-up of negative energy among people."

 

His message continues: "Yes, there is hope, but it is going to take a great deal of work to awaken people on Earth…They are providing us with the knowledge to minimize the catastrophe, pass the test and ascend to the Fourth Dimension. If necessary, they can intervene with big spaceships to come to the rescue and prevent total destruction on Earth. However, each individual remains in charge of his or her evolution; only those who are ready will pass. The Fourth Dimension simply will not accommodate those driven by greed or selfishness."

 

It was 1942 when Billy Meier was a small boy of 5. He lived with his parents on a farm in Switzerland. At that very young and tender age he had his first sighting of an extraterrestrial craft and made physical contact with its occupant, a wise and elderly male named Sfath. Over the years, he would have many more sightings and other contact experiences, including rides in the visitor's space ships.

 

Thirty-three years later, during the year 1975, the extraterrestrial encounters with Billy Meier would reach a new level of intimacy. One of his contacts included a woman named Semjase, who came from a planet very similar to Earth called Erra. It was located not too far away within the Pleiades star system. At that point the contacts were still face-to-face and telepathic. However, for the first time, Meier began to release exceptionally clear photographs of the visiting Pleiadian craft called a beamship. In fact, over the ensuing years, he would take many hundreds of these photographs, as well as compelling moving pictures of these beautiful ships.

 

Over time Meier established a close relationship with Semjase, who provided him with a wealth of wisdom and information. As a result, Meier spent a great deal of time documenting his contact experiences, some of which were published in English as a four volume collection that is out of print today. Collectively, this set of books was called, Message from the Pleiades, and it contained many insights given to him by Semjase. Below are a few of her excerpts.

 

"The Earth human being calls us extraterrestrials, or star people, or whatever he wants. He attributes to us super-natural powers without knowing us at all. In truth we are human beings just like the Earth human, but our knowledge and our wisdom are very much superior to his, especially in the technical areas."

 

"People in the Pleiades…live in round houses that are spread out over a large area of land. Each person has 100 x 100 meters of property to live on. They don't have apartment houses and skyscrapers. Population is controlled so that there are only 450 million people on Erra. There is no economic system such as ours, as all material things are provided for those who participate in the community. The resources of their world are shared equally by all in relationship to their participation. There are no politicians as they have a system you might call 'A Wisdom System,' where the person most qualified for a position gets it. Everyone has the same opportunities for education and growth. No one is held back. They are not competitive toward each other but helpful. They are very 'tuned' into each other spiritually and make every effort to better their world through mutual understanding and love. Other things are done for the right reasons instead of for money or power. Each family has no more than three children."

 

Regarding love and marriage: "Pleiadians enter marriage for the purpose of families but are conscious of population control. Since they are aware of the being coming through, the view of children is slightly different. They maintain population growth in keeping with the energies of the planet they live on. Spiritually, there is always a connection between the fine matter and the coarse matter. Population control factors are decided by council. Telepathic abilities allowing awareness of feelings and thoughts do not allow them to take advantage of one another as we do. Everyone pitches in and shares the load. If you need material possessions, your needs are provided for…There are many kinds of love. The love in friendship and marriage are very close and likewise, love of all creatures is very closely related."

 

She went on to say that: "The Pleiadians are members of an alliance of many solar systems of human life, about 127 billion in number. There are also many other worlds who are not in the alliance or have chosen not to stay in contact with it. We must become aware that not all beings are friendly. There are many barbaric races who would enslave us if given the chance. We must prepare for the inevitable time when we will run into them."

 

Meier tells us that: "The Pleiadians say they are not super-human with great powers as we may think. They are men and women like us who benefit from the knowledge of many lifetimes. They are not teachers, missionaries or way-preparers. They do not come on behalf of any god to give us the long awaited peace. God does not confer any obligation on them. They understand our right of free will to evolve on our own.

 

Peace will only come when the Earth human takes responsibility for his own future and learns to create his own reality. Relying on or believing that someone else or some other power is going to bring peace will not make it happen. They feel an obligation to other life forms to help but not to interfere."

 

Over the years, all four of these contactees have been chastised and ridiculed in one way or another by others who wish to discredit their experiences. Yes, there is some "static" concerning George Adamski and Daniel Fry brought on by themselves. However, for the most part their experiences ring true to me. In fact, their star friends warned them of what was to come if they went public with this information. They chose to do so anyway so that others may benefit from this knowledge. As we will see later, there are forces on this planet who don't want us to cast our allegiance to benevolent extraterrestrials from the stars. And their reasons for doing so are not the Highest choices that can be made.

 

The physical universe in which we currently find ourselves is filled with wonders and mysteries we can't even imagine. It is gigantic beyond description and is expanding and adding to itself as you read these words. The inquisitive nature and the inherent needs of an ever-curious consciousness, which each of us was gifted with at the time of creation, compels us to reach out and understand its many mysteries. In the end, we are trying to understand God.

 

Just look at some of the recent developments on our planet. We build massive rockets, space stations, and observational satellites, some of which are heading to the edge of our solar system, so that we can expand our minds and perspectives beyond the thoughts of everyday life. In our efforts, we are also trying to discover if there is other life out there.

 

Our own astronauts fly around in what could be considered UFOs by individuals who lived just 100 years ago. But all we are seeing "out there" is what our 3-dimensional vision permits us to see. If we could somehow put on a set of glasses that would magically allow us to see fourth-dimensional existence, an incredible array of new realities and worlds would come into view.

 

I suspect that there are individuals on planet Earth today who may already be shifting from a three-dimensional world of existence to one that is closer to the fourth dimension. Some may be closer than others. I've had my own experiences in this regard and often wonder about the surreal feelings it creates.

Shifting from the third dimension into the lowest level of the fourth is similar to moving out of space "a" and moving into space "b." It feels like you are gradually leaving one room and entering another. It also creates a subtle but very real sense of

awareness that your "old self" is slowly passing on and its remnants are being left behind in the three-dimensional world that you were totally present in at one point during this lifetime.

 

If you have experienced a gradual or radical spiritual awakening, inner change, and personal transformation, the new "you" and your consciousness is moving into a higher state of energy and frequency because of it. And here is the big eureka. Even though you find yourself transitioning into a different space your body and your mind still exist side by side with the old reality you once fully occupied. It's as though you are halfway between one room and the other with one foot in one space and your other foot in the new one. And you are aware of both spaces and realities simultaneously!

 

Perhaps while walking down the street you are able to sense the old reality you once fully occupied. You are mindful of the people who are still in it. You may even interact with them. But you feel less attached to or associated with that space or energy. It's as though two different belief systems exist side by side, each with its own energy and vibration. And now you can sense that your new energy is different than theirs. In other words, you feel that you are in that three-dimensional world, but not of it.

 

I'm convinced that a Higher Intelligence determines whether one is ready to shift into the lowest level of the 4th dimension. When that happens, I'm equally convinced that we will join other advanced beings that we refer to as extraterrestrials in order to continue learning and growing in the same ways they enjoy.

 

Is there a way to tell if your inner transformation is shifting you towards the fourth dimension? Like all things that change, the symptoms and signs are everywhere.

 

 

 

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Symptoms of Inner Change

"So the question is not: Why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do you wish to walk this path consciously or unconsciously? With awareness or lack of awareness?"

 

~ Given to Neale Donald Walsh by God

Conversations with God–Book 1

 

O ver the years I've not only experienced a radical inner awakening, but the changes and symptoms that go hand and hand with it. The signs are as predictable as a fever and the sniffles that come with a severe cold.

The symptoms of change, and the attending shift in awareness that accompanies it, are not unique to me. I've read about them in the books that have passed through my hands and there is a common theme to all of them.

One thing is for sure. If an individual is ready for inner change and a new way of "seeing" the world, the process and journey will not be a smooth and easy one. If you wonder whether you are experiencing such a transition, regardless of what stage you might find yourself in, the symptoms and clues described below may add to the understanding of the courageous journey you have chosen for yourself during this lifetime.

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You sense that something big is happening on planet Earth these days.

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