The following is part of a sample Personalized Annual Life Path Plan, used with permission with the name changed to respect privacy.

The Seth Material is the name given to the collection of channeled text dictated by Jane Roberts from late 1963 until her death. It has been described as one of the most influential channeled texts of the "New Age" movement.  The Seth books were instrumental in bringing awareness of channeling to a broad public audience^{.  The most famous books in this series are "Seth Speaks", "The Seth Material" and "The Nature of Personal Reality".}

The core teachings of the Seth Material are based on the principle that each individual creates his or her own reality through thoughts, beliefs and expectations, and that because of this, the "point of power" for any individual to change their reality is in the present moment.

The Seth Material discusses a wide range of metaphysical concepts, including the nature of God, referred to by Seth as "All That Is"; and as "The Multidimensional God" who takes His form in many parallel or probable universes;  the nature of physical reality^; the origins of the universe, the limitless nature of the "Self" and the "Higher Self"^; the story of Christ, the evolution of the soul and all aspects of death and rebirth, including reincarnation, karma, after-death experiences, "guardian spirits", and moving on to "higher consciousness"^; the purpose of life and the nature of good and evil; the purpose of suffering^; multidimensional reality, parallel lives and transpersonal realms.

Some Seth quotes from the books:

• We are individualized portions of energy, materialized within physical existence, to learn to form ideas from energy, and make them physical (this is idea construction). We project ideas into an object, so that we can deal with it. But the object is the thought, materialized. This physical representation of idea permits us to learn the difference between the "I" who thinks and the thought. Idea construction teaches the "I" what it is, by showing it its own products in a physical manner. We learn by viewing our own creations, in other words. We learn the power and effects of ideas by changing them into physical realities; and we learn responsibility in the use of creative energy.
  

• If you do not like the state of your world, it is you yourselves that must change, individually and en masse. This is the only way that change will be effected.
  

• Every nerve and fiber within the body has an inner purpose that is not seen, and that serves to connect the inner self with physical reality, that allows the inner self to create physical reality. In one respect, the body and physical objects go flying out in all directions from the inner core of the whole self.
  

• When you alter your beliefs today you also reprogram your past. As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus, and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.
  

• Beyond myself there is another self and still another, of which I am aware. And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality and experience that cannot be made verbal or translated into human terms. And to that self, physical reality is like a warm breath forming in the winter air...
  

Seth's relationship with Polaris

Polaris, as they've told us, is the expression of the continued evolution in Seth's exploration of consciousness.  It is the name we have given to the joining of perceptions, awareness, and identities that include Seth and other beings such as Michael, a "good friend" of Seth.

As most channeled entities teach, we are all All That Is.  However, even channeled beings do not have the full perception of being All That Is, and so it is part of their growth to join perceptions to experience oneness and the ultimate fact that they are All That Is.

Seth is Polaris.  Polaris is Seth.  That is their reality.

Identities on the causal plane, where Seth lives, are not the same thing as they are here.  There is a joyful fluidity and playfulness around the perception of who you are, and because it is a perception it can be changed and recreated at any time.

We are constantly amazed by the consistancy of Polaris as channeled through Karen and the Seth Material in Jane Roberts books.

We recently asked Polaris to talk more about who they are and about the reality they experience. The following is a compilation of that channeling and other channelings in which they describe their experience and mission.

We are known as Polaris. We are an integration of seven other 'entities', some of which have been known in the past by other names. You know us as Seth. You know us as Michael. And there are 5 other energies. Together, as Polaris, we combine the energies of Seth, Michael and the others that talk about the nature of reality and personal self-awareness. We combine these energies with energies of transformational healing. Our intention is to connect you not only to the global collective consciousness of humanity but also to the more primary energies of the earth, the universe, and all physical plane intention from this moment forward.

While it is true that humanity occupies but a small corner of the universe and of existence, it is nevertheless an influence on all physical plane experience. This, then, is what we bring to you as a collective whole: through our messages, through our personal interactions on a one-on-one basis or among groups, we assist you with your choices to create change not only for yourselves on a personal level, but also for humanity, for your planet and for all existence.

We teach self empowerment through self awareness. When you know who you are and when you understand the dynamics that you bring to your relationships and to your interactions, then you can bring more of yourself into those relationships and interactions. Bringing more of yourself encourages others to do the same. Why is this important? Because it allows for more conscious, joyful, life choices for yourself, for all those around you, and for all those who touch those around you.

Polaris speaks regularly to groups and during individual sessions.  Because we are all so intimately connected, we are helping each other learn.  Questions are part of the whole; they are just as empowering as the answers themselves.  Polaris is incredibly grateful for questions that open the door to shifts in perceptions, especially those that are applicable to a wide number of people:

It is easy, given our cultural framework, to imagine spiritual learning as analogous to education - that spiritual learning is an accumulation. The idea we have is that one must keep learning, keep reading, keep listening to teachers, keep doing yoga in order to "advance." However, in truth, spiritual learning is nothing more than learning to be fully who you are. There is no "better" as you grow older and have more experience. There is simply more of who you are.

"In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added.

In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped." - The Tao te Ching

No matter which spiritual path you choose, the path will always bring you to You. Some people take roundabout paths and some dive in headlong. There is structure in the manifestation of spiritual learning as the learning moves deeper into the cells of your body and your basic being. This structure creates "layers" of spiritual learning. There is movement among the layers — this is not a static creation, nor is movement restricted to one direction only. Each of the seven layers exists within you, and each may be accessed at any time (although you likely will "live" in one for a period of time). All layers are necessary to create the tapestry that which is You.

Layers — not Levels — of Spiritual Learning

Our cultural framework suggests that older and wiser is better. Certainly, in physical life, age can bring the wisdom of experience. This often translates into perception of spiritual wisdom: "I'm an old soul, therefore I'm more evolved than you" is commonly thought but likely not voiced. But in reality, everyone — from infant to elder — is on a level playing field, simply operating from a different perception. The idea of layers conveys that. All layers exist simultaneously. One layer may be close to your core, like the core of an onion, but all layers are part of you and none are let go of or moved through, discarded. You do not grow beyond a layer other than letting go of identification with it. Each layer is simply an aspect of yourself. Deeper layers are not better; they are simply present with you at all times, ready for access. Within you, you always have both the new explorer and the enlightened master.

Moving through the layers is not a linear process. You do not finish one and then move on to the next. There may be, for a time, a "home" for you in one of the layers (certainly, when looking at them, you'll be able to easily identify the layer you spend most of your time in now, as well as layers you have used in the past), but you have access to all of them at all times. They are always a part of your experience.

Layer 1: Explorer

This initial layer holds the excitement of bounding out on a newfound journey. The quest has begun. You feel an initial sense of wonder, like a child tasting candy for a first time. You taste the potential of spiritual presence and its benefits and you feel the energy coursing in your body. In some ways, you have a core connection to what the deepest spiritual attainment is — this generates enormous energy and inspiration and draws you forward to your chosen path.

It is all new, so you explore the spiritual world with a child's wide open eyes. This is what we often refer to as the "sponge" stage. In it, you accept everything but you do not yet apply discernment or even much differentiation. Everything is good; everything is valid. You might explore and read any related subject to your interest. You might follow the recommendation of any teacher, friend or acquaintance who appears to be on a spiritual path. For instance, if you are interested in Buddhism, you might read every Buddhist title in the local library to explore it all, irrespective of the branch of Buddhism, and you might also read anything else with an Eastern flavor such as Hindu teachers. Because of the newness, exploration within this layer can feel like pure Truth and the stuff of great revelations. This is the "diving in" to a new teaching. This layer helps you get a feel for what is out there and helps bring the teachings deeper within you, past the surface layers of personality.

Layer 2: Initiate

After some time spent in the Explorer layer, there is often a realization that you need to narrow down your focus so that you can explore more deeply into what resonates with you. You cannot become a master of all teachings at once; here you find that you need to focus on one thing at a time.

The emphasis in this layer of learning is on the structure of what is being learned. Passages, sutras, and scriptures are memorized and you attempt to distill for yourself the essence of a teaching for a purer understanding. This helps you incorporate that essence into the routine of your daily life. You have a basic understanding of your chosen teaching, and with this understanding comes a first siphoning off of what does not work. For instance, if you were learning about Christianity, you might at this point choose which denomination you wish to belong to and decide on some level that other denominations aren't "the Truth"- for you. You have decided which path to follow and what works best for you in this moment. This enables you to have more focus so as to better incorporate what there is to learn in the cells of your body.

Within this layer, there is also a sense of awe for all the wisdom that is out there as well as for other "wiser" beings who are teaching you. You search for teachers who bring a deeper layer of learning. This can give you a magnificent feeling of support and guidance, and it can also lead to the (false) belief that others know best for you than you do. This belief is gradually let go as learning progresses.

Layer 3: Teacher

Within this layer of learning, you've already accomplished a lot of intellectual and social learning — there is a recognition that further study yields diminishing returns. You see all the learning that you have accomplished so far. The value of the teaching is still very much appreciated, however, and so you begin to focus on teaching what you have learned to others. There is an emphasis on demonstrating the authority of learning — that you know the teaching. Teaching others brings you a renewed appreciation in what you have learned; there is a dual experience of the joy of this path.

Within this layer, you may desire to create a study group. You may become a counselor. You may respond regularly to questions in a society or in an online group. You may proselytize if your path advocates it. You may write a blog. By teaching others and exploring your own beliefs, you learn more yourself and see how your learning interacts with others' paths. You expand your own presence to try to influence others.

The limit of the learning so far, however, is that up to this point you have been learning primarily from external sources: books, teachers, and the community around you. You are an authority under something else such as an organization or an abstract teaching. Therefore what you teach tends to be your interpreted regurgitation of what you have learned so far. You do not yet teach directly and solely from your own soul. In other words, the student becomes an authority by playing the role of what they think a true person on the path should be. A student of Buddhism might meditate regularly, speak with compassion and follow the eightfold noble path as best as they can. A student of the Michael Material might teach others about overleaves or begin to learn to channel. If you have an advanced degree in psychology you may hold workshops and counsel others.

Experimenting with authority in this external fashion is all part of the journey to find a true sense of inner power by learning to live your path from your deepest essence.

Layer 4: The Search Begins

"What?" you may exclaim. "The Search Begins only here? What about Layers 1 to 3? I've been an expert - I'm not just beginning!"

It is in this layer that the diving off the cliff toward inner knowingness truly begins. This is the fulcrum layer between following a teaching and living it from within. In the previous layers, there was a social identity — a firm path to follow — which can involve teaching others. If you belong to an organization and have an identity as such, you'll have an understanding of what is appropriate within the teaching of your organization. However, at some level you will realize that just because someone else speaks a truth doesn't mean their truth is yours. Following the path of one's own quiet inner voice requires courage, integrity, and a willingness to step away from the herd. It requires changing your path if one day that path doesn't feel right for you — even if it disappoints others' expectations.

This is where the dark night of the soul appears. What you know disintegrates and crumbles around you — your identity, your comforts and defenses — so that you may find something greater: your Self.

In short, the inner self opens and begins to speak up. You have a newfound dialog with your own soul and essence. The newness of this creates movement in your life in thoughts, emotions, and actions.

Conflict and turmoil can appear if one's inner voice differs from what has been learned. It is rare that your true perception matches exactly the teaching that you have been following. Perhaps you realize that your body does not truly want to sit in meditation for hours and that substituting other practices can give you the same benefit. Perhaps common phrases you have used now feel dogmatic — that is, having lost their personal meaning for you. Within this layer you'll find yourself questioning authority of all kinds so that you find that you yourself are your own greatest guru. In some spiritual communities, this creates unrest, discomfort and conflict. Cries of 'heresy' and of not being 'true to the teachings' can occur. However, in this layer you feel compelled to truly bring your teaching to a new level that includes being true to one's self. There is a desire to see for one's self instead of relying on anyone else's experience, including liturgy. Every true teaching is a living teaching — and it is your life you bring.

This layer also brings a deeper connection to others — you are bringing more of yourself forward in meeting with others. You are no longer identified as "just" a Christian, Muslim, Jew, or any other member of a teaching. You are you. You are an expression of the Divine, just as you are, and you begin to recognize with your own eyes - not simply through others' words - that others are as well. By beginning to truly be yourself, you support others in recognizing themselves as well. You begin to understand the greeting "Namaste" for the full depth of its meaning:

That which is of God in me greets that which is of God in you.

Layer 5: Truth in the Moment

Here, a regular connection to essence occurs and you recognize the dichotomy that while your past learning may have been true for you at that time, newfound revelations and perceptions are always different in each moment. You therefore learn to live by your own perceptions, moment by moment, with a deep trust in them. You know that there are no rules, only choices - and that all choices contain within them an inherent perfection. You build from your past learning instead of limiting yourself to it. The ideas of "right", "wrong", "good" and "evil" fall by the wayside. There is only Truth, and part of that truth is a deep love of life and everyone and everything in it. The result is an expansive flexibility that is filled with gentle humor and play.
Because of this flexibility, there are many ways that you might manifest who you truly are:

• You may find a newfound interest in other learnings and see them no longer as different from one another, but as part of a universal teaching.
• You may begin to have a gentle, relaxed laughter as the humor of life itself is experienced. Yes, this path is perfect - as is every other path!
• You may find a new sense of creativity and even eccentricity. For instance, if you explained a spiritual topic to others 10 times, you may give 10 completely different explanations - each one being true as a completely new discovery in that moment. These may even be contradictory on a superficial level - but the contradictions will help others see the deeper truth.
• You begin to let go of the "shoulds" that are in your life and live life simply as you desire. There's less need to do anything. Paradoxically, this lets you act selfless, help others more, and make better use of your time.

Living firmly in this energy helps firmly build community and connection around you. True pillars of community live from here.

Layer 6: Living Deep Harmony

In this layer the connection to One has become deeper and stronger; there is less focus on what looks like teaching and more focus on loving. You live life with sacredness and spaciousness of experience, and within that spaciousness grows a deep sense of inner peace. There is room for all of You. This brings harmony in thought, emotion, and action. You love life itself. You meet all of life, from your inner demons to external conflicts, with that sense of inner harmony. This can bring tremendous inspiration to others as it shows others how to let go of past habitual conflicts and destructive habits.

This harmony also extends to tremendous compassion for the world. You bring all you have learned through manifesting a calm sense of appreciation of life in whatever form it may take. This compassion can manifest as humanitarian action, like with Mother Theresa, or through social change, as with the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. Because the action comes from inner peace, movements arise seemingly without effort. There is little basis for internal conflict.

Layer 7: Being Pure Presence

This is where the great spiritual teachers reside. Here you regularly experience essential oneness with the Self: your essence, your Buddha-nature, your Atman, or your Christ Consciousness. You experience the reality of Who You Are. Intellectual learning is put aside as you teach from the Now. There is no longer a need to teach, nor to change things — perfection is experienced simply as What Is. Love is expressed simply by being, and this is felt powerfully by those around you. This manifests as pure presence.

The power of manifesting your full nature cannot be underestimated. Students came simply to sit with Ramana Maharshi, for example, because sitting in his presence enabled them to experience inner harmony for themselves.

Pure presence is more than the ultimate manifestation of a teaching, a religion, or a path. It is the unrestricted allowing of All That Is - and this creates an unlimited potential for creation and conscious choice. It is this field which allows great healing to occur. It is a far deeper authority and power than the third layer, as the authority with the layer of Being Pure Presence comes from the full allowing of All That You Are, which without exception exceeds your wildest imagination of what you can experience. Your full and complete presence is the ultimate gift that you bring to the world and to others.

Using the Layers

How does the layer concept work in reality? Again, there is no linear progress through them, although you may experience a sense of that for a given time. I'll use my own experience as an example:

When I began to focus on my spiritual path, everything lit up for me. I wanted to taste it all. I found truth in so many different things: energy healing of all kinds, crystals, the whole "ascension" idea, plant lore, shamanism, the work of Louise Hay (just a few examples). Everything tasted good! I was clearly in the Explorer layer. This is what I often refer to as the "sponge" stage. As time went on, I applied some discernment. Some things resonated more than others. I deepened my look at the things that felt right to me. I was in the Initiate layer. Over time, I felt that I wanted to speak about what I knew. I had taken these truths into my being and was ready to move them outward again. I was a Teacher, but also used the Explorer and Initiate layers when new things were presented.

Then the real fun began. Everything fell apart and I questioned it all. I went deeper into myself, examined my beliefs, and came out more sure of who I was and how I viewed the Universe. The Search Begins. And at times, because of that, I've been in Truth in the Moment. But frequently I'll move into Teacher because it works for that time. And then into Explorer/Initiate when I wish to learn something new. And I've had moments, perhaps, of Living Deep Harmony and Being Pure Presence — we all have access to those layers — when everything just clicks and I am in the beautiful flow of the moment.

Every layer is part of the beautiful tapestry we weave on a collective global basis through our experience. Every layer has a purpose and a use. Every layer is necessary to create the structure of that tapestry and to hold it together. So wherever you are in the moment is perfect for that moment. You can flow through the layers seamlessly and effortlessly, weaving your own path through the tapestry with glorious colors, being more of who you are, and in so doing encourage others to be more of who they are, to deepen and brighten the colors we weave together.

We wish to comment on the recent oil spill occurring in the Gulf of Mexico. At the risk of sounding overly simplistic or obvious, the fallout and end result of this spill is anticipated to be both more far-reaching than presently imagined and unclear as to scope for many years to come. Both the magnitude of this spill and the ongoing responses and effects are presently underestimated by the majority of the scientific community. This is, in a way, understandable, as the event is unprecedented in human history — previous spills did not occur in heavily populated areas, and the Gulf is a central oceanic pivot point, essentially affecting a vastly larger section of the planet’s total oceans than the area of the Gulf itself. But this underestimation is also naïve and reflects a misperception regarding the ocean’s existence as a single, united entity.

In other words, what affects one part of the ocean on one part of the planet ultimately has an effect on the rest of the ocean and as a result, the entire planet. This is a concept that will be coming to light over the next 50 years or so as effects of the spill are parsed, measured, and recorded.

One result of the spill, therefore, at least in the not-too-distant future, will likely be scientific acknowledgement that there is really only a single ecosystem on the planet; that all life is connected, intertwined, and interdependent.

[Channeled May 2010]

Most of you reading this are already aware on some level of the change upon which your planet and those inhabiting it are undergoing at this time. Change has been taking place for a long time now (one could argue successfully that change is a constant state), but the degree and intensity of change has been on the increase and is now something that many of you can sense or feel on a number of levels. We would like to offer our encouragement in the support of these changes as well as some practical advice on what to expect and how to gracefully move through this time while at the same time applying conscious awareness to your part in the play, your place in the overall tapestry of the universe.

Signs of planetary vibration changes

• Feelings of unease
• Disorientation
• Vivid dreams
• Déjà vu, synchonicities, or similar phenomena
• Sleep issues
• Wanting change, but not knowing what to change

• Feeling like your personality is changing
• Wanting to end life as you know it
• Wanting to connect with people
• General malaise
• Feeling that you are receiving messages
• Feelings of fear that you can't connect to anything known

If these are familiar, you are not alone. You are moving toward a time when the higher enotional state is honored and accepted more than it has been. This necessitates some growing pains during a lengthy transition period as you move away from what has been into what is coming. We offer our energetic support to you during this time, to assist in the self understanding and growth you are undertaking as part of the process of being on the planet and accepting your choice to be a part of the changes that are taking place.

Awareness

It is not necessary to be aware or conscious of what is happening within and around you, but awareness helps with the sense of disorientation that can occur. But how to increase awareness? We give practical exercises frequently that can assist in your own awareness not only of Self and your place in that universal tapestry but also in your awareness of the bigger picture and of the connections you forge and maintain with Nature and with the millions of people connected to you in some fashion. We extend such an exercise now:

Sitting quietly and comfortably, rest your hands on your knees. Allow your eyes to close and allow the thoughts of the day and the moment to slip away. You are only here now. You are only in this moment, sitting and resting comfortably, with your hands on your knees. You feel the weight of your hands and the warmth that melts into the space between hand and knee. You breathe now, breathing in and then out again, feeling once more the weight of hand upon knee.

There is a circle being created here, a circle made of your own body. Hand to knee and back up through all your chakras, then down again with your breath to your hands once more. Hand to knee, up with your breath, out again to hand on knee. Over and over, around and around. Feel as you notice this circle how there are so many other such circles being met and made in the same moment. In this moment, countless other people are sitting, hand upon knee, breathing around and around. Feel these circles and your connection to them. Notice that they are there, simply be aware that they exist.

And then come back to yourself, your own small circle, now enlarged. Breathe in and around once more.

The next time you sit in such a manner, hand to knee, a part of you will remember this connection and you will build upon it. It is a common pose and therefore will bring your awareness that much deeper each time you find your body resting in this manner.

Vibration

The Earth’s vibration rate is changing and is increasing overall. This also can lead to feelings of disorientation, of spinning out of control in one’s life, especially if control is an issue for you to begin with. It is a common issue and so it is likely that many people are affected by this sense that the world is moving faster than they are prepared for.

The simplest thing to do, from our perspective, is to let go and release any expectations about what comes next or even of having a feeling of “being okay.” But that is from our perspective and doesn’t necessarily speak to the challenges of life in a physical body, where safety is not always a given.

What do we mean when we say, “let go and release”? There are connotations with those words that can lead one to conclude that letting go is a painful and arduous process. Letting go and releasing simply means detaching from expectation. Allowing for ALL possibilities, even when you can only see one or two.

Letting go exercise

Here is a simple exercise designed to assist you with feeling more comfortable in letting go.

Close your eyes. You can do this in any position, even seated at a desk. Focus your attention on the tip of your nose. For the next moment or two, the tip of your nose is the only thing that exists. There is nothing else. If any other thoughts come in, set them aside for the moment and refocus again on your nose. Just the tip of your nose. There is nothing else in the universe, just the tip of your nose. There is an entire world populated on the tip of your nose. You can imagine this. An entire world, resting there on the tip of your nose. Ives are lived, loves are loved, wars are fought, babies are born, just there on the tip of your nose. Nothing else exists but this space.

Breathe that in for a moment. Just the tip of your nose. Nothing else exists.

Now, slowly, bring your awareness to a larger area. The whole of your nose. Your mouth. Your eyes. Your face. There is still a world balanced on the tip of your nose but now that universe expands. Expand it now once again, this time on a macro level. Planets, Stars. Galaxies. And still, the tip of your nose. See how they coexist? The micro and the macro.

All possibilities exist in this moment.

Vibrational changes also occur on a very physical level. Not only is time speeding up a bit, but there is also a sense of urgency for many people about getting themselves in a better space personally. You will notice an emphasis on personal growth, even more than before. An additional emphasis is placed, for many people, on consciously being aware of AND DOING their unique life purpose.

Being a part of these changes doesn’t have to mean making any overt change within yourself or doing any particular action, but for many these types of changes become paramount. You may find yourself wishing to completely change your lifestyle now and the company that you keep. People who were friends or were in close relationship in the past may seem less satisfying to you now. This has a lot to do with vibration – not everyone processes vibrational changes at the same rate. Not everyone even responds to overall vibrational change in the same way. If you find yourself moving away from people, there is likely good reason to do so. It is not that they are detrimental to you, simply that they are not serving the same purpose for you. Look for new groups that support the things you feel are important.

Finding a passion

One thing that can help ground you through this period is finding something that you can be passionate about. Not everyone is into activism, but this is an excellent time for it. Activism moves large numbers of people into action. Positive activism (about creating something new and not about destroying what doesn’t work) can be immensely helpful at this time in grounding and helping you find like-minded people with whom you can weather the vibrational changes together. This is very important at this time.

Another way to find passion is to look inward. Is it finally time to write that book? To publish those poems? To think seriously about a career change? To find a personal practice that fulfills you? Use the next few months to try some new activities that you have been putting off for a while, or to bring out an old project that calls to you.

Reach out and reach within

Again, we can’t stress enough the importance of forging a sense of connection to Self and to others around you. This is a challenging time with challenging energies, but you will be best served (and best serving others) if your connection to Self is strong and your connection to the spheres that surround you is acknowledged. Challenge yourself over the next few months by reaching both outward and inward.

Reach out to people you might not have in the past. Whether you dismissed them or felt dismissed by them, now is a time to acknowledge the connections that exist around you. Be open to introductions from others. Be open to people handing you gifts of a phrase, word, book title, or thought that becomes a part of you afterward, Be open to new experience and to new perceptions. Others are changing as rapidly as you are, and, just as you are, are looking for an anchor in the storm. Remember that you give as much as you receive — if not more.

Reach inward to deeper and deeper places within you. Yes, there are dark corners you have avoided. Now is the time to shine light on them and to invite them into your experience. Make friends with your darkness. Find ways of pleasing yourself with small things — a bunch of flowers, an ice cream cone, 20 minutes to make a quick drawing. Notice the connection between you and the greater You that exists within.

You are part of the change. Everything you do is helping to create, maintain, and support life in this planet as you know it to be. Each breath and each moment is important. You are important.

Gratitude is the state of being open to what is present around you. It's receiving, being fully open — without judgment — to the state of what is around you.

Energetically, gratitude is an invitation into the third chakra to take in the totality of the energy of that which surrounds you. You can focus on something particular to hold that openness to. For instance, you could be grateful for a person and be open to their energy, inviting it in through your third chakra to then infuse you. You can be grateful to a situation and allow the energy of the state of something, as you perceive it, to be more a part of you.

Most people, in their normal state, are in a state of resistance. The amount of resistance varies from person to person and will vary for a particular person from situation to situation or from interaction to interaction. In other words, there is a spectrum of resistance.

Since most people are in a constant state of some resistance there is little awareness of the resistance that they are holding. The majority of people are in a rather low level state of resistance. Moving from that low level end of the spectrum to the more intensely resistant end of the spectrum is noticeable — and that's when it kicks in to conscious awareness for most people.

[Channeled, Aug 2009]

The following was part of a series of wonderful questions asked in the Polaris Forum (in this post) which relate to conscious creation, the mind and brain, and most importantly, cats.

Question: I was thinking about whether animals, such as cats experience a dream state or an alternative, lighter existence (such as we do) when they are sleeping? Do they experience a mental life similarly to the way we do and do they have individual or mass thought (being as they are part of a hive or shared soul)

Yes, animals such as cats experience dreams. However, they have more awareness of their ability to manipulate astral matter than do most humans. They also experience a lighter meditative state. You often see this with cats that appear be sitting and, for all intents and purposes, staring off into space. It would be incomplete say that they are meditating, but they are in a light hypnotic state, in almost a trance, and are in a meditative state. In that state they have a different awareness of their bodies than they do when they are fully awake and alert. In that state is when they have more conscious connection with the other consciousness that is them on a collective basis.

[Channeled, Aug 2009]

The following was part of a series of wonderful questions asked in the Polaris Forum (in this post) which relate to conscious creation, the mind and brain, and most importantly, cats.

Question: I would like to ask Karen and/or Polaris about the mind. There seems to be two schools of thought in this field. One being that the mind is merely and purely a product of the brain with no external influence or input. The other is a dualist idea and that the mind is a by product or extension of our soul?

[Channeled, Aug 2009]

The following was part of a series of wonderful questions asked in the Polaris Forum (in this post) which relate to conscious creation, the mind and brain, and most importantly, cats. If it sounds like Seth, keep in mind that Seth is part of the energies of Polaris, so this is no accident!

Question: Is it true that every thought we have, every mental action that takes place within our minds is actualized within this physical existence or another that may exist?

Let us be more precise: Yes and no. [laughter]

The potential for tangible actualization is always present from every thought or action that a person may perform. In other words, every thought contains within it a potential for tangible actualization. There is always a choice, however, whether or not one truly strengthens that thought in order to create a tangible parallel, which would then spin off into the exploration of a particular circumstance as described by the thought.

[This is from a session specifically asking about the concept of shame, channeled May 2009.]

A new definition of shame

We would define shame thusly:

Shame is the submerging of your own desires and of a good part of your own identity when you are faced with what you perceive as an opposing energetic force coming toward you.

What is different in our perspective from this definition and the one in your dictionary is that we are describing a process. It is a process involving an energetic interaction between you and another, or indeed sometimes between parts of yourselves.  There are corollaries to this:

• This process is in the present moment.  No matter what your past is, any shame you feel is the result of this process happening Now.
  
• You ultimately have the power to choose differently regarding the energy flow of anything you feel shame about.
  

Energy flow associated with shame

We will give a descriptive example which is what could occur when you meet a stranger that seems to generate shame in you: say you meet someone that you haven't met before and you feel a wave of energy that feels to you like it's coming toward you. The feeling of shame is felt when you use that energy coming toward you as a catalyst to submerge your own desires — your own energetic "outwardness" — and instead feel the brunt of the full force of what you are perceiving is coming at you because you no longer have your normal "wall of defenses" around you.

You could also describe it as the creation of an opening within the façade (your identity, or ego) that you normally hold around you. This opening can feel like a sudden torrent and a violation, especially if you are a person who is normally energetically sensitive.

Most of you have at all times something of an energetic façade around you. This is part of your self-image. Its part of your energetic field. This is normal. But when there is a sudden shift in how you maintain that energetic field it often creates eruptions that can move into primal feelings like shame.

Question: How does that relate to what we culturally know as shame?

Let's use an example of a person who has experienced rape.

There is then a huge rip in the normal energetic façade that the person wears.  Something has happened to change the energetic structure that they are normally holding around themselves — because they've had a hugely physical and emotional experience that makes it difficult to maintain that normal energetic façade.  This energetic rip, or hole, can last for some time, especially as there is generally a lack of awareness that such rips can exist.

And so the creation of shame occurs — because with that rip existing, any energy that is perceived as coming toward that person will be then perceived as a reenactment of that initial feeling of violation.  Perhaps in the case of rape that hole is in the area of the second chakra. This hole comes and goes over time, but every time it's open a little bit in the face of an energetic onslaught, the person is reminded a little bit of that rape experience yet again. Then that hole rips wide open again, all the energy comes in, and it's experienced again as a feeling of shame.

Question: You've described it as an openness to energy, a hole, which doesn't necessarily sound awful, but the experience of it can be. It can be overwhelming.

That is correct. It depends upon the person. There are people who feel relatively little shame about anything. And that's simply how they are, how they chose to perceive energetic influences — their own and those belonging to other people.

In other words, people who are not particularly energetically sensitive will in general feel less shame than people who tend to be more energetically sensitive.

Before we get into individual experiences too deeply we want to talk a little bit about the social effects of shame. There is a cultural energetic façade that each of you wears in addition to your personal one.

You all know instinctively, energetically and through what you get from others (socially in terms of your upbringing, cultural imprinting, etc.) that you wear collectively this additional energetic façade. When there are really big disruptions in that energetic aura that all of you are engaged in together when it has something to do with a big cultural "no-no," then there will be feelings of shame more frequently associated with smaller incidents that run along the same lines. 

There is shame in your culture regarding the body: showing yourself naked is in general regarded as shameful.  Shame surrounding anger in woman exists as well.  Anything that's not considered culturally acceptable within a certain spectrum tends to elicit shame, especially for people who are more energetically sensitive and feel the energy of others more acutely than those who are less energetically sensitive.

Going back to the rape example: if you live in a culture where there is typically shame experienced over the experience of rape then experiencing that shame on an individual basis is more likely to occur than if you lived in a culture where there was no shame attached to the experience of rape.  The hole in the cultural energetic façade makes it easier to create a hole in your personal energetic façade.

Healing shame

Let's say that you are a person who experiences shame on a frequent basis because of repeated feelings of emotional onslaught and violation.

The question brought to us is "how to heal individual shame?"

We will work on this in two ways. There's how to heal a group-level collective shame that you experience on an individual basis, but as part of a group mindset.  There is also how to heal individual shame that is created on an individual basis, even if it taps into something that's a larger group collective type of shame.

Using our rape example again, it is possible to strengthen the energetic field on a consistent basis so that you no longer experience what you perceive of as a hole in that field when you feel someone's energy that reminds you of that rape experience. This can be done on a highly individual basis, but in general the easiest way to heal this quickly and not make a lifetime study of it would be this:

When you are faced with the beginnings of that feeling of shame, immediately focus on that area in your body where you feel the hole is, and begin to pour as much energy of You outward from there as you can.

Simply concentrate on that area and imagine that you have unlimited strength, power and energy within you and that you are allowing it to move outward from you from that point. You are taking up space.

This is not a defense — it is a wholeness.

This runs counter to your natural tendency, which would be to withdraw. It may be difficult, especially the first few times in trying this. But in effect what you will do is prevent any other energy from entering what you think of as your sphere by maintaining a sense of wholeness and completeness within yourself.

After a while you can train yourself to do this automatically so that you need not think about it on a conscious basis.

This is the easiest and quickest way. That is not in any way suggesting that it's going to be easy for everyone. (a gentle smile)  Remember that on an intellectual basis you can talk yourself out of almost anything that you're feeling and perceiving.  It will take trust in your intuition, your energetic perceptions, and your power to move and create energy.

Healing Cultural Shame

We will move on to healing bigger shame — the cultural type of shame. This tends to be a little more complicated, because you're experiencing it on an individual basis and  everyone's experience is highly individualized.

In general, the best way to heal your experience of collective shame is this: when you begin to feel those sensations that you connect to the feeling of shame, imagine yourself being a little bit distanced from the overall energetic structure of the social and cultural group you're a part of.  Know that that's "them" — they can have that feeling over there, but you are over here feeling whole and complete in your own energetic structure.

Again, the way we describe this is very simple. It's not as simple when you're faced with all the complex feelings that arise when you're feeling a feeling like shame which is so intangible and amorphous. It's not something that you can pick up from a table and hold in your hand. It's not even necessarily something that you can always identify as a feeling within your body!

So if you are capable of doing that and saying "this physical sensation I'm having now is what I associate with shame" then that is a huge step forward. You need not necessarily experience that and have that association for our suggestions to have some influence on how you end up experiencing shame for your life.

Question: Both of those are individual exercises. What are some suggestions when there's a couple or a very small intimate group that trusts each other?  Groups really help me.

If you have one other person who can work with you, one helpful exercise is to have one of you practice being the person feeling shame and other practice being the "energetically assaulting person".  Practice moving your energy back and forth in both of these roles as follows:

Stand facing one another about 6 feet apart — no closer. Don't look into one another's eyes — concentrate on a spot in the center of one another's chests.

One of you takes a step back and then takes a sudden step forward with the idea of pushing their energy into the other person. That other person is going to be the one who's normally experiencing that kind of thing as shame.

What the "shameful" person does is to concentrate on the part of their body that they associate with the hole in their energetic field.  They simply concentrate on that area, filling up the energy within their energetic field and moving it out through that point — and seeing what develops.

In a slightly larger group situation, from 4 to 8 people, you can again role-play where one of you is singling himself out from the group consciousness. The rest of the group would be talking about an issue that all of you tend to feel some shame over — whether it is the bad state of your political system or something that we discussed earlier, like public nudity. But all of you need to have some sense of shame over whatever topic that you decide to talk about.

One of you can distance himself somewhat from the rest of the group while the group continues to talk about these shameful things, not really making jokes but just mentioning anecdotal stories that caused a sense of shame. The person who is standing aside somewhat can practice separating his energy from the group. Again, this can take maybe a few minutes for each person. So everyone can have a turn with just a few minutes' worth of experimentation.

The long road of healing

No two paths of healing are the same, but it is true that healing personal shame will have a cumulative positive effect on the cultural shame that exists all around you.  As we see it, it is part of your global and collective path to begin to heal shame on a wide basis.  In time, we foresee that your world will one day look very different regarding the issue of shame, and your personal story today will influence that future yet to be.

[Channeled May, 2009]

What is energy work? A more basic question, perhaps, would be the exploration of what is energy.

Energy is the term that has come to be used to explain or to connote the basic life force that exists in and all around you. Its very intangibility to those who exist solely, in their perception, on the Earth-plane gives it an ethereal quality that makes it seem difficult to understand.

Often people say they cannot feel energy. What they really mean is: they do not know what they are feeling when they feel it.

Note that in this channeling the term "essence" is synonymous with the idea of "Higher Self".  It is you - far more of you that you are aware off.  You can read more of what essence is in this article and in this poem from essence.

This was adapted from a personal session, shared with permission.

Introduction

At any time in your life, your essence is making many choices you are unaware of.  Many times these choices may cause discomfort or bring up resistance.  For example, your essence may be infusing a different energy in your physicality, causing a structural reintegration, quickly replacing and regenerating many of the cells existing within your skeletal structure.  This brings an extra burden on the rest of your body which you feel on a conscious level and do not like because it is not your conscious mind that has chosen this.

Going Beyond Resisting Your Essence

Most of you tend to resist any changes taking place within you energetically or on a physical level that you don't feel 100% in conscious control of and compliant with.  If there's anything going on with you on an essence level, you tend to put up some resistance to that, especially if you do not have intellectual awareness of it.  This is part of your learning to simply flow and move along with what is going on.

In general people tend to resist change.   It's in some ways part of the physical plane experience.  You want to, as humans, understand, know and agree to anything that happens to you.  You want to feel that you are more or less in control of the situation.

So when you're not 100% completely connected to essence - and only a few people are - then you're going to feel some elements of feeling out of control when essence is prompting you, prodding you or welcoming certain energies that you may not have complete and total conscious awareness of.

Question: What can the average person do about this?

We would like to talk about the potential for a swine flu pandemic.

As we see it the recent attention to what has been called the 'swine flu" is but one manifestation of what is likely to be an outcropping of a number of different rapidly mutating flu strains that are going to be making their way around the world.

You've had avian flu, you now have swine flu, and if you know anything about the replicating mechanisms behind the viruses responsible for these flus, you know that they are able to rapidly mutate. You have also set the stage for this series of mutations by creating a very hospitable environment in which "super viruses" can grow and proliferate. You have created this hospitable environment by your seeming attention to detail when it comes to certain aspects of cleanliness, personal hygiene and antibacterial formulations, and also because of the way you treat your water and sewage systems. We could also go into the whole factory farm industry and its overuse of antibiotics — all of this together  has created this really juicy environment for these mutating strains to change at a rate that will be impossible to keep up with medically.

We see the potential being relatively high at this point for millions of people to die from various flu strains as they make their way around the world within the next two years — and this is only the beginning. You have created a global economy and a global awareness. People are traveling and are eating foods from all kinds of places. Your awareness of where things come from in your life is so diminished that you could be touching a keyboard created in China that was coughed on by someone who was ill before they even knew that they were ill. So these viruses are going to be difficult to contain.

Because these strains will be rapidly mutating, the medical industry is also eventually going to go through a rapid change in focus as a result. In other words, the eventual fallout of this to the western medical community will result in a big change in focus from what it has been. The economy of the pharmaceutical industries is going to collapse in the long term — for other reasons as well, but this will be the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak.

People's immune system response, in general, is lower now. The way that people eat has changed, mostly in Western countries, but truly everywhere because there are few countries that are not westernized to the point of being removed from one's roots. The way that most people eat (processed foots, eating foods that didn't come from your surrounding area, eating foods that are not right for you genetically based on your racial heritage, eating genetically modified foods, and eating foods that are either infected with a lot of harmful bacteria that your body then has to deal with, or are completely devoid of any helpful bacteria) is serving to greatly diminish the immune capacity of the species as a whole.

Much of this decreased immune response has been shored up artificially by the pharmaceutical industry. In other words, you are throwing drugs at various maladies in order to help you get over symptoms while not addressing the underlying causes, which are based on a lack of energetic strength or connection to chi. The more you as a people become divorced from the energy that is all around you that exists in nature, the energy that exists among one another, and the more you feel isolated and act as if you are isolated, the less connected you are with your own immune response.

We would say then that there is a better than 60% chance that what we have projected in terms of a pandemic — in other words, millions of deaths occurring due to a series of quickly mutating viruses — will be occurring within the next two years.

[Note: Approximately 60,000 people die of the flu in the United States alone every year, so this additional amount on a worldwide level does not look like a true epidemic.  Polaris did not indicate that this particular virus was going to be the cause, either.  They certainly do not support adding fear to this mix.  More was mentioned on what you can do at the May Monthly Message]

We have been as yet somewhat incomplete in our explanation of what we mean when we say "Love".

Love to you - in your perception that is based on cultural tradition, social cues, literature, music and real emotion - is limited.   It's limited in part because your perceptions are inherently limited, because you perceive what there is on the physical plane, which are things that you can touch feel things, imagine, see, hear, smell or taste.

But when we say love, we don't limit that to this good "heart" feeling that you get when culturally and socially you think of the work love.  We mean complete presence: a complete awareness.

And so saying that love is attention is accurate.  When you give your attention to something, you're not judging it.  You're not deeming it worthy, unworthy, good, bad, painful or beautiful. You are simply noticing.  You are simply being with it - and this is love.

This question was asked in the "Ask Polaris" forum.  You can read the full question with all the background here, but the full question can be summarized as:

"This friend was missing, and I energetically searched for her and got a clear sense that she was alive, and then I found out she wasn't.  What was happening?"

We will approach this different ways. We will speak to the particular events that have been asked of us and we will also speak to generalities. In this particular case there was enough energy left behind by the departing soul so as to create a sense of reality to the person who was sensing her.  In other words, in the reality (the particular parallel)  in which Miché's friend exists, her relative died early on during this time period.  There was quite a lot of energy associated with it that she was able to tap into and to feel an "aliveness".  Upon receiving word that the person had died and had been found, that energy source was then immediately terminated and that sense of aliveness was no longer present.  However at the same time, there was a parallel in which she lived for some time afterward.

Question: There's a been a lot of focus on Obama and his inauguration.   Could you give perspective on who he is?   What are his agreements and relationships with those around him and with the population at large?  Please include some Michael Teachings terms in this!

Let us talk about this man who has been so inspiring for a great many people.  There is of course no accident in this.  This is a soul who has some experience in leading great numbers of people.  He has acted as a war general throughout various parts of history, including surrounding Alexander the great, in the Napoleonic wars and other times that are widely known throughout history.

This is a fourth level mature priest who is drawing on some sixth level energies in order to collect on some karma.  There are a great number of people who "owe him a favor", and this is a life that he is tying together quite a few loose ends in order to create a completion of sorts.

[Note that these terms are from the Michael Teachings perspective and are supplemental.  You can learn more about the terminology by following the links]

This is part of where his "air of service" comes from.  He has plans to affect a great number of people all at one time: the country and the world.  There are a great number of people who are going to be affected by who he is and the energy that he brings to this role that he is playing.   

Make no mistake, he is aware that he is playing a role.  There is more to the man than the role that you see.  But he has conscious awareness of his effect upon other people. 

Question: What is your perspective on the practice of gratitude?

When we use the word gratitude, we would like you to imagine the vastness of the ocean.  Imagine all of the water that exists on your planet, and recall how it is all connected and how it is teeming with life-from very large to microscopic.

All of this exists as one cohesive connected unit without which there would be no life on your planet.

Imagine then, the  vastness of this-and its fullness and completeness-and while you hold that image in your mind, lay over it the word "gratitude".

Here is something that could be said to come from your Essence, your innermost core of YOU.

I hope it connects you to your true Self.

I love you unconditionally.

I am your darkest criticisms of yourself.
I am your most expansive hopes and dreams.
I am the creation of universes that goes on inside yourself.
I am the destruction of all that you choose to leave behind.

I am your most explosive, raging, vindictive anger.
I am your most childlike, idealist, pollyanna hopes.
I am your most melancholic, hopeless, despairing sadness.
I am your most ebullient, rhapsodic, ecstatic joy.
I am your most panic-stricken, terrified, traumatized fear.

I am your most tranquil, Buddha-like, serenic peace.
I am your most expansive, all knowing perceptions.
I am your most impenetrable, unavoidable and insurmountable blocks.

I am everything you can imagine that is within you, and I am what you hope you are not

 

You express that you want oneness with me, and I laugh.
For this is where you already are.
You ask me to tell you what to do and I lovingly roll my eyes.
For I speak to you through your own desires.

You are where you are meant to be.
You are doing what you are meant to do.
You are connecting with whom you are meant to be connected with.
You are being who you are meant to be.

You can look outward and see me in others' eyes
and through the rolling hills and sturdy trees of nature.
You can also see me through the quiet space inside
that appears to you in deep meditation.

 

I am all of YOU.
Welcome me.  All of me.
I am here for you—inside, within, and around you.
I AM you.

When you welcome Me, you welcome You, and then you live the rapturous joy of loving your Self.

Welcome me.  Welcome You.

I Am You. All of You.

 

Question: What is mindfulness?

Energetically, when you have focused your attention and presence in the present moment, you are connecting all of your energetic molecules to the rate of vibration that is occurring with all the other energetic molecules that surround you. In other words, when you are present in a given moment—perfectly present—then the vibration of you and your being perfectly matches the vibration of what's around you. There is a sense of flow. There is a sense of peace. And there is a sense of timelessness.

That is mindfulness.

Question: I'd like to ask about the ego, especially about how the word is used in our culture—it's often made out to be an enemy, something to be extinguished. It seems that there is such a thing, and it is related to barriers and limitations to awareness. I'm wondering how to bridge the gap; I have a negative reaction to the term. Could you expand on it? Also,  many people wish to extinguish the ego to obtain enlightenment. What's the benefit to that?

Polaris is a wonderful storyteller!  They frequently tell heartwarming allegories during personal or group sessions that touch the soul and the imagination.

Following is a beautiful tale about the life of a cloud.

Question: People are saying that the vibration of our earth plane is changing rapidly, elevating, and that the veil between our world and other dimensions is becoming thinner and easier to transgress. Do you [Polaris] experience any difference in this energy shift when interacting with us? And what is happening with this shift?  How will our experience with other dimensions change?

Most of you will be able to, in some fashion, step back from your life to the extent of which you will not necessarily remove anger from your experience, but be able to perceive your own wholeness. By staying in the expansive end of the spectrum of anger you increase your perception. You are aware of the potential of your bigness, yet you're also aware that there something missing. And you're okay with that!

What does a higher being experience? In this remarkable channeling from a group session in Tucson, Arizona, Polaris describes their day-to-day experiences and perceptions in ways that we can understand and envision.  Polaris also describes how they see us!  Fascinating.

The fundamental questions that humankind has been asking for eons is:  Why are we here?  What are we to gain from this human experience?  What is the meaning of our lives?

Polaris answers these questions and explains the necessity of being human on this earth plane for us to understand and experience life from this wonderful and unique perspective that we simply know of as being human.

Question: What details can you tell me about my most recent past lives?

You are perhaps aware as well of your ties to the land known today as South Africa. It would be well if you could imagine then this land in the time just prior to what is known today as the Boer Wars, when the animals ruled almost as well as the people and their hold on the land was stronger.

Question: I am seriously considering going into business with a friend of mine - Patricia.  We are thinking of opening a small clinic in a town near us.  Could Michael comment on this as well as our friendship?  Patricia and I almost instantly "clicked" and seem to give to each other effortlessly.  We have talked about multiple ventures over the years, but this just feels really right, for both of us.

There has been a lot of talk about the upcoming Year 2012 and its significance for the Earth and her people.  Polaris talks about their perception of this event, and gives some very straightforward answers that may surprise you!

Question: I would like to feel more comfortable in my body. What can I do?

There exists a sense of division within you. In other words, you are ... you. You have a body—but you are not your body. Your body is not you. You have taken on the identity of a person who is not comfortable with many elements of the earth plane, including that of being in a body. You feel you are trapped and you blame your body for trapping you within something that creates discomfort.

This question is wonderful because it shows that any question can lead to a wonderful and empowering answer, and that it is your intent that makes all the difference.  It was phrased as: "How can I change things, truly?  And how can other people change in my life?   How will everything be able to change so that I can interact better with people in my life?"

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the nature of anger.  In it Polaris invites us to look at anger differently from what we are used to.  Anger is simply a natural expression of the human state, but you can learn how to allow it to manifest within you differently, thus creating huge and wonderful changes in your life!

This month brings a sense of making a decision. Choice. Black, or white? Here, or there? Should I stay or should I go? For many, what begins the month is the feeling that something must be done. That action is necessary in order to create the next step or enter the next phase. That everything will remain as it is unless something is done to stop the status quo or to move into what comes next.

What we feel on a personal level is much like a microcosm of what is taking place on a global level. This is frequently the case, even for those who don’t maintain conscious awareness of the overall connection of all beings. The awareness lies underneath where we can’t always touch it, yet it is there nonetheless: supporting us, creating a foundation, acting as an underground spring and giving lifeblood to all actions, thoughts, and emotions. On a global level, then, such a sense of decision is also apparent.

A note about Monthly Messages: as in any month, the trends we outline for this month upcoming are just that — trends. These trends are based on a variety of influences that include astrological influences, the collective consciousness, and extrapolation from numerous outcomes gleaned from potential futures based on the point from which we give the initial message. As with everything in life, all this is subject to change, and of course, choice. We attempt to outline trends that show the influences that will affect the greatest number of people, but there are always those whose experience doesn't fit within what we map out. We encourage you to use this information as a roadmap of possibility in order to better understand your personal experience as well as your experience within the context of the greater world around you.

In this month, time again seems to speed up. The seeds you have been sowing will find fruit in the harvest beginning this month – in other words, the inner work, external projects, and anything else begun earlier this year (and even back into late 2009) begins to bear fruit in some tangible way starting this month.

The first several days of August will feel much like the latter part of July – unsettled, anxious, chaotic, moving. But by August 6 things begin to calm down. The energy smooths out. You feel a sense of flow, of “rightness” about yourself and the world around you. This does not mean, necessarily, that you won’t continue to be barraged with sensory information about the suffering of the world, but nerves are not as raw. Your emotions are not as much on the surface. You feel a peacefulness and even, perhaps, a glimmer of what inner quiet feels like.

For many this month, what has been on the inside becomes what is on the outside. Again, inner work bears fruit here, and you begin to see how your own inner transformation changes the world around you. Personal interactions become a little easier as a result, as those in your sphere sense the changes within you as well as your newfound sense of peace with your Self. Those who feel this palpable change are likely those who – ironically, perhaps – have been having the greatest amount of inner difficulty and tension these past several months. If you have felt the struggle within yourself, knowing, perhaps, that you have been making strides and realizations, then this is the time to see how all that work begins to pay off in positive ways. This is no time to rest on your laurels, however, as energies later in the month, beginning around the 23^rd, move you into a new cycle of growth, but the peacefulness in the middle of the month can help you realize how far you’ve come and how your work helps you on all levels.

On a wider level, again the energy this month is all about gathering momentum for what is to come in the future. Some of the dynamics we’ve illustrated on a personal level have applicability on a larger group level as well. You can look toward group movement (moving toward the eventual evolution of the group in its purest form) occurring this month in various groups, from families, companies and communities to socio-political groups like countries. Understand that any one individual’s needs and desires may be swallowed by the group’s evolution, as each of these groups has the capacity to act as a sovereign entity. This may be dismaying and upsetting to individuals who become heavily invested in a particular movement pf the group concerned. All of you are part of groups of some sort: your success this month (and into the future, as August is merely a beginning of a new way of interrelating on a group level) depends on your ability to sense and understand the dynamics of the group as a whole rather than your individual thoughts and desires. Notice this is no small task; as humans you of course will have individual desires and will potentially have difficulty allowing the varying perceptions and desires of others within your various groups.

To assist with this process of releasing attachment to individual desire within the context of any group (this works for groups of any size and configuration), we offer the following meditation practice:

Imagine that you are sitting opposite the group you have in mind. You are approximately the same size, both energetically and spatially. It is as if you are sitting across from a mirror image of yourself, but one that just happens to contain the hearts, minds, and sensibilities of the group you have in mind. Don’t worry about logistics; all can be contained within the space needed.

As you sit across from your group, bring your attention to your heart. As you do so, begin breathing intentionally. With each breath, send some of your own heart-energy across the space between you to your group. Imagine that your heart energy makes connection with the heart of the group. Now, with each breath, pull some of that group heart-energy back across into your own heart space. You now feel and sense the connection between you at this most basic level.

As you sense the connection between yourself and your group, say these words in your heart: We are one. We support one another as best we can. We connect through Love.

Use this meditation daily, especially if you are feeling conflict with your group, or conflict within it.

Other things to watch for this month: 

• A sense of ennui, especially in the middle of the month. Having had the initial rush of connection where things begin to make sense on a large-scale basis, you find yourself wishing for repeated "high" experiences. Distraction and ennui results when you find you are unable to duplicate that high.
• Feeling disconnected from others, especially on a universal basis – this especially occurring toward the end of the month. This is necessary as you begin to again separate and move away for a time from the connectedness and again into a space of separation. While this is part of the human experience, having sensed a connection already on a deep and intrinsic level, you may find the shift to separation disquieting.
• Increased desire to connect in a tangible way to nature – gardening, hikes, beach time – becoming almost desperate by the 29^th or so if not sated before then with plenty of outdoor connection time. This is to assuage the increasing sense of separation with your fellow beings and should be honored if you wish to keep a sense of equilibrium.

Practices to engage in this month: 

• If you haven’t been consciously and regularly finding connection to nature, this is the time to begin. Take walks; meditate on a flower; take up gardening; enjoy the fruits of your own garden harvest; commune with animals; be with others or alone in nature.
• Journaling your emotional journey. By taking pen to paper with intention of chronicling your inner journey, you open yourself that much wider to the depths of your experience.
• Look for signs and omens. This could be the ever-popular 11:11, nature signs, shapes or forms that you notice, or anything that seems to speak to you with some intention and meaning. You need not know what the message is, but making yourself open to there being a message at all will create a sense of comfort that will be useful to you in the days ahead.

As you move through August, feeling your own momentum gathering, pay attention to that which you desire to create. By being open to the energies around you and engaging in your own inner work, you make yourself available to the ongoing evolution of the species.

We spoke last month about a divergence in energy — internal vs. external — which continues on in the present month, deepening and becoming more plainly evident.

Last September there was a significant nexus or choice point made which resulted in some noticeable change for many of you. Many people found themselves feeling more fully aware of their paths, or more fully aware of the interconnection that exists between all life. It is not inaccurate to state that many people interpreted that nexus energy as the creation of an “us vs. them” or “happy” world vs. a “sad” one, because, in some ways, that has indeed been what has been created and is now resulting in the continuing divergence we see at present.

[channeled June 1, 2010]

June is a month of contrasts.

For many of you it will be a rest month, time to regenerate, go within, and recreate the dynamism within you for the next external period to come. For you, this is an inward time, with the primary focus being on what is going on internally.

For others it will be a restless time, a month of spiky energy and high contrast, a time of feeling on the edge, with an accompanying uneasiness of spirit, mind, and even physical being. For you, this is an outward time, with the focus being on externals.

In this time of contrast, it is ever more important to remember where you are going, and what is coming next, while attending most of all to the present moment.

The primary difference among you will be of what it is you are embracing about yourself and your path. Neither path — the inward or the outward — is preferable to the other, although one may feel more innately "you" than the other. If in the first half of the year your focus was external, look now for a shift that will create balance overall within the year; in other words, look now to flip into the other portion of the cycle. If, again, in the first half of your year you were primarily focused on things external to yourself, looking inward now will help you regain a sense of balance to carry you through the year. The important thing is that you embrace this contrast and allow it to carry you into what comes next.

June is a fulcrum month within the calendar year. Within the space of this month, there is much underlying decision-making, and many of you are feeling it. Should I leave my job and follow my dream? Should I make a change in my relationship, because, I am feeling uncontented? Should I start that new project I’ve been thinking about/talking about for months now? If ever there was the perfect time for a new beginning, this month is it. Things begun this month have a good chance of finishing, and creating within that new beginning the space and path that the rest of the year will follow, with the years to come piled on afterward. Beginnings look especially auspicious this month, so we would encourage you to think about your life in those terms, whether you are in the inward phase of this energy or the outward phase.

Signs that you are in the flow of June’s energy

• Feeling as if time is speeding up and you are riding the crest of a wave
• Making new connections with others
• Feelings of synchronicity
• Omens and signs, like seeing repeated numbers on a daily basis

How to get into June’s energy flow

Breathing. Deep breathing is especially important this month. The respiration of the planet is changing, as is the pulse. Recalibrating yourself with the breath of the Earth will help you feel in the flow of the energy around you. Every time you feel out of step, bring yourself to meditation and then breathe in time to an inner metronome. This may be slightly slower or faster than you are accustomed to, so give yourself time to adjust. When the timing is right, you will feel lighter physically, as if the weight of gravity has lifted slightly.

Movement. We often recommend energy movement like tai chi, yoga and qigong. They connect you to a foundation that includes the planet upon which you live. This month you’ll want to begin or continue your practice, or try simply moving slowly and gracefully in a way that seems to bring energy up through your feet and legs and moves it upward and around your body. Paying attention to your hands can help with this. Imagine that they hold a ball of energy and move this around your body with slow graceful movements.

Dreamwork. June’s dream activity will be on the increase, as many of you are preparing for deeper spiritual engagement. Dreams can be a sign of astral activity or can be your guides and higher self, speaking directly to you. Pay attention to the feelings left as residual from your dreams. Begin a dream journal to chronicle the changes over time with your conscious connection to the dream world. If you haven’t already, try lucid dreaming.

Global change in June

A new emphasis worldwide on things that connect people. While the Haiti earthquake united people in a way that was unprecedented, we see the beginnings of worldwide events that have a similar harmonizing effect that will likely be less catastrophic in nature. These are things like dance contest winners, book or film phenomena, sports figures, and human-interest stories that touch people on a heart level.

Advancements in architecture. People are reshaping living spaces and how they associate with one another on a communal basis, which is played out through the structures within which they live.

Changes in animal rights. As you begin to re-recognize the connection among all living beings, this becomes evident in new laws and other discernible change in the treatment overall of animals.

Personal change in June

Again, this is a good time for beginnings as mentioned above. Take care with what you begin this month, as it will leave a trail for you to follow for the rest of the year. Again, as fulcrum of the year, this month is pivotal and crucial in forming want is coming next. If you feel fear or anxiety about this, try some of the above exercises to help you feel in the flow of this powerful energy. Remember though that it is a month of contrasts as well, and you may feel either or both of the ways previously described: you may experience this energy as either inward or outward, or a sometimes crazy-seeming combination of both. Gain, it is helpful to ground yourself into some of the activities mentioned above, as well as to connect more firmly to the community around you. This connection to others will play an increasingly important role as time goes on, so beginning activities that take you within the realm of others who you feel are like-minded is especially helpful this month.

When we mentioned beginnings, it is useful to remember that these can also be endings at the same time. New dream jobs mean the relinquishment of the old one. New relationships mean transition away from the comfortable and familiar. New projects can feel overwhelming and frightening. Allow yourself to move through the grieving process of whatever it is you are letting go of this month, and truly honor that letting-go by immersing yourself in it.

Other things to look for in June:

• Changes in appearance. This may be the time for a hair cut or wardrobe style change. Think also about your body and especially about the image you present to the world around you. What is internal is becoming external — what do people see about you? Is there anything you wish to change about this? Step into this month’s energy and bring more of you out to play, even the parts you think others may not like. If you are confident about yourself, others will accept you.
• Travel. You may be feeling as if you wish to “get away”, and this can be helpful. Remember that wherever you go, you take yourself with you. Reviewing yourself on an inner level can be easier in an unfamiliar atmosphere, but travel also lends itself to denial. Invite awareness as to where you are with this.
• Injury and illness. Many of you will be granting yourselves time and space to do that looking-inward from a space of slowness and healing. This is not a bad thing and can invite much self-awareness. Be sure to give yourself ample time and space to complete the process.
• Connections. Again, interpersonal connections are beginning to become paramount. Expect serendipitous meetings and connections with new people beginning this month, who will soon begin to reshape the landscape of who you spend your time with. Expect to spend some time thinking seriously about the people in your life and what energies you wish to carry with you into the future you are creating.

Again, the easiest way to ride the waves of June’s energy is to simply relax and allow things to occur as they will. Beginning a practice of mindfulness can help with this process. Meditation also supports a balanced way of looking at things. Allow this month of contrasts to be your friend, your ally in the Self you are allowing to unfold as well as the life you are creating now.

We have been talking for some time about things coming closer to the surface, not only on a tangible physical level manifesting as earthquakes and volcanic activity, but also – and perhaps primarily – on an emotional level. If human experience and interaction can have been characterized as intellectual for the past several hundred years, what is being created and encouraged now is movement toward experience and interaction on an emotional level. This affects each of you.  

Why do we call this month’s theme Mixed Emotions?  There will be a variety of effects on the invitation each of you – and your planet as a whole – is receiving to begin to move toward embracing the emotional aspects of yourselves, one another, and the planet.   The reaction to this, as best as we can express it, will be mixed. Some people who long for this invitation will feel more at home, more free, more at peace with the overall vibration. Others will feel ill at ease or find that personal matters are coming to the forefront in unexpected ways. Still other people will find old patterns resolved effortlessly. The effects upon the earth will be much the same.

If you feel resistance to or fear about the idea of moving toward a deeper emotional interaction and connection on a global basis, it’s likely that the next several months will be challenging for you. There are ways of making this easier upon yourself, however. We’ve included a simple exercise that can be helpful to everyone during this time.

Close your eyes and breathe deeply, breathing down past your heart space and into your solar plexus. Continue breathing down all the way into your root chakra. Feel the power gather there, connecting you to your ancestral roots. Within each of you is a personal place of power that is associated with this place – breathing into it will activate your ancestral memories and allow you access to that personal place of power.

Continue breathing, feeling the energy grow inside the limitless space that is your root chakra. Bring your awareness now to this space, and remember a real place on this Earth at which you felt a sense of peace and goodness. This may be a distant memory, and if you allow it, it may be a past lifetime memory. Picture this place in your mind, placing it within your root chakra. Feel your indelible connection to this place and to your humanity. Feel also your connections to the natural life that exists in this place – trees, animals, plants, birds. Feel the sounds from this place – rushing water, birdsong, infinite quiet – resonate deep within you, awakening within you a great Love.

Breathe into this peaceful, loving space deep within you, knowing that you may return to it at any time. It is yours because you are a part of it. It is a part of you, your personal place of power. Return this way as often as needed.

What to expect on a personal level

Expect any and all of these, often in very nearly the same moment:

• Feeling out of sorts
• Feeling exhilarated
• Old patterns coming to visit, or becoming more noticeable
• Reconnecting with people from your past
• Finding kinship with new people in unexpected ways
• An abundance of energy
• Feeling unusually tired
• Connecting to childhood memories
• Desire to travel
• Desire to connect with animals

As this global invitation is to feeling, we invite you to feel whatever is occurring in each moment to its utter completeness.  When you do this, the next moment may be seemingly unrelated to the last; a new lifetime of sorts.

What to expect on a global level

The Earth is certainly not impervious to change, and primarily moves through cycles in much the same way that individuals do. On the whole we would expect trends to continue much as they have, simply because change on a global basis occurs more slowly then it does on an individual level – the Earth is essentially a collective of individual change. Animals feel these cycles as well, and their behavior will tend to shift over time as a result. Look for changes in herding trends and feeding desires for many species including companion animals, plus larger “mood swings” and fluctuations in energy levels.

Overall, expect the following planet-wide:

• Surprising political news such as abdication, coup, or impeachment, in a first-world country
• Increased levels of political and economic solidity among third-world nations
• Unusual degree of water crisis in traditionally arid areas, as well as unusual flooding in wetter places
• Increased attention on the ocean and marine life
• New species discoveries

If at any time you find yourself feeling as if the world is moving faster than you are, or faster than you’d like, you can perform this simple reconnection to help ground yourself and focus on the inner portion of you that is at all times balanced and centered.

Stand, focusing on the connection your feet make with the ground. Do this barefooted if possible. Feel the floor (or Earth) beneath your feet. Breathe up from the soles of your feet into your 3^rd eye, passing each chakra – root, sexual, solar plexus, heart, and throat – slowly on the way. Feel the energy gather there in your 3^rd eye. You may feel dizzy at this point – simply focus for a moment on your solar plexus.

 

When the sensation has passed, continue breathing up from your feet and allow your 3^rd eye to expand further. You are now connecting to a sense of timelessness – past, present, future – that grounds you in the Now. Create in intention to utilize this stored energy to assist you in creating conscious choices this month that support your soul growth and effortless movement into an emotionally-centered universe. From this vantage point you understand the need for a higher emotional connection at this time, and any fears of change or overwhelm are diminished.

Now bring your awareness down to your feet again. Feel them tingle. Move them slightly and feel the floor or Earth beneath them. Feel your connection to where you step next.

May is a powerful month, and can fuel creative practices as well as higher intellectual pursuits. The sense of connection to nature and to all life is very close to the surface now. People who create a practice that honors this connection will themselves feel nurtured. Ideas include:

• Drumming circles
• Nature walks
• Shamanic practices to connect to your spirit animals
• Meditating outside

You are at all times welcome to connect with our energy for support. We are available to all who ask.

The energy this month can be described as “Anticipation of Change.” We have described in the past the sensation many people feel of late, that things in their lives are changing, moving, perhaps in ways that feel a little outside their control. This anticipation of change will be following many of you this month as you stand on a precipice, wondering what it would feel like to jump.

We have used this analogy before, when we spoke about the overall energy of this year. This month, then, April, brings with it a heightened sense of what is yet to come. But now, some time has passed since you first thought of 2010. You have dug down, gone within, and come up again for air with a new sense of perception of yourself and the world around you. You have a greater sense of what is yet to come, of the direction you wish to take in the eight months remaining to the year. Time is passing! Yet each moment brings you new discoveries, new pathways, new joys.

Personal Anticipation of Change

On a personal level, you may expect to experience some of the following:

• Sense of purpose
• New connections to people
• Wistfulness or nostalgia for what remains in the past
• Anger or frustration about where you are vs. where you wish to be
• Childhood emotions playing out in new ways
• Sense of “rightness” with the world
• Feelings of injustice
• A call to action
• Feeling connected to guidance in ways that are new for you

As you can see, you could be all over the metaphysical map this month, so expect highs and lows as you proceed. Remembering that nothing remains the same, even the feelings you wish would last forever, will be useful this month. Everything changes. Impermanence. Darker emotions and childhood emotional patterns may come up for you, yes, but on other days this month you’ll feel inspired and connected, filled with joy in the simple act of breathing.

How to make this month’s energy of Anticipation of Change work for you on a personal level:

We’ve designed a simple practice you can engage in this month to keep you feeling grounded and anchored while leaving you open to the possibilities that you create in each moment.

Sit or lie down comfortably and take a few deep breaths. After a moment, as you release each breath, allow yourself to make an audible sound. Ahhh. Breathe in again and release, again with an audible sigh. Ahhh. As you sigh, feel the vibration in your throat. Feel this vibration move down from your throat into your chest, your heart, your solar plexus. Feel the sigh fill your body.

Keep breathing and releasing audible sighs, moving the sense of vibration down your charkas as far as you can. Can you reach the soles of your feet? Try this now, releasing a breath and allowing the vibration from your audible sigh to move slowly down each chakra and out through the soles of your feet.

Now breathe in through your nose, still releasing each breath audibly. Feel now the echoes of the audible breaths being released all over the world. Connect your vibration to those and feel the song you sing together.

Now breathe in through your crown chakra as you pull in air through your nose, moving the breath now through your 3^rd eye before it reaches your throat and down. Imagine now that you are breathing as part of a great spinning circle, that the breath moving out through the soles of your feet and the breath coming in through your crown chakra are connected, one enormous circle, and your breath and audible sighs are making the circle spin faster.

You can speed the circle up or slow it down. You are in control of this enormous circle. Play with the speed of its spin until you feel comfortable. Set your intention that this circle keeps spinning at the same rate even without your perceptible attention. You may change the rate of spin at any time.

Now, even when you feel ungrounded or not in synch with your life and your internal guidance, you have a way to reconnect and set things to your liking again. Try this practice on a daily basis for a while and notice what changes for you as a result.

Global Anticipation of Change

On a global level, things are boiling just under the surface. We’ve talked before about increased volcanic and seismic activity throughout the coming year, and while we are not presently expecting any major events this month, with the increased pressure below the surface of the earth there will certainly be a major and perhaps catastrophic event occurring in a populated area within the next few months. Italy and the area surrounding the Adriatic Sea are at potential risk in this time, as are Malaysia and the Phillipines.

The below-the-surface boil continues on in other ways. A major American political reversal is on the horizon, as is the potential of an assassination of a world leader. Overall tensions remain at a strong point, suggesting that events that create a sense of resolution to the constant under-surface tension is close at hand, though likely not this month.

To put global anticipation of change in perspective, understand that the tension of expected change is magnified when on a large-scale or global level. It is one thing to feel for yourself that things are moving. You can explain away your discomfort with the level of lack of control that you feel about personal change.  Larger entities like countries, kingdoms, and corporations have no such luxury, however. When tensions increase to a certain point, something must be done to relieve the pressure. You cannot suggest that France, for instance, begin a meditation program in order to better deal with political and religious tensions that bubble just under the surface of everyday life. France, as an entity, is an amalgamation of many things including individual people, their expectations, past patterns, and a sense of propriety for maintaining a particular image that others have come to associate with France. Every country, kingdom, and corporation is much the same, and as such is affected differently by under-surface tensions. Things tend to erupt, then, in often surprising ways with these larger entities.

Possible global symptoms include:

• War
• Systemic starvation
• Corporate failure, buyouts, mergers
• Religious terrorism
• Political “spin”

Sound bleak? Not really. These things are present all the time; most people are either unaware of them or choose a low level of awareness of such activities.

Assisting Change on a Global Level

While you may be feeling unempowered about helping to create change or to support the sense of anticipation of change on a global level, we can assure you that you do indeed have the ability to effect assistance on this global level. You only need to do one simple thing.

Engage your personal creativity.

That’s right: paint, dance, sing, sew, write. Whatever creative pursuit makes you feel balanced, whole, and happy. This is an especially fruitful time for creativity, so make use of it! And you’ll be assisting the global community as well.

How? Because all this anticipation of change is built upon a great deal of energy accumulation. By tapping into and creating movement with this energy, you create a cumulative effect of movement in all this “excess” energy, and help create a platform upon which the energy can begin moving in a large-scale way.

Take charge of your personal precipice, then, and jump with your eyes wide open.

The theme for the month of March is Chaos.

March is a month of seeming contradiction. You are perhaps familiar with the adage that March “comes in like a lion and out like a lamb”? This is a reference to weather but could also be applied to the winds of change permeating your very existence. In other words, what appears calm on the surface is seething and roiling underneath, and what appears chaotic is in actuality forming a new, more stable foundation.

Let us examine our theme of Chaos. When defined, one finds that chaos is in actuality quite structured.  In other words, it is unpredictability within a highly defined and perhaps rigid set of rules. Would you not say that this is your world, in part? In your universe there are certain rules within which, at times, there is certain unpredictability. Even the very appearance of individuals within the human race is subject to this: there is a general set of ‘rules’ (DNA structure, for example) within which there are endless – and seemingly unpredictable – variations. Chromosomal abnormalities. Cancer markers that are never triggered into actual cancer. Endless variations in size, color, personality and other peculiarities of the human manifestation that don’t seem subject to any rules. This is the hallmark of your world – this seeming contradiction – yet many of you have endless difficulty with the fluidity of choices available to you at any given time.

This seeming contradiction is part of what is going to be becoming stronger and more apparent as time goes by. How will this manifest in ways easily perceivable?

Physical manifestation of energetic chaos

1. Increased weather “events”. We have talked before about climate changes and extreme weather, have we not? You may expect, subject to region, further such extreme events over many areas, some widespread.  Drought is beginning this month across parts of India, Africa, and the southwestern part of the US. At the same time, extra precipitation is expected across much of western and southern Europe, the South Pacific, the central and Eastern US, the Caribbean, and much of South America. This precipitation could arise in the form of hurricane-like weather. Or other extreme events.

2. Earthquakes and volcanic activity. As above, so below. Look for increased visibility and awareness of Pacific Rim (especially the South Pacific, also possibly Alaska) activity this month as well as isolated earthquakes in areas not generally known for them (central US, eastern Europe). It is likely that a fairly devastating quake takes place in a populated area within the next 60-90 days.

3. Discoveries of genetic aberrations or new species are likely to be found in the animal kingdom. Animals and plants are, of course, subject to this chaotic energy as are people and the earth as a whole. While it is true that the animals, plant, and mineral kingdoms respond to such change with greater apparent aplomb, change affects all. What will be likely, then, are overt and tangible effects to the energetic shifts, resulting the “new” species, flocks of “deformed” species found regionally, or other similar discoveries.

Intrapersonal manifestation of energetic chaos

1. People “snapping.” This can be on a low level (increased arguments between spouses and children) or on a wider level (employees ‘going postal’, random attacks, mob situations, etc). It can be helpful to remember that this is occurring worldwide, not just in your neighborhood, and that the statistical likelihood of being a part of such an occurrence is relatively low. If this is a fear for you, please try the following:

Standing near a table or waist high horizontal surface, stand with feet hip width apart while your hands rest on this surface.

Take a moment to breathe and remember your particular fears surrounding this potential occurrence. Imagine while you do so that the charkas in your hands and feet are opening fully to embrace the energy of your planet: your home, the Earth. 

Feel the enormous loving energy pouring in to you now through your hands and feet. Your hands may feel warm and tingling. Feel the pulsating aliveness of your planet, the place you call home and that you, along with billions of others, are creating. Feel the love inherent in this energy of your creation. Feel the safety inherent in this energy of your creation.

Draw this energy, along with the live connected to it, up through your hands, feet, arms, and legs. Allow the energy to meet and mix in your root chakra. Feel your center of consciousness drop a few inches as you do so. Feel any tightness on your heart area now dissipate. Feel the immense sense of perpetual, eternal safety wrap your being in a soft, warm blanket. Feel how this sense of safety was created by you, along with billions of others, in the creation of your world as you know it to be. Remember that you carry with you a bubble that includes this sense of safety and protection.

Feel it now and rest in your ability to re-create this sense any time you wish.

2. Relationship hurdles. This is a huge month of growth for people involved in all sorts of relationships.  Long-held patterns may be released this month. Expect things to re-surface so they can be released.

Welcome these issues rather than attempting to submerge them again.

Those who are less self-aware will have greater difficulties relationship-wise this month, but if it is your practice to be aware of these patterns, then you should have little difficulty allowing them to simply drift away into the winds of change that surround you. Understanding, too, that any seeming surface disruption is for many a sign of healing underneath that is long-lasting and permanent in nature. This relates to all sorts pf relationships, from intimate connections to family dynamics to work relationships, as well as the relationship to Self that each of you possesses. Again, look for outward conflict as a sign of inner healing and change.

3. Spiritual depth. For those of you seeking greater self awareness, this is a month in which you can easily accelerate your growth. We would caution against becoming stuck in linear terms to describe such growth (‘evolving’, ‘moving forward’, ‘ascension’, etc), but at the same time there are exponential possibilities this month that will allow you great enhancement of whatever path you are presently choosing and such terms can be useful in this manner.

Practices to assist in flowing with, not against, the energy of Chaos

You can, of course, enhance your sensation of flow in relation to the energy that is around you at this time. This is not, of course, to allow you to “control” your experience or outcome, but is more designed to help you feel movement in a pleasurable way.

1. Practice an energy movement exercise. This could be tai chi, qigung, or some forms of yoga or meditation – anything where energy is consciously and deliberately moved through the body. This is very much a month in which to let go of conscious thought and allow your other wisdom (of the body, of the soul) to surface. Even if you have mental resistance against such exercises – and we would suggest daily use to enhance the effects – this is a case where “just doing it” is the most helpful approach. A side benefit, of course, is that after 30 days of such practice is becomes a habit, which in our perception would only continue to be beneficial.

2. Drink water. More than ever, this is an important practice. Pure, filtered water, preferably from a source local to you, is best. A liter per 50 pounds of body weight.

3. Breathe. Again, this is such a basic practice that is welcome at any time. Try simply breathing as fully as possible when you first awaken. Not only are you more relaxed at this time, making it easier to actually “get” a full, deep breath, but it will help create the tone for the day and energize and fully awaken your body. Spending 3-4 minutes in contemplative, deep breathing upon awakening will greatly enhance your abilities to flow with this month’s energy.

In addition to these practices, we suggest going within to seek answers to long-held questions. We are, of course, available to those who seek our advice and will continue to make our presence known to an ever-increasing number, but we also support your abilities to seek the inner guidance that is always inside you.

May you rest in the seeming contradictions.

The theme for this month is Flow. When we speak of Flow in this context, we speak of the ability you all have — perhaps something unique to your species, at least in your way of doing so — of assimilating yourselves into that which surrounds you. In other words, you take in the energy of what is around you and breathe it into yourself, sometimes quite literally, creating an ever-changing new organism with each breath.

When we speak of “what is around you” we mean this:

• The literal air and all it contains: particulate matter, the pheromones of nearby lovers, the scent of the pot roast bubbling on the stove in your kitchen.
• Visual stimuli: the flowers in a vase on your table, the piles of clutter on your desk, the view outside your window.
• Clothing and furniture: the touch, smell, and feel of what touches your physical body.
• Energetic information: every tangible item or person (or non-human being, such as pets, plants, and stones) has with it an energetic signal, and this you also take in.

Each of these things that you take in, the actual tangible things as well as the energetic information, also contains within it all the memories you have ever experienced of similar such things. When you observe the vase of flowers on your table and take that into your being, you take with it the memory of all flowers in vases you have ever observed, and all similar-colored flowers you have observed growing, perhaps, in gardens, as well as the memories that come flooding into you with the scent of flowers, the color of flowers, and the feeling of warm sun on your back as you, perhaps, once walked through a garden filled with flowers.

After upheaval comes quiet, at least for a while. It’s a time of taking stock, of seeing what’s in the larder, and then moving ahead again into new territory. By month’s end, many of you will have unearthed a direction or secret resolve that you intend to move forward upon into the future.

The stabilizing energy is a direction to head toward. There will likely be a number of ups and downs along the way — realizations and discoveries — but on the whole, the energy of January speaks to an overall stabilizing effect so that further deepening and movement can be possible in the future.

Effects on a personal level

What does this mean to you personally? For starters, it’s about bringing things to the surface. Not so much in the dramatic ways of the past few months, but more lovingly, tenderly, almost as if you are greeting inner parts of you for the first time, giving birth to the most precious deep elements to the creation that is you. So you can expect feelings of surprise, wonder, childlike yearnings, and innocence to be crossing your path this month.

Another effect of January’s energy on a personal level is a sense of greater connection. This may occur for you on a family level, between neighbors, in a community, or on a virtual basis, but awareness of the greater whole that is all of humanity will be becoming more evident this month. Deepen this for yourself by reaching out in tangible ways to those around you — volunteer, give charitably, or simply host a gathering.

Right now you – all of you – stand poised at the edge of a precipice, ready to jump. Or to fly.

2010 is a pivotal year. We have been telling you about changes taking place within you and around you these past several months. Many of you have begun deep, lasting, and profound inner transformation as a result of choosing to step into the flow of change that is taking place all around the world. We repeat here what many of you have heard from other sources, or perhaps sensed yourself: you are here – now – for a reason. Most of you reading these words will feel a familiar tingling or chill right about now. You are here, right now, in this place and in this time, to take part in what is likely to be one of your species’ greatest times of expansion.

First, a caveat. The change that we speak of will take years to complete or even to come to a place that is readily discernible by most people as great change. This – now – is just the beginning stage of great overall growth. Expansion. You have agreed to be a part of what will end up being among the beginning stage of this expansion. Many of you will intend to incarnate again later on for a role in later stages of this change that will likely require several hundred years overall.

But understand, too, that change is occurring. Many of you are sensitive enough to feel what’s coming and to incorporate new ways of relating into your own lives. Many of you are now riding the crest of the wave yet to come.

Now, what do we mean by “expansion”? The human species has collectively agreed and chosen to begin evolving in certain ways that will eventually support new ways of interacting. Evolution has been occurring throughout your entire history, of course, but soon there will be more evidential changes taking place. Nothing so drastic, perhaps, as growing gills to breathe underwater, but just as significant in the overall effect.

December is the month of richness. Not “rich” in the material sense, although that is certainly a possibility for those on that path, but rich in the sense of depth. Added complexity. Layers unfolding layers. Last month you allowed what was under the surface to bubble up to conscious awareness; this month you explore things more deeply, in a rich, soul-satisfying way. You'll see the strata of each layer of past experience and insight, and this month the patterns become more clear and beautiful. You sense purpose in your experience. Everything you have been before this moment has built the You that you are now, and you rest this month in that knowledge.

It’s no accident that this energy is occurring along with a few other things going on in the world at this time:

1. End-of-calendar-year review. Now you’ll be looking back over the past year, a convenient marker or milepost, to see where you’ve been and the journey it took to get to where you stand now.

2. December religious holidays, for whatever amount of significance they hold for you personally, are extremely affecting to the vast majority of people in the world. Even if you don’t personally hold religious significance to this time of year, there’s a pervasive sense of global collective awareness this time of year. Now, more so than other times of the year, you are aware of the connections you have to all of humanity.

3. Solstice. For the Northern Hemisphere it’s the winter solstice, the time of inward contraction, which invites inner exploration. In the South there’s expansion with the summer solstice. Two magnetic poles in perfect balance. Overall, this affects your richness explorations by inviting you to feel more in tune with the energy of your region.

4. Copenhagen energy talks. Much of the direction you’ll be headed on a collective basis in terms of how humans and the earth interrelate will manifest through the results of this summit. If you like making predictions, pay attention to what goes on here.

It is helpful, with all this collective energy abounding, to bring yourself to a place of conscious connection to the global collective entity known as “humanity” as well as to the larger global collective entity known as “Earth.” To create a stronger conscious connection, we suggest the following. This exercise is most effective if done as a group experience, but can also be practiced alone:

Lie directly on the ground if possible, or on the floor of what feels to you like a comfortable space.  Lying on your back, take a few deep breaths to relax your body somewhat and to allow you to focus your energy and attention.

When you feel that you have expanded into the space surrounding your body (about 6-8 inches all around your body), focus your awareness on the space within your heart. As you do so, notice that this space is of infinite size – although it is contained within your awareness, it extends in every direction toward infinity.

Maintaining your awareness of that space, allow yourself to imagine a golden light emanating from that space, dropping down into the center of the Earth below you. The center of the Earth, you now notice, is also a space of infinite proportion just as your heart-space is. The two infinite spaces are now connected by the golden light.

You are now connected to this source of energy that exists within your planet that fuels and connects the global collective entity known as “humanity”. You are also now connected to the global collective entity known as “Earth.” You are no bigger and no smaller than either of these entities.

Your own space is as infinite as any other.

Practice this daily if you can this month, especially on the solstice.

Other ways this energy of richness will appear this month, beyond that of a personal nature:

This month, the rage surfaces. Just like bubbling lava that’s been deep underground and now longs to surface, so too in this month will anything you’ve been keeping stored inside you.

Do you fear this? Do you fear that the inner parts of you that now seek sunlight are dark and should remain hidden? They are still a part of you, as much as the parts of you that you show yourself and others.

Now, while we used the word “rage,” it would be inaccurate and incomplete to describe the majority of what is happening this month as angry, or vengeful, or dark. Instead, we invite you to think of what bubbles forth into the sunlight this month as “movement.” Joyful. Opening. Inviting you into your wholeness.

This doesn’t mean that you will feel nothing but good feelings, although the more you invite the hidden parts of you into the light with joy and acceptance, joy and acceptance are what you will feel. But this is a process that brings up emotions and judgments that are connected to the inner parts of yourself you've been hiding. There are reasons you've been keeping them submerged — patterns you've become accustomed to using. Any time you are faced with elements of yourself you’ve been keeping hidden, you could experience resistance. Or feel shame. Or uncertainty. So, too, could those around you, who will be surprised at your new depth and may react with their own reactions to this new energy. But understand that these are their reactions to what they feel inside themselves, and have nothing to do with your relative goodness or lack of goodness.

Let’s explore the various ways that the rage bubbles to the surface this month.

October is a month of restoring balance. September was all about uncovering things, buried facets of old patterns, but this month you’ll be striving to maintain order and find balance again in what feels yet again to be a very unbalanced world. For many of you, this process will be easy, facile, and unthinking, but more of you will likely react to the flailing efforts of those around you and strive ever harder to maintain your own balance while people around you are plummeting from their tightropes.

Let’s examine this tightrope analogy a moment. Most of you regard the concept of balance as being poised atop a precarious perch, much like a tightrope, and that within this confinement you must walk your path, remaining ever vigilant lest you plummet to your undoing below. But what if … instead of falling, you would fly? And what if in this flying you find new heights, new lovely vistas, as well as new challenges to surmount? We pose this question because we see that the majority of you regard balance as a precious commodity, one that allows you to remain safe within, again, the confines of your path as you determine it to be. But we challenge this notion, and instead invite you to see balance as a limitation. As a means to control yourself and your environment. As a narrowing of our own choices. As … unnecessary.

So while on the one hand you’ll likely be striving FOR balance this month, attempting to find a foothold or at least a toehold on reality as you perceive it, we invite you instead to let go.

Fly.

September is when things begin to get interesting.  We are seeing a tangible divergence in parallels.

When we talk about diverging parallels such as we are talking about now, we would call this something more than a nexus.  A nexus is something that occurs three times or so every year and this is something that we would term more major and more significant than a nexus.  It is still something that happens with regular frequency and occurs in your time frame every five or six years or so. 

In this divergence, one large group of you will more or less be waiting things out, biding your time, hiding your heads in the sand, and going deep underground.  Another group of you will very visibly and noticeably sense and have awareness of their own creation of the direction of the changes that are occurring all around you: towards community, hope and a sense of spiritual prosperity.

It is not our intention to convey any sense of "heaven" or "hell", "good" or "bad" in our description of this divergence.  They are simply two parallels opening, one in which there is a large desire to continue exploring some of the themes that you have been looking at at for years, and one in which there is a  group collective decision to allow those themes to drop away and new ones to arise instead.  There will still be difficulties taking place in either world, there will still be change taking place in either world, and there will still be many of the aspects that we have been telling you to expect over the past several months in either world, no matter which parallel ends up being the reality as you perceive it.

You feel it, don’t you? The spiral, the connections, the intoxicating realization that Change Is Here.

It’s as if, for many of you, you woke up recently, you’re not sure when, and found yourselves in another world, one that looks just a little brighter, colors fresher, air clearer. A world in which some of the old patterns and habits that used to haunt you, to rule you, are suddenly much less so. They may even be gone entirely. So what happened? You don’t remember when they went. There was no catalytic moment, no tipping point, but now, yes, you’re sure now as you check, now they’re just Not There.

That was July. July, the month of heady emotion. July, a month of, for many of you, incredible intensity.

Now it is August. You’re thinking you can rest now. You’re thinking, “August, the harvest month. I can reap what I’ve sown."

Not so fast.

There’s more. That was just a taste of what’s to come.

July is a month of intense emotion.

Some of you have been thinking that June was intense enough, but June was more about action and connection — whereas July is all about feeling. It may feel chaotic to some of you, especially those who are not used to accessing the deeper layers of your emotions.

This is what is bubbling up. Those of you who are more used to operating from your emotions will likely feel a very pleasant month as it finally seems as if the rest of the world is more in step with you. But understand that because you are not an emotional society, most of you have deeper layers of emotion that you do not typically access, and so there will be some elements of that chaotic feeling for nearly everyone this month.

The energy of May is starting out quite differently from that of the month previous. Whereas in April you were mostly concerned with your individual processes, now after only a month you have moved a distance into the awareness of one another as a global community. This is but a single step along a long path toward true awareness of your connection to one another, but it is a step nevertheless.

While many of you are feeling energized by this new sense of belonging and connected community, many of you are feeling this as having come from fear. Yes, there are fears now worldwide over the potential of pandemic. We would say that it is largely the fears that are creating the potential of rapidly replicating viruses that still have the potential to decimate populations. Why do we tell you this, then, since we know that even saying this will bring fears to those who hear these words?

This month the energy is about “Renewal.” Many of you will be seeing and feeling renewed hope, feelings of increased peacefulness with what is happening around the world, and feelings of increased peacefulness on an inner level.  Renewal of the spirit, as well as the body.

This feeling is in sharp contrast, however, to some things that are happening or beginning to happen in many places around the world.  We have long spoken of change, and many of you have begun to feel it on an intrinsic level.  This deep level of change, a fundamental shift occurring around the globe and affecting ALL of you, has felt frightening at times.  Overwhelming.  But because a sharp turn was taken globally in an energetic nexus occurring at the end of last month (March), the new month brings with it not only all that change but also a decrease in levels of anxiety about it.

Let us take you on a journey.  This is, of course, a journey of Self and of discovery, an analogy for the journey you are taking this month energetically. Are you ready?

Think of something to take with you on this journey.  It can be anything -  one single thing - that you would most like to have with you on this journey.  It can be anything, from the concrete to the abstract. Your imagination is your limit.

Take some time now to savor this thing you are taking with you.  Feel it, hold it in your hand (if you can!).  Feel its edges (if it has them), and its weight.  Feel what energy it, too, carries with it, and how that makes YOU feel having it near you.  Really take time with this and imagine as much detail as you can before going on.

This is a month of practice and repetition.  Feeling like things are familiar? That is because it is very likely you have already done them, or felt them, or thought them. If you are feeling, then, that you are simply stuck in old patterns of response and behavior because things just seem the same as they ever were, then understand that this is your last practice, your last exploration, before perhaps letting go of them for good. In order to move along, to take the next step, one must take stock of where one is at present. That is what we see happening for many of you now.

Question: Economics is a question on many people's minds. There could be a depression and there seems to be many people in power who are still clinging to old ways of using the current situation to make more money for the privileged rich. How worse is it going to get before it gets better? Is this another Great Depression?

We will call 2009 a bridge year; a year of transition.

We speak to you on a regular and ongoing basis about change. Change is something that is always present within your experience. It is part of your purpose, but 2009 will very likely represent to you as you look back on it later, as again, a bridge—a transition.   2008 saw many changes—the beginnings of changes and the glimmer of understanding that there is much yet to come regarding changes that are happening on a global and collective basis. We have spoken about these changes before, about the upheavals that are beginning to take place. 2009, then, is the in-between, between the understanding that something is about to happen and the realization of what is happening.

Many of you have been experiencing the energy surrounding quite a large shift, a lot of movement.  We have been talking to you for some time about changes and transitions, breathing in and out: a lot of change.   This will of course continue throughout your lifetime, but this month, December 2008, marks for a great many of you a shift into another reality, a nexus, a different way of perceiving, a different consciousness.  You can also call it a parallel world.

In this month people are primarily focused on picking up the pieces.

In other words, there has been a great deal of change occurring around the world. This change has manifested politically, economically, socially, and environmentally. The change has affected everyone living at present around the world in one way or another, even when they don't necessarily feel directly connected. And because there has been so much happening, this is a month to pick up the pieces. Picking up the pieces means checking in to see where you are, looking at the aftermath, and finding a new direction based on where you are at present. For some of you, your lives have changed so quickly that your heads are spinning, and this is now the month to assess where you are and to figure out on some level where you want to go.

Many of you have noticed what seems to be very palpable change in the air.  The energy is shifting, you say.  Something is happening.  I can feel it. You are correct:  something is indeed happening.  What?  We can talk about this time of change in a number of different ways:

1.   Energetically.  It all points to energy anyhow, does it not?  What we are seeing now is that things are elongating energetically. 

October brings with it the energy of listening.  People are beginning not only to hear themselves but also to hear one another.  This is a change over previously, and in some ways signifies a burgeoning sense of connection to one another that hadn’t existed before.  You may find this manifesting most especially in your personal relationships, wherein you find a new awareness of what others are saying, beyond your previous perceptions of this.  There is the energy, then, of invitation to a new level of awareness among and between you.  This is the corollary to last month’s energy of introspection coupled with chagrin at global change.

This month brings with it an aura of anticipation; change has been in the air for some time, and now we will begin to see what shape that change will begin to take.

On a personal level, this month brings with it an increased desire for introspection. Many of you will be evaluating and re-evaluating yourselves in the context of the wider population, beginning with your families and moving out into your communities and finally the entire global population.

The message for the month of May is quite simple:  Breathe.

By this we mean to simply take what is, and rest with it.  You have been on a path of transformation, and this is a time to allow those changes to further permeate you.  There have, of course, been many ups and downs associated with the changes you are enacting within yourself, and this is merely a time to ride with the currents awhile, to drift along with the natural course of what you are building within and around yourself.

The energies that surround you now bring with them winds of change.  Oh, we speak of change frequently, as you never remain static even when it feels so to you, but we would say that there are in some cases veritable gales of transformation surrounding many of you.  Would you not say this is so?  This is a time, then, of complete re-evaluation.  You are noticing and taking stock of your patterns of response and behavior, allowing them to eventually dissipate.  For now, though, you may be feeling immersed in these old patterns, wondering why they continue to plague you. 

You have seen, up to this point, that your thoughts and actions have effect upon your life.  This is a month, then, of additional reflection upon what has transpired in your life and where you wish to head now.  Many of you will find yourselves changing direction as a result.  Many others will find new feelings of a firm foundation laid in the direction you are already heading.  In other words, this is a time of reaffirming your own power to create your life.  If you love where you are, after this month you will love it more.  If you are looking for changes, after this month you will feel less directionless than you have been feeling. 

When we begin to look energetically at an arbitrary period of time such as the year upcoming, we examine the potentialities that exist among you, between you, and because of you. Understand that choices may be made, especially collectively, that can affect potentialities that exist now, thereby affecting the eventual outcome. We do not speak glibly when we say that every year is a year of change. Understand however that for the year upcoming, what we see for most of you is a year of harvest. In other words, the groundwork has been laid especially in the year preceding to reap some real transformation.

We have directed you in the past to place your attention on some of the changes occurring in your lives during each month.  There is awareness there, then, that change for you is an ongoing condition.  At some times it is more apparent than in others.  We see that for most of you the month of January will likely be one of preparation, a more quiet and reflective month, tying together loose ends of a lot of the inner work that you did last year.  We anticipate issues coming up, being revisited, or even emerging anew that will lead you to draw conclusions based on the inner journey you took last year. 

This channeling concerns a group question regarding the well known channeled phrase "All Is Choice".

You may have already noticed in thinking about the statement "All Is Choice" on a big picture, theoretical basis, it is not all that useful in a practical sense.  It can be comforting to have that as a basis or background, but the human mind finds it impossible to maintain a real connection to that idea when also faced with mundane, day to day activities.

In other words, when you pick up your coffee cup to take a sip, it is not that useful to you in that moment to imagine how that small action fits into the overall arc of your life as a projection of a soul. How does taking a sip of coffee serve you in the larger sense?  It's almost impossible to grasp that - and then the question arises: "how does the act of taking a sip of coffee affect me, either positively or negatively, in terms of the overall arc of my life?"   From that moment, from the human perspective, it's almost impossible to tell.

And so for some, a sense of "bullshit" can erupt from this.  The human mind invents reasons to stave away inner chaos.  The concept of "all is choice" can be used to push away feelings and to rationalize acts or feelings about acts in a way that's typically not very useful to a person. An intellectual, older soul can have strong feelings about an act, but step back to intellectualize under an "all is choice" motto in order to be "loving" and deny negative feelings.

While stepping back and becoming part of that larger perspective is part of the old soul experience, there's a not so fine line there. When that stepping back is done to create a denial of what's being felt in the present than that is not particularly useful.

Our suggestion about how any person can view their life in terms of choice in a way that's empowering would be to instead of looking at things at the macro level to look at the micro level and to connect emotion to every moment:

As I pick up my coffee cup to take a sip, what am I feeling?  Am I feeling energized?  Am I feeling frustrated?  Am I feeling hurried because I need to gulp down a whole cup of coffee before I leave for my day?  Am I feeling complacent?  Am I feeling bored?

That's only a small fraction of the kinds of feelings that someone can feel in the simple act of picking up coffee cup to take a sip.  The more you are present and aware of what you feel in a given moment, the more you will feel connected to your own empowerment regarding choice.

Choice within Simple Actions

Let's examine this more.  We will go back to the coffee cup analogy. In that act of picking up the coffee cup, you have all kinds of choices. Perhaps they might be in some ways dependent upon or connected to other factors. If you're in a hurry, then you might pick up the coffee cup in a certain forceful way. If your mind is engaged in something else and you reach out with a fumbling hand because you decide you want a sip of coffee while you're staring at your laptop screen, that's another way of being present in that moment.

A small word of caution: while it is possible to be mindful and aware of what you were feeling in every given moment, that again is not necessarily useful to the human experience. In other words, you can get anal about it: "I'm sitting in a chair.  What am I feeling now?  I'm leaning back a little.  What am I feeling now? I glance out the window.  What I am feeling now? ... "   And you can get caught up, lost in the midst of intellectualizing.  You would be trying to feel instead of allowing the feelings to be present. There's a balance.

Not everyone that we're speaking to can join in what's referred to as an "old soul perspective" of stepping back and becoming distant. And that's okay - it's not necessary in order to feel empowered in your own life or feel good about what's going on in the world.

When we are referring to empowerment in this instance, we mean feeling that you yourself have the ability to make changes in your life as you see fit.  The very first step in that is assessing where you are in a given moment.  This is why we talk about the micro level, or bringing in an element of mindfulness.

The most useful way to apply that concept is when you feel the "big feelings" - when you feel a fair amount of emotion.  That's when you rest in that and simply ask "what am I feeling?" from within your presence - from outside your intellect.  Allow the feeling to be there while you rest in it.

Question:  I recently had an experience where my child was misbehaving and getting very angry, screaming and not listening.  I felt a very strong impulse to spank him until he "behaved", but then I caught myself because I know that is very bad for him.  I guess my own childhood pain came out - I don't know.  But then I got very tense and pushed away the feelings, but I still noticed him being very frightened of me and seemingly feeling threatened.  I guess by stuffing away those violent feelings, I was also being unloving.  This relates to the nature of choice to me - both were fairly automatic.  Either I behave like my parents did to me or I try to repress and do the opposite, but somehow create a similar dynamic.  I didn't feel I had any other choice.

This situation is a moment of big emotion.  The parent, feeling all this welling up inside them, has a moment to create that change from how they themselves were treated as a child. So the parent can assess this, starting with the knowing of "I'm feeling this big emotion."

Realize first that immediate action is not necessary. In other words, following through with that spanking energy is not necessary.  Removing or changing the emotion is not necessary.  If there is a big emotion there then this is a time for the parent to sit with that emotion for a moment without taking action.  Allow it to be there.   The action arises from believing that the emotion can't be there.  It wants to move through and out.  Tensing is another way of saying that the emotion cannot be there - and it also communicates to the child that their own mirroring emotion should not be there.

Again, this is an invitation for the parent to truly be with that emotion without moving into action.  This "action" can be external or internal, such as tensing or rationalizing.  Understand that this moving into action is likely a pattern for that person that came from their own childhood (such as with the pattern of self destruction).  Whether or not they tense themselves and try to try to deter any tendencies that feel negative, or they go ahead and strike the child:  those are two opposites of the same spectrum of non-acceptance.  The trick them would be to simply sit with the emotion and to let it be there without taking action.

Once the parent does that, other perceptions begin to come up: realizations that this is a connection to my own life. Realizations that I don't need to perpetuate this with my child, that there are other choices available now that the need to push an experience away has dissolved.  Emotions are simply energy.  They are an experience.  From our perspective, all emotions are good emotions, as energy itself has no value judgments attached.  But people can feel disempowered by emotions when they have not been encouraged to actually feel them.  Surrendering to the experience of an emotion is a tremendously empowering act.

The child's experience is a little different.  A child is naturally feeling a little bit disempowered, especially in western cultures, because of the physical dynamic that already exists. In other words, they're a small person and surrounded by big people who make the rules, provide the structure and play the "authority figure". There's already an atmosphere of not feeling that they have a choice.  But also within the child is a beautiful invitation to create a sense of choice in the midst of what could feel like a disempowering situation. The choice is about feeling.   The child too has the impulse to take action:  Do I cower and cover my head?   Do I run away?  Do I try to smile to defuse the situation?  Those are all potential actions.  But the child too can simply be with the emotion.

A child naturally does this at a very early age, but in the western culture is largely educated away from this.  This is true in the modern world in many Eastern cultures as well. The role of "parental authority" is a factor in 90% of the cultures around your world now.

We can offer a practical exercise beyond the theoretical which we've already given you that can increase your ability to feel connected to the choices in your own life.  We've already talked about stepping back while feeling and allowing yourself to feel when a big emotion comes up.  Again, that's useful situation by situation as it comes up for you.

In order to assist, provide support and create a pattern of energy movement within you now that can become a foundation for you whenever those big emotions come up so that you can practice what we've already told you, we can offer this.

This exercise is best if done seated and your spine is relatively straight. If you are accustomed to a particular meditation posture this is a good opportunity to take a particular posture but it's not necessary; you can be seated in a chair. 

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Closing your eyes, take a deep breath and allow it to float out if you.  Take another deep breath, hold it for a moment and allow it too to float out if you.  As you release that breath, imagine your conscious awareness expanding.   Every time you breathe in and breathe out your awareness expands. In other words, rather than being tightly placed inside your head, perhaps, it moves to a space outside yourself. You can start with a space that extends about a foot away from your body.

Just as you breathe out, allow your breath to float into that space about a foot on all sides of your body and allow your awareness to extend to that distance.  It's especially important to bring your awareness up over your head to that distance.

Now you can imagine that your awareness has expanded to a place that's up above and slightly outside of your physical body. This causes you to have the sensation that your movements would be slower, more flowing than you are accustomed to.  You feel wiser, perhaps.

Understand that within the space you may also incorporate all your emotion world by stepping up and back and out just slightly. You have the opportunity to include an awareness of more of yourself than you are accustomed. Yet this is not a  place of overwhelm. This is where you can be with those big emotion's without being overwhelmed by them.

If the idea of choice and empowerment has been particularly troubling to you - in other words if at times in your life you have felt buffeted by the winds of chance - then we would suggest taking a few moments of each day to perform this exercise.  Understand that when those big emotions come up for you this is the place that you can rest in while you are allowing yourself to be present within those emotions. And when we say "be present with" we are not suggesting that you become detached from and intellectual about them.  But we are suggesting that from this space you can see them for what they are. You can allow them into you without creating a need for action.

The energies were extremely positive - people were affected strongly simply by being in the same room.  Thank you everyone there - the questions were wonderful and appropriate.

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Transcript of the channeling (with questions)

Good afternoon. We are here.

We are pleased to be speaking with you today. We have noticed that several of you have some curiosity about us, about who we are and about the process of us coming together that eventually evolved in us being here with you today. So we will tell you a little more about that.

As you know, we are four, yet we are one. Now, that doesn't mean that we are "reunited", but that we are acting together as one as has been previously discussed. We are four - and you are familiar with some of our more individual energies. Most of you are: you have read material, you have felt energy, you have studied our words ... you will have that familiarity with us. So we would like to tell you more about our "individuality", and we would like to tell you also about what we do as a group. We think you might find this interesting.

Many of you know the Michael aspect of us, and you know your perception, of course, of the Michael aspect of us, which is authoritative yet warm, with a dry sense of humor. You this about us. We are pleased that you know this about us. There is more to us, of course : you yourselves present a face to the public, but that is not the entirety of you. So you have not yet seen the entirety of us, and it is through our working together as a group that we hope to be able to express more of our entirety to those of you who are on the Earth plane of existence. It is not out of a need for expression, necessarily, that we hope to do this, but it is because through the entirety of us we can give more to you.  You see, it is through the entirety of you that you give more to one another. Why would we not want to express more of who we are so that you can use that energy, you can use that knowledge, you can use that humor to be more fully who you are?

It may not help for us to tell you more about our Michael aspect in terms of descriptive words. So we will allow you to take a moment and to experience what the totality of our energy feels like. That is not to say that some of you are not already aware of more of the totality of us, but we invite you now to take the opportunity to feel what we are presenting to you.

If you will close our eyes. Take a moment .... and we are here. [silence as everyone went into a meditative state]

Let us lift that a little so that we may speak to you more. You may open your eyes. That is more of the totality of us. Those of you who are energetically sensitive felt what you felt.

Now let us move into the Seth aspect of us. (humorously) We are not as a dry as we like to make out that we are. We have a fair amount of humor, and you have likely noticed this. You have read our words. You see more than what is there on the page, do you not? You feel the love and the acceptance that comes from us. We do not - none of us do - we do not judge you in any of your conditions. We simply tell you where you are. There is no judgment in that. But we tell you where you are so that you can know more who you are. You see?

And we do not hold back when we tell you where you are, because to us it matters not. All of the lessons that you are engaged upon are beautiful to us. All of the lessons: even the painful, or horrific, or devastating lessons. They are all part of the beauty that is what happens when you are part of the Earth plane. So, we are now in our more Seth aspect, and we would like you again to feel the totality of us. So again, we will bring our energy down and you will feel what you will feel. So you may close your eyes, and we are here.

[meditative silence]

And we will lift that a bit and you may open your eyes.

Now, you are feeling energy - what does this this is tell you about who we are?  Would it not also be useful for us to explain more you? Well, the energy comes along with the words as you know!  You are - all of you - quite energetically aware. We are finding this a pleasure to interact with. Not everyone is like this, you know.

So again, moving back a bit. When each of us are in our individual aspect we are able to present, to you to those of you on the Earth plane, a portion of who we are, and we do this via sending energy through channels like the one you are looking at, who then translates this energy into words. And you know that much of our words - that is translated energy - comes across very much the same, and yet there are differences. How could there not be? We are coming through different channels, different translating devices if you will. So there are individual differences based on the channel's perceptions, based on who the channel is. We have spoken a little bit about this recently - some of you have heard this. Again, we present as much of ourselves as we can, but what comes through is a portion of who we are.

Robert is here, and would like to speak a little. Robert doesn't often speak as Robert. Robert is the dramatic one! Robert has a flair for the gesture. You may have seen these gestures.  Robert is a bit of a performer. Robert likes to talk about himself in the third person. So, you may feel some of Robert's energy now. Simply Robert - now.

[A dramatic gesture and then a meditative silence]

And Robert lifts his energy.

Robert has spoken through channels but chooses often to engage himself, if you will, in other projects.  We can speak more about of more of the projects that each of us are engaged upon in our "day-to-day lives" that may be of interest to you. But first we would like to introduce you specifically to a Aesha.  Aesha has of course been here the entire time.  Aesha has a hard time removing themselves from the totality of everything because Aesha is everywhere, and since Aesha operates simply on a vibrational level, it is difficult to to separate Aesha.  However we will do so for you now. Welcome Aesha.

[A very gentle gesture and then a meditative silence]

Now Aesha is going to step back a little to their customary position all around you.  And we will talk a little about how we came together to work as a group of four - as a quadrate.

We are engaged, as you may be aware, on multiple projects on our plane of existence. Part of our lessons we are involved in is staying in supporting the lessons that you are engaged in. So a great deal of our energy, each of us, is involved in assisting you with various aspects of your lives. Some of this comes through energetically in terms of words that you can then take, read, assimilate and bring it into your life in order to see things differently or to change your perception.

This is all very wonderful, but that is only a part of who we are, as we were explaining earlier. The larger part of what we do that affects you is simply energetic. As you know, everything is energy anyway. So why would we separate out the energetic part of ourselves that ends up in words from the energetic part of ourselves that simply surrounds you and supports you?  We are always here. We are always with you. We are always accessible to you - all of us. It is only in your minds that you need to separate our energy from yours.

Again, we will tell you how we came together to work as a group. But first we will tell you more of what we do on a day-to-day level.

As we were saying, we are engaged on in supporting you in your efforts. We have existed on your plane of existence and we have experience about that. We have since expanded our perception because of our growth into other planes of existence, and it is through our larger (if you will) perception that we are able to assist you with yours. So that is very much what we do. However there are plenty of mid-causal plane lessons that we are engaged upon learning ourselves.  Another great part of our energy is engaged in making in our way through our causal plane lessons, just as you are making your way through your physical plane lessons. Because of our wider perspective, though, we are able to divert much of our energy to your exploits in your lives and your well-being, while at the same time we are tending to ours. If you will think of us as similar to what a teacher or parent is in your perspective, where you are at once yourselves and at the same time you are assisting someone with their own lessons, this is much like how we operate.

Many times through our own causal plane lessons we try new things, just as you try new ways of approaching your own challenges that arise within the context of your lifetime. For some time now we have been working on various ways of moving through certain causal plane challenges, and we determined that in order to do so successfully that it was necessary to revisit some of what we have done before. All of you do this in the Michael Teachings system. Many of you are looking at lessons particular to a certain soul age level. But yet you visit lessons and opportunities that are typically associated with a different soul age level. So this is much like what we are doing now. We are revisiting some of the realities of where you are, but seeing them through our wider perspective.

(humorously)  We're sitting around with a cigar and a drink, thinking "how can we do this?" And we decided that it was a lot of fun interacting with you folks in the past -  so why don't we get together and see what that feels like doing it as a group?  We are all used to interacting with the Earth plane and physical plane separately, if you will, even though our awareness of separateness is different from your awareness of separateness.  So we decided to come together and to work together in this way. There is a certain amount of information that we are interested in passing along to you, and that is what we are engaged in doing.

After this information is passed along, will we still work together? Probably! Isn't there an infinite amount of information that we could possibly pass along to you?  Well, in some ways, yes, and many of you have remarked that upon of the spiritual information coming through multiple sources is simply different ways of saying the same thing over and over.  So all of us - and we say all of us we mean the collective everyone - on the causal plane is a very interested in assisting those of you on the Earth plane because this assist us.

There are many of us are beyond the four that you were speaking to now that are transmitting a great deal of energy in your direction. This is resulting in a similar message coming through in many different ways, and we've been doing this for some time - all of us - and so you will notice things almost being repeated. Well, it's not for the sake of repetitiveness, it's for the sake of reaching different people at their own right moment in their own right way. There is no right way of sending this message - it is simply there. All of us on the causal plane are very interested in helping you be more of You, and there are almost an infinite number of ways of helping you do this. It's up to who you are in your perception as to what works for you in terms of what you can hear and what you can then take with you. It matters not to us.

Again, we are in our experimental mode and we are having a great deal of fun with this and we look forward to speaking to many more of you in the future.

We have told you a little bit about us and we anticipate that you may have questions. There is of course much more to tell, so we will invite your questions now.

Questions and Answers

Question: When each of the four energies came in, I immediately got 4 distinct colors, one for each entity. The energies just manifested as colors. Would they say this is how the energy appears or is it just one different way of interpreting it?

Energy can be interpreted in a variety of ways, and we were having some difficulty last night, expressing what our perception is on the causal plane.  We were expressing it in terms of vibration, but we were also expressing it in terms of color, and certainly on the physical plane level, there is a direct correlation between color and frequency of vibration. You can think of this as a spectrum of light,  if you will, which is a type of energy, a type of vibration and each color vibrates at a slightly different rate.  As you are visually oriented as well is emotionally oriented, then this was a meaningful way for you to interpret our energy. We would not say that it is the only way to interpret our energy, but it is an extremely useful way to interpret it, and we are pleased that we were able to a project energy in such a way that it became visually meaningful to you.

Question: I was wondering, you said you are a teacher and you can tell us where we are in our existence - do you have a teacher?

We have many teachers. Ironically you are our teachers even though you have less (maybe) than awareness of this, but we learn through you, not only because of your physical plane experience but because you are also involved on much more than the physical plane. So you are part of our teacher also.

But there are more formal teachers for us?  Absolutely.   Everyone - at any level - is always be engaged in supporting the efforts of those involved in other levels of experience.  So yes, we do have teachers.  We are sometimes feeling nudged ourselves!   (laughter)  We our share of difficulties as well with our own experiential challenges.  To you we seem excessively wise and "all knowing" and have this wonderful wide perspective, but we have times of feeling very small as well, because we have this wider knowledge of All That Is, and we know that we are that and we are also "not quite that".  There is a level of (you might feel it as ) frustration at times.  We don't have the sense of time impatience that you do, but we are aware of all that goes on at all times. Again, we suffer our share of difficulties or resistances, we will say, to our own experiential challenges.

Question: Is there any other way of thinking about energy except in terms of energy and vibrational rate. What is energy? Is there any other way of defining it except in those terms?

We would like to offer you an analogy. This may take some time.

Imagine if you will, that you are standing on the beach. You are barefoot. You feel the sand beneath you. The sand has been warmed by the Sun. So the sand contains the essence of the Sun, the energy of the sun. You feel that in your feet. It is quite hot. It is starting to become uncomfortably hot. You are feeling a great deal of energy coming up through the soles of your feet and you are looking around now for some shade, or to see if you can make it to the water's edge where it is cooler because this energy is now coming up through your feet at such a rate that it's quite uncomfortable. There are those of you who experience energy on a very physical level, so thinking about it in terms of vibration is an intellectual exercise that is almost meaningless. You need to feel it!

We would like, then, for you to think about energy in terms of how it makes you feel. There are those of you who can feel energy in your hair!  Hair sort of feels lifeless to some of you, but to others it is something with a consciousness of its own, for indeed it has a consciousness - every part of your body has one. So if every part of your body has a consciousness, then every part of your body can feel energy, and every part of your body then deals with slightly differently because each part of your body is of composed of something slightly different.  You may want to think about energy in terms of what you might feel on your skin, versus what you might feel on a heart level, versus what you might feel on a gut level, versus what you might feel in your hair, or any part of you.

That is what we would like to impart to you.  Because everything is energy, it can be experienced by you on the physical plane in a variety of ways, and there is no one way to do so.  So if you are comfortable experiencing energy as color, then that is what works for you.  If you are comfortable experiencing energy as the physical sensation, then that is what works for you.  If you experience energy as something that you translate in your head as words, or thoughts, or pictures, then of course that is what works for you.  Because the physical plane is confined to form and time, it is difficult to experience energy on any other basis.

Think about that.  The physical plane is nothing but form: three dimensions, as well as time.  Energy, therefore, like everything that you experience, can only be experienced - truly known by you - on that basis. There is no judgment attached when we say this.  It is simply a fact of the reality in which you exist.

So when we talk about energy as a vibration, that's not necessarily something that you can really wrap your mind around, that you can really feel that you are experiencing. So you have to make experiencing of energy a very personal matter. It takes really knowing who you are to know how you experience energy.  And each one of you are going to experience it slightly differently. What is true for you is not the same as it is for another.  Have we answered your question?  (yes)

Question: The energy is so strong for me. I almost feel like I'm going to faint—it's way stronger than it was last night. So I'll try to make sense.

I wanted to ask: there are many people in this world now that say that the vibration of our physical plane is changing rapidly, elevating, and the veil (or whatever you want to call it) between our world and other dimensions is becoming thinner and easier to transgress. Do you on the mid-causal plane experience any difference in this energy shift when interacting with the channels here, if the shift is in fact happening. And can you talk about also where the shift is going in our world? What will eventually happen? How will our experience with other dimensions change?

As you  - on your planet collectively - move through your experiential growth lessons, it does affect the overall vibration that surrounds you in terms of the energy that is of your planet. So we would say that, yes, that rate of vibration has been changing. It will continue to change.

Now has the rate of this vibrational change increased lately?  Well we would say that, as we were saying earlier, there's been a great deal of energy transmitted toward the physical plane. There is no "grand design" to do anything in particular with this.  It is simply part of the agreement that you all hold. you understand.  There is a collective global agreement to move things along at a different rate.   This is something that all of you are taking part in.   Every one of you - not just in this room, but globally - you have a collective agreement to make some changes that affect your planet. This will have a variety of effects. So,e of you are becoming impatient with your lessons. Some of you would like to see more things happen.

We do expect there to be a continuing snowball effect of of an increased level of movement. This is partly due to the the effects of momentum as you collectively move on through your experiential growth lessons.  In other words, through the soul age.  You become interested in having different kinds of experiences collectively, as a whole.  So if the overall vibratory rate of all of you is centered around relationship issues, as opposed to issues of acquisition and power (you see where we are headed with this?), if collectively you were mostly interested in relationship issues, then that will have a marked effect on how your world looks.

It will change your economic basis.  It will change how you interact with one another on many levels.  It will change your political systems.  It will change your attention to the environment. In other words, it will change every single aspect of life as you know it.

How long will this take? When we talk about things speeding up, we're talking in a relative basis.  Most of you in this room have noticed a significant change within your lifetime.  Some of you are sensitive to changes in energy. So on that basis we have to say yes. Now, will most of you see a marked change in the way you live your lives within the course of your lifetime? Probably not - unless you make specific choices to do so.  However, interestingly enough, the pathways are opening up, more now than they have been, for you to be able to make those kinds of choices.

If, for instance, you are interested in intentional communal living, there will be more choices available to you in this lifetime for you to experiment with.  That it is just one example, but overall, worldwide, would there be a large change within the context of your lifetimes in terms of day-to-day living and how they are lived?  Not likely, but there is always change.

So we've answered part of your question, we were asking if you would like some follow-up?

Response: yes - about the opening up to causal plane connections

A very simple answer to that would be yes, but here's what is taking place: there is more overall openness to other energies beyond that of the Self. In other words, overall, on a global level, there is more and more openness to energy such as ours.  So it makes our job easier.  It just means that there is more connection, you see, because there is more openness to that connection.  The energy that is being transmitted has not changed, and has always been there. It simply has been connected with on a different basis in the past.  There have been other periods in human history where there was a great deal of connection, such as there is beginning to be now. So this is not the only time in human history that there is been this level of mid-causal energy affecting things on the physical plane.  This has happened several times in the course of human history and some of you were there when that was happening!  Some of you remember on some level what that was like, and some of you were involved with it. So there is a familiarity there for you.

Question: I feel a distinct energy change. It just changed now. It's very different from before.  Whoever it was, it felt like a very distinct energy change.  Does that show who it is that was coming through?

You have all felt our individual energy, and more of the totality of us.  So those of you who are very sensitive to how energy feel in your body will have awareness, yes.  Now do we do this to them to play with you?  Well, yeah!

(laughter and a comment)

That is correct.  We also do it to bring forth more of who we are.  We are all expressive beings - just like yourselves.   It's not that we are fighting among ourselves, "oh, who gets the microphone?"  It's more of "who needs to be present with that energy at that moment?"

But yes you did notice a shift in energy, and it did occur at that moment. It is good that you brought that up!

Question: Where is Karen now?

Karen likes to think that she's here.   A part of her is.  She's not aware of what we're about say - or she hasn't been aware of that up till this moment.  Karen is right now reclining on a very comfortable bed. Somewhere up in the clouds, it feels like, although a part of her is very present here.  There is a good deal of her just having a nice rest right now.

Are there any other questions?

Question: It seems to me that all my life I have felt out of place in some way.  I'm wondering if this is because my soul age (though I'm still a mature soul), because I'm ahead of the wave on this planet.  Or is it because I'm in a life of growth and having a difficult time?  Do people who are way ahead of the curve ever feel comfortable?  Or people who are way behind the curve, do they feel comfortable? Can I feel comfortable?  I would like to feel comfortable on this plane and I would like to have that experience!

There are a number of answers to this question.  We'll take them individually.

Regarding you yourself: you made a number of pre-incarnational choices to experience things in a certain way, from a certain perspective.  And part of the perspective that you chose in this lifetime was one of isolation, one of not fitting in.

Now, a number of you have made similar choices in your lives.  This is not an easy choice by any means, but it is a choice that moves you into the opportunity of making certain choices in your lives, of drawing to you certain experiences that you have chosen in order to manifest the Self that you most wanted to be in this lifetime.  There are a large number of those on various spiritual paths who have intentionally created situations like that for themselves happening at this time.  Now, why would you do this, other than to learn a lesson:  "Well, okay, that sounds a little painful, and I can sort of understand that -  but I why now?  Why so many of us?"

You touched on part of this.  There is a momentum, in fact, that takes place.  We have spoken before in other venues about how and when you have an interaction—any interaction, even something in passing with someone else—,because you are who you are, however that is manifesting at that moment, you have an effect on a person or in that. group that you are connecting with.  And they take a little bit of who you are with them forever.  It changes them forever.  So, then, why would this sense of isolation and being out of step with everyone else help on a more widespread communal level?  How could that help?

This is how we see it. We don't like to put it as something 'sacrificial', but in effect, it is almost that.  Many of you - a great number of you, and we say this collectively in addition to those of you in this room - have made choices to intentionally isolate yourselves to some extent from community inasmuch as you desire it, inasmuchas you desire to feel a part of something.  Because sometimes when you are kept from something that your heart really wants, you strive harder to make it happen.  And what you are creating through this pain is a greater overall community.  Again, 'sacrificial' is too strong a word and too imbued in cultural martyrdom, but you intentionally created a situation where you could create community among you that would not have existed were you not compelled to make the choices, from pain, that you have made in this lifetime.

Now, is there a way to make a similar choice through joy -- yes!  But sometimes you wouldn't see it.  So it is very intentional, what many of you are doing.  And lest you think that your efforts are not noticed or felt by anyone else, let us tell you that everything you have done in your lifetime up to this moment has been felt by the entire world. You are that important.  You have that great an effect on the entire global community of the human population.  Each one of you, simply by living your life and being who you are.

Do we expect more of you making similar choices?  Yes, this will occur for some time, in our perception of what we can see happening for your future.  It is part of a cycle of choices.  In other words, there are certain thematic lifetime, choices are made on a cyclical basis, and there will continue to be a lot of incarnations into lifetime similar to the ones that you are feeling - slightly out of step.  And again, it is simply to help move others along to help create this global community.  Because one day, perhaps the next time you incarnate, things will appear very different.  They will feel very different and you will enjoy some of what you are creating now.

(Response:  What was I thinking?)  (laughter)

Question: I was wondering with your experiments on the physical plane, were you focusing more on just the Earth?

No.  Earth is a very small part,  as you know, of the physical plane.  You are living lifetimes on other Earth-plane worlds, and your energy is everywhere, just as ours is.  And yes, we - our little group as well as the collective causal plane - is transmitting a great deal of energy to the physical plane as a whole.  While we would say some of the "experimental nature" is centered on Earth at this time, there are similar experiments occurring on various plane worlds on at the same time.   It of course would look different: the transmission process is very different depending on the species that we are working with.  But it is essentially a means of support and helping others to move through their own lessons.  Of course other worlds on the physical plane aren't in the same "place" that Earth is at this point.  There are different ways of connecting with different worlds on the physical plane.

So in some ways our answer is, no, the Earth is the only one.  And in some ways, the answer is yes: there is much more happening throughout the physical plane serve.  In some ways, you are quite unique.  We would say that the exact way that we are working with you all now is unique to the Earth, but there are other ways that we work with other worlds also on the physical plane.

Question: Could you say more about this global community and what it will look like in the future?

Some of you are aware that there is a network among you on Earth.  In other words, there are energetic connections between you and among you.  Some of you have specific conscious connection to others across the globe and others who are not incarnate at this time, and there are connections among you throughawareness.  There are also connections that exist among you on a less than conscious awareness level.  We would say that there has been an increase in conscious connection.  There has been an increase in the rate and the energy expended toward the less than conscious connection.

So this "global community":  part of it is (currently anyway) simply that there is more awareness of the oneness of it all.  This message, you see, is being repeated throughout many spiritual traditions, through many teachers, all at the same time, and it is making its way into being assimilated on a cellular level by more and more people all the time. What we see eventually occurring on your planet, and we spoke about some of the momentous changes that will likely be occurring in your world , would be more of the conscious recognition of the oneness.

This would be on a day to day basis. You would begin to be making choices with the knowledge of the connection that you hold with everyone on your planet, as well as everyone based on your planet who is not presently in a body.  So again, we spoke about economic changes,  political changes environmental changes: those are just a few.  Every decision, every choice that you make, would be made with this greater awareness.  Not every person will be doing this on a conscious level, but the level of overall energetic connection will be greater so that there is both a more conscious awareness of the oneness, and more choices that are made on a less than conscious level but still with that connection in mind.  Because, you see, you have this global consciousness and more of you will be tapped into that.  And that is what we mean by the community that you are creating: an overall change in the global consciousness of everyone associated with your planet.

Question: I've been struggling with trying to make sense with some of the spiritual teachings I've read and I'm hoping you can help me with this.  I struggle with a lot of waste energy.   I very much do my best to change the world to something better in this life.  Suffering captures my attention:  war, hunger and social wrongs.  The Abraham teachings say that the greatest good that I can do in this world is to live in peace and joy and give no attention to those issues.  My nature is to wave a flag and confront those issues and change them.  I can't make sense of those teachings and I don't know how to approach this.

This is the truth of those teachings.  In other words, the greatest good that you can do on a community level is to be at peace with who you are.  But first you must find out who you are.  If the true manifestation of you is to create intervention to things that cause you emotional pain, then you need to be that!  If the true manifestation of who you are is simply to be at peace in your world, then that is what you need to be doing.  We encourage you at all times to maintain as strong a connection as you can with who you are, and what you manifest, what of yourself that you can present to the world and be that.   Because every interaction that you have where you are as much of you as you can be is an interaction that will forever change that other person, or that group, or that community, or that idea.  You see, you simply just need to be who you are.

Question: I know that Michael incarnated on this Earth.  What about the other entities?  Did they incarnate here?

As you are aware, there are parallels to Earth itself.  There are other worlds, but you do that you exist on as a parallel to Earth.  Our interpretation is that the majority of the beings who are now comprised as Robert, for instance, were incarnating on an Earth parallel.  The majority of the beings who are now comprised as Seth are not from in an Earth world, but had their lives on a similar Earth-plane world. It wasn't even exactly a planet. It was a "reality".  There were some similarities to what you are experiencing now, yet in your terms it would be difficult for you to recognize that Seth physical plane reality as a reality that you would experienced.  Some of you took some shamanic journeys this morning and some of what some of you were seeing was similar to the reality experienced by the Seth individuals.  Aesha has existed primarily on an energetic basis for, in your perception, a very long time and Aesha has been through the cycle of incarnation, but in a world and a reality very different to what it is that you experience.  Yes, all of us have been through the incarnational cycle.  All of us have experienced physical plane reality.  But without looked very different to what you would expect in terms of a physical plane reality.

Question: You say more about grand cycles and about other planets which have other types of learning experiences?  I've heard that the purpose of incarnation on Earth is to learn Love - or to experience the conflict between love and fear and to eventually resolve this into Love. what would be some of the experience on different planets and different incarnational cycles?

From our perspective the incarnational cycle is essentially identical bo matter what reality it is based in.  The overall overarching lessons, if you will, are more or less the same.  It is just a matter of how those lessons look and feel.  It is a difference between, say, going to a public elementary school ,as opposed to a Waldorf school, as opposed to a bilingual school.  There are different ways of learning essentially the same information.  They both get you into college eventually, but they are going to look and feel and sound very different while you're moving through them.  The "Love lesson" that you spoke of: that is a universal lesson.  It has been a simplified so that it is something that is understandable on the on the physical plane.  It is difficult to look at things in this non-dual fashion because you are used to seeing things as either they are or they are not .  So it is difficult to think of love and fear is really part of the same.   It really is all about Love.  So we would say that the lesson that you are all Love, that you are all the Tao,  you are all everything is the lesson of the physical plane - no matter on what kind of world it is played out in.

Comment:  why here?  (bemoaningly)

(laughter)  Different schools for different folks!

Question: Are there many planets that are similar to ours in terms of physical makeup?

Besides the Earth-parallels there are a number of realities and worlds that have some similarities.  Yours is a popular choice in some ways in terms of the diversity of life that exists on your planet and the dual nature of how you perceive things.  This duality is not necessarily experienced on every physical plane world.  It is an elementary (in some ways) way of looking at things, and most incarnational beings like to experience the concreteness of what it is that you see in your world. There are many other choice, it is almost like different vacation destinations, with yours maybe being like the peace corps where you go to work, and there are others that may be are thought of as more relaxing and fun.   They are all, again, about the same lessons.  It's just how you learn them or how you look at them.  So, yes, there are several other world-realities that are similar to yours.  We said it was popular, but we did not really mean that it was populous in terms of the overall makeup of all the physical plane worlds.  We would say that the majority of them than look quite different from yours.

Question: The Earth is a few billion years old and humans have pnly been on the Earth for a relatively short time.  Has the Earth ever been populated with other sentient energies?

Yes, there was a purely energetic species that was experimenting with a existence here.  They were here for some time and decided collectively to go elsewhere.  It left a bit of a vacuum for a time in terms of an energetic presence and then it was decided collectively by all of you with your humanness to attempt to populate this world.  So yes, there was another species here.

Conclusion

We are going to say a few more words, and then we will conclude for today.

We have been talking to you about a variety of things.  We had the pleasure of telling you how we came to be and how we came to be speaking to you today, and it is our pleasure to be connecting with each of you this afternoon.

We would like for you to take something from this talk that we've been having, and if you take one thing from this talk we would like you to take with you the concept that you are having in an effect on everyone around you at all times.  You are changing lives simply by being who you are.  And the more you can be who you are, the more effect you will have on those around you.

And this is a gift of being on the physical plane. This is how you manifest Love into your world, and for us, watching you do this is a beautiful, joyous process, and we are so very pleased to be a part of it.

You give to us as much or more as we attempt to give to you. And that is the message that we wish for you to take with you today.

It has been our pleasure to speak with you and we look forward to connecting with you again in the future.

Thank you.

This is a recorded channeling from Karen Murphy at the Twin Oaks Intentional Community in a gathering there on April 20, 2008.   For most of the participants this was the first time they saw, heard, or felt Polaris.  The time and energy - and there is much energy used during channeling -  for this session was donated without recompense to the community and the Twin Oaks gathering as an offering of love.   Please keep the energy circulating and donate - this will help keep free information appearing on this site.

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Transcription of Channeling

April 2008 at Twin Oaks, VA

Good morning, we are here. We are pleased to be among you today. Some of you we know quite well, and each of you has your own connections to various elements of us, and so we are pleased to be speaking to you in this group today.  Now, typically, we like to talk about things that affect all of you--that affect you on a perceptual basis.  In other words, we tell you how you look at things--how you are regarded by the world around you. We would like to address, however, today, something specific to this group that you are among this morning. Many of you mentioned recently thinking about the concept of community, and you are each cognizant of the connections that exist among you.  So we will tell you a little bit more about that and how that works for you and what perhaps there exists between all of you here today.  And why it is, in a grander sense, that all of you are here today together, making these connections and having these interactions.

You know, of course, that it was no accident that you are here as a group this weekend.  Each of you came for your own reasons, but there also exists among you interaction that occurs on a less-than-conscious basis. Now, you are all aware that this goes on.  Sometimes you interact with others during your sleep-time in dreams, or even in other sleep-time activity, on an astral level.  Often there is also interaction that occurs while you were consciously awake, when you are perhaps thinking about someone. That is an interaction; that is communication.  Simply thinking about someone is communicating with them. You are connecting with them on an energetic basis.  They may not always be consciously aware of this, but there is an awareness nonetheless.

So you have formed this group and you have made, in some cases, deeper connections with one another than you had before.  Some of you here--you are meeting in the physical sense for the first time.  Others are old friends such as we are, and you have known each other a long time in various circumstances.  So specifically, what we see as happening among you during this gathering is an integration process.  In other words, you all came here with your own perceptions about yourselves, about one another, about this group, and about your wider community, your wider spiritual communities. And the interaction that has occurred over the course of the weekend has allowed you to integrate much of that in ways that you hadn’t before. So what is the purpose of this? Is there a purpose--a specific grander purpose--for this gathering this weekend? Well, we would say yes.

What we see are a number of things. We see four.

Number one:  You will, of course, take the energy from this interaction back to where you live, and it will then affect all the interactions you have with everyone forever after.  So you will be taking energy of whomever you are interacting with this weekend, and taking a little bit of that with you, and then going back to where you live and using that energy to interact with others, forever after. So a little bit of each of you follows all of you to wherever you go after this weekend.  So there is that.

Number two: We have spoken before, how your physical self is altered by any interaction with anyone else.  In other words, you are affected, on a cellular level, by any interaction you have with anyone else, and that includes on a physical sense, face-to-face, on the telephone, through electronic means, through thought--any kind of interaction affects you on a cellular level.  This is why some people cause you to feel good after interacting with them and some people cause you to feel not so good.  And it depends on their energy and how they, how they affect you in many ways.  So you are changed, in other words, by the interaction that you have had this weekend. You are not the same person that you were two days ago.  Now, why is this important?  Well, your body will continue to move along its path, based on where you are at this point, and since this point is different than the point it was in two days ago, your path is, as a result, altered as well.  So where you are going from now, how your body is and reacts and responds, is a little bit different from how it would've been had you not had these interactions all weekend.  Now, is it specific to this gathering, this weekend, this place? Well no, of course not. You are always being affected on a cellular level by every interaction that you have with anyone. Your path is always being altered just that little bit by every interaction you ever encounter. Now, what is the use of this? Does this somehow take away choice if you are always being affected by others? Well, no, because on a wider sense, you always have the choice to enter into those interactions. So you all made a series of choices which led you here this weekend. On some level you had awareness of who all else would be present and were choosing to avail yourself of the energetic changes that would occur as a result for you. That’s number two

Number three: There is going on within this wider--we will call it the Michael teachings community and you all are aware of what of what we mean--there is a series of changes that is taking effect, and has been for some time. And we cannot tell you exactly where those changes will lead, but we can say that on the whole, within five or 10 years from now, things will look quite different. Things will feel quite different. Now, if you were to jump ahead five or 10 years and find yourself immersed in that wider community and compare it to what you have known, there would be some disorientation.  There would be some consternation, for it would feel quite different, but you will have the ensuing five or 10 years to move through and you will see these changes slowly taking place. And for some, those changes will be painful.  It will be a departure from what they have known. Things don't always remain static, as you know.  Things always continue to change.  It is clinging to what you think can remain the same that causes pain, when you acknowledge that change is always occurring and change is a part of your lives. So changes are afoot, in other words, and this gathering and other gatherings like this are part of what is creating that change.

Now, where will these changes lead? As we have said, we cannot tell you exactly, and there are of course a number of other factors that will continue to affect this. But overall, overall what we see is a return to embracing the newness and the excitement of information that comes through, and of how you can use this to change your own lives. It has been said that this wider community has been mired in theory for some time, and we would say, on a surface level, that is as we perceive it as well. There has always been a great deal of new information coming through. It is the choice of those in the wider community whether to acknowledge that new information or not. And we see now, as a result of gatherings such as the one that you are now in, a sense of excitement and welcome for the newness that is always present for you. That is number three regarding this wider Michael teachings community.

Number four: You are each learning, in your lives as part of what you do, elements of your own interaction with others. And through this interaction with others, you learn more about yourself. Sometimes, you see yourself mirrored in others, and it helps you see yourself more clearly.  You were feeling energy recently. You were feeling energy of groups, were you not, where you were within a group and you felt either like or unlike that group.  So, by looking at the group around you, feeling that, you could judge whether you, yourself belonged in that group. This is a very simplified and distilled way of looking at all your interactions that take place for you all the time.  You are always considering how you fit in with others. And you do this on an energetic basis.  You do this all the time without realizing it. So that is number four.  You are learning more about yourself through this interaction with others.

Now, we have talked about why you came together this weekend, and what you have accomplished. Let us talk to you now about your collective role in this wider Michael teachings community. Now, each of you, again, have come to this for varying reasons of your own.  That is as it should be. If you each came to this with the same reason, you would all be more or less the same person, and you are clearly not.  So your role in this wider community also varies on an individual basis, but overall, we see that each of you and many others similar to you, are involved in creating this change.  You are involved in creating a series of interactions that will have a wider, like a rippling effect, upon others, and allow them to avail themselves of that same openness, to the excitement that is all around all of you.  So your effect, then, from being here and being who you are and making the choices that you do, will have a wider effect on this greater community. And this will occur whether or not you are truly committed to creating a Michael teachings community or not, for it is there whether or not it is something that you choose to focus on on an intellectual level.  You are all part of this wider community, whether or not you feel a strong connection. It is there nonetheless.  Perhaps you know about the community of spores that exists in the soil under your feet.  There is a large and pervasive community. We will call it a mushroom mat community of spores that exists in the soil, and these communities run through the entire earth. There are several of them, and they all have the ability to communicate within the community, even without direct interaction. So we will compare the community that you are in with that community of spores that exists in the soil. For you are having communication, whether or not you are consciously aware of it. And this occurs, then, at a cellular level, on an energetic level.  Now why would you be interested in this?  Why are you making choices in your life that lead you here to be creating this new community, if you will. There is a group, of which you are all loosely members, that is very much interested in changing the nature of the structure of the human population in terms of social identity and social interaction.  There is quite a large group involved in this, and has been for some time, and we would say that enough energy has been poured into this project at this point--it has been going on for about 200 of your years--to begin to see some real changes in the structure at some point relatively soon. And this is part of what you are all loosely engaged in, see.  There are about half a million people involved in this project.  It's not really very many compared to the entire population of the globe, and certainly not very many compared to the entire fragment population, if you will, of the human race.  Those include everyone in a body and everyone not presently in a body. But roughly half a million are concerned with this project and have been for some time, of changing the social structure of the human population. Now, what will this look like in the future?  Well, some of you have glimpses of this.  There are idealists among you who see how real and open communication and interaction can be between people, and you have glimpses of this from time to time.  (A cell phone rings.) You see how communication is with you. (Laughter.) So again, this half a million, roughly, people are involved in this project, and how will this look in the future? And as we said, some of you have glimpses of this. Some of you have experienced this on some level, and you know what this can be like. And we will say overall, you could be looking for more openness, more frankness, less hidden aspects. So this will result, then, and this is in terms of just communication and interaction.  So there will be a move toward disclosure. No, not for everyone. This is not easy or comfortable for everyone, and you know this. But there will be, overall, more disclosure and more room for this kind of interaction, and how this will affect people will happen on a number of different levels.  Again, there will be pain for many people. Many people are existing within their own small shells and find it difficult or fearful to disclose who they are, for their fear of emptiness inside. You will see quite a lot of this.  But having more room for this openness of interaction will allow closer interaction in many ways and allow a sense of interdependence to develop. Now, human society has had this in the past; now you’ve moved away from it. Well, cycles as you know, happen. There is a waveform pattern: Things go up, they come down, they go up again.  So you are moving into a time where there will be an increased amount of interdependence among the human population. Now, will this occur in the next 10 years? No. Will there be movement toward that? Certainly. And many of you will start to see more of that in your life because you are creating it around you, and you are playing with it, to see what that feels like. So we’ll jump ahead, perhaps 200 years, and, yes, really start to see more of that interdependence, more of that openness, more of that disclosure aspect in intercommunication between people. Now, when you have that, and everyone is open and up-front, there is also an increased nonverbal communication that is going on, because there is simply more room for all types of communication.  So you are all involved, again loosely, in that project. Whether or not it is something that you feel personally committed to or not, you are part of the experiment, if you will, of learning how to implement this, and learning how it works, and figuring it out how best to move into that state of being for the entire population as a whole.  Now, this, of course, will have effects on social levels and political levels, and anything that affects the population on political levels will have effects on economics and environmental issues, et cetera.  So there will be an enhanced sense of connection to the earth, and however that manifests in terms of social and political and economic issues.  So this enhanced sense of connection will also bring with it changes and that's part of what this enhanced sense of interdependence among people will also bring. So again, within a couple of hundred years, you could zoom ahead to that time and start to see something that looks quite different from the social structure that exists now on a global basis.

Let us start with some questions.

Ed: How did the four of your soul groups get together to do this, and is this something which, are there many thousands and millions of other soul groups like us who are also doing the same sort of thing?

Yes. At our level of development, there comes a time where it is quite useful to begin to move together in groups, and to form entity groups in order to exert influence on certain projects.  So, we have our own ways of interconnecting with each other and interacting and learning things on that level, if you will. But a great deal of our learning comes through our teaching, and we are all of us, all four of us, engaged, as you know, quite heavily in the teaching aspect. Not every causal entity is engaged in teaching, but many of us are--the majority of us are at this point, at our level.  So, part of our evolution, just as you are learning how to interact in groups, we are also learning how to interact in groups as well. And these groups are various sizes up to quite a few entities, and we are, all of us, all of our four individual entities, are also involved in groups of other size and structure.

Ed: Were you involved with each other when you were physical, or has this coming together happened after you graduated from the physical?

Certainly there were interactions between some of us on a physical basis, but that was not the means by which we chose to come together at this point.  We have all of us been through many cycles,  just as you have, and have knowledge of one another from various times in our past.  But our coming together this way is, for us, relatively new at this point, and we have been working together for some time and have only relatively recently chosen to utilize this group structure, this group energy, to enhance our collective teaching.

Would you like to see our various energies? We know there is a great curiosity about this. (Response – Yes). Alright, we will do this; we have done this before.  We find it amusing. So, most of you know Michael fairly well, not just on this plane of existence, but in other ways, so we will separate ourselves for you and we will show you just Michael.  Michael is here. Now Michael, as you know, is made of Kings and Warriors, and speaks with some authority, yet with humor. But we would like you all to feel the energy right now, of Michael.  (Silence while Michael’s energy is felt.)

Alright.  Now, we will introduce you to Seth.  Some of you have seen Seth, at various times, through various guises. Seth is particular about coming through on an individual basis and this is not a preference necessarily for Seth at this time, but Seth would like to visit with you now. (Silence while Seth’s energy is felt.) You may have noticed that even though we do not necessarily come through so much on an individual basis, it is much of our energy that you see when we are speaking as a group.  Not all the time.  We do not necessarily take turns, but for some of our structural information, then we, Seth, is who tends to come forth more.

So, we will lift, and next we would like to show you Robert. And here is Robert. (Silence while Robert’s energy is felt.) Robert is very much interested in speaking to you on certain levels.  Robert, as you know, has a flair for the dramatic, and is responsible for many of the gestures that we make.  Now you may relax into Robert for a moment. (More silence.)

Now, in a moment we have Aesha. There are some of you in this room who know the energy of Aesha.  So we will bring in simply Aesha. (Silence while Aesha’s energy is felt.)  There is someone over here that Aesha would like to speak to. It is the message of nurturing and of assurance that the person in your life that you are caring for is very much aware of the gestures that you make in order to make her life more comfortable.  And this is what Aesha would like you to know.

Ed: Is it me?

Yes.

And we are back as Polaris. Now, we will welcome further questions.

Bill: Thank you. It is a pleasure to meet you. I feel a--it's very strange--I feel a strong connection with Robert, and, I feel, although Aesha is very quiet, there is a strong connection there as well. Just, really, I'm just feelin’ it, wow, it's like, wow. Love you all, love you all! Ok, it's a quadrate--four entities in a quadrate. And I’m wondering if we have, my guess when I first heard that, was that you would have four positions in a quadrate, and tell me if this is valid, it may not be valid, just a guess. And thinking, like, Michael would be in power, Aesha would be in support, Robert would be in love, Seth would be in knowledge. But that's--I have no idea if that’s valid or not--and perhaps you could comment on that.

We would say that it is valid to look at us that way, under that framework. And yes, you have our energies associated correctly.

Bill: In other configurations which you had intimated occurred – that you are in other configurations with other entities--how does that work? Are we talking, like, quadrates, septets, that sort of thing, or is that the way that's working at all? What kind of configurations do you seek out for your own growth?

Just as you meet in groups of varying sizes and structure, so are we. We spoke to you of a group of around 500,000, which you are loosely associated with, and there are groups that size that we are also loosely associated with, on a similar basis. There are also groups of a smaller size with a more defined structure that we are also involved with. And this is done on an individual basis, much as your own group participation is done on more or less an individual basis. So, there’s not a set rule about the structure. However, there is an overall design, as you can imagine, a geometry, if you will. And we are all a part of that and we have awareness of our place within that--more so than do you. But simply because we have the perspective from which to see this and we are not tied to the perception of the physical plane, which is limited to form and time. So we have a much easier time seeing our overall place within the geometry of all that is. And we each, individually, as an entity, have our places within that that we have awareness of. Does that answer your question?

Bill: Yes, it does. I have just one last and I’ll pass it on. On a personal level, given who I am and my personal limitations and so forth as they exist at this moment, perhaps, how can I strengthen that connection with you? I’d like to strengthen that, because I just--like you!

You have asked. That is all you need.

Thea: I wonder if you could provide some perspective for us Twin Oakers who are experimenting with the communal structure in ways that we could act interpersonally, structurally, as a community in order to be more in alliance with our intentions as a group.

We would say that overall there has been a relatively efficient use of your abilities to connect with one another on a less than conscious basis, in order to evolve the formation of your community.  The needs of this community have changed, of course, based on the structure, the makeup of the members within it, and you have awareness of this. In terms of how you can make this better, well, some of you are there simply to have experienced conflict, and conflict doesn't always feel good.  There are some of you who are very much involved in making conflict go away.  So, not everyone has the same needs, in other words. There is, however, an overall awareness of the community as a whole throughout most of your members. And in some ways this can provide the larger community with a pretty good working model of how this works in reality, at least how it works among the various members that are a part of it and their perspectives. Now, one thing we can suggest would be to invite members with more widely variant perspectives than what you have. In the Michael teaching terms you mostly have a community of mature-perspective souls. If you were to want to really design a model community that could be an experiment to show what it could be like on a global basis, then you would want souls with perspectives that are both a less-wide viewpoint and a wider viewpoint than the mature level.  However, that may cause some of your structure to fall apart somewhat and could cause some other difficulties.  So that may not be the most comfortable thing that you could do, but it would certainly give you a stronger idea of what a community structure could look like on a wider basis simply by observing it in a microcosm, which is what you are. But in terms of working with what you have, because we don't see you making those kind of changes in the foreseeable future, as that would upset the balance of what you have built in terms of what you have and how you can move forward from there, we would suggest putting some attention toward defining what it is each of you wants on an individual basis.  This sounds like it may run contrary to thinking about things on a community level, but certainly if everyone were very clear about what they wanted on an individual basis, then they could relate that to the community as a whole somewhat more easily. This won't work for everyone, but we would say that it could be quite effective for the majority of your population. Does that answer your question?

Thea: Yes, thank you.

Luann: What kind of advice could you give for people who are ready and wanting to start a new type of community but probably don't want to make it that all-inclusive. In other words, want a little more selective, like-minded, and don’t have a whole lot to go on right now, except a little bit of financial backing. What would be a next step, what kind of selection would be advisable? And advice you could give us....

It is useful to begin with, just as we were advising here, to ensure that everyone who will be involved is very clear about what they want, and then to communicate about that in an open fashion.  Not to leave anything behind, to have it all out there so that there are no surprises. And once everyone who is going to be involved is very clear about what they want, you can see if your picture aligns with the picture that everyone else has. Now, this is not to say that such a community will necessarily be successful.  If you have, say, a community of people who are very interested in relating, but not so interested in the doing aspects of this, simply more the reaping the benefits, then you will have a community that will not last very long because there is no one actually doing anything.  So, you will also have to look at the strengths and weaknesses on an individual basis and see if those add up to something that would actually make a viable community.  If you like, we can make some of our energy available to you in the future, simply, again, for the asking to assist you in this process of building a community and we can guide you, perhaps not on a conscious level for you, but we are more than willing to help guide you into shaping the community that is something that will be work and be sustainable for you.  We're sorry that we’re not able to give you too much more specific information at this time without knowing more about the individuals.  It seems that there is some question as to who all might be involved with this and it is difficult to project that far. We would say also to imagine what this community would be like once you have identified what everyone wants and then to really project into the future how that will actually work and to spend some time and energy doing so, doing that future projection. And you'll find that it's quite an effective process to use to find out what things might be like in the future. In fact, all of you can use this technique of looking at exactly what you have, and being very clear about what you have now, and very clear about what you want, and then projecting that energy into the future to see if it really is going to work and really going to be in alignment with what you want, and this technique works for almost anything which you see available to you, perhaps on a future basis.  Have we answered your question?

Luann: Yes, we’ll be in touch.

Marion: Perhaps this has been asked before and I haven’t read it, but how did the name Polaris come up? That’s like a submarine or missile or something like that to me. I know it’s a star, but why pick that? There’s a million things you could pick. I’m just curious about how that was chosen.

The name Polaris was given us, but it was also chosen by us if you will. There was some communication between us and the channels and we were playing some games that made them more conscious of what they were looking to get out of our interaction with them, and eventually that conscious intent was able to focus enough that it became a name. And having a name associated with guidance seemed like something suitable, and we are happy with it.

Marion: Thank you.

Mary: This may be too generalized, but I just wondered, I feel like there’s a message that you have for me? But, maybe not.

Yes. We would like to tell you that it's okay to be more comfortable in your own space of clarity, clearness. That around you there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what shape that clearness should take. And that uncertainty is derived from a number of factors in your history.  But we are just telling you that it is okay to let go of some of that and just to be okay in that space of clearness that is there around you, and just open up to seeing what’s there.

Mary: Was that coming from anyone in particular?

Who did you feel?

Mary: Aesha. (Karen nods.)

Mary: Ok.

Rebekah:  Michael has told us that many of us have been students in other lives of theirs. Have any of us been particular students of any of the other members of the quadrate in either this life or other lives?

Each of you can answer that on an individual basis, but we would say overall the answer is absolutely yes.  You are each students of multiple teachers, if you will. Some of you have made choices to align yourselves with the energy of a particular teaching energy, simply because you are focusing some time to really study and assimilate that. But we are all known to all of you in one way or another throughout some point in your history.

Amy: I’m just curious, is there any part of physicality that you will miss?

We are able to experience physicality through you, and this is part of what we are learning through you. And we are experiencing the physical-ness of you, but through this other perspective, and this gives us a comparison basis.  We remember, of course, what it's like to be in a body such as you are, and to have the perspective that you do, but now we are looking at the physical plane through our perspective, but we do that through you. So in terms of really missing it, not necessarily, because we are again experiencing this through an entirely different perspective now. We are able to, if we really wish to, manipulate a body, and feel everything that there is to be felt about being in a body. The only thing that we would lack is the physical plane perspective, although we could, if we chose to, completely narrow ourselves to that perspective and to experience everything that it is to be you except we would still have the knowingness that we can move out of that again and we would retain a greater knowingness of the facility of movement that we have between the planes.  So we can’t get it exactly like you have it, in other words, but we can come quite close.

Amy: I was wondering if there were things like the sun on your face, the wind on your skin, the birds in the trees--are there things like that that there's any longing for at all?

Again, we are experiencing all of that, but from a different perspective. So it is as if you know what the sun was like--as a child--on your face, and you know what it is like as an adult, and you may remember that--what it felt like as a child--but you may not particularly want to be that. Perhaps for a moment, and, again, momentarily is something that we are able to experience.  So we would say, overall, if we had to choose a yes or no answer to that, the answer would be no, we don’t really miss it.  But we have something similar in our experience through you.

Don: Is anyone continuing the work of Jane Roberts in channeling Seth? And I have a second question. Do you have any comment on the work of Robert Monroe, whose headquarters were not too far from here, on astral travel and other phenomena?

Alright, so the first question has to do with the channel Jane Roberts?

Don: Right.

And, I'm sorry, your question?

Don: She channeled Seth, and is anybody doing that?

Ah, yes, Seth is being channeled at present.  There are several who are channeling Seth. Some are not aware of this.  Some are calling Seth by other names, but that energy is still existing and still being channeled, even individually. Seth is not choosing to come through individually in this instance, other than as what you saw earlier today.  But yes, Seth is being channeled.

In terms of the man Robert Monroe.  Is there something specific you wish to know? Just terms of the validity of his information?

Don: Well, his headquarters before he left was in a small town not far from Charlottesville, and there are several books in which he traveled to many parts of the universe, astrally, and some people are continuing his work. So I was just wondering if you had any comments on that?

This was a man who was quite connected with, for lack of better terminology, extraterrestrial energy. Some of you are, not necessarily those in this room, we'll say, you, collectively, humans, and he was accessing that energy in order to facilitate a greater understanding of his own humanity.  So there are many of you who perform experimental lifetimes like that where you are making comparisons, and we spoke about ourselves making comparisons and on a communal level, perhaps, making comparisons--what you have and this other energy that you can compare it to, then. And we would say this is what the man you speak of was doing. He was comparing the energy that he possessed, partially on a physical level, certainly on a--there is no English word for it--on an intuitive, cerebral level, and he was making comparisons between that energy and using that, again, to enhance his understanding of his humanity and putting forth information that assisted with his understanding that. It was mostly for his own understanding, but he also understood that there would be others who would be able to utilize that information to enhance their own understanding. Does that answer your question?

Don: I think so.

Are there any other questions, then?

John D.: I’m not sure what the ground rules are here. I would like to know what my late wife--how she’s doing?

She is spending a fair amount of her time resting. And when we say resting, we mean really allowing all of her consciousness to be completely at rest. There was a great deal of her life involved in resisting. A great deal of her life was involved in resisting and now she is simply resting and allowing all of herself to completely relax and be at one with as much of everything as she can be. And it would appear to someone on the physical plane, perhaps, as a state much like sleep.  However, she is actively resting, knowing that at some point she will be saturated with this and be able to move on into other states of study and exploration. But for now, she is allowing all of her to really rest.

John: Thank you.

Linda D.: What would be a good meditative exercise to help us pull in these energies for ourselves so we can bring them into our lives for others?

So you would like to--you would like a meditation that will allow you to access our energy?

Linda D.: Yes

Yes, alright, let us lead you into one. This will allow the facility of your accessing the Polaris energy that is, of course, available to all of you, and this will help you differentiate this energy from the Michael energy that you are already familiar with.  So, you all arranged yourselves in your chairs already to become prepared for this.  So take a couple of deep breaths. And as you do so, become aware of the breathing of those around you. As you breathe, you realize that you are connected by your breath--what one breathes out, you breathe in. And as you do so, you become ever so much more a part of one another. And you breathe in, and you breathe out, and every time you do so it deepens your connection with everyone and everything around you. And as you breathe in, you begin to move your awareness in wider and wider circles until you notice that we and our energy completely surrounds you. You are breathing in our energy and breathing out our energy. And as you do so, as you breathe in, and as you breathe out, our energy permeates every part of your body.  There is no separation between us. We are around you, inside you, we support you, we guide you, we are there with you, and as you breathe, you will have awareness of this. And any time you wish to, you can simply take yourself to the space of breathing, and breathe us into you once again.  So take a moment now to really feel what this feels like through every pore and every cell of your body.  As we support you--all around you--we are one with you, and you are one with us, simply by breathing. And, if you like, now that you are so intimately connected with us, you may choose an intention for this connection, and every time you choose to connect with us in this manner, in the future, you may again choose an intention for this connection.  So, if you will, use this space, right now, to create an intention for the connection that we hold with you at this moment. And now, every time you exhale, you activate that intention, simply by the act of breathing. Every time you breathe out, you strengthen the intention that you created. And now you remember your own abilities to create the life around you that is always present for you. And to enhance your own connection to yourself and to us simply by breathing, and every time you perform this exercise, you strengthen your ability to connect to your own self, to your life, and to us, simply by breathing in, and breathing out.  Now you may wish to take a few moments to come back into your own space of being, or you may stay in that slightly altered space if you prefer it.  We would like to conclude our conversation with you this morning by telling you, again, how pleased we are to be among you speaking to you this way, and how pleased we are to have enhanced our own connection to you and yours with us, by interacting with you this morning.  We thank you.

From time to time, Polaris speaks in parables and stories.  This is a wonderful short story about a brickmaker, art, beauty, and blame, which was told when a question was asked about the nature of blame.  For your enjoyment, we've included the audio, so you can hear the story as it was told.  It runs about 9 minutes.

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The story was transcribed below:

On Apr 14, Karen was invited to a 30 minute segment on ThatChannel's flagship TV and radio program, Liquid Lunch.

It was quite an event, with half being an interview with Karen herself, and then Karen allowing Polaris through for some wonderful new and live channeling on the nature of time and how presence and awareness affects the flow of time in your life.

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After experiencing the energy of Polaris, people often wish to know how they can access that energy themselves and to help bring that energy out into the world.

This meditation is from a public channeling in April 2008.  Polaris offered a simple meditation that helps you to both be more present and to access the energy of Polaris.

Question: It seems to me that all my life I have felt out of place in some way.  I'm wondering if this is because I'm ahead of the "wave" of level of consciousness on this planet.  Or is it because I'm in a life of growth and having a difficult time?  Do people who are way ahead of the curve ever feel comfortable?  Or people who are way behind the curve, do they feel comfortable? Can I feel comfortable?  I would like to feel comfortable on this earth plane and I would like to have that experience!

The audio response follows:

This is an introduction by Polaris during their public live channeling before a group in Tuscon, Arizona on March 14, 2008.  It is approximately 13 minutes and includes a short visualization.

We have been creating some guided visualizations over the last few months.  These are a wonderful way to experience the channeled energy of Polaris in a much more personal and powerful manner via your own audio player.  They are also incredibly relaxing.  As a gift to you, here is a short visualization that we are making completely public as a general introduction.  This is a guided visualization regarding transforming pain.

More in depth guided channeled visualizations and meditations are available at the Guided Meditation Library.

This is a video made around the new year with a gentle reminder that it is always your journey that is important, not any end result.

Because there is an exercise involved, it is useful to watch and listen in addition to the reading the transcription.  To watch, simply click the image or visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PslgHf4-NY.  You can also subscribe to videos via Polaris' youtube channel.

Polaris speaks about a spiritual practice focused on wanting nothing more than the next breath.  This is a very powerful way of being present, in the Now, and being fully alive.

Polaris speaks about global changes affecting the world right now and what you can do to remain centered in the core of your being with these changes occurring.

Stepping into the flow is also about being centered.

Enjoy.

This is a meditation from Polaris to help you become more in contact and alignment with Who You Are, with your own soul and the deep inner guidance that is available to you at all times.

We hope you enjoy it!

Normally, we have very fixed ideas about what is possible. Life happens in a certain way, and so we create that reality. We have decided, and so life continues in that manner.

Instead, allow yourself to open up to all possibilities. Not just good ones, but everything, from the fantastical to the horrific to the comedic to the everyday. See how much empowerment there is when you do that in every moment.

Not sure what channeling is or what it looks like?  You're not alone!

Have a look for yourself: It's Polaris with a special message of introduction just for you.




The video was filmed in Whister, British Columbia with a natural backdrop of beautiful trees: