Introduction This book is somewhat of a departure from what I, Jesus the Christ, have been writing and speaking about through this channel, but it seems important to flesh out more fully the larger context in which your human life unfolds. As most of you reading this already know, at least intellectually, you are not human at all but spiritual beings who’ve taken on a human life—indeed, many human lifetimes—for a relatively brief time in your soul’s existence as a means of exploration and spiritual advancement. No matter how often you are told this, however, it bears repeating and further explanation because, to all but very advanced spiritual practitioners, it really seems that what you are is a human being.
Human beings are but one form of humanoid life in your universe. There are endless universes in which human-like and other intelligent forms of life exist. This is not meant to make you feel small or unimportant, for you are anything but that. You are the created and the Creator! You are the Creator made manifest in human form—for the time being.
Before taking on a human life, you existed as an energy being, as pure love and ecstatic beingness. And then you chose to experience being human. Once you did, you became embroiled in the cycle of lifetimes that hone and shape a human being and bring you back to your original state of love and peace—but with much more experience, compassion, and wisdom than you had before these incarnations. You chose to leave perfection for a state of imperfection and immeasurable challenges and growth. What courage! What a journey!
Chapter 1 In the Beginning The Soul
I will attempt to define the soul, but please understand that language is inadequate because your human form limits your ability to comprehend the greater mysteries of life. This is as it is meant to be.
Every human being is saddled with essentially the same faults and limitations, although over the course of your many lifetimes, these lessen, since that’s one of the purposes of your many lifetimes, as we will see. Your soul is perfect and complete—always—before your human incarnations and after. Your soul is unharmed and unstained by any experience you might have during your sojourns on earth or elsewhere.
There is no judgment from the soul or any other being guiding your soul’s evolution and no punishment as the result of any of your choices except the natural cause and effect of the Law of Karma, whose purpose is always to teach, not punish. It is so important for you to understand that whatever challenges karma brings into your life are ones your soul agreed to take on. No one is forced into a life situation or circumstance that is not of one’s soul’s choosing.
When you’re on the other side, in touch with your soul, you are very courageous and embrace the unique opportunity for growth the earth plane provides. I should also add that there are other vastly different reincarnational systems that a soul might become involved in besides yours that provide very different experiences than your reincarnational system.
Your soul also has the option to not be involved in any reincarnational system and remain free and unlimited. Angels are an example of this. However, most beings do choose to experience limitation and challenge at some point, because such experiences are interesting and stimulating. And if you are eternal, why not challenge yourself?
Like a spark, your soul is the same essence as God, not less than or different in any way. It just isn’t the totality of God. So, when I say that you are God, I mean that you and every other soul are of the same essence as God, and that essence is love. Your true nature is love.
Through their experiences, these souls accumulate knowledge, understanding, and even greater love, and evolve as entities in their own right, while simultaneously remaining unified with God, who is partaking in that experience as well. The soul is so magnificent and multidimensional that it can enter into many different lifetimes at once. This is who you are. You are this magnificent, multidimensional being masquerading, for the time being, as a simple human being, all for the purpose of further expanding in love and every other divine quality.
Every experience you have is stored in your soul as not only a memory, but as knowledge and wisdom. And in each successive lifetime, you draw upon this accumulated knowledge and wisdom. This wisdom is given to you intuitively when needed by the nonphysical beings guiding you. Although you might not be aware of this when it happens, it’s one of the ways the soul guides you throughout your lifetime. This explains why those who’ve lived more lifetimes are wiser and make better choices than younger souls.
Naming all that you gain from your incarnations is impossible, as language cannot capture this. Your individualized soul and your greater soul are enhanced in unimaginable ways.
It’s difficult to feel grateful for the life you so gladly took on and with such passion and fervor! Most human beings are quite unaware of their soul and its involvement in their life. If they were, they would more easily rejoice in this gift of life. Through these writings, I hope to help you become more aware of this and of the servants of God, the nonphysical beings who guide your life, who are with you throughout.
Guides, Angels, and Ascended Masters When a soul chooses to enter a cycle of reincarnation, on earth or otherwise, this is by no means done casually or without a lot of assistance from very wise beings whose job it is to oversee this entry, since this is a momentous decision for a soul. Certain beings have the specialized task of helping souls choose their life purpose, challenges, lessons, who they will incarnate with, and overall plan at the beginning of each lifetime. Other beings oversee the unfolding of each person’s life during that lifetime, while others oversee the unfolding of humanity as a whole.
“Guide” is a term used specifically for beings who guide a soul’s evolution in a reincarnational system, usually a system they graduated from and gained a great deal of knowledge and understanding of. Being a guide is an art and takes a great deal of experience beyond simply graduating from the physical plane, that is, completing the cycle of reincarnation.
So, please keep this in mind when consulting with psychics and channels. That said, most guides don’t work alone or gather their information without help from other guides, which lessens the likelihood of mistakes.
Some people have pre-life agreements with certain guides or other beings to carry out specific tasks, such as writing a book, creating art, composing music, inventing something, or doing energy work or other types of healing. The more influence a person has in the world, the more likely they are to have more than the usual number of guides. For instance, a president would have many guides, since the decisions made by him or her affect so many. However, a guide’s influence is only as great as the person’s receptivity. If those guides aren’t listened to, it’s as if that person has none.
Your guides guide you in many ways, but the primary ways are through your intuition and through inner nudges, joy, “ah-has,” excitement, a sense of “yes” or “no,” and other people. These ways may seem too subtle to be effective, but even souls who are less advanced find themselves responding to these cues without realizing it. Everyone follows such cues more than they realize, and becoming more aware of them will help speed up your evolution. Through these cues, your guides are always speaking with you, suggesting things to do, directions to go in, and people and information to pay attention to. You are far from alone! You have an entire team of beings working with you whose sole task (no pun intended) is to help you learn and grow as your soul intended. They are working with you 24-7, so please know this, and that will help you become more aware of them. Angels are beings who sometimes intervene in the affairs of humankind, acting as guides, healers, helpers, and messengers but who have never taken on a human life. They are an example of a being who has never been involved in a cycle of reincarnation, but there are others.
Angels are unconditionally loving toward humankind and dedicated servants, going about their business as requested by a higher order of beings, called archangels, who direct them in their tasks. One of their main tasks is assisting the dying in transitioning, to whom they deliver messages of comfort and love. They’re also often involved in preventing accidents and deaths that aren’t part of someone’s life plan and are frequently seen or felt by those they save.
Ascended Masters are beings who have gone beyond the cycle of reincarnation and advanced even further, beyond most guides, to being teachers and guides for all of humanity. Ascended Masters are not personal guides but guide the affairs on earth in a way that personal guides cannot and do not.
And yet, I want to emphasize that I am available to all who call upon me, for I and other Ascended Masters are able to perform countless tasks at once and be anywhere and everywhere in the blink of an eye. So, please, dear ones, do call upon me for help, healing, and upliftment, and I will do my best to assist you. This is true of any of your guides, angels, and other beings who exist to serve you. Yes, we exist to serve you. You are that important. It is our greatest joy to be of service to you and to all of creation.
Pre-life Planning Because every life is very important to the soul, it chooses the circumstances of each lifetime very carefully in a pre-life planning session with a group of beings, including the individual’s lifetime guide, others skilled at this very specialized task,
The planets and stars don’t cause someone to behave a certain way. Rather, they reflect the unique energies of that moment, which are identical to the individual’s imprinting. Astrology allows you to know what someone’s imprinting is. By studying someone’s birth chart, you get a peek into that person’s personality, psychological issues, karma and other lessons, talents, challenges, and life purpose.
However, the chart doesn’t determine or describe how the individual will use that programming. Free will is a reality, and once the individual is born, he or she will make choices, mostly in keeping with that programming, but not necessarily.
This is why spiritual teachings so often encourage people to follow their joy and do what they love, because this is how you are guided to do what you came into life to do. You are pushed and pulled in the right direction with love, joy, excitement, opportunities, and people who help you.
Your astrology chart is your costume, or the role you are playing and how you appear to others for this lifetime. You need a personality, a costume, to operate in the world, and since you can’t exchange your personality for another and your personality doesn’t go away even after spiritual awakening or enlightenment, you have to work with the personality you’ve been given. This means you have to learn to express the positive side of the signs in your chart.
Those who easily express the positive traits of their signs are either old souls or souls who’ve had many incarnations with those signs and gained mastery in expressing them. Young souls or souls who come into life with signs that their soul is unfamiliar with will have a harder time expressing the positive traits of those signs.
The information in the Appendix is worth taking a look at for more than just information about your personality. The astrology signs are the curriculum and means of learning for the soul.
What each sign needs to learn is what every human being needs to learn at some point, and most souls require many, many lifetimes to learn each of the lessons of the twelve signs.
It’s safe to say that whatever situation or circumstance you were born into, including mental or physical disabilities, abuse or neglect, or extreme poverty, was a deliberate choice on the part of your soul, for any number of reasons, some of which will not be able to be known by you.
The process of incarnating is extremely intense for the soul, and some souls change their mind about coming into this very dense world once that density begins to be experienced by it. Going from a higher realm to this one feels like being squeezed into a very tiny, dark place after having been very free and blissful and unencumbered.
Even those with karma with each other are often very drawn to each other because the souls of those individuals really do hope to learn what they may not have learned in the past.
Nevertheless, when you are on the other side, even very difficult lifetimes seem worth it, since lifetimes on earth are experienced as very brief to the soul. From the perspective of your soul, each lifetime is over in a blink of the eye, and whatever pain was experienced doesn’t linger. On the other side, things look and feel very different, and going through whatever it has gone through is more than worth it to the soul. Only when you’re in the body does a lifetime seem lengthy and overwhelmingly difficult.
I can’t emphasize enough that you are not victims of your circumstances or experiences on earth but willing creators and explorers. You may feel victimized, because that is the story the ego tells, but that’s never the truth.
This type of acceptance and
understanding doesn’t develop until your last incarnations, when you begin to realize who you really are, at least to the extent that you can as a human being.
Whenever you feel compelled to help someone and doing so uplifts you or brings you joy, there was probably a pre-life agreement. A magical feeling happens for both people when a pre-life agreement is fulfilled. This is another form of Grace in everyone’s life. It’s good to be aware of this and acknowledge this when it happens. You have more spiritual connections with other souls than you probably realize.
And the soul is not impatient about reincarnating and will wait as long as it needs to for the right opportunity and situation. Time is not exactly of the essence in other dimensions, since it doesn’t exist at all!
The soul doesn’t fully and permanently enter the body until birth, at which point the soul is said to be born and its life begins. It is the soul that breathes the body at birth, for there would be no life and no breath without the soul.
Chapter 2 Free Will, Karma, and Challenges Your Ego and You
What I mean by density is that the earth plane vibrates at a much lower rate than the nonphysical dimensions. What this means is that the sense of separation from Source is greater. You feel separate and alone, disconnected, in a way you never did in the higher dimensions. No matter how much love you receive when you enter the world, it can’t begin to match the love you felt where you came from.
You need an ego to operate in the world; you need a sense of “I.” However, the egoic programming that gives you this sense of “I” also programs you with fear and a sense of lack, of not being good enough or having enough, and also with an unceasing desire for more and better, as the ego defines that. The egoic programming is very limiting and negative, which is why life on earth seems so difficult. It is the cause of suffering, not so much what happens to you. You are programmed with an ego, a voice in your head, that tells you scary and untrue stories about yourself and life. You are programmed to believe that you are more limited than you are and in imminent danger.
The Creator enjoys creating unique worlds and experiencing them. This egoic programming is also responsible for your negative feelings: your fear, hatred, anger, resentment, jealousy, shame, envy, self-pity, and sadness. Your particular emotional makeup is also unique to earth. Everyone who comes here is learning about this form of ego and the emotions it generates. Everyone is learning to overcome the limitations and negative emotions produced by their egoic programming.
That is the purpose of my teachings, to help free you—save you, if you will—from the negativity of your egoic programming by teaching you
the truth about life. I have no other real means of saving you. You must save yourselves by discovering the truth. Until you’ve seen that your ego is detrimental programming, you believe that you are what the ego tells you that you are. You believe the voice in your head, which reflects this programming.
The truth is that you are not your programming; you are what is aware of the voice in your head. You are aware of this now that I’ve told you this, or perhaps you’ve heard this teaching before.
Who is it that needs to be free or who becomes free? This is a great mystery, isn’t it? Who are you really? You are what is conscious and aware of your life. When you came into this life and took your first breath, you became conscious, and that which is conscious is who you are. You are not what you think about yourself or what others think or say about you. That’s the false self, what the programming causes you to believe about yourself. The true self is what is conscious and aware. It is what incarnated. It is the spark of your greater soul that chose to come here and have this limiting and challenging experience on earth in order to grow in wisdom and love.
What a momentous lifetime it is when this dawns! You are finally free to choose from a higher will, no longer tossed to and fro by the ego’s will. Then, your soul’s will, otherwise known as Thy will, begins to operate more naturally through you, and you become an instrument of Grace rather than a creator of karma. Once your true nature is realized, life is much easier and feels much better. No longer are you at the mercy of negative emotions and the resulting poor choices. Some of you, out of great courageousness and a desire to serve, will still choose to experience big challenges. But even then, because of your connection with your soul, you’ll have the strength to overcome those challenges and come out wiser, stronger, and more compassionate.
The fun is in exploring the unknown, and free will makes it possible for life to be an unfolding mystery, one that offers not only challenges but interesting and surprising turns: What will happen next? What if I try this or do that? Even your soul doesn’t know exactly how your life will turn out, thanks to free will. Through free will, the soul grows, expands, and becomes wiser and more loving. And it has fun! The soul loves even the challenges. So, I’d like to say more about this rather complex subject of free will. Is there free will or not? Yes! The answer is that yes there is and no there isn’t. Both are true. Let me explain.
However, there is one very important thing that you are free to choose, which will determine your level of happiness, your experience of life, and how quickly you progress in your evolution, and that’s your attitude toward your experience: You are free to choose to be happy about something or upset, to be angry, sad, or resentful or to accept something.
This is what life is really about, not getting what you want or making your life turn out a certain way, but learning to be happy and at peace. From there, the most important thing of all flows: love.
You are allowed to follow the small will only as long as it doesn’t interfere with Thy will, with your soul’s plan. Thy will always trumps the small will. Often the small will doesn’t interfere, but when it does, life finds a way to stop you from going in the direction your small will is taking you and opens up opportunities in the direction of what your soul needs and wants to experience.
As you progress spiritually, Thy will is increasingly at the helm. Thy will becomes your will, as you surrender the ego’s will to what’s coming out of the flow and to the guidance you’re being given intuitively. This takes practice, but by the end of your incarnations, living this way is natural and easy.
When Thy will is the will that you are following, can we even speak about it as free will, when it feels more like no will and no need for a will? When the small will is surrendered, all that’s left is Thy will, which doesn’t belong to you at all. When there is no you (no false self, no egoic self) with a will, can we even call what remains free will? Thy will becomes simply whatever is true to do in any moment. What you do becomes a choiceless choice. Your soul is running the show now. There is no longer a sense of having a false self that would argue or prefer or choose anything but the natural unfolding that’s already occurring of which you are a part. When you are one with All That Is, your will is the same as whatever’s already happening.
The ego puts a negative spin on such things, a story, which makes you feel bad about these very normal and natural occurrences: “That shouldn’t have happened,” “I look awful,” “getting old is terrible,” “death is frightening.” These are things that happen to everyone, that no one escapes. Why make yourself miserable about them? This is just what human beings do because they have an irrational ego that does this. Without the ego, there would be simple acceptance of these facts of life and much less suffering. So, that’s the first reason you experience difficulties: You have an ego that turns natural occurrences into a problem, a difficulty. Learning not to do this is one of the most important lessons of your human evolution.
They are natural, normal, and not a problem.
One of the main reasons people experience difficulties, other than the tendency of the ego to spin everything into a problem, is that people make poor choices and they made poor choices in other lifetimes, leading to karma in the current one.
Life is messy, but that makes life interesting. If you can learn to see life this way rather than as a problem, you can be happy in spite of any situation or outcome. You aren’t in control of how life is unfolding but a mere actor in this immense drama playing out on this plane. Your own will and choices affect everything but so do other people’s. That makes life unpredictable—and that’s interesting and fun!
When you choose to accept whatever is happening, you’re loving yourself by choosing a path of no suffering. And, in doing so, you’re also choosing to love life.
It isn’t easy to make choices from a higher, deeper place—from your soul. It’s much easier to let your ego make choices without bringing any awareness to what you’re choosing. The ego is your default, but the more you recognize what it’s choosing and the negative consequences of those choices, the more power you have to override the ego’s will and make a truly free-will choice, one that is your soul’s choice. As I said earlier, the ego’s choices are not really very free. Most of them are knee-jerk, automatic responses to life that don’t consider the deeper consequences of those choices.
In the egoic state of consciousness, there’s very little space between when a thought arises and when it’s bought into and expressed. In the egoic state of consciousness, there’s no questioning of your thoughts—they’re yours, after all! Or are they? The beauty of meditation is that it allows for a space—the briefest of seconds—between a thought arising and believing it or expressing it. In that gap, is freedom—true freedom—not freedom to express whatever you want, whatever your ego wants, but freedom to not express something. This freedom to not be at the mercy of your thoughts but to be able to consciously choose what you’ll put out into the world is the freedom to be who you really are. Finally, you can express your soul in the world instead of the ego. Finally, you are free to be you—the real you!
If your beliefs were different, more aligned with Truth, there would be little suffering. Mistaken beliefs cause negative feelings, and these feelings cause harmful actions and similar responses from others. This is how karma is created: You believe something that isn’t true, then your certainty about that generates strong feelings, and those strong feelings justify hurtful and harmful behavior toward others. If you weren’t so sure of your beliefs and your feelings weren’t so strong, you wouldn’t feel justified in behaving in such ways. You would stop yourself, because deep down you do know better. Even very young souls have goodness at their core and only harm others out of fear and desperation. Where does fear come from? It lies latent in human beings, like a beast within you that needs just a little poke to get going. That poke comes from entertaining thoughts that stoke fear, and those thoughts lead to more feelings, until holding back your words or actions becomes nearly impossible.
Who is responsible for these thoughts and feelings? You’re not responsible for having an ego; it’s part of your software. And you’re not responsible for the thoughts produced by this software, this programming. However, you are responsible for any feelings you experience, because they are the result of giving your attention to the thoughts produced by the programming.
Most of the biggest challenges people experience in their lives are karmic. These challenges were created by poor choices, and a person will experience difficulties related to these poor choices until he or she learns to make different choices. Most karmic lessons and more general ones are about learning to behave differently in relationship to others, in a nutshell: learning to make the loving choice. Karma around some actions may take lifetimes to balance and is balanced in one or more of the following ways: by role reversal, by benefiting the one you harmed in some way, or by benefitting someone else or a particular group of people in place of the one you harmed.
So far, I’ve mentioned several reasons why you may experience difficulties or problems. They are: Your ego frames everything as a problem, even things that aren’t problems; You have free will and make poor choices based on faulty beliefs and the negative feelings that flow from them;
You behave badly toward others, and they respond in kind; Other people cause problems for you because of their poor choices, which have nothing to do with you; You are balancing karma; and Accidents happen that are not part of your soul’s plan.
It’s not your place to judge or make assumptions about why someone is having a particular experience. This is not something you can know, and it’s best to be humble enough to admit this. That humility will allow your Heart to stay open to them.
One way or another, life will humble the ego, because the purpose of life is to shine light on the ego’s destructiveness, and the soul will design lessons to do just that.
Many also, unfortunately, believe that they should feel terrible if something bad happened or they made a mistake, so they punish themselves again and again with self-hatred, regret, guilt, and shame. This serves no purpose. Doing this to yourself or retaliating against others is the opposite of learning what you’re meant to learn in difficult times. You’re meant to overcome such feelings through understanding, compassion, acceptance, and forgiveness for yourself and others. This is the answer to life’s difficulties. This is all that’s asked of you. Accept that you or another made a mistake, have compassion for yourself or another, forgive yourself or another, and do your best not to repeat the mistake.
The problem with blame, hatred, and every other negative feeling, no matter how justified these feelings may seem, is that they keep you tied to the past. They make you a prisoner to an experience that’s over and done with. They keep you stuck in the egoic state of consciousness, stuck in a state of suffering, where growth and learning aren’t possible. This does no one any good and is a waste of a beautiful life. It sometimes takes a lifetime or more of living in such a state before a person is able to move beyond this. Such is the human condition.
Chapter 3 The Evolution of the Soul
Young souls, like the youngest souls just described, look out at the world with fear and deal with the world through retreat or aggression. They seek to control others in various ways because they believe they know what others need, what others should believe, and how others should behave. Their capacity to love is tainted by possessiveness and a need to control others. Young souls cling to the rigid beliefs they’ve been taught, religious and otherwise, and believe everyone else should think like them. They’re narrow-minded, not open to new ideas, and authoritarian and hierarchical. They’re rigid, opposed to change, and cling to the past. Their intellectual interests are narrow, with little interest in anything that doesn’t immediately affect themselves and their safety and comfort.
Unfortunately, the soul doesn’t learn these things until well into its evolution—beyond the stage that most of humanity is at.
At this stage of evolution, the ego is at the height of its power, and the ego’s goals are what matter most: beauty, power, attention, comfort, recognition, prestige, wealth, pleasure, and success. These individuals are competitive, action-oriented, and driven to succeed and to seek pleasure, which they do by drinking, watching movies and television, listening to music, dancing, sex, games, and sports. Those at this stage have more of a live-and-let-live attitude than younger souls as long as others don’t interfere with their goals and with getting what they want.
Old souls have little drive for success in the usual sense unless it furthers their life purpose. They are driven, instead, by a longing to experience their true nature and return Home. In this stage, one learns to detach from the ego and voice in the head and eventually transcend negative emotions, which are supplanted by peace, love, joy, and acceptance. For old souls, love is more inclusive and impersonal, extending even to so‑called enemies.
They believe that they must believe those beliefs—or else. They’re told that something terrible will happen to them if they question those beliefs, when in reality, the beliefs themselves are causing their lives to be more painful and difficult than their lives need to be. Their beliefs are causing them to suffer, but they’re afraid that not believing them will cause them even greater suffering. They don’t know what it’s like to live according to truer beliefs, ones that don’t cause them to suffer and that allow them the flexibility to learn from their own mistakes.
They learned the truth about life, meaning they discovered the rules by which to live that ensure that you and society thrive. They know which beliefs work and which ones don’t.
Human evolution is messy, and you must accept this and allow it to be messy. You can best cope with mistaken beliefs—ignorance—and the suffering those beliefs cause by “forgiving them for they know not what they do.”
Sometimes the best you can do is not add any more negativity to the situation, since you’re unlikely to change most people’s minds by confronting them or even speaking rationally to them. When people are caught up in a negative egoic state, they can’t be reasoned with, and they don’t want your reasoning. They aren’t open to facts or advice or teachings that might contradict their beliefs. If they ever come
around and express an interest in you sharing your perspective, then share it, but until then, there isn’t much point in trying to convert the unconvertible. Those deeply entrenched in egoic beliefs and negative emotions will not welcome your love and light, although kindness toward them is certainly the best response. Still, they may resent your kindness, your love, and your peace. When people are in a negative state, they’ll try to make you wrong no matter what you say. So, “forgive them for they know not what they do.” This allows you to unhook from their negativity and not take it on and to “let go and let God,” meaning let go of any fear around this and rest in knowing that, given their circumstances and level of evolution, it would be impossible for them to be any other way in this moment, and that you can do little about this and that, in fact, “it is all good,” all in God’s hands.
In these times, it’s more important than ever to keep your vibration high, to remain as positive in your outlook as possible, and not let other people’s negativity affect you.
You’re responsible for your own consciousness, not other people’s, and in the end, the only way that consciousness will be raised on earth is by raising others up to your consciousness through resonance, not so much by trying to reason with them. Consciousness is raised through loving kindness and acceptance. You can rest from any battle now.
Do not engage in conflict, and those who wish to will have nothing to fight.
I’m not exaggerating when I say this is a superpower. What makes compassion a superpower is that it is powerful and highly available. It is inborn and requires no development. It is ever-present and ready to serve you whenever you need it. And it’s easy to use. It requires no effort, only an awareness of it and a willingness to use it. Usually, the only thing in the way of using your compassion is not realizing the value of it. If you don’t use it or use it often enough, you might not be aware of its power in your life. It’s in using it that you discover that compassion is powerful. But like a lot of things, it’s easy to take compassion for granted and not fully use it. It’s easy to forget that it’s there and easy to forget to use it. So, I’m here to remind you of it.
One of the most important times to use this superpower—to practice compassion—is when you feel bad about yourself. Compassion needs to
start with yourself, or you’ll never be able to feel real compassion for others. How you treat yourself is how you’ll treat others, and how you treat others reflects how you treat yourself. So, we must start there.
What is compassionate? What is capable of compassion? It is your true self. When you choose to give yourself—your false self—compassion, the false self dissolves and stops being a problem. You are free of that lie. The false self is a lie that spins and perpetuates lies. It spins the great illusion that you are a separate and lacking self, while the truth is that you are the Divine masquerading as a human being.
In truth, it’s not that the world is so difficult or even that life is so difficult but being human—having an ego—makes it so. Every human being has a similar ego. No human being has ever been born who didn’t have the programming we call the ego, which challenges even the strongest and most advanced souls. No one lives life perfectly. No one is a saint. No one never gets caught in the ego at times.
However, before you understand this, to the ego, compassion sounds weak. It doesn’t make sense. Compassion doesn’t seem like a solution to anything. Unless you realize that compassion is your ticket to another state of consciousness, you’ll overlook compassion and think it’s unimportant. You won’t recognize the power in it. Compassion shifts your consciousness from the egoic state of consciousness to your divine nature, your best self. Your default is actually to be your worst self! That deserves compassion, wouldn’t you say! You were given a default that causes you to feel negatively and react to life and to others with negativity. That is not your fault, so this deserves your compassion. And others deserve compassion for this same reason.
It’s challenging to feel compassion toward others when they’re treating you badly; and yet, that’s what is needed to defuse the situation and heal others. Conflicts and upsets can only happen when two people are engaged in conflict and egoic behavior. Compassion is the antidote to any conflict.
Sometimes the best that your compassion can accomplish is to remove you from the situation and allow the situation to de-escalate rather than risk getting your own ego involved. Later, your compassion might be expressed as forgiveness, either silently within yourself or reflected in your actions toward the other person after things have calmed down.
You are the lucky ones because you have stumbled upon the Truth. How many lifetimes did it take? And so, it will take others many lifetimes before they’re ready and willing to see the Truth. This time is shortened for some, as human evolution is being accelerated. And yet, for the most part, humanity remains at quite a primitive level, even after two thousand years and much technological development.
How to Raise Your Vibration and Speed Up Your Evolution
For that, you’ll need to use your intuition, intention, free will, and prayer to overcome the momentum of old habits and egoic programming. You’ll need to learn to detach from the voice in your head and listen to the still, small voice within instead. For this, your mind must be quiet, and this will also give you access to greater love and peace. What follows is some information about meditation and other practices that will help you do these things.
Meditation
What’s important is that you meditate daily—at least once a day for forty-five minutes or more. The reason for this is that meditation is like training a muscle, and like muscles, meditation needs a regular workout or you “get out of shape,” in a sense. What you’re doing in meditation is training your brain to rest in another state, one other than the default state of consciousness, which is the egoic state of consciousness. To accomplish this, you have to spend time each day in a meditative state. Then, you stand a chance of making that state your default state, which is the goal of meditation.
As wonderful as meditation is, its purpose is not just to make you feel good when you’re down, although it can do that, and that’s certainly a good use of meditation. However, the basic state that most people live in—the egoic state of consciousness—which is not generally a terrible state of suffering, is still a state of suffering. Most people don’t realize that they’re living day to day in a contracted state, a tense state. That level of stress and negativity seems normal to most people.
This is the goal of meditation, to live in Presence most of the time, and this is possible.
It ensures that the time you do spend doing things is well-spent, as the choices you make from a state of Presence will be determined by your inner wisdom, not the voice in your head.
Most people spend a lot of time each day feeding the ego and little time feeding the soul. Once this changes, you feel different inside, and your life will change for the better. Living from Presence is a different state of consciousness and the goal of the spiritual path.
Spiritual evolution is slow, and there are two things that will speed it up: meditation and transmission.
So, briefly, I will explain the basic technique of meditation. First of all, with meditation, it’s important to be very comfortable so that you can meditate for an extended period of time without moving your body.
The instructions for how to meditate are no more complicated than that. What’s hard about meditating is doing it regularly and for long enough in one sitting to shift your consciousness. It takes most people, especially beginning meditators, forty-five minutes or more before they drop into a deeper state. You’ll know when you do because this feels a certain way, which is difficult to describe. Once you do, stay in that state a while, the longer the better. At that point, you may be able to drop your meditation practice and just experience the state that the practice has taken you to.
But first, you often have to make meditation a priority and make a commitment to doing it daily for forty-five minutes or more before it becomes a joy. Many people give up on
meditating simply because they haven’t stayed with meditation long enough and done it frequently enough to make it rewarding. I would also like to add that there’s no such thing as a bad or failed meditation. Every effort you make to meditate is worthwhile and matters, whether you’re aware of any results or not. Try not to hold goals in regard to your meditation, such as having a particular spiritual experience or developing in particular ways you’ve heard about from others. Meditation will change you in ways that may not be readily apparent. Spiritual progress is a mysterious thing, and the mind isn’t able to assess or evaluate one’s progress. The mind loves to tell the story that you aren’t making any progress, so why continue? So, watch out for the ways your mind might try to discourage you. Of course, the mind doesn’t want you to meditate.
Those guiding you in other dimensions are aware of your efforts to meditate, and these efforts signal them that you are committed to your spiritual growth. When they see your commitment to meditate, they’ll concentrate more of their energies on helping you with your spiritual progress. Please do not underestimate the involvement of spiritual forces. Know that when you set aside time to meditate, you draw to you assistance from other dimensions. They are assisting you in healing and elevating your consciousness.
So, here it is: As you go about your day, or even in meditation, when a thought arises about the past, the future, another person, or anything else that presumes to know something, say to yourself: “I don’t really know that” or “Who knows?” The reason this practice is so powerful is because so much of what runs through the mind is speculation about things that can’t be known. This practice helps you see this about the mind and break the habit of wanting to know things you can’t know and thinking you can know such things. You’ll be surprised at how many thoughts you have that assume to know something you couldn’t possibly know. The voice in your head chats with you throughout your day and often pretends to be wise and all-knowing. Opinions are an example of this. More often than not, the mind’s opinions are not very well founded, and yet they’re felt strongly and expressed with great certainty.
I’ve often likened the egoic mind, the voice in your head, to the Magic 8-ball some of you played with as children, where you ask it a question, shake the 8-ball, and a “yes” or “no” or other phrase would show up as the answer. Even though the 8-ball’s answers were random and had no wisdom behind them—even though this toy didn’t work!—it was very popular because people would love to have something that could give them answers like this. It’s in your egoic nature to want answers to everything.
Well, your very own mind is happy to supply you with an answer to any question or a response to any other musing that crosses your mind—no matter that the answers are made up, like the Magic 8-ball. The mind is very curious, after all. It has lots of questions and would like to know everything about everything and everything about others: what they’re thinking, what they’re feeling, what they might do, how they feel about you, how worthy they are to be your friend, what potential for relationship might be there. Enquiring minds want to know! Egos want to know.
safer, feel superior, make itself happy, or even make itself mad, since the ego actually enjoys being angry and stirred up emotionally in other ways.
The ego loves drama, and so the ego loves to assume negative things about others or about a situation just to feel some emotion. The ego is in the business of stirring up emotions, and much of its commentary is designed to do that. Then once you feel angry or sad or jealous or afraid, the ego can play the role of the wise, helpful friend who gives you advice for dealing with the negative feelings it just stirred up: “Get a cookie, and then call your friend and tell her what just happened.” Or it might advise, “You should never talk to that person again!” And then, it offers several reasons for not talking to that person again: “He’s not like you at all. He doesn’t understand you. He’s probably from the East coast. He probably had an abusive childhood,” and on and on. All speculation. All made up!
People assume their thoughts are true. How interesting! If this weren’t so, you’d see through the ego quickly.
That would look stupid or weak, and the ego will pretend to be smart and strong even when it doesn’t know something.
Knowing, or at least pretending to know, is a survival strategy, and the ego is all about survival and coming out on top. But you—the one I’m speaking to right now—knows better than to believe just anything without adequate evidence. You are not the irrational ego. You have an ego, but you are not your ego. And the proof of this is that you can see the truth in what I just said. What sees the truth and is willing to see the truth? You can choose to believe something that you don’t know to be true and can’t know to be true, and plenty of people do this. That’s your choice, although most people aren’t consciously choosing to be fooled by their own mind. But if you’re in your right mind, meaning if you’re aligned with your divine self and not the ego, believing something that isn’t true won’t be acceptable or interesting. Unlike the ego, your divine self can’t be anything but honest and beholden to the truth.
Does this feel airy-fairy to you? That would be the ego’s take. The ego doesn’t trust that it will be all right if it doesn’t know something. Not knowing is scary to the ego, and it doesn’t like being scared, so its solution is to make something up. Now, that’s truly airy-fairy. It’s pretty interesting to see what the mind makes up in the face of not knowing. This practice of saying “I don’t really know that” or “Who knows?” or something similar will help you see how the ego lies to itself over small things as much as big things. The egoic mind, after all, is the maker of an imaginary reality, and it cares nothing about reality. In fact, it runs from reality. Why? Because when you firmly land in reality, those types of thoughts are seen to have no purpose, no reality.
What is reality without thoughts? Just this. Just this simple experience of breathing, of seeing, of hearing, of touching, of smelling, of tasting, and of sensing
on deeper levels. And what is there to sense on deeper levels? Love, peace, joy, compassion, courage, strength, hope, faith, curiosity, inspiration, intuition, wisdom, beauty, immense spaciousness, connectedness, contentment, aliveness, vibration, energy.
When you are fully in reality, in Presence, you feel soft, open, relaxed, spacious, and at one with life, as life moves you easily and naturally from one thing to the next. If life is moving you with such intelligence and ease, then what is there to know? Knowing naturally happens as part of reality, but the experience of reality is what counts, not any thoughts about it. With the mind, it’s the other way around. Reality is co-opted by the mind with its thoughts about reality and everything else.
So please, dear ones, do this practice: In response to the voice in your head telling you something with authority or expressing an opinion, stop and assert: “No, I don’t really know that. I really don’t know.” Then, just notice in your body how that feels to acknowledge that you don’t know. Finally, you can just relax and let everything be as it is. You don’t know and you don’t have to know. What a relief!
This Love and Light is the life force that sustains and moves all life. It permeates all that is. It is the substance behind all that is. You could say that you are the Love and Light of the Creator and so is everything else. You are immersed in a sea of Love and Light, and you don’t even know it!
So, let’s take a moment now and see how you experience this Love and Light within your being. To experience it, you have to be very still and focus on the subtle sensations in your energy body.
Most of you were probably aware of a vibration, however subtle. That’s energy. Energy vibrates. This energy is the Love and Light of the Creator. You could say that this sea of energy is the Creator’s body or the Creator’s breath, which breathes life into all forms and is all forms. This energy is alive. It’s a current of life that surrounds you and is ever-renewing itself. It is not static but ever-changing and ever-renewing and flows to you and from you, connecting you with others and with all
“I’m willing to have the experience that is designed for me today. I’m willing to learn and grow from everything that comes my way. I’m open to receiving the healing, help, and abundance that you want for me. I’m worthy and willing to receive from life and willing to expel or turn away from all that interferes with receiving life’s bounty, healing, and assistance.”
Such an intention is always answered because you’ve opened to what is your divine birthright to receive. And, often, the only thing in the way is an unconscious block to receiving this to its fullest. Everyone receives healing, help, and abundance in the form of Love and Light from the Creator, which then sets gears in motion to bring this about in your life. However, not everyone takes full advantage of the availability of this Love and Light, usually because they feel unworthy or are just not open to the idea that any such thing exists, so in not asking, they keep the door somewhat closed to receiving what is their due. In believing that help, healing, and abundance are available to you for the asking, you fling the door open to receiving this to the fullest amount that is possible given your lessons and your soul’s plan.
Practicing Kindness Being kind requires something. It doesn’t come automatically because being kind isn’t natural to your default network, the egoic conditioning. The ego has a fight or flight mentality (fear or attack), and kindness is no such strategy for survival.
Kindness must come from a place of “I see you as an equal, and I know you to be good, and I’m open to discovering what good can come from knowing you.”