(Concluded from yesterday)

How does one know the reality of oneself without inviting a stage of enlightenment that might have one abandon one’s mission? AAM said:

Archangel Michael: It is very simple. Visit, don’t stay. So what you are doing, you are pulling into the 5th in what you think of as your reality the qualities of mastery without setting yourself apart from the masses. (1)

We lightworkers “are the living example[s] and you are teaching others that they can access the mastery and still be in the Christ Consciousness, in the expanded awareness in the physical form and in the love.” (2)

And what about Ascension?

For most of us, Ascension will come in two phases. The first phase is what Archangel Michael calls “ignition,” using space-travel vocabulary. When I asked him when ignition would happen in Fall 2014, he said that “ignition is well underway. Think of it, you are on the launchpad.” (3)

It hadn’t happened before that, he said, because “the humans are not fully ready.” (4)

Matthew Ward had said that Ascension would not happen until 2017. AAM said that “that will be what you can think of as phase two, when the full awareness is anchored within everybody.” (5) That led to this discussion:

SB: So, now, the full awareness is sahaja samadhi? (6)

AAM: Well, it won’t be that extreme. But it will be what you think of as your golden age.

SB: Right. Is it an enlightenment?

AAM: Yes.

SB: So is it Brahmajnana? (7)

AAM: Yes.

SB: Oh! 2017 will be Brahmajnana. When will sahaja occur?

AAM: Shortly thereafter. (8)

Therefore, if we wish to fulfill our soul agreements as lightworkers assisting in this Ascension and in building Nova Earth, we may wish to remember that we’ve agreed, and we’re being asked, to forego the higher levels of enlightenment prior to Ascension, if they’d distract us from our service or our promise to serve.

We’ll have to settle for the knowledge that those levels are the prior possession of almost all lightworkers and that we’ll return to them when the time is right. Or to higher levels.

In the meantime we can look forward to ever-expanding spiritual experiences and awakenings and even ventures into higher states, provided we visit and don’t stay there. Then Ascension will carry us all to the levels associated with the Fifth Dimension – or higher.

All channeled material is copyrighted by Linda Dillon and the Council of Love, Inc. and used by permission.

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 6, 2013.

(2) Loc. cit.

(3) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Sept. 28, 2014.

(4) Loc. cit.

(5) Loc. cit.

(6) Sahaja samadhi can be described as a permanent heart opening or our natural state. It’s the stage of enlightenment that occurs once we are deep within the Fifth Dimension. It is moksha or liberation from birth and death and it occurs when the kundalini reaches the spiritual heart, not the heart chakra. It marks the end of our Ascension.

(7) Brahmajnana or God-Realization can be described as a temporary heart opening. It’s the stage of enlightenment that occurs without seeing one advance to the Fifth Dimension in former times. Now it’s associated with our Ascension, with sahaja following soon afterwards. It does not bestow liberation from birth ad death. It occurs when the kundalini reaches the seventh or crown chakra.

Happy Sunday, dear friends. I want to wish everyone who is celebrating Passover or Easter a blessed day with family and friends.

Over the years, as I transitioned out of traditional religion and into a more personal spiritual path, there was some internal conflict regarding specific religious holidays. While I enjoyed the family gathering aspect of the Easter holiday and the special rituals, like coloring eggs and hiding baskets, I was releasing the religious aspects through personal resonance choices.

This can often be difficult when friends and family do not understand or agree with our choices and try to influence us. Of course, in their minds they are doing it because they wish to help us and they love us and don’t want to see us making the wrong decisions. Many still see our choices as a direct rejection of their beliefs. They fail to see our choices as a celebration of divine free will which is available to all.

As the earth shifts and the energies rise, we will each come to a point where we take full responsibility for our decisions and choices and what others say will have no influence over us. We will stand in our own truth and own it fully.

We can let others, who might not be at the same point on the spiritual path as we are, know we love them and appreciate their beliefs but in order for us to be happy we need to make our own choices. We then become truly free and the pressure and stress of staying in a situation simply to please others at our own expense completely vanishes.

So, now I enjoy the essence of spring during Easter, and the many earth-based rituals that have become synonymous with the holiday. It is a fertile time, filed with creative energy and resurrection, chocolate and pretty flowers. I like it just fine like that, and it is wonderful that I get to decide what resonates with me!

What ever you choose in your life, I celebrate your right to choose it, and I send blessings to you in honor of your divine free will sovereign beingness!

Turning April Fool’s Day into the Best Day Ever!

April 1st is traditionally called April Fool’s Day in the US, and it is a day to honor the jokester in us all. Many pranks are played on friends and family and some are quite elaborate.

This year, a car company teamed up with the Jimmy Kimmel talk show to create the best day ever for a kind mom who adopted 7 special needs boys. They kept the fun spirit of the day but instead of laughter being the pay off, this lovely woman got a car that was big enough to transport all her kids.

What a beautiful way to pay it forward to a person who makes loving service the cornerstone of her life!

Mom of 7 Special Needs Kids Gets A New Car In Best April Fools Prank Ever on the Good News Network

US court rules that Navy must protect sea mammals from sonar during war training.

In an ongoing legal battle between the US Navy and environmental and animal rights protection groups related to the use of active sonar in war games, cetaceans have just won a round.

Whales and dolphins are highly dependent on their ability to hear in the depths of the sea. They employ high frequency sonar to find mates, feed and navigate their migration routes. The concentrated active sonar technology employed by the Navy, which bounces sound off under water objects in order to create a map of underwater terrain, interferes with the ability of cetaceans to hear. In many cases it can cause severe injury and loss of life.

The US Navy hosts biannual training exercises with 22 other nations in a vast area of the Pacific Ocean. The National Wildlife and Fisheries Services approved the activities, even though data indicated that these events may harm millions of mammals. The Navy and the NWFS said there was no way around the issues, and imposing restrictions would hamper their ability to train.

Federal Judge Susan Oki Mollway rejected their arguments and indicated that they had not upheld the requirements of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. While the judge has yet to determine the penalties or required policy revisions in the case, this is a huge decision in favor of our blessed sea brethren.

The rights of animals to their own natural habitat, without the interference of human activity is a cornerstone of co-creating a cooperative earth that embraces us all, and I look forward to more supportive decisions like this one in the future.

A Silent Victory by Brian Palmer for One Earth

Kindergarten children explain how breathing helps with anger.

A charter school in California teaches their young students all about mindfulness and relaxation. They were in the process of making a video about how to deal with anger and they asked their students to participate.

Their brilliant understanding and explanations are awe inspiring, and you can see how empowered they feel to have these tools in their skill set. I hope that these simple techniques are spread to other schools so that children and their parents are able to handle strong emotions in a more positive way.

Just Breathe on KarmaTube

And finally…

Two dozen random acts of kindness to brighten your day!

Every little bit of kindness helps create a better world. Each act is like a coin dropped into a piggy banks. The coin itself may seem small and have little value, but when they are added together, they create a positive energy that is changing the world one smile and hug at a time.

We all have room for more acts of kindness in our lives. The truth is, many are creating this energy simply by being themselves and they do not realize what an effect they are having on the world.

Letting someone ahead of you in the grocery line, waiting for a pedestrian to cross the street safely, or holding the door open for someone are all acts of kindness. As we embody more love and radiate kindness out through our own actions, we model for others in a very powerful way.

We show them that it takes no time at all to be kind, and it invites them to be kinder in their own lives. This then becomes a powerful force for positive change that benefits all beings.

24 Random Acts of Kindness on YouTube

That’s the good news for today. Have a joyous day. Please join Gavin Harrill for the Golden Gaia News Roundup on Monday.

Be Well. Be Joy. Be Love!

We’ve learned a lot from Sri Chinmoy about music’s spiritual value so far, and one of the things we’ve learned is that we can become a musical conduit for the expression of our spirituality if we remember to center our music on spirit.

Music is arguably the best way to express our spirituality and our philosophy on life, and people of all kinds of faith have used it to spread their message and the things they’ve learned along their journey back into full consciousness.

It might not be as direct as meditation, but we’ve learned that it provides a potent path back into a higher consciousness. Any spiritual practice will uplift us as long as we stay consistent with it, and while some spiritual teachers shun consistency, I think it’s helpful to our creative and spiritual practices.

We’ll get the most out of music (and anything else) if we stay dedicated to it, and if we calmly and patiently stick with it despite any obstacles, Source will be there for us to take care of the rest.

We’ll still have to work hard and stay consistent, but as long as we can do that, the higher consciousness we want to reach will enhance our music and help us with any trouble we have along the way.

Self-expression is great in any form, and connecting with our Christ consciousness will give us more freedom to flow. No matter how we creatively express ourselves, staying dedicated and remembering that it’s meant to be a spiritual practice will allow us the freedom we require to really enjoy it.

According to Sri Chinmoy, music ‘feeds our inner life’.

“Soulful and spiritual music really helps us; it feeds our inner life. Music has tremendous power. With fire we can burn ourselves, or we can cook and do many other good things. It is the same with music.” (1)

Any discerning spiritual seeker can tell the difference between spiritually alive and spiritually dead music by the way it makes them feel.

“Divine music immediately elevates our consciousness, whereas undivine music immediately lowers our consciousness and tries to destroy our sincere inner cry for a better spiritual life. The spiritual person will immediately be affected by this music.

“So music can change our consciousness provided it is the music that comes from the heart and enters into the heart. The music that touches the very depth of our heart can elevate our consciousness.” (2)

Our restless senses and doubtful mind present a problem if we want enlightenment, and this is where music (and other things like writing) help us greatly.

“Our senses are restless. Therefore, our mind suffers. Our mind is doubtful. Therefore, our senses suffer.

“The mind has no capacity to bind or discipline the senses. Here music comes to the mind’s rescue. With the help of music, the mind binds and disciplines the senses and makes them into perfect instruments so they can be inundated with peace, light and bliss from above.” (3)

The senses can’t insert faith into a doubtful mind, and this too is where music saves the day.

“Again, when the mind is doubtful, when the mind drinks deep of doubt-poison, the senses have no capacity to inject faith into the mind. Here also music comes to the rescue. The senses take help from music to transform and illumine themselves.” (4)

Even with music, we can end up being doubtful. This is why I mentioned the importance of dedication to sustaining the musical flow, and if we doubt our abilities, we’ll make the process harder than it needs to be and we might wonder why we can’t seem to flow like we really want to.

Sometimes, we don’t realize that it’s because we started to doubt the whole process in the first place. At the first sign of doubt, our creative abilities will seem to deplete, further increasing our doubt in ourselves and the power of music to help us elevate our consciousness.

Music requires discipline, and in this case, it requires the disciplined ability to believe in ourselves and the power of sound to help us access the spirit while we uplift others. As long as we don’t let the mind’s doubtful nature bring us down, we’ll get the most out of music and we’ll be glad we stuck with it so we could feel what resulted.

Sri Chinmoy tells us more about how the calmed senses and the musical mind allow us to connect with spirit through the heart, which, as he also tells us, is the ultimate portal to a higher consciousness.

“When the senses are calm and quiet, the doubtful mind is totally transformed and it becomes inseparably one with the heart, which is all receptivity. At that time our Inner Pilot—the Supreme Musician—can manifest Himself blessingfully, powerfully and measurelessly.

“As He is manifesting Himself in and through us, the divine music becomes part and parcel of our existence and we grow into perfect Perfection. In and through us the Supreme Musician creates a new world. We become the divine music, and a new vision of God’s transcendental Reality operates in and through us.” (5)

There’s a reason so many conscious musicians feel like they can use their music to change the world, and we really can make some profound changes if we unlock our music and flowingly express it, regardless of the doubt we feel in our mind.

While we want our music to uplift people, we don’t want to sacrifice our joy or passion by trying to live up to society’s expectations. We have to focus on raising our own consciousness with music before we can use it to uplift others, and we’ll know when we’ve become sufficiently inspired to start playing publicly.

Those of us who are just starting to embrace music will want to let it be somewhat of a personal practice, and with dedication, we’ll eventually be comfortable using it to uplift others. We’ll have drastically uplifted ourselves by that time, and because of this, our comfort level will have risen sufficiently.

We can play music during meditation, Sri Chinmoy tells us, provided we’re musically attuned enough to get something out of it.

“Can spiritual music be played during meditation?

“Certainly, although it depends on the one who meditates. There are many seekers on earth who meditate extremely well, but who have not developed their musical sense. Their ears have not been trained, so we cannot expect them to change their nature overnight.

“They either lack the capacity of appreciation or they have some austere feeling about music.” (6)

Most people, he tells us, don’t tend to open up to the music of the soul.

“Psychic music is not very widely appreciated, and very few people appreciate the soul’s music. They feel it is like a stranger that is entering into their consciousness. But it is actually their eternal tenant, their soul, that is deep within them waiting to come to the fore.” (7)

Playing spiritually inspired music while we’re deep in meditation will produce a significant effect, he tells us.

“If divine music is played during deep meditation, it enhances the meditation. It will immediately help in elevating the consciousness. If you are fond of music, then playing soulful songs or chants during your meditations at home will definitely help you.” (8)

I’ve heard that chanting will help our meditation tremendously, and I can imagine playing reggae or some other form of deeply spiritual music will help us enjoy the good vibes in an even more intense way than we already can.

Silence is helpful by itself when it comes to exploring our inner realms, but music that contains an inherently spiritual essence will increase the meditation’s quality because sound is an important aspect of our spiritual evolution.

We’ll realize when we’re back in a higher state of consciousness that light and sound are primarily responsible for the creation of our reality and every reality that currently lies beyond our conscious perception, and the sooner we embrace music, the sooner we’ll come to this crucial realization.

We’ll continue to talk about music’s spiritual value in part 4, and as always, there’s still a lot to say about it. I could probably write a few more articles about it without Sri Chinmoy’s input, because it continues to fascinate and inspire me.

Like some of you, I’ve been inspired by the conscious musicians of the past and present who’ve used music to uplift the world, and I think it’s one of the best ways we can assist in the planetary awakening.

I’m not alone, and that’s why there are so many skilled musicians on the forefront of the conscious awakening who are doing what they can to raise awareness.

We’re raising the light quotient with everything we do to uplift the world, and we’ll be rewarded for our efforts by the supremely pure vibration our music and meditation will help us access.

For now, let’s stay active and continue to raise awareness in any way we can, because our collective evolution depends partly on our spiritually inspired work. We have every reason to embrace our unfolding mission, so let’s stay active, enthusiastic and willing to contribute.

Footnotes:

1. Srichinmoy.org: “Music: God’s Universal Language’ at –http://www.srichinmoy.org/resources/library/music_and_spirituality/music_gods_language
2. Loc. cit.
3. Loc. cit.
4. Loc. cit.
5. Loc. cit.
6. Loc. cit.
7. Loc. cit.
8. Loc. cit.

By Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness, April 4, 2015 – http://tinyurl.com/psn8f92

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