I post some snippets from my last reading with Archangel Michael, March 23, 2016, through Linda Dillon, for their general interest.

They are on the perceived “slow” pace of things and the disappearance of bliss, when it goes. Oh, yes, and on play, which I apparently don’t do enough of. Thanks to Dana for our transcript.

Archangel Michael: This has been a challenge, as you well know!

Steve: It sure has.

AAM: Endurance, consistency, patience and an understanding that what lies ahead is what has lain behind in the first instance, desire, dream, plan of the Mother. It is not a question of whether or not there shall be this restoration of her plan. And it is not even a question really of when.

For when she has declared this malleability of time and space and the bringing forth of a clear understanding on the part of humanity of who they are and what they are capable of, this has set in motion, catalyzed, triggered that unfoldment.

So while you feel, dearest friend, that this is often too slow, too laborious, too quiet, I suggest to you that in fact it is quite rapid and unfolding directly in front of you. We know that the human experience of time and space is felt and experienced differently than us.

But keep heart, fair one. For you are exactly where you have need to be. Now where in this universe of potential, do you wish to begin?

Steve: I’d like to begin by understanding bliss a little better. It comes and it goes. It hasn’t been around for several days now. What happens when it goes, Lord?

AAM: What happens is it is as if you, my friend, my ally, have an internal mechanism – and we are not suggesting to you in any way that it is a conscious or even a subconscious mechanism – but there is this part of you that is absolutely human.

And there is this part of you, subconscious to unconscious, that says, “Well I’d better get back to work now. I’d better get back to the business at hand. I do not feel completely 1000% sure that I am prepared or entirely worthy of simply remaining in this state” of what you call bliss and what we would call connection.

Because are they not one and the same? What you are doing is simply plugging into, keying into what has always been part of you, part of us, and available to you.

Now with this shifting and these energies, this increase in frequency, in vibration, this keying in has become much more readily available. So that is what is going on.

There is a part of you that feels this deep commitment to, shall we say, tending to the business at hand and you aren’t always certain that you can both be in bliss and do your job.

So it is not a conscious turning up of the switch or the key. But it is this sole determination, this fortitude, this endurance of which I have spoken, that prompts you to say, “Well I’d better get back to work.”

Steve: Yes, that rings a bell. Will meditation help?

AAM: Yes, but where you are headed is that you want to be, and I mean YOU want to be, you desire to be in this waking meditative blissful state where you are able to do your work, as both you perceive it and we perceive it, and to be able to be in this flow and this connection of love. So it is a balancing act that you are perfecting and that you are allowing to be perfected, both within and around you.

Now there is another aspect to this. You know very clearly the pain and suffering and the feelings of disconnect on the part of many of your collective. And you have a belief system, and it is not really related to your feelings of self-worth or worthiness, but there is a part of you that believes that you have need to align with and understand this pain and suffering experience and attitude in order to speak to the collective, basically where you believe they are. And so that is another aspect to this feeling of disconnect.

Steve: Yes, that’s true. I tell myself I have to stay within their focal range.

AAM: What you are going to expand into is the understanding, and we mean deep, profound understanding, of that experience of a portion of the collective while at the same time being able to maintain your bliss and that perspective.

Because when you are working, using a generic term, when you are working from that place of bliss, you are transmitting that bliss not only from your being but also within the words and the articles that you write. So, dear heart, you are a work in progress. And from our perspective you are doing extraordinarily well.

At the end of the reading.

Steve: Thank you. Well, my gosh, we have two minutes!

AAM: Shall we play? You are ready!

Steve: For what, Lord?

AAM: For play.

Steve: For play? I’m ready for higher dimensionality!

AAM: You are ready for higher dimensionality, but this sense of obligation – which we also recognize and laud as the acceptance of responsibility. You have been stellar in this regard and for this we thank you – but your indicator that you want, desire, and welcome sacred partnership is an indicator not simply of delving into the deepest, darkest secrets [of the Self], dear heart, but also of your desire to play, to laugh, to conjoin with ease, with grace, with splendor and with sincerity.

When we talk about play, we do not necessarily mean playing dominoes. We mean skipping across the universe! And you are prepared to do this.

Allow yourself to find this balance – and of course we will help – of being in the bliss, infusing the bliss into the words, knowing and understanding the pain and suffering and disappointment of those who are still in the midst of [their cleansing].

The energies right now, the Ascension energies, the gamma waves are causing us to grow and expand.

What can we do to help them along?

What are the ways that we can expand our view, our seeing, our experience?

I’m going to go over as many as I know of, which will turn this article into a series.

We can begin by expanding our outlook. For many of us, our introduction to the fact that dimensions exist has only come within the last ten years. One way we can expand our outlook is to feel those states of being that are known to be higher dimensional.

Draw up love from our own heart. That’s where we’ll find it.

Find any bit of bliss that comes fleetingly across our hearts or minds and flow with it. Watch it expand.

Most of us have no experience of higher dimensions. So we’re at square one on this one. Therefore, think of it as a campaign. Establish a beachhead of understanding. Realize or come to know intellectually one fact about the new territory and fan out from there.

I’m not talking here about spiritual enlightenment, about which I’m not fit to speak. I’m talking about adapting to change. In the former, we might suspend knowing at times; in the latter, we build on our knowing, our experience.

Another expansion tool is that we can use what we’ve learned about the divine qualities to expand our ability to be like the Divine. Allow ourselves to be joyful. Notice how deep peace is, like a doorway into the Divine. Every godly quality – prudence, courage, compassion, etc. – is a portal into expansion.

We can “true up” our behavior. Get mad at people less. Assist someone. Give up our seat. Pay for the groceries of the person ahead of us. We can actually fashion our behavior to align with our values. That also will expand consciousness.

(Concluded from Part 1.)

In addition to expanding our outlook, we can break through to new levels of experience. One way to do that is to open our hearts so that love can flow freely. This heart-opening is the brass ring for me – so far on this amazing journey.

We can break through on all our inhibitions, reservations, wounded spots. We can push back the barriers and frontiers we’ve erected to protect ourselves. This is the time to do it. At no other time will conditions be better to have us push back against the results of our own suppression.

In addition to breaking through to new levels of experience, we can also take committed action. Step out into the world. Take on a piece of the world’s unworkability and fix it. Address an injustice in the world – from a place of calmness, centeredness, and love. Avoid making anyone wrong: That should prove challenging.

I have at times felt I could mentally “throw my arms around” a subject, take an umbrageous view, see the whole picture in a flash.

At other times I found I could create a wider context to hold things in.

At these moments, I felt transformation from a lower to a higher state of consciousness (I hesitate to say “dimension”).

Typically I went from unconscious to conscious awareness, from unexperienced experience to experienced experience, as Werner Erhard has described it. These were “peak moments” and they passed within a short period of time.

A lot of me exists below the surface. Credit: www.entrepreneur.com

In addition to committed action, we can also commit to being transparent, as another ongoing ticket to expansion. The more we peel the masks away, come out from hiding, and reveal ourselves, the better life becomes in every way.

Whoever had us, as kids, stop sharing with each other didn’t do us a favor and now it’s time to go a different route.

In addition to transparency, we can process the obstacles to expansion – our core issues and conditioning.

When we hit an obstacle, like an upset, we can recognize that we’ve triggered a core issue. Our upset probably has little or nothing to do with the person in front of us. It probably traces back to childhood. We need to get to the bottom of it and complete our experience of it. And then let it go.

To complete our upsets, we need to stand in the face of them, not run from them. We need to become masters of them instead of allowing them to master us. Tell the truth deeply. Come clean. Own our own stuff. Drop any baggage we can.

We can emerge. Come out. Break through. There are so many ways to expand.

Using all of them, we’re not just standing in the face of change. We’re expanding in the face of it.

All of these then are ways of expansion, transformation, emergence. All of these are excellent adaptive tools in the face of change. And all of them contribute to the overall Ascension of the planet, which is what we came to help with.

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Working out in these areas, I believe, generates light. That’s what the Company of Heaven seems to be saying. Matthew Ward often says if we could see what he sees, we’d be overjoyed: Lightworkers are generating a great deal of light, apparently.

There are so many ways to expand and now’s the time to use them – if we want to leaven the loaf that Ascension is. Put another way, if we want to increase the number of people who awaken to Ascension, which is what we came to do, then we need to master expanding as one way of adapting to the change that we’re all in.

After that, we need to master change itself – or, more precisely, our response to change. We’ve spent years clearing our emotional upsets and issues to be ready to respond well at this time. Now our DNA is activating. Our crystal body is forming. Gamma waves are hitting us.

The pace of spiritual change is very gradually picking up. Now’s the time for our discernment to kick in, our resolve, our sense of mission.