WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people, many holding signs with names of gun violence victims and messages such as "Ban Assault Weapons Now," joined a rally for gun control on Saturday, marching from the Capitol to the Washington Monument.

Leading the crowd were marchers with "We Are Sandy Hook" signs, paying tribute to victims of the December school shooting inNewtown, Conn. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray and other city officials marched alongside them. The crowd stretched for at least two blocks along Constitution Avenue.

Participants held signs reading "Gun Control Now," ''Stop NRA" and "What Would Jesus Pack?" among other messages. Other signs were simple and white, with the names of victims of gun violence.

About 100 residents from Newtown, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six teachers, traveled to Washington together, organizers said.

Participant Kara Baekey from nearby Norwalk, Conn., said that when she heard about the Newtown shooting, she immediately thought of her two young children. She said she decided she must take action, and that's why she traveled to Washington for the march.

"I wanted to make sure this never happens at my kids' school or any other school," Baekey said. "It just can't happen again."

Once the crowd arrived at the monument, speakers called for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition and for universal background checks on gun sales.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the crowd it's not about taking away Second Amendment gun rights, but about gun safety and saving lives. He said he and President Barack Obama would do everything they could to enact gun control policies.

"This is about trying to create a climate in which our children can grow up free of fear," Duncan said. "This march is a starting point; it is not an ending point ... We must act, we must act, we must act."

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.'s non-voting representative in Congress, said the gun lobby can be stopped, and the crowd chanted back, "Yes, we can."

"We are all culpable if we do nothing now," Norton said

James Agenbroad, 78, of Garrett Park, Md., carried a handwritten sign on cardboard that read "Repeal the 2nd Amendment." He called it the only way to stop mass killings because he thinks the Supreme Court will strike down any other restrictions on guns.

"You can repeal it," he said. "We repealed prohibition."

Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington's Arena Stage, and her partner organized the march. Organizers said that in addition to the 100 people from Newtown, buses of participants traveled from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Others flew in from Seattle, San Francisco and Alaska, they said.

While she's never organized a political march before, Smith said she was compelled to press for a change in the law. The march organizers support Obama's call for gun control measures. They also want lawmakers to require gun safety training for all buyers of firearms.

"With the drum roll, the consistency of the mass murders and the shock of it, it is always something that is moving and devastating to me. And then, it's as if I move on," Smith said. "And in this moment, I can't move on. I can't move on.

"I think it's because it was children, babies," she said. "I was horrified by it."

After the Connecticut shootings, Smith began organizing on Facebook. The group One Million Moms for Gun Control, the Washington National Cathedral and two other churches eventually signed on to co-sponsor the march. Organizers have raised more than $50,000 online to pay for equipment and fees to stage the rally, Smith said.

Lawmakers from the District of Columbia and Maryland rallied the crowd, along with Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund and Colin Goddard, a survivor from the Virginia Tech massacre.

Goddard said he was shot four times at Virginia Tech and is motivated to keep fighting for gun controlbecause what happened to him keeps happening — and nothing's been done to stop it.

"We are Americans," he said, drawing big cheers. "We have overcome difficulties when we realize we are better than this."

Smith said she supports a comprehensive look at mental health and violence in video games and films. But she said the mass killings at Virginia Tech and Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., all began with guns.

"The issue is guns. The Second Amendment gives us the right to own guns, but it's not the right to own any gun," she said. "These are assault weapons, made for killing people."

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The Invitations to the Party Have Gone Out – Part 1/2

We’re beginning to receive our initial invitations from the Company of Heaven to join in on the work that awaits us to build Nova Earth. Admittedly the treatment is not yet well-rounded. We have a mention here and a mention there. But enough has been said to start us reflecting on this new phase of our lightwork.

The Invitations Have Gone Out

SaLuSa said on Jan. 4, 2013, that “the next part of your Ascension is with Mother Earth, and with our help to create a new Earth that is befitting souls who are growing exponentially and becoming fully conscious Beings.” He predicted close cooperation once the galactics arrive.

“You will then be able to call yourselves ‘Galactic Beings’ and the doors will open to even greater opportunities than you have ever experienced. Your rate of progress is entirely up to you, and once you have made your decision you will have plenty of help from us.” (1)

In the past we’ve thought that we couldn’t create Nova Earth before the galactics contribute their vision and technology. But Matthew Ward says that their arrival has to await acceptance from the majority of people on the planet and that in fact we’ve already taken up the initiative.

“We know that some of you think that clearing away the debris left by darkness can come only after our universal family is on site. As much as they want to bring their technology and work alongside you, even the possibility of such assistance is not strongly registered in the collective consciousness.

“The positive aspect in this case is that souls on the planet are, and others very soon will be, taking the initiative to change what needs to be changed.” (2)

Sanat Kumara echoes Matthew, telling us that “you are already moving to the creation and the building of Nova Earth.”

“And that is where the peace, the joy, the abundance and the new beginnings are. And that is why I have begun this night by saying, ‘Welcome to the new beginnings.’ [The transition to Nova Earth] has already happened.” (3)

SaLuSa tells us that we should by now know something of what’s expected of us.

“By now all of you have some idea as to what your place is in the New Age, and what is expected of you. At the very least project your Love and Light at every opportunity and you will be doing as much as can be expected of anyone. You do not all have to be in a major role as you are part of the team, and believe us that every contribution counts as far as the outcome is concerned.” (4)

Last year we were concluding our work to emerge from under the thumb of the planet’s controllers and to publicize Ascension as widely as possible. But because the building of Nova Earth awaited passing through the 21/12/12 portal, some of the Company of Heaven are issuing us invitations newly to involve ourselves in the work.

For instance, Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon issued this invitation on An Hour with an Angel recently.

“I invite you, I hold out my arms to you as do all the mighty ones [archangels], all the ascended masters. The Divine Mother, the Company of Heaven, we hold out our arms to you and say, please, join with us now in partnership [to build Nova Earth]. …

“I welcome you to this new chapter, this new book, this new adventure.” (5)

And through Ron Head, he asked us to contribute whatever we could and wished to.

“Whatever you can contribute, please continue to do so. If that is anchoring light in your case, then do that. You have no way of measuring the effect of what you do, but please know that it is necessary and applauded.” (6)

He asked us to enjoy the parts we play: “This party is underway, beloveds. Enjoy to the fullest the parts which you have been destined by your own efforts to play. We dance beside you and will provide all the support possible. Simply ask.” (7)

He made the same appeal on An Hour with an Angel on Jan 21.

“It is time for the best and the brightest — and we are not meaning just those who have been identified by former regimes as the best and the brightest — but it is time for the best and the brightest hearts, intellects, spirits, healers, communicators to come together and to formulate (to use your terms, dear heart) what is workable, what is sustainable. Might I add, what is joyful?

“Repeatedly, we have said to you, if it is not of love, if it is not of joy, don’t do it. It is a very simple test. It is a very simple litmus test. If it does not make your heart sing.” (8)

So we’ve received our invitation to the party and it now only requires us to show up and take part.

First Steps in Creating Nova Earth are Internal

Archangel Michael in An Hour with an Angel, walked us through what’s needed to create Nova Earth. The first step, he said, “is the complete eradication of the old.” We’re requested to shift our internal state by dropping belief systems that no longer serve us.

“The first steps in creating and bringing to the forefront what you and we think of as Nova Earth, and anchoring as Nova Earth is the shift in the internal, in your spirit, in your soul, in your emotional body, in your mental body, in your causal, your astral — you name it. …

“ The most significant piece of creating Nova Earth is the letting go that you are doing — and have done and have been doing — of the false illusions that were created over eons by the human race.

“So all of those tendencies… and I have to say the letting go of war — and that is war within, it is war between individuals, it is war within communities and nations — that is critical. And what you are doing is letting go of all those belief systems that have never served you.” (9)

This shift includes our embracing the new paradigm of the divine qualities in place of the old paradigm of separation and competition. In this area he says we’ve done much already.

“You have let go and cleansed so much, to the point where your generosity has shone not only to us but throughout the galaxies and all over the planet. But it is elimination until it is a vague memory, the way it is in so many of the other galaxies. …

“The creation of Nova Earth comes with the kind, considerate, what you consider Divine, qualities, what this channel has called blessings and virtues. It comes with the anchoring of those qualities not only within thee, but in every interaction — in the microcosm, within and without, in the macrocosm.” (10)

After 21/12/12, the collective consciousness of the planet has shifted, according to Taryn Crimi’s angelic sources, from Service-to-Self society to Service-to-Others: “You are transitioning from a world whose primary focus was based in the energy of service to self, to a world that works as a collective for the good of all. This energy will be felt in all months this year.” (11)

While our hearts are ready for service, we have no funds to give to the work. On this score, Archangel Michael said:

“Now, you say, “But Lord, I do not have money.” And we acknowledge and accept that. … But what we also say to you is you are a living, breathing example, leader, demonstrator of incorporating the Divine qualities, and the trust, without money, because it is not dependent on money.

“Money, abundance is the reflection, the outcome, part of the generosity that emerges from that love and trust and sharing and prudence and temperance — and patience. …

“As you anchor these qualities, it is reflected; it is reflected in economics.” (12)

So we’re not to let a lack of funds stop us from beginning the work needed to make this a world that works for everyone.

(Concluded tomorrow.)

Footnotes

(1) SaluSa, Jan. 4, 2013, athttp://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm

(2) Matthew’s Message, Dec. 29, 2012, athttp://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm

(3) “Sanat Kumara: Our Heartfelt Apologies to the Disappointed,” Jan. 7, 2013.http://goldenageofgaia.com/into-the-golden-age-of-gaia/the-midpoint-of-ascension/sanat-kumara-our-heartfelt-apologies-to-the-disappointed/

(4) SaLuSa, Jan. 25, 2013.

(5) “Archangel Michael: You’re Building the New Reality of Gaia,” Jan. 21, 2013, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/building-nova-earth-toward-a-world-that-works-for-everyone/nova-earth-society/archangel-michael-youre-building-the-new-reality-of-gaia/

(6) “Archangel Michael via Ron Head: It is Truly a Time to be Joyous,” Jan. 21, 2012, athttp://oraclesandhealers.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/2544/#more-2544.

(7) “Archangel Michael Through Ron Head: This Party is Underway, Beloveds,” as channeled by Ron Head – December 27, 2012, athttp://oraclesandhealers.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/this-party-is-underway-beloveds-channeled-by-ron-head/.

(8) “Archangel Michael: You’re Building the New Reality of Gaia,” ibid.

(9) Loc. cit.

(10) Loc. cit.

(11) “Angelic Guides via Taryn Crimi: A Look Ahead – A Month by Month Description of the Energy this Year,” Jan. 7, 2013, at http://angelicguides.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/a-look-ahead-a-month-by-month-description-of-the-energy-this-year/.

(12) “Archangel Michael: You’re Building the New Reality of Gaia,” ibid.

Saul: You Light-bearers are Filling the World with The Fire of Divine Love

Saul: You Light-bearers are Filling the World with The Fire of Divine Love

As channeled by John Smallman – January 27, 2013

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When you come to terms, as soon you will, with the realization of what an extraordinary energy shift occurred in December last year, affecting Earth and all the life forms she so lovingly supports, you will be truly amazed.

It was not a one-off momentary event, but one of enormous power and magnitude that had been planned most carefully, so that over a period of months the crescendo of the divine energy field interacting with Earth would peak in mid-December as the New Age arrived and set humanity off on a new and far more direct path towards Home — one that would short-circuit the old, extremely vague and meandering ones that you had been attempting, with very limited success, to follow for eons.

You have spent far more time in the illusion than you envisaged when you entered it. Yes, you thought that an existence separated from your Father would be both inspiring and freeing, but at the depths of your being you knew that you would never relinquish your grasp on Reality.

You would hide Reality from yourselves so that your illusory experience would seem very real, but you would not, indeed could not, actually separate yourselves from It. And you knew that when your games became boring or frightening you could return Home.

However, you did such a good job of building the labyrinth that is the illusion, that you became lost and could not find your way out. There were many possible paths that would lead you out, but you kept becoming discouraged and distracted, and forgetting where you were trying to go. The paths meandered through strange and threatening environments that you had built to add interest and spice to the experience you had chosen to undergo.

Great fear and confusion engulfed you and you began to fight with one another more and more ferociously, while in the depths of your hearts you kept calling out to God to rescue you.

He heard your calls, but would not wake you because the vast and shocking difference between your illusory world and Reality, suddenly revealed, would have caused you intense pain. Instead He sent you saints, guides, mystics and teachers who built a far shorter path Home for you and endeavored to lead you along it.

Finally, in the last few decades of your 20th century many who had become totally disillusioned with your illusory world began to take note of the wonderful alternatives that were on offer, began to avail themselves of the spiritual assistance that had always been there for the asking, and discovered that there was a much, much shorter way Home than anyone had imagined.

They were you, the Light-bearers and wayshowers, and during this brief moment in time you have achieved mind-boggling results when compared to what little had been achieved in previous millennia. You have lighted the path for humanity to follow, and now that it is so brilliantly lit humanity is indeed on the move! As you have constantly been told, all will return Home, no one will be abandoned because Love neither rejects nor discriminates against, It accepts all.

Some of those who chose to cooperate in the establishment of the illusion are not yet ready to stop playing their insane games there, and so will find themselves able to continue with them in an environment suited to that kind of game-playing for as long as they choose to hide from Love, from Reality.

Love welcomes, Love embraces, It does not impose. The vast majority of humanity wants only to awaken and they will not have to wait until that small and misguided minority finally decides that it is time to change its mind and choose to wake up.

You Light-bearers and wayshowers are filling the world with the fire of divine Love, and only those few who continue determinedly to intend to maintain the ways of the illusion will be unaffected by It. Its influence and warmth is seeping into the hearts of all who do not consciously intend to resist It, and the effects of that infiltration are dissolving the old concepts that favored judgment and punishment over love, compassion, and forgiveness.

Your news media is not bothering to report the good news about the softening and mellowing of hearts, and the growing awareness that all are connected, linked-in, and essential parts of the Whole. As this awareness develops and strengthens the ability of authoritarian forces of any kind to suppress or maintain control of the populace dissolves.

You have seen it happen in many countries over the last couple of years. The media focuses on the damage and the suffering that occurs when people rise up and say enough is enough, and, as they are controlled by those who hold the reins of power, they attempt to coerce the populace into obeying the authorities who promise to open a dialogue if they do so. But the time for that kind of meaningless exchange, which only helps the authorities to maintain and stabilize the old order, is over.

Peaceful demonstrations will grow in number as the old order dithers, confused and frightened, as it tries to maintain its position of power and entitlement. It is obvious to even the most unaware that the present state of affairs is untenable. Only those who have ruled, and are continuing to try to do so, are in denial about their inabilities to maintain their positions of power and control.

The New Age has arrived, and the old established order is peacefully (for the most part) crumbling, as the overall support it once enjoyed falls away. New people with new ideas and compassionate hearts are coming forward to replace those who have been running the broken and unworkable systems of government that have caused so much damage – going to war, for instance – in their insane determination to remain in power.

They have no power; they never had. But humanity chose to raise individuals up as heroes and leaders and then gave away their power to them

No longer. It was a mad offering on the part of the misguided to the insane that is now being rescinded. The peoples of the world have realized that no one has the right to control or repress them, and they are no longer willing to submit themselves to the authority of those who have consistently abused the positions of trust that they held.

As the old system collapses there will obviously be some violence as the once powerful attempt to maintain their authority. But those who enforce it for them are also realizing the complete unacceptability of the old ways.

They have worries, because they earn their livelihood by serving the system, but the divine energy field is leaving no one unaffected and unable to see the damage that has been, and still is being, caused by authoritarian systems of government, and they mostly no longer wish to be part of the dishonesty and corruption which have enabled them.

Focus on the loving energies that are arising within you. Share them freely, and know that you are ready to release your fears and anxieties as you move forwards to take your places in the cooperative and harmonious world that you are building to replace the one that has so miserably failed you.

The new energies are flowing through you powerfully and abundantly, so avail of them by embracing them and learning to use them. They are a divine gift, given to you so that you can reconnect with Yourselves, recognize who You really are, and open into the perpetual joy and wonder of that divine state.

With so very much love, Saul.

The Council of Nine via Tazjima: A Pathway to Understanding

As channeled by Tazjima – January 26, 2012

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We are the Council of Nine. We come here today to bring comfort to those Lightbearers who are still struggling with a need to understand their new world, the one into which they emerged on the morning of December 21, 2012.

The key to understanding your place in the world is to go within. This has been the nexus of understanding the process of ascension since the world began. The process has not changed; you have changed. Humanity is undergoing a transitional period in which it moves as a collective from separation to unity. For the many, this movement will take some time. As always, it is for the standard bearers of the light and love of unity consciousness to lead the way, acting as examples for the rest.

The great inbreathe of Brahma has begun; humanity and the entire Universe has begun the path of Return. This period covers vast periods of time as you understand it; there is no cause for anxiety or thinking that you are not prepared to face the Creator in your present state, whether you are currently feeling discouraged and disheartened or whether you are feeling expanded and enlightened, at the moment.

First, there must be a letting go of those things, memories, emotions and feelings that you are not worthy. There has lingered in even the most ardent of spiritual followers a feeling of unworthiness. Ever were they following the advice or teachings of another, a person, a guru, a teacher, in whom they placed all of their trust and sometimes their very livelihood. And often times that trust was and has been betrayed in some way. The lesson here is that the teacher lives within. It is up to each one of you to discover that teacher and to connect wholly with the Christ within.

“Ascension is a process.” This short phrase has emerged as a mantra of late, when the mostly unwarranted expectations of the great Shift failed to come to past for many. Truth is that many lightworkers have temporarily lost their momentum. If willing – it is always a matter of free will in cases such as this – it is time for the individual lightworker to determine, individually, where they stand. This is a process that will require some inner searching and discarding of all that does not “resonate” with one’s being now.

Many people, including lightworkers, do not relish the idea of cleaning out closets, whether physical ones or emotional ones. Yet it is a task that must be done if one is to discover what, exactly, is holding you back, individually and as a collective.

There has been much talk of a golden age for humanity and for the planet. We must remind you that golden ages occur simultaneously with the decaying process of the previous dark cycle or Kali Yuga, as it is called by the Hindus. There can exist an overlapping period of some hundreds of years in your present system of reckoning. Your ancestors understood these vast cycles, as well as those cycles that impact nation states, companies, tribes, families and individuals. The purpose of this reminder, if it is such, is to assist you in understanding that some individuals will be experiencing the beginning of a golden age, while others will be entangled in the dying remnants of the Kali Yuga, due entirely to self-determination as to what is real to them, existing soul contracts and the exercise of free-will. Do not judge from outer appearances. Those who presently live a life of great poverty, may actually be happier than those of you who live in so-called developed nations.

One of the hardest initiations in life is the moment when you realize that you, yourself, and only you, are in charge of your life. It is your moment-by-moment decisions and acts that determine where and how you find your life playing out around you. Some individuals never pass through the gate of adulthood, but remain ever behind it, hoping and wishing for someone to come and take care of them, to solve all their problems and to carry them forth to their dreams. In short, they expect someone else to take on the role of savior or knight in shining armor. Sorry, dear ones, you must be your own savior.

Due to the circumstance of one’s temporary forgetfulness at the time of birth, the ritual of passing through the veil as it has been described by some, most lightworkers have forgotten their divine origins or even the fact that they are still connected and in touch with their soul and soul families, whether of indigenous origin or else of a galactic origin, as in the case of starseeds. We remind you now, as have other messengers, that these veils of forgetfulness and disconnection from Source have fallen, en toto – there is no longer any impediment preventing any personality from making contact with soul and monad. Yet the first step, the first move must come from the individual personality based on the ground, the so-called ground crew. This is universal law, which all civilizations outside ones such as yours abide.

How is contact made? Contact is made through the act of going within, accessing and riding the river of consciousness that flows through your physical body. The most sensitive focal points for discovering the connection exist within the heart center and the seat of the soul, the pineal gland, buried within the brain. It is through these two places that your soul maintains its connection with your body. It is through this connection that your body is enlivened by the soul.

Another sensitive area for some individuals is the center located just below the navel, also known as the Hara. It is here that those individuals who “listen” to their intuition first feel warnings come through when the body is in danger, sensed as a tightening of the “gut”. This center reacts or registers when thoughts are directed against the individual and can be physically felt as almost a punch in the gut (lower abdomen).

As the individual progresses in self-awareness, they will begin to feel a glow emanating from the heart center, almost like the soft caress of warmth from a small fire. This is a registering of “love” energy upon the heart center. It is here that one begins to sense a growing feeling of community with those individuals who are of a similar vibration or “wavelength”. This feeling of community is the beginning of a moving into a realization of oneness and unity. It is a process that can take years for an individual to come into awareness or it can be speeded up through intent and free will. Those individuals who have experienced temporary death and have returned usually bring back this connection if they have encountered the light during their time of being “dead”.

There are many lightworkers who are feeling at a loss, who feel that they personally do not have an awareness of any connection. They are not yet sensitive to feeling the energetic connections, whether through the heart or any other portion of their physical or etheric body, so as a result, they tend to seek others out who do have this connection functioning or appear to have one. This is the case with many who read the works of others, whether spiritual writings or channeled messages. While this activity can bring one a sense of temporary connection, it is one that is short-lived. The understanding and awareness of connection must take place within the individual, not by going outside one’s own consciousness. This is a step that all must take, the act of accepting responsibility for one’s own spiritual development, rather than relying on someone else “making it happen” for you.

One of the first ways to make connection is to consider what works for you and what does not. That process can start with selecting those “things” that you enjoy or that give you a sense of wholeness. What those things are is entirely up to you to discover. Through this self-discovery, you will begin to get to know yourself. And this process will undergo several stages. There will be times when you wish to be in company and other times when you need to be alone. It is okay for you to do what is necessary for your own development. Do not attempt to judge yourself by comparing your progress (or not) with that of another individual or group. You are a unique being, a unique facet or focus of Divine Mind.

One of the most important things to realize, now, is that the rules created on your planet that used to define spirituality and right living no longer applies. The rule or practice that a spiritual seeker had to follow a teacher or guru no longer applies. If you wish to follow a teacher for a time, do it; there are many worthwhile programs and teachings from which anyone with a modicum of dedication and intent could benefit from for a time. Other persons will find, however, that they must forge their own path. They will seem to dabble, reading the books of one author, then moving to another; sitting at the feet of a teacher and then moving on. While to someone else looking on, this might appear to be unsettled, the individual involved is actually in the processing of absorbing all and then dismissing what does not currently resonate, then moving on. All the “must do’s” and “should do’s” no longer apply. You need to determine what works and does not work for you. And that will take a willingness to go deeply within, feeling out your own set of “likes” and “dislikes”.

This new way of being might seem selfish at first, but it is known by wise teachers that the student must learn who they are before they can embrace the greater whole — “Know thyself and you will know the world”. Your world is a reflection of your thought. What you think about yourself is what will play out in your world. What you project on others is a reflection of how you think about yourself, unconsciously, and will play out in your own world. Those matters, largely suppressed, which you have not dealt with on your own, whether emanating from experiences in childhood or later through trauma experienced as an adult, are stamped upon the cells of your body. Until you undergo your own self-examination, sometimes aided by an experienced guide or shaman, you will not be able to step beyond these events. Do not make the mistake of projecting self-hatred upon another. It will only return to you in the shape of events or circumstances that will compel you to introspection. Those who resist, will go down before the specters created within their own unconscious mind.

Each individual is a co-creator with God, as a unique focus of consciousness. By bringing your self-awareness completely into your outer consciousness, by “knowing” yourself inside and out, you will be in a position to completely alter your world. You will begin to experience yourself as being a focus of intention, creativity, and ultimately experience a reunion with the greater part of your being, your true multi-dimensionality. It is a process that starts with one being, you.

We encourage those who wish to read the works of others, whether books or messages such as this one presented through this scribe, that one seeks to “feel” the why one has experienced a connection or not to the material. If the reader does not feel a connection, then it is their responsibility to leave the material, without criticizing the message for not meeting a set of expectations. That sense of discontent emanates from the reader not from any lack existing within the message itself. Understand, dear ones, which the process of reading a simple message of some two or three thousand words cannot and will not bring you spiritual enlightenment. It might bring you some momentary comfort by the realization of shared ideas or understandings, but if you do not share this understanding, it is not possible for a message to give it to you. You must discover the understanding, as such, on your own through your own explorations, inner and outer.

Rather than criticizing others for perceived lack of understanding, learn to be aware of what you understand or what you wish to explore further within your own world. It is time that each individual determine their own path and it will take a great deal of inner focus to forge that path to the discovery of your own inner truth. What is right for one person will not be right for another. It will soon become apparent that you have stepped through a doorway where the pathways have seemed to split out and become unlimited in scope. Perhaps this is why many lightworkers are scratching their collective heads and muttering to themselves, “What the f**k!” The old rules of engagement no longer apply. Each one of you must discover your own unique path to God.

In this explanation we do not wish to make this journey of self-discovery as necessarily being an arduous one. Indeed, for many, once they realize that they can go their own way with the blessings of Heaven, will inwardly cheer and go forth to discover an inner world of delight and joy. Others, especially those who have to overcome heavy amounts of early conditioning and/or trauma, will discover that initially their own journey will seem more difficult. The journey is what the individual makes of it.

And know this–all journeys will end up at the same place, in an ingathering of souls with their monads and sacred families of origin. This spiritual journey is the journey that each individualized focus of consciousness must take in order to come into spiritual maturity. No one can walk the walk for you, you must do it yourself. And yet, many individuals will discover that they walk in concert with a group of like-minded individuals. They will discover themselves within the group and will progress on their path as a group. Others will find the way of the solitary works for them. Either path will take one forward, if you can develop and apply the necessary self-love and self-forgiveness to your own process.

Before one can love the whole of humanity and life, one needs to learn to love self. Forgiveness of self for all acts of commission and omission comes first on this journey of self-discovery. Through the act of forgiveness one can move into self-love, which is an appreciation of the gifts that you, as a unique focus of God, bring to yourself and the world. What form these gifts take is up to you to discover. They can take many forms and sometimes no form at all, but a way you carry yourself and live in the world. An ability to give simple smiles, live with a cheerful nature and warm heart can be your gift. For many lightworkers, the discovery that being here, willing to anchor the light, is the first gift that they discover. As they open up into self-awareness, other gifts will present themselves, to be opened up and explored.

The journey never ends. You may go through many doorways on the way, such as the doorway of ascension from the physical world into the higher dimensions, but there are always more doorways to go through on the path of return. And you might find that you wish to linger in places along the way, especially when you discover those things that give you joy in your world. Eventually, though, the sense of inner longing and yearning to move on will overtake you and then you will be off, again, following the golden road of return to source.

We wish to emphasize that if you did not experience any changes during the shift, it does not mean that you failed in any way or that you are not a lightworker. If you are seeking you are a lightworker, whether or not you consider yourself a starseed or a being of indigenous descent. In truth, all humanity is starseed, brought here by intergalactic races and seeded into being. There have existed many colonies and civilizations that have been forgotten or purposefully removed from the awareness of the populace. This unknown, suppressed history will be revisited by you when the appropriate time arrives.

Those who awaken to their connection with their soul and monad will discover within themselves a growing awareness that the world is not as it appears to be. And there will be those who connect to the planetary Akasha, the etheric library containing a recording of all that has ever occurred, whether through thought and act, of what has taken place upon this tiny orb. Each of you has their own “book” in the Akasha, which is viewed upon the passage called death, through the act of self-review. It is here that the individual soul judges self, determining what lessons have been learned and what still needs to be accomplished. Self-review is not done to punish, just to bring into perspective what still needs to be completed before taking the next step upward on the path of return.

Those individuals who actively participate now in the process of self-discovery are actually performing an ongoing life-review. And can move upward in vibration and frequency by learning self-acceptance, self-love and self-forgiveness. All lessons must be completed, but with self-awareness, you will begin to discern what you need to do in order to accomplish the task set out by your soul that lies before you. It is a process that can be done by learning to live in joy or one that can be undergone through much suffering and toil. It is up to you to determine the outcome and no other.

Before you leap into self-condemnation, dear ones, because you perceive yourselves as failures if you are not wealthy and powerful, the greatest progress often comes when one must overcome obstacle after obstacle until the light comes on inside and you begin to realize that the so-called obstacles are there to give you the needed strength, determination and will to overcome. If the path was easy, everyone would have ascended yesterday. That is not the point to this little outing. Your soul chose to extend a portion of itself into physical being for the purpose of growth.

Soul growth cannot occur without there being something to challenge. Those living in higher dimensions do not encounter such obstacles or at least not to the degree as experienced in a physical world such as yours. It is in places such as the school room of Earth that the greatest soul growth can and does occur. It is a place to which many souls compete for the opportunity to come. You are here now. You were one of the chosen ones given one of the limited tickets for participation in this arena of soul development. So do your best. There are many who are watching you and cheering you on. There are many who love you and will assist you if you give your permission.

Dear ones, do not interpret this message as to be one of chiding. We are not disappointed in you, even if you may be disappointed in us for perceived inaction. We are not the leaders here in the ascension, you are. You are the only one who can determine whether or not you will succeed in raising up your vibration and frequency to match or exceed that of your ascending planet. If you fall behind, you will leave the planet and follow when you are ready from a different place for in the fullness of spirit, there is no time or space. It is simply an illusion into which you have emerged for a specific purpose: to overcome those obstacles which have been set before you for the purpose of inner growth of your soul and monad and no other.

Your soul contracts, made by your soul before birth, determine whether or not you are even meant to ascend in this lifetime. Soul contracts can be changed, but you need to determine whether or not you are willing to accept the terms. And even if you do ascend, it is likely that you will continue to go through the passage called death, in order to renew your body and get on with the agenda that has been laid before you, the unique path that you must discover for yourself. Until you undergo the finality of the seventh initiation, you will continue to live in a physical (albeit a lighter one) until reaching the initiation that carries you permanently into the spirit world, in complete reunion with the I AM Presence and monad. And even there, in the world of spirit, there exist many, many initiations, paths and planes for exploration before the “end” of the journey.

There is much that cannot be explained in a short message. It is for each one of you to discover for yourself the truth of what ascension is and how it actually occurs on a daily basis, depending on how much control you exert over your four bodies. Ascension is mastery, self-mastery. The rate of your ascension (which is actually the descension of soul and monad into the physical vessel) is determined only by you. Go forth and conquer, dear ones, with love—first self-love and then with a growing sense of universal love. Growth comes from the root and extends upward. Be fully grounded in your own life and reach for the sky, from within your own heart and being.

We are there beside you, both within and without. The company of Heaven and your brothers and sisters of the Universe, await your coming on clouds of glory. Be well and know that you are truly loved.

Namaste.

Thank you, beloved Council of Nine.

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Jesus: To be Fully Conscious Means That You Never Act Unconsciously

Posted by Stephen Cook on January 27, 2013

Jesus: To be Fully Conscious Means That You Never Act Unconsciously

As channelled by John Smallman – January 27, 2013

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John’s reading of today’s message:http://johnsmallman2.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/01-27-2013-jesus-audio-blog-for-sunday-jan-27.mp3

The major energy shift that occurred in December requires each one of you to make adjustments in your individual energy fields, so that they can engage fully with the divine energy field encircling and embracing you and the planet, and unless you have made an extremely conscious intent not to allow change to occur, this will happen automatically.

As your energy fields adjust, you can expect to experience some strange sensations and mood swings. This is normal. You are going through a gradual process of raising your frequency to a level at which it can align and interact with that of the divine energy field, and it is these adjustments that you are feeling. These sensations are a very good sign. They indicate that you are furthering your preparations to move into a fully conscious and fully awakened state.

Many of you have commented on the sensations that you are undergoing, some of which are not very pleasant. It is basically a facing-up-to and a releasing of any unloving aspects of yourselves that have been dwelling within you well below the level of your conscious awareness.

It is likely that, from time to time, they have taken control of you when you reacted to a situation, seemingly driven uncontrollably by powerful emotions that just arose with unaccustomed, unexpected, and possibly inappropriate ferocity. And afterwards you may well have wondered what on earth had happened. You were well aware that you had been upset, but your reaction was way beyond normal or reasonable; it was as though a demon had pushed you aside and taken control. In your fully conscious state that cannot happen, because to be fully conscious means that you never act or behave unconsciously. And in your previously almost unconscious state you might not even have noticed that something untoward was occurring because it would have appeared to be normal. Now “normal” is no longer acceptable to you, and that is a sign of enormous progress. Congratulations!

Releasing all these hidden “demons” is a little like installing a new operating system on your computer. It takes time and concentration, and involves a load of new learning to enable you to restore your competence and efficiency. Or you could compare it to ironing sheets or tablecloths that have emerged from the laundry and that cannot be used until all the wrinkles have been smoothed away.

You are effectively removing all your blocks and denials by replacing or upgrading your OS, or smoothing away all the inconsistencies in your attitudes and behaviors. As this process continues you will find that your awareness of your ego’s attempts to control you and run your lives will be much more apparent to you. You will be far less likely to react rapidly and thoughtlessly, and consequently, repenting at leisure will take up less of your time. Be glad that all this stuff is arising in your awareness, because when you have awareness you have all the tools you need to deal with any situation that comes up.

Of course you lose the ability to displace the blame for any unloving behavior, because in the moment you will be quite aware of what is happening, instead of momentarily “losing consciousness” as emotions fire up and take temporary control of you. You now have the power to stop yourselves before you react, and that can be scary because you can foresee the consequences before you act or react. You know that you are responsible for your words and actions – as there are no demons driving you – and you are conscious of making the decision for or against engaging.

To engage is tempting, and you have the time to make a decision, whereas previously, engagement just happened. You have to be aware in order to be tempted. And so, being aware, you can decide to resist strongly and effectively, or you can decide to succumb. If you give in, you may experience a momentary sense of freedom or exhilaration, but that will quickly be replaced by an intense sense of failure.

With these new energies flowing so abundantly, the learning-period for releasing undesirable aspects of your egoic selves is going to be very short. Feedback from your environment for thoughts, words, or actions will be very swift, as some of you have probably already discovered. The up-side is that you will not find yourselves endlessly repeating lessons – lessons that were perhaps incomprehensible before your awareness started coming to life – because they are quickly learnt in this new energy environment, and therefore you will no longer be besieged by unpleasant and uncalled-for experiences that ruin your day.

Previously, before the new energies started flowing so freely and abundantly, many just drifted through life wondering why it treated them so badly. Now it becomes quickly apparent to you why you are having a bad day, and you can make the necessary changes to your thought patterns and behaviors which will allow you to avoid situations that repeatedly end up spoiling it.

You are your own masters – which is something you had forgotten. That is how you were created, and you are now rediscovering that and availing of the power it gives you.

Knowledge is power, and your knowledge is growing as your awareness opens up, and so therefore is your power. Use it abundantly, lovingly, and wisely, and experience the new age into which you have moved.

Your loving brother, Jesus