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Just as it helps us to know the laws of our land and the traffic regulations so that we can decide on our behavior and it's consequences, it helps to know spiritual laws. Knowing and following spiritual laws helps both our life here on earth and our soul development, so that we can begin our life in spirit in a happy location! Following spiritual laws is the source of our personal power, ours to tap into as we wish, or to ignore and suffer the consequences.

My Grandma Helen had an old saying that alluded to this law. When people did wrong, Grandma Helen would say, "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine."

The highest and most powerful law in the universe is God's love. We must ask God for His love, although we are surrounded by it. As we ask daily for God's love to fill our hearts and souls, our soul begins to transform, and we grow toward being "at one" with God.

This transformation of the soul with God's love is the "new birth" of which Jesus spoke. The giving and receiving of unconditional love is one of the main lessons in all of our lives. This was the main lesson Jesus taught when on earth, although this lesson and others disappeared from the sacred writings within one hundred to six hundred years of his passing into the spirit world.

In The Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus, Jesus teaches again and again to pray frequently for God's love to fill us, and that this is the main and most powerful way for our sins to be forgiven (forgotten, actually, as our soul transforms), and the only way to reach his Celestial Kingdom.

Love, including God's love, is much broader than we imagine it to be. In Mary's Message to the World, Mary, the mother of Jesus, tells of the many kinds of love. Then she tells us that love is an actual energy source that runs the universe. This is a fascinating book to read.

Another main spiritual law is that of cause and effect. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." As we engage in good thoughts and loving behavior, that is what will return to us. Negative thoughts and behavior draw the same back to us. The Golden Rule, "do unto others as ye would have them do unto you" states the law of cause and effect. Be kind, and you will attract kindness. Think loving thoughts of others, and others will see the love in you.

The law of cause and effect is also called karma. Karma is both the positive and the negative we send out that returns. Most of the positive and negative in our present lives is our creation from this life. Some conditions can come from past lives.

An automobile can be used as a metaphor that explains the interplay between karma and free will in our lives. Karma is the automobile that we have set in motion. We, as the driver, have free will. We can follow the rules of the road, and make right choices, or we can drive into ditches, off the road, or even stop the car and get out. When we make right choices we drive on the smoother road.

The law of attraction, "like attracts like" is always at work, in the spirit world and here on earth. We attract people of a similar emotional and spiritual development to us. If we want more loving people around us, we need to first ask God for more love in our hearts, then send loving thoughts, prayers and actions out into the world. We are responsible for the conditions in our lives, both now and later in our lives in the spirit world.

Another important spiritual law is non-interference. Interference is causing another adult to do something they wouldn't have done. Murder and war are the worst forms of interference.

An important spiritual law is moderation, avoiding excess in all things. Excess is doing any one thing to the exclusion of everything else. This is a law of common sense. Too much alcohol, too much food, too much of anything is harmful, while a moderate amount can be good for us.

Free will is a spiritual law. We have free will here on earth. We are free to make choices. Then we are responsible for the outcomes of our choices.

Non-distraction is another spiritual law. Our behavior should not distract another from their work or pleasure.

Reincarnation is a spiritual law. We do not die! We only leave behind a vehicle designed for our learning period. However, we have a spiritual body that looks like us at our prime.

Crippled people and the mentally retarded and others with physical or mental handicaps have whole and complete spirit bodies and minds. That is a spirit body we will always have, eternally. In the case of babies and children who enter the spirit world, they grow in spirit until their spirit body and mind reaches their prime. They are nurtured and attended by loving beings.

We have many lessons to learn in our long journey through eternity, too many for one lifetime. Just as an infant grows into a baby, then

a young child, an adult, then an elder, our souls grow from infant souls to baby, young, mature, and old souls. The Message From Michael series explains this. Some people in spirit are not aware of this law, as the knowledge of it is beyond their development.

We reincarnate until we ascend, as Elijah and Jesus did in the Bible. After we ascend, reincarnation is voluntary.

The suffering in our world is caused by men, not God. When we break His laws and cause suffering, we will suffer in return, perhaps in another life. You can be sure that those who are responsible for polluting the beautiful planet that God gave us will be re-born and suffer in the mess they created.

Those who scorn others, such as fat people or homosexuals, may be born to live a fat or difficult homosexual life, receiving the scorn that they gave. Some white supremists are re-born into black-supremist families, and vice-versa. Until they learn their lessons of loving all people, they will continue to have new opportunities to learn.

Some homosexual people are making a transition from being male in one life to learning the lessons of being female, or vice-versa. Being homosexual is not a punishment. We all have been or will be homosexual in one or more lives, as we have learned femaleness and then begin to learn maleness, or the reverse.

People who kill will be killed in one future life or another. People who kill themselves before their lessons are complete are taken to a hospital in the spirit world and healed, then they must quickly reincarnate to a situation that seems ten times worse than the one they abdicated, because they remember the feelings from the previous life.

Pain and suffering can be a lesson that we came to learn, much as I did as a child. Perhaps it can be a way of finally receiving unconditional love, as we suffer from pain, illness, injury, or a handicap. We can learn our lessons, and be released from the pain and suffering. Or we can come back and continue learning it in another life.

The spirit of a baby is usually not present at conception, but in Jesus's case, that happened. This is very rare. Usually the spirit entity enters the tiny fetal body sometime between the fourth month of gestation and birth. According to Ashtar, the spirit world does not consider the spirit to be in place in the fetus until the baby is in the birth canal, and taking it's first breaths of life.

Prior to the time of birth, different spirits may enter and leave the fetus. If there is a fetus present at the time of an abortion, it is because the spirit in that fetus chose that lesson. This is because the spirit knows if an abortion is pending, and could leave the body.

Before aborting a fetus, I suggest asking a licensed medium if the spirit has entered the fetus. Most first trimester abortions have no spirit present, unless the spirit entity wanted a short fetal life for the learning experience.

People who have earned great wealth through learning and efforts of many lives are lent their wealth by God. What they do with it is

their test of character. If they ignore the suffering around them and do not help and share, then they will live lives like the sufferers they ignored. This does not mean that we must give away all of our earnings. We can receive guidance in this area from our guardian angels.

When we do major harm, major harm will return to us. Then when we have lived the more difficult life, we will have love and compassion where we had none. We would then never repeat our error.

I made this error in a past life, as I learned in various readings. I was the much loved and spoiled daughter of wealthy parents. The universe had given me everything. I overlooked the suffering of children around me when I had the means to take action.

My childhood in this life was to teach me just how those children suffered. I suffered greatly in my childhood, with torturous abuse from infancy. I chose my parents so that I could learn these hard lessons. I completed the lessons when I gave my unconditional love to the dysfunctional parents I chose prior to my birth for my growth in this specific area.

I completed the lessons I had to learn. I have great compassion for people who suffer, and could never again be able to help and not do so.

In fact, I now have difficulty because I want to help everyone and everything. To solve this dilemma, I decided to help as many as I can through my writing and teaching and prayers.

In addition, in a another past life I was a healer, and learned one side of healing. My soul was very interested in learning the other side of healing, from the point of view of one needing to be healed. This life fulfilled that lesson as well.

I learned of the above mentioned past life when I asked a question of an ascended master in spirit, Ashtar, who spoke with me while using the body of his medium. (The medium voluntarily leaves her body and takes a nap, and he speaks with people, using her body.)

I asked Ashtar if I lived when Jesus did, and asked if I knew Him and served Him. Ashtar looked back in my Akashic records, a record of my lives through eternity, and said yes, I lived then.

He said that I was a young man of about twenty-five. I was a healer, with a group of like-minded people. We had a few tents, of the Arabic style. There were many sick people that we were tending. I was giving them sips of water, sparingly, as there was a shortage of water and food. There were about a hundred people in need of healing.

Jesus came, with his band of people. They brought food and water. I followed Jesus as he moved among the sick. He healed many with his vision alone. There was one old man who did not want to be healed. That confused me. Jesus turned to me and said that it was his choice. The rest were healed.

The word "sin" in Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus, means "missing the mark." There is no condemnation or criticism implied in the word. We are here to learn. Sinning is missing the mark, as in missing the bull's eye when target shooting. Simply learn from the error, and you will do better. "Sin no more" means learn from your mistakes!

The word "Satan" in Aramaic means tempter. It does not mean an evil god. All beings in the spirit world are very much under the control of the higher, brighter spirits. The dark spirits cannot rise above the level that they have earned. Brighter spirits can descend if they wish.

There is only one God. He is all loving. The "evils" of our world are caused by people breaking God's laws. The idea of Satan was not taught by Jesus.

When Jesus lived, there was an oral tradition. There were no secretaries taking shorthand. He channelled the books of the Bible written by his disciples years after his passing, in the same way He and other people in spirit channel books today.

But as they were copied by hand by the few people who could write, errors crept in and changes were made. Old ideas of a god needing sacrifice crept back in, thus the fable of God "sacrificing" his son on the cross. Yes, Jesus was nailed to the cross. Men killed him, it was not God's doing. God did not sacrifice him! I believe that He chose to die as a sacrament, a gift of His great light, in order to balance world karma and give us the chance to follow his teachings. I believe that He chose to die to fulfill prophecies, and to prove that mankind can ascend into heavenly realms, if we follow His path.

THE KEYS TO YOUR PERSONAL POWER

Now that you are aware of the simple laws that govern all of our lives, sow the seeds of your future with care. Your thoughts and emotions as well as your actions create your life. Dream of beautiful loving relationships, abundance, peace and harmony. Dream of how you wish to excel!

You have unique gifts. All of your gifts can reward you personally and serve others. Plant one or two seeds for your future dreams, and begin to take action.

Remember that the laws of cause and effect and the law of attraction work to your disadvantage as well as for your advantage. You have the full responsibility!

In a book describing her profound near-death experience, Embraced By the Light, Betty J. Eadie describes seeing negative thoughts in action, and seeing positive thoughts and prayers. She also tells of seeing prayers ascend, and seeing that mother's prayers are like strong beacons of light.

When I saw Betty Eadie in a personal appearance, she said that if we knew how powerful our negative thoughts are, we'd be much more careful to monitor our thoughts, and make sure they are positive. We are powerful beings! Let's be sure not to spill our power by thinking and saying and doing negative things.

We are created as inherently powerful beings. Why then, are some people powerful at creating love or abundance in their lives, and do work that brings them great satisfaction, while others do not? Do they know a secret, a key, that eludes some of us? Following is the secret, the key, to owning and using your personal power. I suggest that you put a time on your calendar to examine a new aspect of your life on a regular basis. You can look back at how you've done, and decide on what area to focus next. This will be an extremely powerful personal growth course, because it is based on spiritual laws.

The key to owning and using your personal power is in two parts. One part is the realization of the power and creation expressed by our mind and our speech, linked with our emotions. The second part of the key is the discovery that every circumstance is a lesson. We need to accept and be present to each lesson before we can pass the test and move on to other lessons! I will expand on these two key areas in the following paragraphs.

Our mind is in control of our power. When we gain control over our own mind, and know and follow the spiritual laws, we will gain as much as we desire.

Our mind tends to have a mind of it's own, as Sujata says in his beautiful book, Beginning to See. We can train our mind as we train small children, step by step, and with love. There are instructions on training your mind in the last section of this book.

We spill our power out of our mouths! Our speech reflects our mind; we have to think a thought before we say it. If we think of each statement (or thought) of our present situation or our future situation as a declaration for the future, and realize that we are always in the act of creating our life with our words, a reflection of our thoughts, we will realize our potential. We will begin to see where we spill our power, and begin correcting our thoughts and words. We then can do an intensive self-training course on our thoughts and our words.

We can change our words and change our beliefs, and then our reality will change. Notice the following examples of thought and belief creating negative reality that can be changed:

I always get a cold once every summer.

I don't get sick often, but when I get sick, I really get sick.

I always end up moving, starting over, and flat broke again.

Notice your thoughts. Keep a notebook handy and catch your "I always" and "I never" types of thoughts.

Listen to your mental conversations. We all talk to ourselves twenty-four hours a day! Catch the limiting thoughts.

Decide what powerful statement you will think in their place. Positive affirmations and positive expectations can take the place of your negative, limiting thoughts.

Be kind to yourself as you do this. You have years of the opposite training. Just notice, and pat yourself on the back for noticing, again and again.

Thoughts linked with emotions have the most power. As you dream of your future, let yourself feel the pleasure of the dream in every cell of your body.

Because thoughts linked with emotions have so much power, our thoughts linked with fear and anger create negative outcomes. We need to gain control of our emotions so that we create positive and loving lives.

To gain mastery of your emotions, it is necessary for you to learn to distinguish the difference between negative thoughts and negative emotions. Negative thoughts are easily changed, while negative emotions must be processed and expressed outwardly in an appropriate manner, a manner that harms no one.

Examples of negative thoughts are:

I (he, she, they) can't do this.

I'm (he, she, they are) not good enough.

I (he, she, they) might get into a car accident.

Judgmental thoughts are negative opinions:

That's rude (bad, disgusting, horrible).

This is the way it should be done.

Emotions that we consider negative are guilt, anger and fear. Emotions are energy in motion. Since emotions are a source of power within us, we need to become the masters of that power, rather than allowing our emotions to master us.

Mastery of emotions does not mean over-control, or suppressing or blocking emotions. That cuts off your life energy, your power, and much of your pleasure. Mastery of emotions is the ability to feel and express all emotions deeply, without harm to yourself or others.

In my book, Get the Love You Deserve are two chapters that discuss mastery of emotions in detail. You may need tools, a coach to guide you, new tools for expression of emotions, and some emotional release work to truly master your emotions.

As you learn to master your thoughts and emotions, correct yourself lovingly, over and over. Some people will learn this very quickly, others may take longer. Your pace is perfect for you.

There is a second and very important aspect of gaining personal power and effectiveness in every area of life. This may be in the area of finances, career, relationships, living arrangements.... any area. I suggest doing the following mental work in one area at a time, so that you thoroughly master each one.

This part of growth is paradoxical. These instructions may seem like a contradiction. You may need to read and test this a number of times to understand the concept.

We keep what we resist! Accepting is the opposite of resisting. To eliminate a troublesome situation from our life, we must accept it! That is the paradox, the apparent contradiction!

If you have a low income, for example, you must find perfection in your low income for the moment. You can consider this low income as a perfect lesson, and know that the moment you learn the lesson, you will move on. Find all the aspects of your low income that you can appreciate. This is one I am mastering as I write, so I can share my thinking with you. For example:

1. I live abundantly on the income I have. I may only have three dollars extra a week for spending money, and I appreciate the abundance of being able to have a meal plus water to drink in a fast food restaurant or small lunch counter. If I have no spending money, I am glad that I have everything I need.

2. I am a frugal shopper. I can make dollars go farther than many people.

3. Most of what I need or want shows up free, perhaps gifts from friends (their used clothing) and other ways. Then I enjoy the pleasure of my friends' gifts. Also, I am helping the earth by recycling things.

4. My income is plenty. I have everything I need. I thank God for everything I have, including my income.

You can substitute your situation of choice in place of "low income" in the example above. The reason this acceptance works is that all in life is a lesson and a test of character. Allowing yourself to be in the presence of your situation as a test allows you to pass the test!

In a nutshell, be in the presence of your situation of choice as a lesson, accept the test for the beauty and perfection it is, and use the power of your mind, mouth, and emotions to create your new life. For example, after accepting my low income as stated above, I now carefully avoid statements like:

I'm broke.

I can't afford that.

I can't do that on my income.

Instead, I say things like:

I have abundance. My finances are all allocated for now. Can I trade something I can do for you for your class (tape, service, anything you want)?

When I forget, and say "I'm broke," then I say, "Let me say that another way. My finances are distributed in other areas. Can we find another way for me to have that?"

We grow up in a largely negative culture. Listen to the conversations around you, the evening news, the entertainment, and gain an awareness of the negativity. It then takes training and diligent practice to overcome negative thinking and conversation. Be patient with yourself as you learn.

When we forget and look at another with criticism, it is not only a negative thought that will return to us in the form of criticism from others, but we waste time that we could be using to go forward in our own growth. Instead of criticizing, we could better use our time by sowing seeds for our future or giving to others.

Pat yourself on the back for noticing your slips as you mentally or verbally criticize others, because you are learning. Believe me, it takes time and attention! I have been working diligently at this for over two years, and I still allow many negative thoughts to slip in!

This is not to say that we should ignore or be in denial of something negative or inharmonious in our lives. I can notice a troublesome area, do what is in my power to solve the problem, or step around the problem if the problem belongs to other people.

It is important to see the whole picture, which includes the positive and any negative. Both need to be included for wholeness to be present.

Here is an example. Imagine a pie, with one small piece cut, but remaining in the pie pan. The small cut piece represents the negative aspect of a situation. The rest of the pie represents the positive aspects. If you only look at the positive section, and ignore the negative, that is denial. Or, if you only look at the negative piece and ignore the positive, you are in denial. Even if you take the cut piece away, the rest of the pie isn't whole. That piece is still missing. When you ignore an aspect of a situation, or deny it to your conscious mind, wholeness is not present. In order to pass the test for your lesson, you need to see the whole picture.

My suggestion is to examine all aspects of a situation objectively, then expect a positive resolution. Look at the negative to become aware of it, do the necessary problem-solving, but don't focus on this negative area. Simply include it as part of your solution, and know you will solve your problem.

As you look at the negative aspect of the situation you have chosen to overcome, do your best to avoid fear, anger, or guilt. Use your positive expectations that you will solve this, learn what you need, and move on to help you avoid these negative emotions. These emotions distorts our perceptions, and we see less clearly.

If you wish some "homework" to utilize this information, here are some suggestions:

1. Write down your dreams for the future.

2. Plant one or two seeds for the future. Take a step or two in the direction of your dreams.

3. As you think of your future, fill yourself with love. To practice filling yourself with love, think of something you love, such as chocolate fudge, or a crunchy apple. Notice the feeling in your body.

Then imagine that you are served a meal in a fancy restaurant. The waiter brings you a covered dish. You remove the cover, and on your plate is a smelly, salty fish. Now notice the feeling in your body.

You may notice that your heart opened in the example with the chocolate, and closed with the fish example. The good feeling of the chocolate or your object of pleasure is the one you want to generate while you dream your dreams!

4. "I AM" is one of the most powerful phrases in our vocabulary, because it calls in our highest aspect of self, that spark of God within each of us. So create powerful affirmations for yourself. Put them on your mirror.

I am abundance. I am capable. I am a beautiful child of God.

Avoid saying "I AM" when you feel fear, anger, or guilt. You will experience more power by saying, "Fear (anger, guilt) is present; I am able to handle this situation with ease and grace."

5. Create positive expectations in difficult areas of your life.

I know I will find a job I love.

I will reach financial stability.

I will find someone who will love me and treat me lovingly.

6. List areas of problems or lesser power in your life. See each one for the perfect test it is. Write out all the aspects of each problem that you can appreciate. Remember, you will keep what you resist, and overcome what you can appreciate! Ask your angels for help with this if you need it.

7. Notice negative areas in your life that you voluntarily allow. Write them all down. Decide if you want to keep them. Here are some that I thought about, then discontinued.

Television news broadcasts

Newspapers

Violent movies

People who criticize you

Gossip

8. What provides rest for you? Is it gardening, reading, looking at nature? What provides simple pleasures? A walk after dinner? Beautiful flowers in a pot or vase? A candlelit bath with fragrant oils added to the water? Discover your areas of rest and pleasure, and put them in your life.

9. Simplify your life. Create balance of work, rest and pleasure.

10. Remember to ask for guidance from your angels in all areas, and put your problems in their hands. They will guide your steps as you move forward.

In her beautiful lyrics from the song "A Matter of Choice," Donna Marie Cary expresses just these thoughts:

"What I give is what I get,

Love or fear,

which will I hear?

I choose to hear Love's voice.

It's a matter of choice."

"I choose to dance myself back to the garden,

the angel voices sing me on my way.

I'm heading home where God's arms are open,

to welcome back this Holy Child to stay."

THE KEY TO YOUR PERSONAL POWER (DIAGRAM)

Note: You can print this page and draw a giant key around it.

1. Words (thoughts) about the present or the future are a declaration for the future.

When thoughts are linked to emotions they are especially powerful.

2. Everything in life is a lesson, and a test of character. Accept all situations as lessons. Find perfection in all.

THE POWER OF YOUR PRAYERS

Prayers from your heart are heard, and are effective. When you see a sad situation, even on the television, there is something you can do. Send a prayer that help and healing will come to the ones you see suffering.

Daily prayers are important as well. If you are not inclined to pray, substitute positive statements on a regular basis, instead of prayers. Prayers or positive statements must always be in earnest and from your heart to be effective.

If you wish, you can use my prayers as an outline to create your own positive statements or prayers. My prayer list grew as I learned spiritual lessons. My daily prayers are in the section called MORNING PRAYER AND SELF PROTECTION.

Clarity is important when you ask for assistance from the spirit world. A friend, Reverend Mary Russell, reminded the congregation recently to be specific and clear when we pray.

She had asked spirit to bring her more creativity. She began to paint beautiful pictures.

Then she told spirit, "I want to paint bigger and more beautiful things." She is now painting apartments!

If you wish an angel's help to transmute feelings that trouble you, you can have that. You must ask with sincerity and from your heart. Call on Archangel Michael by name, and ask him to transmute the uncomfortable feeling in your body. He loves helping us. In addition, call on Archangel Michael twice a day during your prayers. Ask him to liberate you from that which is holding you back.

In the book The Crystal Stair, Archangel Michael defines devotion. He says that devotion is the desire of the heart to be with The Beloved.

We see our problems with our limited human viewpoint. To allow your angels and spirit teachers and guides more power to assist you, put the solution to your problems in their hands. It is not a cop-out to ask for divine assistance. It is a sign of spiritual growth.

BALANCING YOUR LIFE

Spirit teachers and angels often guide us to simplify our lives, and leave times for quiet reflection and meditation, simple pleasures and rest. Rest for me might be gardening, while for another it might be a quiet canoe trip. Pay attention to what brings you pleasure and what brings you rest. Put these things in your life. Create a balance.

LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE

Service and cooperation are some of the guiding principles for our angels and the beings of light who protect, guide, and teach us. They spend our entire lives near us, devoted to our spiritual progress and happiness. They take care of our loved ones and pets, and go all over the universe in aid of those in need. There are chemists in spirit who apply healing balms to those unjustly accused as they suffer in their trials. They can help all of us when we suffer, if we ask for their help.

If we want to grow spiritually here on earth, one of the major ways to grow is to serve others. Service is a synonym for religion. If you want to be religious, serve those in your life who have a need.

Love God first, love and take care of yourself second, then give what you can to others. Strive to give your love unconditionally.

Assistance from spirit teachers and angels provide protection, inspiration, and guidance. This guidance, as well as our positive expectations, can be compared to the roof of the metaphorical house that we are building as we build our life anew. It is up to us to furnish the rooms with positive thoughts, loving thoughts, and beautiful dreams of our future.

It is also up to us to take actions of sowing seeds for our future, actions of service, actions of love and sharing. It is our choice if we furnish the rooms with self nurture, the care of our mind, body, and spiritual growth. It is also our choice to furnish our rooms with honesty and integrity, keeping our word, and taking responsibility for all we do and think.

We can ask for angel help to fill empty emotional building blocks of love and trust if we desire. We can ask for more faith and belief if we desire. We can balance and simplify our lives if we choose. We can achieve soul growth, if we wish, by asking for God to fill us constantly with His love.

It is also our choice not to include these things, and to furnish our rooms with the opposite. We can create a mansion under our roof of many rooms, lovingly furnished, or not. It is our free will if we lovingly furnish our metaphorical home, the life God has given us, and share His bounty, or not.

If we would rather go out and splash in the mud puddles of life, we can. When we are done with the muddles (short for mud puddles), and clean up the mud, we can then create our home of peace and harmony.

As we grow in spiritual development and awareness, and raise our spiritual development to a higher dimension, the workings of more powerful laws become available to us. According to Ashtar, we can ascend in our spiritual development while we are in our present lifetime, from one spiritual dimension to the next.

In The Crystal Stair, The Inner Door, and The Complete Ascension Manual, volume one, lessons on how to ascend to each new spiritual level are offered. We will have a choice upon becoming ascended masters if we wish to remain on earth, or go on to other work elsewhere. Ninety percent of those ascending are choosing to remain on earth, as these are exciting and special times.

In our lifetime we are going to see many people who reach the eleventh dimension, and become ascended masters. It is possible for all, if we wish.

We are reaching the end of an epoch, and great changes are coming. We will begin to see more and more people developing highly, as Jesus did. They may have the healing powers that Jesus showed, healing with their vision and their touch, among other skills that they will have.

This will be the precursor to an epoch of peace and harmony on earth. What an exciting time to live! If you wish to develop and grow spiritually, this is an ideal time to do so.

I asked my spirit teacher Manachuk for a message from spirit for the readers of this book, and this is what was offered. "Loving spirits are around you, working in many ways to help you. Whether you are in a black tunnel of despair, or happy, they are beside you, wanting to help you live the most rewarding life that you can. They must strictly follow the spiritual laws. There is one of non-interference. You must ask for the help you want and need for spirit to be able to give it. Knock and the doors will open."

DEVELOPING YOUR ABILITIES

Do you want to communicate with the spirit world of God yourself? Would you like to reach your friends and relatives in the spirit world? Would you like to speak with the great immortals who have contributed so much to our world? Many of them would love to share their knowledge and help the earth. Even if they are reincarnated now, their higher self remains in the spiritual realms and can communicate with you.

Do you wish to have direct guidance from your angels, protectors, guides and teachers? They will never tell you what to do, but they will suggest things to think about, and offer comfort, guidance and healing.

They are not fairy godparents who can wave a magic wand and remove your problems. But they will guide you to take the steps you need to solve your own problems.

Do you want to make a difference in the lives of other people, plants, and animals, with spirit help? Would you like to help heal the planet, with assistance from the angels? Do you want to open the windows of your soul, so that you are aware of the multitudinous life that teems around the earth?

You can have all, or part of these wishes, at your pace. Your free will is the determining factor. You will always be in control, because of the spiritual law of free will.

Communication with spirit is inborn, built in, within all humans. First you must know it is possible, then desire these gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Young children under age seven often hear and see spirits, until our culture tells them that there are no ghosts or imaginary friends. Most imaginary friends are spirit teachers in the shape of children, helping, protecting and guiding the child. You may remember an experience from your early life when you saw angels, spirit teachers, or spirit children.

You must ask your guides and angels to allow you to receive these beautiful abilities, talents, and powers. They will give them to you, as they deem appropriate.

Intention and motivation are seen by the spirit world. Make sure you use your gifts for the highest and best good for you and others. Perhaps a talented medium loses the gifts. Because they have lost their means of making a living, they may make things up. This accounts for the rare but occasional fraud. Perhaps their guides want them to express another area of growth and learning.

When you begin to develop your gifts, trust yourself. I strongly suggest that you verify your progress. The way to verify is to ask for feedback on your experiences of spirit from someone highly developed and accurate, such as a licensed medium, or a teacher who can hear, see and feel spirit, or from a channelled guide or teacher. That way you can judge the accuracy of your reception from spirit.

Even if you become quite accurate, it is a good idea to verify and double-check your data from another clear receiver of spirit every so often. This is especially important when your emotions become involved. As a teacher of mine says, our minds and emotions can take us down the garden path. In other words, we can think some information we received from spirit is clear, but it could be our own mind's invention. If you do not verify that what you see or feel or hear is from spirit, it may be a creation of your mind.

The key to clear reception is a still mind. Your conscious mind rests, and leaves space for spirit to communicate.

Trust and verify are the operative words here. Your mind can imitate any touch of an angel, any sight or word that you think is from spirit. I periodically seek feedback from Ashtar on my progress and accuracy.

In my first few months of development, my mind created a beautiful pink swirl of energy that I saw dance across the room. Our minds are amazing, and do not wish to relinquish control! I verify all important information, and I seek teachers who verify.

Giving someone a message from spirit is a big responsibility. It could change the course of their life. You could create negative karma by giving messages from your mind, thinking they are from guides or angels. Trust yourself, and verify. When you have developed accuracy, then give others messages when they are requested. As your mastery grows, the information you can receive and the powers you manifest can be increased. Your angels, teachers and guides will let you know how much is appropriate for you to ask from them. Mine told me in a message to stop begging daily to see and hear them. After months of this I suppose they got tired of hearing it! However, I appreciate that I can feel them.

Due to my early childhood of abuse and lack of nurture, they are willing to be with me constantly, answering questions and taking care of me in a way that is not needed for most adults. They said that my inner child is very young. Spirit teachers are constantly present when the need is there. This is true for other people with a high level of need, such as the chronically mentally ill or handicapped, and small children.

MENTAL ILLNESS AND POSSESSION

A wonderful minister whom I know, a very talented and accurate medium, told of a story regarding the mentally ill. This woman is often called to consult in hospitals where she is known to help when ordinary methods fail. She was called to a residential hospital for the mentally ill by the head psychiatrist.

An elderly woman was talking to herself all day long, making no sense, and appeared out of touch with reality. This gentle minister sat with her. Her talents from spirit include the ability to see and hear people in spirit as well as you and I see people in the flesh.

She saw the woman speaking to her husband, who was in spirit. They were simply chatting. The minister asked the guides what was going on. They filled her in on the situation. The minister simply began repeating the words of the husband in spirit. The woman's conversation then made sense to the head psychiatrist sitting nearby.

The psychiatrist asked what he should do. The minister told him to just keep taking care of the woman, as she was happy and comfortable. Nothing was wrong. The angels told him that she would pass on within a certain period of time, and this communication was her preparation for leaving the earth life and moving to the world of spirit.

ASTRAL PRAYER

There are some people with so-called mental problems who may be speaking with people in spirit, or be possessed. Those they are speaking to might be angels or guides, or they might be lower, less educated beings. Yes, it can happen! No, it need not happen to you. That is why I emphasize saying prayers of protection daily. If you have had episodes of alcohol or drugs, abuse, or were severely depressed or fearful, you may have picked up some undesirable company. Like attracts like.

Here is a prayer taught by Ashtar to help these unwanted beings leave us and be guided into the light. Due to our negative culture, it is a good idea to say this prayer once a week. It is called the Astral Prayer.

Dear ones, you are healed and forgiven.

You are one with your own higher nature.

You are filled and surrounded with the Christ love.

You are filled and surrounded with the Christ light.

You are free from fear, pain, and from the earth vibrations.

I ask all the ascended masters to take you to your right place.

Go in peace.

Go now.

In times of great spiritual growth your guides may allow lower spirits to visit you to teach you discernment. I have experienced this frequently. I say the astral prayer again and again. I also burn sage, available in metaphysical stores. Dark spirits do not like the smell, and leave. I light the sage and say one final astral prayer.

DARK SPIRITS

Not all mediums know the process of helping these lower spirits leave your company and go to the light. Someone who has high soul development, who channels Jesus or one of the ascended masters could help in these cases. Ask your angels for guidance to find these highly developed mediums if you feel you need it.

Those who are severely depressed or fearful can invite lower spirits unintentionally. Extreme negativity or fear magnetically attracts the lower spirits. As you progress in spiritual development, the light of your soul development that people in spirit can see gets brighter and brighter. Just as your eyes are bothered by going from a dark room to a bright room, darker spirits, as they are called, are uncomfortable around bright spirits.

The same thing is true in your earth life, if you will notice. How many drug addicts and criminals have been attracted to you? None, most likely. That is the law of attraction in operation.

The law of attraction holds true in our earth life as well as in the spirit world. We attract people of similar emotional and spiritual development to our own. As you grow spiritually and emotionally, you may outgrow those around you, and move on to new friends. You may move on to new church and devotional gatherings. There are many levels of spiritual growth, all of them fine, but you may outgrow the one you are in.

If you are severely depressed, and have many negative thoughts, you may clear yourself of lower spirits, and then attract more by your next negative thoughts. This is a very difficult situation to be in. Say your prayers of protection again as suggested earlier in the book. I suggest having spiritual verses and tapes available to read or hear immediately after saying the Astral prayer, and to pray often to God to fill you constantly with His love. It wouldn't hurt for you to do this sequence several times a day until you are out of your depression, and more easily able to think positive thoughts.

I suggest going to functions that are positive, such as positive church or temple services and meetings, and devotional singing. You can take classes or volunteer in order to help you focus more on the positive. Avoid isolation, as depression worsens in isolation. Keep yourself busy, and with people, even if you do not feel like it.

Isolation undermines recovery from depression. Depression and other emotional problems respond to psychotherapy, if you do not remain isolated.

Anti-depressant drugs can help take the edge off of severe depression for many people, and are fine to use until you feel better. Consult your physician.

If you prefer a holistic approach, oriental forms of healing are available. Depression and many other conditions can be treated. Acupuncture or acupressure, and herbal remedies can help with many conditions. Herbs do not have toxic side effects, as do many drugs. Nor do herbs interfere with spirit communication, as do many drugs. The AMA is beginning to accept the validity of this ancient wisdom. Thirty-one states now license oriental practitioners.

I have been told by Ashtar that it is better to call these dark spirits mischievous, rather than evil. It gives them less power. This does not mean that they are not doing wrong or evil acts. But we don't want to encourage them, or emotionally feed them. It is the same with the schoolyard bully. Fear enlarges his sense of power. Calling him mischievous cuts him down to size.

SPIRITUAL PROGRESS

The angels, masters and guides can see the beauty in the soul in the darkest of spirits. Beings that do evil are out of touch with their souls. Their souls are very moral, and may be crying in agony as the being hurts others.

The spirit teachers see no evil, only lessons to be learned. Of course, this is difficult to for us to see, with our view of only this earth life.

Many lifetimes ago, many of us learned respect for the lives of others. We are still learning this lesson, on many levels! Quite a number of people try to control the lives of other adults by dominating in one form or another.

Some of this domination is subtle. We dominate when we think we are right. We need to remember that our opinions are variations of the truth. Our opinions are true for us because we have lived our life. The next person's opinion is true for him.

We dominate others when we judge others wrong, and ourselves right. Or we reverse it, and allow domination by judging ourselves as wrong, and others right. In the environment that most of us are raised, judgment (negative opinion) is a constant factor.

The recognition that another's life has value, and should not be taken is a lesson we all have to learn at some point, in some life. Once we learn this lesson, it is ours forever.

This broader perspective, of people learning lessons in many lifetimes, is a point of view that humans are not fallen creatures, but in eternal evolution. We will all eventually reach the highest of soul growth.

There will always be some people who are further developed than others. Some people are just beginning their soul's growth, as they begin their incarnations. No place is better than another. In this broader perspective, we are each exactly in the place that we need to be to learn our lessons, as are the wrongdoers and the ascended masters.

As souls grow, they can see the entire picture, while we on earth can see just the veiled portion of reality. Those souls in spirit who can see all, because of their higher development, say that God's law is perfect.

This is difficult for us to comprehend, especially when we see great harm and suffering. Yet we must remember that there is a veil that exists for our benefit, so that we can focus on this life and learn our lessons.

WHY LIFE IS EASY FOR SOME, A STRUGGLE FOR OTHERS

Why do some people waltz through life, while others suffer and struggle? There are several reasons. One is that our souls must learn all sides of experiences. Our souls must learn love and the absence of love. Our souls want to know God and exist without the knowledge of God. Our souls want to know pain and suffering, and healing. Being the healer who relieves pain and suffering is another lesson for our soul. It takes many lives for our souls to experience this duality, the two sides of the coin.

In addition, we must suffer if we caused others to suffer. The law of karma takes care of that. One might be blind in this life who took away another's sight in a previous life. We have cycles of lives, and every so many lives we get a rest life, where everything works out pretty well. Also, by effort in many lives, we can earn a life of love and prosperity and the manifestation of talents.

Does this mean that we have pre-planned our entire life before we were born? We didn't plan every minute. We planned something like a blueprint, with certain windows of opportunity.

As we live our lives, we have free choice. We can choose to follow our blueprint through our inner guidance, and take advantage of the windows of opportunity that come our way if we wish. We always have free will.

If we developed a talent in another life, or developed our mind, we will be more talented or intelligent than someone just beginning to develop. Mozart, for example, had many lives as a musician.

We choose our parents to select the culture and environment that will most help us learn the three to four lessons that we pick to learn in this life. However, we can learn as many extra lessons as we want.

ALL DEVELOPMENT IS ETERNAL

Spiritual development is an act of the highest relevance for your soul growth. When you expand your consciousness to the spirit world of God, you may be in awe and wonder in every moment.

You will discover the never-ending beauty, understanding, love, wisdom, and dedicated service to you and your highest and best good by God's Divine Instruments. You will know that your guides and spirit teachers and angels are always with you, twenty-four hours a day.

This loving devotion may have you in constant appreciation, thankfulness and reverence. You may feel like you are beginning a new life in this lifetime, as I feel.

In this new life, I consider all that is negative a lesson. As soon as I remember that I attracted it to learn a bit more, I realize that it really is not negative.

I used to think I was simply an unlucky person, since if anything bad could happen to me, it did. Then, with my discovery of psychotherapy, I realized that it was not luck. I simply lacked every known problem-solving tool! So I gathered the tools. Thanks to psychotherapy I then began a new life. I went from a totally miserable, joyless and loveless life to one that included successful relationships, love, and joy.

I invested much time, money and reflective thinking on myself. It was a good investment. I will never lose a bit of it! We take our spiritual and emotional growth with us into the spirit world when we pass on. If your life sounds anything like my life of "bad luck," then I highly recommend that you combine psychotherapy as an adjunct to spiritual development for your growth.

If your life is pretty good, having all the tools for relationships and communication makes a pretty good life even better. You may have many, but not all of the tools available. Psychotherapy is a good gift to give yourself. You deserve it! It will enhance your spiritual growth. It can help you master your emotions.

I have seen people with a potential for high spiritual development struggle in misery, as they do not have the tools to solve problems. These missing tools slow their spiritual development. Imagine a carpenter trying to build a house with no tools. That is parallel to people trying to build a life without tools. The psychotherapy tools were originally given by the spirit world to healers in that field.

My book Get the Love You Deserve, How to Fill Those Voids Within offers guidance in identifying and gaining the building blocks and tools that help our lives work and feel better.

True listening is a form of clearing the mind and allowing it to fully receive another person. True listening is a part of learned mental control, and an act of love that you can give others. If you wish to learn true listening, I have outlined it in my book, Get The Love You Deserve.

Meditation, stilling the mind, is another form of clearing the mind. Both meditation and true listening are needed for full mastery of your mind.

Meditation is a way to further your personal growth both spiritually and emotionally. If you wish, you can increase your effectiveness and personal power in any area of life. Mastery of your mind by learning to still it in meditation is needed before the power you receive from the world of spirit can be increased.

LEARN TO CONCENTRATE ON ONE THOUGHT

Besides learning to still our minds, which is thinking of nothing, we need to learn to concentrate on one thing to the exclusion of all else. This will require daily practice. Masters of meditation practice stilling their mind and concentrating daily. They don't take their mastery for granted, else they may begin to lose it.

When we open our minds to silence after surrounding ourselves with the white light of Christ, angels and beings of light in the spirit world shower us with love. You may feel the presence of God. If not, ask to become aware of His presence.

In the silence of our minds, we become the conduit between heaven and earth. Heaven and earth merge. God is everywhere, in everything. The Holy Spirit, the Comforter, is everywhere. As you breathe in the sacred breath of life, you breathe in His Holy Spirit. Honor yourself as God's child whom He loves, including your perfections and imperfections.

LETTING GO OF NEGATIVITY

Part of mastery is to let go of the negativity that permeates our culture, and our minds and bodies. This can be done by monitoring what you let into your homes, cars and workspace. Notice what television, radio programs and entertainment you allow.

You can also monitor your mind and your own conversations to avoid negativity. While you cannot control the conversations of others, you can leave the room if you don't want to take part. You can also ask spirit twice daily to insulate you from others' negativity, to surround you with the white light of Christ, and God's violet flame, so that only that which is for your highest and best good can touch you. Additionally, you can cleanse yourself of negativity. Ask for your negative energy to go into Mother Earth, who is equipped to transmute your negativity into good energy. Then ask Mother Earth to fill you with her energy.

I suggest that you guard yourself against being around negativity. The most negative vibration always wins, as it is the heaviest.

Remember your prayers of protection against others' negativity, and choose positive people to be around, positive songs to sing and listen to, and positive entertainment. I left a table with negative conversation in a restaurant, and waited in the lobby for my friend to join me. I left a negative church service.

If friends are negative at times, I set boundaries with them. I ask them to make suggestions or requests of me with love. But if they have negatives, criticisms or anger, I ask them to take the negatives to their own beautiful spirit teachers.

If they refuse my boundaries, I no longer keep their company. I have had both compliance with my boundaries, and the birth of even better relationships, and refusals, with the end of friendships.

We grow up in a negative culture, and we may have experienced much negativity as a child. Have you ever heard the expression that a person looks at the world through rose-colored glasses? We can use a similar analogy with negativity, only the hypothetical glasses are black-colored.

When we grow up with negativity, we may see the world with black-colored glasses. We construct them to make the outside world make sense and fit what we learned in our homes. If our homes were eighty percent negative, our dark glasses that we take into adulthood will be eighty percent dark. If we are in a more positive situation than the twenty percent that our glasses will let in, we will translate some of the positive into a negative.

In order to break this cycle, we need a bit of courage. We need to be open to feedback from a number of others regarding their perceptions. Group therapy is a good place to receive honest feedback, if you are hesitant to ask for feedback from the people in your daily life.

When we refuse to listen to feedback, or we "already know," these are clues that our dark glasses are operating. This is how we keep our blind spots. We all do this to a certain extent. It takes courage to grow and change.

LEARNING TO STILL YOUR MIND

You can think of your mind as a lake, and your thoughts as the wind. When the wind is totally still, the lake is calm, and becomes like a mirror, reflecting the sky and earth surrounding it. When thoughts are going through your mind, it's as if the wind is blowing on the lake, and the clear mirror is gone.

When your mind is still, you can receive thoughts and images from the spirit world, just as the still lake can reflect the world around it. Later in your development you may be able to feel, smell, hear and see the people in spirit as well as you can see and hear a friend sitting beside you.

In order to learn to meditate, you may want to find a quiet and comfortable spot. However, someone I know learned to meditate near a construction site with jack hammers pounding. Overcoming the distraction of sound is a valuable lesson to learn at some point.

To begin, first ask for the white light of Christ to surround you. Then remove tight clothing and watches. Sit comfortably with your back straight. Rest your feet flat on the floor. Rest your arms on your legs or on your chair, whichever is most comfortable. Look forward about fifteen feet to a point on the floor. That is a good starting position for your head. Close your eyes. This helps keep out visual distractions.

Reaching stillness of mind is not hard. Remember that if you are a beginner, you need to be patient with yourself as you learn the steps. You don't learn this in one day, but in a progression, from where you begin, to touching into stillness, to remaining longer and longer in stillness.

You can be in stillness most of the day. You can enjoy contact with the spirit world as well as our physical world as part of your normal daily state of being! You can also take conscious trips to the spirit world in your spiritual body. You can enjoy the company of your deceased relatives as often as you and they wish.

I am told by my angels that I go every night to the spirit world, and am interested in many things. They say

that they have to push me back because I don't want to leave! I don't yet remember these nightly trips. I have not been ready. When I am ready to know, I will ask my angels to wake me just as I return, and I will have a tape recorder by my bed, or a pen and notepad.

I now ask that they take me wherever I need to go for my highest and best good, and to return me to my body in such a way that I am fully refreshed in the morning. My quality of sleep improves when I remember to ask for this!

Ideally, set at least two ten-minute appointments daily with yourself and your spirit teachers and angels for your prayers and meditation. I prefer to set my morning meditation time for a while after I wake up, so that I don't fall asleep again! While some people meditate in bed, that would not work for me.

Find what is comfortable for you. Set your morning time. Then set a late afternoon or early evening time for your evening prayers and meditation.

If the style of meditation I describe does not fit for you, there are many other styles. One way is to find meditation tapes in metaphysical bookstores. There are lovely tapes with the sounds of nature, and other sounds that may attract you. Just listen to the tapes and relax for a few minutes daily.

Another style is a walking meditation. This is described in the book Beginning to See, by Sujata.

Having an appointment time will benefit you, as you have this regular time for yourself. The pleasure of the experience will come forth at the right time for you. Your spirit guides and angels will see your commitment to your spiritual growth and development by your regular appointments. Also, this regularity helps your spirit guides plan their lives to mesh with yours.

Your various spirit teachers come and go during the course of the day and night. They have a life of their own in the spirit world. Making regular appointments helps them so that they aren't randomly pulled out of other activities. I did not realize this at first.

Soon after I began to know how my teachers feel when they are close to me, I asked one of them to touch my hand. I distinctly felt it! I then created a "yes" signal on one hand, and a "no" signal on the other hand. Simple communication really opened up for me. I can't get answers to all questions with yes and no answers, but I can learn a lot more than I could before!

I asked my spirit teacher Manachuk questions day and night. Since I trust them a hundred percent, I gave my teachers permission to touch me at any time. They have never failed me nor abused the privilege of touching me at any time! Not all people give this permission to their spirit teachers and angels. You are in full control. You can give this permission or not. You can also rescind it at any time.

My spirit teachers patiently let my constant questions continue for some time. Then Manachuk began touching me constantly,

interrupting me for several days. I finally contacted a friend who was further developed to find out what was going on. My friend said, "You're not going to like this. He's been bugging you, to show you how you bug him. Make appointment times."

MORNING PRAYER AND SPIRITUAL PROTECTION

Here is my morning prayer, in case you would like to add it to yours. If you do not pray, substitute positive statements wherever you see the words "pray" or "prayer". For those who are very sensitive, as I am, my extra protections are in the section directly after the morning prayer. I grew ultra-sensitive with the opening of my clairsentience (feeling spirit). For other people, the protection in the morning prayer list will be adequate.

I ask God to:

1. fill my heart and soul with His love.

2. fill me with His peace.

3. give me wisdom and understanding,

discernment and patience.

4. give me more faith and belief.

5. bless my angels, teachers, guides and protectors,

and all those in the spirit world who have assisted me, past, present, and future.

6. bless all those on earth who help me.

7. let all my negativity go into Mother Earth, and

for Mother Earth to fill me with her energy.

8. protect me, my home, and car with the white light of Christ.This protection lasts about 12 hours,

that is why it is needed twice per day.

9. protect me with a mirrored shield. This sends all negativity back to the sender, in multiples that the spirit guides deem appropriate.

10.heal me and all those on my healing list for all conditions that are God's will.

11. heal, bless and balance the earth, and all people on earth.

12.guide me in living from my heart, giving the love God has given to me to all in my thoughts and actions.

13. guide me in how I can serve others.

14. ask to do God's will, not mine.

Then I thank and praise God for the answers to my prayers, and for all He has given.

Additional protections for the very sensitive:

1. protect me with the violet flame

2. bring a golden white light through my crown chakra, permeating every cell and chakra of my body. This insulates me from others' negativity.

3. Place a gold cord from the base of my spine going down into the core of the earth to ground me.

4.Place a gold shield around my head. This shields my thoughts from negative influence.

5. Place a shield around me to protect me from other people's emotional disruptions.

If you wish instructions from Jesus and Mary on how to pray effectively, and how to teach children to pray and meditate, there is a beautiful channelled book available. It is called Messages To Our Family, by Annie and Byron Kirkwood.

AFTERNOON OR EVENING PRAYER,

HELPING PEOPLE IN SPIRIT GROW SPIRITUALLY

For my afternoon prayer, I repeat my morning prayer. Then I ask God to guide me as I speak to friends and relatives in the spirit world. Many in the spirit world have erroneous beliefs that they cannot progress. They can learn that they can progress.

You can have great influence with your friends and relatives in the spirit world, and make a great difference in their lives. Make a list of those you know who are in the spirit world, and invite them to bring others.

Once you have made the initial list, you can refer to these people as a group to your spirit guides. You do not need to read each name daily. You can ask your guides to keep a list for you. I simply ask for my spirit teachers to invite my friends and relatives in spirit to come.

After I ask for my friends and relatives in spirit to come, I welcome them and give them all of my unconditional love. I daily ask them if they would like to have a lovely home in the spirit world, only loving beings around them, and only do that which interests them. Then I tell them that the quickest way to progress in the spirit world (or here on earth!) is to pray to God for His Divine Love to fill their hearts and souls, and to ask for more faith and belief.

I tell them that the more they make these prayers to God, the faster they will progress. And if they pray continuously, that is the fastest way.

Then I ask if they see the bright spirits nearby. They touch my hand to indicate that they do. I tell them that the bright spirits are guides. They are not there to criticize or judge them, just to guide and heal them. And if they would like to verify that they can make progress as I told them, these guides can put them in touch with those in the spirit world who have progressed, even some who had no belief in God, but simply did these requests as a scientific experiment.

I remind most of my friends and relatives who are in happy places that there is a distinction between the natural love that God gave us to comfort us, and the Divine Love, for which we must ask. I tell them that with the natural love, there will be an end, although a happy one, to their progress. But if they ask for God's Divine Love, there is never an end. These are the teachings from The Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus.

I give them all my unconditional love. Then I say goodbye until tomorrow.

SPIRITUAL PROTECTION WHEN DEALING WITH ANGRY OR INSENSITIVE PEOPLE

When you begin to become clairsentient, feeling spirit, you may experience increased sensitivity in relation to other people, and to negative comments. I began aching in my stomach after a mild argument with my teenage son. The argument could be as mild as "Could I use your tape recorder?" "No." "Why not?" My stomach ached for hours, and I took many antacid tablets. I also began hurting after I heard negative feedback, comments not coming from a loving place, from others. I began to realize that I needed to make some changes in my life, both internally, with protection, and externally by setting boundaries with others.

That's when I learned to take some new protective measures. I learned to set boundaries with people, and do not allow any negatives in my home or car.

But in addition, I needed protection for times when unexpected negativity would occur, such as at a lunch with half a dozen other people. These protections may sound like a bit of hocus-pocus when your clairsentience is not open, but they work when you need it!

In my morning and afternoon prayer, I added the golden white light. That insulates me from much of others' negativity. This was a great protection suggested by my friend Betty Miller at Harmony Grove. I immediately noticed the benefit.

Then I added a golden shield around my head, and an image of the sun right at my navel. In addition, I cross my right foot over my left foot when in conversation with people who may be insensitive.

When someone is argumentative or angry, and you don't think that it is your problem, here is a suggestion from Ashtar. Try not to respond, because you will get hooked emotionally. Instead, take two steps back, facing the person. Let them talk as you watch silently. They will then spin in their own muddle. If you enter into conversation with the angry person, you may find it harder to disconnect.

ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY

Everything in the universe is energy. Everything has an electromagnetic wavelength and frequency. Humans are electromagnetic-chemical beings.

Living and non-living things have these energy frequencies, often referred to as their vibration. Your vibration is the sum total of all of your lives, and is unique in the universe.

When a woman is pregnant, and the spirit has entered the fetus, the second vibration is different. We are aware of vibrations to some degree before spiritual development.

When you meet someone who does not feel good to be around, and you want to go away, you are picking up on their vibration. Those who feel good to you are most likely close to the range of your own vibration.

As you begin to feel people in spirit, you will begin to notice a difference between their vibrations. You can learn to distinguish between a male and female vibration, between various beings in spirit, and between the light and dark spirits.

If you have a partner, here's a fun and simple exercise. One of you put your hands about eight inches apart near the top of your chest, hands open, palms inward, as if you are holding an imaginary football. The other person runs his hand slowly through the space between your hands. Did you feel anything? Try it with a few different people, both males and females, if you can.

Here's another way to experiment. Look at someone across a room in about the same place, near the top of their chest. Make a mental trip to that place, and see if you notice the feeling. I look, and mentally say, "I'm going to touch this person."

You can practice while in line at the supermarket. Don't be surprised if people look back at you. They may feel your mental touch.

It is important not to touch into more about people than that, although when your psychic abilities open up, you may be aware of things that are unspoken. Do not reveal this to the other person unless you ask their permission, as it could be an intrusion. Remember that there is a spiritual law against interference.

I learned this lesson the hard way! I didn't realize that the knowledge I suddenly just knew about a friend's romantic interest was psychic. I just knew that he was interested in a certain woman. He is also a developing medium, in class with me, so I thought I could tease him a little.

I said, "I know who you would like to date." He was stunned, and asked who. I told him, he asked me a lot of questions that I answered with my yes and no signals, and then told me that I was a psychic peeping-tom for having told him what I originally saw! This taught me to be very careful and ask before I share my psychic knowledge with people!

As we grow spiritually, we raise our vibration. Spirit teachers and guides, and angels all have much higher vibrations than ours.

When we are doing daily work to raise our vibration, we become aware that negativity lowers our vibration. Have you been in a pleasant conversation, then a subject is introduced that brings you "down?" You felt the lowering of your vibration.

Certain foods can lower your vibration. Red meat lowers it faster than any other food. Caffeine, white flour, white sugar and substances that affect the mind, such as drugs also lower our vibration.

In We, the Arcturians, the Arcturians suggest that since our planet is ninety percent water, and our bodies are ninety percent water, that we eat food that is lighter, and more composed of water, such as lettuce. Notice the weight of a piece of red meat versus a piece of lettuce. A high spirit coming through a medium in channel suggested cooking in chicken broth rather than oil, at times.

We need to make changes gradually, at our own pace. Changing our diet, meditating and praying to raise our vibration, setting boundaries to avoid negativity, changing activities to those that are uplifting are all choices. These changes came about in a gradual unfoldment for me.

Crystals can be used in healing because they have vibrations similar to ours. Although our scientists classify crystals as a mineral, like other rocks, they are not the same. Crystals can be grown. We cannot grow rocks. Crystals have special properties that ordinary rocks do not have.

Crystals are senders and receivers of electromagnetic impulses. They can be considered an energy source, according to the book We The Arcturians.

If we can find one that nearly matches our vibration, it can be cut properly to aid us in healing. It is said to heal physical injuries four times as fast. The injured part's vibration is askew, and the proper crystal, one that matches our vibration, reminds the body of it's own vibration.

CHAKRAS, GATEWAYS TO THE SPIRIT WORLD

There are eight energy centers in your spiritual body called chakras that are dormant until you decide to grow spiritually, and make contact with the spirit world of God. Your spiritual body, also called your etheric body, is a double of your physical body.

When you desire to grow spiritually, your spirit teachers carefully begin releasing energy called kundalini, the life force, in your body. Kundalini is a continuous flow of energy through the body and through the chakras. It is brought into your fetal body when your spirit body first inhabited your tiny fetal body, and will go with you in your spiritual body when your physical body dies.

Each chakra connects to a strand of DNA. There are actually twelve major chakras, some far above our bodies, that connect to our DNA. This is described in the two books written by Barbara Marciniak channelled from the Pleiadians. They are beings from a spiritual planet in our galaxy. These books are Bringers of the Dawn, and Earth, Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library. The Pleiadians and other spiritual beings are described in the section called UFO'S, ALIEN ABDUCTION, AND THE DARK FORCES.

When these chakras are open, they serve as a sensing organ. Each chakra has a color that can be seen by clairvoyant mediums. Below are eight of the chakras in your spiritual body, and what they bring you:

1. The root chakra is located in your spiritual body near the base of the spine, in the etheric, or spiritual body. This chakra assists in survival, and contains the core identity. The color of this chakra is red.

2. The prostate chakra is located in the etheric body close to the navel, near the spine. This chakra awakens creativity and sexuality. Sexuality, besides procreation, resonates in joyful communion with all life. It can be a feeling of oneness with the primal forces of nature. The color of this chakra is orange.

3. The solar plexus chakra is located near the spine just above the stomach, where the rib bones end. This is the chakra of feeling and intuition. It is also the center of power without abuse, with honesty, integrity, and accomplishment. This chakra is open when the gift of clairsentience, or "clear feeling" is present. The color of this chakra is yellow.

4. The heart chakra is near the spinal column. The heart chakra is the gateway between the upper and lower chakras. The three previously mentioned chakras relate to having and using power. The upper chakras relate to enlightenment and spirituality. The open heart chakra creates the balance between our power and our spirituality. The open heart chakra allows the soul to merge with the body.

Love and compassion flow from this center, and help us grow beyond judgment. The color of this chakra is green.

5. The thymus chakra is about two fingers down from the top of the chest. This is a chakra that is newly coming to human awareness as we evolve closer to the angelic realm, and to an awareness of our connection to all of humanity. Peace and universal love flow from this chakra. The color of this chakra is aquamarine.

6. The throat chakra is near the spinal column at the base of the neck. This chakra is open so that each can speak his truth. This chakra is open in mediums who are clairaudient, who can hear spirit voices. The color of this chakra is blue.

7. The brow chakra, sometimes called the third eye, is located on the forehead. This chakra, when open, allows the vision of the multitude of life that exists beyond the limitations of our five physical senses. These may be spirit guides, friends and relatives from the spirit world, angels, nature spirits, or beings from spiritual planets. Intuition and genius abilities flow from this chakra. Clairvoyant, or "clear seeing" mediums have this chakra open. The color of this chakra is indigo.

8. The crown chakra is on top of the head. This is the opening to greater spirituality. This chakra is our connection to God and cosmic awareness. It is an opening to the ecstasy of at-one-ness with our Creator, of which romantic love is just a glimpse. This chakra is open in mediums with the gift of clairessence, or "clear knowing." The color of this chakra is violet.

In addition, there is a chakra called the earth chakra, located about 18 inches below the feet. Visualize a ball the size of a grapefruit spinning 18 inches below your feet, shining light upward. You may feel the earth's energy entering you.

Many people open and close their chakras for self-protection. A friend who can hear spirit asked if this is a good practice, and was answered by Archangel Uriel. He said that we can close our chakras, but he doesn't recommend it. We can protect ourselves in other ways. There are many advantages to having our chakras open all the time. We are open to constant guidance from our spirit teachers and angels. We have more energy. We do not catch whatever illnesses are going around. Our hearts are open.

THE AURA

The human body also has an aura. This is only present in the physical body during the earth life. When the physical body dies, it ceases. The aura is produced by the energy caused by the activity of a living organism.

This aura is in every cell of a living organism, and yours is as unique to you as your fingerprints. When an organism dies, the aura closes down around the body. If life is still viable, the aura is still present. The aura extends from four to six out from the body, and is visible to clairvoyants. Conscious thoughts and emotions change its shape and color. Fear and lying will cause the aura to snap in around the body in a protective manner. When we quiet ourselves in meditation, it closes down to about two inches.

Anger and excitation or happiness cause the aura to spike out around the crown of the head. It looks like feathers or the statue of liberty crown, according to those mediums who can see the aura. Anger causes the color of the aura to shift toward the red color.

In humans who are not spiritual, the aura color can look greenish brown, like the bottom of a slimy, muddy river. It is not a pretty sight.

Trained mediums can detect illness by looking at the aura. If there is a foreign object in the body, the fine structure of the auric field will bow inwardly. This could be a benign tumor, a metal pin in a bone, fractures, scar tissue, a bullet, etc.

Auras can be seen with special cameras connected to a computer. Aura photos are produced. You can see the difference in your aura as you progress in your spiritual growth. You can dramatically see the effect of negativity in an aura photo. Access to aura photographers can sometimes be found in metaphysical bookstores.

Before a spirit has inhabited a tiny fetal body, the fetus's vibration are indistinguishable from the mother's body. When the spirit enters the fetus, it has its own aura and etheric body distinct from the mother's, and can be seen by mediums.

You may have gathered by now that no one can get away with lying to a medium. The lies show in the aura immediately, and the details can be learned from the spirit guides, who never lie.

An acquaintance of mine who can see auras has fun watching TV during presidential elections. She can see who is telling the truth.

Just think how different politics, elections, and our entire lives would be if we all could see auras, and know who is telling the truth. Those who lie would have to give it up, or not be elected to public office.

DAILY MEDITATION

Always begin meditation by saying prayers of protection and cleansing, as noted in the section MORNING PRAYERS AND SELF-PROTECTION. If you do not pray, substitute making positive statements every time I use the word pray or prayer. You can then include your other prayers and requests.

I need to have a written list of all of this, plus my concentration, meditation, and communication, to follow daily. Otherwise my mind wanders. So I include these areas that are important to me on a list.

Every few months my list of prayers and steps in meditation change as I learn and grow. You will learn and grow in your own way. While my way may be a starting point for you, as you open more and more to your own inner wisdom and guidance, your steps in your daily meditation and prayers may change.

I suggest that you make your list of steps you are going to take daily. Then you can use your mental energy in doing the steps, rather than remembering them.

I also suggest you give up control over figuring out the best solutions to your problems, and for situations you want to clear. You can ask your angels and guides to provide the solution. This gives them more freedom. Since they can see the full picture, while we see a limited view, their solutions may greatly surprise you. They want only our highest and best good.

LEARNING TO CONCENTRATE

Next you need to learn to concentrate. Pick something to look at for five minutes. You can look at the same thing every day, such as a flower, a penny, or an old pencil. Look at your object from top to bottom. Study every detail. Think only about that object to the exclusion of all other thoughts.

If your mind wanders, lovingly bring it back. After a week of studying your object, close your eyes and picture it in your mind. You are training your mind to think just one thought.

Give yourself about a month to learn to begin to master concentration. Once you master it, and are pretty good at just thinking thoughts about your object, you can shorten your daily concentration time to two minutes, just to keep your mental muscles in training.

HOW TO STILL THE MIND

Visualize your aura expanding from it's normal place, close to your body, to two feet out in all directions. Then visualize it going out four feet, then six, then eight, then ten, then twelve feet. Visualize your aura as a dome around you. Then you are ready to still your mind.

There are many ways of stilling the mind. Here is one I like for it's simplicity and effectiveness. I learned it from Ashtar.

The first step in quieting your mind is to breathe slowly, at about half your normal speed. First breathe deeply into your abdomen. Then bring that air into your heart space. Then hold your breath. Exhale slowly. Do this for about a minute.

Next you are going to count rhythmically as you breathe and hold your breath. First, count one, two, three four as you inhale. Then count to four as you hold your breath. Then count to four as you exhale. Finally, count to four as you hold your breath again.

Then, do this same exercise again. Count one, two, three four as you inhale. Then count to four as you hold your breath. Then count to four as you exhale. Finally, count to four as you hold your breath again.

Then count to six rhythmically, as above, for two sets. Next increase your count to eight for two sets, then ten for two sets. Your breathing should now be very slow and deep. You are now most likely touching into stillness, also called the "alpha state." If you feel you need to, you can increase the number of times you repeat each set until you find what works best for you. Decide ahead of time that when you reach stillness, you will stay there. Strive to stay quiet for about a minute. If your mind begins to chatter, breathe again.

When you are done, and not yet communicating with spirit, it is time to bring in your aura. Visualize it coming in two feet at a time until it is back to your body.

Do this for about a month before moving on to the instructions about communicating with spirit.

If you do not do this patient learning, and try to leap ahead into communicating with spirit, you may need to backtrack and start at the very beginning! Give yourself a month as a beginner, and grow in patience!

LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD OF GOD

Would you like to communicate with your friends and relatives who have passed on? Would you like to communicate with your guardian angels, protectors, spirit guides and teachers? Would you like the best counsel on earth? Would you like this soul growth?

If your answers are "yes," there will be a celebration in the heavens, as your soul brightens and grows closer to God. Spirit communication from all beings from the light will always lead you to more spiritual growth and soul growth.

All of the above is possible for you, if you desire, and do your part. Nothing good in life comes without a bit of work. If you want the gifts from the spirit world of God, you must do some daily, committed work for at least short periods of time.

Development is enhanced in a group. The spirit world works in teams, and encourages us to meet in development classes or groups. You can develop alone, with the help of your own spirit teachers, but a group enhances development, and provides for verification. Development groups can be found in metaphysical bookstores, Spiritualist churches, and private organizations.

The great American essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, grew up in a spiritual family, the son of a minister. He was able to contact spirit. This is his description about contact with the spirit world. "For this communication is an influx of the divine mind into our mind."

The purpose of learning to communicate with spirit is so that your guidance can come from within you. Your spirit teachers will help the real you, your essence, emerge. This is distinct from your mind or your ego. The purpose is to lead you to an awareness and growth of your connection with God. It is also to help you discover your path to fulfill the lessons and tasks you came to earth to fulfill.

After a month has gone by, you can add communication with spirit to your routine. If you now can concentrate pretty well and are touching into stillness, you can shorten your concentration and stillness times to about two minutes each.

If you think you still need more work in those areas, you can continue with five minutes. Remember that you don't have to be perfect! You'll continue to grow in the weeks and months ahead.

Here is how to begin to communicate with the spirit world of God. Have your aura expand to about twelve feet. Become aware of your physical body.

Raise your vibration toward your teachers by imagining yourself going up several stories in an elevator. Or you can visualize yourself rising in a hot-air balloon, up above the trees, then even higher. Then ask your teachers to communicate with you for your highest and best good.

Our spirit teachers and the angels vibrate at a much higher frequency than we do. They lower their vibration, and we raise ours. Then we can meet.

Ask for them to reveal themselves to you. If you put out your hand, you can request that one touches your hand, and depending on your personal development up to this point, you may feel a soft touch. Or you may begin seeing colors as you sit with your eyes closed. When you are in stillness, you may hear thoughts that are messages from your guides.

These are all experiences that are important to verify. That way you will know when you really communicated with spirit, and when you wanted to so much that your mind created something for you.

Be patient with yourself. It took me about a year to reach enough stillness to receive messages. It is still sporadic. Emotionally charged situations in my life have caused interference in my receptivity for weeks at a time. I am learning to avoid those situations, as it is too costly for my spiritual development.

With my eyes closed, I saw pink swirls of energy fairly soon. I was later told that the pink represents love. After about five days of seeing pink, I rudely said, "It's getting a little boring seeing the same thing for five days. Can I please see something else."

Instantly the color disappeared, for months. My spirit teachers were teaching me a hard lesson of patience and respect. Then I began to occasionally see colors that I began to associate with particular teachers.

Then, perhaps a year later, I started seeing a vague, foggy color move around the ceiling toward me. I saw this for several days, then again put my foot in my mouth. I said, "Please let me see the rest of you!" Instantly it was gone! I still don't see much, as my teachers are teaching me patience and to appreciate the gifts I already have.

I was also told that I need to learn more in the physical world before my teachers will let me see and hear them at the level I desire. My lessons are particular for me. Your teachers may have different lessons for you.

You may see your teachers the first time you ask, or it may take longer! But learn from my hard lessons! Be respectful! Trust that what your teachers and angels allow you to experience is the right pace for you, and for your highest and best good!

Fear and anger can block your reception from the spirit world. If this happens, get the support that you need to be calm again.

All humans are psychic to the degree each allows and desires. It is inherent, built in, within us. When we have gut feelings, intuition, hunches, those are psychic abilities that are acceptable in our culture. When abilities are accepted in a culture or family, they are more likely to develop.

A person who is known as a psychic is one who has expanded the mental consciousness outward to include the entire physical world, and increased mental and bodily consciousness inwardly. The continuum of psychics has a great range.

There may be an untrained psychic who does no verification, who occasionally tells people where to find lost objects successfully. At the other end of the scale is the person who has honed these skills and gotten accurate feedback over time to separate real impressions about the other person from their own mental wishful thinking.

In other words, as in all of life, there are amateurs and professionals, the untrained to the trained, an entire spectrum of psychics covering the frauds and the nuts and the guessers, to the fairly good, the truly competent, and accurate ones.

The same holds true with mediums. A medium, like the psychic, has expanded consciousness to include the entire physical world, and then beyond the realm of the psychics, to the spiritual world. They, as do the psychics, range from the untrained to the highly trained. They vary from the self-taught who verify to those who do not. They range from those who have carefully chosen teachers who verify, to those who do not.

As in the rest of life, when you want to learn, you can be self-taught, go to a tutor, or a university. All of these forms of learning can range from the poorest to the best.

There are the self-taught wizards in every field, including the psychic and mediumistic field. There are those taught by tutors or mentors where the results are highly accurate, after development. The same is true of those who choose the university versus the self-taught.

Where does the difference lie? It lies with the student's desire, commitment, motivation, and innate abilities, earned over many lifetimes, as well as the quality of the teaching that the student chooses.

How then to choose a psychic or medium or teacher, given this broad range? Your choice, like in the rest of life, is to separate the wheat from the chaff. You can learn what is available, explore before you leap in, get other people's feedback, or just go for it and learn as you go. You can ask your spirit teachers to guide you to the best teachers and learning environment for you.

UFO'S, ALIEN ABDUCTION, AND THE DARK FORCES

There are beings who are highly evolved, yet not spiritual. According to Joshua David Stone, Ph.D., the author of The Complete Ascension Manual, these are confused souls who have not found their way to God's path yet. They are self-serving, and do not respect the rights, feelings or wishes of others.

According to Ashtar, some of them, such as the Grays, abduct people without their permission. The Grays have no emotional body. They put implants in people to study their emotions. Ashtar and other Ascended Masters who come through in channel can remove the implants. Then they teach the person how to protect themselves from further abduction in the future. Also, Oughten House Publications, listed in the bibliography, offers a number of books on removing implants from alien abduction.

These beings abduct people with special gifts that they wish to study. I met a person with three implants. She was unable to use the logical part of her mind until the implants were removed by Ashtar. She was able to give love to others, but not herself.

Ashtar told of how Eisenhower made a treaty with the Grays, who promised the latest and best in weapon technology. Eisenhower turned down a treaty with Ashtar, who represented Jesus.

The Grays told President Eisenhower that he would always have the leading edge in weapons technology. However, these are not beings with integrity. The Grays then sold their information to the Russians and other countries.

All of the succeeding presidents have known about the secret treaties. They have known of the realities of UFO's and contact with beings from space. This has been kept a secret from the population. This deception of the population by our elected leaders is also discussed in the Kryon books, listed in the bibliography.

Some of these very highly evolved beings of the Dark Forces thrive on chaos, fear, anger and all that is not love. It furthers their own ends. According to the book Bringers of The Dawn, it actually feeds these beings emotionally.

These beings know that humans can access a power, through love, that they do not have. They do not wish us to exercise this power, because they will lose power. They promote overpopulation, war, and other dire experiences to keep humans from living in love and harmony.

The Dark Forces epitomize the evil which the idea of Satan represents. They demonstrate the danger of developing the logical mind without developing the heart.

The book Earth, Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library speaks of these beings, and what they have done. The Dark Forces can be healed by God, if they request it.

There are also beings here from many spiritual planets. Many are assisting Ashtar and the Brotherhood of Light. The Pleiadians mentioned above are such spiritual beings.

If you see a UFO, do not run to it and say, "Take me to your leader." They may take you, but if it is a non-spiritual space craft, they won't take you to Ashtar! When we are sensitive to our feelings, we will know which beings are for our highest and best good, and which spacecraft to approach.

When the population of earth is ready to accept the presence of Ashtar's command peacefully, he will have 12,000 space craft land simultaneously all over the planet. Our spiritual brothers from other planets will aid the progress of humanity into the golden age of peace that is coming.

There are thirty-two inhabited planets in our galaxy. Most of them are spiritual planets, living in love and harmony, and creating beautiful lives. There are three laggard planets not yet evolved into a peaceful, spiritual world. Earth is one of those three.

In the beginning of the book, I said I would explain how the fundamentalist view of Satan and the metaphysical view come together. The fundamentalists consider fear, anger and anything negative ways of Satan. The metaphysicians avoid fear. Fear interferes with spirit communication and lowers our vibration.

So whether our views lean toward the metaphysical or the fundamentalist, we all, for our highest and best good, avoid fear and negativity. We all, for our highest and best good, love God and that which comes from God.

Our concepts may vary, but both concepts steer us in the right direction. The direction is love and God.

With this broader perspective, we can see how the Fundamentalist view of Satan, and the metaphysical view of the Dark Forces are not that far apart. Both are parts of the spiritual map of the world.

The metaphysical viewpoint is perfect for a certain level of soul growth, and the fundamentalist viewpoint is perfect for a level of soul growth. No level of growth is better than another. All views that lead to God are correct in their way, a part of the spiritual map of the world.

All beings at all levels of spiritual development, or lack of development, are equals. All beings will grow as they learn their lessons. All can develop talents and gifts, and eventually will develop to the point where they want to share with all of humanity. Jesus the Christ is able to appreciate the beauty of all souls.

I am told that one can seek and find enlightenment in any of the major religions by diligent seeking and dedication. "Seek and ye shall find." I believe this to be true. I also believe that we can seek and find enlightenment by going within, in meditation.

To my still-limited, earthly perspective, the channeled books and information from spirit teachers describes something of a combination between the positive aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and the Moslem faiths, and Buddhism. This is my present opinion. Spirit has defined opinion as a variation of the truth. This is my variation of the truth.

THE COMING EARTH CHANGES

You will soon hear about the coming earth changes as you study and discover more information from the spirit world. Very recently, the spirit world began celebrating the unexpected. We are becoming more spiritual.

According to Ashtar, twenty-five percent of the world's population is now spiritual. Look how the major countries of the world stopped Saddam Hussein, averting a long, drawn out war in the Middle East. Look how the world leaders tried to feed the hungry people in Ethiopia.

We have averted the need for the planet's magnetic pole to be shifted dramatically, for the planet to heal from the damage we've done, by earthquakes and volcanoes. The more spiritual our planet becomes, the more we can avert volcanoes and earthquakes. Our inhumanity to man, destruction of the planet, and lack of spirituality are the cause of the earth disasters.

The degree of the magnetic shift has been lowered. It has been shifted, as explained in the book Kryon, in order for us to become more spiritual. The veil between our world and the world of spirit is lessening. We will become a spiritual planet. Those who are not spiritual will go to a planet more suited to their continuing growth and learning. This is not a punishment. They will be sent with love to continue on their paths at their pace.

The book of Revelations in the Bible is prophecy. The dire results were predicted. However, as Ashtar says as he gives prophecy today, prophecy is based on predictions based on everyone continuing on the same path that they are on in the moment. Prophecy is for the moment. Prophecy is not written in stone. We can change it by new decisions.

We in the third dimension are always making choices and new decisions, and that creates changes. Since the world has unexpectedly become more spiritual, there is great rejoicing in the heavens! It is totally unpredictable that we became as spiritual a planet as we are now.

In the book, Mary's Message to the World, she spoke very recently from the world of spirit of the need for evacuation by spaceship. In the midst of earthquakes, people would have been "beamed up." Ashtar's fleets were ready. But Ashtar and Kryon say that this need for evacuation has been averted. The magnetic change is not that great, due to our growing spirituality.

We are going to have Heaven on earth! The earth will be entering the thousand years of peace as prophesied.

The earth is now in what is known as the photon belt. Technicians were provided to help us make a shift to photon energy, instead of electrical energy. We won't notice much difference, except perhaps an increase in electrical malfunctions in equipment. We are at the end of one epoch, and the birth of a new epoch awaits us.

Because of the unique times we are in, spiritual development and growth is possible at an accelerated speed, if you take advantage of this window of opportunity. If you are drawn to extremely fast spiritual growth, read the books referred to in the first sections of this book to develop a foundation.

Then read The Crystal Stair and The Inner Door, followed by The Complete Ascension Manual. You can grow in this lifetime to a degree normally possible only by living many lives. It is your choice!

PRIORITIES FOR SOUL GROWTH AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

Only a short time has elapsed since my spiritual quest began. As I look back, I see the grand distance I have come in my foundation of knowledge and my soul growth.

Certain practices stand out as having contributed the most to my soul growth. I will outline them for the reader who is dedicated to this growth, and inspired to follow my example.

My path to soul growth is only one of many. Yours may lead you in other directions. We will all end up meeting on the path of soul growth and enlightenment in the end.

I believe that the most important growth was caused by my discovery of the need to ask to be filled with God's love, as taught by Jesus in The Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus.

My impulses to seek guidance from my spirit teachers on a regular basis by getting messages in church and by monthly readings has been a great help. I did not have the tools to succeed in my writing or any other area of business. I was guided step by step by my teachers. My spirit teachers also guided me to classes and books.

Classes in spiritual development helped me a great deal. We can develop more quickly in company with others. We can learn a great deal. It is a place to learn to trust ourselves, and verify.

It is important to develop a foundation of knowledge. Classes and books help build that foundation.

Meditating twice a day is very important. At one time, I was only able to meditate once a day. Then I increased it to twice a day. When I do the suggested exercises in the books I read, then I spend more time.

I discovered a metaphysical library. I go there and browse. My teachers guide me to books. If the books in the reference sections of this book appeal to you, they are fine, and helped me a great deal.

Your spirit guides may take you in another direction. One way spirit teachers guide us is by using gut feelings and intuition. Go with what calls to you. You have a unique path to follow.

A discovery for the acceleration of my soul growth occurred when I found the ascended masters channeling in my area. There is great healing and spiritual upliftment when in these vortexes of light.

I now go to Ashtar, channeled by Terrie Cunningham, for readings and guidance in any area of my life. (Ashtar is channelled by thirty-two people on the planet.) I go to Jesus, channeled by Paula McIntyre for spiritual upliftment, healing and growth.

The ascended masters are channeling through people all over the world. Seek, and hopefully you will find some in your area. Metaphysical bookstore owners may be able to direct you to the nearest ones. Ask your spirit teachers to guide you to this growth opportunity.

We pray to God, and most of us cannot hear spirit to hear the answers. That is why it is an incredible blessing to find a channel who can allow Jesus, Mother Mary, St. Francis, and other saints and masters the use of their body and voice. We can then ask questions and hear the answers.

As time went by, I was inspired to make personal commitments to God. Inspired by a song by Andy Landis, I said, "Use me God. Let me be your instrument."

I recently made another commitment to God. I am committed to keeping my mind focused on God, my soul, and my spiritual attitude. I am striving to become more and more at-one with God, and my higher self, which is the divine expression of me. Since making these commitments, I am aware of further spiritual growth.

MAN'S SPIRITUAL PATH

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:7 and 7:8

Man must first begin a voluntary search and quest to discover his spiritual path. Prior to seeking knowledge of God, man may not see evidence of God. But when man, woman, or child earnestly and sincerely looks, he will be guided to the evidence and learning that he needs.

My spirit teacher Medicine Man recently brought me the following verse describing this evidence of God showing when we seek it:

Dear God,

I noticed that You are very humble, and very subtle.

You have designed beautiful sunsets,

beautiful mountains and forests,

beautiful children, and all in life.

But unlike the artists who must sign

their name to every canvas,

You left your name off.

Until we study your mysteries

and seek to know the author of your divine works,

that knowledge eludes us.

But when we seek knowledge of You,

suddenly we find your signature everywhere,

in everything.

Dear God,

I noticed that You are very humble, and very subtle.

What a blessing to discover You in all.

Each person's spiritual path is unique. Each person has chosen different life circumstances for his soul's learning and growth. Some people may be raised in a spiritual family that resonates with their minds and hearts. They may then embrace a spiritual path from a very young age.

Other people may rebel from the spiritual path of their parents, and not seek spiritual growth for a time. Then they may find a path that is more in harmony with their needs and their unique minds.

Some people have chosen parents and early life expe

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