Ancient wisdom practices can be useful if we don’t get stuck in definitions and attribute the universal experience to special individuals. Just go deeper, trust yourself. You are the soul and you are the master teacher to your own personality. The key is to feel for ego, lack of fluidity, and either too much, or not enough, seriousness. Choose what feels just right, and notice when something begins to feel limiting.

As we yearn for a larger explanation of what’s happening in the world today, many turn attention to the spiritual, esoteric teachings of ancient cultures—teachings that have been recorded by both priesthoods and mystics. These systems were ways of symbolizing and preserving universal experience so it could be duplicated for those to come, and to hide knowledge from those who might misuse it for personal gain. In times past, it was mainly those few in spiritual service who received the knowledge and discipline necessary to train their minds to experience “enlightenment.”

THE SOUL-BASED LIFE

In the final phase of the evolution process, we explore how good we can feel and how successful we can be when we’re living in the frictionless state, having fully integrated our body, mind, emotions, and soul together into one expression and merged with the world around us. We also explore how society may transform in a way that parallels our own growth, and what it’s really like to live in enlightened times.

YOUR NEW SELF IN A SEMI-CONSCIOUS WORLD

We now enter a time of trial where our new worldview is tested by society’s remaining collective beliefs in sacrifice and suffering. It’s normal, when developing a new habit, especially one that changes the very way reality functions, to periodically succumb to the prevailing view of others who are still caught in old perception. How do we stay optimistic when those around us are just entering the awakening process and catalyzing more global negativity?

DESTINY AND UNIVERSAL KINSHIP HAPPEN

We take positive steps to act on our destiny impulses and learn there’s a new way to achieve results based on the soul’s reality. When we are in the moment, in the heart, in the body, and connected to all knowledge, all energy, all resources, all collaborators, there is a revelation of the power of the unified field, and how it helps us materialize our visions. We discover how the creation-materialization process works when there is faith in the interconnectedness and appropriateness of things. We learn to experience the unified field as an extension of our own body and how to seed our personal field or aura to attract what we need.

THE PHOENIX EMERGES

We are reborn as a new holistic self with new knowledge, new perception, and a new reality. We practice living according to the soul’s wisdom and discover our destiny. The process begins its upward rise from old identity to the new authentic soul-self. We show up in the world again, with new enthusiasm and motivation based on the soul’s wisdom and intent. A new understanding about how life functions infuses everything we know. Now we don’t need to use will power to make life work—we see it’s already working perfectly.

THE SECRETS OF SKILLFUL PERCEPTION

While we’re still gestating, becoming convinced that we are the soul, not the ego, we experience a transformational shift of perception, where our reality construct changes and life itself begins to behave differently. No longer is life based on feeling separate, afraid, and needing to use will power to make things happen. Now we understand we’re interrelated, mutually supportive, loving, and that life helps us do and have whatever we truly need.

After exchanging surprised greetings and a fierce hug—(my friend) stopped abruptly, looked genuinely concerned and said, “Are you OK? You look tired today.” “Not just today,” I remarked matter of factly. “This is how I look now—I’m always tired.” She smiled widely then leaned in with genuine concern and quietly pressed for details: “So what are you tired of?” I laughed and said, “Oh, you know!”—and quickly changed the subject. But on the way home her question was still hanging there in my head: What am I tired of?

Hatred. That’s it. I’m tired of hatred—like, really tired.

In 2020, we carry on the work of “stepping into our power.” We start to understand what true personal power is. It’s not “power over,” but “power to”—power to collaborate, power to bring visions into accurate form, power to use compassion over force, power to feel into deeper wisdom and the eventual repercussions of unconscious behavior, power to face fear, shame, or loss and see through it to the real reality that functions by compassionate universal principles.

THE SURRENDER INTO STILLNESS

Each person reaches a point, perhaps it’s the equivalent of hitting and falling through the bottom, perhaps it’s just a mysterious enlightening moment that sweeps through the mind and feelings one day, giving us a glimpse of the truth. It can feel like relief, grace, peace, or a huge gaping doorway into the the void. We are sucked entirely into the present moment away from our controlling, willful ego-mind, and can’t make ourselves do the things that used to work so well.

THE ERUPTION: THE UNDERWORLD SURFACES

Low vibrational, fear-based beliefs and emotions pop up from the subconscious into the conscious mind and we re-experience them. We contract away from the negativity or penetrate into it to dissolve it.
As the vibratory rate of the emotions and physical body increases, subconscious blocks, which are fear-based and low-frequency, can no longer remain suppressed in the high-frequency environment. They respond like popcorn to heat, exploding from their hiding places one by one up into the conscious mind.

THE MAGNETISM OF THE PRESENT MOMENT

By centering in our body, life is lived more and more in the here-and-now; projecting into the future or retreating into what worked in the past, now drains and debilitates us because it stalls the outflow of creativity. We learn that perfect opportunities as well as the soul’s guidance, unlimited energy, and motivation come only in the moment.