Dear Ones,
Questions. There are always questions to be asked. How often do you find yourself asking questions for which you hear no answer? How often do you wonder about something and wonder, too, where to find the answer?
Or are you the other kind of person, the one who has answers and is just waiting for someone to ask you a question so that you can share one of your answers? If you are not the person with all the answers, do you know that kind of person?
We would tell you that curiosity is a good thing for a human being to have. On Planet Earth in the 21st Century there are many situations about which it is appropriate to have questions. For too long many have been complacent and uncurious about what is going on around them. For too long many have fought to isolate themselves and their resources to protect them from some intrusion by another entity: government or enemy or other human being.
People who have not been asking questions are stagnating in old energy that is no longer appropriate for Planet Earth. Only the curious, those who question, can move forward. If one accepts the ‘status quo’ as perfect then one cannot grow, cannot expand awareness, cannot move into a more enlightened state.
You probably know the kind of person who has no intellectual curiosity and is thus easy to mislead into believing something that is not true. This person is content to live in an unenlightened way because they are afraid of ‘upsetting the applecart.’ It is sad to see a person who believes they know the answers even when they are not asking the questions that they should.
It is sad, too, to see people living in fear of asking questions. What if the answer might be disturbing? What if the answer shakes up preconceived notions about how things are? This would be devastating to someone who is wedded to the notion that everything is fine as it is and that there is no necessity for change.
Think of the world you would be inhabiting if all the people of Earth had adopted this attitude through time. You would not have automobiles or computers or telephones or televisions or radios. You would not be connected around the world instantaneously via satellites and the internet. Your life expectancy would be much shorter than it currently is. Now some might say that not all advances in technology and science are good for society but we are not addressing that part. Intellectual curiosity compels the human being forward in development. The decisions about whether or not a particular advance is good for society is a different question but that question should not always be answered with a resounding ‘no’ merely because the advance indicates change.
Intellectual curiosity impels a person to ask questions about the greater parts of Life, like Death, the origin of the Cosmos, relationships, and philosophical questions. Intellectual curiosity is especially important in spiritual matters because one’s purpose on Earth includes expanding awareness, developing greater consciousness, for Self and all of humanity. To stay in one place, without the curiosity to explore beyond that place, stifles the human brain and the essence of Soul development. To believe that all has been revealed keeps one from making that next discovery, that next ‘aha’ that would take the person and the world into another stage of development. This is true not only in the larger scale but also in relationships, in one’s work, in discerning patterns in life and the world around one. There is always a next step.
We would ask you to consider ways in which you have stopped being curious about Life. Is there some aspect of Life about which you feel you have already decided all the answers? Is there something you are afraid of learning more about? How are you pursuing the curiosity that you might feel? Who are you curious about? A loved one? Have you asked and really listened to them lately? A prominent figure or situation? Have you done any research into it?
Keep yourself curious. That is how a human grows. A child’s curiosity contributes greatly to their developing understanding of the world around them. Be childlike about everything around you. Expand your awareness and ask questions. Only then can the evolution of human consciousness continue to expand. Do your part by remaining curious.
And so it is.
Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Listen to the Children
March 23, 2010 — RosemaryThe children of the 21st Century are amazing beings. So many, though, really are super-sensitive. I watch our grandchildren struggle with their sensitivities and yet they are truly radiant beings of Light. I’m sure your children and grandchildren are as well.
What is it that they are here to teach us? I think the most important thing we can learn from them is an openness, a big heart, an acceptance of themselves and others as they are. I once heard my granddaughter say that she had been criticized for saying that she sees the fairies. [She does.] Her answer was that everyone is special in their own way. She has a cousin who can talk with wild animals and they are not afraid of her. That was Makayla’s answer to being criticized. It represents an understanding that, ‘Just because I am different from you or your understanding of the world does not mean that there is anything wrong with me.’
Of course, she is also a regular kind of tweener, 12 going on 21. These sensitive kids need our help in making sense of their surroundings. They arrive on Planet Earth knowing that there are many levels to consciousness and they are not afraid to share what their experiences are. We, in turn, try to teach them to follow the rules as we understand them. Could the lesson for us be to re-examine what we thought were the rules? Bill Maher, in his TV show, “Real Time with Bill Maher”, offers ‘New Rules’ every Friday night. His are often funny and tongue in cheek, but he always has a reason behind his offerings. Maybe it is time for us to examine all those things we thought were ‘rules’ and decide anew whether or not they fit the times.
In politics there seem to be two camps of people – those who wish to advance their society with new thought and those who wish to hold onto the old traditions and to fight change. Oftentimes we seem to get more wrapped up in the arguments than the issues would warrant and we forget to step up above the disagreement to look for long-reaching effects and to use expanded consciousness in our search for solutions.
In every area of 21st Century life there is an opportunity to expand consciousness and step all of humanity up to the next level. We must learn from the children to be cosmic beings, not citizens of one country or members of a political party, a particular ethnic group, a religious group. We must step up and look at situations from that cosmic perspective, asking for long-term information about decisions we are considering. With the energetic changes that are coming, we must fight the tendency to be narrow in our thinking, for we will miss the great things that are approaching if we live within tunnel vision.
Expand your views. Open your horizons. Listen to the children.