THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Redirect the Conversation.

Dear Ones,

Instead of having conversations with people around the current situations on Planet Earth, especially in the United States, we would have you redirect the conversations to specific steps that people can take.

First, people need to go inside their hearts and find the space of peace, of centeredness that is their Being.  They must breathe into this space for a moment.

The next step to take is to step up above the situation being discussed and to see it from a Higher Perspective.  Why would the Universe allow this situation to exist? What good can come from this situation?

Having a perspective on the positive possibilities that exist in the situation, each individual must then ask, ‘What is mine to do about this situation?’  Each must be patient for the answer to this question might not become obvious immediately. If the answer is not clear then one is to take no action at that time.  This includes continuing the discussion at hand.

Sometimes the next step is to educate others.  This can take the form of more discussion, the suggestion of reading material, or a sharing of knowledge and resources. People are very emotional and are especially clinging to their fear of coming changes because they have been told to fear the very possibility of change.  Yes, it is the mere mention to some that things might change that drives them into panic.

Consider the source of this panic.  It is not the possibility of catastrophe that has them so panicky – it is the possibility that things might change.  Even if they are uncomfortable with the way things are currently they have been trained to approach all things with fear, especially a change from the ‘status quo.’

This tactic has been used to control human beings since the first hierarchical structure was put into place.  If one person can put another person (or group of people) into the energy of fear, then that person gains control by offering to protect people from that which they fear. The original source of the fear may be fabricated, but it does not matter to the unconscious mind of one who is fearful.  They long to have someone to protect them from that which they fear.

Now go back to a conversation about what is happening around you and notice that fear can lead to anger looking for someone on whom to place the blame for this fearful state.  People settle on blaming whatever they are told to blame.  (Remember that in their fearful state they are easy to control and to lead where the controller wishes.)  When you find yourself in one of these conversations be careful to avoid becoming a controller of others.  Share what you know and invite the others to go inside themselves to find their own empowerment.

It is only from this place that true change, in the direction of the evolution of human consciousness, can take place.

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: What do I do about 2012?

Dear Ones,

There are many people who are concerned about the energies approaching Planet Earth for the December 21, 2012 date.  We would like to offer some clarity about this date.

First, the people who are expecting something they refer to as ‘Armageddon’ are confused about the energies they are living in in the present moment and thus are also confused about the future.  They have been told that they will overcome others in this coming battle but they don’t know what they are fighting about.  ‘Armageddon’ is about the death of the little ‘s’ self and the overcoming of the personality by the capital ‘S’ Self.  It really has nothing to do with warfare among humans [or any other beings] on Planet Earth.

So the people who don’t understand about the difference between the self and the Self are easily led into a belief about a battle between good and evil, as defined by some external authority, and they are convinced that they are ‘good’ and will triumph over all others.  This is truly a sad way to go through a human life but many are choosing this belief system during this lifetime.

The energies of 2012 are already extant on Planet Earth in 2010.  People need to know about this as the energies of change are already permeating everyday life for all humans.  Each individual is being called to examine their belief system and to reassess what it is that they believe.  This has been true throughout time on Planet Earth and will continue to be true beyond 2012.  One believes initially what one is told is true.  Then one is told what to believe by parents, schools, society.  When one begins to examine their beliefs as an adult then one can mature and accept or discard that which does not serve them at a given time.

Think of the things you believed as a child that you no longer embrace.  Were you raised in a religion or political party whose tenets you no longer subscribe to?  Do you agree with the views held decades ago by your parents or the society in which you were raised?  If you have been on a path of spiritual and personal growth then you have re-examined your beliefs and have decided consciously to continue to embrace those beliefs or to reject them.

This is what is being called forth today and in the years to come for all humans.  Examine all of your beliefs.  Do they still serve you?  If you have understood the role of the Self in your life then do old beliefs still fit for you?  Have you gained new insights and understandings that inform your choices today that might cause you to change your underlying beliefs?  Sometimes people learn and grow but never examine what they hold to be basic truths and thus build a belief system as a structure around ideas that are no longer valid for them.  However, if they never examine this belief structure they will not realize this discrepancy.

The energies of change that are on the Planet today are inviting you to examine that which you believe to be true and to make a conscious decision about what you believe.  Don’t take anyone else’s word for the truth, even ours.  Examine and decide as a being living a Conscious Life what you will and won’t believe.

When you are living a fully Conscious Life you have no need to fear 2012 or any of the coming energies for you will be making conscious decisions on every day of your Life.  This is the important way for one to live without fear.

The people who are in fear of a particular date are succumbing to indoctrination by others.  There is no need to fear.  We wish that these people could open themselves up to that but they, too, are making a choice about what they believe.  Unfortunately, their choice brings them the pain of fear.

Be a Conscious One and you will be able to live beyond the fear!

And so it is.

MUSE-INGS: Choose to Think Thoughts Filled with Light

Where is the source of your latest thought?

Sometimes I find I am scattered and my thoughts come from everywhere.  Often I follow one then get sidetracked by the next stimulus and go off on a tangent.  The trouble with that is I can quickly forget where I was going in the first place!

It seems that hitting the ‘pause button of my mind’ is the skill that I need to exercise the most. I stop, breathe, then breathe again, and clarity returns.

I am aware that many thoughts seem to pop into my head from somewhere outside.  Sometimes it’s even my mother, a wonderful woman who has been on The Other Side for over 10 years!  But that voice can help me see what I am looking at through new eyes. Sometimes it is an old tape that is playing in my head and I have to catch myself as an observer to notice that that tape no longer has relevance in my life.  It seems to be so easy to cling to the old ways of thinking because they are automatic, a knee-jerk response to a stimulus.

But once you have decided to live a Conscious Life you must catch yourself in EVERY knee-jerk response. The question to ask is, ‘What is the source of this thought?’  If the answer is that you have considered many options and at this time you have chosen consciously to believe something, then stay with that thought and follow it. If, however, you answer that the thought came from your childhood or your friend at work or from a discussion with a neighbor then reassess its value in your current life.  Why would you spend time and brainpower following a thought that comes from a past prejudice that was instilled in you by someone who hadn’t had the opportunity to examine and discard that prejudice?  Why would you adopt a contracting thought, one that makes you feel smaller rather than expanded, just because someone at work planted that thought or reaction in your mind?

Living a Conscious Life asks you to bring forward your thoughts into the Light and to examine them. There is a quality to thoughts called their ‘Light Content.’  Thoughts that have a high Light Content feel expansive, take you outside of your small ‘s’ self and into the realm of the capital ‘S’ Self.  When you spend time with high Light Content thoughts you will feel yourself touching the world of creativity, of acceptance, of connection.

On the other hand, thoughts of little Light Content feel darker, heavier, more contracting and very personal, without room for others to fit into the thoughts.  Sometimes these thoughts are old thought forms that no longer serve in the 21st Century but are still being held by those who choose not to grow.  These will not serve you in your path of personal and spiritual growth.  Learn to recognize them when they cross your path and choose to move forward, discarding their heavy energy.

Choose to think thoughts that are filled with Light.  Choose to hold onto beliefs that serve your growth into expanded Light.  You are always at the point of choice.  Choose growth.  And enjoy the Light!

THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Are Your Thoughts Filled with Light?

Dear Ones,

Please remember that you are all connected to one another. No decision that you make can be made in isolation.  No word that you speak can stay in your own orb, your own space.  And, likewise, no thought that you have or express can stay with you – it reverberates immediately throughout the Universe.

Every thought that comes to you has a source, a space in which it was formed.  That thought in your mind can come from one of myriad sources but the most prevalent source for most thoughts is in your own mind, the place that is formed from your experiences and from what you have been taught is true.  Are you aware of this fact?  Every experience that you have ever had is contained in your mind and shapes the thoughts that you hold onto.  If you were raised in a household where people were prejudiced against another group or other groups you might not even recognize that prejudice within yourself even when someone else points it out to you.  If you were raised to believe that a certain religion is the only true religion and the God that you were told to believe in is the one true God then you might not listen with an open heart when someone expresses information that contradicts that belief.  If you were raised to believe that science holds true in all cases and that, if it can’t be proven according to the current methods of science, then it must not be true, then it is probably difficult for you to conceive of the ideas of meta-physics which is ‘beyond physics.’

What are some other sources of the thoughts that you have?  They could be stimulated by a passing glance at something that triggers a thought. For example, you might see a sign with a picture of someone drinking milk and remember that you need to buy milk on your way home.  Or someone could say something to you that triggers a response.  These responses come from a place inside you where your previous experiences and your current reality intersect.

When you encounter a new idea that is presented by someone else, in a book or conversation, for example, you might weigh that idea and have reactions to it or decide to embrace that idea as a belief for yourself.  You must first be open to the concept that you do not already know everything for this to happen, however!

Creative thought comes through your connection to the All, to the Cloud of Knowable Things, to the Source within the Universe.  New ideas, or ideas that might be new to you, are available at all times through this connection to Source.  How often do you connect in this way?

To make this connection you must first purify the channel of your mind by examining how invested you are in the ideas/thoughts that you have held dear for most of your life.  Do you believe that some of your own ideas about how the world works might have been formed in error or with less than full knowledge about the workings of the Universe?  Do you understand that your parents and schoolmates and the culture and society and religion [or no religion] in which you grew up have formed not only your thoughts but also the way you approach new thoughts?  Until you have examined the source of your own thoughts you will struggle to be really creative and to connect to expanded thinking.

Learn about yourself by being in a curious state.  Wonder about the root of your current beliefs.  Are they truly your own or did they come from another source?  Are you, as an adult, still believing ideas that you embraced as a little child and are those ideas still valid for you?

When you have done the self-examination described here then you will be able to consider thoughts that come from Creative Source.  It is very difficult to explore new ideas when you are wedded to that which is formed in concrete within your own mind.  Break up that concrete and become a curious explorer, looking in wonder at your own ideas and the thoughts that originate elsewhere.  Breathe into a quiet mind and find that connection that allows you to receive new thoughts for consideration.  Explore with wonder and you will find there is much to learn.  Enjoy the journey!

And so it is.

MUSE-INGS: Be the Example of Good Conversation Skills

Conversations.  Dialogue.  Words to consider.  Sometimes a topic or an issue can be such a polarizing subject that people shy away from having a discussion.  Perhaps it is time for reviving the practice of dialogue, where we learn to discuss a topic even while disagreeing.

It used to be that civility required that one not attack a person for the ideas that they held.  Ideas could be discussed, even debated, without the debate becoming a personal attack.  Some people are forgetting that.  In drawing rooms of old people sought out others to listen to the information being discussed and to proffer opinions but to genuinely listen with openness to what was being offered by others.  We don’t seem to be teaching the children of today about this art of conversation.

On television, they see a point/counterpoint discussion of people yelling at each other and interrupting.  School debate teams might be more civilized but they imply that there are only two sides to each issue.  What about the gray areas?  What about a third perspective or the middle ground?  Why must every discussion become a debate in the form of right/wrong and ‘I’m right and you’re wrong’?  How will our children grow up to be good conversationalists and to learn to really listen to what others are saying when they aren’t seeing it modeled in the society around them?

Too many families are too busy to have dinner around the table so that the art of conversation can be practiced.  It is as small children sitting with the family that people learn to model conversations.  Learning to wait one’s turn before speaking, to really listen to another rather than be thinking of the next thing to say are qualities that one must be taught, preferably by example.  Talking about an idea, a topic of interest, and learning how to respect another’s opinion even when it differs from one’s own, are important skills to learn as a young person.

Several years ago I was picking up my grandchildren from their elementary school and was shocked to hear the tone of voice being used to address teachers as well as other students.  The tone did not convey respect and I heard it over and over again.  Parents have a difficult time training their children to show respect in their speech when for many hours a day a different attitude becomes the norm.  But it is worth the effort for parents to teach their children how to listen and how to speak to be heard.

Every discussion in which one participates requires that one consider the feelings of the other person with respect.  Whether that other person is a dear friend, a family member or a stranger in a store makes no difference. They deserve respect and honor.  And so do you.  Don’t let others talk to you with a lack of respect.  Your ideas are worthy of discussion and you deserve to be listened to.  The best way to receive this kind of treatment is to model it.  Pay attention to the energy in your conversations and notice how you feel when you are talking with others.  Do some make you feel comfortable and heard?  Or do they make you feel small, dismissed, or ignorant?  Consider this when you decide where to spend your time.  Actively seek out those who help you to expand your horizons while respecting you and your ideas.  Be the person in the conversation who is always elevating it to the plane of higher consciousness.  You will feel good and others will, too!

THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Are your conversations from a Conscious Perspective?

Dear Ones,

Look around you at the people with whom you surround yourself.  Do they have a positive energy with them?  Do they think of possibilities or do they focus on failures, regrets and what might have been?  What do you speak of with them?  Do you allow the people around you to guide the conversation or do you participate or even steer the conversation to those topics that are uplifting?  Do you consider solutions or do you cut off discussions before solutions can be defined?

Think about the art of conversation and how you participate with others.  Think about the others and the kinds of conversations you have with them, individually and collectively.  Do you feel expanded by the interactions?  Can you see another possibility when you discuss an idea with that person?

It is time to take control of the conversations among people because rhetoric is replacing true exploration.  In many parts of the world people do not engage in conversation because all of their energy is going toward their survival.  The freedom to carry on a conversation goes along with having survival assured in one’s life.  Consider the societies where conversation is an important part of one’s day.  Sitting at the coffee shop or patisserie, around the water cooler in an office, over lunch with friends or colleagues, over a meal at home with the family.  What topics are discussed?  Are they ideas, philosophies, gossip, rants, complaints?

Ideas have a high vibration energy to them, as do philosophies.  When one stays with an idea it can stimulate thinking, mental activity and creativity.  A philosophical discussion can spur one into considering the field of all possibilities, thus expanding the horizons of thought.

The other topics above take one into a lower vibration and cause a contraction of one’s energy, often into an unconscious protective stance.  Gossip about others creates an unconscious fear of being gossiped about oneself.  Complaints cause one to focus on a problem and not on a solution.

You can always take a conversation and turn it into something of higher vibration by gently steering the discussion into higher planes, addressing solutions or ideas or taking a different, higher perspective on the topic.  When someone is mired down in a problem or an issue, it is often up to the other person to offer a perspective from the higher view.  One who is stuck in the energy of the problem may not have the resources to examine all the possibilities for solutions.  This is why it is often advantageous to discuss an issue with another person.

However, discussing an issue does not mean being wedded to the story to the point of staying a victim in the narrative.  Rather, it means allowing the other person to offer suggestions and really listening to those suggestions.

Sometimes you will be the person with the problem and sometimes the one with the solutions.  Are you willing to look at the conversations you have from now on from this perspective?  This is not about judging another person for their views or for getting into a problem situation.  This is your always coming from an open heart that truly wishes to help the other to find peace.

The other side of this is for you to embrace a willingness to really listen to others, to see that they might have another perspective to offer you, and to consider what is being offered.

The kinds of conversations we address here require that neither party devolve to name-calling, judgment, anger/hatred/violence.  We are addressing here conversations between two people who honor each other and who allow each person to have ideas that may differ from one’s own.  These conversations can result in true dialogue and personal growth for both participants.

Decide today that these are the only kinds of conversations you will have.  Decide today that you will minimize time with those who refuse to have these kinds of conversations.  Seek to be the peacemaker, for your own good as well as for those around you.  And solutions you haven’t dreamed of might appear!

And so it is.

This Week’s Mystic Message from The Divine Feminine: The Children are the cosmic beings – listen to them!

Dear Ones,

Can you hear the winds of change blowing through the world in these days?  There are so many changes coming that you will start to see people being thrown off balance by what is happening around them.

The cries of those in need will become louder and the boasting of those who have more than they need will turn to compassion as they start to see themselves as connected to all others.  Oh, we know that there are some who are unable to experience compassion but most members of the human family are, by nature, compassionate people who have been trained into selfishness by society.  In most societies on Planet Earth there is a sense of connection, with nature, with others and with the cosmos as a whole.  The cycles of nature on Planet Earth are understood by most of her peoples.  The understanding that what one individual does affects all others is widespread on the Planet.

It is only in those societies that have lost sight of this connection to others where you can see the individualism that prevents human consciousness from expanding.

But we would speak to you today of the coming changes, that which you who are on the path of Conscious Living can look forward to.

People all over Planet Earth are feeling the coming changes.  Earthquakes shake the physical world but the energetic world is also being shaken up.  Light is beginning to form in places where before there was darkness.  Those who wish to resist change are starting to become enlightened about the need for change.  You will first see this in how the children of the Planet are being treated.

The children alive on Planet Earth today are a special breed of the New Human.  They have an intelligence that defies your intelligence testing and analysis.  They are cosmic beings who have actively chosen to assist Planet Earth in her evolution toward expanded consciousness.  Look at those who have been born in the last 20 or so years as the ones who will carry changes through the coming times and into the future.  These children do not communicate well with those who are older because it is as if they come from a different planet.  In fact, they do.  These children were born on the former Planet Earth but are truly here to be inhabitants of the coming, energized and expanded Planet Earth.  Only those adults who are able to expand into the new consciousness will be able to keep up with these children.

It is precisely because these are New Humans that your medical and educational and societal systems do not work appropriately for them.  These children do not need to be drugged – they need to be protected as the super-sensitive beings that they are.  They are not to be confined by structures created for a society of hundreds of years ago – they must be supported and listened to as they are the ones who understand the coming energies from a cosmic perspective.

Listen to the little ones.  Ask them questions about what they understand.  Listen to the questions they ask and help them to explore answers, for the answers you might have given 20 years ago will no longer serve.  Spend some time with young people even if they are not blood-related to you, for you will certainly learn from them.

And then decide to open your horizons, expand to become a conscious cosmic being yourself.  You can do this by being open-minded.  Connect with others and understand that all are one, there is no separation.  This is the most important message for the coming changes – there can be no isolationists.  All are connected.  All are One with the Source.  It is the children who know this.  Listen to them.

And so it is.

THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: You impact the Planet – speak Peace!

Dear Ones,

The 21st Century represents the dawn of a new era in the evolution of human consciousness.  For previous centuries the individuals have been learning about their own lives and what is required of them to grow and survive on Planet Earth.  In the 18-20th Centuries people traveled farther from home and learned about other cultures to a much greater extent than had been previously possible, except for a few explorers.  In the 21st Century, the entire Planet is connected via airwaves and computer networks and satellites.


An individual can no longer consider himself or herself to be a separate entity, one who can make choices without affecting the rest of humanity.  No human being is a totally separate entity.  In fact, no one ever has been, but the connections have not been as vast as they are in the 21st Century.

Each individual must consider the repercussions of every action that they take, not only on their immediate environment but also on the Planet as a whole and on all the other peoples of Earth.  Every step upon the Planet leaves an impact.  We are not talking here of just the environment as Nature and soil and air and water.  No, we are talking as well about the energetic environment on Planet Earth.  When a person or a group of people engage in activities that stir up hatred and dissension that energy has a ripple effect around the Earth.  And when a person or a group of people engage in activities that generate peace and love that energy, too, has an effect around the world.

Imagine that you are one individual who can affect the energy of the entire world with your thoughts and actions and the energy that you generate.  Why would you then generate negative energy, or hatred, or anger and let that energy move around the Planet affecting the whole world?  But if you focused your thoughts and activities on generating peace and love and acceptance and tolerance, imagine the impact that would be felt around the Planet.

Do not think that one person can have no impact on all the others on the Planet or on the Planet herself.  Think of those individuals who have single-handedly led groups of people into slaughtering other groups, or who have created economic conditions that caused the death of many people.  In the 21st Century there are those who are having such an effect in their countries that many people are dying because of politics or the exercise of power or the greed of leaders.  If one person can have a vast effect in the negative sense, then the laws of energy would indicate that one person can also have a vast effect in a positive way.

Be that one person yourself.  You do not have to be in the news programs.  You do not have to be or become famous.  You do not have to be wealthy.  Focus your energy on being peace and love and acceptance and tolerance, to those immediately around you and in a general sense toward the whole world.  Your example will inspire others. When you treat those around you with these energies they will, in turn, spread that vibration of energy to their circle.

Be careful of your speech. Catch yourself before you utter the words that would counteract the energy of peace and love.  Notice how your speech patterns are reflecting the energy of peace and love.  Consciously choose to think and speak of these higher vibrations.

We do not say this only for the good of the Planet Earth.  There is a benefit to you as an individual as well, for the vibration that you cast into the atmosphere around you is multiplied and returned to you magnified – be careful what level of vibration you cast into the atmosphere!

And so it is.

THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Can We Expand Consciousness in the Face of Disaster?

Dear Ones,

We are pleased that so many people are discussing the advancement of human consciousness in these important days.  You will soon know why this is so important.

As people on Planet Earth begin to realize that there is something greater than their everyday life they will also start to look at each other with enlightened eyes.  Understanding that the greater is much greater than earlier perceptions would indicate gives one the scope to embrace all other humans with acceptance and an open heart.  Those who are getting a glimpse into the greater Light of expanded awareness are also feeling that expansion in their own hearts so that they can reach out from a place of Universal Love to others.

When there are big events like earthquakes and tsunamis on Earth there is more going on than the news stories portray.  Human compassion can be opened to reach out to those who have been touched by disaster.  But there is also an opening of the heart chakra of all humanity when so many are focused on one group of people.  It is said that there has been an ‘outpouring of compassion’ when thousands of people are affected by an event.  This outpouring comes from a unification of purpose, a desire to be of assistance, a concern for the plight of other humans.  These are all fostered by the Love of one human for all others at a very basic level.

Now we would tell you that there are some who are not moved by compassion in these circumstances.  There are some who see these situations as opportunities for making money, for exerting power and influence.  These people have lost the connection to Soul, to the human heart that beats in them and that was once connected to the Universal Love Source but whose connections they have worked to sever.  These people live in a bleakness that has drained the color from their existence.  Darkness and black indicate a total lack of light and color.  Light, brilliant white light, contains all the colors of the rainbow as any prism will show you.  Those who live a bleak existence cannot see the colors of light because they have shut their hearts and eyes to that color.  It is almost as if they must put on dark glasses to block the tiniest ray of light from their view.

But these people are in the minority on Planet Earth.  Why do so many give power to the few?  As we look upon the inhabitants on Earth at any given time we wonder at those who choose to remain in ignorance of their own inner power.

Each human being is born onto the Planet with a heart filled with Light and Love just waiting to be expressed within his or her environment on the Planet.  Even those born into uncomfortable situations are filled with this Light and Love at their birth.  They live a life that is waiting to unfold and to grow that Light and Love to the fullest they are able.  Childhood is a time of Lightness, of play.  Even those who have nothing according to material standards on Earth have a sense of delight at play.  Those who are hungry long for food but still know how to smile at a loved one.  And those who have plenty will laugh and play and love with abandon.

So what is it that shuts down this Light and Love that is within every human heart at birth?  It is not just the accident of circumstances, the childhood experiences, the schooling one receives that does this.  It is the conscious choice to select greed over Love, power over Light, to inflict harm without compassion for others.  When one can dispassionately kill or harm or deny care to others then one has stepped away from Love and Light.

But most people on Planet Earth have not moved so far from Love and Light that they cannot retrace their steps to offer Love and Light to others.  When Mother Earth offers an opportunity to expand the Love and Light within, as she does with every so-called ‘disaster’ of natural causes, then She is offering all of humanity an opportunity to open their heart and spread Love and Light around the Planet.  Every act of compassion increases the Love and Light available on Planet Earth.   Every disaster is an opportunity for the expansion of consciousness for all humanity.

Think on these thoughts.

And so it is.

THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Remain Curious; Continue Growing!

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.