From Nicolya Christi: Most people will avoid change because it usually requires a sacrifice or the need to let go.  Change invites us to step out of our comfort zones, which may entail entering into a period of turmoil and upheaval; it may confront us with out deeper fears and give a sense of going backwards, not forwards.  To use an analogy: the archer draws back the arrow to its furthest point of tension and then simply lets go.  By pulling the arrow back to its maximum point of tension before being released it is able to fly the greatest possible distance.  The more we experience upheaval and the bigger the step backwards appears to be, the further ahead we will land once we are ready to let go completely and fly.

Believe in yourself.  Trust you are being held and guided by the love of those in the heavens who walk with you.  Have faith in your unique individuality. Embody a fundamental truth, which is that you have something important to offer. Adopt an attitude of gratitude for yourself.  Trust and surrender are the keys that open the treasure chest of your soul.  Believe in gnosis, that intuitive felt sense in which you know without knowing how you know.  Memory, intellect and academia do not inform gnosis.  Gnosis is pure knowing informed only by the heart and soul and is the highest form of human intelligence.  Gnosis engages our intuition, our sense of feeling and reveals our true wisdom.  Information is power.  Gnosis is empowerment.  Too much left brain activity with its emphasis on intellectual and academic information is not conducive for accessing the sixth sense of gnosis.  Forget what you think, and believe what you feel.

...As an example of seeing life from a spiritual perspective, symbolically, if we were to take the prophecies as metaphors, the only natural disasters they really speak about are our commonly held inner catastrophic thoughts, obsessions and addictions--all speaking to the level of fear and sense of separation we carry within us.  Much like sunspots or storms, abiding various aspects of fear speaks to the emotional storms that darken our natural state of light, and which are highly disruptive of a peace-filled existence.  These elements also constitute the highly limiting beliefs and opinions of others we have come to depend on for our validation, identity and direction.  Prophecies of good or enlightenment reflect going inward and following the One True Voice, Source, God, Truth, Christ consciousness, whatever name one wants to put on the small, still voice heard only inward.  The name matters not, for when we strip away the name or label we find only our common divinity holding us in highest regard, and which has only highest good in store for us.

Surely, our world is turned upside down when we are moved to such deep levels of being--and well it might be.  Moving from the superficial elements of ego consciousness and self-importance to the essence of our very Being can be earth shattering, to say the least.  Yet, on this deeper level, Wisdom enlightens us as we comprehend with spiritual clarity that prophecy is about one's holy relationship with our inward Truth, Wisdom--called God by some--and nothing else.  On a spiritual level, prophecy is not about some physical happening or likeness.  Transcending to spiritual or Christ consciousness frees us from spiritualizing ego consciousness--from making outer appearances look spiritual, when they're only akin to a wolf in sheep's clothing--and takes us to ordering our lives from a spiritual foundation, found only by listening inward. 

Over the ages, this is the inward journey that mystics and visionaries have encouraged us to take.  Surrendering to deeper awareness is what allows for transcendence of Spirit over matter, and frees the demonstration of a new perspective.  With the new perspective comes deeper meaning and a sense of spiritual purpose, as never before witnessed.  The Truth of our spiritual essence is reinforced yet again.   To paraphrase what A Course in Miracles suggests, a life of feeling separate from God or our own divinity began when we forgot to laugh the moment we first heard the suggestion that we are separate from either...