This article is from The Sedona Journal of Emergence

What Comes Next?

Greetings to you all in this wonderful season of autumn! We call upon the energies of Divine Light and Love… of 100% Pure Light to bless this channeling and all of you who will be touched by it. And we thank you All for the opportunity to share via these teachings.

There is so much beauty around you now… we hope you are enjoying the multi-colored splendor as much as we! It is traditional during and after the harvest which is presently completing to give thanks for the bounty of nature… for the food which will sustain you through the long months of winter. We see the coming year, 2004, as ‘The Year of Gratitude’ and suggest that developing the habit of feeling gratitude for everything is probably the number one most useful practice to develop now. As well, we would like to convey some other ideas to assist you on your way…

We speak with so many of you these days who have chosen the path of enlightenment… what a joy! You have focused your intention for the highest and best good of all, with harm to none and boldly declared yourselves to be the Masters you truly are! As you center yourselves in each moment and align your energies with that of your Soul, your lives evolve so joyfully and quickly… so why do you still experience negativity?

As we work with some of you on an individual basis, this is the most asked question of late. Many are finding it difficult to hold the joy, the gratitude, the Unconditional Love in the face of the chaotic environment of your world. We would like to remind you that enlightenment is not a free pass out of duality… it is a different way to perceive and experience the positive and negative of 3D and 4D living.

For many of you, the enlightenment you have claimed has been a wonderful and fulfilling event. It has taken a great deal of work, courage, surrender and gratitude to welcome and hold it. If it feels to you like you have subsequently lost it again we would suggest you consider the following.

Enlightenment has been your ultimate goal for eons of time. You and your Soul have repeatedly endeavored to blend and hold the enlightened state and finally… you did it! At this very important time, did you happen to notice that once you had accomplished this supreme objective, you now were ‘goal-less’? In other words, you had created a void. So, what is the first rule of voids? ‘All voids must be filled!’ Did you fill it by setting a new goal? Did you choose a new aspiration for yourself, as an enlightened being and in partnership with Soul and God/Goddess/All That Is? If you did not, chances are your void was filled with the most empowered goal energy in your resonant signature… i.e. the realization of enlightenment in this lifetime. Unfortunately the only way to achieve enlightenment again in this lifetime is to step out of it and begin your search from the beginning!

If this is what has happened to you, chances are your feeling a bit depressed, disheartened and like a failure… sound familiar? For those of you who have fallen into this trap, we suggest that you do what you need to, through contemplation, prayer, meditation and gratitude, to reclaim your mastery and then immediately set a new goal! If you have trouble choosing one, we recommend beginning with the goal of helping others to find enlightenment. It is simple, filled with the energies of service, Unconditional Love and (hopefully) gratitude, and leaves room for other more personal goals as they may occur to you.

Another issue that seems to be arising with many of you is that you expected life to get a lot more elegant after enlightenment struck. You expected the hardships to be over with and the fun to begin! In truth, this did happen… but did you change your own perceptions of the events and experiences you create in your life, or have you allowed habit to fill large portions of your now time?

Masters are not people without problems… Masters are people with interesting experiences! Masters don’t bemoan the fact that a driver cut them off in traffic, they thank the rude driver for the message to slow down or drive more carefully or whatever. Masters work for peace, not against war. Masters find the silver linings that exist everywhere and celebrate and give gratitude for them.

We were recently asked what there was to celebrate and feel grateful for in the war in Iraq. We won’t repeat here every part of what was a long and private channeling, but we would like to share one point with you all. You have several generations of children maturing today who have grown up believing that violence is entertainment. There is a possibility embedded in this war to teach your youth a new paradigm, i.e. violence is not fun. As the parents, siblings, friends and acquaintances of these young people serve overseas ‘in harms way’, please help them to feel the inappropriateness of violence in any form, whether it be movies, television, video games or books. Violence begets violence. The people producing and defending these violent entertainments insist that it has no power over or lasting effect upon the psychological health of the viewers. If that were true then why do the advertisers invest billions of dollars to use these same venues to sell their products? We suggest you seize this opening and use it to teach nonviolence and to conceive new forms of entertainment.

We hear many of you talking about how much your days have become filled with chaos. Some of you have even said that you would rather not be enlightened if the chaos is a permanent attribute of this state. We suggest that you notice that the present day chaos has very little to do with mastery… it is a ‘problem’ which you are all experiencing. Time is speeding up. The rules are changing… for everyone. For those of you who have claimed your mastery you are learning now to live in the moment. You have released the past as your focus and you use the future mostly to set goals. So now is all that exists. You will not feel as prepared  as you used to… that’s a function of past and future. Living in the moment means everything feels new and is new all the time… Change becomes a wonderful partner and flexibility a necessary tool. The sooner you decide to like this, the sooner it  will feel elegant. Your greatest ally in this lesson is trust. Trust yourself, your Soul, your Higher Self… trust God/Goddess/All That Is. Mastery does not exist without trust.

And then there are the ‘unfinished energies’ in your path. Remember we stated above that ‘Masters are not people without problems… Masters are people with interesting experiences!’ Claiming your mastery does not mean that you have become a perfect person in a perfect world with only perfect experiences. Most newly enlightened beings find that soon after their illumination, they begin to have ‘problems’. If they see them as problems it becomes difficult to hold the higher resonance. But, please understand that one of the essential next steps must be that any unfinished lessons, beliefs or negative energies held by the new Master will be addressed. Not as a punishment or some kind of divine joke, but as an opportunity. For example, imagine a new master who still holds the belief that all money must be ‘earned the hard way’. This is not truth, law or even elegant. In truth, money can be ‘earned the hard way’ or it can come with elegance and ease or… you get the picture! This belief will not prevent enlightenment, but it could certainly get in the way of maintaining it. So, the new master who holds this conviction will often be given opportunity to learn a new paradigm. This is what we call an experience, not a problem. We do suggest that as soon as you identify an experience which you would like to complete or elevate, that you attend to it with contemplation, prayer, meditation and gratitude. It is not always necessary to live it out in your physical dimension. The keys to success in this method of learning are: sincerity, focus, passion and gratitude. If you are unable or unwilling to go within and process in this way, we suggest you expect the experience to teach you instead.

And finally we would like to remind you once again to focus your energies in that of Divine Light and Unconditional Love… of 100% Pure Light. We do not suggest that you live in denial and ignore the reality of your present day world. But when any person calls in guides without focusing their request at the Light, it becomes possible to attract lesser energies. This is sloppy work and can be harmful. If you have been careless with your focus until now, you might want to ask your guides of 100% Pure Light to cleanse and realign your energies and then be consistently aligned with Divine Light and Love  with all your requests in the future, i.e. this moment and in all the moments to come.

In all that we have discussed above, gratitude is the energy, the vibration, the emotion and the glue that holds it all together. As you claim your mastery, we suggest you develop the habit of feeling grateful for everything. No matter what presents it self in your life, give gratitude first and then sort through the experience as you are guided. In gratitude you empower your discernment. In gratitude you strengthen your trust. In gratitude you align with your guidance. And in gratitude Divine Light and Love blesses your every breath.