Belief Systems

ANSWER: It was somewhere around 100,000 years ago that the precursor of modern man began to find ways to communicate. Their first concern was to be able to work together to survive. Few had any knowledge or understanding of any spirits, beings, or entities outside of the common man sharing their space. When it came to ancestors and controlling non-physical energies, they had only the stories passed down from father to son as superstitions. No one had the time to decide what beliefs to use to control each other’s behavior.

Life was always positive and negative, so after approximately 90,000 years of needing all their energy to survive, some, who wanted to use the fears of others as a means of controlling, put together a system of rewards and punishments. At first it was considered a governmental/societal type regime, but then they decided to bring in a non-physical aspect that would instill fear and provide an extra layer of control. Religion was born.

Organized religions began as a way to control the uneducated. They were told they were too dumb to understand about gods and spirits and that the religious leaders would take care of all that for them as long as they did exactly as they were told. It was also alleged that these same leaders could protect them from hell and ensure they went from their horrible Earthly life into a heaven.

Enlightenment is the next step in the progression of man. All individuals are perfectly able to learn about themselves and the essence of their soul, which is a piece of Source. Instead of looking for a god outside, humans, through understanding their soul, are recognizing they have a piece of that divinity within them.

ANSWER: As you have stated: religion is a human construct. It is based upon doctrines put together by the hierarchy of the religious sect containing the belief system to which they demand all proponents adhere.

Each set of documents upon which a religion is based contains historical tales establishing the foundation of the group. If you compare the background information you will discover that there are certain similarities that follow from century to century and group to group. Symbolisms are also shared from sect to sect.

All are based on the principle of reward and punishment: reward for following the rules and punishment for not following them. If this sounds like the ego-based judgment of the third-dimensional duality, you are correct. Human constructs are all about judgment because that is their arena.

What you have heard about Source and the soul discusses the nonphysical aspect of who you are in the unconditionally loving world of eternal existence that exceeds the minuscule duration of a human lifetime. The soul has total freedom of choice to experiment with whatever it feels will serve it in its journey to learn about its own existence.

When the soul is having a human existence, it must first find out about things such as control, making choices, and deciding what will and will not further its education. People create their own reality by what they choose to allow into their illusion of life. Organized religions, with all their rules, regulations and beliefs, must be taken into the feeling aspect of the human to determine whether or not they are helping the soul know itself as a soul. They definitely help the soul to know itself as a human having a human experience.

As we always say, take our information and see if it resonates with you. If it does not, find what does until it no longer serves you. We do not judge; we only help you evaluate if you can learn from following a particular belief system.

ANSWER: Both of these writings contain the thoughts and beliefs of the ones who published the material. First, the term “Christ” is not synonymous with Jesus of Nazareth. It is a Greek term, meaning “anointed,” which is a translation of the Hebrew word “Messiah.” When “Christ” is used with the name “Jesus,” it implies that Jesus is being recognized as a Messiah, savior, or teacher.

Christ Consciousness, as mentioned in the writings, refers not to a specific person but to a state in which the soul has ascended out of the egotistical, judgment-laden Earth dimension into the unconditional love of being in the presence of the Source of all.

These books are like the various Bibles, the Koran, the Torah, Nag Hammadi, The Book of Mormon, the Book of the Dead, and the Bhagavad Gita, just to mention a few. All are held to have been divinely or supernaturally revealed to the compiler. All describe in human terms what they want the reader to accept as true. The purpose of these “truths” is to create a religious practice around the central figure or set of rules. All are based on the reader’s judging that their ideas or statements are correct and everything else out there is false.

As we always say, see how things “feel” to you. Do they resonate with you as something you wish to base your life on? Then accept them as your current belief system and move forward using them as a guide. If you are looking to become enlightened, what others have done or say they have done is immaterial. Only what you do is important. You must release judgment and live in unconditional love. Feel, don’t think.

A: Dear One, you are in a delicate situation. You have found or have been led to information that is a key to your continued enlightenment. For you to begin to integrate and live within these feelings you must accept them as your own and tell other people about them. This is very difficult to do, unless you are with like- minded individuals, especially if your new principles conflict with belief systems that have defined your world up to this point.

May we suggest that the first step is to find a group that believes as you do or feels as you feel. If our words resonate with you, there are some groups that follow these tenets, such as the Unity and the Science of Mind churches, where you may feel at home. Also important is for you to experience mind/body practices that make you aware of the energies within your body. They include meditation, yoga, and tai chi, which may give you a sense of certainty about your new path.

What we find crucial to total personal integration is that you hear yourself “lay claim” to your new beliefs. These may include that you are made in the image and likeness of the Source, and that you were broken off from Source and therefore have the power to intentionally manifest the things that you desire. By laying claim to beliefs we mean that until you tell others what it is you now believe, you will not feel comfortable existing simultaneously in two different worlds, the old and the new.

A: The ego within the human mind controls conscious activity very powerfully. The beliefs of your childhood and the teaching of others, which you have readily accepted, act as default settings. They are superimposed over all new ideas by your ego until you overwrite those beliefs by actually speaking your new truths to yourself and others. Until you feel comfortable admitting to yourself how you now see yourself, keeping a journal acknowledging your acceptance of these new principles will start the process of conversion to your new way of thinking and living. May your journey be comfortable.

Celestial Voices Staff Comment
As of the date of this message, neither Toni nor Peter (the organizers) is currently a member or attends congregational meetings of either the Association of Unity Churches International or the United Church of Religious Science, mentioned informally by the Masters. We see that both church organizations have websites and understand that they welcome enquirers. (For readers who may be unfamiliar with these churches, we add that they differ markedly in belief and purpose from the Church of Scientology.)

ANSWER: The Amitabha Buddha was a self-given name for a soul who during his physical life reached his goal of self-enlightenment. He formed a type of Buddhism for others to follow wherein he promised them that if they followed the path he had completed, they would join him in a land of pure bliss. It dates back many centuries, being particularly popular in China and Japan but censured in Tibet and Nepal for many of its practices and promises.

This is an organized religion, as is Catholicism or Evangelical Christianity. When you follow an organization, you accept the promises as being the ultimate reward for strictly adhering to their tenets. This is a perfectly acceptable method of learning what it is you seek in fulfillment but should never replace your freedom of choice to do what resonates with you.

Reincarnation is the process by which a soul chooses to undertake a physical life during which to learn lessons. It allows them to consistently return to try something new or to perfect their understanding of a specific issue. Once in a human body, the soul has to decide what beliefs they are going to follow to reach their destination. They may choose each one individually or enter into a religion that tells them what to do regardless of how they feel about the instructions. Many people need to be influenced by the demands of others so that they might see they don’t agree with the beliefs of these others and need to make up their own minds about things.

These teachings are important for you if you “feel” this is a good direction for you to take. Choices such as those presented for the rewards promised are accessible within the third dimension containing the duality of negative and positive but not available at Home in the unconditionally loving energy of pure positivity.

Seeking the “Pure Land” as envisioned by the Amitabha Buddha is possible only if you follow his practices religiously. Give up your 21^st-century knowledge and seek what satisfied those living centuries ago – when people had no formal education and believed/had faith in what was told to them by others without questioning if they had any other choice.

Your question shows you have explored far and wide the way to finding out who you are and what abilities you possess. Continue your search and then follow your feelings.

ANSWER: The word ascension on your planet has come to mean a multitude of things within different circles of people. An “ascension” is a movement from a place of density or murkiness into another of lesser density and greater clarity. It is referred to by some as entering “enlightenment.” All souls in human form, at one time or other, yearn to know all that is—to have the knowledge and wisdom of the Masters or even of Source.

When you are in your essence form—that is, not confined to a physical body—you are in that state of “all-knowingness.” Very few people actually attain that state while still in human form. People may start ascending by getting out of the heaviness of ego negativity, by choosing to sustain their life in only love and positive actions. They remove themselves from the judgment that controls the ego and enter into the evaluation of seeing everything as a lesson and not as either right or wrong.

Those consciously following a spiritual path seek to reach this unconditionally loving non-judgmental state. This can normally not be done if they have not completed the lessons they came down to Earth to learn. People identify themselves by what they feel they have accomplished. This is to rank where they are, from where others consider themselves to be. To souls on their journey, this doesn’t matter. To grade, rank, or compare is to embrace ego and experience pride.

The main goal or purpose for which souls enter a physical state is to learn lessons and then to remember as much about their unconditionally loving self as is possible. Your early experience was a flashback to your condition on the Other Side, that fantastic feeling of being cradled in total love. If you could bring that feeling into your daily life, can you see how much it would enrich it? That is why so many seek to ascend; they just don’t understand the term, the process, or how they should feel when they arrive.

ANSWER: A religion is a set of beliefs on which one fashions one’s existence. It is a set of rituals, prayers, life activities, mores which regulate every aspect of being. These are dictated to all by an individual or a hierarchy within the belief system. Their guarantee to those who adhere to all the rules and regulations is various benefits for this physical life and beyond, regardless of the adherents’ reasons for coming to human form.

All incarnate souls (in physical bodies) come to the Earth to learn lessons through experiences. They learn each lesson through using their freedom of choice to find what resonates with their soul and what moves them from negative energies into positive ones. One of the ways this may occur is to choose to follow a particular religion because it resonates with your human form and you sense changes taking place in your understanding and awareness of your soul’s path. This is enlightenment.

Before we go any further let us ask this question: Is there a particular language upon your planet that if spoken by all would ensure peace? Are there not armed conflicts all over the world between peoples who call a single dialect their basic language? What of the factions within a society that resist being grouped together with ones holding opposing views to their own? Is not each and every human soul on an individual journey? Is one method any better than any other?

Just as no universal language will suffice for your diversified planet, one belief system cannot be the answer to all souls’ journeys. While all souls were identical as they came from Source, no two physical incarnations are the same. The knowledge of each soul is the knowledge of all while in spirit form because we are all interconnected, so each soul chooses its own direction and lessons. The process of learning is not to repeat what others have done unless you crave the same experience since you already know how it turns out.

ANSWER: The term non-doership is a religious principle from the Vedanta, one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy. These principles came from the ideas, speculations, and philosophies that emerged from the Upanishads. They arose when Indian mystics began questioning traditional Vedic religious order some 2500 to 2900 years ago. The Upanishads are considered the part of the Hindu scriptures wherein philosophy, meditation, and the nature of God are discussed.

There are a number of modern-day thinkers who define the term within twentieth-century parameters. They use references to spiritually accepted principles from Hindu understanding, other Eastern and Western organized religious tenets, and their own interpretations.

The basis behind all understanding is that you become aware of yourself. That looks different to each person, so the result of “non-doership” will vary with each one’s understanding. All spiritual awareness is dependent on getting one’s own answers from one’s own experience. You don’t need to adopt a terminology from someone else’s work or understanding. It must be unique to you.

Know what your goal is within the life you are leading. If it is to become fully aware of the soul inside you, work on that; define the accomplishments with your own words. You, as a soul, have total freedom of choice to do what you desire, to whatever end you seek.

Don’t try to duplicate what has worked for others because your life is different. Don’t try to learn the language of all the possible ways to know yourself that others espouse. Don’t worry about defining – just worry about acting toward an accomplishment. Be yourself.

ANSWER: Belief systems adopted by a person in order to bring control to their lives frequently arise from religious affiliations. Organized religions are established to get devotees to accept everything they are told and also to try to convert others to those beliefs. When you think for yourself and believe only what resonates with you, many label you as heretic, dangerous, and evil. Their hierarchy tells them to avoid you because you believe and talk about things that threaten the foundation of their organization.

Since you don’t “toe the line” of their belief system, church members are told to stay away from you almost as if you were contagious. To an extent, you are infectious because you may get them to question their beliefs and loosen the hold their group has on them.

What you do with your ability is up to you. You are very intuitive and can sense energy. There is really nothing to fear if you are open and just allow it to happen. You do “know” things that are unapparent to others simply because you have “tapped in” to the universal energy stream.

To the religions, these feelings and answers come from “out there,” and they consider that to be evil. Does it feel evil to you? Ask your guides to ensure that you communicate only with beings of the light who come for the highest and greatest good.

While your associates feel safe adhering to the tenets of their religion, they are curious about knowledge coming from spirits. There are so many television shows and movies lately that talk about psychics, past-life regressions, and reincarnation that their curiosity overcomes the admonitions of their religions. Disclose what feels comfortable to you.

Sharing your experiences will allow all these skeptics and those brainwashed by their religions to sample a substitute and give them an alternative to where they stand at this time. Sharing your beliefs also reinforces them within you so they feel more a part of who you are.

ANSWER: Control, control, control—that is the motivation behind the rules and regulations of any organization, whether it be religious or militaristic. Women are feared by the Abrahamic religions, whose writings are replete with sayings that the man is the one to be obeyed at all cost. The writings all originated from men and kept women ignorant of anything but what the men, particularly the religion’s leaders, proclaimed to be the women’s duty.

All these religions are monotheistic: one divinity, a man. Women were not worthy of anything but to produce more men to rule. Women were not allowed to learn to read and write. Only men from ruling families or high religious leaders were literate. They had a dynasty they wished to maintain, so they proclaimed rules that mirrored what they desired.

Corporations and governments do the same thing when they begin their existence. They restrict what a sex, nationality, or body type can be given permission to accomplish. In many countries women, or those not born in that country, even if they have lived there their entire life, are not allowed to participate in elections or hold government offices.

Pagan religions honored all life and nature. The planet is considered to be more feminine in nature because it nurtures and comforts those upon its surface. Women recognized this energy and were generally the ones who set about honoring the Mother. Because of their concern that all the children of the Earth would be taken care of, there was no need for control—just thanksgiving.

Religions of any type are simply belief systems. The soul has total freedom of choice in how to live its life. Take every belief currently in your life, examine it carefully, and see if you want it to remain as part of your identity. If not, thank it for the experiences it has allowed you, and send it on its way.

ANSWER: Most of the conflicts played out on your planet since its colonization are the result of ideologies, mostly of a religious ilk. As their underlying philosophy is purity of race or religion, fanatics feel a need to destroy anything that is not part of their group. Power and control are their ultimate goal. To change public opinion and get others to accept their beliefs, they use the weapons of destruction and fear.

These fanatics are blinded by the belief systems to which they are pledged. Their judgmental egos empower them to do all in the name of their god. They do not fear physical death; martyrdom is seen as the ultimate honoring of their religion.

They are not concerned with anyone but themselves and therefore are not part of any planet-wide spiritual process. Their only purpose, in regard to those seeking ascension, is to show the extremes of third-dimensional radicals and their total disregard for returning to Source energy. This adds another layer to human souls’ yearning and understanding of their essence of unconditional love.

This is another cycle of the kind that has occurred since the forming of belief systems from earliest historical times. It has involved Christians, Jews, Islamists, Gnostics, Wiccans, and any non-prevailing religion in an area. With modern-day communications and transportation, geographical boundaries have been forgotten and planet-wide campaigns predominate.

Every ascension process is a solo journey engaged in by a single soul. The planet itself will not ascend because it is needed as a continuing classroom for those who wish to experience negativity. Everyone creates one’s own reality and path to return Home.

Trying to make sense of ISIS policies and a connection to ascension is similar to having a nursery scholar take university courses. Fanatics see only what they choose to see or accept and are impossible to reason with unless they want to change.

ANSWER: In each case, you must ask what the ritual means to you. If you are partaking in the process out of allegiance to the rite, i.e., the sect that tells you to perform it, you are giving up your freedom of choice and allowing yourself to be controlled by another. If you perform the ceremony to proclaim to the world your beliefs in the stated purpose of such ritual, it is by choice and an exercise of that choice.

An example is the ritual slaves used to proclaim to others that they were united and wished to set up housekeeping with another: they joined hands and jumped over a broomstick. This was invented out of necessity since their religious leaders were not present and they wanted a sign to give to the world of the sincerity of their pledge.

To invent a ritual and instruct others that it is the only way to do something correctly is a judgment and a demand put forth by the human ego. This would be a control platform used to ensnare doubting souls. You cannot and should not even try to make decisions for another person.

These rituals of old you find hard to give up because most remind you of emotionally happy events wherein lie lots of promises for the future. The music calms and soothes you, incense takes you to the comfort of a home fire, and the camaraderie makes you feel accepted. If these symbols of physical comforts are what you seek, create for yourself a place where your senses obtain the same treatment, but don’t make that a religious experience.

Going into your heart space and basking in the unconditional love from Home that resides there will more than satisfy any soul who is open to the experience of self. If you only feel safe in a herd, make that the basis of your choice. After all, in the journey of the soul through physical life, nothing is right or wrong.

A. We hope you found our book informative and stimulating-our reason for having it written. We wished to include the section to which you referred so that readers might gain an historic perspective of life on Earth.

The various versions of the Bible were compiled during a period of time when most people were illiterate and needed stories in order for them to learn and understand. The rulers and church hierarchy provided all the educational opportunities for the peasants. As well as teaching them, they established strict belief systems as a means of exercising control over the people. The educated hesitated to give too much hope or knowledge to the uneducated lest they rebel and go elsewhere for learning or salvation.

Through the centuries the recorded verses went thus: first, they were written in a manner that made the people fear the wrath of God as personified by the clergy; then, the God-force had to be recognized as outside of and superior to the physical; finally, a reward system had to be set up-heaven and hell-so that following the mandates of “God” (the clergy) would bring rewards after life on Earth.

Scriptural interpretation changed very little as literacy became more common. Bible study continued to teach that a reward system existed among humans, and that God is outside of us and superior to us. Most modern biblical interpretations presented in classes adhere to these principles. Most teachers still believe that the Word of the Bible is to be accepted without question, and that it has nothing to do with how it feels or resonates with you.

To change any thoroughly entrenched belief it is necessary to present ideas that modify that belief. Then you must offer an alternative interpretation and get inquisitive people to think and feel for themselves. Without these steps, people don’t know that they have a choice of beliefs, so they accept the original teaching without question. Once it is realized that other interpretations may be made, people can use their freedom of choice to determine whatever belief feels right to them.

In all things we want you to know that you have freedom of choice. We wanted to go into this area, which was previously viewed as sacred, to let you know there are choices of belief here as well. We encourage you to read the Bible with an open heart and mind. Feel what the verses say to you; do not accept standard interpretations blindly, but if they resonate with you, by all means hold them dear. Review also the possibility of a different perspective and see how that feels. Honor yourself!

ANSWER: You created a perfectly good non-physical support system, but you forgot to include your son. Working with him at his soul level did nothing to help him with his confidence and sense of self-worth. You concentrated on his physical attributes but not his mental/emotional ones. He was not as confident in his own abilities as he needed to be. He suffered from stage fright, resulting in his talking himself out of his own success.

Better would have been a discussion of how he felt about the upcoming tryouts: where he thought he had strengths and where he felt he had deficiencies. A realistic evaluation of his chances to make the team and what he needed potential help with prior to the tryouts would have helped with his confidence.

He became quite freaked out when he saw the prowess of some of the other students. Many had played on traveling leagues and possessed much experience. His prior experience paled in comparison. Your son has the potential to play with these boys, but he needs to know and believe that he can. When he saw what others could do he felt inadequate and lost all composure.

The direction from here is up to him. He would be better in a solitary sport rather than a team sport. Cross country, track events, tennis, or swimming are more appropriate. If he still wants to try baseball, he needs to get some coaching from some of the other possible areas such as park districts or church leagues. Sports at the level of high school and beyond are extremely competitive and not just for fun anymore. He needs to make the decision whether to commit to sports or academics or another interest.

ANSWER: Buddha provided many ponderings for the mind as well as disciplines for the body. All the modern compilations that have brought his words to the current age have suffered a little in translation. He was a master not only at stimulating spiritual growth but also affording a complete understanding of the bodily experience that allows us to use his teachings.

Each age, race, creed, and religion has a series of core beliefs called its belief system. These common understandings define the opinions, practices, feelings, and yearnings with which people may identify to be a part of the desired group. Similarly, all human beings have a belief system by which to conduct their individual life.

Unless you blindly accept the entire package of a group, your belief system comes from many sources: your upbringing, community, schooling, reading, and religious affiliation. Your confusion arises because your belief system has become complicated by semantics.

Buddha spoke of the essence deep inside with which you seek to connect to reach enlightenment. Organized religions refer to this essence as the soul. They speak of the soul as being indestructible and the aspect of you that is the recipient of reward and punishment for your decisions made during each lifetime. This is a mixture of Buddha’s “essence” and the chain (reward and punishment) that religions use to control their flocks.

The physical ego that exists solely for judging each aspect of life prevents an understanding of Buddha’s words. We Masters use the term “soul” to speak of the essence within the human body that is part of Source and never ends. To understand the full meaning of “soul” you must divorce yourself from the hold of ego and go inside to the place of evaluation where there is only knowledge and wisdom; it is the place of “no soul” to religions.

ANSWER: Christianity is a belief system that is part of the duality of positive and negative energy on planet Earth. Belief systems are rules and regulations that individuals adopt to give them standards by which they make decisions in their life, and which they use to judge how they are doing relative to other people who share some of the same beliefs. The beliefs you accept, as part of the reality you choose for your lifetime, control your lifestyle, thoughts, and emotions.

Earliest belief systems come from parents, teachers, religious leaders, and authority figures and are adopted without question. The majority of people accept the whole package of rules, thinking they have to obey the lot. They are unaware that they have freedom to choose what to believe and what to reject.

On Earth, society firmly believes that everything is either right or wrong, because ego demands that judgment be made. This is all part of the positive-negative duality. Within this system there is a heaven and a hell. And they do exist as life issues on Earth: physical and emotional bliss is heaven, and illness and oppression is hell.

On the spiritual plane—that is, after the soul leaves the physical body used on Earth—there is no heaven or hell, just unconditional love and acceptance. It doesn’t matter what the body believed, or how the person lived on Earth; once released from that duality there is no negativity whatsoever. To enter into unconditional love, all you have to do is to die and then transition from the physical to the nonphysical.

The physical writings used by various groups to define their belief systems were put together by humans while in the duality, so they contain as much negative energy as they do positive. They are like rule books. If you want to engage in a particular sport or game you must abide by the rules, and the inventors or directors of the games can include whatever they want people to do, whether it makes sense to the players or not.

If by prayer you mean imploring an outside entity to make your decisions for you, the answer is no. If, however, you mean using an intention directed to the universe because you accept the powers you have of manifestation, then, while not essential, it is helpful to produce the experiences you need to learn your lessons.

ANSWER: Organized religions memorialize their doctrines and beliefs first in oral form and then in written books. The Bible has had many iterations throughout the centuries. It has had sections removed – such as those dealing with reincarnation, the importance of women, and homosexuality – and material added to ensure compliance with hierarchal demands.

Various Bibles exist today, each adopted by a Christian denomination based upon its suitability to the principles the sect desires to impose on their congregation.  Additionally, there is the Hebrew Bible, which is essentially only the Old Testament. All theologians and historians agree that the Bible was written by a series of writers. None of the authors existed until billions of Earth years after the planet came into existence, so their renditions of creation and the lives of various prophets and leaders came from stories they heard, their imaginations, or, sometimes, from conversations with nonphysicals.

There is much proof within the documents that sections exist to create a mindset in agreement with the direction of the organization’s leadership. A lot of the proclamations deal with issues prevalent in ancient times in long-deceased cultures. The over-riding theme of the Bible is cultural control of one racial segment by another. Historical archeology has proven that many reported travels by masses of people did not occur – and could not have occurred. Many of the stories told in the Bible can be found to replicate the beliefs of Eastern religions, Druid cults, and magick doctrines. They are not unique to Christian or Jewish texts.

The Qur’an was reportedly given to Mohammad over a 23 year period toward the end of his life by Archangel Gabriel. Mohammad could neither read nor write, so if he received the text he had to have related it to someone else to copy it down. There have been many different versions of the document located, and several of them contradict sections within others. Some of the scribes were not very well thought of for their accuracy.

To answer your question, we will merely say that all persons living a life on Earth are pieces of the Source referred to by many as God, or Jehovah or Allah. Therefore, anything which is written in the Bible or the Qur’an can be said to have come from at least a piece of Source.

Both of these documents, as well as the Jewish Torah, are revered by their respective religions. The amount of credence given to each varies according to the accepted beliefs of each group within the religion. As we say about all information delivered from, or allegedly arising from, the Source, see how it “feels” to you – does it resonate within you? If it does, then accept the parts of it which explain and assist you on your journey.

ANSWER: Your world is a magnificent cauldron bubbling with every possible life-lesson a soul could ever choose to experience. Many times in your recorded history you have had like souls demonstrate the pathway to fame, from the infamy of  Hitler and Genghis Khan, to the martyrdom of apostle Peter and Sir Thomas More.

There are many types of things that the soul can choose to learn. Being the best of the best or the worst of the worst are only the extremes. Souls who are in the midst of a planned experience can feel only their own heart beat and see only what they feel will accomplish their desires. They are hostage to the belief systems they have designed for themselves.

We have said many times that belief systems control the way souls react to the world around them. When someone has written into their directions that the enemy is to be destroyed in any way possible, there are no rules of engagement, only bare-knuckle brawling.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed believes that he is the savior of his people, and that the rest of the world’s people, who have different religious beliefs, must be destroyed. Once captured, he feels that his best work would be martyrdom that will rally his people to further action against the infidels who threaten them. “Carry on in my name!”

This sort of lesson is not different from experiencing a simple lesson such as dealing with a disability. It seems more profound because this one person has had a tremendous impact on a good number of other souls. But then they all agreed (in advance) to participate.

ANSWER: Destiny is a concept that only has importance to those people within the physical realm who believe they have no freedom of choice. To accept you have a specific destiny, you say that everything about your life is predestined (predetermined or decided), and it will happen as it has been written (by whom they never say), and you can’t do a thing about it.

Many societies, nationalities, and religious organizations have a belief system that accepts the determination of a destiny. Controlling bodies would like all people to think that they are destined to do this or that, and then the organization comes in and moderates what the path of destiny consists of and how they can help with the decided tasks. This generally accomplishes whatever the group wishes to see done. Accept and believe you have the freedom of choice to determine everything in your life and you will always decide your own fate.

Many times we have spoken on the purpose of each soul. It is to come to Earth with various lessons it wishes to understand. In learning its lessons the soul may then truly know its own nature. The nature of the soul is unconditional love. To be happy and motivated, work toward always feeling love. Accept everything about yourself at every stage of your life, even the things you don’t understand or like. Those things signal to you what to work on to feel your love.

ANSWER: The Torah is a teaching aid for a religious organization and a nationality of people. For those who accept its authenticity and authority, it creates a set of rules and regulations for daily life. This is the basis for the belief systems of most Jewish people. It is centuries old, and scholars study it for decades and still don’t agree as to the meaning of the verses.

The original writings were hand copied by learned men who sometimes were unaware of the meaning of what they were doing, and some passages got modified unintentionally by them. Some of the stories were not contained in the first documents but were added later as a way to help explain the rules to those who were not literate.

God, as you define here, is a figurehead religions use to describe the ultimate master to whom all owe allegiance. This person is judgmental and passes out rewards and punishments to those who follow or break the rules. Since this concept is a duality of negative and positive actions, it is not found anywhere but on planet Earth.

When we speak of Source, the origin from which all souls derive, we speak only of an energy of unconditional love existing in perfection. It broke off the pieces of itself that are called souls because it desired to better understand the possibilities of life in a duality. Earth was created to provide the stage for that learning process.

Source observes what each soul does when in a body. It does not intercede, take sides, nor judge. It encourages all souls to exercise their freedom of choice to make their own Earth journey and return Home to unconditional love, where all souls are honored for the trials and tribulations they experienced.

ANSWER: Organized religions are not the creation of anyone or anything from the spiritual world. The basis of all Earth religions is judgment, which requires negativity. The duality of negative and positive exists only on this planet. Humans who wished to exert control over masses of people put together doctrines, rules, and regulations to get adherents to follow their wishes and carry out their desires.

When some leaders decided the existing religions did not cause the people to act the way they wanted them to – such as declaring war on their enemies – they created, or interpreted, a religion to make the adherents do exactly as they instructed. The formers of these religions all teach that theirs is the one true religion that should be followed by all. And if one chooses not to be a member, then they have the right to show you the error of your ways by killing the infidels.

Umbanda varies from group to group, but it is consistent in demanding that the priests are supreme and must be obeyed in all things. It combines aspects of Catholicism, spirituality, African rituals, Native American beliefs, and whatever the group leader wants to use to control the members. Most branches came into existence surrounding a spiritual medium of some kind in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. This is more a cult than a religion, and your wife has been made to feel important in its clutches.

ANSWER: The life one leads on Earth is a solitary life of experiences through which you learn about yourself, the abilities you have, and how to use your talents. All souls are blessed. Blessings do not mean entitlement. The fact that you are aware, and recognized the acknowledgment of the higher forces, does not mean you will automatically have things presented to you. You have to work for things in the physical. The obstacles you encounter are the life lessons you planned for yourself to increase your wisdom. You must figure them out to move forward.

If someone told you that you have the ability to heal others, does that automatically make you a doctor or an energy healer? No! You have to take the time and seek out the right people to train you in the healing arts or procedures. If you sit back and say “I am blessed” and expect all to be provided to you, your life will be exactly as it is now.

You must go inside yourself and find the knowledge that the exalted ones were speaking about. It is in and of you, not something they conveyed to you. With your power you can have that which you seek. You need to put your energy into manifesting. Stop waiting for others to provide for you and bring what you need to yourself now.

ANSWER: It is your belief system that causes you to ask about karma since it is the negative controlling factor in many societal and religious beliefs. The reality in which a human soul spends their time on Earth is created by what they accept as the beliefs they wish to follow.

Belief systems are first established unconsciously by those training you about living. They are your parents, teachers, religious icons, and society in general. You start believing the rules those around you think are mandatory. You don’t even think about whether they apply to you as you become one of the sheep being directed through life.

What most humans do not recognize is the fact that they can change their beliefs at any time. Just because the world may say the sky is pink, you don’t have to accept that if you “know” it is blue. Constantly examine why you behave the way you do. Is it because you choose to do something in a particular way or because the “world” does things that way and you think you have no choice?

Karma is a concept, a belief system, a negativity found only on Earth within its duality. When you leave the duality, there can be no karma because it is a negative punishment belief. You are punished for something you have done while within the negativity of the duality.

Guilt is a life lesson. If you have studied it, by experiencing it, you do not have to relive it in another life unless you wish to explore more complex issues of guilt. A human incarnation is undertaken for the benefit of an individual soul. What happens in an interaction with another soul does not enforce a duty upon the acting soul. You don’t owe them anything because they are just doing their thing like you are. You may never share a human existence with that soul again.

All the choices about a subsequent life are decided by the soul. They have no obligation to revisit anything they have done before or to continue on with a lesson they have not understood. Karma does not exist for a soul unless they choose to create a required response to something they have done in the past.

Cut loose from the beliefs that do not assist you with your desired lessons. Seek to live in positive, loving energy. If you find yourself doing something and don’t know why, stop it and reconsider the reason. You always have choices.

ANSWER: In the spiritual journey that a soul takes on Earth, nothing is right or wrong from the spiritual standpoint. The entire reason for being in a body is to experience lessons and try to understand why you chose them and what you can learn from going through them.

Planet Earth is a duality of equal parts negative and positive energy. Lessons are presented in negativity so that the soul can recognize what they are and decide if they want to remain in the negativity, or if they want to take the positive route away from the darkness.

Many souls choose to have a lifetime immersed in negativity to experience control over others. Examples of these types of lives are dictators, mass and serial murderers, and those who prey on others using various methods including black magic.

True black magic is the use of energy to take over the decision-making process from others, or to cause physical, mental, and emotional harm to someone. It is a lesson just like any other – we make no judgements about the way a soul chooses to learn. Every soul has freedom of choice.

Polygamy practiced by consenting adults is a life choice. Again, on the spiritual plane, nothing is right or wrong; such choices are all merely various ways to experience lessons. Practitioners need to be aware of whether or not they are going against the societal regulations for the area in which they live. The choice to engage in polygamy is still theirs, but they may be liable for punishment under the laws in the third-dimensional, ego-judgmental society.

ANSWER: The teachings of souls spending time on the Earth as humans are to be interpreted as each person feels is applicable to his or her journey. “God’s laws” have many translations depending on what the leaders of the religion or sect want their disciples to believe. Society and family give you additional laws, and from all these “shall nots” you select the belief systems on which you want to pattern yourlife.

Everyone has freedom of choice to choose what to experience. It is up to you to determine whether to accept blindly all that is preached even if it doesn’t feel right. You have the choice to say, “That does not feel right to me and I’m not going to follow that law.”

There are many facets to suicide. Doing something proactively to end your physical existence is one. Not watching where you are going and stepping in front of a moving vehicle may also be considered suicide. Also, a military man going into a battle from which there is no chance of coming out is a form of suicide. Standing on the shoreline without moving when you see a huge wave approaching is a type of suicide. Taking precautions against something that has not started and may occur differently than anticipated is not suicide.

Most religions do see suicide as a sin. Other religions and spiritual groups see it as a life lesson undertaken to experience all sorts of emotions, both for those taking their life and for those with whom they may have made agreements to provide lessons of survivor’s guilt, remorse, betrayal, or abandonment.

Your lesson here is faith in yourself and what you feel is the right direction for you. Stop blindly accepting what is told you and ask yourself how you feel about the statement. If it doesn’t feel right to you, then don’t follow it.

The Source or Creator is not a vengeful entity. Judgment is an energy that exists only here on planet Earth. Nothing is right or wrong. All happenings are lessons that allow you to learn. You must understand how you feel about something before you can learn from it. This is taking responsibility for your life. When you are merely a follower, you never learn.

ANSWER: Regardless of the fact of the lineage you chose for this lifetime, you have been imprinted with belief systems from society and family. When you interacted with your non-physical friends from the other side as a child, your family was horrified and told you it was wrong, dangerous, and you could get hurt. These threats have remained within your unconscious and given energy to your fear now whenever there is an encounter with non-physicals.

There are only two energies in the world: love and fear. If you don’t love something, some aspect of fear will arrive to drive you away from any contact with it. You have the belief system fear and the “I don’t love myself” layer of fear. To rid yourself of the belief systems you must ask yourself, every time a fear appears, why do I feel this way? If you are truthful you will be able to go back to the time that the belief was written into your brain. You then have the freedom of choice to keep it around or delete it from your life.

Acceptance of the presence of the unconditional love that is your soul allows you to love yourself and everything you are experiencing. When you know you are eternal and can feel the love of the universe, nothing can hurt you or make you afraid. When you think you are alone, everything is scary. Connect with yourself and banish the fear.

ANSWER: The teachings and patterns from your youth were formed into steadfast belief systems that have a firm hold on your thought process. Even when you would prefer to act differently, they step in and dictate your actions. To get rid of them permanently you must confront them, erase them from your unconscious, and replace them with your desired behavior.

Humans don’t want to have to constantly go over the options for reacting in each incident in their life, so they have formed belief systems of how things should always be handled. These came from outside of you—from parents, teachers, society, anyone you felt was an authority in the right way to respond to things, or the way that would cause you the least amount of criticism. These rules reside in your unconscious mind so that they can be implemented automatically without having to invest any of your thoughts or time. Problems occur when you let them have control of you, and after a while, you find your actions are in conflict with your current beliefs and desires.

Just thinking about wanting to do something different is insufficient to change things. Like a weird phrase in a computer program, until the old pattern is removed, it keeps popping up and causing trouble. The soul’s journey is based upon freedom of choice; unfortunately, that is easier said than done. You have to know what your choices are before you can choose.

In your current occupation you are presented with many helpful inroads. When you stand up and put the subterfuge aside, you have to tell it like it is, even if it is potentially frustrating or negative, or may cause you disappointment. These feelings, by the way, will only affect you if you allow them to. They make you feel bad only if you accept some form of guilt for their appearance. If you see the situation as an ordinary transaction in life where not everyone is going to be happy, life will be satisfying because you are not frustrated or disappointed.

Pleasing yourself, and allowing yourself to speak your truth, no matter what it is, will start to release the hidden automatic responses. When you find a combination of actions that make you feel comfortable, thank the old patterns, erase them, and place the desired steps in their place. It will take a while to change what you don’t want, but life will be much more pleasant in return.

ANSWER: You are creating a belief system that is impacting everyday of your life. This is sabotaging your ability to live in the moment and enjoy the flow of the universe around you. When you erect a boundary around you it is impossible to see beyond that barrier. Your restriction is an age related one. This is not set in stone since none of your life lessons contain a specific end point.

The human mind and intention is very strong and powerful. American Indians used to decide when they wished to return Home. They would take themselves out into the woods, sit down by a tree, and have their soul leave their physical body. This is in essence what you are preparing yourself for. Why? There is much more you have not completed of your intended lessons.

Stop trying to have others make your decisions for you. You consult seers to get different points of view. You accept those which agree with your dreams and play around with anything which does not. You are the creator of your future not the energy others read from around you.

Nothing is stagnant. Everything is in flux. You can observe all the possible directions which are available or you can fixate on a single destination and close your eyes to the other possibilities. The decision and direction is yours.

All souls came from somewhere else but you have all eternity to return there. Don’t be in a hurry you have many more than four souls awaiting you, but you can contact them from here and let them help guide you.

ANSWER: The transitional point that you missed in your reading was that the soul, upon leaving the body it has used in a lifetime, doesn’t go immediately Home unless it makes the effort to do so. The entire transition from human being to essential soul is transacted by the decision and with the intention of the soul. Being more in the physical realm at the start of this phase, the thought process of the human ego is still firing away with its “knowledge” of the way things “should be.”

If the soul has accepted a portion of society’s belief that the death process brings it into a period of judgment for everything it has done during the physical life, it will expect to be judged and punished for its transgressions. If it believes it has sinned and merits punishment, it may expect a place or condition it has been told is hell. The soul then creates that place with its powerful intention so that it may move into that next segment of its existence. At that point, the soul is so convinced this is its only possible step that it does not realize it has the freedom of choice to go straight into unconditional love.

If the soul knows it is leaving all judgment behind and going into the area of unconditional love, it can allow itself to feel that unconditional love, immediately bypassing any need for the expected pearly gates and judgment scenario. Even if the soul has created a hell for itself, its guides will stay close and look for any opening in which it asks for assistance, which generally comes when it is frustrated by nothing occurring but the fire and brimstone it has envisioned. The guides will then be there to offer help to the soul to find its way to the unconditional love of the non-judgmental space of soul existence (Home). This can be done, however, only when the soul releases its creation of judgment—its own vision of hell.

ANSWER: What you have is a marriage of convenience—for your husband. It is all right if you think this is the way you should be living your life. But you are really living his life and not yours. All the decisions are being made by him. This arrangement has nothing to do with love. It is time for you to decide if you really want to live the life of an unconditionally loving relationship.

You have had a taste of what life could be like with the man to whom you are drawn. Age is immaterial. The two of you have been together in prior lives and have had many happy experiences. Isn’t it time to start putting yourself first? What is keeping you tied to your marriage? In fact, it is not what a marriage is supposed to look like. The only thing you have really gotten out of this union is two children your husband figured would keep you happy and occupied.

Your children feel the pain of loneliness you suffer and they wish better for you. Any change must be because you feel it is for your own best interest. Love yourself enough to make a life you can tolerate. Nothing is right or wrong they are just decisions, choices for the lessons you came to learn. Think only of yourself for once. What will make you feel good about yourself and the life you are leading?

Making decisions comes with the responsibility of the outcome, but that is how you learn your strengths and weaknesses. If you never assume the task of decision making, you will never be in charge of your own life. It is easy to be under the control of another—you never have to do anything. You are like a flower in a glass bottle, you grow and develop but you don’t interact and make your own way outside your confinement.

Do you want to stay bottled up, or do you want to experience living in the world?

ANSWER: You are mixing a number of different belief systems to explain your current life and thinking. Destiny is the theory that everything that will occur within your life has already been determined and set in stone and will happen regardless of anything you do to change the future. It is a principle that some use to give up responsibility for the way they live their lives. They can do whatever they choose because it won’t make a difference, and it won’t be their fault if things go wrong because it was ordained.

Karma is part of most Eastern philosophies, which declare that there is a return for everything you do. Do good and your future will be good; do bad by society’s rules and you will be punished for your actions. All the possible happenings within karma remove your conscious decisions from playing a part in your life; if you have done “bad” in a prior life, you are doomed.

All of these possibilities can exist only in a world that judges, grades, and rates actions. If you understand that your trip to Earth is to experience life and make choices to understand your abilities, then you will see that it has to be changeable. If you are faced with a situation and you can see how to turn an event into a valuable lesson, then you have truly learned something.

We ask you to feel in your heart that you have the ability to create your own world. You are broken off from Source and have all the powers of which Source is made. You have freedom of choice as to how you want to experience each and every day of your life; nothing is absolute or predetermined.

Negative and positive, punishment, retribution, and destiny can exist only in your dualistic world. The soul exists in unconditional love, where it makes the choices for day-to-day activity.

ANSWER: The life that you are living is your own. It is not your father’s and it is not your mother’s. They were told throughout their upbringing what to do and what to believe. They have done the same with you. On your journey you may follow their lead or find what is right for your learning.

Beliefs are things with which you structure your life. Most of the time, you are totally unaware that you have the ability to challenge and change that which has been forced upon you by parents and society. Freedom of choice exists in all things. However, there are consequences when you differ from the beliefs of your family. You chose to have a girlfriend against the beliefs of your family, and their anger and disappointment in you is the consequence. This is neither right nor wrong for either of you.

When a choice is made that is not liked by another, their reaction may be to accept or reject. Your mom has rejected your decision to take a girlfriend rather than blindly following the rules of your society. This is the first major decision you have made in this lifetime, and the disapproval you feel from your family is hitting you hard.

Part of the drama here involves control issues. Your mother seeks to be able to control your life even when you are not living in the household. You may allow her to do that by honoring all her requirements, or you may see what feels right for the world you have before you.

Part of this lesson is having faith in your own feelings. You will not be controlled by anyone you do not allow to tell you what to do. When you are ready, you will be able to handle the rejection and coldness from those who want to control but whom you choose not to obey. Your decision had nothing to do with hurting your parents—it was something you felt you needed to experience in your life. Part of their belief had to do with your not being distracted from your studies. The distraction has not been the girlfriend, but rather the guilt laid upon you for not following their desires.

ANSWER: Belly fat or any fat within the physical shell (skin) is in the physical body, and the etheric/astral body is part of the non-physical self. While it is true that past-life events and lessons that were not cleared and are held in the etheric or astral body may have an impact on the physical body, there is not an absolute correlation between body fat and underlying hidden issues. A body condition does not impact a non-physical problem.

One way to hold on to the fat is to believe that there is a correlation between unrealized problems and girth. If you made a contract before coming to Earth to have weight as a guidepost for you to determine your progress through your lessons, then it would work in that way. You could also have convinced yourself there is a connection between issues unresolved and holding the energy of them in the form of fat. Other factors come into play. Eating is a comfort activity for humans, and fat is seen as a protection from many negativities. Past lives involving starvation or gluttony may be impacting your impression of yourself unconsciously.

Have you grasped the idea yet that we are not going to directly answer why you are holding on to this weight? Well we aren’t, because it is wrapped around several life lessons which you have not gone into nor resolved as of yet. Ask yourself what fears and doubts about your life keeping cropping up. These are maps directing you to your answer for the weight—but never believe it has to stay there throughout this entire life. When you are ready to release the need for it, then it will go.

ANSWER: Your father has returned to the unconditional love of Source. At home he is at peace and is “in tip-top shape,” as he says. He has no concerns whatsoever for material goods and does not take sides or have desires as to the disposition of his previous Earthly things. Since he couldn’t take the money with him, and it is of no use to him, he is merely observing what others are doing to get control of it. Who has how much, and what they did to get it, is the furthest thing from his thoughts.

The dream you had was a reflection of the way you felt about the whole situation when you arrived. There was an energy of people forcing other people to do things they did not want to do. Your father was a strong individual who did not like others to tell him what to do. He wanted to be of assistance around the house and his wife was oblivious to the toll upon him.

Your stepmother and her family had been there with your father in close proximity and could not always see that they were using him in his weakened condition. He had allowed the situation around the house to exist for a number of years and they were unable to see the effect it was having upon him. The adult protection people realized what was going on, but the detriment to your father was not seen by him and the whole disturbance shocked him into seeing what was happening.

The reaction of your step-mother and your daughter is a result of their guilt over not recognizing the effect everything was having on your father. If they raise enough of a ruckus and blame you for being motivated by money it makes them feel better about the thoughts and actions in which they have engaged. Some of the people involved have created a sense that they are entitled to a share of the estate. Step away and don’t let their drama affect your life.

ANSWER: You are letting your fears control your very existence. They cannot arise and take control unless you allow them to come into your life. Fear is the indication of some lessons your soul wanted you to understand. Instead of working toward understanding, you are running away and accepting that you are unworthy, unable to deal with your situation, and deserving of all the negative feelings besetting your life. Well, you are a perfectly wonderful, all-knowing soul inside, which you don’t allow yourself to see.

The anxiety is fear of being out of control. Ask yourself why you would feel that way when you have the ability to have such a fantastic family which you keep together. When that fear surfaces, go into the feelings and look for the origin. You will find you are carrying uncertainties from your childhood.

The panic attacks come from believing you are going to get caught by others as not being who they think you are. You have accepted as a reality hurtful comments made to you throughout your life. They can continue to hurt you only if you believe they are true. Look at the love you have given to others that has kept them in harmony with their life. Concentrate that within yourself and feel the real you. Love yourself as you love others.

Depression is a lack of having any impression of who you are. It creates a void in your life and is easy to fill up. If you don’t fill it yourself, others will be happy to contribute and you won’t be happy with their ideas. Create how you wish to be. Take all those talents and abilities and identify with them. You have them, but you don’t see them as defining who you are. Change that and become who you want.

Your first step should be to banish all the negativity whether it be fear, anxiety, panic, or depression. When any of these come into your awareness, immediately bring to mind your most wonderful accomplishment. When you are feeling afraid, put yourself into a safe, beautiful place filled with unconditional love. When you are depleted of energy, use your intention to pull in the universal energy that surrounds you.

You have very strong belief systems by which you judge everything that happens to you. None of your previous attempts have been successful because the beliefs in place tell you they won’t work. You have the ability to change every aspect of your life. Throw out these limiting beliefs and see yourself as powerful. As you rid each difficulty of control over you, accept that you can change, then believe it will change, and start living your new life.

ANSWER: You have forgotten who you are – you are an eternal soul who has chosen to experience a human life for a brief period of time. This body you see in the mirror is only the covering you took on for this play in which you currently have a role. You chose to experience fear of termination or cessation of existence. One of the points you wished to learn was that you never die.

Your thoughts, fears, and need for reassurance come from the beliefs by which you have chosen to live this life. You are existing in negative thoughts and ideals. You see only the “bad” and disastrous implications of everything in your life because you see everything as being out of your control, determined by some physical force, and final.

You do not have any confidence in yourself, nor do you love yourself. You do not need others to reassure you if you recognize who you are and what abilities you have. You were broken off from Source, and just as Source is magnificent, all-powerful, and all-knowing, so are you.

Love of self comes from accepting that you have these powers and congratulating yourself on having the stamina and courage to come into this existence and face the tests you are undertaking. See yourself as an explorer who will understand that the next step is rejoining the rest of the souls back at Home where you will see everyone who has returned before you.

Aging is not just a step toward death for the body but is also the accumulation of more understanding and wisdom, both of which allow you to appreciate yourself. Connect with the spirits of your passed relatives to permit them to allay your fears.

ANSWER: Whenever one senses a fear or a doubt, that is an indication they are looking at a life lesson they chose before coming to Earth. A soul incarnates (enters a body) for the purpose of remembering and finding out who they are as a soul and what abilities and powers they possess. They set up a series of interconnected human traits to allow themselves to see the negativity in the event and then, using their freedom of choice, to turn the negativity into a loving, positive energy.

Around the fear of illness are lessons concerning realization of a lack of control, a lack of the comfort of the known, a potential loss of independence, and being dependent on others. There’s also the question of what others will think of you: will they shun you, stay away and ignore you, or confine you somewhere alone?

A fear of death reflects the beliefs of a vast majority of society and religious organizations that it is the “judgment day,” when you will have to pay for everything you have done wrong by their standards – the bulk of which you never understood. In reality, it is simply a transition from the physical to the nonphysical.

From a spiritual perspective, you fear you will have not completed what you came down to do and will have to do it all over again. You need to accept and know that you are a soul who has been broken off from Source energy and are magnificent, all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-creative. You can do anything you believe you can.

Tapping into your internal essence of unconditional love, you are able to work through anything that you draw to yourself. Take one step at a time, and each time a fear emerges, ask: why is this here, and what may I learn from it? The only important thing is what you think about your life, not what others think or have said. Feel comfortable with yourself, and take baby steps until you are comfortable with your decisions.

ANSWER: Your addiction has been your most important lesson this lifetime. You have gone through all of the layers of grief over your chosen lesson and are now at the final stage of acceptance: congratulations! Having dealt with the initial denial of your condition, you threw off anger at all those who tried to intervene and tell you what you were. Next came the bargaining about it not have an effect upon you since you were able to function despite your condition. Then came the realization of your sense of the loss of control of your life that made you depressed, which took you to your current stage of acceptance.

Your desire to do this withdrawal on your own brings up additional lessons of embarrassment, condemnation, lack of faith in yourself and others. You also find you don’t trust others to handle just your addiction and not mess with the rest of you. Fear abounds.

You must ask yourself: what is the fear? The fear stems from thoughts that there are reasons for your running away and diving into a beverage where you knew you would sink when you got tired of swimming. And there are a number of things lurking in the background that still have to be dealt with, or any run at staying away from booze will end in defeat.

You don’t have to go to a psychiatrist or even a professional, but do spend some time with others who have been successful in turning their lives around. Hear and feel the demons shared by you and many others who have chosen your path.

Until you speak your innermost thoughts they cannot be cleared away. You need help to understand why you are where you are. Running away from help is a denial that you need help. Physical help is the quickest and easiest. Non-physical help, such as your guides, will work if you have the depth of awareness to enter deeply enough inside to reach the triggers for your behavior. If nothing else, seek out a group that can help you get into deep meditation where you may find assistance.

ANSWER: Self-realization, enlightenment, awakening, or whatever you wish to call it, is not programmed into a soul who has chosen a human experience. Your soul chose to come into this negative environment to face the problems you have before you and to work through them by understanding what they represent.

Where you are having difficulty is being inflexible with the beliefs you have ingrained in yourself. Your experiences have not met the expectations that you are convinced are the only way to go through this life.

What does enlightenment mean to you? Since you followed a satguru, it must mean whatever this person, with their Eastern philosophical reasoning, defined as the only way to peace. That is an over-simplification that they would like you to believe so that you will be true to their beliefs. There is not a single way to do anything. There are no absolutes in the physical world.

Everyone must work out their direction in life. Following another will only show you how things worked for them – it may not be appropriate for even one other person. Your lessons include self-confidence and self-worth.

Examine those things which bring fear and doubt into your life. Delve into them and find why they have appeared. Understanding and ridding yourself of these is what enlightenment is for you. This is the true self-realization. It is the actual connecting to your soul. Doing for yourself is the only thing you came to Earth to complete. You have no obligation to inspire or help others unless you have succeeded on your own and then may have the time to show them how you did it.

ANSWER: You are being pulled between two opposite poles asking for you to exercise your freedom of choice. Will you decide to take responsibility for the decisions that feel right to you, or are you going to continue giving up your power to society, letting others dictate your life?

In your question, every decision you reported having taken in the past was because of what other people would think. Nowhere do you say “this is what I feel.” Do all those people, who you feel will not support you, know better than you what is the best thing for you? You have accepted what you have been told by others. What, if anything, will happen to you physically if someone thinks you are a failure? Do you really fail in life if you no longer choose to stay in a situation where you are miserable, or one where others “think” it is what you should do?

When you stayed in the marriage, convinced you had to do so for your children, you were showing them that it was all right for someone to dictate to you what you should do. They saw their mother as fearful and ineffective. You gave them a pattern to follow in their own lives. Do you want them to stay in marriages that are not working, or be controlled by others out of fear?

Your husband is cold, domineering, and insensitive. Your ex is kind, compassionate, and understanding. You are drawn to a relationship that would be satisfying to you. You now have to accept that you are worthy of happiness. You don’t think you are good enough—society says you would be a failure. The people who have led you to believe that are the ones who want you to stay just as you are.

Start making your own choices based on your own feelings. Believe you are worthy of being happy and go out and make it happen.

ANSWER: You are engaged in some of your service work for this lifetime. Your friends intuitively know that they can talk to you when others find it difficult to speak to them or even to be in their presence. For souls to learn their life lessons, they must work through their feelings about those lessons. Until they have spoken out loud about what they are going through, it is not “real” to them. They must be able to discuss the thoughts and energy around their predicament.

There is a very special trait that some souls have chosen: that is to be a witness for others. Witnessing is the process of allowing others to use you to validate for themselves the processes that they are living. A witness does not have to participate in the actual proceeding but just needs to be available to see what the others are experiencing. You are their witness, and this is as positive and helpful as you can get.

In being there for them to vent, you are doing as much as you could if you were right there in the room with them. This is also lesson time for you, because you can get some of the same emotional experiences they are having without going through the diseases. In listening to their anguish you are living their current life.

You have freedom of choice, so you may stop your torment at any time by refusing to continue witnessing their decline. You also would be stopping the lesson you are having of dealing with the anger, helplessness, and frustration that you mirror. Take the pain you are feeling and go into the roots of it. Some early life experiences are firing in the background and you will be able to rid yourself of these unpleasant feelings once and for all.

ANSWER: A lot of people in Brazil are becoming very spiritual getting away from matters of the ego and pursuing a higher path. Sports are a divergence from life, a way to forget about the difficult lessons and to put one’s energy into cheering on the home team. But to what benefit of the soul?

Sports are ego based. Every aspect of the game and every player is judged and rated to determine their “worth” to the team and the fans. This plays out in the Earth plane in the positive/negative polarity of humanity. Nothing that happens during a game helps a soul along their path of enlightenment. It has no place in the reality of life lessons.

Societies use the success of their teams for indicating to their citizens the power, importance, and strength of their economy and standing in the world – but it does none of that. The ego is the one “selling” such a notion to the people. Winning makes a country join together in celebration while losing may lead to riots and disobedience because the team (in most minds the energy of the government) has failed to conquer.

Those who have recognized the lack of any beneficial result from winning a game, have taken up the banner of objecting to their hard earned money being spent to make money for the over paid players, team owners, and sponsors. The only benefit many see is as an entertainment and video games and movies are much less expensive.

ANSWER: There are two parts of your life. The first is the activities in which you interact with the energies of the spiritual world, and the second derives from the authority and power you assign to what other people say. All souls have freedom of choice. Their lives are regulated by the belief systems they accept using these choices.

The information to develop these beliefs comes from what ideas, thoughts, and societal and religious rules and regulations you choose to include in your personal belief package. Humans exist in a duality of negative and positive choices, and what you choose to accept is up to you.

The negative world is controlled by the ego, which has to judge everything. People are not happy unless they can tell you if they are better than, wealthier than, or greater than someone else. Many laws and rules are written to direct humans to act in a certain way so that their thoughts and actions may be controlled to conform to the beliefs the writers desire. You choose what you want your life to be ruled by.

The positive world has no judgment; it is filled with unconditional love in which people choose to be happy, making their own decisions and allowing their feelings to determine what resonates with them. You have to be able to identify with your internal feelings to be true to yourself. If you accept what others say – maybe because it has always been interpreted thusly – you are saying those people know better what is part of your path than you do.

At one time the sun was believed to rotate around the Earth and the planet was believed to be flat. Though people were tortured and murdered unless they accepted these beliefs, science has since proven that both “facts” are false. Things can have an impact on you only if you accept them to be true in your reality. Nothing is right or wrong in your journey. But always ask yourself: How do I feel about these beliefs?

Remember: the nonphysical, spiritual world is composed only of unconditional love.

ANSWER: Every soul creates its own reality. If you do not believe something can hurt you, it generally will have no effect on you. Your mother’s neighbor is jealous of her, particularly concerning her new boyfriend and the fact he makes your mother very happy. The neighbor tried flirting with him, and he saw only your mother. So the neighbor, who is always negative, sent as much negativity and animosity toward your mother as possible.

Your mother is a very caring, sharing person. She tried to console her neighbor at first, but then the woman heaped insults, accusations, and fear upon your mother. She has given your mother the impression that she can curse her and interfere with her life. She has no supernatural power, just a very big mouth and a hyperactive imagination.

This woman, in addition to being jealous, is also very lonely and unhappy with her life. She lives in negativity and thinks everyone else should as well. Your mother needs to cut off all contact with her because she will never be able to help this unfortunate woman. If your mother does not listen to her or respond to her ranting, she will eventually get tired and move on to someone else.

All this negative energy generated by the neighbor will remain in the area until it is replaced by something else. Have your family and friends gather and share their love for each other and the lives they have chosen. Have them send unconditionally loving energy to the environment, and it will chase away the negativity. Burning candles and incense will also alter the area.

Have your mother ignore the neighbor and spend time on creating the feelings of love and joy she desires.

ANSWER: Someone can get you to do something only if you agree. Your love does not totally understand what it is that you can do. His advice to you is coming out of fear – not to protect you but to lessen his own fears. Because he is a very physical person he dreads anything to do with the nonphysical. There are many more beautiful and beneficial spirits drifting around than negative discarnates. Any time you are working to aid another, healing guides are present and more will come if you ask.

He feels negative energy easily because he associates with a lot of negative people. He doesn’t know how to bring in positive energy to combat it. He is afraid that when you assist clients in getting rid of negativity, it will attach itself to you and therefore come visiting him.

You are extremely careful and proficient at dealing with negative entities. If you continue protecting yourself and your surroundings, you will not gather any attachments. After a treatment, removing any negativity in and around returns it to other negative deposits or helps it go into the light.

The more you work with universal life-force energy and unconditionally loving Source energy, the stronger and more efficient you will find your work. Every soul has total freedom of choice. You should not let him make up your mind for you – do what feels like your path. You have very rapidly become passionate for this work, and it will only get better.

ANSWER: Your problem is all about learning to love yourself and understanding your need for finding comfort. You seek to be loved and understood when you sense the world is against you, so you turn to food, which has always been there to comfort you and make you feel good. It is your substitute for love received from others and from yourself.

The unfortunate part is that it appeases the need for immediate comfort, but then reminds you that you are out of control because of this unconscious reaction to life. You then have another reason to be upset, since you now want to criticize yourself for this automatic response that occurs without any contribution from a consciously made decision.

To see why you always react this way to stressors, return to your childhood and examine the pattern that was established for you by your family. When and how were you rewarded for the triumphs in life? How did your family compensate for difficulties? You were programmed to see food as the only constantly available comfort zone.

You need to create for yourself a substitute for food – and we don’t mean as a nutritional stand-in. Your body craves coziness. Try placating it with soothing music, meditation, visualization, or self-hypnosis. When you feel your world falling apart, instead of reaching for food, project yourself into a comforting, safe-feeling place to rest and recoup. Find music or a meditative vibration that you can feel working throughout your body to chase away the negative, abrasive demand for food. Have it ready to play whenever you sense strife arising. Find peace and relaxation in the musical resonance without the need for the addition of food.

ANSWER: Your stepfather is all settled in at Home and sends his best. He is a little concerned that you are not confident enough in yourself and your beliefs to communicate with him on your own. This bridge between believing and knowing is a life lesson with which you chose to work. His feeling is that you want the easy way out by having someone else do the work for you. It is a little like knowing that a parachute will safely get you down to Earth when you jump out of a plane, but only wanting to watch others doing it and having too much fear to try it on your own.

The beliefs you choose to follow are a way of living. If you believe the soul continues on after it leaves the body, then it follows that you believe anyone who opens to the energy will be able to establish a connection in some way or another. You have witnessed many instances of contact and are now saying that was all fake until you have your experience in exactly the way you dictate it will occur.

With the non-physical world things do not occur in the same fashion as they do in the physical world. Spirits do not have vocal chords, so you will not hear them broadcast for themselves, although they may be able to stimulate the sound of their voice in the mind of someone who is familiar with it from their incarnate life.

Your stepfather says to be aware as you fall off to sleep and he will try to reach you. He does not feel it would be right to communicate through someone else because you would still not have your proof; you want the experience yourself but for some reason aren’t really trying to achieve it.

You were given only basic ideas about your purpose and life because you were supposed to then take that information and work to understand what you were told. You are still looking for someone else to do the majority of the work. Have an idea of what you want your future to be, and then put the energy out into the universe to bring it to you.

ANSWER: A big difficulty that you find yourself handicapped by is your belief system. The term spirituality means many things to many people. To some (and this is the way we use the term) it means learning as much as is possible in human form about their true essence as a soul, and has nothing to do with organized religions, paranormal talents, or other people’s beliefs. It does not include any series of abilities, behaviors, or beliefs. It is a sense of being truly honest with yourself, basing your decisions on the feelings that come from deep inside yourself.

To others, spirituality implies an ability to deal with non-physical things. Within certain areas it means following the practices of the mystical leaders. One of the important characteristics is secrecy and the ability to control others. A person who is able to pick up energy signatures of any kind-auras, voices, Earth-bound spirits-is considered by some to be spiritual.

You need to first define just what you believe-not what you have been told, but what you feel. You have a sense that reward and punishment, right and wrong, exist on Earth. That voice that came to you, which you felt was God, was your inner consciousness, or soul, advising you to start making your own decisions and not hold to the superstitions around you. Listening to your inner voice will give you a sense of yourself. It will further help you get out of judging everything and into an ability to evaluate the benefit for you in everything you do and think.

You have a very specific definition in your belief system mind concerning the nature and abilities of what you call the devil. These were placed there by your family and society. You have never examined them to see if the ideas feel the same to you as they seem to feel to other people. Your inner self spoke out to tell you that this activity you engaged in was fruitless. You took back your power from the beliefs in your head when you destroyed the altar.

ANSWER: We are talking points of view here. From the point of view of the consciousness of the soul, it can only be focused and participating in one life at a time. You can only feel physically the nerve endings in one body at a time—that is where your consciousness is focused in that moment. In order to experience diverse patterns of life the soul must assume different physical bodies. A male body thriving on being a military commander cannot experience childbirth, so it would be necessary to have different lives to experience both. We call the process of trying different roles in different bodies “reincarnation.”

The soul goes through a series of lives to learn various lessons it wants to understand. You cannot be both a slave and a master in the same life, but you could in two different lives. You may want to accept the power and majesty of your soul essence while in physical form but be unable to fully appreciate the totality in just one lifetime. You would then have to try in a different body from a little different angle to see if you get it. Each of these factors requires your concentration in a new way.

You may argue that the common man can multitask. And to a degree we agree. However, people cannot learn efficiently if they are just using a portion of their brain. If you are text messaging while walking, at some point you are going to walk into something or get yourself hurt. Both tasks would then be unfinished and would have to be redone to complete them.

That is all from the conscious state of a body. Our soul essence is not restrained by a body or by the need to differentiate between lessons. For the soul, everything is happening simultaneously. But you can experience the full impact of only one act at a time—that upon which you focus. This is like a compact disc. It has many tracks upon it, each one a recording of an event. Can you read all of them at once? No! You have to focus on one track and then it is comprehensible. We hope this little explanation has helped you.

ANSWER: Your morning routine is letting you see only the things that so far have been triggered by your everyday life. This is dealing only with current situations. What you have not dug down to is the reasons that you have for the belief of being undeserving. It is not just centered on finances but spreads out into all aspects of your life.

Together, this problem and issues of not being good enough, not being able to love yourself, and low self-esteem are sabotaging your projection to the world. The energy, or identity, that you project gets returned to you from all beings who sense how you see yourself. This is all taking place right now on an unconscious level, but it is very powerful.

To nip this in the bud, you need to revisit those times in your life when you accepted these character deficiencies as controlling. This can be accomplished through hypnosis, with a therapist or by yourself, through deep meditation, and/or through conversations with your guides and higher self. You could also start the process by asking for dreams reliving the times when you defined the beliefs you have today.

Once you become aware of the causes, or roots, of your identification of “lacking” type behaviors, you can analyze how you feel about those events now and begin to release the power they hold over you. Every time you sense a fear or a doubt about something in your life, this is an outward sign of beliefs beneath the surface. Don’t let them remain; follow them “home,” root them out, then decide if they are serving or controlling unconscious thoughts. If they are not serving your desired progress, thank them for being a part of your past, but send them on their way.

A: It is important to remember that you are a soul who is having a human experience, not simply a human who happens to have a soul. The questions you ask depend upon a judgment-based society to obtain a single simple answer.

Human beings exist in cultural communities, each with its own belief systems regulating behavior. Individual souls have the freedom of choice to live life completely by the rules of their society or to exercise their choice to live as they feel they need in order to have their required lessons.

When born into a group, each individual’s initial belief system comes from family, religious, educational, and societal authority figures. Some people never vary from those first beliefs, while others change their belief systems, even frequently, based upon their experiences and needs.

Some religious groups state that it is a sin to have sex with any intention other than procreation. The “love generation” tells the world that you can only show people how much you love them if you are totally open and sharing. Some less-inhibited societies believe that the sexual act is a needed animal release and causes all kinds of problems if not relieved frequently in whatever manner is available.

Everything that a soul does while in a body is for the purpose of having experiences and learning lessons so that it may obtain knowledge that, when understood completely, turns into wisdom. For the soul, each episode in which it partakes within its incarnation is neither right nor wrong. The sole purpose is to gain knowledge about living in other than the unconditional love of Home.

The effect that any action may have upon your energetic, physical, emotional, or spiritual being has to do with the current belief system you choose to hold. It may also be affected by the lessons that you have chosen to experience, such as shame, guilt, betrayal, and lack of self-worth.

To answer this question in a simple manner, ask yourself if you are honoring the lessons you feel you need or must experience.

ANSWER: Your confusion comes from trying to rationalize, and then justify, what you have accepted as belief systems for yourself as compared to those of society and of people who want to experience everything they know is possible while enjoying their human stay. You are an energetic soul spending a human lifetime in a body replete with physical sensors that give the soul an opportunity to gain knowledge of human sexuality.

Each soul is pure energy and has no sex such as is seen in humans – no males and no females – yet it must choose a sex in order to come to Earth. The soul has no physical devices that register a body’s orgasms or emotional highs and lows, but it can feel the reactions occurring within its body. The romantic love that some humans see as a needed element of a human relationship is merely a lesson that many souls come to learn on Earth; it has nothing to do with the sex act.

You got your current beliefs from growing up with the beliefs of parents, associates, religious organizations, and your own interpretation of what makes a moral individual. They are not right or wrong, and neither are the beliefs held by those preaching free love. Their actions are practiced in order to feel the sensations that only a body can provide. For some, sexual release is the ultimate way to unwind and experience pleasure, even if just as a one-night stand or casual meet-up. This is not against any spiritual principle.

Every soul has the freedom to choose the things they feel are right for their life. If there are childhood beliefs that make you feel comfortable, and they are in conflict with new desires, you have the ability to keep them intact or to rewrite them in order to try new things. The choice is always yours. You came to Earth to experience things that can only be accessed through the human nervous system and physical condition. You determine what is appropriate for your life lessons.

ANSWER: You have been filling up your tool belt to get to work on yourself. You have, however, forgotten to take the tools out of their storage area in order to use them to journey forward. What you see as hurdles are the lessons which you selected to complete in this lifetime. The training that you have taken gives you the means of recognizing, working on, and gaining the knowledge of these lessons, but thinking you can stop there is a common but incorrect belief. Just taking the courses to get the information is insufficient.

To use the qualities of the energy work you have studied for your soul’s growth, you have to apply a formula. Step one is to identify the desired knowledge (lesson) that is creating your hurdle. Step two is to see which of your tools will enable you to work through that particular situation. Step three is doing the work. Step four is completing the lesson. Step five is spending the time to understand why you had chosen to undertake that lesson and what you actually learned about yourself from that experience. And step six is turning that knowledge into wisdom so that you need never choose to do the lesson again.

ANSWER: Trying to describe the spirit world in detail is like attempting to delve into the thought processes of the billions of people sharing the Earth with you.

There are two distinct aspects to what we call the spirit world. First, there are those souls at Home who are in the presence of Source energy where there is nothing but unconditionally positive love energy. This is called by us the fifth dimension. No negativity of any kind exists here.

Then there are souls who are not contained within a human body but exist between dimensions of the positive/negative duality of Earth and the unconditional love of Home. We call this the fourth dimension. The souls existing here may choose whether to be surrounded by positive or negative energy. Those who are positive are frequently your guides, who are around you to offer assistance in dealing with life lessons. Those who call negativity to themselves are what is referred to as discarnates or negative entities who are attempting to have a negative impact on all people living on Earth.

Completely human physical souls in bodies living in the positive/negative duality are in the third dimension. This is where souls go to learn about who they are as a soul and what abilities and powers they have. They start out being trained by society in “accepted” belief systems with the ego in charge. The controlling force of the ego is judgment. Everything that happens is judged, rated, and graded in the third dimension until the soul recognizes this is a human trait and not part of their spiritual journey. Then the learning process of choosing positive or negative occurs.

One contacts the nonphysical world by opening to its existence and seeking to communicate. Care must be taken to restrict contact to positive souls, or your own life lessons will become more difficult to learn. Try asking a question of them just as you are falling asleep, or as you enter into a meditation of quietness. First ask for contact with your guides and they will help you with further connections.

Your consciousness can travel into your past and future by your releasing the thought that you are just the physical being you see in the mirror. Let yourself drift into your essence, and concentrate on a time where you can get information about what your current life is all about. You will need to practice, practice, and practice releasing your expectations and just letting happen what will happen.

ANSWER: There are a lot of people who have researched a subject, know tons about it, can regurgitate that information back to others, but do not understand and live the philosophy or life they preach. You might call them hypocrites, or you might just say that their ego and physical needs exceed their spiritual journey. Some sum up the activity as: “those who know, do; those who don’t, teach.” But teachers who live what they teach fully understand the nature of their philosophy and have made the choice.

Your former teacher at least is honest in proclaiming that he is flawed. But is it a flaw? Only if he judges that he is not doing what he thinks he should be doing. In proclaiming his desires for women he is excusing himself for not being true to one person. He is setting himself up to possibly get sympathy from others and keep them from becoming mad at him for his insensitivity to their feelings.

His feelings for you were the same as for all his other conquests. He will say or do whatever he feels is necessary to get a woman to do his bidding. Then, when he had succeeded, he frequently tires of them, with no hunt to keep him going, and moves on to another. His attraction is to all women in general.

After the cycle is complete he has very little thought for the person—he merely moves on to the next. He did see some qualities in you that he thought would help him in his quests. But all his thoughts and plotting are for himself and his personal gratification, not to share or assist others in their growth.

Ego, thinking only of your physical satisfaction, judging what you desire above all else, has no place in the spiritual enlightenment of the human process. Follow your feelings. Everything in the past was part of your life lessons to understand who you are as a soul having this human experience. Have concern only for your own choices.

ANSWER: “Karma” is a Sanskrit word, not a Chinese one, and is a precept in many world religions. Each controlling body, whether it be religious, political, or educational, has its own set of rules and regulations that the adherents take as the truth in all things, and they are recorded in multiple manners so people accept them. This creates the belief system accepted by people which tells them how to live their life.

One’s beliefs may change from time to time, as when one no longer needs something always believed as true. The world itself goes through these cycles. For centuries all men believed the world was flat and you would fall off the edge if you got too close, so no one sailed very far out into any body of water. Astronomers for several decades were persecuted for stating that your sun did not revolve around your Earth; now everyone knows your Earth revolves around your sun.

Christian religions believe in a God who hands out punishment for what people have done in life, resulting in their going to either Heaven or Hell. Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Sikh beliefs explain all of life with the concept of karma that you have mentioned. It is important with any belief system you adopt that you feel comfortable within it and understand the principles.

We do not espouse any Earth religion. Those systems work fine while souls are in physical form, but our experience is that the only place there can be judgment, and therefore the only place there is punishment, is on Earth. Once your soul leaves your human body it no longer is affected by negative energies. It enters into an unconditionally loving energy where everything is looked at as just an experience from which souls can learn.

ANSWER: Your mother is a very fearful, unhappy person who has always liked to be the center of attention. She does not take any responsibility for what she says or does and tries to get people into conflict with each other. Your mother has been a manipulative person your entire life and has created a belief in you that you cannot do anything but comply with her quirks in the manner she has trained you.

Her effect on you has nothing to do with your energetic identity but with the fact that she has programmed you to act the way she does. You do not see any alternatives so you go along like a meek pet and respond to her threats and actions as she has ordained. You do have freedom of choice, but it does not become active until you realize what your choices are.

No one can affect the life of another person unless that person allows them to cause a disruption. If you tolerate your mother’s rantings without engaging in the fray, she will get tired when no one responds or plays along. Accept that she has always been this way, and her aging infuriates her because she feels she has lost control. While you are aware of her antics, you don’t quake and stand in fear and awe anymore, and she is seeking to get you to react.

Laugh at her as you would any misguided, misbehaving child. Tell her you are not going to be a part of her guilt trips because they do not involve you. Inform her that you will no longer tolerate her outbursts and that she will not be welcome in your presence if she persists with them. Talk with her about other places she might have to stay if she continues to be irresponsible.

ANSWER: We have been known by many names, and how we refer to ourselves you would not be able to hear, understand, or repeat. We have adopted the nom de plume Masters of the Spirit World because it allows all to know that those who participate in these messages are currently non-physical, have lived through the same experiences you now endure, have learned the lessons embedded in them, and have mastered the wisdom which precipitated the whole cycle. It by no means implies that we want to be considered as superior to you or some type of guru. So, please, feel free to refer to us as you see fit.

A belief system is one language for learning. It is the way that you see the world around you. It may come from outside—the teaching and direction of others, or from inside—feelings gathered during your lifetime. Your belief system should be constantly changing as you learn more about yourself, first the physical and then the non-physical aspects of self.

As a child your belief system seems to be mystical since you don’t understand the reasons behind most of the rules. As you reason through whether you wish to continue living by the various rules, pondering their meaning for you, some get rejected outright and others get modified to fit your lifestyle. It’s generally simplest to assess your feeling toward the ones needing the most time to understand.

We talk very plainly to people because we wish to help speed the process of enlightenment. The message that you feel beneath the message is the connection to self and to Source which occurs when awareness takes place. This goes beyond the human words into the universal feeling of all existence.

The sense of annoyance you perceive is a frustration with yourself that it has taken you so long to get the point, make the changes, connect with Source, when you now see in retrospect how easy the whole process can be. Have faith—you are not alone going through this.

ANSWER: You continue to say “I think” throughout your question. Thinking is the process of the brain. The brain is loaded with all the information that has been stored there by hearing or reading what the world around you thinks you should do. You have taken all these thoughts and then worked backwards to see if you consider that the reasoning has produced a viable situation for you. Go the next step in your journey: consider how you feel—which takes into consideration the reason you are incarnate, what you wanted to do, and what you have been preparing for in this life.

You have also adopted the thinking of society that in order to be a leader you must be of large stature and domineering, aggressive, and pushy. You are using judgment when you compare yourself to others. Judgment comes from the ego mind of the everyday world, where people want to know how much better or worse society considers them compared to the rest of mankind. This life journey you are undertaking is a solitary path. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks or does. The only thing that is important is how you feel about what you are doing.

Your sense of self is one of your life lessons. You do not accept yourself as the magnificent soul that you are. Ask what has prevented you from knowing your worth. You don’t need to know what is going to happen—just do your best and things will work out. Gandhi was small of stature, a peaceful, non-aggressive individual, and he helped to birth a nation.

ANSWER: You know the answers to some of your questions because you made them a part of your question. People are responsible for their own actions—both what they do and what they don’t do in life. You need to honor yourself by respecting the way you live your life and by not letting anyone tell you what you must do.

You are correct that it is time for you to live your own life since you have discovered that you have freedom of choice. To live your own life, you must examine the belief systems by which you make your decisions. Are you making all your choices based on your considerations, or are you doing things because of what others are telling you?

Do you believe that without your family there is no chance you will be successful? Does that mean that those whose families have died before they start working will fail and can never have health or wealth? What about orphans? Does it make any sense to believe that having the support of a family is a critical aspect of success unless you are going into business with your family?

If you accept what “some people say” you are saying these friends, or maybe even strangers, know more about you than you do. They know what is best for you without seeing the choices presented to you. Does that make you feel uncomfortable? It should. Take back your power, as you did with your controlling mother, and do what feels right for you.

ANSWER: All humans live their lives through what are known as belief systems. These are sets of rules after which individuals pattern their life. The initial acceptance or learning of these rules comes from parents, teachers, society, etc., and people are unaware that they are living by a particular set of rules. Since all souls have freedom of choice, you have the ability to change the rules controlling your life any time you wish.

Those who are unaware of the particular origin of “their” rules think that all people are controlled by the same procedures. Your man is one of these. He thinks that all people are aware of “the rules” and that they cannot be modified or changed. That was the way he was raised, with strict adherence to the way it has always been. He is not going to change. He expects that you are familiar with his set of “the rules” and that they are what you live your life by.

Your man wants predictability. He wants to know exactly what you and all other people are going to do next. Control is very important to him. As long as you accept his rules and do not wish to change any of them, you will continue to have a happy relationship. If you wish to exert your freedom of choice, you will escape his pattern of living and he will be fearful of the outcome.

Nothing is right or wrong on your spiritual path. You must decide what you desire out of this lifetime. Whenever you ask yourself, “What do I think about this?”, the belief system or set of rules you are consenting to live by keeps a tight rein on you. If, instead, you ask, “How do I feel about this?”, you will be giving your spirit permission to make choices based solely on your desires, not the commands of others. With apologies to Shakespeare: “To live or not to live, that is the question.”

ANSWER: You are asking us to make a judgment – something we do not do. There are many channelers on your planet who bring information through from our realm to yours. Some do so on a very general level, for those who are unaware of their own abilities, and some do so to help souls remember who they are and what they can accomplish.

All souls are pieces of Source energy, with the same powers and abilities. The biggest problem for humans is to accept that they have the abilities intrinsic to their essence. You are all-powerful, all–knowing, all-magnificent, and all-creative. Do you accept that you are? Do you believe you can use these abilities to shape your reality to match your desires? Have you begun to use your powers to achieve your dreams? If you have, then you know all these things are possible.

All soul have total freedom of choice to experience that which they desire. The first reason all souls have for incarnating into a body on Earth is to learn specific lessons they feel they would like to work through. Once they have learned the lessons, they may then work to become aware of their true essence and the power that accompanies it.

Faith in yourself and the abilities you possess determines what you bring forth into your reality. No one’s lesson has ever been to come to Earth to mimic the life of another already on the planet. You do have the skill to project an image from your imagination, but that would not bring with it the life experiences of the one whose image you appropriate.

The manifestation process is normally used to provide the environment for souls to learn who they are and the work they can accomplish. This ability can be used only by those who have gained self-worth and self-confidence, while shunning negativity to live in positive, unconditionally loving energy. Work on accomplishing that status and you can do anything.

A. You are used to following the requests of others, particularly anyone you perceive as an authority figure, such as your mother or aunt. You are hard-wired to respond to these requests without thinking. Then, after you have complied with them, you realize what you have done and get mad at yourself for being such a puppet.

We call such feelings within you “belief systems.” They are the rules and regulations by which you are living your life because they were imprinted on your mind as you grew up. Peer pressure reinforces this early learning when those around you insist that you must continue to follow the rules. But, truthfully, it doesn’t mean that you have to continue to adhere to them. You have freedom of choice to make your own decisions and go with your inner feelings.

Most of your peers are motivated by a sense that things like these chain letters will allow them to get something for nothing, and that if you don’t go along you will break the chain and be responsible for their bad luck. They simply refuse to take responsibility for their own actions and want everything handed to them on a silver plate!

You may continue to follow the desires of others, or you can start thinking and feeling what is right for you alone. The choice is up to you. Good luck with your journey. 

A: Your choice of life lessons has left you on an emotional merry-go-round. You are an extremely strong person when it comes to traumatic situations, but when the pressure goes away you are left with more to give and no one around who needs your assistance. You stand in the middle of the stadium after everyone has left and the lights are turned out. That is why you feel lost, alone, and confused. One minute you are the pivotal player in the action and the next you are superfluous.

This is what you chose to experience. That said, you have done so and now may change and move on to other experiences. To do that you have to evaluate where you are and decide where you want to be. So far your life has been in service to others. Why not choose to live for yourself?

No longer start your day asking what you can do for others. In every situation that presents to you, ask if this is something that you really want to do. Learn that there is nothing wrong with being vulnerable and needing the help of others. Stop blocking out your own needs and desires while only seeing the lacks of others.

Redefine yourself. Honor yourself. Know that it can be your turn to be the recipient. Put energy out into the universe that you wish to have a relationship with a man who is whole and ready to share life with you. Ask for what you desire.

ANSWER: Ms. Cota-Robles is a very charismatic woman who has helped a lot of people begin the awakening process of accepting their own abilities. Her Era of Peace organization is based in the judgment world of the third dimension. The basis of The Company of Heaven, which she channels, is a belief in God as a person making decisions for those on Earth with a promise that they will be rewarded.

Earth is a duality of negative and positive energies. The negativity allows you to exercise your freedom of choice to learn about your essential powers, which are yours by virtue of your being a piece of the Source energy. Within each soul incarnate on Earth is a connection to the unconditional love of the universe.

Only when on Earth is the soul subjected to negativity. Once it chooses to remove itself from negativity and live in positive love energy, it can do whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to follow any pattern of behavior or rise through any rankings of beliefs; it just enters unconditional love and no longer even has a need for the physical body that holds it in the duality.

Souls have the ability to manifest what they wish to experience. Those who think they need to create a New Earth have the means to bring that into their reality. If they want to go back to Source energy, they just need to decide that as well. Earth implies a duality, so a New Earth would be a place where the soul continues to experience negativity.

EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, is a combination of several psychological methods that are highlighted by using affirmations while tapping on the energy meridians to help divert the negative nerve firings into a positive direction. Its effectiveness has everything to do with the belief the person has in its results. It has been used with success to correct or lessen medical, emotional, and psychological problems.

ANSWER: The bigger picture is following what you feel about your spiritual growth. Every religion, individual spiritual practice, societal belief system, and racial/national characteristic set is different. That does not mean that one is any better or more enlightened than any other.

Your life is about discernment and clarity. Discernment is examining all aspects of something and evaluating the best solution for your journey. Clarity is being able to see the essence of something without being fooled or swayed by terminology or the beliefs of others. You see things only as “wholes.” You cannot see the similarity in the particular parts.

In the physical body, the chakras and the tan tiens are merely two different ways to concentrate on the physical by using specific locations. Step back, away from the structured beliefs, and realize that the sensations within the body of the rising of the Kundalini are identical if you don’t try to name the pathway. This is part of your realization or discernment.

Before coming to Earth, you did not say you would follow this method or that method of spiritual practice; you merely said you wanted to experience the Kundalini energy. You may see the rising as different within the two practices, but it is not. You are further along in your understanding than you were during the first event.

You have done exactly as you wanted by having various experiences in order to compare and contrast them. They both create the same result. It is like learning different languages and then using both of them in different parts of your life. Concentrate on the resulting sensations within your body, not on how someone else may refer to the process. This is your life.

ANSWER: The term Oneness has been used for centuries to refer to various belief systems, descriptive definitions, and religious ideologies. You can find the term in many New Age writings as an apparent indication that all humans are the same. This is a reference to the fact that all humans are, first and foremost, souls, all of which were broken off from one place – Source.

You can find the concept used to indicate a unity, a togetherness, a singular point of view. In the religious setting it generally refers to a solitary source of power rather than the trinity that many Christian philosophies teach. To others it is a search, a hopefulness that all people will feel a unity and join together in a common goal of oneness or sameness.

The belief system purports to do away with the duality and judgment of Earth and bring about peaceful, unconditional love as is found at Home. The difficulty encountered in Earth-based movements lies with the egos of the ones administering or dictating the particular dynamics of the organizations. When they suggest to the world that their way is the only way to live, they force judgment upon the rest of the humans approached by them. This thrusts the decision process to join or not to join into a positive vs. negative-appearing decision battle.

All souls have freedom of choice and should use that ability to find the best way for them to spend their time on Earth. All humans look for guidance from others. Some go so far as to shun responsibility for making decisions and assign that right or power to others. This prevents the spiritual growth that brought the souls to Earth in the first place.

Your life lessons appear to you as doubts and fears in daily life. If you shy away from anything you do not completely understand, you never learn anything. The journey of your soul includes opening up the doors that hid things away from you. The universe will present to you the things you need to experience in order to fulfill the desires you had before coming.

Always ask yourself how you feel about something before making a decision; this brings in your unconscious higher self to assist in the learning process. Understanding what you fear makes you stronger and more knowledgeable.

ANSWER: No two souls have identical characteristics while in body form. So-called symptoms indicating one state or another are nothing more than what a number of other humans have displayed and identified with some condition. Likewise, a medical condition does not necessarily produce the same physical symptoms in all those diagnosed with it because these are just guidelines to a conclusion.

In this day and age most humans exhibit some or all of the same characteristics you have. Souls who have not come to Earth as Indigos may or may not have psychic abilities. Anyone who delves into their past lives with the assistance of hypnosis or their guides is not necessarily Indigo. Labeling yourself one thing or another does not make you so, nor would it prevent you from actually being what you have ruled out as applying to you.

What we are saying is that human titles mean nothing. Titles do not give you abilities or take them away. The most important thing is what you believe to be true. Live your life as if you are who you desire to be. Understand that life is a gradual learning experience. You did not come from your mother’s womb able to walk and run, nor did you learn math and science before spending time in school. Being “enlightened” does not help or hinder your progress. Your intention to do something is critical.

Following the ideas of some practitioners of numerology – or astrology, or any other “ology” – will work for you only when you accept it as dictating the way you should act. All souls have freedom of choice. An “ology” can give you some indications of what might fit more easily with your natural energy, but it does not tell you what you desire to do.

Go into your feelings and see what resonates with you. Accept that you are a piece of Source energy and can do the same things Source can. Until you agree that you can do something, you will not be able to do it and it is not even worth trying. To stop trying is to stop living.

ANSWER: The soul has complete freedom of choice. In society choices may have varying consequences. Some of the lessons chosen for a lifetime may include dealing with your personal judgment regarding the decisions other people make. When you enter into a profession where your personal conscience says an action required by your employer is something you find wrong or against your own beliefs, you then have the decision to make whether to remain in that employ or move to another position.

Euthanasia and abortion are decisions souls make as part of their life journey. The consequences for them are the lessons they may learn; the consequences for those who assist are merely the performance of one’s duty. Human life is for the purpose of learning who you are as a soul and how you can increase your wisdom.

The human experience is a solo journey. You are not responsible for others or they for you. You do not need to worry about them. Your thoughts are things that have come to be in your head from the outside world. They got there by others telling you what they think and therefore what you should think, and are supplemented by things you have read. All of this material comes from outside you with no input from you whatsoever.

Put your thoughts on hold and ask yourself how you feel about these issues. That is a true indication of your journey. If you pick up on a judgment of right or wrong, you are following society. The spiritual path to understanding this excursion is just evaluating if you would learn anything from these actions or if you would have to try it yourself if it felt like something you needed to do.

You are trying desperately to work out your feelings about these issues and you do it by trying your thoughts on others. They are not going to change their opinions, so why are you spending so much time getting frustrated by repeating the same things over and over again?

ANSWER: Basic and simple answer: your mother can affect your life only to the extent and degree you allow her to do so. You have been programmed by her to react to everything she does to get a response from you. This she sees as entertaining. Just as she had to find her husband’s soft spot, she has trained you to react to everything she says and does because you have not discovered that you do not have to let her dictate your behavior.

So what if she doesn’t like the way you live your life? Are you content with your life? Who is in a better position to see what is going on in your family, you or her? You, of course—it is your life. Why are you letting her tell you how you should feel about your own existence? That is saying she knows better than you what is right in what you do. Does that make any sense to you? Take back control of your life.

It is going to be hard to cut the value of her ideas out of your thoughts because they have reigned there all your life. You have no spiritual obligation to her to let her keep you from exercising your freedom to choose your own opinions.

Stop competing with your brother for her attention and approval—you are never going to get it. This is another of her little games. Choose not to give her power over you and your family. She loves fear and negativity. Choose love and positive thoughts and actions.

Distance yourself from her for a while to see that you can live life without her. Observe how other families determine their own rules, separate from the way they were programmed by their parents. You are not responsible for everything that goes wrong; you have just accepted the role of fall guy because that is what your mother wants. Start defining a new you.

ANSWER: There are hundreds of belief systems which people incorporate into their lives. These may include organized religious doctrines, healing techniques, life style procedures, or metaphysical beliefs. These various practices are put together by people living on the planet in the positive/negative duality. Frequently those from whom you learn a practice have their own agenda of control over the students and clients who seek them out.

What you believe and/or feel at any one time is your current belief system by which you run your own life. Your feelings or reality will change from time to time as your experience enlarges. If something feels right to you, then follow the procedure to the degree it fits in with your energy. You can accept the parts of a system that resonate with you while ignoring those that don’t do anything for you.

Don’t judge. Don’t try to inflict your decisions and realities on anyone else. Don’t even be concerned about others. This is your journey. Some people need to be told exactly what to do every minute of every day. They embrace a system to which they can give their power. Honor their freedom of choice to differ from your understanding, for that is their journey.

When you began school you had a learning-stage set of beliefs; then came more advanced schooling and your beliefs changed; by the time university or specialty training came along your daily beliefs changed again. This is the constant growth of the soul who is having a human experience. You will move away from that which is no longer useful to you. Stop over-thinking! Just go with the flow.

ANSWER: While you have had this “doubt” in your mind your entire life, the act of being laid off thrust the belief of your worthlessness to the forefront. Your big lesson this lifetime is to find your significance as a soul and your worth as a soul having a human experience.

Trying to find an answer to solve all your feelings from a book or motivator is sitting back and saying, “Even if the answer might be inside of me, I wouldn’t trust it. Somebody tell me what to do.”

The concepts you currently accept as your own came from outside of you. They are the things people have told you about yourself or the material you have read. It is like data entered into the hard drive of a computer—it remains until it is erased or overwritten with something else.

You are dealing with the ego, that part of the human brain that deals with issues of fitting into society. Throughout life, various sources have imprinted their beliefs upon your brain. You have accepted them and adopted them as your own. Some of those beliefs dealt with your insignificance and worthlessness. You may continue to claim these as your own values, or you may rewrite your beliefs to include the power of your soul.

The true sense of who you are resides inside of you in that essence which is your soul. All souls were broken off from Source and therefore all are equal and magnificent. It is just a matter of accepting that fact and writing it into the belief system of each life you live.

Venture inside yourself in meditation. Connect with that fount of unconditional love which is the core of your soul in the body. Sense that the negativity, the uncertainty, the unworthiness, the worthlessness, cannot exist here. Then bring those feelings out into the light as your understanding of your true nature.

ANSWER: The first step is for you to do a complete evaluation of every aspect of your life. Notice we did not say a judgment, but a simple evaluation of your circumstances. You need to look at your belief systems, some of which have been in effect since you were a young child, and determine if they are appropriate for your life any longer. We did not say you should decide if they are right or wrong, but rather if they still serve you.

Unless you spend time thinking about it immediately before you act, every action that you perform during your day comes from your programmed subconscious mind. The imprint was put there by training and experiences that came your way throughout life. Some are things your parents put into your head with the desire to protect you—the “stranger danger” commands, for example. Yet if you never talked to strangers today, you wouldn’t be able to purchase anything in a store or interview for a job.

The evaluation process goes like this: something occurs and a response pops into your head automatically. Stop and ask yourself: How do I feel about this response? Is it what I would do if I had time to think about it? If it feels uncomfortable, ask: Where did this idea come from? With this formula you will be able to clean your closets of unresponsive actions and modernize them to today’s needs. Do not hesitate to throw out anything that no longer serves you. That is what freedom of choice is all about.

A. You are at a crossroads in the growth of your spiritual awareness. Things are becoming much clearer to you, and you are being tested to see if you have the conviction of the new beliefs you have accepted. As each choice is presented to you, go inside and see if it feels like the place that you wish to inhabit.   

The people in your dream are souls with whom you had dealings in this lifetime, and you have completed the tasks with them for which you had contracted. They are now “dead” to you regarding any further need to interact with them. They are still around, however, because you do still have the freedom of choice to continue to have dealings with them if you choose.

The scene is your childhood home because that is where you developed the first belief systems that regulated your behavior. Your mother is asking if you still want to hang on to those old beliefs or if you have moved on and made your own decisions as to how you wish to live your life. Are you finished with the old so that you have room for the new?

ANSWER: You have come into full recognition of the fact that you have freedom of choice in all things in this life. What you are dealing with are all of the beliefs with which you have grown up. Your parents’ difficulties come from the fact that they can’t focus on just one thing and carry through with it. They are dreamers and don’t accept that since they are in physical bodies they have to give some consideration to the physical needs of their bodies and shape their lives to be able to provide for those needs.

You have picked up on this trait and expect that you can just follow your fantasy of a good life without the practicalities of providing for yourself in the usual societal fashion. There is nothing wrong with throwing away all of your training and moving to another field – that is, if you can make enough money to provide for yourself with something else.

You find doors closed right now because you are sending mixed signals out to the universe that you have no idea what you want to do. How can you make a connection with something you have not even considered yet? You envision a business of your own, but what is it? Do you have enough expertise that others will come to you? Dreams are nice but they don’t feed you.

Patience is your most intense life lesson. You don’t give yourself time working with one idea before you flip elsewhere. Try settling into a productive employment, even in your old field, in order to take care of your needs, and then begin to develop something that appeals to you more. If you decide you really like the new job, transition into it full time.

To be happy in your career you must resonate with what you are doing. You can “test drive” something new to see if it is for you without having to commit yourself one hundred percent to the switch: simply stay where you are as you investigate all the possibilities in a different situation. Stop thinking about what “makes sense to you” and start feeling for that with which you identify.

ANSWER: Some souls can only believe in what they have experienced on their own. That is true particularly when you are discussing things dealing with the non-physical world. Your teacher has never had the benefit of a spirit releasement and the impact it may have on the person going through such a procedure. Anyone who has not had a deep regression session is unaware of the contact that can be made with other souls that are in the in-between phases of life and how you may be able to say just the right thing for them to make a connection and be able to move on.

Through your experiences you have seen that souls are connected but are living independent lives. It is possible for some to be in a position to see what others cannot. What you witnessed—or, rather, re-lived—in your regression, was a lifetime of service to others. You were a wise teacher and had the ability to help others recognize their hidden abilities and the way to move into awareness. You saw this life because it showed you what you had thought about doing in this life since you had prior experience.

What you do with this information is completely up to you. It is important that you follow what resonates within you. If you, like your teacher, believe it was unreal, then that will become your reality. If you “feel” the rightness of your journey, then you must decide what to do with this bit of wisdom you have retrieved. Not everything that you have the ability to do should be done within a single life. Sometimes you recover the memories just for background flavor or as an example of your potential.

Go with the flow of the energy around you. If these pieces of the puzzle help you see the whole picture, then embrace them. If they were interesting but you don’t see a purpose for them just yet, put them on a shelf until you find a use for them. If you live in awareness, what most call the NOW, the universe will bring to you what you need to experience, and you will know where your tools are being kept.

Your teacher is wise in many ways but not all. Whatever you hear, whether from an Earth teacher or a spirit guide or even from us, each time see if it feels like the right thing for you at that time. Always trust your intuition and create the reality that works best for you. And don’t be afraid to change your reality as your life progresses.

ANSWER: Your intuitive sense of self has been getting stronger and stronger. This has been fueled by a change in the way you are looking at your life. In the beginning of your marriage you became the dutiful little woman who accepted that your position in life was to be at home taking care of the children and insuring that hubby was clothed, fed, and bedded. You never had any thoughts that ran contrary to the way you had been raised and trained by family and friends.

Throughout your years together, you have begun to question your position. You have repeatedly asked the questions “Why is he more important than I?” and “Why does he get to set all the rules?” You have finally realized that your essence is the same as his. You are as worthy as he; you are as powerful as he-that is, if you assume the power to take your rightful place.

You have been ceding your personal power to him and it is time to take it back. The children are very aware of the friction that has been growing in the house. They have watched the way you have been treated, and that you have not done anything about it. They know all is not comfortable for you and, in time, they will support any action that you take.

Your concern for the thoughts of others shows how much your personal belief systems are structured by everyone but yourself. You concern yourself with the expectations of others concerning your behavior but have no expectations yourself. Does that seem fair? Are they living your life or playing a part written by others? Do those who would be disappointed have to put up with living in your limbo?

We have repeatedly counseled that you have complete freedom of choice and nothing is right or wrong. All human life is lived to experience lessons to obtain knowledge and wisdom-both the human good and bad. Do not fear the unknown. If you put all of your power into creating a new world, even in these trying times, you will be able to accomplish your dreams.

ANSWER: The only thing that is certain to occur on planet Earth is change. The more people who are involved in the decision-making process that will have an impact on your life, the more variables are introduced, and the probability of telling you what is going to happen in your future is meaningless.

We could tell you what your future will be like, but we can only do it based upon the decisions you and everyone else have chosen up to this time. If you change a single, albeit insignificant, option in your plan, you make your future different. The choices of each person you are going to come into contact with, or those who will have an input into your future, will result in a different outcome for each change.

Since there are an infinite number of decisions that could change your future, there is no way there is certainty in it. If you will not do anything without knowing what the future will bring, you might as well bury your feet in cement and watch the world go by.

Souls are pieces of Source and have the powers and abilities of Source to manifest what they want to occur. If you put yourself into the flow of the universe, you can direct where you are carried by the workings of others. If you think it is possible to control the choices of others, you are kidding yourself.

To be successful in life, you have to have faith and confidence in yourself to bring you where you want to be. If you don’t make your own decisions based on the feelings you have inside, you are at the mercy of others.

Fear is the indication that a life lesson is in front of you. Hiding from it or ignoring it will stop you from moving forward. You can only see what is present in this moment. If you do not feel it is the right place for you, you can move. If you want a job or a mate, put your intention to work creating and bringing that energy to you.

ANSWER: Let us examine the pattern of a habit. The human body and mind get in the ritualistic practice of doing something in a particular manner. With drug use, if the drugs are available, the body remembers how they make it feel and wants to consume them. With something extremely addictive, it is like a thirsty body craving water—there is a physical need for the drugs. The drug use becomes a belief system that tells the body it is all right to take the drugs.

We have talked repeatedly about belief systems that control a human. They can be personality characteristics such as confidence, or lack of self-worth, or the belief that one is stupid. These become part of your unconscious and control you until you erase or rewrite the formula. When you battle through the psychological need for the drugs, if you do not also delete or rewrite the pattern to use them, problems loom.

You worked on the physical addiction and somewhat on the psychological addiction, but you did not go into the unconscious and rewrite your belief system concerning your need for the drugs. You have to confront that belief, accept that it no longer has control, and tell yourself what your replacement belief system is going to be. You no longer have a need for the drugs, so you can hold them and not feel compelled to indulge. This issue will remain until you have deleted the belief coding that is under the surface.

ANSWER: In the beginning of a human life, the rules and regulations by which you live that life are given to you by others. They create what is called your personal belief system. Most people feel that they are absolute, inviolate, and cannot be changed or even questioned. But the primary law of the universe is that all souls have the freedom to choose each and every facet of their existence, which includes the composition of their belief system.

Society, and each aspect within it, adds to your knowledge of what should be included in your beliefs by telling you things that benefit that society, including rules that make it easier to control your thoughts and actions. Sometimes you never even hear or can figure out why society leaders say what they do, or why you should be  compelled to live their way.

Our “philosophies,” as you call them, are concepts we expose you to in order to see if they resonate within you and give you a sense of who you are and what you can do as a soul having a human experience. We never tell someone what to believe, and never try to insinuate that we can identify exactly what makes you feel complete.

Our patterns of living within the human vernacular can be used across all walks of life. They are not religious, not secular, not societal laws, nor physical laws; they are the way we see—and have always experienced—life both in and out of human shells.

In living a human existence you are constantly changing your perspective on what you want to participate in, and thereby changing your reality. Your first reality is as a totally dependent being unable to take care of yourself. Gradually you develop some facility but have to be cautious as you learn what is and is not physically harmful.

You then start school and learn about an expanding universe in which you may participate. As you progress through education your reality becomes more expansive and you start to choose a direction. When your own employment and family begin to take shape, you are in a position of taking responsibility for the reality of not only yourself but others as well.

Once responsibility has shifted, your belief system is rewritten to include only what feels right to you. In every incident of your current belief system, you have the ability to pick and choose that which expresses your life as you wish to live it. Some things that were perfect earlier in life just don’t resonate as some new concepts do at this time. Follow what feels like the best thing for you now. Nothing is right or wrong in a spiritual experience.

ANSWER: You are very confused concerning your life. This is your life, not that of any other member of your family. Your brother made his own decisions, and your greater presence in his life would not have changed or affected the outcome. It is not so much that you miss him as that you will not allow yourself to forget that you think you should have been more active in his life. Forget it. Forgive yourself for what you think you should have done. You couldn’t do anything.

Accept that your life is what you are living right now, not the past you yearn for. You have a very loving husband and mother and are not being respectful to them in spending so much time thinking that your departed relatives would provide more than the living are sharing with you now.

You feel alone and sad because you choose to. You do not believe you are worthy of the love you receive from your family. You are now spending a lot of your energy convinced that if you have a child, you will find the love you crave. One of the reasons the IVF has been unsuccessful is your putting so much faith in the child as your savior. All would look different to you if you could learn to love yourself. Try to find the unconditional love within your soul and embrace it.

All souls will be joined when you are at Home. You will have to decide individually whether each soul wishes to share another life with the others.

ANSWER: You do not like to assume the responsibility of making decisions about long-term living. You have an idea that you would like to have a family, but you have not found a person who is of the same mind and intention. You sense this man is toxic to you, and that was what drove you to drink – to hide from the realities of the situation. When you have to go into a bottle to flee unhappiness, you are in the wrong place.

You are insecure in all major decisions and look to others to tell you what to do. It is time to grow up and acknowledge that you cannot move forward unless you choose and take that first step. You want to be with him because he makes decisions. His presence has created a comfort zone for you where you know exactly what he will do, even if it is not to your liking.

Why would you want to have a family in this environment? What kind of energy would you be placing those poor children in? Would you have been able to thrive in such chaos?

You fear the unknown because you have no control over it and do not know what is going to happen. You need to accept that you are a piece of Source and have the ability to create and bring to yourself what you desire to experience. You lack self-confidence and think you deserve everything that has happened to you. Get it through your mind that that is not so.

Visualize the type of man you could see yourself creating a family with. Believe that you are worthy of him. Send an invitation out to the universe to have him come to you – and then, most importantly, when he asks you out, go! You must do the work to reap the rewards.

ANSWER: You are in a very exciting period of your life where you haven’t become so set in your ways that you listen only to what those outside of you desire you to believe. You are experimenting, and you need validation for these experiences, particularly for what is not physically visible. Yes, you are communicating with a spirit who has placed in your head a picture of an extremely attractive female your age.

This soul is playing with you by seemingly providing you with the love interest you so desperately desire. It feels the amount of energy potential you possess and wants to find a way to get you to let it tap in and take that energy. It needs to move on because it is stuck between the physical world and the unconditional love of the universe. It remains out of desire to take from humans what it felt it was denied before it died.

The “powers” you enjoy are ones you have developed in past lives. You were a communicator, so the lines are still open between the dimensions. This is also what allows you to see past and future. You cannot affect the past because it is the same as watching old home movies. The future you see is what will happen if all the people involved continue with the intentions they have at this moment. If they change their mind, what you see as the future will change accordingly.

The premise of the Wicca religion is living a very peaceful, harmonious, and balanced way of life, promoting oneness with the divine and all that exists in nature. Most importantly, however, it teaches responsibility. Blame is not directed externally. The spells that are done involve healing, love, harmony, wisdom, and creativity. Every action involving the energies of nature and the universe is directed by your intention. If your intention is to do no harm, you will do no harm.

ANSWER: You are experiencing the third-dimensional duality in which you have input from all those around you, as well as all the beliefs that were implanted in you as you grew, plus your recognition that you have freedom of choice to do as you choose. The process of awareness comes to people when they start taking responsibility for their own decisions and not relying on others.

All your life you  have been given rules and regulations about how to behave. In the beginning, you thought you had no choice but to do what you were told. Your rationality is dependent upon what others have said; that information is in the thinking part of your head, and it does not take into consideration the way you feel about things.

Your feelings come from you alone and the wisdom you have gathered along the way in this life and others. That information also includes the life lessons you came to experience and the methods by which you may fulfill your desires. The choice is completely up to you. Start by asking yourself why you feel the way you do about leaving, and then why you feel the way you do about staying.

You do not have to do anything that you do not feel is right for you. All souls have higher energies within that they may not be using – but then, maybe they don’t need to use them in this lifetime. Always refer to your inner feelings for the right direction, not someone else’s opinions. Do not let someone direct you where you do not feel comfortable.

Umbanda is a religion whose leaders are attempting to get you to see things their way. If this feels good, do it. There is no one way to reach enlightenment. Your soul will direct you in appropriate ways. Always see if what is being told to you resonates within. If you sense something doesn’t feel right, walk away from it.

ANSWER: Your primary life lesson is discovering your own power and thereby controlling how you feel about your life. When you were a child, your parents told you what you should believe in and what was expected of you by them and society. You didn’t think it was fair but you nonetheless accepted these rules as your belief system. You have maintained these thoughts and have done nothing to exercise your freedom of choice in how your life will be run.

As a piece of Source—just the same as everyone else—you have the ability to create your own reality. You have the same power as others. You have the same ability to choose not to accept the opinions of others. You feel you are never heard because you don’t think you deserve to be heard. Because of your upbringing, you accept that people in authority have control over you, as you were instructed. They will continue to exert this control as long as you allow it. You are totally unaware that your allowing others to control you is coming from within yourself.

To change the way you react to other people—in other words, not allowing them to control you—you have to start standing up to them and take back your power. At the first instance of discomfort, stop and ask yourself what feelings you are getting from the situation. This will tell you what hidden belief system you are still allowing to dictate your behavior. Decide right then and there that you do not have to follow the old pattern. Then create what you want to happen. You have to believe in yourself.

ANSWER: The utopia you have read about already exists—just not here on planet Earth. What is described is a place without duality, a place of unconditional love—a place exactly like Home except that, unlike Home, the soul decides to stay in a human body. Your soul makes the choice of where you want to be and when.

Earth was established to be the only planet with a duality—positive and negative energy in balance—so that souls would have an opportunity to study life lessons and gain wisdom to use in other aspects of existence. Other planets were constructed so that souls could experience the things you have just mentioned. The primary theme of all having freedom to do as they choose exists everywhere now; people just don’t accept that as a fact, or won’t because they fear taking responsibility for their choices.

Is this future a reality for your physical planet? No. Earth will remain a duality for souls to come and learn their chosen lessons. Some souls will have enough wisdom to no longer need duality, so they will go to unconditionally loving planets to experiment with a physicality void of lessons.

Are you ready for this type of existence? Only you can answer that question because your entire existence as a soul is based upon total freedom of choice. Prepare yourself for a continuation in this life and whatever you choose for the future by accepting your nature and learning as much as you can about your abilities.

All souls have the same essence. They have the same origin: Source. They have the same potential; they just don’t accept that they do. Accept your essence and create the future you want to see.

ANSWER: “Truthful” answers only come from within. Each person has his own truth. No one can tell you what is right for you. Ahmyo (absolute trust in yourself and your feelings) is important in a person’s journey. If you do not develop total trust in yourself and your intuition you cannot move forward.

Support? What type of support do you need? Someone to tell you it is all right to rely on others and not have that faith and trust in yourself? Step up and take responsibility for your life. Stop making excuses for your uncertainty and lack of faith. Take an inventory of all the great abilities and characteristic you possess; then go out and apply them to your everyday life.

ANSWER: The surface of the Earth has a lot of negativity hanging around. There are pockets where circumstances have caused it to gather. When someone walks through these areas, the negativity is sticky and likes to latch a ride. Light workers and strongly positive people provide a scrumptious meal for negative entities.

Generally they attach to the outside of a person and try to affect their feelings and activities. If an off-hand invitation is extended, such as “I don’t believe such a thing exists so bring on the proof,” they may enter and have direct control over your body.

Once a negative entity is firmly attached, or inside you, your world begins to gather other negative things around you. Sadness, unhappiness, anger, disaster seem to be ruling your world. The more negativity you allow, the stronger the entity becomes. It may affect your thinking and even your physical health.

To prevent attachments, or to prevent their activity once attached, call in guides and positive beings of the light to diminish their power. It is very important, when dealing with any type of energy, that you exercise caution by informing the universe you wish to deal only with energies and entities of the light, and only with those who will interact with you for the highest and greatest good.

It is possible, depending on your degree of trust in the process, to cleanse yourself of these attachments through the practices you mention. If you find you are having difficulty, you may require help from someone who is acquainted with attachment removal.

ANSWER: In the spiritual process there is nothing that is right or wrong; all things are just for learning about the human existence and the lessons you chose. In society everything is judged, rated, graded, and determined to be right or wrong depending on the point of view of the “authorities.” Organized religions within society add an additional layer of requirements and “must-not-dos” to life.

Karma exists only on the planet within the duality. If those authorities learned of your condition they might impose punishment for your actions – but it is not a spiritual thing that will follow you into the unconditional love of the hereafter. It will not condemn you to punishment in another lifetime because there is no judgment once you leave this life.

All the rules for ancient religions were written by men, since they were the only ones who had any power. Many men feared the power of a woman to shed blood during a monthly resetting of her hormones without suffering any ill effects. They thought the woman was possessed of evil spirits. For a man, bleeding was always a devastating effect of injury, frequently leading to death. Women were therefore determined to be unclean during menstruation.

Your sense of guilt over a tour and fear of suicide from a prediction indicate that you accept the beliefs of others as your own. Why? Do these people know more about you than you do?  Fear is an indication of a life lesson you are ignoring. This lesson is about knowing yourself and taking responsibility for your own actions and the way you feel about life.

No one can make you do anything you do not choose to do. Go into those feelings of acceptance of the beliefs of others and see if you really accept them as applying to yourself. If they do not make sense to you, reject them; let their power over you leave, and with it, the fear of someone else’s words.

ANSWER: Your question of how you could possibility live without your addiction shows that you see it as part of your identity and therefore would not be yourself without it. That is sabotaging any effort you might put forward to destroy it and do away with that dependence. You are saying “I wish to have an addiction because it is my way of life.”

Each soul creates their own reality by developing beliefs as to what they accept as existing for them in their worlds. You are accepting that what you eat has nothing to do with what you choose but is something that controls your every move without conscious choice by you.

Since the food does not magically appear in your house and must be paid for if consumed outside the house, then you do have control over what you do. You have convinced yourself that you have no say. This is a belief that you have allowed to exist within your psyche and have never questioned. With all beliefs, you control which ones you accept and which ones you reject. You have succeeded in changing other addictive behavior, so start working on this one.

One of your life lessons has been exploring responsibility. You do everything you can to avoid taking responsibility for your actions, convincing yourself that they are just part of who you are and you can do nothing about them. Giving in to urges to eat is giving up all your power to the idea that you are addicted.

Before you take any action, such as reaching into that chip bag, remove the temptation by not purchasing it in the first place. When at a party, be totally aware of your actions. Don’t let your hands wander around the food without your permission. If you start going toward the food, ask yourself if you are hungry or just wanting something to do. Keep your hands occupied by carrying something in them so it is inconvenient to pick up food and feed yourself.

Create the beliefs you want – not just those you are used to having. Always be aware of what you have unconsciously become accustomed to doing. Live in the moment and do nothing you do not consciously choose to do.

ANSWER: You are not from a different planet. You have chosen a number of interesting life lessons in your past lives. One life that was a very happy one for you was as a protective harem slave where you had been castrated. You were extremely fond of all the women, and they loved you because you posed no threat to them. You lived to a very old age and died peacefully in your sleep.

That life was for you to resolve how you felt about sexual identity. You never confronted your thoughts on it because you chose to just accept your lot in life and never questioned how you felt. This lifetime the energy of “non-identity” is still firing, and what you do about it is your choice. Nothing is right or wrong when it comes to learning lessons.

This lesson can play out in several different scenarios. You can strive to find another who wishes life to provide only companionship without a physical aspect, or you can examine what your true feelings are about each sex. The sex act itself is perceived as dangerous to you because of the dire consequences in your past life of anyone having relations with a harem occupant.

Do you sense that your feelings are about the dangers of a relationship? Do you feel you are in the right sex body? You may continue as you are and look for a mate, or you can work on the spiritual lesson that this situation represents. The choice is yours.

In any case, a past-life regression with a spiritual hypnotherapist will help you understand your current feelings. It may also give you some direction.

ANSWER: What happens to another person is what they wish to experience. They will make contracts with other souls to be antagonists, ensuring events will occur when needed. Nothing you have specifically done has gone against the lessons your wife chose before coming to Earth.

Each human decides what beliefs to hold for his or her lifetime. Your wife has chosen a very unhappy, negative stream of events. She is influenced by the religious programming of the evangelists and is in full punishment mode. She thinks her life is the result of her not being good enough to deserve a better one. In her mind, you are the devil incarnate and not to be listened to for advice on the hereafter. Her illness is part of her punishment scenario.

Your guilt is one of your life lessons. Responsibility is a result of each person’s choices, not the product of someone else’s actions. Your wife made the decision to say she forgave you so she could remain in this negative-based environment. She doesn’t want to hear about salvation, unconditional love, and returning Home – it doesn’t go along with the suffering she has chosen. Making you feel guilty is one of her only enjoyments.

Your cancer was the result of guilt and the need to punish yourself. You have paid that price and can now examine the results and move forward. You don’t need to let her suck additional positive energy out of you, which is what she is currently doing.

The rest of both of your lives can continue as it is going, or you can accept that you have no responsibility for her choices. Nothing you say or do will change her mind about you and life in general. Connect with your essence of unconditional love. Share with her what she will accept, and if you are rejected yet again, move on to complete your own journey.

ANSWER: The contradiction exists only in a comparison between apples and oranges. You are trying to equate the physical rules of a religious belief system that exists in a dualistic, third-dimensional judgmental world with the nonphysical, energetic “beingness” of unconditional love. In the energetic fifth dimension, there is only positive energy—no negativity or balancing of past acts needed. Belief systems control the physical thoughts of the body a soul may choose to inhabit while it is on Earth. The choice of whether to adhere to a particular set of rules and regulations or the beliefs of a particular group belongs to each individual.

Each soul having a physical experience has the freedom to choose which of the many possible religious thought groups it wishes to use to configure its physical life. It may accept all of the teachings of one sect or it may pick and choose those with which it resonates. Most humans do not understand that they may make their own choices; they are brought up by family and society to embrace the “accepted” form of thought for that part of the world. All people have the ability to make such decisions for themselves, but most of the time they just follow along as they are taught.

Before the soul enters into human a body, it chooses which life lessons it wishes to experience. These lessons can only occur on Earth, where both negative and positive aspects compete. It is in freely choosing negative or positive that the soul may see which one it wishes to continue experiencing—that is the lesson. So, as you can see, the soul can make choices both before it incarnates and by modifying its actions once on Earth. This is the freedom of choice we write about.

ANSWER: Suicide is stigmatized because it diminishes the population. Society wants to encourage a healthy, productive mass of people who are available to take care of all the needs of others. Suicide is also a choice made by some people when they do not want to be controlled by others. If a person thinks they can end their worries and difficulties by ending their own life, then there is no permanence to the control one has over another.

The first edicts against suicide came from land owners and religious organizations. No one could read or write, so they learned everything through their churches and their bosses. These owners and controllers wanted to have absolute power over the behavior of those under them.

The only life solution they wanted the populace to see was the promise of salvation made to the peasants if they worked hard, did as they were told, and clung to the belief in going to heaven. Suicide sent them to hell, they were told (and also lost land owners a good working hand and churches a willing congregant).

To some it was merely a property issue: alive, they owned you; dead, they lost your services. So, suicide became outlawed. Society blamed the one who wished to end their own life and gave the family the responsibility to make sure none of their members took the easy way out. By promising a heavenly reward, the churches wanted to be the ultimate salvation for the wretched lives people were leading. The punishment for suicide was eternal damnation.

When you remove the influence of the rest of the society sharing this lifetime with you, you have the only real answer. You have freedom of choice to come and go as your soul desires. In the spiritual sense, nothing is considered to be right or wrong.

ANSWER: You are mixing belief systems from the conscious and the unconscious together with pure science, not involving quantum variables, and life lessons. Belief systems are the rules and regulations that we consciously and unconsciously adhere to because we have been trained to accept them. Most of these we follow unconsciously because we do not know how impactful they are upon our lives, or we haven’t identified their effect upon us. When we “see” them  for the first time, they become conscious, and we then make the decision either to change them or continue to follow them. These are mostly behavioral.

There are then the purely scientific things—such as the weight of an object, the temperature at which it melts, burns, or freezes—which are fairly constant or universally absolute, as you say. These are the solids, gases, minerals, and chemicals in their pure, unadulterated and uncombined forms. But even these factors are affected by humidity, altitude, temperature, and size of sample. To approach an absolute you have to be able to reproduce exactly every minute factor involved.

Once you start talking about physical beings, all bets are off as far as finding an absolute is concerned. No two human beings are identical, even identical twins once they are born and start living separate lives. Three factors influence the type of results you mention. First, how is the physical organism functioning? Second, does the person realize they have the ability to manifest influences on their physical body? And, thirdly, is there any lesson they agreed to experience that will affect numbers one or two?

If your body has absorbed toxic substances, it has toxic substances. If there is no lesson involved can you rid yourself of the toxins? Yes! Can you live with them and not get sick if you believe you will not get sick and don’t need to learn differently? Yes! Are the toxins not there just because you don’t know they are there? No!

So when we say there are no absolutes, we are referring to the journey of the soul on the mental, emotional, physical, and metaphysical planes.

ANSWER: The way someone behaves and acts is based upon the beliefs they accept and apply to their life. These belief systems, or patterns, consciously and unconsciously control every aspect of one’s life. They are the rules and regulations that dictate responses to living in the world and interacting with others.

Most people do not recognize that they are being controlled by these choices because they originate initially from the way a child is raised. They come from parents. teachers, religious leaders, and society in general. They stick with a person unless or until that person feels adversely affected by them and feels a need to change the way they are unconsciously reacting to different things.

Disappointment, anger, disgust, and fear are frequently initiators for change. What you did in 2016 was to decide that the way you were handling your life was no longer beneficial for you, so you changed. Simply put, you changed some of those beliefs that had always directed your behavior and chose new ways of handling the situations that arose.

When you made these substitutions of beliefs, you broke the old patterns and replaced them with new ones of your own making. This is what souls come to Earth to do. You need to perform such a switch to assist yourself in learning and dealing with your life lessons. You move from negative energy into positive energy.

ANSWER: You are being true to yourself, your needs, and your feelings. You are not married, have not signed a commitment to either individual, and yet feel you are under an obligation to act in a certain way because of things you have been taught or learned from others throughout your life. Both you and your boyfriend are living the life each has freely chosen. Just as you are changing while you are away from him, so is he.

The journey of the soul does not say that we pre-commit to certain plans and may not alter them, but rather that you have freedom of choice in all things. It also does not say that each soul has one and only one designated partner. It is possible to love more than one person at a time.

Once you have fallen in love with an individual, it is difficult to ignore those feelings. You then have to make a choice as to what you think about your actions and how much commitment to assign. Since you have no commitments and you are not promising anything to your fling, you are just enjoying the satisfaction physically, mentally, and emotionally that seeing him gives to you. Just because your boyfriend is unavailable, does he expect that you will not take care of physical needs?

To decide what to do at this time, you have to consider your journey, not anyone else’s. If internally you feel you are doing something that is wrong based upon the way you believe you should live, then you have to end one affair or the other. If you feel you are not hurting anyone, since the conditions are very clear to your fling that you have a long-term relationship, then choose to continue. These conflicting associations are giving you a chance to evaluate your present situation and get a feeling for how you wish to live.

ANSWER:  Congratulations for taking the time and effort to work on your life lessons, because that is what getting rid of un-serving beliefs is all about. This organization has an ulterior motive, though: MONEY.

They want to get you so happy with the progress you have made that you will feel you need them in order to continue. It is like learning to swim and then having your teacher tell you that it is necessary for you to continue lessons, even though you have learned as much as you desire, in order for you to be able to move forward and not drown when you enter the water.

You have fallen into a group that uses behavior modification, not spiritual growth with you using your essential powers, to provide the results you wish to achieve. In addition, they are keeping you dependent on your sense of progress by “telling” you what you have done. They do not want you to use your own evaluation or feelings.

When they tell you what “really happened,” they remain in control and make you question your own conclusions. Always go with your feelings; these are the determiners of what has occurred around you. Ask: How do I feel about this? That comes from within. What others say has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them and their agenda.

You have enough information to continue your growth and manifestation without anyone else’s assistance. Use your intention to create and bring to you the things you wish – you will know what you have brought to yourself. Take responsibility for your life and let others worry about their own interaction with the universe.

ANSWER: You are talking about the belief systems that each person chooses and uses to manage their lives. They are the rules and regulations upon which human behavior is determined. Children learn these first from their parents, and yes, even while in their mother’s womb they are sensitive to the patterns of the mother’s belief system. Then come all the other rules they are exposed to from teachers, society, and organizations.

What most souls having a human experience must first learn is that they have the freedom of choice to change these beliefs as they see fit. The majority of people  think their system is just the way it all works and the way they have
to do things. They need to know that each rule can be deleted and replaced with something that resonates with them instead of making them feel controlled.

A soul chooses their parents and living situation before they come, anticipating that it will provide the staging for the lessons they seek to explore. Since all lessons are presented in negativity – for the soul to figure that out and also how to turn them positive – you cannot prevent your son from being exposed.

The main lesson you can assist him with is the understanding that he has that freedom to make choices. Unless he stands alone and examines all the possibilities presented to him, he will never be able to take responsibility for his actions. Without being responsible for his decisions, he cannot learn and grow in understanding of his place as a soul.

You have fulfilled your part of bringing him into this world and getting him started in life. Now trust in him and his ability to create the reality he needs to complete the reasons he came to learn.

ANSWER: The choice of mood you reside in is completely up to you. Living in negativity will never allow you the opportunity to see happiness. Fear is an indication of life lessons that you chose to experience but have not yet dealt with. You have started to fear that the fear is growing, and it is, because you are feeding it with negative intentions and acceptance.

Only you can care about yourself, but not while you label yourself as defective, unhealthy, and unmotivated. Who else is around to motivate you? No one unless you turn all your power over to someone and then do exactly as they say. But that leaves you a thoughtless slave who can’t learn anything.

To change your life, you must accept and believe that you can change your life. You won’t be able to do it all at once because you have too many belief systems telling you negative things about yourself. You have to look at each one, decide what you want and can do about it, and then do it. Thinking, dreaming, analyzing won’t do any good unless you take the initiative to move forward.

Start with your biggest fears. Take a look at what they really represent. Ask yourself how you think about those fears and why you think what you do. You will find the answers all have to do with a rut you sank into and don’t have the energy to climb out. Well, just put one foot in front of the other and move ahead. You must begin moving your body so that your systems will come back on line.

Your son is mimicking what he is seeing you do. Following your example, he will sink deeper than you can even imagine unless he sees you reversing your life. Work for both you and him.

ANSWER: You have become complacent and have allowed work to flow to you without the need to send requests out to the universe to bring it to you. You have permitted the only channel to be through your employer, and you are competing with all the other employees. Since no “advertising” was going out specifically from you, no responses were returned.

All souls are very powerful, but they have to take an active part in creating the environment around them. Do nothing, and nothing happens in return. Visualize work coming to you to fit your requirements, and it will appear.

Secondarily, you are being told both by your employer and the universe that it might be time to upgrade your knowledge. The world is constantly moving and if you don’t keep step, it will pass you by. Even though there is work you can do with your limited abilities, why not shoot for a broader palette of talent?

Your bosses do appreciate your communication skills and the enthusiasm you bring to the job, but they have to juggle what they are able to provide for you with all the other workers who share the same skill set. They would be very happy if you acquired more assets and might even assist you in obtaining them.

Your message here is that it is time to evaluate just where you are in abilities, needs, and potential. It is time to make some changes in order to be able to fulfill your needs. You have to become more engaged, one way or the other, to bring in more business, or to improve your general saleable knowledge.

ANSWER: As we always begin when you ask us to make up your mind for you, we say that you are on Earth to exercise your freedom of choice. Elections create unusual circumstances. You must first determine whether you are hearing in these media blasts the truth or simply fictions that one side or the other wants you to accept.

During a campaign many things factor into people’s general knowledge. The candidates have a picture they wish to present of themselves. The party to which each is affiliated has an agenda it wants to implement. The opposition wants to ridicule or blacken the image of, create fear of, and erode confidence in their opponent. It is within this hurricane that you receive your information.

During your present life you may have come to believe that one particular party stands for one thing and another for something totally different. Some people do not get beyond this reliance on history and will listen only to pronouncements from this source. But just as in the stock market, past results are not a guarantee of future performance.

Your question implies that you believe the candidate will fulfill all the stated policies he or she stood for during the campaign. However, whoever assumes the position sought will undoubtedly be presented with situations that could not possibly have been envisioned during the campaign; therefore, there is no policy that can cover all eventualities.

Let’s step back a moment and consider where all this conjecture has taken us. You may have spent an enormous amount of energy upon an issue that means nothing to your spiritual growth. You are right in saying it has an impact upon you because you are still in physical form. That we concede.

To answer your question, rely upon your awareness of your soul. Reach out for the vibration of each candidate. Do you resonate with the energy he or she puts out when speaking? Going over the multitude of interviews and information available, how does it feel to you? Is this person someone in whom you sense a basis of honesty and sincerity? Would you trust this person to drive your vehicle with your soul on board?

You have all the tools you need to make an evaluation. Don’t rest on the belief systems of another. Trust yourself.

ANSWER: All souls living a human existence determine the parameters of their own reality via the belief systems they accept. No one can make you believe anything unless you accept it as true to you and a part of the reality by which you choose to define your life.

All organized religions have doctrines that they insist you must believe if you are to be a true member of their organization. To be an adherent, you must not question these beliefs even if they do not resonate with you. In this element of their “faith,” you have your freedom of choice stripped away from you.

Freedom of choice is the cornerstone of the soul’s spiritual journey to come into a body and learn lessons by choosing positive experiences over negative. Each soul came into existence by being broken off from Source. As such, each piece has the same powers and abilities as Source. Since Source is the origin of all, some see each soul as a son or daughter of Source.

Where you stand on these last few statements is completely up to you. Nothing is right or wrong in terms of the nonphysical spiritual world. As we always say to those who make enquiries of us, do not accept blindly anything even we say unless it feels like something that resonates with you and explains your reality.

It is intelligent to listen to what others have to say about their opinions of reality, but there is no need to thoughtlessly take their rules and make them your own unless it is truly something you desire. Always ask yourself: How do I feel about this? Is this what I feel embodies the beliefs I want to live by?

ANSWER: You have created for your children a set of belief systems. This is what you call your values. These principles may work for you in the situations you have faced, but may be inappropriate for your children. “Values” mean that a degree of right and wrongness about actions has been decided. Judgment is the law of the ego mind. Whenever ego is involved, there is a competition to see who is better than everyone else.

If you have taught your children to be trusting with all people, you have set them up for people to take advantage of them. In addition to trust, one must be able to “feel” the person’s sincerity and honesty. Blind trust can be dangerous. It is not wrong to teach them to want to trust all people, but they must learn to first evaluate if the person is trustworthy.

Openness is another characteristic that offers one’s vulnerability up to the unscrupulous. A person does not need to know everything about you and your business unless you are assured that information will not be used to take advantage. You would not wear your credit card numbers on the front of your shirt. If you are convinced that a friend needs some help, you might lend the information for a single transaction.

The lesson here is that, while you are trying to prepare your children to live a life of establishing relationships with others, you need to remember that you are still living in a dualistic world where the amount of negativity is equal to all the positive energy you are seeking. Adapt your beliefs and actions based on the circumstances in which you find yourself exposed. This is a good example of living in the now—being aware of everything around you.

ANSWER: The purpose of what you call prayer, for those in physical bodies, is to assist them in understanding the lesson they have decided they wanted to experience. Each soul is on a solitary journey. Granted, it is necessary to interact with many other people in order to fulfill your desires, but the lessons are still your own. You cannot lead others’ lives, nor change for them the choices they have made.

The only place that duality exists is here on your planet Earth. In deciding to incarnate into a body here, souls know beforehand that they will learn only by experiencing the negativity that is available here. In freeing the world, if you could, of child abuse, murder, and all the rest, you would be preventing the souls who chose to experience those events from completing their lessons.

Why do you feel you have a responsibility for others? Because societal belief systems say you should? Society wants each person to take care of as many others as possible so that society will not have to take responsibility for so many. No one knows what another soul has decided to experience, so if you interfere with the setting up of a lesson you have prevented growth. That said, you sometimes have a soul contract to help another through a lesson, which allows you a lesson as well, such as being a caregiver.

Praying for—that is, sending the energy of love to—other people to work through and understand the reason for particular circumstances helps them through their lessons. It doesn’t prevent these things from occurring, but it allows souls to get through them faster with better understanding. Send love energy out to all souls—you will speed their journey.

ANSWER: You did not do enough research into possible directions before you pulled the plug on your prior career. Once out in the world, your thoughts traveled the paths and byways of change. Because you spent your day exploring different lifestyles, your mind assisted by using the sleep cycle to provide additional prospects.

Is it any wonder that after leaving corporate America, you would go through a huge change unless you returned to a similar employment? Anything that wasn’t in the same vein was going to be vastly different. Corporate life is the ultimate thinking and manipulative world; a fulfilling lifestyle normally involves a feeling connection to others.

Your unconscious did not want you to think of your departure as a failure, so it set up a parameter of wealth, a huge windfall, as being a facet of the future. (A windfall is something that comes without work, without earning it.) Since the desire was for something fulfilling, the pattern was one of recognized success hugely appreciated by others. These are self-fulfilling dreams if you strive to achieve them. Now it is time to manifest what you feel will accomplish what you have dreamed.

No one can predict the future because there are too many variables. As with anybody, whenever you are involved in a project, whatever you say or do has an influence on the outcome. Will the right people needed to promote your book see it? Will you be able to turn the book into a series of lectures or programs that will help others and fulfill your needs? Do you truly believe your story is inspirational enough to help others find their way? It’s time to work on turning those dreams into your reality.

ANSWER: People like to spend time with those who have the same interests in life as themselves. If you continue in your life as just an ok person, you will never attract other than just ok people into your life. If you continue to exist as an addicted person who spends more time outside reality than trying to deal with reality, you will never know what normal people do in their life.

Unless you decide that you want to and can be a totally functioning being in society, you will always be unable to join in with others. You are at a point where you are starting to ask questions about the future instead of just taking another “hit” and zoning out. This life you have chosen is not carved in stone. You have freedom of choice to go another direction. It is not going to be easy but it is possible.

There are many organizations out there that work with people in your situation. They only want committed individuals. When you are ready to change your way of living so that you may get out of your present life style, seek them out. No one is going to make these decisions for you. It is all up to you. You have been weak and lazy in the past, but all that has just hidden the strength you have inside. Tap into that power and begin a new life with people with whom you can share your dreams.

This can be the beginning of a whole new existence. Nothing is right or wrong in human lifetimes—you just have varying experiences. You know what your life will be like if you continue on as you have been, but anything is possible if you change direction. You do have the choice.

ANSWER: All souls bring to themselves things they wish to experience. Your spiritual journey exposed you to the energies of Spiritualism, and while the individual practices of the group you joined did not resonate well with you, the energy you were exposed to opened your connection with the nonphysical world and helped you develop possibilities.

There are many ways to learn about your abilities and many available teachers from whom to learn, both through writings and in person. No particular direction is better than any other. The importance is to “feel” that which vibrates in the same fashion as you at any one time. It is not necessary to pick one direction and never vary from the course. Life is a series of changes and switchbacks. Don’t be afraid to sample.

When you meditate and receive communication from your guides and your higher self (soul), this is a form of channeling. The spirits are ready to assist you with advice for living. Beings of the light will never tell you what to do, but they will let you see the alternatives.

Channeling is quieting your thinking mind – shutting it down completely – so that your thoughts do not influence the messages you hear. Since spirits are not in physical form, they do not have voice boxes; they cannot talk to you in a different voice, so you hear them in your head.

Your higher self brings memories and wisdom you have previously gained and makes you aware of them once again. Of course, something originating from your own unconsciousness comes to you through what you perceive as your own thoughts. You have the ability to make these connections. Trust in yourself that what you are hearing is what the truth is for you. Test its validity by the way the answers make you feel.

All of these experiences provide a system of beliefs by which you may continue to learn and grow, but if they ever stop working for you, discard them and move on.

ANSWER: You have fully understood the soul’s ability to have freedom of choice concerning all factors in their human life. You have put aside beliefs that others have tried to force you to use to regulate your life. You have used your intuition and inner feelings to accept those beliefs which resonate with you.

While you have succeeded in learning this lesson you have not dealt well with your lesson on honoring yourself and ignoring the heckling from others about the way you have chosen to lead your life.

You live in a duality of positive and negative energies. People can only learn about themselves in such an environment by first finding they can have choices, then discovering what they are, and finally making the decision to choose their own from those available.

Since lessons require negativity, most of society feels more comfortable using negative patterns of behavior. It takes a long time for a soul to realize it hasn’t taken responsibility for its journey until it has made its own decisions. Some people spend their whole life letting others tell them what to do and what to believe. They don’t want to be “wrong” or different from the preaching of the majority of society.

So what if those you come in contact with don’t want to buck their parents, teachers, churches and society? You can share the path you have found that works for you but they must find their own. What they say and do can only irritate you if you allow it to. Relax and let them find their own path if it is a part of the lesson they chose for this lifetime.

It is perfectly all right to try and share your knowledge with others but don’t be vested in how they accept or reject your beliefs. Go back to your inner feelings and live with what works for you.

ANSWER: You have received the keys to a powerful car before becoming comfortable with your new ability to drive. You must first spend time getting to know the limits and specifics of your talents. Apply the foot to the accelerator slowly, and then you will remain in control of your trip to the desired destination.

You have come to know everything that is happening in your world. You have to learn how to direct your intention only to positive things. You have a very strong energy flow that goes through you, and that is why wherever your intention is focused, that is what you manifest.

You do not need to shut down completely just because your initial efforts produced less-than-desired results. When you learned to ride a bicycle you didn’t give up even when you had trouble balancing at first. You persevered and got comfortable being able to control your direction. All you have to do is master your conscious and unconscious intentions.

You might ask, “How should I master unconscious acts?” It is by examining the belief systems that hold unwanted thoughts and bring them to your mind when you least expect them. You have made the connection that it is what you think that is manifested, so you need to sift through those thoughts and remove the negative ones. No negative hidden thoughts. Think only positive things with your conscious mind. Then you will be able to manifest only needed positive occurrences.

People in your early life tended to be negative, so your hidden belief systems call for negative things to be in your life. They do not have to be. Whenever you feel, think, or say something negative, immediately say: “Cancel, erase.” Then substitute a similar positive, loving thought in its place. Pretty soon you will have only positive conscious and unconscious thoughts, and you can manifest for your needs.

ANSWER: You have training in both conventional and complementary medicine. You can do one or the other or you can combine them in order to help your patients. The first comment we have on your question is that you are not giving enough credit to the power that you have as a piece of Source. You are evaluating your power and abilities only as you believe others are evaluating you.

You also aren’t accepting that individuals make up their own mind as to what their beliefs should be. Most take the easy route of going along with the majority of society, i.e., that conventional medical practitioners know what they are doing and always do what is best for the patient.

Most medical personnel are taught that medicines are the only way of treating an ailment. As long as patients have that same belief, you are not going to be able to get them to even try an alternative procedure. You cannot control the decisions of others even if you know what is best for them. Part of their life lessons is to realize they have freedom of choice and then to decide what they want to do.

It is also impossible to convince people that changes need to be made unless they can see a need. What is happening in the world around you is the result of the totality of the life lessons of those sharing the planet with you. Each chose to be on the Earth at this time, knowing what would be happening.

Your next step is up to you, but it cannot succeed until you realize what a fantastic person you are. You are a piece of Source with all the strengths and abilities. What others say and think can affect you only if you allow it to by accepting that it is true and thinking they know more about what is right for you than you yourself. You can tap into the skills of the universe if you believe. Intention is the key. Know you can do something and you will accomplish it.

ANSWER: You are still being hindered by the belief systems that have haunted you all your life. Trying to fit into all those molds demanded by others made you create beliefs within yourself of what they wanted and what you felt you had to achieve. Until and unless you release those beliefs, you will never find out who you really are.

Your conclusions about being a good wife and mother are part of those beliefs – and a fine place to start examining your world. Judging anything, including your definition for yourself, is part of the ego society, which prizes judging every aspect of behavior.

Step back from your life and see if what you are doing resonates within your soul or is just what others say you should be or do. If it feels like something you would choose yourself, then it is a choice you have made. If it seems okay, but you might have done it differently, then try that different approach. Never do something just because someone else says it is what you should do.

You are a soul who has chosen to have a human experience so that you might explore the possibilities of choosing one form of action over another. Your origin is Source energy, from whom you were broken off. You therefore have all the powers and abilities of Source if you accept that you do.

Once you acknowledge that you are all-powerful, magnificent, and creative, you can start working with these characteristics and discovering who you are.

A: You were in fact traveling outside of your body. When you were young you didn’t have a belief system that told you it was impossible. You still had some of the memories from when you were at Home. You knew, at your soul level, how to transport yourself wherever you wished to be. You also yearned for the sensation of total freedom and being able to fly.

As you got older (at least in Earth terms), you forgot the marvelous sensations and possibilities. Society’s belief, which says that human bodies are solid masses that cannot divide and separate, took control. You no longer believed that you could fly, so you didn’t.

Now you are opening yourself up to all eventualities, putting aside what was programmed into you, and attempting to rewrite what feels right to you, but you still haven’t returned to that childlike stage. That state of unlimited possibilities exists in faith—the faith that children have that what they feel is what they can do. Return to that unconditional faith in your inner feelings, your soul, and you will be able to fly.

ANSWER: We shall repeat one of our mantras here: Energy is everything and everything is energy! Incarnate beings having an experience on planet Earth are swimming around in a mixture of negative and positive energy. Likes tend to lump together, so the more negative you are, the more negativity you attract. When you speak negative thoughts, the negativity increases with each additional person who picks up that negative thought. The negativity remains, unless and until you replace it with positivity.

Since you are becoming happier (less negative) and calmer (more positive) you will begin to send off only positive energy. This will gather to you additional positive energy, which will increase and grow as long as you do not stand in its way by spending time thinking negative things.

Whatever has been told to you in the past can be changed by the way you view it in the present. Your husband loves you and has no thought of leaving you. Why do you insist on thinking that it is a possibility? If you “see” something negative happening you are telling the universe you think you need to experience just such an event, “please set it in motion so that I may experience it.” If you see happiness it will be forthcoming.

Since humans are all feeling beings, if you emit fear, those who are fearful will flock to you and those that shun fear will try to get far away from you. If you insist on thinking your husband may leave, you are giving him the unconscious feeling that you don’t want him around.

What you need to do is identify the fears in your life and douse them with love. Accept that you have a loving family and that you deserve them. When you start feeling down, think of the happiest times in your life and bring that loving positive energy into the present. Reaffirm to yourself several times a day how you are blessed and that you seek to exist only in positive, loving energy.

A: First you have to be honest with yourself. You have all these dreams of being a top model and actor but you don’t believe that you are good enough. You have let your sample book die because you would have to see who you really are at this moment—a scared, uncertain little boy.

In the past it was more important for you to have fun. You drank to excess and bounced from party to party, believing that you were going to make contacts and not have to do any leg work yourself. Recently you stepped out of the party scene because it was getting you nowhere. Now you have to decide where you truly want to go.

If you move to New York you will have your financial needs met easily by all the catering work. You believe that you can get in your modeling interviews during the day, but you must remember that you will be starting from scratch. Once you get into the cycle of work/money with catering it will be very difficult for you to step out again. This is not right or wrong, but it will take you a lot longer to make the connections needed for an acting/modeling career. But it will provide a sense of financial security.

Staying in Los Angeles, where you have modeled and acted in commercials on a limited basis, gives you a door to the profession that is already open. Your first step is to establish a marketable view of yourself quickly through your book. Work with your agent, knowing that you are now ready to put the partying aside and will really be serious. You already have contacts to make money in restaurants and bars until you are discovered.

The most important issue is having faith in yourself and your ability to use your good looks to make a living in your chosen profession. The choice is yours, east or west, depending on how fast you want to grow based upon how much confidence you have in yourself and your abilities.

ANSWER: Your husband is very confused and lacks self-confidence when it comes to taking responsibility for himself and his growth. Everyone creates their own realities and what they accept as the ruling beliefs within their life. He was taught from an early age that he could not make decisions by himself when they were important for his future as an adult. He believes that when it comes to personal matters, Mom and Dad know best and he should defer to them.

At work, when they are not around and have no influence over his progress, he is completely competent to analyze the situation and make decisions. This is business, and there are set rules by which he must comport himself in order to be successful.  It is a built-in responsibility, so he doesn’t have to make any choices; he just follows the path taken by others.

When you got married, he thought that you would also see the wisdom he feels his parents possess and that you would allow them to make decisions for you, as well. He does not think there is anything wrong with the way he leads his life. He believes this is the way of life that all people follow. He also feels he does not have to be responsible for any consequences since he didn’t make the decisions that led to them. He can just blame whoever made the decision he chose to follow.

He thinks that you are the unreasonable one for not taking the easy path with him. He has no intention of changing the way he lives his life. As long as his parents are in the picture, he will remain “their obedient little boy,” hanging on every word they speak and direction they give to him. He is very unlikely to ever want to be the head of his family.

You must decide if you wish things to remain as they are, or if it is time to accept that you cannot thrive in this environment. You misread your husband because you had decided you wanted him and that things would change once you got married. Be completely honest with yourself and follow your feelings about what you desire.

ANSWER: We think you are more concerned about human conception rather than creation. Creation is the initiation of a soul by Source from its own energy. Conception is the merger of cells from two humans to form a third.

A soul having a human experience accepts various beliefs (his personal belief system), which he then allows to do his thinking for him. This is how global consciousness, as you have called it, can be used to create one’s belief system. On a simpler basis, what you are taught by parents, teachers, religious, and what is read in scientific or societal journals generally forms what a person accepts as being reality. At this point in forming your beliefs, these are all just thought forms and nothing that has been learned through experience.

All of these materials are merely the opinions of the speaker or writer. There are no absolutes on Earth because every soul has the powers of manifestation and freedom of choice to live the way they desire. What is experienced by some, and therefore accepted as their truth, may not apply to anyone but themselves.

Souls are extremely powerful if they accept that they are and choose to use their power. They use their potential through intention. Some would call this “mind over matter” or creating their own reality.

We agree that you should never limit yourself to global “truths” because that is allowing others to decide what you feel is right for you and yours. Belief systems can be changed from what you have been told and accepted at a prior time to what you have experienced by having faith in what you feel instead of what you think. Create your world as you want instead of according to someone else’s impressions.

ANSWER: The common factor in both of these principles is freedom of choice. Before coming to Earth you chose the lessons you wished to experience. Your family and upbringing then defined your world for you through implanting belief systems controlling the way you lived your life. Some of these things were rules of behavior for society and common sense, but others were how they thought you should define yourself. These included what you thought about yourself and how you would interact with fellow humans. Your life-lessons came into play here because they influenced the strength with which various things affected your ability to readily change your feeling through freedom of choice—what you call creating your reality.

Your main difficulty has been the way you have approached creating your reality. An example of this is your term “hopeful,” which shows that while you accept you have the ability to create, you believe you might be able to do it but don’t know for a fact that you can. You have given yourself an excuse for not creating what you desire.

Your initial belief systems told you that you are less than other people, not as good as they are. This formed your lack of self-worth and self-confidence, creating your shy persona because it kept you from having to interact with people. Thinking yourself “damaged goods,” you have felt unequal to others and therefore a failure. One of your lessons in this life was to find the inner strength all souls have and to take that power and create the other events you need to grow—to love who you are and have the faith in your ability to create that perfect world. It is not too late. Tap into the power within and, with total love for yourself and for the journey you are on, know you can “conquer” anything and everything. It is up to you; no one can do it for you.

ANSWER: Every person creates their own reality and what they accept as the truth in their world. Your son’s girlfriend is a trouble maker who is jealous of various members of your family. She delights in creating controversy and having control over others. At this time, your son is being manipulated by his girlfriend, who wants to separate him from the rest of the family. This is one of his life lessons: to be able to “feel” what resonates with him and what he wants to believe – a lesson in discernment.

You are not going to be able to get anyone to change their mind concerning their beliefs in this situation unless, or until, they make the decision to do so. For her to admit her nasty remarks to your daughter would be to tell on her own devious plans to put wedges between family members. For your son, he would have to take sides against the woman he thinks is his “one and only love.”

You know the only one here not telling the truth is the girlfriend. While it hurts for your son not to believe what you say, you have to see it from his perspective. Does he back up his lover or does he take the side of his family, who his girlfriend claims does not like her and is trying to break them apart? Give him time, away from the constant struggle, to reason out what is happening.

When one gets so disturbed by the words of another, it is generally because they think there could be a grain of truth in them. Continue with your confidence in what you know and disregard what she is saying.

Send the kids unconditional love that they might come to their senses and accept things as they happened, not as they would have liked them to happen. Don’t carry a grudge or judgment because that takes you into negativity and away from love. Be the spiritually loving person in the equation, carrying the love for all of you until they decide to join you.

ANSWER: Each soul who is having a physical, human experience finds their way through life, and their chosen lessons, utilizing the belief systems they accept as the basis for their daily illusion. Once someone has accepted the belief system of another, it remains with them unless or until they choose to replace it with something else.

Most of the time you are not even aware you still adhere to the beliefs of another until it comes crashing into you one day when you have a reaction to a situation to which you have no reason to respond. In your case, similar-appearing beliefs Armageddon and the event, paradise and the shift, have brought back your earlier life and what you were taught to believe. You are repackaging concepts.

“The event” has many different definitions in the modern world and isn’t something that has anything to do with the soul’s spiritual journey. “The shift” is generally used to refer to removing oneself from the negativity of the third dimension and entering into the blissful unconditionally loving energy of Source in the arena of Home – a nonphysical state.

The shift is a solo condition brought on when a soul gets rid of their need for ego judgment and becomes a being who never judges but merely evaluates what they are observing. It is a spiritual process along the road to completing your chosen life lessons. Its tool is using one’s freedom of choice to reject negativity.

Everything you have experienced is all a part of this journey you are on. Without having a multitude of experiences, one cannot make informed decisions to progress along their path.

ANSWER: You are like a lot of other people who want someone to tell them what to do so that they do not feel responsible for the consequences of their actions. You cannot learn about yourself and life unless you step up and make your own decisions. This is called using your freedom of choice to learn.

Behind your problem is a lack of self-confidence and self-respect. Negativity is a choice; if you feel that way it is because you have chosen be in negativity. You can reverse this energy by choosing to always maintain a positive outlook. You create your world and the feelings within it. It does take work; it won’t happen on its own.

Stop thinking and start feeling. When you think, you are giving power to all those who have filled your head with opinions and ideas. The feelings inside are who you really are. When you think and analyze, you are doing it for the purpose of judgment (is this idea right or wrong?). Stop worrying about society’s decision about something being good or bad and just decide if it is something you wish to do.

Once you have made a decision on your own, without the input of family and friends, see if it allows you to learn about yourself; if it doesn’t, it may be time to move on to something else. It wasn’t the wrong thing for you – it allowed you to evaluate if you needed it in your life.

No matter how much unconditional love energy you have in your life, it won’t help unless you accept it and are determined to use it to enrich your existence. Choose an attitude of love and positive living.

ANSWER: You are battling your conscience, which is the result of belief-system rules created by society. This whole lesson concerns understanding discernment. Discernment is learning about judgment, taste, discretion, and sensitivity. You are very sensitive to energy and respond to it.

In the beginning, the feelings you had for your stepdaughter were the result of a negative residual energy she was carrying. As she aged and began making her own decisions, she shed that energy and became mostly positive. She is a beautiful soul with whom you have shared a number of different lifetimes. This familiarity is what draws you to her. It is easy and it is comfortable.

Your entire existence is currently being controlled by your sexual desires. You have become fixated on your stepdaughter and have done nothing to direct your energies in any other way. From a spiritual perspective nothing is right or wrong, but you are living in a third-dimensional, ego-based, judgment society that directs you to comply with their idea of propriety.

It is impossible to control others unless they consent to being controlled. Your stepdaughter feels the weight of society’s dictates and wants to be left alone by you so that she does not have to make the decision to ignore her feelings. Honor her life’s path. Let her find her own way through this life.

Explore your feelings for her mother and other suitable prospects. Understand that you are creating an impossible situation for her if you continue with your feelings for her. The decision is totally yours, but the impact can be devastating for your stepdaughter.

ANSWER: The situation you find yourself in at the moment is the result of your currently firing belief systems. They tell you how much you believe you can make and how you are prevented from accumulating any additional wealth.

Belief systems are the control valves of people’s everyday life. They restrict behavior to the parameters that have been accepted as fact. Most people are unaware that they even have belief systems, which began to crystallize when they were children, dependent on others and capable of being molded to their wishes. After a while such beliefs just existed and were never questioned.

To change your reality you need to change your accepted belief systems. The files are contained within your brain and must be overwritten with your own desires. It takes many repetitions of the new beliefs to completely cover up all the times you have accepted the old beliefs as absolutes.

The easiest way to accomplish this is by repeating an affirmation that expresses your desired life change. It must be specific enough to be different from and not confused with the past, and not so specific that you are restricted to only one possible outcome. For this reason we suggest your affirmation include the phrase “this or something better, greater, or more.”

The affirmation must be in the present tense, not the future tense. If you use future tense you are saying that you are happy to have it in the future and the future is always later. A possibility for your desired result could be “I am receiving $4000 or more per month.” This would allow it to come from work, inheritance, or a lottery win. You must then continue to work in some area that will allow your income to increase, purchase an occasional lottery ticket, etc.

But know that the one thing that can interfere with any affirmation is a conflict with a life lesson that you chose to learn.

ANSWER: To say that you are messed up with finances is an understatement-you are obsessed with money. You judge your worth by the amount of money that you earn and possess. Will you be able to take any of this physical money with you when you return Home? Then why do you downplay the abundance of spiritual wealth you have that you can take with you?

Living in the third-dimensional human world, you judge your worth by the standards of the society and what you see others possess. This is allowing society to create your belief systems for you. In this case it has to do with the amount of money you think you need.

Surround yourself with the unconditional love of your spiritual prosperity. The most balanced, spiritual, and happy people on your planet are those who possess nothing, like the Dalai Lama, Sai Baba, and cloistered monks. You do not have to emulate them-just stop falling on your knees before the altar of money.

Find your peace within the abilities that you have. Money problems are nothing more than an expectation of a want you believe that you have. When you feel that you will not be able to devote yourself to spiritual matters until you have a big enough bank roll so you won’t have to continue working, that money represents your worthiness. You are clearly stating to the universe and to yourself that you are not worthy to understand your life-lessons. One of your lessons is understanding that money binds you to human need and prevents you from accessing spiritual wisdom-that’s a lesson in itself.

Begin by having faith in your spiritual self. Your spiritual side knows the universe will provide whatever you need. It may not feel you have everything that you wish for, but you will have sufficient goods to spend time on your journey.

ANSWER: You have always possessed a need to be told what to do. It is very easy to adopt complete sets of regulations handed over by another and not take any responsibility for the rules by which you pattern your life. Islam provides a very beautiful way to live. It completely covers every action in your life, how you behave, how you talk, how you think, what you wear, but mostly what you believe.

As a teenager you sought these controls since nothing had provided them and you felt you existed in a void. The religion alone does not explain why bad things happen to good people, so with your father’s passing, you felt it failed you. Recently you had heard about mediums and thought they could: one, tell you what to do, and two, contact your father for advice.

All souls have the ability to communicate through the dimensions with the souls in the nonphysical realm. They must accept they have the ability to connect or it will never happen. You have had many incarnations and learned much. In this life, you have not accepted your innate powers and abilities. Relaxation is the starting point.

Depending on other people for guidance is one way to proceed. There is another. Learn to make the contact yourself and seek that advice from friends and guides on the Other Side. Once you establish a connection, know they will never tell you what to do – they will only advise you of the possibilities. The time to be directed is gone. This is the period when you have to step up and make your own decisions. Accept responsibility for those decisions utilizing your freedom of choice and what “feels” right for you. What resonates as you push away the negativity and seek out the positive is your path.

ANSWER: Your questions clearly show that your personal belief system involves the fact you think a plan exists that you have not discovered yet. Yes and no! Before you came to Earth you had decided on a series of lessons you wished to work on in this life. These events were for you to be able to learn all about negative and positive influences on your journey. They were just chapter titles; the “living” part of your life was to fill in the subtitles and the rest of the material in each chapter.

Nothing is set in stone (predestination) because the prime rule for all human life is the ability to make choices. Everyone shares the same general purpose in life: to discover as much about your nonphysical Source energy as you can, and to bring your abilities into the human arena.

You are like many others on the planet who think they have to find what they were supposed to do here. Nothing is further from the truth. Waiting for orders is easy; you do not have to take any responsibility for decisions. But part of your enlightenment process is to make those decisions yourself and see how they affect your knowledge base. Stop putting stress on yourself and go with the flow of the universe around you.

You think far too much. Start asking yourself what you feel about a situation instead of what you think about it. Your connection to Source, or the divine as you call it, does sound like yourself because nonphysical energy has no vocal cords with which to answer in any voice besides your own. The guides who are there to assist you can only give you advice; they cannot tell you what to do because that interferes with your freedom of choice.

Relax, put your feet up, and feel what you want to experience next. Yes, we said what you want to experience—you are the one making the decisions. Enjoy your choices; nothing is right or wrong. They are just all physical experiences providing learning opportunities for your soul.

ANSWER: Life lessons are for the soul alone. No one can take the burden from others or learn the underlying task for them. All you can do is share your knowledge about the soul’s journey with your mother and see if she wants to accept other possibilities than the belief systems she is clutching so dearly to her bosom.

People are only able to receive from others what they will accept. Your mother refuses to accept that she has had a part in any of the negative things that have inhabited her life. She has not looked into the motivations of others and seen why they had the tendency to treat her as they did. She was not a really pleasant person to grow up around and was always finding fault with others.

Your mother created the negativity. She was jealous of some of her siblings’ abilities and families, and that she took to be their jealousy of her life. Her parents were not too concerned about what happened around the house and left the day-to-day interactions to the children. Your mother felt she should be “protected” from the others and afforded a status almost as a princess. No one in the family saw the situation like that. She became very bitter.

She carried her bitterness into her marriage and gave little consolation to her husband, making him seek solace somewhere else. She has never tried to share her life with anyone except you. Her hatred has painted everything she sees with black negativity. She has to find love for herself before she can shed the darkness and find the light.

She can change her whole attitude if she will release her fear and hatred. She can go forward from today, letting go of the past to which she is clinging. Whenever she starts to talk about the bad times, ask her to picture only a happy moment and stop being trapped in the past. Today, she can make positive love energy and slip away from the negativity.

ANSWER: Each soul having a physical Earth incarnation accepts certain concepts, which they allow to influence all aspects of the human experience for them. These are called their belief system or, simply, beliefs. At first everyone is indoctrinated by those they trust; they learn to regard what society expects, in its judgmental ego manner, as being THE way to behave.

When young, humans do not yet realize they have total freedom of choice to accept or reject what others tell them. Most feel they have no choice at all. An additional segment is afraid to take responsibility for their decisions, so they allow others to decide for them. This, then, creates a mutually accepted reality for all who join in this group mentality.

Reality is a term that has varying definitions based upon your involvement in a spiritual journey. If you are aware of the power of the soul to manifest and create that which you desire, you constantly create your own version of the reality that you accept as applying to you. Reality is transitional for a human depending on the beliefs that are operative at any one time.

For example, if you live in a temperate climate, a humid 95 degrees F. temperature is normal and pleasing to you. If you then move and become used to a moderate climate, you find the temperature unbearable once it reaches 80 degrees even without humidity. Your reality has changed based on external input. If you are a member of a working-class family where no one receives an advanced degree, you are very content and feel complete on learning a trade. If you are born into a family of professionals, your reality includes a need to achieve a professional degree, or you feel you are a failure.

Under hypnosis it is possible to visit other timelines or past lives. Wherever your consciousness is centered is your reality at that moment. You may be experiencing a battle you engaged in once upon a time, but your physical body is relaxing on a couch in the therapist’s office. Both are a part of the reality of your soul.

The soul has the ability to choose what to experience. So, yes, you can live whatever life you desire in another place and time.

ANSWER: Shame, with a lack of self-confidence and self-love, has figured prominently throughout your life. These earlier life situations are repeating themselves because they have become “permanent” belief systems that you have allowed to remain. Whether or not you consciously recognize them, they are the rules and regulations by which you conduct your life and behavior. It is time to see them, erase them, and replace them.

As the body of a soul having a human experience starts its journey, it mimics the actions around it. If those activities are ways of behaving, honoring others, accepting concepts, the mind unconsciously catalogues them as needed beliefs to get along in society. The conscious thinking mind is totally unaware of the process.

All the statements directed toward the person are taken in. If they contain a sense of displeasure by others concerning your behavior, the mind unconsciously records the disdain of society and brands those actions as something to be avoided. If they seem to provide the opinions of others as an identity for you, you accept it as being truthful and who you are.

You have to figure out who you are. Who do you want to be? How do you desire to be seen by others? What is the feeling you have when you find yourself holding back? Start by examining the fears and doubts that spring up in daily situations. These are beacons being given out by your life lessons.

When you hear a voice from your past saying that you are not good enough for something, stop and ask why. Let the moment take you back to the actual incident and then look at it with your adult eyes, not the impressionable child eyes. See that the shame was foisted upon you by another and really had nothing to do with your actions. At that point, take and consciously erase the whole emotional impact of the event from your belief systems.

Replace the erased space with the sense that you can do anything you put your heart into. Accept that you are a piece of Source energy and have all the powers and abilities of Source. You are fantastic and capable of creating any type of reality you desire.

ANSWER: All souls plan for the major lessons in their lives before entering into a body. Your relative, in agreement with other people she would have contact with including you, chose to be dependent on the assistance of others. She is trapped in an encasement that is malfunctioning. She sacrificed herself for the learning of others. Her unconscious soul is gathering all types of learning from observing how others react to her condition.

From your perspective, you are testing your belief system, which demands you take care of family members regardless of the expense to you in physical exhaustion. This is an ego-based, third-dimensional, societal requirement, instituted so that society does not have to assume the responsibility of taking care of these people. For you, the individual, it becomes a choice of honoring yourself and understanding that you are not the best person for this job.

Your relative would be better served in an environment where she can get stimulation from a group of people instead of just from you. You would benefit by getting your life back so that you may move on to other experiences. This is not selfish of you. This is being realistic about your limitations and acknowledging the expertise of others.

When you began this journey, you thought it would be temporary and that others would be there to help. You liked the thought of how you would be perceived as being a martyr without any understanding of the cost to you. As time passed, you saw this as something for which you are ill prepared; you question its efficacy but don’t know how to back out gracefully without the criticism you fear may come.

You are the only person for whom you should have concern. Let others say what they wish – they have not been in your shoes, nor have they even offered any assistance. Your relative needs to be in a place where her condition is understood and worked with constantly. Your next step is figuring out what you want to do to occupy all the time you spent with her.

ANSWER: What you are referring to as mind programming, we call a person’s belief systems. While some people relate this term only to religious ideas, it has to do with the way you manage every aspect of your life. Belief systems are the rules by which you allow your life to be controlled. If you have created the rule that you cannot move on because you will not succeed or don’t have the necessary expertise to do so, then you will be mired in concrete.

Belief systems normally don’t follow a soul from life to life, but if the person has established very strong wishes and desires, those beliefs will stick like glue until they are deleted or overwritten. You are correct that this is a software problem. You have a program, or two, telling you that the desired stage necessary before you can move on has not been reached.

In both Egypt and Atlantis you were apprenticed, first to an architect and then to a wizard, and in both cases they set extremely high standards of learning before you could be allowed to go out on your own. This life finds you searching for your knowledge without a structured environment. You therefore determine when you are ready to move on.

To be free of these strong feelings from the past, you must overwrite that program with a faith in yourself and the universe. Follow the path of discovery you wish to be on. Know that you can do whatever it is that you wish to experience.

Divinity is what you will achieve when you adjust your programming. Every step toward knowing and understanding yourself is a move toward the divinity that is your soul.

ANSWER: Just as your mother had to accept it was necessary to cut the apron strings when you needed to go out on your own so you might grow and mature, you need to evaluate what your responsibility to her is, in reality. The wishes of your mother are to some degree very selfish. She is keeping you from living your life by her requests for your almost constant assistance.

In this period of her life she has a fear of death, and when you are around she can imagine herself as a young mother with a doting daughter. Nothing you are doing in recognizing the true situation, her age, and her health difficulties, is being selfish. There are a number of times when others are a much better aid for her than you could ever be.

When a woman has a baby, she puts a portion of her life on hold to help mold that child into a responsible adult. She has usually done everything she could to create that baby. Nothing in the equation of daughterhood calls for a reciprocal “hold” when the mother becomes dependent. You do not “owe” her for taking care of the child she wanted.

Assuring that she is adequately being taken care of does not imply that you must be the caregiver. The life you are leading is still yours and not a continuation of hers. One of your life lessons is learning to honor your journey by using self-love as a motivating factor for your actions.

You are assigning duties to yourself that you have every right, but no responsibility, to do. Everybody dies, and every soul returns Home to unconditional love to be mourned by the humans who remain in body.

Your mother is not simply the body seen before you; she is an eternal soul with whom you have made contracts to puzzle over the exact situation you face. There are no right or wrong answers or actions to this dilemma. There will be no regrets if you remember this was a group agreement and you will rehash it when together again.

ANSWER: These beings that are such a part of your society are designated and given powers by those who believe in them. They have become a part of your belief system because those around you tell you what they believe in and insist you share the same beliefs. This is where freedom of choice comes in.

When you travel to other countries and locations, you will find that people have no knowledge of these various forms of gods. This is because their ancestors didn’t start a belief in the alleged power of these deities, or they had others of their own. This is a part of your locale’s regional mythology.

A myth is a traditional story, generally of unknown origin, that usually uses a semi-historical basis to explain some phenomenon of nature, or is established to get a group of people acting in a particular manner.

Over the years, some nonphysical beings have purported to be one or the other of the deities in question. Some of these have been positive souls who have returned to act as guides for those still on Earth. Others have been negative souls who have left their bodies but wish to control the thoughts and actions of humans because they can. These latter beings use the religious beliefs as a way to induce someone to do what they want.

A soul has freedom of choice to return Home or remain on Earth. But we ask you: would you forsake unconditional love for a little control over a few humans? With each belief presented to you by others, ask yourself whether or not it serves any purpose in your life. Ask if it feels like it resonates with your soul, or if it is chaotic and abrasive. Accept only those beliefs that will assist you through your learning in this life.

Remember that all souls come from the pieces that were broken off of Source. Their essence is identical. They have the same powers and abilities if they accept they do and believe they can use them. No one is any “better” or more special than any other. There is no judgment whatsoever in the spiritual world – all are alike.

ANSWER: Part of the problem comparing philosophies from over 2600 years ago is in the semantics. When Buddha lived there was no common written language, so you have long periods of time using oral traditions, translations from various ancient languages, and differing inputs from factions of Buddhism. The only recording today is from the modern-day interpretations, and between sects, you will find some of their principles contradict each other.

Examining various types of Buddhism, you will find belief systems that exist on many different ideations. If you examine their sense of awareness, they all include a sense of the inner essence – a way in which some modern-day religions describe the soul. Just as there are many terms for the originator of all – god, creator, source, divine energy, there are many names for what it was that they created. In Western philosophies most have used the term soul.

Ramana Maharshi spoke of a spirit that transcends the death of the body, and of the eternity of existence. The biggest difficulty with the teachings of which you speak is that they were translated from his native Tamil and Sanskrit, even though he had learned English in his youth. Translations frequently reflect the opinions of the translator and not the intent of the original speaker.

Some of Maharshi’s teachings stated that your goal was enlightenment or awakening, and you never truly lived until you reached that plane. You then had nothing else you had to do, so there was no reason to try again. This is very much like exiting the “wheel of rebirth,” which is at the basis of many Eastern religions.

What is available to read today is someone’s recollection of what they believe was the intention in some remembered words of Buddha and Maharshi. You have to ask yourself: Why is it of importance to you? Do you wish to accept the beliefs of another? Something that you believe worked for them? Or are you seeking something that resonates within you and allows you to create a reality through beliefs that complete your human journey? If any of these ideas fit into your beliefs, accept them until they don’t any longer.

ANSWER: When people say that they believe in something and then question the premise of that belief, they are walking a tightrope between believing and knowing. If you only believe you got out of bed this morning, you might be sleep walking or having a lucid dream. But if you know you got up, because you are able to interact with the world, that is something definite.

When you feel weird about your beliefs, you have not totally accepted them—or at least you have not claimed them as your own. If you know that your beliefs are part of your life’s truth, they feel right and good to you and you will wish to share this acquired knowing with all.

What is standing in your way right now is your doubt. You don’t trust your ability to do what you believe others have done, simply because you have never done it before. The first time you try anything—walking, riding a bicycle, swimming, talking to spirits—you’re not sure you can do it. We can guarantee you one thing: if you don’t try, you will never accomplish anything new.

Your stepfather is with us and settling in, but he is not ready to communicate. He is still a little dazed by the transition. We are helping him get acclimated and he will be ready soon. Clear your mind, picture him as you remember him, and then open up a conversation. You may not hear and see him as you did when he had a human body, but he will find a way to let you know he is there.

ANSWER: Spiritism is a philosophical religion based on the writings of the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, who used the pen name Allan Kardec. His doctrines dealt with the connection, in his reality, between the physical and nonphysical elements in his accepted universe. He related that the soul, as we know it, came to Earth (or incarnated) in order to understand humanity and therefore be enriched.

What a soul faces, when having a human experience, has to do with what they accept as their own reality. Each soul creates an illusion of life by the belief systems they choose to accept to rule and control their life. These beliefs generally come from things that others have accepted and then have persuaded the soul to accept as the way to exist.

The only place where negativity exists is on the surface of the planet Earth. Once leaving the human physical, a soul cannot experience negativity or “bad” things. They return to an essence of unconditional love. A suicide separates the soul from the physical form and frees it to enter the unconditional love where negativity is banned.

When you accept and/or follow the doctrines, beliefs, or dictates of a group, religious or otherwise, they influence you only as long as you continue to keep them as part of your reality. If you want to change to a conflicting belief, they disappear unless you return to them later.

What you should do is not accept anyone else’s ideas about your life unless they feel good to you and resonate with your energy. When you adhere to another’s beliefs, you are giving them control over you. Always take responsibility for your own power by examining how the ideals of others impact you.

On a spiritual path nothing is right or wrong. It is a series of tasks that allow you to see what you can learn from using or observing how your life is directed by your choices. All the choices are yours. Don’t be afraid to try out various directions until you find something that satisfies your thirst for knowledge and understanding.

ANSWER: Your world was once a place where communication was conducted face to face, and those living great distances away never knew of your existence. Now news media, radios, televisions, and particularly the Internet, make those on the other side of the planet your neighbors. Travel has allowed people you would never have met to come visit in your locale and share their beliefs.

With the large amount of information available now, it is hard for someone to try to teach a system of religion or spiritual beliefs that the masses aren’t easily able to  question, or that is inapplicable to the needs of people today. The masses are now very educated and not gullible at all. Most importantly, you have learned about your freedom of choice, and can think and decide what you want as pieces of your reality.

In the past, religious teachings were the only way an illiterate population learned anything, and they were used as a means of controlling the populace. Most of the rules were constructed by the hierarchy to achieve their desires. The people felt comfortable because they knew what was required of them and they didn’t have to take responsibility for their lives. Both sides were fairly content.

Spirituality is a means for you to understand why you are here, connect with the unconditional love of Source, bring past-life learning forward, and establish the belief system that feels right to you at any time. If the various systems you’re thinking about are based on reincarnation and the journey of the soul, they will have the same features.

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) was originally channeled material that came at a time of transition away from organized religion. The material has been somewhat modified to fit the circumstances of editors and publishers. Forgiveness is an Earth concept that arises from the duality of positive and negative choices. Spirituality directs you to leave the negative completely and go into the positive of self-love. ACIM is a stepping stone to prepare some for their first big leap away from negativity.

ANSWER: Once people develop belief systems, since they mostly come from parents, relatives, society, religious groups, and peers, it is very difficult to get them to realize that they have the ability to change them. Just as with the hard-drive memory of a computer, your belief systems keep controlling every aspect of your life until they are deleted, overwritten, or rewritten.

Most people are even unaware of the beliefs that control them so completely. If you ask why they have done something, frequently their answer is that they have always done it a certain way, or that is the way that everybody does it. If you press them further for a reason, they simply cannot tell you why.

The first step in getting people to analyze their behavior is to keep asking the “why” question. Pin them down. Don’t let them avoid thinking about their reasons. When they begin to start to question themselves, that is when they see that they never thought about their actions, which are just automatic. When you get them to this point, suggest that they start to watch their own behavior and see if they have a good reason for doing what they do.

Arguing, condemning, or ridiculing behavior will only force it deeper into the person’s psyche. As your husband tries to find reasons for his actions, he will have flashes back to his youth and will see that what he did then makes absolutely no sense now. It is like old, outdated information that has to be recognized as such to be purged from our memory.

Seeing his mother would only reinforce his patterns since his youth is where they originated. He must accept that the past is past and the present is now-a new blank slate that he has control over. He may be ready to see belief systems as limiting his horizon by keeping him stuck in the past, or he may very well be so comfortable there that he doesn’t want to move along. Freedom of choice rules.

ANSWER: Some religions you speak of have a section of belief systems they impose on their membership which dictates that not only should sex be engaged in only for procreation but that it should be done repeatedly to increase the number of celebrants in the religion. This has all the subtlety of breeding cattle, and this while the enforcers themselves allegedly observe celibacy.

Other beliefs feel only the male has the say in matters of intercourse and must be obeyed whether or not the female is in agreement. Polygamy is endorsed where the male is dominant and the result is increased productivity of children. None of these religions speak to love, honoring, and sharing between spouses.

As we have spoken many times, souls accept belief systems from many sources as they are maturing. They use these beliefs to determine how they are going to pattern their life. They are never told by those who give them the laws: they have the freedom to accept or reject each in turn. The soul always has the freedom to choose what it wishes to experience – to create its own set of laws for life.

On a spiritual path there is nothing which is considered to be right or wrong because there no judgment exists. The soul merely evaluates what it witnesses or experiences and then decides whether it is something they need to repeat or if it is not needed, thanked, and sent on its way.

The sex act is a pleasurable, tension-releasing way to share with another. It does not bind one to another and does not ensure a religious “pathway to heaven”, although a form of Earthly bliss may be enjoyed. The bodies which souls occupy are full of nerve endings which allow experiences not duplicable in any other fashion. Sex is an experiment in the possible reactions, emotions, and sensations only possible on Earth, stimulating the sexual response centers of a body.

Is it wrong to take part in the enjoyment of a creation made to be able to respond in these manners? Absolutely not. Nothing is right or wrong in your spiritual journey unless you choose to accept the need to follow the teachings of another on the Earth plane, but then you are the one restricting your own activity.

ANSWER: Patience, self-worth, confidence, and especially self-love are huge blockages before you. Trying to live up to a label or title puts increasing pressure on you. No two souls having a human experience follow the same path—each life is unique. Whenever you identify with something someone else has reported, you immediately give over your power to be in control to the one whose past experience you espouse.

Accepting responsibility for your journey, and letting that journey contain only what feels good to you, takes an investment in trusting yourself. It is very easy to pick up a copy of a belief system stating that if you do this you will accomplish that, and if you fulfill some intention you will be in a certain place. It just doesn’t work that way.

You will find yourself much more than just a “little bit” successful in meditating, visualizing, and having communication with your guides if you accept yourself and forget about the rest of the planet. You are a beautiful, magnificent, powerful individual. You are a soul broken off from Source and share that divine essence. Accept it. Believe it. Feel it. Live it. Use it. Love yourself because of who you are, and all the insecurities will vanish.

You have many guides who are attempting to assist you—your twin flame is one of them.

ANSWER: Forgiveness is the key. Forgive those who helped you learn lessons through pain and betrayal. Forgive yourself for holding on to all this distress for so many years. Forgive yourself for the way you reacted to your children. But most especially forgive yourself for not accepting who you are.

You came to Earth to learn lessons and to discover the magnificent soul you have contained inside. When you are tied up fighting with the daily world, you don’t sense the inner strength that is your true self. Your connection with your soul is trapped in the pain and anger of physical history, what you believe is the truth and what others have convinced you is reality.

To move on you must release the hold your memories want to constantly relive. The past has passed; the future is what you allow to be your world. The secret is to live in the moment—the now. Every emotion that comes from within can then be examined as it arises, and you have the ability to decide whether to keep it as part of your new life or to release it into the garbage pile of the past.

You are not in a permanent situation over which you have no control. Unfortunately, that is what you have convinced yourself is true. Once you release the old beliefs from your description of your life, you start with an empty book into which you, as author, can manifest what you desire. You are a beautiful soul who has the power to rewrite your life.

ANSWER: The soul contained within each human body has its point of origin from the Source. Some sought to enter into an incarnation, take a physical form, at the very beginning of the population of the various planets, and others chose to wait until a community and/or society was formed.

Societies were formed for the purpose of allowing the soul to experience a number of different types of existences. The groups created had a type of energy that they wished to share. They may have desired to be aligned with the energy of the air, the earth, the water, or fire. Possible additional experiences shifted into issues of service, advisor, manager, worker, intellectual, or peacemaker. Still others wanted to be warrior, athlete, physically or mentally challenged, or simply an observer.

The fact that a soul chose one particular characteristic as its first life form did not prohibit it from then going into something totally different at the completion of the first lifetime. The information that you have read about clans describes belief systems that were created concerning one specific period in the Earth’s history of evolution.

Whatever part your soul chose at that specific period in time did not constrict you to one definition for your other trips to Earth. Remember that each incarnation is merely a role that you have chosen to portray for a little part of your existence. You are eternal, with the only beginning coming from your division from Source. Knowing a particular role you took only tells you what particular skills you may have mastered.

It is better to go inside and ask yourself, “What skills do I know I have brought into this life to use for myself and others?” Knowing that you have visited a country does not make you an expert in that country’s customs unless you engaged in every possible combination available. Rarely does a soul take the time to learn other than that which they had chosen to come and learn. If you are of early Roman lineage in one of your lives, it does not mean you can now speak Italian.

A. We do not wish to get into a discussion about belief systems concerning and contained within organized religions. The teachings of each individual religion and sect are for each member to interpret individually or choose to follow blindly. No one from this side of the veil (the Other Side or Home) will ever tell you what to think or not to think.

The whole premise for life on planet Earth is to feel what is right for you and to exercise your freedom of choice to determine what you will accept and live as a belief system or reality. Part of all freedom of choice selections (made while in human form) is accepting responsibility for your own decisions. It is impossible to learn anything if you do only what you are told instead of having to experiment on your own to see what feels right to you.

Don’t be concerned about what other people are doing. The choices that are right for them may not feel right to you.

ANSWER: A lot of things are presenting themselves to you at this time. You are at a crossroads where you have become aware of the fact that you have finished everything you can learn in your present position. This is also a time of testing. What have you learned about your life lessons, your responsibilities, and trusting yourself?

You are aware that you have been very good at your current position but it has not given you much of a chance to test your managerial skills. The opportunity of taking over for your superior would do just that. What is the drawback? You would not get the additional compensation for doing her job and would be back exactly where you are now when she returns. Your experience has prepared you to lead; even your superior acknowledges that by her demands. You are feeling strange because you don’t know how you  would perform and don’t trust your intuition that you could do the job.

You have no spiritual responsibility to anyone but yourself. It does not matter that she has planned for this—she is simply taking advantage of you. It does not matter what others say about your loyalty to the company or your boss or even their interpretation of you as being selfish. It should not affect you at all unless you allow it. It is time to think about yourself and say “No, thank you.” Do not give control of your decisions to your superior. Do something only if you feel it is the right thing for you to do.

You had decided on a life lesson about managing others, so look for a position where you can be hired to do it full time. This is also needed for you to accept your own worth and abilities in this life. As long as you listen to what others are saying and let that sway your decisions, you will feel uncomfortable and out of control. Step up, see what you feel like doing, and then manifest it!

ANSWER: Personal prejudices should not have an impact on sexual relationships or the way you see a person as a potential partner. You are stating that how society might view your lover is more important to you than the fact that he would do anything for you and loves you beyond question. You have made the judgment, with the help of what others think, that he is not worthy of you.

What makes you think that you are so great? If your positions were reversed, would you voluntarily walk away from him because others think that you may not be good enough? Are you being blinded and influenced by what others may say, and  giving up your own feelings to fit into society? Take your decision-making power back from those to whom you have so readily bowed.

Souls come to Earth to learn who they are as a soul, and that all souls are from the same Source and have the same abilities and powers. The thoughts that you have once you get here create a set of belief systems by which you run your life. The first beliefs come from parents, teachers, and society and are accepted without question.

What a lot of souls do not understand is that part of your life’s journey is to review these rules and see if they feel good to you and if you wish to keep allowing them to control your decisions in life. If you wish to follow what you believe is “written in stone” – such as “I am better than he” or “he is not good enough for me” – then let him know about your prejudices, received from family and friends, and move on.

Right now your secret disapproval of him is not treating him fairly. Tell him what you think and why you think it. If you don’t truly know why you have these ideas, then it is time to review your beliefs and see which ones resonate with you. If third-dimensional ego lifestyle is more important to you than a loving, sharing companion, it is time to find a shallow individual who shares your prejudices.

Honor yourself and him by defining why you are acting the way you are. Make it your own decision, not just an echo of your believed position in society.

ANSWER: When a person’s adult life is dedicated to taking care of another, their energies become entwined. Your mother stayed on the planet as long as she did because you were feeding her from your energy supply for years. You are experiencing withdrawal right now. Your plan was to be in this position sometime during this life and to see if you could learn the lessons it brought to you.

So far your life has never been about you. It has been about taking care of others and not having to find solace in your own life. Therefore you have never had to find love within. As a matter of fact, you don’t know how to love yourself. You have it as part of your belief system that your purpose is to love and care for others and that it is selfish to love or pamper yourself. That is not the spiritual path, which is to find and connect with the unconditional love of the universe—the essence of the soul.

Believe it or not, this is your life! Your mother would not have wanted you to continue caring for her by pining away for her after she left this plane of existence. Grief is a very low vibration; it is a negative energy that holds off positive love energy. To raise your level of vibration you need to choose to rid yourself of negativity of any kind.

The way you begin a positive life is to tell yourself every morning that you are going to find something to love about the day. Become aware of the world around you; you have missed so much over the years. Embrace the life that is out there. Feel the breeze against your skin, hear the birds and animals, enjoy a smile and pleasantry with your neighbors. Within the world you will find love and a reason to start a new life.

ANSWER: What is holding you back? You are! It is easier to do nothing and talk about it than to take a few steps and do something. Your life lessons include connecting with your strength and moving forward. To do that, you have to love yourself. Why, you ask? Because if you don’t love yourself, you don’t think you deserve to accomplish anything, and so you sit back like a helpless victim and talk about how you can’t do anything.

Start with the basics of who you are. You are a piece of Source—all powerful, all magnificent, all knowing. You create the world that you live in. If you see negativity, you create negativity. If you see failure, you draw failure to you. If you think you have to get advice constantly from others, and they say what you already know, it confirms for you that you can’t move forward. If you don’t have confidence in yourself to get clients, you will be in a financial struggle.

You are a healer. You have been a healer in many past lives. That is not your problem. Your problem is your belief in your abilities. You question that you can help people until you actually do and the result is fantastic (if the client is on board with being healed).

Stop spending time “thinking.” Start sending out positive energy to those who can use your ability. They will find you. Begin with affirmations concerning your expertise. That will be easy to do without having to get too far away from your procrastination. When the statements ignite a fire in you to work, the energy you have sent out for work will bring in results. You will want to service those who come to you, and you will develop a new belief system full of success.

ANSWER: You are existing on a planet of dual energies, both negative and positive. Souls come to the surface to experience negativity wrapped around life lessons to see if they realize they have the freedom of choice to change the direction in which their life appears to be going.

The main forces impacting daily life are determined by the ego judgment of society. Depending upon where you have chosen to physically settle, the laws (belief systems) vary. Society may choose to tell you what you can do with your body, or it may leave it completely up to you. The decision to cease the viability of your body may be your choice or mandated by that society.

A spiritual person understands that both the length of their life and the lessons they undertook are in their hands. That would mean they can stop a lesson by withdrawing from it at any time. In most cases this would be by returning Home, or ending that particular physical life so that another may be instigated. The general technique is assisted or self-employed suicide.

Many areas have laws against suicide, mostly stemming from religious beliefs. At one time religions proclaimed suicide to be a sin because you were acting as God by determining the extent of life. Some religions still teach that belief. In ages past, people in authority did not want any of their work forces to be able to take away property and slave labor. Neither of these practices gave any consideration to a soul’s possibly having freedom of choice.

This issue and all other things that encompass one’s life lessons take place in the duality so that one may make their own decisions concerning how and what they seek to understand. Spiritually, there is nothing that affirms or denies a soul’s right to commit suicide. Practically, based on societal laws, there might be: that is when the life lesson brings up freedom of choice and working with situations chosen before incarnating. The choice is always the individual’s to make.