Summer Solstice: Turning Up the Heat

Because of the tilt of the axis of the Earth in relation to the sun as we revolve around it, the northern and southern extremes of the planet get more or less sunlight during the year. So summer solstice is the point at which the northern hemisphere is pointed toward the sun and so the days are longest, and the southern hemisphere is pointed away and the days are shortest.

Spiritually, summer solstice in the northern hemisphere (which we do inhabit in Panama, though barely) has been a celebration of the abundance of life, a time for gratitude and enjoyment of life on Earth.

This year's summer solstice, however, has a more powerful significance.


Last year's summer solstice marked the beginning of a period of intense increase in the frequency of the energy reaching the Earth, which has affected us by preparing us to leave behind what no longer works for us personally or for humanity as a whole, and attuning us to higher-vibrational ways of thinking, feeling and doing.

In Panama, a new community of spiritually attuned people, both Panamanians and expats, has come together since last year's summer solstice. For me personally, this year has been one of dramatic spiritual experiences, growth and changes. I've moved from being able to get spiritual information and direction through meditation, to being able to access it pretty much anytime, anywhere. I've experienced for myself esoteric realities I would have had trouble even believing possible a year ago. And so in some ways I'm further removed from the norm, yet I'm also better positioned to help other people cross this bridge to a new reality in which the inner and outer worlds are more easily navigated as one.

You may have noticed that your own spiritual life has become more important to you, more fulfilling or more intense, in the past year. Or perhaps that your material and emotional life has become more unsettled or feels less certain than it did. This also is true of the world, and can be seen in the falling apart of the world economy, the election of more enlightened leaders, and probably other effects that I'm not aware of.

This year's summer solstice is said to be a kind of doorway into a time of much more rapid development still, with more intense energies shifting stuff around not only for us, but for the world as a whole.

If you read reports by spiritually aware astrologists, you will find that the planets have been lining up since the spring equinox in April to intensify the energies that support spiritual enlightenment, letting go of dysfunctional patterns of thought, feeling and action, and embracing new realizations of oneness, that the highest good for all is also the highest good for the individual, and a new ability to connect to vibrations of love, light, peace, harmony and truth.

As we approach the solstice, I feel called to contemplate what is the special role of the equatorial part of the Earth in this play of energies and consciousness. In Panama, we experience very little change in our daily dose of daylight throughout the year.

Perhaps this is why I have felt ever since I came here that the energy is especially intense here, and in fact have been told so by my guides-in-spirit. This means we have the potential to be Light-holders for the rest of the planet, where the greater portions of the population live. We have the potential to lead the way through this shift in energies, to attune ourselves to love and maintain that attunement as beacons for the world.

At the same time, it means that if you live elsewhere, you might try turning your attention to the equatorial regions when you meditate and just ask to receive anything that could benefit you from the energies here. And let me know, if you try this, what you experience! If you ask for assistance from your guides or Self, you will receive only what is beneficial for you individually, so it's perfectly safe.

In Panama City, we are going to hold a special solstice meditation to open ourselves to the higher frequencies of energy that correspond to higher spiritual consciousness. We will invite our guides, teachers, ascended masters, angels, higher Selves -- whomever each of us feels close to on the spiritual plane -- to assist us in receiving, accepting and carrying out our role in the play of human life at this time on the planet

This is a special opportunity for all of us, if we are aware of it, to do the same. By being aware of what's going on, and according ourselves with it for the highest good of not only ourselves but humanity, we stand to be richly blessed and get through the major changes to come as comfortably, serenely and joyfully as possible.
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Love, Light and Joy,
Susan
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Shift? What Shift? 2012 and Beyond

Much is being written about predictions of the end of the world on December 21, 2012. That's when the Mayan calendar ends, and so it's become the date most often used to mark what others refer to as "the shift."

Sounds like a bunch of flakey New Age mumbo-jumbo, doesn't it? Who is supposed to be shifting, and to what? Are we all going to just go up in flames, or get zapped by an enormous wave of electromagnetic energy sent out by a solar storm that is more than our bodies can handle?

Maybe. I'm not making any predictions, except that the shift is moving humanity from what's called the third dimension to the fourth dimension. And that's not a prediction, because we're already experiencing its effects. Those effects are predicted to peak at the end of 2012 (just as Barack Obama reaches the end of his first term in office, interestingly). At that point, we may all (if you're reading this, you're probably already on your way) just wake up in a new reality that's a whole lot easier to live in.

What's Shifting?

Everything, including human bodies and our thoughts and feelings, is made of energy. We know this now from physics. This energy vibrates. As the frequency of vibration increases, it comes closer to the very rapid vibrational rate of beings that we can’t currently see or hear, including angels, ascended masters, souls not currently in human form, and other aspects of Source. Infinite Source, the creative life-force energy itself, vibrates at infinite speed.

You can picture this vibratory motion as a series of waves, with a still point at the top and bottom of each wave, when the movement changes direction. As speed of vibration increases, the waves get closer together. At infinite speed, the still points overlap. So you have infinite speed and stillness as One. The alpha and omega, in other words.

Higher vibration, then, is closer to the vibration of Source or God or Universal Mind -- whatever you like to call it. The faster our own energy bodies vibrate, the easier it is for us to attune to this consciousness, as well as to the consciousness of other Beings such not in human form -- ascended masters, angels and spirit guides of all kinds. At higher vibrations, we can more easily hear, see and feel their presence.


Third, Fourth, Fifth -- What's the Difference?

For a long time, the bulk of humanity has been living in the third dimension, which is dominated by physical sense perception. Every now and then, a being of higher frequency would take on a human identity to help others learn how to attune within and discover their true identity as individual expressions or centers of the divine Source energy.

Jesus is probably the best known and most accomplished, but there were others. In the past century, many souls have been coming to earth who could “pierce the veil,” so to speak, reaching higher levels of perception through meditation and other forms of trance-state or altered consciousness. You may have noticed how in recent decades, a lot more people are meditating, and a lot more are writing books and teaching about how to access the wisdom and love of your own inner Being.

Also for a long time, many religious and cultural traditions have predicted an end to the Earth as we know it. Very famously, the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. The Bible predicts the end of the world, preceded by “wars and rumors of wars,” along with other catastrophes.

Often interpreted as a fearful event, or alternatively an ascension into a new heaven (usually only for those belonging to the religion making the prediction), this “end of the world” represents a mass shift in consciousness from the third to the fourth dimension.

In the fourth dimension, the inner senses are more easily accessed and used. You could say that in the fourth dimension, the “veil” is thinned, and we can more easily cross into the spiritual realm. What used to be taught in “mystery schools” and experienced only by mystics is becoming readily available to everyone. All you need to know is how to access your own inner ability to see, hear, feel, and understand.

Some of us have been living in fourth dimensional consciousness for a long time, and some have recently moved into a fifth dimensional state. This just means that more spiritual Light energy can pass through the individual’s energy field, bringing with it more awareness. The perceived division between "Big Me" or God-Self, and "Little Me" or human self, melts away. It’s easier to stop one’s thoughts and simply be, which allows the Light to shine on all situations and bring with it knowing that doesn’t have to be expressed in words.

Of course, we can still use words to express questions and gain wisdom and insight. Words are useful for conveying knowledge and understanding. They can be fun, too -- at least for some of us! But they aren’t required at higher levels of communication, which can arrive as direct understanding, or through vision, sound or feeling.

This reality is joyful, beautiful and creative. In it, we perceive both the temporary joys of physical existence and the eternal, unchanging joy of life itself that is our real home and existence. We are Life, and only when we know it can we truly enjoy it!

So no matter where you are at this moment, you are moving into an infinitely more beautiful space. The difference will be striking and bring you great joy.

What's Going Down?

This is what the Shift is all about. As with all transitions, it involves letting go of old ways of living that are no longer useful, to make room for new possibilities. Sometimes the transition feels a little rocky. We reach the low point between two waves, a moment (cosmically speaking, which to us can feel like years!) in which we feel empty, lost, abandoned.

This is an illusion, of course, because the next wave is always coming. Emptiness is just the moment before fullness. But in that moment, it feels very real. Everything feels stagnant, and nothing seems to move.

I know many people here in Panama who are at that point now. We are all supporting each other emotionally and spiritually through this transition. Panama, as the central point of the Western Hemisphere, is a vortex that draws in energy from around the globe. Therefore, any condition here is exaggerated and intensified.

We (along with others around the world) are in the vanguard of this change, and soon (we all hope!) will be on the other side. Not physically, but energetically. Our vibrational range has shifted upwards, and but everything we need and want to survive and thrive is still somewhere in the process of manifestation. Somewhere in that time between the originating desire and the coalescing of the atoms in the physical world to create what we have asked for.

No matter where you are, you are also receiving a higher-vibrating energy that is beginning to change how people feel and function. It challenges the body, and sometimes brings on flu-like symptoms of exhaustion, lethargy, headaches or other pain.

It causes the eyes to do funny things; I get circles of white light around around the lens sometimes when I blink. This effect comes and goes. Other people are starting to see the sparkling energy of the universe. That's a fourth-dimensional phenomenon, which you may or may not have noticed before.

And of course, we've all noticed the economic structures of the world shifting, cracking, starting to sag. This symptom too will come and go, but eventually anything that doesn't resonate with a higher level of consciousness will fall away and a new order will be created.

What's Coming Up?

This means that a new economy will emerge based on cooperation, creative collaboration, and the understanding that we are not indeed separate and our resources not limited, but that we are One Being in many forms, and we can use our innate inner power to bring forth the highest good for all. Because each of us can only benefit when all benefit; any harm we cause another causes us harm as well. This economy won't support win-lose situations, only win-win-win-win-win!

That's the way it's meant to be. As above so below; as in Heaven, so on Earth.

Blessings and good shifting to you all! Please let me know how it's going for you, and if you have any questions post them and I'll see what answers I receive.

Light, Love, Joy,

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Who Says? My Sources and How They Speak to Me

Last time, I said I write about information received directly from my own inner sources.

"Who are those sources?" you might ask, and in fact, you should.

My primary source is what I call my higher Self, or God-Self -- my own individual ray of the Source or All-That-Is or, simply, God.

I access the wisdom of my Self through meditation, but just as often, it accesses me. I may be sitting on my balcony eating breakfast when I feel its presence pulling at me, calling. I stop to listen, ask questions, get answers, understand more deeply what we're doing here, how life works. Sometimes I write dialogues with the Spirit, as Neale Donald Walsh did in his Conversations with God books.

My second source of information are the higher beings that have guided and taught me throughout my life. Everyone has spirit guides; they can be thought of as a council of advisers. Some people say that spirit guides are all aspects of your own Self. In that we are all aspects of the same divine Source, this is ultimately true.

But I also know a few of my guides as individuated, conscious beings of much higher vibration and awareness than I yet have in this life. Others are highly accomplished souls with human identities I recognize, but who are now working on the other side. Some may be permanently ascended off the Earth, but others are taking a break and doing support work for those of us still embodied.

So I still call them all my guides, though only occasionally does a single being identify itself individually, often when I call on someone in particular. Nor do they take on a group identity such as Abraham, the group of higher beings channeled in the Abraham-Hicks writings.

This makes me just like all other beings in human form. We all have a higher Self, an aspect of the one big Source or God, which has developed our own, individual or individuated consciousness. We could call that Self "Big Me," and the human identity "Little Me." And we all have other beings in spirit form who guide and help us.

And then there are angels, and we have their help, too. Sometimes I call upon them for protection or to hold Light in a certain situation, but angels are not my specialty.

I have closer relationships with Ascended Masters, as they are sometimes called: Beings who used to take on human form, but have risen in vibration to a level where they no longer need to come to Earth to strengthen certain spiritual attributes or learn certain skills. Examples of ascended beings, as I prefer to call them (since the word “master” has connotations of domination and ownership) include Jesus, Sri Yukteswar, Yogananda, Buddha, St. Clair and St. Francis, and St. Germain (not the Catholic saint, but a spiritual master of that name). There are many others whom I don’t know.

What makes me different from many people, aside from the fact that I live in Panama, is just that I communicate with all these aspects of Divine Oneness easily, daily, and they have guided me through some profound inner experiences that led me to a higher state of awareness, or consciousness. So now it’s my role to share the information and inspiration of all sorts that I receive from the inner realm with others.

So I'm glad you stopped by. Come again soon.

Light, Love, Joy,

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What’s Happening Here?

There's a lot written these days about the year 2012 and how and whether it will signal the end of the world as we know it.

None of us knows exactly what’s coming up in 2012, or what will follow. I think it's better not to focus too much on a date, because the exact date isn't important.

What is important is that we're evolving as a species, and evolving much faster today than we did even just a few generations ago.

A whole lot of people have noticed that something is going on right now, and want to understand what exactly it is. Why does so much seem to be falling apart in our world? And why does everyone feel that they're running as fast as they can, and still the world runs faster?

The old has to fall away before things can improve. In the United States, we've just celebrated the inauguration of a new president. A president who probably could not have been elected, had the majority of Americans not been hurting financially and afraid for their futures. In other words, without eight years of George Bush, it's unlikely that a majority of Americans would have been willing to elect Barack Obama.

You can also see changes in our physical world. Not only the big shifts in world weather and increasing natural disasters. There are also less obvious changes. I recently read a report in National Geographic online that the core of the Earth is churning around more rapidly, causing changes in the Earth’s electromagnetic energy field.

Human bodies, which also have electromagnetic energy fields, are also starting to feel the physical stress caused by higher-frequency energy.

I live near the equator, and when I travel further north, I notice the energy feels less intense. It may be that because the center of the earth is wider and therefore moving farther with each rotation, energy is naturally vibrating more rapidly near the equator.

I don’ t know the answer. I only know that when I am at home near the equator, I can feel the vibrations in my own body when I’m still. It feels kind of like a cat purring, but more subtle. This only started about six months ago, and since then I've experienced a lot of other changes, both physical and perceptual.

Our bodies have to adjust to the changes in our electromagnetic field. At first, the vibrating could be quite intense and uncomfortable, especially when I was trying to sleep. Now it feels good. I just made an emergency trip to Boston when my daughter broke her ankle, and I felt slow, exhausted and sluggish. I ate differently, and not only because I was constantly cold.

I spent a good part of the flight back meditating, and I noticed that as I got closer to Panama, the inner light got much brighter, and I could feel my inner being more clearly again.

Why am I telling you this? As a sneak preview of what you may experience one day in the not-so-distant future.

This is part of the process of becoming the new Earth that Eckhart Tolle, along with many other spiritual teachers, writes about. My spiritual job is to create a bridge for people to cross from the outer world they know to the inner aspects of their world, which they may not yet have discovered. That's why HighSpiritSpace exists.

So if you’re interested in tracking this journey we’re on, and understanding better what your own experiences may be about, then please join me.

Feel free to comment on this blog and ask questions, if you like. I want to know how others receive what I offer, and the questions open the door to new answers. So your presence is essential to the process. Thanks for stopping by.

Light, Love, Joy,

Susan
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