Dear Friends,

Wow, what a message! I could have typed all night! So, here it is. Hoping you are all thriving, not just surviving.

Dear ones, it has been some time since last we spoke, but we wish to say that it was not for lack of words, as much as has been transpiring around you and above you and below you. We wish to speak first off of the physical transformations that have been taking place within you. Many of you have been feeling these effects: dizziness, lightheadedness and confusion, nausea, respiratory concerns and muscle and joint aching. You are all thinking it may be the "flu" that has been sweeping the world, but we wish to point out that even though most of you are taking the utmost precautions, still you seem to succumb to this "disease" that is so long-lasting and hard to recover from. We wish to present an alternative scenario.

We have been speaking for some time of the evolution of the human consciousness. As an evolution, this is a moving upward into higher dimensions and vibratory rates. As such, the physical body is being asked, invited, to ascend with the mental and spiritual bodies. This is most difficult for the physical body, for it is that body that is the most dense, being made up of the earth herself. But ascend it is doing, but not without some side effects, not the least being that of altitude sickness. We are looking at you struggling through your days, so tired that you can hardly keep your eyes open. We see you taking nutrients and getting more sleep, and still not being able to keep up with your lives. We see you becoming confused and frustrated, looking for answers from those who previously had answers for you, and finding that their answers no long suffice. Where else can we look? You ask, looking heavenward, and we say "yes, exactly," for upward is where you need to look - upward, and inward. We wish to emphasize at this point that there is nothing "wrong" with any of you ­ no matter how much medicine you ingest, or how much rest you get, you will "recover" when it is your time to recover. This is simply another stopping point on your glorious journey upward. So if this is all true, what is it then that can be helpful to you at this time?

To understand the journey, for one thing. Again, if you are aligned with linear time, as many of you still are, you will not see the beautiful concentric circles unfolding all around you ­ the upper dimensions, another timeline, another reality. No, this has to happen, then this, then that. When I'm done with all that, then I can and you go on and on with your plans. Are your plans so important that they supercede your soul's evolution? We would hardly think so, so at this time we ask you to sit down and write out your plans. Talk to a trusted friend about your plans ­ what have you planned that you must get accomplished? Make a list, humans are so adept at making lists, of taking those plans from the mental into the physical, concrete, so to speak. Now when you have a start of a list, look at what you have written, and just look at the words. Do any of the things that you have written stand out? Are any of them ringed in gold? Do any of them ring true in your heart of hearts of that which is of the utmost importance to you? If you have answered yes to any of those questions, then you have found some priority in your life, but chances are that many of those items on your list may be crossed off as no longer important.

You are so busy making your lists that you may not be aware that you no longer want the listed items! Imagine that you always buy butter, eggs and milk every time you go to the grocery store. You sit down to make your list and you write "butter, eggs, and milk." You have done this for years. But gradually, over the years you have become a vegetarian who no longer eats dairy products, but out of habit, you still write down "butter, eggs, and milk," and buy them at the grocery store, hunting them out. "I need to get them I need to get them". A habit. If you were to be mindful the next time you sat down at the table to make your list, you could ask yourself, "what do I want at the grocery store?" and make the necessary adjustments that have come along with the changing of your lifestyle. We wish to make this comparison to you because many of you have changed in your desires and priorities, and still you live your life as if you are still operating in the old ways. Now is the time to become the new! Who are you?

This is a question asked from the dawn of the new, and the question resounds even louder today than ever before, as we are searching and seeking and looking. Are you finding? Are you taking the necessary time to become quiet and just sit? Are you sitting? Are you breathing? Are you just being? Are you still writing your old lists ­ I have 20 items to cross off my list today, so I will find 20 things to fill my day so I can feel good about crossing them off. But I simply must brush the cat ­ it's Tuesday! But perhaps the cat doesn't want to be brushed on Tuesday, or any other day. Does the cat really need brushing? Or do you just want to brush the cat because you think you need to brush the cat? What else are you doing in your life to fill the time? This sounds trivial and funny, but we are serious about it ­ if you do not take the time to be conscious and mindful, you will continue in unconscious, non-mindful ways, and someone else will be running your life, not you. Not the true you, the real you, but your mind, and your mind is losing ground, is it not? Is it able to hold thoughts as readily as before? Or is it becoming foggy, almost dream-like?

This is the time that the dreams are like waking, and the waking is like dreaming, as you wake up to who you are, and the two energies blend together to make one. It is not a separation anymore, the awake and the asleep ­ it is all one, unity into the One that is occurring, so the requirements of your systems are being updated, changing to accommodate the new. That is why the mental powers are being challenged, so to speak, as Spirit comes into your consciousness, she says, "and what do we have here? May I speak to whoever's in charge?" and your mind steps up and says, "may I help you?" and Spirit says, "yes, I'd like to be in relationship with you," but mind is loathe to give up what it perceives to be as total power, so there is a struggle, but here is the big secret ­ there is no struggle, because there is no fight. Spirit does not fight ­ Spirit loves and embraces and enfolds, so at the point that mind can understand and grasp and acknowledge, all will be peaceful again.

We have been taught at a young age to be in charge of ourselves, in charge of our lives, not to let anyone else tell us what to do, not to let anyone else "boss us around", and that feels right to us ­ nobody has the right to tell us how to live our lives, so when Spirit comes to us and wants to be with us and our lives, we may feel the old tug to "not let them push us around", but dear ones, we tell you again ­ in your heart of hearts has this not been a homecoming? Have you not known this feeling in your heart that is unfolding? Have you not known these beings who lovingly surround you and speak to you and hold you so closely? Have you not said, "ah, this is as waking from a dream?" and not known exactly what that phrase has meant, but just known it to be the truth, your truth?

If you have pondered any of these things in your heart, we ask you once again to trust this process. As it has never been attempted before, or accomplished, there are no set rules, no predictable future, no experts on anything. We are all in this together ­ we above are supporting and guiding you all as much as possible. If we can see one step ahead of you we may call out to you to help you, but we are watching everything unfold just as you are. But we will urge you once again to be gentle with yourselves, knowing this to be a magnificent transformation. Would the caterpillar require of itself to walk around and eat and do much while it is in its chrysalis? Or would it just simply be, feeling the changes in its body, feeling something new and wonderful unfolding deep within itself? Know this to be what is happening to all of you at this moment, and pause in your days ­ rest, sleep, breathe, smile, eat, be grateful. All of these are necessary items on your list. Beyond that, you can decide.

With every leap upward in consciousness, such as the one that you have just walked through, you can expect to experience extreme fatigue in the adjustment period. There will be another time of great expansion in the next two months (Susie's note ­ March). There will be a building that may be perceived as tensions mounting and increasing chaos and instability, but we urge you to hold fast to your inner light and continue to grow in the light. With each leap you will understand more and be able to release more of the old. There is no turning back, although at times this may all seem like a big dream ­ you are not awakening from this dream, are you? This is all true, not a dream. But in this dream-that-is-real, we ask you, have you not felt the miracle in your lives? Have you not seen us out of the corners of your eyes, or seen us dance in the light when you shut your eyes? Have you not felt us holding you, felt your skin warming as if in an embrace? Felt your vision changing as you see Spirit in everything and everyone?

The world is different to you now because you are vibrating at a new rate ­ you are changing, becoming. Is this not wonderful? Is this not a miracle? You are wonderful, you are the miracle, you are becoming. And we will remain ever-faithful and by your sides, helping whenever possible, answering your calls when you question, comforting you when you are fatigued. And always always, we urge you to remember that all is well. Thank you.