If You Only Knew

You have a good idea of what you want, and you are pretty sure of what you don’t want. Isn’t this true for the most part? If you are being the one you intended to be at your soul’s birthing of your seed as a human being, then you are able to discern within the complexity of a single moment between what you want and what you don’t want. Are there ambiguities? Of course, and you often find that the thing you never wanted turns out to be the greatest blessing you could have ever imagined. You hear stories like that all the time. You lose a job only to discover a new passion manifest into a new life’s work. You lose a childhood friend and then meet a group of like-minded sailors of life’s cosmic oceans. You get stuck in traffic and come to find out you missed being in a major accident. Blessings abound in the midst of tragedy, and it takes a keen observation of the target of your intention to ferret them out, sometimes. Don’t lose heart. Even in the dimmest, most poorly lit caverns of life in the world of war, there are surprising shards of light that can send demons careening for the door. If you only knew you were looking at them, what then would you see!

We have had our share of tragedy in the long history of our people, as well. Know that we have context for understanding your current world stage. You are the directors of your drama and we have only our experience and insight to offer. What you do in the time ahead, when you will be asked to make some pretty intense split-second decisions about what you want and what you don’t want, is your greatest opportunity to change your reality from the illusion of separation from divinity into the reality of divine reintegration of the soul of humanity and the greater Self that is your greater self. Great upheavals are ready to be pushed into the scene. Whether they are is only a matter of your own trail of decisions to reveal, you have that much ability to change the outcome of your dramatic future event horizons.

You have reached a point in the development of the timeline you have as a collective been following towards universal awakening and engagement where you have a lot of power within your present-time situations. You are able to approach any number of up-to-the-minute developments through the tweets and hums and bright ideas and cyber-communiques you have at your fingertips. You are also able to tune into the news as it happens by training your awareness to become more sensitive to the thoughts that come within the rush of mental chatter, thoughts which reveal your entrainment with the collective consciousness and with the consciousness of the planet herself. If you only knew how easy it can be to become aware of everything in your reality, you would be ready for the old reality to rearrange itself pretty quickly. As it is, the old reality is shifting quite fast. If you tune your internal antenna to the band that emanates from the heart of what is, to Nine, that which is in the midst of all as stillness in chaos, perfection in tragedy, home of the soul and origin of all life, you will pick up signals that will guide your scattered energies into the central node of light that is within every cell of your being. Is it tricky? Of course not. Is it dangerous? Not unless you don’t want to release what remnants of former life you have been gripping. It’s much easier to slide into the vibe of Nine with your hands empty, ready to receive, to navigate, to sense. You can only hold onto so much before you drop everything. Yet it is a thrill to reminisce. Do you think you’ll miss the old you, once the new you comes fully online, so to speak? Don’t give it a second thought. When you’re tuned into the all of everything, you can access your memories with crystalline clarity, from the perspective of soul integration, from the point of view of one in understanding of the love in the center of loss.

What do you really want to know about your future, people of Earth? You have many theories around the neural network of your blogosphere and the collective consciousness of human thought. What is it that you fear at this moment in time? Is it that you will destroy yourselves? You have been trying for a very long time, and as close as you have come it yet has not been terminal for you, nor will it be. Your intrinsic will to survive is too strong. Are you wary of the interference of forces and arch-villains which exist beyond the edge of your ability to interpolate the various sources of information available to you? Are you starting to feel overwhelmed by the talk of terrestrial and extraterrestrial narratives about your origins and fate? We have sympathy for you, our friends. It is not the first time you have been in a situation of learning about some long-withheld truths, but perhaps the first time your people have had the truth be so transformationally charged, as it is now. You are in the process of rare awareness-raising brought to you on the winds of change that emanate from the galactic center. You will not see only enough of the truth to keep you in a state of fear, as you have been. Real change is in the air, and as you fine-tune your senses toward Nine you will more readily see and sense the natural love that reveals itself to the heart that is open to Nine’s impulses. You are open to Nine when you are in communion with the divine source of creation, with the river of life, with the stillness at the center of all things. When you are there, you are in communion with the eternal Now, and it is from this point that all things are known.

Love it or leave it, Earth is your home for now. You have work to do. You are accomplishing more than you know just by coming into the still moment with your soul. You have already shed the structures of the matrix that support the structures which bind you yet. But even they are tottering on the edge of nonexistence. At this momentous time in your collective history, can you sense the immensity of what kind of change is coming?

What If You Found What You Are Looking For?

Thousands of pairs of eyes scan the skies for a hint of a glint of light, an object or an orb, something — anything — that will signal the end of doubt and skepticism forever on the question of our existence. You have taken pictures and videos, made documentaries and exposes, you have created an entire culture built upon the idea that the time is coming for the world to finally acknowledge that you aren’t actually the only ones in the universe, that you aren’t alone, and that you have to wake up as a people and a planet if there is to be any hope of entering into a new reality relatively unscathed. The more aware you become, the more information you have to use to build understanding and eliminate fear. You who have received the message about your own divinity are the ones who can guide others on the path of promise that Nine is. It is up to you to reach to the stars; we are here and we are responding to your heartfelt offers of friendship. We are brothers and sisters to you, and in love we say, it is not long now before you see that for yourselves. By “not long”, we are speaking of cycles of weeks rather than moons. As you come together in accord, you heighten your ability to see what has before been hidden. As you find your innate divine spark, and as you find light in the shadowy corners of your soul, you see in the form of opalescent truth what before you saw as invisible illusion. With this increase in perception, you may just see what before you had only hoped was true, taken on faith and a few blurry images. We ask, because the time has come for asking: What will you do when you see for yourselves what had been hidden behind a veil of misinformation, in the very near future? It will be before you know it that you will have to answer this question anyway, so we ask in preparation so you have a moment to ponder. Really, what do you think you’ll do? Freaking out aside, of course.

You are tired of hearing about it, we know. We have seen how you fixate on specifics, though, and we want to avoid any misdirection of energy. Soon is in relative terms because “August 15”, for example, would perhaps be distracting. You have enough to think of. If we said “October 23”, you would be likewise at a temporal focal point rather than freely flowing with unfolding events. So we stick with “soon”, and let you work out some layers of frustration and fear and whatever else that word conjures up for you. It will all be to your benefit, if you keep your mind on your path of perfection rather than seeking to downplay the role of integration of lesser frequencies with higher tones of OM. When we do show up on your doorstep, please remember that we did mention this, that the love you bring to your awareness in the form of having allowed reality to rearrange itself despite your personal misgivings, divisive tendencies and malicious ingratitude for opportunity after opportunity to overcome them is the great secret to why we do what we do the way we do. As you are fond of saying, it is the journey, not the destination, that makes the trip worthwhile.

So what if you saw a lightship? What if you saw an angel? What if you saw enemies make peace, soldiers put down their weapons, and treacherous villains morph into beings of light? What if you experienced the end of a lifelong struggle with a family member, with addiction, with hopelessness or despair? Can you see yourself in that situation, looking at your life forever changed because something in your reality has suddenly ceased to be, or some secret longing has taken form in front of you? Can you make that switch from here to there in your thinking, can you feel what it would feel like to be free of every limitation your beliefs had impinged upon your reality with? It would be worth considering, perhaps, not so much because you don’t want to be caught unprepared as because in doing so you create a thread of energy to which reality can entrain. These are bold actions, these thoughts, and they can result in bold realities coming into view. Consider what you want to experience for yourself, and see if anything changes. If you put your mind to it, and your heart, you can get the hang of it pretty quickly. Honestly, how would your reality change if you had no fear about having “the conversation” you’ve been putting off? What would your life be like if you had no need for your addictions? Can you imagine that? Just sit with it for a minute and let the fear seep out of the whole scenario, then sit with it for a moment more. Just in that moment, a new reality has begun to come into view. It could be just what you are looking for.

For Everything, First There Is a Starting Point

July has already been an active month for many people who have been busy changing their lives in drastic and dramatic ways. If you find you are among them, count yourself in good company, for the energies that have played with your heartstrings these past couple of weeks are nowhere near dying out soon. If anything, you may expect to see some rise in the energetic intensity in all spheres of activity on your planet. This is getting exciting, folks, as the moment heats up and the truth starts sizzling on the pavement. You are on the cusp of a new understanding of reality and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it from totally changing the consciousness of your species planet-wide. This is how things appear to us.

Several things show up on our radar screen, in fact. One of them is your propensity for taking the initiative in your own transformation. In the long view, such choosing makes the coming decisions much easier to conform to a pleasant reality shift than otherwise. For example, there are one or two matters that are opening for discussion in a serious way. Extraterrestrial visitation is on the table and it’s not going away. Every so often, there comes someone a-calling from a faraway address, such as we. It would be easy to dismiss were it not true, but it eats at the edges of the news and encroaches on your everyday reality. Just take a look at what people are posting on the Internet. You don’t have to look far to see possibility coming into view. Not only is the truth out there, it’s coming closer. Another sizzle hits the sidewalk. And another, and another.

So-called marauders may become focal points of interest. It won’t be long until the truth of all truth is known, and now is as good a time as any to start looking at lies and deception with an eye to transforming them into the truth. You have to start somewhere. Look around. The truth lay around in great shards like a giant glass jigsaw puzzle. Pieces will fit without injury if handled with care. With love. In fact, the effect is quite lovely, once the pieces begin to align in such a way that light bends in angles of perception hitherto seen merely as an edge. It is your own understanding you can see refracted there, and the insight that such perception affords. It is the beginning of opalescence.

Giving one’s trust to the process of making reality whole is nothing to be defeatist about, either. You are each having completely different experiences, although you may discover some overlap of your reality and another’s, or layers of holographic resonance. This is to be expected, as timelines converge into the singularity at the point where the various 2012s of your realms of possibility are all in one tight little bundle of simultaneity. Each experience makes an important contribution to the entirety of I AM having a good idea of what existence in a world within a galaxy within a universe of duality is like. Everything is part of All That Is. There is no wrong experience, other than to make it become wrong in your reality through believing it to be. Thus it shall be, but just as easily as that you can flip the switch from some perceived point of aha! and make what had perhaps been nagging your mind as a dire mistake into a beneficial detour to discover some hidden sweetness about the Truth.

In time, you will know truth in its fullness, and yourselves as soul embodied, as human, divine. The best way to arrive in one piece is to start looking at what needs to be put back together. There is much brokenness around you and greater possibility than you can imagine in the offing. We are in awe of what you have already done, in terms of your transformation. Wait until you get a load of what’s coming next. First, though, pull yourselves together.

Kick It

High above the clouds, millions of people are waiting to buckle up and take a short trip to see you face to face. The ships are there, with people in them, it is true. You have only a short while to wait, and all of Earth will be abuzz. Then why not kick things up a notch, and take the initiative yourself, and move into the state of receptivity? Before you know it, we will respond in a way that will delight even the most skeptical among you. We know many have prepared their hearts for our arrival. You will not be disappointed. But some others of you, your families, friends, and neighbors, are at a loss as to what to think about the whole question of our mere existence, much less being prepared for a demonstration of our reality. To those who doubt, we say, don’t worry, we come in peace with tidings of great joy. This party is for everyone. Homecoming is near at hand.

Higher still than our ships above the surface of your planet are the interplanetary spaces of the solar system. Within those spaces are the vacuous realms of inter-galactic magnetic communications, on which bands our words have traveled from our source, which is, locally, from our own home stars, and non-locally from OM, which is everywhere and nowhere specific. Understanding of such concepts as love of self, love of Nemesis, love of the truth above ego – this sort of thinking comes from your own experience within a system of divinity embodied in communication with divinity itself, the self reflecting the reverberations of OM back to the source of all being. OM is the name we have for the perfection of Self as the creation, from the thought I AM impulsed from consciousness, to the vibration of form in recognition of itself as being. The parent from which everything is generated. The word which creates. It is from the star Alcyone that the impulses of OM are beamed as through a lens gathering holographic light from the belly of the galaxy, which itself bends the light from the heart of the universe. And so it is that we speak with you from the vastness of space. There are many things that you will be learning in the coming months, as your science catches up with reality.

Until the time has come for the attention of the whole world to be turned to the skies, we continue to hold our positions and act as a lens for the truth of OM to be transmitted through. In the short time until we all meet, we will continue to relay information designed through the understanding of love to waken dormant mental circuitry and encourage you to embrace your transformation into beings of a higher light. Right on schedule we are. Rather than sit idly by, we offer these words so you might have the satisfaction of waking, stretching, and embracing in awareness you as a new being. But don’t be surprised if we show up unexpectedly. Big changes are coming as we kick it up a notch.

Big News

Some of your reliable sources of news have been concerned with everything except the really big story that’s brewing in the skies. Why is that? It isn’t because it isn’t there to cover. It isn’t even because they — meaning the reporters and other people who tell you what’s going on in places you can’t see from your front porch — don’t believe the events being witnessed by many all over the world. No. Enough evidence of a breaking story is on the weave of awareness now in many forms to host a week’s worth of investigative journalistic interviews, exposes and overviews. Why the silence? “Run for cover, the aliens are coming” is a difficult mindset to break through, and frankly the show isn’t equipped for the drama. They have a practiced hand explaining catastrophe and disaster. But what can they do with the end of the world of fear? They might lose some advertising revenue. For the world to be at peace, they would have to re-think their entire reason for existing as an entity at all. It’s a tall order to fill in the midst of all the “real” news stories they have to cover.

We speak, of course, of the arrival in your visual perceptive field of swarms of lights in the sky.

More people are seeing something the droll news reporters can neither dismiss nor explain to much satisfaction. More photos are being shared publicly which defy stereotypically inane official do-not-disturb explanations. More reasons are surfacing to seriously consider the possibility that weather balloons and party favors cannot outmaneuver fighter jets, and that maybe the lights more and more people are seeing are something more, something literally out of this world. So, sensing that a down-to-earth explanation would be of some help during the news break, we come to you now, with this.

People of Earth, the time of global isolation in ignorance is over. You are about to host a party of galactic proportions. The first guests, having RSVPed, are milling about just beyond the garden gate, waiting to hear the announcement that the festivities have begun. It shouldn’t be long now. The truth can’t be kept waiting forever, you know.

Soon the stories will break. Along with them, so will some paradigms and probably more than a few minds. Do not fear, dear ones, don’t buy such an outmoded and useless commodity. Fear is old news. Tune into love and let the frequency of truth come into your heart unimpeded. It won’t be long until the word hits the streets about the big news story.

Hardly a Day Goes By

Dear ones, so much is happening in your lives, it would not be surprising if you didn’t take in one or two major developments on the world stage on any given day. You could hardly be blamed for missing out on the day’s top story, especially if it happened to be omitted in the headlines. It is enough to deal with what you have to do and hopefully to gain some kind of understanding that will help you come to terms with what in the world is happening. There is, of course, more to come, so let us share a little trick we learned ourselves about the intensity of transformation from one state of being into another. You’ve heard it from us before, to relax and let go, but there’s a secret. Keep your eyes fixed on a single thought, your mind focused on a single sensation, your heart open to all possibilities and you might be delighted with what develops in your reality.

There are a few things you might want to remain aware of, as you go through your days. One of them is your breath. Use it to create healing vibrations, as you shape it with sound. In such a way do you serve the awakening of many souls within reality. See sound as breath and breath as life, and choose to give life to sound that heals. Not only will it create a frequency field that is conducive to transformation into higher awareness, it cuts down on the chaos of noise that distracts people from the whisper of truth within.

Cheer is essential. If you remember to have something handy which brings you cheer, we recommend you use it, whether it’s a joke, a memory, a favorite scene from a movie, or what have you. The doom and gloom is as a storm cloud passing by, after eons of raining down pain. It is true that pain is sitting in puddles of mud, but it is relenting, finally. As more and more light is shed on the 2000-year-old lie that has been at the forefront of the wave of pain you now see receding, the puddles will dry up. Nothing long stands in the light of Truth except truth. Relief is coming, and a little comic relief will help you keep your socks dry.

Third on our short list of helpful hints is to be patient in all things. Too often you remove yourself from the equipoise of Now and project your awareness into the non-existent illusion of what-if and if-only. There is great merit in consciously visualizing a future of joy and a past of reconciliation, but these are transitory states of creativity that you enter, do your thing, and release. Keep on doing that, dear ones, as it calms the frequency field around you. What we are referring to here is the practice of patience in the little moments of your day, the challenges to your own equipoise that crop up like mushrooms after rain. There are likely dozens of times you say, from sunrise to sunset, something along the lines of “I wish…”, “When will such-and-such finally happen?” or “Why don’t you understand?” These are just a few examples of the shape of impatience beginning to dislodge you from reality. Do you see how thoughts of imperfection create ripples of discontent? Be, rather, of the mindset of being content, replacing such thought-form molds with words like “I summon into being…”, “Everything is on schedule for such-and-such to happen when the time is right to create the greatest joy,” and “You are awakening, and I love you.” Do you see how that subtle shift in self-expression gives you peace? Patience, dear ones, the joy that comes is worth the wait. All is well, and your choice to love can move mountains. If that is one rock at a time, sometimes, keep an eye out for buried treasure, and know that everything is, in the timeless Now, perfect.

These are our thoughts we leave with you to ponder. The three weave beautifully together, you may find. It’s a balancing act that just might make your days a little brighter.

Know We Come, and Make Room for Us in Your Hearts

Since when do you think you are not sane to think we come? We have come before, and you did not think it so odd. Of course, there were times you thought we – meaning humans from other planets – were something like mighty gods, but that was a long time ago. You have learned a thing or two about yourselves since then, and it is safe to say you wouldn’t make the same mistake again. Nor would we, by reliving that stale old myth. We are simply humans. We sometimes need to remind you of your own divinity, but that is as far as we’ll go with that. Suffice it to say we are as you are, both human, with a spark of the divine.

That said, we continue. We are planning a visit to your planet, as we have mentioned before, and we thought it would be a good idea to review our plans with you, as much as we can without spoiling the surprise. We don’t want to do that, as it would ruin the fun. The know-to-alls need something up their sleeves, even if it’s only the joker and not the ace of hearts. We have that card in our hand, anyway. We have a few cards up our sleeves, too. Some interesting times are on the way, that’s for sure.

As to our visit: Don’t get too worked up about it. It’s not as if we’re going to create drastic change for you. You will create drastic change for yourselves, first. We’ll be there before the dust settles. Lest you think we refer to revolution, know we do not say it in such terms. The drastic change we’re talking about is more internal. You know, the kind where you confront the tyrant within your own heart and finally read him or her the riot act, tell it like it is, give notice that the times have changed and tyranny in all its forms is dead. The revolution is one of your hearts, dear ones, not of your blood. Spilling more of that won’t help you achieve balance, power, or peace. There is no reason to seek outside of yourselves for a solution, but within and among yourselves. The land mass of common ground is growing, and as we approach we see almost enough room to set down our craft. Only a few things are in the way. It’s all going to be fine, you know, so don’t worry about anything. Simply state your truth, recognizing as you do your innate divinity. Tyrants, begone with tyranny! Become beings anew! Remember your divinity and remind the inner tyrant of theirs, as well. In no time at all, you will see all around you reflections of your changed inner state.

If we can give you one piece of advice, it is this. Create a landing strip for us in your heart, and know we see it. Much is shifting in your reality, and the time is soon upon us all when reality will have taken on a new sheen. The big kingpin is unseated and with him, the petty tyrants fall into grace. Change is upon us all, given the choice. This is promising to be a season of celebration, friends! Make room in your hearts for joy, and sweep the cobwebs out.

Don’t Wait to Say Goodbye

Are you having the kind of thoughts, sometimes, that remind you of matters unspoken, things not mentioned, feelings unexpressed? Where you feel the pull towards understanding what is unfolding around you that you had not quite grasped before? So are many others. The vibration of energy that is rippling from your planet is something to behold, dear ones, full of opalescent shimmer. The time of reconciliation has begun.

Remembering the situations of your life is one way to experience the open-hearted transformation of soul of man into soul of man arisen, the glimmer of dawn at the edge of hope where consciousness breaks upon its shores. Always hope lay just beyond the edge of consciousness, ever present in all of the unresolved experiences of your life. Hope lay at the core of your being when you encounter the potential for healing and wholeness, and it lay beyond the rim of what you can conceive. Hope is everywhere present, yet typically silent. Such is its nature. You are aware of its potential only after you have understood the healing breaking hope’s silence brings. As soon as you respond to the remembrance of what has not yet become, to hope’s heartbeat, you begin a transformation that can be called the beginning of the end of the human race as you know it. It’s a good time to say goodbye. You are fast approaching the time of transformation, and the you you have always known, and often loved, will be the you you have always dreamed you could be, but seldom hoped would.

Change is in the air and your thoughts are modulating moment by moment what is becoming next. Collectively, you are modulating even as individually you are. Every response toward the peace of reconciliation and the bliss of integration is a further refinement of pitch and harmonic resonance. Being in such a sea of frequency will bring you many opportunities for tying up loose ends and re-weaving the fabric of relationships, dreams, and past injustices. Be resolute, dear ones, and speak from your heart what washes up on the shores of your awareness from the ocean of hope’s love.

Allow hope to come alive and stir the memories of yet-unspoken words you always wanted to hear reverberate within you. Feel the quickening as realization dawns and ignorance dissolves into the dust of shadow’s substance. Say goodbye to who you were and welcome your self home into wholeness. Relax into transformation. A hard-to-understand problem is easily resolved, usually with only a few words. Rim of hope approaches, and it won’t be long before you touch the stuff of hope with your own hands. How very easy it is to say thank you, I’m sorry, or now I understand. How liberating to say goodbye to what you thought would never change. It has a way of making your planet sparkle, you know, when so many are finding the right harmonic together.

More in Raising than in Losing

We have had some consistency in our messages on the point of letting go of what you don’t need so you can move on with less drag. In the past year, we have mentioned the concept in many ways. It is still a good idea to let go of that which was given to you by anyone else and focus on a new concept: The time is fast approaching when you will not have the luxury of spending much time consciously letting go of this and that, and you will instead be aware of your enhanced ability to transform what remains as ballast to the radiant kind of stuff light is made of. It’s showtime, folks!

Human consciousness has just about reached saturation point as far as the nonsense that has been paraded around in front of you. Are you going to have a say in what is recognized as truth? The alternative is to remain mute as events unfold before the eyes of the ones among you who still hold onto fear, and the voice of terror drowns out the murmurings of peace. You have had quite enough of that already. It is time for love and reason to prevail. Soon we come.

It will be as brothers we come, not as conquerors, superiors, deities or disease-bearing intergalactic mutants. When you look in the mirror and see the reflection of one who sees into the soul and discerns divinity there, one who sees divinity in his or her own soul, when just a few more who sleep awaken at last to humanity’s incessant clamoring to be free and happy and at peace, then, beloved family of light, we come. Before you know it, really. And then you might find the whole “releasing fear” thing itself to be a bit burdensome. And so we suggest working on transforming whatever fear remains into nothing more than tiny energetic packets of light information, which can be disassembled and rearranged and understood within a framework of matter resonant with life, not death, with life, not illusion. Life, beyond anything you have understood it to be for ever. That’s where we’re coming from.

How best to transform ballast into light is each person’s personal quest, right now. Some are choosing to continue on the rut-filled road they have blindly followed for lifetimes, some are resisting the inevitable tipping of the scales, some are still fighting it with all their mettle. Be of no concern for those who choose what seems a dead-end street. All is not what it seems. Rather than attending to fear’s sideshow, if you shift your loving awareness to the whole of humanity’s awakening, these sleeping proud few will be better served. When the wringing of the hands is over, the clapping of the hands will begin. It is quite a show we have planned for opening night.

The doubt will give way to celebration soon enough, dear ones. It is a day we anticipate with much joy, for it will herald a bright new awareness in humans everywhere. Round and round will soon be on the straight arrow toward home. In the interim, release what you can of fear’s weighty baggage, let go of the thoughts that keep you going around in circles, and transform the rest into thoughts that aim your heart and mind to the peace of OM, sweet OM. Bidding you a sweet adieu, we remain, Pleiadian Renegades.

Bonded

How are you doing, dear ones, in the acceleration of energies at this point in time? Are you ready for more? Don’t worry, it will only be unpleasant for those who cannot let go of their fear. What is brewing is a relatively minor ramp-up in awareness, and to become more aware while looking through the lens of fear can be upsetting to those who let fear shape their beliefs. We suggest letting go of fear altogether, looking it eyeball to eyeball and seeing how little substance it really has. In the bigger picture, it is, after all, merely a belief in under-the-table whispers and the perception of your own weakness of understanding. To decide to be strong, to choose to hear the pulse of your own heartbeat leading you ever towards life – that is what stops fear dead in its tracks. In keeping with our style, we will tell a little story to illustrate our point.

Once there was a knight fair and brave who feared nothing at all, it was said. He had met grave foes of terrible form and defeated them with a single blow of his sword. He had met with powerful kings and awe-inspiring queens and left their company bearing their respect, if not some laurels and a few noble titles as well. Even the most popularly feared wizard could not pierce the armor of his self-confident belief in his proud and noble character. Nothing could make him shudder with fear, it seemed. Nothing, that is, until he came face to face with a dragon of so brilliant a flame that he stood transfixed, suddenly aware of a reality that none of his former exploits had prepared him for.

His trusty sword fell from limp fingers. His horse reared and ran off, leaving him alone and weaponless in the presence of the this awful dragon. Fear – an unfamiliar sensation – gripped his belly and dropped him to his knees. The dragon had no regard for the knight’s array of noble titles, for his treasure or his reputation. The dragon had less regard for his carefully constructed suit of armor or for his helmet with the markings of power and protection. The dragon of fiercely brilliant flame saw the knight as he truly was: naked, alone, and without understanding of what he saw before him.

Now, at this point in our story, we come to a choice. We could continue in one of many ways. The dragon could burn him to cinders. The knight could come to his senses, pick up his sword and run the dragon through. An army of gnomes could appear from the forest and wrestle the knight into a net of enchanted design. However, none of these suit our purposes, so we proceed in this manner:

Sitting back on his haunches and regarding the quivering knight, the dragon pulled out from his pouch a mirror. Patiently, he held it up before the knight and waited. The knight sweated, sure oblivion was his doom, unaware that in fact he sat at the threshold of transformation. What more could he prove of his noble and courageous heart otherwise? He had come to the point of losing his mind to fear when he summoned the last of his sanity and raised his eyes to see what this terrible dragon had to show him.

His eyes met the eyes of the man in the mirror. He shuddered at their brilliance reflected in the dragon’s looking-glass. His helmet served no purpose, so he took it from his head. There, cast in light more brilliant than a thousand suns, the dragon showed him what all his travels and trials could not. There, looking back at him, was a man he thought familiar and yet somehow alien. Who was he? Was this dragon a demon, showing him spectres of evil intent? No, his heart would not withstand that to be true. Was he instead some sort of angel whose un-earthly radiance burned up his fear and left him, purified, in grace recognizing himself as a reflection of light beautiful and serene? This was much more to his liking, and, his heart told him, much closer to the truth.

As he gazed into the crystalline orb, the light of his reflection emanated from its depths, emanated from his own image therein and took form before him. Slowly the nobleman rose to his feet in full recognition of his own reflected light. He reached out tentatively to touch this apparition of light, and as his fingertips met those of his light-body’s, an extraordinary thing began to occur – a melding of the two aspects of him, form and light, into one new man. Every cell of his body thrilled at the sensation, as what he had known as himself was engulfed in radiance of Self, recognized. Armor plating melted into nothingness, his body pulsed with new life, and everything around him took on a crystalline hue of opalescent light.

The dragon observed the knight’s transformation with a quiet bemusement. No longer did the knight have the undercurrent of fear in him. The orb, his magic mirror into the soul, had done its work handily. He put it back in his pouch, cloaked until his next encounter with a human prepared to become transfigured by its simple play of light-bending truth. Simple, for there really was nothing magic about it at all. Sacred, yes, but not enchanted. Sacred because it showed each human his own light. Sacred, and his to guard, to reveal to men and women pure in their intent to become fully awake to their true Self, until at last it could be revealed to all.

In the brilliance of recognition of the self in all, of meeting your own form in the form of radiant, brilliant, opalescent light, fear cannot maintain its frequency. The light of recognition in the sacred chalice of the heart blasts fear to pieces, and belief built on the foundation of fear comes crashing down. Step out of the way of fear-based beliefs and you will not need a protective helmet. Step into the light of recognition and let go of the armor you have pieced together over lifetimes in the dark. The dragon, fiercely brilliant, holds the code to your unveiling. If you are ready to see in your reflection a light that transfigures fear, raise your eyes. We await.