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Trust and Let Go
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A Message from Mercedes Kirkel’s Guides and Higher Self
Received on January 13, 2014
[NOTE FROM MERCEDES: This message was directed to me personally. I’m sharing this because my guides told me it would be helpful to others, as well.]
Blessings dear one,
We are happy to communicate with you this day. It has been a while and you have been through a lot. You are feeling cut off a good deal of the time from your connection to Spirit, including your guides. This has been difficult for you, both personally and in terms of your work. So we would like to begin by addressing that.
You are going through a purification. You are somewhat aware of this, but don’t totally understand it and often lose your awareness in the midst of challenging aspects of the purification that come up for you. You are not alone in this. This is happening at a grand scale on the Earth right now. But you are particularly sensitive, so you notice what is going on. You feel at times like you’ve lost your direction and purpose in life. There’s a sense of ennui, of lack of energy for continuing the path you are on, or of apathy, feeling “What’s the point?” This is very hard for you, as you usually are very clear about your purpose and motivated to action based on that.
It is a very deep level of purification that is going on that produces this kind of feeling of being un-tethered, disconnected from your spiritual source. You are being asked to connect from a deeper place, beyond your mind or emotions or physical sensations or energetic experiences. You are being asked to connect from your spiritual body, your higher self, the light that is ever-abiding within you, which is not bound to experiences in your inner or outer life.
This is the purpose of traditional meditation, and many traditional paths focus on this as their primary attainment. While you have had exposure to this, and have experienced that path to a very significant depth, it has not been your primary path. Your primary path has been the more Feminine approach of the heart, the body, the emotions, and sexuality. You understand this Feminine path very well, and have advanced to a great degree through being true to yourself through this path. Now it is time for you to go beyond the confines of that path, just as a traditional eastern practitioner of meditation or yoga or any other practice focusing on the transcendent must at some point go beyond that path and come into the Feminine world of embodiment, manifestation, and form. You are being called to strengthen and become powerful in the transcendent, which is not your natural leaning, but you are fully capable of it.
You have already understood correctly that your daily practice of meditation is very important for finding your stability and centering in something other than the world as you know it. You must begin to allow more time in your meditation for simply resting in the higher dimensions, without manifesting intentions or receiving guidance. Instead, let yourself simply come to rest, to receive whatever is being given to you, beyond form or comprehension. Trust in this process. It is important and will lead you to your next level of growth and development.
Whenever the familiar is being gone beyond, it is challenging. There is a death of the old before, or sometimes as, the new comes in. Particularly at the third dimension, and in your culture especially, there is struggle with this, because it is not understood or embraced with acceptance and surrender. Rather it tends to be fought against out of fear. We understand this and have compassion for you, yet want you to know there is another way. It is the way of trust and faith.
We ask you to have trust and faith, to allow the process that is underway in your life to unfold, to find new avenues of connection to God that are right for you now that will take you to new vistas and horizons of communion with Spirit. Allow it to unfold. Embrace your fear but do not make it your idol. It is a part of you that needs love and attending to, so it can join you on the journey. We are here with you, even though you may not feel us in the ways you are used to. We have not abandoned you. By no means is that case, nor would we want that. We love you and are here with you.
When you are dissatisfied with your life, it is a sign of the old dying. It may also be a sign that you are resisting that death, not allowing it to move forward. Take your dissatisfaction as a sign that it is time to let go. Push off from the banks of the river and allow the current to carry you. It is the current of your life. It has wisdom. It knows what you need in ways that you don’t. Let yourself be carried. You are very good at doing whatever work is involved. Now is a time of trust and allowing yourself to be carried. It is not about self-effort and directed action. Of course there are actions you will take in your life. You know what those are. But at the deeper level, that is not the primary movement of your life. Right now it is about being carried and allowing. We bless you to trust that process, to give yourself to it and to let it take you to the next unfoldment of your life.
You have done this in the past. It is how you were brought to where you are now. You tell your story and it inspires many people. And it is absolutely true. Yet now you are being called to a greater level of this, and even your own past doesn’t necessarily make it easy or clear. Such is the nature of growth and transformation. This is why we are here to support you. We love you and are dedicated to helping you. We are so glad you have opened to us today. We recommend that you do this regularly, so we can regularly infuse you with our clarity and direction.
We are so proud of you and pleased with the work you do. You tend to be quite hared on yourself, which has its benefits because it supports you in striving for the highest. But your view is not always balanced. We want you to know that you are doing superbly well and we are extremely pleased with all you have done and continue to do. To you, it often seems like not enough or so little that you’ve accomplished, but that is because you only understand a small part of what is going on. This is why it takes great faith and release into the greater process, even if you can’t understand or grasp what that greater process really is at this time. That will change at some point, quite possibly after this lifetime, when you will gain great clarity about what you were actually doing and why. But that is not necessarily going to be the case until then, which also has its purpose. That being the case, we urge you to trust, to continue to strive and stretch into the light and love, as you have and continue to do, but with great letting go and allowance as the primary director of your life altogether.
We love you so much and hope this has been helpful for you. We trust that you understand and will make perfect use of this.
In light and love,
Your Guides and Higher Self
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Copyright 2014 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety, including this copyright notice, and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is an award-winning author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light. Her book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including Inspired Relating Life Coaching, Guidance from Beings of Light, Light-Filled Intimacy™ Instruction, and Spiritual Instruction and Support. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and Skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Embracing The Body And Feelings Versus Letting Go
By Mercedes Kirkel
I recently received this question from a woman in Australia: “How can I reconcile the feminine path of looking more to the body and the feelings with the ascension process of slowly losing the physical body and also “mastering” the emotions? These seem to contradict, yet I know they can’t really.”
I really appreciate the depth of consideration I feel in this question. I wanted to share my response in this blog because I think others may be wondering something similar.
Mary Magdalene talks a lot about the differences between the Feminine and Masculine paths in Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love. The first thing she emphasizes is that we all have the Feminine and Masculine within ourselves, regardless of whether we’re male or female. And all of us have received the same cultural training (for the most part) which, for a very long time, has greatly favored the Masculine, at the expense of the Feminine. As a result, most of us—including most women—are out of balance, being well-developed in our Masculine and underdeveloped in our Feminine.
So what exactly is the Feminine and Masculine? That’s a very large topic, which is addressed in depth in Mary Magdalene Beckons. Part of what Mary tells us is that within humans, the Feminine has three foundational arenas: our body, sexuality, and emotions. When our relationship tall three is strong, we’re able to live from our heart and embody the Divine Feminine aspect of human-beingness. The path to strengthening these three arenas (our body, sexuality, and emotions) is to fully embrace them as sacred functions and to heal any blocks we have to doing so (such as shame or dislike relative to our body). This form of embrace and love ultimately leads to union with God.
The Masculine path also leads to union with God, but through a different course. In the Masculine form, we overcome or transcend our blocks to God-union through discipline of body and mind, and we move into union through setting intentions and following through with action. This initially is directed through the will and lower mind. When both the Masculine and Feminine foundations are strong and the heart is open, the inner Divine Feminine leads us into union with the inner Divine Masculine, whose seat is in the higher mind.
Most of us are at a stage right now where we’ve strengthened our will and lower mind. Our educational system and culture in general is highly geared toward accomplishing this. What most of us are needing is to strengthen our Feminine foundations through embracing all the aspects of our body, sexuality, and emotions and relating to them as sacred. This is not generally taught and reinforced in our culture. Most of us have picked up our training in these areas in a somewhat “potluck” or happenstance way. So many of us have “holes” we’re still needing to strengthen in order to open fully to our inner Divine Feminine.
When we’ve completed our work of strengthening our inner Feminine and are seated in our heart, our inner Divine Feminine will naturally call to her partner, the inner Divine Masculine. It’s the nature of the Feminine is to be in union with the Masculine. This inner union is what Mary Magdalene refers to as the marriage of the sacred heart and sacred mind, and it’s currently our primary requirement for ascending into the fourth dimension. Mary states in no uncertain terms that our lack of balance and union between the Masculine and Feminine is the principle thing that’s holding most of us back in our spiritual evolution. And it really comes down to the embrace of our body, sexuality, and emotions—the parts of ourselves that have generally been most neglected, especially within spiritual traditions or paths.
So the embrace of our fully manifest aspects comes first. That embrace leads to mastery of the third dimensional levels of incarnation—mastery in relationship to the physical, sexual, emotional, the will, and the lower mind. That mastery is a big part of what we, as souls, came here (meaning to Earth and the third dimension) to experience and accomplish, both at the personal and the collective level.
Once we’ve fulfilled our soul’s purpose, relative to experiencing and mastering these levels, as well as completing any karma we have in these same arenas, we’re free to move on to the next dimension. It’s kind of like graduating from one grade to the next in the cosmic school of Earth.
At the fourth dimension, our situation and experience will be different. One of the main differences is that our physical circumstance will be much lighter and much less binding. So there’s a natural “letting go” that will happen relative to the physical, not because we’re trying to let go, but because our circumstance is different and it will be natural to us to relate to the physical in this lighter, freer way.
Simultaneous with that, our relationship to our emotions and lower mind will become much more important, because the fourth dimension is more concentrated in these arenas. So our mastery in these areas will become more essential. The degree to which we’ve achieved mastery prior to entering the fourth dimension will be a great support for us and will allow us to locate ourselves in the higher frequencies of the fourth dimension, which we generally will enjoy much more than the lower frequencies.
I think what’s most important about all of this is to understand what our “next steps” are that are before us now. I believe this whole process is a very natural, evolutionary process, similar to what a child goes through in any of its developmental leaps into a new stage. A child who is learning to walk doesn’t need to know that walking will lead to running, leaping, jumping, hopping, skipping, etc., not to mention dancing, playing football, or any of the myriad things walking allows to happen. A child has an advantage, in a sense, that their mind isn’t developed, so it doesn’t interfere with their one-pointed focus and perseverance in whatever they’re mastering.
We do have our minds, and they serve us very well in many ways. In our present circumstance, they can help us to understand what our current work is and help us to focus on that. It may be useful to understand the larger context in which all this is happening and where it’s all leading, as long as we don’t let that distract us from doing the real work of transformation that’s right in front of us.
Like a moth that’s becoming a butterfly, we’re all in a process of becoming, which may be confusing or unclear at times, especially if we’re accustomed to knowing what’s going to happen with our mind. I believe there’s something much bigger than our mind that’s directing this magnificent process, and we’re being given everything we need—even though it may not always appear that way. At some point, I think we’ll look back and see what a wonder this whole process has been, just as we might do now relative to our current lifetime and all we’ve gone through in our various steps of learning and development to become what we are now. Who would have known, from an earlier vantage point, where it was all leading. Yet from this perspective looking back, it may seem like a perfect, perhaps even miraculous, plan that had an amazing logic all along. We just couldn’t see it at the time.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is an author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including Guidance from Beings of Light and Akashic Record Readings. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Yeshua: What Happens To Our Body At The Fourth And Fifth Dimension
Part 1 of a Message
Received Through Mercedes Kirkel on February 17, 2013
Greetings beloveds. This is Yeshua and I am so deeply happy to be with you. I acknowledge Lord Melchizedek and Sananda, who are both present with us today and who are overlighting and communicating through me, as well.
I have so much compassion, gratitude, appreciation for all of you and what you are going through. I realize it is not easy much of the time. I know this from my experience on Earth. Earth is not an easy place in the third dimension.
You are starting to rise above the third-dimensional energies. This is not an easy process. In some ways it is a kind of a death process—not in any heavy, negative, mournful, sad way; but in a very real way. When people are in the process of dying—especially if it is a more natural, easeful death it is easier to see this process—you see people releasing, you might say, the shackles, the bonds that they have to the third dimension. They are preparing themselves for leaving this dimension and generally going into a fourth-dimensional space. It is not an easy process. It is why it generally takes a period of time for people to die. Sometimes people die quickly, in accidents and those kinds of things. Generally this is shocking to the being because they have to go through so much so quickly. In general, it is preferable for a person to have a longer space of time to adjust to the change that they go through when they die and release the third dimension, including their physical body.
But this process is greater than just the physical body. It includes all the aspects of the third dimension that you are tied into—aspects of thinking, aspects of feeling, aspects of energy, all sorts of things. In some ways you are going through that process now, to whatever extent you have not already gone through it.
Many spiritual beings have noticed the connection between dying and spiritual growth. They have noticed that there is something about the death process that seems to support people in their spiritual growth. They even have techniques of embracing a certain way of relating to living that’s connected to relating to dying, which seems to support people in their spiritual growth. Spiritual growth and relating to the death process are very connected. These are very similar things. And you are going through that now in this process of ascension.
Everyone is at slightly different stages. Everyone has different arenas that they are working with. Whatever still holds you, binds you to the third dimension is what you are working with, and you are feeling the challenge of releasing that. You might experience things such as being more emotional than you’re used to; having your energy feel heavy or difficult; having circumstances show up in your life that you may need to complete your work with in some way or other; having thoughts, patterns in your thinking show up that you still struggle with. They are all opportunities to complete this work and release your ties that limit you in a third-dimensional way.
There is an aspect to this that requires your conscious participation, requires you to make certain changes, to change certain behaviors. And there is an aspect of this that is going on that mostly just requires your support, your opening to it, your not interfering with it—but you don’t necessarily need to be directing it, understanding it, consciously involved with it in a way that you might think of as “working on your stuff.” (He laughs.) But you may need to support the process in ways such as resting more; staying balanced physically, emotionally, and mentally; not getting concerned about the process and doing things that help you to release concern, such as talking to other people about it. Support yourself to stay in the light in the midst of your experiences. This is where doing your spiritual practices, which support you, are very important, whatever those are for you—meditation, study, connecting with spiritual sources, connecting with spiritual gatherings, whatever things support you to stay in your highest vibration and light. All of these things are things you can do to support this process while it moves forward on its own. It will make it easier, possibly quicker, and it will make it so that you feel more comfortable and balanced and confident in going through this.
You have great help in this process. There are many beings who are actively directing tremendous energies of blessing, light, help to you, to all beings of the Earth, and to the Earth herself, to make this shift and this transformation. So it is easier than it has ever been. And there are a great many people who are going through this, like never before. It is a wondrous time and the process will start to feel more and more joyful and easeful to you over time. You are still in the somewhat early phases, so your experience is more one of difficulty or purification or challenge at this point. That will not always be the case. But it is the characteristic at this time. Just as in the death process, those who have gone a bit further into it report exquisite experiences of merging with light, with light-beings, with other beings that they know, of being in incredible, blissful, beatific spaces. And this, too, will be something that will more and more be your reality. But the early phases of the dying process are the phases of release and letting go. And this is the more challenging part.
When I and other beings come to you, it is to help you in any way that we can, through our blessing, through our clarification, through our guidance. That is my motive in coming to you right now, as always, and as so many beings are moved to do.
There are amazing signs right now all around you. I encourage you to be aware of them and to trust them. Things are changing. It is a reflection of your change, your change at the level of consciousness. You are becoming conscious of the fact that you can change anything. As more and more people become conscious of that, you are going to see so many things change. You are going to stop being controlled by a power structure that you feel you have no influence over and that determines the course of your life. This controlling power structure has been possible because you have been bound by third-dimensional consciousness, where you felt powerless, you believed in authority, and gave all the power to those authorities.
You are waking up, somewhat like Dorothy in your story “The Wizard of Oz,” to see that you have always had the power within you. You must simply recognize that and claim it, and in so doing you will stop giving that power away. It is so simple but so hard to see from the third-dimensional perspective. But there are those, like myself, who are committed to help you to make this transition. And it is underway.
You are going to see amazing changes in your world, which will be a reflection of the changes within yourself. Believe in these changes. Do not doubt them. Believe in what they signal. Your world is changing immensely. In a very short time you will have the kind of world that you have dreamed of and have thought, “If only…” but felt powerless to create. You will find your power.
But that is a few steps ahead, even though it has begun and is underway. But the full manifestation of it is a few steps ahead. The primary thing for you is to do your inner work, because that is what will allow this outer manifestation to shift.
This inner work is different from what most of you have focused on in the past. It is why my beloved Mary Magdalene is coming forth to help people. She brings a different voice, the voice of the Feminine, which is so important now, and which so many need help strengthening. The Feminine will help you immensely for what you specifically need to make this transition. Look for those who can help you with this Feminine transition within yourselves. That will be an enormous support for most people. And I am not only speaking to the women. This is for the men as well. We men will manifest the Feminine in a different form, but we need it as much as we need water to drink.
I feel complete in my speaking my thoughts at this time. I would like to hear what you are wanting help with. Please ask me your questions that I may help.
Question: Can you explain the fourth dimension? Does the body die when there is a transition to the fourth dimension?
Yeshua: In the fourth dimension you have a much lighter body. You are familiar with this body. You visit it when you go into your dreams. When you die, you also will move into the fourth dimension. You release your physical body at the earth level, but you maintain a fourth dimensional body.
Question: So in essence it is a death of the third-dimensional body.
Yeshua: Yes, or in some ways like a birthday or a graduation into your lighter body. In the ascension process, you do not need to die to do this. You are transforming your physical body into a fourth-dimensional body. That’s what’s different.
You also can choose to die and move into the fourth dimension. You all have done this before, in-between lives. But you can choose to come back in a fourth-dimensional incarnation. That is another option.
Question: When people people ascend, do they let go of their third-dimensional bodies, which means death in this dimension? Can one be in the fourth dimension and still be in a third-dimensional body?
Yeshua: You can visit the fourth dimension, and that is what you do when you dream. You are visiting the fourth dimension. Or you can ascend, where you go into the fourth dimension and don’t come back into the third dimension, unless you choose to visit the third dimension from the fourth dimension.
It won’t feel the same as dying. It will feel somewhat like going to sleep, and then you wake up and you are in the fourth dimension. But you will recognize it in a different way, because this is your home now, as opposed to feeling that you’re visiting. And you will have that awareness when it becomes your home. You will know.
Question: Does everyone who dies go into the fourth dimension?
Yeshua: They go into a fourth-dimensional space that is a between-life space, yes.
Question: And then what’s the fifth dimension?
Yeshua: The fifth dimension is the beginning of becoming a pure light being. You’re still individuated but you are not so much in a recognizable bodily form as at the physically based third dimension. So there is this graduated process, you might say, of becoming increasingly lighter and lighter.
At the fourth dimension, the lightness is more of an energetic lightness. It has the quality of dreaminess, which makes it very emotional. It also is very much connected to your mind. That’s called the astral aspect. It is very much like your dreams and the way people in appear in dreams. They have bodies. You see people. Yet they can do things that make them not seem physical—the way they come and go, instantaneously travel wherever they choose, things manifest instantly. You know this from your dreams. So that is a help to you to have that reference.
The fifth dimension is what many people imagine when they think of heaven. It is a place of great light, love, compassion, forgiveness.
At the fourth dimension, you are starting to realize your full ability to manifest. Whatever it is that you put your awareness on manifests. This can be things. This can be emotions. This is one of the reasons why it is so important to be strong in your emotional development at the fourth dimension. If you are a person who tends to fall into the lower frequency emotions—such as fear, anger, sorrow—you will manifest this. You will manifest the things that you are fearful of. You will manifest the things you are angry about. You will manifest the things you are sorrowful about. This is what happens in your dreams. This is what you call nightmares.
Part of the mastery at the fourth dimension is mastering being able to stay at the higher frequencies. This will be evidenced by your emotions. When you’re in the higher frequencies, you experience the higher frequency emotions. These carry more light. These are the ones that you tend to enjoy more, such as joy, bliss, peace, tranquility, inspiration, all of those kinds of things.
This is also very related to your thinking. It requires more discipline of your thinking, because whatever you think will manifest. You have some stories in your mythology, or your fairy tales, or even your jokes, where people are granted wishes and the first thing they think about is what manifests. Sometimes this is something very wonderful. Sometimes people think about the things that they don’t want to manifest and suddenly they’re dealing with that reality. This is an aspect of the fourth dimension that’s coming through.
So your thinking must be disciplined, it must be strong, to support what it is that you’re calling in. However, it is much easier to do that at the fourth dimension than at the third dimension. Your mind has a great deal more freedom, just as your body has a great deal more freedom. You are not locked into things that you are familiar with and used to at the third dimension. An example of this is that your thinking in terms of right and wrong, good and bad, will not be binding you at the fourth dimension. Your thinking in terms of competition, of me-versus-them, will not be binding you at the fourth dimension. Thinking in terms of things like judgment, which is really based in right and wrong—judging things as right or wrong, good or bad, appropriate-inappropriate, all the ways that you do that—you will be greatly released from this at the fourth dimension. All this will release you to a purity of mind that is much more supportive and much more easeful mentally at the fourth dimension.
Your work that you do now is part of what is going to determine where in the fourth dimension you gravitate towards, what your frequency will be. Your emotional work and your mental work will very much determine whether you will gravitate towards the lower frequencies or the higher frequencies. Those who tend to gravitate towards the lower frequencies don’t tend to stay at the fourth dimension, because it is too unpleasant. They return back, most often to the third dimension, where they have more stability and can work with greater stability to raise their frequency. There is help at the third dimension because of that stability, even though you’re in a polarized realm of the difficult along with the supportive.
The fourth dimension is generally understood, and rightly so, as a transitional dimension. You are preparing yourself for the fifth dimension. It is a kind of continuum. When you go to the fifth dimension, you are able to hold a high enough frequency that you can stay in the frequencies of unconditional love, compassion, forgiveness, stay in the light continuously. That is what is required for the fifth dimension. That allows you to start to do the higher work at the fifth dimension, gradually releasing your need for embodiment. Then you become a full light being that doesn’t require the same kind of body that is necessary at the third and fourth dimension.
The primary thing for you to understand at this point is your present work, your present stage, and what will assist you with that. But it can be helpful and reassuring to know where you are moving toward. For that, primarily the fourth dimension is sufficient for your understanding at this time. It is very difficult for you to understand the higher dimensions in any depth or detail because it is so different from where you are now. In many ways, it is not necessary and could even be a distraction to focus on that. It is most helpful to maintain your focus at your current level and what is necessary for you for moving forward into your next step.
[End of Part 1]
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is an author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including Guidance from Beings of Light and Akashic Record Readings. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Archangel Michael & Isis: Clarifying The Ascension Process
Part 2 of a Message
Given through Mercedes Kirkel on February 3, 2013
Now we wish to hear your questions, especially questions about your process of transition into these newer energies, this newer frequency, newer consciousness, or questions about the energies, frequencies, consciousness—if there’s understanding you would like to have. Please share with us what your questions are now.
Question: After moving into fifth dimensional frequency and higher, is there ever a point where you’re no longer needing to transmute the lower energies in the emotional body, mental body? Does it ever reach a state of pure expansion, rather than contraction and expansion?
Archangel Michael and Isis: There is a subtle form of differentiation from Source that’s still in effect all the way up to complete reunion with Source. As you go to higher and higher levels of consciousness and the higher dimensions, the sense of differentiation becomes less and less. It becomes more and more light. Nevertheless, it is there through all the different levels. But you will not experience it the way you are used to experiencing it in the third dimension, and to some extent in the fourth dimension, as something that is binding, that is heavy, that is painful. That will change. It will become more and more about joy and love and expansion.
That is a great deal of what the learning is about in the fourth dimension. Certainly you have started it at the third dimension, but you will be focusing on it more purely at the fourth dimension. It will be about learning to stay in the higher frequency emotions and not get drawn into the lower frequency emotions in the way that, at the third dimension, many of you had a sense that you had no choice about. It seemed to just happen to you. You had choice about how to respond, but it seemed you did not necessarily have choice how to change the event and the cycle altogether. At the fourth dimension, it will become very clear to you that you do have choice and that you can manifest the higher frequencies.
There are two aspects to this, as is so often the case in manifestation. There is an aspect that you could call the more feminine aspect and there is an aspect that you could call the more masculine aspect. The more masculine aspect has to do with intention and choice. You choose to stay in the higher frequencies and understand how to do that, by setting an intention and following through with your actions. These are not physical actions. These are emotional actions, mental actions, but they are actions nonetheless, that allow you to be in choice about your emotional reality.
The more feminine aspect is the aspect of surrender and opening through whatever emotion arises, all the way through to Source and ultimately to God. In that, the force of the emotion, if it is a lower frequency emotion, dissolves and takes you into the higher frequencies.
Depending on your nature, one or the other may be more natural to you, and you may choose one or the other more frequently, simply by what feels most accessible and effective for you. For many of you, it will be valuable to have skills to engage both and to be able to call upon whichever seems most effective and easeful in whatever situation arises.
The work of our sister, Mary Magdalene, has been very clarifying about the Feminine process and very valuable in helping many of you to understand that, in a way that many of you have not understood in the past. Your spiritual traditions that are already in existence have largely taught the masculine path. So there are many ways that are familiar to most of you through which you know how to engage the masculine path of intention followed by action.
All of this will become more clear to you at the fourth dimension because you so quickly manifest the results of your choices. It will become more important to you to maintain yourself in the higher frequency, and you will start to increase and refine your skills that allow you to do this.
Question: How is humanity doing on our ascension process? Is there any timeline? Is this going to take hundreds or thousands of years for humanity to ascend into the fifth dimension? Is it going to be gradual, with humans doing it here and there, or is it going to be more of a collective, with most of humanity doing it within the same timeframe?
Archangel Michael and Isis: These are questions that many people have in their minds and hearts. Partly they want reassurance about their own process; partly wanting to know the future for a sense of security, understanding, and a certain level of safety. For the most part, these are not answers we can give you, in part because this is being created by all of you and we do not have the answers; and also because it is not our work to know about future timelines in this way. It is our work to help you at your present stage into your next stage. But we are not informed ourselves as to how that will occur and along what timeframes.
Question: Can you tell us how we’re doing at the present time, then, with this process?
Archangel Michael and Isis: You are doing quite well. In particular, the people who understand at least the beginning stages of the ascension process, and are interested and committed to going through this themselves, are especially doing very well. There is a lightening in your world, in general, because of that. This is affecting others, even those who are not aware of there being an ascension process and are not choosing to take steps themselves to be involved in this form of transformation into the higher realms. It is happening nonetheless.
It is not going to be a process of eons, especially into the fourth dimension. This is a first step that your world, in general, is making. It is possible for beings to move into the fifth dimension in a more direct and permanent way. In the past that has, in general, involved leaving this dimension. But that is not so much what is happening now. What is happening now is a transformation at a group scale. It is not an individual process as it has been in the past.
Somewhat humorously, one aspect of your making progress in this transformation will be the relaxation of your concern around time. (Archangel Michael and Isis gently laugh.) You will come to see that time is not the way you view it in the third dimension. More and more you will be going into the present. Within that will contain all time, because there is only the present. So you will more and more replace your sense of linear time—where things are happening at some point in the future and you are wondering when that will be—with a sense of completion and wholeness in the present, where nothing else is required in terms of time, and that time happens within the expansive space of the present.
Question: I find myself very bored with this third dimensional reality. I find spending more time in the high fourth and the fifth dimension because it’s where I feel I belong. Are we able to stay in the fifth dimension, even though we have a physical body? Are we able to move between the fourth and fifth dimensions on a regular basis, or do we have to wait for everybody else to come along?
Archangel Michael and Isis: You can most certainly move between the dimensions, but that does not mean that you are based in that dimension. You will return, as you are now, to wherever you are based.
You have always been able to change your base into a higher dimension. It has not been easy, but it has been possible. But that is a soul-level choice. Most of you who have come here at this time have made the soul-level choice to be part of this group ascension process. So it is unlikely that you will make that ascension on your own, independent of others, because that was not your soul choice in coming here.
It is natural that as this shift to a higher-dimensional base becomes closer, as you experience the higher dimensions more, that it becomes more and more desirable—you are desirous of this. It is natural that the third dimension will become less and less attractive. Indeed, that is a part of the process that will inevitably happen.
As you become stronger in the ascension process, the fourth dimension will become less of a place that you visit and more of a place that you hold within yourself. You will take it with you wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, even as you exist in the third dimension. So there will be less of a sense of third dimension versus the other dimensions. Eventually they will merge because in your consciousness, in your heart, in your core, you are existing at the fourth dimension. Even though you may be participating in the third dimension, the fourth dimension will more and more be your base. So the third dimension won’t feel the way you have felt it in the past. You will not have the experiences of it you’ve had in the past. It will more be that you stay founded in the fourth dimension and are able to operate in the third dimension from that place.
When you encounter beings that you consider great spiritual beings—great realizers, yogis, saints, sages, teachers—and you go into their presence and feel a quality that is very uplifting or very transforming for you, this is what you are experiencing. You are experiencing their inner state that they carry with them of a higher consciousness and a higher dimension, even while manifesting in the third dimension. This is what you will more and more experience, until it reaches a certain critical mass, which will be bigger than just you. It will be many people carrying this consciousness together, which will change your world, change your reality. It will no longer be the apparent reality that you are familiar with now.
Most likely this will be a gradual process. It is like a child growing up, where you look back and say, “Oh my, I remember being that age when I was that young. How different I was.” But when you went through those processes, they were incremental and you didn’t necessarily notice them along the way. You just seemed like you were being you. Others may have noticed your changes, but you, yourself, didn’t notice them so much. This may seem like that. But it is happening at a scale that is much larger than the individual scale. Nonetheless, you feel it as an individual and it is changing you as an individual.
One of the steps of this process of going into the higher dimensions that is important is to not be private about it. Do not feel that it is necessary to do this in seclusion. Bring it out into the world. Shine your love, your consciousness. Express it, be it in the world. That will help you in this integration.
And ask for it to be so. Ask to stay in that higher dimension, that higher frequency. Ask for that to become and then to be the frequency, the consciousness, the dimension in which you reside. Asking is extremely powerful. So ask for that.
Question: There are a lot of people on earth that are focused on peace—individual peace, world peace, and peace in our universes. Are there suggestions you would like share to really anchor that frequency in the earth plane?
Archangel Michael and Isis: Absolutely. It is wonderful that so many are focused on peace and are desirous of peace. What you have not fully understood is the way that things manifest in your realm. Things only manifest if you manifest them first on the inner planes, through your heart and your higher mind. Many of you are not at peace with yourself. Many of you are not at peace with life, are not at peace with God. This is where you must do the work.
This emotional work is critical to creating peace. Many of you are not at peace with your emotions. Many of you are not at peace with your body. Many of you are not at peace with your sexuality. What you manifest at the outer is always a reflection of the inner.
There is a certain humor—you might say irony—in that some people are not at peace with the lack of peace. (gentle laughter) That is the work that must be done. It is especially emotional work. You may not know this peace until you have done that work. You can do that work now. Many beings can do that work now. The more beings that do, the more you will experience peace in your world.
Everything is a reflection of the inner—everything. As such, it has value. It can help you to pinpoint where your work is to be done, if you understand it as such. Attempting to change the outer without changing the inner will always be futile, never satisfactory.
The peace that you seek is the love and peace of God, not in some otherworld sense, such as going to heaven. God’s love and peace is a very practical thing. But it is one of the features of the third dimension that God’s love and peace is largely hidden from most people, such that you think that you have to go somewhere else to attain it. That is not the case. But you do need to work with yourself, with your inner structures that are hiding God’s love and peace from you. That is the most valuable work to be done, because when you do it you will experience God’s love and peace, which is what everyone desires. So we highly recommend this.
When you are full in this, you will be at peace with all, even with those who are apparently not at peace, even with those circumstances that you would not call peaceful. And we must underscore that this does not mean that you will take no action. This is not the same as being passive. It is simply that you will remain in peace as you take action. As long as you are manifesting in this third dimension, there are actions to be taken. It is part of being at this level. When you are manifesting at the fourth dimension or higher, there will be different actions.
So do not confuse peace with passivity. They are not the same. Peace is in your heart. When you experience that peace, you will be guided to whatever action is for the highest.
Question: When we ascend to the fifth dimension, where do we go?
Archangel Michael and Isis: There are different options. Partly it depends how this unfolds.
There are different places where you may choose to manifest. But many of you have a strong connection to the Earth. You have a love for Earth, and She of you, which makes it likely that you will stay connected to this place and that your manifestation will be involved with this realm.
When you attain the fifth dimension, you are not so tied, so locked into a place as you are at the third dimension. So there are different possibilities. Some of you may travel to different places, to serve in different ways, to participate in different ways. But it is very likely that you will continue your association with the Earth in Her fifth dimensional form, until you are called by your soul to continue your journey elsewhere.
Most of you have had manifestations and incarnations in other places. You may not remember them, but there is a soul affinity. This is another possibility—you may choose to return to other places where you have other soul connections. It’s a little bit like your airport, where you make connections and go to different places. You will have many options. Your soul will know the right one for you.
We urge you not to be concerned. Relax your minds. All is well. All is unfolding most perfectly. Allow your mind to drop into your heart. Allow yourself to be guided by this unity of heart and mind. Allow your thinking to serve you, but not to be your master. Your hearts are strong and are growing.
We sense it is time to bring this sharing to a close. It has been most delightful to be with you. We hope our sharing with you has been helpful and supportive, for that is our heart desire. We love you. We’re available to you whenever you call upon us. And so, with that, we close for now, once more expressing our tremendous love for you and our gratitude for all you do.
We shine our light of the heart to you and to your heart. And in that exquisiteness of light we leave you.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is an author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including Guidance from Beings of Light and Akashic Record Readings. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
Relationships in the New Energy
From Lady Mary
Part 2 of a Message Given through Mercedes Kirkel on January 6, 2013
[Note: Lady Mary is the same being often referred to as Mother Mary.]
Now I would like to hear your questions. What would you like to ask of me, that I can be of service and help you. Please ask me now.
Question: The question I would like to ask is about relationships. There are so many of us right now that are searching for that special one and have a desire to join in a sacred relationship. We’re feeling almost like a struggle with this. What was the purpose of that?
Lady Mary:For many of you, your light was required in making this transition you have been going through in your world. It was very important that the shift in your world be the primary arena that your light was being given to. So there was an aspect that was called in of putting relationships on hold if they were not already formed, if they were not already strong and full relationships. This has been a part of what has been going on. It has been mysterious to many of you, whose hearts long for that kind of connection—which is natural—and wondering why that is not coming in, when you feel so ready, so prepared, and so desirous of having that strong love with another being.
This is changing now. It is part of this change that you are beginning to go through. Again, it will not be immediate and overnight, where everyone will immediately be in a relationship that they have dreamed of. But the field is open now. The new energy has come in. It has been grounded. It has been set in place. The frequency is there now; it is stable. So this is going to free up people to move forward in their personal paths in ways that it was asked that this be on hold for a period of time prior to now.
We thank all of you who have given your light, your love, your service to this transformation of your world. The effect, let me assure you, is going beyond your world. It is not just this world that is being affected. The change that is happening is vast. Your part in it has been most important, each of you, and it has been required that your energy be given. But now that is being freed up. So you will find new openness, new ease in creating the love relationships that you desire.
For some of you, this will not be entirely on the same dimension as the one that you are primarily manifesting in. Some of your relationships will be in higher dimensions, where there are beings of higher dimensions, and you will find this very fulfilling and satisfying. It will not be, “Oh well, that’s nice but doesn’t really fill me the way that I am wanting.” For some of you it will be extremely satisfying and wonderful. For others of you, that will not be the case and your primary relationship will be on the same dimension in which you are primarily manifesting.
You also should know that part of the shift that you have gone through is that in the old form, the old consciousness, the old reality, partner relationships of an intimate kind were virtually the only kind of safe haven that you experienced for your heart, where you could open up to the depths of your being in a way that not only sustained you but fed you, kept you going, nurtured you. Now it is not going to be so. It is not going to be that that will be the only form through which you will be fed and sustained. More and more you will be forming families of light, communities of light, villages of light, networks of light, where you are feeding and supporting each other in many, many ways. This is going to create great freedom for you, great love, great support. It will allow you to expand your relationship possibilities.
You may still find yourself in wonderful partnership relationships with an intimate. These forms may also change. They may take new forms that in the past you did not think you would be involved in. But it will also be that you will be fed by many forms of relationships, many kinds. It will not be that you will be relying on one person, primarily, for your love, for your security, for your companionship, for your spiritual closeness, for so many things that in the past most people have looked to and received from their intimate relationships. Now it is going to be so much fuller. You will not feel the kind of desperation that so many of you have sadly experienced, feeling that you had to work so hard to survive—physically, emotionally, socially, however it was. This is also going to be changing.
You are going to be assured that you will be cared for, that you will be loved in this dimension in a new way. It is going to make life so much easier, so much happier, more joyful, so much more full because you are freed up to live your true life purpose, whatever that is, and are giving that and sharing that so fully and freely with others. Your world is going to be a different place. And the role of relationships in your world will change because of that.
But that does not cancel out, it does not negate that intimate relationships are one of the great joys of human beings. You will certainly continue to experience those and they will be supported in new, wonderful ways. And many will be coming in. That is part of this new time that is happening. We thank all those who have waited, which, we are so aware, has not always been easy. Thank you so much.
Question: Some of the people in my life are challenging to be with in a compassionate and loving way. I want to create a healthy boundary for myself with these beings. I want to release them with love and compassion, but I don’t always know how to do that gracefully. Can you offer any advice?
Lady Mary: Yes. I thank you for your question. This is something that many people struggle with and it is most valuable that you ask.
There is both inner work and outer work that you can do in relationship to people who are challenging in your life. The inner work is to ask yourself why you have called this person or this situation into your life. Even to get to that question is a step of responsibility that is valuable and not always easy for people to make. People oftentimes feel that they have no choice in the matter of what is manifesting in their life. But in reality, you have always had choice.
Some of the things in your life are things you have called in for particular reasons—to help you grow. There is a phrase that some people have used called “tough love.” When you have these kinds of difficult situations in your life, they are actually a form of tough love that you have given to yourself. They are helping you in some way.
Sometimes the people you have difficulties with are reflecting yourself in ways that are hard for you to see. But because you have manifested them, it is a sign that, through the law of attraction, you have called in that which is like yourself. There is some aspect of what is happening that is like yourself. Oftentimes, when you are struggling with it, it is because you do not realize the similarity. And so you do not see it as a gift, either. You see it as a burden or a hardship.
It is very valuable to look at the circumstances and the people in your life that you have difficulty with and say, “Why have I brought this into my life? Is this reflecting something in me that I need to look at? Is this circumstance or this action that the person is engaging similar to a circumstance I create or actions that I take?”
Or perhaps you call in a circumstance or a person because it supports you in a certain way. Actually it is always the case that it is supporting you in a certain way. If it were not supporting you, you would not be calling it in. So this is another question that you can ask yourself: “In what way is this situation supporting me? What am I getting out of being in this situation?” This may be difficult to see. It may be helpful to ask another person who you trust to help you with these questions, to see it from another perspective, because you may be hiding it from yourself. It may be something that you’re scared of facing about yourself, in some way or other.
When you get to the root of these questions, when you get to the place where you can answer these questions and it feels true for yourself—and you will know when you get there; you know within yourself when it has that ring of truth, when your body says, “Yes, ah-ha, this is what is really going on.” When you get to that place, it’s like a knot that unwinds. Suddenly you don’t need that outer circumstance anymore to reflect to you what’s going on. You’ve received the gift. You’ve received the lesson. And you can start to be in choice about how you want to respond to that circumstance, that lesson, whatever it was.
Once you start to make that response and you start to change yourself, you will see your outer circumstance change. You will no longer need that circumstance and you will no longer be calling it in. You will call something else in from the changes you make.
So that is the inner work that needs to be done. And it is important that you do that first. If you only do the outer work, you will simply create this same pattern, this same scenario in another circumstance or with another person in your life. This is because you have not changed what’s really at the root, what you’re doing that’s calling that situation in so that it manifests in your outer circumstance. So it is very valuable to do the inner work first.
Once you do that inner work, it will generally be easy to change the outer. You will be a different person and you will have a new freedom—energy will be freed up from the work that you have done. With this energy, and also with the clarity of new awareness and new consciousness that comes in, you will have much greater ease in creating a different circumstance in your outer world. This different circumstance may include all sorts of practical things. It may be that you spend less time with people who are difficult for you. You may choose to change certain circumstances. You might change your living circumstance, your work circumstance, whatever it is. But it will be much easier, because you’re a different person and you now have freed up energy and awareness to make this change. It will also be more joyful, because joy has been released for you in your life.
The final thing is that you will have compassion. When you have made these changes within yourself, then you will see that these other people who are difficult for you are simply struggling with their own growth, doing the best they know how with their life lessons and their growth. You will have compassion for them. That will be a very different circumstance than feeling that they are somehow controlling you. They will have lost their control over you. Then you will be free to love and have compassion.
Is this helpful to you?
Questioner: Yes. I feel that I do offer love and compassion. Sometimes it’s not received as that and it’s taken advantage of.
Lady Mary: You cannot engage the love and compassion until you do the inner work. Before that point it will never be felt as love and compassion. Love and compassion on the outer level alone is very limited in its scope, because you’re still struggling on the inner realm relative to these people. That is what you actually communicate outwardly, is your struggle. So people feel that.
When you have done the inner work, you become strong. You may not be able to change your circumstance. And certainly, you do not want to try to change the other people. That almost never works. And it is almost never beneficial to you or the other person to try to do that.
What you want is to love the other person. But you can only love them when you are free. As long as you are feeling controlled by them, you are not able to love them. It’s not possible. You need that love for yourself first. So put your attention on yourself. Give your love to yourself. Do your own work. Then it will unfold in a natural, true way that leaves you strong. You may not be able to affect the circumstance with the person, but you will be able to remain in love.
It is a beautiful thing that so many of you long to be compassionate and loving with people, even people that you have difficulty towards. But sometimes this is a gesture that actually creates a kind of a barrier, a wall, an artifice that is not most supportive for you or for others. True love, true compassion arises naturally on its own. It is natural to you to be compassionate and loving. If you are not compassionate and loving, you need to tend to yourself, not to the other person. It is not to try to superimpose, or even “inflict” compassion or love on another. It is to look at what you are suffering, what is your pain that is keeping you from being compassionate and loving, naturally. That is the work that is so important.
You see, you are always creating the outer world. You might think of it as being like your dreams. When you’re in the dream, it’s not so obvious that it’s a dream. Then you wake up and you think, “Oh, that was just a dream.” And it’s easy to think, “I just created that.” Sometimes you may think other things about your dreams. But there is an element with dreams where it’s much more obvious to you that you’re creating it, and that it can change very quickly. It doesn’t take long processes of great effort to change a dream. You can change a dream in an instant. And many of you do. Many of you know this power.
This realm is not any different. Just like a dream, you don’t have to go around fixing all the characters in your dream. Your work is with yourself, with your consciousness. As soon as that consciousness changes, the dream changes. So it is with this realm. It is just the same. This is going to become more and more apparent to you in this new time, and you will enjoy it most wonderfully. Your skills will come to you. You are young in these abilities of bringing this into this new period. So be patient with yourself. Be compassionate with yourself, first and foremost. It will come.
Question: I’ve noticed with these lighter energies that a lot of people are simplifying their lives, releasing a lot of their material possessions. There are also a lot of people that are feeling called to move geographically right now. If we are creating everything around us where we are, why do we feel such a calling at times to move to a different location? Is it about where we are on the Earth and helping her? Could you offer insight into that?
Mary: Yes. There could be different reasons. Because you are becoming more of an energy being, you are drawn to where the energies are most harmonized with your energy, or where you’re most harmonized with the energies of that place and the other beings of that place. So there’s a natural movement towards that energetic resonance. That is a big part of it.
For some people it may also have to do with service and your life purpose, your spiritual work. You may be called to a certain area that’s more in need of your service or more supportive of that. So both are true. But it’s fundamentally about energies. And that is why there is movement going on, because people are realigning energetically.
Are there other questions?
(Silence for a period of time)
I hold you all in my sphere of love, in a great sphere of love and light. I encourage you to refresh yourselves in this love and light regularly, so that you can more and more live in this space with others. You have a wonderful future ahead. I bless you. I thank you. I celebrate with you. My heart is with you.
With my blessings, I leave you now.
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Copyright 2013 Mercedes Kirkel, http://www.mercedeskirkel.com, All Rights Reserved. Please copy and share this article as long as it is shared in its entirety and the information is not altered, excerpted, or added to; credit of authorship and my website address (www.mercedeskirkel.com) is included; and no money is exchanged. For any other uses, please contact Mercedes Kirkel to obtain permission. Thank you.
Mercedes Kirkel is an author and spiritual channel, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
To receive ongoing messages from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light through Mercedes, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com and request to be added to the mailing list.
Mercedes offers workshops and private sessions in Santa Fe, New Mexico, including Guidance from Beings of Light and Akashic Record Readings. She is available in-person or long distance (by phone and skype), or to travel to your location. For more information, go to www.mercedeskirkel.com.
How To Make Use of the 12-12-12 Gateway
By Mercedes Kirkel
Tomorrow is 12-12-12. I see it as an opening of a doorway into stronger energies, leading up to 12-21-12. These energies offer a special opportunity for transformation, if we choose to make use of them in that way.
Many people are suggesting meditations and particular processes to engage on 12-12-12. If one of these resonate with you, I support you in doing that. However, it’s not necessary to follow someone else’s process. You have everything you need to fully make use of these special energies. Indeed, I strongly believe that part of the change that we’re in the midst of is the shift from the paradigm of leaders and followers into a co-creative world of self- and other-empowerment. You may still choose to follow someone else for a particular purpose, such as being part of an organized process that a group is engaging together. It’s just that you do this by choice, knowing that you have infinite choices, which includes the option of leading yourself in your own process.
If you feel moved to create your own form of consciously receiving and activating the energies of 12-12-12 for your highest good, here are my recommendations:
1. Relax. Create a clear space for yourself physically, emotionally, mentally, and energetically. Set aside “busy-ness” and minor concerns that don’t need your immediate attention.
2. Focus. Set your intention for what you want to bring in for yourself and for the world. Some possible intentions might be:
- to live stably and continuously from your heart
- to open your third eye and higher mind
- to open the channel of communication with your higher self
- to shift into unity consciousness
- to move into the fourth dimension for yourself and all beings on Earth
- for peace, compassion, and higher consciousness to be manifested on Earth
- for the transition into the next stage of our spiritual evolution to be easeful and direct
3. Create sacred space. Set aside a specific time to receive the energies of this gateway and to allow yourself to be a vessel of transformation for your intentions. You may do this with others or by yourself.
4. Call in your guides, angels, or whatever beings support you spiritually. You can do this even if you don’t know who they are. Assume that you have beings supporting you for your highest good (which you do). Acknowledge them and ask for their help.
5. Express gratitude. This is an important step which opens you to receive. Express gratitude to your guides, to the specialness of the day, for your life and blessings, or for being present at this time to go through this great transformation.
6. Ask for what you want. Give voice to your intentions, for yourself and the world. It is best to do this out loud, as the frequency of your voice integrates all of your bodies in calling this forth.
7. Open to the energies. This may be a particular form of meditation that you do. Or it may be to simply be still and intend to receive. Breathing fully and openly will support your receptivity.
8. Give thanks. Whether you experience something or not, assume that you’ve received what is perfect for you. Give thanks for what you’ve received. Thank your guides for supporting you.
May 12-12-12 be a blessed and most wonderful day for you and for all!
Karen Wyatt, M.D., Shares a Powerful Experience with Mary Magdalene Beckons
Book Review:
Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love by Mercedes Kirkel
Review written by Dr. Karen Wyatt
When I was first asked by the author to review this book a number of months ago I was intrigued by the subject matter, but not sure what to expect. To my knowledge I had never before read a book that was channeled by an author from a being in the spirit realm. But I am open-minded and also very interested in the life and experiences of Mary Magdalene so I eagerly agreed to write a review. To my surprise, a powerful lesson eventually unfolded for me through the process of reading and digesting the book, but I’ll get to that story a little later.
Right from the start of the book I resonated with Kirkel’s approach to the subject matter: she begins each chapter with a channeled message from Mary Magdalene and follows it with her own interpretation of the message, including stories from her life experience. Mary Magdalene’s words are fairly brief and to-the-point and they are easy for any reader to grasp. But more importantly, these messages emanate love and support that is touching and profound. Kirkel then reiterates and expands each message in the remainder of the chapter and in so doing brings its heavenly wisdom down to an earthly, practical level.
Through this format Magdalene and Kirkel address important spiritual issues such as the Divine Feminine, intimacy and spirituality, the nature of reality and birthing the Divine Self. However, I found myself attracted most strongly to Mary Magdalene’s words about pain, the dark night of the soul, love, forgiveness and death, in part because they echo some of the spiritual lessons that I myself have been motivated to write about and explore. Regarding pain Mary Magdalene says,
“Your pain is given to you to help you grow. … It is a difficult medicine. … You think that the pain is proof that God has deserted you. In fact, God is calling to you through the pain. God loves you and wants to help you, and pain is one avenue.”
And she ends the message with this comforting thought:
“You are not alone. You are never alone. … We are here with you always. Just call upon us, and we are here. We are powerful and we are for your highest good.”
That simple and powerful assurance sums up the ultimate message of this book: Mary Magdalene spoke through Mercedes Kirkel in order to bring the feminine power of love to us at this time when it is desperately needed. That alone is a good enough reason to highly recommend this book. But I had a personal experience that revealed to me the potential of this message to transform and heal our woundedness:
After I received my copy of the book I began reading it right away and got more than half-way through. But then I became extremely busy with travel and lots of writing and put the book away. When Mercedes wrote to ask about my progress on the book, I remembered my commitment to her and added some time slots on my schedule for finishing the book and writing this review. However, for some reason, every time I started to return to the book, something came up to interrupt me and two more months went by without me completing my task.
Finally Mercedes wrote once again to ask how I was doing with the review and I was overcome with guilt. What was wrong with me? How could I be so negligent and not fulfill my commitment? I immediately sat down to finish reading the book and opened it to the page where I had left my bookmark, which was Chapter 20: Releasing Guilt and False Responsibility. In Mary Magdalene’s message I read,
“Do not have guilt if you have not been open to us for a time. Guilt is a contrivance of your own mind.”
I instantly felt released from all blame for taking such a long time with this review. For whatever reason I was meant to experience this delay. A bit later, as I read the last words of that chapter, which also discussed pain and how to be with someone else who is in pain, I received a phone call from my daughter. She had just been through a deeply humiliating experience and was devastated with emotional pain. I knew exactly how to respond because I had just read Mary Magdalene’s teaching a few moments before. I was able to remind her that “pain is inherent to the spiritual path in this realm” and to “stay true to light and love.”
In that moment I saw the perfection of it all: I needed to wait to read that chapter so that it would be fresh in my mind when my daughter needed to hear its wisdom. The timing had been exactly right and there truly was no reason to feel guilt or blame. Mary Magdalene’s words came alive to me in that moment and I fully understood how this book could potentially bring transformation to its readers.
If you feel drawn to the subject of this book at all, please read it, because it likely contains wisdom that you will need on your own spiritual journey. I, for one, will return to the words of Mary Magdalene over and over again when I forget that I am constantly being held within the embrace of Divine love. That’s a message we all need to hear, now more than ever. Thank you Mercedes Kirkel and Mary Magdalene for the gift of these beautiful words in Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love.
Crossing Over Into the Light-Realm
I’ve experienced what feels like a miracle in my life. Two weeks ago my dad was admitted to the hospital with an infection that had gone into his bloodstream. As we have a number of times over the past half year, we thought this may very well be the end and prepared ourselves. But after a few days, he started to rally yet again.
As he began to “rejoin our world,” he was initially quite confused and his connection to this realm seemed tenuous. When I walked into his room, he looked at me with amazement and said, “I can’t believe you’re here. I never expected to see you.” I’m not sure who he thought I was, as I’ve been visiting him regularly. But it didn’t matter to me. I was delighted to be able to interact and talk with him. And he was so filled with love and light, it was a joy and an honor to be with him.
At one point he apologized for not being able to remember much. I reassured him, saying, “It’s not what you remember or think that matters. What matters is your heart and the love you feel.” At that point, he looked over my shoulder and seemed to be seeing something very profound. I wondered if he was having a vision. In fact, he was, but not the kind I was thinking of. I turned to see what he was looking at and realized it was the white board on the wall with all his medical information on it. Then he said to me, “Do you see that board? To me, it’s a love board.”
I walked over to the board and wrote, “I love you,” and signed my name. He seemed extremely pleased as he beamed with a wide smile. Then he laughed because underneath my message was a reminder to the nurses that he couldn’t feed himself. So the whole communication read: “I love you. Mercedes. Please feed me.”
The next day he was more lucid, but still in an exalted state. He was tracking everything going on around him with great interest and his response to all he observed was wonder and awe. As I was standing beside his bed, he asked me to turn around. I wasn’t sure why he requested that, thinking maybe he wanted to see what my clothes looked like from the back. As I turned around, he pointed out the window, and said, “Isn’t that beautiful?” I looked outside to a typical downtown Albuquerque city scene of roads, traffic, buildings, and a small patch of grass with a couple of trees. He continued, “Isn’t that building beautiful? And look at those clouds!”
I shifted into seeing what he was seeing. I wouldn’t have noticed it normally, in the midst of my busyness or focusing on whatever I was engaged in. But there was a certain beauty to the building, and certainly to the clouds. I started to reflect on the extraordinariness that all the things in our world—which I so easily take for granted—even exist. And I felt myself joining my father in his transformed state.
Later the nurse came in and attended to him. She emptied his catheter into the toilet and then flushed the contents down. He immediately wanted to know what that sound was. We told him it was the toilet flushing and he said with amazement, “Imagine that.” The nurse and I smiled at each other, each of us feeling touched and lifted up by his innocent marveling at what for us was a mundane experience.
My father has continued to recover, so quickly that even the hospital staff were surprised. His will to live continues to astound us all. And the silver lining to the whole event is that he was discharged to the same skilled nursing facility where his wife was recovering from her back surgery. For the first time since he was admitted to an assisted living facility six months ago, they’re living under the same roof. I can’t tell you the joy I saw in both their faces as she walked into his room the first evening to spend time together before they both went to sleep.
I already believe in miracles, so I didn’t need any convincing that I was witnessing one. But I feel incredibly blessed to have been so closely involved in the whole process, watching it unfold, seeing how my mind had no idea what was really going on, and feeling my heart so moved by the beauty I was witnessing. For the past six months, as my dad has seemed so close to dying so many times, I’ve often wondered what’s keeping him here. Why hasn’t he chosen to let go and move on? After experiencing these most recent events, a new thought came to me. Perhaps my dad isn’t waiting to cross over and meet with the angels. Perhaps he’s decided to start his transformation into the light-realm here and now. And in that, he continues to be my teacher, as he has been for so long.
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Mercedes Kirkel is a channel and spiritual guide, bringing forth messages and instruction from Mary Magdalene and other Beings of Light, as well as Akashic Record Readings. Her new book, Mary Magdalene Beckons: Join the River of Love is available at www.marymagdalenebeckons.com. All messages and practices are universal and are not affiliated with any religion.
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