The Light is continuously strengthening good, weakening bad

Message from Matthew Ward via Susan Ward for 19 May 2016 

With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. Let us ease your minds about issues that are causing some anxious moments. First, with climate change a topic of global discussion, there is talk about the seas covering islands and inundating coastal areas up to mountain ranges and people by the millions being drowned. That will not happen. Earth is not going to endanger the lives of her beloved residents during her return to a moderate climate globally. As polar ice and glaciers continue melting, water levels will continue to rise slowly and in small measure overall, and residents of potentially affected areas, sea-level islands, parts of continental coastlines, banks of your largest rivers, and low-lying countries—will have plenty of time to take any necessary preventive action or relocate. 

Then there is the prophecy that a sudden Pole Shift is going to devastate the planet. It would be devastating, if the shift was to happen abruptly, but it won’t. Eighty-some years ago Earth’s axis was so out of balance that she was in danger of flying out into space and certain destruction. Powerful civilizations beamed massive light to stabilize Earth’s orbit and enable her to start on an Ascension course, and that was the onset of the pole’s ongoing gradual shifting. 

Other readers are concerned about Earth’s trajectory into a collision course with a planet that some think is Nibiru and others think is a recently-detected planet considerably larger than Earth. Some information being circulated about this speculative situation is solely to create fear, but lack of knowledge is the root of most. Your astrophysicists don’t know that for more than eight decades Earth has been journeying into successively higher energy planes, thus they are mystified and alarmed by seeing new celestial bodies. We reassure you, dear family, Earth will continue traveling safely and steadily all the way to her destination in 5th density! 

Emails about the United States’ Presidential Election have been coming in for well over a year, and now that two individuals have been designated as their parties’ presumptive nominees, my mother’s inbox is filling with questions about who will win. Based on the ever-accelerating vibrations that are undergirding people with moral and spiritual integrity and exposing those who lack that quality, we are seeing the likelihood that neither of the presumptive nominees will become president, Senator Bernie Sanders will. If the vibratory momentum continues, the likelihood of his winning will keep moving toward certainty in Earth’s energy field of potential and in November, the voters will elect a wise, honest president. 

Always, we are happy to receive your questions and comments, and especially at this stage of Earth’s transformative process, we welcome those that give us the opportunity to offer guidance to new soul-searchers. “Awakening can be a very lonely and often confusing endeavor. Can Matthew offer any advice to Lightworkers who seem to have come under psychic attack for the purpose of confusing them and making them less effective in their work?” 

Awakening is profoundly different from anything you can remember, and if none of your family or friends has mentioned anything similar, hesitation to speak about what you are experiencing is natural; and the realization that you are a part of God can seem overwhelming, as if it is a sacrilege to even think of yourself that way. The combination of feeling lonely and bewildered about your higher state of awareness and accepting your God-Self can be stressful indeed and thought of as a psychic attack. When vibratory levels were much lower, because darkness still enshrouded the planet, the bright auras of lightworkers did make them targets for dark attacks. Now the light on the planet is too intense for that, but via the Universal Law of Attraction, thoughts about being attacked reach energy streamers with like sensations and bring them back to you. 

Please replace those kinds of thoughts with the knowledge that never are you alone! Not only are your guardian angel and spirit guides constantly at your side, but many souls are having an awakening experience somewhat like yours and others are confidently moving along the path of self-discovery. Often spiritual and metaphysical bookshops host groups of like-minded individuals or post notices of social meet-ups, seminars and workshops. General bookstores carry books in that genre, too, and if you feel uncertain which to choose, ask within to be led to those that will be most enlightening. Search the Internet for sites with postings by kindred spirits and messages from Light Beings such as Patricia Cota-Robles, and always you can ask for divine help to feel self-confident and excited about awakening. Soon you will ease into a joyful relationship with your God-Self and avenues will open to areas where you can serve the Light effectively and with deep satisfaction. 

“Can you ask Mathew how we can find out our life purpose while here on Earth?” The best way to find out what you chose as your life purpose also is the simplest: Pay attention to messages from soul-level to your consciousness—intuition, instinct, inspiration, aspiration and conscience. When you follow those guidelines that are specifically aligned with choices in your soul contract, you will have a strong sense of moving smoothly along life’s pathway, as opposed to struggling with decisions and perhaps asking others what they think is the most logical direction for you. 

“Is it true that dark beings are being removed from Earth and taken to an alternate holographic Earth? If so, this would be great, since it decreases the darkness on this planet and speeds up the timetable towards full Disclosure. And what is meant by ‘we live in a holographic universe or matrix’? Is 3D a dream and higher dimensions are real, or is it all just a projection of our consciousness?” Dark beings leave Earth the same way light beings do, death of the physical body; and, like light beings, they enter the part of Nirvana, Earth’s spirit world, where the energy corresponds to the energy they generated throughout the Earth lifetime. 

There are good explanations of the holographic universe in books and Internet articles, insofar as your cosmologists have discovered. They have mathematically concluded that the universe began with the Big Bang, but they have yet to understand that science and spirit—or, energy and cosmic consciousness—are one and the same: the Love-Light essence of Creator, the most powerful force in the Cosmos and Source of everything in existence. 

Higher dimensions are real, and it isn’t entirely correct to say that 3D is just a projection of one’s consciousness. Whatever a person believes, however far from factual it may be is that person’s reality, and most likely you would get a serious argument from anyone whom you tried to convince that what he or she believes is “just a projection of your consciousness.” However, what seems real in your 3D world is a “dream,” or better said, an illusion, and we can explain this no more clearly than it was in a message several years ago. Mother, please find that message and copy the pertinent part. We think it will be especially helpful to awakening souls and perhaps to long-time lightworkers, too. 

“What does Matthew mean when he says, ‘We are living in an illusion?’ Does each person have his or her own reality, or do we all share one reality?” By definition, an illusion is deceptive, something perceived as real but without basis in reality. The illusion of 3rd density is that there is this one life on Earth, then you die and afterwards, according to many, there’s a nebulous place that’s either a blessed or a hellfire-and-brimstone “afterlife” where you stay forevermore. The reality is that this is but one of many hundreds or many thousands of experiences of a soul that is living in many different forms and locations simultaneously in the universe. 

The illusion is that you are your body, your personality, your characteristics, your feelings, your achievements, and incidentally, you have a soul that goes, God only knows where, when you die. The reality is that you are the soul, a part of God, inseparable from Him and all other souls in this universe; you are having the physical experience that you chose to balance other lifetimes; and you are an Eternal Being. 

The illusion is, according to one’s religious affiliation, that the Supreme Being of this Universe is correctly portrayed only by your religion and His Laws as interpreted by your religion are absolute. The reality is that the Supreme Being of this Universe is subordinate to Creator, the Supreme Being of the Cosmos; God is an amalgamation of all souls, all life forms, throughout this Universe and He knows every thought and feels every feeling of every life; He cannot interfere with Creator’s law of free will, when souls veer from their pre-birth agreements, so it is not His “will be done”; although we commonly say “He,” God, or the Source by your name selection, is the epitome of androgyny, perfectly balanced male and female energies; and He didn’t devise religions—a few of his misguided god-self parts did. 

The illusion is that evil is the opposite of godliness. The reality is that darkness is the absence of Light, the absence of Love and spiritual clarity. The illusion is that Earth is a small, solid planet whose residents are the only verifiable intelligent life in the Universe. The reality is that Earth is a soul with a planetary body that is home to beings within, on and above her, and her surface residents for the most part are far less advanced spiritually, intellectually and technologically than many other civilizations. Yes, each soul has his or her own illusion as it pertains to self, every facet of the lifetime, planet Earth, and the Source of All, but ultimately all will share the same universal reality. [May 23, 2005] 

Thank you, Mother. The rash of suicide bombings has evoked numerous questions, and first we say, becoming a suicide bomber never is part of a soul contract. Because each person’s contract is one part of a pre-birth agreement made with others who want to share the lifetime, it must include not only a person killing someone to balance the experience of being killed and a person who chose to be killed to balance another lifetime, but must offer all other participants opportunities to experience what they chose for soul evolvement. 

It is so that some agreements do include souls who want to transition as a group. In such a case, it is in service to all the others, who need to experience whatever emotional and financial hardships may follow the group’s transitional event. Depending upon the number of souls involved—the number can vary from comparatively few to many thousands—the event may be a mode of transportation that wrecks, troops in combat, family members living in a war zone, a natural disaster or rapid spread of a virulent disease. 

Some young people who become suicide bombers are indoctrinated from childhood onward to believe that they must defend their religion by killing people of other religions, and they act upon that powerful form of mind control. Their lifetime review in Nirvana is very difficult emotionally, as they feel the full extent of suffering that their final act caused to others. Because they acted in accordance with potent programming, they do not incur harsh karmic lessons, and their next lifetime will be dedicated to helping the neediest people in a 3rd density civilization that has started to awaken spiritually and consciously. 

Suicide bombers who are adults when they decide to become terrorists act upon a radically distorted sense of empowerment that is bereft of caring about the consequences for others. In addition to an extremely painful lifetime review, suffering exactly as did all persons whose lives were affected by their self-destruction, they will experience one or more difficult lifetimes in a low 3rd density civilization where the karmic merry-go-round is going full tilt. That self-consignment isn’t determined only by these individuals’ final act; it is that the energy of their desire to kill as many people as possible and of the act itself is so dark that it supersedes all other aspects of their lifetimes. 

A Belgian reader who lives near the Brussels airport wrote: “I must admit that it becomes ever more difficult to keep up positiveness and faith in humanity’s future. I don't know what to tell other people anymore when subjects like these [suicide bombings] are discussed. It also becomes more and more difficult to stay convinced that after this life another existence is waiting. I am wondering if other readers of your messages undergo the same doubts. If they too feel not connected to any out of the body world anymore.” 

Loss of faith in the future of humanity is an understandable reaction to violence, when people you know have been directly affected, and while you may not think of “detachment” from the world as a form of divine grace, it is—it is giving the heart and mind a respite from shock and despair and sadness. In such times, it is difficult to think of a life after this one and derive any comfort from what may seem only a nebulous idea, that there is a glorious spirit world of love and peace. But holding fast to that reality is what will uplift the spirit and restore faith in humankind’s determination and ability to make this world a far better place than it is this moment. Beloved brothers and sisters please do not doubt that this transformation within Earth’s civilization is happening! 

As for speaking with people about tragic events, let your genuine feelings flow. Crying is ever so much healthier than stoically suppressing feelings, so let tears come in abundance. Ask for divine help to heal; see the beauty in Nature; think of the miracle of birth, the innocence of little children and devotion of your pet; know that there is far, far more good than bad in your world and the Light is continuously strengthening good, weakening bad. Your expression, “Time heals all things” is only partly true—it is how you use time that brings healing, a return to well-being and positivity, or not. 

Now I am speaking just as Matthew to say that stress made its way into our last message. Attributing the devastation of Haiti to a hurricane instead of an earthquake was a rare instance of my mother’s thought—and a lapse in your memory, Mother—overriding my transmission. She is dismayed that the week of stress about her computer’s technical difficulties, which blocked her site and email address, permitted her momentary departure from clearly hearing my words. 

We bid you farewell for this moment only, as we are forever with you in Unconditional love. 

LOVE and PEACE 

Suzanne Ward 

Website: The Matthew Books 

Email: suzy@matthewbooks.com

Never underestimate the power of your Light!

Matthew Ward, 10 December 2015 

With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. Surely, nary a soul would disagree that the year seemed to zoom by, but few know that what they perceive as time passing faster is the energy planes Earth has been traversing or that the time-rushing sensation will become stronger as she enters still higher vibratory levels. You do know this, but it’s not likely that your thoughts in this moment are about the workings of universal laws, but rather holiday activities; and in keeping with this, we shall speak about this season’s traditional music. 

You listen to, sing or play instruments for religious music, majestic choral works, carols and popular tunes, but you may not realize how significantly this is affecting your world. Beyond reverence and great pleasure—and that in itself is immensely beneficial—the tones and lyrics of your familiar music emit vibrations that strongly stir emotions. We rejoice with everyone for whom this is the excitement of festivities with family and friends, religious observances, concerts or other special events. The vibrations also intensify the feelings of people who are grieving the loss of loved ones, or are ill or homeless and hungry; and it is the prevailing heightened emotions that stir individuals and groups to reach out to those in need of comfort and other assistance. More abundantly than ever before, upliftment is being given with caring hearts and received with gladdened hearts, and the Light this is creating glows brilliantly! 

The importance of music is much more than seasonal, it plays a vital role in your lives throughout the year. What some call “music of the spheres”—the glorious tones of stringed instruments that probably gave rise to the idea that souls in heaven spend eternity playing harps—produce vibrations at a frequency that keeps the universe in balance; and as microcosms of the universe, you receive that balancing benefit in the same measure as your receptivity. 

Although the image of eternal harpists in Nirvana is far from the reality, there are many thousands musicians and instruments, and at times a million or so, because music is essential to your spirit world’s very existence. Particularly the vibrations of the strings keep its perimeters flexible and everything throughout the realm in attunement, and they are indispensable in healing persons who arrive with traumatized psyches or damaged etheric bodies. 

In much the same way, Nirvana’s composers and musicians are helping you. They continuously transmit music to Earth, so the peoples can absorb the high vibrations that release suppressed feelings—an emotional catharsis, if you will—and, unless illness is a soul contract choice, the vibrations assist bodies to regain sound health. Your finest music—symphonies, concertos and other classical opuses that scientific experiments have shown help humankind, animals and plants to thrive—originated in the heavens and was “filtered” to your composers at soul level. Some attributed their works to divine inspiration, and since music comes from the soul, those composers gave credit where it was due. 

What never has come from any divine source are the discordant, cacophonous sounds of heavy metal and hard rock, which often have lyrics that also emit very low vibrations. Those kinds of sounds jar your energy systems, creating imbalance and diminishing the body’s capacity to absorb Light; that adversely affects you emotionally, physically and mentally, thus blunting spiritual and conscious awareness. While neoclassical compositions can have somewhat the same effect, the composers, who are especially sensitive to Earth’s energy, wrote music that reflected Gaia’s agony, until her planetary body’s Ascension was securely underway; and negativity in more current dark activity underlies the atonal works of later composers. 

Now then, even if a number of you had not requested our comments, we would have spoken about a lamentable part of what otherwise is this season’s extraordinary thoughtfulness, kindness and generosity—the spirit in which a number of countries are welcoming Syrian refugees. Many in the United States Congress and some presidential candidates are, instead, instilling in the citizenry fear about the refugees. Some are acting from genuine concern, having succumbed to the fear that was fomented; others are using fear to make political hay, so to say. 

Not only is fear a highly magnified energy that blocks light, thereby blocking empathy, sympathy, compassion and rational thought, it is wildly contagious. A few persons who have public attention, amply aided by mainstream media, can “infect” the populace—that is what happened in the United States, where many people are afraid to provide sanctuary to any refugees. We honor and commend all souls in that country and around your world who are thinking and speaking out factually: The refugees aren’t terrorists; they are fleeing from war and terrorism. 

To reach safe havens, they risk their lives crossing rough waters in small overcrowded boats or by arduous, exhausting treks overland. Could a terrorist join the millions of women, men and children who leave homes, livelihoods and possessions to undertake such a journey? Yes, that is a possibility, but rational thought is: With neither assurance of survival nor the ability to carry explosive equipment, someone on a destructive mission more likely would travel by a fast, safe means that enabled transporting necessary materials. 

With unconditional love for Gaia and every sentient being on her planetary body, far distant civilizations whose vastness and power are beyond your imagining are beaming intensive Light to dispel fear, so every heart can open to love. Love is the key to the world you are there to help create, and you would feel as encouraged as we, if you could see the Light radiating from all the souls who are responding. We quote one line of a reader’s email: “I so wish that everyone feels loved and warm - every living Being of every kingdom.” When those sentiments permeate your world, Earth will be the beauteous Eden she once was and all life will flourish as harmoniously as it once did. 

“Please ask Matthew, if we need to pray for the people that have died. If we choose to die in a certain way, time and day, what good does it do to the soul? Is praying and meditation the solution to all of this drama the world is in?” First, we repeat something stated in previous messages: Your every thought and feeling is a prayer. Mother, we want to provide information about prayer that goes beyond answering the questions. Please copy what I told you long ago, when I was living in Nirvana. 

[The following is an excerpt from the chapter “Prayer” in Matthew's book, ‘Tell Me about Heaven’] 

“Matthew, are the effects of prayers diminished if the people don't go to church even though they know the value of group energy?” 

God never meant churches to be buildings of any kind. The magnificent cathedrals are man's idea, not God's. Church is all within the soul. Church is one's feelings of reverence, of thanksgiving. It is the uplifting of the spirit into the Love and Light of God. In this way, church is a single prayer that has the ability to touch the universe. 

In a church building filled with praying people, there may be only a few whose prayers have a pure and forceful energy flow. Many people pray with only a faint ritual observation, with no real energy. Others pray in such extreme distress or anxiety that their energy is distorted and has an adverse effect upon themselves as well as adding to universal negativity. Smooth energy flow is what positively affects each soul and the universe, not frenzied praying about specific conditions. It is energy balance that sustains and comforts. 

I'm not speaking about the intent of the prayer, but only about the effect of the energy involved in the praying. The energy put forth in a prayer for a completely selfish, greedy purpose may be just as intense as a prayer put forth for the safety of a beloved family member or friend. The intent is recorded as one aspect and the energy flow, or force, is recorded as another. 

Furthermore, one who prays for a specific outcome regarding another doesn't know that soul's pre-birth agreement. Conditions or events the prayer is petitioning to have changed may be exactly those the soul chose as his life's lessons. The same is true of prayers for oneself, because your consciousness is rarely in communication with your soul. So, pray for your own or another's highest good and don't direct intense emotion toward a specific outcome of your choosing. The outcome is NOT your conscious choice. You can feel a sense of relief in this knowledge, which will be registered in your sensitivity as peacefulness. That allows energy to proceed unencumbered not only within your physical and psychic self, but issued forth as harmony into Earth's consciousness. 

Mother, I know you have heard that prayers "for the dead" are important and you've wondered why that would be necessary. Well, we aren't "dead," but since that reference is to souls in this realm, I want to assure you that prayers for us are indeed important. I don't mean only for those who arrive with great needs for comforting and healing, but also for us whose lives are vital and vibrant, with on-going lessons and spiritual growth. Of course, we need and welcome your prayers! And please know that they are especially welcome when in balanced energy, because those prayers are the most beneficial to us and to you, our beloved ones. 

Thank you, Mother. Is praying and meditation the solution to all of this drama the world is in? Begs more than a yes or no answer. Absolutely light-filled thoughts and feelings are essential—they enter the collective consciousness, latch onto what matches them and bring those energy streamers back to your world. 

But action is essential, too. Telling family, friends and co-workers why you feel optimistic about the future can allay their fears and reverse their low-vibrational pessimism. Not all of you can participate in national or international organizations whose efforts are directed toward peace, justness, environmental preservation or animal rights, for instance; but you can support their efforts by the energy you put forth signing pertinent petitions and donating money if your circumstances permit. Perhaps you are able to volunteer in local groups that provide worthy community services; and by becoming informed about candidates for public office, you can vote for those you deem best qualified. And, we remind you that simply by living in godly ways, you are beaming light into the world— never underestimate the power of your Light! 

“Earth’s population is more than 6 billion and growing. Matthew said etheric bodies have mass. Don’t they take up room? What happens if Nirvana runs out of space?” Yes, etheric bodies “take up room,” but never could Nirvana even become crowded, much less run out of space. Unlike Earth and other planets that retain their shape and size, Nirvana’s interconnected flexible layers have limitless expansion capacity. 

All layers offer learning advantages and comfortable living accommodations, but because the higher dimensions also have exceptional beauty, diversity and manifesting possibilities, countless souls from other worlds go there to vacation, teach or attend advanced classes, or rest after a difficult lifetime. Visitors and temporary occupants, all of whom are fourth density or higher in soul evolvement, may have bodies with considerably more mass than etheric bodies. It is spiritual status that affords entry to this multi-civilizational environment where people with various body styles, attire, interests and talents happily mingle with each other and Earth’s animals. Life in those parts of Nirvana is sublime! And, although they know your religions’ fallacies, visitors and others who live there temporarily join the residents from Earth in celebrating with you the spirit of this holy season, and their combined high vibrations add to the glowing light in your world. 

Dearest family, sing “ Joy to the world ” and “ Peace on Earth, good will toward men ”—toward all souls —with feelings of love, gratitude for blessings in your life and forgiveness of the ones who don’t want those words to ever ring true. The truth of the words already abounds in the fullness of Earth’s Golden Age in the continuum and is coming ever more steadily to that world you are helping to create in linear time. Let the joyousness of this season continue throughout your new year and keep your light brightly shining. 

Always our unconditional love is with you, and many brothers and sisters from other homelands are journeying right alongside you. 

LOVE and PEACE 

Suzanne Ward 

Website: The Matthew Books 

Email: suzy@matthewbooks.com

Ever-intensifying Light is enabling Personal and Planetary Ascension

Matthew Ward, 20 September 2015 

With loving greetings on behalf of all souls at this station, this is Matthew. Early along Earth’s Ascension course, energy surges were mild and occasional, and most of the populace mutely continued to accept the status quo. When the planet reached planes where the surges were stronger and more frequent, outspokenness about intolerable conditions and heated activity began in earnest. Now, voices throughout your world are rising to a crescendo, as the peoples are forcefully freeing themselves from the last vestiges of millennia of control by dark minds and hearts. 

All along during Earth’s journey, lightworkers have been in the vanguard of world-changers. We know that at times you feel weary, even in moments despondent, about the pace of progress, and not only because a number of you recently have written this to my mother. Although the selected examples were edited for brevity, the cited parts preserve the writers’ sentiments and express those of the others who wrote, feelings we know that many more of you share. 

“I GET SO WEARY WITH THE WAY THINGS ARE HERE ON OUR PLANET. I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CHANGES TO COME.” 

“Humanity is said to be in the process of a fundamental change - a total turn around toward Love/Light/God/Spirit... However, many humans don't show signs allowing to hope for such an awakening. And I include myself in this.” 

“Why do animals have to suffer so much? Why can't we all just either ‘not exist’ at all or why can't we all just live in perfect harmony? I want so much to ‘believe’, but I just don't understand what it's all about.” 

“War atrocities have created a desperate refugee situation. Some people are billionaires, while millions live in poverty and children die of starvation and unsanitary living conditions. It is difficult to accept that karma is the reason for the vastness of inequities and suffering. Will it never end?” 

“The more I see pain, violence and grief, the harder it is to believe what you and other spiritual messengers tell us you see. Looking at this world from wherever you are, is vastly different from living here, where suffering and hopelessness seem endless.” 

“I understand the free will concept, but I can't help but wonder why the entity we refer to as ‘God’ would create this planet Earth for us to inhabit as humans just to allow it to be messed up [again by humans] to the point Gaia is screaming for help and then ask for volunteers to come and try to fix it?” 

“I’ve always wanted everyone to treat each other and the animals kindly and respectfully like you say it will be in the Golden Age. I’m 89 now and sad that I won’t live long enough to see it.” 

Beloved family, let us be your “cheerleaders” for a moment. It would be premature to rush onto the playing field to celebrate before the final whistle, but when the game is in its last stages— and the Light vs Dark battle on Earth IS!— and our team is so far ahead that victory is certain, it isn’t premature to feel triumphant. The game isn’t quite over, though, and the team that knows it has lost isn’t going to just walk off the field—both sides have to keep slogging it out until the game ends. 

That may not be the most apt analogy for a world in the process of being transformed, so we shall speak clearly: With each passing moment, your society moves closer to a peaceful world with justness, kindness and abundance for all. 

You don’t remember that other civilizations persevered many thousands of years to change from perpetual fighting to living harmoniously, thus you have no comparison for seeing that you are doing this at a speed without precedence in this universe. What you can do is think how far you have come since the game started, when Earth started her Ascension course 80-some years ago—a mere speck of time even in your recorded history. Ages-old deception and control are being revealed along with current corruption, lies and power-mongering; communication and negotiation are replacing headlong rush into battle; citizens’ demands for reforms in governance are bringing about changes at every level; local, national and international organizations are making inroads into humane treatment of animals, environmental preservation and aid to people in dire need. 

Indeed, a great deal more must be done before “all just live in perfect harmony” and it is happening! There is far more goodness in your world than you would know from mainstream media, which still are controlled to the extent that “the news” focuses on trouble spots, divisive issues and trivia with rarely a mention of the innumerable splendid achievements of “people power” in communities and cities around your world; and a large percentage of Internet articles and messages via social media also tend to report worrisome situations. 

Most who originate or pass on information—and consequently their recipients—aren’t aware of the ever-intensifying Light that is enabling personal and planetary Ascension. They don’t know that world leaders publicized as adversaries are working together behind closed doors to achieve peaceful outcomes in volatile areas or that the economic system established and manipulated by dark minds is collapsing to make way for the new global system based in honesty and fairness. They have no idea that a multitude of evolved souls from other civilizations are living among you to assist society progress, or that thousands of spacecraft surrounding the planet are helping in many vital ways, and when it is safe, some will land and bring advanced technologies. You do know all of that—let your knowledge lift you above the inundation of information from unenlightened sources. 

Here let us borrow your expression, “We have walked in your moccasins.” At times, we felt world-weary and our patience grew thin, when we were endeavoring to bring about godly changes in our respective worlds, including some Earth lifetimes. It was heart-wrenching to see so much conflict and misery, and difficult to put it into the context of karmic lessons. Even though we knew those souls had chosen their experiences for the balance they needed to evolve and others in the pre-birth agreements were providing the required circumstances, still it was sad for us to see it being played out. And, in those lifetimes of ours, just as now, not all “heavy players” were serving within agreements; acting from greed, heartlessness and lust for power, they caused many to endure unchosen conditions that nevertheless were greatly beneficial in soul evolvement. 

So, you see dear ones, we do understand your feelings. And, from personal experience and spiritual guidance, we know that you will uplift yourselves and those who are suffering by sending them the Light within compassion and caring, not the low vibrations of discouragement and despair; and sending Light to those who cause pain and injustices instead of the low vibrations of judgment is what will bring malevolence to an end. All of those souls are brothers and sisters in our universal family, and the benevolence in the Light you send them radiates out into the universe— anything anywhere affects everything everywhere! 

As for “Gaia is screaming for help and then ask for volunteers to come and try to fix it,” it was with unconditional love for all souls on Earth that when Gaia cried out for help to save her planetary body, civilizations advanced in spirituality, consciousness and technology responded immediately and joyfully. It was with that same loving spirit that you eagerly volunteered to come to Earth and do your part. 

“Will it never end?” We repeat a statement in our last message: You advance to a level of spiritual and conscious awareness wherein karma no longer is needed, and as the multidimensional beings you are, you will continue evolving and remembering your Beginnings in the pure Love-Light of Creator. Many of you are from civilizations that have mastered all karmic lessons, and when your Light service on Earth is over, you may choose to return to your homelands or enjoy time in Nirvana first. Either way, you will have the heartfelt satisfaction of having helped a civilization evolve out of third density karma and start living happily, cooperatively, productively and creatively. 

If you don’t live on the planet long enough to see Earth’s Golden Age in full bloom, you will not miss out. From your vantage point in spirit life or your own world, you can watch the entire panorama unfold, as the energy of Love envelops Earth; as she is restored to her original pristine beauty and health; as abundance flows equally to all of humankind, who will treat the animals with caring and respect and live in harmony with all of Nature. And, you will see how your Light keeps contributing to this wondrous world that is flourishing in the continuum and in linear time is on the near horizon. 

Now then, we are aware of speculations, in some cases convictions, that one or another event is imminent. One end of the range of prognostications includes “End Times” with destruction on an epic scale, worldwide chaos following global economic meltdown, where nuclear WWIII most likely will start, and enslavement by an ancient Earth civilization that is returning. By intention or not, these “preparedness alerts” about situations that will not occur are creating the energy of fear, which refuels those with dark ambitions and creates negativity for Earth to disperse via earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wildfires and severe storms. 

At the other end of the speculative range is a Cosmic Wave that will raise your civilization into fifth density or some other astral condition that also imparts sudden enlightenment. Individuals whose hopes are pinned on a spiritual and consciousness awakening in one fell swoop worldwide will be disappointed, just as those who expected life on Earth to be loving and peaceful on December 21, 2012, and henceforth felt sorely let down. 

What is happening and will continue is this: Earth’s Ascension into successively higher vibratory planes with correspondingly stronger surges of Love-Light energy is accelerating souls’ journey along the spiritual pathway. Yes, some are seriously lagging and causing misery to many, but please don’t let this be foremost in your thoughts and feelings—be mindful that the universal Law of Attraction is in constant operation. By feeling grateful for positive developments and confident, optimistic and excited about Earth’s future, you help your society move more quickly toward that magnificence. 

A number of you have written about the discovery of a part from Malaysian Airline flight MH370. I didn’t know at the time Ashtar explained “When the plane’s problems developed like dominoes falling and wiped out all systems required to keep the plane under control...” that problems included the loss of any of the plane’s movable parts. When the piece afloat was identified as from the plane, the investigators logically concluded that the rest of it is at the bottom of the sea. Not in their wildest imagining would they think that it was stabilized within the powerful energy field of another civilization’s large spaceship, which kept the bulk of the plane intact until it was safely put down on a planet similar to Earth and all aboard disembarked after a rescue mission in accordance with their collective soul-level choice. 

We have been asked if Khazarians are within the ranks of the Illuminati. Indeed so, and their long history of conquest and ruthlessness still is evident in your world. 

Also we have been requested to share our thoughts about Pope Francis’ visit to the United States. We think its importance will be global. Throughout his papacy he has urged uplifting struggling peoples everywhere in messages that transcend politics. Because decisions made in the United States affect many other countries, we feel that what Pope Francis says during his visit will help to increase spiritual awareness within that nation’s government and the citizenry, and ultimately result in benefitting people around the world. 

Our last message about the soul evoked more queries, and we shall get to those after answering questions for which there was no space in that message. 

“Do only souls in the most advanced civilizations become angels or can souls in a lower density civilization who aspire to reach that exalted status also attain it?” Even souls in the most advanced civilizations do not become angels, souls whose frequencies are so high that they are pure energy. 

Creator’s first expression of Itself produced the archangels, who are of the highest Love-Light energy and live in the Christed Realm closest to Creator. Although they do not incarnate, they can direct aspects of their soul-selves into personages whom they endow with innate abilities and knowingness; the best known in this universe may be Sananda, one of whose personages is the soul you call Jesus. The archangels telepathically communicate with beings in physical and spirit worlds and they continuously beam their all-powerful energy throughout the Cosmos. 

Using Creator-bestowed energy, they visualized and manifested subsequent levels of angels, and those in this universe serve as God’s emissaries in myriad ways. Certainly you may call upon them for help at any time—souls throughout the angelic realm welcome this—but asking isn’t necessary, as these ever-vigilant beings are aware of your circumstances and freely provide assistance. While never can they interfere with anyone’s free will, they are permitted to save people from transitioning prior to their contract’s longevity clause, spur the action of bodies’ self-healing mechanisms, provide divine guidance, boost energy, uplift spirits, ease emotional and physical suffering, and accompany persons during the lightning-quick transition from physical to spirit life. Their presence in your life is indicated in paintings by master artists of yore, but contrary to those depictions, angels do not have wings; however, they can easily manifest them and often do during a lifesaving mission of a person who believes they have wings. 

Some souls later in the angelic lineage may choose to enter the cycle of life in spirit and physical worlds to exemplify godliness and enlightenment in a fledgling civilization or one emerging out of darkness. More often, though, they take on personhood only briefly for a specific purpose—perhaps to safeguard someone in momentary danger, console a distraught individual, nudge in the soul’s chosen direction a person who doesn’t know which fork in the road to take, or offer encouragement to someone to follow strong intuitive feelings. 

Thus, aspiring to become an angel cannot make it so, but aspiring to be like an angel is most worthy. And, dear ones, by expressing your Love-Light through generously sharing with those who need assistance, you are serving as “angels on Earth.” 

Yes, Mother, I can see that remaining questions must wait for the next message. In farewell, we say, the unconditional love of all lighted souls in this universe is embracing you all along your journey on Earth. 

LOVE and PEACE 

Suzanne Ward 

Website: The Matthew Books 

Email: suzy@matthewbooks.com

Prior to birth all of us enter into agreements with other souls

Matthew Ward - April 22, 2015 

With loving greeting from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. Happenings during the past months have prompted numerous lightworkers to ask and many others to ponder: Why is the free will of people who do terrible things given priority over the free will of people who don’t want to be terrorized or killed? 

Beloved family, never has priority been given to anyone, nor could it ever be. Rulers of the universes are bound to honor Creator’s gift of free will to every soul, and God incorporated that edict in the laws that govern life in this universe. Like everything else in existence, the laws are energy and energy has no reasoning ability, no capacity for prioritizing or decision-making about anything whatsoever. All energy can do is vibrate at one frequency or another in accordance with how it is used, and in our explanation, it is how people who live on Earth use it. 

The orderly functioning of the universe requires a continuous balancing act to keep vibrational frequencies from becoming lopsided, so to say; and as microcosms of the universe who in every moment affect the state of it, souls have their own balancing acts. Prior to birth, they—or better said, all of us!—enter into agreements with other souls, and within the agreements are all of the participants’ individual contracts that include whatever they need to balance other lifetimes. That “whatever” is karma. 

However, because Creator decreed that free will takes precedence overall, everything in the contracts—that there even is a contract—must be forgotten when souls embody. Actually, this is a good arrangement—otherwise every lifetime would be merely following some schedule instead of freely making decisions and learning from the results. And, guidance in line with contracts is permitted via the soul’s messages to the consciousness, but everyone has the free will to heed that guidance or stray far afield. Either way, souls incur karma and it is neither “good” nor “bad”—it is the means whereby the last lifetime can be balanced in the next one by completing the karma, or karmic lessons, in the soul contract. 

Sometimes events end lives before contracts can be completed. Such was the case in two recent occurrences, and we shall share with you what we learned about them from colleagues in Nirvana. Of the 150 persons aboard Germanwings Flight 9525, only three had reached the window of flexibility in their contracts’ longevity clause—that is, those individuals had completed their selection of karmic lessons, missions and other experiences, and they would have transitioned to spirit life in some manner within days or weeks. 

Upon arriving in Nirvana, every person was lovingly received and greeted by name, etheric bodies were strengthened, and tender, customized care was given to treat all psychic trauma that occurred at anytime prior to the crash. Throughout the healing period, members of the medical team in the soul transition field were in constant attendance. 

As these recent arrivals became ready to join others in your spirit world, each was given choices of residence and diverse activities, and all who had not completed their contracts also were offered three options. Finish karmic lessons in Nirvana, where living and learning is far more joyous than on Earth. Receive full credit for lessons partially learned and, in a new agreement with other souls, embody relatively quickly to wind up the rest of the original contract and add whatever is desired in the new lifetime. The third option is, in an agreement with someone on Earth, arrange for a soul transference, or “walk-in”—the advantage is “saving” years by entering an adult body instead of a newborn’s, but because there are serious challenges, too, rarely is this a soul’s choice. 

We want to speak about another aspect of the plane crash. The consensus of your analysts is that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, planned to commit suicide by deliberately crashing the plane, disregarding the lives of all others on board. That is not so, according to the medical team giving personalized care to treat Andreas’ traumatized psyche, which is recovering slowly due to his depth of despair when he learned what had happened. 

What was used as evidence to substantiate the consensus was the young man’s determined efforts to overcome his emotional fragility, including Internet information he felt he could use in positive ways to fortify healthy thought processes especially during flights. Moments after the pilot left the cockpit, Andreas’ consciousness snapped—he has no memory of that instant or what transpired afterwards. If this could be known, although it would not console those who love the people who went down with the plane, it could give some peace of mind and heart to Andreas’ family and friends. We should add that he was not one of the three persons who had completed their contracts. 

The second occurrence is the massacre at a Kenyan university by al-Shabaab terrorists, where almost the same number of lives were lost as in the plane crash. However, none of the contracts of persons who died in the university carnage contained a lifespan that would end at that time, and all have the same aforementioned three options. We wish everyone could know the loving reception and personalized care given every person whose life was ended then, but their families and dear friends know only the heartbreak of shocking loss and your world reels from barbaric behavior that is incomprehensible. 

Some of the survivors’ contracts include a “traumatic, nonlethal experience” with flexibility as to the type and timing—enduring what took place at the university fulfills that provision. Survivors who didn’t need that experience for balance may put it in safekeeping, in a way, for “credit” in a different lifetime or give it to someone in the agreement group whose struggle with karmic lessons was more difficult than anticipated; in either case, the survivor’s desire would propel an energy streamer in the appropriate direction. If survivors whose wounds have life-changing results outside their contracts, amendments will be made at soul level to provide other experiences that will make their lives as meaningful and fulfilling as they had chosen. 

Because the perpetrators of the attack far exceeded their contract provisions that would have balanced previous experiences, they incurred karma that could require several lifetimes before balance is achieved. In Nirvana, just as on Earth, ever-heightening vibrations would energetically bar psychic and cellular patterning with karma of that severity; when those persons die, their lifetime energy automatically will draw them to the spirit world of some low third density civilization and their next incarnation will be in that population. 

There is another aspect of pre-birth agreements, which are designed for the spiritual and conscious growth of all participants in the shared lifetime: When one person’s life ends prior to contract completion, it affects all others in the group beyond profound emotions. For adults this can include the spouse, children, parents, siblings, other relatives, friends, colleagues, everyone else with whom the person had close bonds and those with whom bonds would have developed in later years. When a “premature” transition happens to a child, in addition to family there can be classmates, teachers and friends as well as all others who would have become important in that youngster’s life throughout the chosen lifespan. The contracts of every person who had or would have had a significant role in the lifetime that was cut short must be amended to provide all of those individuals with equivalent opportunities to complete their karmic lessons. The original and subsequent matching-up of souls happens in the continuum, where everything is happening simultaneously. 

Everyone’s part in an agreement is important; however, individuals’ contracts and their purpose can vary considerably. For instance, one soul can agree to be the “captain,” so to say, to give other participants the opportunity to strengthen their weaknesses in one or more areas that this soul has mastered such as patience, generosity, humility, forgiveness, compassion, self-discipline, honesty, kindness, wise parenting, industriousness. In these cases, the “captain” serves the others not by criticizing their shortcomings, but by exemplifying admirable attitudes and behavior that the others may be inspired to emulate. 

Or, a soul can agree to exhibit characteristics that are undesirable, perhaps jealousy, uncontrolled anger, self-centeredness, laziness, arrogance, stinginess, resentfulness or untrustworthiness. If by observing that person’s hurtful, offensive or counterproductive behavior the others in the agreement learn not to behave in those ways, they can balance other lifetimes wherein one or more of those traits were dominant. 

If an individual is to become widely known and respected, the “captain-team” arrangement can be reversed and include a small number of participants whose values, accomplishments, encouragement and assistance are strong incentives for the designated individual to adhere to high standards, persevere despite opposition and setbacks, and continue striving until noteworthy achievements are attained. This can be the case even if the individual credits a specific person as the source of inspiration for his or her success. 

Usually souls choose to live in impoverished circumstances to balance a lifetime of riches and ease, with little or no interest in helping people in dire need. 

When a soul embodies in a region ravaged by war and poverty and is orphaned as a youngster who must make his own way from then on, it can be to experience the fear and severe hardships that had befallen children due to this soul’s actions in a different lifetime. 

A soul may choose a brief life in a loving family in a peaceful environment to rest after a long, tiring life of toil and to serve other purposes, too. The loss of a child offers family members the opportunity to channel grief into meaningful endeavors; it also can strengthen family bonds or tear them apart, whichever the others may need for balance. 

As our examples show, agreements can contain many participants or only a few, and none of them knows what had been agreed upon. If your conscience is comfortable with your decisions that affect the lives of others, that is an indication that you are acting in accordance with your contract role, but there is no way to know if the primary people in your life are following or seriously departing from theirs—that is why spiritual guidance is, do not judge others. Never does this mean condoning actions you deem unjust or reprehensible, but rather that you refrain from judging the persons. 

If light really is increasing on the planet, why is there still so much violence and brutality? In previous messages we have said that one effect of increasing light intensity is the magnification of human characteristics and behavior—“good” becomes better, “bad” becomes worse. The majority of people in your world are responding positively by being kinder, more thoughtful, generous, cooperative, helpful and open-minded. That doesn’t make headline news, so you don’t hear about them. 

However, even though mainstream media’s main focus still is on individuals and organized groups whose actions are violent and brutal, coverage is including positive developments as well. You are hearing about innovations in renewable energy sources and breakthroughs in medical research; citizens revitalizing their villages, towns or cities; expanding efforts in environmental preservation and restoration; and, occasionally, multimillionaires who are sharing their wealth abundantly. 

Indeed, a great deal more must be done and shall be, but please honor yourselves as we do and celebrate with us your sterling progress to date. You who know you are lightworkers and the many millions who also are but may not even know that word are the vanguard of your society, the ones who are steadily moving your world in positive directions. 

Let us give you an example of the positive and negative aspects of light’s magnification. After years of punitive measures against Iran for its nuclear development program, a series of talks between leaders of that country and others recently produced a framework for a diplomatic solution, with both sides making concessions to reach that initial stage of cooperation. Most in your world welcomed this as a positive albeit tenuous first step, yet it was soundly denounced by the increased negativity of individuals within Illuminati ranks or under their influence who want this issue handled with military might. Only the peak of the Illuminati still are holding onto the delusion that further destabilizing the Mideast will let them gain control of that region and continue their march toward global domination. 

Readers have asked if the following assertions are true: An asteroid is going to destroy Earth in September. A militarized police force will round up dissidents in the United States and incarcerate them in FEMA-operated camps. Foreign troops have been brought in to kill Americans because US military won’t shoot their own citizens. Many millions will drown as seas rise and inundate coastlines far inland. The cabal is controlling peoples’ minds through inoculations containing programmed microchips. The Illuminati will cause global chaos by creating a hologram of invading ETs that they will claim are forces of the anti-Christ. This or that “red flag” terrorist act will be the excuse for imposing martial law. A dark civilization pretending to be benevolent is surrounding planet Earth. WWIII will be started by the intentional or accidental launch of a nuclear missile. Delivery of “prosperity packages” is imminent. The cabal is preparing areas beneath a number of buildings to be temporary living quarters, escape routes and/or arsenals. 

Those are samples of distorted information, uninformed opinions or skewed interpretations, long-outdated contingency plans, long-outdated potential land/sea changes, scare-tactic lies, or falsehoods in messages channeled by base entities claiming to be respected light sources. And, just as not all information on the Internet is valid, neither is everything that mediums tell their clients. A reader wrote what a friend told her a medium had told him: The people on earth would be transported to a very large planet that is big enough to hold the population of the earth. It would be a trip of several weeks to save us, because the environment on earth has become uninhabitable. It is a friendly more advanced group who said they were offering their help for a better, peaceful, and loving experience that sounded pleasant. The reader added her question: “Do you know if people will be moved off planet earth in a year ending in nine?” 

We tell you this, dear ones, because you are deluged with information, some of it shocking or frightening, a lot of it conflicting, and we know that at times it is difficult for you to discern what is true and what isn't. When your thoughts aren't clear about an issue you feel is important, ask within for the answer, then quiet your mind and listen to what comes from your heart and soul. God said, “The heart is the seat of the soul,” and the soul knows the truth. 

Someone who knew that my mother’s recent trip included visiting our family in Peru asked if extraterrestrials were involved in the disappearance of Incas from Machu Picchu or the ancient buildings with precisely-fitting boulders that weigh as much as a hundred tons. You may be interested in the answers. 

When the residents of Machu Picchu heard that Spanish forces had reached Cusco and were continuing their bloody conquest downward from that high elevation, they started building a trail down the other side of their lower Andean community; when it was ready, they started their journey to safety and the last in line disguised the trail’s beginning. Although that was discovered along with the ruins, little or no connection has been made between the trail and its purpose. 

To accommodate the Peruvians’ desire for high, strong walls and monuments, members of advanced civilizations living among them used teleportation, levitation and laser technology. Similar assistance was given in other areas where mammoth rocks also had to be transported many miles to the erection sites, for pyramids or structures like Stonehenge and the heads on Easter Island. 

The people living in those times were grateful for the extraterrestrials’ friendship and help. Dear ones, you have infinitely more reason to feel grateful—your universal family saved the very life of your homeland planet about 80 years ago and they have been helping you in vitally important ways since then. Lighted beings throughout this universe are eagerly awaiting the day when people from other civilizations who are in ships above you, residing among you, or living in Inner Earth can greet you as the beloved family members you are. 

LOVE and PEACE 

Suzanne Ward 

Website: The Matthew Books 

Email: suzy@matthewbooks.com

An enlightening glimpse of life in Nirvana

Matthew Ward - February 8, 2015 

With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. We have been asked if the Illuminati have any role in the fighting going on in Ukraine and what ISIS is doing. Yes, major roles in both, but since they are “behind the scene,” so to say, they aren’t historically or currently attributed to the Illuminati. The unrest in Ukraine stems from wars they initiated long ago to form new national borders without any regard for the differing cultures and history of the affected peoples, and ISIS’ goal of creating an Islamic State has its emotional roots in wars started in Afghanistan and Iraq by Illuminati within the United States government. 

Now, Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Barack Obama, and some national leaders in the Mid East and Europe are trying to quell inflammatory situations instigated by Illuminati-controlled CIA agents, who created incidents to incite the citizenry, carried out by Illuminati-“owned” mercenaries and unwitting troops, and funded by the Illuminati’s illegally-acquired massive resources. 

Please keep foremost in your thoughts that turbulence is running out its various energetic courses and the increasing energy momentum of positive change is moving your society ever closer to a peaceful, harmonious world. It is helpful to remember, too, that you lightworkers and members of our universal family—the vanguard of progress—are aided by vast numbers of your populace. 

All, except a comparative handful of individuals, are loving, compassionate, honest people who endeavor to make life better for their families and communities, or they go to countries to help the many who are in dire straits, or they support efforts to protect your environment and wildlife. Simply by living from their hearts, these millions upon millions of souls are adding immeasurably to the Light that ultimately will prevail throughout your entire civilization. 

Our mentioning Nirvana’s “4th density residential area” elicited a number of responses. We thank the reader whose questions are cited, and our reply also will address comments and questions from others who wrote. 

“Matthew said, ‘Persons who advance from third to fourth density spiritually and consciously during Earth lifetime enter Nirvana’s 4th density residential areas.’ He also said residents there range from 2nd to 5th density or higher. How do the areas where they live differ from fourth? Who decides where people live? Are family members reunited in the area where the first one who went there is? Are people restricted to their area or can they move from one to another? What kind of living accommodations do residents have? What do people do while they’re there and how long do they stay? I’d like to know more about what to expect when I get there!” 

First, as a reminder, we number densities, whether mass or location or soul evolvement status, ONLY to indicate advancement. Densities aren’t compartmentalized and there are no sign posts indicating where one density stops location-wise and another begins, and the same is true of soul evolvement. In both there are many gradations, which you could think of as shades on a color chart that move from the faintest tinge all the way up the spectrum to the color’s full intensity. Applying that to residency in Nirvana, persons who are the least evolved spiritually and consciously live in “tinge” and persons who are more evolved live in the shades that correspond to their status. 

Now then, at the end of physical lifetime, all of Earth’s peoples go to that multidimensional spirit world, thus it encompasses religions’ concepts of both heaven and hell. Nirvana comprises numerous meandering, energetically-connected, flexible “layers,” which can be considered heaven, and a tiny dense orb that is separate from the layers can be considered hell. Both are about the same distance from Earth as your moon. The layers are what you call “discarnate,” and even though they do have mass, their high vibrations make them invisible to your telescopes and the orb is too small to be noticeable. 

First, we shall speak about the layers and their gradations, all of which are at varying vibratory rates, and who goes where is determined by the laws of physics that govern this universe. The energy of every person’s thoughts, motives and deeds throughout the lifetime is registered in the infallible Akashic records, and when the dense body dies, the etheric body automatically is drawn to the part of Nirvana that corresponds to the energy in the person’s records. 

We remind you as well that the soul is freed, or liberated, from the etheric body—it is the personage and its lifetime experiences, which form the psyche, who goes to Nirvana. So, it is possible, even likely, that members of an Earth family will enter different parts, but all who go to the layers may visit each other. As members in lower layers or layer gradations grow in spiritual and conscious awareness, they advance accordingly in residency. 

Nirvana is in the timeless continuum, so you’ll be seeing not only family and friends from this lifetime who are there, but also dear ones from other lifetimes, and you may prefer to spend time with them. Always the stronger love bonds between individuals prevail and everyone honors this; the same applies to persons who remarried after their spouses died and all are in Nirvana. 

Now, we shall speak about who lives where. Occupants of the topmost layer are the most highly evolved: the 100-member council that oversees Nirvana’s administrative aspects, resident and visiting masters in specialty fields, and universal family members who wish to stay a while after completing their volunteer service on Earth. Down a notch are the principals in charge of transition, customized healing and settling-in assistance; childcare; education; employment; transportation; architecture and construction; entertainment; Earth monitoring; libraries and the fine arts. Then come the myriad employees in those and other fields who live in layer gradations commensurate with their extent of responsibility and progress in service, spiritual and conscious growth, and personal interests. 

Although education at every level and training in all fields are available to everyone, skills and talents of other personage lifetimes are remembered, so residents have a wealth of knowledge and experience to choose from. Always employment is a matter of choice, and individuals who desire to work may change from one field to another whenever they wish. 

Babies and young children enter fourth density. If close family members are living there or in higher layers, the children join them; if not, they are lovingly nurtured by specially-trained caretakers and schooled appropriately for age and soul growth status at the time they arrived. 

Animals also enter fourth density. Those whom you call predators were herbivores before darkness made them carnivorous long ages ago, and that aspect of their nature is erased from cellular patterning during the passage from Earth to Nirvana. Pets and their human families are reunited by the energy streamers of shared love bonds. If pets arrive first, they roam with other animals until a family member enters any of the layers. Henceforth, they may live together if that is what is desired—all animals are self-sufficient and there is no pet ownership as you know it. 

Third density is home to people who refuse to listen to universal truths that differ from their beliefs and to people whose characteristics such as bigotry, greed, anger, dishonesty, jealousy, arrogance, egotism or disloyalty led them astray from their chosen karmic lessons. All of those individuals need time and assistance to become open to enlightenment and gain spiritual and psychic strength. As they respond, they move to a higher gradation, where advanced learning and a wider range of employment, activities and growth opportunities are available, and so on up the ladder. 

Please don’t think that life in Nirvana is all work, work, work or learn, learn, learn! Just as on Earth, most residents want the self-satisfaction that comes with being productive and creative and adding to their knowledge; and because they also enjoy leisure time, a wide range of age-related activities and entertainment are available. All team and individual sports, except those that destroy or injure life, are popular; so are attending or participating in films, theater and concerts; and “story hour” is enjoyed by all ages. There are travels throughout the realm, lectures by visiting “professors,” grand fiestas and small social get-togethers, splendid museums and art galleries, and hobbies of interest. 

Buildings of all sizes and designs are erected by focused thought and visualization, and although residences are in accordance with evolvement status, everyone has a choice of house or apartment in a city or living in a rural environment. It is noteworthy that the most highly evolved souls choose humble dwellings and people who choose mansions later feel uncomfortable with such opulence—they have those homes dematerialized and replaced with more modest styles. 

Now, we shall speak about second density, the tiny dense orb that can be considered the hell of religions. The individuals drawn there are those who consistently ignored conscience and pre-birth agreements and they willfully caused great suffering to persons whose soul contracts did not include those experiences. Because light is anathema to these individuals, only a pinpoint is directed into their dark world; as they overcome their fear of the pinpoint, a bit more light is beamed to them. It may take hundreds or even thousands of your years before they choose to absorb enough light to embody at the lowest consciousness level in a third density civilization, a life comparable to Earth’s slugs and minute, short-lived insects. This act of divine grace wipes clean the cellular and psychic patterning of devastating behavior choices. 

Although Nirvana primarily is the temporary home of people who transition from Earth, residents in the higher layers vary considerably. Mother, my description of the population answers other questions sent to you, and I think it will be of interest for all readers, so please insert that. 

[Excerpt from “Residents” chapter of Matthew, Tell Me about Heaven; Matthew transmitted this information in 1994, when he still lived in Nirvana.] 

Matthew, how many souls live in Nirvana? 

Between 10 and 12 billion. We come and go continuously, so the population fluctuates. You're having a hard time with that number, Mother. Why? 

It seems like a lot of souls between Earth lifetimes. 

I need to clarify our population, which is considerably more varied than I've explained. This realm is primarily for people transitioning from Earth lifetimes, who could be called "regular" residents, but many others live here, too, and I'll tell you about all of them. 

Although most of our regular residents are preparing for their next lifetime on Earth, depending upon the stage of their soul growth, some are preparing for incarnate or discarnate life elsewhere, even outside our galaxy, or they may choose to experience as free spirits. Probably 20 years is average for a "long-timer," but I'm not really comfortable giving that figure, because many variables influence the length of residency. Some souls feel great sensitivity in all aspects, an ability acquired only in higher density vibrations, and they don't stay very long. Some are so highly evolved that they practically whisk through to their next growth placement. 

Others of this spiritual evolvement status may choose to remain here quite a while. They have earned this as a reward for honored service, and they stay for a long time by your calculations. Some of these souls are very high in our hierarchy. Other long-timers are here for intensive healing from a number of difficult lifetimes. They stay in an environment of tranquility, as long as they need to recuperate, before choosing their next level of spiritual growth experiencing. All those souls constitute what I referred to as our "regular" population. 

Another large part is transient. Some are free spirits, who come and go as their growth needs require. 

Matthew, excuse me, please. Remember, here free spirits are folks who seem to go blithely through life doing their own thing out of the "mainstream." Is it the same there? 

Oh, no, Mother. Free spirit can mean only that no body, not even the etheric body, is necessary for residence of the soul. But in a larger sense, it refers to the mental attitude or psychic approach to communion with God and the knowledgeable accomplishing of the pre-birth chosen mission. Either or both of these conditions constitute a free spirit lifetime. It's a different sort of learning process and is as necessary as any other lesson due to karmic cause and effect. 

I see. Thank you. 

You're welcome! Now then, others of our transients are teachers in specialty fields or students who come for selected education, and they leave when they have accomplished their purpose. Visitors come from other discarnate realms to further their spiritual growth and stay as long as their specific interests last. And there are many short-term vacationers, some from supra-human civilizations. Nirvana is much more beautiful than many other discarnate realms and, just like resorts on Earth, it attracts "tourists." 

There is still another kind of residents here, souls who have taken on new bodies on Earth, but they reside here as well as there. Mother, this isn't "weird" at all, and there is good reason for these "dual" lives. When one is motivated toward studies, learning can be achieved far more rapidly here than on Earth. We have almost limitless superb resources and master teachers, and the entire environment is conducive to spiritual growth. What better place to gain knowledge and spiritual enlightenment with which to endow the new personage? 

Thank you, Mother. We have given an enlightening glimpse of life in Nirvana, but no message can cover all facets of that world, like the personal reception of all arrivals and how they are affected by the thoughts and feelings of their loved ones on Earth; the customized care given to all who arrive with traumatized psyches; the diverse environment in that spirit world; its republic form of governance; aging and de-aging; or the range of residents’ manifesting capabilities. Although our messages never have been a platform for recommending the Matthew books, we make this one exception: ‘Matthew, Tell Me about Heaven’ offers comfort to people grieving the loss of a loved one and is an inspirational guideline for living. 

Light beings throughout this universe are cheering you ever onward and embracing you with unconditional love. 

LOVE and PEACE 

Suzanne Ward 

Website: The Matthew Books 

Email: suzy@matthewbooks.com