Experiencing a very temporary and illusory embodied life

Message from Saul via John Smallman for 14 June 2014

In the spiritual realms we can clearly hear you calling for your awakening to happen, now!  And, like you, we also look forward most enthusiastically to its imminent and inevitable arrival.  No doubt to many of you it seems to be forever coming but never arriving, but its apparent non-arrival is just part of the illusory environment in which you are experiencing your human existence.  Yet to know that is not much comfort when it seems that you have to keep on experiencing all the problems and suffering in which the illusion immerses you. 

Today I will attempt to raise your spirits as you continue to hold your Light on high, and as you continue to hold the extremely powerful intent for humanity to awaken from its seemingly endless and frequently very painful dream. Your awakening is assured. In fact, it has already happened. You just continue to remain unaware because you have become so attached to the bodily life as humans that you experience in the illusion. 

This human life seems very real, and many of you have a deep underlying fear that without your human bodies you will cease to exist.  And fear of death is endemic on the planet because it seems so final, so terminal.  Very few have an adequate awareness of the reality of the spiritual realms that would convince them reassuringly that life is eternal, and that human death is just the laying down of a vehicle that has served you well, but that is no longer needed. 

In fact, through the eons, most humans have become extremely attached to the apparent reality of their bodies and are effectively in denial of the whole of Reality that awaits your joyful rediscovery of It when you awaken. 

Yes, many claim to be of a particular religious persuasion, to believe in God, to embrace spiritual beliefs, and to believe in life after death, but mostly they do not live as though those beliefs were of any great importance or significance.  Generally this is because the illusion that you collectively built and maintain seems far more real and relevant to them than the prospect of eternal life in what appears to be an unforeseeable and hopefully very distant future. The illusion remains alluring and enticing for the majority of humans, as they keep hoping to establish a better life for themselves within it, and the thought of death is not appealing. 

You, the wayshowers and Light bearers, are on Earth to help bring remembrance of the truth and knowledge of your spiritual origins, and therefore of your eternal spiritual destiny, to all with whom you interact during this earthly lifetime. All humans know, at the center of their being, their heart, their soul, that they are inseparable aspects of God experiencing a very temporary and illusory embodied life in order to partake in and share lessons that they have, with much wisdom and spiritual guidance, collectively chosen to undergo.  However, the result of accepting that challenge, and it is indeed a challenge, is that they are on Earth with only minimal access to memories of their true nature. 

To live as humans with full knowledge of your true nature as divine beings, inseparable from your Source, would be impossible, because the nature of humanity is separation and your divine nature is Oneness. Oneness is all that exists, separation is an illusion, and therefore to be human is to be enfolded in an illusory or non existent state.  While living as humans, and experiencing the state of separation that that entails, it is extremely difficult for you to grasp and understand the fact that human life is illusory.  It is far too threatening a concept for your limited minds to attempt to understand and make sense of. Consequently you are forever seeking more satisfaction in your earthly lives, but never finding it. There can be no satisfaction in your earthly lives except to discover that they are unreal and that you are divine and eternal beings temporarily lost in the fog that is the illusion which is shortly to disperse. And you cannot fail to make that rewarding discovery. 

By going within and persisting in your search for inner peace, you can and will dispel the illusion, but it is vital that while doing so, you do not allow yourselves to be constantly distracted by worldly worries.  So often people attempt to meditate or go within and find peace, but because the distractions of their daily human lives keep intruding on that inner space with demands that appear to require instant attention, they find themselves unable to persist. The demands of your human lives can be very intense, personal, and divisive, so it seems that not only are you the only one who can deal with them, but also that you must deal with them, preferably right now. 

However, if you look back over your lives you can clearly see many things, that had enormous importance at the time, were in fact of no real consequence.  Hindsight is very revealing in that it demonstrates time and time again that your priorities were frequently misplaced. Remind yourselves of this, when the “shoulds” on your to-do lists become overwhelming, and make a point of deleting the majority of them. 

Your true priorities are to honor yourselves by giving yourselves quiet time daily to be at peace, then during that time to open yourselves to receive and feel the Love that envelops you in every moment, and then to share that Love with everyone with whom you interact. Doing that is the most inspiring and uplifting thing that you can do for yourselves, and you will be rewarded by the improvements that occur in all your relationships, including your relationship with yourselves. 

When you take that time out daily and go within, the first thing “to do!” is to restate your intention to feel the Love that envelops you, then remind yourselves that you are worthy of that Love, and that to experience It is your right and God’s Will for you. Then clear your mind as best you can of extraneous thoughts and worries and expect to feel God’s Love for you. Even the smallest increase in sensitivity to inner peace that you experience is God’s Love embracing you, so open to It and allow It to intensify. This is your moment to relax into your true nature at one with Him. The moment will not last, but you will never forget it, and so you will know that God’s Love is there for you, always. This gives you the strength, the determination, and the enthusiasm to continue bearing your Light on high as you move ever closer to the moment of humanity’s inevitable awakening. 

With so very much love, Saul.

Nothing is more important than those few quiet moments you spend at peace in that inner space of stillness and Love

Message from Saul via John Smallman for 8 June 2014 

As many channels have been telling you, you are being inundated with Love. Open your hearts, your souls, and allow It to flow through you and out to all your brothers and sisters undergoing the human experience at this point in your spiritual evolution. You chose to be here at this time to be willing and abundant conduits through which our Father’s Love could flow smoothly and abundantly to assist in humanity’s awakening process. You have been doing a grand job, but some of you have lately become a little less enthusiastic in your Light bearing duties, because the darkness of the illusion has been drawing you into its web of distrust and disbelief about the truth and reality of Heaven and the spiritual realms. 

Of course, at the center of your beingness, you know God, and you know that all is divinely taken care of. However, within the illusion there are myriad alarming distractions that are depressing you and encouraging you to dim your Light. Don’t! You are enormously supported at this most important moment by the constant waves of Love sweeping through your unreal environment to dissolve it, but you too need to support It and allow the Love to enter your hearts and then flow on from you to wherever It is needed, and It is needed everywhere! 

When you go within daily to that quiet inner space where you can access your inner guidance, the teachings of the Holy Spirit and of your own personal guides who are always watching out for you, do make a special effort not to be distracted by your daily “to do lists” which can seem overwhelmingly important. They are not. If you have to leave something out, the sky will not fall. You know this, because oftentimes in the past you have had to leave things out that were on those lists, because you ran out of time, and it did not fall then. Recognize that most of you, either through guilt or through a misplaced sense of responsibility to others, overload yourselves with duties and then judge yourselves as less than totally adequate, when you find it impossible to complete them all in the time that you have allowed yourselves. 

To do what you incarnated to do this time around you need to be able to access that quiet place of inner peace daily and rest there gently, even if only for a few minutes. But far too often you allow illusory distractions, pressures, and deadlines to disturb that peace, and so stress builds within you, until you find that you do not have the time to spare for your daily quiet time alone and at peace. You neglect your essential personal needs in favor of attempting to complete tasks that are truly of very little consequence. You are aware of this, because within the illusion you are constantly missing deadlines that you have set yourselves, or that others have set for you – it happens all the time – and no ghastly disaster occurs. 

It is absolutely essential that you allow yourselves that quiet time daily no matter what is going on in your lives. Nothing is more important than those few quiet moments you spend at peace in that inner space of stillness and Love. The longer you can spend there the better, but we do understand that it can be very difficult for you to do so when you have family and work responsibilities to take care of. Nevertheless, keep reminding yourselves that responsibility for your own well-being comes before all other responsibilities. If you do not keep yourselves in good shape, you just cannot adequately take care of all your other responsibilities. You know this, and you all have friends or acquaintances who have burnt themselves out due to not allowing themselves personal time to be quiet and at peace. 

If you feel too driven to make space available in your day just for you, acknowledge it, and then talk to someone you can trust about it, so that you get support at the illusory human level where you are presently operating. Indeed, the illusion seems very real to you, and therefore you have to honor the rules that you have chosen to abide by, and one of those rules is to seek help when you are feeling or being overwhelmed. If you do not, errors and problems will arise that further increase your levels of stress. The “I’m tough, I can handle it” attitude that has been so encouraged and held up as an ideal to be striven for is in fact very damaging and weakening for you. There is always someone out there to whom you can talk and from whom you will receive support. 

Many of you have acted as guides and mentors for others and have learnt that very often all that is required is that you allow the person to talk while you listen silently and intently while maintaining eye contact. Frequently it is enough for someone to know that they have been heard. When you listen attentively to another, they can feel it, it allows them to relax, their stress levels fall, and then their own inner guidance, their intuition, their higher selves or spiritual guides can get through to them. 

You have seen this many times and have yourselves assisted others in this manner. So, why on Earth can you not acknowledge and honor that need in yourselves? Every one of you is divine and irreplaceable aspects of God, our Source, the Supreme Intelligence, and as such you are beings of infinite worth and value. Presently you are experiencing the intense sensations that the illusion provides, while restricted by the severe limitations that a human body imposes on you. It is incredibly stressful, and you are very easily distracted from your spiritual path, as you get caught up in the suffering and drama of this unreal environment, which almost constantly offers you the message that you are not good enough, that you are not working hard enough. Well enough already! 

The way forward is to remind yourselves of who you truly are by reading and re-reading the holy works that spell this out for you. You can accept it intellectually, so do so, and then go within, when you make that essential purely personal time available, and remind yourselves of this divine truth. When you do that while in your quiet space intend once more to make it real for you, and you will, thus regaining and rejuvenating your spiritual strength that you need to complete your journey home. 

Remind yourselves frequently that you are being lovingly watched over and supported in every moment, and relax into the sense, the feeling that this knowledge brings into your awareness. 

With so very much love, Saul.

Humanity has collectively made the choice to open to the Light

Message from Saul via John Smallman for 8 December 2013 

As the Christmas and New Year holiday season approaches really focus on being peaceful, being compassionate, and being loving, as Jesus always was. He is your guiding Light, the Way, and the Path, and he demonstrated to you by his attitude and behavior how to follow It. Yes, all paths are individualized because you all have your own lessons to learn, no two are the same. Nevertheless, when you intend to live lovingly as Jesus did, and as you focus your attention on being loving like him much of the energy that you channel and share will be similar to his, and that is what is healing humanity and preparing it for the Great Shift in awareness, in consciousness, and in intent. That is why you are on Earth at this time, to enable humanity to shift away from conflict and mistrust and move towards Love. Remember every single one of you without exception channels energy constantly, because you are all, always, conduits directly connected to the Source! Make it positive loving energy by holding only that intent. 

Do not forget that spiritual energy is like electricity, it is abundantly available and powerful, but what you do with it, what you use it for is up to you. When you are unaware of your origins, of your spiritual heritage, it is very easy to choose to use it to serve your own egoic agendas. However, as all your egoic agendas are self-serving, its power becomes very diffused and misaligned when you do this, and it loses its effectiveness. 

You have all forgotten or have lost access to the knowledge of the immense power that is yours, given to you by your Father, so that like Him you can create, beautifully, wisely, intelligently, and perfectly! You are in the process of re-discovering your power and the knowledge of who You really are, as you move towards the moment of your Shift into Love. You are, as you have so often been told, Love incarnate. You cannot and could not be anything other than That, because It is the ground of your being, the Essence from which you were created, It is your real Identity as sons and daughters of God, One with Him always. You are each individual aspects of His Divine Perfection. To know and experience this is your destiny, your inescapable destiny, and that alone is reason for you to spend your lives rejoicing. 

But of course, within the illusion, where that knowledge remains temporarily hidden from you, it is very difficult for you be aware of and accept the truth that your origin, that from which you were created is God Himself, and nothing less. You are of God, you are Aspects of His divine and indivisible Self, eternally One with Him, even though it seems to you that this could not be the case. While your awareness, your ability to understand and experience your existence as Divine Beings remains severely restricted by your human embodiment, it also remains practically impossible for you to accept emotionally or intellectually the reality of this eternal truth. 

When you go within, to that quiet inner space from which you can access the spiritual realms, you do find some peace, some relief from the constant ongoing struggles with which the illusion seems to present you at all times. All those struggles are egoic delusions as you imagine yourselves individuated beings, separated from your Divine Source, and in need of protection from the dangers that you believe threaten your very existence. Your egos encourage this belief, and then encourage you to defend yourselves by attacking others. You have been doing this for eons, but finally the truth has dawned, “defense and attack do not bring peace and safety,” they just escalate the sense of insecurity that envelops so many of you. 

More and more of you are learning this daily, either by operating in war zones, or through dealing with police forces, security organizations, and even prison authorities. Whether you are on the side of authority or subjected to that authority, it has become apparent that taking sides is divisive, and either leads to distrust or reinforces the distrust that is already present, and prevents peace from being established. It has become impossible to honestly deny the truth of that, and consequently many are now moving to change the rules so that opposing sides in disputes whether political, law enforcement, or even religious are being brought together in neutral environments where neither feels threatened so that new rules of engagement or disengagement can be formulated, tried, and, if found to be effective, be put into practice. Until you cease to deal violently with violence, violence will always remain an insoluble issue for you. 

Amazing progress has been made in the last few decades of Earth time, as growing numbers of intelligent people have come to the conclusion that for your continued survival on Earth new rules are essential. Their desire to bring peace and abundance to all on Earth has been welcomed in the spiritual realms, and we are “pulling out all the stops” to ensure that this developing wisdom is neither bypassed nor discarded. 

Humanity has collectively made the choice and the decision to open to the Light that surrounds you, and to be guided by It instead of attempting to argue, by reason and logic of a very egoic nature, that to go with the Light will leave you open to destruction by those who would take your freedom from you. Non resistance has been tried many times on Earth in the last few decades to overcome oppression, and each time it has become even more successful. It is apparent to all that it works and that there is indeed no satisfactory alternative, as all other methods to bring in essential change have failed, because forcible enforcement always leads to violence and suffering that then demands restitution. 

In spite of the violence that is being reported by your main stream media, I can honestly tell you that violence across the world  that for eons has been endemic, is no longer the first choice of those who seek change and release from oppression. Change is occurring peacefully in many areas because the power of the field of Love enveloping you all is intensifying. Keep holding the intent for Love to enter all hearts, and keep intending that you yourselves always offer love regardless of the situations in which you find yourselves. By doing so, you are most effectively creating Peace on Earth, and this is the season in which many of you intend to offer peace to your friends and loved ones – now make a point of including any enemies you may have in that intent, and change them into beloved friends. 

With so very much love, Saul.

How many of you have daily “to do” lists?

Message from Saul via John Smallman for 14 August 2013 

We are all enlightened beings; some of you have just forgotten that.  Never mind . . . you will awaken and a most wonderful realization will dawn on you as Reality fills your awareness and your natural state of being fully conscious blossoms.  It is as though your natural state of existence had been resting, asleep, and a reduced state had been on standby during that moment.  Its abilities were severely limited, because it was only there to keep things ticking over; it did not have to do anything.  And you, in order to awaken, do not have to do anything. 

You have only to allow yourselves to let go of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that you have held on to for many lifetimes, and which no longer serve you.  It truly is very simple.  However, your grip on those outmoded aspects of yourselves, which you believed were essential for your safety and survival, over the years and lifetimes, has seemingly welded them to you.  It has not, but you do need to focus on unclenching, on loosening your grip on them, and after spending all that time holding on tightly, letting go is perhaps more than a little unsettling. 

Ask your guides for help to show you, or bring to your attention, those aspects to which you are clinging and that no longer serve you, and ask for help to want to release them.  Often you have held on to them for so long that they can seem like essential parts of yourselves, making you feel that if you release or discard them, there will be no you left. 

What you identify with as yourselves, as you live your human lives, is frequently just a mask, a very firmly attached mask, displaying your beliefs, your prejudices, and your opinions, which are so firmly embedded and ingrained that you have come to identify with them.  It almost seems that you are them, because they have blocked out your self-awareness, your awareness of your true Divine Self.  Thus, it may seem that if you discard the mask there will be no one left.  Of course, this is not the case. Your True Self is not noisy, it is quiet, peaceful, relaxed, undemanding, and joyful, but you are so used to being driven by shoulds and musts that the peace and quiet you experience when you release them is shocking: you enter a vast space inside that seems empty, and your inclination is to immediately fill it up! 

When you take time out daily to meditate you are allowing yourselves to enter that inner space of peace and quiet.  Sometimes it is very inspiring and uplifting for you, but more often you are conscious of trains of unending thoughts flowing through you, which you try, without too much success, to disperse or disregard.  Spending time daily in that space, a set time – five minutes, fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, even an hour – that you have agreed with yourselves is appropriate or adequate can, in and of itself, be a major block that prevents you from entering that space. 

You may find it more helpful to decide first thing each day, when you have woken up and are planning your day, to agree with yourselves that you will take time out whenever too much stress builds up, or whenever you are waiting for a late client, for a bus or train, or for the lights to change – any moment that “needs!” filling, or that is not filled with physical or mental activity – and just use that for your meditation practice.  Removing the “should,” the responsibility for meditating for a fixed time at a fixed time can be very freeing.  And when you feel free, wonders can be experienced. 

The purpose of life is joy.  But most of you are so weighed down with anxieties and responsibilities that the thought of finding joy in your lives seems ludicrous.  What is ludicrous is that you allow yourselves to be so driven.  Yes, you allow yourselves to be driven, because being driven is a state of mind that you choose to accept and which you can change, instantly, should you choose to.  But for many of you being driven has become normal, so normal that you cannot imagine not being driven. 

Things need to get done; that is part of your human life experience, but you do not have to allow those things, situations, or people to manipulate you into driving yourselves.  What often happens is that you are in a situation and your mind wanders – “I have to get bread . . . the laundry . . . I am going to be late for that appointment” – and then snaps back, and it seems that you missed something important as you are asked a question that you did not hear, or you just lost a little more of your precious but severely limited time.  Your mind starts to race and a state of overwhelm envelops you.  Does this feel familiar?  And so often you think that there is nothing that you can do about it. 

How many of you have daily “to do” lists?  Lists that you never succeed in completing?  That in itself is telling you something very important.  Possibly you often strike off half the items or more before you start or as the day progresses, and it becomes apparent that you cannot do them all.  For a change make the choice not to have a list.  At first, that may cause anxiety, an increase in your stress levels, a sense of playing truant, but when you have given yourselves permission to do without one, you will gain a sense of freedom.  Once you get over the guilt of feeling free, which should take only a moment, joy will flood in.  It may not last, but it will demonstrate to you that joy is possible. 

When the truth of that realization sinks in, you will find your selves far more willing to listen to the real you, the you that wants to be loved and loving, and which knows that that is its true state, and you will ease up on yourselves.  You will deliberately choose not allow yourselves to be driven by yourselves, situations, or other people, and a more peaceful sense of freedom and rightness in the now moment will envelop you.  Then you will be ready to awaken into Reality, and the short waiting-period before that happens will become a joy and not a trial. 

With so very much love, Saul.

What is occurring planetwide is something so new and so startling. . .

Message from Saul via John Smallman for 19 May 2013 

All of humanity is poised, expectant, sensing an intense energy of change flowing around them, about to impact their lives in ways that they cannot begin to imagine.  Change is in the air, and everyone is feeling it.  It is unsettling, because you are unable to identify it or compare it with anything that you have previously undergone, although some are dismissing it as mood swings, which you are also experiencing.  What is occurring planetwide at the level of energy – unseen and unmeasurable by even your most sensitive scientific instruments – is something so new and so startling that when it is recognized, as it will be very shortly, it will totally overwhelm your ability to be amazed, stunning you into open-mouthed astonishment.  Wonders that will delight you are to burst into your awareness like an unexpected and unforeseen sunrise.  And far, far brighter than that could ever be. 

Humanity has celebrated new beginnings with hope and enthusiasm for eons – a sunrise, a new moon, a new season, a new year – and now a new beginning, totally unlike anything you have ever experienced before, offering extraordinary prospects for cleansing, renewal, and indeed revivification, is approaching.  Life is forever exhilarating, but due to your immersion within the illusion it seems to have lost its shine, its newness, its appeal.  The New Beginning that is approaching – humanity’s awakening into Full Consciousness – will restore the brilliance to your lives that has been lacking as you have plodded wearily through the environment of conflict and confusion you are presently experiencing. 

We, in the spiritual realms, have been offering you information through numerous channels over the eons to assist you to prepare for the momentous event that is now approaching very rapidly indeed.  We have been offering you insights and guidance, and suggesting methods by which you can access your inner space, that place within every one of you where the eternal flame of Divine Love burns continuously.  Many have gladly accepted our assistance and found comfort and peace that has helped them to release fear and engage with Love.

Evolution is an ongoing creative venture, developing from the most basic life forms through to Beings that are far more evolved than you can presently imagine. Consciousness loves to evolve; evolving is one of its many purposes, and Earth – the planet which supports humanity and enables it to grow and evolve – is only one of many.  The level to which you have risen at this time in your evolutionary process is the most perilous, in that you could follow a path where you continue to compete with one another for seemingly limited resources, in which case there is a strong possibility that you could destroy yourselves and at the same time do even more horrendous damage to the planet that has always supported you uncomplainingly.  The other path is one of loving cooperation – leading to further, limitless, harmonious evolution of a spiritual nature, your true nature, and a return to Reality, your heavenly dwelling place.

Physicality is a starting point for spiritual evolution, from which consciousness develops increasing intellectual abilities, which in your case have led you to this moment of decision.  The decision to acknowledge your interdependence, to acknowledge that Love is the energy field in which All That Is exists eternally, and to embrace one another as you recognize your Oneness.  Or the decision to deny Love, to deny Reality, and forge ahead, expanding your technological abilities to destroy each other. 

You have made the choice for Love.  You made it long ago, although your evolution has seemingly carried you forwards along a path that has become increasingly unloving and destructive.  You have all had the experience of watching children grow into adulthood, and observed the development of their egos, as they push the boundaries to see what they can get away with, how independently and self-centeredly they can live.  If all goes well, they will recognize that they must honor others, as they themselves wish to be honored; they make the decision to do so, and prove that they have become adults.  However, some refuse to honor others, and eventually cause so much damage that they have to be contained. 

Allegorically speaking, humanity has just passed the stage at which the decision to become adult has been taken.  Love has been acknowledged as the path to follow, and so your awakening is assured, as you release all that “teenage angst and rebelliousness” and allow harmony and cooperation to flourish.  However, pockets of “rebellious teenagers” – those who would control and suppress others – are still behaving unwisely all over the world, but their abilities to inflict suffering on humanity and damage to the planet are being increasingly restricted. 

Humanity has made the collective decision to awaken, although for very many this is a decision that has not yet surfaced in their conscious awareness, and you, the Light-bearers and way-showers are here to help this decision to become conscious for them by demonstrating love in every moment.  You know this, but sometimes it has been very difficult.  Many of you feel that at times you have slid backwards, and you feel guilty for doing so.  Just understand that you are, as it were, working your way on foot up an icy slope, and so occasional slides backwards are inevitable.  However, you have the persistence, the determination, and the overwhelming power of Love to assist you in every moment, so those slips backwards will not defeat you, and the top of the slope is in sight and you are receiving multitudinous shouts of encouragement to spur you onwards. Success is most definitely yours! 

With so very much love, Saul.