Ascension: Are We Ready

so i think it was uh yesterday or last night someone brought up a topic and they brought it up not by a specific request of a title but they brought it up sort of saying you know what's going on in the world and look at the drama and the trauma and the craziness and that's it's it's it would be hard to avoid it i mean it's everywhere you know people are talking about it's in the aisles of the supermarkets and so on so the the topic that comes to mind is seemingly unrelated to all the drama it

seems the opposite but it isn't it's simply ascension are you ready are we ready ascension look at the world and you'll go no it's pretty evident it's pretty evident i think we're going to send some really really turn on the news you know and you'll get quickly deflated so by the human standards which all the masters mystics gurus yogis have told you don't pay attention to your senses that is to say don't let them dictate your life you can use them just as you would see them as a sort of

a tool i need to hammer a nail you get a hammer you know it's fine and use these senses to sort of navigate a little bit in the world but not let these senses dictate the most important thing who you are don't let these senses determine who you are now you might think well i don't but we do every time these eyes see something or hear something that disturbs me that means i have allowed my senses to determine that i'm weak enough vulnerable enough for that thing that i'm hearing seeing to disturb me if my consciousness

were to override which is what krishna tried to get across if you if your consciousness were to override the senses then you would realize nothing i see taste smell etc can override me overpower me in other words if i'm a divine being if god is with me what could be against me and that saying isn't just about if god up there in the sky is with me little human me what could be against me in a battle of life it means if i'm in the consciousness of god what non-consciousness of god which wouldn't exist

could overpower me so it seems like a paradox because are we ready to ascend the answer is yes and no no by apparent standards no by appearance to the five senses and it's it should be just so obvious but one of the important things is are we ready to ascend can we ascend well how can you ascend to a consciousness that you are not that doesn't make any sense rationally logically speaking we're going to ascend soon really to to where oh the fifth dimension you're 3.

1 you haven't even made it to 3.2 yet some humans you know like you know you're you're a program that hasn't even got an upgrade to 3.2 you're going to go to five get to three get to four in other words you can only ascend to a consciousness that you are if you die and reincarnate you don't get to go i think i'm gonna be a holy being divine completely one with god next time this isn't like a shopping you do oh a new pair of shoes oh look christ i'll try those on it doesn't it doesn't work like that you

are that consciousness or you're not so i are we gonna ascend to where something other than you how are you going to do that it doesn't work you can only be what you are you can only be the vibration you are and there's teachers out there just raise your vibration oh really go ahead i'm going to watch ready go put a meter on the person you know it's just going to drop because they get depressed because it doesn't happen you don't just sit there and say vibration up and it happens if you're not more loving

if you're not more forgiving if you're not more aligned with god consciousness then you can't be in god consciousness and i know that can be deflating or depressing in itself because man oh man we would like a shortcut but there are none that's ultimately what the word responsibility means it's not just being responsible for challenges in your life and addictions being responsible also for the positive of you can only gain a consciousness that you'll take responsibility to attain you know we don't just go uh okay i want

to try something else divinity ready go it just doesn't happen that way so in a way you can think of ascension as sort of a giant beautiful tree and you're at the ground level ascension would be like that tippy top branch of that tree now how do i get to that place oh i know i'll climb the tree you don't just suddenly get to become the tippy top branch what we have to do is climb the branches that sounds simple enough well you just climb and go that's what we call the spiritual path what humans do is sit under the

tree bemoaning the fact that things are falling on them pine needles juniper berries pine cones you know whatever version of a widow maker drops down on you you know so that's that's not how it's going to work that's the typical humans humans on the spiritual path start saying no way not me i'm going to start climbing the tree which is great you get up one branch sideways this the first branches you're gonna hit are the fundamental their judgment judgmentalness is the fundamental brand you don't like

have to earn your way up to the judgmental branch any branches that go out horizontally are a distraction i'm not dissing trees mind you but metaphorically they're a distraction and what's amazing is life is like this where we climb out on a horizontal branch and then the branch will sprout smaller branches and smaller and smaller and then leaves the leaves of any given branch are only the produce of that particular branch in other words if there's a branch that's four feet off the ground these leaves are going to be four feet

off the ground roughly because they're the outcropping of that branch if that branch means resentment or hurts unhealed wounds tendency to judge tendency for low self-worth you climb up this tree and you just accidentally find yourself out on a branch it's not an accident buddha said that why we reincarnate he used the word because of desire and then what buddhists and followers of buddhism and readers took that to mean was there it is again dang it lust he didn't say that he said desire well yeah you know desire

that's because that's your head thinks that that's the only kind of desire there is i'm totally centered oh look at that you know like one minute you're holding presents and then whoo wow i remember i was a sidetracked for a quick second i remember i was touring you know churches for 40 years spiritual centers and whatever usually it was very simple but occasionally on very rare occasion like once every five or so years there would be a contract that guest speakers had to sign and one of them a kind of a traditional

unity one of the contracts that they had for guest speakers like myself was you know you have to promise no vulgarity and you know which fortunately i've not done on a sunday before but it's there's still time um but i never i never did that but they know vulgarity and so on but one of them was no suggestive whistling i'm thinking how old are you to have to even know that terminology like the what generation would go you know like really really you had to put that in a contract you know hubba hubba i mean what else

needs to be what else did you need to put in there that was like what okay no suggestive whistling and i was just about to do that too anyway here we are committed to reaching the top and no sooner do we try and then sideways sideways isn't just judgment branch it's addiction character flaws low self-worth all these branches you're going to go to years i'm going to go to mine and buddha was saying the reason people reincarnate is because of desire what he was saying was the desire the irresistible desire to deal with your

stuff that's what brings you back which makes total sense you could be on the other side you could be trying the own money pod you can do all kinds of nice things on the other side you could be blissing out but there's something inside that says but dang it that low self-worth and it becomes a magnetic attraction to come back and work on it it is irrev irresistible it's this beautiful yet not lovely um attraction to working on our stuff which is a good thing but it's a good thing partly because it

means you can't escape yourself wherever you go there you are so you're still you you still have your stuff so that's what buddha was saying and that's a lot of what this tree analogy would be that i'm just making up you're moving up the tree and outside but but there's also smaller and smaller branches think of this metaphor though what if the bigger branch is a distraction what if the smaller branches are compensatory the smaller branches are you're trying to cope with the fact that

you don't want to admit that you pulled out onto a branch that you shouldn't pulled out onto low self-worth got me again so smaller smaller smaller branches and no matter what you do the leaves on the end of that branch of low self-worth or whatever the branch is will not be the leaves that are the ones at the top of the tree they will never they cannot be because they're not there so you can go out and say well okay climbing under the branch of relationship oh this isn't going real well maybe if we get into the same hobbies

that's the little branches see you're trying to compensate little branches oh i know what we need date night seriously seriously honey she says to him would you be willing to dress up as a french maid you know um and some people go ooh that's kind of same all it is is smaller branches and they will not support you climb out on the furthest extension of a branch it's going to give and you'll be bam down on the ground reincarnating again to try again date night i mean no offense if you guys do date

night i'm just thinking when you have to call me and do a date night we're done you know if i c if we can't be like in that beauty now anyway it's kind of weird it's like some weird rehearsal you know i i and that's me though i want us i want me to be everything now just like this place you know we came here and we took a few weeks to set up this entire place in a couple of weeks and i said to you at the time people are like well how could you get that done so quickly i i explained i'm not gonna move our

spiritual family into a shack and tell them well maybe within five years it should look nice that's not my style i would not want to bring a child into a household of conflict between me and their parent their mother and say well kids if you hang in long enough we'll start getting along it doesn't make sense i like in my life i like to do my best which i don't advise for everybody because it may not be your thing but i like to be everything now i like to do my best to be the best teacher now you know i've been to spiritual

centers where they would say okay so here's what we do we do literally i'm not exaggerating we do 15 or 20 minutes of announcements about 10 minutes of music and 10 minutes of lecture and i'm like what announcements at this one center a very popular center announcements were given more time than the talk and it was the strangest thing to me because learning is what we're supposed to be doing if if people asked me to do it i would stand here and if people said just keep going i would be doing this for 48 hours

straight seven days i don't care this is what i'm here to do on this planet so it's not a thing i do it's who i am so to me although it's a lot to ask a person in a sense which i ask of myself be everything you can be in the moment do all that you can do really deliver if you're an athlete really do your best to deliver each time and not be bored don't get uh complacent because you make so much money you don't have to try so hard as an athlete or whatever it is so to me i really you know sort of do my best to

hold that presence that consciousness so we're moving on up this tree out out out and it starts splintering off into smaller branches and it's very sad because if you think about your life on a practical level right now and think about your life you'll be able to say oh my god i can think of one branch that started splintering off relationship and then the relationship was so-so so we had a kid and then we had a second kid and those are the little splintering off moments having a child should be going higher

not splintering off and people should learn to know the difference having a job that well maybe if i just try a variation of the same job that i don't like mind you i understand that you're doing it why you're doing it i understand that there's value in doing that but i would say think about that if you use the analogy it's harder to avoid houston there we have a problem you're out there and you realize oh my god we keep doing doing doing and all we're going to end up with leaves nice leaves but they're leaves of that

branch so how do i get back to my center these branches don't loop me back to the trunk the center so this is what ascension is about to me focus on that tip top branch do the branches am i shaming the branches i never said that at all i actually said it's just more of a distraction the further out you go our job is to get back to center now here's what we would really do if we're committed to ascension recognize that each branch can be used as like the rung of a ladder each branch is a step that i use to pull

myself up but i'm still going up i can't go anywhere else but up that's all i it focus on but it does take focus first you have to make if you want to ascend you have to make the choice to ascend in consciousness then you have to focus on getting to that place and then it will be achieved of those three steps to just about anything but in ascension as well the middle one's the challenging one making a decision to say you know what i want higher consciousness that's easy to say the third is actually not that count

complicated because when you set your consciousness to ascend believe it or not you're going to get there the third one will produce itself it's the middle one tenaciousness focus willpower you have to focus on that choice i'm going there that's the one that steers us off we start to make a choice and then oops and we get distracted on those branches if you want ascension you have to choose it today's uh workbook lesson for people that are in the course in miracles is related to that it says you're gonna you're gonna need to say

things that empower you got that and he says first you're gonna say them and they're only words but you're gonna start eventually to believe them and then you'll see the fruits of those decisions but he's the middle one is where the work is because he says say them and then you'll kind of say them with doubt so doubt starts to creep in but keep saying him anyway then you'll gradually start convincing yourself that what you're saying is true truth is dead until you choose it live by it and live by it and live by it

and live by it and then it'll produce the leaves of itself but that middle one is challenging and when i say you know hang in there you might be sitting in a chair somewhere in this world right now going yeah he he makes it sound simply yeah i can do that i'm with you i i'm telling you it's easy to say but then relationship betrayals you know people take you to court for corny things you know um you go and you you pay money to get a tire a new tire on your car and the thing blows out a day later and

they say well you forgot to buy the extended warranty what do you mean extend it's been 24 hours yeah look at the claws right there you and you signed it you know it's like weird that people would do these kinds of things you know and then what you're really saying when you get mad is i would be ascending if it weren't for you and my tire i'm tired of you no so what you know what we're really saying is day-to-day lessons are those branches just stop and catch yourself and go oh my god i started deviating didn't i

some irritating behavior some annoying person it's what it does in this world that's what's going to happen i would love to say to you hey listen as a counselor as a friend i wish this weren't happening i would love to do that be able to say that and deliver you from all evils but nobody can not even god itself because the evils we see are our branches our lessons how come i climbed up five branches before i went off to this side you only made it up one and went off somebody else met 15.

somebody else made it to the branch just shy of the ascension branch which person is is more evolved doesn't really matter you still distracted if you allow the second branch to be well look at me man i made it this high and you still fall what's the difference of the person who fell from the first one because you both end up on the ground and you know what the higher you went the harder you fall so now you're like oh now i have all kinds of broken bones and i'm going to try my ascension process again

the person who only went one rung they're like that was nothing i didn't even get the wind knocked out of me i guess not being evolved was technically less painful you know and then the person that was more evolved is now even angry oh you get to go to the angry branch that's only two rungs up you know what i mean i mean silly analogies and yet they feel profound because they really call us out for what we really are what we really do the bottom line is when you get to the ascension branch you're not going to care what branches

you once deviated on you really won't you won't say oh remember that time it's not going to matter you'll just be so blissed out using a general analogy usually the birth of a child you're focusing on now that child not the birth pains generally speaking that's the truth usually a person that that's handed a winning lottery ticket of 10 billion dollars doesn't say well before i get all excited i got to think about that when i used to not be able to pay my phone bill should i still kind of stress let me go

back to that my oh dang it i don't have enough to pay my phone bill really that's called mental illness you know i mean you won the lottery i know but i'm just not going to let this phone bill from 20 years ago you know just let it go it wouldn't make sense so the time will come one of the keys the secrets if there were a shortcut but that isn't there isn't to getting to that place of ascension is to live as though you're there oh i took this 500 ascension workshop and we left and it

was amazing and the guy was saying live as though you're there and i just felt so blissed out when we're leaving we're all namaste to each other and hugs and archangel michael blesses you and we everybody's all cool and we all go buy purple shirts and you know whatever and it's all very beautiful but when you go home and you still have the same person in your house that you didn't like when you left if you still have the same parents that abused you you know where's the ascension now

that's where the work begins i remember saying this at conferences that i would speak at once upon a time when there were such things as conferences and i remember i shared this once and i remember after saying this every conference i ever went to after that whenever certain speakers i remember one of them was uh greg braden he started repeating this aft at every conference after he heard me say this and it was this because i learned this the hard way all this conference and everybody's blissed out and

chanting together and you know it's just like all you need is love as a closing song and all this you know everybody amethyst and everything's just so goddessy and spiritual and then i realized after a few years of this usually when i went to speak at a conference i would stay over and do private sessions and things like that and i noticed after a couple conferences at the end the big rush of people arriving and excitement and vendors are selling t-shirts they made that goddess you know things on them all this it's such a beautiful energy

one of my favorite memories in this lifetime very renaissance-y man and then the conference ends and i would be sitting usually i would go and sit in the hot tub at the evening that night sunday night when the conference ends at 5 they all go home sunday monday i'm sitting there going i'm alone there was all this high and then a crash and i'm like isn't this amazing even the illusion of wonderment in this world i still end up alone and i'm like wow this is kind of depressing but i thought it through and realized

this is amazing i get it so i said at the conferences you have to integrate the conference and take it with you don't attend it and enjoy it and it ends when it ends at five o'clock on sunday so the way i was worrying that is that the conference begins when you leave the training is now but the real thing is when you leave so i never forgot that and i remember saying that and people were like wow and then a couple of the speakers utilize that in their conversations in their talks at these conferences because it made so much sense and i had

still i had people 10 you know 10 years 20 years ago 15 years ago five years ago come to a five-day intensive of mine and there's all this wow then i get an email a week later you know god when i got home i just crashed i said don't you remember what i said during the workshop you got to integrate it you're still going to have to go home to your pseudo real life and deal with stuff if you took the workshop as an escape went home and found the same people there that's not actually unusual you know

it almost never happened on this planet where someone took a spiritual event workshop went home and everything was different when they got home the children ran out to the driveway and had flowers and sang hosanna to the highest as you walked up to the door where your husband had a beloved sign over their head you know that that i don't know of anybody did that happen for anybody miracles happened all the time at post workshops but it's not like you know and then then of course you go to work the next day

monday and there's a check guess what we decided to pay you your true value there's millions of dollars in a check there you know it's just it doesn't go that way and that's what happens when we think we're focusing on ascension i went to this workshop but you didn't apply it so you went to the workshop climbing one branch and you know you went to the workshop and i worked on you know some issues and i screamed out this and i talked about my mother issues and but still something's going to get you

along the way living as though we're ascended is what we have to practice doing living as though not not just like in some in some denial naivete it's not that it's it's with each challenge that comes up ask yourself if i am ascended and i assure you you are you just don't know it yet if i'm ascended how would i handle this situation that's what we have to do just imagine that you're there just you know you don't have to tell anybody else just sit there for a second and go okay this person's doing this you know

and i'm just frustrated and trying to get my point across but wait god if i was ascended i wouldn't be defending anything if i'm ascended i might say oh i'm sorry you feel that way if i'm ascended i don't need anything from you at least of all your approval i don't need to get your value for me it's like i actually just feel pretty good and you get that and right now it might be making good sense to to most of you watching you know going god i gotta yeah i'm gonna do that more

again easily said and your branch is is going to be your challenge you might skate right by my branch if my branch is low self-worth you might be like nothing so i'm doing pretty good because that guy got caught up in low self-worth and when you hit your branch that'll be when you pause your yours i might skate by so we have to each own our frailties those branches represent unhealed wounds hurts losses low self-worth judgments angers triggers all those kinds of things okay so we have to take time and look at

it and say i'm committed to there's three steps there's the theory there's the practice and there's the achievement of ascension the theory is what we're talking about we're just talking we're talking about ascension we're reading a book about ascension i have a poster i am ascending i have a you know post-it on my bathroom mirror ascension i am all kinds of cute things theory theory it's all it is practice is where you integrate it and when you go to practice it it'll first be words

and then gradual stages of getting it that still sounded quite nice and positive and easy and then comes the achievement but the middle practicing practicing practicing if you were talking sports or acting or music they call it muscle memory god how does that guy play these complicated notes and he's singing it to say like it's like weird how does he it's called muscle memory um great bass player i can think of he says oh i can't do it at first i have to play the song over and over and over and over and over and over

until i could be having a conversation and the body's doing this without me thinking about it that's how it has to become natural at first it's theory at first you're gonna hear michael said this and you try it out at first you're gonna read a book and it's something and you try it out at first they're very cool ideas but do something whatever's going to help you work through addictions whatever's going to help you work through the low self-worth the wounds whatever's going to get you to the light

is all right as the song says so this concept to me is just one of the the major ones for shifting the whole planet because you might say how do we get the planet to ascend you don't you ascend yourself and it sounds like i'm giving you the lecture about just work on yourself and be responsible for yourself and i am to a degree but listen we're all one when you work on you you are working on us what you were trying to get away with is when can i get everybody else to ascend so that i can ascend vicariously through them

we have to do our work it's taking so long oh then you better get to work sooner i can't i can't tell you that someone else is going to do our work for us it's not possible because there is no one else i am that i am in my own little expression of that i am that i am so i'm a reflection i'm one aspect of the one that we are and if i want to i wish you people would get it together you republicans you democrats you males you females i just have to keep working on all the parts that don't feel peaceful inside of

myself and we're ascending once upon a time say in in buddhism and i'm going to start coming to a close now but in buddhism the idea was you know instead of the incarnating for thousands of lifetimes as found in hinduism buddha said no you know what i think a person can do it in a single lifetime it doesn't mean it's easy but if that's all you want is that top tippy top branch go focus on it be aware of your surroundings so you don't slip and fall be aware of where you are in the now and

let that point also be the now that's called zen in the art of archery when you practice zen in the art of archery there's no archer who's trying to hit a target with a seeming arrow that's why the archers can walk up be blindfolded they can string the bow pull the air and hit the target center every time how it must be a trick that kind of that's trickery that people can pull off in this world that's not zen real thing the real magic is that the archer knows not hopes not the arises he know he's he

did the theory he did the practice and now he's in the achievement which is the bow the archer the arrow every bit of it is the same how could that think about this how could the arrow not go to the center if that's where i'm going it doesn't have any other options how could i not reach that upper branch you have to really want that branch only you have to really really practice that there is only that branch no other deviations i personally don't think it's that easy i think it's in a way it's it's crazy making

sometimes i try to live that myself all the time and i shared that just for a moment last week too something along those lines i try to live that 24 7 and i think that it's i think that it pushes us near psychosis because you're trying to get yourself to believe things that nobody else believes you believe in hope when everybody else says everything's hopeless you believe you can bounce back from a divorce or the death of a loved one and people think you're in denial it's you against the entire world

and by the world i don't mean good well-meaning people i mean the i mean the world that was made to teach us that we're limited beings and you're saying but there is no limit you know people are telling you you'll always get sick from something oh yeah you notice you have brown hair you know people with brown hair have this and this illness it's like why are you talking to me you know oh you have lips you know what that means it's like they just make up something oh you know all people with

noses you know it's like you've got to be kidding me this world they're going to keep making up things that are going to result as a problem for you oh oh you've divorced twice oh you know that that's that's it you know who's going to want to marry you now who makes this stuff up people have been married five times and then found a life mate for real that fifth time there's people that got married just once and they're miserable the whole time so this world don't trust this world to

determine who you are focus on that branch there is but god and i am part of god there is but love and i'm part of love in reality there is only god love peace joy that branch and you're going to be climbing and then the winds will blow through the branches on the side going [Music] what's that you know yeah and well let me go see sounded like my mother's voice michael i still don't like you will mom mom you know how could i go get that better job that i wanted if i if you don't love me it's this is this world and it came

through the voice of another partner you tried or a job that betrays you in some way stop god and only god and this world will not support that very easily so i beg you to support each other as best you can this world isn't going to do it so who will if not me then who if not now then when stop waiting when you see people doing their best to live the life to raise consciousness to become a better parent or partner whatever do whatever you can to put in a kind word and say something you know supportive to them

anything you can do and and sometimes they're not going to hear it so you just be as stealthy as possible you know you do you just be stealthy as possible you can be climbing your tree and you notice someone over there's crying in their tree you can pause don't go out on the end of the branch to find them pause where you are look to the side brother sister what's going on well i'm distracted because i was climbing and i was doing great but this one branch it's it's calling to me what

is it whatever it is well would you like some feedback and you do what you can to help them and it's interesting to me because when you do that it's called good karma but it also is changing your own belief systems when you help others so when i'm climbing my next couple runs where my branch came along where my issues were my work with them already makes it less loud that voice that would call me off to the side the volumes down on it and i just go easier more easily through so it's okay to pause and call out to others and say

how can i help you we're in this together it's not a race to ascension we're in this together but what if that person insists that you meet them out on the end of the branch that's called rescuing that's called an enabling that's called codependence no no i'm gonna i'm gonna just hang right here can i help you while you're over there well yeah but i i'm scared i'm paralyzed well i would be too if i were in your seat i'm sorry that that's happening but you can get through it

no i can't unless you come over here and marry me or whatever oh okay snap boom ground you know you know and they're still up there looking down at you on the ground going sucks to be you you know it it's that's not very helpful and then you're going to hate him and now you have another branch sprouting i don't know where these things come from i swear but at the end of the day go focus get inspiration focus and go do your best not to let anything else distract and i it is it is challenging in this world you'll

feel like you're going crazy because the world won't support it it's like psychosis sometimes you're not going crazy you're waking up remember and you were already crazy you were already crazy to think you're a limited being you were already crazy to think you're separate from god you were already crazy to think that other people things could control you or had power over you there is no them what are you that voice through the leaves and through the branches i hear you what are you and remember

i didn't tell you to deny that there are branches i didn't tell you to pretend anything i'm asking you to focus keep your awareness of where you are in the moment and keep focusing at the same time keep focusing on your destiny in ascension something amazing and it's this it's that we never left god in the first place you're not actually ascending because you never descended but for now while we think we fell from heaven while we think we descended we have to ascend but do not deny that you hit the branch

that's your rawness low self-worth betrayal work it work your stuff at each branch don't follow it out to the tips stay in your center and do your work make the issues that are out there come to you don't go to them make them come to you they don't keep climbing then bring them to you and you do your work meaning centering god and do your healing work and to me it's it's quite beautiful because we realize my god i've had it all along and jesus said you can only rise as follows you as far as you fall

meaning you'll only be able to make it use those branches if you're willing to own what they are go out to the ends you're going to get hurt don't deny that there's branches on your tree but use them wisely oh this is my hurts here this is my challenges there this is my belief system use them to climb but go to the top our goal is none of the branches none of the leaves at the end of the branches it's only the tip top ascending to higher consciousness let's please take a few centering

breaths hmm setting aside all stuff of the world feeling centering integrating anything we heard today that made sense you might even not know some people won't what what is ascension never heard of the term it doesn't matter it just means rising to higher consciousness everybody on the spiritual path knows believes that there's something about rising to higher consciousness so in rising to higher consciousness what did i hear today that speaks to me is it not to pursue the leaves on the outside of the

horizontal branches is it that i have to deal with my stuff is it being responsible is that you never descended in the first place so all ascension is is it's not just remembering like we often say it's allowing so spend the next minute or two meditating on the word feeling of allowing not remembering your divinity what if the key is not just remembering it's allowing that means all resistance dropping if something gets in the way like low self-worth or self-doubt it's because i let it i didn't allow the

truth of my true nature to come through i allowed something else to get in the way so spend a minute or two right now just i am as god created me and then open your mind to see what else might come through can you really only feel peaceful or are there any thoughts that deviate at all doubts limitations shames concern day-to-day concerns it could be whatever symbolizes my not allowing my divinity take a moment to courageously look at that and imagine you're at the base of that tree and you begin to climb just move just move your hands arms

move your legs climb onwards upwards climb i'm aware of my hands and feet i'm in my body but my focus is the tip top branch higher and higher i go to the presence of god and i am already there never left but i dreamt that i fell to the bottom of the tree and had been trying to climb it back ever since back up ever since and i never needed to i need to allow my divinity and as i allow my divinity i'm noticing that i'm rising more effortlessly and not even exerting as much leg and arm strength i'm just

moving that's what allowing does instead of working in my spiritual growth and you realize that if you reach to the very top you've achieved that place and you hear that there are brothers and sisters down on the ground or anywhere else on the branches you're going to have two options you're either going to say to yourself you know what i'm not going back down there i'm going to rest here you're allowed to that's ascended mastery you might also hear now or later i'm going to go back and help others

achieve what i achieved that is called a bodhisattva you get to choose that rise and remain rise and come back to help both are beautiful see what you're attracted to do right now make your decision it's not a permanent thing it's a decision based on this meditation right in this moment it'll affect current time in your life see it feel it achieve it breathe it in and give thanks that it is so and then relax and stretch out very good very good nicely done guys thank you

all right perfect [Music] go ahead do it again harder [Applause] right on we let that sound unite us the light of god surrounds us the love of god unfolds us the power of god protects us and the presence of god watches over us wherever we are god is i am we are and so it is thank you