Many elders, mystics and seers throughout the world have decreed that numerous people inhabiting physical bodies during this current period are reincarnated Atlantians. The proponents of the 11:11 believe that many souls of these past-life Atlantians had been programmed to "wake up" when they viewed these specific numbers and that their encoded instructions would direct them to join as one to raise planetary consciousness. If this awakening is necessary for our planet to evolve, who better to perform this task than the very same Atlantians who may have sank their continent and destroyed their culture many centuries before?
Some consider that even the Bible, the staple of Christianity, predicts the end of the world. There are fundamentalist Christian preachers smugly reminding us that many prophesied events immediately preceding the "final days" have already occurred! Yet this Christian text also mentions the 1,000 years of peace that follow.
Are these "final days" actual or symbolic? Is the world going to be physically destroyed, or will "evil" simply be eliminated and the "righteous" survive? Are the Biblical "chosen" and the New Age "spiritually aware" really the same people known by different names?
Various psychics, including Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus, perhaps the two most widely known metaphysicians who have ever lived, have discussed these cataclysmic times in great detail. Cayce, who had an extraordinary record of accuracy, spoke of major land movements leading to possible polar shifts and flooded land masses (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions?) near the end of the 20th century. Nostradamus, a well-known psychic and astrologer who lived during the 16th century, predicted numerous events hundreds of years into his future. Although his statements tend to be cryptic and difficult to understand, many claim his precision approached 90 percent. He, too, foresaw major specific changes occurring to our earth at the end of the 20th century.
Did Cayce and Nostradamus foresee the end of the world as we know it?
Diverse cultures and religions throughout the world have stories, beliefs and legends that speak of a new phase or next step in the evolution of earth. While some warn of the end of the world specifically, others suggest a new dawn. The consensus is that there will definitely be a change!
All these narratives predicting mass destruction can be classified as part of the negative scenario. The remaining accounts, those which suggest the world will survive with higher consciousness and karmic advancement, can be categorized as the more positive alternative.
Well, there is a strong rumor going around that the positive plan has recently been put into effect!
Thanks to the efforts of the guardian angels and enlightened souls residing on or near our planet, it now appears that the less optimistic plan will not unfold as previously predicted.
The spiritual hierarchy, known by many names, such as masters, sages, gurus, avatars, ancient ones, white brotherhood and so forth, are reported to have recently confirmed that if the Earth remains on its present course, the collective consciousness on the planet will bring humanity to a higher or increased vibration. Groups such as the 144,000, who recently acted as one in the activation of the 11:11, may have been truly successful in raising the planetary vibrations enough to allow humankind time to get their act together.
After all, what goes around comes around, and there seems to be some new stuff going around!
This modern spiritual thought suggests that as our planet's inhabitants begin their ascension from a lower vibration of illusion and limited thought to a higher vibration, they will start to experience reality for what it really is.
To aid us in this process, information and wisdom which have remained sequestered in secret societies for centuries have recently been released to the public at large. For example, diverse Native American tribes and cultures have begun publicly sharing their ancient knowledge of the world. The mystery schools are taking in new students. There are those who contend that the intelligence directing unidentified flying objects ( UFOs, which many cultures believe do exist) may be preparing us for these changes. There are even some who maintain that there arc spiritual light beings or ancient Lemurians living underground in places, such as Mt. Shasta, California, who are now beginning to surface and share their knowledge.
Supporting this idea that we are entering a lime of change are some theorists who claim that time has "speeded up." They suggest that if you could somehow transport a timepiece from the past, say 1940, and compare it with a present day clock, the current chronometer would move more quickly-additional support for Einstein's theory suggesting time is relative to the observer. Not only is present time evolving, but the measurement of what we know as time may be literally changing.
So... poised on a Hawaiian cliff, surrounded by the crashing sound of the waterfall, I was reflecting in the briefest of moments on the various life-altering changes that had brought me to this place and time.
I wondered if this were a test of some kind... A step into a new reality or higher awareness.
I was certainly not striving to prove my manhood like native boys do, who leap from the tops of high trees with a single vine or "bungi" cord tied around their ankles. I was not reacting to a dare or to pressure from a male friend. Nor was I hearing a voice from the heavens, as depicted in the Biblical story of Abraham, who was required to test his faith with the life of his young son.
Instead, I sensed on a deep inner level that I was about to let go of old ways that I needed to discard. I was about to open a new door, cross a threshold and change my reality. Fairly certain now that I was going to jump, I had to trust that there was a new threshold to cross and that I was about to cross it.
The next thing I knew, I had stepped out into the air...
CHAPTER 4
The Beginning
To fully understand what followed that leap, I must return to the beginning of my tale. The process, the path of getting to that moment at the waterfall, is a significant aspect. The path is the journey; to understand the journey, one must understand the path...
ONCE UPON A TIME...
(Because this portion of my tale begins with "Once upon a time," this doesn't mean it's not a true story;it is. Although most books that begin in this fashion are fictional, they are written for the express purpose of illustrating lessons and revealing hidden meanings contained therein, and this book most definitely meets those criteria)
Once upon a time I was born... and my experience of my universe began.
My earliest remembered formal training in this new earth-environment occurred during my formative preschool years. During this time I acquired many of life's useful skills, such as stacking blocks-early construction techniques that were to serve me well in my chosen profession in later years, and hide-and-seek-dealing with peer group, win-at-all-cost competitiveness.
As my reality-preparedness education advanced, I moved on to grammar school, where I ear ned some highly notable achievements. These included being appointed blackboard monitor for two weeks in a row, being the first in my class to memorize my seven-times multiplication tables and, on a dare, kissing a real cutie named Ann without getting punched!
In seventh grade, I even achieved the near impossiblegoing steady for 32 days straight without my parents finding out!
Anyway... having mastered all the mandatory requirements and skills necessary at this level, I entered high school. There I did all the very insecure things one does during that time of one's life; then I ventured off to college, got married and began my grown-up life!
By the time I reached age 35, I was cruising through life with the statistically average family:a wife, a son, a daughter, a dog, two cats, a mortgage and the appropriate number of credit card payments. I had become a very successful general contractor in a third-generation family business, and I resided comfortably in a quiet suburban community in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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