Where Angels Fear to Tread?

I’m posting this channelling here today as I have often found it very helpful and reassuring. It is as current today as it was back in 2011

Archangel Ariel, through Isaac George

Oct 1st, 2011

“Greetings, Ariel here…

Behold the times you are in, and marvel at your experience. You are processing so much experience, that you can barely contain it all. That which you call ‘overwhelm’, ‘excitement’ or even ‘fear’ is the awareness that everything is indeed melting, shifting and boiling to a level of intensity that is more powerful than you have ever imagined. It’s all uphill from here! What we mean by that is not to imply more work, more effort. It is to indicate that there are even more intense phases of experience to move through and live. How one embraces this intensity, and what it means for all who have ears to hear, is the purpose of our discourse.

As we view the events unfolding upon your world now, it is important that you know that our knowing is that all is well. As we indicated over two years ago, the advent of the age of Uranus in Aries would precipitate greater awakening, and a greater demand for truth, justice and freedom. The pressure was building all of that time and burst forth at the beginning of 2011. Human beings desire to know more, feel more, explore more, and above all, to find a level of meaning and purpose beyond mere survival, or mere consumerism. Spirit is not calling to its own to search for deeper spirituality and love, but to FIND the truth of that within one’s own heart, and in the hearts of all your brothers and sisters. The collective kundalini awakening is underway, and all that is not in alignment with Spirit is now subject to the fires of purification. Expressed in other traditions, the Lover seeks cosmic union with the Beloved, Shakti with Shiva, Innana and Dumuzi, Yeshua and Magdalene. The dance of opposites is now the melting of opposites. The time of being the pilgrim or disciple is coming to an end, as is the time of the guru or spiritual authority. The seeker becomes the finder. The pearl of great price is laid out before you, if you will accept it with Grace.

This pearl is the pearl of your own consciousness, and that is no different from your ideal or image of ‘God’ or Spirit. You are the accurate pinpoint of Spirit-potential in physicality. Your task is to realize (real eyes) that you are who you have always been – Life and Love incarnate. Freedom is not just an abstract attitude; it is a direct state of being that demands complete obedience, obedience to the truth within. We may construe the word ‘obedience’ with slavishness, but in this statement we are implying devotion and loyalty to your Sovereignty and to Spirit.

That truth is the pearl of great price. When you let go of your spiritual impatience and your ambition, the pearl in you becomes visible to those “who hunger and thirst after righteousness.” They see what it is they have been starved of, and seek to sit with you, to absorb the essence of the pearl within. This is a necessary step to understanding the mystery of entrainment, a phase that is a requirement of experience that awakens within the one seeking, so that they recognize the fountain of truth is also within themselves. Don’t cast your pearls before swine, which is to say, do not try to convince others of your sanctity or truth by argument or demonstration. Instead, radiate acceptance without regard of whether you are worthy enough, or whether there is enough to give. If you place limits on Spirit, you may feel drained and resent those who are still seeking.

If you’re wondering how to locate this pearl, it is not difficult. It is a simple truth when you honestly look at the most basic of human needs. That need is love. To feel it, to know it, to be it is the strongest of the desires in your heart. In reality, it is the only desire and Reality. When one encounters this love, separation dissolves, problems shrink in importance, and the troubles of the world begin to fade into the background. This Love is all loves, of all types. In actuality, there is only one Love, or Love, and all expressions of it are merely the dance of Love seeking to know itself, and through the activity of Love each soul can discover the stillness in the centre of Love. This is the place all strive towards, because it is the experience of endless peace. The activity is part of the dance, and as such is just as important is the still-point of Love. The activity is you seeking, and that seeking is to be close to that which Love is close to: the Mystery of Being. We are really describing the nature of God, and She is waiting to be experienced directly and personally by you. Even your ego participates in this pearl of great price, this endless Love and the Mystery that enfolds it, enfolds you, and enfolds all of Existence.

When you allow for the fact that everything is essential in existence because of Love, then you begin to realize that your judgments about the various faces of love are distortions exaggerated by the unhealed parts of the ego-mind. We tell you that the ego is also a creation of Love, but you have lost the memory of its original design and function, and so it has gotten into mischief. Whereas before the ego was only for understanding and coping with a physical body and physical worlds, through many errors and traumas the ego became dominant in the experience of interpreting Life and the nature of existence. You, as Consciousness, became so fascinated with your ‘self’ and your projections, that the descent or ‘fall’ into matter was inevitable. You identified with images and things and forgot that which you are. Here is wisdom: the ego is indeed flawed, but completely worthy of Love. When you need the attention of others, it is your soul AND your ego that are yearning for connection, attention, and Love. When you desire to give attention to others, it also nourishes your soul and your ego. The soul absorbs Love, because that is what it is. The ego absorbs love, but since it has taken on a separate persona, it feels it must compete for, or control the love it receives, or gives. There is a perception of ‘not enough’, which is part of the three Cosmic Falsehoods: You are a mistake (because you are an individual Self- kicked out of Heaven, whatever), you are not enough (you wouldn’t be in this predicament if you had been more worthy, good, perfect!), and there isn’t enough (love, life, abundance, etc.). These lies were crafted a long, long time ago to enslave and imprison human potential. The story of how survives in many fragments, but it is not our focus here.

So, you crave attention, and sometimes the results of the efforts to attract that are less than satisfactory. You desire to feel noticed, loved, appreciated, praised, lauded, welcomed, pampered, and generally adored. When was the last time you did any of those things for you? When was the last time (or first time!) that you gave up your control and felt the abiding presence of Love fill you up and enfold you? You cannot give what you do not recognize in yourself. Instead, you keep taking yourself to workshops and gurus in the hope you’ll be noticed, or in the hope that something or someone outside of you will bring you a bit closer to the Mystery. What usually happens when you finally do surrender a bit to that sense of abiding Love is that all that you have longed for outside of you shows up at your front door and knocks. You are not in control of the timing or the manner in which you are invited to join the dance. You are only offered the opportunity to be swept off of your feet. What you do with that is entirely up to you.

There are many ways that Love knocks on the door of your heart. Falling in love happens so that you can be in Love. It is only when you start to worry about whether this person, place, situation or thing will continue to want to be with you that the Love begins to withdraw (2nd Cosmic Falsehood). The Mystery will not hang around if you begin to build walls and rules around it. Your history of self-betrayal and pain pokes its head out of the pit in your heart and warns you about all types of misery that will come if you don’t fight to hang on to what you’ve found. This activity is part of casting the pearl of Love before swine…in this case the images of pain and fear that you have yet to exorcise from your ego/subconscious. Love has no agenda, has no need for you to be or do anything than to be yourself. The ego has no trust of this…its memory is too vivid. As the projections begin to overpower the original untainted love, then all your worst fears begin to manifest. Your Beloved is tainted, flawed, and the poison of mistrust begins to spread. You all know how this ends. There are too many poems and songs about unrequited or betrayed love to count. However, this potential loss is usually the opportunity that your soul has created to expand your ego’s capacity to understand a greater love, and love without conditions. Through pain, suffering and loss, the ego may reassert its defences and rebuild its walls, only higher this time. This continues until the pain is so great, that the surrender that follows is sufficient to heal both ego and soul.

Finding the pearl is the only real path of your being, your life; more important than stars, planets or galaxies. They will pass away. You will never pass away. Have you tried prayer lately? Have you had a conversation with Goddess recently? Ascension requires a descension – a letting go of what you think you know…about everything. When you look at your life, or the world, you can easily see that it is all calling for attention, calling for Love. We gently suggest that you allow yourself to release from your current experience all resistance to Love. Sometimes, this means deliberately pruning excess baggage from your journey. Lighten your load, and you will become lighter.
Whether they be old beliefs, emotions, grudges, people, memories or material acquisitions, let them go. Then, you can give your fullest attention to those people and situations you feel magnetized to. You need them, and they need you. Too many feel that ‘need’ is a weakness, a fatal flaw. Need points to something essential however, and the only error is the ego’s attempt to create addictions based on one of the three Cosmic Falsehoods that have been so deeply ingrained. You know better. You know you cannot possess the Mystery. You know that you really don’t own anyone or anything, not even your body is yours. But, like a puppet on a string, you find yourself compelled to act against your own heart. This is a time, right in this moment, to choose differently. Choose to find the pearl now.

Instead of using words, fancy rituals, or invocations, we recommend images. If you have difficulty in forming images, then you might sketch or draw something that represents Love first. Remember a first falling in love experience, or perhaps you had a very close friend or relative you absolutely adored. Perhaps a pet that is with you will provide the spark, or maybe it is a sacred place or spiritual experience that will work the best. Whatever it is, bring it fully into your mind’s eye and fill your heart with the memory or feeling that you cherish about it. While tuning into the image, try to just shift the focus from the first image or feeling to yourself. Include your body, mind and ego in the image. If any mind chatter gets in the way, just breathe slowly and deeply and gently guide your attention back to your image. Now, you can ask that God, or Jesus, or Brahma, or whatever name you choose, come to you and embrace you. Imagine that you are opening your front door, and welcoming He or She in, and then open your arms to embrace and be embraced. Whatever you experience at this point is perfect for you. Do not wonder what others might experience. Your encounter, your communion is happening in a unique way for you. Forget about what you expect to happen, and something will happen! We suggest you work with this a few times a day or week and deepen the discourse. Cultivating this relationship will take a little time, but it is the most rewarding of spiritual disciplines, for in it you will discover that there is no God or Goddess that is independent from you. You will know that you are home again, and there is no other truth than that. Point of view becomes obsolete in the absolute.

Many paths look to negate the ego, or even to negate the possibility of a ‘personal’ relationship with the Divine in you. It’s all heady stuff about non-dualism and dropping illusions, and so forth. The other paths may recommend renunciation, or celibacy, or ‘creating your own reality’, but there is no greater path than the path of Love. Too many philosophies contain mental noise and denial of the truth of a Conscious, Living, Loving Creator. These constructs will not satisfy like the embrace of the Beloved will. When the Beloved is awake in you, your attention on another will be like a healing balm, and your physical touch will also excite their consciousness into remembrance. This energy is not of your volition but is the radiance of the Mystery broadcasting outwards to all. Some will respond in kind and welcome you. Some will feel the Mystery as a threat to their crystallized ego pain and defences and will withdraw from you. Some may actually attack you out of the fear that is so entrenched in them. Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Release your roles and stop your seeking. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are hungry, eat. If you are lonely, ask for comfort. If you are afraid and anxious, pray. You are not alone. You are not unworthy. You are not lacking anything. The pearl is in you and is you. Nothing is more precious than this…that the Love that gave birth to you is your true nature. That is sufficient unto itself, and we give our blessing.”