The Love and Empowerment Foundation Newsletter

[Sowelu]

The Love and Empowerment Foundation Newsletter

August, 2005



Under the auspices of the Archangel Metatron

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The New Paradigm

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I am sure that each and every one of you has felt the intense energetic shifting of the recent weeks in some way. I, myself, have spent the last weeks undergoing the most intense transformation of my entire path. Although I am a bit more grounded and focused in present time now, the transformation goes on. These past weeks have been a crucially important time in our planetary ascension, with the key cosmic configurations coupled with changes in the mass consciousness.

The reality shift is well under way and the time of magic and miracles is upon us. It has never been more important to be aware of one's choices. Many of us are still choosing by default, because we have not yet realized that we have choices to make, for love or fear, in each moment of our lives. The default choice will likely be one of fear, but only the conscious choice for love will bring the miracles.

Our power of conscious choice IS our personal power and our only effective tool. We are the initiators of a major paradigm shift in the planetary consciousness of Earth. It has been the way of humans for many millennia to seek power outside of self, to seek God outside of self, to believe that humans need an intermediary, master, guru or savior in order to connect with God. This is the paradigm that we are about changing.

In the Age of Aquarius, each human is to come to the circle as an incarnate master and to make a unique contribution to the whole. The Age of Aquarius is the age of personal power within and oneness with All-that-Is. The belief that one needs a master or savior to spiritually advance and connect with God is one that is rooted in fear. It belongs to the previous rungs on the ladder of human evolution. It falls to us, the Servants of the Light, to change this old paradigm by enacting the new one.

I still see so many of us looking to place power outside of ourselves, looking for the "fix" from the person with the right cosmic credentials. A few days ago, I found myself receiving emails from a glossy, slick new age marketing email list. I didn't subscribe to this mailing list, because I know now that I do not require anything outside of myself. I know that nothing happens without a reason, though. I allowed the emails to come, two or three times a day, for a few days, perusing the offerings.

I was aghast at the number of obviously questionable services being offered for substantial prices. How do I know what is questionable and what is not? I can feel the energy resonance through the advertisement. Not everyone who advertises in new age marketing emails, magazines or websites is questionable, of course. As I received the emails from this marketing list, though, I was again made aware of the number of "snake-oil salesmen" within our ranks, people who are capitalizing on our evolving planetary consciousness.

As I always say, let people do as they do. The only thing that matters is what "you" choose. Your choices in this now moment will determine the nature of your own future unfoldment. Our present planetary consciousness, of which we all are a part, supports capitalism and seizing the opportunity to make money in whatever way possible. We all have a part in creating that consciousness.

There are those who will apply that to spirituality and the ever expanding self-improvement industry as well. The search for meaning in spirituality and metaphysics is a part of our times and evolution. In these rapidly shifting planetary energies, we have a mixing of the paradigms, old and new. People are called by their higher intuition and even their DNA to seek, to expand, to become more. Yet, the human conditioning to seek power outside of itself is still very much at play.

I still see so many people looking for a leader, looking for someone to tell them what to believe, what to do to assure their personal ascension. I see people trying one "fix" after another, another guru, another master, another ascension method. People are trying to carry the belief systems of the previous age into the new age and it won't work.

It seems timely now for me once again to remind everyone that "the power lies within". You already have all that you require in order to ascend. The key lies within your own thoughts and emotions, and your choice to take back your power over them. Emotions are "frequency" and what you are feeling determines your frequency alignment here on Earth. In truth, no one can fix you but "you". Yes, there are times when seeking a product or service from someone else can accelerate the process, be very beneficial.

When we are seeking assistance with our path, we are also being given opportunities to choose/initiate the new paradigm by not giving over our personal power to those who provide the service. We implement the new paradigm by learning to trust our feelings and intuitions, taking what is needed, leaving the rest and not being attached to a particular belief system or way of doing things. In this new age, no one has "all the answers" or "better answers". The only answers are within. We are each led to that which will serve us best.

With the key cosmic alignments and energy shifting of this Summer, the doors to higher states of consciousness are open as never before. We still must bypass the auto-programming of the old paradigm and consciously choose to take back our power in order to transcend duality and fear. We must practice "living" the new paradigm in order for it to take effect. This is not necessarily a long and hard undertaking.

I encourage everyone to back off from looking at the very large picture, from the machinations of the mind trying to contemplate "how it all is going to work". If you avoid expectations, you will not experience disappointments. When you focus on staying in "now" and just taking back the power of choice over the immediate things at hand, an accelerated momentum will be created. One choice for love over fear leads to another, and another. The higher intuition comes back on line and the wellspring of Divinity within springs forth. With each choice for love that each person makes, our evolution is accelerated and our planetary consciousness changed.

NO ONE has any state of enlightenment, any method, any information that is not available to you, should you seek it. This is the age of the Collective Messiah, of many masters. Each one of you reading this is one of those masters. The gift of our times is that it is no longer necessary to spend a lifetime in austerity behind cloistered walls to attain enlightenment. You no longer "need" a master to become a master. All that you need to do in order to take up that mantle of the master is to take back the power of choice - one now moment at a time. The best time to start is right "now".

-rw


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[penndragon]

I've always felt this, I just never knew quite how to say it. (without offending those who believe differently) Thanks for the validation.

[liza]

I like it, too. I'll copy this to the hubby in email.

[liza]

I may have needed a sort of intermediary in the past, but I find that I have less and less use for that as I am finding out more about my connection to "god/goddess" or the great source, and along the way - I can choose to communicate with entities. I'm not always certain of what I "channel" so it's always nice to consider other sources as a form of confirmation.

As for those selling services in the new age market, it is not much different from those who are selling vegetables to those who choose to not grow vegetables at the time. It's always nice if the practice is within integrity. Totally a bonus. Because of this, I respect Nicole, Annarita, Mir-RA and those (other new age shop owners/writers?) that I feel to be within their business/personal integrity.

[annarita]

This is definitely a topic that concerns me greatly. I resonate with the writer of this piece and AA Metatron has been cropping up all over the place for me.

Living and working in Sedona, I see a lot of local people here taking advantage of Newbies and others who seek guidance and or inspiration. Over 6 million people a year come to Sedona, AZ and I personally encounter quite a few visitors who just want to be spoon fed and they bargain with the counselors in their integrity I know who do spiritual guidance or 'readings' asking for a discount or half price or even free, etc.

I personally tell people (visitors) when they ask me if I'm 'psychic' that we are all 'psychic'. Some people get upset at that. They want to be told what to do. When I encourage them to use their own intuition, some of them end up going down the road to one of the New Age stores and get ripped off for hundreds of dollars for a reading.

I did a workshop this weekend at the Sedona Teen Center and had a blast with the 9 15 year olds that came to learn about aromatherapy and flower essences. I told them to stand in their own power, keep their shields up, trust their intuition and question authority. Good thing their parents weren't around. The energy these beautiful youing beings generated was so powerful it was palpable!

Yes, I am all about promoting empowerment, yet I see that the quest for the almighty dollar is quite rampant here and preying on the desperate seekers is going on to the nth degree.

[Nicole]

I have actually turned people down for services before when I needed the money so that I could be in integrity with them. I'm sure AnnaRita has too - just guessing knowing we feel the same.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Liza! Back at ya!

[Edward]

This resonates big time, I have always loved the messages from Metatron.


Peace, Love and Enlightenment,

Ed

[AgeA]

Metatron's messages are the only one I trust and read at this point. They always right to the point and useful unlike others so called 'new age' channelings. I miss Monikah too everything she said was so inspiring to me. I wish she would came back someday to this forum.

[Indigofruitloop]

Thanks for posting this, I fully resonated with what AA Metatron was saying about all we need comes from within, that no one being can give to us our personal mastery, we have to choose to be it, become it etc and no one being as dear friend of mine always says has the monoploy on the "truth"...we are all pieces of a grand cosmic jigsaw puzzle where each being carries their truth, their knowlege, their beingness which contributes the the whole, the one of which we are all an aspect of...indeed stand firm in your power and be mindful of not giving it away to one you think or believe holds all the answers....this was also a validation for me in what i've been telling others recently, that one's inner being contains all the answers and no psychic master guru or set of tarot cards can over ride this....last Wednesday my sister asked me to give her a gypsy card reading over the phone....she asked the question in her mind and i shuffled and dealt the cards but it wasn't the answer she was looking for....before i even asked what her question was i said to her spirit will only ever tell you what you need to know not what you think you want to know....also spirit guides are here to assist and guide us, not make our choices for us as it interferes with our free will and totally contradicts what we are here for in the first place....she told me her question and i continued to explain that she got her answer that she already knew it before asking the cards...still she wasn't happy with this and by this time we were chatting on msn messenger so i in exasperation grabbed the cards and shuffled them again asking out loud the question my sister had specifically asked which was basically to do with work, should she stay or should she go...well i've never done a reading like this where one by one as i shuffled and repeated the question until all the cards were dealt, one by one they literally flew out of the pack onto my computer desk in front of me, and the message well, it certainly wasn't what she wanted to hear but indeed there was a message in there for her that pretty much put the power back into her own hands and reinforced what i had tried to tell her.....it's true some, especially when they are new to this, want to be told what to do, beleive a psychic reading or some kind of guru or self appointed master will give them all the answers when in fact if they took the time to listen they would find all the answers they need within....noone knows what's best for you other than you.....nad certainly doesn't have to break the bank balance in order to attain spiritual knowlege or enlightenment...one could spend $100000 to be intiated into a master level this or that but no matter how much money you spend it will not enlighten you in the way you think that it would...there is not short cut or indeed clear cut journey, it is the journey not the destination that is important, so reamining unattached to any particlar outcome as mentioned by metatron will indeed serve us well at this time...