| There are many souls who are opening now to a | | | | emotional filtering and a skewed view of others. When |
| deeper level of knowing and perceiving than generally | | | | insight occurs, this generally takes the form of seeing |
| occurs through the physical senses. Sometimes this | | | | one's own motivations and attitudes more clearly as |
| knowing comes in the form of internal messages of a | | | | well as seeing the other more clearly, and so there are |
| verbal kind. Sometimes it comes in the form of | | | | greater opportunities now, in the presence of |
| wordless insights about others, about oneself, about | | | | increased light, for the healing of relationships to take |
| the future, or about any other meta-perception that | | | | place. Another area in which illuminated insight can |
| exceeds ordinary knowledge. These insights are | | | | have a healing effect is in the area of intuiting things |
| occurring in an accelerated way, now, due to the | | | | about the future. One can have an inner perception of |
| presence of greater light on the earth. This light, | | | | what is to come based entirely on an inner knowing, |
| absorbed by both body and consciousness, advances | | | | because the soul can communicate such knowledge |
| the state of spiritual knowing and understanding, | | | | to the conscious mind which may carry it with varying |
| producing a wealth of new experiences depending | | | | degrees of confidence. Though the future cannot be |
| upon what a soul is open to. In the face of these | | | | fully known because it is in a continual process of |
| greater openings, doubt can also arise concerning the | | | | unfoldment, there are many primary currents related to |
| validity of the new, and especially in the beginning, a | | | | planetary transformation which remain stable and can |
| fear of taking them seriously or of being wrong about | | | | be seen, felt, and sensed, based on the increased |
| them can occur. For some, there may also be a fear | | | | infusion of soul-knowledge into the personal self. Such |
| of knowing more or sensing more because of | | | | soul-knowledge is always positive, because the outlook |
| previous feelings of not trusting the self or of feeling | | | | for the future that is transmitted from the soul does |
| the self to be unworthy. All doubt arises from an | | | | not contain fear but only hope, and because God's |
| absence of light of sufficient strength to create clarity | | | | plan for the earth is one of great promise and of the |
| and a sureness about what one is feeling and sensing. | | | | fulfillment of promises made in the beginning. However, |
| In the presence of light and while immersed in it, doubt | | | | where fearful elements are added to this perception, it |
| is replaced by clear-thinking and clear-seeing and at | | | | is generally because the personal or smaller self is |
| least for the moment, it becomes possible to know | | | | viewing the original intuitive perception from its own |
| what is true and what is not true. Yet for many, the | | | | standpoint of observation, and is feeling unready to |
| experience of clarity is not constant, and so when the | | | | meet the future portrayed, or afraid of the changes |
| moment of greater clarity passes, the self returns to | | | | that lie ahead. The capacity for increased insight, today, |
| lower level personality concerns and starts worrying | | | | occurs because of the accelerated movement |
| again that its perceptions and intuitions are not real. | | | | between dimensions of consciousness. This brings |
| Stabilizing light in one's body and consciousness is of | | | | knowings of the higher self or soul into the sphere of |
| great importance when one is beset by doubt, since | | | | conscious mental activity in increasing amounts. This |
| the constancy and continuity of a vibrational | | | | phenomenon, a gift of the time we are in, asks of |
| atmosphere in which one lives, breathes, and conducts | | | | those who are experiencing intuitive openings to seek |
| all the activities of the day, seals out the forces | | | | an inner way of validating and becoming comfortable |
| creating doubt and allows the vibration of the mental | | | | with these through stabilizing one's awareness in the |
| and emotional bodies to remain relatively constant. | | | | higher vibrations of light. In this way the higher elements |
| While all doubt will only be removed when a sufficiently | | | | of knowledge and intuition will continue to have clear |
| high vibration of light enters the picture, lower levels of | | | | access to the conscious self, and the conscious self |
| doubt can be eliminated even now, and the psyche | | | | will gain a greater measure of certainty about its new |
| can become significantly less troubled by concerns of | | | | perceptions and insights. |
| being wrong or misguided. The problem of learning to | | | | Julie Redstone is a teacher, writer, and founder of Light |
| see clearly applies not only to the phenomenon of | | | | Omega, a center for spiritual teaching and healing |
| developing extraordinary or intuitive perception, but also | | | | whose purpose is to create an understanding of the |
| to the phenomenon of seeing oneself clearly and | | | | sacred transition into light that the earth is presently |
| others clearly. Here, too, perception has often been | | | | going through. |
| governed by personality factors that have created | | | | |