Are You Ready?

The Ascension Series
"Are You Ready?"
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM METATRON

Presented at the Crimson Circle
April 7, 2002

TOBIAS: And so it is, dear friends, that we gather with you on this very special day in an energy of the "now." It involves all of you humans… people who are here in this direct space, and all of the others who are now able to tap into this energy (on the Internet). And everyone who will read this at a later date. They, too, are sitting here in this moment in the "now." From all across the world Shaumbra gathers. You do not need to all be in the same physical space or time to be in the same "now." You do not need to be in the same room, because you ARE all in the same space.

Those of us on this side, especially those of us who have not been in human form in a while, love the energy of human technology. There are humans who think technology is not such a good thing. But dear ones, dear ones, technology is the RESULT of consciousness. Technology can never be greater than the consciousness of humankind. Technology follows your consciousness. So, when these tools such as this Internet come into being, there might be those who say, "This is not a good thing. This could be used for dark or for evil." But dear friends, it comes in as a result of your consciousness, so therefore, honor it.

We will talk much of consciousness on this day. We will call this "the day of consciousness," the changing consciousness of you and of Earth. A special day it is indeed, for typically gathered here with Shaumbra at this time, we would have a lesson. We would go through a specific understanding with you.

But it is that Metatron asked if instead he could deliver an energy, wrapped in a message given in words, to Shaumbra all over the world. The message and the energy behind it are timeless, but so appropriate to the moment that you are in now.

Now, we see here that you have a new physical space that you are in (referring to the new Crimson Circle meeting location). We see that you keep moving to bigger and bigger spaces! (audience laughter) It makes no difference to us the type of walls that are around you in physical form, for it is the energy that collects here.

Perhaps you can feel the changes, the building up of energy, and the bringing together of all energies. There is, in a sense, a ball of energy that has been created by you, the humans here in the "now." It is a ball of energy that glows from the center point of this space. It has been created by you.

And its energies of love and consciousness expand through your physical bodies, through your Internet. This ball of consciousness that you have created in this new space expands even through the walls of this place, into Earth, and through your omniverse. We can feel it from our side of the veil. Can you feel it in the very space you have created here? Can you your collective consciousness in your being through the Language of Ah?

Take a moment now, dear ones, to breathe in the energies of Shaumbra, of the Crimson Council, of Metatron, and of Home. Breathe these deeply through your being. This simple breath is what brings it and anchors it into your "now." This simple breath ignites the divine that is growing within you. So, breathe in now, deeply, dear ones. Breathe this in. Know that you are in a place here that is family. Know you are in a place that is filled with love, but a new type of love.

There are times when we sit here and just admire you. Oh, we look out at you. We love to just – as you would call it – stare at you, gaze at you in amazement and in wonder.

There is one who sits here today, on our side of the veil who is looking at you now. She was with you a month ago on your side. She is looking now, this dear one you called Mira (Mira Stanley, coordinator for the Shaumbra Prison Program, who crossed over on April 1, 2002). She is here with us indeed and with you, but she is looking now from our side. She is seeing something that she had never seen before when she was walking as a human in this lifetime. Amazed, she is, so amazed!

She says, "Now I know why I chose to be a human. Perhaps I will go back into human form a little sooner than I thought." She is shaking her head, saying, "My, I said I would never go back, but now I see the reason to be on Earth as a human. I see the reason when I look at a group of humans and see the love that is blossoming. It is like watching flowers in the spring, the most beautiful time to gaze upon flowers, when they are growing and budding, and when the first petals start to unfold, and the first fragrances start to come forth."

This is what we see also. This is what Mira sees. This is why we honor you all so much. We are sending you many messages right now, each appropriate to you individually, but we are sharing these with you on the other levels. You can sense what we are delivering to each of you individually through this Language of Ah. We talk to you in many voices, in many ways. It is not just through the words of Cauldre (Geoffrey Hoppe) that we speak to you. But especially on days like this with the energies as intense as they are, we talk to you in many ways.

Now, let us speak for a moment of the New Understanding of Love, which we talked of in our last gathering together (Lesson Eight). Dear friends, there is a New Energy that is blossoming, and it is coming up within you. And in this is a new physics of love, a new balance of energy.

In the past you knew love as a mirror. You learned of love through the mirror. You learned of it by playing this game of duality – light and dark, good and bad. That is how your consciousness grew. Yes, and there were times when you found another who you loved so much. But in a sense, they were a mirror to you, that mate or spouse, that family member, that dear friend.

You came to understand love by looking in the mirror, by going through the steps of duality. That is why so often love in the end seemed incomplete. That is why you kept on searching for love, even after finding your soulmate. Your search continued, even after finding a family and coming to them in a lifetime and knowing love. Your search continued, for dear friends, it was only a mirror.

In the new understanding of love the elements of duality come together in a dance. In the new understanding of love there is no mirror anymore from you to the outside, or from you to yourself. In the new understanding of love, there is a marriage that takes place. And it is within you. It is all of those elements that are you. It is the light and the dark joining together as a new type of illumination. It is not light like what you have thought of before. And it is not the void of darkness. It is a new illumination.

In the new understanding of love, there is a marriage of the elements. These elements have always been there. In a sense, they were opposing each other, bumping into each other. This action transformed energy from one state to another. But it was not new energy. It was only the transformation of existing energy.

In the new understanding of love that is coming into you, there is something new being created. It is no longer simply a transformation of energy from one form of consciousness to the other. The new understanding of love IS New Energy.

We WILL talk more about that, and we WILL have several more lessons after this for a total of eleven in this Ascension Series.

Dear friends, there is a new understanding of love, and you do not need to try to capture it in your brain. You do not need to try to create it or pull it from the depths from within you. It is blossoming like a spring flower.

Now, let us talk for a moment about consciousness. Consciousness is a key word right now in what you are going through, and what Earth is going through.

Consciousness is the wisdom of your past experiences, and the potential of the future, brought together and expressed in the "now."

Consciousness, dear ones, the wisdom of your past. It is the enlightenments that you have come to through the very experiences of duality that you have gone through. It is the wisdom of the past. It is knowing, dear ones, what it was like to be in duality; to experience battles and love; to experience abundance and lack; to experience a fulfilling relationship… and to be alone. These are all experiences, and they created a wisdom within you.

Oh, indeed there are scars from some of these experiences, but the scars are only illusions. The wounds are only a perception that can change, that can be released. When the scars and the wounds have healed and are gone, what is left is wisdom. Pure, unadulterated wisdom within your soul. This is part of consciousness.

Consciousness is also the potential of what lies ahead, based on where you have come from. You have created many potential scenarios for where you will go. In a sense, you could say that you transcend time, that you investigate the potential of the future. But you do not experience it. For those who are wondering – for those who think that the future has already been created – it has not. You can only view the potentials, but you cannot experience the future until you are in the "now."

Consciousness is when you bring together the wisdom of the past with the potentials of the future into the "now" and express it. That is consciousness. And consciousness right now is changing rapidly within you and on the face of this Earth. Very, very rapidly.

Dear ones, there are those of you who have wanted to know your own power, your own God-self. Some of you have sat quietly, and you put a stone or perhaps another object on the table in front of you. You tried to move it with your thoughts and with your power, didn’t you? You tried to make physical objects suspend in midair. You have tried to blow out candles without your breath, but through your mind. You have tried to move that stone on the table by willing it to be so, by willing it to move. And it did not!

When you weren’t able to move the stone with your mind, you became confused and frustrated and did not think that you were powerful. You did not think that you had gotten the formula of God right yet. But dear ones, you were not looking at it correctly. You were trying to exert a power that was not real power.

Real power occurs when you change your consciousness. Sit in front of the rock now. Your new consciousness changes the consciousness of the rock. Your new consciousness does not take any form of exertion, or willing, or strength, or pushing. It is simply a consciousness shift. The rock moves in direct response to your new consciousness.

That is how you move a rock without touching it, without willing it, or without trying to psyche it out. Change your consciousness, and the consciousness of the rock changes. Then, you will understand how to move it without touching it. Oh, and it will take no real effort on your part!

But Tobias, you say, "How do I change my consciousness?" It is quite simple. You have just been looking in the wrong places. You have been trying to make it so difficult. How do you change your consciousness? You simply release your old consciousness. That is all. When you release the consciousness of yesterday, it opens the way for your new consciousness to come in.

It is always changing, and you will continue to go through releases and releases. The energy only gets stuck and only becomes painful to you physically, mentally, emotionally when you hold on. Release the concepts that might have been true yesterday, or the day before. Release the energy of old experiences. Release the traumas of the past, and those pains and sufferings of the past.

What we are saying to you is, "Release fully." We have been saying this over and over to you. That is why we have said, "Release the crystals. Release the old books." Ah, their consciousness gave you wisdom, but it is time to release. It is time to take your grip off of those things, for they hold no power now.

The power is within. The wisdom that you gained is within. The wisdom was not in words that were in a book. It was the energy behind it. The wisdom was not in the crystal. It is what you learned about yourself in the mirror of the crystal.

You change your consciousness. You allow it to soar to new heights by releasing the Old. Releasing. Releasing… a rather challenging and difficult thing it is for humans, I know. I, Tobias, walked in sandals at one time. Releasing is difficult. There is a fear that comes from the elements of duality that makes it difficult to release until something new is there to take its place.

But the New Energy does not work like that. It is releasing today in the "now," in the moment. And immediately a new consciousness will come forth, a consciousness that is the meld of the wisdom of the past and the potential of the future.

Dear ones, consciousness is changing rapidly within you and within Earth at this time. It is changing very, very rapidly. So much so that there is – how to say –"concern" on our side. There is no fear in this word. There is no fear on our side, but we see that you have done such an amazing job within yourself, changing your consciousness and releasing. We see that humanity as a whole has shifted consciousness to the point where everything is going so quickly, so fast right now. Even we were not anticipating this.

We have been watching – measuring, as you might say – watching your progress, knowing what you have been going through with your releasing. You have done such a wonderful job that it has created a very delicate balance.

Duality is shifting its consciousness into a New Energy. It is no longer of light and dark, no longer of good and bad. Duality is shifting its consciousness into a New Energy, what we have called the energy of "four." Four is a very stable energy, a balanced energy. With it will come new learnings and new understandings and indeed New Energy. But because of this rapid shift, we find that you are at a delicate point. Your Earth is at a very delicate point.

That is why Metatron has asked to address you today. He desires to deliver a message, but more important, he desires to deliver an energy to each of you.

Now, we will shift here in a moment. We have been preparing for this for several weeks. The energy of Metatron is very strong, very powerful. We will shift from Tobias talking to you through Cauldre to Metatron talking to you through Cauldre. The energies of each of you will become involved, as well as the energies of Cauldre, the energies of the Crimson Council, and I, Tobias, and indeed the energy of Metatron. Oh, it will be a chorus of energies that the message of Metatron rides upon!

(sensing Cauldre’s apprehension) And for you, Cauldre, we tell you to simply allow this flow. Simply allow this to be.

So, we ask now that each one of you gets comfortable in your seats. We ask you now to breathe in deeply. We will take a moment to adjust. Breathe in deeply and open yourself to a new consciousness.

(pause)

Metatron:

I Am Metatron, Your Voice in Spirit.

I am not used to talking directly to you. For those who know my past, you will understand that I have sent messengers to be with you. So, it is quite an honor for me to come in directly like this to join with Tobias, to join with you in this gathering. And in a sense, I am as nervous about this direct presentation to you as Cauldre might be, or you might be.

The energy of Earth is changing rapidly. The consciousness is moving swiftly. I come to you today, with the many others, to speak to you about what is going on within you and all around you. There will be many, many changes. There is the potential for changes that might be uncomfortable, unnerving. These changes may affect your body and certainly affect the Earth.

You are coming into a consciousness where you are able to hold in your divinity. You are coming to a time where the grids have been changed and altered in response to your growth. It is a time when the work of Kryon in changing the magnetic balances is coming to an end.

There is a delicate balance in this time of rapidly changing consciousness. There is a delicate balance. There is a delicate balance to these things, particularly between now and the end of your calendar year. But it is not limited to that. There will be residues of this rapid change even after the end of your calendar.

My dear ones, the winds will blow a changing energy over your Earth. The winds will carry sadness with them. For in any change there is sadness. And the sadness will be thick. It will be heavy. It will touch those the most who have opened themselves and held in their divinity. The winds are those of change, and the sadness is only temporary. The winds will help clear an Old Energy from the land and from the people upon it.

And the Earth herself will shake and tremble, for she has been holding in much energy. It will be time to release, time to let go. And when the trembling takes place, and it is even under your own foot, do not fear. Know that this is appropriate. Know that duality is simply trying to leave, and this is part of the process.

There will be those who claim God is sending a message. And it is true, in a way. But the message is not about sin. It is not about wrongdoing. The message is about appropriateness. You will hear these words of righteousness from others. They will attempt to tell you what you have done wrong. They will attempt to place the blame on you for not following their truth. When the trembling takes place, and you hear the shouting of other’s voices in your ears, understand that it is appropriate. Understand that it is a releasing that is taking place, much like the releasing that you have done.

And the fires shall come over your lands. And they shall scorch many places and drive many, many from their homes. And this also is appropriate. The fires help to release. The fires help to clear. The heat helps to transform. And when there are those who tell you and the others that it is nature's way of punishing for what has been done wrong in the past, know these words are not complete, and not in full truth. Know that the fires are appropriate. Know that these fires are simply transformational.

And the waters will come. They will come from the sea. They will come from the sky. And they will be grand. The waters will be more than what you have seen even in lifetimes of the past. The waters come to cleanse. The waters come to purify. And the waters come to put out the fire that is within the hearts of men and women. When the waters come, and those claim it is yet another sign from God, understand that it is appropriate. Understand that all of the elements that come now – the winds, and the earth, and the fire, and the water – are part of the transformation from duality. It is part of the final clearing and final releasing.

So, we come to you today, Shaumbra, to say to you that the delicate balance at this time of change is appropriate. Do not be shocked at what you read in your news. Do not be shocked or put down by the words of others who are trying to make it into something it is not. Do not be saddened, dear ones, when many humans choose to leave at this time. It is appropriate.

Most of the elementals – the devas and the ones from the magic kingdom – left in these past 12 or more years. They knew it was appropriate to leave the Earth. They left so you could own and accept the power of your own divinity. The elementals were holding in a balance. And they left.

There are many humans who have stayed on Earth to hold an energy. They have been holding onto an energy. And when they cross over, when they come to our side, do not be sad, for it is appropriate. So many of them will come back to help you. There may be great numbers of humans who choose to leave, and it may be done in ways which appear dramatic.

Do not be saddened when these winds blow, and the fires rage, and the Earth shakes, and the waters come. Hold your own divinity, dear friends. Hold your own divinity.

We come to you today to deliver a message in energy, but also to ask you questions. We ask you, as we are speaking, to look within your own soul and your own being, for now comes a time. Now comes the time.

Are you ready to FREE yourself? Are you ready to free yourself of the patterns and the ways of the Old? Are you ready to free yourself of the duality that you have been walking in? Are you ready to allow yourself to soar; to let go of the wounds of the past; to free the spirit within you that is coming forth, this divinity that is trying to come forth and express?

The blockages, the walls, that you still have around are not allowing you to be free. So, we ask each of you. Come now the time – are you ready to be free?

Shaumbra, are you ready to LOVE yourself? Are you ready to truly love yourself? Not in the ways that you might have thought of in the past. Not in a way that is simply pampering yourself. Rather, in a way that is an acceptance of everything you have done, everything that you have been, both light and dark. Are you ready to accept that you have been in duality and that all the experiences you have had have built the wisdom that Tobias was speaking of? Are you ready to truly love yourself as much as you have loved others, and as much as you have tried to love God?

In the Old Energy of duality, you were taught that loving yourself was not appropriate. Are you ready to love yourself now, to love everything of who you are? Not to love some illusion of some grand angel that might or might not be you, not to love something in the future that you think you might want to become, but to love yourself NOW. Are you ready to do this, to love yourself now?

Shaumbra, come now the time. Are you ready to KNOW yourself, to truly know yourself? In the past you have known aspects of who you were. You have tried to know yourself. You have tried to find yourself. But are you ready to truly know something about you that has been kept within, that has been kept a secret from you by yourself? It has been kept a secret, because in duality there was part of you that did not want to accept who you are – a unique being with all of the energy and all of the power of God.

We know it is difficult to accept. But in knowing yourself, you will come to know this. You will come to know who you truly are. It will shatter the illusion of who you have thought you were. And in that could be fear. In that there could be holding back. Are you ready to truly know yourself, fully and completely? It is not the illusion that you have thought it would be. It is something totally different. Knowing yourself as a Christed one, knowing yourself as one with Spirit, who came from Spirit… that is a very difficult challenge. Are you ready to know yourself?

Shaumbra, come now the time. Are you ready to OWN your divinity? To not only love it, and to not only know it, to not only have it in freedom? But dear ones, are you ready to own it within you, to understand that it IS you, to hold it within you, to not try to hide who you are? Are you ready to own that this is yours?

Your divinity was not given to you by any other. You have had it all along. It has been sealed. It has been locked away by seven seals, held tightly within. The seals are now ready to burst open. It is like they have been filled with stress. That is what you have been feeling, the seals wanting to burst open, all seven of them, not one by one by one. The seals do not open that way. They open in unison. They open together. Are you ready to own what comes forth, to accept it within your being and to know it has always been there? It has only been locked away. Are you ready to own the God that you are?

Come now the time, Shaumbra. Are you ready to SHOW and to express who you are? Are you ready to release the timidness, the hiding, the doubt? Are you ready to show yourself and the world and all of us the grand angel who you are? No longer hiding behind thin veils, no longer suppressing your own energy, no longer fearing the sound of your own voice when speaking to self or others? Are you ready to show your divinity and allow it to come forth, bursting forth into the "now" that you live in? Are you ready to take that foot off the brake, as Tobias has talked of, to show who you really are?

There is no greater example for another human than to see one who is owning their divinity and expressing it. If you do not show who you are, the energy becomes tangled up within you, and it becomes painful in your mind and in your body.

We ask you, Shaumbra, are you now ready to show who you are, to release these past lives you are trying to hide behind, where you said, "I will never expose myself as one who is filled with Spirit, for I was ridiculed, for I was put down and even imprisoned for this." In this New Energy that is shifting out of duality, showing who you are is one of the keys. That does not mean to be evangelistic. That does not mean to try to convert others. It means to ILLUMINATE your energy outward. There may not even be words that need to be said. It is simply illuminating who you are, expressing it through your being. As the seven seals come open, this energy of you will want to come forward. Are you ready to show who you are?

Shaumbra, come now the time. Are you ready to ALLOW others their space, their consciousness? Are you ready to accept that the things that go on in people around you and energies around you are appropriate? It is not up to you to judge the right or wrong, but rather to be in a place of allowing. Are you ready to allow, to accept other, and all things around you?

This is a key to moving into the New Energy. It is what Tobias has spoken of in "standing behind the short wall." In doing so, you will understand how things are truly created, but you will also honor the others for their path. Are you ready to allow others their path, their space, and more importantly, their consciousness? For if you do not, your energy becomes intertwined with theirs, and you could find yourself joining them on THEIR journey, rather than continuing yours.

Dear ones, dear Shaumbra, are you ready to RECEIVE the gift, what Tobias has spoken of as the "Fruit of the Rose?" It is your divinity! You have carried it with you ever since you left Home. Your divinity has always been there. It is your gift to yourself. Within the Fruit of the Rose is the solution that you already placed within your consciousness. Dear God who is sitting before us today, you have already created the solution, but you wanted to explore other possibilities! The solution is in the Fruit of the Rose that has always been with you.

You have never given yourself a challenge where you did not prepare the answer. You prepared the answer in love and compassion for yourself and placed it there. And now, each time you have a challenge in your life, understand that the Fruit of the Rose is the solution you have already worked out. You have just not been willing to look at it. You have been looking at other potential solutions.

There is a divine solution, and it was not written, or created, or given to you by Spirit, by Metatron, Tobias, your guides, or angels. It was created in your own heart, and that IS the Fruit of the Rose, the solution to everything that comes within you. But you have to accept it as your own, that it is not given to you on a silver platter by another entity. For that is the game you have been playing. That is the game, looking for solutions created by others. Are you ready to receive the Fruit of the Rose, your divine solution?

And finally, we ask you, come now the time, are you ready to release the illusion of duality? Are you ready to release this grand illusion, an illusion so strong that you consider it real and truth? Your consciousness is changing now. You are beginning to understand the energy dynamics of duality. You are slowly coming to understand that duality is simply an illusion. Are you ready to release this illusion?

To you it might seem like a platform. It might seem like your foundation or your grounding. It might be fearful trying to release this, not knowing what the new foundation or the new grounding is. You are on the fence right now. You are on the fence, one foot in duality, the other in ascension, wanting to drag the foot that remains in duality.

We put out the challenge to all of you today at this crucial time in the energetic balance of Earth. Are you ready to release duality, the illusion of duality? So strong, it is difficult to perceive it only as an illusion, but it is. Are you ready for this change in consciousness? We have asked to interrupt your regular series to be here, not only for your path, but also for all of our paths. Consciousness, dear ones, the consciousness of Earth, and what happens on Earth affects all of us. So goes the consciousness of Earth, goes the consciousness of the universe.

The decisions you make not only affect the consciousness of who you, but also have a direct effect on consciousness of all other parts and places. It pierces through the dimensions. It pierces through space – your consciousness and the consciousness of all who are on Earth. The delicate balance that humanity is in right now, affects us, affects us.

That is why we come to you today, to ask you at this time:

Are you ready to be your divine self?

Are you ready to give up this illusion of duality and weakness, of illness, of loneliness, of despair?

Are you ready to give up the illusion of love, of what you thought it was like?

Are you ready to give up the illusion that you are not free?

Are you ready to give up the secret place you have been hiding yourself behind, the seven seals?

Are you ready to know who you are at the deepest and the most intimate and the most compassionate level?

Are you ready to release this game, this game you have been playing of trying to find yourself, a wonderful game that has gained you much wisdom and us much consciousness?

We will call it what it is – a game of trying to find yourself. All of the layers of illusions that you have put around you… wonderful, playful, very creative. But are you ready, God, to come forth? The rest of humanity, the rest of the universe is waiting for your answer, your answer that is within.

So goes the consciousness of you, also goes the consciousness of All That Is.

Remember the energy of this day when we came to speak to you, when we asked you the inner questions, when we asked you to look deep within, a place that has seemed illusive, perhaps frightening to you, but a place that is deep within you. Know that we understand these are difficult questions, very difficult questions.

Your Earth, and therefore the universe, sits at a critical balance. There is no fear in the energy that we are delivering here. There is no fear. There is only observation of where you are at – rapidly changing consciousness, duality trying to transform, trying to leave. All of this has created a situation on Earth that needs your divinity to come forth.

Be in a place of peace as things happen around you. You are ones who are open to feelings, to energies, to shifts. You have opened yourself well to these. But in opening yourself, you become fragile, when there is not the deep inner ownership of your divinity. You become very fragile, when you are not allowing your divinity to express.

You feel things from other people, and you feel events that are taking place even in other parts of your world. You feel the potential of upcoming grand changes between countries, in the Earth, and all around you. You feel the impact of these deeply.

We come to you today to say that there is the strong potential for grand and swift changes upon your Earth at this time. Be in a place of peace with your divinity. That is the grandest thing you can do.

Stand behind that short wall.

Allow others their space and their experience.

Release your illusion of duality.

I am Metatron, your voice in Spirit. We will return to Tobias.

(pause)

And so it is, dear friends, that the energy of Metatron has been delivered. The words have been given, and indeed, as I was observing this, the love has been shared, a new love indeed. It was interesting for Metatron to come forward like this, not quite used to this type of direct gathering, always having messengers like myself and the others come forward. It was somewhat humorous for me to observe his own uncomfortableness with this situation!

Metatron reminds you that he will continue to make his presence known among Shaumbra and among men and women of Earth. For, in the shifting consciousness that you are going through, this opens the door for the energies of Metatron to come flowing in. And as you own your divinity and express it, Metatron will be right there.

Now, these words were perhaps for you strong, perhaps for you challenging. It was the intent of Metatron to be very direct with you, to be very direct in the words and the understandings.

So many of you were not really here, but rather taken out during this time, taken to the deeper levels within who you are, taken out for the energies to come in at the deepest of all levels.

Metatron foresees changes upon your Earth, foresees many things happening. We do not want to go into specific scenarios, for they have not been created yet. It is all about potential. It is ALL about potential of what could happen.

As we have said to you today, because of the rapid changes of consciousness, you are sitting at a very delicate point in all of humanity, a very delicate point. Be in that place of peace that Metatron spoke of, with your own divinity. Do not seek it from another. Do not become rattled when these things happen around you. Do not be swept into the sadness. Understand that all of these things are appropriate.

And Shaumbra, I cannot say it enough. I will say it over and over to you. Be together as family. You have been family of Shaumbra on this side of the veil. We have all worked together, and played together, studied together, and shared. When you go to Earth, you forget those who are closest to you. You forget the real energy of the words, Shaumbra.

You can connect like this all over the world now. Technology and consciousness has made that possible. Share with each other. Talk to each other. Play with each other here. That will be so important in moving through the difficult energies of Earth. Know that indeed you are never, ever alone.

And so it is!

THE TOBIAS CHANNELS

A Message From Metatron
"Questions and Answers"

Presented at the Crimson Circle
April 7, 2002

TOBIAS: And so it is, dear friends, that we return to this sacred and blessed energy. So strong and so intense is the energy here. It is something you can literally take with you. You can take it now and bring it forth at any time you choose. You can bring it forth when there is doubt, when you wonder what is going on. Simply return to the energy of here and now.

Now, dear friends, you ask how you can communicate with those of us on this side of the veil. And you ask how you can communicate with yourself and your divinity? You say that you have not been able to tap into it yet, that it seems so far away, and so distant, and you are not so sure.

The energy of your divinity, and therefore the knowingness and the love of All That Is, is right at your fingertips. It is already in your heart. It is already part of your mind. It is so close. It is so close that you are overlooking it. You are looking on the other side of that wall, thinking that it will be delivered by someone else from somewhere else. It is so close you do not realize that you are already channel. You are already talking to beings on our side of the veil. You are already in your divinity.

But because you are looking so far away for the answers, you have not come to the realization that it is already within. You are in the illusion that it is somewhere else. You have not faced the reality that it is within you.

Do you want to channel I, Tobias, or any other entity – Metatron, Yeshua, or any of those who have shown up at the Crimson Circle? Go closer within. Feel the energies first. Do not worry about the specific words. Understand that it is so close within. Do not worry about the literal words that come through. Feel the energy. In that energy is the knowingness.

Dear ones, you are searching for something that you think looks and sounds and feels different than you. You are looking for yet another outside mirror. It is not so. It will not look or feel or smell different than you do. It will be so much a part of you that it may be a bit difficult to recognize at first. It IS you. It is the divine self that is already there. Even when you come to the realization that you are walking in the divine moment, many of you will deny it. You will continue to look somewhere else for your divinity.

When your awakening divinity is ignored, when you do not acknowledge it, it says to you, "Perhaps I will go back to my sleep for a while to let you finish your game."

That is why Metatron said today, "Are you ready to show your Spirit, to let it burst forth, to know that it is YOU and not look for a foreigner. Do not look for a grand angel. Do not look for some higher, distant self. Simply walk each moment in your divinity, knowing that it is there, knowing that it is so much a part of you already that perhaps you do not recognize it."

Now, in the energy that was delivered on this day, there are many questions that have come up, questions about what predictions we make, what things Metatron sees. Dear ones, as you know, it is all potentials of what is going to happen. It is all potentials. What happens is based on your consciousness of the "now," the consciousness of the "now."

We will not make predictions of great wars. That would not be appropriate, for we do not know, even from our side of the veil. We can only see the potential that these things are possible now. Indeed, we see the potential, as you see the potential, that there are small groups out who hold an intense energy of duality, what you would call the darkness aspect… who feel they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by letting the darkness burst forth at this time.

There is the potential for those who possess weapons of mass destruction to come forth at this time. But it is only potential. There is the potential here for great changes of the Earth that you would call destructions because something needs to be released, something needs to let go. But we will not make a prediction of an earthquake on a specific date, or a tidal wave at a specific time. We can only say they are potentials.

We will not make a prediction that a certain disease will sweep across a land. It is a potential that exists right now in this delicate balance of duality of the New Energy. It is only a potential. Do not, dear friends, get swept away by the drama of the time that you are in. Do not, dear friends, get swept away by the sadness that may come if certain potentials are brought into the "now."

There will be a tendency for your own duality to feel a deep sadness. You may feel a need to rush out, back into the throes of duality, to save others, to save mankind. Perhaps you will feel it is necessary to jump back in that, to allow the sadness to sweep you away. But dear ones, remember what we have spoken of today, the appropriateness of these potential changes.

Remember the path you have been on, coming to know who you truly are, coming to free yourself. Understand that this is what the others are doing in their lives also. Understand also, that at the core of all things is the solution. The divine solution for your own life has already been created by you. We are not talking philosophically here. We are talking about "now" reality.

It is the "Fruit of the Rose," the solution that has already been created by you and for you in the moment and in the "now." Understand that it already sits within you. It is ready for you to absorb, to receive, and to own. We know so many were confused by this "Fruit of the Rose," but it is the divine solution you have already given yourself. It has always been there. It is simply waiting for you to receive it.

Challenging times are ahead, difficult times, only if you allow them to be. Sacred times for Earth and for all of the universe. As we said before, so goes the consciousness of Earth, also goes the consciousness of the universe. Consciousness… that beautiful energy that is the meld of the wisdom from the past, the potential of the future focused and brought into the reality of "now."

You will see many, many changes all around you. Remember your consciousness and what it is. Own that consciousness. Stand behind the short wall. You will see how and why things are truly happening at this time on your Earth.

Now, with that we would be delighted to take your questions. But we challenge each of you also to feel the answer within your own being to the questions that are asked. Feel, absorb, and receive the "Fruit of the Rose," and know the answer lies within you, not in some far-off reaches held by some other entity. The answer is already within. With that we would be delighted to give our interpretations.

QUESTION: Tobias, many of us have been riding a very low wave these past few weeks. Can you please shed some light on the subject? Thanks.

TOBIAS: Indeed. Indeed, and you will feel these more intensely. Understand that you are more sensitive than ever in this New Energy. You are opening up right now. You are feeling the sadness that Metatron spoke of earlier, a sadness brought in by the winds of change – both literal and figurative winds – that are upon the face of Earth right now. You are feeling others’ suffering and pain. You are taking it as your own in so many cases. You are feeling the burdens of others. Understand what it is, and honor it, but understand dear ones, that it does not necessarily come from you.

You are also riding many cycles within yourself, ups and downs. They are becoming more intense and more frequent. It is the energies of duality, seemingly going out of phase, because, in a sense, that is literally what they are doing. Light and dark were always phased appropriately. Now they are going out of phase. You will feel these dips. You will feel the peaks also. They are going out of phase in order to realign in this new marriage that we spoke of earlier. In doing so, you are creating a New Energy.

First go within to know if this sadness, is coming from you or from the outside. If it is coming from you, understand that it is part of a process. Understand that the lows are helping to build a momentum to move through this energetic shift, to move you into the New Energy.

We will speak of the New Energy in the next several lessons. You are literally creating New Energy. That is part of the cycles. They will be intense, these cycles, for a period of time. Do not try to get out of them or ignore them. Try to have wisdom about them. Try to have wisdom of what is going on. Dear friends, these cycles you are going through, and the changes in duality going on within, will be expressed on the outside also, as humanity also goes through these shifts. You will see it expressed in very strong ways here.

QUESTION: Tobias, am I where I should be spiritually and physically?

TOBIAS: You are where you are at, and therefore, it is appropriate. The humans wonder if they are doing the right thing, if they have made the right decisions and choices in their life – like we would know! (audience laughter) It is only a choice. It is only a decision. There is no right or wrong about it. That is duality. So many of you are locked in this. That is why Metatron spoke of showing yourself and expressing yourself.

There is a fear that you are not "doing the right thing." There is no right and no wrong. There simply IS. There is no place you should be or shouldn't be. You simply ARE. It is all in the moment of "now." There is not a prescribed course or pattern. God did not put you on Earth and say, "You must find the hidden treasure." That would be ridiculous. You are here as part of a journey, a journey of new consciousness, a journey of expanding Spirit. In that expansion there is no right or wrong.

In the journey of Earth, the one who is in the gutter, the one who is destitute and sick in the body and feeble in the mind, is highly honored on our side of the veil. This human has not made wrong decisions. This human has made deep decisions. This human has not feared to go to the depths of the darkness to find out what it's like down there. We applaud this human as much or more than the human who sit timidly at home, sheltered behind their walls and their doors, afraid to move or make decisions. The human who lays in the gutter has boldly explored the depths of pain and suffering. And in doing so, this human has helped create a new and expanded consciousness.

Now, this human who is also in the gutter sometimes becomes trapped in this consciousness. They begin to think this is now the reality. They lose their way and forget how they can get out. They are so immersed in this energy that sometimes they get lost within it. Indeed, indeed, sometimes Spirit and you get lost!

Then one day, while they were laying in the gutter, miserable and cold and hungry and angry, a human comes up to them and does nothing more than smile and ask them how they are doing. What goes beyond the words and the physical appearance is a glow, is a glow of divinity and a glow of hope. The human who has become lost in their journey sees that it is possible to get out. For what they are beholding in front of them is a grand and divine angel who wears the name of Shaumbra, who has been on the long journey, and who has discovered themself. And the one who you would call a bum laying in the gutter, beholds this, and knows that they can find this glow within their own being also.

When Metatron spoke of showing who you are, it is not a lot of loud words, or philosophies. Sometimes, it is simply showing, allowing your illumination to come forth. We thank you for this question. And Cauldre tells us that we get very long-winded at times. (audience laughter)

QUESTION: Tobias, is there anything specific I could do to be better at owning my divinity that I am not now doing?

TOBIAS: It is to understand that it is already within. There are no rules, or regimens, or disciplines. The old ceremonies, the old rules, the old disciplines, actually distract from your coming to understand your divinity. Your divinity unfolds and blossoms naturally. It is doing that now. You are in the midst of the blossoming.

Sometimes all of you look so far into the distance. You think your divinity comes riding up over the hill with the setting sun on a white horse to sweep you away. And as long as you continue looking out onto that ridge, dear ones, your own divinity that is blossoming at your feet cannot truly enter into the "now-ness" of your life. Without your nurturing, your divinity will start to wilt. It will go back to that place in hiding where it has been for so very long. It will wait til the next day or the next lifetime when you are ready to acknowledge that "You are God Also."

QUESTION: Tobias, I just started working with the Creator Series Lessons about six weeks ago. Although I’ve read all the following channels, including the Ascension Series Lessons, I very much want to be current and up to speed, both of the content of the lessons, and of course, the energy of Shaumbra, which, in a way, of course, I am. If I work with the lessons at the same rate in which they were given, taking a month for each lesson, I’ll always be eighteen months or so behind. How can I work with your material and be up to speed? I’m sure this is a question that many people are experiencing and will experience.

TOBIAS: Dear ones, when these lessons and discussions are given here, they are done so on a monthly basis. There is an underlying appropriateness to have these spaced as such for the groups we are talking to at the time. We will explain that in a moment. For those who are now being drawn into this energy, there is not a particular order that these need to be read in.

Cauldre interrupts us (audience laughter) and says that it would be better to read them in order, so as not to become confused, because of the language that we build upon. But WE say (more laughter) that these do not need to be read in order at this time. There does not have to be a monthly sequence.

It would be most appropriate to read and absorb three at a time, for we deliver the lessons in "quads." There are three lessons that are tied together before we move onto the next three. It would be a good idea to focus on three at a time. It would also be a good idea to have an energetic understanding before you move on to the next.

These lessons are delivered in this group in the "now" in spacings of approximately 30 days. This is done so that in the future, when you use these materials as a foundation for what you are teaching, there is time for you students to absorb and experience the lessons. If you try to take your students through too many lessons at one time, it will be difficult.

Now, back to the specific question. You, the one who asked the question, do not need to space these out at 30-day intervals. But again, we would recommend reading at least three lessons during the same time period. This will tend to keep a better balance within you.

QUESTION: Tobias, you have instructed us that now is the time to do what we came here to do, and we would have a knowing of this. I have searched all of me and found others feeling as adrift as myself. Can you give me some guidance as to finding that knowing, while we wait for our students to appear? Thank you.

TOBIAS: As the human saying goes "The student will appear when the master is ready." Now, so many of you are still looking in the distance, in the future over the hill, for this knowingness. It is already there. But you are looking past it. You are expecting it to come in some grand form. But it is already there. It is SO close within. You are expecting something to be written on the wall. You are expecting a grand sign or revelation from Spirit. We know. We see it in you. But it is already there.

Now, if you ask us what it is, we cannot reveal it to you. You must reveal it to yourself. But there is one clue in this, a clue that we have been speaking of since the beginning of our discussions. Shaumbra are teachers, teachers in many different ways, teachers in their own right, all having different ways of teaching the material. Look at this clue. Then look within yourself. You will come to understand.

QUESTION: Dear Tobias, is it not the habit of the intellectual mind to focus always on old forms and patterns that actually obscure the knowing and experiencing of the already existing divinity? The shift of focus away from these illusions of form would, in effect, take the foot off the brake – correct? Analyzing what is already in synthesis creates separation. Please elaborate.

TOBIAS: Indeed, it is natural to go back to experiences of the past. But this is not so bad in itself. It depends on how much you hang on to it. As we said, the past created wisdom. Bring forth the wisdom of the past into the "now." With that said, we find so many humans getting locked into the analytical. In a sense, you are not integrating the other energies, the energies of what you would call the "heart," and the "compassion," and the "knowingness" that are already there. You tend to focus in the mind only, trying to figure things out, rather than "knowing" them out, or "feeling" them out. Simply integrate your entire being in the process with this.

Yes, indeed, many things become locked in the brain tissue as you analyze, and you go over and over again. But we do not want you to cut out the brain. There is a certain modern concept, a modern philosophy, that says the brain is the root of evil, that the ego is bad. Dear ones, it is all part of the process. The mind IS part of the overall process.

Right now so many of you are finding that the knowingness tends to come in as a feeling. It is eventually processed in the mind so that it can be acted out in your human reality. The mind is valuable. The mind is very valuable in this. With the acknowledgement that you understand that the past is simply experience from which wisdom is derived, you will find your own mind allowing you to release, so that you can move forward. Your mind is trying to perform a function that it has been directed to do. But now, you can redirect it. Let your mind know it is time to bring in wisdom rather than analysis.

QUESTION: Tobias, thank you for all you do. You have really helped me on my journey. Is there anything you want me to know?

TOBIAS: That you are God, and you are dearly loved! And, as we said earlier, that there are no right or wrong answers. There only IS. There is only expression. We want you to know that there is family all around, all of the time. And that you hold the power of your own divinity. You are the one that has magnificent potential in the New Energy.

It is you, dear one, who we come to at night. We know you have wondered what this is. We come to you at night, simply to be with you and to sit with you. You do not need to make it so complex.

QUESTION: Tobias, can you comment on the nature of relationships in this time of change and transitions from Old Energy to the New Energy? I will offer an example of what I mean. I have encountered an old relationship in the present, which presents problems for me. The person who initiated a relationship with me has made, since the last time I saw him, the choice to become a Catholic priest. He tells me he would like to expand the definition of priest within the context of changing times while at the same time following the traditional relational codes of priests. He is moving toward the New and taking steps backwards as we discover and affirm our kinship of heart and spirit. The dualism confuses me and puts stress on our friendship. It also makes me wonder why people who are moving towards the New Energy, like me, can get caught in old forms while trying to reshape them toward the New. Any comments from your side of the veil would be welcome.

TOBIAS: We thank you for bringing up this energy of relationships – most challenging right now in this New Energy, as you know. And indeed, because you are in the New Energy does not mean that all things around you are in it. We spoke of this quite a while ago, of the "two Earths." You will be in one state of consciousness and awareness, and you will understand the other state of consciousnesses all around you… But perhaps they will not understand you. This is a time in relationships, in particular, when duality seems to come forth in the strongest and sometimes the most peculiar ways.

There is a tendency for many people to go back, or what appears to go back, because many are trying to resolve or heal something from the past. They realize that in order to move forward, part of them must go back to heal the past. This is appropriate for them. This is something that should be honored.

What you are feeling right now is yourself getting drawn into their energy, into their own conflict and understanding of duality. With this individual, in particular, there is a long history going beyond this lifetime. There person led you in the past. You followed this person in so many ways. And now you are confused about who you were following. In a sense, they are saying to you, "Do not follow me anymore. Do not follow me. Follow yourself. And in you following yourself, and me following myself, we can release the old bonds of the past, and we can come back together in a relationship that is newer than new, not based on old karma and old contracts with each other." In other words, this person is trying to release you. He is trying to get you to follow your own divinity.

There are also those humans moving into the New Energy who want to change the old institutions. We are seeing this more and more as you become balanced in your own divinity. They want to go back and shake up the old ways. We do not make any judgment of this. It is just an interesting observation.

QUESTION: Please tell us some more about dream analysis.

TOBIAS: Dreams are an area we will be speaking more of, but we are delighted to have this question now. Dreams are a very interesting phenomenon. It was not known that when humans went to Earth and took on physical body that they would have dreams at night.

Now, there is tremendous understanding of dreams that has not been tapped yet. We will encourage Shaumbra and specific groups within Shaumbra to work on the understandings of dreams. Your oceans of Earth are vastly undiscovered. Your universe and the stars all around you are nearly totally undiscovered by humans at this point. But dreams are the most undiscovered territory of all. What you remember about a dream is only a small portion of what is truly taking place.

In the New Energy there will be much more interest and much more understanding of dreams. Your scientists, researchers and psychologists have been frustrated because they have tried to place dreams in a box and give them these symbols and definitive meanings. But they have not looked at where the real understandings of dreams are.

We will speak more of with this in future discussions. You are having different types of dreams right now, different types of experiences in those dreams. This is all part of the process you are going through right now. In particular, if you want to look for an energy behind these dreams, it all has to do with releasing duality.

When you interpret your own dreams now, look at it from the standpoint of releasing duality. Use this as your key understanding. Then, you will begin to put all the parts and pieces together.

Dear friends, it has been a wonderful energy today. It was a delight for Metatron to come in and speak directly with Shaumbra and to bring this energy into all of you. Now, some of you may experience an unusual tiredness within your being, or an unusual surge of energy. It is all the elements of duality. Some of you may feel burned out for a bit of time after this, or a fogginess around you for several days. All of this is appropriate. As the energies of your divinity and those of us on this side come in closer and closer, it is like getting in shape for these experiences. You will handle them easier each time. They will not have so much effect on your physical being.

There is much that has been given today. We know you will also want to go back and read these words for deeper understandings. You will want to see if there is some secret coding within these words. In a sense, yes there is. But the coding is not in the words that are on a piece of paper. The coding is in the energy that was weaved in through them throughout this day. That is your homework – to figure this out and what it was really telling you from the inside. We will return next month and resume with our next lesson.

And so it is!