Many of you have spiritual self protection practices. While we understand the reason you have adopted such habits, we would like to offer a tweak to that practice that will best honour who you really are.

When you focus on self protection, you are stating to the universe that there is something you need protection from. It is coming from a fear of being victimized, which is still playing in old energies. Spiritual self protection, in effect, separates, while you are trying to move into the energies of unconditional love and unity consciousness.

What you are really aiming for is energetic clarity. You are looking to shine your own wonderful energy, clearly, brightly, and unimpeded, as you claim your authentic power. It is standing in your spiritual sovereignty, owning your truth and your divinity, demonstrating that nothing can be stronger than you as a beloved piece of Source energy.

Do you see? The steps of self protection and energetic clarity may be exactly the same. It is the intention that makes all the difference in the world. ~Archangel Gabriel

Ben Decker, Guest
Waking Times

“Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.” -Marianne Williamson

Last year, on December 5th, a young man was shot and killed by a police officer at the Hollywood & Highland intersection, right around the corner from my Los Angeles apartment. This happened in a flurry of news stories of other cases of US police using deadly force. With the news came several disturbing photographs, including a photo of two police officers pointing their guns down at the man’s dying body sprawled out on the Walk of Fame.

I experienced a powerful wave of complicated emotional response. Images of riots, tear gas, guns & ambulances flashed through my mind. It was overwhelming.  I felt my heart cave in. I immediately fell to my knees in prayer, tears streaming down my face. This is bigger than gun laws and law enforcement, bigger than Hollywood, bigger than racism. When things like this are happening, it is an indication of something nefarious about the world we are living in, about the health of our culture, and about the future of the reality we are creating together.

As it turns out, experiences induced by dimethyltryptamine (DMT) may be doing better for the belief in an afterlife than conventional forms of religion have in recent decades. Many of the testimonials from individuals that have traversed the ‘astral planes’ by means of DMT, whether it be through ingestion or pineal secretion during a kundalini awakening or near death experience, describe a sort of spiritual awakening, often returning to ordinary consciousness with new feelings and thoughts on physical life and existence in the universe. For some, this awakening was met with a glimpse of an afterlife and existence beyond its physical form.

“DMT is responsible for providing users with powerful trips in which they often experience the presence of calming beings believed to be from an underlying layer of reality which then expose people to the idea that the information we receive through our physical senses is limited. When people make this deep connection and understanding that there is more to reality than what we can experience through the senses they begin to suspect that there may be more to life than the physical.” – Professer Rick Strassman

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Magnesium is a mineral used by every organ in your body, especially your heart, muscles, and kidneys.[1] If you suffer from unexplained fatigue or weakness, abnormal heart rhythms or even muscle spasms and eye twitches, low levels of magnesium could be to blame.

If you’ve recently had a blood test, you might assume it would show a magnesium deficiency. But only 1 percent of magnesium in your body is distributed in your blood, making a simple sample of magnesium from a serum magnesium blood test not very useful.

Most magnesium is stored in your bones and organs, where it is used for many biological functions. Yet, it’s quite possible to be deficient and not know it, which is why magnesium deficiency has been dubbed the “invisible deficiency.”

If you did one thing every day you said you could not do, what could you accomplish? How many problems would be overcome? How many mountains could be moved? How many obstacles scaled? All it takes is one thought, one step, one action. ~ Creator

By Caroline Diana Bobart

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

It has probably occurred to you already that you wear different ’masks’ or personas in your life. BUT, if you haven’t done a recent inventory, you might be surprised to learn that you have an extensive ‘collection’ of masks that together represents an entire spectrum of human emotion. From vulnerability to ferocious courage, your collection includes a mask connected to every emotion and fear you have – and every nuance in-between.

According to your instincts, before you even formulate a conscious thought about what you perceive to be happening around you, you instinctively reach for and assume the most appropriate mask. Most fundamentally, your collection of ‘masks’ exists to protect you and keep you feeling safe.

By  Lisa Young

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

Do you ever feel that your Spiritual Awakening has been “paused”, or that you have reached a plateau that has continued for months or even years? If so, the energies and information in this article and audio meditation may assist and support you in organically activating the next layer of expansion in your Awakening journey.

Awakening to Our Divine Self

We emerge from our most extraordinary spiritual experiences, knowing our reality has shifted. Whether through a momentary glimpse of our body dissolving its form into Light, or a powerful meditation in which we feel ourselves as the Planet or the Universe, our perception of Life is altered.

These enlightening experiences are as diverse and unique as we are.