It would seem that among the readers of Collective Evolution there is a very clear sense that “something is off” that germinated at an early age.  This prompted a search amid dissatisfaction with conventional belief systems.

My good friend Michael Jeffreys, who runs what was the Santa Monica Eckhart Tolle meetup but is now a more general Advaita-oriented satsang in Los Angeles, talks about this often, and lists many areas in which he searched looking for answers until Eckhart’s books and his own quest led him to a recognition that conceptual analytic “truth” is always off.

I have benefited greatly from my association with Michael, mainly in terms of peeling away the many unrecognized layers of beliefs and concepts that I took for granted.

In my own case, this resulted from a sort of reconciliation with three disparate but in my view congruent traditions—cognitive therapy, the Gurdjieff tradition, and Eastern thought and what is now commonly called Advaita or Nonduality.

Welcome to Sun in Sagittarius! Sun in Jupiter’s sign brings a jovial, uplifting, abundant, expansive feel to mundane affairs. While Jupiter, the minor Sun, has plenty of enjoyable characteristics that help to usher in the holiday season, caution is advised in assuming that he has no undesirable qualities! I can say from personal experience that a Jupiter transit coincided with weight gain, and I couldn’t shake the pounds until Jupiter changed signs.

Jupiter in Virgo (which we are experiencing right now) is such an interesting case. The more I think about Jupiter in the earthy Virgo sign, the more I like him there. Jupiter is in classical detriment in Virgo. Virgo is a very analytical, grounded, detail-oriented sign, and Jupiter is more abstract, philosophical, and likes the big picture. Thus Jupiter has trouble squeezing into the Virgo sign! If you can manage do to so, Jupiter in Virgo is a fantastic opportunity to see both “the forest and the trees”. How powerful to be able to see both the big picture and the details within it. I also like Jupiter a bit muted by sign. He is still Jupiter, but not prone to excesses.

If you take all of the love you have experienced this lifetime and condense it into a single Earth-plane moment, you will have what The Universe has felt for you, every moment, since the beginning of the beginning. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/all-the-love/

Dear Ones, you do not have to have the skill of spirit communication to work with us. We are always here to serve and assist you, in fact, it is our greatest pleasure! So how do you work with us? Through surrender and flow. Ask for our help! Allow yourselves to be led. It is by choosing surrender and flow, and staying there with your faith and trust, that you will have the tangible experience of how loved and assisted you truly are. So let go, know we will guide you tenderly and lovingly, watch for the signs and synchronicities, and allow the magic to happen. It is available to you right now. What are you waiting for? ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2015/11/23/daily-message-monday-november-23-2015/

God said:

If you cannot accept that you create your Life, perhaps you can accept that you contribute to your Life in the Process. Your thoughts speak for you. You may expect your Life to change while you stay the same. By and large, like it or not, you mastermind your life.

You would prefer not to accept this idea. You prefer to stay an innocent party. That’s just what you are, beloved, an innocent party. You don’t see and don’t want to see that you carry at least some responsibility for your life.

I’ve said these two points before in a hundred ways:

When you complain and complain, certainly you will have more complaints to complain about. When you are grateful for the goodness granted you in the world, you will have more goodness to be grateful for.

There is a sense in which you may feel that Life owes you a living. You may feel that Life is remiss in how it has treated you. You feel that this entity called Life should treat you with kid gloves. Certainly, this great factor, Life, could give you money as well as to someone else.

You may be thinking: "Wouldn’t it be nice if Life took care of me carte blanche?" Life does take care of you. You are taken care of you. You are here, aren't you?

You may not want to have to earn your keep. You may see those who do not take care of you the way you would like as scoundrels while they may well see you as a wastrel.