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Alright now, here is the continuation from the Cosmic Awareness newletter from below this post, but this one is positive, and practical, so I put it here. And it's looooong. So I had to fit it in. Hahaha.
One needs to understand - the inner portal is that process of enlightenment through the journey of one's life, through the attempts and intentions of focusing one's mind, one's feelings, and one's being to higher, stronger, relevant spiritual issues.
CURRENT AFFAIRS IN THESE SHIFTING TIMES
There is a course to be followed here that must be followed - that of allowing the body to shift and change into that which is the Light Body, a process this Awareness has not talked about extensively, yet there will be more information soon.
This process is underway and will continue for some time, as those who are reaching higher levels of conscious awareness are also building the Light Body. There are physical effects of this - the aches and pains, the fatigue, the irritability, the challenges to one's concepts and beliefs - all of this is part of the unfolding. See it within yourself and then extrapolate it into the world around, for it is obvious that it is happening to the world around you at the same time. As above, so below. As within, so without. Therefore be patient, be diligent, and be trusting that you are still on your path and that path is still leading you forward toward Ascension.
THE INNER PORTAL
An Opening From Within To Higher States of Consciousness
An Opening From Within To Higher States of Consciousness
QUESTIONER: Thank you. The first question is from RB. He writes concerning the inner portal. "Awareness has mentioned several times the inner portal. Can Awareness please tell us more about how this works and how to activate and use the inner portal? Is it possible to send the physical body into higher dimensions through this inner portal, or what is its function exactly?" Your comments, please?
COSMIC AWARENESS: The inner portal is not to be understood as a portal such as one might find in the external world. It is more an opening from within to higher states of consciousness through one's efforts and one's work, both in this lifetime and other lifetimes. It very much involves the work of cleaning up the Garden that this Awareness has spoken about previously, and dealing with the ego, which indeed keeps the consciousness trapped in physical material reality.
One needs to understand - the inner portal is that process of enlightenment through the journey of one's life, through the attempts and intentions of focusing one's mind, one's feelings, and one's being to higher, stronger, relevant spiritual issues. Thus if one is preoccupied with physical matters such as acquiring food, paying for shelter, paying the bills, having money for one's physical activities and physical desires - one often does not begin the process of the inner work. One is so fixated on the provision of the material goods and requirements that one does not have time often to go within for meditation, for contemplation, for inner work. It is often even considered as the most trivial of all things, least important, and least desired.
Thus many stay fixated on the outer reality, the physical form, and materialism. They are trapped in 3rd dimensionality and they stay asleep. This is the biggest obstacle to developing the inner portal, for those who are in physicality simply do not acknowledge the importance or significance of one's inner reality. But for those who seek an Ascension of consciousness, who seek to move forward in their enlightenment and awareness; they are the ones who are needing the most to do the inner work, to meditate, to contemplate, to open the mind and the heart to the higher possibilities.
Even if one has chosen to take this route, still the wall is met continuously as to what one can or cannot do. While one might believe in Ascension, they may, for example, be stuck in a mental loop of their own making, where they cannot let something go because they are so fixated, so obsessed by that which they deem as the most important thing of all, that may not be important at all, but is perceived as such, by an individual or a group. Thus even though one may be a spiritual seeker, one must always be willing to truly question those elements and aspects of mind, of belief, of thought and opinion that one holds as all-encompassing and all-important.
For example, many feel that the purpose of Ascension is simply to escape the hardships of this physical reality. As spiritual individuals and spiritual seekers, they have worked hard to escape physicality and are no longer intrigued by it but repelled by it. The journey has been too long and too hard and they simply wish to leave now, to escape, to go through an external portal, and not to do the inner work, for this is too difficult and often even preached to certain ones as unnecessary. 'Simply proclaim yourself to be one who will ascend,' follow a group whose leader may claim that because you are in the group, you will ascend.
Many People Like To Feel They Are the Chosen Ones!
Many are content to follow a religion or dogma or group where they feel that because of their numbers, because of their faith, because of their teachings they are the chosen ones. These ones, even if spiritually inclined, will find that the Ascension process is not simply about walking through an external portal that may or may not appear, and escaping physicality once and for all. They may indeed escape through the events that are unfolding, especially geophysical events of upheaval through that which is the death experience, but for many who think the answer is to simply step through the portal - they may indeed be surprised, for the portal that they wish to step through is of a vibrational nature, and not all can pass through this filter that would allow them to move into higher consciousness.
The requirement is that one is of a certain vibration. This is not by way of punishment; it is simply that in the soul's evolution it is necessary to proceed in the manner that is best suited for an individual's growth and development. It would be like putting a child who is in kindergarten into an advanced algebra class in high school. There simply would be no capacity for the child to understand the algebra or the math involved.
There is a process of growth, evolution, and development, that is held rigidly in the spiritual evolutionary process. Thus, if one sought to simply step through a portal to ascend to higher levels but they have done no work whatsoever in preparation, and have just decided that they are part of the chosen ones or a chosen group or a chosen individual, and they deserve it simply because they say they will ascend, or are told they will ascend -- then it is unlikely that they are truly ready for this process.
Inner Work Must Be Done Alone!
Thus inner work must be done. This is the inner portal that this Awareness is referring to in the sense that as one does the inner work, as one looks at themselves, finds those dark areas, those issues, those aspects of their own being that are not in the Light, where the ego has control and is creating difficulties and problems, for example, they will find also that if they were to be shown a portal they would not necessarily be able to pass through it. However as this is a filtration system, if you will, they may find that as they work within themselves they are able to raise their vibrations, and they will be able to walk through any portals that are visible to them with the work done and complete.
The irony here is that when one reaches that inner understanding and awareness level that would actually qualify them to go through a portal, often their conscious level of awareness is great enough that in a sense they have already ascended through the journey of their own lives and willingness to deal with issues and circumstances from within. This is again the inner portal. It is a metaphor for the process of engaging one's issues, one's restrictions, one's obstacles and one's beliefs that would prevent one from stepping through a true portal that will be available during these Ascension times.
This Awareness challenges one and all to simply try to walk through a portal. Even if they could see it, even if it appears in front of them, if they have not prepared themselves, what they might find is they enter a portal and not wind up exactly where they thought they would wind up, for they will simply be recycled back to layers and levels where they need to still do the work.
Thus if one, for example, without doing the inner work, were to step through a portal - even if it would accept them they might find they come back into their own lives and not appear in the 5th dimension free and easy, because Spirit does know whether the work has been done or not.
Why it Is Important to do the Inner Work
This Awareness would say many no doubt are asking, "Why is it important to do the inner work?" "Why is it important to work with the ego or the negative beliefs and thoughts that one might have?" "Why is it important to work thus on the inner portal or opening so that one can expand?" It is important for it is the only way that one can release and let go of the negative chains and ties one has to the 3rd dimensional experience. The illusion of 3rd dimensionality is what prevents the individual from moving into the higher multidimensional states of consciousness, and prevents the individual from developing their 5th dimensional Light Body, their spiritual Light Body.
Thus one will always stay stuck in the trap of physicality until one begins to understand that they are spirit beings having a physical experience, and that they are more than the physical experience. They need to raise the bar, raise the standards for themselves to exceed the norms of physicality, the mental-emotional-physical norms. As long as one thinks they have acquired a high level of conscious awareness and yet are still petty and trivial in their lives, and still criticize and insult and judge others, and still go on and on about matters that have no true significance; they are ones who are still in need of inner work, who are still trapped, and who will not ascend to the high grandiose levels that they think they will and believe they will. This belief is based on erroneous assumptions.
Thus it is part of the spiritual evolution process to reach high levels of balance, of harmony, of wisdom and enlightenment in the actual physical body while still part of third dimensional reality. It is by this process that one first and foremost begins to escape the 3rd dimensional energies that are present when one chooses to have a 3rd dimensional experience. Then when one has achieved this they will be able to open the portals at will, stepping from one level to another in the blink of an eye. But if this was available to just anyone then many who are not truly ready, who have not done the work, would simply jump from a place that is undesirable, with their faults and failings, with their negativities and low energies, and jump into those higher energies where this would be unsustainable and disruptive.
But it is not so, for the workings that are in place, the greatest working, is a streaming effect, a filtering effect that allows movement when one has reached a certain level of awareness and consciousness where the inner portals of understanding open up and prepare one for that Ascension process that this Awareness has so often talked about.
Indeed this Awareness would say it is the Ascension process: the working within, the working through the issues that are negative and binding, that keep one stuck and imprisoned in 3rd dimensionality. This is also indeed very much part of the Ascension process. This completes the answer. This Awareness asks if the energizer has any further questions.
QUESTIONER: Not at this time. I'd like to absorb what you have just said, as it was excellent. I need to bring it into myself but I do appreciate it and I'm sure the members will as well, thank you.
COSMIC AWARENESS: One thing this Awareness would reemphasize is the inner portal is not as an outer portal will be. It is not seen as a gateway that one opens inside but it is rather a metaphor for the process of expanding one's consciousness, of healing one's soul and dealing with those inner negative issues and beliefs that need to be dealt with, need to be overcome, need to be understood before one's vibrations rise to a level where the outer or external portals can be used successfully.
If one does not work on the inner portals of awareness and understanding, comprehension and enlightenment, then one will never have the energies needed to step through the high level vortexes and portals that will be corridors to the higher dimensional states of consciousness. Thus one would be trapped still in the lower dimensional consciousness, the 3rd and even 4th dimensional. Does this explain the matter more concisely?
CLEANING UP THE GARDEN
How to Look Within
QUESTIONER: Yes it does and I appreciate that, thank you. Carrying on, we have another one with regard to cleaning up the Garden. This one is from BWM. He writes, "Awareness mentioned that it is crucial for every individual to start to see within themselves what must be recognized as entanglements and hindrances to one's growth and development, speaking of dark energies, speaking of the garbage that we as society have thrown into our Garden, but no mention of how to do this other than look within ourselves, and that things haven't drastically changed since the times of Jesus and Paul. It takes something in addition to looking into ourselves, as stated, or rather how to look within ourselves." That's the first part. Shall I read the whole thing?
COSMIC AWARENESS: This Awareness will deal with this part first. This Awareness has indeed explained how to proceed. This metaphor of the Garden and working in the Garden is not a recent metaphor but has been presented earlier by Paul Shockley, the previous Interpreter for this Awareness.
He and the present Interpreter have both expressed that one needs to remove the garbage, and needs to bring Light into the dark areas, thus enlightening them.
This is achieved through many processes but the main process to achieve this is one where one first acknowledges that there are areas that are less than stellar, less than illuminated, and that there is a willingness to question these areas, these failings, and there is a willingness to look at the dark areas within the Garden.
Don't Be Afraid to Look at Your Dark Side!
Many who are Lightworkers refuse to look at their dark sides or those aspects of their ego that are oppressive, domineering, and controlling. Thus they simply choose to ignore this by then staying in the Light or insisting that they are not dark, that they are only in the Light and it is wrong to look at the darkness within. However this will never allow an individual to become whole, to become holistic, to become holy. One needs to understand that one is a complete being. The Divine is that which embraces the Light and the dark. It is not that the high consciousness says It is only interested in Light and not the dark, for the dark is part of the whole and the whole is part of the Divine, part of God.
Therefore when one works in the Garden one needs to be able to admit to the faults and failings, the negative feelings and thoughts, the beliefs that are constrictive, and the ego that is domineering. As one is willing to truly search one's soul within oneself, to truly look in the Garden and to find those areas where the garbage has been dumped and neglected, where the weeds have grown tall and numerous, where the dark eddies in the pools of darkness that are in the individual, even such thoughts of individuals who would be deemed as wrong.
For example, many Lightworkers feel that only they and their group are correct. There are many, many groups and religions who preach this, who teach this, and these individuals assume that simply because they are part of the group and their teacher, their guru, their priest, their rabbi, their mullah, their leaders, have told them they are right and correct, that they are right and correct. Then in their Garden they will hold this as so. This is the darkness that they may hold in this matter.
Going hand-in-hand with this may be the assumptions and assertions that they are the chosen ones, they are the correct ones, and any and all who are not part of their group, religion or social community gathering - whatever and however you may understand this - are therefore "less than," and they will not have Ascension, they will not go to heaven, and they will not meet God, for they are not of a high enough quality.
Put this way many can see very quickly the failings of this thought process, these beliefs, and these attitudes. Yet many do not see it within themselves, and do not realize that they hold similar beliefs and thoughts, or others of equal merit in the constriction of the soul, as it needs to expand and confront those inner issues.
That is why it is often worthwhile and of merit to do the inner work with another, be it a counselor or one who is a spiritual seeker as well, to be mirrors for one another, to assist one in looking at the inner issues.
There is always a challenge here, for as issues are brought up the ego reacts, and it would pound down any opposition. It would deny any proof that it is a controller, a manipulator. It would prevent, if it could, the advancement of consciousness so that it is not lost in the process, so that it is not superseded as the higher levels of consciousness play more and more a factor in the journey of one's life towards Ascension and spiritual unfolding, spiritual awakening. Therefore one always needs the attitude - whether one is working on oneself to light up the Garden, clean it up, clear it up; or one is working with another, a counselor and friend - to truly be open to looking at issues, to not be upset if that which confronts them is not that which they wish to see, but rather to understand that because they do not wish to look at this matter, it is a clear indication that there is something there to be looked at.
This high level of commitment and resolution to deal with the inner issues, to clean up one's Garden, is that which is part of the opening of the inner portal this Awareness just spoke of; the metaphor of doing the work that is needed to free oneself from the constrictions and bindings, the traps and the chains of thinking, of feeling, of believing that are not of the highest levels but are of the lower energy levels of the 3rd dimension and 4th dimension as well. Does this answer the question sufficiently at this time?
Be Careful In Your Judgments!
QUESTIONER: Yes it does. His next question I believe you just answered, "Why do Christians have such rejection to truth and the thoughts that they might even have any garbage in their life? That is how dark things are to my understanding. I have yet to meet anyone that knows anything about true righteousness and cleaning up their Garden. Why are they not receptive to this truth?"
COSMIC AWARENESS: You are indeed correct, that this has been largely addressed in the previous response from this Awareness, but there are points that this Awareness would make to the individual that are relevant to his journey and his questions. He asks why they are not willing to look at their truths. He even states that he has never met a truly righteous individual who is willing to clean up their Garden. These are judgments on his part that come from his own beliefs, his own attitudes that need to be looked at. What does it matter if one who is a Christian does not look at their own Inner Garden or accept that there is any work to do? For if one truly has done one's own work, one truly has evolved their own spiritual understanding and awareness - that individual would see that all individuals, each and every person, is on their own personal track, their own timeline. They all have individual lessons to learn that do not necessarily involve achieving high spiritual awareness in this life.
An individual may, for example, be born deaf or in a physically disabled genetic situation. They are there to have that experience, to do work on a level that may not be understood by others. Many will say, "Poor individual!" - that they were born blind, they were born autistic, they were born this way or that, without understanding for example that this is not necessarily a punishment as some might even see it, but rather the unique choice made by the soul to gather in the experiences of that life that would only have been achieved by being born in that way, and in that condition.
What is harder to perceive, for this would be perhaps something that is physically noticed immediately, are those individuals who seem physically available, have all their five senses in working order, and who are not constricted physically. There are many who are handicapped, if you will, from the mental and emotional levels because of the beliefs and attitudes they hold. It is easy to be judgmental of those whose attitudes and beliefs are different than yours, who follow a different set of rules and laws, seek different experiences, and have different beliefs, but it is imperative to understand that they too are following their inner purpose.
It may not be the purpose to achieve Ascension for a majority of individuals on the planet at this time. It may be their purpose to understand what a loving family is about or what addiction is about or what it means to be materialistic to the degree that only money matters and not people. This Awareness could of course go on and on and on. Those who are Christians, for example, may have it as their purpose to have a life experience where they do not seek Spirit for they content themselves with dogma and prescribed doctrine and they are seeking to be followers of a Christian philosophy.
There are followers of the Islamic philosophies, the Buddhistic, the Jewish, the Genists, and many other faiths, and it would be wrong to say that they will not learn in those belief structures. It is simply that what they learn will be unique and personal to their growth and development to achieve spiritual awareness as their spirit has defined it, and as it has been planned. Therefore this Awareness must say to the questioner: Be careful in your judgments for it does indeed show that you have more work to do in your own inner Garden.
Trust that even though you are not following the path that others may follow, they are being true to their own journey, their own soul purpose. One way or another the soul will learn its lessons, and sooner or later the soul does come to the deeper spiritual issues. Many who are on a spiritual path are seeing this, are understanding this, but they too still need to be diligent and careful in their assumptions of their own worth and worthiness for Ascension for example, or their superiority over others who do not share their opinions and their beliefs and their convictions.
The best way, of course, is to reach that level of understanding and compassion and comprehension where it is seen that all are on their individual paths, learning the lessons that are right for them. One cannot judge this, one can only focus on their own path and attempt to reach a level of inner awareness and understanding that illuminates them, that assists them, and that helps them as individuals on their own individual spiritual journey to reach their own Ascension, their own illumination, and their own enlightenment. At this moment this Awareness is complete with this answer.
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