Now that I’m back in San Francisco, I feel the economic troubles here too strongly.
People are worried, reducing their spending, and expecting economic depression.
Certainly, it is a difficult time for the whole world, not only the USA.
Recently, many wanderers have contacted me for counseling or to buy my books.
Somehow, it seems more people are waking up just as the human group enters its last challenge.
But I’m not very surprised, as now we see the world conditions that we always expected.
The financial system is breaking everywhere, personal and family hardships have increased.
Even in Japan, where companies are extremely well run and productive, it is happening.
No one knows how far down world economies will go, so there is great fear in many hearts.
Wanderers come to earth to help the planet, the people, and develop greater soul awareness.
Now that we are closer to Ascension than ever before, it feels to be darkest before the dawn.
Every day we approach dimensional shift and a great new age, and many wanderers remember.
While fear, insecurity and anxiety are running high for most of us, it is not so for everyone.
I also feel closer relationships around me, opening hearts and tenderness increasing too.
Hardships bring out or stimulate the best and worst, and it’s also true for spiritual people.
We help the world by keeping open heart even in suffering and doubt, seeing it as our choice.
We come here by agreement and plan, we have agreed to be here in the hardest last phase.
Negativity is increasing, but so is true heart, and invisible spiritual helpers are also with us.
In my experience and from counseling sessions, I see how all sorts of challenges in 3rd density put a kind of ‘spiritual squeeze’ on us, forcing us to grow up or make deep life-changes.
This kind of ‘squeezing’ is part of higher self plan, forcing us to develop soul awareness.
These days, human negativity and evil create the conditions of the squeeze, basis of our growth.
Although truly painful and dreadful, our life challenge is the matrix of spiritual growth.
In the book, “Light on the Path,” by Alice A. Bailey, there’s a quote about this:
“After a longer or shorter period of time the disciple stands at the Portal of Initiation.
We must remember that as one approaches this portal and draws nearer to the Master,
it is with the feet bathed in the blood of the heart.
Each step up is ever through the sacrifice of all that the heart holds dear on one plane or another, and always must this sacrifice be voluntary.”
This teaching is correct, I know it for myself well, recently.
Indeed, the whole world is undergoing an Initiation, a rite of passage, starting a new phase.
There is no way this can be done without “feet bathed in the blood of the heart…”
A broken heart doesn’t turn bitter or hopeless, even in the face of great sacrifice and loss.
This is very powerful training, and we can emerge from it more empty, purer of light.
Let us all walk forward together, through fire and into the shining dawn.
Scott Mandelker
San Francisco, December 18, 2008
