Poised for a Shift in Consciousness
by Susanna Thorpe-Clark
May 15 - 2002

Have you noticed in the last month or so that your manifesting powers have deserted you? Perhaps too, you are finding yourself in a very uncomfortable and challenging position because something is threatening your safety and security. Perhaps you have been looking for a job and can't find one. Perhaps your investments have suddenly crashed. Perhaps the instability is coming from your partner. Or perhaps you are facing serious health issues and/or death of a loved one. Perhaps you are feeling just plain old frustrated because your plans to move forward are being constrained. Whatever the situation, it doesn't seem to matter what solutions you come up with to get the status quo back where you want it, nothing is working for you any more.

So, what is going on?

Up until now, we have all been coasting along in our 3rd dimensional hologram knowing the parameters in which we were working. Our premise in this world is that in order to survive we have to learn how to use our Will Power to create and control our personal environment. And we all know how to do this very well, so that when the rug is pulled from beneath our feet we automatically exert our Will to bring everything back into normal flow. For example, if we loose our job, we go out and look for another one. If our finances come crashing down we determine other ways to make up the loss. If our health is suffering we find the best healer to fix us. If our partner leaves us for somebody else, we go looking for another to take their place....and so on.

The third dimensional consciousness says that we create the best results by controlling and exerting our Personal Will. And we do this by focusing our intention on a specific goal and take controlled action to bring about the results we want. But right now we are poised for a shift into a new consciousness, one that does not understand Personal Will for the new consciousness is not third dimensional. So, with one foot in the old consciousness and one foot in the new, we are in a somewhat precarious position trying to find a new way of manifesting our needs. So how can we do this? By releasing our old unconscious behavioural patterns which are obstructing the new consciousness from coming in.

As an example of an old behaviour pattern, let me share with you what has been happening to me. For the past five months I have been watching my monetary income gradually fall apart. When my survival comes under attack I rush about in panic looking for a physical solution to the problem at hand, because that is how a third dimensional consciousness operates. But no matter what physical fix I tried to create, nothing would manifest. Finally, I began to look below the surface situation to see why my abundant flow had completely dried up. Was I carrying around some thought that was causing this fracas? The answer was, of course, tied up inside the fear and guilt behind an old, old thought that I have been carrying around for many lifetimes, and I have had to look for it good and hard. Although I thought I had already dealt with this old pattern, there was still a kernel of fear getting in the way of achieving full self-empowerment. So it's been necessary to get right down to the core, and that, believe me, has been a very testing experience. The good news is that having been forced by my Higher Self to confront this thought pattern once again, that I can now let it go for all time. Hooray.

Unfortunately, the letting go process doesn't happen in the instant that you discover the thought which is causing all the problems. One goes through a gradual releasing of the old energy, and this needs to operate in an environment of peace, tranquility and non-action if it is to be effective. It has therefore, helped me to stay in present time as much as I can, and also to hold strongly to my faith that nothing terrible is going to happen to me and that really, I am safe. It isn't always easy to keep such positive thoughts in mind when your world is crumbling around you, but I know that the only way to shift an old pattern is to face what must be changed.

Whilst moving through this particularly testing life situation, I have come to realize, that I am not just clearing the way for unlimited abundance for myself, but also for others. I am not alone in shifting this particular thought, for the fear which lies behind the lack of abundance comes in many guises, and is caused by many different past life experiences all of which must now be cleared. There are other limiting thoughts which are also being dealt with in similar fashion. The fear of letting go of those people to whom we are most attached. The fear of not being accepted by those who do not think the same way. The fear of pain and of dying. Many are involved in clearing out these issues at this time.

The reason we are hitting all these fundamental issues now is because the new consciousness requires us to make a 180 degree turn around in how we live life. A 180 degree turn around in our attitude towards ourselves. A 180 degree turn around in what we see as the most important issue in life. A 180 degree turn around to acknowledge our Divine Power. And a 180 degree turn around in how we express our Divinity. So, if you are currently dealing with a major disruption which is calling upon you to change your limiting beliefs about yourself, you can be sure that you are contributing 100% to freeing up the energies for a new planetary consciousness to come into effect.

For those of you who are reading this and sighing with relief because your life isn't falling apart just now, please realize that your time will come. If it is your desire to ascend, then you will eventually hit your valley of the shadow which must be cleared before any further evolution can take place. Some people have volunteered to take on the burden of clearing out specific issues to make it easier for those that follow, but that does not mean that the followers are freed from doing their own work. It will just be easier and quicker because, unlike us, you will know exactly what you will need to do when you get to this point.

Those of us at the forefront of this Ascension journey are here on a mission to lift the human consciousness so that evolution out of the third dimension can be achieved in lifetimes to come, by any person who may wish to do so. Evolution from the third dimension has never before been possible, which is why creating this road map into the new consciousness is so difficult. Those of us at the front are carving out the road as we travel along it. This means that we never know what the next step will entail until we actually find ourselves doing it. There is never any advance warning of choppy water ahead, and it takes time to uplift our consciousness to catch up with what's going on. Challenging indeed!

If you are feeling frustrated and/or depressed at the moment because everything you want isn't manifesting, then ask yourself a question. What areas in your life are you experiencing constraint? Go searching for the unconscious fear that is controlling this constraint and if you have difficulty, ask your Higher Self for clarity . Once you know what it is, then you can release the thought, and the fear behind it, simply by intending it be so. But please realize that it does take time to move on through.

Releasing the third dimensional belief systems and thoughts about ourselves is time consuming and far from easy. Letting go of one reality when we don't exactly know how to create the new one is scary, for it requires radical trust and faith in ourselves and we are not awfully good at this yet. Therefore, staying centred and grounded is important. Take time out to be alone with your thoughts. Walking in nature helps, so does meditation, or floating in the sea. Just remember that we cannot force this shift by taking a normal third dimensional approach towards it i.e., by using our Will Power and focusing on outcomes and fixes. All we can do is LET GO and let our God-self show us the way. It also helps to try and stay in present time, for present time is where the released past and the uncreated future meet. It is only in the NOW where the new consciousness can be created.

The new consciousness calls for living in the present moment and creating what we need right now. The new consciousness does not allow us to focus on what we might need tomorrow or the next day or a year hence. In the new consciousness there is no saving for a rainy day. There are no long-range goals to be achieved for there is no focus on anything beyond the requirements of the present moment.

This new way of creating requires us to be completely open and without fear, and we will be tested on this quite strongly in the coming year. All our fears will rise up to greet us until we learn to push them out of our existence for all time. To deny or refuse to face these issues will only mean that we will not be able to ascend and move forward in this lifetime.

Ascension is a long, arduous and very challenging journey and is so demanding that many feel that it is just too hard. And yes it is hard, there is no denying it. I frequently say it's too hard, particularly when facing a powerful thought that is difficult to release. But remember that reluctance to face the truth is what creates the pain, whether that pain be emotional or physical.

The only way out of a painful state is to accept the challenge and release our attachment to everything that has happened in the past. Release our attachment to our hatreds and our jealousies. Release our attachment to our families, our friends and our enemies. Release our attachment to our belief that we have no power to change our lives for the better. Release our attachment to our businesses, our careers and our possessions. Release our attachment to everything we hold dear. Yes, I said it was hard and it is.

But once the old consciousness is released, the new consciousness will come in automatically, without any effort at all. This means of course, that creating in the new way will also be effortless. No need to assert our Will Power to make something happen because Divine Power will have taken over.....what joy!

Divine Power and the consciousness that comes with it, is actually what we have been aiming for all these years. We have been slowly preparing for our Soul (our Higher Self) to come and join us in our physical body, and we are clearing out the space, by releasing attachments, fears and limiting thoughts so that this powerful part of ourselves can get in. This is the time when Spirit really begins to MERGE with physical matter, and it is a truly Divine and joyous moment.

Remember this when the going gets tough. Remember this when you feel you want to give up. Just hold the thought of the magic and wonder that lies just ahead if you continue. The struggle, the opposition, the frustration, the lack of abundance, the ill health and the emotional and physical pain will all be gone FOREVER. So just keep focused, stay centred and continue to LET GO.