Masters of the Spirit World

QUESTION: Masters, I smoke marijuana and am trying very hard to stop. It seems the harder I try to stop, the more I smoke. Please, what energy is causing that? Please help me to get out of this habit.                                  ~Mark, Germany

ANSWER: Marijuana has become a friend, a comfortable hideout, escapism from the fear of your life. The mellow high and diminished sense of responsibility that the drug affords you, make it easy to continue running away from yourself. Whenever you don’t want to face anything you take the edge off your anxiety with a smoke. Feel a little fear of failure and the smoke will make you forget and not care.

When you try to stop smoking you fear that you will not be able to, so you take “one last smoke.” Then, after you get high, you get mad at yourself for doing it, for not having the courage to stop, so you hide from that shame in another cloud of smoke. Each broken promise to yourself makes you run deeper and deeper into the drug to get further away from facing the truth that you don’t have the courage to stop. The fact is you don’t really want to stop.

Your whole perception of the world for quite a while has been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. You are more fearful than ever because you have no idea what the world is really like, and that scares you to death. With your view of the world so skewed, you are unable to handle a total break from this drug without assistance.

Seek professional help either from a medical clinic, a drug counselor such as narcotics anonymous, or a hypnotherapist who will be able to let you access your sub-conscious mind, which isn’t tainted by the physical need your body has for this drug.

QUESTION: Masters, can people attain the ascension state without having their kundalini rise? Can one ascend without having reached enlightenment? In which order does the soul experience these events? Will we experience them all?            ~Olive, UK

ANSWER: First it is important to discuss the terminology involved in this question. Many different groups and authors have used the terms ascension, kundalini, and enlightenment in a variety of ways, some of them contradicting their associates. For purposes of our answer we shall tell you how we are using the terms within this message: By ascension we mean the ability of the soul, while still contained within its physical body (incarnate or not having gone through a death process), to rise above the heavy third-dimensional energy of ego and negativity, into a state where it is possible to communicate with all the other souls who are not incarnate. They are fully able to access all the wisdom of the universe. When ascended, the soul has the choice to maintain its physical body or to shed it and be in its formless energetic condition. This takes place when the soul has completed its life lessons for that cycle. It may remain in contact with the Earth to be of service to other souls.

The kundalini is an energy of self (the soul or essence) which remains coiled within the body until acknowledged, and then is unhindered by human conflicts in its rise to aware consciousness. This may occur by stimulating the connection between yourself and Source energy or the universe, causing a connection with the unconditional love and bliss of your true state of being. It can be accomplished by working on oneself, or happens spontaneously as you complete your life lessons.

The process humans go through to reach the level of ascension, or a full kundalini rising, is referred to as “enlightenment.” People may be said to be enlightened, to a degree, when they have a knowledge and understanding of the essence of themselves, even if they have not gone all the way to ascension or bliss on Earth.

All souls are capable of reaching these stages during an incarnation if they have not burdened themselves with too many or complex learning experiences.

QUESTION: My older brother has been operated on for a cancerous tumor and now has been sent to a nursing home because they can’t do any more for him. He is unable to move his legs. Our whole family is too far away to be at his bedside and help him through this hard time. What can I do to help him?                                  ~Orquidea

ANSWER: Before souls come to Earth they make a series of contracts with other souls to share experiences with them. Your family has agreed with your brother that you will allow him to go through his chosen lessons without being able to personally attend to him. He is dealing with lessons of despair, abandonment, and helplessness. However, he is also learning to be able to feel the power of others who are seeking to console him by sending him energy.

Each of your other family members has entered an agreement to do something called “witnessing.” This is the action of standing back and observing the trials and tribulations that others are going through while sending them energy to help them find whatever is for their highest and greatest good. This helps them experience their lessons and also gain the knowledge available to turn it into wisdom.

You are a witness to your brother’s journey. Send him love and best wishes with your intentions. If he opens to the energy, he will be able to sense your power flowing to help him along his path. His next destination is in his own hands. Your energy will help him understand the possibilities.