For a year or more, Joda had been working at lightning speed to bring herself to light.  On this occasion a momentary egoic outburst left her proclaiming, “You talk to guides, Ia, you communicate with unseen ones.  I don’t hear my guides.  You have to hear for me...”   I assured her she was a mere smidge away from tapping into the unseen world all on her own, that her guide support continually “cheered” her faultless advancement, and that everything has its own timing.  I didn’t say that with one singular impending shift, she’d be tapping into a system of communication that leaves iPods and Blackberries children’s toys. 

Shortly after this vocalized frustration, she broke her foot, leaving her guides foot-stomping excited, so to speak.  She played hero for two weeks, hobbling around on crutches for hours on end making her hospital rounds—she’s a geriatrics doctor—before she came to terms with the whys of her resistance and scheduled a two-week  R&R. 

We talked during those two weeks.   She learned with no uncertainty that a broken foot demands respect …and distractions are painful.  Once accepting and settling into the “new routine”, everything began to change for her.  NO need for distraction, just quiet, deeper quiet and then even deeper quiet…to the point that coming close to the end of her R&R, a part of her never wanted to leave her new-found sacred solitude.  

Coming out of her two-week reclusive blink-in-time, Joda proclaimed, “Okay, Ia, I understand I had to elevate my feet to elevate my awareness.”  The true significance of her statement was yet to be fully comprehended.  Meantime, she mustered enough enthusiasm to return to work.  Soon after, I received this email from Joda:

 I had a “first” experience today…and it was amazing. I walked into a patient’s room & immediately had a feeling and therefore said aloud: “St. Peter is here.” My patient had been comatose for several days.  This is the first time I have had such a clear experience of knowing when death is impending.  As I tuned in, I said to my patient “You have a lot of support here”, and it was true.  I could feel all of the energy in the room, all preparing him for his nearing death.  I was amazed.  I examined him quickly, my mind not really in the room at all…I was simply tuned in.  All I knew for certain was that this man’s time to move on was very, very near.  I touched his leg with both of my hands once, and then again (though it seemed to be an inadequate gesture, given the occasion), and said “God Bless You” just before I left the room.  Five minutes later the nurse came to ask me to pronounce his death.  Amazing…and beautiful! 

From here she went on to channel the deceased relative of a fellow participant in a weekend spiritual workshop.  On one hand, she was amazed.  On another, it all seemed so natural.  Why?  Because she had crossed over…she had gone beyond the veil, where another world awaits us all—a world of interconnectedness, a world of infinite support.

These changing times require all of us to elevate our awareness, (even if it means feet first) to go beyond the familiar, to enter the space of no space, the place of no place— the vastness of nothingness..that other world waiting for us. 

Joda is a forerunner.  What she did for herself she does for all others who must and will take this journey.   You will want to elevate your consciousness.  We all will.  For the world of unconsciousness is coming to an end.  

Like Joda, you will know in your own heart when it is your turn to begin to elevate your awareness.  A sure sign is a strong desire to change but an equally strong fear to do so.  Don’t fight the fear…the resistance.  Just take one step.  Doing so will support you in taking the next step.  And remember, you are NOT alone on this journey.  As with Joda, support from the unseen world is a constant.  You can turn away from your guidance.  But there is nothing you can do to turn your guidance away from you.