Includes the introduction; the ego and time; 'Now is the time to shift the vibratory rate,' 'Live a spiritual life that is joyous.'

Taken during a class with the intention to share and informally give the viewer a sense of being in the class with the energy and information.

   Julie: I’m happy to be with you all doing this. It’s a great honor.
   So let’s know, in this new experiment, this new exploration, that we come to it with open hearts, curious minds, with the intention of healing, kindness, wisdom, blessing. And we know that the work is blessed.

   Micciah: So we greet you dear friends. And we are most pleased to be with you, to be invited again so that the realms can communicate with each other, participate with each other. You are always walking amongst the realms. They are interwoven, coexisting.
   This realm appears to unspool in time. So, when you enter a physical incarnation, you take on the experience of time, which, if you have a spiritual practice, a deep spiritual practice, your relationship to perceived time will alter. Expand, contract, turn upside down, and maybe, inside out. Still, you have responsibilities to the dimension of time. The ego, which you have been working with in your group in a most interesting way, lives in time. When you leave the physical self,  as Ram Dass said, “When you sell the old Ford.” Your ego will not be going with you. [laughs] And before you enter this world, you did not have an ego. So, one of the features of ego is that it lives in time. And as the grip of ego needs and beliefs loosens, and you are increasingly liberated, ego becomes, as you have been saying, your ally. You can breathe a sigh of relief because time, in the sense that it presents a danger, “Time is running out.” Is it? Heh, heh! Where is it running? “Time is money.” Wasting Time.” All of that has the opportunity of shifting.
   We are going to come back to this  because of your question Judith.
   And we want to speak with you again about this time, in the unfolding incarnation of the earth, of all of you, of all the beings on the earth, and how it is that the need of the time… (You know, we are caught in language here. We will do the best we can.) …is to shift the vibratory level. (How to explain this. How to explain this in a way that is not pat.)
   Everything. [hands raised and vibrating] Everything moves. Your bodies, your physical selves, the energy body around you. Bodies have a vibratory… What is it Jon, speed?

   Jon: Rate.

   Micciah: Rate!. So, when you hit a tuning fork, it vibrates, yes?

   Jon: Yep.

   Micciah: In this time, of enormous change, we have talked about this for many years. We have said, “The times of change are coming.” So now, in time, they are here. And the urge from the guardians of this planet, from the wise ones, from the realms, from the people on the planer, the animals, the trees, the plants, the salamanders, everything, is to move the vibratory rate. (So now we are stuck. Is it better to go faster? Yes and no. It is really… Let us put it this way.) It is a move in consciousness. It is a shift in consciousness, individual consciousness, group consciousness toward embracing compassion, mindfulness, the profound eternal energies of love. And to live in those means the vibratory system has to shift. When you attend to those through meditation, prayer, celebration, dancing, singing, expressing (we cannot say this too strongly) expressing the love you feel, your vibratory system does shift. And as yours shifts, remember there is only one of you, you add that to the pool of consciousness you share with all things. It is a gift to be able to do it. To have it, to be it. It’s more being than doing. And it is the gift you give in your lifetime to the people and animals and plants, waters (we just spilled several cups of water) with whom you share this realm.
   We know we have said this before. We are going to say it again. Often spirituality is thought of as being very somber, very serious. And we know there are the four paths in one teaching. Via creativa, and the other three. We want to encourage you to live a spiritual life that is joyous. Not fake, putting a good face on something. That’s not joy. Joyous in the gift of life, so life is a celebration, your meals, touching another human being, caring for yourself, loving your body, reaching out to others, caring for the sick, for people who are suffering including yourself. Life, itself can be a joy. Even in the deepest moments of sadness, the experience can be of the joys of creation. So you may say, you have asked wonderful questions, brought up wonderful issues, how can you be joyous? Look at the world! It breaks your heart. It does break your heart. It does. And when you heart is open, it can also be open to joy, to compassion.
   We want to address your issues, so we will stop. There is more to be said about this. Think small. Imagine, as so many poets have said, the universe in a single grain of sand. In one bud of a flower. Because the whole of it, its immensity, is contained in every tiny cell. Yes!