We are in free-fall.  I’ve been skydiving, and this is the reason I did it.  Exhilarating, terrifying, and thrilling, it is damn near orgasmic.  It is an incredible moment in time.  I will never forget it.  In the air it lasts for moments; here on earth it’s much longer. 

These times we are in have no guidebook.  There is not a twelve step program to release our addictions to third density while we are enmeshed here.  It sounds easy in so much of the information out there … “Let go of the misery of pain and suffering!” “Get the physical vitality you desire without aging!” “Become one with all of life!” “Just love all the time!” “Live in a constant state of bliss!”

Wow, I want to go there. Yet, I am here, and I have to get myself there.  There is not a pill to take or a plane to catch (or jump out of).  There is just me, here now, with these very third dimensional bills and tasks and relationships and aches and anxieties.

It is time to choose now. Every challenge we find the most difficult will rear up and stand in front of us, blocking our view.  We will not see what is possible with love until we can see through the illusions in the way. They seem to be running and fighting with each other now, to take front row… as if the debt is pushing its way to the front, quickly followed by an angry loved one or a persistent physical issue.  They seem larger than life and our responses to them are telling us where we need to focus.

This is all improvised.  No one can tell you how to do this.  You have to love yourself enough to persist.  Love is the only answer.

We wanted to be showers of the way.  It is show time. 

The Young Prince

Imagine a young prince who has been entrusted to the care of peasants since infancy, in order for him to experience life's hardships. He doesn't know he is heir to the throne, and he goes to work every day in shabby clothes and with hardly any food inside him. Years later, the king, his father, decides his education is complete and sends a whole delegation of representatives to find him and bring him back to the palace. The young prince hasn't a clue what's going on and thinks a mistake has been made. But there's no mistake, and they explain to him he was sent to live with peasants simply in order to learn what hard work, sobriety and modesty are. Now he's arrived at the palace: they ask him what he would like for his meal, and all he wants is a little bread, an onion and some water. He doesn't know the royal chef has prepared a whole feast... And you can imagine the rest of the story.

And if I tell you that, inside, you are all princes and princesses... Yes, because you are all sons and daughters of God, and one day your heavenly Father, who has entrusted you to peasants for the sake of your education – yes, symbolically that's what life on earth is – will solemnly send for you. But only on condition that you have worked properly, of course; otherwise, this apprenticeship with peasants could last for many incarnations.

OMRAAM MIKHAEL AIVANHOV

The name Omraam

“This name, says Georg Feuerstein, is made up of two famous Sanskrit mantras or words of power, Om et Ram.