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Swimming in the Ocean of
Transformation
by Cherie Byrd
I jolt as a voice from across the room booms, You’re
moving from the 3rd rung of the ladder to the 5th. Oh?
I’m feeling the deep masculine sincerity of these words
as they channel through the woman in front of me, but I
have no clue what this entity means as I envision a
ladder with a missing rung. My whole body is
vibrating-out-loud as I sit there. I’m tripping on the
changes in the texture of the colored light in the room,
and my brain is simultaneously in a kind of mental
disconnect, and feeling like someone is driving a rod
thru a “coconut hole” in my head, sending energy into
“new” areas of my brain.
It’s September 1987 and I’d been living in various
altered states of vibratory consciousness since the
infamous Harmonic Convergence the month before. And here
I am with this wise being trying to find out WHAT is
going on. As I sat there I wondered, what had happened
to the 4th rung of that ladder, and where is this ladder
going?
I had a great fondness for this entity but I was
consistently frustrated by the density of the metaphors
he never explained. My next question was, “Well, what’s
the best way to deal with all this?” Just keep swimming,
take a breath and just keep swimming. Oh my God, now
this is beginning to sound endless, and exhausting, and
I still have no clue what is going on. I’m already
feeling fried from buzzing along with all the vibrations
around me. Being One with All That Is, is realllllly
intense! Every color, every life form, every emotion,
thought, scent or piece of weather was vibrating me, and
nothing was solid. It’s really hard to drive a car when
nothing is solid. It felt like there were all kinds of
layers of “reality” possible in every second and whoever
had the clearer idea of where they were going would
dominate the creation of the moment.
I very quickly moved to the country. Actually I moved to
the end of the road at the end of the island. I spent
the next 20 years living in a 100 year-old cabin
embraced by Puget Sound and deep forest, bird chorus and
deer babies, nature spirits and 5th density beings. Gaia
was tempering me, grounding me, teaching me about
awakening Kundalini, embodying the wild powerful
energies of spirit.
I’ve always been an energy junkie, it’s my way of
knowing anything, to read the energy of it, and I’d been
a Holistic Energy Therapist for ten years by that time,
I thought I knew things. I also had been praying for
more spirit in my life, commanding the universe to bring
it on.
I’d known since I was a kid that something big is going
to happen this lifetime and I wanted it to appear!
And so a new journey began. I discovered how little I
actually did know about the vastness of All That Is, and
learned amazing things every day. After some years of
this, I got new marching orders from my guidance. It was
time to go back to the city for a few days a week, but
no more was I to work with what they termed “Rip Van
Winkles”, people who were invested in being checked out.
It was time to teach interested students how to
integrate the energies that were accelerating on the
planet, and in a more graceful fashion than what I had
electrocuted myself with. My job was now to be the
missing rung to help people embody the enormous
vibrational transformation that everything on the planet
is experiencing, the shifting from 3rd dimensional
illusions of separation consciousness to the holographic
5th.
What I’ve discovered is that 4th dimensional
consciousness is a very important and somewhat
treacherous bridge to Unity consciousness. Fourth
dimensional consciousness has been resonating on the
planet since the 60’s when we were chanting for peace,
love and harmony and hearing Ram Das declare, BE HERE
NOW; while at the same time many others were loudly
proclaiming, Be afraid, you are not safe in the world;
be very afraid. This energy of fear gets agitated, loud
and insistent as one begins to move away from the
familiar duality of 3-D consciousness, and acts like
hungry fear-feeding demons at the gates of higher
consciousness determined not to loose its food source.
The question at the threshold is, do you live in a safe
or unsafe Universe? It’s the bottom line question, and
your Universe will reflect your answer.
Many of us are currently waffling between these states
of consciousness. We want to release our old 3-D
patterns of duality and judgment, but either consciously
or not, we are also easily activated by lower 4-D
fear-eating demons. Who would we be without our daily
struggle, our dramas, and our separate identity?
We smooth out some days and as we relax and wallow in
grateful moments of the higher 4-D energies of presence,
NOW, and beauty, we open to more of a communion state.
Oneness is recognition of a deep relationship with life,
and even if we aren’t experiencing that depth of
communion in our human relationships, any flower or
tree, or pet that we truly connect with becomes a
trigger for that deeper relationship with all life.
On our most magical days the depth of our union offers
us glimpses of 5-D holograms of Oneness and bliss. We
may first discover this in the midst of making love, as
we expand past ideas of pleasure and into the very soul
of our beloved. We may crack open and merge with spirit
in the midst of any activity if we’re open and
welcoming, and hopefully grounded. We fluctuate a lot in
all this which makes it hard to trust these uplifting
qualities as something that can sustain, nourish and
expand us. But eventually we begin to experience the
abiding sense that reality is indeed a state-specific
phenomenon. Our state of consciousness determines the
powers and play of life moving through us into creation,
and it really is our choice as well as our deepest
hunger.
So, beyond the injunctive to take a breath and keep on
swimming, what are a few things that can help ease and
stabilize us in these expanded frequencies? It’s a list
we’ve all heard many times, the basics of learning to
master our energy. The beauty is that these simple tools
work 100% of the time, IF we use them.
Grounding is essential, as is staying in your body and
in the present moment. Daily, and on-goingly. Breathe
and ground is a very useful mantra, whether you’re at
the bank, on a plane, or making love.
Time in nature is very healing, simply connecting with
mamma earth and her relations is nourishing. It’s the
connection that makes it so, not the vista.
Learn practices for clearing your field, most of what is
in our energy field is not ours. It’s time to let it go,
so we can more clearly experience the truth of our
Being. Consider clearing your energy field as often as
you bathe.
Your energy circuits don’t carry your intents and
communicate with your chakras unless you stay in your
body. Learn how to embody your mental, emotional, and
psychic bodies, so you cultivate a resonant instrument
through which your spirit can sing its song.
Take responsibility for everything in your life. Be in
relationship with the mirrors you are creating all
around. This brings your power of choice back to you.
Anything we disown we cannot change.
Watch your inner dialogue. We frown at the level of “bad
news” the media offers up, but what about the stories
we’re telling ourselves? Are your “news” stories
uplifting? Or 3-D dramas?
Gratitude journals and practices of appreciation expand
what you do truly want in your life. This is a simple
but profound training for creating an experience of
well-being. If you journal before bedtime it makes for
much better sleep, and you may wake up with a smile,
looking forward to more.
Each day, maybe even before rising, take a moment to
dedicate your energy. Undedicated energy is available
for anyone to use, so gather yourself together and take
your energy into your own creation.
Should fear arise, keep in mind that it is essentially
neutral energy. Scrape the fear vibe off of it and
dedicate the clear energy to something uplifting and
life affirming.
There are endless numbers of tools that we can use to
assist us in our alignment with Unity consciousness, and
much to my Leo heart’s delight, they are primarily
oriented toward blossoming open our deepest heart and
grounding this as our life. So, it is with sincere
compassion, courage, humility and appreciation that I
invite you to join me in the ocean of life. That fourth
rung of the ladder is right there on the side of the
boat to support your immersion as you surrender your
fear of the depths. Shall we swim together? The water is
de-light-full!
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