What it takes to Master Light – The Journey Continues (by Mike of Mel and Mike)
The scope of my life and work has changed drastically and dramatically over the last year. It was last year on September 6, 2011 that I left Philadelphia to drive across the country, destination known but not understood, to arrive in Mt. Shasta California. I was not moving, not relocating; I just knew I had to finally, after many long years, take a break from my normal routine, get away from it all and see if I could renew and rejuvenate my spirit.
My normal routine as some of you may know was that of an independent business consultant by day doing marketing work, and a student and sometimes coach/teacher of all things metaphysical by night (and some weekends). Occasionally I had even assisted in marketing and administering some channeling events with other Lightworkers to help assist with the work of sharing the Light. But that was hardly it…I was also spending a good year recuperating from a bad shoulder injury, am also a divorced Dad who has two boys who I took care of a few times a month and visited weekly at their home an hour’s drive away; a middle child in my own birth family who was the only one of three sons to whom the task of caring for our elderly (and very cantankerous) ailing Mother responsibly fell toward. Caring for my Mother was partially an issue of honorability, as it did not seem right to me to have her put into a home to be cared for, and partially due to my own situation of having to live on my own and also support my children financially, as caring for my Mother in her home provided the means to make it easier to have money left over after all the monthly bills were paid.
On Thanksgiving of 2010, at 11:11 pm, my Mother passed away after having spent the last few months confined to bed with a broken hip and failing lungs. I had been her main source of emotional and physical companionship for the prior four and a half years. It may not seem that long a time but for me it was in many ways, a lifetime. My Mother was ridged in her beliefs, strict in her ways and did not believe that love was show or shared by a demeanor of the kind word or an overt act of kindness. Love was a debt one owed for what another did for you. It was a great challenge for a Lightworker to experience, and I imagine many of you can relate.
Why? Because that is the path of a Lightworker, to not just face adversity, but to be in adversity 24/7. It is not specifically designed to be a test of your Light, but is simply a reflection of life in the modern world and what it will take for you to remember and relearn how to Master your Light.
I could go on to delve into how the other folks in my life, my ex-wife, my close friends, my two brothers, those I worked with at the time, were also reflections of the those challenges, and how there were also occasions where they too shined the Light very brightly. But you have all that in your own life too, as life is full of moments of contrast at either end of the spectrum.
But as many of us experience it, especially those who know they are here upon Gaia to specifically shine their own light brighter, those challenging individuals and situations can get one down, day after day, month after month and year after year.
This was finally why Spirit “set me down and had a talk”…it was time for me to regroup and take a breather. And getting away from it all, driving across a vast country that is 3000 miles wide, might just assist. Spirit does not give me much advice. They certainly help me readjust my perspective and usually, when it comes to choices, allow me to choose my own Destiny, but this time it strongly suggested I take a trip, get away. This talk did not happen until had had attempted to design my life according to the way I wanted it to be after four years of taking care of my Mother. I felt that it was time for me to finally set myself up as a proper citizen of a large metropolitan city area should, and begin to settle into the lifestyle of a successful 3D person just like the nightly sitcoms and TV commercials depicted. (I can tell you, they did not spend much digital resources on portraying the kind of life I was living before).
I had to give notice at my primary place of business and that too caused a great deal of drama, but the drama also extended to everyone in my circle, for I had never “left” them before, I was not traveling man, I was a steady and dependable presence in their lives, even if they did not appreciate me being in it so much.
So, by the first week of September last year, I had all my ducks in a row, I loaded up my van (a family van for lugging the kids around) and off I went.
When one envisions themselves traveling across the country as a single male (who had a lifestyle that permitted about 2 dates a year by the way), it is more fitting to be in a fast Mustang or some such vehicle, not a family van. But my intentions were to be reflective and meditative, so my vehicle suited me just fine.
And it was no coincidence that this could finally happen for me, as a year before my Mom passed, I also took a big step in my own journey of accessing the Light more fully. I had enrolled in the premier launce of the Light Master program by Steve and Barbara Rother (through the new Paths to Empowerment business). What was unique about what they were doing was that they asked for a commitment to the full year. They felt that having one step in and out, only sampling the work here and there would be a disservice to the teachings and to the student doing the learning. This was a big shift for me to commit to a yearlong program, and it also shifted me greatly after being in it. Only I did not have a full understanding of just what that shift inside me was about, nor was I really conscious of it.
It wasn’t just Steve and Barbara Rother that were “hard at work” trying to get folks like me to “wake up and see the light”. In addition to my dear channel friend Sheryl Blumenthal for whom I had marketed the events for, I had also met a gifted teacher and channel named Robert Young and his wife, (also named Barbara by the way), who did some powerful healing work on my Mom (and myself) when they were passing through Philadelphia. And, due to my shoulder injury, I had reconnected with another great channel and healer from Southern New Jersey named Christine Meleriessee who drastically altered my life by assisting me to bring in my Higher Self more fully. And as I said before, I was not really conscious of just how powerful and transformative any of these healers and teachers were to me – until much later, and that is typical of the pathway of becoming a Master of Your Light.
As I look back on it, why did I decide, after so many years of being responsible to my duties, of always doing the “right thing” and standing by everyone in my life, of being the faithful friend, the dutiful son, the dedicated parent, the loyal worker…, why did I choose to take a break and drive across the country? It was not me.
But that is the point…it was no longer me. Studying and reading about what Lightworkers do was what I did for almost 20 years, doing Lightwork as a formal course of study only happened when I stepped up and took the Light Master year long course. It was a financial and time and duration commitment. But it was all about doing Lightwork on myself. And that is why the doorways opened more for me to allow other teachers and healers to really assist also.
I took the trip. I drove.
And I was not planning on leaving The Philly metro area where my family, friends and livelihood were all located; I was not planning on moving. Or should I say, the old me, the one I was no longer, was not planning on it.
As I neared the state line between Pennsylvania and Ohio I felt very strange. I had a very distinct physical awareness as if I was not just a guy in a car driving along a highway, but a tree who wanted to move and did just that, such that it was uprooting its roots after decades and decades to move…just like those trees in the movie Lord of the Rings…big roots, not easily dislodged.
All of a sudden I felt like I could breathe deeper. Something very heavy had left me and I could not explain or put into words what it was. But I felt it just the same.
I traveled to see some family and friends along my journey, each one assisting me greatly in seeing and understanding facets about my life. Each gave me gifts of spirit that they cannot even comprehend, as I did not comprehend it at the time either. It was as if I was given the time to reflect and review my life through their eyes, as we discussed what I had done before and how long I had been doing it.
You know you can’t really see your own life fully when you are in it. It really is a case of only seeing the trees and not the forest. And that is just how it is. We like the trees, we like the view. Not always because we literally “like it” necessarily, but because we are used to it, we understand it, we know it. Our roots go deep and so do the roots of those trees near us. Nobody wants to uproot their roots. They spend too much time and energy, emotionally and socially digging them in.
And when you can only see the staid old oak trees all around you, you might not even know some very tall splendid pine trees are just around the corner, or perhaps 3000 miles away. And you might not know that you are not really a very good oak tree, but that yo are an amazing pine tree.
This was in a manner of speaking what happened to me. I discovered myself again, and I was really much less a part of the energies of the world I was in than I ever knew. And that world was not just the particular characteristics of the city I lived near and the people who inhabited it, no, it was not simply about geography…that world was the world of “being dimmed”, of being not the Light that I was. It was the choice I made to go the extra step, to really commit to being a Lightworker by learning how to Master the Light as Steve Rother put it, that shifted everything for me. Without that commitment I would have continued on, leaving my roots just where they comfortably (as uncomfortable as that was), were.
I now not only walk in my light, I focus entirely on expanding my light as I walk the talk fully. I don’t do business consulting for others anymore. I work full time on my own Lightworker business along with my new business partner and new life mate, Christine Meleriessee, who had moved from New Jersey to Mt. Shasta just months before I took a trip across the county. Turned out, she is my Divine Twin Ray and both of us never had a clue…but that is, again, the point. You can’t know what is in store for you until you really commit to stepping up.
What can happen when you do? Everything. I am now incredibly joyful about my life. True, my children and all those from back where I grew up, don’t like it, think I have abandoned them, forsaken them…and many of them have anger and frustration with what I did. After all, trees should stay put shouldn’t they?
Now I assist other Lightworkers (even those who don’t think they are) to delve deeper, to go the extra step into what really works. I was also a student and teacher in philosophy, psychology and the personal development movement…and I can tell you that there may be a reason why all those ways of addressing your life are not really working for you the way the teachers of those movements depict that their teachings should…it is because you are not here on Gaia to fully partake of the world of success in the 3D, of “having all you want”, of being the master of your life”…because you are here to be a Lightworker. And that journey…is not what you ever thought it was.
It takes a lot of work.
It takes a lot of work on you.
It takes commitment to accepting into yourself that you are not “maybe” but “are”, a much more expansive being than you ever thought you were. A being that is immensely confident, knows fully who they are, and why they are here on this planet at this particular juncture in time. It does not mean you get past all the challenges of being human, it means you know inside that you will.
I have learned so much more in the last year and I now pass it onto you in my work with Meleriessee. So I do invite you to take a page from my book…learning literally about Lightwork, that is, learning to command light is what will take you to the next level of your human existence like nothing else out there can do.
Why? Because what Steve and Barbara were asked to do by the group, was teach humans the next step in their evolution. You have all heard you are a being of light, a Light Being. You have heard that all matter is simply a frequency of light, that sound is a frequency of light…well we, as humans now have to learn to feel those frequencies and call them up in our consciousness. This is step one to walking the pathway into the New Earth, into the 12/21/12 prophesied about…it is very important we learn to Master Light. It is what the Ascended Masters all did and it was called Ascension Science. Meleriessee has upped the game with the light work of using the 22 Rays (which no one else is doing by the way…(yet at least…).
For myself, I am working to get out as many programs as possible as Spirit wants humans to get assistance from them. All of our work includes channeling from the Spiritual Hierarchy without exception. We now have an Email Seminar Course in Ascension Science that is simple and easy that we just put together on how to Master Light using the 22 Rays, as in light rays before 12/21/12.
I discovered that there is a great deal about Ascension Science and Soul Psychology that I never knew…and it turns out it is really important to know these things. I stepped up and it really assisted me. It is what really enabled me to Master my Light. Below are the links you can check out:
Take The 22 Rays Challenge! = our Email Seminar that you do on your own time with teachings and MP3’s delivered via email each week for 12 weeks (90 days)at just a dollar a day.
Integrate the 22 Rays in your Chakras = our in-depth 9-week Seminar now on MP3 audio with handouts, each of the 9 classes is 90 minutes of audio. For those who what deeper understandings and channelings in the 22 Rays and how to use them.
Plus, for those looking for Ascension Teachings, we are launching a new course, The Science of Ascension, and for those who want a great understanding of what living in a 5D reality requires, stay tuned for our new The Telosian Way of Being weekly seminar series.
And, don’t forget — tomorrow is our tele-call to celebrate the Equinox!!
