No More Life Lessons In The School Of Life

With the recent realization of what life is like once you reach a certain point of your spiritual development, I’d like to amend my article on life purpose.

As I explained in the aforementioned post, once you reach this point of spiritual growth, you are in a whole different ball game.  Using the same analogy I used in that article, you are now sailing on the big wild ocean, fast and free.  The rules and principles that applied to you while you were pushing your boat on the beach simply do not work any longer.  The concept of life lessons is one of them.

At this point, this post is relevant to only a handful of people.  Like the post on soul shifting, please feel free to skip if it doesn’t appeal to you.  I’m writing this for these very special individuals and the people who are heading this way soon.  (Photo by Vardhana)

Life as school to learn our life lessons

Previously, we were to learn a set of life lessons through various life experiences.  We chose these life lessons ourselves prior to incarnation, so it wasn’t like someone was pushing their agenda to us.  Yet the learning was often challenging.  Many of us inadvertently chose negative learning experiences and progressed ever so slowly.    Life was just like a school.

I remember how it was because it wasn’t so long ago I worked hard on this whole life lesson thing.  I was so fervent – nothing was more important for me than learning and completing my life lessons.  The way I saw it – and still do for those who are at this stage of development – is that, if I fail to learn my life lessons in this lifetime, I would have to come back to work on them again, like repeating the same grade in a school.  That surely sucks.  So do whatever to learn them.

My primary life lesson was integration.  I had learned much in my many past lives, and in this life as well, and I was to put everything in coherent context.  Like “Spiritual Healing and Growth for Greater Success”, connecting spirituality and worldly success that many people see as completely separate and even incompatible.  I was to bring the value of unification.  (I don’t know why my spirit guides used this business-like word “unification” rather than more nicey words like “accord” or “harmony”, but that is what they said.)  If you check my posts in December to early January, you can see this learning trend and my passion.

And then it happened. I still don’t know exactly how it happened – evidently I completed my life lessons and reached a point of my spiritual growth, plus there was a grace of the higher “tide”, the planetary change that is benefiting quite a few of us.  I got a new soul.

What it is like once you reach this point of spiritual development

Again, it is a completely different game after this point of spiritual growth.  By now, I have read the Akashic Records of eight individuals who have had this shift, and all confirm the same pattern.  And one of the characteristic of it is that there are no more life lessons.

We have completed the life lessons and graduated from the school of life.  From here, we are completely free and our life purpose is simply to be who we are. No pre-determined life lessons.  Life is not a school any more, but more like a playground.

Since there is no more learning needs, there is no point in trying.  Many people talk about the importance of doing rather than trying, but they only try really hard not to try.  Too complicated.  Once the life lessons drop, however, there is indeed no trying.  We just are.  And we do whatever comes to us naturally and joyously, and this is how we grow even further spiritually.

If you think that kind of “selfish” acts would bring all kinds of havocs and disorders to this world, you are not at the level of spiritual development I am talking about.  It’s okay, take your time.

Another notable characteristic after the shift is there is no more need for healing.  All the new souls I’ve observed are brand-new souls with no past, so there are no energetic blocks and restrictions from the past.  So no need for healing.  All you do is to keep it clean.  Stay away from negativity.  You are not interested in it anyway.

Let me summarize what the new game is like:

• No “learning” of life lessons
• No seeking
• No trying
• No healing, fixing, repairing of the past
• Just be.  Do what delights you and manifest spontaneously.

A few suggestions for those who reached this point of spiritual development

You are probably feeling a significant internal change.  The sudden loss (or more like an evaporation) of your sense of direction, which was so clear and strong before, may feel awkward.  You may also find it difficult to relate to many of your former interests and your friends you were connected through these interests.  Because you are not in the learning of your former life lessons any longer.

My advice is to take it easy.  You are perfectly okay.  And:

1. Feel free NOT to read the kind of books and blogs that don’t hold your interest.  Most personal development books are written for those who are pushing their boat on the beach and so they are not for you any longer.
2. Purge unnecessary stuffs (like those books) from your living environment and simplify your life.
3. Same with interpersonal relationships.  You don’t have to actively break your existing relationships – when you just let things go, only the relationships that are still relevant to the new you will stay and others will fall off on their own.
4. Keep moving forward in your spiritual development.  But know that the way you move forward from here on will be very different from the way you have been “working on” it.  From here on, it’s truly about being.  Enjoy your being.  Be confident in putting your unique wonderful self first.

A few suggestions for those who are not there yet

Don’t despair.  This is not exactly a race.  You are evolving in your own way at your own pace.  And some people are paving your way – nice and kind, right?

Having said this, may I suggest:

1. Have some quiet time alone.  Daily.  This helps you to focus your energy on yourself rather than continuously comparing yourself to others.  Meditation, in the big sense, is a good idea.
2. Learn to be honest to yourself.  Don’t second guess and resist change when you know deep inside you want it.  Whatever that change may be.
3. Do work on your life lessons.  This is about achieving the energetic quality within you.  It’s more about internal work than external work of doing although some doing is perhaps helpful to recognize who you are on the inside.
4. Whatever you do, don’t pretend that you are already “there”.  This is not about “psyching up”.  It has little to do with the thinking mind anyway.

Some commented they are afraid of this soul shift.  There is really nothing to be afraid about it (as long as the first soul moves on properly and the shift is complete.  I have to report this may be quite difficult because all the cases I’ve seen had this problem of the previous soul getting stuck and causing discomfort).

If you are afraid, that is your ego talking.  The ego is the part of our thinking mind who makes judgments based on existing knowledge and experiences.  So of course, the ego is afraid of everything new.  The ego wants to hold onto everything it has now.  But you are not your ego.

I must say it feels really good out here.  It’s like all (or at least most) of the clouds are magically gone.  Love and freedom have new meanings for me.  So come join me ^_^

7 Questions On Soul Shifting And the Light Ascension

I have received quite a few questions and comments about my last post Soul Shifting And the Light Ascension Of Maybe 2012.   I tried to be as complete as possible, but hey, I am just a human and I guess there were several points I was not clear enough.  So in this post, I supplement that article – let me use the simple Q&A format. Questions are drawn from the post comments, email, etc. and simplified for the sake of readability.  (Photo by exper)

1. Are you saying we should aspire to have soul shifting in our spiritual evolution?

No.  First of all, I don’t talk about things in terms of should’s.  Should is a fantasy word.  We either do it or we don’t.  Overall, I am surprised how so many comments came with “should” and “have to”.  We are free creators, you know.

Second, at least for me, this soul shifting was not something I “tried” to get or “worked toward”.  It happened to me.  On the soul level, I guess things were orchestrated somehow and my Higher Self agreed on this, but it didn’t come to my knowledge until it was so close to happen and someone let me know.  (She does not wish to be identified here, and I understand that.)

I have been diligently and passionately working on my spiritual development, however, and I’d like to think this shift came along with it.

2. Is this soul shift a necessary process of our spiritual evolution and Ascension?

Honestly, I don’t know.  As I clearly stated, I don’t even know what this Ascension is all about – I doubt if anyone does.

A variation of this question is “Why would our souls have to shift in our bodies if the point of our soul existence is to continually grow and expand?”  Again, I don’t know why or if it is a “have to” issue.  I get that the first soul crosses over and continues its own evolution somehow.  But I don’t really know – mine is gone

My analogy of changing elevators to reach the higher floors was meant to illustrate the situation.  I don’t know if this is the necessary step or not.  Maybe there are elevators that go all the way up.  What I said is I changed elevators.

3. If the soul shifts, who am I after the shift?

Great question.  You got me.  I guess that depends on how you define the “I”.  To me, I am always the soul I have, and the notion expands to my Higher Self, to my superconscious, that ultimately connects me to the Whole.

But again, you got me.  If you want to criticize, this is the weak spot, so aim here.  All I know is I just feel different, so fundamentally different, and I am also going through other significant changes in my life.

Update: My answer to this question is here Who Am I?

4. Why is the second soul a fresh soul with no past?

I don’t know.  I just shared what I observed. I do want to make sure that we are clear about the difference between the soul’s age (number of physical incarnations) and the soul’s level of evolution (vibration rate).  “Older and wiser” is a nice expression, and within a single soul’s evolution, that may be the case.  However, when we talk about two or more souls, older doesn’t necessarily mean wiser.  A fresh new soul with no past lives can be a very advanced soul and it may have been in the ether eons of time.

Personally, I like my new soul very much.  It is just so happy simply being around.  I feel like a kid in adult body.  My old soul was a good one, of course, but was kinda getting tired after so many lifetimes, including cruel persecution.  I am glad it is taking a rest somewhere.

5. Why did you write something you didn’t completely understand?  Isn’t that irresponsible?

Usually, I write only after I acquire significant understanding of the subject.  I do think this is the responsible attitude.

However, this case was exceptional.  Things were happening fast, I believe it is happening fast, and to more people than I initially thought was involved.  This was the kind of case in which sharing of the moment mattered.  At least to some people.  And I trust those who need this info will be guided to read it.

Let me ask you:  When Chernobyl accident happened, the then Soviet government refrained from releasing the information “because they didn’t know the whole truth yet and didn’t want to cause social unrest” or something in that line.  Was that an honest thing to do?  Was it kind?  Intelligent?

And I made it super clear at the very beginning of that article that this is a special case.  I wrote “I do not know or understand everything about this – this is something totally new to this world, and I am learning as I go.  Still I guess it is more beneficial for the highest good of all to share what I know now rather than withhold it.”

You can take it or leave it.  If you don’t understand the post, you probably don’t need it.

6. But isn’t it no good to scare people with potentially wrong information?

Well, the above Chernobyl analogy was a scary one, but I don’t think my article was scary.  I clearly wrote this is a positive move.

The responses I received so far fall into one of the following four categories:

1. “Wow, this explains what I’ve been feeling!  Thank you so much, Akemi.”
   Variation of this is “Maybe this is relevant to me . . . I’m not sure.”
2. “Well, I don’t know what to make of this, but it’s an interesting read.”
3. “I don’t agree with you, Akemi.  I think you are wrong.”  This comes in varying degree from simple disagreement to nagging discontent.  The latter, I will address in #7.
4. “You are crazy.”

Readers #1 received good value from the post.  Wonderful.  Readers #2 at least had fun reading.  Okay.  Readers #3 are fine with me.  I don’t need everyone to agree with me.  I still love you.  Readers #4 are also fine with me.  I sort of expected this kind of response and put cautionary note in the beginning.  And it was about my psychic ability in general, not about soul shifting.

What I haven’t received is a comment in the line of “OMG, I am so scared!  What the hell are you talking about?”  On the contrary, some people, even the #2 kind who don’t quite take the idea, appreciated my sharing.  Thank you.

By the way, before I published that article, I had a personal communication with one of my clients.  In that email communication, I did unintentionally scare him.  Again it was unintentional, but I didn’t craft my email properly, and that is part of the reason I wrote that article to provide more complete idea.  Fragment of idea can be misleading, more complete idea of what is going on leads to healthy understanding.  And I have apologized to this person and believe my apology has been accepted.

I have also made another mistake with someone else and learned a valuable lesson.  This was related to that article, but the person was not scared by the article.  She was intrigued by the article and personally emailed me.  Because we’d been friends and exchanged readings before, I went ahead to check her status with the intention to help.  But this was stepping into her boundary for her, and I understand her view.  She also got scared about the prospect of having soul shifting and got upset.  I have since apologized to her repeatedly.

I acknowledge I am not always at my best and make mistakes.  Especially with this one being so urgent, and I being so excited, I made a few off-line in my attempt to help.  And I guess someone could be scared – by that article or by a shadow on the wall, for that matter.  Having said this, I really don’t think that blog post promotes fear.

7. But that whole idea of soul shifting and Ascension just doesn’t make sense!

When we observe something that we don’t understand, we can take one of the following two approaches:

1. Accept it is happening, come up with a hypothesis, verify if the hypothesis works.  Then collect more data, verify or adjust the hypothesis.  This is the scientific approach.
2. Write off because “it just doesn’t make sense” in the existing theory. This is not scientific, it is authoritative.

Approach #2 is convenient and works well with many cases in daily life.  You can cop out a lot of things with this approach and save your time and “dignity”.  (I put “ “ around dignity because I think this is a false dignity.)  The problem is it may not be in truth.

Galileo’s opponents had beautiful “scientific” theory that had been approved by authority since the Aristotle time.  Darwin, Einstein, and so many others went through similar challenges.  But theory does no good if it doesn’t work.  Which is more useful:

1. A big beautiful theory that doesn’t explain what is going on.
2. An incomplete theory, or maybe just a collection of ideas, that has the potential to explain what is going on.

I take #2 and move forward.

To those of you who has tried to dissuade me, I have a question: Why is it that you need me to agree with you?  What’s causing so much discomfort to you?

Don’t you know you are already loved?  And needing others to agree with you is not in alignment with Divine Truth – it is disempowering to you, not to me.  I am open to all possibilities.  If someone has another idea that better explains what is going on, I am all ears.  But so far, no one has really suggested alternative interpretation that explains what I and at least several other people I know have experienced.

One of them was so wise that he didn’t just take my word but verified it in his own way as seen in the comment of that article.  Outstanding.  That is the attitude.

So don’t “believe” me.  Ultimately, there is only one authority in the Universe, and that is the creative energy of the Universe itself, which we sometimes call God, or Divine Source, or the Divine Intention, etc.

Update Feb 9, 2009: I just noticed Anna Conlan posted an article regarding this soul shifting discussion.  I encourage you to check it out so that you get to see different interpretation of this situation.

Also, I want to clarify something.  There has been an argument regarding what is appropriate to do in reading.  This is a critical yet somewhat fuzzy issue, and I’m afraid I may have made some inconsistent statements, so let me clarify.  I read my clients’ Akashic Records.  These are people who have given me permission to do this by sending me their personal info.  I also read for the people significant in my clients’ lives – this is what Snapshot Reading is all about.  We are allowed to access the Akashic Records of those who are important to us – our family, close friends, significant romantic partners, significant persons in our career life, etc. whether they give explicit permission or not.   I also read those who are significant to myself, again with or without their permission, when I see their influence on me is significant.

Soul Shifting And the Light Ascension Of Maybe 2012

As I wrote in this post, I just went through a major internal change that brought a series of external changes in my life.  Several readers responded, with comments and emails, that they are experiencing something similar.

In this post, I’ll explain what I know at this time about this shift.  Honestly, I do not know or understand everything about this – this is something totally new to this world, and I am learning as I go.  Still I guess it is more beneficial for the highest good of all to share what I know now rather than withhold it.

(Note: If you are new to spirituality, or if you are here for more “practical” tips of personal development or entrepreneurship, this post may not be for you.  I will be writing more of those posts, so don’t unsubscribe – just stay put, thank you ^_^)

The symptoms of the shift

1. You feel like a new person is in your body. And the shift is pretty abrupt.
I shared the kind of changes I’ve been through in my eating habits, the way I like to dress and live, and my new sense of joy and gratitude in that post.  Please note that article was meant to be a personal sharing, not a comprehensive list of changes you may experience.  Your changes may be different – you may feel the urge to take different direction in your career or personal life, or you may have a spiritual awakening.

The point is you sense changes from within.  It’s not something your mind chose and posed on yourself. On the contrary, your mind is most likely resisting the changes.  I embraced my shift quickly, but you may be reasoning things out like, “Well . . . but I am responsible to keep doing this. . .”  “This is how I always have been.  I’m not sure if I’d like to change.  I am (insert your age here).”  And yet, the change is there pushing you from within.

You may notice some changes in your body and physical health, too.  For example, if I try to eat meat now, my stomach will reject it.  I’ve also noticed difference in my sleep pattern.

2. Additionally, you may feel annoyed, frustrated, and stuck.
You are probably reasoning this as the discomfort of your mind with these changes, but there is a deeper reason. . .

What is soul shifting?

We have the soul – more accurately, we are spiritual beings in physical bodies.  Typically, you have one soul and live with it for life.  The soul defines the basic makeup of who you are, your strengths and challenges on the soul level, and the way you are growing spiritually.

When you reach a certain point in your spiritual evolution, however, your soul shifts. (Note: Actually, there are other kinds of soul shifts, which are explained into details in the linked post.)

Let me explain by analogy.  Have you been to a tall tower building in which you need to change the elevator to go to the higher levels?  The elevator you can take at the ground level only takes you to a certain floor, and then you must get off and switch to another elevator that takes you to higher level floors.

Same thing seems to be happening with our spiritual evolution.  Some of us are getting to the point where our original soul has done its work.  It’s been good, but you are done with it.  So you switch to the new soul.  This is, of course, a positive move.

Because the soul defines who you are, you sense a shift from within.  You are, quite literally, a new person when you go through the soul shift.

The potential issues of this soul shifting

Although this soul shift is a good move, there are a few points things can go awry. First, the previous soul could get stuck and still be attached to your body.  This is very annoying to the new soul.  We need to send the first soul that has done its job to “the other side”.

If you sense this may be happening to you, please consider getting my Akashic Record Reading.  Seriously.  You know I don’t usually promote my service like this on this blog, and I am doing so now for a reason – this is a big deal that you definitely benefit from professional assistance.

The new soul is typically a fresh soul that has never been incarnated in the physical body.  I don’t know if this is the rule, but this is what I’ve been observing.  I guess there must be a big pool of souls that have been watching this physical plane on Earth for eons of time but never incarnated.

Because it is such a fresh, clean soul, it can be a target of attack from the negative forces.  This is another thing I check and clear in my reading.

The relationship of the first and second souls

So far, I have read several cases of this kind of soul shift, including myself.  I know this is way too few to draw any significant generalization.  I still think it may be worth to share the pattern I’ve seen.

It seems there is a certain relationship, an agreement, between the first soul and the second soul.  The second soul chose the first soul to go in first, and it’s been watching your life.  The second soul is usually very similar to the first soul in terms of soul’s origination group and training.  (If you haven’t had my Akashic Record Reading, you may be going “Huh?  What is soul’s origination group and training?”  I touched this topic in my post on life purpose – please read the comments, too)

So, while you are a new person when this soul shift happens to you, the confusion is minimal.  Good grief.

The planetary level shift and your soul shifting

Our Earth is going through a major shift.  I am not talking about the superficial changes, although many of the changes in people’s way of thinking, feeling, and behaving are stimulated by this big planetary shift.  I don’t know exactly what this big shift is about and what the world will be like when the shift is complete.  I don’t think anyone really knows.  I do sense it will be a completely new world.

Our individual soul shifting is stimulated by this big planetary shift.  Let me use another analogy.  Each of us have been pushing our boats on the beach.  This is our personal and spiritual development effort.  Now the big tide is coming, and some of the boats that have been pushed far enough are suddenly floating.  From here on, it’s a completely different game.  We, who have been through the soul shifting, are sailing.

Is this some kind of elitist statement?  I don’t think so.  We have done our work.  And by showing others how much fun we are having once our boats are floating on the water, we encourage them to push their boats further, and they may soon join us in sailing.

So let’s embrace this grace of the big shift. And look around to find others who have also started sailing.  Those with enhanced awareness of their spiritual nature, with fresh sense of love, freedom, and abundance.

Light Ascension and year 2012

The planetary shift is called Light Ascension, or just Ascension.  Our individual spiritual evolution, including the soul shifting, is also called Ascension.  Our soul’s vibration rate is ascending (increasing).

Is this related to year 2012?  Does the Earth ascend in 2012?  I don’t know. My spirit guides tell me there will be a significant change in 2012, but not everyone will experience it. Which makes sense to me.  I don’t think everyone is ready for this – many people haven’t even started pushing their boats.  Will the tide be big enough to float even those boats sitting in the far back?

Still there will be a huge shift in or around 2012.  In fact, the shift has been going on already, as we’ve been discussing in this post.  I think the planetary shift is coming like the exponential function.  It started long ago, but in the beginning, the change was so gradual and minimal that most people didn’t notice.  Then some sensitive and highly conscious people noticed, but most people ignored it.

Like in exponential function, however, there comes a time when the change becomes big, and from there, it keeps growing rapidly.  Now it’s hard to ignore.  It doesn’t take years of full time discipline to notice there is something going on, and so we, the “ordinary” people (by that I mean pretty much everyone who is not Dalai Lama) have the urge to do something – be it meditation or yoga or psychic reading and clearing.

Ascension and our concept of time

Although I don’t really know what is going on, I’ll take one step further and dare to say the Ascension has something to do with time.

In this three dimensional world, time flows one-way in a linear mode.  There is no time like that on the spiritual plane, however.  So retro-causality is possible there, and I have observed it.  For example, when a person orders my reading and clearing, they may experience the change even before I actually do the work – provided they are serious about taking it.  The spirit knows they will accept the clearing, so they do it, and it works in all ways of time.

If the Earth is ascending to the fourth dimension, time as we know it now will change.  Does this mean we can move through time freely back and forth?  How will that look like?  I don’t know.  But this is another reason I think that not everyone is ready for this.

Think about it.  If you can move back to the past, what would you be doing?  Are you going back to the time that you think you made a mistake and fix it?  That is what many people would be doing, and so they would be forever stuck in the past.  This is obviously no good.  One-way flow of time helps us to move on and keep learning our lessons.  It is designed this way for a good reason.

But what if you could take time travel just like any spacial travel?  Let’s say you are done with learning your life lessons, you have accepted everything without judgment, so you have no intention to go back and redo your past.  You just go to any point of time because you want to, like you go to places you want to go.

A possibility.  Again I don’t really know.

Ascension to Lightbodies

I have a few more things to say about Ascension, mainly about what may happen to our physical body afterward.  In short, we will have a new way of existence called Lightbodies.

I need more time to discuss this topic of Lightbodies, however.  For one, I really don’t know much about it.  Also, I’m concerned it may scare some people.  I myself am excited about this option and willing to learn more about it, but I also know those who are still so tightly attached to their body may be scared.

I’d love to hear what you think about this post – please leave your comment. Thank you.  (Photo by Edward B.)

Update: This topic of Ascension and soul shifting is something quite new to this planet and I’ll be writing more I have written more about it.  Please check the category Ascension if you are interested to read more. Also, I’m no longer responding to the comments to this specific post because I think I have answered to them by the various posts I have written later in this Ascension category. You are still welcome to leave your message and carry on the discussion.  Thank you.

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