Hello from Christopher and Jeannine.  It has been about a year since we retired from the day-to-day activities of the Institute.  During this time, we have continued to focus our attention on deeper and deeper levels of our spiritual development.  Especially over the last few months, we have been undergoing some intensive energetic shifts and changes…all seemingly directed toward a final “ascension” climb up the proverbial spiritual mountain.  During this time, we have been “living out” some general principles that we feel represent the last cycle or stage of spiritual development.  Some of you may already be going through this same stage.  To help you better understand the overall spiritual development process, we would like to share with you an overview of “our take” on the stages of personal spiritual development.  Note: We are working on expanding these ideas into a book.

UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF YOUR SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION…   In very general terms, spiritual evolution of the individual can be best understood as the three Acts within a stage play.  Of course, we each have our very personalized “play” with its mix of drama and comedy, joys and tragedies…all the elements of the human experience that we manifest for ourselves here in this plane of experience. The three Acts of the play are like phases of development with dominant energetic focuses and themes at work, all of which provide the various driving-forces that propel each of us through our experiences.  The accumulated “Scenes” within the three Acts represent one’s unfolding experiences and, from our perspective, they take on certain fundamental characteristic patterns. 

Also, as we move along our unfolding spiritual paths, we all know that there’s plenty of etheric activity going on in the background.  The Masters, Angels and our other Celestial Friends serve as our guides, teachers and supporters…all collaborating with our Soul and Higher Self energies to create the life that each of us needs, wants and desires at all levels of our experience.  Linking this view of the “etheric orchestration” occurring in our lives to our metaphor of the stage play, it’s clear that there’s plenty of “backstage” activity going on while the “on-stage” three Act performance unfolds.

As we’ve seen it for ourselves and from watching others, here’s a summary of some of the experiences that we are all having, to one degree or another, as all of our “stage plays” move along:

Act I:  Strong, potentially intense physical and lower-vibrational etheric processes unfold as Act I focuses on the incarnational self.  Self-empowerment is the principle theme playing out (as many of you may know, personal empowerment is generally the starting point in one’s spiritual development).  Then, the process continues with clearing, healing, activation and manifestation. Virtually every one of your core issues about being on this plane and operating in physical life will be examined and probably tested!  Strong emotional and mental releasings take place along with deep healing, the dropping of belief structures and major, often dramatic, rearranging of the outer circumstances in one’s physical world. 

Family members may think you’re going crazy…and old friends may peel away. You may be motivated to change your job/career and probably feel some promptings to move.  There is also a strong emphasis on the purification of the physical body, often leading to spiritually-driven healing crises.  Your Self energies at all levels are strongly driving the process…being supported by your etheric helpers.  These interactions can be strong and very palpable. Usually nothing subtle happens during Act I.  Lots of questions and challenges will arise. Tough choices and decisions may have to be made in areas of your life, where you never before had questions or problems.  It can be equated to rearranging your life in order to get to the “base camp” at the foot of the spiritual mountain…preparing yourself for the ascension climb.

Act II:  As you transition from Act I to Act II, it’s not quite like a curtain drops for an Intermission and then rises again.  It’s more like a flip into a different mode of processing and further development.  All the factors of Act I continue on into Act II while a new energetic overlay enters into your personal stage play. A script would say… (Enter soul energies).  For some this can be quick and dramatic, while for most people on the path, it’s more subtle and takes time.  What occurs is that the next higher aspect of your evolving consciousness seems to start showing up in the physical plane. Please understand that challenges will continue, perhaps even stronger than before.  However, one usually experiences a different way to process all the flows of energies within oneself. Some aspects of day-to-day life will start to settle down and flow more smoothly as you integrate spiritual change into more areas of your life.  New insights and perspectives will flow in, while many entrenched core emotional and physical challenges remain, probably intensifying to even painful proportions.

A challenging duality starts to build as your emerging spiritual Self experiences heightened levels of awareness, more joyous flows in life and a growing sense of being the “witness” to your own play. This is often counterbalanced by the continued processing out of physical body stresses and ailments, the clearing of your deepest fears and the releasing of your strongest chronic self-doubts. Act II is truly an exciting phase…potentially “challenging to the max” while offering you perhaps your first true experiential glimpses into your own Divinity. This is all part of the first leg of your ascension climb up the mountain!

Act III:  Your climb continues and even accelerates as you enter Act III.  Again, there’s no curtain going up and down…but a transition into a remarkably new sense of Self.  All of the prior spiritual development work that was moving forward in Acts I and II will continue on.  Then, as needed, it will probably intensify...especially, if you have not yet effectively released your old adverse patterns that cannot be carried into your new higher vibrational state of being.  You will have to finally deal with ALL of your major life issues (those wonderful patterns that have served as source-material for your life drama) in order to now make way for the stronger, deeper insertion of your Higher Self energies into daily life.  Of course, the script for Act III would be… (Enter Higher Self).

As you begin to function at a higher vibrational rate, some interesting and challenging phenomenon may start appearing in your life.  In addition to having more and greater experiences of divine joy and fulfillment, you may develop a rather curious lack of passion, as you actually engage less and less in the physical world.  A strange paradox may develop where you feel more detached and “global” (even perhaps universal and celestial in your sense of consciousness) while you find yourself operating with purposeful effectiveness regarding physical matters…when you need to!  It’s like being here when needed and “being elsewhere” when not engaging in daily activities.  Your sense of true spiritual purpose may become refined, while your sense of what to do day-to-day on the planet may feel very elusive to you. And you may experience an extraordinary sense of “being truly in the moment” more and more of the time. 

This disengagement from physicality may sometimes be overwhelming…perhaps bordering on disorientation at times.  You may often feel very disconnected from friends, family and daily life activities.  Act III typically calls for two essential and apparently diverging types of experiences… [1] Surrender: a need to totally surrender as your spiritual process seems to go beyond your ability to “manage” it and even consciously understand it and [2] Focus and Discipline: a need, at times, to create extraordinary focus and discipline in order to simply handle whatever aspects of daily life still demand your attention.  To us, Act III is all about creating the experience of total trust in the face of almost total uncertainty…truly a challenge worthy of our highest spiritual dedication.

Regardless of which Act you feel you are in (and which kinds of scenes you are going through), just know that you are not alone.  Trust that the “propulsive forces” of your Self-spirit are always with you and your celestial helpers are always “in the wings” (backstage) to be of support.  So, continue to be patient with your ascension process as you begin to bring ever-increasing levels of Self-Light into your experience.