On Fear and Soul Groups Samantha: How can I deal with the fear that keeps coming up? Ibiru: Samantha, you still fear the free flow of your own Being. But your control of this is illusory. The heart of the seeker is always her best ally, but without trust that ally cannot speak, cannot guide you in your quest. The Web already exists. It has always existed and shall always be. Approach what you must learn with a relaxed and open mind. You create needless pain when you fear that time is running out. Samantha: Ibiru, I feel isolated and unsure of what to do. I also feel a tremendous resistance to doing it, whatever "it" is. Ibiru: I know that. Instead of fighting your resistance, work with it. Understand and accept that the portion of your consciousness, your ego, fears that this work will strip you of importance and individuality. Sometimes, people find it easier to believe in the devil that they have always "known" was under their bed than to KNOW the true nature of their realities. You must separate your beliefs about "reality" and about self from what you genuinely know of these things. And, in order to do that, you need to rely on your own heart, on your own willingness to see through your self-deceptions with the same clarity and focus that you bring to seeing through the deceptions of your institutions. In a sense, you are an institution, in that you have codified your personality and automatically screen out the anomalies, the things that you do not understand and the things that threaten the institution of yourself. Your deepest ally is your own heart, which seeks freedom and truth, even when those things threaten to topple your edifice. I feel your fear of that event, and there is nothing I can do to alleviate that fear. All I can say is that you will have to trust yourself on this one. The weight of your cultures and the demands of conformity make it difficult to break away and walk the Silver Path. Yet, that is what you must do, if you choose to be awake in this life. Cultural and religious institutions are necessary for the survival of the species until such time as members are ready to leap into the heart of the river. Evolution is never easy, but it can be the most exciting and rewarding thing you can do. It is a fallacy to think that evolution "happens." Whether you choose to be aware of this or not, you are the ones who decide when and how to evolve. That choice is made when you create your DNA, at the time of your conception. It is remade during your experienced life, many times over. Often, if your culture does not support that choice, you will stifle it and not move on until another life. It is always your choice. You made this choice so strongly that it made it easier for you to call me into your life. Yes, all that hear or experience their soul group make that choice. Most, at any given time, do not make that choice and, therefore, are not aware of the others in their group. Samantha: Ibiru, what is a "soul group?" A soul group is a multi-dimensional family, of which everyone is a part. Your family is part of a larger, group soul, very like the Oversoul concept of Seth/Jane Roberts. We, because of our participation in a larger soul-entity, share affinities. For instance, you are an artist. Many of us in your soul group are also artists, in many dimensions. Your interest in psychic awareness, consciousness, and many others things are shared by many of us. Some of your family members have interests that are so minimally shared by you at this time that you do not have occasion to meet them. The ones you draw to you at any time are the ones who share many of your interests. Samantha: Are all soul groups made up of the same balance of interests? Ibiru: No. Each soul group is very individual in makeup. Some are more inclined to the arts, some to politics, some to the mechanics of creation. Samantha: So...I am part of a larger group, a family, and we travel around together? Ibiru: Yes, although we are not always together. Sometimes individuals in the group go off in their own directions, in order to focus more strongly on developing the abilities of their choosing. Since you and your world are at a critical point in your development, and since we all agreed to be together in this time and place, you can be aware of us and we of you. Remember that we are speaking across dimensions. Each of us resides in a reality as real and true as your own. One of the reasons for coming together like this is to bring the multidimensional realities closer together, to learn from one another and to help each other evolve. If you were to see us as simply teachers, you would withhold what you have to teach us, in the mistaken belief that we are so much more evolved than you that you have nothing to offer. Samantha: But you are the Gardeners. Ibiru: Yes, as are you. Some of us were here to seed the life of your world, to create new forms and encourage their growth. Some of us were doing that on other worlds, in other dimensions. And some of us seed thoughts, seed dreams so that life can move to ever more expansive and marvelous forms. EVERYONE is a Gardener. The only questions are: are you a conscious Gardener? And....do you plant the seeds of love and awareness? There are those who plant the seeds of disaffection and fear. It is difficult, at your stage of understanding, for you to tell the difference all the time. That is why we are here right now, to help you discover for yourself the Gardener within and encourage you to seed with a conscious and loving purpose. Samantha: Okay. Now, I have two questions: First, why do I sense only female energy from you? And, secondly, what do I need to do now in order to wake up? Ibiru: To your first question - you sense the energies that are most compatible with yours at this time. What you need to learn and heal is femaleness. Male energy, right now, would distract from that purpose. Yes, all energies - female, male and other - are balanced. It is incorrect to see a predominance of one as a sign of imbalance, if that predominance is for learning. This is not the same as the masculine focus of your societies, which are very out of balance and one of the reasons for bringing so much female energy across dimensions. By bringing the female focus to bear on your world, you are acting to create a new balance and correct an imbalance that exists. To your second question - what you need to do is KNOW that YOU ARE your path. This means being totally honest about whom you are, what you are and what you desire. Each individual is a current in the Great River of Being, which includes All-That-Is. Each current is essential to the well being of the River. Each soul group is a stream of currents that flows into the River, which eventually reaches the Sea, which is the First Cause, the essence of All. So, you see, every being is enlightened and awakened by each individual claiming her own true Path. The Current/Path that is you is made up of an infinite variety of colors and shadings. Every nuance is sacred, every shadow and every light has meaning and value. And when a being awakens to her true nature and acts accordingly, all of creation benefits. Your illusion of locality is just that - a comfortable illusion that allows you to act with a psychological buffer. In reality, every act, every expression of Being reverberates throughout the whole of creation. Samantha: Thanks. I think I have enough to ponder for the moment. Ibiru: You are welcome.