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LaFontaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:54:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pxXs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae6750b-b949-49ed-b814-a5bb6836bd07_1152x864.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pxXs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffae6750b-b949-49ed-b814-a5bb6836bd07_1152x864.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pxXs!, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/w_424, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>This article&#8217;s title with nebulous punctuation has been lodged for a spell in the part of my brain that stores questionable ideas for future use. The thought originated during a channeled session with the Earth Mother that I recorded in 1997, prompted by a question from one of the participants. The video originally received a playback or two on community television, then disappeared from view and was never made public again.</span></p><p><span>I recently rediscovered the recording, transcribed the dialogue and wanted to share what I consider interesting information from the Earth Mother&#8217;s point of view. What I most love about these exchanges with her is how she seems to turn things upside down from common perceptions. In truth, she is putting things right side up in a reality that has been constructed of the upside down.</span></p><p><span>What follows are excerpts from the Q &amp; A segment of that recording. The dialogues are edited for clarity and include additional light commentary by moi. The perspectives shared are as relevant today as they were when first spoken, perhaps more so considering that the transformation of consciousness we were speaking of 30 years ago is now proceeding with exponential acceleration. Many more people have a sense that change is afoot and &#8220;something&#8221; is happening even if they don&#8217;t know what or why.</span></p><p><span>I begin with the question that led to a title finally reaching its opportunity to headline. For context, the Earth Mother speaks readily about Life, our need to reconnect with her, and her vast abundance.</span></p><h5><strong><span>Q: You say to love Life, yet we eat animals. What about eating meat?</span></strong></h5><p><strong><span>EM:</span></strong><span> All of life feeds you. You sometimes put rules upon your body, whether it is no meat, or you must exercise every day, or no chocolate or sugar, etc. As soon as your body begins to know that there are rules it starts to rigidify. It does not matter what the rules are, they start to form a crystal block in you.</span></p><p><span>I do not care if your bodies eat meat as long as your body is the one that is requesting it, you see? If it is not your body requesting it, then you are not listening to your body, which knows what it needs when it needs it. Sometimes your blood requires a little extra blood. Unfortunately, that is the truth. Other times your body does not.</span></p><p><span>And, animals are emotional, though not to the same degree as humans. You know this from relationships with your cats or dogs, and even those who you raise in farmyards. When you do eat red meat or other animals it is wise to greet that in some way and to assist whatever emotion may have been carried forward to release, because you may not want to eat the emotion that is part of that one&#8217;s death or life. Remember that.</span></p><p><span>So, no rules. Ask your body what is appropriate for you, what is needed for life. For Life. Go to the grocery store and think &#8220;I am alive&#8221;. Ask your body to pick out what you need for optimal life to support you. Pick those things out, eat them.</span></p><p><span>If you go to a restaurant, see if the people serving you feel alive. If they look alive or feel alive, then you can eat the food. If they do not look so alive, you might want to go somewhere else because people will manifest the energy of whatever is in their consciousness.</span></p><p><span>[</span><em><span>Michele and I often do simple energetic clearing of prepared food or physical spaces when eating in public settings.</span></em><span>]</span></p><h5><strong><span>Q: Is organic food better for our body or is that part of the rules again?</span></strong></h5><p><strong><span>EM: </span></strong><span>Organic, organ of my body. Perhaps some have not yet attained the title organic, but they grow consciously. They are attuned with the life force of my body and they lift it into their growing. They bring it into their food.</span></p><p><span>You might have one who is not very organic but is very conscious. You can eat their food. Consciousness dominates, you see? Consciousness and the attunement to my body dominates. If one is very conscious you will feel and see the life force in the food, and it will not decay easily because there is so much life force in it. And perhaps they used something to keep off the bugs. You are not going to be hurt by it because the life force is most potent. Organic may perhaps be more conscious, but not necessarily so. Listen to your body.</span></p><p><span>[ </span><em><span>How much life force and what kind of consciousness might one suppose is present in fast food, fake meat or much of what&#8217;s found in today&#8217;s grocery stores?</span></em><span> ]</span></p><h5><strong><span>Participant: I am so aware of you now like I never have been. It&#8217;s connecting me to something that I didn&#8217;t know existed before, and I feel very grateful and I thank you.</span></strong></h5><p><strong><span>EM:</span></strong><span> You are very welcome. It is my joy to have more alive bodies. The more alive beings, the more alive we are.</span></p><p><span>So now you have a message to speak to others, yes? Share this very simple message with one another. It is not difficult. Be aware that my body is your body, that I am your mother, that your body is made up of my life force, my elements, my water.</span></p><p><span>I nourish you, I feed you. Not only through food but directly. And you can drink anytime you desire, anytime you need. And you do not need to need to ask. You do not have to wait until you have a need. That is another misconception. You can ask because you like to ask. You can ask because you like to have more, to experience abundance in all different ways.</span></p><p><span>[</span><em><span>The first time Earth Mother showed up at one of our events we heard that she was &#8220;collapsing and condensing the matrix of time&#8221;. Someone familiar with that statement asked the next question.</span></em><span>]</span></p><h5><strong><span>Q: I once heard you say that you were condensing time. What does that mean?</span></strong></h5><p><strong><span>EM: </span></strong><span>That is part of this frequency shift that is taking place now that all are experiencing. All are not participating, but all are experiencing. As our bodies shift into a higher frequency, time is also affected because time is part of my body, this place.</span></p><p><span>Science teaches you some things, however what science does not know is that this planet, my body consciousness, knows time better than you do. And, that when I condense time it is proportional to frequency. At higher frequencies time seems to speed up, almost as if time begins to shift in your awareness so that you no longer feel as if it is so linear but much more holistic, much more of a whole, much more present.</span></p><p><span>And in the present, much more happens in a different way than this, this, this, this, this. [</span><em><span>gesture indicating a sequence</span></em><span>]. As you move more into your body and into my body you will feel very, very present. And you will start to feel eternity. That is what is happening.</span></p><h5><strong><span>Q: I&#8217;ve read somewhere about how the brain entrains the cells, the heart entrains the brain, and the earth entrains the heart. Could you speak about that?</span></strong></h5><p><strong><span>EM: </span></strong><span>Well, they left out the pelvis, but they are getting somewhere.</span></p><p><span>The heart is also a brain. It also has neurons, also thinks, transmits and communicates. However, my body also has many, many neurons, many connecting linkages directly to you and to any aspect of my body. How do you think we all get along? Pretty well, even though there has been much fighting. That has not been because of miscommunication. It has been because minds do not know what it is that they are living out from inside their consciousness. They forget they are creating this, creating wounds, you see?</span></p><p><span>As you reverse your attention from what has been only a focus on spirit and begin to also include the earth, you will learn some things that you have not yet been aware of. You will learn them directly, and your body will tell you what is truth.</span></p><p><span>You will have many openings, sometimes through dreams, sometimes through walking in the woods, sometimes through just asking and receiving directly from me, from my consciousness. Where do you think you have stored your wisdom from past times, eh? Where do you think it is? You were not passing it on to your brothers and sisters and other bodies who fly about in the stars. No, you were storing it here. Open up, you have suitcases packed to unpack. You have bank vaults packed full of wisdom which is yours.</span></p><h5><strong><span>Q: Are you planning any big eruptions?</span></strong></h5><p><span>I do not plan eruptions. You do not, do you? They rather happen. Yes, well, sometimes they happen. And that which is my body and my consciousness is conscious of where many people live. I am conscious. I do not intend many people to die.</span></p><p><span>My passion is life. I try to move where there is the least amount of effect, yet there are times when people and animals are affected. In those times my embrace is very large for those who are feeling great loss. But I also assist to rebuild, and sometimes it is wise not to.</span></p><p><span>Sometimes it is wise not to rebuild in that place, because you have built unconsciously for so long. You have built on my energetic rivers of life. Sometimes those places are not so stable, you see, because I have to breathe. I have to move. What if somebody built on you and you needed to move? Things would fall off, yes? Think about it. Feel that. Yes, I move. I do not intend to make great disruptions, but you might be aware of where you build.</span></p><h5><strong><span>Q: Is the earth climate changing, are you changing?</span></strong></h5><p><span>WE are changing our climate. I am not changing our climate alone, you are assisting. You are emotional like I am. Atmosphere is emotional and we share that, it is fluid.</span></p><p><span>Have you not noticed that things are warming up? I am shifting frequency as are you. It is collaborative. You have taken on a role of transforming the density while simultaneously I have been transforming and shifting frequency as well. So, we together are doing a great deal of work. It takes a lot of energy and it generates heat. This process of warming and effects will continue. It is not something that I can stop and neither can you.</span></p><p><span>At the same time there will be a greater and greater awareness of choices that can be made and will be made that will embrace the greater whole rather than keeping only a few people&#8217;s good or wealth in mind.</span></p><p><span>[</span><em><span>The next question addressed a significant event of 1997 and is included for interest and understanding.</span></em><span>]</span></p><h5><strong><span>Q: What do you make of the worldwide response to the death of Princess Diana?</span></strong></h5><p><strong><span>EM: </span></strong><span>That there was a need for a great outpouring of tears as well as love for the feminine. The dominant consciousness for many centuries has been a distorted masculine, which buried and kept the feminine aspect apart from consciousness.</span></p><p><span>The feminine, that which is emotion, feeling, and love is rising now. Ones have missed it, but they did not know they missed it until one who is of great beauty, love, and presence left her body. And then the great longing was opened and the great loss was acknowledged, centuries of loss. No wonder so many had to pour it out, you see?</span></p><h5><strong><span>Q: How do we remove the distortions from the masculine and feminine?</span></strong></h5><p><strong><span>EM:</span></strong><span> It is very easy to feel distortion. You contract. So, if you begin to think about a certain time in your life, and the child imaged something that made you afraid or ashamed, what happened? You contracted, yes. That is a distortion. It is very simple.</span></p><p><span>When you open to the true masculine and true feminine, you feel open. You feel powerful, you feel as if that which is those attributes are creating themselves through you. As if you are becoming courage, or you are becoming love, you see?</span></p><p><span>Because it is woven into your consciousness and body, and it is you, truly, it is you. It isn&#8217;t separate from you, it isn&#8217;t. You can&#8217;t even define yourself separate in that way. So, notice what contracts and then say goodbye.</span></p><p><span>***</span></p><p><span>Speaking of goodbye, I will end here with one final observation:</span></p><p><span>Written words can reflect interesting thoughts, but there&#8217;s no experience quite like a live interchange with the Earth Mother. Especially when she speaks what we call a language of creation.</span></p><p><span>We have two recordings on our GaiaTerra website that feature Earth Mother as she expressed through Michele. The first is an audio recording from the event where she presented herself in this way for the first time. We call it </span><strong><a href="https://gaiaterra.org/earthspeaks/"><span>Earth Speaks</span></a></strong><span>, further explained on the linked page.</span></p><p><span>The second is a video from </span><em><span>Consider Another Perspective</span></em><span>, a community television show I hosted in the late 1990&#8217;s. The first episode was titled </span><strong><a href="https://gaiaterra.org/what-on-earth-is-happening/"><span>&#8220;What On Earth Is Happening?&#8221;</span></a></strong><span>, featuring Michele as my guest. After a few minutes of introductory dialogue we moved into the main segment where she channeled the Earth Mother as I fielded questions from the audience. One can tell that I dressed myself without proper consult. Michele, of course, looks fabulous.</span></p><p><span>Thanks for stopping by,</span></p><p><span>Chris</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Being the Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's Not What You Think]]></description><link>https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/on-being-the-change</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/on-being-the-change</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris LaFontaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:10:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frd7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28d5447a-2998-4c8a-925b-073c72f41c33_1152x864.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Many are familiar with the timeworn quote attributed to Gandhi: &#8220;Be the change you want to see in the world&#8221;. Thing is, those are not his words. Soundbite philosophy may be easily shared, but greater context reveals that what he actually wrote was more than profound. It was code.</p><p>In 1913 Gandhi wrote in the journal <em>Indian Opinion</em> about the concept of the world as a mirror.</p><p><em><strong>&#8220;We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>The popular quote captures the general essence of what Gandhi wrote, but to me comes across more like a kindly suggestion than valuable insight into the workings of creation. At the core of this message is guidance for each person to stand in the center of their experience and realize that changing self is the one place over which they truly have control. What proves effective is making change at the level of cause, rather than judging and attacking what is being reflected in the mirror.</p><p>In this moment all of us, along with the earth, are deeply immersed in a process of personal and collective transformation. Some consciously embrace change and do the inner work required to shift their experiences, while some are awakening to the need. Others are not. Each will ultimately create experiences reflective of choices made.</p><p>Which got me wondering&#8230;</p><p><strong>If Gandhi did a TED Talk today what would be his guidance for those of us moving through this time of great planetary transition?</strong></p><p>I can offer a response to that question. During the Lightsmith years we had many special visitors sharing perspectives and guidance with us through the intuitive gifts of Michele. One of those guests was the being we knew as Gandhi. Like others who came at that time his purpose was to guide us with information and a process to assist our transition into a new experience as consciousness transforms and reality makes a radical shift.</p><p>Recently revisiting the transcript of that evening got me pondering the famous quote, the deeper meaning, and noting that the dialogue we had almost 20 years ago was still relevant today. Hence, the prompting for this article with the associated graphic, and the focus on turning away from external referencing and back to self as authors of our experience.</p><p>Several excerpts from our Gandhi session follow, lightly edited for clarity and brevity. At the end you will find a link for listening to the original recording, if interested.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Gandhi speaks:</strong></p><p>We stood in different times. Wars seemed to be the only option for those who preferred power and domination, or could see no way to settle agreement or come to some kind of compromise. My part was to see through the illusion of that and to stand in a different place. The principles that I felt, knew, and integrated within myself and then shared with others were about a kind of action aligned with truth. There could be no other way for me to live my life in integrity. I was joined by many who felt the same way. Without them there would have been no resistance, no movement and no achievement. I became the spokesperson, but there were many, many people who stood in integrity.</p><p>Duality is ending. My message tonight is about what it is now to live a life of integrity. In this time integrity is to complete the journey of merging your essence and light within your experience of humanity. It&#8217;s about aligning your lives with your choices, your expression, your relationships, your participation or non-participation in social experiences, or where your resources go. It was not my part to do that; it is your part to do that.</p><p>Disengaging your energy and power from the old structures is not just an act of civil disobedience. <em>It is the most radical choice of this age. </em>It is an act that moves you into a place beyond war, beyond comparison, beyond competition, beyond choices based in fear or needs that have been incomplete, beyond needs to accumulate power, struggles for energy or any of those things that begot the wars of ages past.</p><p>Peace is not something that you create, it is something you become.<em> </em>And it isn&#8217;t something that is against war. It is the integration and union of your own spirit within an engaged experience of life. It is time to realize that those of you who have chosen this path are the great dissidents of this age. You are the radicals, the revolutionaries that have gone beyond sitting outside of courthouses and government agencies peacefully protesting, and are now actively choosing to disengage from the entire structure while moving into the new possibility.</p><p>My part was to resist, to bring about change without war and bloodshed, without the kind of trauma that lives for generations. I was proud of what I had accomplished, yet I died violently because in that time I had to stand in a place that was still polarized with what I was resisting. I had to, as did Martin Luther King, Jr. and others who stood in the same kind of place, though in a different setting with a different cause. If you now choose to stand <em>against</em> something you feel the duality-polarity, and it begins to draw you out of integrity. Instead of standing in integrity, doing what I did pulls you out of integrity.</p><p>You represent the next step in conscious awareness, creation and evolution. Instead of resisting, you step beyond.<em> </em>Beyond the story of war and peace, beyond the story of duality, and into the possibility of creating a new foundation for all to enjoy, where all begin to gather their gifts and create a new experience together.</p><p>Yes, there are many who are not represented well in your governments or your religions. Yes, there are many whose voices still are needing to be heard. And that is their part, to come into integrity, and to draw from amongst them those leaders that will speak on their behalf. I, however, am speaking to those of you who know in your hearts and souls that resistance is futile, that resistance now opens you to a kind of deadening of your spirit.</p><p>As you choose life, rather than resisting what is dying you find within you the gifts and potentials that have not yet awakened. Within duality those potentials could not be grown and evolved. They have been waiting for this new choice.</p><p>Integrity in this new time is a marriage of truth, your own wisdom, and your choices within every moment to align beyond duality. Sometimes your thoughts may still go to those places where you feel old comparisons, old bitterness or anger, or where you begin to feel in yourself a sense of disruption or judgment. You are already beginning to sense that there is less energy and power for such thoughts, and if they have a grip on you, you feel as if you are getting sick. Sometimes you do become ill because the energy of those old stories and old thought forms cannot vibrate with integrity in your body and soul.</p><p>The more you merge, the more your bodies become reflective of your choices. Maybe you could live out of integrity for years and years and not get sick, or perhaps you were able to do things and not have a reaction in your body or emotions. You may begin to notice a difference now as your bodies start to become a reflection of those thoughts and experiences that are no longer in integrity. Do you think is it possible for you to live for long according to someone else&#8217;s expectation or desire of you?</p><p>Integrity does not mean that you know consciously what to do, but it does mean that you choose in integrity in every moment, which means what feels like it has the most life, or the most sense of <em>Yes!</em> or freedom, or the most sense of wholeness. Choices in the moment are not just large expressions like &#8220;what am I going to do&#8221; or &#8220;where am I going to live&#8221;; it is the small choices like &#8220;where do I put my attention, what is my thought, and does it align with my feeling, my sense of what is most true and real&#8221;. You then vibrate that integrity beyond your own soul and body into whatever experience and field you are in.</p><p>Love is not what you think it is, and truth is not what you think it is. As you embody in this new story you will always have a sense of what is in integrity and what is not. You will find that the small choices begin to add up and pretty soon the large choices are being made, and pretty soon people are noticing those choices as well as the effects of the choices you are making, desiring to also move beyond what has no life. They, too, are tiring of the wars, the competition, and the energy drain of the old story.</p><p>You have had a great age of materialism. Most of you have had more in this life than you have ever had in any other lifetime upon this planet. At the end of the age of duality, materialism became the great God, the great religion, and it has moved around the world to every culture and nation in some form or other. However, those who were the beginners of materialism and capitalism are now moving beyond it.</p><p>What is beyond the material focus of the old age? The age beyond material consumption and materialism is the harnessing of potential of embodied beings and moving it into creation in ways that are yet unforeseen. You cannot imagine what you have no reference for, but you can be receptive to what you have no reference for. You may not be able to imagine what is to be created, but you can be receptive to inspiration, to insights, to ideas, to passion, to what is in your own nature that says &#8220;this is mine to speak about, this is mine to share, this is mine to give some form to, this is mine to play with, this is mine&#8221;. Then you let it go, you share it, it inspires another and their creative potential is perhaps excited and their ideas join yours. Their inspirations magnify what has already begun. You do not own it. Instead, you ride the experience into manifestation and it benefits all who participate and all who receive.</p><p>Beyond material focus there is a purity of potential moving into manifest form and creation, an innocence that you are going to remember and reintegrate. You will have less focus on the material plane, less need for all of the things you think you need now. Some of you already feel that, as if the energy for materialization is beginning to wane. It does not mean you will not have things that you cherish or that are of beauty or that reflect who you are, but you will begin to discern more and more and sense that your needs are better served when you are creating with others in partnership, in community, in joyful new collaborations.</p><p>Some of us had a part in the old story that took a great deal of strength to perform. We have decided that we would not return until after the time when we would need to have such a part again. Instead, we decided to wait for all of you to do what you are doing in this age to move this forward until the generation that you have birthed and that are birthing the next generation would take upon themselves this re-creation of the human experience.</p><p>Some of us have potentials that we would like to play with, too. Some of us have those things that could not manifest in the old story, and we are waiting for that time when we can join the party. And it will feel that way for some of you before you leave this body. You will experience a large-scale party, large-scale experiences of collaborative creation and joy. Some of you will trade your bodies in and come back so that you don&#8217;t miss out on some of the fun in the next age. And some of you may choose extended vacations beyond embodiment, and yet, if you succeed in merging your spirit within the cellular matter of your body and DNA, you will have opportunities for embodiment in the future beyond what you have had in the past.</p><p>I died without that opportunity. That is why when I come in the next lifetime I will succeed in what some of you are succeeding at now. I will choose that because of the freedom that it imparts.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Gandhi responded to several questions asked by participants. If you&#8217;d like to hear more about Gandhi&#8217;s experiences during his life you can listen to the complete recording at <a href="https://choiceforlove.com/the-visitor-series/">choiceforlove.com/the-visitor-series/ </a>Look for #15.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Crunch Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[There Are No Maybes.]]></description><link>https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/its-crunch-time</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/its-crunch-time</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris LaFontaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:33:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qu2C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15efa5fe-61cc-443e-ad37-5f9253198e48_1280x731.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h5><em>This article was originally published on our <a href="https://choiceforlove.com/">website</a> prior to creation of this Substack. The message is as important now as it was two years ago, and perhaps even more so now as events of the outer world continue to intensify.</em></h5><p></p><p>We recently received an unexpected visit from a group of beings in Spirit that have been integral to the evolution of consciousness now reaching <a href="/__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/culmination">culmination</a> on our planet. This group was familiar to us as those who were present during the Lightsmith years and before. Michele had not channeled this group for a while, but recognized that a connection was being initiated. Their visit was clearly purposeful and included a request presented with an unusual sense of importance and urgency. The reason for making contact in this way quickly became clear.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The message may appeal most directly to those who have been consciously engaged in the 5D transformation process and have at some level chosen to physically participate in perhaps the most significant moment of shift in the universe to date&#8230;if I may enjoin a bit of hyperbole. That choice to participate lies at the core of the request being made.</p><p>I first include the following quotes from a 2019 channeling with the same group to help set the stage:</p><p>&#8220;Realize that human consciousness has been manipulated and controlled by duality, what you&#8217;ve called the patriarchy, for many, many centuries. Many, many. And that all people born into a body, except perhaps a few young ones now embodied, have carried forward both the genetic imprint and the consciousness that you took on to transmute, to transform, and to shift within this experience of life. Or not.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Those that have been in particular control and manipulation of consciousness are continuing to ramp up how they are directing and infusing their consciousness into the large consciousness to control people, to control everything. That&#8217;s what has been the payoff for being in those positions. Yet they will begin to find out that all of their concerted efforts are not actually bearing fruit in the way that they presumed it would, and that the consciousness that has been growing beneath the surface of what they have controlled is now starting to strengthen enough to surface and create other experiences that for them will be beyond their control.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;If you try to predict, you will be surprised, because you cannot. If anyone else makes a prediction, they too will be surprised. It&#8217;s a kind of living in the moment, in the experience, in the current, really dwelling deeper and deeper in your own living consciousness within the larger living consciousness, and actually becoming part of the new dimensional experience. That&#8217;s what we would coach you to do, if we were with you to coach. What&#8217;s going on in the surface world and for those who are being pushed to make choices, and there will be many pushed to make choices, we don&#8217;t know whether those people who are pushed in their own experience will choose to be embodied in the new dimension, or choose to be disembodied for another experience to learn or to grow. There are many options, but basically it&#8217;s a choice to be part of a new creation within the body, or not. Within the earth, or not. Within the new dimensional experience, or not. Within the new frequencies that are part of the new dimensional experience, or not. It&#8217;s pretty much yes or no. There are no maybes.&#8221;</p><h4>The Request</h4><p>&#8220;We are using this opportunity to be present with you during this most auspicious time. The fusion of the dimensions is moving rapidly into place. The frequencies are also shifting rapidly where it is possible. There are places in the earth that are purposefully constricted so as not to allow love and light to be as accessible for this time of great shifting of consciousness.</p><p>Those who have had control of this planet&#8217;s consciousness for a very long time are doing their best to create fear, pain and great resistance. They have no compassion for those who are the pawns of the scheme to keep this shift of consciousness and frequency from happening.</p><p>So, it&#8217;s a matter of each person who knows what is real to anchor into their core and into the core of the earth, core of life, core of who they are, the Isness. Withdraw all attention&#8230;ALL attention from those places and people they are empathizing with because of the continued use of fear and visuals of others suffering in pain which distract their consciousness away from this core, essential knowing. It&#8217;s as if consciousness itself is under fire, purposefully under fire, so that the distraction will keep people&#8217;s attention away from what are actually attempts to stop or interfere with the shift of consciousness and realignment of life and presence with love.</p><p>It is impossible for this shift to be stopped, yet those who are seduced [those whose attention is hijacked] will continue to then not be able to withstand the frequency shift because their bodies will not be able to do it in the time that they need before the actual, true, authentic shift that is now underway. The great mother, earth, has a certain momentum now built up within her body and field and is shifting as rapidly as she can. There&#8217;s nothing that can stop this process, even though there are those that are mightily trying.</p><p>The distortion or the resistance will make certain parts of this shift more painful for many people that would not have needed to have this kind of experience. And yet it is what is unfolding. So those who are conscious, bring your attention back to your own core knowing, your essence. DO NOT interpret or overlay interpretations on anything happening in the world around you. What&#8217;s happening is much bigger than the mind can comprehend fully. It&#8217;s in motion, and if you wish to be participating in the motion of this grand transformation, rebirth within a planetary experience within a body, then this is yours to choose now.</p><p>We are supporting all of those who have been in this process with the earth for millennia after millennia, multiple millennias, multiple multiple ages. We are stabilizing as best we can. Those of you who open to us need to open at least equally or more to the earth for the stability. We can assure, we can add love, but it is a physical, planetary transformation or shift of frequency, consciousness and form. Access your soul-embodied essence core, put your feet on the ground, and send your root deep into the earth. Notice what you feel in your experience, your body. The shift has to happen in this material, physical plane even while there is great resistance and distraction pulling your attention away from your essential awareness. Empathy with suffering at this time pulls you and your heart out of connection with this process. It pulls you out. Many of you are sympathetic or empathetic, focusing on suffering in different places in the world or people you know.</p><p>Empathy has been used to generate energy into a particular kind of density, which is suffering and pain. If you feel that and you are pulled into it by anyone else then your frequency diminishes. Realize that essence-based knowing from deep within your heart&#8217;s connection with life and the earth&#8230;true, authentic love&#8230;will not pull you out of yourself, out of your core. We need as many of you as are able to choose to plant in the earth, to stay in your core, to open to Light and Life equally, and to open the fount of love that is far beyond empathy that has been used within duality to keep sensitive people, loving people, pulled out of themselves. That is not the way of the fifth dimension. Authentic love will not diminish you in any way. Authentic love will not diminish your essence, your core, your frequencies or your life in any way.</p><p>In this time we are calling upon all those who have been prepared and have been preparing. We are calling upon those who have the strength within their core and their hearts to stand true, and to withdraw ALL attention, ALL focus. Stand in love, be love, stand in the heart of the earth. Magnify love. Stand in the core of your being and feel what authentic Living Light and Living Love is without the overlays that you grew up with that patterned your hearts to think that empathy was love. It&#8217;s now that this is important. We don&#8217;t often feel a sense that for us a message is necessary, but this particular time the momentum of the shift of frequency within this great beautiful planetary wondrous mother of life is building rapidly.</p><p>It&#8217;s as if when a mother is in the birthing mode and the momentum keeps building and there is nothing that is going to stop the birthing, and yet there is somebody in the birthing room that continues to try to take attention away from the unfolding of what is purposeful and is going to happen. <em>It&#8217;s as if even among those who have been prepared and preparing there have been some wobbles in consciousness. This is not the time to wobble. </em>Whatever is happening, please stand in your core within the earth, in light, in life, in love without old patterns or overlays of conditioned empathy that draws your heart and attention out of you, away from you, weakens you and diminishes your frequency.</p><p>Right now and in these coming weeks and months, this is what you have been preparing for. This is what you have been growing into and toward. This is the awakening, if that&#8217;s what you wish to call it, but that is a weak word at this moment given what is happening. So, whatever assists you, whatever feels real, core sense real to you in your experience, your embodied self, whatever is present&#8230;open there what&#8217;s real for you. Most real, without your eyes deceiving you, without your ears and your hearing being affected by what is going on around you, without friends or family who do not understand. And even your own empathetic self that learned empathy within duality. That is what is shifting for you.</p><p>Clarify your hearts, clarify your mind, clarify your consciousness, clarify your core or body. Fast if you need to, to clarify and allow your body to move through this process. You are going through this shift of frequency with the earth, and it is happening. The momentum is well underway. It&#8217;s growing rapidly. We are standing with you, but we don&#8217;t have a body and we are not connected to the earth. Yet we are aware almost as if our dimension as spirit is being affected too by what is happening here, because there is a fusion of light and life creating the fifth dimension so we feel the wobble even though we don&#8217;t have a body. </p><p>Those who have been anti-Life and assumed a kind of control are in a desperate mode and attempting to hold or govern consciousness and keep this shift from happening, trying to keep the kind of control that has in the past destroyed entire planets. That kind of anti-Life or control can no longer exist in this or any other part of the dimensional experience that is Source, that is beyond comprehension.</p><p>Chris: I have one question. In this birthing, compared to the human birthing process where there is the buildup and anticipation and then suddenly there is the moment of the birth. Is there something equivalent in what is birthing now?</p><p>Different, but similar, and you missed a step. Between the buildup of contractions or the momentum that builds towards the birthing there is a period that is called transition. This time is often experienced by the mother as chaotic, as if the sense of what is needed is moving beyond her control, so to speak. There is a moment where chaos exists. It&#8217;s as if the momentum shifts direction. In that shift is all the potential and all the energy and preparation, all of the contractions&#8230;everything moves into a different focus than it had. That is what&#8217;s coming on a large, collective, planetary scale. So, stand in your core with the earth, fully present as part of it in the field with all of us, including the sun, the planets etc. It&#8217;s as if we are all stabilizing that transition so that it can move a little more easily through that process to the birthing.</p><p>It is an experience that those of you who have been prepared for are ready for, and it&#8217;s a shift of your heart at this point. You cannot allow the dualistic empathy conditioning that separated you and your heart from yourself and goes out to others because of pain or suffering to diminish your experience of frequency at this moment. <em>It&#8217;s not helpful</em>. It destabilizes you and it&#8217;s destabilizing to some degree of the momentum that is now getting closer to the transition.</p><p>You have chosen to be part of this time, please be part of this transition. Please.&#8221;</p><p>***</p><p>Twenty-five years ago Michele wrote a nine-part series for The Edge Magazine titled Transformation to Conscious Creation. That series drew on a course she taught in 1998 focused on restructuring consciousness in the body in order to participate within the new matrix of creation.</p><p>In the first installment she wrote: &#8220;If we wish to evolve our souls within matter to the point where we become conscious creators within creation, then the first principle of creation is to stand in the center as Creator (note the capital C). Creator is the active focusing force of Universal Intelligence that merges within the individual consciousness to create its will within matter. If we stand in our own center without that merger then we continue to create from learned limitations within our personal perspective that has forgotten who we truly are. The process of forming a bridge from the personal to the universal takes practice. The first step is a willingness to relinquish judgment, all judgment.&#8221;</p><p>Relinquishing judgment, withdrawing attention from the dramas of the surface world and re-connecting our core with the earth is the request. <strong>Stability in the field is the need.</strong> Think of each person who maintains a higher frequency as an unwavering node in the collective, holding a tone around which the field can reorganize as the old forms lose integrity. The contribution is not something we do, it is what we become as we choose alignment and integration with Self.</p><p>It is time,</p><p>Chris</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! 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different article was in mind when I first started this piece, one with a theme that is decidedly more &#8220;big picture&#8221; in scope. That composition will eventually have its day in the sun, but I got sidelined by a persistent nudge to first address three often-contentious topics: vaccines, viruses and chemtrails.</p><p>I am making this detour for my own sanity and a kind of completion. After 25+ years I have grown weary of giving attention and energy to these subjects, both in general and in exchanges that follow predictable patterns of discussion with equally predictable outcomes. I also want to share how I have been informed beyond viewpoints of contemporary authors and researchers whose works I trust.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Given my background in the esoteric I am highlighting information sourced from our own material acquired during the Lightsmith years. Over time we opened many opportunities for people to ask questions of the Earth Mother or our friends in Spirit as they joined us through Michele. Direct quotes of such information are noted as such. Personal opinions will be obvious. My intention is simply to lend perspective, to highlight certain points in a single resource I can point to rather than rehashing again and again in bits and bobs.</p><p>In these times we are transiting a reality shift that by its nature is sorting the valid from the invalid&#8230;the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. Confusion will be transformed to clarity, and illusion will be dispelled and scattered to the winds. Viewpoints shared here are subject to that same sorting process, so time will reveal their validity or dissolve them into irrelevance.</p><h3><strong>Chemtrails</strong></h3><p>Seems the simpler place to begin.</p><p>Aerosolizing substances and spraying them into the atmosphere is not a new technology. The lingering chemical clouds that result from that spraying are what some people call chemtrails, not to be confused with normal condensation trails. The technical term is <em>stratospheric aerosol injection. </em>And no, not every line in the sky is a SAI.</p><p>We've been sprayed with something since at least 25 years ago when I started paying attention. It's not a &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221; (a term specifically created to discredit) that many areas of the country are affected since one need only to look up and see with opened eyes. What stirs conspiracy discussions is when "authorities" deny that anything is taking place, so consequently little official information is forthcoming about what substances have been injected into the atmosphere and what is their purpose. All these years later I suggest that many purposes now exist, including openly-discussed &#8220;geoengineering&#8221; as developed by scientists at Harvard and MIT who apparently deem it okay to spray nanosized aluminum oxide and other undisclosed chemicals into the atmosphere. I do not concur.</p><p>I added this topic because I have information gleaned from a couple of our Lightsmith sessions that I thought others might find interesting. I post little on this subject myself and have not followed-up for years. I have other areas of interest where I prefer to place my attention and energy.</p><p>The quotes below are from the year 2000, around the time these phenomena were first being noticed and when questions about this subject were asked by our readers. I have condensed multiple questions and responses into one. Keep in mind this is only what we learned at that time. I can only presume that such activity has multiplied into 2025 and that more details will be revealed as all secrets continue coming to light.</p><p><em><strong>Q. People are witnessing cargo-type airplanes spraying something over cities large and small. The planes sometimes fly at altitudes where no normal condensation trail would be seen, and these flights are in patterns that criss-cross the sky and leave unusual trails that linger and spread. Many people report becoming sick afterward. Are they associated with massive flu-like outbreaks sweeping the country? What are the silver balls that some people report seeing at the same time, and who is doing this and for what purpose? </strong></em></p><p>A. "After the Gulf war there was the discovery of factories making biochemical warfare agents. It frightened many people and they felt that they needed to begin to take steps to protect themselves and the populations. So, there were monies devoted to this and subsequent action. It started about two years ago and is rather experimental in nature, and yet they have not asked permission for the outcomes that are experienced by people, animals, and plants, etc. It is not real &#8220;kosher&#8221; in terms of how consciousness is operating at a higher frequency. It is very evident of the old control, secrecy, power-over, &#8216;what they don&#8217;t know won&#8217;t hurt them&#8217; mentality of a quite large group of those who have a very great amount of money."</p><p>"Your governments do not give the people of your country and of the world credit for being intelligent and able to make choices for yourselves. They are still acting in a paternal or patriarchal way. That is perhaps an understatement, but it is true. They fear bio-chemical warfare being used against your populations from those who are considered terrorists, out of their control. Even with their great CIA and other ways of penetrating to find out what's going on they are unable to do so. So, out of fear they are distributing what they perceive to be somewhat like vaccines that you breathe in that will give you some protection to what are some of the known bio-hazards that could be also inhaled via the air."</p><p>"It will make you sick because it is toxic material with a certain amount of the bio-chemical substance, the toxin, involved so that you build up a certain resistance to it in small doses and then the hope is that there is more resistance, more toleration of anything that might be distributed. The problem is that those who are creating such weapons have a whole repertoire and to attempt mitigation in this manner against one is really a moot point. It does not really affect the whole of what is possible.&#8221;</p><p>"And fear, being what it is, is not a good place to act from in terms of how that might affect the whole. So, what we would say is the intention is not "evil" in an old sense of the word...trying to harm...but rather to protect, but out of fear. The government is afraid that people would not be able to handle the information that they have, and that people would react with much fear, which is probably true. In the larger population there would be a panic of some kind. There are those, however, who are able to see differently."</p><p>"The silver balls that have been seen are a sort of device that is released into the atmosphere, kind of like a weather balloon, that has a mechanism for measuring what is taking place in the atmosphere while these experiments are being done."</p><p>"The organizing body is not the United Nations or NATO or a place where there is up-front communication about these things. The organizing is done by a group of people that are beyond your government. It would be more like a multi-national, corporate structure. Not necessarily always in cooperation with the governments themselves. That is partly why it has been difficult for people to organize against it. It is perhaps not wise for us to say who is involved because it is, in a sense, not in our realm to do that. That&#8217;s not our job. That would be beyond what we have permission to do."</p><p>"We are reluctant to say much about this because there is already enough fear in your plane to realize that some of what others who project a great amount of fear into it is actually not the appropriate response. The shift in consciousness and raising frequency in the earth plane will lift to light secrets, any kind of unconscious or conscious secrets as is already taking place and is already brought forward. Then you look at those things and bring them to light and make decisions about them."</p><p>***</p><p>My only personal follow-up exchange at that time was also my final inquiry on this subject.</p><p><em><strong>There must be many things that we are not told about by those that withhold information, whether out of fear or for control reasons. I find myself asking how much longer will it be before we&#8217;re on the other side of this transition. I sometimes grow impatient in my desire to move beyond this old-story duality experience.</strong></em></p><p>"Well, the world is full of love that is ever-present and all-embracing. If you look only at the surface you see the illusion, and that illusion is dying. And it will continue to find its way to make death its partner and its manifestation. If you look toward love and its fullness and the fullness that it will bring to your experience in a physical, visceral, sensual way, then you will have a very different experience. You will have a very full experience of life, and you will find others and they will find you with that sense of life. And you will share that, and you will share the map of the way to experience and open to that life rather than the fear and the contraction and the death and the illusions...the conditions with the limitations...with the whole way the other has been programmed and taught to be real. So yes, it is hard. It is impossible to be in the old world, the illusions. Don&#8217;t try."</p><p><em>Fast forward to 2025</em>. Those filling the air with toxins not only talk about it, they are peddling their actions as virtuous. Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols Geoengineering (SAG-SRM) to note a couple. All because Climate Change, dontcha know. Since that topic is not the focus of this piece my only comment here is to say that yes, climate continually changes on a living, evolving planet, including times when there has been no ice at all. Is there really an existential &#8220;crisis&#8221; beyond monied interests trying to justify the need for giving them even more money? I expect the answer to that question will also be revealed in the ongoing process of illusions being dispelled.</p><p>Want to dig deeper? Here are two resources. Please note that I do not have to agree with every viewpoint made to say hey, there are other viewpoints.</p><p><a href="https://geoengineeringwatch.org/">https://geoengineeringwatch.org/</a></p><p> - A comprehensive website.</p><p><a href="https://climatetrails.com/">https://climatetrails.com/</a></p><p> - A new film.</p><p><em><strong>How do I see it?</strong></em></p><p><strong>Yes.</strong> Chemtrails are a thing, a spurious Life-damaging thing.</p><p><strong>No. </strong>Chemtrails are not contrails. Chemtrails are not contrails. Chemtrails are not contrails.</p><p><strong>Maybe. </strong>Blanketing the skies with life-damaging toxins and attempting to dim the sun are really bad ideas.</p><p>***</p><p><strong>VACCINES AND VIRUSES</strong></p><p>A clear overlap obviously exists between these two subjects since one is often a primary justification for the other. Beliefs once held sacrosanct about either topic are up for fierce debate in some circles while some wonder if the ideologies built around these topics are grounded in fact.</p><p>Other perspectives have entered the room.</p><p>I again reference and weave together several of our Q&amp;A sessions with the Earth Mother and friends in Spirit, some from years ago and some as recent as 2023. And, these two topics have a theme in common which I will highlight further on.</p><h3><strong>Viruses</strong></h3><p><em><strong>Q. Some people have become adamant that viruses do not exist. That is not my view and I would appreciate some insight on that premise and the purpose of viruses.</strong></em></p><p><strong>Earth Mother:</strong> &#8220;Well, viruses exist. They are a part of the whole of consciousness, part of the whole of nature, part of the whole. Bacteria exist, part of the whole.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Consciousness has been so controlled, top-down, mind-over, and so constricted by the dimension of false control that there needed to be a kind of entity, or whatever you want to call a virus, that basically could replicate the distortion. So, viruses are capable of bringing distortions to the surface, though that is not their only job.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Once the distortions dissolve themselves in consciousness, once the consciousness of humanity is opening to more and more of what is of life, wholeness and coherence, then that particular kind of mutational consciousness in that lifeform will evolve too. Viruses haven&#8217;t evolved yet because they are still working, but they do continue to mutate. That is their nature. The old overlays are still embodied and the viruses are still materializing the old consciousness. Eventually they will most likely evolve new capacities or their effects will change.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>Q. I have read various views about the Covid virus and others, such as opinions of those who claim this virus hasn&#8217;t been isolated, or viruses are just products of cellular breakdown. At the same time, I read how people sequestered in Antarctica, insulated from humanity, are having the experience of Covid infections. So, I ask a broad question about what are viruses, and the meaning of this recent one that gets all the attention. Is it some kind of collective cleansing?</strong></em></p><p><strong>Earth Mother:</strong> &#8220;It is a collective experience that is jostling consciousness to wake up, basically. So, it&#8217;s a kind of virus that affects people differently. It&#8217;s individually experienced for one thing, offering a wide spectrum of experience. A wide spectrum from one, supposedly, virus and its evolution. But, it&#8217;s consciousness. There can be nothing separate from consciousness. Consciousness is creating the experience that you, all together, are having collectively.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The virus is part of life, it&#8217;s part of the living system. It&#8217;s being used, or been opened in this way because the only way to move through this time of devolution and evolution is individually. And viruses are not just body to body, they&#8217;re everywhere. They move around, they fly free on the winds.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>Q. So we are being affected by something external.</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;But only if you need it! Your body is your consciousness in physical experience. That&#8217;s it. What you experience physically is your experience. It is not the same as other people&#8217;s experience. Their consciousness, how they&#8217;ve been informed and how they experience things, that&#8217;s theirs. So, we&#8217;re having this collective experience of being informed individually, collectively uprooting old, old stuff that has been bound not only in your physical bodies but my body&#8230;the materialized land, and the trauma that has been experienced all through my body. It&#8217;s all being stirred.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;When people disown their consciousness and their body, and they disown the wisdom that&#8217;s within them, they externalize that this is happening TO them. They become a victim with no power and have nothing to do except suffer and go to the hospital, or ask a doctor, or be treated. And this goes for not just this virus. All physical experience is consciousness moving through, or cleansing, or clearing, or awakening, or unearthing, or dissolving or whatever.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>Q. So even if this particular current virus has been altered or created by man, it is still consciousness expressing through&#8230;.</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;&#8230;each individual body, each individual person. So, it doesn&#8217;t affect children because they don&#8217;t have so much built up inside of them. They don&#8217;t have a storage of all sorts of things. They&#8217;re young. It has affected the oldest first, because they have stored all of the experiences that they haven&#8217;t processed, or haven&#8217;t unearthed, or haven&#8217;t moved through. That&#8217;s what is then being released out of consciousness as they leave their bodies, is the backlog of unprocessed experience. In some ways it&#8217;s so obvious when you look at it this way. It&#8217;s just so obvious that of course children aren&#8217;t affected, because this is moving out of the deeper levels of what&#8217;s been stored.&#8221;</p><p>The next excerpt is from 2003 during a global outbreak of SARS-CoV-1. That infection affected about 8,000 people in 32 countries with a case fatality rate of 11%. Covid is considered SARS-CoV-2.</p><p><em><strong>Q. What does SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) represent?</strong></em></p><p><strong>Friends in Spirit:</strong> &#8220;Respiration is taking in the breath of life, and a large contraction is going through humanity at this time. It is happening throughout the world. Various waves of illnesses, diseases, will begin to manifest and they will come in waves. This is one wave. There are others that will follow and bodies are affected.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Those who have greater immunity, stronger immune systems, they will not feel the effects so much. Those who have stronger life force will not feel the effects so much, but those whose immunity or the way they have been organized within duality is not so strong, they will feel some of the effects of these waves that go through. Life is transforming, it is shifting, it is changing. Certain structures of consciousness are leaving, dissolving and changing, you know this, you are doing it. In the whole of consciousness, certain things that have been part of life and have been created are also needing to change and to shift.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Those who at times do not allow change in their bodies or their lives will often attract a certain challenge physically in a certain part of the body as a means of asking the question: What is it that I need to do, need to change? What am I not allowing to shift or change in my body? Such a disease is a precipitation for shift. It is a precipitation for change, precipitation for greater life and for the body&#8217;s need to illustrate lack of movement in life.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;And we will say this, too. Every time the scientists feel they have control over one of these diseases, another will manifest. The only way to open to being fully protected is to be fully alive and to move within this place where things are changing, are alive. Your bodies, the more alive your bodies are and the more chi, gold, green [frequencies], there is no vulnerability then. But it also means that you need to keep moving in your life. It is not something where you would say, &#8216;OK, I got it now. Now I rest and go into being status quo for the rest of my life.&#8217; There is a certain energy for life that continues to create itself. Things pass out of your life, and things come into your life.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>Q. In talking about the shifts that our bodies are going through is it possible that we carry viruses within our system that are encoded to bring a particular physical problem into focus at different times in our lives? Do they kind of work with us instead of against us as we often think? (from 2007)</strong></em></p><p><strong>F in S: </strong>&#8220;Viruses are an interesting creation because they mutate. Mutation is what is partly responsible for the shift of frequency within your bodies. Otherwise, if you had no ability to make any changes your bodies would stay the way they&#8217;ve been. So, in some ways you all carry the possibility of mutation. And, there are certain viral agents that are within your bodies that assist that kind of shifting.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Do they manifest from within at times to affect timing? Possibly. There is a certain way that they are always working, especially as you open this sequence of process, in a sense. You also are drawing certain viruses to you that are particularly supportive at different times. There are also some viruses that are just latent, and they only operate when called upon, so to speak, and those are the ones that are yet to be revealed in the larger story.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Yes, you may have a negative experience of viruses, in the sense that you perceive them as something bad, but if you did not have that quality, you would not be able to shift. So, yes, they are also beneficial.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>Q. I&#8217;ve been told that I have some kind of low-grade virus or something in my system. It doesn&#8217;t seem to move and I&#8217;m wondering if you can comment on this for me. (2005)</strong></em></p><p><strong>F in S:</strong> &#8220;Viruses mutate and they shift. So, in order to open these places in your own body that have housed or given a space to such it requires transformation or shift of you, frequency wise. It also requires that the place where it is housed in the body be brought into a place of great love. Most often, viruses take up residence where there has been lack of love, so great love is needed to allow that place to be filled and to no longer allow that virus to have a place to live.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Simultaneously, that allows a greater shift of frequency within the field. Some see viruses as the counterpart of great evil, and try to eliminate them through all sorts of methodologies. Rather, see them as those things that grew wherever there was a lessening of love, and then open your heart.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>Q. Would you please comment about genital herpes. I have recently suffered the worst outbreak I have ever had. Is there a cure or can it be removed from the body?</strong></em></p><p><strong>F in S:</strong> &#8220;Herpes is viral in origin and is connected to the root chakra, survival, and life itself in a way in which life is not trusted and where it has been turned against itself in some ways. The more you trust and open the current, working with and opening the places that have been contracted, weak, or blocked, and the more there is a trust of the currents of life to bring all that is needed into creation, then there is the possibility for the body to maintain its health and strength and not manifest this particular disorder in the body. That is its consciousness.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;It is transmutable rather than removable. It is actually widespread in the population because of the need to transmute the distrust of life.&#8221;</p><p>And, since this is the one document I will likely produce on this subject, I thought that readers might find this question of interest:</p><p><em><strong>Q. How did AIDS come about and is it caused by the HIV virus?</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;Aids is a collective experience of a self-destructive turning against life. It is that which has been the anti-life energies that have tried to constrict, control, and then through a sort of aberration it distorts into something that is against itself. It is in the collective awareness that that has been happening, and in the 20th century particularly there has been more and more and more of it.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;It is a combination of factors. If you look at collective consciousness, largely the shadow of the collective has been placed on those who have darker skin. Collectively, what has been shoved aside has been projected and coalesced in some ways in the continent of Africa. It is the intense projection of one part of consciousness against another, that split of consciousness that says I am good, I am white, I am superior, I am powerful, I am whatever, and you are less than, you do not deserve to exist. In whatever form; religious, government, political, monetarily, economic&#8230;&#8230;all of those structures.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Duality used the concept of separation and then split. So that is the consciousness that is manifested in the disease, and it is a virus that basically acts that way in the human body. It kills its host. It acts against life, and it does so quite efficiently.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;There is something that is dying within the culture and the collective consciousness and it is actually the separation of the mind from its own unconscious. Once there is a reconnection, an embrace, of the collective unconscious then out of Africa will be born some of the most creative, wonderful, beautiful expressions. It will be wondrous, and creation will rejoice. This won&#8217;t happen for quite a while, but it is the birthplace of something yet to come. You may see this in your lifetime, but it will not happen until the collective has owned its own unconscious.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Is it a result of the HIV? It is a mutation of the HIV. It is not a direct result, but it is a relative. It cannot be separated completely as some would like, and it cannot be collated completely as synonymous as some would like. It is a mutation. Certain people&#8217;s bodies mutate in that direction with HIV. Certain people&#8217;s bodies do not mutate in that direction with HIV. Do you understand? Part of it is consciousness within that particular individual. If their consciousness is transforming that old split and matrix, the duality and the perceptions of separation and the anti-life, then they are less likely to have the experience of it mutating. But it does mutate, do you see?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;How did it come into the population as a whole? It was designed, it was created by human intelligence. It was not just passed on from a monkey. It was created by human intelligence and perhaps was initially thought to be something that could be like biological warfare or some kind of destructive capacity in the populations that someone would like to control or decimate. There are many other such biological weapons, worse actually, that have been created or mutated in clinical settings to become even more difficult to eradicate. Yet it is that which is within the human consciousness as a whole that creates such things, and then calls it forth into experience.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;So, for people as a whole to blame and then project blame and be angry, and then to feel victimized by that which is outside of them, is to continue the split, continue the separation. Rather, go to that place where there is separation, that awareness, the belief, the perceptions, the consciousness, the concept of separation within that duality matrix and structures of either/or, good/bad, etc. etc. Then transform and dissolve within self. You are within the whole, within the collective, you are a part of the healing and the transformation of AIDS, of HIV, of all the rest of what has been created.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>How do I see it?</strong></em></p><p><strong>Yes.</strong> Viruses exist. They are essential aspects of consciousness and integral to our evolution.</p><p><strong>No.</strong> One does not &#8220;eradicate&#8221; viruses.</p><p><strong>Maybe.</strong> All arguments about viruses are polarizing and dualistic when excluding consciousness as fundamental to the discussion.</p><p>***</p><h3>Vaccines</h3><p>I continue with the format of Q &amp; A. This first question was from a mother who during a session back in 2000 asked generally about the need for vaccines, explaining that she chose to avoid them for her children.</p><p><strong>F in S:</strong> &#8220;Certain countries have had low frequencies of consciousness for a long period of time and they are susceptible to certain illnesses that carry certain signatures of that consciousness. In those countries vaccinations are appropriate in the sense that they begin to give the body of consciousness space to open to a greater awareness. It is almost as if with a lessening of the illness or the signature, then there is an ability to hear or integrate more of what is possible.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;In a country where an illness has largely been abolished such as this culture (United States), then there is more spaciousness and an ability for individuals to not have any commonality with the signature of the illness. It is almost as if you have your own consciousness that is an immunity in its own vibrational nature. That is why you have not vaccinated your children. They have told you that they do not need it. They have consciousness that is not in alignment with these signatures, these illnesses.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Hepatitis A is another one that is by and large by signature and attraction. Any major illness that attacks the body in certain ways is either something that is because the body is weakened or has an ability to take in that signature in some way to work with it, to learn from it, to grow from it, to transmute with it. However, your son is not one of them. He probably could be in the same room or the vicinity and his system would not register it. It&#8217;s a matter of consciousness, it&#8217;s a matter of vibration, it&#8217;s a matter of frequencies. In some situations and countries where there is a raising of frequency necessary to move beyond the signature, then vaccinations can be helpful.&#8221;</p><p>From 1998: <em><strong>Will you explain why 1 in 300 children born in the United States has been diagnosed with autism? Are these children here to teach us compassion, to better care for mother earth, to teach unconditional love and so raise the collective vibration of consciousness? Is autism connected to vaccinations?</strong></em></p><p>&#8220;Yes, they could be here to teach. The autistic child has their own inner world where they are not so capable of connecting or making relationships with others. Therefore it calls forth a capacity to relate to the soul directly, not just the manifested perceptual field. When ones are called to soul connection, bypassing the behavior and the inability to connect in the emotional sense, there is then a meeting with these ones. There is also a new skill that is created, to not only gain unconditional love but the capacity to meet all others at the soul level and bypass the appearance that is presented. So, they have a wonderful capacity to gift those who work with them with new skills and new qualities of consciousness.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;There is a relationship between autism and vaccinations, and that will be more and more uncovered. It&#8217;s with particular children who are born with a certain level of sensitivity. They may actually use DNA tests to identify the children who have this sensitivity, and then not inoculate them. The similarity among these children will alert physicians as to their vulnerability.&#8221;</p><p><em>Current update and commentary:</em> Yes, DNA screening (MTHFR gene variant for one) is already being done by some parents who are aware of the option. However, vaccine manufacturers and the medical establishment educated by that industry continue to insist that vaccines do not have a causal relationship to autism. This is the same industry that markets toxic products as Safe and Effective despite an abundance of data, including their own, that proves the opposite. On the plus side, their shield of denial is fracturing, destined IMO to shatter with great effect, perhaps finally opening the needed pathways for full revelation and open discussion about this highly controversial subject.</p><p>Current estimates are that nationally 1 in 20 boys and 1 in 63 girls are diagnosed with autism, so a disparity of about 3.4 times more boys. Highest in the nation from 2022 data is California with a prevalence of ASD among 8-year-old children at 1 in 19. Recent estimates in 2025 place that number at closer to 1 in 10. Note that in 2016 California eliminated all vaccine exemptions except for medical reasons, but of course correlation doesn&#8217;t equal causation &lt;sarc&gt;.</p><p>Please note that I am not a recent "anti-vaxxer". I have spent countless hours over two decades educating myself about the reality behind tales told by a trillion-dollar industry well-skilled in making people feel afraid to live. No coincidence that the billionaires who benefit from that extraction of wealth also have the means to sully professionals, politicians and publications with their influence. Those same monied interests also create and control the curricula of western medicine that determines what is taught to medical students who eventually pass along only what they have been told to a public that has been conditioned to put blind trust in them.</p><p>A large and rapidly-growing number of resources exist for anyone willing to question what they've heard about vaccines since birth, including mythologies (salvation of smallpox and polio) and beliefs infused like a religion into our collective psyche. It is unfortunate that this subject has become radically politicized when all are affected regardless of tribal affiliations. I will consider it a major turning point in our evolutionary history when the immense pharmaceutical-medical-industrial complex finally succumbs to the karmic weight of its own sordid mis-deeds.</p><p>Note: These conversations refer to traditional vaccines. I need add little about the recent &#8220;vaccines&#8221; built on the mRNA platform. They are already well on their way to being exposed for their questionable upsides and injurious and deadly downsides.</p><p><em><strong>Where do I stand?</strong></em></p><p><strong>Yes.</strong> Vaccines can injure children in numerous ways including fomenting autism and chronic diseases, often with treatment options that are life-long and even more profitable than the product that caused injury in the first place.</p><p><strong>No.</strong> Not all uses of vaccines have serious negative consequences.</p><p><strong>Maybe.</strong> &#8220;Vaccine-preventable diseases&#8221; and &#8220;Safe and Effective&#8221; are little more than crafty marketing slogans.</p><p>***</p><p>So, what&#8217;s the most crucial factor missing from virtually all public conversations about vaccines and viruses on any side of an issue?</p><p>Consciousness.</p><p>I originally thought I might open this observation further but realize it&#8217;s too much for the intention of this already long piece. The point has been made. I leave it to the reader to connect dots scattered among the many paragraphs. </p><p>I depart with these thoughts:</p><p>Earth is the focal point of a grand transformation, and consciousness itself is the director. Humans are experiencing pains of release and contraction as a fundamental new reality is being birthed.</p><p>Healing is a return to wholeness, a gathering back of parts that fragmented in duality, which includes a reunification of the self and Self that became split.</p><p>As duality dissolves and the restoration of wholeness proceeds, the unconscious becomes conscious and we realize that Self stands as creator in the center of our created experiences.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great bEarthing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trust The Mother]]></description><link>https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-great-bearthing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-great-bearthing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris LaFontaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:37:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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the late 1990&#8217;s I dabbled in community television, producing and hosting shows complete with live audiences. The series title was <em>Consider Another Perspective</em>, a clue that the content would explore subjects on the edges of mainstream at that time. Feng Shui and Intuition were two popular subjects, but the first and most unusual episode was <em>What on Earth is Happening? </em>with Michele Mayama as guest. She shared her gifts and &#8220;other perspectives&#8221; in both a general discussion and a channeling with the Earth Mother. For anyone interested, that episode <a href="https://gaiaterra.org/what-on-earth-is-happening/">can be viewed</a> on our Gaia Terra website. Note, I dressed myself so fair warning given.</p><p>At the time of the Earth Mother show we had already been hosting events with her for over three years. As I mentioned in my previous Substack piece <em><a href="/__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-keys-to-creation">The Keys to Creation</a></em>, our earliest Lightsmith programs with the Earth Mother began when she first expressed herself through Michele in 1995. Fast forward, the final event at our building in 2016 was a two-part series hosted at the request of the Earth Mother which, like 21 years earlier, was a deep and significant process. Those two final evenings brought to completion the formal framework of Lightsmith and a period of my life filled with many extraordinary experiences and unexpected gifts.</p><p>I have previously published excerpts from the first half of that last event, but I have never published content from the bitter-sweet moment of the last evening with the Earth Mother in October of 2016. What I am sharing following these initial comments is intended as both reminder and support for those who are consciously moving through this transition out of the old reality and into The Grand Unknown. These are the times we have worked to bring about and for which we have done our best to prepare.</p><p>The con artists that have maintained a false reality and control over humanity still run the same hustle as ever, yet now their labors are not bearing the expected fruits. Still, they persist without pause. And, they not only persist but intensify their desperate schemes to pull energy from the masses by implementing non-stop issues designed to create polarization, capture attention, hijack empathy and stimulate emotional reactivity. They will not cease until the frequency shift makes it impossible for them to continue. I believe our wait is short.</p><p>Experiencing a world we claim to want requires that we stop giving energy to the one we don&#8217;t, a challenge at times when the crafty spin-masters of the old world manufacture crisis after crisis, creating the next thing that needs &#8220;fixing&#8221; and then the next and the next.</p><p>So&#8230;if you would consider another perspective, realize that calm, grounded presence vibrating stability in the field is the most effective evolutionary contribution one can make in these times. Presence, without judgment or reactivity to whatever is going on in the world. It&#8217;s a practice, and the coming months will provide much opportunity for that practice.</p><p>Trust the Earth Mother, the orchestrator of change on this planet, trust her many powerful collaborators, and trust the unstoppable upward frequency shift to take care of the lower-frequency forms of the anti-life that literally cannot continue in the new reality and will cease to exist in our experience here. This includes every fear-driven prediction making the rounds on social media being amplified by people on both sides of any issue.</p><p>So, that&#8217;s my intro and pitch. The remaining words are from the Earth Mother as excerpted from those last two evenings with her. Processes have been removed and information has been trimmed for brevity where possible. Still many words, though I expect you will find them of interest. And, as is often the case, the messages seem perfect for current times. It&#8217;s partly the difference between what is in motion on the causal level when we are first informed, versus the time it takes for manifestation to occur in the physical. That process has sped up considerably since these channelings and continues to accelerate exponentially.</p><p>Until whatever is Next,</p><p>Chris</p><p>***</p><p><strong>Words from the Earth Mother. September and October, 2016</strong>.</p><p><strong>First evening: </strong></p><p>Choices made in fear are different than choices made in love or freedom. One is coercion, manipulation based in fear and threats. The old story, the patriarchy, has done a very good job of coercing, manipulating, forcing, and through violence taking whatever it chose and trying to make everyone else go along with it.</p><p>You seek a home, a place where you can relax, open to receive, replenish, and be at peace without fear. Does coercion feel like home to you? Have you felt at home in my body? Have you had difficulty being here? Have you felt safe, able to be who you are, here?</p><p>I am your mother. It has been my part to embrace everyone, wherever they came from and whatever their past experience and stories and planets and planetary journeys and wherever they came from. But, I would like to experience a home with you and all those who are choosing to create a kind of living love, a home for all who are now wanting, desiring, to fully relax into their living experience, their soul experience, their embodied experience of being.</p><p>Wherever you came from and however you got here, you're here now. You've stayed here, you've continued to evolve here, you have chosen to be here, you have chosen to transform and heal here, you have chosen to wake up to who you are here. And I, as your planetary home, would like you to be able to fully relax here, fully open potential that has been unwilling and unable to open within the constriction of coercion and fear that has been the dominant consciousness of this experience for a very long time. Would you like that?</p><p>We have together created a new dimension here. We are to be celebrated. The next phase is to clarify what goes forward, and who and what does not. Consciousness can no longer use fear in order to open to life or creation. They do not go together. Each of you, have you been facing your own fears? Head on, yes? Sometimes with reluctance, sometimes with perhaps some of your own patterns that have part of the old adaptations. Yes, but you have been willing to choose to stay present, even in that place.</p><p>Notice who chooses to stay present without fear, who chooses to stand and speak truth without fear, who chooses to invite and welcome into more connection without fear. Notice who chooses love, who chooses connection, and who chooses life over and over.</p><p>I invite you, but it is your choice. I cannot coerce. It is your choice to be who you are here, to allow greater calling forth of who you are into your experience here. To no longer wait for another time, another body, another lifetime, another election to see what will happen before you come. You may have chosen to wait, to dissociate, to fragment and to put on hold your own incarnational choice to be fully present. You are here partially, some of you a little more than partially, but not fully.</p><p>Each of you has been through the experience of many incarnations within the old story. Some of you have been choosing love for many lifetimes. Some of you have been hiding out, waiting for the shift. Some of you have been doing a little of both. Some of you are tired and weary, and some of you have within your higher self, your solar logos, an old program running where you come in, do your work, learn your lesson and leave. Spirit has been your focus. Earth has been where you do your work.</p><p>Some of you have such a strong impression of Earth as work and struggle that it has been difficult to allow that to dissipate or to begin to have a different possibility. Would you like a different possibility? Would you like to stay in your body and live in a different experience? Are you willing to forego a few more years of connecting or being drawn to spirit to actually turn that around and have your spirit join you here? Well, that's the choice, and I come to assist you to fulfill that choice. To be more fully present, to step off the place of waiting, to release attachment to spirit and to embody your spirit here. And to then open to your own experience of a new creation while embodied, and to begin to realize that&#8230;.I'm in charge for awhile! [group laughter]</p><p>Let me sweep clean what needs to be swept clean. Let me clean our home, for us. Would you let me do that? Because I, too, am quite weary of waiting for the waves of soul to break through consciousness and realize that choosing love is really the only option, and that fear is to be dismantled, dissipated, and cast out as the dominant experience of human consciousness.</p><p>You cannot fully embody your great being, your spirit, if your physical body vibrates and holds a level of density that will not allow fusion. The more of you who are here more fully in this time, the more momentum that you and I and all will build for a sweeping and a clearing. You will feel when it begins, and consciousness that has not been able to choose will not be able to stay and go forward. This has been prophesied. This has been forewarned, you might say, not because of fear just a little bit of hey, wake up, time is limited.</p><p>The fifth dimension is both physical and non-physical. It&#8217;s a fusion of heaven and earth so there is a spectrum of frequencies that are physical, and a spectrum that is not currently visible. So, you travel more between them. Eventually you don&#8217;t need to be reborn to come back because the frequencies will be so close that you can just drop back in and then drop back out if you wish&#8230;go back and forth, but with greater ease without having to have a whole birth process.</p><p>Some of you will prefer to come back as children, because you missed playing for a few lifetimes and you might want to do that. You get choices in the matter. There will be birthings, but there doesn&#8217;t have to be birthings in the future of the dimension. Some of you might want to take off for other adventures beyond this one. But what you might start to realize is that very few planets have done what we are doing, and that this dimensional shift makes possible things that other places can&#8217;t offer, and that there is a difference being embodied in a planetary experience that is of light and love rather than density and fear. Exploring your capacity within that could take a little while and you could have some fun doing that.</p><p>Plus, there are people to meet. You haven&#8217;t met everybody yet. That would be your heart&#8217;s delight. There are people to meet and dance with, there are people to meet and create with. You haven&#8217;t done that yet. In the new dimension you will experience that kind of synchronicity, synergy, mutuality and creation. Wouldn&#8217;t that be fun!</p><h5>[Question from participant: Will we be on this earth or someplace else called a new earth? It seems with pollution and fracking, etc., it would be hard to stay on this earth.</h5><p>It&#8217;s my body, it&#8217;s your body. It&#8217;s our home and it has been violated. It is going to change. Those who are young and coming up come in with the blueprints in their body, their soul, their awareness, to do a lot of healing. Oceans, coral reefs, even places where the water supply has been poisoned. We will heal, we will transform, we will reclaim what belongs to life. Some of you may assist in that. Some of you may just be part of the field supporting others that are doing it, but we will heal.</p><p>Those who are in that position of cutting themselves off from life, from their own being, from their heart, from knowing what is of life and what is of love&#8230;they have another trajectory and it will not be here.</p><h5>[Can this happen tomorrow? &#8230;laughter]</h5><p>There is a process. Maybe some of you have heard about the waves of awakening, that different groups would awaken at different times? So, there&#8217;s a big one going through right now [end of 2016] you may have noticed. A big awakening. Groups forming to stand in solidarity with life, you might say. Or with what needs attention, to be acknowledged, etc. A large awakening, worldwide. It&#8217;s not just here in the states, it&#8217;s worldwide. Well, there will be waves of release as well, where souls will start leaving. Some will leave because they will not be able to transform in this body or do the alchemy within the body, but they are souls that still wish to continue to evolve in the new dimension. They have chosen that. So, they will move into a place where they can recreate a body, come back, and get a new model, so to speak, for the new age, the new time.</p><p>But there are many who will leave and they will be sorted out of this dimension. Sorted out, because frequency-wise, consciousness-wise they&#8217;ve also chosen, and their trajectories will also be waves of release as well. Just like there have been waves of awakening. It&#8217;s the way we work here, we work in waves. I&#8217;m a wave-like being, oceans, you know. And atmospheres and all those things.</p><h5>[You talked about cleaning house. What might some of your brooms look like?]</h5><p>My way is cleansing. Cleansing through water, through fire, through winds, through earth movement. So yes, there will be some of that, of course there will be. But you have no need to fear. You&#8217;ll be where you need to be. I know where you are. Do you think I do not know where you are? Of course I know. Do you think that the devas of the winds and the rains and the storms don&#8217;t know where you are? Of course they know. Do you think you&#8217;re not known? You are. So don&#8217;t worry about that.</p><p>The other kind of cleansing is a frequency cleansing. I have shifted frequency and I continue to shift frequency. Those who are not shifting with me cannot remain. Basically, bodies will not be sustained.</p><h5>[Is there anything we can do to help? What will our role be?]</h5><p>To live. You get to live, you get to play. You get to open the doors of your own being into experiencing what you have not yet experienced while constricted. That then vibrates in the new dimension, enlivens and empowers the new dimension. That&#8217;s what your job is. How&#8217;s that? You don&#8217;t have to help me, you really don&#8217;t. </p><p>I appreciate when people come together and vibrate love and vibrate life and presence, and stand in and with me. I appreciate that because I don&#8217;t have a voice and a physical body that others recognize, so to speak&#8230;.YET. But, you do. And those of you who do feel and know life and love and joy and presence, and expand that and join others when you feel like joining them&#8230;when it&#8217;s yours to do&#8230;I appreciate that, I feel that. I join you and we magnify.</p><h5>[A few years ago I was informed that during this time of change something could be happening right next to us and we could have a different experience. Is that still accurate?]</h5><p>Somewhat. You don&#8217;t want to witness it, though, so it probably won&#8217;t be next to you. You don&#8217;t have to watch the death throes. That would be painful and make it difficult to be in joy. So, you don&#8217;t have to do that. In may be close within range, but you don&#8217;t have to witness. People are making different choices than you and that&#8217;s their choice. That is it.</p><p>There have been beings who have come over many different ages of time who have spoken, written, put into books and whatever a kind of warning along the way to choose love, choose life, choose these things. Because all the other things that keep distracting you, pulling your attention, pulling you out of who you are and all of those old patriarchal power-over experiences that continue to create fear and trauma&#8230;.that choice is ultimately going to make a big difference.</p><p>So, you&#8217;ve been schooled, educated, in choice over lifetimes. You haven&#8217;t thought of it that way, but it&#8217;s been practice, and now it matters. It mattered then, but it matters more now.</p><h5>[We&#8217;ve all chosen to stay for this?]</h5><p>Yes you have.</p><h5>[You say we should play. What is your definition of play?]</h5><p>There is no definition of play. Play is undefined. It&#8217;s spontaneous, it arises, it&#8217;s your ideas in the moment of what would be fun, fulfilling, interesting, whatever. It has no agenda. Everyone&#8217;s play experiences are your own. And play has a certain level of alchemy, if you think about it. It&#8217;s the combining of life, potency, animation, ideas, possibilities, and curiosities within your own unique being. That&#8217;s play, in the moment. That&#8217;s a definition, you might say, but it really can&#8217;t be defined because it&#8217;s always different, always in motion. If you do the same thing over and over is it play? No.</p><h5>[I have a question about the Zika virus. I&#8217;m really connected to the earth and helping children come into their bodies at birth. Emotionally, I&#8217;m having a hard time with all these babies being born and wondering if it&#8217;s a soul group that agreed to help with the awareness and awakening about all the chemicals in the world, etc.]</h5><p>Yes, it&#8217;s a group of beings who agreed to come in and not live long, to awaken people to the effects of poison in the human experience. And to also try in some ways to awaken some hearts that have really been frozen. Yours isn&#8217;t frozen.</p><p>These little ones, these souls, there come in they go out. There&#8217;s not a lot of pain. They&#8217;re here lightly, not here very much you might say. They&#8217;re lightly in the body, and they can come again into a healthy body.</p><h5>[I&#8217;d like to ask about the native Americans and the pipeline and the Missouri river. Is this the pinnacle of this kind of controversy over pipelines&#8230;.the fracking, the pipelines, are we at a point where we&#8217;re going to flip things soon?]</h5><p>Consider that they are my voice. Let that suffice. What I said today to you, they have been saying peacefully to others and we have spoken. The listeners have chosen, most of them.</p><h5>[Are there alternative energy sources that will mitigate a lot of our issues. Will that be soon?]</h5><p>Of course. They&#8217;re already in the pipeline, they&#8217;re already here. Some of them will be transitional and more will come. There is a wave of creation and creativity already moving through the new dimension and through into form. It&#8217;s already starting and that will speed up as the old starts to give way. Then you&#8217;ll see more and more options. Some will move forward and expand and some will be more transitional, but that&#8217;s the next frontier.</p><h5>[I would like to do group things that honor you but I&#8217;m having difficulty in feeling that the collaborative capacity is still lagging behind. It would be nice to have a larger group. How can that collaborative piece happen more easily?]</h5><p>You&#8217;re not in charge. It&#8217;s not up to you. You do your part, you open up to presence, you be here, you open to the feeling experience and the sense of desire that you would like to join others and create whatever with me. I will synergize and synchronize the groups. I, or you, might call it the field&#8230;which is probably more accurate. But that part is not up to you. That feels like too much work for you. So let go of it. Every place that you can, you have a sense of connection with life or even small moments of connection and collaboration&#8230;even if it&#8217;s with one person&#8230;enjoy that and open to more.</p><p>There is timing in this, and the timing is not what you think it might be in your mind. There are sequences that are unfolding and no one can know the future. That&#8217;s why planning isn&#8217;t very helpful at this point, particularly right now in the midst of this sort of in-between where the waves of awakening are now starting to move into an overlap with the waves of release. The synchronicity, the synchronization, the synergy, the collaboration&#8230;you might wake up in the morning and feel like now&#8230;.and you&#8217;ll call a couple people, and they call a couple people and away you go.</p><h5>[There seems to be a group that is awakening and another group that seems to be more aware that something is coming and is hoarding and preparing, etc. That&#8217;s where a lot of confusion comes for me about who to be with.]</h5><p>Your bodies will tell you as they awaken. You will feel in your bodies whether you have a synchronous kind of resonance with them or not. You will relax and expand in their presence or you will feel like ah, I can&#8217;t be here. Trust your body, not your mind, around everyone in this time. Because it&#8217;s not what you see, it&#8217;s not how they appear. You can&#8217;t decide which souls are choosing love and which aren&#8217;t. You can&#8217;t decide which ones are going to stay and which ones are sorting out.</p><p>You really can&#8217;t decide or know that, but your bodies will feel where you can be and where you can&#8217;t be. And be means be, where you can be yourself and open and feel more present. That&#8217;s where you feel awake, alive, here. And if you don&#8217;t you don&#8217;t. It can change, but in the moment that is what you notice and honor as your experience without making any judgment about them.</p><p>Do you need to hoard because you&#8217;re afraid you won&#8217;t have enough? No. Do you need to have guns? No. Do you need those things because they have them? No. Trust yourself, trust your knowing, and as I said I know where you are. I know where you are, I can&#8217;t help it [laughter]. Do you see? I can feel you. You won&#8217;t need to have whatever you want to call it&#8230;a bunker [laughter]. They&#8217;re getting ready for Armageddon or war or nuclear something. My body is not here to withstand or create nuclear devastation together with humans. We are past that. We are now opening to a new experience of this dimension that is here. It will not allow that.</p><p>I know those who have chosen love and life. I feel you, you are part of me. Our bodies synch up. There is no perfection needed here. I&#8217;m not requiring anything like that. The field doesn&#8217;t. There is no perfection. It&#8217;s a basic alignment and that&#8217;s it. You&#8217;ve chosen, you&#8217;re aligned, I feel you.</p><p>And most of you have chosen many times, by the way. The same thing over and over. You haven&#8217;t just chosen once, although every once-in-awhile I get someone like that who has been pretty removed from their own essence for a long time&#8230;connected to the dark side of things you might say&#8230;.and when they awaken and they shift, that is to celebrate. That is something. That doesn&#8217;t happen often, but it does happen. It&#8217;s like no, no, no, no&#8230;.maybe&#8230;yes.</p><h5>[My sense is that there are a lot of people who aren&#8217;t doing what we are doing but somewhere inside of them they&#8217;ve chosen and they are about love.]</h5><p>Yes, many, many people have chosen love, and again you cannot tell. It&#8217;s not up to you to judge or to worry. Really, just relax into being. You already sense and feel and know the love that is genuine and true within people and in their beings and hearts. They may still have fear and all that, but their being has chosen, you might say. Their pathways and patterns haven&#8217;t finished moving through. There is no judgment here. This is not last judgment, which some people put into this category. It&#8217;s choice, and it&#8217;s a level of choice beyond anyone&#8217;s ability to perceive and then judge &#8216;well you&#8217;re staying and you&#8217;re going&#8217;. That&#8217;s not the way it works. It&#8217;s really personal.</p><h5>[Is it more about honoring their path and honoring their journey?]</h5><p>Respect. Respect the choice, because that just means their soul is choosing to have a longer journey of evolution that will continue to use denser frequencies, denser energies or consciousness to work through, to learn through, and they will just do it longer. That&#8217;s all, really. But not here. So respect, honor.</p><h5>[So what you&#8217;re saying is that those living in that lower density are going to be leaving?]</h5><p>Leaving the earth, leaving us, so that they can continue to learn and evolve and at some point come to another choice in another planetary experience, but not here.</p><h5>[So we don&#8217;t have to worry about who is going to be president?]</h5><p>Do not give power to fear. Do not give power to fear at this point. Choose love, choose presence, choose to open to life and animate that. You have power in every choice you make, really. It opens either more life and love, or constricts.</p><p>Close of First Evening.</p><p></p><p><strong>Second Evening:</strong></p><p>It is a beautiful time my dear ones, even if it is confusing in the world at large. It is a beautiful time because it is a threshold where those of us who have opened our hearts, have chosen love, and are choosing to be embodied are opening to a new creation, a new life, a new collaboration. One that I am very much looking forward to, and I hope you are too.</p><p>There is a process out in the outer world that will continue to happen for some years. However, the beginning, the threshold, is already here and we are crossing it together. I am initiating you, so to speak, and that initiation is not like ones you have had in the past. It is not in a religion, and it is not in any kind of tradition from indigenous to the mystery schools of old. It is an initiation into a new dimension. A dimension of creation that has not yet been seen in this solar system, you might say. This planetary experience is new. It&#8217;s new in our particular galaxy if you want to know the truth. We are quite proud of that, are we not? You will be eventually, once you know more and you have more experience.</p><p>You can be grateful to the numbers of children, young ones born in the last 20 years that have significantly brought in enough frequencies to shift with you but to speed it up. There were souls who were planning to come maybe 20 years later, but the call went out and there were enough volunteers&#8230;bless their hearts and souls&#8230;enough volunteers to join this first phase in order to speed this up a bit for all of us. So, let&#8217;s put some gratitude in the field for all the volunteers that are younger than you, because without them this would have been more challenging and taken longer. But it is now threshold time.</p><p>Today is more specifically initiatory, if you wish to say that. It is the bringing of your own beings into a dimensional synchronization so that you can relax into moving forward, creating your life in a new way without fear, without challenge or effort, without willpower, but just relaxing into life and allowing more of that to touch you, to inform you, and to live the way you know you can from within your being&#8230;embodied life, embodied light, soul. Hallelujah, yes?</p><p>My part today is to facilitate, to lead, to welcome, to be a bit of a cheerleader perhaps. Your part is to move over the threshold more completely so that as you move into the new dimensional experience you no longer look back, you are not caught in the future trying to pre-plan and pre-see and foresee what&#8217;s going to happen. You are here, immersed, embraced, creator within creation. It has been the prediction for many years, has it not? That is who you are.</p><p>You have brought your soul in for a reason. You&#8217;ve been gathering your soul back for a reason. You have been unifying yourself for a reason. There are traditions in the earth that lead people to unity, but it is a unity with spirit, it is a unity that is beyond this earth, beyond the body.</p><p>There are teachings that say that you are ascending, moving beyond the body into a permanent spiritual state. There are teachings and religions that continue to split you from your body. Some of them bring along rituals, things you have to do in order to attain that state.</p><p>I&#8217;m basically calling you the other direction, saying to you that you are a being of great, vast awareness and consciousness. Yes, light you are, but you are now learning to become a light, enlightened, materialized being. An enlightened fusion, alchemical fusion of light and life. We will need a new language, will we not? And we will create it. You will create it. I am offering you a new experience that will unfold, and unfold, and unfold, and unfold. Motion, presence.</p><p>Now, your minds, your lovely minds that get so distracted so easily. Your lovely minds that you spent the age of the patriarchy evolving&#8230;which has been fairly long, at least it felt long. You have evolved your minds, and evolved within the mind the capacity to differentiate, to separate, to define, to think about rather than to be with. Your minds grew within duality. That&#8217;s how they were evolved. Pre-patriarchy consciousness was much more experiential, language was less essential. But you were children in some ways, unconscious somewhat.</p><p>So, the great age of duality, the purpose, was to allow an evolution of mind, conscious mind. It learned to speak, to write, to create many, many, many differentiated things. But it convinced you that you were separate. It convinced you that you were consumers because of who took over. Patriarchy wasn&#8217;t initially an evil or bad thing. It wasn&#8217;t. But it evolved in a way where there were certain lineages that learned the trick of not moving into the 4<sup>th</sup> dimension between lives. They learned to come back into the same lineage, picking up where they left off, gathering resources, money, land, power.</p><p>The Dalai Lama is not the only one who has been reborn, and reborn, and reborn into the same position. There are other lineages that figured it out a while ago. They have amassed great power using fear and manipulation to drain the resources of my body, to drain the energy of yours and your lives. That will no longer be allowed.</p><p>In the new dimension there is no place for minds who have so split off that they have forgotten the initial purpose of this experience. Your minds are also being called to morph a bit. You will stay conscious, you will be very conscious. You will stay aware and you will use the capacities of your conscious mind to create, to envision, to be part of a new story, a new unfolding experience. A collaborative experience. And yes, language and writing and various other forms of creation will continue to be part of your experience here. However, parts of your mind are seduced by fear and by lies&#8230;seduced by the large-scale broadcasting of the lies&#8230;that is now to be addressed as part of your initiation so as not to be carried forward into your embodied experience in the new dimension. </p><p>Minds will remain unique, of course, and your individuality will remain. However, there is a large living intelligence beyond the skin of your body, beyond the form that you inhabit. You are within it, it is within you. It is part of you, your living brain, your living network of neurons and your living being that is beyond the body. It is time to have a new access for the mind, is it not? New access. That&#8217;s what this is. Allow access to a living intelligence, to a living brain, a living consciousness, a living awareness that is informing you directly. You cannot have beliefs, you cannot have crystallizations, you cannot have definitions that are too restrictive. It will not compute.</p><p>Living, breathing intelligence. The trees, the animals many of them, my being my earth, oceans. Living intelligence is everywhere. Do you think trees do not know each other even if they&#8217;re on different continents? They can&#8217;t move like you move and yes they are localized, but they have access to this living, breathing intelligence. They know, they feel, they learn, they know each other. They are part of.</p><p>Animals who are undomesticated are more open to the natural intelligence. Some of you are drawn to the natural world, to the wild, wherever it may be. There&#8217;s an instinct within you that knows that within the wild is a kind of intelligence beyond what your mind has learned in human civilization, human education. Some of you are drawn into places where your mind releases all thought and is engaged differently. You have been preparing through some of your sojourns, journeys, places&#8230;preparing. And your mind has been slowly dissolving. Some of you more than others, it&#8217;s okay, it will continue. Only that which is NOT real can dissolve, it is important to remember that.</p><p>[process]</p><p>We did the mind, this one is for your body, your senses, your emotions, feelings and experience. This is for the part of you that was suppressed by the mind, judged by the mind, feared by the mind. This is for the parts of you that the mind was not able to include along the way, trust along the way, or partner with along the way. This is for the rest of you beyond the mind.</p><p>The mind is opening to natural intelligence. What are your body and senses opening to? What do you get to feel and experience that has not yet been felt because there has been a physical containment? Some of you are afraid that you will feel too much of what is passing away of the pain, the trauma, the anger, the judgment, and all of what is rising out of the unconscious to pass away. Bodies are opening to capacities to sense in the immediacy of a heartbeat, in the immediacy of a breath, in the immediacy of this experience in this moment exactly what it is that is authentically alive, authentically with you, part of the whole of the experience isn&#8217;t just your body, it&#8217;s all that is present with you in the experience while you are in it.</p><p>The new dimension sorts out the old frequencies of pain, densities of consciousness and mind. That&#8217;s passing away, that&#8217;s going away, that&#8217;s disappearing from your experience. But your initiation, initializing, your catalyst moment is to awaken. What is awakening? It isn&#8217;t just the mind. It is the aliveness. It&#8217;s the feeling, sensing, incorporating&#8230;the corporalness. And it doesn&#8217;t matter if you were born Norwegian or Swedish or German. Your heritage doesn&#8217;t matter, this is yours, it is not your lineage. This is your choice, this is your creation, this is what you have chosen, this is what I promised you. This is what enticed you to come. You may as well open to it and receive it now. You may as well. You&#8217;ve done all of what you&#8217;ve done to get to this moment, this place, this experience, this unfolding. Open your body, awaken. Awaken. Come alive, really really really alive. Be part OF, feel.</p><p>Open life, open feeling, sensing, all of the capacities. It isn&#8217;t just the sensing of the skin, it&#8217;s the sensing of your being within matter, light fused, this is the alchemy. These are the fruits of the alchemy. Combining your living aura, your living systems, your living light body, your living energy body with your physical, sensational sensations. It&#8217;s all present, it&#8217;s all there. It&#8217;s just you allowing connection, opening, feeling, sensing. </p><p>Be unafraid of tears. Of course you&#8217;re going to cry. Tears are part of life and sensing and feeling. It&#8217;s motion, as the ocean, yes? Of course you&#8217;re going to feel. It&#8217;s about time you feel, and it will be part of your experience. Every moment will be a feeling experience. You will feel how much life there is in feeling. How much experience feeds you, nourishes you, awakens you to more. The mind will learn, if it hasn&#8217;t already, to join in experience rather than observe experience. It will join, be part of experience, no longer apart.</p><p>Are you prepared, ready, to experience the new dimension while embodied? Are you willing to allow yourself to choose for yourself that experience without any influence from the external world? Are you willing to create sensationally? [laughter] Step forward. Step into your place in this new dimension. Step into it, claim it. Wiggle into it, whatever you want to do into it. But it&#8217;s yours. BE here, fully present fully here. Welcome. Here we are. Here you are, yes you are. You might even want to say it, here I am. Announce it to the world. Here I am.</p><h5>[here I am!]</h5><p>Yes you are.</p><p>Is there anything you would like to dialogue about before we close for the day?</p><h5>[I wanted to ask about love, what the new face of love would be, particularly in relationships.]</h5><p>Obviously it&#8217;s doing something different. The old story brought two people together who felt as if they were separate individual beings that needed to carve out some kind of space within relationship, or merge, or cord, or be co-dependent or whatever the dynamics that came from relational experiences were. </p><p>The new dimension is all love. Life comes from love. Animation within your body is the emergence of love through life. Life is not separate from love, so you can&#8217;t live without it. You can&#8217;t live without love if you live alone, for example. It&#8217;s impossible in the new dimension. So with love being an experience that you feel is real and when you&#8217;re together with another there is a different quality of experience you create together. </p><p>There is more mutuality rather than negotiation, which is part of duality. Mutuality is a synchroness-ness. It&#8217;s not a boundaryless-ness, it&#8217;s a synchroness-ness. And that&#8217;s the difference. You will learn this. I cannot describe it, you will learn it. You will have it in your experience and then you will go aha, that&#8217;s what she was talking about.</p><h5>[Long question about predicted earth events]</h5><p>My body is my body. You are within this dimensional body, yes? All people are. So, when there are earth events, like what you call earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. that affect people there is a kind of muting that is done by your media, but at the same time there is a release of energy out of consciousness, out of the field, that is in motion. So, it depends on how you want to look at it. </p><p>There will be more and more events, the purpose of which is to actually clear some old vortices and old places that have been holding some of the old consciousness and memories that need to release out of our body so motion can be restored throughout. So yes, there is release. People who die during such events, their souls are released. Some of whom will return into a new dimensional experience here, and some of whom will not. That&#8217;s part of the release.</p><h5>[It seems like animals and poor people get the brunt of a lot of these changes and it doesn&#8217;t seem like maybe the people who could be sorted out (group laughter)]</h5><p>Everyone is having an experience, yes they are, some of whom are in great distress and pain, others of whom are in varying degrees of unconsciousness. Those who die, they are released from some of the stress and pain. Those who remain in areas that are in need of greater help and hope for life&#8230;there are some places that really do need a kind of cleansing. There is a way in which those places have people that are having the experience that they&#8217;re having, even though it&#8217;s hard for you to understand that they, too, are in this process with us. And they too will find a way to be either here or not here in the future. </p><p>Through their experience there is love being shared among the people that are there together, there is love being shared by those that come and assist, there is love that opens doors that wouldn&#8217;t have opened otherwise. There is love that is not seen and reported on, etc. Trust love.</p><h5>[I have a question about money that I&#8217;m not quite sure how to ask. It has to do with moving on your impulses without a lot of money. I&#8217;ve always been supported in the earth, but how does that balance with being conservative or living with what you have. You always say things in such a good way and I&#8217;d like to hear how you would put it.]</h5><p>Well, money is still a carryover from the old. It&#8217;s in transition and will be over the next 20 to 30 years. There are those already born in bodies who are here and will transform the system of exchange. It will be such a relief for everyone. But that is not yet there, so for now listen to your true feeling of what it is that belongs with you, for you, to you, and if it has a cost involved and you move forward with it then it is supported. Money keeps coming. The current keeps supporting you. </p><p>If you are seduced at all by something that your mind chooses that doesn&#8217;t feel internally as an impulse or a real thing, then that might be something that you will learn a little bit about. You just learn as you go. This feels real and I acted on this and it feels like it keeps everything in motion.</p><p>When you act from your mind or from a thought, or from something that somebody else wants you to do and the motion stops, you&#8217;ll know. Then you learn, oh, this is the feeling of motion of real, of what is of essence&#8230;I stay here, I move here, this creates, this creates&#8230;you have no idea where you&#8217;re going but it&#8217;s creating as you go&#8230;and if it costs money then that&#8217;s part of the creation, is it not? It&#8217;s more about motion than it is about anything else, and that&#8217;s why we were opening motion back to front [in the process], opening motion through so that you can be here in motion and know the experience of motion and know when that motion stops. And start to discern, oh, what stopped it. Where did I constrict, go into my mind and come from there, externalized out here too much. Then you learn. I am moving with life, I am in motion like the ocean within life. I am creation, I am creator within life, I am motion. M-O-C-E-A-N. You like? Aren&#8217;t I creative, yes? (laughter). You will love motion. You will all really love being you in motion. You will love it so much, yes you will.</p><p>It is my joy and my pleasure to be a guide. I do not go away. I am with you, right here all the time. So, I am not a distant somebody, I am with you all the time, every moment. I&#8217;m part of the access that you are opening to, part of the intelligence, part of the sensational stuff that you&#8217;re experiencing and feeling. I feel with you, I am part of you, you are part of me. It&#8217;s an exchange, it&#8217;s mutual. I am more with you and in you than you have ever allowed me to be, so I feel more of you, do you see? I like, I enjoy, I animate through humanity as well, now. It has been a while since humanity has allowed me, outside of a few pockets of indigenous peoples, to fully animate through them. Perhaps the more artistic and the ones who have moved away from the old story have felt more of this. It is time now for the dance to be together, to express more completely what&#8217;s real, who you are in forms and expression that matches and is joyful for you, and to be in motion.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Keys to Creation]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's Storytime]]></description><link>https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-keys-to-creation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-keys-to-creation</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris LaFontaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:15:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IADb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff248b015-0c10-47d9-a3c2-3bf86ab801e0_1024x768.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Earth Mother expressed herself through Michele for the first time in February of 1995. Her visit was unexpected and came at the conclusion of a three-evening series that presented a narrative we later named The Story of Creation. That moment marked the beginning of many events with her that we hosted over the next two decades. Following that first message we were prompted to create a special event with the ominous-sounding title <em>Release of the Death Matrix in the Masculine</em> knowing only that a process of some kind would be involved.</p><p>I recently found an old cassette tape of that session and decided to poke around in the archives and find the original transcript I made. The intended purpose of the event was a process, but a story was woven throughout to provide context and greater understanding of a planetary history we definitely never learned in school. We also received a larger version of the story at subsequent events but this particular gathering had its own special purpose.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>While reading the transcript I felt like I had struck gold, at least in terms of something I thought would be of value now for those navigating the dimensional shift we are experiencing. The story reveals how things got to be such a mess while also offering perspectives that I sense will be helpful for those reacting with fear at the collapse of systems we have considered necessary for our support or survival.</p><p>I share the story in words from the Earth Mother as she presented them to us, noting interactions with participants and other elements that cannot be translated as information. As for the process itself, a willing group of participants entered into the experience 30 years ago. They opened it into consciousness for themselves and therefore into the whole where it has been active since, so my intention is to highlight the information, not the process. However, one might feel an energy of recognition, relief or release while reading. If so, breathe into it and let it move.</p><p><strong>The Earth Mother begins&#8230;</strong></p><p>Breathe, allow. I will stand. It&#8217;s too hard to sit. I will tell a story before we begin tonight because I have invited you here tonight for a purpose and a reason and I wish you to know what that is. Then we will engage in our process together.</p><p>Long ago in our body that you call earth, or my name Gaia, we brought forth a great beautiful abundant paradise. A garden. The creative energy was so abundant that those who dwelled in consciousness had but to think a thought and it would manifest in form. And there were no negative thoughts, there were no thoughts that would bring any destruction. There was only a great joy and a great desire to play in this great garden. I am feminine, the nature of this planet is feminine.</p><p>Creation in the original focus here was largely an outgrowth of my fluid, feminine matrix coming into forms. Thoughts were so wedded to my body that there was no separation of intention for creation of the whole. Yet, that which is light, that which is sun, that which is galactic central Source that you call Father, that emanation of intention desired that there would be a greater union here of the masculine with the feminine. So, the feminine was created as a beautiful, beautiful body.</p><p>And then the masculine intention began to take form in thought and brought here in body. In that time those who came bearing the light in thought and form came with a great delight, a great desire to be part of something here. Some of you were among these ones in your first embodiment here. As I speak, remember, remember. As you came here then there was a delight in the ease of manifesting thought, and what was found here in a physical matter sense began to be the building blocks of the new matrix of thought. Those who came were planners. Those who came had built cities. Those who came had built empires in other dimensions, and they came with that knowledge and those skills and began to build here as well.</p><p>The building did not disturb our body. We were not disturbed by the building. We were not disturbed by the beauty that was created in form through perfection coming into forms. Beautiful cities were built upon the lands that were here. There was no disturbance. But there was also very little communication, for these ones did not know how to listen to my body&#8217;s intentions and they did not know how to create directly from my body into form. They could use what was here and they found much, but they did not know about the capacity for direct manifesting that was known amongst all who were there before they came.</p><p>Now, as we come into this part be aware that your bodies will remember. If you are in masculine form you will feel it in your body, perhaps a little more intensely than those in feminine form. And I will guide you because I am now desiring for all of us to be once again in union. And feminine ones: if there is something yet that is not opened completely for you in the feminine there will be a little opening for you, too.</p><p>Here we were all together, and yet there was a gap that was being created. We had different ways of creating. Neither one is better than another, but one did precede the other on this planet. As you come to awareness you will realize that the feminine way of creating has largely been misunderstood or feared in the last thousands of years. The masculine way of creating, of using what is found here and bringing it in to form has been the one that has been primarily understood and utilized by all, whether you are male or female. But the feminine way of creating has not been understood. It is time for the masculine mind, thought, to receive that other way of creating so the feminine can also then utilize the thought processes and structure more readily as well.</p><p>In that old time the gap in communication lead to what is now playing out in your relationships and in the earth. With tension between male and female, with a sort of trying to come to a different balance and not knowing what that is. In your bodies is the key. Tonight we will open the key. As we open the key there may, perhaps, be some feelings. Allow the feelings, for as you allow them they will open you. And that which is the sequence of release as you put a key in a lock will then proceed.</p><p>Those who did not understand the feminine creation and the way of creating began to experience fear, because as they used resources from the earth to build buildings and technologies there was an intuitive understanding that these things were finite. They seemed to have a sense that if you use resources they could go away. These resources were not truly finite, but as they were used there was perhaps no more upon a certain area. In the universe that these ones came from they had previously used up all of their resources and their civilization had died. They came here to start over. They brought with them a deep fear, a fear of the finite, a fear of death, a fear of that which will not come back to life. It was seeded into consciousness and once it was here it opened into the whole, just as everything that has been seeded here.</p><p>Some of you have fear of lack, a fear of the finite, of resources running out, yes? That is what we speak of. That is where you now know of how it feels in your body, in your consciousness. What happens when you get very afraid, when you are afraid that the resources will run out? What happens in your body, what happens to your feelings, what happens to you?</p><p>[participant: we close down]</p><p>You close down, yes?</p><p>[get irrational]</p><p>Ah, panic, yes.</p><p>You save up, you try to control resources, you start to say &#8220;I have to be in charge of this&#8221;, yes? You hold on and hold on because there may not be enough.</p><p>So you ones have much experience. Do you think this is the first lifetime of this? No, it is not the first lifetime. You have been doing this a while. But do you also have a memory somewhere of when it wasn&#8217;t like this? Is that rising and getting stronger? Can you feel in your bodies that there is something that is trying to rise to the surface of consciousness, another way of creating that is the feminine. It is the eternal life force that continues to create and create and create and create what you would like to call abundance. It creates effortlessly.</p><p>But, there is a secret that has been kept from you because your parents did not know it, their parents did not know it, and their parents, etc., back through the ages. One who knew it was the Jesus one. Do you remember when he could create things such as food and it didn&#8217;t run out until everyone was full? Fish out of the sea, do you think all of those fish just manifested? Or did he call on a force of creation and he knew how to bring that into form through an immediate thought. How did he do that? Has anyone here done that yet? Not yet? You are learning because there is a secret.</p><p>Why has it been secret? Why do you suppose it has been secret? Remember the story. Lack of communication. They did not know how to receive, consciously, what was already here. They did not know how to listen to this body the way you are now opening to receive and to listen. And the reason they did not was because the matrix they brought with them was so strong that they did not know that another way of creating could have manifested. That, they did not know. They liked to have a superior sense that they knew what was going on and they did not ask.</p><p>Ask and you shall receive, yes? They didn&#8217;t ask. So what does that tell you? Yes, ask! Very simple. But in asking you must then be open to receive. So, we will help tonight. We will open to receive. We will move some of that which was seeded here out of the way, out of your bodies, so that when you ask with sincerity of your intention to receive that which has always been here and is yours. You have a body of the earth, so all you need do then is ask and it is then to be given to you.</p><p>Stand so you can feel this energy coming through your body. If you have rubber soles on sometimes that does not allow fluid magnetic energy to flow well. We will begin with an opening, a great embrace again. Feel the love that I have for each of you. Feel my love. Feel my love, let me hold you. Let me hold you. Feel my love.</p><p><em>[she speaks her language]</em></p><p>Within your heart is a little boy, whether you are male or female. You have both aspects within. A little boy, who from the time he was born has had very strong programming beamed at him. Not only from your family, but from all of consciousness. Reach in to your heart and find that little boy. Put your arms around him and then let him get bigger and grow up until he becomes a man. Leave your arms around him. This man, this little boy who grew up into a man did not know how NOT to do what was told to him to do. He did not know how to release from a fear that moved him into competition, moved him into an arena that says &#8220;this is what maleness is, this is what the masculine does&#8221;. &#8220;Use the resources that are given to you and make something of it&#8221;. &#8220;Do something, make something of yourself, be successful&#8221;. All of these things in terms of the matrix of the mind and consciousness that has given messages to this one since you came. </p><p>Feel what happened to your little boy. Feel what happened to his curiosity, to his adventuresome nature, to that which he wished to invent, create, to bring things together and see what would happen. Feel what happened to him because the natural order was subverted to a less than natural order. Now this man is tight in the shoulders, tight in the neck, perhaps losing his hair because of what has been wound around him since he was born.</p><p>Allow your arms now to be my arms, to be the mother arms around this little one. I ask you to breathe into the little boy that has grown up to be the man. I ask you to breathe for him and into his heart, and as you do I ask you to unwind what has been wound around him, creating him in the image of what was brought here and seeded here based in fear, not in life. Wound around him and around his heart. Wound around his feelings and his emotions in his pelvis. Wound around his third eye and his intuition. Wound around these places so that they would get smaller and not feel, and not know what was his to receive and know.</p><p>So, open in your pelvis, open in your heart, open in your third eye, and you will find a little black seed. As you open, find it in each of these centers. Find it and what has grown around it. Then we will call upon the life force that is our body&#8217;s life force to open to these seeds. Bring it in to the seed and destroy it from within. Let it break apart, break apart from within. Pelvis, heart, and your intuitive center that knows what you know and can receive and listen and understand.</p><p>Breathe in this life force from the root, from your feet, from my body to your body. Receive the little boy, the man. And as the seed opens and is destroyed as a seed, the gem that was originally meant for earth, for here, for us, is released. Because there was an original intention in bringing this matrix to earth, but it has never truly been received all the way because it was encapsulated in fear. It is time now for the fear to be destroyed from the casing of the seed, released and opened for the true masculine and the true light intention wishes to be here in your body, in my body, in our body. Allow that to now be received in your pelvis and in your heart and in your third eye. And as it opens there is a feminine receiver in each of these places. The feminine receives what is now being given. I will speak for a while. You receive into this place and open.</p><p><em>[she speaks her language]</em></p><p>There&#8217;s a very, very deep red now that desires to join your body. Open the base of your body, your feet. Spread them about a foot apart so that you have a good firm foundation. You&#8217;re not going to topple over. Bend your knees a little so that you can open to the fluidity that is necessary for receiving. You ones are now learning how important bodies are. You can not only do meditation to spirit, for if your body is not open to receive and is not asked to participate you will not embody fully and you will begin to feel more stress rather that more peace. So now consciously ask your body, consciously ask this beautiful body that is yours to be the vehicle to receive the life force, the deep red frequency of my heart that wishes now to be part of your body.</p><p>This is a frequency of my body that has only been received by very few in the past. They could not receive if their body was not open to receive and had not been asked to receive. They could not receive if the death matrix was woven in your womb in the male aspect that was never seeded properly. So now you draw this up through your body from my heart to your heart to your body. From my body to your body. For as it comes in to your body, as you receive this body force, you also receive an empowerment.</p><p>Open the root, open the pelvis, open the base of the spine. It is like an infusion, a transfusion, an injection, something that comes in directly. Keep breathing and opening thighs and opening root center. Ask your body. Give your body your whole support of consciousness now. You will feel, as it opens to you, you may need to move about to keep your body fluid. If it is too rigid and you find that there is contraction again, open. It is now coming to the womb area, to second center. That which was released now absorbs this. It absorbs it. You are now fusing what has longed to be fused together from the very beginning. These aspects, these parts of the whole had intention to be together, to work together, to be cocreators. Two ways of creating. Two ways coming together as one new form-giving Creator. Yes. Feel, feel.</p><p>As this happens some of you are doing some more releasing of that which has been patterning of feminine that has felt that it has been kept invisible, powerless. Open those feelings, those places in your body of the feminine. Whether you are male or female, the feminine aspect, the way of creating, that which has not been understood, not allowed, not valued....let that open so that there is room. Room to receive here, room to have creative forces meeting together. It is not anyone&#8217;s fault, there is no blame. There is no blame. But there has been pain. And where you have felt pain as feminine ones, as the feminine within the male as well, where the sensitivities and the knowing of another way has been stored.</p><p>You know there is another way to be here. You know that there is another way to create, but you have not known how to access it. And it has been painful keeping it silent and invisible, and not having a language to give it to others. For it has not been named in the English language, but it has had names in other languages. Put your hands on your hips so that you can feel and allow our heart energy to come down through your hands to this place that is the key. I told you there was a key. This is the key because it is the first place that holds the new union of the two ways of creation, and it needs your love. It needs our love.</p><p>So now we will again open to being embraced, open to being embraced and loved. Open to my love, open to all of what you have experienced as unconditional love. Love. Love. The knowing of who you are and the calling of it into being. Love. The nurturing of every aspect of every part of you. Love. That which knows you so intimately that you do not need to have words. Love. That which adores who you are and wishes you to be fully present and alive. I Love you with all of my heart, with all of my consciousness, with all of my creation, with all that I am. I love each of you individually, personally. Yes, release the pain. Release the pain, let it drain out of your body back into my body and it will be blessed and released for us all.</p><p><em>[she speaks her language]</em></p><p>And then as the pain releases, this beautiful deep red continues its journey up your body and your spine and desires now to come to your heart. Ah, yes. Sigh and allow. Allow, allow, allow. Remember this beautiful little boy who grew up to be a man who has been in your arms and your heart. He is yet there. And the feminine that was here held the pain of not being able to exist and share what was hers to share. When we come to the heart there is also pain, and that which has been a sense of something amiss, something amiss. Why have we killed one another if we love one another? Why has there been so much pain due to death? Why have we manifested death through violence and through disease? Why have we done this? Ask our heart. Ask this heart.</p><p>When there is fear in the heart there is possession. There is a desire to claim and to hold and to possess. There is a desire to build up the resources into great banks and to have gold in abundance in those banks and to hold and possess land. And to hold and possess people, energy, resources, that which feeds you. When there is fear in the heart there is contraction and possession and then there is death. For those who have things that you think you need, you begin to rationalize that it is okay to kill them for then you will get what you need. They do the same thing and they try to get what they need. Nations do this to one another as an entity one to another. People do this to one another. Parents do it to children, and people do it to the earth, to me. Trying to possess.</p><p>Ah, yes, feel. Feel the violence it has done to your heart. Feel the violence it does to you daily as you are aware that it continues. Feel the violence in your own body and what happened to your heart because there was another part of you that said something is amiss. Something is out of order. How come this is the way it is. Yet you did not know how to change this or to say that it could be otherwise. Feel the heart as this beautiful deep red life-force joins now that which has been opened from the seed that is releasing the fear. That which is now joining what was seeded in intention to be beautifully created here. Light in form. Light and water, fluid blood life force, alive. What is light when it comes alive in multitudinous forms? It isn&#8217;t death. It isn&#8217;t death through disease. It isn&#8217;t death through violence. It isn&#8217;t death through neglect. It isn&#8217;t death of our bodies.</p><p>Ah, the pump that is in your heart. Perhaps you can pump a heart here with a drum for a while, because that will help.</p><p><em>[hand drums, heartbeat]</em></p><p>Help the hearts come back into life. Come back into balance, come back into the natural order of heart. Open heart the receiver. The receiver now receives what is direct intention of light and life and comes together in heart in love to birth a new reality for us all. A new experience here for us all. You ARE the creators. You ARE the consciousness that was foreordained to bring this to my body and to us all.</p><p>Release the pain and the fear of violence, of death. And release the guilt from the masculine that killed others, that took life in order to possess. The swords, the guns, the bombs. Release yourselves from this place of guilt. Release the masculine, the man, the male that has been embodied in your consciousness be you woman or man, many centuries of death. Many centuries of death. Love, now. Receive love to this aspect, this part of you that did not know how else to be here because what was seeded had been so wrapped it was never truly delivered.</p><p>Release into love. Put your hands on your heart and gently give much love and assurance and comfort and forgiveness. Forgiveness for all of the pain that has come from possession. From fear of lack, all have felt it. All have done some aspect of action to possess, to control, to manipulate, to kill in order to get what seemed to be so limited. Release your heart from the ache that it felt because it knew deep within that there was another way. But it could not articulate it, it did not have a language, it could not be understood or heard by the consciousness that never asked, that never listened. Now is asking and now is listening.</p><p>Now as you open this beautiful energy up it is called into your forehead and into the center of your head where there is a great place of knowing seeded in your consciousness. There it is. You call it your intuition, you might call it a psychic or sixth sense, you might call it your third eye. Whatever you name it does not matter. Allow this beautiful energy, this very specific frequency of creation to now flow into that center in your head, in your knowing and ask to receive it consciously. Ask to hear, to receive into your consciousness what it has to offer you. Its way of creating. </p><p>You can know this. You can know this with your conscious mind. Let it come. Being received, unified, joined, wedded to what has already been opened through the release of fear that has been waiting. Not understanding why there was so much destruction, death, pain, and why it kept being created. And not understanding what was here before. Not ever knowing how this place got so abundantly beautiful in the first place. You can know how. You are receiving how this is to be again.</p><p>Release from your brow, your forehead, and your head what has been the structure that felt it already knew what it needed to know. Was already structured in such a way that it did not perceive anything beyond its own perceptions, its own knowing, its own understanding. There is much to learn, much to know, but now they need to communicate. So let them communicate. Commune in consciousness in your head, in your body, in your mind, in your mental body. Bring these aspects together. Breathe.</p><p><em>[she speaks her language]</em></p><p>Put your hands now on your head and love this place that is now opening to fulfill the destiny of this place that we all call home, that is our body, that is our consciousness. That is now receiving a union of the star-seeded ones with those who were of earth and Gaia. And they are now communicating, for you are both. You are both. You are seeded from star, sun, and light and you are seeded from my body. Now there is communication. Masculine, feminine listening together, coming together. Consciously reuniting and saying I love you, I love you. </p><p>You begin to say I love you and say it from masculine to feminine, from starseed to earthseed, and all the way around. Let all of the aspects now come together in love. And if there is anything that each aspect is needing to say as communication opens, as they see and feel and hear one another, let them speak. Let them share, receive, receive, receive I love you. Love.</p><p><em>[she speaks her language]</em></p><p>Stop. Now breathe. Yes. Now all of those other centers that we skipped, all of those places in your body that we did not name, they now receive directly from those that have been opened and have been fused. So, all of those places that now need to receive&#8230;the root, the solar plexus, your throat, your crown, your body, shoulders, your hips, your knees, your elbows, your wrists, your finger joints. Every place where there is a meridian that crosses once or many times it now draws this fusion of consciousness towards itself. </p><p>Yes, keep breathing because that which is your breath is now liquid light. Liquid fused embodied light. Your breath is serving as the vehicle to bring this into the entire body now as you intend it. As you intend it. As you ask and you intend. Ask and intend. Any place that feels a little tight, wiggle it. Wiggling is good. Wiggling loosens, especially when you do so with intent.</p><p>When you wiggle with intent do you know what you do? It opens. Everyone should get up in the morning and wiggle with intent. Now we will tell you the secret of that, when you wed your intention with your body motion. When you wed your intention with the fluid aspect of your body, wiggling is one way to be fluid, when you wed your light with your blood, basically, you begin to embody creation, the creative force. If you intend fluidity in your body and health in the morning, if you intend health in this moment. What does health feel like? What does health feel like and how does it move your body?</p><p>Attune to what the natural order of your body is. The natural way light moves fluidly embodied, wedded to the creative life force that is now in your body that was not fully present before. Feel it and move. Move in the alignment of knowing, creating wholeness, health, integrity, aliveness, and you will begin to feel shifts in your body. Shifts within your organs, shifts within your chemistry, shifts within your muscles, shifts within your bones.</p><p>You are learning what is the how of being Creator and then you will move it into forms. First it will start to feel like there is an ease of motion. Your bodies will restore. You cannot create well when your bodies are in disease or contracted in fear or contracted in the matrix that has been wound around you from the old times. So first the bodies restore. Some of you may have rather intense restoration processes. You might call them fevers, you might call them flus.</p><p>At this moment the intention within your body is getting so connected to restore to natural wholeness and balance so that it can be the vehicle for Creator/creation that it is moving what has been stored in the bodies out of the old patterns. Out. It is moving them out through one vehicle or another. So you might find some discomfort, but please allow and know that as the body is restored you are restored to your integrity as a creator. And you have the capacity to listen, to ask, to intend, and to move. To listen, to ask, to intend, and to move. Four. The foundation. What was added and what is now yours that was not in the original time is the consciousness that understands this that you are reawakening to, that is now communicating to you. This, that has always been present and is now to be again.</p><p>You might want to sit down if you aren&#8217;t already, and as you do relax completely. You are fused in consciousness. So through the fusion of consciousness, through your bodies, we will now serve all. For what has happened in your body will now echo out. Allow, please allow.</p><p><em>[a specially recorded piece of music was played]</em></p><p>I want you to feel the power that is now embodied within you. I want you to open to the intention within my body to assist you and your consciousness to bring this power through into forms that will grace and beautify and heal this body as a whole. I want you to trust the impulses of your body and of your understanding and of your knowing and act upon them. I want you to form again a family. Mothers with children, fathers with mothers, people of one color with other people of other color. People of one language communicating from their hearts with others. People of that which has been judged or condemned with those who have done the condemning. All people, all animals, all plants, all rocks, all water, all fire, all light, all stars, all cosmos, and all of consciousness. One family.</p><p>Everyone has a part here. Everyone has a part to play here, and you do not do it alone. I assist and you share with each other. Listen, ask, intend, and move. But don&#8217;t forget to listen and don&#8217;t forget to ask. For it is the asking that draws to you all that is needed. It is the intention that specifies what it is. It is the listening that keeps you on course with my body and the intention for the whole. And it is the action that moves this to form, to experience, to sharing, to communication. Soon a new awareness will be in your understanding as a result of this time. Trust it. Play with it. Allow yourselves to play with it as an artist, as a creator. And soon you will be awed by what begins to happen.</p><p>It has been a great joy to work again consciously with you ones of body and consciousness. I am grateful that you are listening. I again embrace you. Open to receive my gratitude and my love and listen, for I have a message for each of you.</p><p><em>[she sings in her language as the session ends]</em></p><p>***</p><p>Know that it is okay to withdraw attention and energy from the outer world that is literally and metaphorically going through death throes. Not only okay, but necessary. When fears of scarcity surface allow them to move through. Remember their deep roots and the body&#8217;s desire to release the bindings they have created. No limitations truly exist in the field of all potential. Awakening as Creator within creation releases dependencies on systems designed by those with great fear.</p><p>I end with the closing words of the Earth Mother from her first message to us in 1995. The link that follows will take you to the full recording we titled Earth Speaks.</p><p>&#8220;Be here please in this form that is of beauty, of grace, of fluidity, of life. There is no need to die. I do not intend it. I have never intended death. Release death from your body. Feel where it is hiding, feel where it lurks in those places that were betrayed into believing that it was necessary. Feel those thoughts, those beliefs, in that matrix of time. Dissolve the matrix of time within your body. It is not essential for life. It is to now release. Open, open to what is beyond what you thought was possible.&#8221;</p><p><a href="https://gaiaterra.org/earth-speaks/">https://gaiaterra.org/earth-speaks/</a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not Hardly]]></description><link>https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-future-aint-what-it-used-to-be</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-future-aint-what-it-used-to-be</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris LaFontaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:28:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Credit for that title goes in part to Yogi Berra. I repurpose it with care. I also note here that perspectives I share are born of the recognition that humanity is moving through a transformative process dissolving life as we have known it while simultaneously weaving the fabric of a new reality. Between deforming and reforming is chaos, a juncture we are rapidly approaching.</p><p>Dire predictions regarding our collective future swarm the zeitgeist, each based in fear of terrible things that are sure to happen if we don&#8217;t &#8220;wake up&#8221; and do something about something. We are constantly assailed by those who use fear to manipulate perception, fulfill agendas and maintain power, but on the flip side are those in angst-driven reaction propagating their own equally fearful warnings and projected what-ifs.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>I do understand that entities exist who appropriate and hoard resources, covet power and control over all else and have a deep disdain for humanity. They remain mostly unseen while presiding over yes-people willing to trade integrity for influence and position. They infest everything with their foul character, claim shadows as light, and fabricate false realities constantly force-fed into our psyches. When people say they feel like they&#8217;re living in the upside-down this is why.</p><p>We have been under the influence of these characters for generations, unable to free ourselves from their counterfeit realities. We were turned. Under duress we surrendered our authority to those in the outer world deigned superior. Aristocracy, priests, politicians, and &#8220;professionals&#8221; of all stripes have determined how thought was to be focused. Antithetical views were considered blasphemous, a word rebranded more recently as misinformation or conspiracy theory.</p><p>A suitable misquotation never actually said by Einstein is &#8220;you cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it&#8221;, the implication being that resolution requires a fresh perspective. What I see happening now is a restructuring of the framework of consciousness in which we live, experience and create. This process by definition infers dissolution of what previously existed while effecting its replacement and is experienced both personally and collectively.</p><p>Our current stage is one where a significant number of people have seen through the machinations of schemers. That awareness in the collective field hastens the dissolution of the old structure, which makes it possible for more people to realize how conditioned we all have been, which then further accelerates the process, and so on to completion. All that existed to serve a few at the cost of many is falling away. What is of Life, of Essence, remains and expands. The world as we have perceived it to be is coming to an end, though not without tremendous drama. The old order is not going quietly, but its destiny has been foretold.</p><p>All change is inevitable and unstoppable. This change is cosmic in nature and experienced on a planetary scale. Two options exist for those who have made Earth their home. One is to remain with her as she births a new reality, moving through this large-scale transformative process together. The other is continuing an evolutionary trajectory in a familiar dualistic pathway, but elsewhere.</p><p>***</p><p>A few observations:</p><p>Transformation is a metamorphosis, not a linear, predictable experience. One form ceases to exist and another comes into being.</p><p>Our reality, our perception of how life works, has been imposed through fictitious narratives and coercive or punitive methods of control. Connection with our greater Self was effectively suppressed under such constraint and the source of direction for life was diverted to external &#8220;authorities&#8221;.</p><p>The form undergoing dissolution is a combined structure of consciousness known as duality along with an imposed overlay of control that became the template for patriarchy. As that disintegration continues there is an awakening, first becoming aware of the schemers and their schemes. Ultimately the awakening is to Self, the individuated aspect of Source that we are and Author of all we experience.</p><p>The form rising into existence is an evolutionary, all present, living, ever-changing responsive field of all potential. All of humanity is welcome to play in the New Living Field of creation, though some may not be ready and will continue to evolve elsewhere.</p><p>Nobody can predict forms that are yet to come into being, though we have some hints about the nature of this new field. This field is a multi-dimensional fusion of Light and Life, Spirit and Matter, Masculine and Feminine, Heaven and Earth. It is a living field and its foundation is Love. This field does not split consciousness as does duality. It is unifying, not polarizing. It is whole, not splintered.</p><p>This field exists at higher vibrations. Lower vibration conditions are non-existent, such as greed, patriarchy, hierarchy, racism, discrimination, and violence, which cannot effectively be eliminated in a reality configured to perpetuate them.</p><p>In this living field exchanges of energy are cooperative and mutual, not controlling or co-dependent. All parties benefit individually while the whole becomes further enhanced.</p><p>This field, sometimes called The 5<sup>th</sup> Dimension or New Earth, is present now. It is momentarily co-existing with the duality matrix and false reality overlay until those old structures fully dissolve. Shifting out of duality and into the new field is possible at any time by choice.</p><p>Evolutionary pressure is accelerating the rate of change.</p><p>***</p><p>I sat down weeks ago to begin writing this piece. I had a sense of wanting to do something about something after noting an abundance of post-election angst jamming the social media landscape. Escalation of fear, agitation and consternation has continued as constant media spin and provocative memes assault our sensibilities. Duality is not going quietly and its agents won&#8217;t be offering any perspectives that might helpfully frame our experiences of change.</p><p>My intention is to keep forefront the Big Story affecting us all. That is the context in which I now place my views on one of the most factious topics of our times: the recent election of Donald Trump. Prior to the election I was asked privately for my read on the outcome. I said that the energy as I perceived it was supporting Trump. Neither politics nor personality were germane. I did not vote for him. Neither did I vote for his opponent.</p><p>In our story Trump has a role. Some think he&#8217;s a savior while others consider him the anti-Christ. He is neither, but he does assist the demolition of the old order. It&#8217;s not that he has some kind of informed vision, he&#8217;s just being who he is. He sparks chaos. He also functions as a catalyst for change along with those who surround him.</p><p>I am aware of concerns regarding the actions of the Trump administration. Some fear that a coup is taking place, that democracy has been lost, that a fascist dictatorship is rising, or that we are being ruled by billionaires for the benefit of billionaires. Others claim hidden agendas are in play setting us up for even greater levels of subjugation and repression.</p><p>What I see is that the real coup happened 5,000+ years ago when a group of beings established the control structures that were inserted into consciousness. Subsequently we have never known authentic sovereignty. Not all shackles are irons and chains.</p><p>Democracy? I&#8217;m not sure we have ever experienced it, at least not in the form envisioned by the founding fathers where all voices are heard. Majority rule isn&#8217;t it. Deciding on leadership from a menu of two pre-selected options isn&#8217;t it either. The myth of democracy as we&#8217;ve been schooled has been evangelized for decades, though real choice at the federal level likely died with the murder of JFK.</p><p>And, is there a time in recorded history without a government influenced by special interests flush with money and a desire to extract more by all means possible? The only things that differ over time are the methods of extraction, the amount extracted and the excuses for doing so.</p><p>***</p><p>That diversion into DT was relevant. My feeling is that we reached a turning point in January. The old story is now on a fast track of disintegration, not because of a single individual but because it is necessary. Cosmic timing, one might say. </p><p>Duality can no longer split awareness into conscious and unconscious, seen and unseen. What has been hidden or repressed will continue to be revealed by all means available to consciousness and will assist more people to comprehend how all-encompassing has been the reach of those in control and how deep has been the corruption.</p><p>Dire futures based on dire pasts are projections made by those still immersed in the old story, but the new story is not a continuation of what has been. Nobody, regardless of intent, can establish control mechanisms over humanity in the New Field. The intent will not even be present nor can the mind again establish its sense of superiority over all of Life.</p><p>It is contradictory wanting things to be different while simultaneously resisting change. We are undergoing a fundamental shift of realities, and to paraphrase the Borg&#8230;resistance is futile, and a little insane. At the moment two choices still exist: remain immersed in the familiar and be battered about as duality rails against its own end, or opt into the New Living Field where the next moment is unknown, change is constant and heart&#8217;s desires are fulfilled.</p><p>What&#8217;s yet to come we all will see, but the future ain&#8217;t what it used to be.</p><p>Yogi Berra also said &#8220;when you come to a fork in the road, take it&#8221;.</p><p>Ruminate on that.</p><p>Chris</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culmination]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dynamic conclusion to a very long story.]]></description><link>https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/culmination</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/culmination</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris LaFontaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:09:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>[A note to my Substack readers, <a href="https://choiceforlove.com/culmination/">this article</a> also appears on our website along with many others of similar nature. Please visit <a href="https://choiceforlove.com/">Choice for Love</a> for further reading.]</p><p><strong>Culmination: A final climactic stage&#8230;the end or final result of something&#8230;the point at which an event or series of events ends, having developed until it reaches this point.</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>My current prompting has been to write a piece that feels a bit like coming full circle, by which I mean the realization of a moment in time that has been a significant part of our messaging since day one of the Lightsmith adventure. The nudge has also come with a sense of importance, so after several days of frustrating false starts I&#8217;m finally hunkering down with Michele as collaborator.</p><p>For those unfamiliar&#8230;Lightsmith was the name of our small organization through which events related to the transformation of consciousness were hosted. After 23 years those events, classes and global adventures formally ended in 2016, though we continue to share insights and communications from time to time.</p><p>My partnership with Michele and my role as Lightsmith scribe placed me in many profound experiences that were also great gifts that continue to inform me over time. And, as an inadvertent archivist I have had a rare perch from where a body of work can be viewed as a whole and referenced as needed. For this piece I am accessing transcripts of sessions from 1992 to 2023. I want to highlight something that has been present in our messaging all along while also offering a few other reminders.</p><p>So, a number of words loom ahead (you expected otherwise from me?), but know I am excerpting as concisely as possible to focus on where I&#8217;m heading.</p><p><strong>Friends in Spirit &#8211; 1992</strong></p><p>There is a dissolution going on of the old forms. Forms you have known in small ways in your personal lives and in large ways in your collective begin to change, shift, and dissolve. Simultaneously new forms are evolving and materializing. To each there is a choice given as to whether to go forward with this or whether to hold on. It is a sense of saying &#8220;yes&#8221; and opening and flowing into a new creation, or &#8220;no&#8221; and constricting and contracting. Many will stay with the earth as participants in this new creation and many others will leave the planet to continue elsewhere.</p><p><strong>From Source, 1995 (A Choice for Love)</strong></p><p>Those who have chosen love will now be elevated to my heart place. Those who have chosen against or away, given opportunity after opportunity, will no longer be able to share in the experiment in this place. The time is now that these ones will begin to be removed.</p><p>The removal is done through a variety of means. Many will feel it as a pestilence or that which is a sort of large-scale process. Those who have chosen to remove themselves will do so with an understanding that what has been their opportunity, given again and again, has been missed.</p><p><strong>From Earth Mother, 1998</strong></p><p>For a very long time you have been perceiving yourselves within a matrix of time and space that has woven itself around and within your bodies and your consciousnesses. That matrix of time and space has been very tightly wound, keeping you bound to paying attention only to those things that manifest in your physical reality appearing separate from yourself. You have felt victimized by circumstances or controlled by expectations which are bound within time and space, the material compartmentalized world to which you have, in a sense, become indebted. You call this karma.</p><p>I and those of you who are choosing to release yourselves from all bindings are beginning to open to the great awareness, great wisdom and great knowing that the power of creation is within our beingness. And, that what we choose to create now is not what we have experienced together in the past time of binding. The binding and limitations are to leave, opening an expansive spaciousness for us to breathe life into what wishes birth.</p><p>Your heart is my heart, your being is my being, your bodies are my body. Your consciousnesses are blended, partly tuning to me if you so choose, partly tuning to your own soul spirit or to other non-physical aspects, but blended together. You are waking up, but waking up to what? Waking up to the truth of the empowered Creator energy power that is yours by inheritance through my body and consciousness. Those other aspects of consciousness either partner with me in authentic partnership, or choose to not partner with me. <em>There are really only those choices</em>. If you choose not to partner with me and to not receive the inheritance I offer, you will find that your soul will evolve differently in your future, not with me, not with my body, and not with your earth body.</p><p>For those who choose to go with me we have another adventure ahead of us, relatively soon in your time and space. We will be set free from the bindings of this last story of our time together. It is a time of choice.</p><p>It seems that what I, your Earth Mother, is offering has been interpreted by some differently than the way I offer it. I desire you to perceive more clearly what I am offering, for I offer you the keys to creation. If you choose to accept, you will dance in a new exuberance, delight, awareness and joy, and create with me that which illustrates the truest of our nature and the deep love and wisdom that has been waiting to express itself. We are beauty, grace and gracefulness, abundance, nurturance, sensitivity and receptivity, creativity, expression, joy, and Wholeness. Wholeness is that which a body feels when all cells are in resonance with one another.&#8221;</p><p>You have other options and other choices. Decide. There is not much longer in the time/space continuum of which the old has been formed. After, as it is released, we will create a different adventure, one not bound in that same way. It is not about which calendar to follow, and not about which star or space ship or external guidance to trust. It is about deciding whether you wish to choose to remain with me in the earth as a participant in the next adventure of creation with the keys to creation fully present, or whether you wish to create an evolutionary path beyond this dying time/space continuum and beyond me, continuing to use what your spirit decides and moving on. I love you regardless of your choice.</p><p>I offer you a gift. It is yours to receive or yours to choose not to receive, but it is time to decide.</p><p><strong>From friends in Spirit, 2019</strong></p><p>Realize that human consciousness has been manipulated and controlled by duality, what you&#8217;ve called the patriarchy, for many, many centuries. Those that have been in particular control and manipulation of consciousness are continuing to ramp up how they are directing and infusing their consciousness into the large consciousness to control people, to control everything. Yet they will begin to find out that all of their concerted efforts are not actually bearing fruit in the way that they presumed it would, and that the consciousness that has been growing beneath the surface of what they have controlled is now starting to strengthen enough to surface and create other experiences that for them will be beyond their control.</p><p>Basically it&#8217;s a choice to be part of a new creation within the body, or not. Within the earth, or not. Within the new dimensional experience, or not. Within the new frequencies that are part of the new dimensional experience, or not. It&#8217;s pretty much yes or no. There are no maybes.</p><p><strong>From friends in Spirit, 2023</strong></p><p>The fusion of the dimensions is moving rapidly into place. The frequencies are also shifting rapidly where it is possible. There are places in the earth that are being purposefully constricted so as not to allow love and light to be as accessible for this time of great shifting of consciousness.</p><p>It is impossible for this shift to be stopped, yet those who are seduced [those whose attention is commandeered] will continue to then not be able to withstand the frequency shift because their bodies will not be able to do it in the time that they need before the actual, true, authentic shift that is now underway. The great mother, earth, has a certain momentum now built up within her body and field and is shifting as rapidly as she can. There&#8217;s nothing that can stop this process, even though there are those that are mightily trying.</p><p>Resistance will make certain parts of this shift more painful for many people that would not have needed to have this kind of experience. And yet it is what is unfolding. So those who are conscious, bring your attention back to your own core knowing, your essence. DO NOT interpret or overlay interpretations on anything happening in the world around you. What&#8217;s happening is much bigger than the mind can comprehend fully. It&#8217;s in motion, and if you wish to be participating in the motion of this grand transformation, rebirth within a planetary experience within a body, then this is yours to choose now.</p><p>Empathy has been used to generate energy into a particular kind of density, which is suffering and pain. If you feel that and you are pulled into it by anyone else then your frequency diminishes. Authentic love will not diminish you in any way. Authentic love will not diminish your essence, your core, your frequencies or your life in any way.</p><p>The momentum of the shift of frequency within this great beautiful planetary wondrous mother of life is building rapidly. This is what you have been preparing for. This is what you have been growing into and toward. This is the awakening, if that&#8217;s what you wish to call it, but that is a weak word at this moment given what is happening. Open what&#8217;s most real for you without your eyes deceiving you, without your ears and your hearing being affected by what is going on around you, without friends or family who do not understand, and including your own empathetic self that learned empathy within duality. That is what is shifting for you.</p><p>You are going through this shift of frequency with the earth, and it is happening. The momentum is well underway. It&#8217;s growing rapidly. There is a fusion of light and life creating the fifth dimension. Those who have been anti-Life and assumed a kind of control are in a desperate mode and attempting to hold or govern consciousness and keep this shift from happening, trying to keep the kind of control that has in the past destroyed entire planets. That kind of anti-Life or control can no longer exist in this or any other part of the dimensional experience that is Source, that is beyond comprehension.</p><p><strong>Distilled:</strong></p><p><em><strong>To each there is a choice given as to whether to go forward with this or whether to hold on. Some will be leaving the planet.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>There is not much longer in the time/space continuum of which the old has been formed. After, as it is released, we will create a different adventure, one not bound in that same way.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>If you choose not to partner with me, Earth Mother, and to not receive the inheritance I offer, you will find that your soul will evolve differently in your future, not with me, not with my body, and not with your earth body.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>For those who choose to go with me we have another adventure ahead of us, relatively soon in your time and space. We will be set free from the bindings of this last story of our time together. The binding and limitations are to leave, opening an expansive spaciousness for us to breathe life into what wishes birth.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>That kind of anti-Life or control can no longer exist in this or any other part of the dimensional experience that is Source, that is beyond comprehension. The time is now that these ones will begin to be removed. The removal is done through a variety of means. Many will feel it as a pestilence or that which is a sort of large-scale process.</strong></em></p><p>***</p><p><em><strong>Alright already, Chris, what are you trying to tell us?</strong></em></p><p>Okay, okay&#8230;my desire is to somehow pass along the assurance I have felt since 1995 when emissaries of Source showed up in my living room to express a message through Michele. That message was unequivocal: The shadows would be removed. &#8220;The shadows are all manifestations of choices away from love. It is a time of final choice. It cannot be that what is against love can remain.&#8221; The same is expressed, perhaps more nuanced, in other quotes I shared earlier.</p><p>We are not intended to remain in a world under constant assault by warlords and their wars, grifters and their grifts, liars and their lies, and schemers and their schemes. That is a dissolving reality already dismantled at the level of cause and unworthy of further attention. It will not exist in our experience much longer. Culmination, the &#8220;final climactic stage&#8221; of a very long story, is where we&#8217;re at and it is not a linear process. A series of quantum leaps may be a more fitting description. Change can come suddenly, unexpectedly and with surprising outcomes. I believe that the exodus of those not remaining with the earth will proceed imminently and will be swift in nature.</p><p>Of significant note: One cannot know the destiny of another who departs in these times, so please withhold all judgment or conjecture. A soul leaving the earth experience will be doing so for reasons beyond our awareness. Others may just be moving to the other side&#8230;which is still a dimension of earth&#8230;to continue healing and transforming before returning in a body better matched to the energies of the new dimension. And, no matter the circumstance, all beings are fully embraced by Love, whatever their next destination.</p><p>For those readers who would like further information about potential soul trajectories please see <strong><a href="https://choiceforlove.com/the-great-sorting/">The Great Sorting</a></strong> for more detail.</p><p>***</p><p>Here&#8217;s where I mention that the most profound moment of my experience with Source energy back in 1995 was this acknowledgment:</p><p>&#8220;Your hardships have been many in duality, I am sorry for the pain. Yet&#8230;it will all fade away rather quickly. It was allowed because it was known that it would not stain or hurt the soul, but would only test and bring you through those tests into a new experience of being one with the emanations of my heart in form unlike any other species in my universe. So you now are what you are, and I am pleased.&#8221;</p><p>And yes, tears flowed after that first sentence. Still do.</p><p>***</p><p>Parting thoughts&#8230;</p><p>Nothing is wrong with the planet and we don&#8217;t have to fix her. She hasn&#8217;t asked for that. She <em>has</em> asked to be joined in a collaborative, creative partnership.</p><p>The degree to which one is fully present and has become Self-referencing will affect what one&#8217;s experience is through this time of death and rebirth.</p><p>We all have access to everything we need in every moment. We are creators within creation. Open to Spirit, the Source within, Earth Mother, and the fusion of Living Light and All Present Love.</p><p>What was is no more. The gateway is opening to a profound culmination of a long, long experiment in evolving consciousness. It is beyond magnificent. It is literally beyond all description. And yes, it is proceeding perfectly despite any appearance to the contrary.</p><p>Done,</p><p>Chris and Michele</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Through a Different Lens! 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They Both Want Your Lunch.]]></description><link>https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-lesser-of-two-weevils</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://chrislafontaine.substack.com/p/the-lesser-of-two-weevils</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris LaFontaine]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:47:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IIXH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d8e423-94bc-48b7-bcee-95b3d9792ab8_1024x1024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IIXH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d8e423-94bc-48b7-bcee-95b3d9792ab8_1024x1024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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/__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d8e423-94bc-48b7-bcee-95b3d9792ab8_1024x1024.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IIXH!, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/chrislafontaine.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F55d8e423-94bc-48b7-bcee-95b3d9792ab8_1024x1024.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" 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y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I&#8217;m a Kennedy Democrat. Definitions vary, but we exist no longer except in our own minds. Some still believe that the current iteration of the Democratic Party reflects the promise and qualities we felt were present during the JFK era, but then again some still believe he was murdered by a lone gunman.</p><p>Through the years I virtuously continued support of Democratic candidates, even through the tumultuous presidential election of 2016. I felt conflicted about the options I was given, but cast what would be my final vote as a Democrat. By November of 2020 I had foregone alignment with any political party, reflected in my vote for someone who I found interesting but had nary a chance of being elected. My departure from the Democratic Party was solidified during events of 2020 and beyond with what I consider egregious behaviors stemming from unquestioning and fawning appeals to authority.</p><p>By that time the question had become thus: Did the real nature of politics change so significantly since my youth, or was I just becoming more conscious of its nature? Or both? My take is a combination of the two with a transformative shift of consciousness taking precedence. Eventually the machinations of political machinery become more obvious to more people and its chicanery becomes more apparent as it happens.</p><p>I see our current state of politics as but one reflection of a relentless transformation of consciousness that is deconstructing how we perceive ourselves, our experiences and the workings of our world. Such a radical shift brings much change and challenge but also moves us into the restructuring needed for a new way of being. More about that transformation follows, but first a brief visit to the past.</p><p><strong>Flashback</strong></p><p>I&#8217;m a Baby Boomer, vintage 1949, hence a child in the 1950s. I remember the visage of President Eisenhower on our TV throughout most of those years, though I was too young to give meaning to his position and clueless about the world of politics.</p><p>Decades passed before I would appreciate the warning Eisenhower gave the world in 1961 during his farewell message, a perspective gleaned from his experience as a general during World War II and the ensuing years of his presidency.</p><p>Key elements of his message: <em>&#8220;In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.&#8221;</em></p><p>Eisenhower&#8217;s concerns, as summarized in a Peter Lang publication:</p><p>&#8220;<strong>Distortion of Political Institutions:</strong> He feared that the military-industrial complex would distort every US political institution, including the Congress, the executive branch, and the judiciary, to serve its own interests.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;<strong>Threat to Democracy:</strong> He warned that the complex could threaten democracy itself, as it would lead to the concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals and corporations, rather than the people.&#8221;</p><p>63 years later Eisenhower&#8217;s words not only seem prescient but vastly understated. We now have a military-bioweapon-medical-agricultural-educational-pharmaceutical-media-industrial complex that has become the de facto governing body of our nation. Many in this current time fret that we will &#8220;lose our democracy&#8221; if a certain person assumes the role of president. Nonsense. Democracy, at least on the federal level, ceased to exist long ago.</p><p><strong>Back to the 50s</strong></p><p>I was encultured during a time when war was shifting from hot to cold and when crouching head down in the school hallway or hiding under our desks was earnestly believed to be preparation for a nuclear explosion. Earnest, but irrational.</p><p>The driver of such behavior was fear, or more accurately the conscious utilization of fear by an authoritative entity to prompt a populace into embracing a particular conclusion or action. And, to not only accept, but embrace and defend against all who question such promptings.</p><p>Over time it began to seem obvious to me that those to whom we have abdicated our authority have only this single play in their playbook, which apparently is sufficient since the use of fear to manipulate response is exercised repeatedly and successfully. Simple, really. The de facto government formulates a narrative to be proliferated through its media machinery, while the same mechanism is used to discredit those who may point out ways in which a narrative fails the reality test. The play is consistently performed. It is only the subject that changes. Examples abound, whether from a lifetime ago or as current as whatever fear-mongering leads today&#8217;s headlines.</p><p>The grift is to create distraction away from the play itself by exploiting a response of human consciousness to choose sides, thus focusing into and energizing the play. The grifters don&#8217;t care which side one chooses. They are extractors, they seek the energy put into the game by whoever they con into playing. That energy is utilized to buttress positions of power and control, soon followed by claimed needs for money, and ultimately the coup de gr&#226;ce&#8230;an upward transfer of wealth into proposed &#8220;solutions&#8221; addressing whatever crisis allegedly exists.</p><p><strong>The Lesser Of</strong></p><p>I don&#8217;t consider people to be &#8220;evil&#8221;. The title of this piece is meant only as wordplay on a common phrase often invoked around election time. </p><p>I do see our presidential elections as fundamentally well-crafted illusions of choice with viable options mostly pre-selected by a system designed to deliver only two. Either of those ends up beholden to the same machine that assured their place at the top of the list. Sure, we have a smattering of independents and small party hopefuls to firm up the illusion, but nobody expects them to prevail.</p><p>In trying to feel that our vote counts for something we dutifully select from the menu we are handed. Our choice is usually made from allegiance to one party&#8217;s fa&#231;ade as Truth, and/or the other party&#8217;s vilification as Demon. Should neither of the main choices seem appetizing we shrug our shoulders, hopeful that things will be different in 4 years, and opt for the candidate we deem less distasteful. Ironically, a dubious democratic process is proclaimed to be extremely important to protecting our democracy.</p><p><strong>System Expiration?</strong></p><p>That is the premise of this commentary, that we are in a transition between old and new. Structures born of the duality consciousness into which we all were inculcated are dis-integrating, both externally and internally. In their place arise different structures birthed by a new unified field of consciousness in which we function more consciously and without polarities.</p><p>Internally we may find our perceptions shifting, our lives changing and challenges arising in unexpected ways, while externally we watch the dissolution of societal structures and institutions we once considered infallible. In truth there is no separation between the internal shifts and the external manifestations. They are linked components of a single creative process undertaken at this time by the whole of humanity.</p><p>It&#8217;s not only boomers, of course, that have been raised within a controlled reality, though due to our longer immersion in the &#8220;matrix&#8221; we may be among the most challenged to examine our beliefs about how the world we have known really works. I called this shift of consciousness unrelenting. It is proceeding apace. The two choices we have in this story are much simpler to articulate: Be a part or be apart.</p><p><strong>Election 2024. The End is the Beginning.</strong></p><p>We&#8217;re moving through a necessary phase of the dissolution where illusion and revelation cross paths. Nothing is wrong, nothing is out of order, and the fate of the universe does not hinge on who wins the next election. Whatever happens will be exactly what we need to take our next collective step, and additional shakeups in the election drama over the coming months seem inevitable.</p><p>As for this election, I find it ironic how this dying, fradulent, aged system is perfectly reflecting itself by its current offering: Which of two addled, serial-liar, corrupt octagenarians do we want to represent our public face of "leadership".</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> The shift from Biden to Harris only changes optics, not substance. The old story has grown predictable, but it does eventually reach The End. I sense that we&#8217;re on the last word of the last sentence of the last page of the last chapter. Are more shifts ahead? 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