AFTER READING A COUPLE of installments in this series, one fellow wrote to me, saying: "Daniel, you're being a bit nebulous about all this. Can you be a little more specific about these timelines?" Another one slapped me on the nose a bit for being glib about folks hitting the "snooze button" when their internal alarm went off, telling them it's time to awaken from the 3D dream.

At the risk of sounding defensive, I must point out that the comprehension of "other dimensional essences" will always seem nebulous when they are viewed from 3D consciousness. An apparition is only an apparition when it is seen in comparison to something solid. If you view it within its original reality context, it would appear quite normal. What will have changed in the transaction is YOU.

Remember what that young boy told Neo in the first "Matrix" movie? I'm speaking about the little bald kid, who was bending spoons in the reception room of the Oracle. He looked up and said: "The trick is found in realizing that you can't change the spoon. There is no spoon. If you want to change the spoon, you must first change yourself."

People who get frustrated because someone won't give them an exact date for the Ascension (or even a ballpark guess) want to change something, while wanting to remain unchanged themselves. We wish to know what only God knows (Mark 13:32), but we refuse to admit that we are the God who knows it.

What would our little guru say to all this? He might say: "The trick is that we can't know the day or the hour of the Ascension. That is because there is no time. If you want to know a time, you must change yourself." You must become time, then you can go anywhere or anywhen you like. The kicker is: Once a person becomes time, or space, or God, can he ever return to the human estate again? We don't know, really. So we stand at the edge of the pool, dipping in a toe, trying to discern what it's like to be fully immersed in life.

Thinking, Believing, Knowing
I may have shared the following story in another article, but I feel that it's worth sharing again. If you've already heard it, please bear with me.

I was once part of an intellectuals group online, made up of people who loved the idea of kicking around high spiritual concepts so we could exercise the old grey matter. I especially loved the buzz words that philosophers use ... words like "cosmology" ... because most of my spiritual context came to me from within, not from systematic training. (I did have an amazing Teacher of Beginning Metaphysics in the late 80s, to whom I shall be eternally grateful)

Being an effective translator of tones (which is what a channel is) involves honing one's skills as a "wordsmith," so that the most expanded meaning of the messages can come through.

One day, the assignment for the group was to argue for or against the existence of God. Off we went. Preliminary to preparing my contribution to the discussion, I asked the group if I could ask them two questions. Those two questions were:

These two preliminary questions, I feel, are crucial to the kind of inquiries we are now making. One drawback about using "logic" as one's primary instrument of perception dwells in the (very logical) belief that we can attain a position in space called "objectivity."

Isn't that belief the very heart and soul of the "scientific method?" We verify suppositions in 3D based on observable, document-able experiments and tests. When enough people agree, based on the case evidence, a supposition gets entered into the Mass Consciousness. Never mind the fact that established "truths" are being discarded these days, by the truckload. In fact, there are beliefs being discarded and replaced today for which people DIED, in days past.

There is clearly a difference between "thinking" and "believing." The former is two-dimensional. It has height and width, as it runs through the mind or across the page of some book. But a thought has no depth. It doesn't touch us unless we want it to. One might even say that thinking is reality, held at a distance. We get to examine something, try it on like a coat ... and then, if we don't like it, we can put the coat back on the rack. No harm, no foul. Logicians begin their expositions with words like "It has been said," or "Studies have shown." This makes the whole process appear to be coming at us from without, rather than originating from within ourselves. In this way, we can deflect it away (disown it), if it doesn't suit our immediate purpose.

Believing, on the other hand, begins with a thought and then goes much further in its investment of self. A belief is a thought with which we choose to identify. We say to the sales clerk: "I'll take this coat. Wrap it up." Disowned thoughts are like orphans, with their noses pressed against the windows of the soul. Believers are willing take them in, out of the cold. They give them a room, and a coat, and put the family ring on their finger. Later, if a belief is shattered, or betrayed, the emotional effect can feel devastating.

So it seemed right to ask my fellow debaters: "Are you ready, this very moment, to have your life changed?"

Clair-cognition means "clear knowing." It goes two steps beyond thinking, and one step beyond believing. Regarding a particular topic, it says: "I know that such and such is true."

Immediately, thinkers want you to quote source material. Believers, on the other hand, ask you to share how you came into this knowing. They want to hear a story. Personally, I think stories are positively awesome. Once used as a mainstay for the transmission of spiritual truth, person-to-person, plain old storytelling has become the lost art of the 21st Century. But I predict that it will return to humanity in very short order. I only hope that it doesn't take a nuclear bomb, blowing up all our libraries and movie theaters to get that to happen.

A Need to Know
A person doesn't come into a state of knowing based on the strength of an argument. He begins knowing when his need to know outweighs his desire to forget (or ignore). The Reconnections shared this very powerful truth in their transmission "Belief and Human Need." In that piece, they told us:

Now we get back to a statement I made in Part Two of this series: "When a person asks me how long the Reconnections think it will be before humanity enters 4D, I am sometimes tempted to ask: "Why do you want to know?" Do you have an interest in the subject? Do you have a desire to know? Or do you flat-out need to know? Having these questions answered is as important, in regards to the Ascension issue, as it is to answer those other questions before arguing the existence of God.

People in the need to know category are "pregnant." Whether they are male or female, it does not matter. They are about to give birth to their Fourth Dimensional Self. When the time of birthing comes, the outward shell of their personality breaks apart and their Multi-Dimensional Core (which was always there, by the way) begins to emerge.

In my articles over at Children of the New Earth for the last few months, we have been speaking about "Dealing With Spiritual Emergency." After having taken an overview of various conditions which people consider "Emergency," I point out that the primary element which produces "emergency" is emergence. When a "normal" person comes in contact with his "meta-human" core, all Hell (or Heaven) begins to break loose.

The Big Bang?
While I was away on a trip in 2003, one of the Guides said to me: We have often said to you that you are all of it. You are everything and everyone, all across time, everywhere (at once)!

Then, I could feel him turn to me (on the Inner Planes) and say: How does that strike you?

I was rather dumbfounded. I said, "It kind of bowls me over."

I could feel him smile, and he responded: Of course it does. In fact, it blows everyone to smithereens who comes in true contact with it, and then scatters them into little tiny pieces - millions, billions of them. This is the cause of what you have termed "The Big Bang." It is a clear, personalized interface with the very statement I just made to you. And it has happened several times, throughout history, not just once. It is a clear internal realization, which blows apart everything and everyone who truly understands it. But then, once you are all blown apart, you earnestly desire to be back together again. And so, the Game is afoot! We refer to this latter process as The Big Boink.

The Recons go on to tell us that, after that first round of internal "trauma," the universe provides a suitable recuperatory environment in which to gather up your tattered pieces again. It is called 3D. In the Grand Game, the Reconnections describe a "Game of Fragmentation," as the Oneself spreads out across the globe. Indeed, we have become scattered across many globes! Some of them we know, and some of them still feel very foreign to us."

The Timelines for Transformation go off in all directions. They connect here, they connect there. They go up, down, side-to-side. The Guides refer to them as Christword Puzzles. We no longer live in one unified reality anymore. We live at the crossroads of many realities. The entry belief to 4D is "all time is now." The entry point for 5D is "all space is here."

As one person whimsically put it: "We don't need to seek the Keys to Enlightenment. The door was never locked."

There is a difference between thinking this, believing this, and knowing that it's true. And that difference forms a timeline from which various "parties" are being called to take up their seats at the Banquet of the Ages. The Banquet has already been underway for thousands of years, and they still haven't gotten to the main course yet! I think they're waiting for US to arrive. Are we ready, right this moment, to have our lives changed?