The Earth is going through a great struggle, moving from a paradigm taking its last gasp toward one that emanates more Light. You have choice now of how you wish your personal world to be. Your choices may not be reflected in the traditional media, nor seen by the majority of your neighbors. Yet, by your focus on happiness, peace, joy, fulfillment, oneness, pleasure, love, tolerance, and surrender, you call into being around you a milieu that reflects your prayers and intentions.

We do not imply that you smile through everything, repressing your feelings. To evolve a community of loving souls around you, truly show up in your Authentic Nature and directly share your feelings and desires. The more honest and forthright you are, with grace of skillful communications, the more you benefit from the resources your friends and contacts are. As you reveal your self and ask for what you'd like, you allow others to meet your needs and appreciate you, to give you the gift of seeing you.

An evolving community comes from evolving souls, and the only way anyone keeps evolving is to do spiritual practices regularly. The practices work to keep you in your body and available spiritually, with less ego, for the intimacy offered in contact with another. When one does not meditate, move consciously, exercise, eat well, and get good rest, one is less present for whatever is offered by life.

Presence is about living fully in this moment, this day, this month, this year, calling all the ages and stages of your psyche into the current moment, into this body, into this experience now. When you come fully present, you can be met and filled by God, the One Being. Your body can be the Body of the Goddess, your mind dissolve into Divine Mind, your heart be nurtured by your Father/Mother's Heart.

Coming present to yourself, deeply resident in your body, fully available to your own senses allows Presence to influence your affairs. It allows the One Being to participate in your choices and decisions. Life has myriad demands, so many we seem to need to multi-task, which can have its own rewards. One must occasionally, however, stop all thought and activity save being with the person presenting their love, or ideas, or sharing their deepest truth with you. Stop, tune in and receive the gifts Spirit is giving you. You've prayed for them.

Community naturally evolves around you when you come thus Present. You will find people enjoy being in your field. The rest is showing up where you can reveal your truest nature and be appreciated for it. Some new forms of community want to be birthed on this planet, so seek out others who desire linking consciously and put your heads and hearts together to see what wants to evolve.

Some leaders are evolving the capacity to co-create with you opportunities to be deeply present with each other, such as in tantra communities, sex-positive and relationship oriented gatherings, new thought churches, meditation and healing centers. Support these leaders. Leaders can illuminate stepping stones toward community, but true community arrives when people choose to creatively engage in developing how they live their lives. Let your choices become actions, and your actions harmonize with enough others' to be effective.

Old metaphysical principle: energy follows attention. If you focus on the dying paradigm that screams through your headlines and mass media, your hope feels battered by despair and your faith engulfed by the terror your leaders engender to justify their actions. In the perfection of "this moment," place your focus on Light being restored as the organizing principle of Earth. Then you see escalating violence as a signal of how desperately shadow elements are reacting to the demise of their control as they feel Love being reestablished on this planet. The Great Mother is regaining residency here and that which is anti-Love is being eradicated.

You vote for your reality with your prayers and your intentions. Pray not just with words, creators that they are, pray also with actions. Model, with your authenticity, the world you seek to create. Pray through your loving kindness. Offer yourself in spiritual service to support activities and gathering places so you and others can congregate in ways that nurture all of you, and that support doing your spiritual practices. As you model the way you want to live, you find yourself living what you are modeling.

When you don't know what to do in a situation, pray. "God/Goddess guide my thoughts, my words, my actions." "Spirit, show up here and create the miracles we need." Then open to letting Spirit show you the way. Spirit's way is so much easier than the convoluted way your ego would have you be, the way that moves you into feeling separate and apart from your fellows. Your inner spiritual guidance will lead you toward others, and toward union, if you enter the silence often enough to hear it. It's designed to be so.

True community, the communion of souls, happens when each person shows up authentically, relaxed and willing for Essence to shine through. Essence qualities draw people with like natures who are ready to play for Real, to become all they can be. Conscious gatherings allow community to evolve. Watch how that happens and be very conservative in placing any rules or structures around what grows until you see what its nature is and how much room it needs. Like a gardener might give space to and carefully nurture a seedling, nurture what organically arises and let it teach you what it wants. Be fluid in your plans for it.

We are with you every step of the way, and, in fact, communities of guides congregate around circles of people who share the same soul heritage. So invite yourself to be aware of our presence and enjoy Presence with all of Us. Blessed Be. We are honored by your attention and receptivity. Namaste!

The Council of Twelve, as channeled through Evalena Rose March 25, 2002

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