What is Enlightenment?

The Archangels Give Us Clarity

“Enlightenment is the ability to proceed with and in the light and to be able to recenter with your soul, rather than your human.”  - The Z’s, channeled by Lee Harris

I spent all of last week in La Jolla, CA, attending Lee Harris’s Soul Magic spiritual retreat, and it was absolutely wonderful.  I intend to write several articles inspired by the things I heard and learned and experienced.  There was so much that was worth remembering, and some of it I would like to share with you.

I don’t like a lot of the buzz words out there that are attached to spirituality.  They tend to be ambiguous and have multiple interpretations, adding to the confusion.  Some of them are downright pretentious, if you ask me.  Enlightenment is one of those concepts that appeals to many and has many different definitions, and while there’s nothing wrong with that, it can be a little confusing at times, especially when someone presents their idea as the one and only view worth considering.  Spirituality is very personal and individualistic, and there’s room for lots of definitions.  There are as many spiritual paths as there are people, and it’s up to each of us to find a path that works for us.

Still, I like the above definition, which I heard during the retreat, partly because it makes sense to me, and partly because it helps me to set a goal and a standard for how to proceed within the chaos that is our current world.  I’ve written a lot about the need to let go of the anger we have toward each other, that we need to seek common ground and unity, so we have the power to change things.  The Archangels say we need at least a two-thirds majority to make major changes, and at least in my country, the USA, we’re pretty much split down the middle.  Sure, we can switch back and forth between political parties, alternating the plan.  Just in the last generation, Obama made a lot of changes. Then, so did Trump.  Then, Biden took a turn, making further changes.  Now Trump’s in office changing things yet again.  Basically, if things continue along as they’ve been, we’re going to have decades’ worth of lots of changes, none of them sustainable, all of them disruptive and very few solutions.  That hasn’t worked in a long time, and I don’t see that it’s helping now or will anytime in the near future.

I asked the Archangels for some commentary regarding the above quote by the Z’s and how we can apply it to our own lives.  Their response follows.

Question:  I like what the Z’s said about enlightenment meaning centering in your soul, rather than your human.  Can you please add to this?

Answer: 

We also like this view.  Let us begin by repeating something we have said in the past.  Spirituality is not leaving your humanity behind in favor of replacing it with your soul.  No, it is the natural blending of both the soul and the human, two parts of the same whole.  The soul cannot experience physical life on Earth without the human body to house it. The human does not have the full universal knowledge and wisdom of the soul intact when it incarnates, so it cannot see or know everything the soul sees and knows on its own.  So, the perfect combination is to learn to work with the soul in a more conscious way, so the two parts, soul and human, can be one in a way that benefits them both and together.

No one knows and understands you better than your soul, for your soul is you.  Whereas you collect information and wisdom from this lifetime, your soul has information, wisdom, and knowledge from all its lifetimes that can be applied to this lifetime.  The soul is a divine being of light, as the human is, but the difference is that the soul knows this, and the human rarely does, at least to the point where Light is the only beacon leading the way forward.  Living life as a human on Earth inherently includes darkness as well as light.  The soul can help the human navigate this darkness.

Most human beings are very emotionally driven.  Emotions are energetic, and their vibrations vary and fluctuate all the time.  The more attuned and guided by light a person is, the higher vibration he or she experiences and the more stable are the emotions.  Everyone knows that some emotions are enjoyable, and some are not.  It is impossible for people to seal themselves off from all low vibrational emotions all the time, and you are certainly entitled to feel whatever emotions you have, but you can learn to process them quickly and replace them with higher emotions and be more inclined to follow the light than the darkness.  And yes, this is a sign of enlightenment.

There is much anger and fear on the planet right now.  Some of you are working to release and replace these emotions and move forward in a more positive way, but others have bonded with these emotions and refuse to let them go.  No one is saying, including us, that you are not entitled to these emotions.  There are many things that cause these responses and spark these emotions.  What we are saying is that it is neither healthy nor helpful to hold onto them.  You already know these emotions do not feel good, but you need to understand that they also add to the many problems the world is experiencing.  The energies of fear and anger feed into the fear and anger throughout the world and not only strengthen them, but prevent and slow down the finding of solutions to the world’s problems.

The more enlightened a person is, the more they realize that this is true.  When you feed these emotions, you are centered in your human side, disregarding your soul and spiritual side.  The energy of enlightenment, and the energies of emotions such as fear and anger are not compatible.  They cannot exist comfortably together; they repel each other.  So, you can know about The Shift, about high Guides, about other dimensions, channel your soul, and experience various psychic gifts, but if you are steeped in anger, fear, or similar emotions, you do not and cannot embody these things.  You know them and perhaps experience more spiritually attuned things than many, but if you cling to these lower emotions, and they are outside of you, rather than internal skills, practices, and beliefs.  You are not in the light of your soul, you are in the darkness of your human experience.  When you reject others, blame them, target them, refusing to care about them or try to understand them, you are in the dark, not the light, and further enlightenment is delayed until you come back to the light.  While it is true that knowledge is power, without practice, it becomes weaker.

So, the question becomes, do you want to be in the light or in the dark?  Do you want to continue to become more enlightened, practicing the skills and knowledge enlightenment brings, or will you stay stalled, steeped in your anger and fear?  These are questions only you can answer, but we wish you to know that it is not enough – for you and your spiritual progress – to know that you should love and accept people, endeavor to understand them and find compassion for them, yet choose not to practice this knowledge, because you have bonded with the fear and anger, rather than the love.  Neither is it enough to love and accept those who are like-minded, yet condemn those who are not.  Part of being enlightened is the knowledge that all people, both likeable and not, are valuable and worthy of love and acceptance. 

Even if it takes some time to do this, the fact that you want to and are trying to do this brings you more light.  This is the way forward.  You must practice it, as difficult as it sometimes is, in order to continue to grow spiritually.  You must do this not for us, for others, for the world or for the Universe.  You must do this for yourself.  Replace your anger with compassion and your fear with hope.  Do not fall back on all the excuses of why you cannot do this or all the reasons you have to justify those feelings.  Instead, work on bringing more joy, hope, love, and peace into your life, so you can discard those low vibrational feelings that are holding you back, and replace them with love.

We send you all healing energies of Love and Light, which can help you move forward, away from the dark and into the light once again.

Final Thoughts

I’d much rather be in the light than in the dark, wouldn’t you?  Yet, when we indulge in the lower vibrational emotions of anger and fear, etc., we become our own worst enemies.  No one else can move us forward.  Only we can do that.  The Angels can help if you ask them to, but we have to be willing to replace the dark with the light, even though we’re entitled to feel that way at times.  It’s okay to feel that way, but let’s not get stuck there.

Happy Friday!  The intention for Friday night meditations with the Archangels for the month of July is Acceptance.  Wherever you are, at whatever time is convenient, call on the Archangels, set the intention of Acceptance, and send out loving energy.  The Angels will gather it all up and make sure it gets to where it’s needed most, whether that’s back to us, to people we know, or to people we don’t know and don’t care to know, because they don’t know the meaning of acceptance for anyone different than them.

 The Angels know how best to help them, and they will meet them wherever they are, using our energy to make a positive difference. 

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and work on escaping the darkness that surrounds us and replacing it with the light within us.

Blessings all.