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		<title>A Prophesy for the Times!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we move further into the new year, numerous prophecies are presented as to what is potentially coming to be. I have not written of the prophecy I am going to share, but I have known of it for approximately 10 years now.
Silence. The spirit realm is going to go silent! Those who have been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big>As we move further into the new year, numerous prophecies are presented as to what is potentially coming to be. I have not written of the prophecy I am going to share, but I have known of it for approximately 10 years now.</big></p>
<p>Silence. The spirit realm is going to go silent! Those who have been the channeled energies of the universe are going to step away and all communication with the spirit realm is going to come to an end. Spirit guides, channeled entities and groups, as well as angels that humans have become dependent on for information, wisdom and understandings, are going silent.</p>
<p>Why would this actually happen? Because humans have become dependent on their insight, whether it is accurate of not. The moment is coming when we as humans will realize the opportunity to connect with the &#8220;I AM Self Universal Essence&#8221; through our own individual Self, not through another individual or group in the universe.</p>
<p>Some human beings have already realized this to be true in their communication with the spirit realm. They are trusting that their own intuitive Self is all that is necessary as the universal energy shifts from dependency on another to depending on one&#8217;s own personal connection to &#8220;All That Is.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some individuals might say, &#8220;This can&#8217;t happen, I need their help.&#8221; Exactly! &#8220;<em>Need</em>&#8221; is the imperative word. Need creates dependency and obligation, not unlike what religion has created. To need another, to give to you what you believe you are not capable of realizing without the help of the spirit realm, does not encourage you to &#8220;Trust Your Self!&#8221;</p>
<p>Besides, with so many in the spirit realm sharing their take on what is happening, what is important and what is needed, their message only confuses everything. I watched a program a few weeks ago that shared the stories of three men who proclaim to be the Second Coming of Christ. Who do you believe? What do you believe? Between the three men, they have accumulated about 5 million followers. The shepherd and the sheep, just the same old energy that has existed for eons now. Do you recognize it? Are you still caught up in it?</p>
<p>I have been sharing with many for years now that our own individual clarity, awareness and understandings are stronger, more profound and more accurate through our own Essence of Self than it could ever be through another source, whether they are human or in the spirit realm! The so-called New Age movement is really not so different from the religions of the past &#8212; humans relying on so-called masters of the past to provide information, understanding and wisdom.</p>
<p>Are you ready to stand on your own two feet and move forward into the future with no help from the individuals or groups of individuals in the spirit realm? Well, ready or not, it is coming! This does not mean we will be alone. Far from it.</p>
<p>We are moving further and further every day into the New Energy of Self! Subsequently we are moving away from the dependency on the many self-proclaimed Gods, Masters and Guides of this universe. Why do you suppose the current Catholic pope has been identified as perhaps the last one in his lineage? Why do you suppose everything is in such a state of turmoil, both personally and as a world society? Out of the chaos there will be clarity &#8212; clarity within Self, not through another!</p>
<p>Do not believe this just because I have stated it. It only holds the potential to become our reality. But just as it is with any and every prophecy, the passing of days will prove this prophecy to hold the &#8220;Energy of Trueness,&#8221; or it will not!</p>
<p>I am not saying this is your truth or the truth of those in the spirit realm who desire to continue in the energy of dependency and obligation they have been creating for years. But I will stand behind this prophecy and guarantee it will come to be. Whether you believe what I share or not, will not change the end result, of this I am absolutely certain.</p>
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		<title>Are You Unaware Also?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[possession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have seen the headlines all too often. Shooting spree results in multiple deaths, officials looking for answers. I can tell you right now, the officials have not the slightest idea of what to look for, generally. What exactly am I talking about?
As people of this Earth, everyone is basically from the State of Missouri, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-18292" title="ghost" src="http://edgemagazine.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ghost1.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" />We have seen the headlines all too often. Shooting spree results in multiple deaths, officials looking for answers. I can tell you right now, the officials have not the slightest idea of what to look for, generally. What exactly am I talking about?</big></p>
<p>As people of this Earth, everyone is basically from the State of Missouri, the Show Me state. People have a desire to understand what they do not understand. But they have a desire to believe it within the context of what they can see and prove.</p>
<p>Let me give you an example. In Wisconsin, a 15-year-old boy held his classmates captive at gunpoint before taking his own life in the past week. His parents said they saw no signs of depression. I am very aware he was not depressed. He was possessed. He did not bring that gun to school, he did not kill himself. They did it to him and through him. Who? The five entities possessing him. Am I the only one aware of them? Three men and two women, earthbound &#8212; In-betweeners, as I call them; others like to call the ghosts.</p>
<p>I have seen it many times and have worked with individuals to help free them of those angry, drug-addicted, manipulating In-betweeners, whose lives have come to an end. They hang around and then begin to play God/Devil through the energy and bodies of human beings who have no idea they are being possessed, played with and controlled.</p>
<p>Many people look at huntings and ghost encounters as interesting and curious. Some of them are, but there are some very cruel and bitter In-betweeners whose lives and deaths were anything but pleasant. So the old saying is, &#8220;Misery loves company.&#8221; If I am not happy, you are not going to be happy either.</p>
<p>I worked with a young man a couple of years ago who was possessed. His behavior was very erratic at times. One day, without provocation, he threw a sharp knife at his fiancé. Needless to say, this scared both her and him. He had In-betweeners hanging around him constantly, putting him in stupors and being cruel and abusive through his body. I dealt with them and now his life has a renewed balance.</p>
<p>The In-betweeners love alcohol and drugs, because in those moments they can come forward and more easily take over a human body. But give an In-betweener enough time to affect a person&#8217;s life, eventually they will take it over.</p>
<p>I worked with a young woman who knew her apartment had a lot of ghostly activity but refused to move. When I went there to clear her home out, I could feel the energy of a 27-year-old man up in the corner of her bedroom. At night when she was sleeping, he would lay in bed with her and touch her. Then there was the man and his ape-like friend who was in her bathroom. There also was a woman with a bloody face, hair and hands who kept her distance, but was frightening her children. She had taken a photo of the man and the ape. It also did not help that there was a small family cemetery about 150 feet from her apartment.</p>
<p>What are signs you can look for in a person if possession-like activity is taking place around them? Behavioral changes that just do not make sense. Getting a good night sleep and waking up tired often means you have an unseen sleeping partner! In-betweeners love feeding off the energy of people as they sleep.</p>
<p>Is it my intention to scare you? No! But also understand this: If you are so naive as to believe that even the friendliest of ghosts do not alter, change or affect your energy, your family&#8217;s energy or the energy of your home, think again! Long-term exposure to any energy not in balance around you or your family can result in unusual irritability towards other family members, health issues and an increase in defiance within your children. It is kind of like constant exposure to lead in paint. Sooner or later, the affects show up, often with no explanation as to why.</p>
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		<title>Into The Nothing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 06:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beyond]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to share with you a glimpse of what is possible &#8211; a journey only a few human beings have ever taken. To travel deep into the Essence of Self, in the realm of the &#8220;Nothing!&#8221;
I personally have ventured deep into My Conscious Essence of Self many times. Each excursion into My Self [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big>I would like to share with you a glimpse of what is possible &#8211; a journey only a few human beings have ever taken. To travel deep into the Essence of Self, in the realm of the &#8220;Nothing!&#8221;</big></p>
<p>I personally have ventured deep into My Conscious Essence of Self many times. Each excursion into My Self reveals more than I was aware was present in a previous moment. I actually see and feel My Self traveling into the deepest levels of My Multi-Universal Self, into the vast and expansive &#8220;Energy of the Nothing.&#8221; When I choose to go there, I see and feel My Self consciously flying through all the &#8220;Energy of the Something.&#8221; Energy that I can see and feel has been and was attempting to block My journey. It is my determination and resolve to know, feel and Be the I AM, I AM! It is my desire to be free, that encourages me to go deeper and deeper within My Essence of Self.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, I again made this journey. As I traveled deep within, I could feel and see the energy that kept coming forward to block me and stop me. It was almost like a wall of energy, that if I focused on it, as it desired me too, would draw my attention away from continuing the journey deep into My Essence of Self as I AM in the Energy of the Nothing. Undaunted and undeterred, I continued to focus on what was beyond the wall of energy in front of Me. Time and time again, for an entire hour, this went on until there were no energy walls left for me to move through.</p>
<p>Behind me, I could see this Universe I AM physically participating in &#8211; and the light of this Universe got smaller and smaller until it simply disappeared behind me.</p>
<p>The Energy of Nothing does not hold light and does not hold dark. Light and dark are energies of the experience and the something. I have ventured into the &#8220;Energy of Nothing&#8221; many times, but this was the first time I could feel I was experiencing My energy flowing and coalescing with another conscious energy in the Energy of the Nothing.</p>
<p>A conscious energy and essence in My Multi-Universal Self? Why is it here? How did it get into My Multi-Universal Self?</p>
<p>Connecting with this conscious energy took place for about 40 minutes. When I opened my eyes, this conscious energy from the Energy of the Nothing discovered it was within My body, within My Life Force Energy Center in My chest. I felt the reaction of this consciousness within. Whoa! How did this happen? When this consciousness saw through my eyes the ceiling above me, there was a realization that it was now within me. Twelve times my body catapulted into the air like a caged animal attempting to escape, as this consciousness attempted to leave.</p>
<p>I heard, &#8220;Let me go!&#8221; But I knew in that moment this conscious energy that existed in the Energy of the Nothing was now experiencing being fully conscious through my body. Through the connection I made with this consciousness in My &#8220;Energy of the Nothing,&#8221; in returning consciously to my body, it returned with Me into the &#8220;Energy of the Something.&#8221;</p>
<p>I became aware that this consciousness has existed in the My Energy and Consciousness within the Nothing I AM. I became aware in that moment that each human being is born with a conscious energy in their Multi-Universal Self that is not true to them, that hides in the Nothing Energy of Self. This conscious energy is effecting ALL of humanity and the human experience by existing in a place within our own Multi-Universal Energy of Nothing, without our being able to be aware it is there.</p>
<p>By venturing into the Nothing of My Self, I became aware that it has held the ability to control My experiences and choices as I participated in this human experience!</p>
<p>I have also become aware that this conscious energy holds a power over the human experience and each human being that has not been visible or could be understood before. Each human being has been affected to different degrees &#8211; some more, some less. It is still there within each of you.</p>
<p>What I am sharing is not to alarm you or create unnecessary fear or concern. It is what it is, and it will continue until it does not. But, unless an individual has traveled into the Energy of the Nothing and encountered this consciousness from within, it is My Understanding that You will not be free of it.</p>
<p>Now I AM not asking you to believe that what I have shared really happened. I cannot prove it, for you it may only be possibly plausible. But for me it was real, and so I share it here with you in these words.</p>
<p>How does this conscious Energy of the Nothing affect you or deceive you within? Do you struggle with relationships? Do you struggle with anger, frustration, resentment, disgust, intolerance, addictions, petty issues? Do you feel blocked within, and no matter how much energy work, purging and looking within you do, some energy still seems to be blocking your energy within? Do you see and feel many different energies holding you back, and coming back time and time again? Do you call them yours, then those energies own you, as you believe they are yours to deal with?</p>
<p>Look at the many different people who promote and advertise their ability to look and dissolve what issues you may be struggling with. It is being promoted and many are telling you that these are your issues. These are your past-life issues. This is Your Stuff to deal with!</p>
<p>Whoa! What is really being promoted here? If there is a conscious energy within your Multi-Universal Self that you cannot see and have not been able to be aware of that is promoting your continued struggles within, would you like to look at it and free your Self of it? Are you interested in going right to the source?</p>
<p>Energy is Energy! See it as dark and it is! See it as light and it is! See it as yours and it is! I say, see it as simply energy &#8211; neither light or dark, good or bad, and certainly do not own it as yours! This will only continue to mire you in any energy that is there, as it can relate and correlate to your present Self and your past experiences.</p>
<p>Do you desire to travel into Your Multi-Universal Energy of Nothing and discover the I AM Self You are, which is separate from the Energy of Something but controls your life and experiences as a human being here in this world and dimension? Look at what controls you from the neutral space of <em>no</em>thing within Your Self?</p>
<p>If you are truly ready to take this journey within, you will know it as you read these words &#8211; and there will be no doubt. Are you ready to explore where you have never explored before?</p>
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		<title>Be the Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching the latest episode of &#8220;Fringe&#8221; last night and one of the statements made on the show was something that I totally agree with: &#8220;Nature knows only that which is in balance and that which is not in balance.&#8221;
Wow! What an awesome statement about balance and imbalance. The beauty is that nature does [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big>I was watching the latest episode of &#8220;Fringe&#8221; last night and one of the statements made on the show was something that I totally agree with: &#8220;Nature knows only that which is in balance and that which is not in balance.&#8221;</big></p>
<p>Wow! What an awesome statement about balance and imbalance. The beauty is that nature does not struggle with balance and imbalance. Whatever takes place just is what it is. Yet for us, don&#8217;t we struggle and try to create, maintain and hold onto our own perception of balance, that which is the cause of the imbalance in our lives? Fear, concern, apprehension, anxiety and uncertainty of the unknown and unexpected can be very unnerving, to say the least.</p>
<p>Why is it that so many individuals work so diligently to maintain and create a sustainable balance in their lives while trying to offset and counteract the inevitable imbalance they do not desire to experience? I am aware that trillions throughout this universe are trying to achieve the same balance, by fighting that which is perceived to be the imbalance of the current vibrational shift. But a vibrational shift is all about change, hence the word &#8220;shift!&#8221; Change is all about the growth and evolution of each conscious essence of Self!</p>
<p>I am aware that the current vibrational shift is not being welcomed and accepted by all individual energies of Self throughout this universe. Why? For many in the spirit realm, the challenge is the same as it is for human beings. With no clear understanding of what will unfold in the many tomorrows ahead, being in the present moment of now, without a concern, can be personally and energetically challenging.</p>
<p>So, how can you balance and maintain your energetic vibrations as we continue to move closer to December 21, 2012 and beyond? Unconditional acceptance!</p>
<p>Many on this Earth and in the Heavens have been trying to protect themselves from those energies they do not desire to experience. But it is impossible to protect your Self and your Energy from all invading energies of this universe. For me it has never been about protecting my energy. It&#8217;s about being the &#8220;balance&#8221; &#8211; totally vulnerable and susceptible to all energy in every moment, and yet consciously present and aware that it is just an experience, nothing more, nothing less.</p>
<p>BE the balance or experience the imbalance. It all starts with You! There are many here on Earth who still pray to others in the unseen realms to create or give to them what they do not believe they are capable of giving their own Self. When you look to something outside of your own Self to quell the imbalance within, the imbalance may subside, but it never completely goes away. When you look within your Self to realize there is more to you than any other can give to you, your vibrational energy will increase. You become the &#8220;I AM Source&#8221; that you may have believed could only be given by another.</p>
<p>If you own the fear, concern, apprehension, anxiety and uncertainty of the unknown and unseen tomorrows, the energies of fear, concern, apprehension, anxiety and uncertainty realized in your present moment of now will own you! The more you battle to sustain and maintain a higher vibration, the lower your vibrational energy will go. The more freely you can accept and go with the flow, (em<em>body</em>ing unconditional acceptance), the more free you will be within, to <em>be</em> one with the flow you cannot see but is always present within you! No prayers required.</p>
<p>How can you maintain a higher and increasing level of vibration as we move closer to 2012? Be the balance no matter how many trees fall around you or earthquakes rumble under your feet! Through it all, it is <em>all</em> about You. It <em>all</em> begins with and within You, the &#8220;I AM Source&#8221; you have not yet fully realized your Self to <em>be</em>!</p>
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		<title>Passion</title>
		<link>http://edgemagazine.net/2010/04/passion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are my thoughts! Please do not believe what I share in these words, as they are mine! Any truth or energy of trueness you experience within these thoughts is for you to see and understand in reference to your I AM Self. Please read them as if you wrote this to your Self and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big>These are my thoughts! Please do not believe what I share in these words, as they are mine! Any truth or energy of trueness you experience within these thoughts is for you to see and understand in reference to your I AM Self. Please read them as if <em>you</em> wrote this to your Self and for Your Self.</big></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Passion</em>&#8220;! What is it!</p>
<p>&#8220;Passion&#8221; enhances <em>all</em> words and the energy associated with <em>all </em>words.</p>
<p>&#8220;Passion&#8221; enhances <em>all</em> experiences.</p>
<p>&#8220;Passion&#8221; enhances <em>all</em> relationships.</p>
<p>&#8220;Passion&#8221; enhances <em>all</em> endeavors.</p>
<p>If you are experiencing passion in your life? Where? If you are not experiencing passion in your life! Why not?</p>
<p>If you are not passionate about your work or vocation, then why are you still doing it? If you are not passionate about your relationship or marriage to another, then why are you still in it? If you are not passionate about discovering and knowing your <em>Self, </em> then what is holding you back? What are you afraid of? What is limiting you? If you are not passionate about your friendships, are they holding onto you or are you holding on to them?</p>
<p>If passion if missing in your life, are you waiting for it to show up? If passion if missing in your life, are you waiting for someone else to give it to you? If passion if missing in your life, do you know why? If passion if missing in your life, do you know why and have you looked at where it is missing?</p>
<p>Some people have a passion to experience, know, share and Be love in all the expansive ways they have not yet realized it is possible, as well as all the ways they know and believe it is possible.</p>
<p>Where in your life have you lost the inner passion? What aspects of your life have never known passion?</p>
<p>Each of us is <em>the</em> I AM Source for the Energy &#8220;Passion.&#8221; How many people go through their life never knowing it, feeling it, or creating it?</p>
<p>If you know where the passion is in your life&#8230;great. If you know where the passion is missing in your life&#8230;where and why? Ask your <em>Self</em> these questions I have presented out loud with your voice! Address your Self as <em>Self</em> and ask the questions. Get out of your mind or preconceived notions about your Self and ask these questions of Your <em>Self</em>, and allow the answers in a place of silence to flow into and through you and <em>be </em> aware. Do these answers totally align with your conscious physical <em>Self</em>? Play with it!</p>
<p>If you are married, is there passion? Why not? If you are working, is there passion? Why not? If you are living, is there passion? Why not?<br />
If you are You, is there passion to <em>be you</em>? Why <em>not</em>?</p>
<p>Some people have a passion to be a leader of others or in a leadership position. Why? What is behind it? Some people have a passion to be an entrepreneur. Why, what is behind it? Some people have a passion to discover the I AM Self within, why? Where does your passion lay dormant in your Self and why?</p>
<p>If there is no passion, then why are you doing what you are doing? Why are you being who you are being? If there is no passion for life, then why are you living the way you are living? What are you waiting for? Who are you waiting for? Why are you waiting for it? When are you going to stop waiting for it? How much of your life are you going to live without it?</p>
<p>Just Me</p>
<p>The Essence and Energy of Passion personified through this simple human form I AM is because my passion begins with me and flows from me without limitation in every Present Moment of <em>Now</em>. What is my passion? I AM My Passion!</p>
<p>What <em>am</em> I Passionate about? Discovering, realizing, enjoying, living, experiencing, aligning, integrating, flowing, demonstrating, expanding, understanding, exploring through and within this human form the I AM <em>Self </em> in <em>all</em> my expansiveness, as though I do not know it exists and I am unaware of <em>all</em> of <em>my Self,</em> yet in every moment fully aware of <em>all</em> of <em>my Self</em>! My passion is to participate and be here in this moment&#8230;<em>no matter what happens or who crosses my path. It is all good&#8230;. </em>It is <em>all goooooooood! </em></p>
<p>Just <em>me</em>! Passionate about <em>my Self</em>! Passionate about creating and offering Unconditional Friendship to <em>all</em>! Consciously and Totally Aware of it and willing to demonstrate it to everyone who desires friendship with me too! Honor and value me in friendship and I will honor and value you in friendship also! Reach out and touch me and I will reach out and touch you! Through these words, maybe I AM already!</p>
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		<title>A New Dawn! A Source for A Source!</title>
		<link>http://edgemagazine.net/2009/12/a-new-dawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Questions and answers, more questions and more answers! But where does it all begin? Where does it all flow from? The answers are numerous, the names are always changing, and the answers often conflict! Who is God? What is God? Why is God? Where is God? Why have there been so many Gods? Do we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big>Questions and answers, more questions and more answers! But where does it all begin? Where does it all flow from? The answers are numerous, the names are always changing, and the answers often conflict! Who is God? What is God? Why is God? Where is God? Why have there been so many Gods? Do we need one or multiple Gods? Have these Gods needed us and we were not aware of it? Whoa, that is a radical thought and question! Let us also ask, is God &#8220;Source&#8221;? Or, has &#8220;Source&#8221; existed long before the concepts and ideologies of any God?</big></p>
<p>Names, labels and descriptions are just some of the ways that those in spirit, as well as human beings, attempt to place into a box that which cannot fit into a box. Why? Is it our way, is it your way, is it another&#8217;s way of attempting to box the infinite into a finite box to feel more comfortable within our human existence? Yet, is &#8220;that&#8221; which is believed to be infinite really infinite? Or is it just a larger, more expansive version of finite? From the human perspective, with our simple human eyes, the universe appears to be infinite! Yes, with the aid of telescopes we can see the infinite universe is actually finite.</p>
<p>In a similar way, yet different, is the ascension, evolution and conscious awakening process taking place within us and around us. Are we similar to scientists, exploring and delving deeper into the vast reaches of the infinite to understand it in a more expansive, yet finite way? What are we all about and how are we all connected? We have intrigue, curiosity and a deeply embedded desire to understand &#8220;that&#8221; which is infinite, so we can expand the finite boxes that each of us live in, or have created for our Self by listening to others.</p>
<p><em>The Edge</em> encourages a sharing of talent, ideas and understandings for those who read it each month! This offers each of us the opportunity to read, expand our finite box and then connect with others in a more personal way to encourage the finite box expansion project.</p>
<p>It is safe to say that <em>The Edge</em> is a &#8220;Source&#8221; many tap into! What if the infinite was simply trillions and gazillions of finite energies or boxes overlapping with each other? What if beyond the infinite &#8220;Source,&#8221; as it was experienced and understood, was a more infinite &#8220;Source,&#8221; and beyond that energy was a more infinite &#8220;Source&#8221; &#8211; all finite in their nature, but infinite in their possibilities and potential?</p>
<p>What if the conscious energy, the conscious essence that was &#8220;Source&#8221; of this Universe, believed to Be infinite, but actually is finite, is giving way to a new, more infinite, yet finite, &#8220;Source&#8221;? It&#8217;s like the cold conditions of a Minnesota winter giving way to the warm breezes of spring. The difference is that the &#8220;Source&#8221; cycle of change takes much longer to materialize as it transforms everything it touches. The warm breezes of the new &#8220;Source&#8221; energy are gradually influencing everything and every &#8220;One&#8221;! Did you believe it was the same &#8220;Source&#8221; and that there was only one &#8220;Source&#8221;?</p>
<p>I am not telling you what to believe. I am just suggesting that the old &#8220;Source&#8221; energy of the Experience of Self is giving way to the new &#8220;Source&#8221; energy of the Relationship with Self! As this takes place, the focus is from that which exists outside of Self, towards that which exists inside of Self. The focus shifts from the Gods around us to the &#8220;Source&#8221; that is &#8220;<em>Self</em>&#8221; within us.</p>
<p>So instead of asking others what they believe is true &#8211; or asking the Gods that still remain connected to the old &#8220;Source&#8221; energy &#8211; ask your &#8220;<em>Self</em>&#8220;! Invite the new &#8220;Source&#8221; energy of the Relationship with Self to embrace your body, your essence and your total &#8220;<em>Self</em>&#8221; in every present moment of now. Then ask your Self: &#8220;Self, (followed by the specific question you desire to ask)&#8221;! The answers will be there for you. Maybe not in your timing, but in the most impeccable of moments.</p>
<p>It has long been my contention that there can be millions of different answers. It all depends upon the question you are asking and the individual who is asking. Every answer is relative to the asker! Listen to your own answers and know they are for You! Then choose to believe what you choose to believe. But believe it because it is your truth, not something another has told you to believe.</p>
<p>Trust your Self! Know your Self! Appreciate your Self! Learn through your Self! Discover the balance within you Self!</p>
<p>When everything is said and done, it is <em>all about you</em>, as a &#8220;Source,&#8221; which has the answers for your <em>&#8220;Self&#8221;</em>! Encourage and allow every other being to discover his/her own truth, too &#8211; always knowing that truth is finite, but the true energy of <em>Self</em> is infinite!</p>
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		<title>The Human Gift to the Universe</title>
		<link>http://edgemagazine.net/2009/09/human-gift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank goodness! Finally! Human beings and human doings have spent enough time in the dark. This universe has spent enough time in the dark.
Human beings have accepted that death is a part of living the human experience. When a human life is over, we slip into the spirit world, which is supposed to be more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big>Thank goodness! Finally! Human beings and human doings have spent enough time in the dark. This universe has spent enough time in the dark.</big></p>
<p>Human beings have accepted that death is a part of living the human experience. When a human life is over, we slip into the spirit world, which is supposed to be more awesome than this physical human world. But how could that be, if so many have returned time and time again to experience this physical human world? It would suggest there has got to be more to this historical moment than those in the spirit world have even understood.</p>
<p>I believe the human body is a physical energy of this universe that has the ability to transform darker energies &#8211; conscious energies of this universe that have existed in a place of confusion and uncertainty for a very long universal moment. The human body&#8217;s vulnerability and susceptibility to the confusion, uncertainty, control, manipulation and fear associated with these old universal conscious energies is coming to an end.</p>
<p>The human body, through the human experience, has been dissolving and transforming the old energy of this universe. The dualistic battle between the Desire to BE and the Need to DO has been waged, and I believe the Desire to Be is winning the war as we near 2013 and enter a new Earth era.</p>
<p><strong>The sleepwalkers</strong><br />
I have often referred to human beings and human doings as sleepwalkers. A person who is sleepwalking believes he/she knows what they are doing and where they are going. When the sleepwalker is asked while they are still in their sleepwalking adventure, he/she will often explain where they are going and what they are doing. When the sleepwalker is startled into waking up, they are often totally lost as to what they were doing and how they got there.</p>
<p>I believe this is essentially what has been going on for centuries and centuries here on planet Earth. Human beings and human doings have been walking around believing they are awake and interacting with each other accordingly &#8211; convinced, just like the sleepwalker, that what they are doing is important and holds significance.</p>
<p>Yes, I am suggesting you are one of the unconscious human sleepwalkers.</p>
<p>Why do you suppose there is a conscious awakening taking place? I am very consciously aware that I was unconscious for 44 years of my life. The majority of humanity has had to be in a sleepwalking mode so we could be in an environment to transform the old and often dark, confused energies of consciousness that were created in the earliest moment of this universe&#8217;s beginning.</p>
<p>What is the human purpose? To be used, abused, killed, maimed and tortured by each other, as well as experience diseases, plagues and horrific atrocities in the name of an unseen, invisible and unconfirmable judgmental God. We would have to be blind, dumb, sleeping, unaware, foolish and easily manipulatable to ever choose to be a part of this barbaric environment. All objectivity has to be thrown out the window to comply with perspectives and belief structures that are fed to us by others in the spirit realm that subsequently have been influencing human thought and possessing and controlling many human minds with what we are told is a universal truth.</p>
<p>Why? Because the human body was created to be a physical and spirit energy transforming power plant, with unique characteristics and abilities that have intrigued and captured the limited understanding of the spirit world. Yes, I say limited understanding. Kind of like the Trojan Horse. They have embraced it, without fully understanding the full significance of what it holds within.</p>
<p><em>Every </em>human being that has ever walked upon this Earth has been possessed by energy he and she did not understand. Possession is so much more than poltergeist, ghosts or dark energies of the unknown. Most human beings do not desire to consider that they have been possessed or are currently possessed by something they do not understand. But how else is the human body going to transform all of these old universal energies. Just like the electrical transformer, the energy that goes in is not the same as the energy that comes out.</p>
<p>It has been written that human beings have regressed into a three-dimensional (3D) reality. I will suggest that there are some who have actually ventured even farther back in to the 2D reality, and there is a handful who have ventured back into the consciousness of the 1D reality.</p>
<p>Actually, there are Five here in human bodies who are capable of standing in that energy and not be consumed by it. Why? How else are those very old energies going to be transformed? If the connection is not made, the old unseen energies will continue to exist. How can we move forward if the old is not transformed? The skeletons in the universe&#8217;s closet would continue to haunt and possess everyone in ways only Five in the universe have been aware was happening!</p>
<p>I share this one thought, understanding as sleepwalkers what you have been taught. God was not and never has been one of the Five. But believe what you want to believe. It is your choice.</p>
<p>For hundreds of thousands of years, human bodies have slowly been transforming these old and forgotten universal energies of the past and previous moments. Human beings are now at a point in the process of awakening where the pace has quickened. If human beings were to be shaken awake like a sleepwalker, extreme and unnecessary disorientation and confusion would effect ALL human life. So it is, we are evolving forward in an accelerated pace and transforming the old simultaneously.</p>
<p>As we near 2013 and continue to move forward, the task for which the human experience was created is coming to a completion. What is planned for the human experience thousands of years after 2013 will be a gift of appreciation, unlike any other moment that has ever existed!</p>
<p>Sountatra = Elegance Beyond Imagination!</p>
<p>This is not the end my friends, this is just the beginning!</p>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8221; Is Happening. &#8220;It&#8221; Is Just Evolution</title>
		<link>http://edgemagazine.net/2009/08/happening-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t stop it. You can&#8217;t run from it. You can&#8217;t hide from it. It is flowing through you. It is flowing around you. It is everywhere and it is no where. Sometimes you may see it. Sometimes you may feel it. Sometimes you may question if it is still there. Sometimes you may wonder [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big>You can&#8217;t stop it. You can&#8217;t run from it. You can&#8217;t hide from it. It is flowing through you. It is flowing around you. It is everywhere and it is no where. Sometimes you may see it. Sometimes you may feel it. Sometimes you may question if it is still there. Sometimes you may wonder what is really changing and why it is! Sometimes you may question it in fear and uncertainty. Sometimes you may experience it beautifully with clarity and direction.</big></p>
<p>You can only define what &#8220;it&#8221; is, through the details of what is taking place in your own life. Others may be able to relate to your experiences and you to theirs, but in other instances that may not be possible. Books are written to explore &#8220;it&#8221; through the details and experiences of the author. Articles are written to define &#8220;it&#8221; in the ways the author sees &#8220;it.&#8221; Speakers talk about &#8220;it&#8221; as they understand it. Many in spirit have attempted to explain &#8220;it&#8221;, control &#8220;it&#8221; and even influence &#8220;it.&#8221; Those in spirit have attempted to relate &#8220;it&#8221; to our lives for us. Those who do not understand have often been lost in &#8220;it.&#8221;</p>
<p>What is constant is that &#8220;it&#8221; never stops and &#8220;it&#8221; never ends. We are caught up in &#8220;it,&#8221; even when we don&#8217;t have a desire to be. We are effected by &#8220;it&#8221; even when we do not see &#8220;it&#8221; working through the details and events unfolding around us. We are influenced by &#8220;it&#8221; most clearly when &#8220;it&#8221; shakes up our little corner of this universe.</p>
<p>The question I have for you is: Will you and can you willingly flow with &#8220;It&#8221;?</p>
<p>Before white water rafting, the guides instruct each rafter with this simple idea. If the raft capsizes and you end up in the water, get your head up. Float on your back with your feet first facing downstream, keep them together and go with the flow of the river. As you float down the river out of the rapids, move towards one of the riverbanks when you can. Don&#8217;t fight the river, just flow with it and you will be fine.</p>
<p>This is how I view what is taking place now in this moment. When you fall out of the security of the boat you have created for your self, just go with the flow of the river of change, and you will be just fine. If you fight it, it is a fight you cannot win. If you just let go, successfully reaching a riverbank will take place down river.</p>
<p>Eight years ago, I understood it was time for me to let go of my boat and be willing to be thrown into the rapids. What was in my boat? My marriage, a home, my car, my job, old friendships, savings, family and the illusion that things of this world suggested I was secure and safe in it. After everything was gone I was aware I would flow past and over the rocks hidden below the water&#8217;s surface. At times, it felt like I had been pushed over a cliff. But I have never hit the ground far below and the rapids have never pulled me under.</p>
<p>I let go of my desire to hold on to anything and everything as if it had significance for me in my life. I have now come to understand my own value of Self! My life has taken on new possibilities it did not reflect before. As I experience this physical human plane, my perspective toward it has changed dramatically.</p>
<p>Approximately nine years ago, I wrote in my journal: &#8220;My life is not mine to live, until I am free to live it.&#8221; I was not sure in that moment the essential meaning of those words or why I wrote them. But, I now understand!</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8221; (evolution) is just an experience. It is what it will be until it is not. Then it will be something different. &#8220;It&#8221; does not matter what it is. Although many have attempted to control it for their Self and others. I can see a value in all of it. &#8220;It&#8221; is what it is, nothing more, nothing less! The value it has, is the value I can see in it as I continue to grow and evolve into my authentic Self. I don&#8217;t have to struggle with it. I can now accept it. I am now in alignment with it. I give to my Self, the balance &#8220;It&#8221; challenges me to give to my Self. I have come to understand receiving something from another is only temporary and creates obligation, need and dependency on another. What I give to my Self, is Self-sustaining and Self-fulfilling and can never be taken from me.</p>
<p>It all comes down to me! In the evolution equation, the experience holds the limitation. I am discovering I am the X factor! I am without limitation. The experience suggests I am limited. The experience creates the environment for me to demonstrate my limitation or unlimitedness. I now fully understand it is the experience that is limited. The failure to understand this concept can hold me a captive of the experience. The ability to understand this concept has freed me to see everything through a different perspective.</p>
<p>If you are already in this place with me, awesome! If you are not, I believe &#8220;It&#8221; is inevitably a place of being you will know also, in your own way, when the moment is possible. If you can just let go and go with the flow!</p>
<hr /><strong>READ</strong> &#8220;Predictions for the Years Ahead&#8221; <a href="http://edgemagazine.net/2009/06/predictions/">Part 1 of this series</a><br />
<strong>READ</strong> &#8220;Maybe this is the Beginning of New Times&#8221; <a href="http://edgemagazine.net/2009/07/beginning-of-new-times/">Part 2 of this series</a></p>
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		<title>Maybe This Is The Beginning of New Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intuitive Arts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From what I have observed, human beings have traditionally feared change &#8211; especially when they are not capable of understanding, or are not aware of what the change means for each of them. From what I have observed, the spirit world has been a mirror of Earth. The spirit world also has struggled with changes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big>From what I have observed, human beings have traditionally feared change &#8211; especially when they are not capable of understanding, or are not aware of what the change means for each of them. From what I have observed, the spirit world has been a mirror of Earth. The spirit world also has struggled with changes it does not understand and often struggles to embrace whole-heartedly.</big></p>
<p>Uncertainty can stir up within each of us the energy of concern, anxiety and fear. This fear can be physically gripping to the point of decision-making paralysis, which often results in individuals attempting to hold onto what is known and held as their truth &#8211; even if it means remaining stuck in past choices and holding onto past concepts and beliefs currently held to be true. Have you ever heard someone say, &#8220;Why can&#8217;t things go back to the way they used to be? I knew what to expect then!&#8221; My friends, there is no going back!</p>
<p>Some human beings believe they have a life plan and a higher self that encourages and leads them in directions that are created to ensure a successful human experience. What if the energy that supports an established life plan begins to dissolve, dissipate and disappear and we are on our own? What if the higher self is not always the <em>highest</em> self and does not always understand what is in your highest good? Even if you believe the higher self is important to you, it does not mean it is always the highest self, and wiser self.</p>
<p>What if each of us was given the opportunity to tap into a new energy called the <em>highest</em> self as a source and a re-source? What if you were no longer given a direction to go, and you were given opportunity to choose for your Self? Would you know how to choose? What if the energy that chooses a direction for you no longer existed? What if your connection to the new universal energy allowed you to be aware in ways you have never known before! Then you could become the actual chooser of the direction you go, rather than someone who experiences a direction chosen for you.</p>
<p>This could result in a degree of chaos in the physical world around us, as well as the physical world within us. I believe this is already coming to be our experience.</p>
<p>I have a friend who had a life plan and a higher self that had been choosing for her. In our many conversations, when we asked questions to discover her truth, we became aware that her higher self had stepped back to be a resource she could tap into, as her highest self. She then realized this was why she was struggling to make even daily choices, as well as life choices. She became aware that she had never made any choices in her life. They were made for her. Energy directed her in many different life directions. Without an energy choosing for her, she was now paralyzed by the fear, &#8220;What if I make a wrong choice?&#8221; So she was choosing nothing. As her uncertainty held her captive, the apprehension of &#8220;What If&#8221; paralyzed her. She has had to learn how to make her own choices, and at 70 years of age, this has not been easy.</p>
<p>As we shift from the old universal energy of the experience of Self into the new universal energy of the relationship with Self, many old energies in our lives will begin to dissipate and disappear. As this takes place, the ability to feel secure and safe through this process will not come from another. It can and will only come from within our Self. Can you tap into the strong, authentic, energy Self and continue to move forward? You will be the one to make this choice!</p>
<p>Religious-based concepts associated with the old universal energy suggest this secure feeling can only come from God or a higher power. This creates dependency and obligation on another and for another. This creates voluntary slavery to another&#8217;s will, with the assumption that the intentions of others are honest and honorable. Deception and manipulation by the spirit world has been a very blatant part of this universe, whether you desire to believe it or not. There is no freedom in that thought for me. Have any of you considered why the thought &#8220;higher&#8221; power is used, instead of the &#8220;highest&#8221; power possible? Higher to me suggests limitation.</p>
<p>The new universal relationship energy encourages each of us to know the highest power and energy possible, when we go within our Self to discover it. You then become the creator of your independence and your freedom to BE. This gift comes from you, as the realized Self within emerges. This will allow you to begin to choose for your Self. There will be no other higher consciousness deciding this for you. There will be no other that is or can be more than you, only equal in the true nature of Self!</p>
<p>Human beings have been taught to ignore our Self, so that we can serve and fulfill another&#8217;s needs. There will be no need to be self-less. Instead, you can be self-more, as every other being awakens to the expansiveness of their own Self. If every thing and every other were to disappear today and there was no other to depend on, or turn to or pray to, would you, could you, be content and secure in your own energy to stand alone? If you could not or cannot, can any other really give to you, what you believe you are not capable of giving to your Self? If so, I would suggest you are still caught up in the teaching of the old universe. I would suggest that all you need is <em>you</em> and the new universe will stand with you and every other you within the illusion of separation!</p>
<p>I am fully aware that the key to open the door to deeper understanding and awareness exists only through you, not through another! I suggest that the old universal hierarchy and the associated teachers and teachings are limited, incomplete and often misleading.</p>
<p>If everything &#8211; and <em>All That Is</em> &#8211; is <em>one energy</em> and there is only the illusion of separation, then isn&#8217;t it blatant deception that another can be more than any other? Can you be the One to open the door to this deeper understanding? I believe you are the gatekeeper and the key-master!</p>
<p>The old universal &#8220;Experience&#8221; energy suggests that you need another to open the door for you and to judge if you are competent to enter. The new universal &#8220;Relationship&#8221; energy suggests that this is a gift only you can give to your Self and is only possible through your Self! In connection to the <em>Universal One Self</em>, every One Self, as an aspect of the <em>Universal One Self</em>, is welcome, with no judgment &#8211; just unconditional acceptance!</p>
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		<title>Predictions for the Years Ahead!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of what I observe is that human beings only know what is and has been, according to what each is willing to believe and has been taught &#8211; even if each does not fully understand it. What many individuals are sharing is what each believes can and will be happening leading up to and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><big><img class="alignleft" title="predictions" src="/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/schuster.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="211" />Most of what I observe is that human beings only know what is and has been, according to what each is willing to believe and has been taught &#8211; even if each does not fully understand it. What many individuals are sharing is what each believes can and will be happening leading up to and after December 21, 2012.</big></p>
<p>Is it their truth, or another&#8217;s truth? Where do these ideas come from? How connected to the universe is each person? Are there different levels and degrees of intuitive connectedness? Is each individual&#8217;s understanding accurate or inaccurate speculation and tidbits of what might be possible? Whom do you believe? What do you believe?</p>
<p>I suggest you don&#8217;t believe anything another person says, including me &#8211; especially when none of it can be confirmed! Speculation based on one&#8217;s level of conscious connectedness is still only a possibility not yet realized to be true.</p>
<p>In reference to the next five years, I am not fearful or concerned about anything that may or will take place.</p>
<p>In times of confusion, chaos and uncertainty all kinds of changes take place. I believe this is what is taking place here on Earth and in the heavens now, in this moment. When the old gives way to the new, the transition is not always fun; often it can be very difficult and challenging. I believe the old is and will continue to lose its grip on humanity and this universe as it gives way to the new. The new will continue to emerge, both around each of us and within each of us. No one can run from it, no one can hide from it, no one can stop it and no one is capable of fully understanding it.</p>
<p>So what will this mean for humanity as a whole? That has yet to be revealed or experienced. I am not concerned with what takes place as the old loses its grip on this universe. I simply look forward to observing what will emerge in the next five years and continue into 2013 and beyond. I actually believe the next nine years will be a critical period of change. There is something intricately more complex than any one of us in this moment can even begin to comprehend. What do I know for sure? Nothing I can prove. But, through my conscious connectedness, I am &#8220;aware&#8221; that the following will prove to be true in a future moment; for you it is just a possibility.</p>
<p><strong>1. </strong>The energies that control the lives of many human beings, through diseases and illnesses like cancer, depression, muscular degeneration, mental illness, etc., will gradually disappear forever. The advancements in medicine will be beneficial, but will not be the impetus behind the eventual elimination of all diseases and illness!</p>
<p><strong>2. </strong>The energies that encourage addictions and erratic unpredictable destructive behavior through the human body will continue to disappear until they are gone forever. The desire for war and one human being taking another human being&#8217;s life will end.</p>
<p><strong>3. </strong>The dark and light energies associated with good and bad and right and wrong that have opposed each other and held the human experience captive will continue to disappear, leaving each of us with a greater freedom to choose, and experience peace within.</p>
<p><strong>4. </strong>Human religions and worshiping any other, including the many gods and the so-called one true one, will come to an end. Turning to those in the spirit world to tell us their truth will come to an end. Our dependence on the spirit world will come to an end. The spirit world will eventually go silent. Why? Human beings won&#8217;t &#8220;need&#8221; them any longer, because the dependency and obligation experience with each other will come to an end.</p>
<p><strong>5. </strong>The human body is the new &#8220;Spirit Body&#8221; of the future. The human body will continue to evolve. The human body has only evolved to about 34 percent of what it is capable of being, which means in the future, death will no longer be an experience that chooses for us when our life ends. We will choose when our human experience will end. Plus, the energies that encourage aging and death will no longer be present on Earth.</p>
<p><strong>6. </strong>Eventually the lines and boundaries, both seen and unseen, that separate cities, states, countries, humanity and the spirit world will all disappear. The need and desire to hold onto past traditions, ceremonies, languages and anything associated with pre-2013 experiences eventually dissolve and disappear within us and the larger universe. The premise that we are all <em>one</em> will become our reality we live in each moment, not just a concept to believe is true.</p>
<p><strong>7. </strong>Those in the spirit world will eventually be born or manifest human bodies so they can participate with us in their new evolved human body. Edgar Cayce wrote that those who have died will return to live again. There are planets that await this huge population of human beings. Planet Earth will be the birth Mother planet, and it already holds an energy connection to 18 other planets that await our arrival. Travel to these other planets will be through portals that will, when the time is appropriate, be opened to us. Travel to these distant planets will be almost instantaneous.</p>
<p><strong>8. </strong>The old universal energy was dominated by the &#8220;energy&#8221; of the experience. The new universal energy will be dominated by the &#8220;energy&#8221; of the relationship. The Experience of Self gives way to the Relationship with Self &#8211; and this moves us away from a limited awareness of the universe around each of us to an unlimited awareness of the universe within each of us! The key to the new universe and the associated doorway can only be opened from within and cannot be opened for you by any other!</p>
<p><strong>9. </strong>The Conscious Mind and the Conscious Heart will become One with the Consciously awakening Aware Self. This will signify the end of the Duality as we move into the Triality. The duality is pre-2013 and the Triality is post-2013. The duality holds two legs of consciousness and the Triality holds three legs of consciousness.</p>
<p><strong>10. </strong>This period of conscious awareness and clarity will be understood and welcomed by those who desire to stand in the new universal energy. Those who fight the changes will attempt to hold onto their old concepts, ideas and beliefs that God, prophets, angels, saints or any spiritual master can be more than any one of us. The evolutionary shift will continue until there will be no need to worship or pray to any other. The days of religions will then be over.</p>
<p><strong>11. </strong>This was all envisioned almost 100 billion Earth years ago, long before the human experience began. <em>All</em> aspects of the &#8220;Old&#8221; experience energy must dissolve and pass away so that <em>all</em> may move forward into the &#8220;New&#8221; relationship energy. This new universal and human period will come to be known as &#8220;Sountatra,&#8221; which means &#8220;Elegance Beyond Imagination.&#8221;</p>
<p>There are many more concepts and ideas that will be revealed in a future moment as the universe moves forward. Living in the moment of <em>now</em> will not be a struggle, but an everyday eventuality. I invite you to allow these possibilities to stand in their own potential to manifest for us and within us. What you choose to believe and accept will only effect you! It is your choice!</p>
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		<title>Healing is an Everyday Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being healthy is an everyday choice, just like eating, taking a shower or brushing your teeth. More and more people are realizing the balance between mind, body and our spirit Self is a necessary part of everday life.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Being healthy is an everyday choice, just like eating, taking a shower or brushing your teeth. More and more people are realizing the balance between mind, body and our spirit Self is a necessary part of everday life.
<p>Yet, when the experiences and challenges of the world around us begin to consume our mind with concern, apprehension, fear and uncertainty, it is our body and spirit Self that often are neglected, ignored and forgotten.
<p>I view healing as simply bringing into balance energy that exists within and around my physical and etheric body. Energy not in balance with true authentic energies of my mind, body and spirit Self can manifest in a multitude of undesirable physical ways.
<p>I believe I am capable of creating this healthy balance by the choices I make every day and by how I deal with the universe around me. First, I create balanced energies within my Mind, Body and Spirit Self. I cannot change another, but I can change how I act or react to others and the world around me. It all begins within me! It all begins within you! It&#8217;s a conscious choice I make, mindful of my body and my spirit Self. A choice I make every day is to experience the optimum balance I can create for my Self.
<p>I believe that peace in the world around me first begins with the peace I create within my Self! For me, that peace begins with unconditional acceptance of my every day experiences! Every day is an opportunity to demonstrate to my Self how well I am doing, or more appropriately, how well I am being.</p>
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		<title>Meditation Is About You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago when I was learning to meditate, it was suggested to me that I invite others to join me in my meditation. As I offered an invitation to some in spirit to join me in my meditation, I began to feel their energy flow through me and around me.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Years ago when I was learning to meditate, it was suggested to me that I invite others to join me in my meditation. As I offered an invitation to some in spirit to join me in my meditation, I began to feel their energy flow through me and around me.
<p>As nice as their energy was, it never satisfied me within. I began to realize I was becoming dependent on another&#8217;s energy to bring me a quiet balance within. And all it was creating was a greater dependency on another&#8217;s energy to give to me what I should be able to give to myself.
<p>I then began to invite my expansive energy of Self to flow through me and be with me. I was truly amazed how my energy held a greater peace and vibrancy than even the archangels, or any other spirit essence could give to me. I chose during my meditations to fill myself up with my Self. I stated, &quot;It is my desire and intention to come home to my Self.&quot; I began to create my own special space within my body, with my unseen and not yet realized energies of Self.
<p>There within that space, I realized that I was the one I was waiting for. It was just a matter of inviting my Self to come in. Now when I go into my space, I Am the only one there. A Universe of One. A peace that passes all understanding, as only I can give to myself.
<p>I no longer ask any other to be there with me, but I believe as I expand into the Universe, there are others who desire to experience what they have not yet learned to give to their Self, too.</p>
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		<title>What Is Your Role?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe the role of alternative, complementary health care is to expand awareness and encourage independence through sharing how to sustain and maintain a healthy energy. To some degree, this is already taking place. Maybe it has as much to do with the high cost of health insurance and the high cost of getting sick. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>I believe the role of alternative, complementary health care is to expand awareness and encourage independence through sharing how to sustain and maintain a healthy energy. To some degree, this is already taking place. Maybe it has as much to do with the high cost of health insurance and the high cost of getting sick. After all who can afford to get sick? If the illness does not kill you, the bill from the clinic or the hospital will!
<p>I believe every human being is a healer. It only makes sense that if we are so adept at destroying our health, we are just as capable of restoring our health to a place of balance. Most of us can quickly identify how we are challenging our body to remain healthy. We don&#8217;t need to listen to another&#8217;s advice on how to live an unhealthy lifestyle. So why do we listen to another&#8217;s advice when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle? We already know what it takes to be healthy. But we keep ignoring our Self! We often are not too keen on listening to our inner voice. By age 17, most of us were been to turn off the inner voice and listen to the experts. We are told they know what is best for us and they have all the answers, although they seem to keep changing their ideas on what that is!
<p>The role of alternative and complementary health services is to encourage people to begin listening to their self. It is to discourage dependence and encourage independence. How can this be accomplished? By listening to that little voice within that encourages you everyday to look at your choices, routines, anxiety/stress and anything else that is not in balance with your total Self! This could result in a few difficult choices, which might mean alternatives you have long been ignoring.
<p>The base word for alternative is &quot;alter.&quot; Alter means &quot;to change&quot; &#8211; change/alter your perspective, change/alter your life, change/alter your choices, change/alter your thoughts, change/alter your routine, change/alter your friendships, change/alter your relationships, change/alter how much you eat and drink, change/alter your work and play, change/alter your belief structure. Why is it that we struggle to let go of the choices that are killing us. Why do we struggle to embrace the choices that will offer us a more balanced life?
<p>My friends, alternative health care can provide some valuable suggestions to transform the energy that manifests in our body in a multitude of undesirable physical ways. Alternative health care is about approaching the maintainence and restoration of a healthy physical energy. Sometimes this can be done in alignment with conventional Western medicine. The information, the encouragement, the established systems are out there to take care of you. But when will you become responsible for your own role and begin to alter your choices to create your tomorrow to be healthier than today? Tomorrow?
<p>What is your role in the alternative health care system? Are you sacrificing your own health so that others around you can be healthy? Are you trying to take care of others and ignoring your Self? Are you focusing on the world around you and ignoring the world within you? Does fear alter your ability to make choices that will restore your health to a place of balance and vibrancy? Are the energy vampires around you stealing your healthy energy and leaving you with their unhealthy energy? Are you willingly giving your healthy energy away and taking on the issues of your world for everyone else?
<p>My friends, the seed of Self is centered within you! When you begin to water it, the world around you will watch you blossom. If you focus on watering that seed, those around you will benefit from your beauty, for it will never diminish or lose it&#8217;s vibrancy. Alternative health care begins with you embracing you first! It is just a matter of choice.</p>
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		<title>Melding Our Value Into Oneness!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While pondering the topic of socially responsible business, I begin to question our ability to unify and meld our energy and values in Earth&#8217;s workplace. There are so many different values, from so many different sources, through many differently programmed teachings, within many different people, all seeing the universe from their own individualistic perspective! How [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>While pondering the topic of socially responsible business, I begin to question our ability to unify and meld our energy and values in Earth&#8217;s workplace. There are so many different values, from so many different sources, through many differently programmed teachings, within many different people, all seeing the universe from their own individualistic perspective! How is this possible? Is it possible to align our values when we are coming from so many different perspectives of what is and what is not appropriate?
<p>What does a socially responsible business mean to you? Does it mean social responsibility to your belief structure, your personal values, your neighborhood, your city, state or country or even your Earth? Could it mean your universe, too? Are business decisions based on being socially responsible to yourself and others? Are they based on being financially responsible to yourself, regarding others as clients and potential income?
<p>If we are here as a part of the universal society, to encourage the awakening of Self in and through this physical human form, then why are we selling to each other the very gifts we have been given through this opportunity, to give and share with each other? What is the justification?
<p>If someone gave you the keys to the universe, would you sell it off, a little parcel at a time, to make sure you had a roof over your head? In this world, money is God and you have to make a livelihood, right? I have always said, there are more Gods than anyone can count! Which ones are you paying homage to? Are we thinking too small? In the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? this question is asked: &quot;How far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go?&quot; For me? The deeper, the better!
<p>I cannot justify selling the beautiful gifts the universe has given me. I am here to share these gifts with all that are here in this physical, human world. For me, selling these gifts to those who can afford them is not socially responsible to the universe, in the melding of my energy with the whole and co-creating <em>oneness</em> with All That Is. I believe selling these gifts encourages separation and eliteness. That is how I see it.
<p>The universe &#8211; and a voice I now know to be my inner voice &#8211; challenged me five years ago to quit my wage-earning job. I was told the universe would take care of me and everything would work out. If I would give to the universe and All that is a part of it, the universe would give back to me by more than 100 fold. So far, things have worked out and I am still here. I have not worked for another person since Dec. 8, 2000. In some ways I am still waiting for the hundred-fold part, but in other ways I am not. I have been witness to many things to know this is not a fluke.
<p>I have shared my gifts with many people, oftentimes receiving nothing in return except for &quot;Thank you!&quot; I often ask each person after a healing session is over: &quot;Is it possible to put a true price on the gifts I have given you, in the energy work I have co-created with you?&quot; The answer every time is, &quot;No, it is not possible put a monetary value on the gift.&quot; So I don&#8217;t. It would only diminish the value of the gift I give to another. Clients give to me as they choose and as they can. Many times, all that returns to me is a smile and a hug.
<p>This is what I believe: Give to another and it will return to you. This is my socially responsible approach to the business of the universe, my mission statement and my purpose in this hour of Now!
<p>I have lost everything of earthly financial significance or have given it away to others over the last five years. I have nothing to speak of, as far as physical possessions are concerned. I have no fear or concern for what tomorrow will bring. I have no doubt the universe will and has embraced me, as I give to all that is a part of it.
<p>Please understand that I am not judging how others choose to meld their values in the workplace. I&#8217;m just a consummate observer of the larger-universe way to choose to participate in this human experience. Let&#8217;s meld our value as an individual essence with each other and move out of the old earth energy into the new earth energy together!</p>
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		<title>Are you being the Authentic Self?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Schuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authentic: Being actually and precisely what is claimed. Conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features. Implies accordance with an original or type without counterfeiting, admixture or adulteration. &#8211; Webster&#8217;s New College Dictionary

Are you actually and precisely being true to the original essence of Self? Edge Life Editor Tim Miejan in his September [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong>Authentic:</strong> Being actually and precisely what is claimed. Conforming to an original so as to reproduce essential features. Implies accordance with an original or type without counterfeiting, admixture or adulteration. &#8211; <em>Webster&#8217;s New College Dictionary</em>
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<p>Are you actually and precisely being true to the original essence of Self? Edge Life Editor Tim Miejan in his September editorial stated, &quot;We are the one&#8217;s we have been waiting for.&quot; My question to you is: Have you identified the authentic you &#8211; and do you know which Self is showing up in your everyday life? The authentic Self or the counterfeit Self? Do you even know the difference between the two, or are you confused and lost? </p>
<p>I was fortunate to be able to secure a booth at this year&#8217;s Edge Life Expo. I was able to talk to and connect with the energy of some very awesome and beautiful people. Each one was drawn to my booth for reasons they did not understand. Yet, each one was interested in discovering, exploring and creating a new balance in their life experience. As I began to work on their energy chakras, I found that the crown, third eye and throat chakras were blocked in so many of the individuals with whom I did energy work. Not only blocked, but there was energy backing up, waiting to flow in. It was like an iron curtain of energy, just below the throat chakra, that kept them stuck in their heads. They were struggling to break free of the confusion, uncertainty and doubt that held them imprisoned within. </p>
<p>Their crown chakras were closed. That happens when we experience uncertainty, or experience apprehension when we are presented with new energies of possibility in our life experience. Their third eye chakras were closed. That happens when we doubt our own clarity, awareness, understanding and insight within everyday life. The throat chakras were closed. That happens when we hold back the thoughts and clarity that we experience and do not communicate and share our clarity or awareness with others. I found that my clients were doubting their authentic, intuitive Self! But why?</p>
<p>If we truly are waiting for ourselves to show up and be authentic, then what is the delay? I am not talking about you changing the world around you, by doing something. I am suggesting that you change the world within you, by being the authentic energy of <em>self</em>! How is your relationship with your self? Is it authentic? So what are you waiting for? What are you afraid of, or concerned about? Are you closing your Self off, concerned about how another person may react? Are you denying your Self because of another person? Are you honoring the relationship with another more than honoring your true, authentic relationship with Self? Do you believe another person more than you believe yourself? Are you experiencing your authentic Self or the counterfeit Self? Can you recognize the difference? </p>
<p><strong>Another perspective</strong></p>
<p>Here is what I believe. I am not my physical body. I am not my thoughts. I am not my job. I am not my experiences. I am not my relationships. I am not my choices. I am not my struggles. I am the essence of pure consciousness experiencing these experiences, through the physical human experience! So &quot;I&quot; don&#8217;t hold onto anything I say, experience or choose in my experience of Self. I don&#8217;t hold onto anything anyone else says either. It is just an experience! But I see a value in everything I experience. I am not interested in discovering my Self, according to the rules created for me by another person. I encourage every individual Self, in a personal experience of Self, to demonstrate the authentic Self. Step beyond the experience that is consuming you and discover the authentic Self within the human experience, defying the old rules that have existed for you.</p>
<p>Here is what I tell everyone: Don&#8217;t believe anything I say, and don&#8217;t believe anything anyone else says either. What I say, or what someone else tells you, is only a possibility not yet confirmed by you, as having value for you. In a future moment, it may be realized as your truth, or it may hold a degree of value for you &#8211; or it may not. In either case, it is for you to choose &#8211; for you, according to your true, present moment, authentic Self. This happens as you awaken, evolve and discover the authentic YOU from within. </p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t go within, you will go without. If you go without, you will go without, until you go within. </p>
<p>My truth is, I am not here to <em>do</em> anything. I AM here to participate and be a part of something. I AM who I am waiting for. I AM here for me! I AM here to demonstrate my authentic Self, to myself, within the universal experience of Self. I AM awakening to my authentic Self and participating in all the ways I choose to demonstrate my Self to be. Everything else is just my experiences. Everyone else is a part of my experience of Self. Thank you for being here with me! My authentic, conscious Self existed before the universal experience of Self began. I promised my Self that I would not lose my authentic, conscious Self within it! Have you lost You?</p>
<p>My friends, it all about perspective! If you can see the experience as only an experience, then it begins to lose its power over you and within you. You are the only one who can give this gift to You. No one else can. Everyone else around you is just there to discourage or encourage you, as they too discover their authentic Self. </p>
<p>Are you waiting for someone else to show you the authentic You! Look within! Are you waiting for someone else to give you permission? This is why you are here, to discover the authentic You, within the human experience that is Not True to You! This is an adventure. It is not about life, death and taxes; it is about living! The integrity of the original purpose of the universal experience of Self is returning. You can&#8217;t stop it, but you can struggle within, unless you choose not too. It is up to you. Can you step back, can you step away, from your all-consuming experience and truly <em>be</em> the authentic <em>self</em>? Who are you waiting for? <em>You</em>!</p>
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