Stranger in Paradise

Stranger in Paradise

By Steve Beckow

Posted on June 3, 2025

I have to acknowledge, that as far as I can see, I’ve had no conscious experience I can remember of the Fifth Dimension.

At the same time, from day to day, what comes and goes is the love that Michael has characterized as seventh dimensional, which is where most of us are headed. That divine state I know very well as I do bliss, above it. (1)

It strikes me as a bit paradoxical to be bereft of any knowledge of the Fifth while having  knowledge of higher realms. But even that knowledge does not extend into these domains in any deep way, deep enough to answer my own questions even. I remain a stranger in paradise.

The Lord Arcturus added to my soul contract the request that I scout out the higher dimensions and report back so that people don’t stop at the seventh.

Since it illustrates a servant serving his chosen leader, I leave in details I have in the past excluded. As the environment becomes safer and safer to share into, I’ll share more.

A bit long for which I apologize.

The Lord Arcturus: Now, you have come to a planet in this and in other lifetimes to assist – yes, through communication, through clarity – with the progression of the planet through the elimination of the old third, … [to] the progression up through the fifth, through the six, to the seventh so that the planetary system will reside in a level of higher consciousness, Christed consciousness as you think of it.

Now in order to do that, it is highly beneficial – and this is where mutuality comes in – that you would have, not only the intelligence but the perspective of the higher dimensions (it is not a hierarchy but it is different).

And so the perspective say of the ninth dimension is very different than the perspective of, say, the third, the fifth or the seventh dimension.

Because it is very important that humanity realize, as they are in their unfoldment to a grander plan, that the seventh dimension is not the end of the road, not the be all and end all.

And so, some of the perspective, the experience, the knowing, the intelligence of different dimensionality is highly beneficial [in you] in helping them move into that higher-dimensional anchoring. (2)

Archangel Michael had made a similar statement in a reading and I remember pondering it for ages before “getting” it. The square brackets represent me at last getting what he was driving at:

Steve: Can you help me make sense of returning to my interdimensionality while not becoming a guru figure? [Heavens! I’m a writer!]

Archangel Michael: It is very simple: visit don’t stay.  So what you are doing, you are pulling into the 5th – into what you think of as your reality – the qualities of mastery [11th] without setting yourself apart from the masses [4th].

You are … teaching others that they can access the mastery [11th] and still be in the Christ Consciousness [7th], in the expanded awareness in the physical form [4th] and in the [transformative] love [5th and higher].  (3)

They want us to go as high as we can. And we know what the purpose of life is: To know who we are. (4) To realize our true identity – and we do that upon our return to the Father/Mother One.

Keep in mind that all – or most of us; some are intergalactic visitors – are angelic in origin. (5) We’re already fully enlightened. We’re here to ensure that this unique Ascension happens:

Archangel Michael: The awareness, when you choose to acknowledge it, and the, shall we call it, the angelic abilities, are present in the human race, in the individual human form at this time, so that the leap into Nova Being is in fact not as great as it might have been in other ages. (6)

In other eras, we’d ascend alone, upon death, into a space that allowed us only to go down to visit but prevented us from going higher.  In this new form of Ascension, the whole planet is invited and will ascend with their bodies transmuted from a carbon base to a crystalline.

Moreover, in the new space the Mother is opening, anyone in the seventh or higher dimension can visit all the others. This Ascension we signed up to help with is – pardon the pun – truly ground-breaking.

Footnotes

(1) Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is it?

AAM: It is the seventh dimension.

Steve: Then what dimension is bliss?

AAM: It is between Eight and Nine. (AAM, Jan. 20, 2016.)

(2) The Lord Arcturus in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, June 12, 2019.

(3) AAM, May 6, 2013.

(4)  On the purpose of life, see The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-6.pdf. For a description of the vision experience I had that gave birth to the book, read Chapter 13.

(5) Divine Mother: And let me be clear. There is not one being – human, starseed, hybrid or earthkeeper – that is not one of my Angelic Beings. … You are my Angels, birthed from my being – birthed not only from my womb, but from my heart. (“The Mother’s Clarion Call to All of Humanity!” April 20, 2020, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2020/04/20/the-mothers-clarion-call-to-all-of-humanity/.)

Archangel Michael: At this interception moment of ascension and shift, all present upon the planet, from what has been judged as the most egregious to the most saintly, are angelics. (AAM, Sept. 16, 2020.)

On our angelic origins, see An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-13.pdf

(6) AAM, Sept. 16, 2020.

Steve Beckow

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It Is as Simple as That

It Is as Simple as That

Thought Adjuster

Is The Teacher

Message received by Anyas

Posted on June 2, 2025

 

Oregon, USA, August 11, 2023

“The supremely happy and efficiently unified mind is the one wholly dedicated to the doing of the will of the Father in heaven.” [UB, 133:7.12]

Thought Adjuster: “Happiness is within everyone’s reach. It may surprise you to hear such an affirmation. Let Me explain.

In your entourage, you interact with two types of individuals. The ‘happy-go-lucky’ ones whose general composure is on the sunny side of things and the chronic complainers whose take on life is gloomy and morose because they zoom in on its irritants.

Once they acknowledge that their defeatist and ever-critical stance is a major impediment to their happiness, they can judiciously decide to operate at the much higher vibrational level generated by frequent surges of gratitude.

“‘[A] good man shall be satisfied from within himself.’ ‘A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance and is a continual feast. [. . .] ‘A merry heart does good like a medicine.’ ‘Better is a handful with composure than a superabundance with sorrow and vexation of spirit.’” [UB, 149:5.2]

Due to his awe-inspiring spiritual life, Jesus revealed through his cheerful demeanor the prerequisite to authentic happiness — a spiritual experience whose apex is defined as bliss. “The highest happiness is indissolubly linked with spiritual progress. Spiritual growth yields lasting joy, peace which passes all understanding.” [UB, 100:4.3]

Reflect on happiness! Imagine it! Pursue it! It is as simple as that: Your positivity attracts it whereas your negativity repels it.”

 

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Connect with Your Nonphysical Self & Go Home

Connect with Your Nonphysical Self & Go Home

The Creators (12D)

A Nonphysical Collective Consciousness

Channel: Daniel Scranton

Posted on June 1, 2025

 

 

 

Credits: Collective Consciousness Illustration, Faces Surrounding the Earth ...dreamstime.com

 

 

We are here for you. We are The Creators. We are a twelfth-dimensional collective of nonphysical beings, and we are here to help. 

 

We acknowledge the wisdom that you have through experience there on Earth, and we understand that what you are experiencing is quite different from what we are experiencing. Therefore, we know we have a lot to learn from you through your experiences. We also know that you could not exist there in the physical without the help of the nonphysical, and so you benefit from our perspective. We may not be experiencing what you are experiencing in your physical struggles, but it is precisely because we are not mired in the issues and problems of your day that we are able to offer a higher perspective.

So you see, you benefit from us remaining where we are. Now, it is the merging of the two that you ultimately want to experience there on Earth whether you know it or not. You want to experience yourselves as being more electrified, more energized by the nonphysical that is always giving you life. And there are many ways in which you can do this.

You can do what you love to do, and in those moments you will be aligning yourself more with the consciousness of the Divine, with the nonphysical energies that literally animate your physical form. You can also sit in meditation, and in removing the thoughts that block the energies from flowing, you can open up to more of who and what you really are. Thirdly, you can channel. And while it may seem as though that is a tall order for some of you, we want you to recognize that you do feel like you are channeling from time to time. You do feel like you are in the zone, so to speak, when you are doing something that you love or saying something that you really believe to be true.

Therefore, in order to open up and receive higher-frequency energies and information, all you really need to do is put yourself in the right position to receive. And that leads us to our fourth way that you can merge more with the nonphysical. You can simply sit in your Divine Feminine and open yourself up to the energies that are present at any given time. You can feel those energies merging with your physical form, and you can become more energized, more enlivened through the simple act of receiving something that doesn’t look like it really is there, but you can feel nonetheless.

Relax and let go, and know that all that is coming to you in that moment that you do so is for your greatest and highest good. All you have to do to be in greater harmony with the nonphysical energies is stop resisting. Stop resisting what you think you need to resist. Let go of control. Let go of the need for something to be different than how it currently is.

You want to experience yourselves as gods living on a playground planet, and you can experience yourselves as such if you simply heed our advice. And we know that what we just laid out for you is not very challenging. We know this because we have witnessed so many doing it there on Earth, and we have felt the effortlessness of the beings who were engaging in these simple ways of connecting more to your nonphysical essence, your home.

 

We are The Creators, and we love you very much.

 

Daniel Scranton 

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Your Likes & Dislikes

Your Likes & Dislikes

The Creators (12D)

A Nonphysical Collective Consciousness

Channel: Daniel Scranton

Posted on May 30, 2025

 

 

 

Credits: Collective Consciousness Illustration, Faces Surrounding the Earth ...dreamstime.com

 

 

We are here for you. We are The Creators. We are a twelfth-dimensional collective of nonphysical beings, and we are here to help. 

 

We know that you all like what you like there on Earth, and we encourage you to like what you like. We encourage you to move towards that which is like-worthy to you. We also invite you to look at what you dislike differently. In other words, what you dislike does not have to get your thumbs down. You do not have to dislike something, but rather, you can acknowledge that it doesn’t resonate with you, and you can also see how it helps you to define that which you do like.

Therefore, what you dislike is actually helping you to become more discerning. It is helping you to put your attention on that which resonates with you. And in some cases, it is helping you to create more of what you do like. Now, all of that depends on whether you are in resistance to what you do not like. Because if you are in resistance to it, then many of you already know the expression, ‘What you resist persists.’

When you bless what you do not like, when you send love to what you do not like, when you forgive what you do not like, you can truly benefit from its existence, and you can receive more of what you do like. Now, of course, you have other words for ‘like’ in your language. You appreciate something. You give thanks, or are grateful, for something. You love something. You adore something or someone, and in your use of language, you can harmonize more fully with that which you have decided you like.

The more you focus upon it in a positive way, the better. Now, if you like something but you do not have it, and you want to have it, you also want to change your relationship to it. You want to be glad that it exists in the first place to get you to feel that desire and to get you to move something that you do want. Therefore, when you like something that you do not yet have, celebrate that you get to be on that journey towards having it, because that can be a wonderful journey filled with many stories that you will tell for decades after.

You need to have that which you are moving towards and expanding into in order to continue to move forward in your growth and in your development. And sometimes what you want is simply inner peace. You say to yourself, ‘I like inner peace. I have felt inner peace in the past, and I would like to have inner peace again.’ And then you are moving towards inner peace. You go on a journey of discovery about inner peace and where it lives inside of you and what sometimes prevents you from acknowledging that it is there.

Everything you want and like already is, and there is no real separation between you and it, and when you come to that realization, you will know that you are choosing more of what you like by focusing on it and that it is with that type of ease that you are meant to create your reality and create a world that you like living in. And we are talking about your personal world, as an individual, and the world that you live in that includes all others. It really is that simple, and you really do like what you like for your own reasons, reasons that do align with your purpose for being on Earth at this time. Very good.

 

We are The Creators, and we love you very much.

 

Daniel Scranton 

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Anchor the New Template

Anchor the New Template

Peggy Black and the 'Team'

Posted on May 21, 2025

 

 

We are here to encourage, acknowledge and celebrate the incredible changes that you are bringing about. We observe how change can be unsettling and even frighten to many of you. However for the old patterns and old limited realities to be transformed there must be change.

Sometimes the changes are so gradual that they are not noticed until the results are obvious to all. Other times the changes are quick, shocking and alarming. Nevertheless changes are a part of evolving. The ability to adapt is one of the essential aspect to being human and does enable you to survive. The key to being able to adapt to the changes in your reality is the ability to thrive and evolve.

As a collective consciousness you have been experiencing and witnessing changes in familiar patterns and behaviors, some of the more shocking events can cause you to want to retreat, pull in or even hid. We are inviting you instead to step up, continue to take action and to add your personal energy and vibration to the mix. We invite you to continue to envision and accelerate the transformation of consciousness within the collective.

Realize and own your powerful part in what is occurring. Without doubt know that you are connected to the energy fields and minds of the collective energy offered by others. Without a doubt know that your thought fields and emotional vibration connect to and interface with the thought fields and emotional vibrations of others.

Know that your consciousness has an energetic effect on quantum field and therefore, all things. Imagine that the energy of your thoughts/emotions create a template or blueprint that is added so to speak to the global databank. Remember that energy follows thought. Whatever you put out is going to add to the field that is life diminishing or the field that is life sustaining.

You are witnessing this duality being played out in the events of your reality. Which duality do you support? Honor your true magnificence as a galactic divine being, playing in a dimension that is undergoing a tremendous shift. Own the possibilities that your emotions can and do shape or create your physical reality.

Once you are playing at that level anything is possible in your personal life and also in the global reality of world events. You are being supported by the entire galaxy to expand your understanding of consciousness. There is a raising frequency on earth that is triggering the awakening of humanity. The chaos that you are witnessing is the resistance to this rise of frequency.

Allowing yourself to believe and understand that you personally carry within your circuits the blueprint of future energy and reality. It is your expanded consciousness that allows you to experience the higher dimensions of future energy. There is so much information about dimensions and what we can share with you in that dimensions are not a certain place or even a certain location, dimensions are levels of consciousness.

As more and more individuals are beginning to realize that when they vibrate at a higher level, they can more easily experience a higher dimensions. Each time you access a higher dimension you bring a new pattern or template to this hologame of 3D reality.

Practice shifting your limited physical consciousness and programming to allow your divine consciousness as a multidimensional being to anchor the seeds of a miraculous, unified and harmonious world. Every act of compassion or kindness truly ripples out to the collective field. Every act of love truly raises the vibration of all energy in the universe.

It is your limited beliefs and old emotions baggage that keeps you locked in this rather challenging dimension. It is the belief and feeling of being powerless victims or martyrs that trap you in to the dramas. Make it your goal and intention to release and transform dense negative issues and experiences. Every time you transform or heal a personal issue you make that energy available to the collective global databank.

Remember that emotions are contagious. Fear energy always generates more fear energy and the behaviors associated with that vibration. Imagine as you offer feelings of gratitude and kindness as often as possible you are adding that coherent frequency to the collective field.

Time as you know it is an illusion. It is a part of the 3D reality. It keeps you consciously hooked.

As you practice staying in a coherent frequency and vibration you raise your consciousness and experience or flow into the higher dimensions. Realize that you are imprinting your very DNA with this experience. Understand that DNA is capable of communicating beyond space and time.

When you move into the higher dimensions you might feel a certain lightness of being or spaciousness, others times you might experience colors and shapes that astound you. There might be sense of wonder or excitement. These experiences might last a brief time however as you allow this to occur more frequently your awareness of being in a higher dimensional state will became easier and you will stay in this elevate state longer.

When you experience these higher states of consciousness that allows you to move into the frequencies of the higher dimensions you will often connect with the beings of that dimension.

These beings of light and love will support and assist you in navigating these new realms. Each time you have a new experience you bring that energy and seed this reality. Therefore making dimensional travels more available to anyone who can tap into that invitation.

You anchor that ability into the global conscious databank as a true possibility. Allowing the collective consciousness of begin to shift into these higher states of awareness and experience. There is a synchronicity of this truth that begins to occur in the DNA of others.

We invite you to remember that even in these seeming difficult and chaotic times and events there is always a different scenario to call forth. Call forth the life sustaining ones and anchor those seed into this dense field.

We extend our gratitude for your courage to be in physical form at this time, remember that you are masters of energy and light, here to anchor the new template. We are always available at your request to assist and support you service to humanity.

"The Team"

 

Peggy Black

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Your Global & Individual Progress Report

Your Global & Individual Progress Report

Thymus: The Collective of Ascended Masters

Channel: Daniel Scranton

Posted on May 16, 2025

Credits: Reddit

Blessings. We are Thymus. We are the collective of ascended masters.

You are making great progress there on Earth, whether you recognize it or not. We are always recognizing your progress, which is one of the ways you benefit from this relationship of ours. You take the expansion and the growth at the Soul level, whether you know it or not, and whether you take it or not on the human level. The human within you, the negative ego, so to speak, tends to look for the flaws, the mistakes, the things that require more work on your part.

You like to have projects. You like to have things to do, and you often think that by pointing out your flaws, you will be more likely then to whip yourselves into shape. That is one of the many reasons why you are so hard on yourselves and why you do not acknowledge all the progress that you’ve already made. Another reason why you find it so challenging to acknowledge yourselves is because you look around at the outside world and you look for improvements there.

You look for improvements in your health or your bank account or your relationships, but the proof exists within you, and you must be willing to go within to feel for the progress that you’ve made. Either that or you can just take our word for it, and we are looking at you individually and collectively, by the way, but we do want you to feel it as individuals. We do want you to know that as you struggle and you suffer and as you make sacrifices, you do expand quite a bit at the nonphysical level.

And when you let go of all of that and you surrender, you give up, you let go, that’s when you often get the boomerang effect, and it comes back around to you, all of that expansion, all of that growth that you experienced as a nonphysical, soul being. When things take longer to come to fruition in the physical, you often give up hope or you become helpless and powerless in your orientation towards life. This is another reason why you benefit from hearing from the likes of us.

We want you to remember that you are really soul beings, Source Energy Beings, pretending to be human, pretending to struggle, pretending to suffer and make sacrifices so that you can know yourselves more fully and completely as you really are. As you look around at your world and you wonder how humanity is doing, and you come to the conclusion that humanity isn’t doing all that good either, you also have to admit to yourselves at some point that you are not looking at every aspect of reality when you come to that conclusion.

You are looking at the problems, the chaos, the catastrophic events, and the collapses, and you need to look at humanity as a whole. Humanity has more compassion than you have ever had before there on Earth. There is more love, more creativity, more joy being experienced, and that all is the result of the collective strides forward that you’ve made as humankind.

And so again, trust us when we tell you this and then go looking for evidence of what we are saying because it is true. Take the expansion and the growth by relaxing into it, by letting go of your feeling of responsibility that you have to make everything happen. And remember that you are there as the experiencer, and you get to choose what you experience with your ability to focus consciously and deliberately. We suggest that you do so, and you continue to do so because we like to see you happy while you are expanding exponentially throughout time and space.

That is all for now. We are Thymus. We are the collective of ascended masters, and we are always amongst you.

 

Daniel Scranton

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Are You Working with Saint Germain?

Are You Working with Saint Germain?

By Saint Germain

Channel: Daniel Scranton

Posted on May 13, 2025

I am Saint Germain, keeper of the violet flame.

I am working with each and every one of you, whether you realize it or not, because of my association with planet Earth and humanity. We all go back a long way, and we are all supporting and helping each other, whether it looks that way or not. You all have agreements with one another to play certain roles in each other’s lives, and you may not like it when someone else plays a very specific role for you, but I invite you to remember that you asked them to play that very specific role.

Everyone is your friend, your cohort, your fellow traveler through the universe, and when you can acknowledge that you are a Source Energy Being and so is everyone else, you can finally admit to yourself that there are no dark forces working against you as an individual or you as a human collective. We are all of the light, all serving each other. And yes, sometimes one will be serving you by playing the role of a human being who is very disconnected feeling, and they will do harm to you in some way.

And you can always remind yourself that you asked them to do it, and now you have an opportunity to grow from that traumatic event. You have an opportunity to forgive that person, to move on from it, and to become more of who you really are as a Source Energy Being. Now the reason I am giving this to all of you right now is because you can see in broad daylight how many humans are acting out, playing those roles, showing you all what still needs to be healed, still needs to be forgiven and released. And you who are awake have the power to do this because you know what you know.

You know you are not there to judge, to condemn, to cast out and exile other humans. You are there to accept, to love, to forgive, and to have compassion for those who are your fellow travelers and who have played their roles very well. You needed to have something to push against at some point in your lives so that you could understand what it felt like to let go of that resistance, to forgive, and to move on. You needed to know what it would feel like to release anger, release hate, release resentment, and to embrace everyone and everything as being part of your journey.

And you have given yourselves plenty of those opportunities. I know this to be true, because, as I said, I am a part of your journey no matter who you are, and I feel very close to humanity even from this lofty perch of the twelfth dimension. All of us here in the ascended master realm will be continuing to help all of you to heal, to forgive, to release, and to become, because no matter who you are, you are becoming something more, and you will do so whether you do it consciously or not.

If you are receiving this message, I know you are doing it consciously, and I commend you for it. I know that you will continue to have times in your lives when you won’t feel like you are doing such a great job, and yet, you will continue to pick yourselves up, to dust yourselves off, and to move on because that’s what humans do.

 

I am St. Germain, keeper of the violet flame.

Daniel Scranton 

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Creation Practice

Creation Practice

Life Tapestry Creations

Channel: Brenda Hoffman

April 21, 2025

 

 

Dear Ones,

Your current creation approach is to deny that you have new skills.  You are doing so by ignoring the little gifts that are now occurring for you.

Perhaps someone unexpectedly contacts you, you find the perfect parking spot, you discover a fantastic sale, or you make a new friend.  It does not matter what treat appears, only that it is happening despite your best attempts to pretend it is not.

You, of course, were expecting instant large rewards for your diligence in shifting beyond 3D.  So you’re ignoring the beginning of your new life, which is arriving in small bits and pieces, instead of instantly and majestically as you once imagined.

Acknowledge those little sparks of energy now floating into your life.  In a sense, giving them oxygen to evolve and grow.  Often, one person in a relationship will provide verbal or physical cues that they wish to be with someone.  If the other person ignores or denies those cues, the person providing the cues most often disappears because they were indicators of what life could be like with that person if those cues were allowed to expand.  So it is now.  You are creating little gifts for yourself as you test your creation skills.

Not all of you are willing to acknowledge that this piece went wonderfully well, or that piece was surprising, because you are focused on what is wrong in your world. 

Your creation skills have come alive, but until you acknowledge and accept them, you will believe that you have not transitioned or that your world will never change.

Your belief that the 3D world will never change is accurate.  What is inaccurate is your acceptance of your new life.  Those who do not shift beyond 3D in this lifetime will continue the antics you experienced for eons in 3D.  You are what is new and changing.  Allow that to be.  And then acknowledge that you have initiated your change, beginning with simple creations that surprise you and most often make your life a bit easier. 

Look for the light instead of feeding the dark, and you will float through this time.  Focus on 3D energies, and your creation skills will never develop at the pace you hoped for or expected. 

There is a tremendous amount of 3D energy bursting through those who remain completely enmeshed in 3D.  Unlike some previous 3D lives, the 3D energies being expressed now are more dramatic than have been true for generations.  ThreeD energies are being displayed as the worst of the worst.  At the same time, you are evolving into a light, creation-based being, more attuned to the Earth than ever before. 

This is not a battle between light and dark – that battle is over.  The light prevails.  Which becomes more evident with every small creation you acknowledge.

You are in practice mode.  Fighting, noting, or joining the dark is not part of that practice.  Those of the light, including you, are now in the majority.  Allow yourself to acknowledge that whenever the dark seems to overwhelm you and your skills.  In a sense, the dark is like a puffball rolling out of an unexpected place.  The initial fear may be accurate, but the reality is much different from what that fear warrants.

You are now a creator being of the highest magnitude.  Allow yourself to acknowledge the pieces of light that are now becoming part of your daily routine.  And know those 3D fear pieces are not large enough to change your life, much less create fears.

You are no longer of 3D.  And those of 3D are no longer able to control or return you to 3D.

So be it.

 

Brenda Hoffman

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