On Apr 14, Karen was invited to a 30 minute segment on ThatChannel's flagship TV and radio program, Liquid Lunch.

It was quite an event, with half being an interview with Karen herself, and then Karen allowing Polaris through for some wonderful new and live channeling on the nature of time and how presence and awareness affects the flow of time in your life.

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This month the energy is about “Renewal.” Many of you will be seeing and feeling renewed hope, feelings of increased peacefulness with what is happening around the world, and feelings of increased peacefulness on an inner level.  Renewal of the spirit, as well as the body.

This feeling is in sharp contrast, however, to some things that are happening or beginning to happen in many places around the world.  We have long spoken of change, and many of you have begun to feel it on an intrinsic level.  This deep level of change, a fundamental shift occurring around the globe and affecting ALL of you, has felt frightening at times.  Overwhelming.  But because a sharp turn was taken globally in an energetic nexus occurring at the end of last month (March), the new month brings with it not only all that change but also a decrease in levels of anxiety about it.

This question was asked in the "Ask Polaris" forum.  You can read the full question with all the background here, but the full question can be summarized as:

"This friend was missing, and I energetically searched for her and got a clear sense that she was alive, and then I found out she wasn't.  What was happening?"

We will approach this different ways. We will speak to the particular events that have been asked of us and we will also speak to generalities. In this particular case there was enough energy left behind by the departing soul so as to create a sense of reality to the person who was sensing her.  In other words, in the reality (the particular parallel)  in which Miché's friend exists, her relative died early on during this time period.  There was quite a lot of energy associated with it that she was able to tap into and to feel an "aliveness".  Upon receiving word that the person had died and had been found, that energy source was then immediately terminated and that sense of aliveness was no longer present.  However at the same time, there was a parallel in which she lived for some time afterward.

Let us take you on a journey.  This is, of course, a journey of Self and of discovery, an analogy for the journey you are taking this month energetically. Are you ready?

Think of something to take with you on this journey.  It can be anything -  one single thing - that you would most like to have with you on this journey.  It can be anything, from the concrete to the abstract. Your imagination is your limit.

Take some time now to savor this thing you are taking with you.  Feel it, hold it in your hand (if you can!).  Feel its edges (if it has them), and its weight.  Feel what energy it, too, carries with it, and how that makes YOU feel having it near you.  Really take time with this and imagine as much detail as you can before going on.

Question: There's a been a lot of focus on Obama and his inauguration.   Could you give perspective on who he is?   What are his agreements and relationships with those around him and with the population at large?  Please include some Michael Teachings terms in this!

Let us talk about this man who has been so inspiring for a great many people.  There is of course no accident in this.  This is a soul who has some experience in leading great numbers of people.  He has acted as a war general throughout various parts of history, including surrounding Alexander the great, in the Napoleonic wars and other times that are widely known throughout history.

This is a fourth level mature priest who is drawing on some sixth level energies in order to collect on some karma.  There are a great number of people who "owe him a favor", and this is a life that he is tying together quite a few loose ends in order to create a completion of sorts.

[Note that these terms are from the Michael Teachings perspective and are supplemental.  You can learn more about the terminology by following the links]

This is part of where his "air of service" comes from.  He has plans to affect a great number of people all at one time: the country and the world.  There are a great number of people who are going to be affected by who he is and the energy that he brings to this role that he is playing.   

Make no mistake, he is aware that he is playing a role.  There is more to the man than the role that you see.  But he has conscious awareness of his effect upon other people. 

This is a month of practice and repetition.  Feeling like things are familiar? That is because it is very likely you have already done them, or felt them, or thought them. If you are feeling, then, that you are simply stuck in old patterns of response and behavior because things just seem the same as they ever were, then understand that this is your last practice, your last exploration, before perhaps letting go of them for good. In order to move along, to take the next step, one must take stock of where one is at present. That is what we see happening for many of you now.

Here is something that could be said to come from your Essence, your innermost core of YOU.

I hope it connects you to your true Self.

I love you unconditionally.

I am your darkest criticisms of yourself.
I am your most expansive hopes and dreams.
I am the creation of universes that goes on inside yourself.
I am the destruction of all that you choose to leave behind.

I am your most explosive, raging, vindictive anger.
I am your most childlike, idealist, pollyanna hopes.
I am your most melancholic, hopeless, despairing sadness.
I am your most ebullient, rhapsodic, ecstatic joy.
I am your most panic-stricken, terrified, traumatized fear.

I am your most tranquil, Buddha-like, serenic peace.
I am your most expansive, all knowing perceptions.
I am your most impenetrable, unavoidable and insurmountable blocks.

I am everything you can imagine that is within you, and I am what you hope you are not

 

You express that you want oneness with me, and I laugh.
For this is where you already are.
You ask me to tell you what to do and I lovingly roll my eyes.
For I speak to you through your own desires.

You are where you are meant to be.
You are doing what you are meant to do.
You are connecting with whom you are meant to be connected with.
You are being who you are meant to be.

You can look outward and see me in others' eyes
and through the rolling hills and sturdy trees of nature.
You can also see me through the quiet space inside
that appears to you in deep meditation.

 

I am all of YOU.
Welcome me.  All of me.
I am here for you—inside, within, and around you.
I AM you.

When you welcome Me, you welcome You, and then you live the rapturous joy of loving your Self.

Welcome me.  Welcome You.

I Am You. All of You.

 

This is a video made around the new year with a gentle reminder that it is always your journey that is important, not any end result.

Because there is an exercise involved, it is useful to watch and listen in addition to the reading the transcription.  To watch, simply click the image or visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PslgHf4-NY.  You can also subscribe to videos via Polaris' youtube channel.

Question: Economics is a question on many people's minds. There could be a depression and there seems to be many people in power who are still clinging to old ways of using the current situation to make more money for the privileged rich. How worse is it going to get before it gets better? Is this another Great Depression?

We will call 2009 a bridge year; a year of transition.

We speak to you on a regular and ongoing basis about change. Change is something that is always present within your experience. It is part of your purpose, but 2009 will very likely represent to you as you look back on it later, as again, a bridge—a transition.   2008 saw many changes—the beginnings of changes and the glimmer of understanding that there is much yet to come regarding changes that are happening on a global and collective basis. We have spoken about these changes before, about the upheavals that are beginning to take place. 2009, then, is the in-between, between the understanding that something is about to happen and the realization of what is happening.

Many of you have been experiencing the energy surrounding quite a large shift, a lot of movement.  We have been talking to you for some time about changes and transitions, breathing in and out: a lot of change.   This will of course continue throughout your lifetime, but this month, December 2008, marks for a great many of you a shift into another reality, a nexus, a different way of perceiving, a different consciousness.  You can also call it a parallel world.

In this month people are primarily focused on picking up the pieces.

In other words, there has been a great deal of change occurring around the world. This change has manifested politically, economically, socially, and environmentally. The change has affected everyone living at present around the world in one way or another, even when they don't necessarily feel directly connected. And because there has been so much happening, this is a month to pick up the pieces. Picking up the pieces means checking in to see where you are, looking at the aftermath, and finding a new direction based on where you are at present. For some of you, your lives have changed so quickly that your heads are spinning, and this is now the month to assess where you are and to figure out on some level where you want to go.

Question: I'd like to ask about the ego, especially about how the word is used in our culture—it's often made out to be an enemy, something to be extinguished. It seems that there is such a thing, and it is related to barriers and limitations to awareness. I'm wondering how to bridge the gap; I have a negative reaction to the term. Could you expand on it? Also,  many people wish to extinguish the ego to obtain enlightenment. What's the benefit to that?

Question: What is mindfulness?

Energetically, when you have focused your attention and presence in the present moment, you are connecting all of your energetic molecules to the rate of vibration that is occurring with all the other energetic molecules that surround you. In other words, when you are present in a given moment—perfectly present—then the vibration of you and your being perfectly matches the vibration of what's around you. There is a sense of flow. There is a sense of peace. And there is a sense of timelessness.

That is mindfulness.

Question: What is your perspective on the practice of gratitude?

When we use the word gratitude, we would like you to imagine the vastness of the ocean.  Imagine all of the water that exists on your planet, and recall how it is all connected and how it is teeming with life-from very large to microscopic.

All of this exists as one cohesive connected unit without which there would be no life on your planet.

Imagine then, the  vastness of this-and its fullness and completeness-and while you hold that image in your mind, lay over it the word "gratitude".

Polaris is a wonderful storyteller!  They frequently tell heartwarming allegories during personal or group sessions that touch the soul and the imagination.

Following is a beautiful tale about the life of a cloud.