Humanity's progress towards awakening is proceeding apace, and that is because you have reached the point in the process where you had previously decided to allow an enormous acceleration to occur in the rate at which you accumulate knowledge. Knowledge accumulation reduces ignorance and the limits that ignorance imposes. No longer are any subjects taboo. No longer is there any prohibition that prevents researchers from investigating the fields that interest and intrigue them. This freeing-up of orientation is accompanied by enthusiastic encouragement for those with new ideas that they wish to develop, leading to a mushrooming, expanding flow of information between diverse fields of knowledge, which further accelerates the accumulation of knowledge.

In your present state of limited consciousness — soon to be dissolved — ignorance has been one of the overriding limits that you imposed on yourselves. It is a very strange limitation because it encourages you to believe that all you know is all that there is to know!

The spiritual realms — Heaven, Reality where all of creation is — is watching with joy as the cloud, the fog, the ephemeral mist in which those in the illusion have chosen to hide themselves from our Father and from Reality starts to dissolve. Its dissolution was assured as soon as it formed, but only when those within it chose to allow it to do so. That decisive and irreversible choice has now been made, and from here forwards humanity is determinedly and spontaneously involved in releasing all the aspects of themselves that maintain and support the illusion — the illusion in which it seems to them that they are so firmly and inextricably enmeshed.

To you it does seem very real, very solid, very significant; in fact, it appears to be the crucial and unique collection of wave forms or energy fields that make your existence possible. Without it you believe existence would cease.

God said:
You, My Children, are like a beautiful diadem that crowns Me. You are My crowning glory. You are the joy of Heaven and the fulfillment of My heart. Our hearts reach. Our hands reach. We are immersed in love, and so We are One.

I do not get immersed in your troubles. I am aware of them, and yet I see them for what they are, wisps of incomplete understanding. We could say that your immersion in troubles is like having joined the army. Your life is taken over. You are no longer the free agent you once were. You have joined the military. You are in it, and yet you fight what you become involved in. Oh, you would be so happy if only you weren't in the army. If you weren't in the army, you could keep your hair any length you wanted. You could travel when and where you wanted. And you wouldn't have to bear arms or be hurt.

An intense and creative shift in humanity's perception of itself is happening all across the world in preparation for your move into full consciousness, full awareness of who you are and of your eternal inseparability from God — Who created you to enjoy infinite and everlasting peace, joy, and happiness. Peace, joy, and happiness are states of mind. Modern psychology has informed you of that, and it has been well demonstrated, especially by those who have moved from depression and anxiety into peace and contentment by changing their minds and their perceptions.

Everyone has the ability to change their perceptions, but until quite recently it was thought that an individual's perception — his view of life and the opportunities it offered him — was basically fixed: a state of existence into which he was born and with which he had to deal to the best of his abilities. Now it is generally recognized that everyone does have the freedom to change those apparently given attributes for something more in line with their desires.