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We each have our own paths to awakening, as well as to the experiences we came to get. While those paths are not always within our conscious determination, we certainly have the ability to influence the course by which we choose to go about our efforts in this world.

The challenges of your life are opportunities to move toward that awakening and perfection of what you are all about. The question is what will you need to see them as such, and seize the chance they offer you?

I just got off the phone with a friend discussing our Lightbeaerer dinner group, and the direction to go with our local gatherings. It was quite eye-opening to see that I have been an obstacle to the manifestation of my own vision of community.

Laura and I started inviting friends to meet over a monthly dinner a couple years ago to discuss issues of community. I was hearing an inner call (as well as an outer one from an esoteric source) to take my discussions on community to a new level.

Circumstances are ripening for major changes in our world, but they're bringing with them chaos and conflict over the direction for our future.

The world ahead can be a more peaceful and harmonious place, with far less struggle and sacrifice. But it will not come by resisting the energies of change bombarding our world, for resistance brings distortion and manifests greater struggle between the extremes.

Hello, my friend.

I'm John Dennison, and I'd like to talk with you about peace. It's something that's missing from too many of our lives, especially with the storms blowing through our world.

Strangely enough, I've been a man steeped in conflict throughout my life. As a practicing lawyer with decades in the arenas of human conflict, not to mention my extensive training in the martial arts, I've seen people at their worst, and conflict at its most basic levels.

But through it all, I've been a disciple of the light and student of energy and its uses. My inner explorations through meditation, spirituality, and the eastern philosophies allowed me to see those energies at work and the inner conditions that set them in motion.

You say you want peace. If you're serious, then quit fighting.

• Quit fighting with others to get your way, or keep them from getting theirs.
• Quit fighting with the political system and those who want to use it to move your country one way or another.
• Quit fighting with your business, your job, your customers, your banker, or anyone else with whom you don't see eye-to-eye.
• Quit fighting with your life over what it is or is not.

Yesterday I heard someone say they wanted world peace. That sure would be great. But then I thought, wouldn't it be nice to have peace a little closer to home -- like in all the other aspects of our lives? Don't we want peace there, too? Is world peace enough if we can't have it in our lives, too?

After all, there are a whole lot of things that disturb our peace a lot more than the fighting that's carried on in international affairs.

These turbulent times are coming for a reason. They precede the great lifting up of Ascension, a cosmic shift in perspective and possibility beyond our wildest imagination.

In order to nudge human history in a new direction, some must challenge the entrenched beliefs and existing ways to unlock stuck energies that keep bringing us more of the same.

Did you ever feel fragmented or compartmentalized, like you had to pick and choose which parts of you to be shown to the world? If so, don't despair.

That's the normal state of human affairs.

We so much want to be accepted or gain some benefit (e.g., profit) from our relations with others that many of our encounters break down into one of two categories:

• we try to show them what they want to see, or
• we try to entice them to give us what we want.

Either way, rarely do we let our hair down and show ourselves in our entirety, warts and all.

You have come here many times. And during those visits, you have become so wrapped up in the dramas created for you to experience that you have perhaps forgotten who you really are and what you are about.

Even so, within those lives you have undertaken many threads of experience to examine certain issues from different sides, and in the process add your unique imprint on the collective consciousness of mankind.