We are presenting a new monthly column by Carla Rueckett who has served as a vocal channel since 1974 and was the instrument for the highly acclaimed The Law of One books.

Have you ever noticed how things happen to us in bunches? It is as though each day, week or season has a theme. For me, the theme these past few weeks has been faith.

For one thing, I am writing a book on the principles of The Law of One. I have come to a discussion of the heart chakra, also called the green-ray energy center. Having described the kinds of energies used by the lower three chakras as being those of this everyday world, I now am bringing the reader into a discussion of the heart chakra, the beginning of the upper chakras of the energy body, which contain energies used by the inner or spiritual self.

I have been explaining that we cannot solve our earthly problems from the level of the issues themselves, which is the lower three chakras. We first must enter the heart chakra and work on our issues from the open heart's enhanced viewpoint. Then we can move back into the lower-chakra issues and work toward problem-solving with the compassion of the heart rather than dealing with our human tendency toward self-judgment.

We can enter the heart only by faith.

For another thing, I am working on two speeches I have the privilege of being invited to offer at the "Time of Awakening" gathering on Mackinac Island. There I will speak and sing on aspects of the great shift in consciousness that is occurring at the end of this Age of Pisces, as we turn to the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The attendees are undoubtedly focused primarily on the date of 2012 and probably have some fear and trepidation about what will occur at that time.

Again, my discussion about being fearless as regards aspects of this shift will be all about faith.

If you would like to have a motto for work in faith, I submit for your use this slogan, borrowed with apologies from the first two generations of "Star Trek":

"FAITH: THE FINAL FRONTIER"

Faith really is the last unknown place we have to explore, long after we have seen the moon, the rings of Saturn and the deeps of intergalactic space. For faith has no earthly home. In my opinion, faith is not about anything to which we can relate. It has no objective referent. Faith is not faith IN anything, be it God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the guru, Buddha, Rama, Quan Yin or any other being or thing. Faith simply bides. Faith IS. It is a point of view. If there is any content to faith, it is the infinitely deep awareness that all is well. Hatonn, a Confederation source I channel for L/L Research, says in this message received on Feb. 3, 1981:

Those who choose to live a life in faith must choose to leave the cliff of human knowledge and embrace the mystery. They must be willing to allow that mystery to teach them. At that point the seeker gathers itself together, enters its consciousness upon the next step, and begins its long and dusty road of seeking by leaping from the cliff into the thin mist of chaos, that chasm of unknowing which will forever separate time from eternity.

Yet the seeker knows that it does not know any way to proceed except to will itself to take that leap. It is a right use of will, not to corral oneself into doing anything, but to act when one feels that the time is metaphysically correct. And so, the first expression of faith for most entities is that of acting as if there was faith within the heart already.