Owen Waters is an international spiritual teacher and a prolific writer who has helped many people to better understand the nature of their inner being and their infinite potential. He is also one of the earliest authors that we have approached to contribute articles. Today, he continues to make metaphysics accessible to the masses with his highly regarded weekly newsletter. We catch up with this spiritual writer to find out what makes him tick.

1. We notice that you have a very high output of articles on metaphysics. Where do you get your inspirations from? Don't you ever run out of topics to write?

I use intuitive reasoning. That's a meditative technique which allows the person to gain direct insights into the subject under focus through the intuitive faculty. My subject is spiritual metaphysics and there are plenty of mysteries left that I want to understand more deeply, so I won't run out of topics any time soon. It is my joy to probe deeper into the mysteries of life and tell people of the insights that I gain in order to help them realize their own greatest potential in life.

Truth is like the layers of an onion.

2. You have proposed various theories in your articles. Do you feel that they are the highest truths?

Truth is like the layers of an onion. Just when just peel one layer of understanding back, you notice that there is another layer underneath. One day you'd eventually get to the core of the truth. Right now, like most people, I keep finding more layers. Like peeling an onion, peeling back layers of deeper truth can bring tears to the eyes, but the are the tears of spiritual joy, not the tears from an onion.

Are you aware that a Shift in human consciousness is occurring even as you read these words that employs celestial triggers such as supernovas and Earth's alignment with Galactic Center in the years leading up to 2012 to trigger the evolution of our species?

This Shift has been documented in a stimulating multimedia presentation entitled "Preparing for the Shift," by Barry and Janae Weinhold, Ph.D.s. Over decades devoted to the study of consciousness and evolution, the Weinholds, both trained psychologists, have gathered overwhelming evidence that humanity is in the middle of a long-awaited Shift in consciousness predicted in hundreds of indigenous cultures worldwide.

Today this Shift is visible nearly every time you open a newspaper or turn on the TV. It can be seen in the breakdown of many old structures such as those that underpin governments, churches and corporations, as well as in families and individuals. It is also evident in the ecological breakdown of numerous Earth systems, a widespread perception time is accelerating, drastic changes in weather patterns, more people feeling overwhelmed by modern life's complexity, and increased polarization between groups, religions, and regions.

They predict that Earth and humanity are about to be birthed into a new reality based on unity predicated on a dramatic advance in consciousness.

Fortunately, along with signs of breakdown, the Weinholds emphasize there is also considerable evidence of breakthrough: the appearance of stunningly gifted children in unprecedented numbers, the emergence of innovative and integrated healing modalities, people becoming less "religious" and more "spiritual," and the dawning of new communities and social structures based on servant leadership and other partnership principles.

The significance of the winter solstice on December 21, 2012, according to the Mayan, Aztec, Incan and Hopi traditions, is that this date marks the close of several cycles of time. The first is the end of the 26,000-year Mayan calendar, also called a "precession" and the Annus Magnus ("Great Year"), considered by many a gestational or birth cycle for Earth. Mayan timekeepers believe that human evolution unfolds as a result of such precisely calibrated master cycles of time. They predict that Earth and humanity are about to be birthed into a new reality based on unity predicated on a dramatic advance in consciousness.

From a Mayan perspective, the Weinholds ask, "What began 26,000 years ago?" Their extensive psychohistorical research indicates this marked the beginning of humanity's psychological individuation. In human terms, becoming "individuated" means moving from being unconsciously united with the Creator or Ground of Being, to choosing to become divided from the Creator and developing separate individual consciousness, to finally returning to the Creator as conscious, aware individuals. Once people fully individuate, it becomes possible for them to make empowered, discerning choices and use intention to co-create reality with Source--or perhaps more accurately, to create reality as Source.

The second cycle of time ending in 2012 highlighted in "Preparing for the Shift" is the close of the Galactic Year. It takes 225 million Earth years for the Milky Way Galaxy to make one complete rotation in the sky, which is believed to be a birth cycle for our galaxy. From a galactic perspective, the Weinholds ask, "What was conceived on Earth 225 million years ago?"

Master Guide Kirael through the gift of mediumship of Kahu Fred Sterling

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Master Guide Kirael through the gift of mediumship by Kahu Fred Sterling

Good evening. My friends, whenever I make an appearance, the crowd I draw in the etheric light is much greater than the one I draw in the human light. There are those in the angelic world and in the guidance world who truly want to hear what I am about to tell the Earth plane, not because they need to learn it, but because they want to be abreast of what is taking place here on Earth.

We will be speaking about the events and circumstances surrounding the "post-Shift," what you will look like and what the Earth plane will look like after the Shift. There may be some here who are not clear about the Great Shift. Understand, my friends, that it is the greatest shift ever to be experienced here on the planet.

The year 2012 is often mentioned in relation to the fact that the ancient Mayan calendar is due to end on 21st December 2012. According to the Mayan elders, it marks the end of an old era and the beginning of a new one. Astrologically, it also coincides with the transition to the Age of Aquarius from the Age of Pisces.

This is an excerpt of Chapter 8.1 from the upcoming book, Preparing Ourselves for the Great Shift by Russell Boulding

Something amazing is happening on planet Earth at this time and whatever is happening is catching the attention of individuated consciousnesses throughout the cosmos. For me to say this is a huge switch from my perspective as a geologist from which I saw human history as an inconsequential blip in the broad sweep of Earth history. In fact, for most of my life the notion that the human species represented the apex of the evolutionary process struck me as arrogant.