There is a human who you may recognise, partly as yourself or partly as the others around you. We will call him Mark, although it could be male or female. But, we will call him Mark. He was Shaumbra, indeed. Like so many of you, he had read the books and gone to the courses.

As he moved along his path, he found the journey to be increasingly difficult, harder and harder. He cried out to Spirit, and to Tobias, and to those in the Crimson Council. And he said, "Why does it seem that each day the path is more difficult? Why is it that each day it is more difficult to pick up my feet, to move one in front of the other? There are times when I want to lie down and rest, go to sleep. There are some days I do not think I can get through the density of this journey. I feel I am being pulled. I feel that I cannot cut through this dense fog."

Our dear friend Mark was wondering if he was doing something wrong on his journey. He was wondering if perhaps he did not hear us quite right, or he was not following the lesson the way he should have. So, he went back and reread all of the lessons. Oh, he learned much that he did not learn the first time.

But, he still was unsettled. It still did not answer the question within him. Why was it so difficult? Why did it tire him out at the deepest soul levels, as well as the physical level? "Why," he kept asking, "is this journey so difficult?" At times Mark grew angry. He cursed those in the Crimson Council. He cursed Spirit. He thought it should be an easier journey. He thought we should be there to answer more of his questions and to do more things for him.

He found himself being distracted by his confusion, and his frustration, and his weariness. He grew somewhat disappointed in himself, and therefore with the others around him, and even with the Crimson Circle. He found himself, dear friends, sneaking off to UFO classes! He found himself going to conspiracy seminars. He found himself going to classes where they taught you to go back to your guides for the answers. He knew he was slipping.

It did not feel right at the inner level, but at the outer level, our dear friend Mark got back into this old energy, this duality energy that he was so used to from before. It gave him an energy hit when he went to these things. It distracted him also, which he appreciated.

It was much more fun to think about the alien conspiracy than it was to think about his own divinity. It was much more fun to get angry with the government, and the Illuminati, and all of the others for the supposed conspiracies, to worry about what chemicals were being dumped from airplanes. It was much easier to think about these things and to get caught up in duality than it was to walk the path of the Divine Human. But, underneath dear Mark knew this was not the long-term answer. It was a diversion and a distraction.

Now, very recently Mark was down on the floor, weeping, weary, angry, very judgmental about himself, very unaccepting of where he was on the path. And, he cried out to us, and said, "Tobias, and Spirit, and all of the others, what is it that I should know? What is it I should know right now?"

Now, as all of you know, we did not tell him the answer. We asked him to look inside. And, Mark cried back, and said, "I do not know how to look inside! I'm a failure when it comes to looking inside! I hear so many different voices that I don't even know which one to believe or trust!"

We said to him, "Ask your Truth to come forward. The other voices will fall away. Your True Voice will come forth, and the others will leave. Tell yourself you are looking for the voice of your divine self. The other voices will have to go. The false voices will leave. The divine voice will come forth."

Now, fortunately Mark was tired enough and open enough that he actually let his Truth come through. Sometimes, Shaumbra, you have to get so tired and so weary that you get out of that mind of yours to let Truth truly come through. Mark was tired enough.

What he heard, and what he asked us to share with all of you on this day, was quite simple. The voice he heard was, "The world doesn't want to let you go. That is why you are having a difficult time. The world around you doesn't want to let you go. It is holding onto you. Your family and friends… they love you, even though they battle with you at times. They love you, and they can feel that you are leaving.

"Your past life aspects,"… oh, dear one, you know we are talking to you… "your past life aspects know you are moving on. They know you are cutting them loose. They are frightened. The prospect of you leaving, letting them go off and become their own creation and their own identity, frightens the hell out of them. So, they are holding on."

Yes, Shaumbra, you have released your past lives. But, they have not necessarily released you. Do you understand what we are saying?

There are ones at your work that can feel you are leaving. You know, it is somewhat of a paradox that these "Left Behind" books. Now, they are talking about something different than what we are talking about. You will not be zapped up into some celestial space ship. You will not be taken off to some distant planet. You will stay right here on Earth. That is what it is all about. You will not find a pile of clothes in the corner. But, the essence of the message of these books is true. There are ones who feel they are being left behind.

You, Shaumbra, are on a journey of the Divine Human. You are cutting loose all of the Old so that you can walk into the New. The others around you don't like it. They want you to stay. They love you. They enjoy you.

In so many cases you help to enable them in good ways and in bad. Some of them need you as the enabler in their life, even if it is a past life aspect. You tend to enable them, let them get away with their stuff. There are others who you help immensely. Your love, your light, your compassion is an important part of their life. Energetically, there are all of these - how to say - "cling-ons" all around you. They are clinging onto you. They do not want to let you go.

So, why is it that Mark felt the path was so difficult? It was because he was being held onto, held down, held back by the others. It wasn't a force in front of him that was keeping him from going forward. He thought it was a dense fog of the New Energy… thick, syrupy, difficult to go through. He thought that's what was holding him back. It wasn't. It was the energies of the past, the energies of the Old, and the energies of even the Now that did not want to let him go.

Your own children don't want to let you go. They don't understand that when they let you go, you are still there, more present for them than ever before. They fear that you are leaving, that you are going off some place else. They feel your consciousness changing and walking out the door. But, that is from a place of fear. That is from a place of lack of understanding.

You are changing. You are leaving this reality. But, the more you leave, the more present you are. The more you leave the Old ways, the more you are there in service and in love for them. They will begin to understand that quite soon. Some of them already are. Your husbands and your wives, your children, and their children, the ones all around you, don't want to let you go.

That's why it's difficult. That's why our dear friend Mark was weary and on the floor. That's why ascension, the path to ascension, is difficult. What to do about this? Well, we asked Mark what to do, for he was going through the experience. He knew what it was like.

What he said was simple and profound. "Talk to them. Talk to them in human form. Talk to them in divine form. Speak to them as one Divine Human to another emerging Divine Human. Speak to them in simple ways as one human to another… at the coffee table… at dinner at a restaurant. Do not explain the process you are going through right now. It tends to be intellectual, and they will not understand. Simply smile at them. Assure them of who you are. Assure them that you are always there in love. Assure them that, in your own gentle way, you will be here now more than ever."

This is what is happening, Shaumbra. The world does not want to let you go. The world does not realise that when you leave, you will literally come back in a stronger, more angelic, and more loving way than ever.

Now, oh, (big sigh from Tobias) dear friends, it takes courage to be here. It takes great courage to be here in this Circle, or listening on your Web system or reading these words. We applaud your for being here. It takes courage for you to look at yourself. And, that is what we are going to do now. Do not expect anything, but be open to all. Listen past the voice that you hear in your ears, and listen to the voice of all of Shaumbra.