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When the new Shoud series name On the Wings of Hope was announced a couple months ago, it generated some interesting discussions on Facebook as Shaumbra offered varying interpretations and opinions of the word “hope.” For some it felt, well, hopeful but for others it felt too dreamy, far away and insubstantial. Then in Shoud 1, Adamus gave his own definition of hope as something more solid and real than a dream, something that’s chosen rather than wished for someday. A few days ago, I came up with my own definition of hope and why it’s making such a difference on Earth. But before I get to that, I want to talk about Focus and the And.

As humans, we understand ourselves to have five physical senses. However, sight, taste, touch, smell and sound are really just tools of perception used by Focus, the angelic sense that literally allows us to be human. In other words, just as a microscope is a perception tool for our human sense of sight, our physical ‘perception tools’ are used by our angelic sense of Focus to perceive, experience and interact with this reality. 

It takes extreme focus to condense daylight so tightly that it can cut through steel as a laser. In much the same way, it took a lot of work to condense our creator light into physical matter, and then compress our ethereal essence enough to infuse into this realm of density and intense experience. However, difficult as it was, over time we got accustomed to the compression and came to believe that the only reality is what we can physically perceive. By its very nature, our sense of Focus made us forget about the And. 

Why did we do this? Considering the countless potentials we created in the Wall of Fire, how could we possibly determine which ones to choose? Well, imagine your beingness as an enormous bubble filled with every possible potential you could ever experience, kind of like a 3D version of a circumpunct. Your full awareness is at the center, surrounded by, literally, everything. The vast inner surface of the bubble, sort of like the surface of an inside-out planet, is the physical plane of existence and furthest away from the creative core. 

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When you are surrounded by every possible option, how do you differentiate it all into individual experiences, especially when they seem so far away in density? Well, you get yourself a telescope and zoom in to focus in on a particular scene, let’s say this lifetime. Maybe it looks like a winding path where your human self encounters events and challenges things along the way, like a gameboard. The figure on the path only has a limited linear view of what is just behind and just in front of it, thanks to Focus.

As you remember your true nature, it’s like backing out of this tight focus. Through the telescope you might first see a broader perspective of the gameboard – other options, other paths, other experiences you can choose. Everything is there, but how do you select a different experience? It’s not trying to move your human pawn over to a different path. It’s about zooming your focus back in to the path you want and finding your human already there. That’s the And, but it’s only one layer.

If you change the “depth of field” on your telescope, focusing somewhere between the deep physical plane and the I Am, you’ll find the other realms. They are here, all around us in every moment, but on different “wavelengths” of light. We simply need to adjust our sense of Focus to perceive them. In the recently recorded Metaphysics of the Mind (available soon as a Cloud Class), Adamus talks in detail about how to literally begin seeing beyond the physical world with our human eyes. The key is “expanding the ability of your eyes to interpret light.” We’ve been so focused on the singular view in the telescope that we’ve de-focused our attention on everything else. We don’t see it, but it’s still very much there and we can expand our perception to take it in. That is the real And.

The thing about Focus is that it takes all your attention. It’s not a “mistake” to have forgotten about the unchosen potentials and other realms; that’s been the whole point! But when we remember there’s more, things really start getting interesting. 

A couple of days ago I was sitting by the ocean listening to the waves. I closed my eyes and imagined being in the center of my own sphere of potentials. Instead of the sounds around me being “out there,” now they were coming from within a specific part of my personal reality landscape. I focused in on different “area” and somewhere in the distance I could hear a politician yelling. Over there in another direction I saw a lifetime of my dear departed kitty as a beloved horse companion. Another breath and the person sitting beside me appeared somewhere in the faraway mountains of Asia, in what my human believed was a very long time ago. It’s really an amazing way of playing with how to perceive “reality.”

Here on Earth, we have something called a microscope. Imagine a scientist determined to explore and understand all the miniscule life in a mud puddle. It’s such a passion that he spends hours, days, years staring into the microscope, examining every single drop of water and learning about mud puddle life in extreme detail. He comes to know all the little critters – algae, insect eggs, nematodes, parasites, bacteria, viruses, and so on – along with how all their infinitesimal sagas play out. Maybe he likes some more than others, cheering for one side or the other in the fight for survival. But in the end, it’s just life playing out under the microscope. 

But you see, he’s not the only scientist in the lab. It’s filled with others and their microscopes, hundreds and thousands of researchers all intently focused on figuring out life. They’ve spent so long staring into the scopes that they forgot about the lab, their families, and the whole world outside. They tuned it all out in order to stay on task, deep in Focus, and got so engrossed they forgot what the task actually was.

I see that all around me. We get so caught up in the dramas and conflicts we forget it’s all just little creatures swimming around on the microscope slide. We can nudge the slide over to see a whole new perspective, AND we are surrounded by completely different realities – the research area, the building, the grounds, the city – and the beings we’ve known since forever. It’s ALL right here, right now, determined by where I focus my attention through the lens of Now.

What does all this have to do with hope? 

Imagine that lab full of scientists starting to get kind of bored with the same old research. They’re caught up in the critter drama because, so deep in Focus, they’ve forgotten themselves. But now, as some of us remember, start looking up from our scopes, and allow our eyes to begin adjusting to our true environment, we can’t help but holler, “Hey, look what’s really going on here!” That enthusiasm and remembrance is our light. Maybe the others wonder what all the noise is about. Heck, they might even tell us to shush because they’re busy.  But it’s nudging something in them, and soon they’ll look up, adjust their eyes, and start remembering too.

Someone had to do it first, of course, and that’s us. We chose to be the Helpers that bring hope to this planet-lab. It’s the hope, the choice of something more real than the little glass slide in the microscope, the hope of so many, many more potentials than we’ve been looking at. 

Lift your eyes Shaumbra and let your vision adjust. See beyond the drama and power struggles and threats and hopelessness; there’s so much more going on. It’s about choosing your focus, finding your voice, and then living the heck out of life. 

Where does the hope come from? Us, of course, the Helpers On Planet Earth!