By Claudia Coleman
In my youth, I worked in both academic and public libraries. It was a dream job for someone with a lifelong love of books and an insatiable appetite for knowledge of ancient civilizations, metaphysics and the workings of the cosmos. Being immersed in books also served to trigger past life memories. One in particular, took place in early Atlantis as a priestess whose task it was to access a crystalline library’s akashic records to retrieve information on request. The process was similar to the opening scenes in the movie Superman, where Superman’s father selected specific data crystals for his son to educate him on his journey to Earth. In this life, my best friend used to tease me by calling me the ‘cosmic librarian’ because of my ability to retrieve information from ‘the ethers’ in answer to even the more ‘esoteric’ questions. Not yet awakened to my Soul-Self and spiritual purpose, I had no idea where the information came from, I was just happy to be of service. Many of us on the path of ascension rely on others whom we perhaps consider more wise, to feed us information and answers to our questions from the akashic records. This is appropriate at the beginning of our spiritual journey. However, eventually we must empower ourselves by learning to access our own ‘cosmic library’ within our DNA. In your daily meditation, just ask your guides and angels for your own cosmic library card!
Several years ago, Archangel Michael alerted me to the reality of working with advanced souls. He said that not every one who came to me as a client would be willing to do the work required to ascend in this lifetime. The reality check helped to curb my naive idealism about working with a generation of incarnated souls who were accustomed to instant gratification. When I grew up---I’m definitely dating myself here, although the dinosaurs had died off by the time I was born---we didn’t have credit cards. Whatever we wanted had to be planned and saved for. The words ‘waiting’, ‘patience’ and even ‘lay-away plans’ were in our vocabulary then. Fast-forward to the 21st century. With credit cards and the internet every desire can be fulfilled instantly. Some advanced souls are behaving as if they expect to order Ascension like an online academic degree that can be downloaded with the click of a mouse. "Just visit www.instantascension.com and Instant Ascension University will grant you the degree of Ascended Master. Order today and for only $333 your countless lifetimes of karma will be instantly dissolved, your karmic life lessons will be automatically understood and integrated into your DNA, and you will have all of the consciousness, wisdom and unlimited powers of an ascended Master." Wouldn’t it be great if it were that easy? If we could simply bypass the time-honored step-by-step initiatory process of ascension that all must experience to ‘graduate’ from Earth School and transcend the wheel of karma, I’d be out of a job. However, on the bright side, I could order my online degree and finally retire to that exotic Ascended Masters’ Plane of Existence!