[Editor's Note: Seventeen year old Matthew Ward died in 1980. His mother, Suzanne Ward, began receiving telepathic communications from her son in 1994 and published their first book in 2001 titled Matthew, Tell Me About Heaven. A second book, Revelations For A New Era, "relates life from its cosmic beginnings and contains cogent messages from representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations who are helping Earth during this unique era of great changes". Their most recent book, Illuminations For A New Era, was published this month, May 2003. I just ordered all three books for a package price of $52 from Suzy's web site (www.matthewbooks.com). After reading Matthew's message below, I knew I wanted to read everything he had to say. The message was written for presentation at the recent Mt. Shasta Wesak Festival. You can also now read other messages from Matthew posted on his very own index page at this web site (http://educate-yourself.org/mw/index.shtml). Many thanks to Iris who sent this message to Pat who in turn sent this gem to me. And most of all, our warmest thanks to Matthew and Suzy Ward. ..Ken Adachi]

By Matthew Ward
via Suzanne Ward <www.matthewbooks.com>
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/matthewwesakmsg18may03.shtml
May 18, 2003

May 10, 2003

Hello everyone! This is Matthew embracing you with love and honor and thankfulness for the invitation to participate in this magnificent spiritual celebration. Some of you may know me through the Matthew Books or my messages that have been posted on Internet sites and thus think of me as a discarnate soul who talks with his mother. That is true, but that is not all of me. At soul level, we all know each other’s essence, so it is as friend to friend that I greet you this day!

As you see, my mother is not the willing and loquacious speaker that I would like to be. One provision of our family’s soul agreement was that she and I would collaborate on books, but we forgot a provision that it would also be good if she became a “live” channel and dynamic public speaker.

I am here in your midst! I am hoping that some of you are seeing my etheric body or sensing my physical presence. If this could be my very self speaking at this moment, I would absolutely know if this is so. However, since this message had to be given to my mother prior to her arrival here, it is only my expectation that I can express. What I do know is that I intend to be with you and therefore I am!

I cannot speak knowledgeably, either, about the extent of light emanating from this group in this instant. What I can tell you about is the grandness of light that has been generated for many months by the individuals who planned and prepared for this glorious gathering, and the light we have seen in your collective anticipation of being here also is wondrous. The growing brilliance as these days neared has been an uplifting of Earth’s own spirit. We can see how the light you have been creating is caressing and healing the very life and soul of your beloved Mother Earth.

You are extraordinary people, otherwise you wouldn’t be here. You do not ridicule or discount information sent to your planet from sources beyond, but rather, you are discerning of what you hear and read. This is vital, because not everything coming in is from the light -- dark sources are sending forth their false information. You who are experienced channels know to assure that the information you receive is from high sources, and you whose telepathic connections are opening know to ask for protection of the light so lower sources cannot reach you.

This is vital, but I know it is not news to you. So what can I say that may be more enlightening, more heartening and more sustaining than what you already intuitively and consciously know? I do know your hearts and minds in a collective sense, so I know that you are hoping for but not really expecting me to offer something new and “momentous.”

You are a group to whom it’s very tough to tell something “new,” and it is from Creator or God that “momentous” pronouncements come, not from me. But I do want something worthy for you to contemplate in the truths I am sharing with you in these moments. If only as a reminder or reinforcement of what you do know as truths, then please let it serve you well in that way.

It is not only from the vantage point of Nirvana that my information comes today. Like other souls who do not choose reincarnation on Earth to continue their spiritual growth, my evolvement has been in a different direction, too. Nirvana still is my home because of my beloved family, Ithaca and Esmeralda, but for the past four years I have been traveling extensively in this galaxy and others.

By invitation from human and other civilizations, I have been serving as consultant, or adviser, for the most effective care of their traumatized souls who transition and the overall upgrading of their sanctuary realms. Some of the civilizations I have met through this service are of a radiance and beauty beyond your imagining. If ever there could be an inspiration to all of Earth’s people to stop violence, hatred, fear and greed and instead create peace and harmony through love, it would be to know these people. Their worlds of joy and light are beyond your words to describe.

We speak of “light beings” and “light workers” and “light service.” But we could just as correctly say “love” instead of light. Love and light are not separate powers. The total essence of Creator is love, and it is expressed in the obvious, tangible, directional ways that light can be used and observed, just as love is easily observed in its manifestations.

The capacity to love is your birthright. It is the composition of your soul. Because Creator is the supreme being of the cosmos and God, by that name and others, is the supreme being in our universe, each of us is a part of Creator via God. Thus all of us are inseparably connected by and through their love essence. Each of you has the innate ability to shower love upon your planet and every other soul living there.

The all-powerful eternal unity of love and light is the healing force of your world. Indeed, it is the ONLY force that can heal the pain felt by Earth and her people, by all of her life forms. The universal law is as simple as each soul feeling, receiving and sending the energy that more commonly is called love or light.

You have been asked not to judge others for their actions because you don’t know their souls’ chosen missions in this time of accelerated energy flow. Karmic experiencing to achieve the balance that every soul needs still requires both the activities seen as unconscionable and the willingness to respect differences and resolve them peacefully. The struggle between the darkness and the light will continue only until these opposite perspectives are reconciled and Earth’s balance is regained. And you know this is happening!

You help in bringing this about by sending love to all of Earth’s people, especially to those who are causing the suffering. This is the only way all suffering can end there. My mother said that she can’t sincerely send love to people who are doing things she abhors, and I’ll tell you exactly what I told her, because it may serve you well, too:

“Mother, you would turn on a flashlight to guide someone out of the darkness of uncertainty and anxiety onto a path where they are confident and secure, wouldn’t you? Those souls have lost their way and are fearful and foundering. Do not think of them as their deeds, but rather what you want for the world! Think of kindness, helpfulness and justness and sharing, think about the world’s people living in harmony, peacefulness and love and send those thoughts to those souls in darkness.”

Now then, as powerful as the love-light energy is, receptivity to it can be blocked by negativity. Negativity and positivity are the scientific polar opposites of neutral energy, but in lifetimes they appear as the countless personal situations resulting from free will choices. In common current reference, negativity usually is considered the actions and results of deception, corruption, tyranny, war-mongering and other situations many call “evil” on Earth.

In other civilizations in this universe, depending upon the extent of their higher spiritual evolvement than the still prevalent third density of Earth, there is less or no negativity at all to deal with. However, the vast majority of people on Earth have no idea what is happening in this new era and unwittingly are creating an abundance of negativity for Earth to deal with. A few people do know exactly what is happening and they are deliberately causing massive fear, grief, anger and despair. Those are powerful producers of negativity, whose energy creates a block between light and souls. In short, those few people and others before them with like minds have been keeping most of your world in the dark for eons. But not for much longer!

Releasing this cumulative negativity is being partially achieved in the evident ways of what are called “natural disasters,” but not all have been naturally caused. In the past decade or so, much of the drastic weather and many of the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have been instigated by manmade technologies. The intent is to cause death, injury and widespread hardship throughout your world, which it does, and that intent is based in negativity thus giving a double dose of that for Earth to deal with.

Nevertheless, the overall results still are aiding the planet as she would be originating the episodes herself as her primary means of releasing the pressure that has been choking her very breath. The familiar term, planetary cleansing, is descriptive if you think of Earth as cleaning away immeasurable debris to restore her health in mind, body and spirit – and yours as well.

Even as the violence and blatant lies and corruption continue, we see the increasing light that is exposing them. This is happening gradually in some areas, but spectacularly in others. The more certainty that each of you can know – feel! – that this is indeed what is happening, the more swiftly those gradual improvements will soar into spectacular triumphs for the light.

Every moment souls are releasing themselves from the influence of the darkness by responding to the higher frequency coming in. Their light is adding to yours, which has been shining brightly much longer, and the abundance from all of you is being met with even more intensive beaming by extraterrestrial sources. It is in this joint spirit of brotherhood that Earth’s very life is being saved and with her, all of her light receptive beings. This is salvation! This is ascension!

Your planet has been ascending into fourth density for some time, but in some minds there is a misconception about this process. All who receive the light constantly being showered upon Earth will accompany her, but no specific percentage or number of souls is required for Earth herself to complete her journey. Like every other soul, the soul of Earth is an independent and inviolate being, and with or without any or all of her residents, she has chosen to rise out of the travails and limitations of third density. The amount of sustained light now on the planet guarantees that not only is her ascension assured, but she will recover from the ravages to her body and soul. Earth will be restored to the Eden she once was as God’s own favored paradise in this part of the universe.

The superior intelligence, technology and spirituality of advanced civilizations is helping to accomplish this. They are doing far more to preserve you and your planet than beaming light to you. Their various forms of technology have kept your planet in regular orbiting and have prevented the tides from moving as rapidly as the rest of Earth is responding to the accelerated energy. They have dispersed the kinetic energy build-up far more uniformly than would result from release through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that otherwise could sever entire states and submerge coastlines, and they have reduced the power and size of tornadoes and other fierce storms.

Their knowledge will be filtered subconsciously to your scientists, who will be inspired toward discovering and developing energy sources that will replace the current siphoning of Earth’s gas and oil, which are her very blood. The advanced capabilities of these higher light beings will aid in restoring those natural resources as well as cleaning up the polluted air, water and soil, which are other parts of Earth’s body. They are reducing the most drastic effects of what are known as chemtrails and the effects of radioactivity produced by weaponry or leaking storage containers and in particular, the effects of depleted uranium.

There are other misconceptions and some grave concerns prevailing about what is or is not going to happen to Earth. There will be NO nuclear detonations! By Creator’s decree and a unique withdrawal of free will, those who would use their free will to cause nuclear explosions will be thwarted in their attempts. Acting upon this decree is God’s responsibility and by His instructions, your space brothers have prevented and will continue to prevent detonation of nuclear warheads in space weaponry.

The planetary cleansing that has been underway for more than half a century is an entirely separate issue from anything the photon belt might be doing. But Earth absolutely is not within the belt. A planet could not enter that vast powerful roving force, or even be near it, without unmistakable dramatic effects. Another consideration is, the predominant form of energy in any atmosphere dictates the type of power usage. Earth’s primary power is electrical because of the predominance of electrons, not the photons that are the composition of the belt and give it that appropriate name.

“Planet X,” as it sometimes is called, is not Nibiru approaching your vicinity on a potential collision course. What had been traveling your way is an asteroid the size of Venus, and some of the civilizations that have been preserving your planet in the other ways I’ve mentioned have steered it into a direction away from you.

Other types of their assistance underway are not recognized as what they actually are, either. For example, the heightening of conscience. That layer of the soul that guides the consciousness in line with the soul’s chosen missions is being reinforced by the intensifying light these high beings are adding to your own and beaming to others.

Some of these extraterrestrials, looking just like you, are in your midst. Along with shining Earth souls, they are gaining influence in governments, international corporations, law and justice systems and the banking and medical fields, the major establishments that for so long have curtailed others’ free will choices to get beyond their controls. You will see the top ranks of these major institutions either turning into honorable leaders or being forced out by others who will take the reins and provide fair, caring and meaningful services to the people. These leaders will see that Earth’s abundant resources are not exploited but are shared equitably.

Other marvelous changes are coming. When Earth is completely within fourth density, diseases such as AIDS, cancers and degenerative physical and mental conditions will disappear. For several years the increasing light on Earth has been changing the cellular structure of bodies and the new cells have no programming for those or other diseases.

In previous eras telepathy was commonplace communication not only between Earth and Nirvana, but between Earth and other universal civilizations. This connection will be reestablished. Not only between Earth and “space,” but between you and your animals and your Devic kingdom. Brutality to animals and your environment will be displaced by respect and benevolent treatment in the knowing that every life form is connected energetically with every other life form.

Astral travel also will become commonplace again, but I want to give you a word of caution about that right now. Even for the experienced travelers, this is not the time to be doing it casually and it surely is not the time for anyone to aspire to start mastering it. The turbulence on Earth is a microcosm of the universe, and there are no “Danger” signs of the pitfalls along the universal highways.

The dark forces cannot create souls, but they can trick or capture them when fear or despair weaken their light essence. Novice astral travelers cannot safely navigate all the risky areas that will exist until the entire light grid-work has been constructed. The weak link in this galaxy is Earth’s atmosphere due to the heavy negativity still prevailing. When that has been dispersed or transmuted, this part of the grid can be completed and the dark forces no longer can lurk in search of unwary souls.

Any forthcoming planetary cleansing to dislodge the negativity still burdening Earth will never require underground living. Yes, more destruction will occur, but not nearly to the extent required before the many extraterrestrial civilizations answered Earth’s cry for help. I do not mean that underground living will not be possible, only that it will not be necessary. When Earth once again is flourishing as her former self, it’s hard to imagine that you would not choose to live in the midst of that beauty.

True, highly spiritual beings have been thriving happily and graciously in Earth’s interior for ages. The first of those arrived at a time when the planet was still in a recovery mode from such drastic changes that all life was lost, and repopulating was once again undertaken by the same ancestors of the original Earth human population. The first contingent that arrived found living much more hospitable underground as the planet’s surface had not reached a point of recovery for comfortable living. Due to their spirituality level, those souls retained their knowledge of their beginnings and all experiencing since then.

There will not be two planet Earths, one that stays in third density to support those who are resistant to the light and one that ascends with all her light-receptive souls. Earth is one soul, not two, and she has chosen to journey into higher then higher frequencies.

These fallacious theories and no doubt many others are swirling around, and that is all right! It isn’t necessary that one belief be accepted by all as long as the light is guiding your pathway. I shall close by telling you something else I have told my mother. She had read an article in which everything except two points was the same as I had been telling her for years, and she was distressed because she felt I had given her faulty information on those issues. One was that underground living would be a necessity, and the other was that Earth is within the photon belt.

“Mother, what I especially wish to emphasize here is that the little variations in truthful information make no difference! I know you regard that article's two points of deviation from my own as very significant, but actually, they are inconsequential. It is possible that some words came out of order or were heard indistinctly so similar words were recorded – this is not unusual at all in telepathic communication. Telepathy has its own filtering system and each receiver has his or hers, so the originating thought may not be received exactly as the source transmitted it. That is why some messages received through our various channels are in agreement, sometimes even with similar terminology or phrasing, and other messages are at variation in some respects.

“These slightly differing views of overall truth are not going to put one segment of a soul-searching population in one growth place based on their perspective and another segment in a different level because they believe something a wee bit different. Both views – and their myriad kindred spirit variations – are milestones on the lighted pathway, where identical footsteps are not necessary. Souls who are seeking the Christed light don't have to step in time like synchronized marchers. Their route is the same, their destination is the same, their desire to be traveling there is the same. But the souls are unique!

“One may pass a rose bush and smile in memory of the gift of roses for special occasions. Another may see a lilac bush and linger to absorb its fragrance, thinking of that enjoyment in childhood. Another may miss both of those but spot a bluebird and recall the thrill of seeing a nest of bluebird fledglings long ago. What attracts these souls differs, their moments and memories differ, but their journey is not altered and their destination is unchanged.”

Now my kindred spirits, I leave you with this thought: A smile is the easiest way to spread love and light and healing. The ripple effects of just one heartfelt smile are incalculable.

With the same loving embrace and honor in which I greeted you, this is Matthew bidding you hasta luego.

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