Divine Encounters Episode 099 | Near-Death Experience Story
Shawna Ristic says she was a young woman in Kansas City, uneasy with the path she was on, when a car crash on Christmas Day left her in a coma for about four weeks. In this Divine Encounters episode she tells Alex Ferrari about six tall beings of light she calls the council, a review of how her life touched others, and a choice about whether to stay.
Key Takeaways
- Shawna says she saw spirits as a child, and shut that part of herself down when her parents did not take her seriously.
- She describes a stretch of her early twenties in Kansas City that left her feeling jaded, and a 4 a.m. conversation in which she said she wanted out.
- She says she had a sense of a coming car accident and a whispered nudge, for about two weeks, to wear her seat belt.
- She describes a coma of about four weeks, and waking in a bright white room with six tall light beings she calls the council.
- She says she felt how her words had hurt a close friend, and was shown how her leaving could ripple outward like lights going out across a city.
- She says she chose to stay after seeing her mother hold her hand, and after learning that hundreds of cards and prayers had come in for her.
- She describes a tribe of guides, ancestors and close companions who she says travel with each of us.
| Guest | Shawna Ristic |
| Episode | Divine Encounters 099 |
| What Shawna says happened | A car crash on Christmas Day, followed by about four weeks in a coma |
| Where she says she went | A bright white room, and a space where everything was white |
| Who she met | Six tall beings of light she calls the council, and a larger circle of about twelve |
| What she went through | A review of how she affected others, and a view of what her leaving would change |
| The choice | Whether to stay or return; she says she did not want to come back at first |
| The message | We are co-creators with the divine, and a tribe of guides is closer than we think |
A Haunted Childhood and a Door She Closed
Alex starts with his usual question, and Shawna goes straight back to childhood. She says she thought her house was haunted. Doors shut on their own. Stairs creaked. Drawers rattled. She says she saw what she calls disincarnate spirits.
One day she sat her parents down on the couch and told them the house was haunted and she needed help. They said it was just the imagination of a child. Shawna told them to wait and see. At that moment, she says, the doorbell went off by itself, and then the attic fan did too. Her parents later had ordinary explanations, a short in the doorbell, a fan not turned off all the way.
That, she says, is when she realized she had little support. She shut it down. She had also seen The Exorcist, and it frightened her. She was scared for years, she says, and she learned to tell the experiences to go away. By high school she felt she had closed off a part of herself, and she was still too afraid to open it back up.
Kansas City, Modeling and Wanting Out
After graduating from high school, Shawna left home quickly. She worked as a bridal consultant at a mall so she could model on the side, but Kansas City, she says, was not a big hub for models, especially ones who look a little more exotic, as she puts it. She was in college without being sure why, just because that is what you are supposed to do.
When she lost her job, a woman in her class mentioned a way to make money. Shawna said yes. She ended up working as a dancer in a club for about a year. She thought it would be good money and flexible enough for modeling auditions. After a while, she says, she got jaded and fed up, and it began changing her. She moved back in with her parents, who did not know what she did. She says she was not proud of it.
One night around 4 a.m., over coffee at a breakfast shop with a close friend after a long shift, she said something she now calls the kind of thing you say at that hour: “I know I came here for a reason.” She also said the place was hard, that she wanted out of her contract, that she just wanted to be done.
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A Warning, a Seat Belt and Christmas Day
In the fall of 1993, Shawna took a modeling trip to Atlanta, then a rising hub for the industry. She set clear terms with the man who invited her: separate rooms, no funny business. She says one evening he made it clear he had other plans, she froze, and he told her she did not want this and sent her back to her room. She lay awake asking herself how far she was really going to take this. She felt it would leave a mark on her relationships and her life.
She had another trip planned for Christmas Day, in Minnesota with a friend of the owner of the club. That night, she says, she woke with a sudden thought that she was going to be in a car accident. She told herself not to think that way, and put it aside. She also says that for about two weeks something had been whispering to her, “you need to wear your seat belt.” Back then she had not been wearing one. She started.
On Christmas Day her family opened gifts, then left to visit relatives. Shawna went upstairs to nap before the drive, overslept, and rushed onto the highway in her car, one of those early bag phones plugged in beside her. Running late, she reached for the phone while passing a car on a bridge, and almost hit it. She swerved. What happened after that, she says, she mostly learned later: she believes the car went into the median and flipped, and she was found some distance away.
Two nurses were on the scene right away, one behind her and one in the other direction. Shawna says she never met them, though years later she kept sending thank-you notes.
Hazy White, a Broken Body and Four Weeks Away
Shawna says she does not remember the crash itself. Some memories have come back through meditation, because as she puts it, consciousness is consciousness, and she had to have been somewhere. She recalls rising out of her body and being above, everything hazy and white, with lots of swirly colors. Then she remembers coming back into her body and thinking, “This thing is so broken.”
She says she was taken by ambulance to her hometown, where a trauma doctor who was only there about twice a month happened to be on duty that day. She was then flown by helicopter to Kansas City. She says she spent about four weeks in a coma, with a long list of injuries to her face, ribs, lung, pelvis and ankle. She does not remember the helicopter.
What she does remember is opening her eyes in a bright white room.
Six Tall Beings Called the Council
Shawna says six tall beings stood beside her, three on each side. She describes them as light beings, glowing, in a roughly human form. She had seen a light being in her house as a child, so she knew what she was looking at.
They felt like love, she says, but not the love we attach conditions to here. It was a feeling of okayness. She remembers the message as simple: “We are happy to be with you.” They lifted her out of her body, and she stood with them in a room where everything was white, like a space. She embraced them. It felt like family without baggage.
She describes a reciprocity in how they gave and received love. They gave to her, and when she received it, it filled them up and gave back to them. She says that is how it really functions in that world. She came to understand that she had come into this life on a mission, and that these beings were part of her team. She calls them the council. She says she chose to come into a body, and that they were going to stay.
Feeling a Friend’s Pain and the Lights of a City
They showed her what she had done up to that point, and especially how she had made other people feel. This is the kind of experience the glossary calls a life review. For Shawna, it centered on her best friend at the time, who had wanted to be more than a friend. She says she had been too caught up in everything else, and not ready. She saw how she had spoken to him, how she had treated him, and she felt his pain from his perspective and from her own. She calls it profound.
Then, she says, they showed her what her leaving would do to the planet. She does not think she is unique. She believes “we are so much more impactful than we have been led to believe.” They showed her how her brother’s relationships with women would change from there on, perhaps so much that he would never have one.
She describes it as looking out of an airplane at night at a city’s lights, all of them connected. If one goes out, she says, it can create a surge that spreads through the whole grid and puts others out, even far away. That is what would happen if she left. Then they showed her what was possible if she stayed.
Stay or Go: A Mother’s Hand
Did she want to go or stay? Shawna says she did not want to come back. She remembers telling them she loved it there, and that she had reneged on her contract here. A lot of it, she says, was about coming to terms with that.
She remembers looking down on her hospital bed from a corner of the room, near the top of the door. Her mother was sitting beside the bed, holding her hand. Shawna says she could feel what her mother was feeling, and she thought: “I can’t do this to her.” She thought the same about her family and the others who loved her.
Later she learned her mother had saved every card. There were hundreds of them, including fifty or sixty prayer grams from churches and from people she had never met. She found it humbling that so many people knew and were putting energy out to bring her back.
Her last memory, she says, is of being in a circle of about twelve beings. She felt they were debating whether she would go or stay, or whether someone else might take her place, the kind of thing sometimes called a walk-in, though she does not think that happened. That was her first memory of coming back.
Waking Up, Rehab and a Life of Service
Waking from the coma, Shawna says, took effort. Getting into the body and staying there is hard. She was moved to a neurological hospital in Gardner, Kansas. She says she was told rehabilitation would take four to six months, and she did it in four weeks. She says she was also told she would never live on her own again, and would need mental assistance. None of that, she says, turned out to be true. She calls it a miracle, and adds that coming back into a body was challenging.
For her, a fulfilled life means being of service. She talks about watching people transform. The day before the interview, she says, a client who had not slept for days called to say she had slept, because they had listened to her inner child instead of trying to control it. Shawna says she sometimes wonders if it all had to happen anyway, one way or another.
The Tribe, Co-Creators and Finding Your Way Home
Shawna says we are co-creators with the divine, and that even if we choose another path, guidance is persistent: “it’s a whisper, and then it’s a yelling.” The council taught her a concept she calls the tribe, which includes guides, ancestors and other beings who assist us at different times.
She explains it this way, for lack of a better concept. Each of us came from our own planet, among people of a similar vibration and love frequency. When your consciousness travels to Earth, some close beings agree to come with you or to stay behind and accompany you from there. They are so close, she says, that we often do not feel them as separate. They are the ones behind the small serendipities, like seeing 111 on the clock or finding exactly what you need. For her, the council is that tribe. If you want a place to start on this theme, our guide to communicating with spirit guides and the glossary entry on soul groups are good companions.
She says many of us are so busy looking out there for help that we forget to drop in here. When you drop in, she says, you can feel them, and you can feel the great all that is: “ever present pregnant possibility.” She describes it as a vibration of love that holds everything, the void and the potential at once, always working in our favor even when we cannot see it. Her closing words to listeners are simple: “Find your way home.”
Placing Shawna’s Story Beside Other Accounts
Some of what Shawna describes is familiar to people who read near-death accounts: a sense of leaving the body, light beings, unconditional love, a review of one’s life and a decision about whether to return. A few details feel more personal to her, including the council of six, the city-lights picture and the idea of a tribe. A 2001 study in The Lancet led by Pim van Lommel found that 62 of 344 cardiac arrest survivors, about 18 percent, reported a near-death experience, which gives a sense of how often people report some version of these themes. Shawna’s story is not from a cardiac arrest, and the study says nothing about her account in particular.
What it all means is still debated. At Next Level Soul we share these accounts as experiences, in the person’s own words, and we do not make medical claims. If you are new to the topic, start with our complete guide to near-death experiences.
There is a quiet practical thread in her story too. She grew up believing something was wrong with her for noticing what she noticed, and spent years numbing it. What she describes at the end is not a dramatic power. It is attention, service, and learning to listen inward before looking outward.
Questions to Sit With
- Shawna shut down a sensitive part of herself as a child. Is there something in you that you closed off to feel safe, and what would it ask of you now?
- She says we are far more impactful than we are led to believe. Who in your life would feel the absence of your light?
- Where do you look outside yourself for help that you could also look for by dropping in?
This week, set aside ten quiet minutes. Put a hand on your chest, breathe slowly, and ask what you most need to hear. Write down whatever comes, without judging it.
Spiritual Takeaways
- Shawna says love on the other side has no conditions, only okayness.
- She says our lives are connected like lights across a city, so each of us matters more than we think.
- She describes a tribe of guides, ancestors and close companions who travel with us.
- She says guidance starts as a whisper and grows louder when we ignore it.
- She says we are co-creators with the divine, and being of service is where she found meaning.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Shawna Ristic?
Shawna Ristic is a near-death experiencer who says she saw spirits as a child, shut that part of herself down, and later survived a car crash on Christmas Day. She shares her story with Alex Ferrari in this Divine Encounters episode.
What happened to Shawna Ristic?
Shawna says she was in a car crash on Christmas Day and then spent about four weeks in a coma. She says she remembers leaving her body and later waking in a bright white room with light beings.
Who is the council Shawna describes?
Shawna says six tall beings of light stood beside her, three on each side, and that she later saw a larger circle of about twelve. She calls them the council and says they felt like family without baggage.
What did Shawna learn from her life review?
She says she felt a close friend’s pain from both his perspective and her own, and saw how her words and behavior had hurt him. She says she also learned how much impact each person has on others.
What is the city lights picture Shawna talks about?
Shawna says she was shown a city at night from an airplane, with every light connected. If one light goes out, she says, a surge can spread through the grid, which is how she understood the effect of her leaving.
Why did Shawna return?
She says she did not want to come back at first. She says she saw her mother holding her hand and thought she could not do that to her family, and later learned that hundreds of cards and prayers had come in for her.
What does Shawna mean by the tribe?
She describes guides, ancestors and close companions who agree to accompany a person on their journey to Earth. She says they are often the ones behind small serendipities like seeing 111 on a clock.
Did Shawna have a warning before the crash?
She says she woke one night with a sudden sense she would be in a car accident, and that for about two weeks she heard a whisper to wear her seat belt. She says she put the thought aside.
How long did Shawna say her recovery took?
Shawna says she was told rehabilitation would take four to six months and that she did it in four weeks. She also says she was told she would never live on her own again, which she says was not true.
What is Shawna’s message for listeners?
She says we are co-creators with the divine, and that love is always working in our favor even when we cannot see it. She ends the conversation with the words, “Find your way home.”
Does Next Level Soul say a near-death experience is real?
Next Level Soul shares near-death experiences as lived experiences told in the person’s own words. Researchers continue to study and debate what they mean. Nothing here is medical advice or a medical claim.
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Alex Ferrari 0:00
Tell me what your life was like before you died.
Shawna Ristic 0:08
When I was a kid, I thought my house was haunted and had a lot of doors shutting, seeing different disincarnate spirits, or, you know, hearing the stairs creak and drawers rattling, or lots of different things like that. And then I sat my parents on the couch and told them, you know, us is haunted and I need some help. And they're like, oh, that's just the occupant imagination of a child. And I said, You just wait. You'll see. And at that moment, the door, the doorbell, went off by itself, and the attic fan went off by itself. But of course, then the doorbell has short and it the attichan just wasn't turned off all the way. That made me really realize that I didn't have a lot of support in this and whatever I was experiencing, and I really shut it down and tried to not experience those sort of things anymore, because I thought, you know, either I'm not safe or I'm cuckoo or something, what's going on here? And I'd seen like The Exorcist, and that pretty much freaked me out and did me. And then I was really scared for a bunch of years, and I learned this technique that I want to see this go away. But then, when I was getting into my, you know, high school years, I was I started modeling and was doing that sort of genre of work, and finishing high school, and felt like I had really shut off a part of myself because of that fear. But I was still so afraid, I hadn't really wanted to open it back up. And then, after I graduated high school, I left home pretty quickly, got a job as a bridal consultant at a mall, so I could still be modeling on the side, you know, trying to get a curriculum, but I was in Kansas City, and that's not really a big at that point. Wasn't there a big hug for models, especially models that look a little more exotic, like I do, and so just kind of struggling with that and going to college, but not really sure why, just because that's what you're supposed to do. And then I lost my job, and woman in my class was like, I know how you can make some money and but you got to be willing to do it. And I was like, I'll do it, whatever. And it was a strip bar. So I ended up working in a strip bar as a dancer for about a year. And I thought it was a good idea because I was kind of fed up with, you know, going out in the evenings and dealing with men, man handling and all of that. No offense, at least I'm kind of benefiting from that, and thought it would be a way to make good money, and I could still even go and go sees and modeling and stuff like that. But then, you know, after a while of doing it, kind of got a little jaded, got a little fed up, and it really started changing me. I thought I wanted out, and I was trying to find way out. I moved back home with my parents at that point, and was trying to figure it out. They didn't know what I did. I kind of lied what of lied. Wasn't really proud of it. And then, you know, I remember sitting at coffee one night with it, with my close friend at that time, and I told him, I said, you know, I know I came here for a reason. I'm sure I have, but this place is really hard. It's really hard here, and they want people to eat each other, and I think I want to renege my contract. I just want to go. Just want to be done. And that was kind of just one of those things you say at like, you know, 4am after working in a strip ball all night drinking coffee at 4am you know, in a breakfast shop. So I went on one trip at the end and fall of 93 and that was to Georgia, because Atlanta was an up and coming hub in the modeling industry at that point. So I thought, well, I'll just go. I told the guys only on the up and up. No funny business. I get my own room. It's separate, you know, not. There's no, no funny business involved. And he just said, I'm just bored and lonely, and they just want company. Okay, so I'll just go to some go sees and go check out some agencies. And then when I was there, it was, he called me in his room when I was pretty clear he had other plans. And then, you know, I kind of froze, and he was like, you don't want this. Go back to your room. Gracefully escaped. And I was laying in my bed that night, and I was like, you know, what am I doing here? How far am I really going to take this? Because this is going to be soul damage. If I, you know, go through with this, this is really going to leave a mark. It's going to really influence my relationships and my life from here on out. And I knew that, but I was kind of down this path, and I had another trip planned for Christmas Day and with another client or customer, and that one was a friend of the owner. But you know, like, how safe is that it's true bar owner. So I fell asleep at night, at night in bed, and I was really contemplating all this, and then I wake up in the middle of the night and I sit in bed, I'm like, holy cow, I'm going to be in a car accident, and it's going to be a miracle of ice. And I was like, oh, self fulfilling prophecy. Don't even think that way. That aside, put that aside. Put that aside. You know, we went back to Kansas after that trip, and then Christmas day arrived, and that was the day for that Minnesota trip. So I Christmas day arrived, and I was living with my parents, and we were going to do the normal little Christmas thing, you know, we all come downstairs and we open up gifts and we have food and all that stuff. And we did that. And then my family, my brother and my parents left to go see to extended family, and I was just gonna go upstairs, take a nap, and then get ready to leave. And then I fell asleep, and then I overslept, and then I woke up, and I was like, so I put clothes, and I jumped into my car, and I'm zooming down the road and get up on the highway. And this is back, you know, in the 90s, when we had when cell phones were just starting, and they were those bag phones you plug into the cigarette lighter. And I thought I was cool, because I actually had one, and seat belts weren't. And so I hadn't been wearing one, but something you've been telling me, I whisper, for about two weeks, you need to wear your seat belt. So I put my seat belt on. I was zooming down the highway. It was going about 75 I think the speed limit was 60 at the point that point, I was flying down the highway, going past a car going over bridge, and I was like. Okay, I need to call this guy and tell him I'm on my way. I'm not going to be late, but I'm gonna be really close, so so he won't think I'm not, not gonna make it. He's gonna wait for me. So I bend over. The phone was in the floorboard of my passenger side of my car, so I'm like, Okay, well, I gotta go over this bridge at least, and I gotta pass this car at least until I go over the bridge and I'm just about past the car, so I think, seat belt off, and I bend over to pick it up, and as I come up, became close to hitting the car I was passing, and so I swerved to miss. And what I think happened is that I fish tailed and then I thought I was going to pull over and catch my breath, because that's kind of what I remembered happening when I started coming out of the coma. That's not what happened. I think what happened is that I nose dived into the median, and then I flipped in over, in across the medium, which was about like two lanes of traffic, and then I flipped it over in across the two lanes of traffic, going the other direction. And then they found me about 40 feet from the car face down, turning blue, just blood. At this car behind me was a nurse. She saw the whole thing. And the next car from the other direction was also a nurse. So there were two nurses, and God, immediately there on the scene, they said, basically, all she did was try to hold my airway. When there was so much blood, she just tried to stabilize me. And she gave me this great story. See, I never met them, and then after years later, I kept writing them thank you. Notes. I have meditated a little bit to try to remember the access scene. What I really remembered when I came out happened more, I think probably after the coma part, I remember being in a room, and so I don't know if that was at the hospital. I don't really know where my body was at that time, but in my meditation, I've, you know, like, consciousness is consciousness, those memories have to be there, and they have to be able to do I was somewhere. And so I've tried to sit and meditate. And I have some memories of, kind of coming up out of body and being above and just sort of everything's kind of hazy and white. And, you know, it's Christmas Day, so it's probably white and gray and snowy, I'm not sure, but lots of swirly colors. And then I remember coming back in body and going, This is ridiculous. This thing is so broken, there's nothing. I couldn't do anything. It was like this hollow shell. They ambulanced me to back to my hometown, or my body in my hometown, because if they there was a trauma doctor there who's only there, like twice a month, and she happened to be there that day. Otherwise, they would have ambulance me to Olathe, which I probably wouldn't made it next to 20 minutes. And then they lifeline me by helicopter to Kansas City after I was able, or whatever they did with me there, I don't remember the lifeline me to Kansas City, and then I spent about four weeks in a coma. I broke my chin off. I had metal plates in my face. I broke six ribs, forefront and back puncher, lung, cracked, pelvis, broken ankle, had injuries, big, swollen head. That's kind of what happened to my body. And then what I remember is that, as I said, there's some of those memories that have kind of come back around the accident itself. You know, that's come in meditation later, but I remember is like opening my eyes and being in this really bright white lit room, and there's these six tall being standing next to me, one three on each side. And they're like, these light beings. They're like, I'd seen a light being in my house once when I was a kid, so I kind of knew what that looked like. You know, just sort of, they're very tall and kind of just this glowing. They kind of have a human form, but they just look glowing. They just glow. And they emanate love, like real love, not like the love that we put all the attachments and conditions on in this world, just okayness, like Hello. We are happy to be with you. And they, they lifted me up out of my body, and then I was standing in this room with him, and everything was bright white. I don't know if it was the hospital room. I don't remember seeing anybody else. It just was bright white, and everything was just sort of white, and like a space. And then they, I remember embracing them, and I felt like, wow, this is like family without baggage. You know, you feel this beautiful okayness from them, like reciprocity. It's like they love you, and they they want to give to you, and they give to you that love. But then when you receive it. It fills them up so much that it gives back to them. And that's how you create reciprocity. That's how it really functions in this world. Frankly, they showed me what would happen if or what I came to do. I understood that I had come to kind of like a mission or for something to help represent them, or they were, you know, part of my team, or something like that. I call them the council, and we were kind of a team here, and that I had chosen to come in the body, and they're going to stay. And they showed me what I had done to this point, and I saw, you know, some memories of experiences I'd had in the past, and especially how I made other people feel, especially this good friend I had, he was my best friend at the time, and always wanted to be more than that, and I was too caught up in everything else, not ready for that. And I just saw how the way I had spoken to him, the way things that I had treated him, how I had really been with him, how that had hurt him, and I felt his pain from like his perspective, but also from mine. And it was really profound. And then they also showed me, you know, like, what my leaving that impact would have on the planet. And I say me, but I don't think I'm unique in this. I think this is everybody that we are so much more impactful than we have been led to believe. And they showed me how my brother would be like he would transform all his relationships with women from here on out, maybe he would never even have a relationship. It showed me kind of like looking out of an airplane at. Night at the city lights, and you'd see like, all the lights in the city and how they're all sort of connected. And if one light goes out, can create like a power surge that spreads through the grid and bends others and puts others out and even far away, like so if a life goes out, it creates this surge through the power grid. That's what would happen if I left, and then they showed me what was possible from here on out. And so did I want to go or stay, you know, I didn't want to come back. I was like, This is great. I said. I reneged my contact here. I just really love it here. And I saw like, you know, so a lot of it was about me trying to make come to terms with that. And I remember looking down at my hospital bed from like, the corner of the room, so, like, the door was here, and then I'm looking up from the doorway, top of the door, and in the beds over here. And I remember seeing my mom holding my hand and just kind of sitting there and thinking I could feel what she was feeling. And I remember thinking, wow, I can't do this to her. I can't do this to my family. I can't do this to these people. You know, I found out that I had received. My mom saved all the cards and everything that I'd received while I was in there, and there were hundreds of them, and there were like, 5060, prayer grams, from churches, from people I don't even know, you know. And I just so humbling. I'm like, wow, that that many people knew and were pulling from me, putting the energy out there to bring me back. And then the last thing I remember is being in a circle of these beings, and they're probably like 12 of them. And I didn't feel that was the first memory I had in coming back. And that's what I really was poignant with me. And I remember thinking that I didn't really have a choice, or that they were kind of debating whether I was going to go or stay, or do we do, like, do we switch out and someone else go in? You know, kind of that walk in thing, which I don't think happened. And then I started waking up from a coma. Is is hard. It takes a lot of effort to get into body and to stay there. And then they transferred me to a neurological Hospital in Gardner, Kansas, and that's where I started really waking up. And you know, the miracles of the healing was that they said it would take four to six, four to six months to rehab from the neurological hospital. I did it four weeks. They said I would never live on my own again. I would always need mental assistance. I'd be mentally handicapped. I'd be a miracle if I could, you know, sustain my own life. And none of that's true. So, you know, it was a miracle, but coming back in a body was pretty challenging, fulfilled life. I think that's probably different for each person, but for me, being of service, really, it's so gratifying to watch people transform and change. I had some sessions yesterday that were just, you know, someone who hasn't slept for days called me and said I slept last night, you know, and because we got in touch with her inner child and listened instead of trying to control it, you know. And I don't know, just be of service and to be able to help transform this world in even small ways. It's just sometimes I look back and I think maybe it all had to happen anyway, divine or good friend. But in that light, I think it's important to recognize that we are co creators with the divine, and even if you get kicked off track, even if you're co creators, you choose to take the other path. They're pretty persistent, like we said in the beginning, it's a whisper, and then it's a yelling, and then, you know, a concept. So this council has kind of taught me this concept of what they call the tribe, talking about guides and our ancestors and all of these beings that are here, helping and assisting us. And assisting us in different times in our lives. But there's also these beings. I like to explain it, for lack of better, for concept, we each came from our own planet, and in on that planet, everybody there is of a similar vibration that you are and a similar love frequency and that when you're going to come and your consciousness is going to travel through space time to come to planet earth. There are a certain amount of beings that are close to your family there agree to accompany you on this journey, or maybe stay after your body there and accompany your consciousness here. And that they're so close to you that you often don't even feel them as separate, but they're the ones who do that little serendipity thing, like, you know, you look at the clock and it's always says, 111, you know, or you know you need something, and it happens to appear, or, you know, you find fortune cookie fortunes everywhere, you know, or whatever. And that it's important to recognize that, you know, that's what the council is. For me, it's that tribe that is here guiding each of us. You know, we all have that. And I think that so many of us are so busy looking out there for help, we forget to drop in here. Because when you drop in here, then you can feel them, the great all that is, it's that ever present pregnant possibility, pregnant potentiality. It's this vibration of love that holds everything, and that is at the one same time, the void and all the emptiness, where everything is nothing, and at the same time, pregnant potentiality, where everything can spring forth from it all comes forward in love, and it's always there for working in our benefit, working in our favor, even If we can't see it. Find your way home.
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