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Riana Arendse 0:00
So there are so many things that is yet to transpire within the next five years, but yet the focus remains inward. You are trying to be something you already are, and that, in a moment, clicked for me, and I realized, why am I trying to be something I already am? Can you trust the unfolding of life? Can you trust you? If you thought awakening and surrendering was a choice, it is no longer a choice.
Alex Ferrari 0:24
The more I tried to hold on, the more it slipped away, only when I decided to let go completely.
Riana Arendse 0:30
Your journey, whether it's spiritual or not, whatever it is for you, your journey on this planet Earth, power that you're walking is designed to bring you back to your authenticity. Sometimes you can have to play a role until it gets to the end of that role. And that was when Jesus sort of visited me in an encounter. And what he showed me in that moment was him walking through the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. You
Alex Ferrari 1:06
I like to welcome to the show Riana Arendse, how you doing Riana?
Riana Arendse 1:09
Oh, good. Thank you for having me.
Alex Ferrari 1:11
Thank you so much for for coming on the show. I do appreciate it. I know you're calling from South Africa today, so that's I think you're in the you're either in tomorrow. I don't know what your time zone is. There you might be tomorrow. So you might be in the future. I think you definitely are in the future. Calling me from the future.
Riana Arendse 1:27
I am. I think I'm seven hours ahead of you.
Alex Ferrari 1:31
Okay, so let us so let us know how things are going. Okay? So, Riana, you've had such an interesting life journey up to this point in in your life, and with all the work that you're doing as a spiritual teacher, the work you do as a conscious, conscious channel, and before we go deep down that rabbit hole, I want to know what was your life like Before this insanity has has taken over your life because was it did you? Did you start it early on when you were a child? Or did this kind of develop as you got older? When did this actually start for you?
Riana Arendse 2:10
Oh, my goodness, my journey is, it's, it's, it's quite complex. But to sum it in one word, quite challenging, quite challenging for me growing up, I'm going to take you back to where it started, but I want to, I want to mention that I I had many of my gifts and abilities already awakened when as as a young child, I remember having premonitions and having dreams about things that would happen. And then it occurred. I remembered communicating with those that have passed over. So I had this mediumship abilities. But to me, it was sort of normal. I just grew up with it and it was normal. And so I was very connected to spirit. But I also had a lot of other abilities, which I didn't know. I that it was an ability until after the fact, like if I can recognize now my clear cognizance or my knowing was the most, my strongest clear at that point. So I had a very deep knowing before anything else. I would know something, and then I would feel it in my body, what feel it in my being. But I would always sort of brush it aside and not take note of it, and not take note of my intuition. And I would go with what everyone else said instead. And then I would follow, you know, the the status quo, follow the society, follow what the Church says, what my parent says. And so I sort of just, I just didn't take note of my own intuition. And my clear Cognizant was quite strong at the time, looking back on that now, but my journey from my childhood was very, very dark. In essence, it was dark because from a very, very young age I had experienced, which I know now, or many initiations that I had to go undergo. And it was a lot of, tell me, a lot of suffering, a lot of sexual abuse, sexual rapes, if you will, over a substantial amount of years, from very young adult childhood up until my early 20s. So it was a recurring theme that constantly played. And it wasn't one individual. It was many individuals. It was a constant thing that I always just came across every single time it happened, it happened, it happened, amongst other things. Nonetheless, there were many times that, because I was so sensitive, um, I picked up on so many other people's energies, and I took it on as my own, and I thought it was all mine. It was all my darkness. It was all my stuff. And there were many times, a number of times I believe, I think back on now that I actually wanted to take my own life, but every time I tried to do that, something happened to sort of stop me from taking my life. I remember keeping all these secrets within me no one knew, or at least my immediate family. They didn't know what had happened to me all those years, it was my. Secret. It was my thing that I carried to my bedroom every single night, and I kept that within me, I kept that shame, I kept that embarrassment, I kept that guilt, I kept that that pain, I just kept it and I suppressed it, and I dug it as deep as I could within my being, and I tried to put him a smile on my face. I tried to still show up for everyone and be this, this girl that everyone wanted me to be, because I had a lot of potential, but I never seemed to get to where I wanted to be. It almost felt like I was always dealt the short end of the stick, no matter how hard I tried, no matter what I did, no matter how hard I tried to get my parents validation or society's validation, no matter how beautiful I sang, no matter how smart I was, it was never, ever enough. I was always doubt the hand that was more negative. Everyone else was sort of moving, having different experiences in me, and I couldn't understand why, why my life had to be that cursed in that moment, from since I was born, actually, I felt like my life was cursed. And I remember over and over thinking to myself, something is not right here, man, something is something is not right, not with me, not with life. There's something not right in this old experience, something is missing. I'm missing something. I'm not it's like I couldn't remember something that was in the back of my head. I just couldn't put my finger on something. I knew something wasn't right, and that remained a thorn in my mind for many, many years to come. I I asked the constant questions, is this all there is to life is what I'm here for, just to have to achieve, have a successful job and get married eventually. And, you know, have just do what everyone else is doing. Is this what life is about? And that's it. Because I got to a point where I achieved those things to a certain degree, but I was still so miserable inside of my being, I didn't I couldn't see what the point of life was. If this was all there was, and I knew there had to be more, I started asking the bigger questions, until eventually, some of those questions began to answer themselves. And this is sort of when my spiritual awakening happened in my mid 20s. I believe I remember standing in my room. I was awake. I was busy getting dressed or undressed, I can't remember, and in that moment, it felt almost as if I had sunk into the earth, like if you were dropping down, like you know when you get light headed and it feels like you're just dropping down. That's what I felt in the moment. But then when I sort of opened my inner eyes, what I could see from that perspective was I could see my higher self almost narrating my life from a different vantage point. So there's was a greater aspect of self that was looking at the smaller aspect of myself and narrating my life as I was moving through through life. And I sat with that for a little bit, and I tried to understand what I was being shown here for a moment. And in that moment of shock, I wasn't shocked, but I was also very, very familiar with what I was receiving in that moment, and I realized that these things weren't really happening to me. It was all part of a greater design that I had created for myself, so that I could have certain experiences, so that I could awaken to something greater, so that I could serve a greater purpose, so that I can I could see that the polarity between sides the extremities. I could see the darkness that I had endured and the light that I had still yet to experience. I could also see the purpose that needed to unfold for me and what I would be doing of service for others and for myself. Eventually, from that moment on, I remember being so happy for the very first time my entire life. I remember being so happy because finally, something made sense to me. Finally I knew that all this time, I thought in my mind that was there, constantly telling me there had to be more that this is not making any sense. They're telling me this, they're telling me this, but it's not I cannot put this puzzle together. It's not making any sense to me. And finally, that's the puzzle pieces started to form a beautiful picture, and I realized now I have something to work towards. And I remembered that everything that I'd worked towards until, up until that point, everything that I was told I need to become, that I need to achieve, all of the things that I tried to get approval for, all of the masks that I wore, all of the pretending, all of those roles that I played over time i. Realized that none of that was who I truly was as a soul being. And from that point on, I made a promise to myself that now I was going to unbecome everything that I was conditioned to be or that I thought I needed to be. And for the next two years, I isolated myself. I went to work every day, but I came home, didn't go out, didn't do anything else, and I started focusing on my healing. And I sat in stillness. I wasn't one for meditation. I still not one for meditation. My sort of process is just stillness. And so I would sit and I would just be I would sometimes stay out of the window and just allow whatever it is that wants to come into the forefront of my conscious mind, and so that it can bring me more awareness. And every time I was triggered, every time someone said something bad to me, or something bad happened to me, or a memory came up, I began to use it as an opportunity to heal and expand, instead of seeing it as a barrier to my expansion. Then it became a doorway to my liberation. It became a doorway, a gateway. And so I leaned in more, into those scary shadows, into those parts of my being that were triggered so painfully. And every time I overcame that, every time I expanded more and more and more over the two year period,
It's after those two years I started, I began working with clients, and I started doing healing work, and started teaching all of the all of the wisdom that I've gathered over that time based on my own experiences. But then one, one day I was, this is the, probably the one, one of the few times I was in meditation, I had laid on my bed, and I went into a sort of a deeper trance at that time. And the deeper I went, it almost felt like I was moving from this dimension into a different dimension, because suddenly I was in the backyard of my previous home that I lived in, and I was standing in the backyard from this perspective, and I'm looking up at the sky, and I'm seeing this huge, massive, majestic bird, which, after while I saw it. This is a dragon. This is a dragon coming towards me. And it's it's coming from very, very far in the distance. And it started coming so fast towards when I started becoming so fearful that when it came closer to me, I covered my eyes with my hands, because I was so scared. I didn't want to see its face. I didn't want to see the teeth. I didn't want to see any of that. And I closed my eyes, and I remember hearing telepathically, some being or something, saying, Rihanna, open your eyes. Rihanna, open your eyes. Rihanna, open your eyes. And I remember taking my hands off of my eyes, and I look up with fear, and it's and I can see this, this face of this dragon, but it's almost like seeing the face of a puppy, if you will. It's like a face of a baby. And it was so gentle, and it was so loving, yet so majestic, because the it was so large that I couldn't almost see this the full size of size. But it would go in and out of view. It had this pear lessened rainbow colors that it would emanate. And from that moment onwards, I every night, from the couple of nights, every single night for a few days after that, I started receiving these downloads during dream time, dream time. And I would wake up in the morning and like, Oh, I got another download. And these were sort of like teachings and codes that I would then bring forward as part of this ascension blueprint, or this initiation that the set of them wanted me to bring forward. I then thought that, you know, okay, I've been through my own initiations. I've I've been through all of these things, and now I'm here to serve needless. Did I know a few years after that, I'm already deeply surrendered. I've already surrendered deeply to that higher consciousness. I've already cultivated being, being in service as a spiritual teacher and a healer, and I've channeled many masters and angelic beings and archangels and all of these. But neither said. I know few years later that I would then need to, need to go under into another initiation. I would, I would go through another initiation, and this initiation would be the, be the biggest initiation of my life. It shook me to the core, because it was unlike anything that I'd ever experienced in my entire life. It lasted for almost three to four years, that initiation, yeah, I don't know if you don't know if you want me to go into into what that was about.
Alex Ferrari 14:42
Let's before we go into that initiation, let's take for a second. I want to before we keep going too far. I want to go back for a second because you said something really interesting, that you went through a very dark time in your childhood and through your first 20s. Many people listening right now are going through dark times currently and or. Have had a lot of trauma in their life, and they are angry about it. They carry it like a giant, you know, anvil around their neck, and really is hurting them. I think I've said this to everybody. No one comes to earth and gets and leaves unscathed. There no one, no one. Not one soul comes here and leaves that leaves unscathed, because that's the point of what we do here, is to have challenges and and and overcome them. And you said very, very interestingly, that you chose this plan. Now I understand what you mean. So blueprint, so plan in this lifetime. Why you chose this lifetime? Why you chose the country you live in, the gender you are all everything to learn certain amount of level, certain amount of lessons along the way. Can you give people who are going through this dark time in their life, or have had a really dark time, maybe some of the things that you went through or other types of dark trauma, how they can overcome them, release them, let them go, so they can kind of continue to move on, because it is a weight. It's a giant weight that sits on you, and a lot of times it's subconscious. You don't even know you're carrying the weight. I went through some of that myself with my traumas from the past, and when I let it out, I was like, Oh, I had no idea I was holding on to that. I was, Oh, my God. So can you give any advice please?
Riana Arendse 16:30
Oh, my goodness, yes. I mean, that's most of my life was just traumatic. It was one thing after the other atrocity that was just, you know, I no one should ever have to go through those things, ever, ever, and not even once. Never mind numerous times. You know, I remember even before I awakened having those experiences and still looking at my perpetrators and still looking beyond the the roles that they were playing, or their traumas, and I could see their souls. And I think even before then, I started to forgive, which I know it's not always easy, too. That was just my sort of, my sort of state of being at that time. But there was a part of me that was still angry, why I needed to be victimized, why this needed to happen to me. And so when I awakened, there was a level of not denying that I was a victim, that these things happened to me. Yes, it happened to me, and it's horrible. It shouldn't have happened. And I mean, it's, I mean, I came to terms with the fact that it happened. I came to terms with the fact that I had these perpetrators that did these things to me, but I also there was also an aspect of myself that needed to move out of that victim mentality and begin taking responsibility of my life and the the life path that that I was on. And so what I did in that moment was I decided to take a different perspective. I decided to remove myself from that limited, filtered perspective that I was looking through, and I decided to take a step back and have an omni perspective of what was actually happening right here, right now, and from that larger, grand perspective, I could see that my perpetrators were also just victims of victims, and so we all and so we all are, and I recognize that even those, even though those experiences were very traumatic for me, had I not had those experiences, I would not be in this moment, in this state of embodiment. Now, had I not experienced that level of darkness, I would never have experienced what true liberation feels like. Because for my entire life, I felt entrapped. I felt imprisoned within my own being, within my own body, and I never knew what freedom felt like. Now I know what it actually feels like. It's, it's the idea that, if you're born into wealth, how could you ever really appreciate wealth to it's to that degree if you don't know what it feels like to not have wealth, it's that sort of dynamic that I'm referring to. And so it's, it's, it's about recognizing, yes, I acknowledge I've been through something bad, I recognize that there are people responsible for this, but I also recognize, from a different, grander, greater perspective, that I've chosen the path that I'm on. I'm not putting blame on myself. I'm taking responsibility for what I'm stepping into, and what I'm stepping into is a greater sense of power within because I'm here to serve a greater purpose. I've chosen this path for myself to serve my expansion, but not just to serve my expansion, to remember who I am at the deepest, deepest, deepest level. I'd forgotten who I was now I remember who I am. Those experiences gives you that contrasting duality that. Contrasting emotion, that contrasting thing that is going to ultimately push you in the other direction. It's going to push you into your liberation, push you into your power, push you into your expansion, push you into that state of embodiment that you would never, never expect yourself to be in. I mean, I'm the completely different personnel, as opposed to 20 years ago, completely different, completely different. So I needed to look at my shadows in the face, but I needed to take a different perspective of all of my experiences. I needed to take an omni perspective of all of my experiences, and from that perspective, I could then clear all of those bolted lenses that I was looking through all those years, and that awareness itself was healing. For me, the Awareness itself was healing. I didn't have to implement a process. I didn't have to implement a technique, that awareness itself healed many things instantaneously in that moment. And I think awareness, first and foremost, is one of the most important factors, by taking a different perspective of your situation, of your experience, of your life as a whole, and asking a greater question, and then when you begin your healing journey, now, it's time to take responsibility not for the things that has happened to you, but for the life that you chose to live, and not only live, but the life that you chose to awaken within yourself and for others as well. I hope that that answers your question.
Alex Ferrari 21:31
It was beautifully answered. Thank you so much for that. Now, you mentioned the term Seraphim for a second as you were talking now, from my understanding, you're talking about the Seraphin angels. Can you explain, yeah, Sarah from angels, can you explain to me who they are, what they are, because they are, I've heard of them, but they're definitely not. They don't get the same press that the archangels do. So they don't get that kind of press. So can you explain to me who they are, what they are, what they're, where they come from, all that stuff,
Riana Arendse 22:04
Absolutely so before I encountered that dragon on that day, I also did not know what a Seraphim Angel was. I remember singing, growing up and singing classical hymns and music, and I remember, I remember hearing the the word Serra from cherubim, Elohim, but I never knew what it was, you know? And then once I started getting those downloads, I was shown my very first incarnation, or my very first practical of consciousness as as an as a being, and the cliff who showed me that, that I was part of their collective, right, I was shown that sort of connection to them, and that that was sort of my, my, what I was here to bring forward. But then I started asking other questions. Okay, so What? What? What do you stand for? What is this that you want me to bring forward? What? What is the the main theme? Because I believe that every angel, every master, every being of light, has a certain attribute, that that really is an attribute of God of source. It's not that they are external beings or separate entities. They are just attributes of the one source that we know. And so the seraphim explained to me that they were the direct feminine emanation of God. And then when I asked, what, what do you mean by this? They said they showed me like the womb, like a womb of creation, that when the mind of God thinks something into into reality, would organize its intention to create the seraphim being the womb then puts that into form of births that into form. And they showed me many races, many worlds, many universes that they've created. They also showed me the six wings that they have. They have these six wings. But it's it's not that the physical appearance is of a dragon. They appear to us as such, but really they are just light, pure, pure light, because they surround the throne of God, if you will. They that feminine essence of God, that feminine aspect of God. And then they mentioned that they are beings of sound and light, whereas the Elohim are beings of light and sound. And I'm like, Hm, okay, what does that mean? What does that mean? And it just meant that light has structure to it, and sound is sort of just as frequency of vibration. And so the Elohim puts whatever the Elohim puts things into structure, where the seraphim just sort of births it into that frequency, into that form, if you will. They then showed me that their purpose, or what they bring forward, is the frequency of creation power. It's that fiery essence. It's it's that they're showing me now the that what they also assisted Ascended Masters with is that they initiated many beings into the Ascended Mastery. So if you. Think of Jesus and Buddha and all of those beings that became Ascended Masters. They initiated those beings, or they put them through initiations that ultimately allowed them to step into a greatest state of embodiment where they are now called Ascended Masters. So they the set of them are, I would call them creator angels. They usually only step forward at great times of evolution, such as we are in now on planet Earth. And then that's when they usually make themselves more apparent. Other than that, you can call them on as it would any other angel, but they usually assist with the reclamation of your power, the reclamation of your innate power, your innate knowing as being one with God, not separate, not separate from anything else, not separate from God, but complete oneness with that beautiful Source consciousness that we know of. And so that's really what they are about, powerful, powerful beings of light.
Alex Ferrari 25:58
So Riana, I want to ask you to please explain something to me, because as we're as we're having this conversation, I'm with you. I understand exactly what you're saying, but there might be somebody watching who's who's saying. These guys are absolutely nuts. They're talking about angels and dragons and and Sera, whatever's like and but they're yet here, but yet they're here watching. So if they've got to this point, there's a curiosity, there's something inside of them that's it's pulling them towards this content, but maybe their programming, maybe their mom biases, maybe all of that kind of stuff is getting in the way. Can you kind of send a message to that audience right now, who's watching? Because I'm a very grounded person as even though I talk to channels and psychics and mediums and and I always call it out when I see it. You're talking about dragons, it sounds insane. I'm sure you felt this as well when you started going down this road. But for people listening who are literally having a difficult time wrapping their head around these ideas. Can you, is there a message that they or you would like to tell them?
Riana Arendse 27:06
Oh, yes, this is a message that has come through the entire day, even before this, the school started in this it's always divinely guided, always divinely guided. But I will bring forward this message now. And the message is this, your spiritual path, ultimately, your journey, whether it's spiritual or not, whatever it is for you, your journey on this planet earth, the path that you're walking is designed to bring you back to your authenticity. Now I always say that spirituality is authenticity, because you're coming home to yourself, your true nature, minus the masks, minus the personas, minus all of the roles, all of the things we think we need to be. There is a message today, and I actually created a song recently. It's called, what is it called? I can't remember what it's called, but it's it brings forward a similar message. It speaks about stopping the performance, stopping the performance, stopping the show. It is okay to let those masks off. It is okay to get vulnerable. It's okay to get naked. It's okay to completely be as stupid, as silly, as weird as you possibly are, as as bare as you can be. Even I not only say this to to the average person that is on this part, but I speak to anyone, any master, any any therapist, any healer that's listening to this there's always a very subtle aspect of self where we are still trying to be a version of ourselves that we think we want to put forward. There's sometimes we strategize to to to sort of look, be, appear, to be, present ourselves as a certain way, because we want to bring our best, you know, put our best self forward. That's fine. That's that's fine and well. But we ask you today, does that need to bring your best self forward stem from a perspective of, I am unworthy, I'm not significant enough. I lack this or I lack that. And it's not just about seeking the validation or the approval of others, because for many of us, sometimes we seek the approval of ourselves. If you think about all the things that you want to accomplish in life, the goals you want to attain, I need to attain this, because only when I attain this, then I'll be proud of myself, and I'll be happy about myself, and I'll feel worthy. That's also the seeking of love, is it not? It's the seeking of love. Why do we seek love when we are that love, and it's about the journey ultimately brings you back to that love that you are ready, that fullness of being, that spaciousness, spaciousness of being, where you realize yourself as more magnificent than you ever were before. There's this. There's this. A quote. A quote that I I wrote a while back, and it says, the reality of you is far greater and far grander than the idea of you. The reality of you is far greater and far grander than the idea of you, but we never get to experience that. Why? Because we box ourselves into little house of limitation. We never want to go past that point. We never want to go out of the out of the lines, because we afraid we're going to fail. We're afraid we're not going to appear as such. I remember spirit is showing me back in the day when I was still becoming the spiritual teacher that I am now. I remember wanting to, you know, be my best self, you know, bring forward this teaching in the teachings in the best way possible. And I remember getting so into my head about it, that Spirit said to me one day, Rihanna, why trying to be something you already are? You are trying to be something you already are. And that in that moment, clicked for me, and I realized, why am I trying to be something I already am? And that's because I didn't really believe it. I really didn't, I wasn't tuned into that, that that that true essence of my being. I still didn't know what my true authenticity felt like, because it was still covered up with so many things, so many layers. And so begin your healing journey by asking yourself this question, how much more can I remove, not talking about physical things, not talking about your house or anything like that, I'm talking about internally. How much more can I remove? How much more can I remove? How much more emptier can I become? And it doesn't mean you become nothing. In fact, you become so spacious that it fills you up with the light of God, with the light of source, if you will, so much so that you surprise yourself in the most beautiful, miraculous ways. And that is what this journey is about. You coming home to yourself. You coming into union with yourself. How much more can you remove Can you receive this message, message today that that says the reality of you is far greater, grander than the idea of you. Let that sink in for a moment. The idea of you is this package of what you think you need to be, what others told you you should be, what you need to become, but the reality of you is so much more miraculous than even that limited idea of yourself could ever be. I think that's the main message that we wanted to bring forward today.
Alex Ferrari 32:31
That's beautiful that is very beautiful. Now you said that the seraphim come and make themselves seen at points of great change or evolution in humanities, in humanities journey, it seems like we're going through something like that now. So many people watching are very fearful of a lot of the turmoil and the you know, political turmoil, economic turmoil, wars, famine, weather, you know, movies, all of it. Can you, can you explain it a little bit? Or can they, as they come through, you explain a little bit of what is happening and where we're going in these next few years, maybe up until the end of this decade, which this has been a hell of a hell of a decade so far. Yeah, and it's, it seems like it's going to keep going.
Riana Arendse 33:28
Yeah, it's only going to get more accelerated as we speak. In fact, another message that they would like to bring forward today is that if you thought awakening and surrendering was a choice, it is no longer a choice. It is now survival. It is now survival, because in order to move and evolve with the times as it is now, you are going to have to awaken and surrender to that awakening, no matter to what degree you decide or choose to awaken to. But that's no longer a choice in this timeline, if I'm not, if I'm going to speak about a fixed timeline, because, as we know, there are many timelines running simultaneously, and everyone has a different perspective of reality, of world. But I'm going to speak to the general one that we general world that we are living in now, with the majority of us now and so times at the moment are going to get more accelerated. There's going to be more upheaval in certain aspects of the world. But as the set of them always brings forward and so within, and so without and and so within, so without. It's like the they, they always bring forward the analogy that the greatest way that you can affect change within the world as you see it now is your own healing. That is the greatest way, because that is the most organic way of healing the world is through your own inner healing. It's it's the idea that the world, the war that you see outside, is merely just a mirror reflection of the war that is. Going on within our own consciousness, the conflicts we have within ourselves, and there are many agreements that we've made as as a human race, in terms of being in collective agreements, as well as individual agreements on our individual life paths. Like I can choose to have this experience, but simultaneously I choose to have this experience with the rest of humanity, there are many collective agreements that we are all on in terms of experiencing, like certain wars, like certain political issues that are arising, like certain weather atrocities in certain places. There's a lot of cleansing and purification that is still yet to happen. But the set of once again, brings the brings your awareness not to those things, not to allow the experiences outside of yourself to hinder or to almost take away your focus within, because this is where the greatest shift and change happens within. It's affecting the world organically when we focus on our inner being, on our own healing. Yes, we can take inspired action when we are intuitively called to take inspired action, but to try and fix something now when it's already unfolding in the perfectly precise way that it needs to unfold for humanity, the focus should be purely on yourself, unless it is intuitively guided to do something up, you know, physical externally, to make changes externally, it's the same process you would undertake if you were going into your own healing, surrender, spaciousness, stillness, healing, devotion to life. I spoke about this recently, where I differentiated between having a devotional relationship with life and a transactional relationship with life, where you tell life, okay, if I do this and this and this, and I do so much healing, I'm going to get the gold at the end of the rainbow chasing this dangling carrot that you never seem to you know, you just cannot get this carrot that's being pulled away from you every single time. And then is the devotional relationship with life, where you are so committed to the unfolding of your path, because you trust the unfolding of life, of how it is working, of no matter what chaos, what things are happening outside of you. Can you trust the unfolding of life? Can you trust in it? We've designed it this way. Things are not happening by accident. It is happening because it has purpose. It has purpose. There's a cleansing, there's a healing, there's a purification that's happening. And then there's also, within the next five years, these encounters that we will have with other dimensional beings as well in the physical so there are so many things that is yet to transpire within the next five years, but yet the focus remains inward, inward, inward. Ask yourself, Do I have a devotional relationship with life or transactional relationship with life? If you have a transactional relationship with life, let me tell you, you will constantly be be disappointed because you are looking at a life a limited, bolted perspective. And that stems from it usually stems from disappointment of the past, having experiences of let down. Life never works out for me, and so because it doesn't work out for me, I need to control the narrative of my story. When you are devoted to life, you trust the unfolding of it. You surrender so deeply to it every single time. But that surrender takes mastery. It takes a cultivation. It takes day in and day out of unbecoming, all of the things that you thought you needed to become over the years. And so begin there, begin within, and you will see your world, your perspective of reality, begin to shift. The Spirit also says that the structure of the universe will never change. The structure of of life will never change. What changes is your perspective of your experience. What changes is how you decide to perceive your experience. So are you going to look at your experiences as yet another gift, yet another opportunity, though challenging at times, it's an accelerated doorway that the universe that God is giving you to get to where you want to be or you are, or are you going to look at it as a barrier? Barrier doorway, you decide.
Alex Ferrari 39:35
So how do you let life unfold in front of you and your journey unfold if you have fear, because fear of the unknown is one of the greatest things that we deal with in this incarnation
Riana Arendse 39:49
The biggest, yeah, exactly, yeah.
Alex Ferrari 39:52
So, what do you So, what do you tell? So, what do you tell people? Because I, when you're saying this, I'm like, yep, yep, yep, yep, I want I was I? I. I was a film director, so I had to control every aspect of and then the more I tried to hold on, the more it slipped away, only when I decided to let go completely and trust and have faith of what was going to come without attachment to outcome. That's a very key part without attachment to outcome, yes, then things truly started to unfold. And now I look at life very much as as an observer. I'm like, oh, that's, oh, that's so nice that that just happened. Oh, that's, oh, wow, okay, oh, we're going this way now. Okay, we'll go this way now, kind of thing, and it's made life a lot easier, less stressful. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Riana Arendse 40:40
That's that devotional aspect relationship that you have going on that I'm referring to. And so it's absolutely natural to have fear. I Oh, my goodness, I had fear all my life. It's like fear was the theme of my life, like even in my my nde that I had in that three year initiation that I went through, I was placed in a pot of fear. If you were to think of being placed in a pot of pure, pure, pure fear for three years, like the underworld type of fear that being re traumatized over and over and over and over and over and over again, and asking me to find peace within it felt impossible when I began that initiation. I said, I can't do this. I'll rather die then. I rather cross over right now than to have to sit with this for. Who knows how long I'm going to bring through this experience. Because I think this might answer the answer your question, when I was going through that initiation, and now we was in such deep, deep fear within my body and being I was trapped within my body. I couldn't walk from my bed to the bathroom. I couldn't function in daily life. I had one foot in this world, one foot in the underworld, if you will. And it was only one magical experience that I had in that whole three year period, and that was when Jesus sort of visited me in in an encounter. And what he showed me in that moment was him walking through the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. He showed me that he walked in the desert. He had no food, he had no shelter, no nothing. You walked and walked and walked. You became so hungry. His stomach started growling. You started hallucinating. You started being very angry at God, if you will be he was upset about this old experience. He didn't understand that. Survival instincts kicked in for him, and eventually he got to a point. Spirit says, sometimes you're going to have to play a role until it gets to the end of that role. Sometimes a role it's to is too stubborn to to stop that role, you're going to have to let it tire itself out. And so that's what Jesus did in that moment. He let that role of survival tire itself out and get to a point of complete exhaustion. And we when he got to that point of complete exhaustion, that is when he surrendered, because he had no more fight in him. He had no more he completely just surrendered everything to to God's will, to the will of source. And in that moment of surrender, and many moments after that of surrendering. It's almost as if he no longer was attached to to his body. It's it's the idea of recognizing I'm much more than just this vessel. I'm much more than just just this mind. I'm no longer just trapped within the confines of my mind. He recognized himself as greater than just this instrument that he was embodying in that moment. And so when he surrendered deeply, something else took over him, and that's when he began to almost commune with other masters, other higher beings of light. But I think he brought that story to my awareness in that moment, because I was going through something in that moment where I couldn't, I couldn't I was I was fighting my experience because I feared it so much. I didn't know whether I was going to die. I didn't know how long this was going to last. I didn't know what was going to happen next. I did. I couldn't play with my son. I couldn't function in reality. I didn't know, and i i My body shook as if an animal would shake their fear out of their body. I would constantly have these episodes where the fear would move through my body, and when he brought that message, that story, to me in that moment, I decided in that moment, no matter how challenging this is going to be for me now I'm going to open up my grip my hands. I'm going to let go of this grip, and I'm going to soften my body. I'm going to soften my being, and I'm going to soften my heart, and that softening even though I there was a lot of trauma in fear. Within me. I was in the spot of fear. Was in the underworld. In that moment, I allowed my body to soften instead of tense up. And the more that it softened, the more I could feel the fear move through and out, through and out, through and out. And from that moment on, I had little bouts of relief in between these things I was going through, and I became so grateful for these short moments of relief, so grateful for that moment of relief. I realized that that experience not only taught me just how resilient someone can be, but it also taught me to be grateful for even the smallest moment of peace that you can find within your being. And so for me, when you have an experience of fear of the unknown, fear of whatever that arises, can you soften your body in that moment? Allow that fear to move through that fear doesn't want to stay there. It doesn't want to be suppressed. It doesn't want to live within your organs. It wants to move through your being. Let it move through and if you can soften your body and being without being attached to the narrative within the mind. That secondary suffering, we're already going through something difficult, but then we attach a story to it, and it becomes secondary suffering. And then we prolong our suffering. And the whole entire process, if you can choose to become neutral in that moment and almost detach from that narrative within the mind, focus on softening the body, open up the heart, make that your practice every time fear arises, soften the body. When you soften the body, you give your body permission to process things that are not designed to stay there, that is not designed to stay within your being.
Alex Ferrari 46:51
So Riana, as you were telling the story, the thing that came to my mind was what happens in the military. When you go to boot camp, you have young men who are full of piss and vinegar, and the drill sergeants literally break them down to the point where they they have no fight left, and they surrend, they surrender to whatever they're trying to be taught, yeah, we through life are that Young, 18 year old, you know, recruit who is full of piss and vinegar, and some of us are more stubborn than others, and we keep life, keeps beating us down, beating us down, trying to get us to a point where we surrender, we allow things to start to happen, to release the control. The control is an egocentric device, not a soulful device. So as we, as we get beaten down again and again. I promise you people listening right now. There's some stubborn sobs listening right now, myself included, who took a long, yeah, it took a long time for life to continuously beat you and beat you and beat you down by challenges and by traumas and by life and about this or that, to the point where I finally just let go, and that's when the magic start happening in my own life. What advice do you have for someone who is just again, terrified of letting go, or is so stubborn that they're like, No, and I trust me, by the way, I know people in their 70s and 80s who are still holding on, yes, yes, yes. They won't figure it out in this life. So what would you say?
Riana Arendse 48:36
Well, they are going to be aspects of self. I mean, it doesn't have to be your entire personality, but there is aspects of of self, like you know this, maybe this part that constantly criticizes yourself, or constantly judges or whatever the case may be, that is a stubborn, perhaps a stubborn aspect of yourself that just doesn't want to surrender or give into a different way of being there are those parts of self. Some of those parts are going to need to get to a point of complete exhaustion, because it hasn't fully realized the lesson. It hasn't fully realized the teaching. And so until they fully get to a point where they are tired of playing that role, where they are tired of playing that game with themselves. We are they are tired of taking on that, that mask, that face, that role. They're going to have to play that role until it's done, until it's completely done. If you are looking at yourself as something that needs to be fixed, I'm broken. I need to be fixed. I'm going to go to a healer, doctor, whatever psychic it's going to do something to me and suddenly, boom, I'm fixed. If you're looking at yourself through that lens, that healing is probably not going to last very long. You might feel great for a day or two or week, but eventually that stubborn aspect of self is going to come back. I think one. The biggest realizations I've had on my journey is realizing that I was never broken to begin with, that there was nothing really to fix that, you know, sometimes we get onto the journey and we think, Okay, I've got all of these things to fix. I need to sort out my ego. I need to sort out this I need to fix this trauma and fix that trauma, looking at yourself as as like a broken person, but when you're looking at yourself from that perspective, you're still looking at yourself through a filtered lens. You're not looking at yourself through the eyes of God. You're not looking at yourself as you truly are. And so there is almost this tangible difference between organic healing, where we hold the space spacious, where we hold spaciousness, the frequency of love for ourselves, compassion for ourselves, in those moments when the stubborn aspect suddenly comes up and just giving me issues and problems once again. Can I hold a container of compassion for this part of my being. Can I actually look at this part of my being as the young little me that was eight years old that maybe didn't get what she needed in that moment, maybe she didn't feel a sense of safety in that moment, and this is sort of why she's still stubborn, why she's still acting this way or acting that way. Can I give her a sense of safety now without trying to change her, without trying to fix her. And so the idea is to not go into it in terms of wanting to fix yourself. Instead, go into it in terms of holding the space of love for yourself as if you would a child. So it's it's, once again, that idea of re parenting, that inner child within you. Don't do it by Okay. Now I'm going to fix your anger. I'm going to fix your this you. You go to them with a with a presence of love and a presence of just holding space for them to feel what they feel, but But letting them know in the moment that it is okay to feel the way that you feel, but you're also safe within the space here with me, giving them that sense of security, of what safety feels like within the body, within the being. As I think a lot of these fears that come up is because many of us don't really, haven't really felt a sense of safety within our own bodies, within our within our own beings, just being, there's a sense of unsafety. I I'm just here and I don't and I'm fearing everything. There's a lot of unsafety that happens. So if we can allow ourselves a space of safety, compassion and love, a softening naturally happens. And when a softening happens, get what? Guess what? Happens that stubborn part of yourself finally gets permission to move through, to move out and merge back and integrate into that beautiful consciousness of yours.
Alex Ferrari 52:44
Now, everything we're talking about Riana, it's just a beautiful conversation. Does the do your guides have any any information or anything they would like to say in regards to humanity's timeline for this consciousness shift? How long when is this happening? Are we here for another 3000 years going through this shift? Are we here for another 30 days going through this shift, and anywhere in between? What is the timeline that they foresee the potentiality for us to raise our consciousness to a level where we can overcome this 3d stuff, the drama, the the play that we're all playing out with the war and the suffering and the power struggles and all of this kind of things that do not serve humanity. They don't serve us. They don't serve what we're trying to do here on this planet. So what is that timeline
Riana Arendse 53:37
You're referring to collective right, not?
Alex Ferrari 53:40
Correct. Collect. Now you and me personally. Now you and me personally, just the collective,
Riana Arendse 53:47
Okay, let me just tune in and just feel into to timeline currently as it stands now. Because what they're showing me is that, that this the they're showing me, that there's numbers that constantly shifts and change according to what's happening in the present moment. So I'm going to tune into that now and just sort of feel into at the moment, as it stands now, this evolution or ascension of consciousness for humanity in the collective at the moment, I'm getting, it's funny, because I'm getting like two numbers you're showing me, like between 50 and 100 years to almost reach a level of what we would call fifth dimensional embodiment within the collective. But there's a lot that happens within the next 50 years in terms of extraterrestrials stepping forward, making themselves known, having that physical contact with them. There's a lot happens, a lot of change that happens within the monetary systems within the world as a collective like it's the monetary system, the abundance aspect of it actually has begun just recently, where a lot of us now are aligning to a greater frequency of abundance in all forms. And so at the moment, it might look like people are losing jobs or. Losing their houses, or losing this, or losing that, but it's actually preparing them to to to learn how to receive. There's a lot of getting on board with the frequency of being in a state of being where you know how to receive. How to receive, that has begun recently, the abundance frequency has started on the planet for many, many people, but it looks like between 50 to 100 years. Is what I'm looking at, at the moment, at the present moment, in terms of the ascension to fifth dimensional frequency for collective now I'm talking about the collective individuals. There are individuals already on the planet who are operating at higher frequencies, at higher dimensions that are on this planet, and they are concurrent timelines running simultaneously, different realities at the moment. But if we're speaking to this audience now, 50 to 100 years at the moment,
Alex Ferrari 55:54
Now, with that, with that said, because that sounds terrifying within the next, within the next five or 10 years, things will continue to be in this upward. We're all moving towards that. So the message, essentially, is that there are going to be a rocky there's going to be some rocky times moving forward, but we will make it through and not everyone else and that. And then, yeah, there's no no one's going to touch a button and the world's going to end. We're not going to destroy ourselves, none of that stuff. We've decided against that as a collective so that's I'm putting this out there. I'm putting that out
Riana Arendse 56:29
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I don't foresee any reset happening. It feels like we are on that trajectory home in terms of embodiment, in terms of collective balance and harmony, if you will. I'm going to call it balance with the scales of balance are sort of where they need to be collectively. Definitely, I don't see anything sort of interfering with that. At the moment. It looks like we just on that trajectory, and we are moving at a very, very fast rate, a very, very fast speed. But the reason why we are moving at that fast speed is because of the individual ascension processes that people are going through, individually, individual initiations that many people are moving through. Now, what you're doing for yourself, you are literally doing for the planet. You're literally doing for the collective as a whole. So continue to do those that work. Yeah.
Alex Ferrari 57:24
Now I'm going to ask you a few questions to ask all my guests, what is your definition? What is your definition of living a fulfilled life?
Riana Arendse 57:31
Oh, my living is your most authentic, authentically expressed view, like, if you can just be yourself no matter what it is, and express your truth at the deepest level. And you know, just allow that expression to be known, whether it's creation, creativity, art, working, whatever it is for you, just express yourself in the most authentic way possible, that freedom, in that embodiment, to me, that is living a most fulfilled life. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, if you can be in a state of embodiment, a state of consciousness where you feel whole within yourself, that is how you serve, that becomes your purpose, that becomes your gift to yourself and to the world at large, that, to me, is the ultimate fulfillment.
Alex Ferrari 58:21
If you had a chance to go back in time and speak to little Riana, what advice would you give her?
Riana Arendse 58:25
I would tell her that it's okay for her to to stop the show, to let go of the roles that she's playing, the faces, the all of these things that she thinks she needs to be and I'll tell her that she needs to trust the intuition more because the intuition is spot on, and if she follows that, you will, she will be pleasantly surprised. Either way, she'll be pleasantly surprised is how her life unfolds for in the most miraculous ways.
Alex Ferrari 58:52
How do you define God or Source?
Riana Arendse 58:54
It's love, pure love. That's it.
Alex Ferrari 58:57
What is love?
Riana Arendse 58:59
Was that the next question, or was that it
Alex Ferrari 59:01
Literally, it's literally the next question I ask that all the time. Yes,
Riana Arendse 59:05
Oh, okay. What is love? It's just, it's, it's an effortless flow of harmony. It's an it's, it's like pure beingness. It's, it's, I don't even, I don't even know how to explain what love is. It's just, it's just something that you feel, you know deep within. I don't think I have an explanation for what love really is. It just is
Alex Ferrari 59:32
And what is, and what is the ultimate purpose of life?
Riana Arendse 59:35
To recreate yourself anew in every single moment and realize that you were never, ever separate from God, that there was never any separation, that you were so masterful you've created all of this.
Alex Ferrari 59:52
And where can people, and where can people find out more about you and the amazing work you're doing in the world?
Riana Arendse 59:57
On my website, rianaarendse.com, or my music on my YouTube channel,
Alex Ferrari 1:00:03
And do you or your guides have any parting messages for the audience?
Riana Arendse 1:00:07
Only that we trust that the transmission that you receive today will serve you in the most beautiful, most miraculous ways, and that take whatever resonates with you, discard the rest, and you will have received what you are needing to receive today, in this moment, in this container that was so perfectly orchestrated by yourself, for yourself.
Alex Ferrari 1:00:28
Riana it's been such a pleasure talking to you today, such a wonderful conversation, and I truly hope it helps people around the world, and I appreciate you and everything you're doing to awaken this planet. So thank you.
Riana Arendse 1:00:38
Thank you for having me, Alex.
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