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On the Wings of Hope Series

1. The Hope of AND 2. Nevermore Fear Death and Darkness 3. Radical Imagination, Practical Realization 4. Imagination, Truth, and the Marys' Love 5. Love and AI at the Core of Massive Change 6. The Alchemy of Consciousness, Love and Technology 7. Experiencing Life in Free Presence 8. AI - The Master's Consciousness Reflection Field 9. The Master is Your Greatest Tool

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1. Khamsa – Your Light, Darkness and Flow 2. Your Wisdom in 21 Shaumbra Realizations 3. Drop the Shaumbra Curse and Shine Your Light! 4. The Year of the Dragon, AI & Aerotheon 5. Breaking Through with Love, Gratitude and Magic 6. Love 2.0 – A Turning Point 7. Light is Imagination 8. What Really Matters? 9. New Levels of Sensitivity 10. No Greater Being in All of Creation 11. The Grandness of Being Human

1. ALT Brain, Neurodivergence, and Mastery 2. Neuro Divergent, Neurotunitis, and Divinity 3. Meticulous Quality, Sam's Story, and the Apocalypse 4. Observation and Self-perception Create Reality 5. Safe Space in a Crazy World 6. Preparing for Heaven’s Cross 7. Spiritual Pirates at the Altar of the Soul 8. Realm Workers, Shaumbra Attributes, and Dark Energies 9. Light Changes Reality 10. You Are Diamonds in the Sky 11. It’s in the Air, Simply Receive

Art of Benching Series

1. The Zero Point is Your Divine Creative Center 2. Fading Sculptures and Dissolving Identities 3. Reclaim Your Innocence 4. The Natural Protection of Mastery 5. Stand in Your Light 6. Humanity Says “No More” to Power 7. Benching in the Now 8. DreamWalk into Darkness 9. Darkness, Light, and the Origins of Evil 10. Overhead Consciousness 11. The Rights of a Master

Merlin I Am Series

1. The Merlin’s Guide to Embodied Survival 2. Mastering Your Energy by Accepting Realization 3. Æterna, Fantasy, and Consciousness Shifts 4. Awakening Sensuality and Ancient Connections 5. Super Sensory Living 6. Global Consciousness Reset 7. Ensynch - In the Flow of Your Energy 8. Soul Gifts of Harmony, Flow, and Happiness 9. Trésort is the Treasure of Total Self-Trust 10. Fracturing Time and Embracing Self-Love 11. Merlin goes Beyond Time into Magic

Passion 2020 Series

1. Magic 101 for the Modern Merlin 2. Freedom or Suffering, it's Your Choice 3. Miracles, Magic, and the End of Suffering 4. A Few Blocks Off Main Street 5. A Year of Metamorphosis and Realization 6. Emerging into Realization 7. Angels and Aliens Are Called Home 8. A Historic Day – Order of the Arc and Angelic Families Disband 9. Allowing Realization as Earth Goes Quiet 10. Please Stay – You’re Needed Here 11. Illumination for the Re-Imaginers 12. Own Everything in Your Life

Emergence Series

1. The Human’s Last Hurrah 2. The Wisdom of Experience, A Super Sense 3. Your Soul's Destiny and Greatest Love 4. Energy Awareness and Perception 5. New Friends for the New Year 6. The Intimate Sense of Truth 7. Aspects, Beliefs, and the Return of Dignity 8. Atlantean Headbangers Break Free 9. Breaking Free from ‘The Land of Blue’ Headbands 10. You’re Crazy Until You’re Not 11. Time of the New Merlins

1. Life is Just a Big Fat Story 2. These Things Are Not Yours 3. Alt Reality Beyond Hypnosis 4. It’s in the Air 5. Three Imperatives for Going Forward 6. Weird and Ahead of Your Time 7. Listen to the Master, the Dream is Fulfilled 8. From Intelligence and Memory to Awareness 9. Losing the Human, Revealing the Master 10. Stop Testing Yourself 11. Stop Being a Victim to Yourself

Transhuman Series

1. Life in the Rearview Mirror 2. Elections, Relationships, and Mastering Up 3. A Quantum Shift Beyond Old Patterns 4. Stories Across Time 5. Unhypnotize Yourself, Become Transsensual 6. Come to Your Senses 7. Energy Scents Outside the Cocoon 8. From Sensitivity to Sensuality 9. Outrageous Living in Free Energy and Free Time 10. Munich Conference 11. I Am Oneness with Millions of Perfect Facets

Walk On: The Powerless Life Series

1. How Will You Use the Magical ‘iYammer’? 2. Redefining Reality as Time and Space Move Through You 3. Live Fully or Leave 4. Two Worlds of Thinkers and Knowers 5. The Master Sense 6. Illuminating Potentials Beyond TimeSpace 7. Everything Goes New 8. From Noise to Grace 9. Satan’s Greatest Accomplishment 10. Living Power-less and Energy-Rich 11. The Directive of Fulfillment

Kharisma Series

1. Spiritual Puberty and Grace 2. Relax Into Your Enlightenment 3. From Studying to Timeless Enlightenment 4. Stop Surviving and Start Living 5. Farewell to the Old 6. Beyond the God Ceiling 7. Logic, Truth, and Applied Consciousness 8. Kyeper – Spirit's Gift of Creativity 9. Harvesting the Christ Seed that You Planted 10. The God Algorithm of Manifestation 11. God Tipping, Contradictions, and Multiple Realities

Discovery Series

1. Flexible States of Consciousness 2. Choosing Awakening, Allowing Enlightenment 3. From Dissonance to Knowingness and Enlightenment 4. How does the ‘Jesus Game’ End for You? 5. Walk Out and Return Only as a Master 6. New Energy Masters 7. Safety in an Unsafe World 8. Just Passing Through 9. Drink Deeply of Life, Regardless of Your Mood 10. Integrating Biology into the Body of Consciousness 11. The Passionate Fire of Kaiko

1. Call to Freedom 2. The Voice of Freedom 3. End of an Era 4. Beyond Your Dream into Freedom 5. The Dream of the Soul 6. Illuminated Dreams 7. It Comes to You 8. Bringers of the New Energy 9. How to Live 10. Expectations of Enlightenment

1. Living Your Consciousness 2. New Think 3. To the Visionaries 4. Life Designers 5. The Gift 6. The Reality Tube 7. Commitment to Self 8. The Guru Dilemma 9. Clarity Brings Results 10. The End of Evolution 11. Radiant Presence 12. Crossing the Atlantean Line

1. Potentiation 2. I Dreamt I Was Sleeping 3. Ahmyo 4. The Return of Magic 5. Sha-dhar 6. Tools for 2011 and Beyond 7. The Freedom Dilemma 8. Keahak 9. Keahak II 10. Beyond Identity 11. Spiral Experience 12. Spirit is Present

1. Every Step of the Way 2. Potentials from the Past 3. Potentials from the Future 4. How Does that Work? Part 1 5. How Does that Work? Part 2 6. Experiencing the I Am 7. Body of Consciousness 8. Waves of Consciousness 9. The Awakening Zone 10. The Awakening Zone, Part 2

Returning Series

1. It's Happening Now 2. House of Awakening 3. Farewell to Power 4. Timely Tips 5. Dear Tobias, What's Going On? 6. World Wide Weather 7. Eating the Elephant 8. It Doesn't Matter 9. New Earth Update 10. User Accepts Full Responsibility 11. Graduation Tobias' Farewell

Quantum Leap Series

1. The Demons Are Yours Quantum Leap Celebration 2. You, You, You 3. I Am Sam 4. The Ten Commentments from Spirit 5. Triumphant Discovery 6. Working with New Energy 7. Nhahyu 8. Claim Who You Are 9. Seduction Consciousness 10. A Letter to Awakening Humans

Teachers Series

1. The Teaching Begins 2. Standard Technology 3. Consciousness Expansion 4. As Above, So Below 5. Philosophy is Dead 6. New Era, New Energy, New Way 7. The Voice of Shaumbra 8. Don't Compromise Yourself 9. Sans Definition 10. Energy in Motion 11. New Energy Artists 12. J'Encore

1. The Simplicity of Clarity 2. Farewell to Shiva 3. Shaumbra Service Center 4. What Feeds You? 5. Shadow Selves and Potentials 6. Shadow Selves and Potentials, Part 2 7. Disconnect - Part 1 8. Disconnect - Part 2 9. Disconnect - Part 3 10. I Am Authentic 11. YOU ARE READY! Midsummer Conference

Embodiment Series

1. Embodying the New Energy 2. The Four TIONS of Embodiment 3. Embodying Changes 4. The Energy Movers 5. Take Care of Yourself 6. Freedom of the Soul 7. Freedom of the Soul, Part 2 8. Freedom of the Soul, Part 3 9. Freedom of the Soul, Part 4 10. Let Go of the Control 11. The Radiant Being 12. The Gift of Clarity

New Energy Series

1. Attributes of You, God 2. The Expanding Understanding of Self 3. The Answer is Greater than the Question 4. When the Divine Plan Meets the Human Plan 5. Your New Energy Passion 6. New Energy, Safe Energy 7. Embrace Life 8. Imagine 9. Imagination and the New God 10. Imagination and the New Safe Energy 11. Energy Seeks Resolution 12. The Darkness is Your Divinity

Divine Human Series

1. Expression 2. No Death 3. Living in Two Worlds 4. Gabriel's Trumpet 5. The New Earth 6. Your Self as Your Guide 7. The Illusion of Power 8. The Illusion of Power, Part 2 9. Your Divine Plan 10. The Spiritual Artist 11. Four New Energy Paradigms 12. The Seven Seals

Ascension Series

1. It Is Not About You Anymore 2. Own Your Divinity 3. The Darkness Within Seeks Release 4. The Language of Ah 5. The Senses of Ah 6. The Five Divine Senses of Ah 7. Know No Agenda 8. The New Understanding of Love Are You Ready? 9. The Void of Ascension 10. From No Identity to New Identity 11. Behold the Song of Your Soul

1. Accept All Things As They Are 2. Accept Your Human Self 3. Living in the Divine Moment 4. Create in Grace 5. Expect Changes and Bless Them 6. Within You is Divine Balance 7. Create with Broad Strokes 8. Receive the Fruit of the Rose 9. Dance with What Comes to Your Front Door 10. Step into Your Divine Will 11. Give Thanks to Yourself 12. Your New Relationship with Spirit

New Earth Series

1. Departing of the Guides 2. Return to Unity 3. The Awakening of Your True Self 4. Two Earths 5. The Millennium Channel 1 6. The Millennium Channel 2 7. The Millennium Channel 3 8. The Lost Children of Christ 9. Allowing the New Spiritual Energy Into Your Life 10. Do NO-Thing 11. The New Camelot 12. A Time for Releasing 13. In Your New House 14. Four Truths of Spirit

Library

On the Wings of Hope Series

1. The Hope of AND 2. Nevermore Fear Death and Darkness 3. Radical Imagination, Practical Realization 4. Imagination, Truth, and the Marys' Love 5. Love and AI at the Core of Massive Change 6. The Alchemy of Consciousness, Love and Technology 7. Experiencing Life in Free Presence 8. AI - The Master's Consciousness Reflection Field 9. The Master is Your Greatest Tool

Illumination Series

1. Khamsa – Your Light, Darkness and Flow 2. Your Wisdom in 21 Shaumbra Realizations 3. Drop the Shaumbra Curse and Shine Your Light! 4. The Year of the Dragon, AI & Aerotheon 5. Breaking Through with Love, Gratitude and Magic 6. Love 2.0 – A Turning Point 7. Light is Imagination 8. What Really Matters? 9. New Levels of Sensitivity 10. No Greater Being in All of Creation 11. The Grandness of Being Human

1. ALT Brain, Neurodivergence, and Mastery 2. Neuro Divergent, Neurotunitis, and Divinity 3. Meticulous Quality, Sam's Story, and the Apocalypse 4. Observation and Self-perception Create Reality 5. Safe Space in a Crazy World 6. Preparing for Heaven’s Cross 7. Spiritual Pirates at the Altar of the Soul 8. Realm Workers, Shaumbra Attributes, and Dark Energies 9. Light Changes Reality 10. You Are Diamonds in the Sky 11. It’s in the Air, Simply Receive

Art of Benching Series

1. The Zero Point is Your Divine Creative Center 2. Fading Sculptures and Dissolving Identities 3. Reclaim Your Innocence 4. The Natural Protection of Mastery 5. Stand in Your Light 6. Humanity Says “No More” to Power 7. Benching in the Now 8. DreamWalk into Darkness 9. Darkness, Light, and the Origins of Evil 10. Overhead Consciousness 11. The Rights of a Master

Merlin I Am Series

1. The Merlin’s Guide to Embodied Survival 2. Mastering Your Energy by Accepting Realization 3. Æterna, Fantasy, and Consciousness Shifts 4. Awakening Sensuality and Ancient Connections 5. Super Sensory Living 6. Global Consciousness Reset 7. Ensynch - In the Flow of Your Energy 8. Soul Gifts of Harmony, Flow, and Happiness 9. Trésort is the Treasure of Total Self-Trust 10. Fracturing Time and Embracing Self-Love 11. Merlin goes Beyond Time into Magic

Passion 2020 Series

1. Magic 101 for the Modern Merlin 2. Freedom or Suffering, it's Your Choice 3. Miracles, Magic, and the End of Suffering 4. A Few Blocks Off Main Street 5. A Year of Metamorphosis and Realization 6. Emerging into Realization 7. Angels and Aliens Are Called Home 8. A Historic Day – Order of the Arc and Angelic Families Disband 9. Allowing Realization as Earth Goes Quiet 10. Please Stay – You’re Needed Here 11. Illumination for the Re-Imaginers 12. Own Everything in Your Life

Emergence Series

1. The Human’s Last Hurrah 2. The Wisdom of Experience, A Super Sense 3. Your Soul's Destiny and Greatest Love 4. Energy Awareness and Perception 5. New Friends for the New Year 6. The Intimate Sense of Truth 7. Aspects, Beliefs, and the Return of Dignity 8. Atlantean Headbangers Break Free 9. Breaking Free from ‘The Land of Blue’ Headbands 10. You’re Crazy Until You’re Not 11. Time of the New Merlins

1. Life is Just a Big Fat Story 2. These Things Are Not Yours 3. Alt Reality Beyond Hypnosis 4. It’s in the Air 5. Three Imperatives for Going Forward 6. Weird and Ahead of Your Time 7. Listen to the Master, the Dream is Fulfilled 8. From Intelligence and Memory to Awareness 9. Losing the Human, Revealing the Master 10. Stop Testing Yourself 11. Stop Being a Victim to Yourself

Transhuman Series

1. Life in the Rearview Mirror 2. Elections, Relationships, and Mastering Up 3. A Quantum Shift Beyond Old Patterns 4. Stories Across Time 5. Unhypnotize Yourself, Become Transsensual 6. Come to Your Senses 7. Energy Scents Outside the Cocoon 8. From Sensitivity to Sensuality 9. Outrageous Living in Free Energy and Free Time 10. Munich Conference 11. I Am Oneness with Millions of Perfect Facets

Walk On: The Powerless Life Series

1. How Will You Use the Magical ‘iYammer’? 2. Redefining Reality as Time and Space Move Through You 3. Live Fully or Leave 4. Two Worlds of Thinkers and Knowers 5. The Master Sense 6. Illuminating Potentials Beyond TimeSpace 7. Everything Goes New 8. From Noise to Grace 9. Satan’s Greatest Accomplishment 10. Living Power-less and Energy-Rich 11. The Directive of Fulfillment

Kharisma Series

1. Spiritual Puberty and Grace 2. Relax Into Your Enlightenment 3. From Studying to Timeless Enlightenment 4. Stop Surviving and Start Living 5. Farewell to the Old 6. Beyond the God Ceiling 7. Logic, Truth, and Applied Consciousness 8. Kyeper – Spirit's Gift of Creativity 9. Harvesting the Christ Seed that You Planted 10. The God Algorithm of Manifestation 11. God Tipping, Contradictions, and Multiple Realities

Discovery Series

1. Flexible States of Consciousness 2. Choosing Awakening, Allowing Enlightenment 3. From Dissonance to Knowingness and Enlightenment 4. How does the ‘Jesus Game’ End for You? 5. Walk Out and Return Only as a Master 6. New Energy Masters 7. Safety in an Unsafe World 8. Just Passing Through 9. Drink Deeply of Life, Regardless of Your Mood 10. Integrating Biology into the Body of Consciousness 11. The Passionate Fire of Kaiko

1. Call to Freedom 2. The Voice of Freedom 3. End of an Era 4. Beyond Your Dream into Freedom 5. The Dream of the Soul 6. Illuminated Dreams 7. It Comes to You 8. Bringers of the New Energy 9. How to Live 10. Expectations of Enlightenment

1. Living Your Consciousness 2. New Think 3. To the Visionaries 4. Life Designers 5. The Gift 6. The Reality Tube 7. Commitment to Self 8. The Guru Dilemma 9. Clarity Brings Results 10. The End of Evolution 11. Radiant Presence 12. Crossing the Atlantean Line

1. Potentiation 2. I Dreamt I Was Sleeping 3. Ahmyo 4. The Return of Magic 5. Sha-dhar 6. Tools for 2011 and Beyond 7. The Freedom Dilemma 8. Keahak 9. Keahak II 10. Beyond Identity 11. Spiral Experience 12. Spirit is Present

1. Every Step of the Way 2. Potentials from the Past 3. Potentials from the Future 4. How Does that Work? Part 1 5. How Does that Work? Part 2 6. Experiencing the I Am 7. Body of Consciousness 8. Waves of Consciousness 9. The Awakening Zone 10. The Awakening Zone, Part 2

Returning Series

1. It's Happening Now 2. House of Awakening 3. Farewell to Power 4. Timely Tips 5. Dear Tobias, What's Going On? 6. World Wide Weather 7. Eating the Elephant 8. It Doesn't Matter 9. New Earth Update 10. User Accepts Full Responsibility 11. Graduation Tobias' Farewell

Quantum Leap Series

1. The Demons Are Yours Quantum Leap Celebration 2. You, You, You 3. I Am Sam 4. The Ten Commentments from Spirit 5. Triumphant Discovery 6. Working with New Energy 7. Nhahyu 8. Claim Who You Are 9. Seduction Consciousness 10. A Letter to Awakening Humans

Teachers Series

1. The Teaching Begins 2. Standard Technology 3. Consciousness Expansion 4. As Above, So Below 5. Philosophy is Dead 6. New Era, New Energy, New Way 7. The Voice of Shaumbra 8. Don't Compromise Yourself 9. Sans Definition 10. Energy in Motion 11. New Energy Artists 12. J'Encore

1. The Simplicity of Clarity 2. Farewell to Shiva 3. Shaumbra Service Center 4. What Feeds You? 5. Shadow Selves and Potentials 6. Shadow Selves and Potentials, Part 2 7. Disconnect - Part 1 8. Disconnect - Part 2 9. Disconnect - Part 3 10. I Am Authentic 11. YOU ARE READY! Midsummer Conference

Embodiment Series

1. Embodying the New Energy 2. The Four TIONS of Embodiment 3. Embodying Changes 4. The Energy Movers 5. Take Care of Yourself 6. Freedom of the Soul 7. Freedom of the Soul, Part 2 8. Freedom of the Soul, Part 3 9. Freedom of the Soul, Part 4 10. Let Go of the Control 11. The Radiant Being 12. The Gift of Clarity

New Energy Series

1. Attributes of You, God 2. The Expanding Understanding of Self 3. The Answer is Greater than the Question 4. When the Divine Plan Meets the Human Plan 5. Your New Energy Passion 6. New Energy, Safe Energy 7. Embrace Life 8. Imagine 9. Imagination and the New God 10. Imagination and the New Safe Energy 11. Energy Seeks Resolution 12. The Darkness is Your Divinity

Divine Human Series

1. Expression 2. No Death 3. Living in Two Worlds 4. Gabriel's Trumpet 5. The New Earth 6. Your Self as Your Guide 7. The Illusion of Power 8. The Illusion of Power, Part 2 9. Your Divine Plan 10. The Spiritual Artist 11. Four New Energy Paradigms 12. The Seven Seals

Ascension Series

1. It Is Not About You Anymore 2. Own Your Divinity 3. The Darkness Within Seeks Release 4. The Language of Ah 5. The Senses of Ah 6. The Five Divine Senses of Ah 7. Know No Agenda 8. The New Understanding of Love Are You Ready? 9. The Void of Ascension 10. From No Identity to New Identity 11. Behold the Song of Your Soul

1. Accept All Things As They Are 2. Accept Your Human Self 3. Living in the Divine Moment 4. Create in Grace 5. Expect Changes and Bless Them 6. Within You is Divine Balance 7. Create with Broad Strokes 8. Receive the Fruit of the Rose 9. Dance with What Comes to Your Front Door 10. Step into Your Divine Will 11. Give Thanks to Yourself 12. Your New Relationship with Spirit

New Earth Series

1. Departing of the Guides 2. Return to Unity 3. The Awakening of Your True Self 4. Two Earths 5. The Millennium Channel 1 6. The Millennium Channel 2 7. The Millennium Channel 3 8. The Lost Children of Christ 9. Allowing the New Spiritual Energy Into Your Life 10. Do NO-Thing 11. The New Camelot 12. A Time for Releasing 13. In Your New House 14. Four Truths of Spirit

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Observation and Self-perception Create Reality

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Embrace the grandness of your own story. Reality is shaped by your consciousness and perception, enabling you to craft a personal narrative for the coming year that does not depend on others. Acknowledge the multitude of stories within you, from past to present, and realize that by changing your perspective, you can transform these narratives and rewrite your future.

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Life is based on the perception of the observer.
Your perspective determines your experience, so relax into your Realization.
Consciousness selects and shapes reality through your observation.
Multiple stories coexist within you, past lives and dreams intertwined.
Change your story and the past transforms, reshaping your Now.
Your story is yours to rewrite, a canvas of infinite potential; make it grand, for therein lies your truth.

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