Have you seen the movie, "At Eternity's Gate" about the painter Vincent Van Gogh, played brilliantly by Willem Dafoe? For anyone engaging in the Great 5D Shift of consciousness taking place across our planet, it's a superlative inspiration in reading the underlying flow of life, and the essential importance of fully expressing yourself with passion and commitment, even in a world that might not respect your unique gifts of beingness. It's about making our lives a masterpiece.

You and I are continually blessed with an incredible opportunity. Everything we ever yearned for, wanted, desired or needed is answered by the hallowed space of The One, right at the core of us, bursting through the canvas of our lives, constantly reminding us to stop, wake up, and realise the one thing that can bring us back alive in every moment. And the paradox is, that whenever you're in some kind of density removed from it, exactly there is your doorway back to it. All it really takes is the commitment to embrace the situation exactly as it is, and then surrender into it, through the layers of constriction you might be feeling. This is the Path to The One...

Essentially fear is what cripples people into outdated lifestyles, divorced from the connection with 'God'. It's often fear that keeps people nose-to-the-grindstone in today's society or else strangles the joy from relationships. How different would your life be if you lost the fear of any of this? What would it be like if you no longer feared death?

The time is now. This is it.

Peel off the blinkers and see reality the way it really is. Dramatic change is building across the earth, that will ultimately put paid to the reality construct we're living in. The threads are ALREADY unwinding. Where's your loyalty in the shift? Be careful it's not stuck in the Old Paradigm, in no mans land. It's okay to still have one foot in the old reality, on the old bank, but do be absolutely clear where you're headed. Reality creates around what you believe and where you put your attention. It's time to step out and be you. The Real You!...

Here at Openhand we're sitting in snow on the windswept hills of Dartmoor. We're empathising with tens of millions in the USA affected by the recent polar vortex, which has seen cities like Chicago drop to under minus 50 celsius wind chill. That's colder than the top of Everest, colder than the Arctic itself right now! It's a huge inconvenience to society, yet I encourage us all to embrace the mirrors only we have created. Of course this is climate change related, due to the progressive slowing of the jetstream. But what can we positively learn from it about our deep core spirituality? Let's take maximum opportunity from the mirror, and grow as spiritual beings in the process...

For the last week I’ve been high. Not from any artificial stimulant or even a wonderful experience. It’s simply from having the space to express my passions and finally seeing that expression manifest in the physical world – an expressing that will touch the world in a positive way. Now, after a week the high is coming back down. Not that it will be replaced by a low as with so many artificial highs or even the after effects of wonderful experiences. This high has come about simply by letting the energy that is ‘me’ flow out into the world, from which I know there is an infinite source.

So where does true passion come from?

Here's a great video exploration from "Democracy Now" on how abrupt climate change is shrinking habitable earth and the tremendous acceleration of that. It's essential evolving people are informed of what's really going on, where there's still so much avoidance, denial or deferral. At Openhand we advocate 'turning right into' the inconvenient truth of dramatic biosphere change and the threat to our very physical existence. What does that activate within? Work through any fear and contracting tightness. That's the pathway to your immortal spiritual self and the shift into 5D consciousness...

When you truly step onto the path, and feel the directive of the Shift, it's sure to set you against the majority of people around you, clinging to the vestiges of a crumbling reality. Still they hang on, shrivelled in fear, and a part of that reality control, will be to make you wrong. This is where your dream is so important. We've been crammed into the container of a small control mechanism. But how big are you really? How much more can you be as a being? Of course I'm not talking about the confines of ego. I'm talking about having the courage to completely shatter the illusions and constraints of an out-dated reality that no longer serves.

So I ask, how big is your Dream for Yourself?

I had the pleasure of giving a workshop at Trew Fields cancer and holistic health awareness festival this last weekend. It was truly inspiring to see so many people challenging their preconceived ideas and conditioning around subjects such as cancer, drugs, holistic therapies and death. However, even here I observed some resistance to talking about dying itself.

It is such a taboo subject, and yet my aim is to break this taboo by normalising it for people in a way that not only reduces fear of the dying process, but also gives you the tools to approach it in a conscious way, which is ultimately free from suffering.

There was something totally captivating about the rescue of the young Tai football team, trapped underground, in water filled tunnels for over 9 days, with little food or clean water, in the dark, awaiting a perilous rescue attempt. Cometh the hour, cometh the person: in this case, a young Buddhist Monk, the Team coach, who kept the boys centred and trusting, through meditation and calmness. The metaphor is beyond words. He was in the 'right' place at the right time, just as you and I will be, when our time comes in this great shift of consciousness happening across the earth. What an inspiration.

On the path, you'll have to get used to going into 'the desert' - an inner landscape that will call you at times; it's where there's some inner convolution of consciousness that needs to be unravelled. Be prepared for it to feel harsh. There will be no immediate answers, no soft shoulder to cry on. Yes, the Gods will be with you, and they'll be smiling, but not answering your longing, which can make it feel all the more challenging. Yet going into the desert is necessary, and your apparent aloneness essential.

Here's what the purpose is, and encouragement for dealing with it...

The Shift accelerates right across our planet; the patterns are falling clearer into view now, and it's essential ascending people equalise with what's going on, because that's how you find the path of light through it. Here are the developing patterns: (1) There remains the zombified denial of society, desperately clinging to 'business as usual'; (2) Gaia is responding predominantly through the Pole Shift, which is accelerating earthquake and volcanic activity, lowering her magnetic shield, progressively opening the biosphere to transformative cosmic cleansing; (3) Meanwhile plenty in the Spiritual Mainstream are still languishing behind blinkers - thinking there's a sustainable 3D solution.

The unwinding cleansing through the 4D and into 5D IS the solution. Let's get real folks!