Meeting the Future

Dear Newsletter Reader,

In August I began feeling compelled to place the continent of Africa in many of the images I was producing. All of my life I felt that the heart of humanity was in reality in Africa and that almost no one in the western world wanted to know this. In the America I grew up in, people of dark skin were greatly disadvantaged. In the North, where I grew up, most of them lived in ghettos. Most of the Black children on the streets had no fathers and a mother on welfare. Both rats and crime were rampant.

I knew the ghetto. When I was a teenager, although I lived in a rather well-off suburb, I volunteered to work in the Head Start Program under President Johnson, and so I worked with young Black children every day during the week in the summer, as long as the program lasted.

I was both horrified at what I experienced and fascinated by it. So horrified, however, that I decided never again to live on the American mainland as soon as I got my doctorate. I didn’t want to live in a country where people of dark skin, those whose ancestors came from the cradle of human civilization, Africa, had far worse lives than those who had less access to their hearts. I vowed never to return until those of dark skin are truly free. A “black” president and an occasional black cabinet officer do not change that for me.

As an adult I have witnessed the further destruction of Africa: genocide in Rwanda and the Sudan, the insanity of Idi Amin and, of course, apartheid. What began as colonial takeover in the 19^th century continued far after the colonial powers left. The colonial legacy goes on.

From my perspective, the end of apartheid did not signal the end of economic slavery for Blacks in South Africa. Foreign interests made sure that the country would remain economically dependent on Europe and America when the transition to majority rule occurred.

In the past summer my spiritual advisors began telling me to prepare for major “heat” in Africa. What they meant was that something was going to change in a very deep way. And so, it was no surprise for me when the riots began in Tunisia and Algeria and then spread quickly to Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen and Egypt. I am told that a massive wave of change is underway that will soon spread beyond the Middle East and Africa to Europe. I am also given very specific information on what will happen and how it will be done.

Why such a strong emphasis on the future?

The future is where we are going. We live, in a very real sense, on a time line. The past is over, even if we try to hold onto it. The present is only in this moment. The future is where we are going.

This fall I was told that I would stop doing seminars and lectures for a while. Rather, I would spend time preparing for a very new phase in my life. My life slowed down on the surface. I spent a lot of time working on my pictures and examining the world from a new perspective.

Then, in January things began to happen. It seemed like a huge wall was opening up to the future. I began to see time made up of huge entities, entities that I perceive as energy beings. From my perspective, every aspect of reality has a hidden backdrop: energy beings. If you want to truly understand reality and begin to move with it, you need access to these beings. The more access, the better.

I have been guided throughout my life to spend time in places that promote inner change and connections for me. One of these places is Liechtenstein. I have spent a fair amount of time there in the past few years. Last week, I was directed to spend a night there again, and I “met” the future, both in the capital of Vaduz and even stronger high in the mountains.

Who and what did I meet?

Most people are very uncomfortable with the word being. Most find it comforting to think that our physical world is made of very tangible and stable elements and structures. Many find it equally comforting to believe the media when they say that the Egyptian protests were so easily organized through the electronic media of Facebook and Twitter. Such an explanation falls apart when Mubarak orders the Internet suspended in Egypt and when the protests reach their highest point a day after this happens. People should not find comfort in this explanation when they realize that very few of the protesters had access to the Internet and quite a number of them do not even know what the Internet is!

But, beliefs die hard.

It is surely nicer to believe that the recent huge floods in many areas of the world are the work of fate,such as this weekend’s train crash in Northern Germany, which claimed ten lives. You certainly would not want to know that here, too, there are beings at work, and that you would need to have a very good understanding of them, if you wanted to have any sort of control over your own life. Or, would you want to know?

Every culture has beings. Christianity has the angels, the saints, Jesus, as well as the Father and the Holy Ghost. Islam and Judaism have angels. Buddhism and Hinduism have a wealth of beings that people pray to and worship. Even communism had Marx, Engels, Mao and Stalin.

Why should people have such a hard time with the idea that there are beings out there that form and rule the world?

Well, a lot of people take a great deal of comfort in believing that there are beings out there. Believing in God has led a lot of people to lessen the effect of suffering and even imminent death. But believing in God, the Trinity and even angels is a lot different from meeting them.

And meeting them is still a lot different from actually allowing these beings to enter your body and to become one with you. That is what I have been trained to do, and that is what I allowed to happen in Liechtenstein.

In Liechtenstein this past week, I met the future. I met the future in the form of the huge and very powerful energy beings that make it up. And, there, I began to allow these beings to meld with my own being, which means big and deep change. I was also told that the first phase of the process would take five days.

I am excited, as always, when huge changes occur that I can only see as very positive. One of my first questions to my spiritual guidance was about doing seminars with these beings. I knew the answer before I asked the question. “Only in time. Some people will be curious; others will be massively afraid and want to run away. And, of course, curiosity itself is a form of fear, a strange kind of expression of inner resistance.” And, then, of course, there are those few who truly desire the change.

I will be reporting in the near (and new) future on the changes that occur by melding with the future of humanity.

Andrew Terker