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RealityShifters®
June 2026
Issue #321

published monthly since October 1999
How Good Can it Get?

Cynthia Sue Larson
Cynthia Sue Larson
Humanity's Future in the Age of Disclosure
How good can it get when we focus on our connections?

"We are like islands in the sea,
separate on the surface
but connected in the deep."
— William James



Hello wise humans!

Have you noticed what a difference good connections make in our lives? Connections with friends can make every moment feel richer and more meaningful. Connections with places can help us feel more at home, and better grounded. And connections with those who’ve made the next evolutionary leap can help us feel inspired, energized, and optimistic. Connections with non-human intelligent beings can help us transcend limitations in remarkable new ways, as seen in movies being released this year.

Two of the biggest movie blockbusters premiering in theaters this year focus on human-alien connections. Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary, befriends and works closely with an alien to save their respective star systems. Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day, is shown in a promotional clip spontaneously speaking an alien language while reporting weather news on her TV broadcasting job. Both of these films appear to be imagining ways that humans can relate and communicate with non-human beings, while bringing far more depth and nuance to the subject than feature films have previously highlighted.

We are clearly living in extraordinary times—as we collectively observe the collapse of old hierarchical materialistic paradigms. Amidst this changing of ontological philosophical paradigms from material realism, we have yet to see which way our cultural thinking will next go.

One thing is for certain: long-concealed scientific and engineering truths can no longer be concealed, and those proverbial secret cats are about to escape from the bag. According to ever-growing numbers of whistle-blowers, the military industrial complex has been running a shell game for many years, concealing from public scrutiny some of the most revolutionary advances in science. It was a clever plan to conceal breakthroughs in physics and engineering by handing reverse-engineering tasks over to be secretly developed in private industry, where Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests could be indefinitely rebuffed, thanks to industry's rights to proprietary secrecy.

But all of this is about to end.

The military industrial complex shell game will come to an end as barriers to entry into long-suppressed scientific secret technologies drop to all-time lows. Increasing numbers of people are now receiving assistance from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technologies like 3D printing—making it a snap to design and build prototypes of all sorts of what had previously been thought to be impossible inventions. Each week's headlines include news of new inventions of such things as: ultra-strong, lightweight, non-rusting metal alloys.

Humanity is now reaching a pivot point, as we have an opportunity to evolve beyond motivations based on materialistic self-interest into awareness that everything we've learned about individual reality selection (such as reality shifting and quantum jumping) can now be observed as collective reality selection (such as the Mandela Effect). There now exists a "Tipping Point" percentage of the general population who understand that mind-matter interaction is real, and we really can do such things as "program a parking space," and "change our thoughts to change our reality." There's a huge recent upsurge of scientific respectability and acceptance of: Telepathy, Psychokinesis, and contact with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in air, sea, and land. And with this upsurge of experiencing these, there is an accompanying desire to better understand what is going on, who we truly are, and what reality truly is.

All of these factors taken together indicate that long-censored information can no longer be so easily suppressed, and disclosure of these new ideas and technologies can be expected to be popping up all around us in such profusion that they cannnot all be stifled, quashed, or concealed.

Brandy's cellphone
Brandy's cellphone

Contact and Connections in Crestone

The magic of my recent trip to Colorado began on my Southwest flight from Oakland to Denver on May 21st. I was seated next to Brandy, a woman whose soft-side carry-on bag cradled a sedated elderly Chihuahua. Brandy and I began talking about how wonderful dogs are, and then our conversation turned to telepathy, God, and the upcoming weekend Crestone retreat. As I mentioned our event's main organizer, Paola Harris, and her books and work, Brandy typed notes to herself on her Android phone. Upon hearing that we typically see all kinds of UFO activity at our CE5 viewing activities at these evets, and that reality shifts and Mandela Effects are becoming commonplace experiences these days, Brandy said to me, "I have faith in these things existing, but I don't see them." I suggested that she might like to rephrase the comment to, "I have not seen them YET." Brandy agreed, and I continued mentioning resources she might like to investigate—until she exclaimed in surprise, stopped typing, and stared in rapt silence at her cell phone. I asked, "What?" and Brandy pointed at her cellphone where she'd been typing notes (without any speech-to-text function activated), and right after the short notes she'd typed in slowly and methodically was a huge paragraph of text that she did not type, "I am ready to align with my Purpose, begin Healing my wounds holding me back from Purpose, and invite Financial Abundance and Freedom into my life." This was AMAZING to both of us—and we both got goosebumps! Brandy kept saying, "I'm so grateful!" as I pointed out that she's now had one of these reality shift ypes of experiences, since the text on the screen is nothing that anyone was saying nearby, and nothing she had cut or copied that might have been in her phone's short-term memory.

Aaron Judkins, Paola Harris, and Cynthia Sue Larson
Aaron Judkins, Paola Harris, and Cynthia Sue Larson
https://aaronjudkins.substack.com/ When I arrived in Colorado, and met up with Paola Harris and Aaron Judkins, we started our "Ancient Aliens Meet UFOs" retreat in Crestone, Colorado. Most of this retreat centered around presentations that each of us made indoors, with Paola Harris covering some key information regarding UFO history of the past century, and Aaron Judkins sharing his cutting-edge research into the Gobleki Tepe archeological site. I feel deeply enriched by contemplating the nature of reality and who we truly are in the context of these presentations—and I am inspired to do more reading, including Aaron Judkins' book, Decoding Gobekli Tepe.

Aaron Judkins photograph of unusual stationary changing
light
Aaron Judkins photograph of unusual stationary changing light
Our CE5 event (human-initiated contact with beings) took place outdoors on Saturday night, May 23rd, on Paola's acreage in Crestone, just before sunset. Almost immediately upon sitting down in our circle, I saw in the NNE direction (just to the right of Polaris, the North star) a couple of sparkling, shifting, twinkling lights come together and merge. Paola was seated to my left, and she agreed that she'd also just seen two lights come together there, too! The combined light did not move from this location from about 8:30pm when we arrived to 10:00 pm when Paola, Aaron, and I left the CE5 circle and returned back to our apartment. I pointed out this sparkly ever-changing light had a symmetrically situated "partner" over at NNW (just to the left of Polaris, the North star), with the same low altitude just above the horizon as the first two that merged into one. The NNE one and the NNW one both twinkled from 8:30pm to 10pm—and actually on to 10:30 pm when we returned to our apartment and were dazzled by the NNW one on the drive back, that looked to Paola, "like light on a mountain," but there was no mountain over to the west of us!

close-up of Aaron Judkins photograph of stationary
ever-changing NNE light #2
close-up of Aaron Judkins photograph of stationary ever-changing NNE light #2
close-up of Aaron Judkins photograph of stationary
ever-changing NNE light #1, looking like horse
close-up of Aaron Judkins photograph of stationary ever-changing NNE light #1, looking like horse
At our Saturday Crestone CE5, there was an open section of our semicircle of participants that we'd kept open to better view the mountains to the east. This opening also occurred to some of us to be an invitation to accommodate additional participants under that first twinkly NNE light over the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Many people participating in our CE5 brought out their cellphones to photograph the NNE twinkler that stayed more-or-less "stationary" though continuously pulsing and changing colors, and doing a jazzy little dance-in-place, pulsing and changing colors in the sky over the silhoutted mountains. Paola asked me to take a photo, but I didn't have a camera with me, so she asked Aaron to photograph this sparkling light #1 to the NNE. Aaron took what turned out to be a terrific photo with his new cellphone, that we later saw revealed a gorgeous image of Sarah, assisting in the opening meditation, silhouetted in front of the mountains. And when Paola later showed Aaron and I that she could do a HUGE zoom-in close-up with Aaron's photo, the resulting image appeared to be a HORSE figure in Aaron's first photo, and something different in his second photo.

There is deep significance to me of the locations of anomalous sightings (such as North North East and North North West), because this can convey a sense of wisdom from these directions. Such wisdom from "true North" reminds us to do our best and strive to take correct action, say the right things, and think the right things. East reminds us to tend to New Beginnings, and sense New Realities and New Worlds. NNE represents the combination of right thinking of action and speech in this dawn of the new world, and NNW is correct mindfulness is letting old discordant systems go. Most of us attending this Crestone CE5 paid full attention to the NNE stationary, ever-changing light—which represents looking to the future and attending to what we'd most like to bring into our new realities and new world. Many of us commented on how we felt a sense of close connection with one another at this retreat, experiencing moments of individual breakthrough and discovery as something deeply shared.

Christina Hall photograph of CE5 beings
Christina Hall photograph of CE5 beings
On Sunday morning, May 24th, when Paola and Aaron and I were at the table having breakfast in our apartment, Paola received a photo from Christina Hall that Christina took near the start of our CE5 the night before, when so many people were photographing the twinkling "star," and she'd tried to photograph a shooting star. Paola gasped, ad did a zoom-in close-up, to show Aaron and I what appeared to be a very clear, full-body image of a being in radiant green light! There were also many adjacent vertical lines around this central figure. All of this felt deeply meaningful to me—since on Saturday afternoon at our end-of-day panel with Aaron, me, and Paola, one attendee had asked, "What beings can we invite who are good and safe to invite, that we will all feel safe around?" I replied, "Val Thor, and the Venusians! Paola Harris then summarized some of the interactions that people have had over the years with these beings, as covered in the book, "From Outer Space to You." Paola shared information about a photographer who'd photographed Val Thor and his crew in the 1960s on the east coast, at an outdoor event. I said to our group on Saturday afternoon after Paola described all this, "These are the beings I'd love to invite to join us! The Venusians!" Paola Harris added that they mgith have SAID they were from Venus, because we know what planet Venus is, while actually being from some place harder to describe. These beings look gorgeous, and were easy for the photographer in the 1960s to spot, because they were overdressed for the occasion of an outdoor casual gathering.

Howard Menger photograph of beings
Howard Menger photograph of beings
close-up of Christina Hall photograph of CE5 being
close-up of Christina Hall photograph of CE5 beings
My unspoken wish for our Saturday CE5 in addition to inviting Venusians was for the visitor beings to join us in the first 60-90 minutes, when Paola Harris would be there, before we headed back to return to our apartment. And—when did the sparkling lights show up at NNE and NNW? Almost immediately upon our arrival at Paola's property!

And what did we see in Christina Hall's photo? A central green being, surrounded by other less-detailed fellow beings! And the central image reminded Paola of a (less complete) photo image of a Venusian being she'd seen previously photographed. Christina Hall took several photos of these beings, but one photo was clearly most striking—and other photographers in our CE5 did not capture what she saw.

Christina Hall's tuning fork
Christina Hall's tuning fork
When I first met Christina Hall on Friday, May 23rd, I exclaimed, "You have amazing tuning fork energy—you are like a tuning fork!" She replied, "I brought my tuning fork to Crestone with me!" She later showed it to me, and I saw that it was a medical grade tuning fork—wow! As a lucid-living symbol, a tuning fork represents to me alignment with the cosmos, in ways that help facilitate harmonious collaborative connection with others. Tuning forks are often utilized by musicians to ensure that everyone can play music in key together—thus, tuning forks (whether medical grade metal ones, or human ones) provide a kind of communication bridge.

In our outdoor Sunday, May 24th morning gathering—the last part of our weekend retreat—Paola asked Christina Hall to sit next to her, to talk about the photo she took. Christina said she'd felt Venusian energy, and had felt a strong connection to beings as we began the CE5 Saturday night. She urged the beings to "SHOW us something," with great emotion, and emphasis on SHOWING, rather than coming through as spoken words (like channeling). I think and feel that Christina's photograph is a huge gift for all of us to have received connection from beings in that first hour of CE5 while all of us (including Paola, Aaron, and me) were still there! It's highly unusual to see anomalous phenomena so quickly (often a long meditation process is required to occur first), and typically any stationary UFOs like our twinkling lights in the NNE and NNW only stay in place for about 20 minutes, not two hours or more. I looked up "planets on the horizon in Crestone" for that day, and saw there were no planets in either the NNE or NNW locations.

Disclosure Day movie poster
Disclosure Day movie poster
This all encourages us to keep going, and stay focused on new beginnings, new ways of thinking and connecting. I feel greatly encouraged to know that beings are supporting us with their unconditionally loving example. I felt the strong, powerful energy of our CE5 when I returned to our apartment, not yet knowing about Christina Hall's photo. And I had trouble sleeping with the palpable energetic presence of the beings I'd felt Saturday night—with surging adrenaline running through me in soft waves that cleared out some allergies I'd had that plugged up my breathing that night. At the CE5, I'd felt this gentle loving presence, and a sense of a hand being lovingly placed for a moment on my left shoulder. This all felt like a beautiful confirmation of presence of these light beigns joinig us that we saw the next day in Christina's photo! We each had special individual experiences at the CE5, which fits the premise in Paola Harris's book, Connecting the Dots, indicating that disclosure is already happening, and something each and every one of us can feel in our own unique, subjective experiences.

I see that the next Steven Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day, is coming out on June 12th—and it's been 49 years since Spielberg wrote and directed, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The first screenings of this new movie are receiving good preliminary reviews, and I'm looking forward to seeing it.

These are days when we can begin to more clearly envision humanity's future in the age of disclosure, regardless how much our governments say and do. Thanks to our openness to new experiences, and ability to attune ourselves to caring about our connections with both those who are like us and those who are very different from us, we can begin to see the dawning of a new age of connections. And I hope you'll be joining me in asking, "How good can this new age of connections get?"

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SOURCES:

Harris, Paola. Connecting the Dots: Making Sense of the UFO Phenomena. 2023.

Judkins, Aaron and Burton, Judd. Decoding Gobekli Tepe: Biblical Anatolia and the Watchers. 2024.

Larson, Cynthia. Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity. 2013.
https://realityshifters.com/pages/quantumjumps.html

Larson, Cynthia. The Mandela Effect and its Society: Awakening from ME to WE. 2024.
https://realityshifters.com/pages/mesociety.html

Menger, Howard. From Outer Space to You. Pyramid Books. 1974.


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      In This Issue:

      (1) Spiritual Life Coaching
      (2) Intriguing Events, Articles, Interviews, & Films
      (3) Your Reality Shift Stories
      (4) Mail Bag, Questions, and Answers
      (5) Reviews that Shift Your Reality
      (6) Noteworthy Web Sites
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Cynthia
Cynthia Sue Larson MBA, author, speaker, and spiritual life coach

(1) Spiritual Life Coaching

Could you benefit from help facing a challenging issue in your life? Would you like clarity regarding an important decision? Could you use some help shifting your reality? Are you curious to know your divine gifts? Are you ready to feel energized? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you can benefit from Spiritual Life Coaching with Cynthia!
Contact Cynthia at cynthiasuelarson@substack.com to set up a life-enhancing telephone consultation today.
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      "If there is one thing I can be grateful for
      it is that I trusted my intuition
      and made contact with you--
      and from that the gift of connecting
      to myself (and other people) again! "
      — Esther
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(2) Intriguing Events, Articles, Interviews, & Films

Cynthia Sue Larson
Humanity’s future in the age of UFO disclosure
photographing beings in Crestone

28 May 2026
19 minutes
Have you noticed what a difference good connections make? Connections with friends can make every moment feel richer and more beautiful. Connections with places can help us feel more at home. And connections with those who’ve made the next evolutionary leap can help us feel inspired, guided, and protected. We can even start to see the zeitgeist of improving human-alien relationships in recent movies being released this year. I find it fascinating that two of the biggest movie blockbusters to hit theaters this year feature Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary, befriending an alien to work together to save their respective star systems, and Emily Blunt in Disclosure Day, spontaneously speaking an alien language while reporting weather news on her TV broadcasting job. We are living in extraordinary times--collectively observing collapse of old fourth world hierarchical materialistic paradigms, with the act of observation itself playing a key active role, as we discover from quantum physics.
https://youtu.be/rKqkg0clm0A


Cynthia Sue Larson on X Zone Radio with Rob McConnell
Cynthia Sue Larson
on X Zone Radio
with Rob McConnell

12 May 2026
56 minutes
I had such a wonderful time talking with Rob McConnell about the Mandela Effect that keeps filling me with wonder and amazement, and I'm so impressed with the song he wrote about the Mandela Effect, which is featured near the start of this interview. Rob shares why he's changed his mind about the Mandela Effect, and we discuss some of the ways that quantum physics brings some much-needed clarity to some of the weirdest types of Mandela Effects.
https://youtu.be/LQXEdmHrbw0


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(3) Your Reality Shift Stories


Phoebe sings karaoke on Friends
Another “Friends” show Mandela Effect
Kevin


I just wanted to share with you another Friends show Mandella effect. Phoebe is doing karaoke and finishes the Queen song with, “...of the world.” Ha Ha! Phoebe seems to be the Friends show residual conduit. I share this with you because as I said before, nobody else I know has any interest in this. Very frustrating. I'm watching a recent interview with you on a Derek Loudermilk podcast as we speak. Love it. I miss the monthly IMEC show. Hope you and all your friends are doing well.

Note from Cynthia: Thank you so much for sharing another awesome Friends TV show Mandela Effect! I also remember that the Queen song, "We are the Champions," and yes, I remember it the way that Phoebe sang it, ending, "... of the world!"  This is such a gem, especially since it's hard to find Queen singing it that way much any more. With respect to people not showing as much interest in the Mandela Effect, it seems to me that now that the Mandela Effect is going mainstream, people take it for granted, and most aren't interested in finding out why it's happening.
Phoebe sings "We are the Champions"
https://youtu.be/yWQTV5V2qm8



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Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
Biggest “The Oprah Winfrey Show” episode Mandela Effect
Susan


Is this iconic Oprah moment a Mandela Effect? Here is a video link:
https://youtube.com/shorts/4JDXHVfg9go

Note from Cynthia: Yes, just this week I heard about this Mandela Effect where so many of us remember Oprah Winfrey asking people in the audience on September 13, 2004 to "Look under your seats," when she had a truly surprising gift for everyone—a brand new Pontiac car!  But now, apparently, audience members were given small boxes that were brought to them carried on platters/trays, and Oprah asked, "Does everybody have a box?" to make sure that each and every member of the audience was holding their box, before she directed everyone to open their boxes, saying, "Alright. Open your boxes." Apparently, there still exist other episodes where Oprah did ask people to, "Look under your seats," but now the car giveaway episode is markedly different.  I don't personally have a memory either way for this episode, since I didn't watch it at the time, but it seems like a lot of people do remember that the Pontiac car episode used to involve looking under seats.  Fascinating! 


Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Change to Michael Jackson song,
Billie Jean

Cynthia Sue Larson

This past month I became aware of a new-for-me Mandela Effect involving a change of lyrics in Michel Jackson’s song, Billie Jean. The lyrics include this refrain, "She says I am the one, but the __________ is not my son." I remember "child." But now it’s always only been "kid." This one is interesting for me, since I used to sing along to the song when it first came out, and I was listening carefully to what I heard Michael singing, and for me, this was definitely always, "child."


Authentification Mandela Effect
Aimee
Caulfield, Victoria, Australia

I am wondering about a possibility of a Mandela Effect involving the word authentification. It is apparently not in use, and now known as authentication? Other than authentication term used for APPS, I know the word to be authentification?

Note from Cynthia: I'm so intrigued that you happen to mention the word "authentification," since it's been on the proverbial back burner of my mind, as a word I used to hear frequently, but now only hear "authentication." I looked it up just now, and see that supposedly the words mean the same thing, but the "authentification" I came to know and love so well is now considered to be a French derivative word, and much less preferred. Wow. Thanks so much for sharing this--I'm sure that you and I aren't the only ones who remember the previous popularity of "authentification"!


Cell phone adapter drops out of thin air
Aimee
Caulfield, Victoria, Australia

I was staying somewhere for about 5 days away from home, and had my headphones and adaptor for my phone with me. When I was leaving, I could not find the adaptor anywhere. Even though I was careful to keep everything together and remember placing it beside my computer with my office things and cables. I let it go and resigned to buying a new adaptor. Then a few weeks later, I was speaking on the phone with my partner and he was at home and I was somewhere else. All of a sudden he exclaimed, "You are not going to believe this," and he said he suddenly heard a “clunk!” behind the window curtain while I was talking. He peeked behind the curtain, and saw that the little adaptor was resting on the window sill like it fell out of thin air and dropped onto the sill.

Note from Cynthia: Oh my goodness, what an amazing experience you had with your phone adapter/charger falling onto the window sill while your partner was on the phone, talking with you! Those "out of thin air" audible drop-in reality shifts are so noteworthy--the kind of epic experiences that tend to stay with us for years. I've now seen and heard many such items arriving as if to say, "Ta-Da! I'm here!" in such a grand entrance. And for those of us fortunate to witness such things, we are absolutely certain there is no standard explanation for how these items arrived with such panache.


Knife went missing from drawer and photo
Aimee
Caulfield, Victoria, Australia

This same home we stayed at, when we first moved in for a year to look after it for friends, we took photos to make sure we remembered to leave everything like when we came. During that year we both suddenly noticed a knife went missing. Neither of us could account for it but we both knew it was in the drawer. I eventually purchased a new one for them. thinking one of us must have misplaced it. Later in the year, when we were ready to leave and checking the photos, there was no knife in the photo. Yet we both remembered it and used it and knew which drawer it was in.

Note from Cynthia: Your experience replacing the knife that not only went missing from its drawer, but also from the initial photograph is fascinating! It's so nice to have fellow witnesses in such moments, since otherwise it's so easy to doubt oneself.


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(4) Mail Bag, Questions, and Answers


Hi Cynthia,
Thank you for spreading / inspiring these beautiful spells: How good can it get? And How much good can I accept? I now forgive, let go, open up and allow the highest and most beautiful timelines for myself and all beings. I allow myself to receive incredible things, shockingly good feelings, circumstances. I am the radical, awesome arrival of the calm, bright light of the Age of Aquarius, shining perfectly on planet earth now, engendering divine ecstasy, joy, healing and profound peace. Part of the beauty of what you're spreading returning back to you! THANK YOU!
— Cullen

Dearest Cullen,
You are so very welcome! Yes, these words have greater power and benefit than most people yet realize. Thank you for shining so much love and light in this world!
With love and thanks,
— Cynthia

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Hi Cynthia,
Did AI write your article? AI uses em dashes a lot. I thought you didn’t use it. Not a criticism; I just like to know where a person stands on these things.
— Julie

Dearest Julie,
Thanks for writing and asking this question—I appreciate your honesty and bringing this matter of whether or not I write with AI. The answer to your question is no, I do not write any of my material with Artificial Intelligence, and have no plans to ever do so.  I'm opting out of AI every chance I get, actually. I've switched AI off on my email program, and I avoid purchasing devices that employ AI. I've still never yet owned a cell phone--mostly due to anticipating this day and age of AI, and knowing that I wish to maintain my sovereignty free from AI inveiglement. I like the em dashes because I love to link ideas together. I have been utilizing em dashes a lot long before the rise of chatGPT and other AI systems, as you can see if you go back through the monthly RealityShifters ezine archives which are all posted on my website.  I can envision a time in the not-too-distant future, as AI writing becomes more experienced and adept, that it may become harder to discern which writing was done with AI and what was written by humans.  But at this time, I find that there are some ways we can tell when something was written by AI rather than humans. One of the "tells" that immediately tips me off to an author writing with AI is the overuse of the logical framing of "it's not (this), it's (that)."  I dislike this kind of writing technique because I don't like being steered or herded mentally to accept that these two things (this and that) are mutually exclusive, or even part of the same spectrum of some sort.  I feel like I'm almost allergic to this kind of writing style, and frequently immediately stop reading anything that starts out that way.  I sense a kind of lulling in this verbal steering and herding.  There is a feeling I get from it that many readers sort of shut down conscious thinking while passively accepting that this bifurcation is real and meaningful.  I'm deeply resistant to being steered this way, and I wish more people would pick up on this, and maintain their own individual thinking capacities.
lots of love and thanks,
— Cynthia

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Dear Cynthia,
Any idea what lucid dreams signify, or their exact origin?
— V.N.

Dear V.N.,
Lucid dreams are a very special subset of regular dreams--and even ordinary everyday regular dreams can sometimes provide extraordinary insights and even on occasion be recognized as "true dreams" signifying a deeper level of reality.  I've sometimes been informed of what's going on "behind the scenes" or in the future by "true dreams" that were just ordinary everyday dreams on the face of things--yet, due to certain indicators in such dreams, including time markers that appear to have been included expressly for me to be aware that this is a precognitive dream that could perhaps provide inside information that can then be utilized to make some positive changes to avert potential negative events.  I'm taking time to explain all this about non-lucid dreams, because as much respect as I have for regular dreams, lucid dreams hold a very special place in my heart, because they involve knowing that I am dreaming when I'm in the dream.  Thanks to having awareness in the dream that, "This is a dream," experiences of the dream take on a different quality.  This lucid dream quality to me feels like I'm the "real me"--the expanded eternal, infinite me--the version of me who will exit my body when this physical body's days are done.  I then travel with awareness that I am the consciousness that exists and persists not just inside my body during normal waking hours, but also in dream travels, including those dreams where I move through realms as if awake while knowing the entire time I'm dreaming.  In this state one of my personal favorite things to do is still be kind of my usual sense of identity (female human being with pretty much same body), and I love to float upward until I bump the ceiling in indoor spaces--and sometimes then float through the rooftops and out into the sky, where I'll fly.  I can explore this way, and it feels perfectly normal to do so for me in lucid dreams.  What these lucid dreams signify to me is a reminder of our true nature before we came into human bodies in this current incarnation in our lives.  Since I can sometimes initiate lucid dreams, it seems likely to me that their origin is with ourselves--with some level of consciousness of ourselves.  We are much more than what we seem to be, and lucid dreams can help open our minds to this.
lots of love,
— Cynthia

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