When I asked my spirit guides about war, the answer I received was:
“Secure joy in the consciousness you maintain.”

Spiritual Fatigue
Do you ever feel spiritually fatigued?
For me, this is a very particular emotion —
- it’s not depression
- it’s not hormonal
- it’s not the normal low flow of energy you experience in your normal ups and downs
- it’s not grief…
Spiritual fatigue feels incredibly UN-personal — it’s not attached to your personal experience, necessarily; I don’t believe it can be traced to body chemistry, either. I consider myself an empath, to a fault — I absorb the emotions of the people I come into contact with.
Spiritual fatigue is like the negative result of empathy on a global scale — it’s about everybody else — and I mean EVERYBODY. It’s a human species-spanning ennui – an overwhelming dissatisfaction, boredom, and annoyance with the collective consciousness.
What Would Anne Say?
You hear people say they’ve lost faith in humanity; but then you go to Amsterdam and the last thing you read as you LEAVE the Anne Frank House and the Holocaust Museum there (which features contemporary, modern war-time atrocities, genocide, ethnic cleansing — not just historical examples) is a sign above the door bearing Anne’s conclusion that people are basically good at heart.
And this is NOT a bummer, by any means — it doesn’t undo the horror you’ve visited by walking through that history, wading through those psychic echoes — it captures all that negativity, delivers it directly to the Heart Chakra, and that wisdom moves up and out through the mind — the Third Eye — the Divine Crown — where it alters your perception and the behavior you choose… That angst becomes at least the power of a potential Cure…
Whether or not hate ends there is your decision. Is that enough? Does it DO enough if it only changes your world? Is changing your own mind — your own “little, personal, selfish” reality — ENOUGH?
Spiritual fatigue occurs when you stop and feel how many millions of people are behaving as if they’ve never heard the whispers of ascended souls such as Anne. (I believe Anne Frank Ascended. You won’t find her name on any “official” list of Ascended Masters or Saints. I think we need a newer, bigger, more inclusive list. I wonder, does anyone else consciously pray to Anne Frank? If you ever have the chance to go to the Anne Frank House, you will likely hear her praying to YOU…)
Time for Another News BlackOut?
After 9-11, I severed all forms of news consumption. I did not watch television for four years. I eventually reached the point where I retreated even from reading fiction novels. I communicated only with machines and spirit entities.
In the convergence of computers, code, and divination — behind the screens — is where I began to translate the real news of the Ascension, where science and religion come full-circle.
It’s amazing how little you escape from anything with the strategy of willful ignorance. Not listening, not paying attention, not caring are just not options. To name something as Evil is a cop-out that empowers it and defers responsibility, but does nothing to eradicate it.
What do we DO about bullies?
How do we fight war without making more of it? How do we condemn and punish without judging others? How can we just throw up our hands and quit?
We can’t. I can’t.
And I do NOT have the answers — I’m left asking questions. I forget sometimes that I don’t have to understand and explain and translate FOR you. I need only lead you to ask with me.
What do your spirit guides tell you about war?
Again, mine say “Secure joy in the consciousness you maintain.”
Do you know what that means? I’m asking. See, I get These Kinds of Messages all the time — they are like greeting cards from Heaven — or fortune cookies. The content of these messages are incredibly specific in their wording — what you usually read here on Shift Your Spirits are my attempts to unravel — decode — the meanings of these messages.
I do not usually share these messages before living with them for months. The bulk of the meaningful communication I receive from spirit guides, angels, and Ascended Masters goes
- into the books I am writing — homes for very specific conversations
- into Readings – when the questions are asked by a Sitter, when I am acting as a relay medium
Really, I do not feel comfortable publishing as if I am some kind of Oracle. Normally, the last home for the Messages I receive is here. But, that’s no fun for you, now is it?
I need to let you in on this process — invite you to participate in discerning what these spiritual transmissions mean. I started publishing this site because a year ago the Ascended Masters asked me, via deep trance medium Dr. Meg Blackburn-Losey: “How long do you intend to remain in your ivory tower Getting Really Good at something that so many could benefit from? How can you get to the place of understanding what works and keep it to yourself?”
Because spiritual fatigue makes it feel like a hopeless mission sometimes. But no matter how weary and dissatisfied I become, the Messages don’t stop coming.
And messages from the Ascended Masters certainly aren’t all for me.
So, from now on, before I proceed with digesting the Messages from our spirit guides — and by doing so effectively delay their delivery and deny your participation — I’m going to show them to you and invite your wisdom and interpretation.
I have received pages of information in answer to my question about war; I’ll share more of what my guides say, and certainly more of what I think the answers mean, in other articles. For now, I’ll leave you with the core of their response:
Secure joy in the consciousness you maintain.
You tell ME what you think this means…
Seek Wisdom — Practice Love






“Secure joy in the consciousness you maintain.”
Find peace in the present moment. When the mind wanders too much into the past or into the future, warlike energies arise. Wars are begun by those angry, hurt, cheated, scared by events and experiences in their lives….people afraid to let go, forgive, love.
Mita,
Thanks for your interpretation.
What a fascinating piece, Slade! . . . it’s a daily challenge to be joyful, hopeful or optimistic when the news relentlesly brings daily doses of almost unimaginable horrors into our homes. How to maintain a consciousness in which I can secure joy? I can pay attention to the little things that happen every day that are wondrous and miraculous and a marvel to me. The Dalai Lama made a statement about nothing every staying the same . . . no matter how bad or good, there will always be change. What possibilities there! The story of Pandora came to mind. too. She opened a forbidden container and released all the ills and evils into the world, but at the bottom of them all was hope. That story reminds me to look for the good everywhere, not just in the obvious places.
Too long a comment for such a concise statement! It did make me think, though, about some very good things. Thank you : > )
Mary,
Thank you for the awesome participation – your comments are NOT too long. It seems my simply asking you guys to ponder the questions and return your own answers can create a more powerful, personal response than my “telling you what I think you should think” – which could make me another brain-washing, brow-beating, know-it-all…er, member of the media.
Your insights – such as references to the Dalai Lama – bring a world of potential I can’t offer on my own.
Thank you – the comments here and the emails I’ve received by the Shy Ones – are some of the best in recent memory.
Keep ‘em coming!
Joy is the antithesis of fear. Fear is the harbinger of war. Where there is joy; there is compassion. Where there is compassion; there is peace. Thus, enjoy thyself and others, and be at peace.
Nice breakdown, Chris.
“Joy is the antithesis of fear.”
Well said.
Anne Frank has always been one of my heroes because out of the worst possible circumstances, she always found hope and joy in just the simplest things. If more of us looked for the best in situations and people, instead of expecting the worst, think how different our world would be. Slade, I am glad you are listening to your guides about sharing your information sooner. This was a timely message for me. I had forgotten to look for the joy of the moment lately. Thanks for the reminder.
British actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson opened the website ‘Anne Frank Tree’ in the Anne Frank House on 1 February 2006. I registered a “leaf” there this time last year.
http://www.annefranktree.com/
It’s a very well-done web site – beautiful concept, all the way around. Check it out!
I gain new insights from you constantly Slade and I appreciate your sharing with us. To me, the consciousness I maintain includes the consciousness of everyone I come into contact with, everyone who shares my consciousness space in the physical world. So in order to secure joy in this space, I need to become more aware of how I interact with people, even the person sitting next to me at the stoplight. The least I can do is say a little prayer for them and send them “joy energy” as we wait. For those I actually speak to, I can become more focused on trying to sense how I can say or do something that they may need today: a smile, a hug, an encouraging word, etc. During meditation, I can remember to pray for balance, harmony and wisdom for all, as I do now for you and all of your readers at this moment. Can it be this simple? I believe it can.
Sandra,
An incredibly insightful exploration of the concept of “maintaining” consciousness. My interpretations kept leading me to draw back to self – to recede from projecting a sense of control outside beyond what I can truly affect.
You have beautifully reversed that, and bounced the power back in the other direction, after all.
Thank you for that!
Guys,
THIS is the best spirit guide Reading I’ve ever experienced. I’ve stumbled upon a new way to approach Readings and mediumship – the results of the feedback to this post have been tremendous – the number of positive emails has floored me.
I need to post a round-up of some of the comments you haven’t seen here.
I feel that you are indeed hearing your spirit guides, listening to your higher self, and able to communicate with spirit.
This is where we’re headed…
Slade,
Have you read The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk? The message from your guides reminds me of this novel (which I LURVE, btw).
Without giving too much away, towards the end of the book the peaceful people of a future San Francisco are attacked by a really nasty army of brainwashed soldiers. Knowing the attack is coming, they have chosen not to fight, knowing that they couldn’t win a fight anyway. What they do instead is amazing, and really seems unthinkable. They wage peace on the level of consciousness.
I highly suggest this book to every (thinking) person I meet. It might give you some more ideas along the lines of those in this post.
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