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Winter 2026
Please explain how animals decide it’s time to leave their bodies. For example, do dogs have portals for leaving the planet like people do?
They have a timed-release portal—they don’t have portals, plural. Creatures are here with a span of time, which is different for all of them. They come here, live that span, and go. Unlike humans, they don’t consciously do things that affect their lifespan; they don’t smoke cigarettes for thirty years and wonder why they have lung cancer.
The group soul ultimately sets that span, but in creatures that spend a lot of time around humans, particularly Guardians, the group soul is very weak and the individuated self is strong. In those kinds of situations, that portal can become elastic. Instead of being a set thing, it’s more like “around this time.”
There is no life force on this planet except humans that think death is the end. Humans are the only ones who feel that death is a loss.
What EarthLight’s dog, Finn, experienced when his brother, Cullen, died wasn’t “He’s dead and gone” so much as “My routines of joy have been disrupted; I would like that joy back.” They miss, they grieve, but they’re not dependent, not worried about it. Big difference.
And certainly the whales are not worried about death. The trees aren’t pushing to be better lest they be punished.
Is the answer different for farmed animals?
Farmed animals are around humans, but not like your dogs, cats, reptiles, or aquarium fish.
Farmed animals have very short lives, often ended by humans. They don’t die of natural causes like our pets tend to as they age. I wonder what the group soul of the farmed animals decides.
The same sort of decision that a child born with a profoundly defective heart who lives a week has chosen.
But a child would be an individuated soul.
Yes, but I was just trying to let you know that it’s not just farm animals that might choose a very short life.
What would be a reason for a farm animal to have a very short life? Why would it choose that? Why would the group soul of bovines allow a male calf to be born to a dairy herd? They get sent away, separated, often killed.So why would it do that? Perhaps they are an energy that’s ready to move into a higher level of consciousness, and have no need to be embodied for a very long time.
You mentioned about animals not fearing death, but most images and videos from slaughterhouses don’t seem to agree with that.
Well, now, Stuart, there is a massive difference between not seeing death as an end—and therefore seeing it as a natural part of life and not fearing it—versus being surrounded by screaming, bloody, fearful, death smells and sounds and being herded into a tiny place. That’s massively different, between naturally dying and being murdered.
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How quickly is the energetic ceiling that happens when consuming animal-based foods released?
Well, it’s not an automatic process. It really does take a while without help.
In Greece, you asked the group, two days before the ritual, to stop eating animal-based foods.
That took a lot of help.
Generally speaking, for most people, it takes a significant period. Your whole biome has to retrain.Guardians are indulgent and especially don’t like being told what to do.
Guardians don’t like guardrails
It might be a nice reminder to people that eating animals puts a ceiling on your ability to rise up to consistent 5D function. You might think skipping animal-based foods for a few days before a ritual is enough, but without help, it’s not.
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Please explain if fluoride is still a challenge for our spiritual health in 5D.
I want to be as clear as I possibly can. Functioning in 5D is profoundly clearing. So the question is, are you functioning in 5D actively every moment? And you know if you are or are not. If you are not, your pineal is not going to have the time to become unoccluded. It’s like stripping years of rust off a tool that you found in your grandfather’s barn. But as you function in 5D, your need to protect that pineal doesn’t become a necessary part of your lifestyle hygiene.
Specifically, fluoride: In the United States, fluoride is a byproduct that has been found to help people’s teeth by keeping bacteria away. Using it is a choice, as with anything else in your life. If there is something that benefits you and you know it, and you’ve not been using it because I have said don’t, or you have read something, or the internet tells you, not to do that—that’s the wrong reason. You do it because it’s right for you. And you’re making the choice to either take on the harm of [pineal] occlusion or not take on the harm by choosing other options.
If you are functioning in 5D, it doesn’t matter, assuming you are doing the minimal protective behaviors for keeping your body going. Do people do that? Not so much.
Does it mean the pineal is suddenly not occluded . . .
No
. . . or does it just mean we are not negatively impacted by the occlusion?
Yes, and it means it will clarify over time.
But we need to be living 5D for that to happen?
It’s not because the world is in 5D. You must be living it in a sustained way.
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I believe that the saints and gods worshipped on Earth for centuries are really extraterrestrials, and many of these beings are still channeled. Who were and are these ETs? Where are they from, and why do they continue with this deception?
I will only say this much: what you give your power to becomes stronger.
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Please explain autism from a spiritual perspective. What are the causes, and what’s the best approach to help someone on the autistic spectrum?
Autism is a syndrome, a collection of symptoms and behaviors. It’s all about levels of sensitivities to power. For instance, there’s sometimes a strong sensitivity to loud sounds and too much impact from conversation. Learning to use earplugs or headphones that silence or block out some of that incoming power helps. It tends to be a syndrome of overly sensitive neural pathways. I see it fairly often because I’ve more or less decided that everybody has a small amount of that spectrum of symptoms—neurodivergence, that’s the word I was looking for. Everybody’s a bit neurodivergent from everyone else; some far more than others.
Your world loves to put behavior in boxes: if you have these behaviors, that means you are autistic, and if you have these behaviors over here, you are psychopathic, and these behaviors are narcissistic. Really, everybody is a combination of all of those. I don’t see autism as a terrible thing, for the most part. But like any chronic condition, the way one adapts in order to function—be it on and off the autism spectrum, or be it on and off the Guardian spectrum [laughs]—is everything. That’s what matters. You’re put in this box, have this label branded onto you. You can choose to live with it, ignore it, or see it and push beyond it.
I recognize that there are profoundly mentally disabled children and adults in this world. Is there one cause for it? I think there are a host of causes, plastic in the placenta, environmental disasters, chemical compounds you don’t even think about. They affect you. But everything in your life is for you. It’s not happening to you.
A last little bit: A child that comes in with a strong autism disorder is usually doing it for the parents.
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How effective is Pope Leo XIV going to be in guiding the Catholic Church in this new 5D world?
Why do we care?
He is making some interesting decisions, and that impacts huge numbers of people.
Indeed.
Is he really capable of helping people get into that 5D frequency from within the Church?
The structure of religion itself isn’t a 5D structure. But within any structure, there will always be shining lights that can make a difference, and—and this is a very unlikely thing to say—as long as the power isn’t abused, then the loving intent can shine. But the structure itself is eroding. It is built on a fragile, outmoded, fear-based system. Having said that, some of the first things he’s come out with have been very inclusive, but I see far more harm being allowed than the small bits that he’s saying are good. The light at the end of the tunnel doesn’t mean that it’s not dark all the way through the tunnel—and religion is the tunnel.
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Conservation groups around the world are engaged in breeding programs to help save endangered species. Yet you have said that anything not in line with 5D frequency will inevitably fade away. Can anything be done to raise the frequency of these animals so they will survive?
You don’t want them to survive. You don’t want that. All life force functions in a cyclical fashion, and when it is no longer able to function on the earth as it is, it needs to literally evolve or die. Now, there are some things you don’t want to see go. Mammoths, were quite cute when they were babies, but their environment was no longer capable of sustaining them. Add to that, humanity is encroaching on wild spaces faster than most species can repopulate a new arena. So humanity is making it untenable for many types of life force to function. So, should they be forced to live in a very tenuous way, in a place that cannot meet their bare necessities? I don’t think so.
That said, some species, like putting wolves back in Yellowstone, help ecosystems return to balance. Helping the wolves live and putting them back into the environment was Please explain how animals decide it’s time to leave their bodies. For example, do dogs have portals for leaving the planet like people do?
They have a timed-release portal—they don’t have portals, plural. Creatures are here with a span of time, which is different for all of them. They come here, live that span, and go. Unlike humans, they don’t consciously do things that affect their lifespan; they don’t smoke cigarettes for thirty years and wonder why they have lung cancer.
The group soul ultimately sets that span, but in creatures that spend a lot of time around humans, particularly Guardians, the group soul is very weak and the individuated self is strong. In those kinds of situations, that portal can become elastic. Instead of being a set thing, it’s more like “around this time.”
There is no life force on this planet except humans that think death is the end. Humans are the only ones who feel that death is a loss.
What EarthLight’s dog, Finn, experienced when his brother, Cullen, died wasn’t “He’s dead and gone” so much as “My routines of joy have been disrupted; I would like that joy back.” They miss, they grieve, but they’re not dependent, not worried about it. Big difference.
And certainly the whales are not worried about death. And the trees aren’t pushing to be better lest they be punished.
Is the answer different for farmed animals?
Farmed animals are around humans, but not like your dogs, cats, reptiles, or aquarium fish.
Farmed animals have very short lives, often ended by humans. They don’t die of natural causes like our pets tend to as they age. I wonder what the group soul of the farmed animals decides.
The same sort of decision that a child born with a profoundly defective heart who lives a week has chosen.
But a child would be an individuated soul.
Yes, but I was just trying to let you know that it’s not just farm animals that might choose a very short life.
What would be a reason for a farm animal to have a very short life? Why would it choose that? Why would the group soul of bovines allow a male calf to be born to a dairy herd? They get sent away, separated, often killed. So why would it do that? Perhaps they are an energy that’s ready to move into a higher level of consciousness, and have no need to be embodied for a very long time.
You mentioned about animals not fearing death, but most images and videos from slaughterhouses don’t seem to agree with that.
Well, there is a massive difference between not seeing death as an end—and therefore seeing it as a natural part of life and not fearing it—versus being surrounded by screaming, bloody, fearful, death smells and sounds and being herded into a tiny place. That’s a massive difference, between naturally dying and being murdered.
____________
How quickly is the energetic ceiling that results from consuming animal-based foods released after removing them from your diet?
Well, it’s not an automatic process. It really does take a while without help.
In Greece, two days before the ritual, you asked the group to stop eating animal-based foods.
That took a lot of help.
Generally speaking, for most people, it takes a significant period. Your whole biome has to retrain.Guardians are indulgent and especially don’t like being told what to do.
It might be a nice reminder to people that eating animals puts a ceiling on your ability to rise up to consistent 5D function. You might think skipping animal-based foods for a few days before a ritual is enough, but without help, it’s not.
____________
Please explain if fluoride is still a challenge for our spiritual health in 5D.
I want to be as clear as I possibly can. Functioning in 5D is profoundly clearing. So the question is, are you functioning in 5D actively every moment? And you know if you are or are not. If you are not, your pineal is not going to have the time to become unoccluded; then it’s like stripping years of rust off a tool that you found in your grandfather’s barn. But as you function in 5D, your need to protect that pineal doesn’t become a necessary part of your lifestyle hygiene.
Specifically, fluoride: In the United States, fluoride is a byproduct that has been found to help people’s teeth by keeping bacteria away. Using it is a choice, as with anything else in your life. If there is something that benefits you and you know it, and you’ve not been using it because I have said don’t, or you have read something, or the internet tells you not to do that—that’s the wrong reason. You do it because it’s right for you. And you’re making the choice to either take on the harm of [pineal] occlusion or not take on the harm by choosing other options.
If you are functioning in 5D, it doesn’t matter, assuming you are doing the minimal protective behaviors for keeping your body going. Do people do that? Not so much.
Does it mean the pineal is suddenly not occluded . . .
No
. . . or does it just mean we are not negatively impacted by the occlusion?
Yes, and it means it will clarify over time.
But we need to be living 5D for that to happen?
It’s not because the world is in 5D. You must be living it in a sustained way.
____________
I believe that the saints and gods worshipped on Earth for centuries are really extraterrestrials, and many of these beings are still channeled. Who were and are these ETs? Where are they from, and why do they continue with this deception?
I will only say this much: what you give your power to becomes stronger.
____________
Please explain autism from a spiritual perspective. What are the causes, and what’s the best approach to help someone on the autistic spectrum?
Autism is a syndrome, a collection of symptoms and behaviors. It’s all about levels of sensitivities to power. For instance, there’s sometimes a strong sensitivity to loud sounds and too much impact from conversation. Learning to use earplugs or headphones that silence or block out some of that incoming power helps. It tends to be a syndrome of overly sensitive neural pathways. I see it fairly often because I’ve more or less decided that everybody has a small amount of that spectrum of symptoms—neurodivergence, that’s the word I was looking for. Everybody’s a bit neurodivergent from everyone else; some far more than others.
Your world loves to put behavior in boxes: if you have these behaviors, that means you are autistic, and if you have these behaviors over here, you are psychopathic, and these behaviors are narcissistic. Really, everybody is a combination of all of those. I don’t see autism as a terrible thing, for the most part. But like any chronic condition, the way one adapts in order to function—be it on and off the autism spectrum, or be it on and off the Guardian spectrum [laughs]—is everything. That’s what matters. You’re put in this box, have this label branded onto you. You can choose to live with it, ignore it, or see it and push beyond it.
I recognize that there are profoundly mentally disabled children and adults in this world. Is there one cause for it? I think there are a host of causes, plastic in the placenta, environmental disasters, chemical compounds you don’t even think about. They affect you. But everything in your life is for you. It’s not happening to you.
A last little bit: A child that comes in with a strong autism disorder is usually doing it for the parents.
____________
How effective is Pope Leo XIV going to be in guiding the Catholic Church in this new 5D world?
Why do we care?
He is making some interesting decisions, and that impacts huge numbers of people.
Indeed.
Is he really capable of helping people get into that 5D frequency from within the Church?
The structure of religion itself isn’t a 5D structure. But within any structure, there will always be shining lights that can make a difference, and—and this is a very unlikely thing to say—as long as the power isn’t abused, then the loving intent can shine. But the structure itself is eroding. It is built on a fragile, outmoded, fear-based system. Having said that, some of the first things he’s come out with have been very inclusive. But I see far more harm being allowed than the small bits that he’s saying are good. The light at the end of the tunnel doesn’t mean that it’s not dark all the way through the tunnel—and religion is the tunnel.
____________
Conservation groups around the world are engaged in breeding programs to help save endangered species. Yet you have said that anything not in line with 5D frequency will inevitably fade away. Can anything be done to raise the frequency of these animals so they will survive?
You don’t want them to survive. You don’t want that. All life force functions in a cyclical fashion, and when it is no longer able to function on the earth as it is, it needs to literally evolve or die. Now, there are some things you don’t want to see go. Mammoths, were quite cute when they were babies, but their environment was no longer capable of sustaining them. Add to that, humanity is encroaching on wild spaces faster than most species can repopulate a new arena. So humanity is making it untenable for many types of life force to function. So, should they be forced to live in a very tenuous way, in a place that cannot meet their bare necessities? I don’t think so.
That said, some species, like the wolves returned to Yellowstone, help ecosystems return to balance. Helping the wolves live and putting them back into the environment was a very good thing. And there are species like that that have a primary force within the given landscape—like beavers, for instance.
A natural extinction occurs because species cannot function in this world. So the question is, can the world be changed to fit them? Humanity continues to answer no.
There is a lot that could be said here. In 5D with Creation Force, far more creatures could happily coexist within an ecosystem, but with eight billion people in your world right now, you don’t have room, even functioning at your best. So notice that one of the species going extinct right now is humans. Birth rates are down and death rates are up. Life force will always find balance.
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I heard you say medicine is about to make a big leap. Please explain what that leap will be like.
Two important directions: one is artificial intelligence working to help in the diagnostic process, and the second is nanomachines helping within the healing process.
Artificial intelligence has already brought huge changes in the scientific community with regard to . . . I’m trying to think if there is an area of medicine that has not been affected. Massive leaps! Doctors are playing catch-up these days; scientists are proving ideas that AI has put forth. It has revolutionized vaccines, T-cell production to help with immune diseases. It’s so big.
And it’s only going to get bigger. Already, straight out of science fiction, tiny machines can be injected into the blood to clear arteries, to force the body to release particular chemicals out of the brain. Massive, massive change, and those are just two areas.
Working with the brain is so different today than it was a year ago. The incurable is becoming curable more and more often right now. I can only begin to enjoy the view of what you will see three years from now. It’s a pretty amazing time. But it requires conscious thought [on the part of the practitioner] to make sure your patient is working with you for the healing—it should not be a passive process. And conscious thought is needed: “I have this access to greater intelligence or to this new machinery, but is it the best for this situation?” That’s true in everything, isn’t it? Every day, it is conscious thought.
