“As long as your sense of value in life is based on anything other than your relationship with Source, you’ll experience anger and disappointment.” This statement summarizes Samuel’s teaching as he masterfully tells two stories, one familiar and one new, that emphasize the importance of asking for help and of overcoming our attachments to life in form. Samuel reminds us that when we tell the Universe that we can’t live without something, the Universe gladly proves us wrong! This teaching discusses our need to define and create healthy relationships with others, our Self, and Source.

Samuel uses the first Sunday meeting of 2000 to talk about the particular abilities, or “gifts,” that might show up in our lives over the upcoming months as a result of our functioning at higher levels. He reminds us that while every gift contains a promise and a joy, there is also responsibility that goes with it. Working with the audience, Samuel then outlines several types of gifts to look for, such as leadership abilities and specific kinds of spiritual awakening. He suggests ways we might see both the positive and negative signs of these gifts in our lives. As a bonus, he says, after we have learned to recognize and work with our gifts, others will be revealed. Finally, Samuel describes what we need to do now in order to best use our gifts to make a difference in the year 2000.

With a twinkle in his eye, Samuel kicks off the holiday season by delivering his gifts of light. The stories of Hanukah, Festival of Lights, Santa and Rudolph, Christmas and Kwanza each come wrapped in Samuel’s unique storytelling magic and tied with beautiful ribbons of hope, love and unity. As each gift is unwrapped and the audience responds with oohs, aahs and even song, Samuel explains how each story provides us with a message of light that can help us live happier, more love-filled lives, not only during the holidays, but all year long!

Samuel begins this teaching with a message wrapped in the magic of a delightfully irreverent version of a familiar fairy tale. His self-empowered “alternative reality Cinderella” discovers a magic mirror and finds power within rather than outside of herself. Samuel’s ability to weave this story into a challenge for the spirit to clone itself is masterful and FUN!
In the second half of the meeting, Samuel says that now is the time for the energy of Christ Consciousness to be activated on the planet and that it is no longer the burden of one person functioning as the Avatar to bear the title of “Christ,” but the privilege of many to take up that mantle. He explains that those of us who function in Christ consciousness act as Guardians, coming here “to change the pattern of what is, into what can be.” And his powerful message of hope comes with the promise that along with the awareness of Christ Consciousness comes a release from the exhaustion which comes from trying to do it all alone.

Samuel began this evening with a question of his own, “How did you get here?” After a lively discussion, he pointed out that just as the audience arrived at tonight’s meeting by using different routes, others in the world can come to a shared vision or goal by traveling different roads—a thought we should keep in mind as we watch events unfold in the near future. He then answered questions from the audience on a wide range of topics, including: reclaiming ancient wisdom; the 144,000; the Australian crown portal; the impact “remembering” has on life force energy; visualizing tetrahedrons for healing; the definition of “being human”; and much more.

Samuel encourages us to act as “mid-wives” in the birthing of a new world because “you have come here to help the process become easier.” He points out that just as humanity is fearfully experiencing the pain and discomfort that come with bringing in new life, those of us who work with his Vision are personally feeling the powerful effects of change in our lives, as well. But Samuel doesn’t stop there. He reminds us that through our awareness and perspective, and by recognizing the patterns of our choices, we can be positive and loving examples of the fearlessness needed now.
During this meeting Samuel delivers a serious message weaving informative teachings about energy and ways to raise personal frequency with life-lessons taught through a whimsical retelling of the story of the big bad wolf and the three little pigs! This tape is filled with love, hope and some very valuable techniques for experiencing the best of this exciting time on our planet.

To the audience’s delight, Samuel began this Sunday night meeting with a call for “gifts,” which he masterfully wove into teachings that complemented this evening’s topic of accessing the truth, love and wisdom that is available to us through change. Using Lughnassadh, the ancient Celtic celebration of first harvest, as the primary topic, Samuel taught the ancient mysteries behind the story of the marriage of Lugh, the sun god, to the lunar mother Arianrhod and the triple aspects of the goddess of transformation, Macha. He explained how the ancient teachings reflected the energies that are released during a solar eclipse, and discussed the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, when the moon “marries” the sun. Samuel then gave suggestions about how to best use both the ancient and current energy to bring about positive change in our lives by embracing, rather than resisting change. In closing, Samuel said that this night’s information on at least four levels, and encouraged us to “run these teachings through your hearts” in order to hear the message on all levels.

To help us maintain personal freedom during these changing times, Samuel used Independence Day as the basis for a timeless teaching about choices, perspective, fear and empowerment. He explains that during times of change, our freedom depends on our choices. If we choose to perceive change as a positive force, we will respond with the evolved attitudes and perspectives that freedom nurtures. But if, on the other hand, we choose to perceive change as negative, we will be shackled by fears arising from within ourselves and our relationships with others. Throughout the meeting Samuel offers self-realization tools to help overcome the human tendency toward disempowerment. He also discusses specific actions, among them the five-minute meditation and toning techniques, that will “anchor a positive perspective” in our lives and enable us to embrace change with love and excitement.

Great change is coming. Are you ready for it?” With the approach of the new millennium, Samuel directs our focus to the hopes and challenges of a new world. Not one to echo the doom-and-gloom prophecies for our time, Samuel reinterprets them, emphasizing that we are not at the mercy of fate and that we have the power to affect what happens. He describes the “keys for dealing with the coming changes”: innovative thinking, which is required for adapting quickly; a broad range of knowledge in many areas, allowing us to more easily manage change; and, most important, a strong spiritual foundation, the basis for taking the loving action that is needed for this time. “The ability to shine the Light that you are is very necessary to birth a new world.”

In this first question and answer session of 1999, Samuel starts the questions by asking the audience for ways to over-come the sense of restlessness and “drifting” that many are experiencing, and he stresses the importance of maintaining a “moment-by-moment focus” during times of change. Only then does Samuel begin taking questions from the audience, which range over a wide variety of topics, including: Australia, DNA and Aboriginal Source connections; the war in Kosovo; proof of Atlantis; Christ Consciousness; vibrational energy; broken compacts; the difference between soul and spirit; and how prayer works.