Dear Open, your words and deep insights have been so resonant with me for many years now, so I thank you with open heart. Having a quiet mind and connection to source from a child, I've seen all that's come and is yet to come clearly, and have kept an inner guide of silence and connection to the vast, living emptiness of all that is. But life in the 3d is becoming impossibly hard now, and my partner and I, with care for our ten year old son, are struggling to stay focused with so many pressures to 'survive' in the 3d. We are now practically reaching abject poverty, and are having to make very difficult decisions. Not the place we wanted to be in these times. Knowing what was coming we prepared both spiritually and practically over decades, but we seem to have been caught out, and are stuck between the 'world' and our innate higher vibration, between fear and our innate loving hearts. Having trained with a great Zen master and other great Buddhist masters over many years, and with a natural leaning toward the Christian mystics and contemplatives, I now find myself drawn to the words of St John of the Cross, and his guidance for the 'dark night' of sense and spirit, which seem to be the pathway for many on the planet right now. To give 'oneself', letting everything sensible and spiritual fall away to be replaced by God; to let the 'I' fall way for pure being to manifest in life, is something I've done to wonderful releasing effect under the masters I trained with - yet now this is being tested, and the dark night ensues. I know that your methods go straight to the heart of what I've said, and that it is our true work in these times, yet if you have any comment on my specific words here, if useful to others, I'd be please to receive. With so much love, Dale