Destiny's Emergence

Some final words on the culmination of the Institute and on a framework for working with our books

When I first started writing about the concept of destiny on this blog, I published a series of three teachings: the first was on the subject of personal destiny, then I wrote about the destiny of families, groups, and organizations, and then I realized my next blog teaching, a medicine poem about Abraham Lincoln and his solution to healing our country, was actually about the destiny of the United States.

The Most Important Destiny of All

As so often happens, I didn't realize when I set out to write these teachings that they were all "of a piece" – part of a series. Each emerged in its own time and revealed itself as part of a whole. I ended up writing several other teachings for the blog before I returned to the subject of destiny – again, not realizing that a subsequent series of three teachings I would write would explain the most comprehensive destiny of all – that of Planet Earth itself. As with our personal and group destinies, we have a crucial role – in this case, individually and collectively – in fulfilling that planetary destiny. 

Synchronicity supports the emergence of our destiny through events that occur in the right way and for the right reason. Slowing down is essential if we wish to recognize and benefit from synchronistic events.

Learning About Emergence

At the Institute, over our 45 years of existence as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, we sometimes found that we could not look too far down the road of our own future. As my teaching about the destiny of groups and organizations discusses, the destiny of any organization emerges over time. We would frequently find that we would be gently "corrected," if we got off track in fulfilling our mission, through some synchronicity or other awareness that would emerge and refocus us in the right direction.

Emergence was revealed as a sacred teaching for our organization and dovetailed with other fundamental learnings we were given over the years: listening carefully, through stillness and contemplation, to the "whispers" about what we were to be and do; slowing down – taking time to save time – in order to hear those whispers; and always, always, practicing and staying in alignment with Divine Source.

The Institute's Culmination

At the time of writing these various teachings on destiny for the blog, the Institute was unaware that our own destiny as an organization would involve its joyful culmination in early 2025. After a 45-year history, serving thousands of people by offering in-person and faculty-led courses, workshops, trainings, programs, lectures, and special events, it emerged that the Institute was to close our physical doors and cease operations as a nonprofit organization.

The new reality of the incoming Aquarian Era is characterized by a profusion of LIGHT that is already shifting our planet to a much higher vibration.

In March 2025, we transitioned to exist solely in the form of this self-directed, teaching website. We realized we had fulfilled our destiny in this lifetime: to serve as a wayshower for individuals and groups in need of psychological-spiritual support at this unprecedently challenging time in the history of our world. Keeping our website alive for a subsequent three years will allow us to continue radiating our Light into the world and helping to guide individuals, groups, and the planet to usher in the new reality of an Earth illuminated with Divine Light.

A Framework for Reading Our Books

One final insight emerged in our culminating year: my series of six teachings on destiny has proven to serve as a comprehensive framework for reading and working with my four books.

Although the books can be read and worked with (for each book includes practical applications) independent from one another, nevertheless they serve together as an evolution of thought and a comprehensive philosophy. As with my blog series, I did not know I was writing a trilogy until I finished the second book of The Soul and Service Trilogy; neither did I realize I would write a culminating book (To Show Another Way) that would bring the teachings from the Trilogy together to serve as a kind of compendium of the Institute's philosophy and practices.

Setting the Stage

When I looked back on my six-part blog series on destiny, I realized it could serve as a useful framework to "set the stage" for reading any or all of my four books. The books together intend, as the title of my final book proclaims, to show another way to learn, heal, and serve at this time of crisis on our planet.

In 2025 (some say 2030), the dominance of Piscean energies begins to wane and Aquarian energies take precedence. With this shift in the ascendancy from Piscean to Aquarian energies will come a breakthrough that begins the resolving of the clash between them.

This has been the entire purpose of the Institute and summarizes its destiny: to recognize Earth as a school in which we learn, grow, and serve, showing another way to navigate the challenging transition from the Piscean to the Aquarian Era (our Earth's "Cosmic Shift"), so we can not only learn another way for ourselves, but learn to show another way to others.

Showing Another Way

I invite you to read this six-part blog series with an awareness of it being a framework for any or all of my books, or simply to work with the teachings in the series on their own. As with any teaching on this website (and in my books), they are holographic – meaning each contains the whole even as it makes up a part of the whole.

In all things, the Institute's goal has been to serve you in the evolution of your soul's purpose – to learn, heal, and grow so you may go on to serve others in their soul's evolution. May you take the torch and run with it, fellow lightbearers! The Institute wishes you the highest good in fulfilling your soul work, your service, and your soul's destiny.

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