“While you already are the light of cosmic perfection, you exist within a dimension of physical form, undergoing a journey of embracing and accepting the light within you – no matter the foreseeable risk or imaginable cost. From the perspective of darkness, its agenda is to keep you so steeped in the fear of the unknown that you misperceive the dark as a form of protection, instead of the prison it actually is. Inevitably, as your consciousness wakes up, you begin to see how anything it insists you may lose by entering the light is far greater than resting in the known comforts and ongoing torments of shadow consciousness. The term shadow consciousness refers to a purgatory-like stage of surrender, where you can understand spiritual ideas conceptually and even speak about them in a rather intellectual fashion, without having integrated the shadow and actualized the light by embracing choices that align with your highest values and virtues on a regular basis. In shadow consciousness, we tend to seek out worldly pleasures only to be further away from the burden of pain, in an ongoing negotiation, where we attempt to serve the light, but only on the ego’s precise terms and conditions. This can be as innocent as having a willingness to grow, but only under the most ideal circumstances. While you don’t always have to be in pain to confirm the existence of your highest healing, your initiation is complete when you are willing to risk anything and everything, just to step fully into the light, on behalf of those too lost in shadow consciousness or paralyzed by fear to make such a choice. In reality, you will only wind up losing relationships and reflections of the old paradigm, but you must be willing to lose it all, in order to gain it all at a higher vibration. Even when you mentally know the timeless existential benefits of entering the light, prior to entry, it may feel as if everything in your life is dissolving, as the person you took yourself to be, along with ...