If I was asked to pick one of the most potent teachings I have received in my awakening process, it would be the acts of constant surrender and non-attachment. No matter which way we turn in life these days, we are being asked to let go of what we know in order to step into the vast unknown. Surrender and non-attachment work hand in hand. To live in non-attachment is to surrender in every moment.

Lately we find our lives and our world changing in ways we did not expect. Many of us had plans that we were attached to such as our businesses, our spiritual lives and our relationships. But lately I am beginning to think the Great Maker has a bigger plan. The challenge we are faced with is to let go of our human 3D idea of a perfect future. This means we allow room for the unexpectedly wonderful next step the creator has in store for us!

Recently I had a vision of lightworkers, healers, teachers, wise ones, elders, shamans and consciously-evolving people standing high atop a huge red rock plateau. The plateau rose from the desert floor several hundred feet in all directions. It was very crowded, much like a sold-out rock concert. Many in the group were becoming impatient, and began to shove and push. The ones on the edge began to quickly search for a way to get off the plateau so they would not be pushed off and fall to the desert floor. But in every direction there was only a sharp drop off. There were no ladders, ropes, bridges or signs saying this way down. The vibration of the group intensified and the entire top of the plateau became a single pulsing organism.

I asked what the vision meant and realized we as a human race have experienced everything we possibly can. We have re-hashed, re-written, re-taught and re-experienced every spiritual teaching known in this dimension. There is no place left to go. Nothing left to learn. We are on a spiritual plateau and are being asked to move forward into the unknown. Moving forward takes courage, faith and surrender as well as a non-attachment to what we know, who we think we are and what we have. The universe is asking us … are we ready to surrender?

The Inca Spiritual Messenger I work with in Peru, Willaru Huayta, has taught me a lot about non-attachment over the last few years. Here is a man who once lived in a cave in the Amazon jungle, with no material possessions. At that time in his life he was able to move back and forth between the dimensions and to commune with the masters and angelic realms. Willaru learned how to leap into the vast unknown—jump off the plateau—but he also had next-to-no attachments to this world. But when we move back into the mainstream world, it becomes harder to maintain this ability, as Willaru soon discovered when he was asked to re-enter the world and share his teachings. It was considerably easier for him to enter the void while in the jungles than it is now, while living in Cuzco, running pilgrimages, and raising a family.

Surrendering does not mean we must give everything up, it just means we must not be attached to who we are, what we have, or whatever our plans may be. We are being asked to be ever ready to hear the call, to step on the new path, to make the leap when it reveals itself.

It is time for us to joyously embrace the spiritual adventurer inside ourselves. It is time to be wild in our thinking and to be creative in our actions. These are the days we can birth a new world, a new age, a new creation, and it is up to us what manifests. All it will take is one person on the spiritual plateau to brave the jungle ahead, to jump into the unknown, to lead us to a new future.

Something new and unexpected is on the way and we can all feel it coming. It is our readiness and state of surrender that will help us see the path ahead. We can take flight from the spiritual plateau and reach higher states than we have ever dreamed of. Everything we have learned for ages past, through cultures, religion, and science, has brought us to this place. For us to access the next step we have to expect the unexpected and stretch our conscious and unconscious mind to accept a new reality emerging in front of us. Forest Gump said, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get." It is time to let go of the plans we have made and to jump with boundless surrender into the Creator’s new vision. Are YOU ready?