When I first received a copy of Letter to Earth, a hardbound, exquisitely presented volume of 
transformational, multidimensional information, I cast the book to one side as just another pretty vision from yet another channeled entity. I even remember sneering at the author's self-congratulatory name—Elia (ee-lee-a) Wise. But a few weeks later, I found myself curious about what was so important in this book that such money, care and effort had obviously gone into its making. Someone wanted it read so I cracked the cover, admired the full color inside cover papers and toyed with the silky, ribbon bookmark. As I read the first few introductory lavender-tinted pages of a letter Wise wrote to her four-year old daughter, I recognized the familiar buzzing of what I call universal resonance an awareness that the '"truth" I was reading was universal; it was meant to lift us all up because it could apply to everyone, everywhere, all over the planet regardless of age, sex, nationality, dass or belief. Universal teachings always promote oneness. 

Good stuff. Wise's message is an inspiring and brilliant explanation of the nature of the Universe and our place in it. At times, the understanding of it becomes intellectually complex, but at its core. Letter to Earth helps articulate the vision upward in our evolutionary spiral. Speaking it, defining it, affirming it in words we can communicate back and forth to each other helps ground this vibration of positive change on the Earth. Particularly in this time of anticipated apocalypse and cataclysmic events, we need to balance our vision with the truth that peaceful transition is possible. Wise shows us a roadmap of how we might travel there.

In the same way that Celestine Prophecy demystified the word energy and brought into more mainstream understanding. Wise introduces multidimensionality as simply her trait of being human. As more people experience their multidimensionality on a or daily basis, it eventually becomes "normal" for all human beings to expand to those levels. Letter to Earth serves as another signpost that the Change has already begun.

Spirit of Change: Talk of earth changes is extremely popular right now—perhaps because of the so-called "millennium fever." Or maybe it's our mass consciousness linking up with our imminent future. I believe that this race and this group of people are on the planet right now are going to be the legends of the future. Stories will be created about how we handle this transitional time we are in, the visionaries, how the people shifted...

Elia Wise: I don't think there is any question that we are in desperate need of a new mythology because we are really so removed from the old one. 

SOC: What is the old one? 

EW: It was all based in dualism. Everything. Even the Jesus stories are all based in models of dualism. They are talking about the struggle from inside the dualism and what we need to see is beyond that. We need to see our place in the universal story, where there is a recognition of the soul's value at every moment. We are multidimensional beings with the ability to move freely throughout dimensions. When that becomes a fundamental understanding, we make our choices and go about our daily activities in a completely different way. People go forward and produce and create and express themselves toward the well-being and care of all, recognizing that what touches one, touches us all. This is the loving world that we all imagine, the one where nobody is starving and everyone has the care that they need. Nobody is making a product or even a remedy or a healing product or even a chemical that is not completely harmonious for the greater good of all. That would be the abiding ethic. 

SOC: Is this the new myth that is being developed? 

EW: Yes, but the question is: how do we get from here to there? This is where all the legends come from. We are all on that journey together. How do we get the world from here to there?

SOC: And when is "here"? 

EW: Here is the dualism, but already awakening, aware of itself, reaching to break through those limitations. More than a fifth of the population is consciously attuned. And when I say consciously attuned I mean they could recognize the shift and address it. But a much greater number is attuned just by their own inner value and integrity without having the language of consciousness or the discernment of the psyche to label it. The population—and the number is growing phenomenally in the magnetism of our field—is really intensifying. We are now building these stories about what it "takes to get us out of the competitive model. 

SOC: You feel that a fifth of the population is attuned to a shift in consciousness at this point? 

EW: Yes. 

SOC: What about the 65% of the world population that is starving? How can they be attuned to this consciousness? Here in America—those of us reading this interview, at least—have all of our basic survival needs met: I might guess that a fifth of the people in the United States are aware of shifting consciousness, but what about the war, drought and poverty zones all over the world where people can only be aware of where their next meal is coming from? 

EW: Look at India, which is probably the classic model, where there is a central placement of spiritual integrity in the lives of the people so even in the worst situations people are living in an honest, enlightened and non-violent way. This I would put into the group of a fifth of the world population. 

SOC: So even though they are living in physical poverty, they are universally attuned to spiritual principles.

EW: Yes. That is why we are in the struggle now: There's a much larger number than even 20% which have awakened to the internal recognition of these values. It's just that the world situation, the manifest condition we've all made here, keeps a lot of this from being seen. The poverty, the illness, the war zone are all dualism.

I don't believe that all of us are going to get wiped off the face of the Earth because great Earth changes are happening. Instead what is happening is that we are having a planetary change in both frequency and magnetism. We are altering our collective a consciousness. And as we do that, the disparity between the transformation going inside of us and the old order still happening—like the Clinton thing in Washington—is so great that it is almost as if it were different worlds. It becomes absurd. It does not connect to what we know, value and do with our lives moment to moment. So we are already, in a sense, living in a different octave. We are already learning to straddle dimensions or be fluid and integrate our multidimensional natures. There's a spiritual drive inside of us guiding us toward integrity and wholeness and love and devotion and creativity and joy and expression. 

SOC: What do you think this whole Clinton thing and the microscopic examination of his personal life represents in the larger public psyche? Why are we going to such great lengths to publicly humiliate him and his family?

EW: I would have to put this and the OJ trials together in one lump and say we are doing the most important thing that we can do right now, including the market crash. All of this is part of the same reflection that we are withdrawing our externalized placement of authority and reclaiming it for ourselves. We need to make choices governed by our inner authority, our inner guidance. Security lives there. Those people who wanted their piece of the future securely invested put their authority into the stock market that they now discover can fall apart. This big world of grown ups who run the economic system isn't so real after all. 

SOC: But don't we need leaders? There must be some sort of structure. 

EW: Right now what we are doing is liberating all of our invested energy that holds this very sick reality together. We're liberating it by pulling down its illusions. I don't want us to hurt each other doing it, but what we are doing is just pulling the bottom out from under it, showing that it was just a script which we embodied and empowered and everybody called it reality. But now we are discovering it's not worthy of our giving it our bank account of spiritual integrity and energy. 

SOC: What about the imbalance that we've created because we have so much here in this country at the expense of other people who have so little? I can buy a shirt for $10 in Walmart because someone over in Malaysia or China was paid $.10 a day to work for 14 hours. 

EW: That's right. That is how it's been up to now in our mindset of dualism. Yes, you have that $10 shirt, but is using someone the only way you could have it? Under our current system, the people that we could use, became used. If, in fact, we were treating the world population in a more soulful way and using world resources in a more creative way, you could still have beautiful blouses and you could still have them for $10. However, it doesn't mean someone else has to suffer unless we choose to operate under the system of false inflation and money like we do. There are a million ways to create abundance. We're just stuck in this model of usury. The "have" and the "have not" is critical to the game. 

SOC: Do you believe that part of this new myth is that we will have less material goods in this country? 

EW: When the paradigm shifts, there will be a planetary energy change of frequency and magnetism. Let me describe it this way: when I move into another dimensional experience, the priorities are all rearranged and what we hold here to be valuable doesn't even make much sense in another dimension. As the frequency and magnetism changes on the planet, our entire perceptual context is going to change. So it's not going to be like giving up this for that. The very psyche, the context, is going to change. If everyone woke up one morning and none of the clocks worked, no clocks anywhere worked and all we had was the rhythm of the sun cycle, then all of us would start adapting to a feeling sense in relation to nature. We wouldn't really be in pain that the clocks stopped working.

We are actually transmuting into a whole different priority system. It's impossible to look at that from where we stand because it's not like one thing will change and therefore we'll have chaos. Like the computers may all crash in the year 2000. If it happens, I say it is a great blessing to all of us because there is no evil empire. Nobody did a bad thing; there is no fault. Instead the faulty system starts to crash and more authority is removed. We have to remember if we are going to let the system fall apart, it's because that energy is already going to a new model, a new organization of values. 

I can only tell you from my experience that when I am moving from one state of being to another, there is a transitional phase from which I feel a letting go. I used to feel a certain insecurity there and I would have to just deep breathe and trust. I don't feel that anymore because it is so familiar. Its like going from where I live to some vacation spot. I don't have a body in some of these places, but I have my identity and creative force and I express myself as exactly the same being, but not in the same context. If I decided to allow the transition because it feels like it has integrity and feels loving and feels ethical, then I surrender and I move in and instant. I'm in the new place where it used to take me a couple of hours of dancing and breathing and letting go to get there.

SOC: So your sense and your experience tells you that maybe with the 20% of people who are already attuned to this universal resonance and shift in consciousness, that the transition to a new vibration on the Earth could possibly be smooth and it doesn't have to be choppy. It does not have to be cataclysmic. 

EW: That's right. We are already successfully creating this alternate reality with the rise in spiritual consciousness among the population. We bump into stuff all the time and we still have to struggle through all the resistances of the larger world, but we are doing it. And as we bump into the next thing we figure out what to do about it, so it's bumpy, but it's not cataclysmic. Each person will transit at their own point of readiness and the more people who are part of the new collective consciousness, the greater the magnetic draw is for the next person to make that transition with less bumps. Those who are leaders go first, those who are ready go next, those who are ready go next. Each time the magnetic field for the transition is greater and makes it possible for the next group who are ready to move through the process. 

SOC: Is there a target date for transition? Is there some universal plan that says "OK, by the year 2012 the human race on Earth will have transitioned." 

EW: Well, I can't tell you the year, but I think this is a pretty good guess—2012 or 2022—right in there. I don't have certain insight about that. But here's an interesting story. I have had the privilege to participate in what might be called inner dimensional conferences where we communicate about how this transition can be accomplished in a non-violent fashion. And here is the question that cannot be answered. Will the transformational population exist on both multidimensional and dualistic levels at the same time, moving between them as regularly as you and I walk into a supermarket now, while the rest of the population remains dualistic, or will the shift in the magnetic field entrain the entire human population to extend into these higher octaves permanently and as a whole? That is an unknown at this time. 

SOC: Who posed the question? 

EW: This is a cosmic dialogue and that is the question we are left with at this time. 

SOC: Why is there no answer to that question? 

EW: Because there is free will, there is planetary integrity, there's non-invasiveness from the greater universe, there's ethics of non-violence, there's respect for the human drama. People have soul work that they are doing and that soul work is in process. It is hard to know yet what the collective human psyche is going to do because dualism is unique to us. What is going to happen as more and more of us are unified is unknown. 

SOC: What about the whole idea of cataclysms and that we need those catalysts to help us make the jump? 

EW: What would happen if we tried to conceive of the same thing in the universal model? If there is some universal force of which we are a part that can only tolerate this dualistic stage of the human process for so long before it will naturally be altered by the universal collective, why shouldn't we think of the means as creative and loving? 

SOC: You mean that our hearts and minds will just naturally evolve towards love and spirit? 

EW: Did it happen to you? 

SOC: Yes. 

EW: Did it happen to me, did it happen to almost everyone that we keep company with? 

To think there has to be a tidal wave over the whole Earth or to think that it has to be the Earth changes where great upheavals happen, I just don't hold with that. I think that we've already designed into our dualistic model to suffer some personal cataclysms, unfortunately, but they will continue to be stimuli for those who need stimuli to withdraw authority from the old dysfunction and generate something from within. That is really the key now. Withdraw the authority from dysfunction and place it in inner directed ways. I do not think that we are going to see the world split down the middle like Gordon Michael Scallion predicts. If we did, we would be in an altered context of perception and it would not be what we think it would be from this seat. Do you see the difference? 

SOC: Yes, but it could be also that cataclysms bring on the altered perception. On the other hand, we could witness some kind of lights in the sky—whether that's a band of light around the globe or flashing lights or hovering space ships—and that would certainly promote change and awakening in people. 

EW: That happens to be the solution that I voted for. I believe such a phenomenon should occur in the heavens for three months in a row. 

SOC: You actually vote on this? 

EW: Yes, things are changing. And how can we do this in a non-violent way? If a light appears in the heavens, for some it will still be violent. 

SOC: But we have the opportunity at that point to introduce a new way of living because our minds would be open and in a receptive state to create something new. The leaders of spirit and light would step forth and guide us down a new pathway. 

EW: Whenever you are constructing these scenarios for the future, always ask yourself the testing question: Is this future constructed based on my past models? For example, why would new leaders step forward and begin to speak? Will they? Perhaps there will simply be such a spontaneous recognition of those who have the same vibration as the light that it won't be about somebody having to step forward, convince anybody, be a new authority. 

So the question to always ask in building future scenarios is "Am I thinking about the future based on dualistic thinking and based on previous models?" Because if that's the answer, it is not the future. It is just a new soap opera of the past. 

Elia Wise is an author, teacher and fifty-year-old mother of a preschooler. Contact her through 
Inspired Company, P.O. Box 10, Mill Valley, CA 94942. Letter to Earth is available in bookstores. 

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