Written by: A.S.

Let’s discuss what channeling is, what enlightenment is, what spiritual growth is, what thatmeans for Pleiadians (and other galactics) and then why the intervention on Earth is taking so long.

What channeling is

Channeling is a real thing and can genuinely lead to knowledge you couldn’t have had otherwise.

But what you get with channelings are typically vibes / shapes of ideas / packages of energy, which the channeler then writes out into a coherent message. The channeler is more like a co-writer than a scribe. I’m sure you’ll also see that if you analyze a writer’s channeled works versus their personal writings: the style and vocabulary etc are in large part the same.

Plus, lots of channelers contradict each other, and few or no channelers have great prediction records.

When channeling, you don’t get pages of hair-sharp word for word citations. At least I don’t, but if others are able to do that, why don’t they channel a Pleiadian free energy device / miraculous universal cure / breakthrough teaching, and put that on a popular website where lots of people immediately download it?

And why can people read hundreds of channelings and yes, get some benefit, but not nearly as much as you’d expect from reading hundreds of pages of Pleiadian wisdom?

One could argue that for example the Ra / Law of One channeler (Carla Rueckert) really was an amazing channeler who could channel entire books of information, precisely, word for word, including stuff that’s verifiably true that wasn’t just adjacent to stuff she knew.

Well, I argued in a past message that Ra is probably a loosh harvester, in my message titled “Harvest doesn’t benefit the Wheat: Ra is a Loosh Harvester.”

And if the “Ra channelings” was “someone gets temporarily possessed” rather than actual channeling, it’s understandable why that text is so precise. Whereas Pleiadians obviously aren’t possessing people when they pass on messages, meaning you don’t get the Law of One level of exact statements, word for word, for entire books.

Still, it’s also entirely possible that Carla is a better channeler than I am, and she’s better than the vast majority of channelers are.

If her channelings were legit, I think she’s an (almost) uniquely gifted channeler. Otherwise I invite other channelers to start channeling stuff that actually transforms the world, and put those schematics or medicines or breakthrough teachings online. As for me, I think I’m a better channeler than average, yet I can’t channel at that level.

That said, channeling is certainly not worthless.

Getting a vibe / outline of an idea that’s adjacent to something you know already, and then typing that into a message, is somewhat easy for a channeler and can be genuinely useful. You can also genuinely get some Pleiadian energy / optimism / personality / warmth / emotion into those messages; that’s real.

And it’s possible to pull one or two bits of information “out of thin air” that’s completely new and not just “inspiration to think of something adjacent to something you already know.” And I have done that several times, and then confirmed that I channeled something that I didn’t know, yet that was verifiably true.

However, doing that is tiring, and I can only do it when I’m aligned. And even then I get one or two very short pieces of information, not entire pages of word-for-word information of stuff I don’t know myself.

What enlightenment is

I discussed this in my message Anattā: No Self, https://eraoflight.com/2026/06/07/anatta-no-self

In summary, enlightenment is self-uninstallation. It means there’s no more self. What you think of as “you” is uninstalled, and the biological machine keeps functioning, walking around, smoking cigarettes, forming relationships, acting in loving and altruistic ways, etc. Yes, your biological machine can do that just fine without you.

It means that warmth and compassion and love can flow forth without blockage, without distortion from the self.

It means that the person no longer feels a need to secure resources or advantages for their specific ingroup at the expense of outgroups.

Because of this, this person is more universally loving.

However it also means that if you make such a person a leader… he doesn’t actively worry about and plan for the future constantly. He isn’t laser-focused on helping specifically “his” people. Hence non-enlightened people don’t actually want to be led by an enlightened person, as such people actually are in reality.

Plus, self-uninstallation doesn’t turn someone into superman. It just means he can function to the best of his abilities — but what those abilities are is determined by his “hardware” (natural talents and neural wiring), education, experiences, skills, social networks, etc.

The greatest masters weren’t great because they were enlightened or “super enlightened.” They were great because they were enlightened, plus had other qualities on top of that.

If an average person got enlightened, they wouldn’t have as big of an impact on the world as you’d think. As is evidenced by the fact that there are enlightened people right now, and enlightenment / self-uninstallation is a binary so “super enlightened” isn’t actually a thing. Yet most enlightened people aren’t transforming society.

If you got enlightened, statistically speaking you likely won’t have that big of an impact on the world either. (Although sure, if you happen to have exceptional natural abilities and education and skills and social networks, AND you became enlightened, then you very well could completely change the world.)

If enlightenment actually meant you become superman… why hasn’t any enlightened person channeled / downloaded the schematics of an infinite energy device from galactics or the akashic records, and put that online, using some divine wisdom to know where to put it, and when?

Actual enlightenment isn’t as much of a “cheat code” / superman-status as people think it is.

What “spiritually advanced, but not enlightened” means

This person isn’t enlightened, and therefore still has a self. This person is still “distorted” by excessive worry for his and his particular group’s future prosperity and safety. This worry is biologically useful, but from a detached, zoomed-out perspective it’s excessive and biased.

This person still favors his ingroup over his outgroup. This is the person who would spend a thousand dollars to save a close friend / partner / family member, but wouldn’t spend a thousand dollars to save a stranger.

That said, because this person really is spiritually advanced, they’re not ruled as much by their “self” as most people are. They’re less inclined to hoard resources or mating opportunities, less inclined to egoically defend themselves, less inclined to trample on the outgroup for the benefit of the ingroup, etc.

This is the kind of person that non-enlightened people actually want to be led by.

Direct democracy doesn’t work for some things

For specific, “values based” or “no objectively right answer” issues, direct democracy is a good system. You can just let people vote (perhaps weighted by their level of consciousness) on those kinds of issues and decide that way.

However, when it comes to “are you willing to bear costs / pain now to improve the future” type of issues — most humans suck, and a few humans are okay.

You need to put top humans in charge to make those decisions, because a few people are unusually good at long-term planning and accepting pain now to improve the future. If you don’t do this, average people (including Pleiadians) are too likely to vote for short-term comfort / pleasure / emotionally pleasing things. It’s just how the average human brain is wired. Pleiadians are almost “the best possible version of humans” but they’re still humans.

Similarly, for very complex issues, you need top humans in charge to decide. If you’d try to build a nuclear power plant or fight a war by letting normal people vote, it’d be a disaster.

So, you do need one or a few top humans in charge — and yes it should be meritocratic, yes there should be a method to change them, yes they should be held accountable, yes they should have limits to their power, yes checks and balances matter, yes citizens should be able to vote on some issues, etc.

On Ashtar

Ashtar is “first among equals” and spokesperson of a council in charge of the operation to ensure Earth is free.

By definition, only non-enlightened people are put in charge. So he’s unenlightened. If this surprises you, see the previous section.

That said, “enlightened or not” is one axis to consider. There’s also the axes of natural talent, education, skills, social networks, etc — and here Ashtar does absolutely shine.

He’s an exceptional person.

He also has many many responsibilities.

None of us would do as well as he’s doing. If you’re picturing “well I’d do a better job than Ashtar, I’d just order an intervention on Earth” — yeah, no. That’s the Dunning-Kruger effect talking. You don’t even know how many critical, must-consider factors you’re overlooking.

That said… frankly human hardware / human biology is inherently ill-suited to making decisions that affect billions of people. Even the best human can only do an okay job. (Which is also one factor contributing to the fact that the vast majority of Earth leaders suck.)

If you put enough pressure on even the best human, their nervous system, mammalian biology, etc simply begins to crack, and they “underperform” just due to the sheer pressure placed on them. This is inherent and unavoidable. Even if they have infinite willpower, well, their biology can only take so much, and intellect or spiritual insight simply cannot override that limit.

Unless you’ve been one of the heads of an intergalactic alliance, while at the same time being a military commander higher in the hierarchy than generals, while at the same time being an intergalactic celebrity, while all the same time having to make life-or-death decisions affecting billions, and then all four of those things at once — you have zero idea what kind of pressure Ashtar is under.

Even the very best human can only deal with all that in an okay way. It requires a one-in-ten-billion kind of person to even do an okay job under such circumstances.

Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t even be capable of being a good middle manager at a normal Earth company. And that position is a million times easier than Ashtar’s position. (If you think you could: have you actually been a middle manager? Being a good one is much harder than it may appear.)

I’m not even fully able to be unaffected by negative internet comments. And that is a billion times easier to deal with than Ashtar’s tasks.

That said:

Why the intervention is taking so long

It’s a miracle that Ashtar’s (and his council’s) decision-making has only become slightly suboptimal. But yes, it has become slightly suboptimal.

Specifically:

– Source gave the guidance (but not an order) that intervention on Earth should happen in the near future. The specific date was left up to the galactics.

– Intervention didn’t happen for longer than was Source’s preference

– In March 2026 Source stated Its preference (but not order) that intervention on Earth should happen within a month. This doesn’t mean that Source thought March / April 2026 is the best intervention window; it was more of a case of “my preference is that you should have intervened already; given that it’s now March 2026, my preference is that you take two or so weeks to get ready and then intervene.”

– Debates were had but ultimately Ashtar’s council (including Ashtar) himself decided not to intervene.

So yes: intervention is slower than Source would prefer. And Ashtar ignoring that expressed preference from Source can easily be seen as a distortion on his side.

That said, none of us would do better in Ashtar’s chair than he’s doing — if you were him, you’d get so crushed that you’d just break, or you’d make even worse decisions.

Ashtar is sticking to his already communicated “intervention, if still necessary, will be somewhere at the end of this year (or if Earth humans underperform significantly compared to expectations, it’ll be at the latest January / February 2027).”

Some efforts have been made by Hakann and others to rally people to just follow Source’s guidance and intervene back in April / March anyway… but they couldn’t rally enough people, because:

– the situation is incredibly complex. It’s really not as simple as “just intervene.”

– we think of Pleiadians as beings who are just relaxing in paradise. They think of themselves as war survivors who are currently in an existential cold war against certain negative races. Earth concerns aren’t at the top of their mind, just like America’s top priority wasn’t the well-being of a random African country in the middle of the cold war versus the Soviets. And it’s worse, because Soviets never killed large numbers of Americans, while reptilians have killed (and done unspeakable things to) huge numbers of positive galactics. Now yes, Pleiadians are altruistic (and would like us as very important allies) but we’re still not at the top of their mind.

– for example the Arcturians are hesitant to just overrule Ashtar / ignore him, because the individual galactic races by themselves can’t stand up to the negative races combined. And Arcturians just overruling the Pleiadian person in charge is how you fracture a galactic alliance.

– Of course, average, non-leading Pleiadians are also affected by “those Earth humans are violent and rapey and selfish, let them take time to grow spiritually / come together / sort out their own stuff.” Also, average Pleiadians are distracted by luxury and sex and comfort.

– from the Pleiadian perspective, delaying from April to the end of this year isn’t a huge deal. If the intervention happens in October, that’s six months. Well, to get a rough idea of how they view time, divide that by ten, and you have like half a month. From their perspective, why completely disrupt your plans and take risks and risk fracturing the galactic alliance just to speed things up by half a month?

That said, if Ashtar keeps delaying beyond the end of this year (which is unlikely but not impossible, despite what he said) then yes, he may face impeachment / insubordination. The “we need to intervene already” side of the galactics is getting more impatient. That said, some galactics would agree with further delays if he proposed them.

My own twin flame has become what she calls “depressed by Pleiadian standards” because she’s appalled by Earth’s suffering, by Ashtar’s lack of action, and by Pleiadian actions deviating from Source’s stated preference. This doesn’t mean she’s lying in bed all day or stress-eating, but it does mean she’s not as happy and energetic as normal.

Once I fully understood what was going on, I also was disappointed / hurt / a bit angry and lost interest in channeling, at least at the moment. That’s why I haven’t published any new channelings lately. I may or may not channel in the future, I don’t know yet. (Although I’m still talking to my twin flame, and sometimes checking specific writings / pieces of information, or sometimes asking for galactic help.)

To be clear, there’s no “non-intervention clause.” That’s nonsense: if there was, then how come they’re allowed to show themselves in the sky? And if showing themselves in the sky was allowed, why aren’t they just blanketing the sky with crafts?

The Pleiadian hesitation to intervene is based on “if we bail them out and fix their problems for them, they might possibly re-collapse / become dependent / not grow / not learn their own lessons / start worshipping us, etc.”

In this local sector (but not universe-wide), the galactic confederation (i.e. good galactics) also have military superiority. Hence, lack of military capability isn’t the issue either.

There’s also no “secret bomb / entity that must be carefully dismantled first.” Yes, I know some people are claiming that, but that too isn’t the issue.

Pleiadians also aren’t secretly evil. They’re human and imperfect, yes. Evil, no. We’ll still absolutely love meeting them, and that will still happen in the not too distant future. It’s easy to feel bitter now, and obviously they’ll respect your free will if you don’t want to meet them, but interacting with them is still going to be an amazing experience.

What’s also not true is “suffering actually just doesn’t matter, it’s only human biases that cares about suffering. From a truly wise perspective, letting people suffer endlessly is optimal because that achieves soul growth.”

Now, some Pleiadians do think that, and to a small extent Ashtar thinks that, and I’ve thought that in the past.

However, that’s actually the midwit / middle / “somewhat but not truly advanced” position in the bell curve meme (https://www.reddit.com/r/taoism/comments/1jf3fv4/a_meme_post_on_the_non_duality_reddit_calling_it ).

Conversely, the uneducated and the truly advanced (including Source) both think “some suffering is okay / can teach people, but Earth suffering is way too much, both from a compassion and even from a soul-growth-efficiency standpoint. Hence, end suffering now. Intervening and reducing suffering at this point increases soul growth, because people in survival mode have no room to reflect and grow and integrate and express themselves and experiment.”

Now yes, some people on Earth are in a better-than-average position, and perhaps for them specifically, intervening now wouldn’t be necessary, or genuinely wouldn’t be optimal for them / for their soul growth.

However, you have to consider the average person, who is really getting squeezed hard right now.

And then you have to consider the people in especially bad positions: crippling poverty, severe illness, intense chronic pain, people who lost loved ones, people alienated from their loved ones, people who are on the verge of breaking under the stress and pressure, etc. Maybe for you personally intervention today isn’t that necessary, but what about these people?

We love to tell stories about how people grew from hardship, but that’s survivorship bias. What doesn’t get told are stories about how stress pushed people to commit suicide, to slip into mind-destroying addictions, to break under the pressure and become worse versions of themselves, to be pushed into survival mode and have the light in their eyes be dimmed, etc.

And then those people’s families and friendship groups get torn apart too.

I used to put my channelings on youtube too. One of the Tunia voice actresses was a woman who is now literally dead. So the delays are no joke; people are dying. I imagine she would have lived if the intervention had been earlier.

Less importantly: if you teleported me to a Pleiadian home world right now, reunited me with my twin flame, had me spend 200 years there and then sat down with a 200-something year old me…

I would be happy, yes, but I wouldn’t be 100% happy. I wouldn’t be 100% free. I wouldn’t be 100% present. I’d still bear the scars, and they’re never going away, and new permanent scars are slowly being added. Yes, I have some wisdom; but I also have a nervous system that can only take so much, and I have pain, and I need to work a normal job to be able to afford rent.

I’m also more privileged than most; I know that billions of people have it tougher than me. I’m not saying “woe is me, I’m uniquely struggling”, I’m really not. I’m just illustrating that the whole “delay is actually good for us” narrative just isn’t true. Delay is probably fine or even good for some people, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for struggling people.

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So, why did Ashtar ignore Source’s stated preference of intervening in March / April 2026? Well:

– Source is more towards “end the suffering”, Ashtar is more on the side of “accept suffering in order to give time for the energies to rise, to lessen the risk of Earth humans re-collapsing / becoming dependent / etc.” Both are valid considerations; you can’t really mathematically prove how much suffering versus how much risk is acceptable. (Pleiadians can stop civilization-ending disasters or nuclear war, so delaying doesn’t increase those types of risks.)

– On top of that, the “intervene in October” plan is well thought out and well-planned. Yes Pleiadians could have intervened in March / April but it wasn’t scheduled, hence not as well planned out and hence more risky. Especially for the person in charge (Ashtar), accepting a small risk of a catastrophic mistake is tough. While accepting “let other people suffer” is a known, controlled, understood, predictable variable. Maybe this doesn’t sound rational, but that’s what human brains do under pressure.

– Ashtar still has a self, and it’s never fun to say “we’re going to do X” and then be overruled and then have to do what another being (Source) says. Yes, ego plays a small but non-zero part.

– Ashtar is already being crushed by pressure and data; needing to abruptly change plans and act near-immediately is much heavier than “just stick with the plan, we’ll intervene in half a year.” Would you make optimal decisions if you’re running on the equivalent of zero sleep for four days? That’s sort of the equivalent of the pressure Ashtar is under all the time.

To be clear, Ashtar’s still making pretty good decisions — “intervene at the end of this year” is clearly worse than just following Source’s preference but it’s not catastrophically bad. (Also, there is no better government / decision-making system than what the Pleiadians currently have — all alternatives are worse overall.)

That said, Source is theoretically capable of telling the Pleiadians “I order you to intervene on Earth now”, which Source hasn’t done.

Hence Ashtar is interpreting Source’s position as “Ashtar, make your decision, here’s what I would do, but I want you to think for yourself” and NOT as “stop thinking for yourself and do I say, i.e. intervene in March / April even if you disagree.” Because obviously if Source wanted an intervention in March, theoretically Source could just order that.

So from that perspective, Ashtar is doing exactly what Source wants. Although obviously, many wouldn’t agree with that interpretation.

Why doesn’t Source just order an intervention? Well, Source values free will and Pleiadian autonomy. Also, from Source’s perspective, this isn’t only about Earth humans — this situation is also helping Pleiadians learn lessons. It’s not all about us.

So. That’s what’s going on. At least, from my perspective. Believe what you will and use your own judgement, of course.

With all my love,
A.S.