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18-Minute Enlightenment is dedicated to the wisdom of the ages, exploring topics of Personal Mastery, Spiritual Awakening and current issues concerning Planet Earth.

Diane Wilcoxson & Megan Wagner


    • May 11, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 20m AVG DURATION
    • 99 EPISODES


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    #14 Determination deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 50:56


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #14 Determination.

    #13 Awareness deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 16:38


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #13 Awareness.

    #12 Breakthrough deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 28:16


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #12 Breakthrough.

    #11 Truth deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 32:04


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #11 Truth.

    #10 Balance deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 33:00


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #10 Balance.

    #9 Imagination deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 30:06


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #9 Imagination.

    #8 Guidance deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 33:43


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #8 Guidance.

    #7 Joy deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 27:25


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #7 Joy.

    #6 Peace deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 31:02


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #6 Peace.

    #5 Passion deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 29:11


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #5 Passion.

    # 4 Play deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 27:05


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key # 4 Play.

    #3 Nurturing deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 34:21


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #3 Nurturing

    # 2 Renewal deep dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 34:26


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key # 2 RENEWAL

    #1 Source Deep Dive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2018 27:55


    Journey with The Grand Council on a deep dive into Master Key #1 SOURCE.

    #102 MANIFESTATION - Make the World Better

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 20:43


    Listeners are cordially invited to send questions, comments and ideas to AncientFuture.Today for making the world a better place. One powerful thought put forward during this podcast is that ‘Manifesting through Love results in lasting solutions. Manifestation done through other impulses is not sustainable.’ This, and much more, awaits your listening and considering pleasure.

    #101 MANIFESTATION - Focus Your Fire

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 19:15


    An extensive exchange of ideas and methods for manifesting what people desire. Manifestation ‘techniques’ are offered. When they are used consciously, they make a difference in how manifestation takes place. Focus Your Fire and experience that life you can manifest when you know how.

    #100 MANIFESTATION - What Have You Manifested?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 18:57


    A term, "Plenum", is offered as a way to describe "the stuff out of which everything material is made". Take a courageous, clear look at your life to see what you have manifested. Megan is challenged by The Grand Council to imagine whether she would change her manifestations were she able to return to various key moments when she created intentions for her life. Yes, another provocative session, full of opportunity to imagine what and how YOU manifest in your life.

    #99 VISION - Our Upside Down World

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 20:31


    A rare treat takes place in this session as "Pujai" – The Visionary figure featured in the Sacred Robe – appears and speaks in individuated format about how to live in the upside-down world we find ourselves inhabiting at present.

    #98 VISION - Clarity, a Rarity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 19:41


    A stimulation of clarity is offered in this discussion. Clarity is a gift we give ourselves from opening up the Visionary within us. Sifting through distorted thinking and education and systems of belief, you are encouraged to consider how you, too, can become clearer about yourself and your own thinking. Which comes first ..? Visioning or Clarity? 

    #97 VISION - Envisioning to Create

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 20:26


    As we watch various media that regulate and grab our attention, many of us forget that we are ‘creators’. Simple methods are described enabling us to energize and/or revive original thought (a critical part of creating) through the Visionary part of each and every one of us.

    #96 HEALING - Rebirthing Into Truth

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 20:01


    Restoring to original health is a form of rebirthing. Actively working with the quality and resonance of the water we drink and being mindful of the consciousness with which we drink water, has direct effects on our health. How do you feel about the waters you take in, and the water you release? This is an opportunity to consider the Truth of water and how you relate to it in your own life.

    #95 HEALING - Harmonizing to Heal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 18:41


    We are invited and guided to use a moving figure-8 in a meditative way to create balance and harmony in all systems within us. We are challenged to be response-able for our own health and healing. This is an exploration of how harmony and healing can, and does, occur. Music is discussed as an effective approach for healing. Be your own best healer, consciously .. from within.

    #94 HEALING - Healing Waters Within

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 18:32


    Water is one of the most vital substances. As the carrier of electrical impulses and myriad biological systems in our bodies, and it is to our benefit to acknowledge and appreciate water as an amazing, vital part of ourselves and our well-being. The Well of Living Water is referenced as a healing image. Listeners are asked to hold an image of clear, clean, high-resonance energetic waters of and in our own bodies as well as the waters of our planet.  

    #93 LIBERATION - Dancing with the Primal Brain

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 18:50


    Many people in the world act as if they are under constant, extreme stress. The Primal Brain is activated by perceived and/or real threats; and what happens physiologically is the same in both instances.  Recognizing we are under this sort of stress because of our human wiring helps us live more peacefully. Work constructively with your own Primal Brain.

    #92 LIBERATION - The Games of Enslavement

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 18:07


    How aware are you of the myriad Games of Enslavement currently being played out on Earth in our societies, neighborhoods, families, and other relationships and areas of our lives? How are you enslaved, and by whom? Who/m do you enslave and how? Do you enslave yourself .. and how? Understanding the Games of Enslavement takes you one step closer to being able to step out of many of those Games, lower stress and increase liberation. 

    #91 LIBERATION - What Limits You?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 20:01


    The is a lively exchange of ideas on what limits many humans from feeling liberated. Listeners may find this podcast very challenging and thought-provoking. If LIBERATION is an ‘inside job’, why don’t more of us feel liberated? 

    #90 MASTERY - Infinite Colors of Possibility

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 17:28


    Each life is a unique weave of the fire of one’s being; and we select those colored strands in the process of weaving the threads of choice throughout our lives.  A lovely guided-meditation for work with and weaving your own Life’s Loom.  En-joy, dear Masters!

    #89 MASTERY - Masters of Misery

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 18:53


    The possibility of karma as an influence in human lives is examined. What if Misery was an Olympic sport? One of the most arduous sports on our planet .. and one being played by many, many people. An 18-minute appreciation of each Master’s choices.

    #88 MASTERY - A Total Reframe of Mastery

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 20:37


    A Grand overview of what ‘MASTERY’ is in the AncientFuture.Today (AFT) world. This trilogy of podcasts cuts to the core of the entire AFT project. An examination of the possibility that EVERY one, with no exception, is a Master. Welcome to the nexus of AFT’s philosophy!

    #87 TRANSFORMATION - From a Gold Nugget to a Beautiful Work of Art

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2018 18:40


    Every one of us is a nugget of gold on the way to being a beauty-full work of art. What alchemizes our gold? Relationships and other situations that heat and pound, mould and shape us throughout our lives. A robust discussion about TRANSFORMATION.

    #86 TRANSFORMATION - Opening to All Possibilities

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2018 19:41


    What is the relationship of change and TRANSFORMATION? Pathways to making deliberate TRANSFORMATION are identified. How the brain and heart, together, give rise to a wide-open field of possibilities in our life journeys on Earth is described. Listeners are invited to more fully live and given a few ways to try on possibilities for experiencing that.

    #85 TRANSFORMATION - Trusting Transformation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2018 20:23


    Differences are considered in what ‘transition’ is and what ‘transformation’ can entail.  The process a caterpillar goes through before becoming a butterfly is discussed as a superb analogy for what humans experience along their own journeys into and through TRANSFORMATION.

    #84 CREATIVITY - Creativity is an Ecosystem

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2018 20:06


    The potency of being a creator is a birthright as well as a pulsing energy within each individual on Earth. How and why so many humans abscond from the responsibility of being balanced in their creative and destructive energies is discussed. This turns your thinking in new directions about yourself, your impulses and your relationship to violence. This provocative trilogy illuminates principles, possibilities and probabilities for humanity. 

    #83 CREATIVITY - Energetic Impulses of Creativity & Destruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2018 19:41


    This is an exploration of creative expression and the myriad ways in which every and all humans deliver their creative impulses. The destructive impulse is described as co-axial to creative impulse with both arising from the same energetic impulse. The importance of being able to respond to both of these impulses is considered in some detail.

    #82 CREATIVITY - We were Born to Create

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2018 20:08


    As humans, we have birthrights to create any and everything we wish in every lifetime. Some of us create happiness, others create misery; and some create sadness, abandonment, rage, jealousy, greed, etc. EVERY possibility can be and IS created by someone at some time.

    #81 TRUST - Reclaim your Right to Trust

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:31


    The adage ‘I think, therefore I am’ is challenged as an erroneous assumption. We’ve given up our rights to TRUST by giving up our Truths to other people, institutions, media and other influences in our lives. It’s time to reclaim those rights, as they are birthrights each and every human has by virtue of being born onto Planet Earth.

    #80 TRUST - Surrendering to What Is True

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 18:39


    What do a carpenter with nails and Life’s waltz have in common? Listen for the possibilities. Being able to discern what is ‘true’ often determines how much we trust our own perspectives of life and of others. Being willing to surrender to ‘what is’ rather than controlling things so they predictably meet expectations, allows us to learn to Trust and to live organically and more fully than we can otherwise live.

    #79 TRUST - Trusting Self and Others

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 20:13


    Is it a good idea to TRUST others? How do we learn to trust and/or dis-trust? And what role does self-trust play in the overall ability and willingness we have to trust others? These and other considerations about TRUST are extensively explored in today’s podcast.

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    #78 WISDOM - Birthing New Paradigms

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 20:24


    We are challenged by The Grand Council to think about our own and others’ life paradigms. They talk about the purposes and benefits, and also the drawbacks of paradigms in our lives. Then they suggest we tweak existing paradigms, or if need be, shift to brand new ones, to ensure that we are functioning optimally in our lives.

    #77 WISDOM - Stoking the Wisdom Fires

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:16


    Slow down, smell the roses, observe with eyes wide open, without judgement and being to allow Wisdom to form within through contemplation. Become a generalist to broaden your base of Wisdom. These and many other suggestions and insights are offered in this contemplation of how Information is taken into Knowledge and then Knowledge can be taken into and become Wisdom.

    #76 WISDOM - What is Wisdom?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:36


    Becoming your own WayShower to navigate your Divine Blueprint in your current lifetime is facilitated greatly when you consciously connect and work with the archetype WayShower. Each human being embodies Wisdom based on life experience. When consciousness is coupled with knowledge gained in life, Wisdom can, and often does, evolve.

    #75 UNDERSTANDING - Weaving One’s Cosmic Dance

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:31


    Internally, we have full capacity to access webs of information, insights, resource manifestation and genius of all sorts. We are encouraged to surf our own personal internal web of knowing and understanding for the Truth of everything.

    #74 UNDERSTANDING - Intimate Interconnection

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 15:44


    All of us are invited into an imaginative experience of our lives as a web, a matrix. The concept of ‘still point’ is introduced in light of self-understanding. Exploring the webs of our heart, minds and spirits is suggested as an effective way to understand even more about ourselves and the weave of our lives.

    #73 UNDERSTANDING - The Tapestry of Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:32


    Which colors and sounds or tones make up the fabric of your life? The patterns of our lives point us to information and insights to help us understand the weave of the fabric of our lives.  A gentle consideration of what The Tapestry of Life can mean, and be, to each individual.

    #72 KNOWLEDGE - Being a Living Body of Knowledge

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:18


    We are the living knowledge on Earth. When each of us is consciously being a Body of Knowledge that defines our particular way of Loving and of Being Love, literally lives the tenets of that Knowledge, then the world on Earth will shift to a higher resonance of Love. 

    #71 KNOWLEDGE - Real Knowledge Resides in the Heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 18:42


    A deep dive into knowing real motivations humans have to act, and how these, when consciously known, allow us to act most genuinely and constructively. Accessing heart truth about one’s own self provide opportunity to be accepting of and honestly compassionate to self.

    #70 KNOWLEDGE - Opening the Doors of Knowledge

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:17


    Everyone interested in exploring Knowledge and one’s own knowing is invited and very welcome to AncientFuture.Today and the opportunities to be in community with others doing and being in this Consciousness of Choice.

    #69 LOVE - Daring to Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:39


    Do you take Love for granted? Can you be Love if you take Love for granted? Unusual questions provide sideways perspectives on the topics of Love and Daring to Love. Actionable tips are given for beginning to love one’s self in real ways.

    #68 LOVE - The Ultimate Alchemy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 18:43


    Love is an eternal, evolving alchemy between humans and Creation. Many aspects of Love and consciousness about being Love and loving are discussed. The experience of ultimate alchemy is explored with some practical approaches given for this to become possible.

    #67 LOVE - Love is the Key Note

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 19:04


    Everything and everyone is Love. It is the note to which all of Life naturally attunes. Why then, on Planet Earth, does there seem to be so much ‘Not Love’ attuning? Myriad elements contributing to chaos and human suffering are listed extensively and identified so listeners can begin to inventory their personal notes of attunement. 

    #66 COURAGE - The Adventure of Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 17:34


    Each and all of us are key to our adventures of Love in a variety of ways. Adventure of Love is another way to describe Life. On the spectrum of Love, "Not Love" is bravely explored.

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