The Arcturian Group via Marilyn Raffaele, Jan. 4, 2026

Marilyn has returned.
January 4, 2026
Dear readers,
These messages are are intended to present the principles of absolute truth in order to help those receptive build an inner foundation that will free them from the false matrix that continues to hold so many in bondage, provide a path to attaining a more evolved state of consciousness, and allow them to more easily see through the illusions of the three dimensional world.
The key word at this time is change because change is a necessary requirement for both personal and global spiritual ascension. Individual change automatically brings about global change because every truth realized adds to and lifts the resonance of the collective consciousness that feeds earth’s belief system. Large scale global change is the reason so many spiritually enlightened people chose to be on earth at this time–not to do, but simply to BE.
Throughout time every person in every lifetime has unknowingly added the energy of their consciousness to a collective consciousness that automatically changes and evolves as individual states of consciousness change and evolve. As humans awaken to the truth about themselves and others, this collective will reflect it allowing everyone easier access to truth and ideas that support oneness. The world will no longer just pray and wish for change, but will begin to actually work toward it and no longer accept the fear mongering and false claims of those attempting to maintain the status quo for person profit.
Change can be difficult, especially for those new to the spiritual path because change usually entails the letting go of many well established foundational beliefs. One of those often unrecognized beliefs is the need for control. Being in control gives a person the sense of being safe, right, and comfortable in their belief system–that is until they reach a point in their spiritual journey at which control issues start to rebound back to them forcing the person to begin questioning why.
Control is often unrecognized as being control because it has become a part of every day living for most. Parents feeling the need to exert control over adult children’s lives. Pastors, priest, gurus, and spiritual leaders of all sorts using pressure and guilt to control what followers must believe. Men who feel entitled to exert control over women simply because of their gender and women often doing the same. Government, experts in all areas, education, healthcare etc. all utilize generally accepted forms of control to make others accept what they believe is right and for other’s as well as for their own personal good.
Living in a three dimensional world does require some level of control. Parents need to control aspects of their children’s lives when they are young. Control over ones own life and choices is a necessary part of evolving into spiritual empowerment. Police need control in their work and teachers need control in the classroom. The control we are referring to is the ego based control that continues to be active in the consciousness of many often going unrecognized as being the way things are done.
Control manifests as feeling the need and right to use whatever means are necessary to make people or situations conform to the controller’s concepts of how things must be. Control is usually disguised in a sense of self righteousness that makes the controller believe that they are right, doing something good, and helping by telling, forcing, manipulating, or intimidating a person or situation to be, act, choose, or do in a certain way (their way) even when the information is not wanted or asked for.
If you keep repeating suggestions about how something could/should be done to someone who is ignoring your suggestions, you are trying to control. If you insist that you know what is best for another while ignoring their perspective, you are trying to control. If you find yourself always attempting to make people, places, and things change to the way you or the three dimensional world says they should be (even if your way actually is better), you are trying to control. Even the simplest of actions (back seat driving) can be a form of control which is why it is important to be very honest when examining your belief system for issues of control.
The underlying energy of control is the three dimensional belief that humans are separate from God/Divine Consciousness, the belief that there is not a Divine Controller already fully present within every person. It is the belief that there are powers other than the ONE power waiting around every corner to harm, kill, destroy etc. These beliefs create fear, fear of what could, may, or will happen if things are not done or people don’t conform in a certain way. The belief that God’s creations need fixing, healing, and changing is simply the hypnotism of a world that believes in separation from God.
The men, women, countries, leaders, governments etc. who function from from a consciousness of control believe that they are entitled to tell others what to do because they believe that they are wiser, more experienced, smarter, and in positions of power–all manifestations of ego, the false personal sense of self. Allow your intuition to guide you when giving help, guidance, and direction to others, always doing it from a place of love and not superiority. Be very honest about whether your guidance and assistance is based in ego or love.
It is an act of love to assist another with your attained wisdom, experience, and knowledge, but only if or when the other person wants and is receptive to receiving it.
Never, in spite of any outer appearances, doubt that you and all living things are individualized expressions of One Divine Consciousness (God) manifesting not a little bit, but the fullness of ITself in, as, and through every person. Bring this to mind every time you are tempted to use control to make something or someone “better” according to your or the three dimensional world’s concepts of what constitutes “better”.
Every individual at some point of their evolutionary journey must accept that there is a Divine Controller within every person which may occasionally mean letting another fall flat on their face if that is what they need in order to wake up. Your job as an awakened person is to have your hand out, ready to grab another’s hand should they reach out. Your job is NOT to reach down and pull another out of their personal gutter experience without their wanting, seeking, or asking. They may have specifically chosen their present experiences for learning and evolving.
The high resonating energies of ascension are shifting almost everyone out of alignment with their usual “self” , causing many to have temporary physical, emotional, mental, and even spiritual issues as high frequencies integrate. You may have thought that the ascension process would be a short period of time in which everyone would suddenly begin to see the light and earth would once again be what it was created to be but the accumulated density of earth’s energy requires that the ascension process be exactly that, a process that only the people of earth themselves can bring forth.
You may have noticed that some foods no longer taste as good or appeal to you like thy once did. You may watch your favorite movie and wonder why you thought it was so great. Christmas season this year may not have felt as exciting as it used to and some of you are finding that you no longer relate to many previously accepted ideas about how life must be lived in order to be “right”. These things are happening because change is happening.
Change is not dressing old outdated concepts in new clothing and then promoting them as being new and better which is what those in fear of losing their present status of wealth and control are attempting to do. Change means actual change, shifting from an outgrown state of awareness based in duality, separation, and many powers to one that reflects the reality of ONE regardless of outer appearances or what others may still believe and promote.
The old is going, going, and will soon be gone. More and more people are waking up to ideas based in oneness and are beginning to recognize the prejudice and unfairness that underlies so many current laws, rules, and generally accepted concepts about life. Those who continue promoting “the good old days” as being better, are viewing the world from a limited three dimensional level because the past can only reflect the collective consciousness of that time which is not the consciousness of the present time. Just as the collective evolved beyond horses being the primary means of transportation, earth’s collective is now evolving beyond duality, separation, and powers other than the ONE power.
Being who and what you are while allowing others to do the same is love.
We are the Arcturian Group 1/4/26

