Caroline Myss has been a pioneer in the field of spirituality, healing and energy medicine for 40 years. Educated by nuns until the age of 29, she flourished under their tutelage and trained her mind to think about the world as more than herself. Myss is a medical intuitive and New York Times bestselling author of Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing and Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential.

Why is now such an extraordinary, historic time? 

We’ve entered the age of unseen energy. All change is happening in the immediate now. This is a turnaround from how society has previously functioned. The mystical laws are at work—all is one, all of life breathes together. The world of the five senses is having a hard time comprehending what’s happening, and it’s creating panic.

For the past 70 years, we’ve been incorporating a new consciousness with Eastern traditions and mysticism, practices like yoga and meditation, and global cosmic ideas. And blended into all this is the technology that unites us and is the “inner net.” And now we’ve duplicated our soul circuitry with the internet.

This is a time of transformation; we’re moving toward a psychic energy system. Unseen energy is our new frontier. It’s a new way of thinking and being. Similar to when we moved from the agricultural age into the industrial age, some people couldn’t make the transition. Transitions rarely go smoothly.

What can help to guide us? 

Turn to your soul for guidance. You have to rely upon the mystical tools of your soul to do its work. Your soul is your compass. Trust your sacred self. We co-create our reality with the Divine within us; we’re the engines of co-creation. This is about inner guidance leading the way.

Guidance is coming to us all the time. But our value system in society is based on productivity—you have to produce—and it can be hard to listen because listening to inner guidance isn’t necessarily aligned with productivity. 

And this is the collision point. You often can’t take all your stuff with you when you move onto the next stage of your life … there’s a letting go process. And it’s hard to let go.

How can we foster healing? 

How you participate in the world affects the world. Every thought and action has an effect on all of creation—for better or for worse. All of your choices impact the world. There are no “small” choices. Never think you don’t have any power. It all matters—to your soul, to other people, to the universe. 

Make choices that support yourself and others. Live consciously. 

We’ve become so self-focused and narcissistic; it hasn’t served us. Narcissism leads to isolation and loneliness; we have more isolation now than ever before. The combination of narcissism and isolation creates a whole different type of crisis. We need to move out of narcissism.

What can we each do to make the world a better place? 

I believe in the power of prayer. 

Prayer is like getting a loving note from someone. The note can change the mood in a remarkable way. It’s the energy behind the note, not so much the actual note itself. Prayer is a conduit for love, thought, and grace. It’s how you become intimate with the world … just one prayer can shift your consciousness.

If you think you don’t know how to pray, just say, “help me through this”—that’s a form of prayer. Even though you might think you can’t see the results and effects doesn’t mean they aren’t there; in life you can’t always see the results of everything you do. That’s where faith comes in. 

Just like you can’t see when an angel has stepped in with assistance.

Robin Fasano is a frequent contributor to Natural Awakenings.