 Whatever you're open to is what you're going to be able to experience. So if you want to connect with beings like that, you can. Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to Art of Awakening. My name is Oda Christie, and I have a super special guest here today. With me here is Ashley Lin, and Ashley is a fellow YouTuber. Her channel is Adventures Across. Ashley is an earth mysteries explorer, a Lyran star seed writer, photographer, plant enthusiast, artist, and mystic. She explores earth out of the beautiful state of Wisconsin. And Ashley's also a prince, a, was in a quarterly zine, which is also called Adventures Across. And in it she writes about life experiences and channeled wisdom as well as practical ways to apply them to your life. Ashley cares deeply about living paradise, taking care of the earth, and sharing her art with the world. And I'm so excited to have her here today. Welcome, Ashley. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Thanks for inviting me. And it feels like when I first kind of got to know you and found your channel, you just felt like such a kindred soul with the nature and the art and the star beings and all that. And I guess what really brought home to me is like, I need to have Ashley here on the channel is because I received a question from a viewer, a comment in one of my videos. And so Katie says, I love your videos. There's been a thought that continues to enter my mind when I watch you and that there, that is that there are galactic beings who closely resemble some earthly animals, the lion, the reptile, the insects, the bird, et cetera. Those are some animal species who most have heard of their galactic counterparts. And Katie is wondering if I could make a video or message about other races who are similar to earth animals like the elephant or rabbit or dog or whatever, or videos comparing our animals to galactic races. And when I saw your channel and saw some of the things that you've got on your channel about connecting with the galactics and you had this really amazing piece of earth that you did with a galactic avian called, I think you call them Bill. Oh yeah, Bill. Yeah. And so I was like, oh my gosh, I have to have Ashley on the channel because I think I have some connection with the galactics, but it's not as, I guess so vibrant as yours. You seem to be so well connected with them. And I thought, why not? You know, we can talk about this and what else comes up. So I'd love to hear a little bit more about your experiences connecting with the galactics and especially those who have some kind of animal connection. Sure. It's kind of funny because there's like a lot of ET species that are, like they are some form of animal, right? Like there's the water beings. And there's the, like Bill, the blue avian and that, that's kind of a funny story. Yeah, I'd love to hear it. Sure. So it was a few years ago, I was, I was living in an RV and it was off grid right next to the woods. And I was just like so immersed in nature. I was working on a farm. So like 24 seven nature. And I was really grounding myself in nature. So I could go and explore these other realms because we need to be able to balance between the two, right? You can't just go off here and be ungrounded here. You have to be. So I think that is part of the reason why I can connect so easily with some of these beings. So that summer I really put out my intentions. I really wanted to reach out to other ET species and to just get to know them. I'm really into like learning their culture and learning like who they are, what they're all about. So I was, I was receiving answers to my questions through dreams, through like lucid dreaming. And it was just so profound. It was like every night I would have three in a row and I would wake up at like three, three, three or two, two, two, something like that in the morning. And I would have to go outside because our bathroom for like living off-grid was outside. So if I had to go to the bathroom and I went outside and I would look at the stars and I would just wonder and think about connecting with ET's while I was out there. And I would go to bed and have these dreams. And Bill came to me at a very strange, synchronistic time. We were planting tomatoes on the farm. And I was just at awe at tomato plants because they're so like on the surface, you just look at them and they're like, oh, there's these scraggly plants. But if you work with a thousand of them in a day, you start to observe the finer details of these plants. And I was noticing that there were these hairs coming off of the stems and even on the tomatoes themselves. And they were gold. It looked like some divine gold color. It was really beautiful, like glittery. And I was wondering about them. So during a night after this, I realized this. I was in my bed and then I turned over. I woke up, I turned over and I saw Bill the blue avian. And that's like the guy that I drew. And I was like, whoa, he's crazy. He was like, he was blue, very like fuzzy and feathery, like a bird. And he had like, it looks sort of tribal, but like these designs on his face that were orange and yellow. He had some fun hair, like a beak type of a mouth. And he was very humanoid. He looked like, like his body was like a human, but he had this very avian presence, right? And blue avians are said to be like a higher dimensional beings, like eighth dimension or something. That's what I've heard. And they are sort of discerning on who they come and visit. And it doesn't seem like they stick around for very long. So if they come, it's like they come and then they go. So I haven't really seen Bill since then. But his message for me was the tomatoes are upgrading us. Oh, wow. How cool. Yeah. I was just like thinking about, or like I got that message and it really spoke to me because the farm I was working on was, it was certified naturally grown. So it's basically organic without all of the paperwork. Because like when you get into that realm, it's a little bit like paperwork heavy and it's really expensive to get certified organic. So we were a certified naturally grown farm and we did everything naturally. We put a lot of minerals and nutrients into the soil because the land in that part of Wisconsin is kind of damaged from conventional farming. So we did a lot of supplementation to fix the land because it used to be an old farm field. So we were putting in all of this love, all this energy, all this high vibrational stuff into these tomatoes and everything else we were growing. And it just hit me that what he means is this high vibrational food, right? The tomatoes are upgrading us. If we are eating high vibrational food, we are going to be able to upgrade. Yeah. And we're going to be able to access some of these things a lot better. Like connecting with ETs or connecting with the fey and even connecting with ourselves and our soul. So that's sort of the message that build the blue avian. That is awesome. That is really awesome. And oh my gosh, that opens up so many channels for potential discussion that I can think of. Oh my gosh, where do we start? You know, I think maybe like talking about this connection right that you are starting to have with the land there or working with it. I'd love to hear your thoughts about that because I know you worked on a number of farms and organic or natural farms and have this close connection with the land. As do I. And I've noticed that the more I work with the land, like my guidance really told me this summer to work in this garden. And this garden is like it actually belongs to my neighbors. But it was like really calling to me because we moved in about a little over a year ago to this house and the neighbors next door were just about to move out. But I kept looking at their gardens. I really wanted to garden their garden for whatever reason. Right. Well, they moved out another set of neighbors moved in and they're disabled and they can't work. I mean, they really have a hard time doing that. But she's like, you want to use my garden, you know, you need more than what you have. And I'm like, yeah. So there it was. And, but this garden and working with it has been the most healing thing and the most, and it feels like it's so reciprocal. It's like, because this was land that was really, really, really, it was having a gas station. It's remediated. It was a freaking rake. Right. So working on this has been just this amazing experience, but I'd love to hear more about your experiences working with the land and how the land. And the, the, the, you know, whatever the galactic beings too. And how does that all work in there? Because these are from the stars, but we're on this planet. How do you see that connection working? So, I mean, when you get down to it, right, everything is connected because we're all consciousness and we're all energy and energy isn't polar. There's no polarity to it. It just is. So if you can get into that state of being and think about that, you know, just think about it. And you go out and experience that. And I talk about this in one of my zines, the earth encyclopedia zine. This is my first one. And the concept behind earth encyclopedia, like if you go and do like all this research about galactic history and like our earth history with the ancient civilizations and all that, it seems very apparent that earth was created. Obviously, but it seems to me that it was created in like a very scientific and spiritual way, right? You know how people are into genetics now in DNA. And everything that exists here sort of has that, like that DNA. So the concept behind earth encyclopedia, and this cave also when I was living on that, on that farm, is that earth is like an encyclopedia or a book. It's a living encyclopedia of the cosmos of all these other places around us that are different galaxies, different planets. There is something on earth from each of these places, right? So I really see this when I am interacting in nature, I'll be out and doing something and I'll have a certain thought and then I'll see a certain insect and it's like, whoa, that synchronicity is so deep. I just don't know how this cannot be true. Yeah. So like that happens with insects and it's like mostly insects and plants for me, but also the birds and everything has a symbolic meaning if you are open to seeing that, right? Yeah. So like every bird has a different symbolic meaning and every plant has a different symbolic meaning. And you can like get into this if you go and study like the pagan traditions, right? Because a lot of these earth worshipping traditions will focus in on that. And it's all, it's like so symbolic. Right, yeah. And you find that it becomes like this dialogue, don't you, when you're out there and it's like you realize that it's, you're just talking to you all the time and specifically to you, it's not just like, you know, and of course it goes out and you go out and it feels good and it's like you're in the nature. But you start realizing it's literally talking to you and giving you the messages that you need. It's like, whoa. Right. Yeah. So I suppose, yeah, like, and then to keep going on what you just said, like where did these messages come from, right? So if you, it's all based upon your own inner truths and what you feel is true, right? So for me, I just feel like it's, because I do intentionally like reach out to ETs and like, I talked to the Fay too. I intentionally like reach out to these beings. And though I can't see them on this physical plane, you just know that they're there. You ask for, you ask a question and they will give you an answer through nature. So it is, it's just all connected. Right. So a lot of these ETs can give you information through nature. Right. Okay. That makes sense. And you're actually actively reaching out. That's awesome. And it's true. It's so true. It's like, you ask, it's like, they're waiting for you to ask, right? Yes, they are. Because they can't mess with our free will. We have to make a decision as sovereign beings. We need to make a decision if we want that or not. And they can't interfere with us. So if we make that decision and ask for it, they will give it to us. Right. Yeah. And. And if we're in this place where we're confident. And know that we're reaching out to benevolent beings. Right. That's what's going to respond. It's the benevolent beings. Right. Absolutely. So. What other Galactics have you been in touch with? So many. It really just depends on like the day, honestly. But I like to go on. What do you want to call them? Like Earth mysteries excursions. Right. And there's Earth mysteries everywhere. Like there are sacred sites everywhere. And here in the Midwest, there's the effigy mountains. You know, out in Egypt, there's the pyramids. And you've got the big sacred sites, but there's little sacred sites everywhere. It's not just these big places or everywhere. So I've been exploring the sacred sites around my area here. So there's these effigy mountains. You could go and visit those and you can connect with different beings there. But I've also gone down into caves. There's a lot of cave exploring to do around here. And with the caves, I feel really connected with inner Earth civilizations. So you go down. There's this one cave in Minnesota. We just went to. And I went down into the cave and it just, I just felt like I was going on a journey into a different world. Like I was going off of the surface and I was going to go somewhere else. And what ended up happening was, we, in the tour, we got to the end of the line, right? And you could see the cave kept on going. And then the fort, like the way that it looked, looked like an infinity symbol or like an eight. So I was like, there's something down there. Yeah. So I went home and did like an astral travel journey, just like sat in meditation. And I like put my consciousness to where the tour ended. And then I just kept going in a different plane. And I was taken. I was taken through this cave. And I came to like an aquamarine pool and it was lit up. And I had to go in and wash myself in there before I could keep going. So I did that. I swam in the little pool and then I went on words. And I met. A wasp being. Oh, wow. So he, he had a head of a wasp, right? And then he was wearing like a robe. So he couldn't see his body. And with insect beings, I usually like, they are usually wearing a robe. And I think it's because their bodies look kind of scary to us. So he was wearing a robe and he was a gatekeeper to something that was down there. Were you afraid? No. I was like, oh, this is so cool. But I guess I just what helps with, with this, if you are trying to connect with beings and see beings and these other forms of consciousness, it helps to be open with them with the physical ones, right? So if the, if you're afraid of wasps, you're not going to, like how are you going to be able to connect with a wasp in the astral plane? Right. You're going to come in. You're going to bring your fear with you. Yeah. And that can trigger all sorts of stuff. Right. Or they just won't connect with you at all if you have fear. Yeah. So, yeah, I went, so I was with the gatekeeper and he let me look through a window of the cave. It was like, we were like up on a cliff and I looked out and it was just like a jungle. And there was a, like a sun type of a thing in the middle and it was orange-ish and red, like more of a primal feeling thing. Yeah. And there was like a castle under the sun. I was like, okay, so there's something down here. So, right, really, there's, it's just like, there's no limits on this. It's whatever you're open to is what you're going to be able to experience. So if you want to connect with beings like that, you can. It takes a lot of practice. Right. And it's the reason why it takes a lot of practice and persistence and focus is because it is a skill and you need to sort of get better at it. You can't just pick up a guitar and play guitar. You have to practice and get better at it. And that's how it is with this. And it's like, sort of like an initiation too. So, yeah, lately for me, it's been a lot of insects, but I connect with insects a lot in my, you know, my physical life. I'm out in the garden. There's lots of spiders, lots of like, there's a lot of wasps here, like different colored ones and they're beautiful. You just can't be scared of the things that are on this planet because it will prevent you from experiencing things in this, you know. Right. And if you watch these creatures like wasps, I found at one point where if there was a wasp inside and it was buzzing around the window or something, and it was just like, you can, you can have compassion for it and realize it just wants to get out. It's not after you. You can actually put your finger in front of it and invite it to climb up and then very gently take it outside. I mean, the hard part is like, it doesn't want to leave, right? It's different on your finger, but they're not after you. You know, they just want to try to be free. You know, but if you're afraid, then I don't recommend it because it's going to go bad. They might get stung. Yeah. Or I mean, you know, if you're near it's nest or something, then it, you know, it's going to want to defend its nest and that's reasonable. You know, not the time to go sticking it from your towards a wasp, but feeling, you know, with this compassionate feel for, okay, where's the animal at? What does it really just want? You know, what are, what is its emotional state and you can feel without being afraid, you know, is this something that, you know, can I move closer? Can I, you know, how, how can I react in a way that's, that's going to be harmonious? Right? Yeah. So I love that you, I guess I'd love to hear your thoughts on connecting because I think you touched on this in one of your last videos. Your actual connection with the actual real physical nature and how that's influencing your spiritual development. Oh, sure. So, uh, what, let's see, when was that? In 2015, 16, it was my last year of college. And this is when I really started getting into this. Um, I had this position at my university where I was the guard manager and it was my job to create a garden to produce a lot of food and we donated it all to the food pantry. So I was like, gung-ha, I was like, I'm going to make this the best ever. And I got into permaculture that year and I learned about food for us. Um, so that's pretty much where it all started. It all started because I just wanted to grow food for people. Um, so that year we planted a food forest and a bunch of other little things in the garden. It was like an acre plot and, um, I actually just went back to visit and it is like producing really good. All the fruit trees are full of fruit and the garden is huge now. Um, so it all started with that. I didn't really have the spiritual intention for it because I was just looking for myself really. So after that, um, my partner and I, we decided to go and try living out on public land. And again, that's living in nature. Um, so we started living out of a tent. Um, we did that for 30 days. Um, and the purpose of that trip was, so I could heal a bunch of my stuff from the past. And so I could connect more with my soul to really figure out what I'm here to do. Right. So then that spiritual aspect got added into this nature and then we ended up living off grid on the Oregon coast. And that was more nature, right? Yeah. The Oregon coast is rainy, rainy, rainy in the, um, in the winter. So I was really connecting with my, um, a lot of my sadness and a lot of my grief through the, the weather, right? True. Feel, um, certain emotions with the different weather. So if it's like a stormy day, maybe you're going to feel a little bit stormy and it's okay. You just have to let that come up and, you know, wash away. Yeah. Um, so my journey is very immersed in nature. I spend most of my time outside with, with nature, the forest, depending on where I am, because I was down in Sedona, Arizona for a little bit too. And I was out in nature all the time. We lived on public lands down there for about 30 days before we found somewhere else to live. Um, but it's like through this, it's just strange because nature gives you this space where you can, there's no conditions. Nature doesn't give a crap about anything. It just wants to be with you. The planet just wants to be with you. So if you just sit with that, it's holding space for us. So it can help us grow spiritually and help us connect more with our soul. Because if we're giving ourselves that space too, so much can just come out and blossom. That's right. Yeah. And, and for you, you're such a creative person. Like one of the ways it blossoms is through your art and through your writing, right? Can you share a little bit about that and maybe how these creative pursuits also go in the mix to help you to expand spiritually? Yeah. So one of my, well, I have a lot of things I do, I guess. I can't help it though. I don't know who I am. One of the things I do is nature photography. So when I am outside or it really depends if I'm going to go on a trip or if I'm going to go on a hike, I will always have my camera with me. I have a DSLR camera and it comes with me everywhere. So I will take all these photos of nature of like, it's plants and flowers, right? Because those are like the things that really get me. And, well, flowers are just so beautiful because they're so colorful and they're so different. So we're each like a flower, I suppose, in that way. So in my zines, I take, I mean, we go to a lot of places. So I have a lot of photography in here of flowers and each place has a different vibration, right? So like this is in Ireland. This isn't a place called Barry Glenn. So there's like very energy in the picture. So I can capture different energies and essences through my photos and I put them into my creative works, like my zines. Because then I can give that gift to others. They can see a picture and maybe they don't understand like the depth of it. But just by like looking at a photo can change you. And it can, if you allow it to, if you, that's your intention with it. So yeah, like this is in Sedona. I'd like to travel to sacred sites. So a lot of my stuff is infused with that. There's just like a vibration that plants hold. Everything is frequency and everything is vibration, right? Yeah. So everything is unique in its own expression. And you can connect with these plants in nature in that way. So yeah, my creative pursuits. It's literally like all about that. You just, I just, and I don't know how to even explain it. It's natural for me. I, I can't do it any other way. I just intuitively know what I need to do. And it does sometimes just makes no sense. Like the first few years of this journey, I was like, what am I doing all this for? I just felt these like impulse. They're not like impulses. It's like inspired passion or just like this urge to take this inspired action. Right. So I just do it. And now I'm realizing that a lot of the stuff that I was doing in the beginning is preparing me for this moment right here now. And I don't have to do as much work for this next thing that I'm going to be doing because I already did it all. Yeah. So like this whole path, if you're into like being this creative person, you just don't, you're not going to know the whole story. You probably will know 10% of the story. If you keep following that fire within, you're going to realize, whoa, this is, this is stranger than fiction, man. Right. And you're literally, your life becomes a work of art. Right. Like so often when you start a piece of art, you might have an idea of what you're doing, but it, it has its own life. And it directs you as much as you're directing it. And what I'm finding is I'm experiencing the same thing. It's like these kind of passionate impulses. Right. Even creating this channel was one. I created channels like, okay. I was afraid of my own voice. I didn't want to, you know, anybody seeing me. I mean, this was completely out of my comfort zone, but it was like, make this channel. I was like, okay. And it's been amazing. And so many things it's like, and things in different parts of life, right? Do this, do that, whatever. These creative impulses. And then after a while, you start to see how they're weaving together and coming, well, becoming your amazing life or whatever it is. Right. And I think that that is a vibration, right. And it vibrates out and others can feel it. And it affects probably to the end of the universe. Right. You can connect with the galactics. You know, they're going to feel it. Oh yeah. They're, I mean, they're always jazzed when we're following our, our highs. When we're following our dreams and we follow our heart, they are so thrilled about that because if we are in that space and we're connected and we're aligned, what are we doing? Oh, we're ushering in new, new earth. Right. That's exactly what we're doing, isn't it? Yeah. So if you just courageously show up, I mean, being courageous, it's sure it's having the balls to go and do something, but it's also acknowledging that there is fear in doing it anyway. Yes. So, so important because that fear is probably going to be there either way. And you can either, you know, follow the fear or you can be like, okay, there's this fear and we're going to do it anyway. Wow. I love that. Well, Ashley, I would, I think we could probably sit here and have this conversation for like eight hours. I know I could seriously, I could talk for days and I would still be smiling afterwards. But it's been such a pleasure having you on. Where can people find you? Oh, so I'm on Instagram, Adventures Across. My YouTube channel is Adventures Across. I have a website. It's also adventuresacross.com. And I'm also experimenting with Odyssey, which is a, it's like YouTube, but it's backed by blockchain technology and it uses cryptocurrency. So I am, yeah, it's so cool. Like go check it out. I'll have to check that out too. It's cool. It's, it's like, you can't censor it. It's, you know, so there we go. Okay. I will definitely check that out. Yeah. So you can find me in all those places. Okay. Awesome. So, Ashley, thank you so, so much. I'm going to put links below. So if anybody wants to connect with Ashley, it should be easy enough to go down to the description. I hit those links and find her online. And, um, just, it's been such a pleasure. Thank you so, so much. Thank you. This was really fun. Thank you. Okay. All right. Bye-bye. And to all you viewers, thank you so much for your support. We, I know we both love you and, um, we'll just catch you again soon. Remember you were going to be free.