The question came up about why Ashtar Sheran is so serious about us lightworkers waking up and learning to do our work. I started writing what I thought but then thought to channel Ashtar as well. You might want to grab a kleenex to read his answer.
Yeah, I was just thinking, here I am sitting on my comfy couch, using my computer on my coffee table, eating my breakfast and drinking a hot cup of coffee, when the lightworkers are here to help the WHOLE WORLD, not just ourselves. Please read the whole post.
My answer: He has one. But he's dead serious about this project. And that's what lightworkers are here for - to help with liberation of the earth. And they're actually key. They've told me that they can't help us with anything unless we ask first. The other thing I've found is that a lot of us don't realize we NEED help until we're knee deep in a crisis. Fact is, Nancy, there's a lot for us to learn. We're changing from carbon-based 3 dimensional beings who use predominantly half our brains to crystalline, 5 dimensional beings housing our higher selves that have a much more expanded awareness. I can tell you, breaking my egotistical matrix habits comes with effort. And learning to use my crystalline fully actualized human habits usually begins when it happens by chance, not of my conscious creation. We have to learn to be these beings consciously so there's a lot of work and he knows that.
He sees us floundering. What's more, we're powerful beings and when we're negative, we're feeding the dark side way more than any earthling would be. So he wants us to learn to use our power for the Light, not the dark because in effect, we're fighting their efforts when we don't. Lots of reasons.
Most of us don't understand universal law which would greatly help because we're not going against the flow of life. IDK how many people I have to encourage JUST to meditate.
Wait, I'll ask him..... Ashtar: We wish you to realize who you truly are, not the lies you've been told. We see you suffering, hurting and dying unnecessarily and wish to stop this abomination of love. You are grossly disempowered and living lives of (geez, I'm getting teary-eyed) pain and sorrow for no reason.
You do not see what we see . Little children, without clothes, running on the streets trying to find food to eat. People being harvested and eaten in certain cultures. People being raped, killed, enslaved, suffering horrendous lives because your people do not wake up and realize that this is all unnecessary.
Because you do not realize your own power. We cry many times watching the horrors people on your world suffer through. We feel every death, and this is all unnecessary if you would wake up. That is it. ....
Okay, then do you see. We're not always aware of what other people in other countries and sometimes even our own are going through. They see it. And they feel it. I can really feel the pain he's passed on as I channeled that. I might have to have a cry! I'll post this in the group because it's a good question and his answer is moving.

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From Beyond This World 

Lord Ashtar and the Galactic Federation
Chanelled by Elizabeth Trutwin
418 pages​

This book was written to introduce the reader to Ashtar, Commander of the Galactic Federation forces of 10 million, around earth now to liberate us from the lives of increasing control we now live. Our current lives are not the typical human condition, this being love. We are beings of love, ascending to learn to love unconditionally. Earth (Shan as Ashtar calls it) is a planet of learning which is currently occupied by malevolent entities who use our own special abilities to keep us in chains.

Ashtar's messages about what has occurred on earth and what is to come are also included.

This book includes Popol Vuh as well as Ashtar's automatic writing via Ethel P Hill, circa 1957, “In Days to Come,” a hard hitting but loving expression of Ashtar and the Galactic Federation's in depth summary of what has transpired on earth and why the galactics are here, and as the title implies, “What is Yet to Come.”

This book gives a good overview of what the Galactic's plans are to liberate the earth and who and why initiated it. The initial requestor was Gaia who did not wish to die but rather to ascend. There is a lot of worthwhile information here for those who want to get up to speed on what's happening on this planet and around it, and a good base to continue further exploration of your own.

WHO IS ASHTAR?
Ashtar is an ascended master, an Elohi angel (not Elohim) from planet Ashtar, who currently calls Venus his home. He has had lives in the Pleiades system and on Nibiru. Arguably he is the most recognizable extraterrestrial as his image shows up often in ET circles.
Lord Ashtar and Sananda Jesus are in charge of the Universe Nebadon, which is this one. Ashtar reports to Jesus, his commander who he calls Sananda but who we know as Jesus from his incarnation here.
Ashtar is Captain of the Galactic flagship Jerusalem and commander of 10 million extraterrestrial forces working to liberate earth.
Ashtar had one earth incarnation as Pacal Votan, a Mayan who wrote the “Popol Vuh,” which is also included in this book. He has told me that he was behind the Mayan ascension to the fourth dimension. This happened in Antiquity, not in the timeframe before modern man where Mayans conducted blood rituals.
He is of the violet flame which you often see depicted in his palm.

WHAT IS THE GALACTIC FEDERATION?
The Galactic Federation is the governing body in galaxy Milky Way, which was established following the Great Orion War, whose mission is peace and prosperity for all. I'm assuming the word “Great” is used to give you an idea of the extent or scope of it, as opposed to glorifying war as we would use the word (“The Great War”).

Each planet has a representative on the Federation Council of 200,000 Councils. The member star civilizations are of many different species and the meeting place is on Sirius A. The ACIO (Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization) is a group on Earth comprised of humans and Ashtar's people who go to meetings. Earthlings get to Sirius A using a star gate on the sun and even NASA has shown images of these ships near it.

Earth, Sirius A and Sirius B are a trinary star system.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED ON EARTH
Earth, which is a learning school where karma can be created and uncreated, has had 6 creations and 5 destructions. Ashtar makes clear throughout the book that had the Federation not intervened, we would be staring down the barrel of our sixth destruction here on earth. More current reports I have heard have led me to believe the timelines have shifted and we have escaped much of what we were destined to experience due to the effectiveness of the lightworker program, also initiated by the Galactic Federation.

Earth is an illusion. It doesn't actually exist. When we are born here, we are put under the veil of amnesia to play the game of life according to the rules set out.

Ashtar exclaims: “The dark ones have employed many practices beyond our imagination to reach your minds without our knowing. It is woven into the fabric of our 3D existence.”

Ashtar, from the book: “Fifty years ago the astral planes wreaked havoc on 3D Earth. Anything to do with demons, possessions, the obscene rite, murder or any perversion of man was rooted in some way to the Astral Plane. If you are old enough to remember those days you know what I mean. The white knights of the Galactic Federation have gone in to places like the tunnels at Area 51 and cleaned out all of the negative extraterrestrials. There are no more abductions (from that location), there are no more mutilations. These are the kinds of things that were happening and directed from the Astral Plane by the demonic forces, the dark forces. This was duality Earth 50 years ago. It has since changed and the last negative Ets left planet Earth for good in November 2009.”

WHAT'S TO COME ON EARTH

“Ashtar speaks of the Earth Changes designed by Mother Gaia to heal the destruction that had harmed her, especially the effects of nuclear holocaust. About this he says: 'We realize certain portions of earthly terrain are marked for destruction. In pursuance of this program, we withhold interference when so instructed by the Hierarchy in uninterrupted touch with the Father of us all. When certain prearranged signals are received, we send thousands of ventlas (spaceships) to places where dangerous conditions exist.'

Here Ashtar speaks of the fact that Mother Earth, also called Gaia, made a Clarion Call to our Father in Heaven, that all destruction inside her and on her surface be stopped [this makes reference to the fact that Gaia is a sentient being, capable of requesting help from God, her Creator!] As soon as the nuclear weapons at Japan were unleashed, it allowed the Galactic Federation to intervene in higher ways than before to protect the Planet from the deadly forces who would destroy her.”

“As Earth ascends, it is her destiny to raise the sunken civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria.” (And for decades now, just east of the Bahamas, you have been able to scuba dive the Bimini Road visible from the surface of the water, which is claimed to be part of Atlantis.)

The moment of intervention depends upon us. He describes what will happen when landing. “Once all the dark ones are removed we still have to wake up the rest of humanity.” They plan to decloak and make announcements over television and other media. I smugly think this should be interesting. I have watched the movie, “Independence Day,” and now wonder whether the writers had inadvertent knowledge of the Federation's Plan and created this movie to scare us should we catch wind of it. Also as Ashtar has pointed out, they cannot land without our cooperation. A majority of receptive people is necessary before they can land.

When they decide to decloak around earth they will create a force field around her which will bring us to Zero Point. With this force field more advanced technology will be possible. With the upgraded grid, free energy will be available to all.

IN DAYS TO COME, included in this book

Of his 1957 automatic handwritten book by Ethel P Hill, “In Days to Come,” I found it to be a scathing appraisal of our condition here on Earth. Ashtar was pissed!: “It is one thing to compound and to explode such a hellish contrivance but where is the mortal who has solved the problem of preventing its explosion or nullifying its deadly effect? No such person exists on the planet Shan! How dare they release a force of such magnitude without the slightest idea how to control it?! None but an infant intellect would conceive of such an insane procedure!...”

“Approximately 400 members of Congress are so corrupt that they have already been replaced with solid holograms. When their indictments are revealed, the holograms will be depowered by the King of Swords. Ones not ready or spiritually prepared to do the ascension clearing that are in 3D levels will be sent to what appears to be a continuation of things as they now exist on another mirror image of old earth and will not be coming to New Earth. This will be an Earth parallel in another Dimension.”

“Back in 1957 there was already a Secret Base on the moon built by the Intergalactic War Criminals who had their own Ships and were using the Earth portals to move about in Space.”
Their plan was to colonize in the Galaxy. This was when the fight over the Star Gates began.

WHAT ASHTAR AND THE GALACTIC FEDERATION WANT FROM YOU (WHAT IS YOUR PART IN THIS?)

The Galactic Federation implore people here to accept them and to ask them for help! They are only too happy to help you but they cannot do it without your permission. We must ask for any and all help. He repeatedly says our Galactic Family cannot help us unless we help ourselves first. This is our battle but they are allowed to intervene, with our permission. This seems to be getting screwed up in reports I'm hearing, or malevolents are intervening, acting as a benevolent to further control us.

Ashtar, in his direct, sarcastic way, asks you to continue to raise yourself up spiritually: “I urge Elder Indigos to hold on and never stop learning and pursuing your Enlightenment. Instead of passing on forwarded emails of kittens, settle down with a book that will take you to the next level of your unfoldment. There is no time to waste and your lives are so precious.”

His advice on watching the news: “Watch the news with detachment.” Don't get fired up over it.

Ashtar asks us to help by acquiring as much information from reliable sources as possible. He says it is imperative that the public know about the Galactic Federation.

Encourage forming of space clubs or groups to meet for discussion of latest news available.

He says if you want to speak telepathically to him please reach out! (He's very personable!) Be sure to thank him for these contacts, Elizabeth Trutwin says.