For most of my life, I have been trying to understand why people make the choices they do.

As a young person, I was often bewildered by the world around me. I did not understand why people hurt one another, why they sabotaged their own happiness, or why so many seemed trapped by circumstances and decisions that caused suffering.

At seventeen, I realized something uncomfortable about myself: I lacked compassion because I lacked understanding.

Life has a way of correcting that.

The decades that followed brought their own lessons, mistakes, disappointments, and consequences. Some of my greatest teachers were not found in classrooms or books, but in my own failures and in the grace that met me afterward.

Through it all, one thing remained constant. I never felt abandoned.

My relationship with God, which began in childhood, has sustained me through every season of life. It survived periods of doubt, spiritual searching, changing beliefs, and more than a few encounters with institutions that did not quite know what to do with me.

My understanding of the Divine has also evolved over time. As a child, I simply knew God was real. As an adult, I began exploring deeper questions about the nature of God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and humanity’s place within a living universe. What began as a simple faith gradually expanded into a much larger understanding of the Divine.

Through study, spiritual experience, and years of questioning, Jesus became more than a historical figure to me, and the Holy Spirit became more than a theological concept. Today, I understand Jesus, known in the larger universe as Christ Michael, and Nebadonia, whom I associate with the presence of the Holy Spirit, as living personalities actively involved in the growth and guidance of humanity. Others may understand these realities differently, but this perspective has profoundly shaped my life and continues to inform the work I share through these pages.

I have been welcomed in some places and rejected in others. I have spent years searching for language that could hold both my spiritual experiences and my questions. What I eventually discovered was that faith is far larger than any single tradition, and that growth often requires us to keep learning long after we think we have found the answers.

Looking back now, I can see that every stage of my journey contributed something valuable. My years in education, business consulting, chaplaincy, ministry, community advocacy, and academic study all taught me something about people. More importantly, they taught me about compassion.

Everywhere I went, people shared their stories. Their hopes. Their dreams. Their heartbreaks. Their regrets. Their longing for a life that felt meaningful and whole.

What surprised me was that beneath many of those stories was the same quiet question:

Am I still loved?

Sometimes it sounded like:

Can I ever be forgiven? Can God still want me after everything I’ve done?

Many people seemed to long for a genuine relationship with the Divine while simultaneously fearing the very Presence they were seeking. I understood those questions because I had wrestled with many of them myself.

That realization transformed me. It also transformed the conversations I began having with others.

Over time, I came to understand that we are not alone. We live within a universe that is far more alive, interconnected, and compassionate than most of us have been taught to imagine. Guidance is available. Wisdom is available. Love is available. Not because we have earned it, but because we are already part of something much greater than ourselves.

And perhaps that is why I do this work. I want people to know they are loved, guided, and not alone.

People have carried guilt for mistakes they have made. They have worried they have disappointed God, failed their purpose, or wandered too far from the path they were meant to follow. Many have been taught to fear God more than trust God.

Yet my own life has taught me something different.

Through my mistakes, failures, and difficult seasons, I have discovered mercy. I have discovered grace. I discovered that the God I have known since childhood is far more compassionate than I had been led to believe. Again and again, I have found forgiveness where I expected rejection and guidance where I expected judgment.

This understanding did not come from any one book, tradition, teacher, or experience. It emerged through a lifetime of learning, questioning, growing, and remaining open to new insights. It continues to evolve today.

That spirit of exploration is what brought our team together.

The contributors to Planetary Pulse come from different countries, backgrounds, professions, and spiritual journeys. We do not agree on everything, nor would we want to. What unites us is a shared desire to explore humanity’s relationship with the Divine, with one another, and especially with the unfolding future of our world.

Each writer in this issue brings a unique voice and perspective. Together, we offer our experiences, questions, discoveries, and insights in the hope that they may be helpful to others.

Whatever your background, whatever your beliefs, whatever mistakes you may have made…

You are not alone. You are loved.

There is more love available than fear would have you believe. There is more guidance available than you may realize. And there is more to this remarkable universe than most of us have yet imagined.

For me, the image of a lighthouse has always carried this meaning. A lighthouse does not force a direction or choose a destination. It simply shines its light so that travelers can better see where they are and make their own choices.

That is what I hope Planetary Pulse can be.

• Not a doctrine.
• Not a destination.
• Not a claim to possess all the answers.

Simply a light shared among fellow travelers.

On behalf of our entire team, thank you for joining us on this journey. May you find wisdom, courage, wonder, and above all, the assurance that you are deeply loved.

Welcome to the journey.

Blessings,

Kona Lisa Mahu

New York, USA

Contributor, Founder, and Fellow Traveler

kona@planetarypulse.centerforplanetarymanagement.net