In what ways can people use meditation, in concert with the divine realm, for their betterment?

As we have discussed with you many times, there are many lost opportunities to use meditation productively. When done in a vacuum, nothing new can come in. You do have access to your own creativity, as always, but when one is out of ideas and needs information from elsewhere, that is where the intuitive reach comes in. You can go out intuitively through extending the mind to seek knowledge and information by tuning into something of particular interest. The subconscious may well go to the collective unconscious to look for possibilities, as it is used to doing so on an ongoing basis to check the current ongoing flow and flux of the human enterprise, to see what is happening, and also to reference individual issues and struggle against what is known by the collective humanity, and will bring back fresh insights and parallel experiences to use as a further understanding of what the being is facing. There are higher sources of wisdom one can tap into, but this must be requested. You can ask the higher self directly and then the higher self is free to use its resources in reaching further to Creator or other light beings for insight to pass along, and you can also always ask Creator directly about things if you are seeking information and guidance. You can also query knowledgeable light beings about particular matters and they are happy to assist when they are approached in this way. It is a divine undertaking to help one another and always is a blessing for both parties. Helping and receiving help are both manifestations of love in some form and that is divine—it raises up all involved. When you meditate and do so with a purpose, other than simply sitting quietly and tuning out the world as a stress-reduction endeavor, you can ask Creator directly for information and guidance to see new insights and divine perspectives about all manner of topics. There are no limitations other than your imagination and your ability to hear our answers. Most commonly, this comes in quite indirectly as an inner thought or hunch of some kind. When you reach out to Source Creator, in most cases, you will receive information and guidance indirectly and this will come as an inner knowing, a sudden realization, or a new thought, seeing the problem in a new way, and will seem like finally getting a breakthrough and having a focus on the problem in a new fashion. This will seem like your own thoughts and not something from the outside. This is how we operate normally—without pronouncements, without fanfare, and without announcing our presence even in your thoughts. This is highest and best because it keeps you in the driver’s seat taking responsibility and owning responsibility for everything you hear and feel that may come from us, but you must implement yourself and practice in your life to implement the recommendation or suggestion. Things must always be your choice to select or reject and if we announce them from on high, it becomes too much a controlling influence rather than an offering to be embraced or not—without prejudice, without any implied pressure from us, or from you yourself. When you partner with us in all you do, we will be more available, more accessible, and more active in helping you in such exercises as meditation because you have asked for this involvement. We can bring all kinds of inner awareness and inspiration to bear on any issue, and you will benefit greatly from approaching things in this way rather than choosing to be entirely on your own, and then you are limited by your own knowledge base. There is some extrapolation you can do with your inner creativity, but it will stretch only so far because all existing knowledge comes from things you have been exposed to. It is very difficult to build a creation on top of a creation. You can stretch beyond the border in a limited way in thinking about new possibilities, but to go beyond to a further quantum leap is exceedingly rare without divine help. We, too, must limit what we offer to you in being only a further logical extension of your existing awareness and expectation of something needed to fill a gap that you yourself identify. We cannot come in unilaterally and point out hidden flaws or gaps in your knowledge and awareness you have not perceived. That would be leading you. This is why an exploration, as can be done through meditation, is so very valuable because it can bring together you and I in partnership, to set about working in tandem on an issue or problem to be solved or better understood, and together we can use your existing knowledge and awareness as a springboard, and carry the discussion significantly further for your great betterment.