Real Change

During Sunday afternoon's meeting John said, 

"When your self changes because of a door that's opened in you, that door won't easily close."  

 To me, such a statement epitomizes some quintessential truth that I have only ever found in John's teaching - which concerns making 'spirituality' practical and real, and more ...  It's about not compartmentalizing what we know the truth of in our heart, not keeping our deeper resources - such as opening and softening and moving in our deeper levels within - for only the difficult times of life, but through continual response to such deeper Knowing within, actually manifesting all that lovely deeper True YOUness right up into the vehicle of one's self.  Without bringing such deeper realization into one's self and one's life (in every way), the self remains unnecessarily small and confined to conditioned (and predominantly illusory) beliefs and reactions - and most people still live that way on this planet, until they die.  To never know the truth of what we really are, whilst being alive and in form, is the loss of all losses!   And then, to bring that knowledge into one's self and into one's life is the only true giving ...

Dear ones, alas no new podcast today - what to say - it's out of my hands!  But soon, very soon ... perhaps there'll be a special mid-week podcast post!

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti  

More Right-side Up-ness

You would think that by now I'd be used to the coming and going of John with regards to his overseas seminar trips.  But I am always surprised and amazed by what occurs in me when he returns from such a trip and I am in his presence once again.  Always surprising!  As I spoke to him in the cafe the other day, it's like - in me doing what I can and 'going for it' I feel things are going pretty well - but then he's back and I feel like I've only been in the paddling pool and now - woah! here's the ocean!  And of course, I dive right in...  
In diving in to what John embodies, any concerns which have been taking up attention and energy on the surface and in one's self, soon wonderfully dissolve.  
As he spoke to me at that cafe table, he embodies my Being, and that's why there is such a natural response and deepening in me when I'm around him; the level he embodies is the level, in truth, I also belong to.  The depth of that response is always somehow unexpected and I'm always so very happy when he does return - and I realize, all over again, the value of being in his presence.  I love his Right-side Up-ness.  
Giving more form to our Being is what being here with him is all about ...  And then there is his transmission in the meetings to really take us deeper and deeper, fortifying that unseen frequency of deeper Beingness and Love within us.  He makes that Knowing, that frequency of deeper Beingness, so available.  Like Moses parting the waters, he makes that nectarful frequency so wide and available in the meetings.

Dear ones, the most recent dialogue with John in still in the works and I am hoping to be able to upload it very soon, I'm fairly sure it will be ready for next week's Post.  And I do not know when the next dialogue with John will occur, and that's why I've not been inviting you to send in your questions.  But if you're not in a great hurry, of course you can still send in your questions for him here, in the form of a comment, and you can also send in any comments and questions to me also - and the latter I can answer here on the Blog much more quickly.

Before I sign off, here's a few little Love Snippets of Truth from John, the first from Sunday's afternoon meeting, (about the importance of coming from what is deeper within than the accustomed and conditioned self):

"What you're moving as

matters a lot more than

what you're moving through."

And one from Sunday's evening meeting, (short but to the point): 

"As awareness relaxes,

   awareness returns to Love." 

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti  

Nuthouse or not, I Know What I am

In not choosing the sage in the cave option, I get the increasing feeling that I'm living in a nuthouse.  I guess that I did choose to incarnate here, and yes - thank goodness I found such an awesome teacher in John to assist me in how not to join them (any longer).  And yet, there are all sorts of new difficulties arising, the deeper I realize my true belonging, the more crazy living in this world at times looks and feels ... 

Being alone brings a breather for sure, as does watching John on YouTube.  And I do see that being what I truly belong to, in the midst of other people's weirdness and hardness and horribleness, does indeed strengthen my roots in This.  Really, I imagine I'll be getting unseen deeper roots as thick as tree trunks soon.  And that's the help, though it does not feel like help, and there's no pay-off for the accustomed self - all it gets is to make way and make way and make way for my Being.  Which can handle anything, so that's  a bonus!  A little bit of humour also does the trick in lightening the load on one's little self, when getting battered (when it least expects it) in the storms of other people's distortion!  Clarity; kindly telling my self it's really all right, also softens those blows, but at times I do have to put my (Being's) foot down and disallow any story-fuelled wallowing.  That creates the pressure, and in not relieving it  - even when I feel like the proverbial pressure cooker about to explode (or at least have a little cry) - in not doing so, there's only one thing left to do ..  and to be.. and that's, well, that's like my Being!  Sweetly rooted in the present moment, untouched, calm and so in love with what I Know is True - and that's got very little to do with being vastly outnumbered in a nuthouse (even when some of the inpatients have clearly forgotten to take their med's).  That's how it works, it can be tough at times but isn't that so for pretty much everyone on this planet right now (and for the past few thousand years at least)?  The difference is, in applying the true teaching of John de Ruiter - you get to use it all - especially the horrible times - to make your Being real in you, to be True .. and that's one helluva love affair ..

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti  

Deeper Levels

In my recent dialogue with John (which I'm hoping to be able to upload next week) we spoke of the various deeper levels within and of how to bring oneself into balance by attuning to what is deeper than what our self is - to what we Know the truth of in our heart - in the midst of our self.  The more we attune, as awareness, to these more subtle forms within, the more wonderful realization there is as to what we truly are.  And by attuning to those marvellous unseen deeper levels within, we get to build real form - an opportunity simply not available after we've died.  Such true evolution, no matter what the weather in our self is like, is constantly available right up until we die.  And it's clearly the only thing worth living for and living in - absolutely nothing else truly nourishes or satisfies.  Here's a couple of little snippets from that recent dialogue:

"When you are authentically in your heart, 

there is  no hardness, there is  no closing..."

- John de Ruiter 

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"If you're not accessing every level of your being 

you're also not accessing all of the levels of reality... "

-  John de Ruiter

John is currently winging his way to Denmark about to give a four day retreat there - enjoy that if you are there with him - and if not, there's always the webcasts where you can watch the meetings online - click here for more on that.

Meanwhile, if you have a question for John, or a question for me, you can send it in as a 'comment' below - and thanks!

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti  

The Sane Option

John de Ruiter

It seems to me that the polarization on this planet is getting stronger by the day.  I'm speaking of either being and doing what you Know the truth of in your heart or, not ...  So when things are difficult - whether that's due to outside situations/circumstances or because of old patterns getting triggered within - the way to freedom is increasingly clear, available and the sane option in an insane world!  Howsoever tiny it may seem in my experience, that Knowledge of the Truth is always so wonderfully available to continually attune to as awareness, thus building unseen Goodness within, becoming other-worldly in this one and Knowing that the Truth infuses all, (even if it's not always so readily apparent on the surface).

Speaking of other-worldliness, John is back in Edmonton this week - hooray! - oh, I've missed him!  And there's a meeting on this Thursday (instead of Friday) so, only two more sleeps 'til then ...  Before I sign off today, here's a little snippet from Saturday evening's meeting in Chiemsee, where John spoke of how our Being moves:

"Your first love is you

moving as love

because you Know.

The more you Know

the more you move.

It's how you moved before you left Home.

It's how you moved

when you were in your mother's body ..."

- John de Ruiter 18 April '15 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti  

The Evolving Blog

 After a super strong Spring Seminar, some changes are afoot in more ways than one ...  But before I get into that, I have some good news in that I got to record another Dialogue with John just yesterday - and that podcast will get uploaded in a few weeks' time. 

Meanwhile, and partly because it can be several months between the Dialogues, I have decided to incorporate something new and that is to invite questions directly here to me on the Blog.  So from now on, in addition to being able to send in questions for John, you now have another option, which is to send in a question to me - and I can answer such questions in written form, right here on the Blog ...  Simply make it clear when you type your question (in the form of a 'comment' below) whom your question is for.  As always, all questions can of course be anonymous..

And there are also plans to expand my website in all sorts of splendid ways later in the year.  The new website will make it super easy to listen to any or all of the Dialogues with John, amongst other good things ...  And of course I'll always continue to include John's teaching and snippets from the meetings.  In fact, before I sign off today, here's a snippet from Sunday's evening meeting:

"Realization matters more than doing.

It determines the level from which you do."

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"The real opportunity

isn't in what this world offers you.

It is in what you really are within -

what you first are - offers you ..." 

By the way, John's off to Germany now, about to give what is bound to be a very sweet retreat in Chiemsee - for information on that, including online viewing options, please click here.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti 

Time to Super Grow

Wow!  What a Seminar!  I know this Post comes a few days early, but there's no other time for me to do it this week and oh my, I can already give you something so good from this AMAZING seminar - and we're only half-way through!

Firstly I have to mention a little of what transpired towards the end of (oh so) Good Friday's afternoon meeting, when John uncustomarily took about an hour to 'look around the room' ... Of course he wasn't merely 'looking around the room', as I'm sure anyone at that meeting can attest.  He was bringing in something unprecedented; so very New and super strong (I was sitting in the front row and I practically levitated off my seat!).  I marvelled at how he brought this new information into the collective field, and at the incredible Goodness it now affords ...

Although John has spoken very little throughout the Spring Seminar thus far - and yet his transmission has been so full and nurtureful - at the Informal Gathering after last night's meeting, he did speak quite a bit - and I have a few snippet-y notes for you from that:

When asked about the perceived "stillness" during the Seminar meetings, John said that it's not really still:  "that you are still of everything that doesn't really matter."  And he spoke of how it frees the movement of awareness  "right into what it Knows."   Then, to a woman who asked about the deep longing that she felt, he said to "be lost and gone, without recovery."  That "it's immediate" and, "when you're in the stillness there is no longing and you move as fast as you Know."  He spoke of how the more you Know, the more you're In - "it's how Oneness moves"  and how there isn't a separation time between awareness Knowing and awareness moving: "then you fundamentally move as what you Know."  And in answer to how awareness knows it's relaxed, John spoke of honesty, saying that, "Profound honesty is profound relaxation."  That it doesn't matter what's going on in you - that in the midst of anything - you, as awareness can be relaxed, "and there, you Know."   He also answered questions about his transmission in the meetings, saying that the transmission merely gives a "stream of Knowing" for you to move in and that then, when you Know, "the transmission's behind you."  And he was then asked about 'code' and about 'the source' and he said - one of my personal favourites :)  - that "code is the stream" and that it's how you move:  "It's how awareness moves without the use of form."  And that there isn't a 'going into the source' - "that's all behind you."  He spoke of how, when you're moving in the stream of Knowing, and you realize that this is how you move, then you go right to what all of this comes from - so you don't 'go to it'  "you immediately turn into it."    And towards the end of this Informal Gathering last night, John was asked about where to put the 'realization of the Being?' and he spoke then of having it "warmly in your heart" and then the realization of your own Being is free to come into your self, bringing  "a depth to being practical that really has nothing to do with you being practical." 

Oh it's so good to be with him and to participate in what is occurring here.  As the collective cosmic garden continues to flourish here, John is now enabling us to really Super Grow ... 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti