Vigilance

If you're serious about living from what is deeper than the accustomed self, vigilance is going to become increasingly important ... at least that is what is currently on the menu for me ...

 On Sunday a questioner in the Chair spoke of a recent episode whereby he had been pretty much totally "out" of what he Knew ...  I could really relate because I very recently had the same sort of experience whereby it felt like I was drowning in strong and awful patterns in my self and it seemed impossible to return to anything deeper or softer ...    Quite unpleasant and disturbing ...                              
The questioner in question  gave the analogy of being pierced by an arrow and John replied thusly:

"The arrows find only the specks 

you give in to ... 

so then all of the arrows help."

- JdR 

Having previously spoken of my horrible experience to John, he had already helped me to see how I had allowed it all to occur by giving the patterns my belief.  

When I reviewed it, I could see where I had knowingly allowed my self to go its own way, so to speak, and that by the time I was proverbially drowning, I was in it way too deeply ...   So I loved that meeting and John's poetic and pointed clarification.  There is real power in seeing that I truly am "the hand that moves the glove."  
M y sense is that all this sort of thing (patterns in the accustomed self) is only going to get stronger by the day - if not the minute - so ... vigilance!  

And John's off to Israel for the three day retreat this weekend - if you're going to that, enjoy!  

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti 

Dearness & Oneness

John de Ruiter at the summer BBQ 2012

"Dearness calls you to beingness.  

Beingness calls you to Greater Reality.  

From within Greater Reality, the Calling begins."

JdR - 18 November 2012

The meetings at Oasis over the weekend were wondrous and I even got to sit in the Chair and speak to John from the heart on Sunday evening.

It seems to me that there is an increasing Oneness frequency coming to the planet and the big question is:  "What do you want to be one with?"    

What I'm noticing is the distortions of the self and its patterning becoming increasingly loud and awful and yet there is also an increase of what is Deeper and so exquisite within ... When a distorted way of being and coming from the self is what is uppermost, it is indeed a self-ish modality - with all of it's ensuing ugliness...   What might it look like if we all move from what is Deeper and Higher in us?  What might such Oneness of coming from that loveliness look like?  Really, something altogether different ... A different world ... 

As usual I've been wanting to charge ahead with what I Know is true and yet the self has continued to lag behind ...  John is great at reminding me - by what he is being - to be ever finer and in that, I know the importance of taking care in all the details.  The pitfall is to come from the self - whereas that subtle but-oh-so-real shift to what I Know the truth of in my heart naturally and effortlessly takes care of every little thing ... it moves in a real way with love.

In all this I am so grateful to John de Ruiter.

I am anticipating another dialogue with John soon so, as always, please type any question you'd like him to answer, in the 'comments' beneath this Post.  

John goes to Israel in a couple of weeks for what is sure to be a fantastic Seminar - from 29 November to 1 December - for details on attending this amazing three day retreat please click here.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti 

Purity

John de Ruiter in Nordegg (August 2012)

For those of you who've not yet seen John without his beard - there he is, above.  The photo was taken earlier this year, at the Nordegg camping retreat in the Rocky mountains.

Last night the meeting at Oasis felt particularly strong to me and it was so helpful to be in John's transmission once again especially as I currently have a particularly deep distortion within which is under the spotlight.  When I look at John in the meetings lately, I see such purity in his face and in his beautiful eyes.  Thus I found myself  looking down at the carpet a few times as he looked around at the beginning of the meeting - which was most unusual as I love to meet his gaze.  But yesterday, dealing as I was with something so dark within, I found could not face those pure pure eyes ... 

O n the way home after the meeting had ended, I could still feel the resonance of that incredible Deep I'd just been sitting in and, although my awareness was still on the uncomfortable distortion within me, I felt simultaneously able to be much lighter in it ...  Actually it was more like the real 'I' was naturally lighter and brighter and, because it is not of that which is distorted or impure, I was more able to really be with it ...  

This miraculous being-something-else-in-the-midst-of-patterns-and-distortion takes care of the changes which are necessary for the little self to align with what is True and Pure.  Quite wonderful.

As always, please type any question you have for John in the 'comments' beneath this Post and there's a good chance it will be asked to him in the forthcoming dialogue.

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti   

The Priceless Value of Knowing

More than ever I see Knowing as the only place to be.  Not only the only Real and True and Good place to be, but - as life continues to up the ante pressure-wise - it's either stress out/freak out, get tight, get uptight, fight and fret . . .  OR  loosen up, relax, breathe, soften and align with that Greatest Love within; that which John so beautifully calls Knowing, before, in the midst of, and after, any pressure or difficulty.

I've experienced enough of both sides to Know the difference and in that, it's so clear that my deeper Knowing Self can handle pressure way better than my accustomed self.

All the pressure and difficulty really is a help because it makes it clear what I don't need to relate to any more.

what rubble?

I can always align with my true self in any pressure - and there's the integration process beautifully at work - quietly repairing and renovating within, aligned with the Highest Good for all, amidst the perceived chaos and rubble ...                                                    

I will be presenting more of your great questions to John very soon - so there's another podcast to look forward to ...

And a sweet treat for Edmontonians to end this beautifully pressurized day - 
a meeting at Oasis tonight!

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti