Open or Closed ...

The title for this week's Post comes from the on-going realization that, fundamentally, the state of one's heart is the quintessential most important thing whilst we have one, i.e. whilst we are walking this Earth plane existence.  When we are relaxed and opening and softening in our heart, we're in something of Home; something of what is deeper than our accustomed self/person, and all beyond the norm of this world; in something of our magical Being ...  When we are distracted from that and believing thoughts and feelings designed to keep us imprisoned in the Matrix, it's all too easy to be closed and hard in our heart.  But such closing and hardening, whilst giving us a sense of 'self',' costs us all that truly deeply matters and causes us to continue to live a life of illusion, full of story and justification.  In being steadfast in our loyalty to remaining open and in our heart no matter what, there is a real sense of leaving this world and entering a most simple, quieted, unseen and magical-yet-normal world ...  It is that 'other world' that I love to read and to see in John - even when he's so far away - by tuning in to some of the live broadcasts and watching a few VODs.  Here are a few golden snippets for you from the seminar in India so far:

"When your conditioning

is activated or triggered in your self,

you, awareness,

can either relate to that conditioning

or you can continue to relate

to how you move in your heart

despite the experience of that conditioning.

This is a key point."

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"A story makes separation fair,

when it isn't ever fair.

It isn't fair to what you really are;

it isn't fair to your Being or your heart.

Have a story and you close.

As soon as you warmly no longer

need the story, you're opening."

Mmm, so good ... who else on this planet teaches us the Truth like this?  In another talk, John spoke of the gift of being what you really are in form as being "freedom in form" and the gift of being in a body:

"If you're being that, as awareness,

despite anything that you experience,

you will naturally move

not just as what you really are,

which are streams of Being,

but you'll move as those streams 

into your self, into your person

and into your life.

The gift of being in a body

overflows into your self and into your person,

filling your life.

If you have anything other than that gift

you become lost in stories.

Wherever there is a story,

there is the loss of the gift."

To fully live that gift means letting all else pass away because what you value more than anything is that open heart, the magical doorway to all that is truly real and all Beyond ... 

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

Responding to what you Know while living in the Matrix

Having only recently been catapulted back into the Matrix after fourteen wonderful days of being with John in the Reality of his Winter Seminar Spaceship, so to speak, we Edmontonians are now even more challenged - as John's gone to India for the fourteen day Seminar about to start there.  However, wherever we are, there is always plenty of Responding to be getting on with as part of the on-going integration of whatever is newly opening and moving deeper within us.

Here are a few snippets for you from Sunday's evening meeting:

"Your being gentled and quieted in your heart

tells you what you are, Home."

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"Give functionality to your self

and it is wonderful that you 

will still be empty.

Give functionality to

openness and softness of heart,

and it's wonderful

that you are answered."

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"Your whole life belongs to

the loveliest that you overlook."

Yes, there is plenty to be getting on with for sure, in terms of what, as awareness, to be focused on in your daily living - in fact, never more so ...  For although life in the Matrix is challenging and feels heavy at times, it's also chock full of opportunity - with any heaviness being the gold-in-waiting .. waiting for you to Respond to what you Know, opening and softening and making what Love is .. real alchemy, all unseen, all Known, all good ...

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti 

Alchemical Newness

Newness abounds right now, with the completion of the Winter Seminar opening up such exquisite new opportunities to evolve as awareness.  For me the newness is occurring both within and without and I'm pleased to say that I will be launching my new website very soon - perhaps even next week - and I'm also having my first exhibition of paintings in Canada this Saturday.  Although busy without, first and foremost I'm loving the new abilities which are opening up within - thanks to what John has unveiled, together with response.
Below are some of the best John snippets from the past week.  The first one, on realizing and moving deeper levels within, thus learning what it's like for you to be, instead of your self, reality:

"... by being the deeper levels of you

moving your deeper bodies into your self

(as a person) in your life."

And on the difference between being a Being and being an embodied Being:
                                             "Unrealized - and actualized." 
When the questioner then said, "Realized and lived in?" John replied:

"All the way into life.

A Being that functions through

its self and its person and its life.

There's nothing in the way.

Nothing prevents it,

everything feeds it."

And on letting what you most deeply Know the truth of turn into your perspective in your day:

"In the midst of everything

that has mattered to you in your day -

that changes what matters.

That is a death to your ways;

your old ways -

and a life of ways,

brought into your living

by what you most deeply Know

that isn't practical to your life

but that you're making practical,

because you let it form your perspective."

And how such a completely different perspective, because you're clear, enables your self to follow and to no longer be split:

"It isn't a personal choice;

it isn't a choice you make

as a person or a self.

It isn't experienced as choice -

it's experienced as

most quiet response.

Awareness responding to Knowing."

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"Response is magical."

And lastly how deepest Knowing within, responded to, despite everything else, feeds that deep inner hunger for more:

"The more that you exercise your Being,

the more that your awakened Being

consumes everything.

The integration of your self and your life

is in your Being consuming it."'

The most magical Seminar yet to be sure, and now we get to live in what has been opened in us, consuming all that life brings in the way that we most deeply and quietly Know - giving it all to what we deeply Know everything truly belongs to ...

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

Coming out of the Box!

The Winter Seminar is now over half way through - and it's just awesome to be here and to be absorbing what John's transmitting... Such amazing things are happening here, all unseen and yet palpable and wonderful.  Some of the most exciting words from John have been to do with how, as awareness, the level that you're coming from determines the level of body that you can move.  Here are a collection of snippets for you from the past week:

"Your self doesn't inform you of reality.

As you open, you do."

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"You're able as a deeper body

to walk into your self.

Your walk as a deeper body into your self

changes your self 

- it conditions your self.

The deeper the body

the more powerful its magicalness."

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"Awareness isn't formless.

Awareness on it's own isn't formless;

it only seems so

from the perspective of your self."

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"Your physical body

eventually in your experience

is a mult-levelled, multi-dimensional body

perfectly suited to all the levels of you."

This is the most out-of-the-box liberating Seminar ever.  For me, I'm Realizing, deeper and finer, what I truly am - awareness which is actually so free and able to choose what to be; what to belong to.  As deeper levels open within, new abilities emerge such as being able to move newly in deeper bodies, all unseen, all Known.  More and more opens to us as we continue to Respond to what we Know within, willingly dropping what doesn't serve - we are such magicalness!  What sounds so far fetched and unbelievable from the perspective of the conditioned self and this world, is actually the Truth; and it's able to become the new 'normal' - with such awesome new normal-ness enabling us, as we quietly relate to much deeper levels within, to move our deeper, magical bodies, therein using heretofore undiscovered abilities to move reality, changing reality; changing our walk on this Earth, changing what most deeply matters ... We are not the programmed and falsely conditioned little self-ness that we previously believed - we are coming out of the box here big time.  Far, far from being encased in any box, as awareness responds to Knowing within, breaks free of illusion and discovers it's deep and magical abilities, there are truly no limits as to where it can go and what it can Know ... what a ride!  What a journey!  What a different different life ...

Key to all this magical unfolding of awareness, is the quiet willingness to not need to understand in the old way and, in not needing to have mental understanding, awareness is freed to respond to what is so quietly and simply Known within to be True - it's so good and so real ...

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti