Rumi to the rescue

"Knock and he'll open the door.

Vanish and he'll make you

shine like the sun.

Fall and he'll raise you

to the heavens.

Become nothing

and he'll turn you into everything."

Ah, nothing like some quintessential Rumi to set me straight for the day.  Here's some more sweet nourishment from him:

"I am not this hair,

I am not this skin,

I am the soul that lies within."

And one more side dish from Rumi:

"Don't you know yet?

It is your light

that lights the worlds."

Such words are indeed food for the soul, reminders of what we are, liberating us from confining beliefs about who we appear to be in this life.  It is our light that lights the worlds! and to shine that light we must recondition all that we have whilst in form, right here in this dark old world which can use all the light it can get.  And more help is at hand for those of us here about to embark upon the journey that is this year's Summer Seminar with John here at Knowledge College, click here for more info.  John's transmission is a shining gateway to all that is beyond this world - and in aligning with that altogether higher frequency, we also can remember what it is to shine ...

Before I sign off today, guess what?  The new website is imminent!  Yes I know I've said such before, but no, really, it is!  I'll do a special post when it's up.

Until next time, (shine on)

Love,

Shanti

Different Environments

Last night's meeting with John was truly awesome. What made it so was predominantly his powerful transmission, which grew stronger as the meeting progressed.  I also enjoyed hearing him speak of being in this world and in this life in a way that's so different from the accustomed and conditioned ways of being here.  He spoke of having no self entitlement for such things as a happy relationship or indeed "a happy anything."  He spoke that being what we really are is not a state or an experience and of having a deep OKness in the midst of any inner or outer happy or unhappy environment:

                                         "Happy is she who needs no happiness.

Put her in happiness or unhappiness

and she is still richly the same."

It was the kind of meeting in which I almost could not move at times, let alone take notes.  His transmission was of such light-encoded Higher Knowledge that I could barely keep up on those all deeper subtle levels.  For me such a meeting is what it's all about, with John's powerful transmission enabling such altogether Higher Knowledge far beyond this world, available - richly so.  And he spoke more of being what we really are in the midst of happiness or unhappiness; being as our own Being in the midst of such changing circumstances:

"Different environments

bring out different regions of it.

In that way environments are all revealers.

For you to really get to know

what you really are,

you need first to be what you really are

and then you need a full cross-section

of environments for you to be in -

and they all keep revealing you."

John's transmission was getting stronger and stronger - talk about 'different environments' - wow!  And as the meeting continued, he invited the questioner deeper into what he was opening and being:

"I am the same

in any kind of heaven or hell

and into This, you're welcome."

As the questioner responded and moved into more of that unseen deeper and nourishing space that John was providing last night, she expressed that sense of merging with him, to which he replied:

"Then we set sail in happy or unhappy waters

- they are not ours.

The more we move through them

the more we Know."

The environment which John made available in last night's meeting was so awesome that to me, it's like making the impossible possible.  It can seem so impossible to be as our own Being in this distorted and difficult world with similarly distorted conditioning, but John is living proof that we can undo it all.  Through openness and softness of heart, moving through the changing weather within and without, we can truly come to know the deeper level abilities we have.  Such depths within that provide tender OKness in any storm, any difficulty, revealing our true and wonderful real nature, our own Being, with all it's marvellous levels and regions.  Life is full of opportunity to awaken to such unveiling; to realize what we truly are.  The experience of going through the pain and surface suffering is understandably difficult, but in opening and softening and moving deeper within to that subtle tiny little bit, we are always able to be OK as is - and more.  With that 'more', as John wonderfully showed us again last night, being potentially truly awesome.

Before I sign off, for those of you in the USA, you might like to know that he is jetting off to San Francisco today for three days of open mic meetings.  Click here to find out where and when you can meet John in person.  It's a wonderful opportunity to experience his presence and of course ask any questions you may have about your life, the truth - anything!

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti

Ever so quiet, utterly simple

Greetings from the no longer frozen north, for it's definitely summer over here!  Wherever you may be, living in this world means life continues to have it's on-going challenges, as things just don't seem to be letting up much on the surface do they?  With that surface level being about this world and also the level of self that is conditioned to belong to this world.  Increasingly, I find I love belonging to what is so clearly not of this world at all and to belong increasingly solely to what is my all deeper and unseen true citizenship.  It's the only place to be amidst this on-going craziness.  Loving the truth is the only real way to handle this continuous pressure; being willing for things to not go right on the surface and softening into what is altogether more lovely within - even when that seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with the circumstance or difficult situation.  In putting that quiet, simple love of what I Know is true first, I'm able to face this world with something altogether different.'

So when it's difficult we can soften within and realize what's not of that difficult experience; what is ever so quiet and utterly simple and so lovely within.  Really, I see that things will still go however they're gonna go on the surface, but at least in saying yes to my own inner peacefulness in the midst of the difficulties and challenges, I can feel that I'm living rightside up - and then I see that helps everything, secondarily.  It's the only way to be, the only thing to love (it includes all other loves), to relate to and belong to - then life can feel crazy but you can be sane (though you might look like the crazy one because we live in a madhouse).

Wonderfully, John's back soon and meetings resume on Friday - mmm ... time to bask in that which we do Know but which John makes so much more available...

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti

Challenging Times and the Love of the Truth

Dear ones, how's it going? It seems that for many of us, myself included, we are going through some difficult and challenging times.   It's when the pressure is on that our old patterns kick in and that's the opportunity, although the experience feels terrible.  And yet in going deeper within this past week, I have discovered again, the absolute wonderfulness within the terribleness.  Let me share with you the main pattern currently being undone by me which is like two sides of the same coin.  If this coin had a name it would be called 'taking things personally.'  On one side are thoughts and feelings which would have me believe I'm some sort of victim (and believing such thoughts/feelings is quite depressing) and on the other side it's just as bad; anger (and after a flare up of that I feel bad in a different way).  Fun pattern that one, not.  Believing either side hurts; it hurts my own self, my system/body, it hurts others and it kind of poisons the very atmosphere (the unseen vibes and levels).  The thing is and this is what I really want to share with you, none of it is true, none of it is true (it's worth repeating).  Such illusory thoughts and beliefs are based on a level of 'I' that simply does not really exist; its only a pattern and it's in the system; it's partly genetic and it can all be undone right here and right now - it's all an inside job, that's the opportunity.  Instead of believing such a pattern, feeling terrible and then striving for some release via outer happiness and thus some relief from that pressure and difficulty - no, no, the answer is within and only within! (and besides, outer surface happiness is fleeting and superficial).   Instead, it's so deeply good to relax and let go of the tension, and in letting go of tension, we can relax into that wonderful tiny little bit that we always know the truth of that is always there and which we quietly know is somehow everything.  It's everything because it's all that is truly deeply real; it's you, it's me, it's the truth!  In not taking that illusory conditioned and even embodied level of 'I' to heart, we can move beyond it to what we know in our heart that is all deeper and not understood; there's no concept; there's no words, no thinking to get you there; it's there already, it's an altogether different orientation and when you are more gentled and quieted, you Know it.  Without relaxing you cannot know it, if you are busy believing crappy thoughts (that two-sided coin) you cannot see what is true and real and oh, so good.  It is so good to make that shift, it's everything and, secondarily, it makes you truly happy.  I have been so happy this week whenever I have moved beyond that old conditioning and that happiness is so real and it reminds me of when I was a small child, so playful and free to love.  How different, how wonderful - and of course the 'terribleness' is still there but in making that shift, I am relating so differently to such challenges that it no longer feels terrible at all, it's just something to take care of and do what I can.  Because another secondary benefit which comes from making that beautifully simple, subtle and tiny shift, is that the real me is so much more capable of handling it all!  Amazing - how much power we truly have when we soften into what is so quiet, so tiny, that it seems like nothing in the face of believing that illusory coin, that pattern of victim/anger - not me, not you and not true!

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti

Expansion and movement

Here at Knowledge College we've been lapping up John and his transmission, with an extra meeting tonight and then one more on Friday before he heads off to Sweden and then on to Denmark, (click here for details). 

I loved John's transmission last night, in which he opened up the deep so vastly it was as wide as the cosmos itself.  It is this kind of unseen learning and higher knowledge that makes it all worthwhile, allowing the possibility to awaken to what we truly are.  Increasingly for me that is all about expansion and movement, for in the deeper levels awareness moves in the unseen in such new and exquisite ways, with the potential and possibilities being literally endless.  In the meetings, John's a portal to all that, with his transmission magnifying those deeper levels and subsequent all different laws of movement and discovery.  On the surface, things are somewhat chaotic in my life, matching the unremitting outer worldly chaos.  Understanding the levels within and without make it somewhat easier to be in all of it; with the knowledge of where best to have one's feet, so to speak, being increasingly important.  With that being all about what you most deeply and quietly Know and not the surface level appearance of things.

If you're able to be with John overseas in the coming weeks, enjoy it, imbibe it, digest it, love it!  And if, like me, you get to stay home and 'guard the nest' awaiting our master's return, there is always homework; cutting edges; our individual and collective 'next's.'  For as separate as we seem to be, we're all in this together are we not?

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti

What you really care about

Sometimes lately I've noticed a fed-up attitude on the surface level of my self which says 'I don't care' and there's a kind of letting go of concern in that - but it's not very real or honest!  On a deeper level of my self, attuned to my own Being, I do care - but it's all different when I'm honest to that deeper level.  Then I'm in service to what I know in my heart and not what I think and feel on the surface level of my self.

That's all I've got time to share with you today - it's movie night at Knowledge College!

Until next time,
Love,
Shanti

Ready for more?

Thank goodness John's back this weekend!  Although I've been getting on with the application of his teaching in my daily life, there's nothing like having the master back home, not only to exemplify the Truth, but he makes it all look so easy too.  And just being in his presence makes it easier to be True - that magical osmosis! Whilst he's been away I enjoyed tuning in online and here's a few snippets for you now, from the live broadcast from the Netherlands on Sunday (11am Alberta time):

"If you let your Being-filled heart

up into your face,

you will create."

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"Every condition makes you flourish,

from the worst to the loveliest."

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"When you're in it,

it isn't tiny, it's everything."

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"It opens as you do."

Time for us Edmontonians to dust off our satchels and get ready for more Knowledge College.  We might have only barely digested the download from the Spring Seminar but you know what's coming don't you?  More.

Until next time,

Love,

Shanti