Hello, this is John on Sunday June 6th 2014. Not having channeled either Jesus or Saul for some time now, I thought I would, for a change, share a few thoughts of my own that have been bubbling up recently as a result of conversations I have had or that have just arisen in my awareness. I hope some of you find them of interest.
Love and hugs to you all. (Oh yes, my microphone is misbehaving, or maybe it’s my lack of skill, either way there is no audio today, so I apologise.)
Many, many people have difficulty with the book “A Course In Miracles.” I bought my copy intuitively in 1985 when I was browsing the books in the Theosophical Bookstore in New York City. It kind of “showed” itself to me. I took it home, started to read it, and then put it aside. I did that quite often over the next almost 20 years! Finally in 2004 I joined a reading and discussion group up here in New England (Woodstock, VT) and have been working with it ever since. A Course In Miracles has gently and very positively changed my outlook and attitude over the years. It has been, and continues to be a great spiritual help and guide for me.
When I started reading and discussing it in 2004 I avoided the “Manual for Teachers” section as I thought it would be rather presumptuous for me, a “newbie,” to read that part. However, when I did read it, after about 3 or 4 years, I found it most helpful, and wished I had started there, so you might like to try that. Doing the lessons is an essential aspect, because by doing them you show God/the Holy Spirit/Jesus that not only are you willing to learn but that you truly intend to do so. And I believe it is that intent that helps one to allow oneself to open up to and receive the unconditional Love that God offers us in every moment.
One of the most important things it has shown me is that I, my essence — not my body, not my worldly beliefs, not the egoic me who reacts with fear or anger — was created perfect by God and is eternally perfect. It is all about letting go of our egoic and fearful need to defend ourselves. As Course says right at the beginning “Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, herein lies the peace of God.” We are all so heavily invested in our bodies, which are very fragile and temporary vehicles that enable us to operate in this illusory world, that we get constantly distracted from our spiritual path by its constant calls for attention — I’m hungry, I’m tired, I’m frightened, I’m in pain, I need someone I can trust who will love me. And those we interact with in our daily lives are also being distracted by those selfsame egoic calls for attention. But what we really want is to be at Home in the Presence of God.
The Course stresses that we are all One and that what I do or say to another I am also doing to myself. Therefore always be loving, accepting, and forgiving. And the first person to whom we should behave like that is, of course, ourselves, because until we treat ourselves well we are unable to treat others well.
When we experience attack and feel a need to defend ourselves it is because of our own pain and fear. An apparent attacks on us by another, the Course explains, is really a cry for love. We all want and need to be loved, and by choosing to experience separation from God, our Source, we have shut ourselves off from His infinite Love for us, and that is what we truly crave. But we are eternally enveloped in His Love for us, it is the environment in which we have our eternal existence, separation is illusory. We are like very small children who, when they put their hands in front of their faces and can no longer see their mother, believe that she has gone!
And as “A Course In Miracles” says : “Heaven is here. There is nowhere else. Heaven is now. There is no other time.” (Manual for Teachers, section 24, paragraph 6)
Also, I have found the following two books very helpful with ACIM: “The Disappearance of the Universe” by Gary Renard, and “Living With Miracles” by D. Patrick Miller, and they are very uplifting in themselves.
Taking another tack . . .
I just loved Barbra Streisand’s movie, “Yentl,” when I first saw it, back in the ’80s. I have it on DVD and still watch it every now and again. Early on, when she has started on her trek to the Yeshiva to take up her studies as a boy and has to spend the night by the roadside she sings “Papa can you hear me,” that always stirs up for me my longing to be Home, to be eternally conscious of being in God’s Presence.
The song she sings as she sails away to the USA at the end tears me up – what more does she want . . . MORE! It is so true of life here, we are ALWAYS desirous of more because we want to be at HOME in God. Mostly we don’t realize that and strive to satisfy ourselves with more here in the illusion, but of course that never works. How could it? And of course the song “Somewhere” from “West Side Story” expresses that same deep-felt longing that we all experience almost constantly — although we frequently deny it — for God, for Reality.
I am doing a lot of personal clearing, and it seems to me that everyone I know is going through a lot of deep clearing at the moment, which is often very unsettling if not actually very painful. I have not channeled for more than 2 weeks — no motivation — and the “I should post a message on my blog” “should” has faded away. I do feel that many would like to see some new messages from Saul and Jesus, and I suppose that I will get back to channeling when the appropriate moment arrives. At present I am enjoying the summer and just being, as the “shoulds” and “musts” of a lifetime simply fall away. I think I am learning to accept myself unconditionally by allowing myself to do or not do. It’s quite freeing and peaceful.
I am sure many of you read the Golden Age of Gaia postings, well yesterday or the day before they posted a rather interesting talk on video. It runs 2 hours 5 mins. It was suggested to start 35 mins in, which I did. Bentinho Massara (who is someone I had never heard of before then) is talking at length in order to re-emphasize that EVERYTHING OUT THERE is illusory, “it’s my projection. I see what I want to see.” Really rather uplifting.
I think, that like me, many of you might well resonate with his talk. If you feel intuited and can spare the time, try it (No explosions, very slow moving, as there is no time!). Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U327chg_dM#t=7398
And here I”ll sign off, BUT wait . . .
one more thing! You may already have seen it, it’s not new, it’s on my “About” page.
Here is a recent message I received from Jesus that applies to each and every human:
Jesus channeled spontaneously on Thursday May 29th 2014.
You are a beloved child of God, and in that you are no different from any other human being, past, present, or future.
God eternally loves all of His children, all of His creations, which are sublime, perfect, infinite in number, eternally existing, multitudinous and yet only One.
God Is. You are, therefore, an inseparable and essential aspect or part of God, the Source, All That Exists. There is No One else, No Other, because All is One, period.
No exceptions, no meaningless discussions, no scientific or theological hypotheses are in any way pertinent. They are distractions that draw you away from uncovering, disclosing, or remembering your true and only nature as One with your Source.
Be silent, quiet your mind and know God. That is all that you need to do, then He will make Himself known to you.
Do not be impatient. Time is an illusion, so let go of or release its apparent demands on you. Bliss will follow.
Your loving brother, Jesus
Jesus through John 
Take your time. I have been on vacation too and haven’t felt like writing my blog. Part of this is because I have an eleven year old son who keeps me busy. We’re here and will be here when you feel like channeling again. I love your message at the end. I’ve seen, heard, and read this same sentiment from so very many places, from people channeling the divine to people who have near death experiences, to a woman who had a stroke and remained conscious as her left brain was shutting down. Such comforting information.
Thanks dear John for all you do. I loved the Course In Miracles when I read it. It was one of those books that I was already sad before it was done, that the book had an end. The Celestine Prophecy and related books were also enlightening.
I think it’s great for you to just post when you are drawn to do so.
Blessings
Pat
John,
I must tell you I love your site. Very different from all else I have read. I stumbled on A Course in Miracles a few months ago. I did fine and got to a point where I wasn’t motivated to move forward in it. I got stuck. The ideas presented spoke clearly to me, but I felt I was unable to get past a certain point. I felt it was that way because I needed to truly master the information given before going forward. I recently got to that point and started studying again. I am surrounded by a very “Christian” family and to hear what was said would knock them for a loop to say the very least.
What we do to another we do to ourselves. This is where I got stuck. I spent a lot of time trying to incorporate that into my life but it is not easy at all. My ego wants to run the show. But this course is amazing and I continue on as well. I love the subject of miracles. Out of space just wanted to let you know I’m right there with you and thank you so much. I read just a very few sites and your’s is one I always look for. Thanks for all you do!
On my third read of the book, but now think its a course on quantum physics
Thank you, John, for what you do and what you don’t do.
Dear John — Thank you for your heart-full communication. Enjoy your vacation. I have had ebbs and flows in my blogging career since July 2012. Sometimes posts gush forth and other times (usually when I’m processing inner stuff) there is literally no motivation to write ANYTHING. This gets a bit scary sometimes and the ego has a field day with it.
I read/did/studied ACIM about 30 years ago and called it “A divorce from my ego.” It is a powerful tool for seeing newly. I did read the teacher’s manual and found parts of it exceedingly helpful and other parts completely unintelligible at the time. I have a feeling I’d understand tjose parts now but I did not bring the books with me to Morocco.
Thank you again for sharing your personal insights with us. I love your messages from Jesus and Saul but I enjoy your personal messages just as much. Whatever you discover within and for yourself usually parallels my own journey and is easily assimilated into my own journey. Much love, Alia
Such a lovely post. I so enjoyed hearing your thoughts on ACIM. I, too, go in and out of the material and appreciate it but often have to be reminded to explore it anew. So thank you for the reminder! More importantly, I really enjoyed just hearing from YOU. Your loving presence is palpable in your post. And it is not so much that I need to hear from Saul or Jesus – I just really enjoy hearing from you. 🙂 Best wishes….
John, I edited my first post. Could you remove it and replace it with this one? (I wish you a happy holy-day.)
I started “doing” the Course also in the latter years of the 80’s. Did the Workbook more than once, studied all the material for nearly two decades. Put in much practice.
But I now understand -after a series of very intense experiences and revelations- that a crucial point is not mentioned in it; what Christian mystics of old have called “the merits of the cross.” The Course hints at the truth that by taking on this human “life” we have crucified ourselves. It calls it a “last useless journey” and states:
“Do not make the pathetic error of clinging to the old rugged cross. The only message of the crucifixion is that you can overcome the cross. Until then you are free to crucify yourself as often as you choose.”
Yet one might get the impression that the source of the Course went through the whole crucifixion experience while we did not: http://www.unitedbeings.com/acim/Chapter%2006.htm
It seems there might have been some influence of the spirit to whom the crucifixion is an insult. A quick example of this:
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100219013929AA0S66G
Yet in the Bible it says:
“But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness”
http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/1-23.htm
The truth is that God wanted to take away all doubt about the nature of His Love, and in that sense of the nature of the Love of the One Who is our true Being; in short, of Our Love. This He did by accepting the “tiny mad idea” -as the Course rightly calls it- which was that “Love demands sacrifice.” (Also in the Course.)
The Course also states that we did not know the nature of Love, and asks: “What could God give but knowledge of Himself?”
Out of ignorance as newly created spirits and extensions of God at one point the idea came up in us that God’s Love was selfish and interested, and that we should sacrifice all happiness we enjoyed still experiencing our oneness with God. As if in “competition with God” (as the Course calls it) we did it to become innocent of the selfish love we thought God had and therefore we had too. We would always esteem perfectly Altruistic Love as the highest moral ideal and in that sense love It. But without identifying with that Ideal, in order to love perfect Love, but without getting any happiness back for doing that. Thus we would make sure our love of the Ideal was completely disinterested.
(It is easy to love when it makes you happy. But would you still be willing to go through hell if that was what it would take in order to make others happy?)
We decided to be more “honest” than God, who’s claim that His Love was wholly altruistic we believed was but hypocrisy, and that His telling us not to eat from the tree of knowledge -meaning beginning to take into consideration all possibilities concerning this matter- was His way to keep His enjoyment in us of the positive believe -the other part of the doubt- that His Love was indeed perfectly altruistic and that He therefore was completely right for loving Himself totally in us.
When we believed the latter we felt happy; it was a perfectly altruistic Being loving Himself as we, and rightly so. But the moment we doubted this we felt pain and guilt. This could mean that God would only be happy with Himself if He believed He was unselfish, and unhappy when believing He was selfish. A Being Who’s nature is perfect unselfish Love should react like that under the impression the He is no good. This we believed on the one hand.
Yet on the other we believed that this was God’s way of twisting our spiritual arm to get the happiness from us He wanted. That He had created us only because it made Him happy to do so, getting the enjoyment of the fruits of His labour in us, but not really with our happiness in mind.
So the pain of considering that this might be true, and for turning our spiritual backs to God and His joy was interpreted on the negative side as meaning that God would torture those of His creation who refused to give Him the happiness He wanted, even though it was unmerited, as He was a hypocrite… because His Love was not disinterested.
“If we were created selfish by a selfish God we will make ourselves better than He did, and become even better than He Himself is”, the mad idea was. “We will make ourselves experience who we really are: selfish creatures. At least that way we are being honest, even though it doesn’t make us really good. But it’s better than pretend and enjoy a self-believe that is untrue… so let’s make ourselves human creatures, and forget all about this. We are victims of God’s selfishness unfortunately, and out of honesty to the truth we have to do this. It is our desire to be innocent, but to become that we must see and experience ourselves as guilty. In order to be honest, we must experience seeing ourselves as dishonest beings, because that is how we really are deep down as thus God created us. We should suffer due to the fact God made us victims of His selfish nature, having passed it on to us. The cause of our misery lays ourside us. ”
And so the spiraling down into the pit of darkness continued, and here we are.
We experience the results of the crazy idea as humans in this world. A nightmare compared to our original state of oneness with God while we were still believing our Love and joy were wholly justified as they were those of a perfectly Good Being. But we turned our paradise into hell, thinking we had to do it in order to be innocent.
What we did not realize is that when we did not “laugh away” the “tiny mad idea” and decided to exchange our happiness for sufering it was God Who made that decision as we His extensions.
God wanted for us that we would be forever free from any doubt about the nature of His Love, and therefore ours, so He let Himself be crucified by following the mad interpretation -perception- all the way to the pit of hell; the human experience, which is the crucifixion. The human experience of being this creature is the cross to Whom our true Being is.
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
http://biblehub.com/romans/7-24.htm
Who shall deliver us and save us from this “body-mind of death”? God when He as we remembers He is God, be it still in His human disguise as we. That is the resurrection.
As Who our true Identity is we were willing to be crucified and “die” -no longer enjoying our true Life- for the humans we experience being. It is God Who is reading this as you.
That is meant by “the merit of the cross.” As God we gave our Live for these humans. This knowledge is our inheritance, as it is God’s inheritance in us.
I love your posts, thank you. Is there an audio for this one? Have a great day, itsy
Oh… just read this…. never mind! Peace, itsy
Good to hear from you, John.
A Summer reading suggestion . . .
“The Untethered Soul” Michael A. Singer
John,
An amazing entry!!! Joy for you and grace for all. Personally, love shared is from One source and is the same whether it be channeled through someone else or not. The Course isn’t good because of Who wrote it, but because it is Truth. Your message today was wonderful because it was Truth. God has One Son and He is Us.
Love and Presence,
Larry
Hi, It was surprising to me how much I related to your life’s experiences regarding the information in this email. Right down to my response to Yentl. I tried ACIM 10 years in the ’90’s off and on prior to reading ‘Disappearance’ (DU as I call it) in 2003. DU catapulted me into ACIM daily for 6 years. Because we seem to parallel each others inner journey I think you may enjoy reading ‘The Afterlife of BIll Fingers’ Annie Kagan Many Blessings 🙂 Patti Middleton Boulder, CO, USA http://www.aimforjoy.com
From one ACIM student to another, Namaste. _/|\_ 🙂
Thank you, John. It’s good to hear from you again. While I miss your blogs, please continue to take all the “time” you want. It is an inspiration to do likewise.
With love,
Akankha
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Jesus took time out to be by Himself with the Father often, and afterwards return again to be with His disciples and teach them.
John:
Thank you for the thoughts about ACIM today; I, too found it a little difficult to access the material in the Course, but then was able to spend a lot of time commuting in LA traffic listening to Marianne Williamson teach from the Course. It was great. I am inspired to find a group to work through the lessons with as I think that would be helpful now. I have struggled with having too much ego.
Love your notes and messages. Keep them coming.
Gary
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I find it interesting that you are taking a break from channeling and I am actually getting tired of reading all the channelings right now. It almost feels like a big pause in the universe or rest point. At any rate, just feels like it is time to assimilate everything and let go of all that is irrelevant and not keep adding anything else right now – just be. ♥
Hey John! You might want to check out a book by my friend Dr Jon Mundy, he was there from the beginning when Helen first started scribing it. His book is “Living A Course In Miracles.
Peace Arthur