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In this issue:  Conference of the Christ John Morton on Accord with the Lord John-Roger on the Christ  Living with J-R  ❤

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FEATURES 8 Calling Forward the Christ: a radical approach to forgiveness, by John-Roger, DSS 9

Awakening the Christ Within, by John-Roger, DSS

Awakening the Christ Within

by John-Roger, DSS......page 9

13 Blessing for Awakening to the Lord, by John Morton, DSS 14 Being in Accord with the Lord, by John Morton, DSS 18 Being a Walking Blessing, by John Morton, DSS 20 100% - Living and Dying with J-R. An Interview with Jsu Garcia, by David Sand 26 Placing a Light Column - A Simple Act of Prayer,

by Pauline Kirby

Being in Accord with the Lord,

by John Morton, DSS......page 14

29 Everything You Need to Know About Conderence 33 PTS Goes Online! An Interview with Doreen Dietsche 36 On the Road to My Divinity, by Dixie Clark, DSS 40 Standing in for God - An Interview with Carol Jones,

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Everything You Need to Know About Conference..................page 29

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Calling Forward the Christ: a radical approach to forgiveness by

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Some people think that it was Jesus’ death

Originally published in the May/June 1990 NDH

that brought enter into what some might call delusions of grandeur: “I am God, I am Christ.” forward forgiveness as a mechanism to get back to God. Actually, though, it Eventuallly, we’re all going to enter into that “crazy” state. At the point you do was his resurrection that did it all. The resurrection, the transformation, is that, you will actually be birthing the Christ as an infant inside of you. what is taking care of all the “sin”.

Some people will fake sincerity, honesty, and truthfulness because they’re masters The Gospel of John is every person’s story of the Christ within, which is of the facade, what they put on to protect themselves in the world. Those who would Light and life in the world. Jesus was crucified between a liar and a thief, which look into their eyes can see back there the Christ in the tomb. Our job is to keep callare the personalities that dwell in the world. The Christ is always crucified be- ing forward the Christ from the tomb in them by loving them through it all. Maybe tween the liar and the thief. And at the last minute, one of those will not repent it’s doing nothing; maybe it’s not talking. You don’t have to participate. Jesus walked and the other one will. One will die with sin on its hands, and the other one will by a town and never participated with the people there. die with forgiveness. That is reincarnation. When both die in forgiveness, then In the Bible, it says to “pray unceasingly.” Maybe what we’re praying for is forthere’s nothing to come back to and to rectify. Remember that it’s the story that giveness. And forgiveness, looked at as a compassionate act, must also be looked at you hold in your Soul that you’re balancing out. on the other side as a radical act. When are we forgiven by God? When we do things

That book of John was written as though we’re in a dream state. Each of us God’s way. And when are we forgiven by Christ? When we come to Christ and becan say, “The Christ is me, and everything else is the people that I put in there come Christlike or do things Christ’s way. That’s a radical approach to forgiveness. and the things that I do and don’t do to my Christ self. And at some point, I or The only ones who know what Christ is are those who are aware and know that someone else will crucify my Christ self.” spiritually. Everybody else comes from their ego, from the thief and the liar in them, When that happens, someone who also has undergone the crucifixion and and they would “lie” it from you and steal it from you at the same time. So eternal the resurrection will come forward, look into your eyes, call forward the Christ vigilance is the password for forgiveness. It’s a constant state of awareness that no out of the burial tomb, and resurrect it where it sits behind the eyes. The Christ harm is meant or intended in anything you do or say. That then becomes a spiritual is still in its tomb because it’s in the head, but it must be freed from that so it line of energy. floods the entire being. This is who we truly are.

People who have a clear intention of hurting under the guise of a divine name

We cannot shirk the responsibility of always calling forth the Christ in every- are damning themselves. I would stay clear of them because you don’t know when one wherever we go. And we will only truly have the Christ awakened when we this great worm from the earth will reach up and grab them--and take part of your start to see it looking out of the eyes of everyone who looks at us. leg with it. When I know there’s a contagious disease ravaging an area, I never travel Forgiveness does not accomplish that; it is a process that brings you to that. into it. There’s a good chance I won’t get the disease--but what if I do get it? Just enThen you must, out of your own volition or will, once again enter into Christ tertaining that thought has left me vulnerable to receive it. I don’t want any of it. So and become God manifesting in the world again as this personality, as the Christ I find the people who are going the way I’m going, and we hang out together. And if nobody’s going that way, that’s fine. As long as you’re resurrected in your connection in you that is the very direct extension of God doing God. with the divinity, it matters very little because one day they’ll all go that way.

Self-crucifixion is probably the most deceptive one to deal with because the thief and the liar on each side of the Christ deny that it’s ever happened or that it is happening to them. But everybody will undergo the death of the personality and 8

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Awakening the Christ Within

by John-Roger,DSS published in Movement Newspaper December, 1978

Each year we celebrate

masters are necessary. No one who is dealthe birth of Jesus the Christ, and it’s nice to ing with Christ consciousness is expressing take the time to reflect what Jesus’ birth and on a downward energy. That cannot be; it’s a contradiction in terms. life really mean to us.

At the time of Christmas there is, perhaps, a greater surge of energy as more people attune themselves consciously to the love that Jesus exemplified. And it’s easy to see those who are riding the upward flow of the Light they’re the ones who are so joyful and so filled with the love and brotherhood the Christmas season symbolizes. The people for whom the Christmas season is “blah” or depressing may be living on a downward energy pattern. It really is time to awaken more to the love within—not only at Christmas, The power of the Christ is the ascending but every day of the year.

The magic of Christmas rests with the atenergy. Those who know Christ conscioustitude.

When you catch the vision of Christ ness are on the upward flow of energy; they are awakening to the Christ, to the power consciousness, then your attitude becomes of the Light and Sound, to the greater God one of joy and love and peace and upliftof all life. Their experience of the Christ ment. You feel those qualities come alive is direct and secure. There is no need for within you, and then as you express them intermediaries-no priests, no mediums, no more in every action, relationship, and situ(continued page 9) 9 Jesus’ life is very significant to all of us, although his message was extremely simple.

Before the birth of Jesus, the earth was on a pattern of descending energy. The energy of creation was still going out, away from the supreme source. Through his life, and through his physical death, Jesus turned that energy and moved to the ascending energythe power flowing back towards the Godhead, toward life and Light. He brought to all mankind the experience of the Beloved and the key to eternal life.

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(continuing from page 7) ation in which you find yourself, you awaken even more to the Christ within.

To speak of the Christ is to speak of the Beloved.

If we speak of a love or a lover, we separate ourselves from that other form. And that separation is illusion, for ultimately you are one with all things. You are one with God. That is the message of the Christ today, just as it was two thousand years ago. Jesus said, “He that seeth me seeth him that sent me.”

(John 12:45) And he also said, “The Father and I are one.” (John 10:30) Therefore, there can only be one form present. That form is God, who dwells within you, waiting to be awakened and freed front the bonds of the earth.

The Christ consciousness is an ongoing Spirit. It is always present. When Jesus was about to be taken to his crucifixion, he spoke to the disciples and told them that, although they were not to go with him at that moment, he would leave with them a comforter, a witness, that was called the Holy Spirit, which would reveal to them all things and give to them the memory of what he had taught. The Holy Spirit is wholly Spirit, entirely Spirit. It is a complete energy form, not corrupted by any lower level of consciousness. It is pure. It is of the positive realms of pure Spirit; it is of God. We cannot know the Holy Spirit on any level of our earthly senses. We cannot perceive it physically, emotionally, mentally, subconsciously, or unconsciously. It comes only to that pure part of us which is the Soul, that which can hold the office of the Christ.

Was the Christ consciousness present prior to the time of Jesus? Of course, it must have been. It is that spark of God, that energy that keeps us all alive, that keeps us all going even when we want to die and think we’re going to and are afraid we really are. It’s life. It’s God. There were a lot of people walking around, knowing that spark of God inside, before Jesus came and manifested it in the great glory that he expressed. But that he fulfilled that promise more completely than anyone had before cannot be denied. And in bringing the power of the Holy Spirit into the earth’s force field and in tuning to the ascending energy of Spirit, he certainly used the power of the Christ in a way greater than it had been used before.

Jesus also stopped the Messianic delusion that was prevalent at that time. The Jews had expected a Messiah to appear for centuries, and there was much uproar about who it was and how he would manifest, etc. Jesus appeared on the scene and, in effect, said, “You don’t have to look any longer.” The Messiah consciousness ended with his form. And the Christ awakening began in all forms. How do you awaken to the Christ? Easy ... love your neighbor as yourself... or better than yourself, if you’re one that rips yourself emotionally or confuses yourself mentally or creates illness in your physical body. It’s when you let go of all those levels that you begin to discover the inner Christ. When you have exhausted those levels of the body, emotions, mind, subconscious, and unconscious, you begin to find that you are dwelling in the consciousness of the When that Spirit that is holy touches to your Christ. When you see the Christ within you. you Soul, that Christ consciousness within you begins to will excuse all the other levels and forgive yourself awaken. Then it is the Christ within you that awak- all things. The vision of the Beloved will allow you ens, also, to the Christ within others. Two thousand to transfer your energy into the positive, into the years ago, those who knew Jesus the Christ knew upward flow of Spirit, and you will resurrect into him because their own Christ consciousness was the Christ consciousness. awakened. And those - who recognize the presence You don’t have to die to discover the Christ. You can of the Christ today do so because the Christ within move into that which is your own spiritual inner awarethem is awakened. ness and move upward through the levels of your own The consciousness of the Christ is within every- consciousness until you find that which is the Christ one, but it is not manifested equally. Some are more within you. When you do, you will protect it as a pearl awakened to its reality than others. In few is that of great price. You may find many things changing in pure consciousness fully awake. In many it is par- your life, as you awaken inwardly. You may find that tially awake, and in many more, still asleep. you associate with people who are also on an upward (continued)

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esus’ life is very significant to all of us, although his message was extremely simple. Before the birth of Jesus, the earth was on a pattern of descending energy.

The energy of creation was still going out, away from the supreme source. Through his life, and through his physical death, Jesus turned that energy and moved to the ascending energythe power flowing back towards the God-head, toward life and Light. He brought to all mankind the experience of the Beloved and the key to eternal life.

The power of the Christ is the ascending energy. Those who know Christ consciousness are on the upward flow of energy; they are awakening to the Christ, to the power of the Light and Sound, to the greater God of all life. Their experience of the Christ is direct and secure. There is no need for intermediariesno priests, no mediums, no masters are necessary. No one who is dealing with Christ consciousness is expressing on a downward energy. That cannot be; it’s a contradiction in terms.

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o awaken the Christ, go within your own inner consciousness where your emotions, mind and body will leave you alone for a little while. Find the peace and comfort that is within your own inner kingdom. Your inner journey will be protected by the Spirit that dwells within. You can reach into your inner kingdom through meditation, contemplation, prayer, spiritual exercises, by reading enlightening books, being with enlightened people, continually moving forward and awakening the love within you.

path. You may sacrifice some old friendships, if those people are expressing a downward path of energy. That’s being smart. You may find that you stop doing those things that make you sick physically. You may change your diet, stop smoking, get a job that makes you happy and fulfilled, find relationships that support you and people with whom you can share love. These things are healthy. If you don’t want to change, that’s okay, too.

You can sleep a little longer. It’s all your choice.

Christmas is a good time of year to take stock of your life. And it’s a good time of year to complete old actions that have been left “hanging.” It’s a good time to share your love with those you care for; it’s a good time of year to pay off your debts, to clear the air, to attune yourself more closely than ever to the Christ within you ... and to the Christ in others. The Christ awakens according to your focus, your direction, and your attitude.

If you know what to do, why not do that? If you know what makes you ill or upset or in turmoil, why not turn from that? You are a creator, and you are responsible for your actions. So why not create those things that will bring you health, wealth, and happiness? Why not shift your focus to your own beingness, to that which brings you joy and fulfillment? As you awaken to the Christ, you will do those things that are right for you.

You can lift yourself out of darkness by stopping your complaining, your tears, your bemoaning and feeling sorry for yourself. Why not say instead, “I get along really well. God is with me. All my needs are being supplied. I’m loved, and I’m taken care of”? What if that’s wrong? It’s a nice approach; and you will create that for yourself, because you are a creator.

One way you can tell if you are functioning in the consciousness of the Christ is to see if you complete things in this world. If you do, you’re ascending.

If you don’t, you’re descending. If you have too many jobs, too many things to do, cut out some of them. Be wise. Don’t take on more than you can handle. Take on just the things you can complete. Those things that are not completed are thrown right back at you, and you must take the responsibility for them. Christ is the perfect completer. If you strive toward perfection, the work you have started will be finished by the Christ.

Your responsibility is to get on with the state of being perfect. Work toward it. Focus toward it. And when you leave the earth, the work will be completed. And you will perfectly arise into the heart of God. Jesus, our elder brother, promised this. And we can complete it and fulfill his promise.

The indwelling Christ sings a beautiful song. That is the Sound of God, the audible Light stream, the current of energy that is flowing upward to God. It’s the invisible route to God, and the only way to God is by that invisible route. The outward trappings of any religion or spiritual group are not for the Christ within, but for the body, mind and emotions-to hold them still and keep them distracted long enough for the Christ to awaken to itself.

To awaken the Christ, go within your own inner consciousness where your emotions, mind and body will leave you alone for a little while. Find the peace and comfort that is within your own inner kingdom. Your inner journey will be protected by the Spirit that dwells within. You can reach into your inner kingdom through meditation, contemplation, prayer, spiritual exercises, Often, as you begin to awaken to the Christ, as you by reading enlightening books, being with enlightened begin to transfer your energy to the upward path, you people, continually moving forward and awakening the will feel pain and irritation and confusion, and you love within you. But even in your wildest dreams, you’ll won’t be able to identify where that’s coming from. fall short of the glory that is within you.

You’ll try to “pin it” on all the worldly causes that have Awaken into God’s heart. Become the Christ in been the causes in the past. You’ll think it’s the food, your imagination first, then in your love for all men, but you’re not eating any differently than usual. You’ll then in your mind, and finally in your Soul, which is look at the emotions, but realize that everything has pure. And then you ride up into God’s heart, forsaking been fine. You’ll look at the mind, but things seem all things to come into the kingdom. okay there. But there is still this great disturbance inAnd you will know the significance of Jesus’ life side. You search and search for something outside of and teachings, the meaning of Christmas, the love of you that is the cause. It’s not out there. It’s inside. It’s the Father, and the presence of the Beloved. your disagreement with yourself. It’s your inability to manifest completely and fully that thing that is bursting inside of you. It is your inability to make the outer life match the fullness and the beauty of the inner life that is beginning to take place. When you experience this turning of energy within, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Baruch Bashan

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Blessing for Awakening to the Lord BY

John Morton, DSS

Dear Lord, we welcome You now to find us as we are. We surrender so that we will let go of our resistance and our fear. Particularly, what we have placed in our unconscious levels, no matter where it came from or how it developed, especially whatever we have forgotten from our past existence.

Through our courage and willingness in this moment, we present ourselves freely and openly to You. This is our intention. To trust You is also our demonstration that we trust ourselves to be before You exactly as we are.

We are surrendering. We are submitting to Your will, letting go of any attachments, taking this moment to release our life into You that however You want to change or direct us to be fully compliant in Your will, to understand You can do all things for greater good.

We consciously are recognizing that it has been us who have placed the resistance, who have found the fault, who have chosen the darkness. Let us register what we can fully, right now no more.

We stand up and rise up in our consciousness, in the truth of who we are, the strength of who we are, the blessing of who we are – we offer unto You. We recognize. We accept, and we choose to be servants of Your actions through the Divine will. You bring that forward into our life.

Thank You for reminding us of how simple it is, that it begins in each moment, in each circumstance, in every little thing.

When we have done it to the least of the things that are Your creation, we have done it unto You. Let us love. Let us appreciate. Let us see the value that You have placed in each and every thing. Let all things serve Your purpose.

As we come into completion with each and every thing, we accept Your movement, Your presence and direction to move forward, to lift, to learn and to grow.

We let go of what no longer serves, to let it be. Yes, to leave this world be so that we are done with it. So we come with fresh eyes, a new ability to look into our life and to those who are close to us and in every situation, and see the harmony and see the peace.

We appreciate what You have done for us. We come with a smile more often. We come into a dark situation with the willingness to give, to bring joy and comfort.

In our offering here that represents sacrifice, we give up our demands. We give our attachments away. We give away what we want that we might fully embrace what You want. We find in Your embrace, in the way You look upon us, You want us just as we are without our falseness, without our pretense, without our illusions that express into the negativity.

Again we ask for Your grace, Your direction, that at this time, this place, this decision becomes a life that we live. We accept the fulfillment that You bring to us. We are complete in You. It is done.

Baruch Bashan

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B eing in A ccord with the L ord

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hen relating to negativity, we can choose to move away from confusion and into understanding. Then with whatever is appearing to us, there is an opportunity to be conscious of our true state, our spiritual nature. Then we can look at what appears to be the discord and the conflict in the world — what appears to be negativity, or disturbance — from a higher view. It’s what we do with our awareness that becomes really important in the moment.

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You can identify yourself

either as being in discord or in accord with the Lord. That’s something to be aware of as your choice. You choose.

You need to be conscious of who you are and what you’re identifying with. That awareness allows you to be conscious of things that appear contrary or as negativity that could move you into discord. It’s your choice to move back into accord.

appears to be negativity, or disturbance --- from a higher view. It’s what we do with our awareness that becomes really important in the moment.

When relating to negativity, we can choose to move away from confusion and into understanding. Then with whatever is appearing to us, there is an opportunity to be conscious of our true state, our spiritual nature. Then we can look at what appears to be the discord and the conflict in the world --- what

Your awareness makes a difference in terms of what you experience. You can choose to move your awareness and identify with what is the accord inside of you. Then the awareness of the accord within you becomes something that’s transformational in your own personal experience. At the same time,

The simplicity of it is to choose you this day --who you are and what you serve. That comes right into now. Even though there’s negativity and disturbance in what appears present which could include how you feel and think personally, you can still identify with When we become conscious of who we are, it’s the one accord, the peace that is present. As you do something spiritual. It goes by a lot of other names, that, it becomes what transmits from you. It starts bebut the quality is uplifting, beautiful, perfect, and coming transformational. It isn’t necessarily changing harmonious. The negativity appears as opposition to anything with what is going on for you in relation to us. It appears contradictory. That’s often where the what’s happening, what the news says, or how others are responding. Yet, the accord is still present. confusion or conflict comes up.

you’re a radiant being. You’re a creative being in this world. That energy can go out from you because you’re making the choice as a creator to ask yourself, “What am I relating to? What am I identifying with? What am I transmitting?”

Your choosing to be in accord will play out in ways where, at the very least, you can be silent and quiet. That may not look like you’re doing anything. But one of the greatest ways we can contribute is by exercising spirit or doing spiritual exercises. That’s another way of saying we’re choosing into the spirit.

If you see somebody in againstness or violence or expressing negatively, you can choose to relate to them in your spiritual nature and transmit your accord. I’m not talking about something that’s necessarily easy. Our spiritual accord is something that is challenged with quite a lot in the world.

Something may appear to us as againstness. Or maybe it’s just simply, “I don’t like this, or I don’t want this, or this isn’t what I expected.” It could be that simple.

Consider what discord has to do with the state of the world. It’s our attachments that disturb us.

We are attaching to things that are really nothing in relation to the accord. If we take out that sense of attachment to the negativity, we find out that all disturbance that we issue out of our consciousness is not necessary. We can bring ourselves into the accord.

There’s a seminar that John-Roger did quite some time ago called, “What is the One Accord?”

(DVD-7222). The seminar is about the time of the Christ when Jesus had gone, and the disciples, those who were involved closely with him, were gathered in something referred to as the Upper Room. The One Accord came upon them. It’s also been called the Pentecost when Holy Spirit appeared as though flames were above their heads. At that time, there was a realization amongst them of something greater. They had an awareness of being in the accord.

When I read that passage in the Bible, there’s something about it that isn’t explained in what’s

written. There’s something that happened that is a spiritual blessing or a spiritual miracle. At the time, there was discord amongst the disciples. Part of that was they were trying to work out, “What do we do now after the head guy left? How do we work that out?”

How can we move into the accord? By cooperating and serving. When we are assisting someone, there is a sharing and caring that transmits. We are simply providing a reflection that in some way the assistance is about seeing what is better, what is greater, what heals, and what nurtures.

Some of the concern was, “Do we survive?

Do we break up and split up and go our separate ways rather than to be part of the persecution?”

A questioning and a doubting occurred about what took place. So in the midst of what came forward as a one accord and a presence of the Holy Spirit touching onto each one, there was a doubting, a fearing, and a questioning about what was taking place and whether it was real.

But the experience of being in accord was still present within.

One of the tests in this world is to relate to the negativity through our service. In that way, the negative power is our friend because it teaches. It teaches us our responsibility. It teaches where we choose separation when we do not have to and it’s not the truth of our beingness. You are the one making the adjustment yourself. You are choosing to move into the oneness through your loving service. So keep that in mind whenever you feel lost or separate.

Choosing oneness with all and loving service takes tremendous vigilance because the ability of the negative power is through whatever’s negative.

It humbles us on a personal level to realize that the negativity and discord can come at us in so many dimensions and different ways. Through our personal abilities alone, we can’t handle it. Yet, we’re affected by it. No one is exempt even though we may want to be exempt. We’re all vulnerable to the negativity, and that provides the opportunity to move into greater strengths and wisdom. It is through our awareness and choice to relate to all in oneness and loving service that we find the one accord.

There’s always an opportunity to touch in spiritually to what’s going on. It takes willingness to do that. It can be something that may cause you to pause, hold or stop because whatever’s going on has disturbed you physically or psychically and you’re aware of that. If you allow the negativity to come into your consciousness and take up residence, depending on to what degree and how deep that runs in your choice level, there are always opportunities to clear whatever that is by choosing into the spirit. In our PTS classes, we teach a lot about how to discharge and clear yourself from the identification One of the great questions to ask yourself when with the negativity. you’re disturbed is, “Is this true?” Then monitor Your true nature is never disturbed or out of and be very conscious about what is disturbing you. balance even though the reflection in the world of- Often, the quick reaction is, “That disturbed me” ten says something else. Consider that when the as- or “They disturbed me.” No, that’s not correct. It’s tronauts in space look down at our planet, they see actually your perception of the situation or people the beauty and harmony of the accord. They see the that causes disturbance and discord. Look at how oneness. The astronauts’ perspective is a great refer- you perceive whatever it is that disturbs you. Your ence point for all of us to understand that peace is perceptions are important. present. Good is always present. Love is always presYou might consider that you perceived in disent. So if you’re in some way thinking it isn’t, then turbance by the way they talked to you that they you’re off. You have a job at that point to minister don’t like you, they don’t understand you or they to yourself and find a way to find the love, to move don’t appreciate you. Regardless of the outer condiinto the one accord. That’s a tremendous ministry tions, you have an opportunity to choose to be in in this world. accord with Spirit. (continued)

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here’s always an opportunity to touch in spiritually to what’s going on. It takes willingness to do that. It can be something that may cause you to pause, hold or stop because whatever’s going on has disturbed you physically or psychically and you’re aware of that. If you allow the negativity to come into your consciousness and take up residence, depending on to what degree and how deep that runs in your choice level, there are always opportunities to clear whatever that is by choosing into the spirit.

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(continuing) At some point you’re going to come back to realizing it doesn’t matter what they said or what happened. What matters is how you relate to it. You can handle whatever is present in the world because your spiritual nature is bigger. You’re true nature is bigger than whatever occurs or however someone relates to you or thinks about you. So act like it.

You have the opportunity to grow and mature from experiences of discord. By choosing to look at your perceptions, you may find yourself realizing, “I remember I got upset, disturbed, depressed or angry when somebody talked to me like that. It’s like that’s my button. They pushed it, and I got upset.”

you stop thinking and acting as though you are less than divine.

Don’t put the authority outside of yourself. The truth is within you as a divine presence. All of the circumstances are what they are. It’s your disturbance that needs your attention. If you could let the disturbance go, free yourself of the disturbance within you, what would you be experiencing?

I can guarantee you’d be experiencing something better than a disturbance. So when you discover that, you’re also going to find the opportunity to let go. You may realize, “Why don’t I just let go of the disturbing way I’m relating to what’s going on? I can You don’t have to get upset. You can change your just let go of insisting they shouldn’t be like that or way of being so that you handle people that are act- the situation should be different.” ing like tyrants towards you or you are in situations Why not just let it go? What would you be like that you consider are not fair. Ever notice that the if you thought they, whoever “they” are, should be world has a way of seeming unfair? The world is exactly like they are, doing exactly what they’re douneven, such as the wealth isn’t equally distributed ing? What if you accepted that they should be yellor there is not justice for all. So we can decide that ing at you and calling you names? What would it be something is unfair and “shouldn’t be like that.” But like if you identify that their actions are clear, fine it’s better to move into acceptance and cooperation and no problem because you’re at peace? You’re in because the world is like that, and our true nature is accord. You can go on about your day, knowing to be loving with all. the peace is present within you. Who you are is far Consider there’s divine perfection in the way the world is. In my experience of going into the Spirit, it is a journey into perfection. What’s the journey? The journey part is waking up to the perfection, to the harmony and one accord.

greater than any negativity that comes your way.

If you have an interaction that disturbs you and you don’t get over it, then you’ll be out of balance.

You’ll feel it inside you and you may carry it around all day. But does that make your day better?

It’s not that the perfection suddenly moves.

Whatever happens, whatever the content or It’s not like, “Okay, now there’s perfection. Oops, the subject, you can handle it. Obviously, you have now there’s not. Oops, now there’s perfection. Now handled whatever was presented to you up to now. there’s not.”

So whatever it has been, whatever disturbances you Perfection has this quality of eternity. Perfection, have experienced, you’re here now. You survived. You like being in accord, is always. Some people confuse progressed. You passed. That’s a vote of confidence that with being static. Perfection is not static. It’s dy- for you. namic. It’s alive.

Your question may be, “Can I handle what’s I find it comes into asking, “Do you trust yourself?” And if you trust yourself, “Who are you?” And we come back to, “Are you divine or are you not divine?” Often that’s a question that we may find ourselves afraid of the answer. We’d rather believe, even if it’s false, that we’re not divine because we judge our human nature as less than divine. Forgiving our judging is one of the greatest ways to experience our divine nature.

next? How would I handle it in the way I would like to be?” That gets back to your identification. Who are you? Are you loving? Are you caring? Are you in accord with your true nature?

If you’re thinking something like, “I’m really a bad person and they’re out to get me and it’s just a matter of time before they do,” what does that do to you when you think of yourself in that way? If you say to yourself, “I’m no good. I’m going to get caught. They’re going to put me away. Something bad is going to happen,” then your perception is separation from that place of divine perfection within.

And your life is bound to reflect that to you until

Actually, we are loving, but sometimes we don’t act like it. What happened? We forgot. And at times we do forget we are divine. We do forget our natural true self. What’s obvious to me is that everybody is magnificent and glorious. We just don’t act like it all the time.

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t some point you’re going to come back to realizing it doesn’t matter what they said or what happened.

What matters is how you relate to it. You can handle whatever is present in the world because your spiritual nature is bigger. You’re true nature is bigger than whatever occurs or however someone relates to you or thinks about you.

So act like it.

You have the opportunity to grow and mature from experiences of discord. By choosing to look at your perceptions, you may find yourself realizing, “I remember I got upset, disturbed, depressed or angry when somebody talked to me like that. It’s like that’s my button. They pushed it, and I got upset.”

You don’t have to get upset.

I suggest you say, “Yes,” even if there’s great protest amongst your inner thoughts and feelings. You may argue with yourself, “No, I’m not. I’m not very loving. There’s all sorts of evidence about when I’m not loving.”

I am often reminded of the exampleship of Jesus on the Cross when he said, “Forgive them for they

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on’t put the authority outside of yourself. The truth is within you as a divine presence.

know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). That was a moment of transcendence. Right there, something magnificent was being put into the world. There is forgiveness that allows us to err. We are not eliminated. We are not damned to eternal hell.

If you’re aware that what you’re seeing, relating to and considering is “bad and wrong” or you’re thinking “This should not be,” then realize you need help.

Your faith and trust inside will tell you that it is not “bad or wrong,” that there is nothing that “should We are allowed to have fantasies of the negativ- not be.” So refuse to take on that attitude. ity that then appear real like nightmares. But then Your acceptance and cooperation with what you wake up. My view is let’s wake up now. Bring is present heals you. It takes great faith that must your awareness into all the states of consciousness as be acted upon. So demonstrate you have the faith. much as you can.

Demonstrate that you refuse to enter into a reaction This world is a multidimensional place, and it of negativity. Just refuse to do that. converges. How do we keep up with it? How do we stay awake and alert? Do we ever falter? Do we ever stumble? Do we ever do something that we didn’t want to do?

When faced with the choice to react in negativity, you can simply say, “No, I’m not doing that. I’m not entering into that negativity.” Who are you talking to? I suggest you talk to yourself first. SomeWell, of course we do. That’s human. And the times it’s important to shout it from the rooftops so remedy is always, let it go. Release that. Forgive all can hear. You realize you are talking to God in all of the creation. That can be a great moment of transyourself. Love yourself. Accept yourself. formation when you stand up and declare your life is It’s amazing how much loving and forgiveness by for the good and only the good. Then that which is you can attract that same presence for you. It be- not of that dissolves, disperses and goes back to the comes something John-Roger referred to as a Por- nothingness from which it came. table Paradise. You can walk in heaven wherever you When you choose into the good, you are wakgo. It’s heaven on earth. How is that? Is God sparing you from this world? No, you’re sparing yourself ing up. And that waking up isn’t even like you’re from anything that is less than God which ultimately stretching, and you have a moment of, “Oh, what is not possible. It’s a form of illusion that we can was that?” It’s a complete waking up. The negativity stop relating to as our identity and expression. God is gone. There’s no trace of it. That’s the soul. The negativity doesn’t go there. Negativity can’t exist in made the first move by loving all of Its creation. the soul.

Choose to relate to yourself first as heaven on We have the opportunity to decide who we earth. Then whatever is left is good and holy. Whatare.

When we ask ourselves, “Who am I? Am I that ever you don’t know how to relate to in that way, you surrender. You offer it up. Like, “Okay, God, state?” we can answer that we are one with God. We I don’t understand this. This is bewildering to are in accord in with the Lord. me. I’m aware that I’m disturbed emotionally and I encourage you to bring the experience to mentally by what I just experienced in my percep- yourself that you are that state of accord, of perfections, my senses, my mind and my emotions. Can tion, so you have a direct conscious knowing of the you help me?” truth of who you are. And when you forget and you

lapse or go to sleep, it will serve you to move your awareness into accord with your divinity. Remember, your true nature is a soul who is in one accord with God always.

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hoose to relate to yourself first as heaven on earth.

Then whatever is left is good and holy. Whatever you don’t know how to relate to in that way, you surrender. You offer it up.

Like, “Okay, God, I don’t understand this. This is bewildering to me. I’m aware that I’m disturbed emotionally and mentally by what I just experienced in my perceptions, my senses, my mind and my emotions. Can you help me?”

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Being a Walking Blessing

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By our nature, we are hallowed ground.

We are blessed. We are the Lord, we are the Christ, we are the Traveler.

We are one with God.

We can shift our awareness so we are more conscious of this.

We feel the vibration of that majesty. We can shift our awareness so that this is activated. Activated, so it is an energy field. Activated, so that when you walk into a room, you hallow its ground.

John Morton, DSS

I find that it’s very natural, very ordinary, as if the Lord was in the room: “in the flesh”, as Jesus spoke of it. How would we know that presence? It would be very much like us, and yet there is joy. There is peace. There’s sweetness. There’s ease in the nature. Some things would be amazing, because it starts transcending the lower nature.

But it’s not something weak. How would the Lord confront someone who is trying to bother or disturb, or afflict or destroy?

How would the Lord respond to that? That is an excellent question,

Even a rock is blessed with the vibration of the divine in it. not necessarily easily answered-- the response is in whatever would How activated is it? There are degrees. God is found in the most demonstrate the love of God. Part of what we are doing here is learning potent, concentrated form in a human being. That is because the Soul how to stay in that presence, so that we don’t lose our peace, even for a is active and individualized in the body. We are walking around with moment. We stay in the loving. a very potent energy field.

My experience is loving often works in a very silent, invisible

What we do with that energy field is what makes it really way without fanfare or recognition. Loving is as close as your breath. interesting. Are we awake? Are we doing things of a lower nature? Or, If you are breathing, you activate loving as a living truth. are we loving, caring, and bringing in the peace vibration?

We may need to release preconceived ideas that define loving.

We could all do this more actively. We could do this all the Even if there is a proven way of loving we still need to make room for time, “twenty-four seven”, so with whatever you do, you bring a blessed loving to show up spontaneously. It makes itself known here and now. nature. We can activate this through intention.

Consider that all of us are answering the call be loving here and

In this world, we can all imagine how many are disturbed right now. What if the way that always works is to be living love? You’re in now: upset, bothered, in excruciating pain, suffering loss, depression, that presence now. and on and on. Because we are Light bearers, we are called into this, as What if we were told that this world is, in fact, the Garden of a choice, right up to our ability to minister. People really need to know we care. Caring can just be a walk around the block, or maybe it’s two Eden, and that we have the opportunity to replenish and restore it? What would we be doing, if we understood what that really means? I am blocks, yet with the dedication: speaking of the way Paradise would be flourishing in our midst. We “Use me, Lord. Right now. I’m a battery. I’m an energy field.” would be in a kind of Paradise. Doing this would transform this world.

And leave it open, so that if you are called into something, not just It starts with us, as a “portable paradise”, which is another way observing or sending Light, but actually called in to become involved, of speaking of us, as a “walking blessing”. you do that. At times, that’s how it works. That’s going forward into the world, ministering. You talk to somebody. You touch somebody.

You do something that is in response to their need.

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Living and Dying with J-R An Interview with Jsu Garcia (Jsu Garcia was John-Roger’s friend, personal assistant, bodyguard, driver, gofer, ice cream liaison—and anything else J-R wanted—from 1988 - 2014.)

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Jsu: I worked for J-R for twenty-six years. It was

ittle miracles. . . are what it’s all about working with J-R. When you’re prompted inwardly and you have this baton of light energy with you, it’s amazing. You just know that you have a calling to do what you do, and you do a lot of listening inside.

Everybody is different in MSIA, and in how they relate to J-R on the inner. So I’m not special. I just did more time with J-R on the physical.

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NDH: So what’s it like working for J-R? unbelievable. There’s nothing better. I think Michael Feder, who also worked for J-R once, said, “It doesn’t get any better than this.”

It’s been three months since I lost my best friend.

I’m also in love now. I fell in love with Nicole. So simultaneously I think, “Wow I’m in love,” and “Wow, I’m grieving. I’m in pain.” I’m working through all that as I go back and remember everything that happened with J-R.

as my flock. My attitude was, I’m working for J-R, something happened to one of our people, I’m going to get that phone back. And we got the phone back.

I talked to an Arab guy who was the head of the area where kids were pickpocketing, and he really spanked them. And a couple of days later we were at his house for dinner, a beautiful place overlooking Jerusalem. Little miracles like that are what it’s all about working with J-R. When you’re prompted inwardly and you have this baton of light energy with you, it’s amazing. You just know that you have a calling to do what you do, and you do a lot of listening inside.

Everybody is different in MSIA, and in how they relate to J-R on the inner. So I’m not special. I just did more time with J-R on the physical. I’m proud of that, and I hope there’s more I can do, but I have good self-esteem about the whole experience. J-R used to say to me, “You have a lot of vanity. You can turn that into valor.” And I think I know what that is. I’m still vain, but I don’t need applause or a reward. I don’t need to be in an MSIA Bible. The one thing that moves me is when someone says, “Thank you.”

Probably the greatest thing was the Light Tour to Israel last September. We spent a whole month there.

That was the most amazing trip. It was one of the most dynamic things I’ve ever experienced. I don’t know what it’s like to be a Traveler who holds keys, but I do know what it’s like when he gives you the baton. When J-R would give me the baton, it was being like Harry Potter. You can do anything. Sometimes I would even stretch to see how far I could go.

For example, someone had their phone stolen on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. When I heard about Probably my favorite time was when it was just it I was really upset. I thought, “How can they steal me and J-R. A lot of it was up at Windermere and from my people?” I thought of everyone on the trip at J-R’s house nearby at Miracielo. We’d be watch-

ing TV up there, or driving late at night, listening huge or tsunami-like, but more about my own proto these weird radio shows about UFO’s, or Chris- cess. Spirit would warn me about something and I’d tian stations. write it down. It was more about me, and J-R, and We’re talking in J-R’s living room in Mandeville Nat, and our process. We’d come together and it was right now and you can sense the energy, even though like, “I had this dream. Did you have this dream?” he’s missing. The energy is in the couch, it’s in the “Yeah.” “OK then we’ve gotta watch it.” J-R would walls, it’s a vortex here in this house. When he was listen to what I had to say, and I’d cross-reference it alive, no matter how slow he became, he was just a with Nat, and I knew I was right on a lot of the time, bubble of love, an energy of love, a source of love. It because J-R was telling me. was as though all universes went in and out of him.

When you walked into the house, you would peek through the kitchen and into the living room and think, “Wow, I’m so glad to be home.” All your karma or whatever crap you were going through would just go away, because he’s just pure love.

NDH: I always had that sense that he could just eat whatever karma was there.

Jsu: He didn’t say, “Come here, let me get that off

you.” It was just an automatic thing that would happen around him. Sometimes J-R would just touch you somewhere and all of a sudden it would lift you.

and then when I moved into J-R’s house I recognized him. It was like, “There’s that old man again.” There was an American Indian, a Japanese guy, and others.

His cadence would change and sometimes they’d be unfamiliar with what was going on. They sometimes didn’t know where we were, or would ask, “Who are you?” Nat and I would be cracking up. The old man was my favorite…and there was also some Biblical guy that would come down. Sometimes he’d want One time we were getting ready to head out of to eat but didn’t know what the food was, or would town with J-R and we were all ready to go some- ask, “What is that, water?” Then that person would where. J-R kept telling me “no” and I kept getting go to bed and J-R would wake up as himself and say, ready. You have to understand that a lot of the time “What’s going on? Let’s go eat.” Then you could tell J-R would change, and so you’d have to be ready and that J-R was back. act “as if ” (“as if ” the plan was on). I said, “Nat, get Daniel was J-R’s basic self. Daniel didn’t like everything ready, let’s go,” we rolled out, we got to me sometimes because I was very pushy, and Daniel the airport curb and J-R said, “I said ‘no.’” And then wanted whatever he wanted. You would know Danyou think, “OK, that was real,” and you cancel the iel was there because Daniel was tough. If he wanted trip. That was J-R when he was older and healthy. something you’d better get him what he wanted.

But even when he was younger he would do that.

Some people would treat J-R delicately and say, Once there was an India trip set up, four or five of “Oh I don’t want to disturb J-R.” I did want to disus were ready to go, and at the last minute J-R can- turb him because I felt that the more I got his attencelled it. tion the more J-R was physically here. I would read

to him and do emails with him. Sometimes when I asked him about something he’d say, “You decide.”

There’s an authority that comes with that, like when he gave staff the authority to do initiations and ordinations. And you feel the baton being passed to you.

I would go up to him and say, “I really want this It was magical being around him, and magical things Israel trip. Can you give me this?” And he would would happen just by working around him. say, “Yeah, I can see you want it.” I always checked (Continued on page 46) in with him to see if it was clear. If you ask what’s And you learn so much with J-R—you’re forced the best part of working with J-R, it was that—my : I always had that to learn a lot. He used everything for greater learn- private moments with him asking about what’s clear ing, and he used things inside of me for my greater and not clear to do. sense that he could just eat learning. I learned tracking in the DSS, and there When I got a clearing from J-R, I went for it, I whatever karma was there. is nothing better than tracking. If you’re not doing didn’t stop. If he changed his mind when I was halftracking, you’re being unconscious. You say, “I saw way through it, I would stop. J-R would always test : He didn’t say, “Come here, that. I saw that three minutes ago. OK I’ll watch to see how disciplined and flexible you were—not as that. I ate this soup and got a bellyache.” Or, “Why a slave or anything like that, but he would see if you let me get that off you.” It was do I feel so crappy? Oh, I just got a phone call and it could move with him when he said, “Stop.” Somejust an automatic thing that happened after that. OK, clear.” times I would argue my point and then I would stop. would happen around him. . .

When it comes down to it, it looked like we were He would say something and give you a certain look, taking care of J-R but he was taking care of us. He and you would know that he really means it.

People in the house like Nat and was holding my karma and Nat’s karma with a proJ-R told me that living with him was like “sleepme would work with him. We tective shield so we could do the work. ing at the edge of a volcano.” When you get burnt enough, you’re just tough. The burning is experience, didn’t know we were doing it, NDH: When you say you learned a lot, was it things and experience is how to maneuver around the volbecause if you knew you were he said verbally, or was it inwardly? cano. You learn not to go that way because it hurts, doing it you’d blow it. But J-R Jsu: It was more inward. I’d get a lot of pictures in- so you think, “I won’t do that again. That burns.” would use you as a battery. side. He didn’t sit down and discourse to you. Maybe One thing that he was very strict about is that when he was doing emails you would have to stand by the that happened a few times, but 99% of the time it And whoever came over, we was inner. You’d say, “I want to put this in the Light, door and wait until he addressed you. If you barged just would “eat” whatever was I’d like to go to Israel, Hamas is bombing, blah blah into the room interrupting him, you would get anblah, and I need Light.” He’d say, “We’re going. It’s other 10 pounds of karma. Not by hitting or yelling going on with that person, going to happen,” and you’d get these things in your or anything like that, but it was the energy behind along with J-R. But we didn’t head about what you needed to do. I’d call someone it. It was just, “I told you not to do that,” and the know it, we just knew that the I knew who had information, I downloaded an app authority behind it is what gave it force. that told me how many rockets were being fired in Actually when J-R yelled we would always crack next day we would wake up Gaza, I’d be watching the news, and I’d be getting in- up. I’ve never had him yell at me where I wasn’t with a hangover, or we’d start formation on the inner from J-R. You let J-R do the laughing. And it always rode on love. He would yell, inner, and you focus on the outer to make sure it’s “HEY!!!” at seminars and all the crap would leave fighting—and that’s usually safe on the physical. J-R would make sure it was safe you. It was always about what he said with his eyes, somebody else’s stuff. spiritually. I got a lot of information in dreams. J-R and the words were just a small part of it. called me a “dream prophet” because I could rememAnd you learn so much with J-R Also J-R had caretakers that would come in when ber things from dreams and spirit would warn me he was far away working out of the body. I liked the —you’re forced to learn a lot. about things in the future. It was never something “old man.” I met him when we were traveling in Israel, 21 People in the house like Nat and me would work with him. We didn’t know we were doing it, because if you knew you were doing it you’d blow it. But J-R would use you as a battery. And whoever came over, we just would “eat” whatever was going on with that person, along with J-R. But we didn’t know it, we just knew that the next day we would wake up with a hangover, or we’d start fighting—and that’s usually somebody else’s stuff.

Last year, we knew that J-R was getting weaker.

Even when he was not feeling well, and we didn’t know if he was going to make it to Israel, he was still so strong. He would always open up the door for the nurses, which was astonishing to me.

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John Morton and Staff

Connect with the Traveler’s energy and enjoy this beautiful lineup of events ❆ Live and/or online as noted technology permitting ❆

Info and Registration for all Australia events: www.regonline.com.au/theconferenceofsoultranscendence

Brisbane, Australia

Detachment & Freedom Open Workshop with John Morton Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 2pm Cost: $25 AUD

Discourse Subscribers Seminar with John Morton

Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 7:30pm Cost: $30 AUD

Sydney, Australia

NORTHEAST, U.S.A.

Introduction to the Christ Within PTS Open Workshop with John Morton in Boston (Wellesley), MA, and Live Online Friday, April 24, 2015 at 7:30pm In Person Cost: $15.00 Contact: Jane Brell, 401-270-6336, joyful_heart711@yahoo.com

Q&A for Ministers and Initiates with John Morton in Bethesda, MD Monday, April 27, 2015 at 7:30pm In Person Cost: $25.00 Contact: Linda Mathieu, 410-263-7644, Linda@tefrainc.com

MSIA Open Seminar with John Morton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Live Online

Introduction to Soul Transcendence Open Workshop with John Morton

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 7:30pm In Person Cost: $15.00 Contact: Sally Weaver, 610-667-3969, circlesong@gmail.com

The Journey of Soul Transcendence 2-day workshop with John Morton

MSIA Seminar for Discourse Subscribers with John Morton in Philadelphia, PA and Live Online

Q&A with John Morton

Fundraiser Dinner and Q&A with John Morton in Philadelphia, PA

Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 7:30pm Cost: $25 AUD

Fri. March 13 from 10am – 7pm (local time) Sat March 14 from 9am to 5:30pm Cost: $375 AUD Sat. March 14 at 7:30pm Cost: $30 AUD

Ministers & Initiates Meeting with John Morton

Sun. March 15 at 10am (local time) Cost: Free

Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 7:30pm In Person Cost: $15.00 Contact: Sally Weaver, 610-667-3969, circlesong@gmail.com

Friday, May 1, 2015 at 5:30pm In Person Cost: $1500 first choice for question; $500 lottery for question Contact: Elizabeth Frumin, 610-667-8353, esfrumin@comcast.net

Detachment and Freedom PTS Open Workshop with John Morton in New York City (Abigail Adams Annex) and Live Online Tuesday, May 5, at 7:30pm In Person Cost: $15.00 Contact: Paula Beldengreen, 917-378-3773, revpau@aol.com

SOUTHWEST,U.S.A.

For Live Online Events visit www.msia.org/liveonline

Communicating Living Love PTS Open Workshop with John Morton in Santa Fe, NM, and Live Online Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 7:30 pm In Person Cost: $15.00 Registration contact: Katie Laine, 512-507-7777, Katie@Discoverconsulting.us

LIVING IN

GRACE

M ed el l i n , C ol o m bi a a nd L i v e On l i n e

January 25-31, 2016 Once upon a time you said you wanted to

experience God...

The PAT Trainings were created under the direct supervision of John-Roger to provide a retreat where people can break through whatever blocks their conscious awareness of Spirit. If you’ve ever wished you could get free of the habit patterns and mind chatter that get in the way of attuning to the divinity of your heart, this is the training for you.

Grace is actually the glory of God. From our level, the only grace is loving God.

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If we start to love God, we have stopped the judgments and the negativity, and that allows grace to be extended.” - John-Roger, DSS

Medellin, Colombia at Movich Las Lomas Hotel Hotel Contact: Sherie Wylie, Sheriew@pts.org or 323-328-1945 Registration Contact: Tatiana Gallo, TatianaGallo@pts.org or 323-328-1943 Tuition: Early Bird $1,800 (by July 20, 2015); Regular Tuition $1,950 (after July 20, 2015) Prerequisites: Aura Balances 1, 2 & 3 and PATs 1, 2 & 3.

This event will have consecutive translation – English and Spanish on stage.

The training begins with dinner at 6pm, on the first day, and ends around 1:30pm on the last day.

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Calling forward all PTS Facilitators around the world!

You are invited to begin setting the tone for our 2015 Conference of the Christ. You can start creating the Conference energy now by offering PTS Christ classes in your community. These Classes will begin in March and will be offered until June.

Manifesting the ChristedConsciousness

is a beautifully designed class to explore and experience the Christ Energy at a very deep level and can be offered as:

• a one-day workshop • a weekend workshop • a 5-week class Contact Antonietta Schulz for any inquiries, tuition, support or materials for the class.

Phone: 323-328-1948 or antonietta@pts.org

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A PLACING LIGHT COLUMN

a simple act of prayer

by Pauline Kirby [Note: Martin Place in Sydney was the site of an incident in December, 2014 when a gunman held a group of people hostage in a café for about 16 hours. Most escaped unharmed, but two people died in the event, which lasted for the entire day while the nation watched on TV.—Ed.]

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ilently, I asked for the Traveler to place a column of Light there; and yet I did not know if that was presumptuous. But I guess the Traveler would know. The whole area was bright with extra lights and everyone was quiet and reverent, which created the feeling of an outdoor cathedral.

had an appointment at Sydney Eye Hospital, which is close to Martin Place, at 8.30 am on the day of the incident, and he was done about 9:30 am. He was going to stop for a cup of coffee, but rang home and I asked him to come home so we could go shopping together and have that “cuppa.” He did. Otherwise he would have been in the vicinity of that event at the time. This is just a small testimony that as we place our loved ones in the Light for the Highest Good each day and night, they are protected. Neat, eh?

After the event, thousands of people visited Martin Place, placing flowers there in what would become a sea of bouquets. The day after the attack Alan and my brother Doug and I attended a Christmas Concert in the Sydney Town Hall where his wife Anne was in a choir. It was a combination of regional choirs, a harpist, the Official Organist of the majestic organ, a perfect Soprano plus the Naval Band. it was simply wonderful.

After the concert I asked Alan to walk with me to Martin Place, about five blocks away. My intention was actually to go to the area to ask Traveler John to place a Light Column there. It never occurred to me that what I was doing would create any interest. I even kept this silent from Alan as it is sacred.

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Nonetheless it was his curiosity that enabled him to walk there with me.

We walked to Martin Place to see the area that had been on TV for the whole day before. It was quite late but people were still gathering in silent prayers and laying flowers, writing in the record books and praying. Even the dividing wall separating the crime scene began to be studded with flowers. Everyone seemed to be moving in reverence, some with passion and determination to participate. I saw one lady walking her dog with her to place her flowers.

Silently, I asked for the Traveler to place a column of Light there; and yet I did not know if that was presumptuous. But I guess the Traveler would know. The whole area was bright with extra lights and everyone was quiet and reverent, which created the feeling of an outdoor cathedral. Some people had their own candles as well for their personal vigil. Even the security people were moving quietly. No one was asked to move on at all. It was a very touching experience, and I felt grateful that the mission was accomplished.

As my prayer was sent up a great blanket of silence and stillness came. The presence of Spirit and Peace and Healing were tangible. This continued for the rest of the time that the tributes were left there. It was a great blessing for all those who had faith and love to share.

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Blessingof YourMinistry Weekend Workshop

The

Encinitas, CA Sat April 18 and Sun April 19 Facilitated by Rev. Rachael Jayne Tuition: $50 In a loving and methodical way, the Blessing of Your Ministry workshop offers ministers the opportunity to more clearly understand the power of the MSIA ministry and experience the profound depth of attunement with, and appreciation for, their individual ministerial blessing. As a result participants can attain greater awareness of how to apply their ministerial blessings more effectively as they go forward into the world, ministering to all.

Information and Registration: Cindy Lovejoy (760) 436-1301 or dr.cindylovejoy@gmail.com Prerequisites: Active MSIA Discourse subscription (or SATs if completed Discourse 144) and active MSIA minister.

Passage into Spirit A PAT Retreat and tour in the South of France As announced by John Morton at Living in Grace.

Late September/early October 2015 We are still in the planning stages, and over 60 people have already put down their deposit.

To be considered, send your $2,500 fully refundable deposit to MSIA. We will keep you informed as more information becomes available.

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how to register for

pts& msia events 3 Ways To Register: 1) Register via EventBrite: To attend InPerson go to: http://msiaconf2015.eventbrite.com To attend LIVE Online go to: www.msia.org/liveonline www.msia.org/envivoenlinea LIVE Online registration stays open throughout each event.

2) To speak with someone: Please call Danielle Peterson, PTS Registrar at 323-328-1958.

After hours please leave your registration information on her confidential secure voicemail.

3) Mail:

PTS Registrar

(checks made payable to PTS)

3500 West Adams Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90018 U.S.A.

IMPORTANT INFO for Attending InPerson!!!

Pre-registration closes on Wednesday, June 24 and reopens Friday, July 3 at 8:30am at the Hotel.

LIVE Online registration stays open throughout each event.

For questions on Cancellations, contact the PTS Office 323-328-1958.

Registration Check-In: Awakening as the Christ Workshop

8:30-10:00 am Friday MSIA Ministers Meeting

10:30-11:45 am Sunday MSIA Initiates Meeting

3:15-3:45 pm Sunday Latecomers arriving after 10 am for the PTS Workshop, 12 noon for the Ministers Meeting, and 4 pm for the Initiates Meeting may not be admitted to the Ballroom.

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Events In Detail Schedule of Events Wednesday July 1 Introduction to the Christ Within workshop

Thursday July 2 • All Traveler Organizations Rep Meeting • PTS Masters & Doctorate Graduation • IIWP Gathering of Peacemakers

Friday & Saturday July 3 & 4 Awakening as the Christ–PTS Workshop Sunday July 5 • Ministers Meeting • Ministers Lunch • Initiates Meeting

Monday July 6 • BlessingsFest • Windermere Post Conference Tours Tuesday July 7 Windermere Post Conference Tours

Hotel Rooms & Parking

Special Conference hotel room rates have been negotiated at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, CA – $194 for Single/ Double, $194 Triple, $194 Quadruple occupancy. Reserve your room directly with the Four Seasons, be sure to say you are with MSIA. To reserve a room at these special rates, bookings must be received on or before Thursday, June 11; thereafter higher rates may apply. If you receive a message there are no rooms available at our discounted rate, call PTS, and someone will get back with you. After June 11, there may be limited availability, first-come, first-served. A credit card is needed to guarantee reservations. Reserve by calling the Four Seasons directly at 818-575-3000 or go online at msia.org, ndh.org and click on the Conference banner.

You can also go directly to the Hotel to reserve a room: www.fourseasons.com/westlakevillage/ Enter code: 0628MSIC Parking: Day guests - validated self-parking $5 per car, per day.

Valet parking $10 per car, per day. Overnight self parking - $10 per car,

per night. Overnight Valet parking $25 per car, per day.

Introduction to the Christ Within Workshop - InPerson & Live Online

John Morton & Leigh Taylor-Young Morton are invited to participate.

Wed July 1, 7:30-9:30 pm (registration from 6:30pm) Location: Four Seasons Hotel Two Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362 Begin our beautiful “Conference of the Christ” by participating in this workshop, which is designed for participants to experience their own Divine nature and their oneness with God. It does not matter what religious background you might have or if you believe in God, because this workshop deals with the wholeness of all parts of the Self.

“When we look into each other’s eyes, bypassing the personality and the idiosyncrasies, we are looking into the windows of the Soul.” –John-Roger, DSS (from The Christ Within and the Disciples of Christ book) Prerequisites: None; open to the public Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER”Section or register at the door.

Contact: Antonietta@pts.org Sponsored by: PTS

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All Traveler Organizations Rep Meeting - InPerson & Live Online John Morton is invited to participate.

Thursday July 2, 9:15am – 1pm (registration from 8:30am) Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Two Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362 Key volunteers and representatives from all of the Traveler organizations are invited to come together as Lightbearers from around the world and receive the grace of connecting with our Rep family through an exquisite, participatory morning of coming present to the Beloved.

Please join us for this uplifting, fun, and joy-filled gathering - we love you!

Prerequisites: This meeting is open to all MSIA, PTS, Heartfelt, Insight, USM and IIWP Representatives, as well as MSIA Seminar Leaders, Cable TV Reps, Product Reps, Ministerial Board Reps, Scott J-R Productions and Gilgamesh Productions, and key community volunteers. Spouses are also invited.

Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER”Section or register at the door.

Contact: doreen@pts.org Sponsored by: MSIA & PTS

PTS Masters & Doctorate Graduation InPerson & Live Online John Morton is invited to participate.

Thursday July 2, 3:30pm - 5pm

Come be a part of the celebration as students graduate from

Awakening as the Christ - a NEW! PTS Workshop InPerson & Live Online

John Morton is invited to participate.

Friday July 3: Registration Check-In 8:30am; Workshop 10am – 7pm Saturday July 4: 9am – approximately 9:30pm (including Dinner & Entertainment) “Your Christ Consciousness will eventually bring you into a position where you can enter into awareness of your true self, into your own movement of spiritual inner awareness. It will bring you to the point at which you become the Messiah, the promised one. You become the alpha and the omega, from everlasting to everlasting - because you already are.” - John-Roger, D.S.S. Please come and join us at this year’s Conference workshop Awakening as the Christ. We will be spending the workshop immersing ourselves in the sacred Christ energy and learning to live from the Christ and be in that - going deeper and deeper within so that we awaken as the Christ that we already are.

There will be attunement processes, John-Roger excerpts and meditations (some never before heard or seen), and lots of John Morton sharing. All of this will be in a relaxed retreat-like atmosphere of love, openness, and relaxation.

“It’s not just that two or more are gathered “in my name.” But can you imagine when the energy of being “in my name” moves into the focus of being loving? God can’t stay away. You’ll just pull the Spirit of loving into the room through you.” - John-Roger, D.S.S.

both the Masters and Doctorate programs of Peace Theological Seminary & College of Philosophy.

Location: Four Seasons Hotel Two Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362 Prerequisites: None; everyone is invited Registration: No registration required Contact: elissa@pts.org Sponsored by: PTS

InPerson tuition: $275 through June 8; $350 June 9 - to at the door. Live Online tuition (includes Entertainment): $150 Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER” Section Prerequisites: None.

Sponsored by: PTS

IIWP Gathering Of Peacemakers InPerson & Live Online

Please join us for another Conference Saturday night of great food (it’s the Four Seasons after all!), and a chance for all of us to relax, dress up, laugh with our friends, and dance the night away. You never know who’s going to perform the song that touches your heart, or tell the perfect joke. We look forward to sharing the spirit with you.

Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER” Section Dinner tuition: $75 (if you attended the InPerson workshop, this is included in your tuition) Sponsored by: PTS

John Morton is invited to participate.

Thursday July 2, 7pm - 9pm Location: Four Seasons Hotel Two Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362 The theme we’re exploring this year is “Prayer for Peace”,

with a focus on living and expressing the Christ presence within with this peace acronym from John-Roger: People Enthusiastically Applying Christ’s Excellence.

Join peacemakers around the world and receive the fellowship and grace of coming together to share your prayers for peace and choose the peace that is present. With the blessings of J-R’s words: “I love you. God bless you. Peace, be still” please participate with us, as we move within to a place of peace and give that peace forth in loving service to the planet.

Prerequisites: This is a public event and open to everyone. IIWP’s donors and their families and guests are especially invited.

Pre-registration is requested.

Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER” Section Sponsored by: Institute for Individual and World Peace (IIWP)

MSIA Family Dinner at Conference!

Saturday July 4: approximately 7:30 - 9:30pm

MSIA Entertainment (only) - Live Online

Saturday July 4: approximately 7:30 - 9:30pm Tuition: $25 (if you attended the Live Online workshop this is

included in your workshop fee) Registration: www.msia.org/liveonline www.msia.org/envivoenlinea Sponsored by: PTS

MSIA Ministers Meeting – InPerson Only

John Morton is invited to participate.

Sunday July 5, 12 noon – 2pm (registration 10:30am – 11:45am) Latecomers may not be admitted to the Ballroom after 12 noon.

Location: Four Seasons Hotel Two Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362 Prerequisites: Must be an active MSIA Minister in good standing with a current MSIA Discourse/SAT subscription.

Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER” Section Sponsored by: MSIA

MSIA Ministers Luncheon – MSIA Ministers only

John Morton is invited to participate.

Sunday July 5, 2pm – 4pm Location: Four Seasons Hotel Two Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362 Prerequisites: Must be an active MSIA Minister in good standing with a current MSIA Discourse/SAT subscription.

Please register for the luncheon, only if you plan to stay for the meal.

Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER” Section Sponsored by: MSIA

MSIA Initiates Meeting – InPerson Only

John Morton is invited to participate.

Sunday July 5, 4pm – 6pm (registration 3:15pm – 3:45pm) Latecomers may not be admitted to the ballroom after 4pm.

Location: Four Seasons Hotel Two Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA 91362 Prerequisites: Must be an active MSIA Initiate with a current MSIA Discourse/SAT subscription.

Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER” Section Sponsored by: MSIA

BlessingsFest with John Morton InPerson & Live Online With Spanish Translation

Monday July 6, 11am - 5pm Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Two Dole Drive, Westlake Village, CA InRoom Registration and more information; Donation: $1000;

contact Lisa Rittel at LisaRittel@pts.org or 303-641-4016 or 323-328-1933.

Live Online Registration: Donation $500.

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Post Conference Windermere Ranch “Peace Tours”

Monday July 7 and Tuesday July 8 If you’ll still be in Los Angeles on the Monday and Tuesday following Conference, the Institute for Individual and World Peace invites you to take one of our “Peace Tours” and experience the peace of Windermere Ranch. Take a day to focus on your intentions for peace and bring your Light and love to Windermere.

Come and see our peace pole, and place a blessing of peace there.

Enjoy a docent tour of the Ranch and plant Light columns on the land. Visit with the horses, the llamas Vallentino and Casper, and also our beloved sheep and chickens. We are organizing roundtrip transportation between LA and Windermere, leaving in the morning on both days.

Contact the IIWP Office at peace@iiwp.org or 323-328-1905, for more information or to RSVP. RSVP in advance is required.

PTS Peace Awareness Trainings at Lake Arrowhead John Morton is invited to participate

• PAT 1 July 10-16 • PAT 2 July 17-21 • PAT 3 July 22-26 Location: Lake Arrowhead in Lake Arrowhead, California *Tuition: $599 for first-time participants paid in full by June 30, 2015; $650 after June 30. Audit Tuition is $400 for each training. *Special Offer: Tuition for all 3 trainings is $1,499 taken consecutively.

Registration: See “3 WAYS TO REGISTER” section.

Prerequisites: Active subscription to MSIA Discourses, or SATs if 12 years of Discourses completed; PAT 1 for PAT 2; PAT 2 for PAT 3.

CONFERENCE DIRECTIONS Four Seasons Hotel, Grand Ballroom Two Dole Drive Westlake Village, California 91362 818-575-3000

From Glendale & Pasadena: Take the CA-134 W. Merge onto US-101 North.

Take the Lindero Canyon Road exit. Turn right onto Lindero Canyon Rd. Take the 1st left onto Via Colinas. Take the 1st left onto Dole Dr. The Four Seasons Hotel will be on the left.

From Downtown: Take the US-101 North towards Hollywood/ CA-110/Pasadena/Harbor Fwy. Keep right to stay on US-101, follow signs for Ventura Fwy/Ventura.

Take the Lindero Canyon Road exit. Turn right onto Lindero Canyon Rd. Take the 1st left onto Via Colinas.

Take the 1st left onto Dole Dr. The Four Seasons Hotel will be on the left.

From West LA & Beaches: Take the 405 North to the US-101 N. Go to the 101 toward Ventura.

Take the Lindero Canyon Road exit. Turn right onto Lindero Canyon Rd. Take the 1st left onto Via Colinas.

Take the 1st left onto Dole Dr. The Four Seasons Hotel will be on the left.

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An Interview with Doreen Dietsche

By David Sand

(Doreen Dietsche is Co-Academic Dean of PTS (Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy) and Director of Faculty/Volunteers. I spoke to her in her office at PTS after the first DSS online class. -Editor)

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t’s kind of funny that I was so concerned how this part of the class would flow and in the end, it ends up being a gift.

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e also modified the ways students do the processes for this online class. Students have several choices based on what works best for their situation. There are some of our students who have turned their living room into a DSS classroom and a whole group of local DSSers show up for the class weekends. Those students who are in the “living room turned classroom” do the process with other. Some of our students who are going through the class on their own simply do the processes on their own. Others choose to do processes via Skype. . .

NDH: So the DSS online has started. What kind weekends. Those students who are in the “living

of vision did you start with and how has it mani- room turned classroom” do the process with other.

Some of our students who are going through the fested? class on their own simply do the processes on their Doreen: We were holding a vision of 150 English own. Others choose to do processes via Skype. and Spanish students worldwide who were called One of our students in the UK has a buddy in to live in the Travelers teachings through the DSS France. Those two have a set schedule with each program. One month before we launched the class, other where they watch the recordings at the same we exceeded that goal. We ended up with 170 stu- time and then they connect to do the processes via dents— about 20 in the room and the rest all over Skype. When a student chooses to use Skype, they the world: France, England, Sweden, Argentina, just need to handle the timing of the process and Brazil, Colombia, just to name a few countries… switching roles on their own. And for the students and all over the U.S., too. We even have Portu- who want more support for the processes, they can guese students participating with us. The DSS is call into Maestro (our online teleconferencing sysalready an incredible experience and journey. Add- tem) and then our online tech team pairs them up ing “worldwide” to it makes it profound. I mean, with a partner, tracks timing and lets them know we are connected all over the world and it’s palpa- when to switch roles. ble. Last month, we started the weekend by having When we were developing the DSS online class one of our many Bogota DSS students call us into format, there were a lot of things we had to “play the Light in Spanish. It was such a sweet way to out” so we could anticipate the student experience connect with our worldwide family and start our and overall flow of the class. One of those things Friday night class. was how logistics would work when we have essenNDH: How does it differ from a regular DSS class? tially two classes going on: a live in-room class and a live online class. See, the online class is dealing What modifications have you made? with a delay that can last up to 90 seconds. So, Doreen: We had to make some modifications to for example, when the in-room class has finished a the online format because there are so many ways process then we wait briefly for the online class to students can participate. Students can be alone complete. The in-room class simply holds in the or in a group. They can be participating in the Light or sends Light and some students even chant live class or in the class recordings. Or they can their tone as we wait. The energy in the room is do a combination of that. So when the live class silent and still and spacious—it’s a blessing to be comes together at 9:00 am in LA to do Light Body, part of those moments. It’s kind of funny that I Spiritual Exercises and a Seminar, our students in was so concerned how this part of the class would Spain are coming together at 6:00 pm to be with flow and in the end, it ends up being a gift. That’s us. Some of our students are sleeping at this time the work of Spirit—we get to have that sweet silent and will watch the recording of Light Body, SEs moment inside while getting to serve one another and the Seminar when LA is sleeping. by holding in Light and love.

We also modified the ways students do the processes for this online class. Students have several NDH: What kind of volunteers did you need to choices based on what works best for their situ- have to make this program happen? ation. There are some of our students who have Doreen: Well, first, there were two key people turned their living room into a DSS classroom and that we partnered with as we developed the online a whole group of local DSSers show up for the class version of DSS. PTS collaborated with Deborah (continued)

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(continuing) Martinez who’s been a key player and advisor with revamping the DSS content to this online format.

She’s also our class facilitator. She’s doing amazing job with facilitating the class—our students love her.

And, of course, we have to give a Light-filled “shoutout” to Julie Lurie, who’s really led the way with leveraging technology to make the Traveler’s teachings available online. What a lot of folks don’t know is that Julie “burns the midnight oil” to get the class recordings edited and uploaded online so students can watch them while LA is sleeping. Our whole team is abundantly grateful to them both for their support.

Of course, we have a mammoth team of volunteers supporting the DSS. We have our DSS translation team who are translating materials, seminars and the live class weekends. We have a reader team of 60 volunteers all over the world and who are integral to supporting each one of our students. We also have many volunteers from the NOW crew assisting us before and during the class weekends, like Richard Price and Arissa Bright. During the class weekends, we have a tech crew and a room team and we’re blessed to have Cindy Heistand holding the focus as our Team Captain. I would love to name everyone who’s involved with making this class happen but they know who they are, right down to our remote Spanish-speaking “Maestro assistant” for those times we have an odd number of Spanish students in Maestro.

or “Abundance” or “Relationships”. And our vision goes beyond traditional classes. We are holding a picture of students being able to participate in “class experiences” (i.e., less lecturettes and more of the student having an experience with living the teachings and observing their expansions and learnings). We are even playing around with the idea of student’s being able to design their own “class experience” with the teachings based on a unique intention they have. There are so many possibilities and it’s a lot of fun to be co-creating these “wow experiences” with Spirit. It’s such a great time to be on the Traveler’s team, for sure!

NDH: Are there plans to put other PTS classes online?

Doreen: Yes. This is going to be so amazing. We’re

going to start having self-paced undergraduate classes online. You would go through these classes on your own, at your own pace. You would see video recordings of lecturettes, and demos, and there would be processes to do on your own. Of course, the J-R seminars and audio excerpts that are the foundation of all PTS curriculum will be embedded in the class. With the self-paced classes, you would have an online reader who would be holding the Light for you and reviewing your class assignments and ministering to you as a loving observer.

As long as you have a computer, you can plug into these classes.

We’ll also have live online undergraduate PTS

NDH: And what kind of feedback have you gotten classes as part of our curriculum. That means you’ll from participants?

see a live facilitator (as opposed to the video recordDoreen: If I could sum it up, it would be they ings you would see during a self-paced class). We all now have the option of turning our bedroom or are super grateful, thankful, full of bliss! Course our home office into a PTS classroom. corrective feedback has been virtually nil because so much preparation was done and, of course, we did a NDH: Would these be classes that are broadcasts lot of seeding and praying and putting all of it into of an actual classes, or are they recorded videos that the Light. We’ve had some small technical hiccups people can watch at any time? but nothing serious. We have online feedback form for students to give us feedback at any time and, for Doreen: The self-paced undergraduate classes the most part, we receive a lot of “Thank you for have pre-recorded videos in them, so a student making the DSS available to me.” Even our DSS could watch them whenever they wanted. The live readers tell us how they feel it’s such a gift to be able online undergraduate classes will be just like a regular class—except you’ll be logging in at a specific to participate and serve students in the class. date and time to participate. We’ll use a different NDH: What’s in store for the future of DSS? kind of online class platform, so it will have a difDoreen: We’re looking at how we can create a ferent look and feel then the Conference workshop or Living in Grace retreat, but the end result—conDSS year 1 subscription so people can take the DSS necting in with the Traveler and the teachings— class using the recorded format. Eventually, we’ll will be the same. make the MSS available this way, too. We’re just There’s lots of other things we’ll be doing with not sure if we can make the MSS available this upthe undergraduate curriculum, too. coming class year but we are looking at it.

For instance, we will eventually be scheduling our live online undergraduate classes to help “prime the pump” for our large workshop and retreats. So a few months before Living in Grace, you might start to see classes like “Grace and the Beloved” or the “Forgiveness Workshop”. Or, a few months before a conference like the Conference of Soul Transcendence, you might see the “Spiritual Exercises Workshop”. Even if someone wasn’t planning on There are so many possibilities here. We enattending a large workshop or retreat, they can still vision mini-curriculums available for our online plug into that amazing energy that starts to show undergraduate classes for both discourse subscriber up before some of our large workshops and retreats. and new people. Imagine being able to participate We are holding a vision that this can support stuin undergraduate “mini-curriculums” on the “Travdents with creating a sacred space and clarifying eler Consciousness” or the “Christ Consciousness” their intention for participating.

34 What we’re doing in the DSS is going to extend to our undergraduate classes as well. Our undergraduate online curriculum initiative was postponed because of everything involved with ramping up the DSS program. But with the DSS underway, we are looking at next steps with live online undergraduate classes as well as self-paced online undergraduate classes.

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e’re looking at how we can create a DSS year 1 subscription so people can take the DSS class using the recorded format. Eventually, we’ll make the MSS available this way, too. We’re just not sure if we can make the MSS available this upcoming class year but we are looking at it.

What we’re doing in the DSS is going to extend to our undergraduate classes as well. Our undergraduate online curriculum initiative was postponed because of everything involved with ramping up the DSS program.

But with the DSS underway, we are looking at next steps with live online undergraduate classes as well as self-paced online undergraduate classes.

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e’ll also have live online undergraduate PTS classes as part of our curriculum.

That means you’ll see a live facilitator (as opposed to the video recordings you would see during a self-paced class).

We all now have the option of turning our bedroom or our home office into a PTS classroom.

We’ll also be creating mini-curriculums so that if someone wants to immerse themselves in the Traveler’s teachings through the PTS undergraduate curriculum, they could do something that’s similar to a major in college. But as far as the teachings go, it’s really more like an “immersion” in a specific area of the teachings. Let’s say I want to immerse myself in PTS undergraduate classes that have to do with the Traveler, or the Christ, or Health, or the Levels of Consciousness. There would be a series of classes on that are that you would complete and they might fall in a particular order that’s similar to beginning, intermediate, advanced. All of these mini-curriculums would start with you setting an intention. And then they would complete with you designing a class experience that’s present for you and is a culmination of your experience going through the minicurriculum. So it’s not just a series of classes, but it includes an actual experience with the Traveler (or Christ or Spirit) you want to have. You get to design it. As an example for the mini curriculum on the Christ Consciousness you could a class experience

on “Living the Christ’s Compassion”. Maybe I have a relationship that’s challenging for me and I want to bring forward more compassion in this relationship. One of the teachings that caught my attention when I was going through the curriculum on the Christ consciousness was “Home is where the spirit of Christ reigns eternally, and that is the loving heart” (which is a J-R quote, by the way) and so I decide I’m going to focus daily on being in my loving heart extending Christ’s compassion with this person. Using a Traveler’s teaching from the classes I’ve completed supports my focus. Maybe I’ll ask every morning in my S.E.’s how I can extend compassion from my loving heart into this relationship that day. It could be that simple, or it could be a series of things. It’s wide open. And each student will have a reader who can work with them, looking at the class experience they are designing, sharing their observations and holding the Light.

NDH: When will this be coming online?

Doreen: We are hoping to begin rolling out the

PTS undergraduate curriculum in 2015. Our primary focus right now is supporting the DSS year 1 online, which has been an incredible online adventure with the Traveler, but now that it’s up and running, we’ll have more time to devote to the undergraduate online curriculum. In the next three to five years we hope to have the majority of the undergraduate classes up and running. We are also

We’ll also be creating mini-curriculums so that if someone wants to immerse themselves in the Traveler’s teachings through the PTS undergraduate curriculum, they could do something that’s similar to a major in college. But as far as the teachings go, it’s really more like an “immersion” in a specific area of the teachings. Let’s say I want to immerse myself in PTS undergraduate classes that have to do with the Traveler, or the Christ, or Health, or the Levels of Consciousness. There would be a series of classes on that are that you would complete and they might fall in a particular

looking at when we can realistically bring the MSS class online as well as create subscription classes that have already been recorded, such as IHOP and this current round of DSS year 1 classes.

NDH: There’s been so much information and so

many classes that have been available only at certain times or in certain places. Now we’re going to have all of that available to people all over the world.

Doreen: It is so exciting to see how it’s all show-

ing up. I consider myself super blessed to see how Spirit is bringing this forward. The Traveler brought forward so much information and tools to support our individual journeys and there’s going to be so many new ways to plug in and participate.

It’s going to take our ministerial family to come forward to serve in new roles as our online undergraduate faculty (serving as online facilitators and online readers). We will also be building a special PTS online support team to work with our undergraduate faculty and also our undergraduate students because they will be experiencing ptswisdom. org site in a new way. We are holding a vision that this online experience with the Traveler’s teachings continues to expand with grace for everyone. And, of course, ministers whose hearts are called by the online undergraduate curriculum can contact me, too (doreen@pts.org).

order that’s similar to beginning, intermediate, advanced. All of these mini-curriculums would start with you setting an intention. And then they would complete with you designing a class experience that’s present for you and is a culmination of your experience going through the mini-curriculum. So it’s not just a series of classes, but it includes an actual experience with the Traveler (or Christ or Spirit) you want to have. You get to design it.

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On the Road to My Divinity By

Dixie Clark, DSS

Part of my journey home

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am opening my heart to myself, sacrificing my arrogance and reclaiming my innocence.

And in doing that, I am becoming more of me, and less about me.

I know this journey is not really a road. It’s a place I already am, just not fully awakened to yet.

But it feels like a road or a path to me. My road to my Divinity takes many forms. Sometimes it’s like a lane on a farm where the ruts are so deep it’s difficult to change course. Other times it’s a very scenic highway that is so amazing it can take my breath away. Some days it’s like driving through If I am devoted to loving and letting go, th then I will experience living in Soul Awareness. the lower 9 ward in New Orleans, where all I can do when I look at the decay and broken lives is let go of the helplessness and trust that God is there.

The methods I used were very simple: My favorite road is the expressway… flying like Loving all parts of me, letting go of judgment the wind with the windows down and the music through self forgiveness, realigning with the Light. cranked up and the feeling of exhilaration making This is my way Home to God. How wonderfully it hard to stay in my body. My Soul’s Journey has simple, and how excruciatingly difficult it can be many roads to choose from. Many roads taking me for me to maintain—to hold in the Light and the Home.

Loving each day. But, that is my commitment to As I have continued on this journey, a new myself and God. road has presented itself. A road less traveled that One of my favorite books is called Women Who I don’t know as well. All the familiar reference RunWith the Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It points aren’t there. There are no places to pull over had a tremendous impact on my life and my inner when the storms come so I can feel safe in the way search. In one part, she talks about La Loba, the I used to. The road behind me is rolling up and Wolf Woman, who collects the bones of the wolf disappearing and I can’t see the road in front of and sings and prays over it in order to bring it to me. I just have to stay in the moment, breathing life as the Wild Woman, connected to her Soul. in and breathing out, trusting that the fog will lift My DSS journey, and writing my PT, has been and that I will eventually know where I am going. my own process of “collecting the bones.” During This road asks me to trust. To put aside all illusions this time, I brought forward all those lost and bur- about what I thought was true and open up to the ied parts of me and lovingly placed them into the Truth of who I am. Because I can’t see any signs, Light. It has been a process of going deep within I have to go inside for answers. And I am being my psyche to uncover what I had hidden out of guided through the narrow gate. shame or ignorance and loving it into life. I no Along this road I had an awakening. I heard a longer feel uncertain, unknowing, two-dimensionvoice softly whisper, “remember…remember.” All al. I have a rich, full inner experience of loving, of the times before, I thought this was the voice of the God within me and around me, and of myself loneliness telling me there was something wrong as soul. And, yet, I know I am just beginning. with me or something lacking in my life. I hear The following came forward as I was prepar- now the voice of my Soul, that part of me which ing for a presentation at the beginning of Year 3 of remembers the sacred communion saying, “ReDSS, and became part of my PT. member you are more than this. You are Divine.” to the heart of God has included the DSS program and writing the practical treatise (PT) as vehicles to help me awaken. Besides saying “Yes” to the Traveler, they were the best decisions I ever made. The title of my PT was “On the Road to My Divinity”, and my hypothesis was:

On the Road to My Divinity I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

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–Robert Frost

grace, it is there. When I need love, it shows up.

And when I think I am in charge, I am humbled. I see all the teachers that have been in my life. Some I recognized at the time. Others I recognize now.

Through their sandpapering, through their reflections of me in them I have grown. Despite my best efforts to stay the same. I am in gratitude and loving for these people along the way. Some are still with me. Others are with me only in my heart.

Many are still to come. I thank you all.

I am embracing my limitations, understanding my motivations and seeing the times I’m not so pure of heart. I am letting go of the need to defend or justify and now can simply say, “Yes, this is me.”

Or, “Yes, I did that.” And doing this I find that I am doubting less and trusting more. All the while my Soul is saying, “Remember.. Remember you are safe to be who you are.”

I see how often I have let doubt and discouragement be my guide and keep me small. I see the times that fear was in control and I stayed silent. I have become aware of the times when the victim in me would rob me of my power, or when I simply gave it away to another. And all the while my Soul is saying… “Remember… Remember you’re a lion, not a lamb.”

I am embracing all those lost and disenfranchised parts of me that had been left behind, those orphans who have gone unclaimed due to my confusion and ignorance. One by one they are detaching themselves from the past, from those situations where they were stuck in shock or fear or rage, or simply because they thought that’s where they belonged. One by one they are returning to the Light, to the Loving, some running with arms out, others returning a bit grudgingly asking, “Where the hell have you been?” But, one by one they are returning. I am becoming real and much loved… like in the book The Velveteen Rabbit. I am opening my heart to myself, sacrificing my arrogance and On the road to my Divinity I discovered that reclaiming my innocence. And in doing that, I am even though I drive away, I never leave home. It’s becoming more of me, and less about me. always within me, never separate. There is no here I see my life as my sacred creation. No more nor there, then and now, them and us. It’s all one. excuses, no more blaming or judgment. I am reRight now. One thought. One breath. One cell of leasing it all so I can be free. Free to be who I Am. God. Trusting that I am guided each step of the way.

I see how I am getting exactly what I need And all the while my Soul is saying… along the way. It’s not always what I want. It’s “Remember…Remember.” often not very pretty. The times I am in need of

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by Kevin McMillan

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Many of us were witness to the beautiful, powerful process of our friend Ken Jones’ passing from this world in 2010, and the way he and his wife Carol engendered support from the MSIA community at the time. I interviewed Kenny for the NDH when he was in the process of his illness and wanted to revisit the subject again now with Carol, to find out about her journey and the book that she has written about it. Carol has been exploring and holding a focus for peaceful and joyful end-of-life transition in various ways since then. We met again in her cozy room at Prana.

KM: How long has it been since Ken KM: That’s so sweet. The “Loving Each passed away?

Day” quotation from John-Roger this morning was about how there’s no time CJ: It will be five years March 30th. and everything actually happens right KM: It’s interesting to me that we have now.You two had a beautiful relationa trip to the south of France with John ship and I know it was really deep during Morton coming up this fall, which has the time you spent together working with a focus on the Christ and resurrection. his condition. What was it, a year that That’s something I believe we all have you were basically working together? as our ultimate heritage and I think it’s CJ: It was actually nine months. He was timely that MSIA ministers have an op- diagnosed in June of 2009 and he passed portunity to really put the loving into in March of 2010. The interview you did their awareness of the dying process, and with him in 2010 in The New Day Herhow we might come to help take care of ald was published just before he went to each other along the way. I know you’ve Houston for treatment at the Burzynski been working on a book about your ex- Clinic. And that was probably one of the perience with you and Kenny, to look most harrowing months of our lives. Beat your lessons and what the transition cause when they did the scan to see the process was like for you. Can you tell me progression of the cancer, so they would more about your experience with writ- know how to treat him, every single area ing the book? of his body lit up with what’s called meta-

CJ: I’m looking at this picture of Ken- bolic activity, which is what happens when

Kevin McMillan, Ken Jones, and Carol Jones (background) during the 2010 interview with Ken 40

ny and it’s reminding me that I had a dream about him this morning in s.e.’s.

I looked into those amazing blue eyes and with glee in my own eyes, I said, “You’ve come back!” It was just a very deep moment to capture those eyes again. And I’m not surprised he should make himself available before this interview. People tell me he has come to others in their dreams to let them know he acknowledges their love for him and that contacting those who have passed over can be real.

you have cancer. Even the radiologist was daunted by it. Kenny asked, “Can you help me?” And he said, “I don’t know if we can, but we’ll try.”

We walked away from that in a daze.

But on his way out of that office Kenny turned back and said, “Maybe I’ll be the Burzynski poster child.” Which was really typical of him in his optimistic view.

That’s a lot of what I wrote about in the book. And I think that’s what helped him pass from this world in a really peaceful and joyful way.

KM: I’ve been reading the book and remembering and relationships, and maybe an overview, that what you said about the clinic and how he really kept a focus that he would get well, until he said, “I’m not sure if I’m gonna make it.” I think that’s a process that a lot of people who have illness will go through. First they say “Well you know I’m gonna fight this, I’m gonna get better,” And then at some point they come to saying, “Well, no I’m not. I’m not going to come out of this healthy.”

you didn’t have before you started writing.

CJ: That’s true. Things didn’t come forward un-

til they came forward, and when they did, I sort of wrung their necks until I was done wringing, and delved as deeply as I could into the excavation of each chapter’s story. Then when I was compiling the book, there were hundreds of messages from people, hundreds of messages That to me is part of what this book really pres- from J-R and John, relevant quotes from everyents to people—especially with John Roger’s pass- where, and messages from our end-of-life ading in October, and the fact that we’re all going to visor that talked about the reality of the dying have health until we don’t. Just the idea of mor- process, and how what happened with us was tality and that, yes, I’m giving over, as I lovingly normal in so many different ways. surrendering to the process of dying. It’s a really Some of the most precious parts of the book powerful thing. I think you present that so beauti- for me are messages I received inwardly from Kenfully in the book. ny after he passed into Spirit. He was comforting.

CJ: Well he was really the smart one about it. Be- He gave clear information. He outlined how the cancer imbedded in his body, how he allowed it cause I was resisting. I realized in February when really. He shared words of wisdom and deep love I took that picture of him that this could be the and understanding. And the truth of what he end. But I kept pushing all of that down and not shared was the most outstanding quality. Truth accepting it, because like I said in the book, “We’re in unconditional loving. I treasure that these were in treatment, aren’t we? Aren’t we still focused on captured in the book. that?” And Kenny took that to mean I couldn’t handle his passing at that point, which was true. KM: You seem to still be in deep rapport even when As I began to write, all of these realizations came the structure of your relationship has changed. forward about that. I didn’t know at the time that What would you say have been your learnings?

I was resisting his dying. I just thought that I was following whatever I thought I was supposed to be doing. I supported him, and at the same time other people stepped in where I couldn’t. Like dear friend MSIA Minister Babalola from Houston, who sat and listened to Kenny talk through the night about dying when I couldn’t. And then finally his oncologist mentioning for the third time that there is hospice as the final alternative.

In March, Kenny jumped on that. He said “That’s what I wanna do.” And I was just a puddle at that point, because finally reality was setting in.

But what I really want to share is the power of writing. Many of the lessons didn’t come to conscious awareness until I started writing. The writing process, oh my God, it is just so amazing because it starts opening up memories and pathways and understandings that weren’t coming to me by just ruminating in my mind. The writing became a therapeutic tool of unveiling, unraveling, revealing, resolving and coming to peace with my profound loss, and finally my own transformation in consciousness. It would only come through the actual task of writing. And I was compelled from then on, with the support of people who were reading the blog, to continue to write until I had no more stories to tell. And so that’s why there’s a whopping fifty-five chapters in the book. Because I wrote about every single powerful experience I could remember, and there were so many.

CJ: Oh my gosh, so many. But the

most important learning was about how Kenny and I came together as people who had a pocketful of personality issues to work out. And we of course were doing the best we could at any given moment. But there were lots of limitations. And a lot of that was based in fear of losing each other. So there was a lot of avoiding our own personal issues to “save” the relationship. And it didn’t crystallize for me until after he passed and I started going through KM: In your book there’s the multidimensional as- new personal therapies myself, that the root of the pect of a bunch of different people’s points of view, issues had a lot to do with traumatic experiences and how they supported from all sides. The way in our individual pasts. For me it has been about you included so many people’s responses to the blog, healing the nerve pathways so that they could exwhere they sent Light, or gave Kenny their support, pand and I could have more choices of how to was just a really beautiful way to do it. It seems to respond to things other than fear. So fear of losing me that the process of the blog, and the book, was him kept me kind of frozen in a way. And that’s basically like an archaeological research project just talking about the emotional level. There are so into your own life. And you came up with beau- many levels of a relationship. (continued) tiful conclusions and awarenesses of past patterns

CJ: the

most important learning was about how Kenny and I came together as people who had a pocketful of personality issues to work out.

And we of course were doing the best we could at any given moment. But there were lots of limitations. And a lot of that was based in fear of losing each other.

So there was a lot of avoiding our own personal issues to “save” the relationship. And it didn’t crystallize for me until after he passed and I started going through new personal therapies myself, that the root of the issues had a lot to do with traumatic experiences in our individual pasts. For me it has been about healing the nerve pathways so that they could expand and I could have more choices of how to respond to things other than fear.

So fear of losing him kept me kind of frozen in a way. And that’s just talking about the emotional level. There are so many levels of a relationship.

KM: Ibelieve

we all have as our ultimate heritage and I think it’s timely that MSIA ministers have an opportunity to really put the loving into their awareness of the dying process, and how we might come to help take care of each other along the way.

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He said, “I don’t know what Spirit has in store for me. I will keep breathing as long as Spirit gives me breath. And if melanoma absolutely must claim my body it can have it. Melanoma cannot go where I go because I go into the pure Spirit of the Soul realm.

That is my true home.” That was one quote. And the other that was just as poignant was during a conversation with John Morton and Leigh Taylor-Young Morton when they came to visit just about seven days before he left. John said something like, “Well I see that your ministry is on fire. And I can tell that by (continuing) being here with you and having talked to people who Our marriage vows were very important to us. have visited you.” And Ken said back to him, “Glad We fulfilled them in so many different ways, just to be of service! If people could discover the joy I’m in who we were and how we stood by each other. having now they’d stop doing whatever they’re doing I could look at that as fear of losing him or I could and start doing what I’m doing.” He said all that with look at that as “Wow, we really abided by what we a smile and a chuckle. And it was just such a glorious said we were going to do.” There’s a chapter called, way to end that visit from John and Leigh.

“It’s All in How You Look at It.” It’s about his last KM: Yeah, his attitude was pretty amazing. leaving. It’s all in how you look at it.

KM: In my perception you were able to go beyond the CJ: His attitude was amazing. And for me, the personality issues and reach into the unconditional lessons I learned were to do whatever you need to loving for each other. And really the unconditional do as a caregiver and spouse or family member to loving for God. What I experienced was you both accept what’s going on as soon as possible, and to looking towards God together, and rising up in the open up the channels to share from the deepest place possible so that you each have moments to process of his letting go of the body. treasure and don’t regret withholding anything beCJ: As soon as his diagnosis was pronounced, all of fore the person leaves. those personality issues dissolved into “Let’s do what we can to take care of Ken and give him the longest KM: Yeah, sounds to me like really taking advantage life possible.” And so we forgave each other for judg- of the opportunity that’s there to love fully. ing all the past hurts, indiscretions and not-so-high- CJ: Right. There was a moment like that just a est-good decisions, and we went forward like a little few days before Ken passed that I wrote about: “So army “toward the one.” All those things that used to now in my memories whenever I may picture those bother us—I’ll say me—all those things that used to last hours of Kenny’s life, I turn to remember the bother me completely dissolved away because that long moment just days before he passed. He took wasn’t the focus anymore. It couldn’t be the focus my face in his hands and for a very long time he anymore if I was going to be any help to him. held his gaze on my eyes in silent communion. The world stood waiting outside our little bubble. It KM: Right. could have waited forever as I soaked in the loving CJ: And so we went forward with a spiritual focus we shared. It shall always remain a divine Soul to powerfully in front of our eyes every day, because there Soul moment when time stood still. When nothing was no other way to do it. It taught us so much about else mattered. When his death was imminent but how to let other people care for us, for one thing. And still so far away. Outside the bubble for now.” There it taught so much about prayer. We learned to pray for were many moments like that when the smallest “at least God, the next step. Tell us what the next step is things became beautiful connection. going to be. And please fill in the gaps.” Because there were so many unknowns. Every day there was another KM: I remember J-R talking at several points about unknown. “And show us at least what we need to do preparing for death and dying. I think as some people right now.” And it did. Over and over again it did. It in the MSIA community get older and we really face our mortality, at different rates of course, there’s realwas amazing. God is amazing! ly an opportunity to love each other and be there for each other. You and Kenny were such a great example KM: Sounds like it made you stay really present. of setting aside the personality and just going for the CJ: Made us stay really present, yes! loving in the time that you had. A beautiful thing.

experience of comfort and knowing that someone was always there that we could depend on to be holding the spiritual focus, and to do anything we asked if we needed it. There is one chapter in the book called, “Standing in for God” that was written as an outstanding example of one of those ministers, Diana, who came to hold the Light in the middle of the night. And that happened to be the night that Kenny woke me up and startled me by saying, “Carol, tonight’s the night. I’m pretty sure I’m gonna go tonight.” I started fumbling, saying all kinds of things I could think of like, “Kenny, I love you, God bless you,” and he responded clearly, “Don’t try to hold me back!” This was profound in itself, and spoke of his focus on where he was going.

Diana heard all that and stayed until she absolutely had to go in the early daylight hours of the morning. He actually lived another four or five days, but she was just right in there with us. In her giving of her heart, she’s the one that said, “I felt like I was standing in for God.” Oh, that was just so touching! My heart opened when I heard her say that, and to this day the connection is still there.

I became so aware there is a community that really responds to each other on so many levels, even if we may not be conscious of it. It reminds me to share also that one Prana resident knew when Kenny was passing and sensed a chorus of angels was greeting him. Later on I heard from someone else that he knew when Kenny was passing, and how glorious the transition was. And his wife—though they hadn’t been conferring with each other—said the same thing! “I knew when Kenny was going.” I am so grateful to be part of that sacred connection, and try to give back as much as I possibly can. A number of people have passed since Kenny’s transition, and I made it my assignment to be available for Circle of Light whenever I could.

After all J-R’s been teaching us for however many years it is now that all it is is walking through the door into the spiritual realms. And if we could dispel all the myths that have captured our imagination over our lifetime and apply J-R’s teachings, we could glimpse a little bit of the brilliance that death is.

KM: Right. It’s like the ultimate and final s.e.’s to me.

CJ: I am working on a class for PTS that is tenta-

tively being called, “Joyful Transitions.” And I hope to get the essence of Kenny’s message (which is really the same as J-R’s message about death and dying) into that class and to help prepare us in a peaceful and joyful way for that passing.

KM: Thanks Carol, it’s nice sharing with you, in my

experience you and Kenny, and you now specifically car-

KM: So what advice would you give to someone who’s CJ: And when you say the MSIA community takes rying it on by writing the book, have really been way facing a terminal illness or someone in a relationship with a person with a terminal illness?

CJ: Kenny had a lot to say in the book about facing a

care of each other, you know that that happened 150 percent in our case here at Prana and in Los Angeles. Many people supported us. You, for one.

Helping Kenny take showers, and helping me write the papers for the mortuary. All the folks that did the juicing, ordered produce, laundry, meals, prayer communion. It took a village. I don’t know how we would have done it without our beloved friends, family really.

terminal illness. Through the blog, he wrote many of the chapters. For example, if you don’t already have a natural, positive outlook on life, develop that as fast as you possibly can. And to seek guidance from Spirit. There were many times when I could hear Spirit talking through him. And I tried to record those as best I could. For instance, there are two quotes that And then there was the Circle of Light when appear on the book cover that just say everything ministers came for a whole week, 24/7 to be with about who he was. us and just to hold the Light. That was an amazing 42

showers in terms of a graceful, beautiful process of letting go. Light ahead for all of us as we learn the lessons of the Traveler, and rise ever higher! Baruch Bashan!

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Carol would like to hear from you if you have experience with the death of a loved one and have something you would like to share, Please email Carol at carol@msia.org. Ken and Carol’s book, Through Kenny’s Eyes—A Magnificent Journey from Illness to Ecstasy, is available at amazon.com and most online booksellers.

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IIWP MSIA The MOVEMENT of SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS (MSIA) teaches Soul Transcendence, which is becoming aware of oneself as a Soul, and, more than that, as one with God. Soul Awareness Discourses are the heart of MSIA’s teachings. They offer many practical keys to more successful living. Even more important, they offer keys to greater spiritual awareness and knowledge of the Soul. MSIA’s approach is to present activities and techniques that direct us toward the Spirit and loving that are the essence of who we are, and to provide support for practicing those things if people choose to use them.

In MSIA we respect any approach that encourages people on their path home to God. We certainly don’t claim to have the only way, but we do have a way that is assisting thousands of people to do this while experiencing greater health, happiness, abundance, and joy. The foundation of MSIA is loving, and it is in that spirit that we invite you to participate with us in whatever way works for you.

MSIA, P.O. Box 513935, L.A., CA 90051, (323) 737-4055 Have you traveled the MSIA Website yet? www.msia.org

PTS PEACE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY & COLLEGE OF PHILOSOPHY (PTS) provides spiritual education to students in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) and to the general public to enhance awareness of Spirit. PTS offers classes, workshops, retreats, correspondence courses, a Master of Spiritual Science (MSS) degree, and a Doctor of Spiritual Science (DSS) degree.

Founded in 1977 by John-Roger, PTS is a private, non-denominational educational seminary that teaches practical spirituality in our changing world. PTS maintains that our primary relationship is with our own Soul, and the business of PTS is to provide educational opportunities that support students in becoming more aware of the Divine in themselves. We invite you to join us in expanding your consciousness, enhancing your understanding, strengthening your spiritual awareness, embracing your loving, and allowing grace to lead the way.

Peace Theological Seminary & College of Philosophy 3500 West Adams Blvd.

L.A., CA 90018, (323) 737-1534 www.pts.org, registrar@pts.org

Peace awareness Labyrinth & Gardens Home of MSIA and PTS headquarters in Los Angeles, Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens is a place where people can be in retreat without leaving the city.

Visitors may walk the hand-carved stone outdoor labyrinth, enjoy a moment of peace in the meditation garden, attend regular meditation events and seminars, and join the staff and residents for lunch and dinner during the work-week.

Students in MSIA who come to Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens also enjoy volunteering in the offices and doing spiritual exercises in the solarium.

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INSTITUTE FOR INDIVIDUAL AND WORLD PEACE® (IIWP) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) foundation whose mission is to identify and present the processes that lead to peace. Its unique approach is based on the principle that peace is present and that it starts with us, as individuals.

IIWP presents peace processes through speeches, community peace projects, and workshops. Our workshops are designed to anchor the experience and power of choosing peace as a practical reality in one’s life.

IIWP also owns Windermere Ranch, in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. Windermere offers people the opportunity to explore and experience peace in a natural setting and includes a unique horse program based on communication and mutual respect.

IIWP, 3500 West Adams Blvd P E A C E Los Angeles, CA 90018 (323) 328-1905 peace@iiwp.org • www.iiwp.org Join IIWP on Facebook: http://groups.to/msia/ ...is present

USM USM was founded in 1976 by John-Roger and is a private graduate school offering Master’s degrees in Spiritual Psychology and Spiritual Psychology with an Emphasis in Consciousness, Health, and Healing.Known as the Worldwide Center for the Study and Practice of Spiritual Psychology, USM’s mission is communicating the principles and practices of Spiritual Psychology worldwide through the process of Soul-Centered education.

Soul-Centered education recognizes spiritual reality and begins with the assertion that rather than human beings who have a soul, we are more accurately described as souls having a human experience. This assertion evokes a radical paradigm shift, which results in a psychological and educational process whose goal is to bring forth the beauty, wisdom, and compassion inherent in every human being.

This experiential educational paradigm evokes in students their own answers to the three essential questions: Who am I? Why am I here and what is my purpose? How can I make a meaningful contribution in the world?

USM 2107 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403 310-829-7402, www.UniversityofSantaMonica.edu

Insight University INSIGHT UNIVERSITY is here to assist us in transforming ourselves into loving so that the greater transformation of the planet to loving will take place. John-Roger, DSS Insight University is an nonprofit 501 (c)(3) university offering a doctoral degree in Transformational Leadership. The university’s doctoral program has been designed to transform graduates fully empowered to step forward into the world to educate and develop future transformational leaders.

John-Roger serves as Chancellor for Insight University.

The university is dedicated to expanding and solidifying heart-centered work and a legacy of wisdom so that the work continue to touch people’s lives for generations to come.

Insight University 411 St. Michaels Drive, Suite 2 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Ph: 505-989-1887 Fax: 505-819-5609 Web:www.insightu.net

insight Seminars INSIGHT SEMINARS is an international non-profit educational organization founded over 35 years ago, by John-Roger and created

by Russell Bishop. Insight’s mission is to assist us in transforming ourselves and the world to loving and our purpose is to inspire people everywhere to a life of greater happiness, success and fulfillment, built on selfawareness, loving, caring, compassion and service.

Insight operates throughout the world including North, Central and South America, Australia, Bulgaria, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

Through the Insight Seminar Series, men and women, children and teens are provided opportunities to learn practical skills and techniques for living a happier, more effective, successful, abundant and heart-centered life.

Business Insight is available for companies to create corporate transformation and strategic success through the Business Insight Seminar, Teambuilding or Leadership Workshops, Executive Transformational Coaching or customized programs.

For more information, please visit our website at www.insightseminars.org or call us at 1.800.311.8001 2101 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 221, Santa Monica, CA 90403

heartfelt THE HEARTFELT FOUNDATION, founded in 1979 by John-Roger, is a volunteer-driven service organization which is operated through the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. 100% of donations received go to those we serve. HeartFelt’s mission statement is: “Changing people’s lives through the healing power of heartfelt service.” People and the loving heart are a primary focus of our work, and volunteers are the key to our success.

An important part of HeartFelt’s work is the HeartReach Program, which responds with Light and assistance to members of our spiritual family who are undergoing life-challenging or medical crises.

The HeartFelt Global Network reaches out to our worldwide family, connecting us in our service to our communities, with the intent of sharing and inspiring the serving heart.

For more info please contact Skyler Patton (serve@heartfelt. org) and subscribe to receive future HGN Bulletins at http://heartfelt.org/subscribe-to-heartfelt-global-network The Heartfelt Foundation 3500 W. Adams Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90018 (323) 328.1908, serve@heartfelt.org www.heartfelt.org

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Audio or video seminars with John-Roger or John Morton are held in many communities around the world. They are an excellent way to lift your spirits and further your spiritual attunement. Contact your local MSIA representative or call 323-737-4055 to find the closest home seminar in your area.

If you are just starting the Soul Awareness Discourses, Discourse #1 explains initiation into the Sound Current. You may choose to study the Discourses with the intention to be initiated on this path, or to simply read them as information. If you do choose to study toward initiation, the Traveler works with you more closely, and you may notice a greater spiritual awareness in your own consciousness as this work goes on.

If you are studying toward initiation, you need to write and mail a letter to the Traveler that this is your intention. If you have written and mailed your intention to the Traveler, you can apply for initiation when you have completed Discourse 24.

PTS Classes

The educational arm of MSIA, Peace Theological Seminary & College of Philosophy (PTS), offers experiential learning of Soul Transcendence and practical spirituality in a variety of formats, including evening classes, retreats, weekend offerings, e-mail and correspondence courses, and a 2-year Master’s and 3-year Doctor of Spiritual Science program. For more information, go to www.pts.org, call PTS at 323-737-1534, or e-mail registrar@pts.org.

Loving Each Day Loving Each Day quotes by John-Roger and John Morton are delivered daily to you via e-mail. Start your computer session with a daily e-mail message of inspiration and loving. Available in four languages—English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese—a subscription is free upon request by visiting www.lovingeachday.org.

Loving Each Day e-postcards, on an award-winning site, are also available at www.lovingeachday.org.

The MSIA Ministry The MSIA ministry is for initiates of the Traveler who are called inwardly to serve the spirit of their hearts.

Service may be in any form, from volunteering for the Church to assisting people in need or organizations that serve those people, and anything in between. The only requirement is that the ministry is active and done regularly.

MSIA ministers may perform services, like marriages, that clergy of other denominations are authorized to do as long as they comply with the laws of the locality in which they serve.

People who have received initiation into the Sound Current through the Traveler may request an Application for Ordination packet from:

Ministerial Services In Action • 3500 W. Adams Blvd. • Los Angeles, CA 90018

Writing to John Morton The Ndh Online Visit the New Day Herald online at www.ndh.org for up-to-the-moment stories and travels with John Morton. The e-NDH is a free online subscription which lets you know when new articles and stories are posted on the web. For a free subscription, go to www.ndh.org and click on “Subscribe to NDH by e-mail.”

The MSIA Store A complete catalog of books, audio and videotapes, CDs, subscriptions, and other materials is available at www.msia.org.

Web Ring www.msia.org • www.j-r.org • www.msianortheast.org www.msiaflorida.org • www.msiacanada.org • www.forgive.org www.pts.org (explore the programs, classes, and events offered through PTS. Register for PTS classes, and take a free e-mail class) www.ndh.org (fresh news, articles by J-R and John Morton, daily stories and photos during the Traveler's journeys for peace, and more…) www.lovingeachday.org (send a free e-mail postcard!) www.mandevillepress.org (news about John-Roger and John Morton and their books) www.spiritualwarrior.org (download a free spiritual warrior journal; discover your purpose) www.theblessings.org (look for a sample blessing) www.peacelabyrinth.org (Peace Awareness Labyrinth & Gardens—news, events, information) www.tithing.org (what it is, why do it, success stories and more. Tithe online!) www.seeding.org (what it is, why do it, success stories and more. Seed online!)

Sometimes people reading Discourses, especially those studying toward initiation, want to write to John Morton. Writing often helps you let go of a troubling situation and open more to the Traveler’s assistance inwardly.

As soon as you write to John Morton, he gets the message on the spiritual levels, and they do what Spirit allows. Then, to let go of the situation in your consciousness, you burn or mail your letter. Whether you burn or mail what you wrote, you may find that you get your answers on the inner levels, sometimes very quickly. You may also experience greater calm, clarity, or peace, which can help you go through whatever challenges you face.

We suggest that you place the situation in the Light, ask for clarification during s.e.’s, dreams, etc., and then look for the answers within you. Often reading a Discourse or listening to an MSIA tape (either at home or at a seminar) will provide keys to assist you in handling your situation. You can also refer to any of the numerous books by John-Roger and John Morton to find information that relates to what you are dealing with. These two have shared so much with us over the years, and we encourage you to send your letters via e-mail, using these addresses:

For John Morton: letterjohnmorton@msia.org If you live in the United States and if you send your letter to John in hard copy via the mail, you need to include a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) if you want a reply from either of them.

Many hundreds of people write personal letters each month to The Traveler, so please note that even if you do send a letter by e-mail or if you do send in an SASE with your letter, you may not receive a response back. This does not imply that your concern is not important or that you are being ignored. There simply may be no need for a physical reply, or there may be no answer available to you at the time you write.

In addition to the e-mail addresses above, mail to John Morton can be sent to: MSIA • P.O. Box 513935 • Los Angeles, CA 90051-1935

The John-Roger Legacy Fund The John-Roger Legacy Fund within MSIA ensures that the teachings of the Mystical Traveler are available for many years to those who are looking for them. The Fund’s prime objective is to continue to maintain the archives of J-R’s spiritual work and to share it with the world, and to support MSIA, as necessary, as a conduit to maintain the availability of the Traveler’s teachings and to preserve John-Roger’s legacy.

How to Contribute to the John-Roger Legacy Fund 1. By Mail: Mail check or credit card number with dollar amount and indicate that your contribution is for the John-Roger Legacy Fund: MSIA, 3500 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90018 2. By phone: 323.737.4055 to donate by credit card.

3. Donate online through the MSIA store at: http://www.msia.org/store or through the God Is Your Partner website at: http://www.godisyourpartner.org

How to include MSIA, Heartfelt, or IIWP in your will or living trust • A planned gift in the form of a bequest in your will or living trust is a great way to benefit the Traveler’s organizations. Information to make a donation through your estate planning: • Heartfelt Foundation: Full legal name: Heartfelt Foundation d/b/a of the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA). MSIA Federal tax identification number 23-7137833 • IIWP: Full legal name: Institute for Individual & World Peace d/b/a of Peace is Present Foundation. Federal tax identification number 20-4583765

• MSIA: Full legal name: The Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA). MSIA Federal tax identification number 23-7137833. If you wish, you can specify that your bequest goes to the John-Roger Legacy Fund at MSIA. (The above is not intended as tax or legal advice. We recommend that you consult with a financial or legal advisor for estate planning and tax advice specific to your situation. If you have any questions about giving to MSIA, Heartfelt or IIWP, please contact Mark Lurie by email: mark@msia.org or call 323.737.4055 , ext. 1150.)

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JSU In 2007 I did the “Spiritual Warriors” tour. The further I got :

(continuing from page 19) When he was young J-R was a dancer and an actor. And that’s what I am. I always saw J-R as an artist, someone creative. That’s what set him apart. He knew art, acting, and theater, and then he became a cop, then an insurance investigator, he worked in a psychiatric ward, studied psychology, then he was a teacher, and then a Traveler. He wasn’t born into anything, like being born into the family business. I think he did it all.

away from J-R physically, the stronger he was inside me. I couldn’t believe it. It was like, he’s telling me what to do everywhere I go. It was John-Roger in HD. And then when I get home, it shuts off. And then it’s, “Go take the trash out. Go do this, go get me that.” It’s a different world.

wall. You can go all day. I think I went 72 hours once, and it was insane. I was hallucinating at that point. After 36 hours you’re hearing things. You’re like a radio, hearing noises of the universe, and everybody’s happiness and sorrows.

would normally give me. But what I do get is that J-R has also said: When you’re looking for an answer and you’re really desperate, often the answer is, “Nothing.” A non-answer is an answer.

NDH: The way I experience it is that when I push And there were sweet spots—doing S.E.’s with for an answer it doesn’t come. It comes when I let go J-R or watching TV with him. That was one of my of the pushing. favorite things to do.

Jsu: Someone told me, “You have to cry your tears.”

NDH: Was it different when you were traveling?

I don’t think I’ll ever really cry enough of these tears.

NDH: It seems like the way he guided you was very inner and very non-inflictive. He would give Jsu: When you come back from a trip the energy It’s deep. It’s weird, because it’s been 26 years of livyou the inner guidance, and when he actually said moves. That baton that J-R gave you of total respon- ing here, the physical J-R is seared into my brain, so something outwardly it was to get you back in line sibility is enormous and awesome, and when you there’s a feeling like he could walk in at any moment, if you got too far off. Other than that, you would go come back it’s gone. You’re like, “Darn.” Then you or I have to go drive him. I might be a mental case on your own, with the inner guidance, as long as you just go about your business, or just flake out for a before you know it. But I’m living in a bubble, and weren’t going too far off course. short time. Maybe you watch a movie, go for a run. no one can know what that’s like or judge it—and I’d do it again a million times over. Wherever J-R goes Jsu: Right. In 2007 I did the “Spiritual Warriors” When you’re traveling, it’s like putting on an iron or gets reincarnated, I’m going, because I found the tour. The further I got away from J-R physically, the man suit or a batman suit, but it’s even better than guy I want to be with, and that I got to be with. stronger he was inside me. I couldn’t believe it. It was that. You put it on and you can see and do everyIt wasn’t just me who lost J-R. About five thoulike, he’s telling me what to do everywhere I go. It thing, and you’re aware of everything. Then when was John-Roger in HD. And then when I get home, you come back from a trip you have to turn in the sand people also lost J-R, or maybe a hundred thouit shuts off. And then it’s, “Go take the trash out. Go suit because it has to go to another staff member. sand, and they’re dreaming of J-R. John’s the Traveler And then you’re back to your normal karma, and now and it’s important to support him, and it’s also do this, go get me that.” It’s a different world. you have to deal. It can’t be sweet like that all the important to grieve, and that doesn’t take away anyPeople don’t necessarily understand that often time. But it’s given to you like that when you’re lead- thing from John. No one’s getting away from this. It the further you are from J-R physically, the stronger ing a group and you’re taking care of J-R. was big. It was a big person that we lost. you are, and often the stronger the inner relationI’m an egomaniac. I enjoyed taking care of J-R NDH: The way I see it is that the grieving process is ship. Being around him the feedback was instantaneous, that’s the big difference. But I was in Peru with and taking care of the group, and Israel is my ter- going to go on—either with you or without you. If it people who’d never met him physically who act like ritory. I knew it and I went after it. It was like a goes on without you it becomes unconscious. It’s like me and have the same experiences that I have. That bookend for J-R’s life. It was his 80th birthday, an anything else in life—you can either participate in it blows me away. The Traveler is in everyone equally, amazing trip all the way. The Rabbi at the hotel (who or not, but it’s going to go on anyway. and it’s powerful in everyone. I don’t understand any we talked to in order to make sure we were in alignJsu: I listen very closely and I try to mimic exactly of that; I only understand the bubble that I’m living ment with Jewish law during the holidays) could see what J-R taught me all those years. That’s to strengththat we were there to serve J-R and to serve God. He in, and I wouldn’t want to change it. en my inner core, my true self. I get J-R inside, but said he could see it in my eyes.

It’s very different now that he’s gone. I do miss I don’t know how long grieving lasts. I don’t know outside I don’t get anything yet. My practical treathe physical form. I’m all about the form. When tise in the DSS was about completing at least three people talk about the formless, for me that’s a load if you ever really get over a loss like that. I lost my things every day. And that’s what I do. of crap. When you have a living master in the living grandmother and J-R in one year. It’s funny, I didn’t cry for my grandmother, and I didn’t cry for J-R for NDH: In spite of all that I feel J-R’s presence so room, it’s damn good. a while, but now it’s February and it’s happening. I strongly.

NDH: How do you stay grounded? My experience was responsible for his body and making sure that being at Mandeville with J-R is I’m being pulled out everything went the way he wanted. I was a good Jsu: I recently went to Florida for a funeral and I into all these other levels. soldier and Nat was too. And now it’s grieving…so couldn’t wait to get back here. The energy at Mandevwhat do we do? It’s not business-as-usual for me, and ille is premium, it’s the source—as are other MSIA Jsu: It’s hard-core at Mandeville. You have no time. I don’t think it is for anyone. USM has helped me a properties—Prana, Prana West, the Briggs House It’s not a nine-to-five job. There are days when you lot in dealing with it. and 2101 Wilshire, Windermere, Arrowhead. Whathave maybe three hours of sleep. You go to sleep at ever J-R touched has premium energy in it. This The other day it really hit me. I was like, “Wow, 3:00 am and wake up at 6:00. There’s no time to be thing flows in and out and through everyone and spaced out. It’s beyond boot camp. I loved it. Now I J-R’s gone. Will I be able to see him again?” When everything. wake up in the mornings and I sleep in and it’s crazy. I die I want to hook up with J-R wherever he’s at.

There was no sleeping in back then. When you finally What hotel room is he in, in heaven? How the heck NDH: So it sounds like you’re in a good place. get to go to bed, you’re really done, and you feel like am I going to contact him? But I’ve got his cell phone Jsu: As long as I follow my true self I’m in a great you’re done. You’re begging God, “What else?” And number so I’ll get him. place. If I try to make someone else happy or get apthen you get more juice. J-R gives you juice. And J-R I’ve never lost anybody like this. I don’t know proval or go into a panic or feel lack, it just opens up was basically the opposite of the black hole…he was anything except that I have to stay true to myself, negativity and then you’re lost. I feel pretty strong the white hole of “Preceptor awesomeness energy.” and all I get is “nothing”. Do nothing. I haven’t had inside. But I definitely feel the loss of J-R. It’s like You’re like an electric car that gets plugged into the any inspirational pictures and thoughts that J-R 48

somebody slammed a giant sword through your chest and it’s not healing yet. It’s pretty raw. It’s hard to believe it’s been three months. I’ve had people tell me, “Oh, when J-R went I felt it but I’m back to work now and everything’s OK.” For me, it’s like I hit a brick wall. I’m not in a rush and I’m taking care of myself. It’s bizarre being able to sleep in the mornings. The first couple of weeks I was like, “Wait a minute, J-R needs me. I think he’s up.” And people would call and ask, “Hey man, do you want to go out?” and I’d be like, “Wait a minute, let me check with J-R.” That’s what I had in my repertoire. Now I don’t have to check with J-R, but I check inside.

NDH: Because I wasn’t physically close to J-R like

you were, there’s not a grieving in my basic self. But the loss for me is the energy outside of me. So my body and my basic self are OK, but in my consciousness the world is different. For you, your immediate surroundings are different, and inside of you is different.

For me, J-R wasn’t tied to the basic self like that, but he was always around me in the world, and now it’s like he’s not around me in the world the way he was.

So if I go “out” and focus on the outer world, I can feel that loss. So it encourages me to go inside more.

Jsu: For me I’d have to live on the moon to not have

that outer association. Everything reminds me of J-R in the outer. It’s kind of like PTSD. You wake up with nightmares and sweating, horrible things. It felt like someone blew up something in a terrorist attack, and I’m looking for my legs, going around dazed.

It’s deep in everybody. Definitely having friends and loved ones with you helps. I think J-R talked about how he buried his Mom or his Dad and then went back and did a seminar. That’s unbelievable.

I love looking at J-R photos and memorabilia, and that ties me back into the energy and comforts me. They anchor me and make me feel great. But something that’s written, like the newspaper obituaries, still bothers me. Seeing a newspaper clipping that says, “John-Roger, spiritual teacher, dead at 80,” gets me really bad.

NDH: That outer “truth” that’s in the newspapers

has an unreality to it because he didn’t really die. So reading it is like hooking into a false belief.

Jsu: My basic self is definitely traumatized. But I

never think of anything as separate form me, or the basic self as separate from me. I don’t like saying that the basic self is upset and I’m not. It’s all me. But I loved caring for him. It was therapeutic for me.

I always said I wish we could love others the way I loved J-R. I haven’t always been nice to people. And I apologize for that. There’s no excuse. And it was very hard to be taking care of J-R and you’re up all night, not sleeping much. So you get up the next morning and you’re cranky. There have been some casualties along the way with people’s hurt feelings. But I’m hoping that we can move on.

took responsibility for it, and I don’t mind taking nice to express in. I’m still looking at what I’m going responsibility for it here. Like he always said, “Chew to do. And it’s nice to help others who are worse-off fast, and start eating now.” and put my attention on them and help them, like a family member who passed away. I don’t know what NDH: Is the way you tune into him inwardly dif- to do except to keep busy and don’t just do nothing. ferent now?

And I’m also following love, looking for where love Jsu: The death and the memorial and that whole is going to lead me. process were a lot of logistical distractions. Now I’m And I’ve been 26 years without a woman. It’s an back tuning into him more. My lessons are all there. interesting thing, being in a relationship now. BeI keep repeating to Nicole all the things that he said fore J-R passed away I thought this would be a bleak to me. She’s a sounding board for me. And I’ve got a time for me. It was dark inside of me when I tried to million “J-R said” stories that I tell myself. anticipate it. But now that it’s happened, along with The dreams are what I care about the most. They a new relationship, it’s been a blessing, and whatwent away when J-R died. Now they’re coming back. ever J-R did to set this up was amazing. It was a gift, Some are karmic; there are different levels. If I’m a and it really gave me life, because I really didn’t want reflection of everyone else and everyone is a reflec- to be here if J-R left. I thought it would be a dark tion of me, then there is a lot of work being done on time, but now I know that I can handle it. “Dark” the inner after J-R died. I feel that he went to anoth- isn’t evil, it’s, “Damn, my friend’s not in the living er galaxy and for a little bit of time he wasn’t around. room.” You have to think, “What will I do now?” So And then he comes around now. You still feel the you think, “OK, I’ll chat with my girlfriend. Or chat purple and see the purple. You go to John’s seminars with my friends.” But I do love being alone with J-R and you can feel the Traveler. What I recognize as and having conversations with him.

“J-R,” sometimes I didn’t experience right after he When you have J-R in you, he’s like looking died. I checked people comments on Facebook to through your eyes, entertained. I would feel like see what everyone else was feeling. People seem to the Holy Spirit was next to me in companionship, be having a lot of inner experiences but the outer watching a movie together, like we always used to “bubble” is not in the world. On the inner I’ve been do. That would be a better way to describe it. I had having great dreams more recently. And just because some dream experiences, a really nice inner connecwe’re not having conscious dreams, it doesn’t mean tion, but on the outer I have a lot of comfort. I feel anything. There’s a karmic flow and you’ve got to sit like the Traveler is in me, sitting next to me, enjoying in it and wait to come up for air. There’s something hanging out. I know people have had this experigoing on in the inner, and if you look at the news you ence, where you can feel J-R looking through your can almost guess that maybe we’re all being used. eyes. And you think, “Who’s looking through me?”

When J-R first died I thought he took a piece of And that’s what it’s like here, watching TV or doing everybody with him, and that would be the bridge anything, and you can feel that someone is watching that sits on the shoulders of Christ. At first Nicole and you, or watching through you.

I were walking dazed. At other times I feel like I’m I had a great dream the other day. I’m naked dead and nobody’s told me. And maybe everybody’s driving in a car. (To me, being naked means that I’m dead in the world and nobody’s told us. The inner open.) I call J-R and I ask if he’s hungry. He says, can be disturbing but I’ve had some great dreams, “Yeah, come and pick me up.” And then he says, and some really peaceful dreams. I remember John “Don’t worry about dying, you’ve died many times saying that we’re all looking for the visitation, for the without me there.”

John-Roger visitation.

Knowing J-R, I know that J-R is going to take care of everybody else because that’s what he’s got to do, and I’m strong enough to hold and wait. And that’s what I’m doing.

I have a really nice connection with him on the inner but I love dreams too. It’s been a weird time.

It’s nice having time to dream now.

NDH: I know that J-R said that Jesus built a bridge

into the other levels. I feel like J-R built a few more lanes on the bridge so we can go back and forth a lot more easily and contact him more easily.

Jsu: I agree with you. J-R has used all of us to make

golden super-highway bridges, to make them wider.

We’re on the shoulders of Christ, and the previous Travelers. For me, something big happened on the NDH: It sounds like you were also in the role of be- inner. And whatever was predicted to happen in the ing the bad cop sometimes. world, I think J-R’s helping to prevent it, and we’re Jsu: And I loved being his bodyguard. That’s the way all working it along with him. Maybe he took off you roll. I don’t apologize for anything I did with so he can prevent some things. Babies are still beJ-R. But as far as my approach with other people, I ing born, there’s work to be done. It’s important to do apologize if I’ve hurt their feelings. I would never preserve J-R’s teachings and to make them available. say, “Oh, J-R made me do that.” I did it. I think We have to look at what that’s going to look like in that’s what J-R loved about me. I didn’t cop out. I terms of today’s platforms. Facebook has been really

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