The New Day Herald | September 2015 by Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness

Volume 29, Issue 1 ∙ www.msia.org

www.ndh.org ∙ September/October, 2015

in this edition... J-R: Are You a Resurrected Being? J-R quotes on resurrection John Morton : This and Even Greater in the Christ Mary Magdalene’s French Connection Resurrection: A Community Effort Passage into Spirit: Resurrection in the Christ at Asilomar, CA

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Contents 6 Are You a Resurrected Being?

16 This and Even Greater in the Christ John Morton, DSS

“When you’re true to who you are, there’s an impeccability that comes through.”

John-Roger, DSS

“If you were to be resurrected, would you first have to die?”

36 34 Mediterranean - Sea of Peace Anne Naylor

“. . . I have celebrated the International Day of Peace. . . with a one hour sunrise Ani-Hu Peace chant, together with friends.”

2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions  Candace Semigran  Brenda Fishbaugh  David Morton

Bringing the Light to Lubbock

Resurrection: A Community Effort

Grace Allison Blair

Bea Amnidown

“We began meditation classes August, 2013. Currently 52 people have joined our group, and 3-6 people attend each month’s seminar.”

“Thank you and please note I am wishing to offer back the ‘more than I need’ by being of service. ”

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Grace Allison Blair with Vicki Ecker

“[She] had a successful career as an apostle in Marseilles and Aix-enProvence, and then spent 30 years alone in the wilderness nearby as a contemplative hermit.”

John-Roger’s Challenge recounted by John Morton, DSS

John-Roger Quotes on Resurrection

100% with J-R – An interview with the head of NOW Prods, Phil Danza Interview by David Sand

“[J-R] wasn’t messing around or joking around when it came to the work. . . He had so much energy. “

Editing With Love – Nancy Carter

68 Trusting, Receiving, Choosing, Knowing Bonnie Nickoloff

Remembering J-R

Leigh Merrihew

“Can you imagine searching the archives for the very moment when J-R’s or John’s words coalesce into a brief but complete teaching. “

Are You a Resurrected Being? by

John-Roger, DSS

This article is from a seminar John-Roger gave on Easter Eve, April 22, 2000. Reprinted from the March/April, 2014 NDH

When I have reflected

on the meaning of resurrection, it’s always been a mystery. I asked a half dozen ministers what resurrection means, and everyone, without fail, went back to the cliché, “This was the time after Jesus was crucified. He’d been in the tomb for three days and then he came out. He resurrected out of the tomb.” That’s just about as nondescript as saying, “There’s traffic on the freeway.” We all know that, but what does it mean and why would they use such a word? We know the word “Passover” but we may not know that in ancient times the Angel of Death passed by the doors of Israelites who believed in the one God. The doors were marked with the blood of a lamb so that the Angel of Death would pass by and not kill the firstborn in that house. But the firstborn of everything else in the land, even animals and birds, were all slain by the Angel of Death.

When you see movies about this, the Angel of Death looks like a green gas that creeps under the doors and chokes somebody. No one has really looked at the Angel of Death in the true sense of what it is. Maybe—just maybe—we might not want to be passed over. Maybe we would want to be slain, because the Angel of Death is the Angel of Liberation. It is liberating us from the toils of being slaves in Egypt—which is forming our own karma, which we have to conform to and carry as a burden. But where we go from there has been the mystery. We say, “Oh God, where will I go after I die, oh God? Please don’t let me go to hell.” One of the ancient saints who traveled to hell said that hell was better than earth, and if people knew that, they would just die because heaven has got to be better. This information was given to me and I was asked what I thought about it. I said, “I think that saint must have been masquerading

“From my experiences I found out that God is the resurrection,

and also our willingness to do that which is necessary to bring our consciousness back around and awaken it. . . Often, that’s when our thinking starts.” 6 New Day Herald

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“Do yourself a favor and go and look up the word

“resurrection” and see what each part means in each of its segments, because resurrection doesn’t appear as a puff of smoke and we’re there. It seems to come in a process of energy that comes through in waves, and those waves come through at different times.” @msia.org

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as a saint, because even though our God has His Holy Spirit and His Messiah, the Angel of Death also has his Holy Spirit and his Messiah, and they have duplicate powers and abilities.” It’s very hard for someone to come up against a metaphysical energy and say, “that is not of God,” or “that is of God,” because that metaphysical energy can do things that we can’t, so we immediately assume that it must be of God. It is not necessarily attributable to God as though it is in a direct line with God. It may be attributable in the sense that all things come from God, and therefore so does it, and since God loves all of His creation and that’s part of Creation, therefore it’s also loved by God. But those are philosophical statements, and we have to watch that we don’t live by a philosophy, because most of the time it will fail us. The philosophies are man-made—man-originated, man-talked-over, intellectually taken apart, put together—and then 8 New Day Herald

we try to live that. Some religions have gigantic amounts of material in books, disks, tapes, cassettes, or papyrus that come out of man’s thoughts about what’s going on. Usually, people’s thoughts are just people’s thoughts. If you were to be resurrected, would you first have to die? Jesus had a good friend named Lazarus. He was told by some friends that Lazarus was ill, and they asked Jesus to come and speak the “Word.” Jesus said, “He’s not dead. He’s sleeping,” or some words to that effect. Jesus showed up much later and they berated him: “Why did you not come sooner? He’s been dead for a couple of weeks.” And he said, “Lazarus, come forth.” People were astounded that Jesus was going to call him up from the tomb and they said, “He’s dead. He’s been dead.” One ventured the idea that if he comes forth, he’s going to stink up the place. msia.org

I had an experience with a relative who had passed away. I said “Put the telephone by the person’s ear,” and I said, “Hi, this is Roger.” And they said, “Hello,” and the next day they left the hospital. The fact that it happened is absolutely profound. But the fact that I said what I said and did what I did was courtesy, or good manners. I don’t know if good manners has inherent within it the ability to call forward the dead, but do we really want to call forward the dead? If I were to die now, and people asked, “Well, are you going to resurrect?” I would say, “No.” Would I want to resurrect for some reason? No. Jesus did and I know he did that to accomplish a purpose and a direction. That’s been done, and now it’s time to move on to the next stage of our being. I look at resurrection as awakening, and each morning I resurrect to the newness that is present. Each day there is a responsibility that goes with that resurrection, which is that I must choose back to God and call forward God’s name and say, “Here I am.”

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resurrected, would you first have to die?”

From my experiences I found out that God is the resurrection, and also our willingness to do that which is necessary to bring our consciousness back around and awaken it. We call ourselves forth by getting out of bed. Prior to getting up, we’re lying there in a thinking process or daydreaming. We are a being, but not a productive process. As soon as we get up we start to call forward the abilities of our beingness. Often, that’s when our thinking starts. Some people’s thinking doesn’t start until after they have that first cup of coffee, and others have to go out and go for a walk or a run. Others have to do some morning breathing exercises. All of these methods are valid because they bring you awake from the sleep of the dead. Some of you don’t even remember that you dream, and you sleep the dead sleep of the dead. Others remember parts of their dreams. Most of the rest of us recall parts of our dreams and we wake up because of that. “It’s coming after me. It’s going to get me. Oh my God!” You hear a voice screaming, and you open your eyes and that’s you. What a way to wake up. When you’re coming out of the resurrection into life, is there a prescribed procedure? The Bible only gives one but it does not say it’s prescribed that way. It’s just a narration that says. “Here’s something that happened and here’s how you can go on.” We’ve studied the inner qualities of spiritual awareness in MSIA for many years. We’ve tried them out and we’ve worked them. We’ve seen how they work and we’ve seen how they don’t work. They might work on Monday and Tuesday, but not Wednesday. Don’t complain about Wednesday. It might start again Thursday. Don’t avoid picking it up on Thursday because it didn’t work on Wednesday. @msia.org

“From my experiences I found out that God is the resurrection, and also our willingness to do that which is necessary to bring our consciousness back around and awaken it.”

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“We must be as flexible as the wind and as steady as the North Star.

That means we’re focused on something, and that focusing and foundationbuilding are very important to our spiritual development. The more we do it, and the more we do spiritual exercises, the more Spirit’s strength appears. . .”

John-Roger, mid-1940’s

“But if we don’t watch out, we’ll switch over into stubbornness or

resoluteness. We’ll fight for the right to remain stuck exactly where we are and complain about the stuckness of our life. There are so many opportunities that resurrection offers us. ” 10 New Day Herald

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We must be as flexible as the wind and as steady as the North Star. That means we’re focused on something, and that focusing and foundation-building are very important to our spiritual development. The more we do it, and the more we do spiritual exercises, the more Spirit’s strength appears. But if we don’t watch out, we’ll switch over into stubbornness or resoluteness. We’ll fight for the right to remain stuck exactly where we are and complain about the stuckness of our life. There are so many opportunities that resurrection offers us. Do yourself a favor and go and look up the word “resurrection” and see what each part means in each of its segments, because resurrection doesn’t appear as a puff of smoke and we’re there. It seems to come in a process of energy that comes through in waves, and those waves come through at different times. It’s much like giving a seminar. I come up here with no knowledge and there’s nothing here, and the first part of the resurrection is dropped down in front of me, which is often just a colored light that says, “The Spirit of God is present, and you will speak through that.” If I’m speaking through that, am I speaking to you or am I speaking to the presence of God in you? If I’m speaking to the presence of God in you, why do I do that? Wouldn’t it already know? The presence of God inside of us doesn’t care if we’re asleep or not because it is present in a nowness, and not on a timeline. Have you ever gone to a party and somebody there had a cold and you thought, “Oh my God! They’ve the flu or a cold. I’ll stay away from them.” And two days later you come down with the flu or the cold. Some part of you resonated to the illness they had. You pick up that resonance and produce the illness yourself. And then if we’re in harmony with each other we pass this illness around until everybody’s got it, and then we get rid of it. But what if you’re not in harmony with that? Then everybody gets sick and you don’t. And then you brag to yourself, “I am healthy.” No, you’re not healthy. You just didn’t get that one. Because healthy people don’t die—and so far, they’re all dying. Will they resurrect? The first question to ask is, “Did they pass over or did they get stuck on the way and they’re not there yet?” because you can’t be resurrected from a place where there is no resurrection. @msia.org

Is there a resurrection from the planet earth? Indeed, there is. We can enter into the process of resurrection. How do you think Jesus did it? Did he just say one day, “Oh, I’ll just resurrect.?” I’ll bet he read some scriptures that said there’s a resurrection that went on. Maybe he practiced some yoga to learn how to hold his breath. Maybe he learned how to swim under water for long distances. What was the training that Jesus went through for thirty-three years to prepare him for that moment when he ascended and transcended death? Some have said that because Jesus died and resurrected he overcame death, and that infers that we can too. I’d like to tell you right now that that’s nonsense. He may have done what he did, and there are a lot of questions about that. I don’t have a question about that because I know who he is in Spirit. But I know who others are in Spirit and I have no question about that either. So it doesn’t matter to me if I believe or not, because I don’t have a belief in Jesus Christ, nor a disbelief in Jesus or the Holy Spirit. You don’t have to believe what you know. Do you have to believe you’re sitting in a chair? Or can you, just by your own experience, know you’re sitting in the chair? If resurrection is truly initiation, then when someone does the Archimedes approach (which is “Ah-ha!, Eureka, I have discovered it. I am awakened to this new idea.”) do we automatically believe them? We cannot. We can only take their information and see if it works for us, and if works, it is self-validating and we do not have to get stuck in beliefs. We can get stuck in the energy of how things work and move forward under the volition of our own consciousness, our soul, our spirit, our Lord of the Kingdom of Heaven and God who resides in the Kingdom of Heaven, and put all that together and have a life that is tremendous here—and still fraught with disasters and our ego desires, because this planet comes under the egoic movement of life, while our body comes under the soulic ego movement of spirit. Those are not the same. Some people might say we were resurrected from spirit to the material world. Sometimes it seems like that. Or sometimes it seems as if we were born into something that’s terrific, or we were born into something less than that and New Day Herald 11

we’re supposed to make it better. Since moral issues and good-and-bad are always man’s point of view, we have a very hard time living them. We have a very hard time fighting against them. In some countries when you’re riding in a vehicle you can go very fast. And in other countries if you went half that fast, you’d be in very deep trouble with the local authorities who police that activity. How can we possibly judge or evaluate people’s behavior, when our own behavior is not really under our own control? In the Bible Paul said, “That that I would do, I don’t do and that that I don’t want to do, I end up doing.” He wasn’t in control of what was going on, and certainly not in control of himself. I’d be willing to bet there are people who have said, “Yes, I’m going on this diet and I’m not going to eat this food,” and you ate it. Or you said you’re going to drink so many ounces of water every day and you didn’t. You gave your word and you broke your word. And why not? Everybody lies. There’s no end to the creativity of man. If a lie assists you in the creation of something you want, I think there’s no question that you would lie to have that take place. You might not totally lie but you might fudge around with the figures a little bit. We’re here as part of the divine comedy. We see people do things and we go, “How dumb and stupid.” It isn’t dumb and stupid, it’s funny and hilarious, so we might as well get with the laughter. We have workshops that are of a divine nature and divine origin and divine prompting. The energy of the divine is all through it—and yet somebody will tell a joke that we know is profanely dirty and we don’t want to laugh, but we just crack up and things pop loose from us. God uses anything and everything in order to reach us. He did with me. To reach me he said, “Wake up.” 12 New Day Herald

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The hardest time I’ve ever had trying not to laugh has been in the sacredness and silence of a church, when a thought comes through that is not mine and there’s no way I’m going to be able to keep from telling somebody. The more I try not to laugh and cover my face, the more I snort and the more trouble I make until somebody else gets caught in the disease of the laughter. The laughter just starts rolling around and people start to say, “What’s so funny?” And the reply is, “I don’t know, ha, ha, ha, I don’t know what’s funny.” And the other person laughs too because it’s not funny. How do we know what’s funny and what to laugh at? There’s a mechanism in us that is joy and the manifestation of that joy is laughter. It is often the most difficult to maintain when we hold it back and try not to show that we’re not reverent in a reverential situation. I gave up being reverent a long, long time ago. I said, “Lord, if you want me reverent, you’re in charge here, just go ahead and do it. And if you don’t care one way or another then I’ll just have to put up with people’s opinions.” I found that the people whose opinions I cared about were laughing right along with me. The people whose opinions I didn’t care about were the bosses, and they would come down and say, “Why are you disturbing the service?” And the answer was “I don’t know.” They would say, “You don’t know?” “No.” “You’re laughing and causing disturbance and you don’t know why you’re laughing?” “Nope, I don’t know why I’m laughing.” They would say, “That’s stupid and ridiculous.” They would walk away and sit down and all of a sudden you would see them putting their hankie around their face and their eyes—and if you watched, you’d see their stomach moving. In one minister’s church people are falling out of chairs on the floor, laughing hysterically. He keeps right on going, stepping over people who are on the floor. They stand up to tell him something and they can’t because they start laughing so hard. That man’s either got very thick skin, or he doesn’t care, or he has a church where the presence of the Holy Spirit is known by people’s laughter. I would much rather be in that church so that if something strikes me

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funny, I would be able to laugh. I got a video of it. He was lecturing and things were just funny. He didn’t say anything funny; he was quoting scripture. I could hear other people in the background laughing so I turned up the volume and I realized that this is the laughing church. I watched that video three times and if I watch again, I’ll probably laugh again. The minister’s church has now been condemned by other Christian churches because they laugh during the services. But those people will continue laughing and continue with their life and their loving, and every chance they get they resurrect to a new state of awareness. One man who was a minister of a church stood up laughing and said, “I’ve agreed to take on the forty million dollar debt of my father’s church,” and broke out laughing, saying, “And I don’t have a penny.” A serious Christian television station interviewed him and asked, “Why in God’s name did you do that?” And he said, “Precisely, in God’s name.” They said, “No, you don’t understand.” He said, “No, you don’t understand.” They said, “You took on forty million dollars worth of debt.” He said, “And I did it joyfully and I’m joyful now. I’m going to do it, and we’ve already got half of the money,” because when he went back to his congregation and told them what he had done, they decided to help the poor simpleton out (which is what they had to do anyway). I heard just recently that he has now collected over forty million dollars and the people of his church laugh during all of the services. I’ve heard that there’s going to be a Christian association that’s going to have a name meaning something like, “Come into our church and laugh,” or The Laughing Churches Association. It probably won’t be as big as the Southern Baptist Conference or an Ecumenical or Evangelical church, but it’s going to exist. I would hope that if you were depressed one day there would be one around so that you could go in and try it, and see if you could lift yourself by your laughter. Every once in a while when we’re working together that spirit, the Holy Spirit—which in that church is the laughing spirit—comes through

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here and we all just crack up and we have no really good idea why. But it feels so good for it to come from some place so profoundly deep and wonderful. And I’ve tried to anchor ways back into it to find it. I haven’t been able to do it. But all I have to do is think of doing something really seriously and it starts to show up as laughter as I think, “I’m going to do that? I’m not going to do that. I would like to do that. Yeah, but I’m not going to do that.” But I’ll think of doing that. And then I start thinking about it and I just start laughing and then I sit there wondering, “What was it that I was going to do?” But I know it must have been good. I started keeping a little pocket record with me so that when I’d get an idea about something to do, I’d write down one or two words so I could remember, and after I laughed I could come back and say, “This is what it is. Think of doing that again. Have a good laugh.” These are not just good laughs. These are laughs where the eyes run, the nose runs, the mouth drools, you’re having a hard time with the bladder and you know you’re not going to be able to outlast any of it, so you surrender yourself to the inevitability that you’re going to have a mess on your hands in a few minutes. And the mess never appears because you’re surrendering to God Almighty, who is not a mess nor an author of chaos, nor the author of destruction. And yet, at the same time, that God is in us all. We know that as a man thinketh, in his heart he becomes. If you think “happy” and “joyful” and “abundant,” you cannot think “unhappy,”“not joyful,” and “poverty” because then you go into confusion and doubt, and you die inside with your own thoughts. But once you know that you’re resurrected and you’re a new being, you will continue to be a new being as you stick to that path of knowledge of Light, of love, of sound, and as you keep lifting higher. There is a book called When Bad Things Happen to Good People. It looks at questions people ask, such as why their loved ones die when they were such wonderful people. If you ask those kinds of questions, you haven’t seen the big picture, which is who you really are and what you’ve really done. That’s payback time in your creation. Karma is not like a jury in a court dealing with the law of the land. It 14 New Day Herald

can’t be persuaded by your emotional appeal, but it’s functioning according to the actions that you have created and put forward in some other time and place. You’re responsible as God the creator and you’re getting it back as God the creator, because it is yours. It will not be painful to you; it is painful only to the people who write books like When Bad Things Happen to Good People. They have the same pain as all of us who are left behind, when good people die early and we say “Why God? Oh, why? Why not me instead of them?” God says, “because you’re going to have your misery and punishment from arthritis, from old age, from not getting what you want.” This one got their payment back this way, but before they were born they agreed to it. They chose it, and they chose that which would be their passing over and that which would be their resurrection. And who are we in the undeveloped part of our brain to challenge the developed part of God’s spirit, whose brain has to encompass every brain, even the unused part of our brains? Do we challenge that or do we once again come back to the wisdom of what really is, and say, “Lord, thy will be done?” That is what Jesus the Christ said. If you can take this cup from me, if you can relieve me of this karmic responsibility, please do so and if you don’t, I accept that your will is done. What about Jesus’ own will? He would not exercise his own will against God, the Father’s. He said, “I will exercise my will IN God’s will,” and thereby set up the dispensation for all of the millions of us who follow, so that we can become resurrected beings and enter into God’s loving. Then we can bypass our ego of certainty and doubt and move into what we feel that is the loving, the laughing, and the understanding that all of us are equal in God’s eyes, that we are all children who are growing up and maturing, and that we will reach out and help others. Love and Light to you, and may God place His hand upon your heart, upon your children, and upon your family and turn them into spiritual beings that God will indeed be proud of, so that He will say, “These are also my only begotten children.” msia.org

“Once you

know that you’re resurrected and you’re a new being, you will continue to be a new being as you stick to that path of knowledge of Light, of love, of sound, and as you keep lifting higher. ”

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“You too shall do this and even greater” [John 14:12]. That message from the Christ set up something such that whatever you’re witnessing that the Lord is doing, then your calling is to come into what that is and even greater. There’s a marker in that so we could realize, “Where I’m at, I need some guidance here. I need a reference point.” As has been talked about long-ago, the primary reference point is inside. So that’s the first place to realize, “Who and what is the Lord?” The Lord is inside. But there’s also the part that can be outside. It’s not limited so it can never manifest into the world or into the flesh or into the reflection that’s there. “Greater is he within you than he that is in the world” [1 John 4:4]. That’s another important reference point. Don’t get caught up such that your view is limited to the one in the world, for example, “What I’m seeing in the world is greater than what I see inwardly, and so I sacrifice, or disconnect from the inner experience.” That would be kind of a cardinal misstep of sorts. There’s a state in which you can know beyond your senses. So it’s something unheard. It’s unseen. It’s relatively-speaking unknown, like, “I’m not conscious, but I still know it.” There’s a presence, even though the markings are invisible, inaudible, and unknowable to the perception. It’s still there. That’s part of the quality of what it is. It’s not dependent on our senses. It’s not really dependent on anything. One of the things that’s important to do is suspend things like belief so that you’re not locking into what your mind or feelings would tell you. That’s something that could become a great limitation. You might be getting something that’s really interesting, fascinating, and

amazing on those levels. Yet if you put an equal sign by it, as in a mathematical equation, you’d realize it’s still an illusion. You can be misled by what you think and feel. At the same time, it can seem to be quite amazing, like an amazing thought, like no thought you’ve ever had. That’s where the negative power often works. It works in what would fascinate you, what would grab your attention away from what is positive. Like, “That’s really wonderful! That’s the most wonderful thing that could ever be!” How do you know? You haven’t seen anything yet, why are you declaring this as the most wonderful thing? You may be worshipping something here in the physical world instead of keeping yourself open to what is greater inside. There are a lot of ways that the transmission of Spirit comes across, where we need to suspend whatever it is we’re experiencing. Yet it can be the Lord making itself known to you in a vision, what you hear or see, or through your other senses. The qualifications for what is of the Spirit are that it always works through truth, and it always works through love. So if you can put those two together and ask: Is it true? Is it love? and you get, “Yes,” I’d say you’re close. You’re close enough even if you consciously still don’t know for sure. Could you fool yourself by saying it’s true when it’s not? And saying it’s love when it’s not? Sure. But you’re going to find out shortly. If you’re concluding something’s true, something’s is love, and it’s not, then it’s going to come up short. You’re going to be disillusioned, but it’s in your favor to be disillusioned. So it’s worth going after. If it’s loving, but it makes no sense, then there’s no substance in it, and then that’s probably some kind of fantasy love, and it’s likely to disappear shortly.

“Greater is he within you than he that is in the world”

[1 John 4:4]. That’s

another important reference point. Don’t get caught up such that your view is limited to the one in the world. . . “ @msia.org

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Whatever’s spinning you emotionally is temporary, so it won’t last. So if it’s an emotional love, that’s short term. The mental love is also short term but may be longer. Then there’s the kind like unrequited love that often works through the unconscious. Like, “I know I’m looking for love, but I don’t know what it is. And I search for it,

and I try to join up with it, and then it doesn’t really happen, so it’s not really it but I’ve got to keep going, because I’m not satisfied. I’m not complete until I find this love, this great love.” That could go on for a long time. Often people are in a search for the great love, not really knowing what that is.

God’s mystery is that the love is you. You’re going to find yourself. You’re going to find that God and you are one and the same. Even when it’s in the flesh, it’s still in some way there. It’s just not all there. So you need to transcend. You need to be open to what’s greater in you that is still being consciously discovered.

“When an opportunity comes to you to reject, resist or in some

way attempt to cancel or even curse something, consider that there is a grace period. So if you do react, if you do say something that you really know in your wisdom, in your caring, in your kindness you would not say, that you do call it back. Sometimes that means saying to someone, ‘I’m sorry.’ Sometimes that means having compassion for yourself.”

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To Greater Loving According to Scripture, Jesus said, “He that is greatest among you shall be your servant” [Matthew 23:11]. John-Roger referred to service as the highest consciousness on the planet. So if you looked at those two --- who’s the greatest servant and what is the highest consciousness of service --then you’re going towards how you could be more loving. It’s important to understand that your first love is within yourself, which kind of sounds self-enamored or like we’re joining up with Narcissus. But it’s the great Self, the Self that’s in all people and all things. The great Self that’s God. The service to that One who is in all of the creation and is within you. So how do you serve all things? That would be another way of saying, “How do I love for the highest good of all concerned?” Often what shows up is to love whatever is in front of you. It may be as simple as, “I don’t like red pens. They’re too loud, and you know they try to dominate all the other colors, and they’re obnoxious, and I just don’t like red.” Yet that red pen is part of the creation. Often what we’re seeking is right in us or next to us. So that’s the place for the greater love --- right here, right now in some way. One of the places to look is what or where you tend to try to ignore, avoid, deny, cancel out, eliminate, or negate the love. When you say, “That’s no good, that’s not lovable, that’s not worthy, that’s not worth my time,” often that’s an indication that you’re being led to love more in some way. One of the simplest ways is what I would call, “Setting it free.” That would translate so whatever it is, you have no demand upon it. You release any sense that it should be different from the way it is. Try that on for size for a day and see how far you get. Like, “Today I’m going to go out, and I will not view anything as not being exactly perfect as it is. I will view it all as exactly perfect as it is. And I will in no way struggle or resist anything today.” See how far you get. I have found it’s not possible in the area of the mind or the emotions. Those @msia.org

fields, by their nature, contract, reduce and conceptualize. They can’t help it. They’re not, in a way, designed to be unlimited. They’re designed to be limited, confined and to define things with a viewpoint that’s not the viewing point of all things. It takes great wisdom and great dedication to stay open such that you’re just looking neutrally. That would be a great key --- to look at someone as they are regardless of what they are doing, even if they’re snarling at you so their fangs are showing, their claws are protruding, and they’re attempting to attack you. You can still look at them as a kind of phenomenon, a condition that’s being revealed to you. In the revealing, your choice can be to stay free from them. When something’s coming at you that stimulates your fear, so you’re very aware of your fear, that may not be the easiest circumstance to find love. It can be very challenging. So often what we’re brought to is what we fear and we are asked, “Can we love it?” Not necessarily do you hear this challenge verbally. But in the purpose of the condition or circumstance, it’s asking you that question. Can you stay open? Can you stay neutral towards what is revealing your fear or negative reaction? When someone calls you a name or in some way puts forth what you would consider a threat or something less than positive, can you stay open so that it’s not personal? Can you just see it as something working itself out in God’s creation? That often takes a strong willingness to pull that off, to really stay in your loving so that if something hits at you, you don’t hit back. Can you do that? Can you absorb the hit so it doesn’t return out into the world? That’s a high consciousness. That’s being of service. You can just say, “Yes, I can.” You can claim this ability that comes directly from God into all of Its creation as unconditional loving. This is your divine nature. This is your true nature in your highest consciousness. If the sins of your father and your mother come to you, even all of them --- so every single one of them is put

to you, even stays with you --- you can bring them to the love of God within you such that they are no more. They have no more negativity and are only the pure, whole love of God for all of Its creation. Deep within you is only love in your oneness with God. “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him” [1 John 4:16]. If you can do that, it’s very beautiful in terms of how it makes a contribution to you, to all others, and to the planet. It’s a silent ministry --- whatever comes to you, you bring it to the love in you, and that’s it. Nothing else is necessary. You don’t have to understand it. There’s no need to find out, “Why did you say that to me? Why did you do that?” You just love it. Some people determine there has to be some sort of trial. And the trial is, “Is this worthy of my love? Or is it worthy of my fight or my condemnation?” I don’t find much value in that practice. There’s a far superior practice of choosing to love regardless of what “it is.” My view is there’s a lot to do in the area of loving. It’s really very simple although not necessarily easy or seemingly even possible. For example, we could look at a rug and find something about how we each look upon it that is different. We don’t agree about the rug. We each express a different point-of-view. It’s a perspective with variation. Our differences are not a reason to stop loving one another. There may be a lot of variation in how we see things. We each can love anyway and even love our different views. There’s a lot of freedom in that approach. That’s the consciousness of the Soul. It’s one of the ways you know soul --- everything is in freedom. There’s nothing that’s captive to anything else. God’s not in the business of trapping us and making captives. God’s in the business of expansion and liberating. So if you get in that business yourself, where you essentially set everyone and everything free, then you have no holds on anything, no demands. That’s a very uplifting consciousness. That’s a consciousness of forgiving and loving service to all. And it’s the greatest challenge I have experienced in this world. New Day Herald 19

John-Roger’s Challenge Issue yourself a challenge, and let that challenge manifest to you all the time, that from this moment on, this moment of existence . . .

I will start to find happiness and peacefulness in me. I will call upon the name of God morning, noon, and night. And I will totally dedicate and devote myself to the uplifting of every consciousness who comes by me. Therefore . . . I will smile inwardly and outwardly. I will not be ashamed of my love I will demonstrate my love totally. I will just be there and allow everyone else the same space in which to unfold.”

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“When you can register that you want the highest good then you may need to ask to release any limitations that are no longer serving the highest good. Appeal to the authority of God and ask God to act as your co-creator. Trust and surrender to the Christ Beloved within you as you.”

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Loving it All, Including You

“When we get the view from the Spirit, we see, “Love it all.” That would be a way to solve any circumstance. The practicality of that means as you love it all, you’re included. If you’re loving another, it’s because you’re loving yourself first, not as a stopping point, but as from where this love sources and begins to come forth. It begins in the depth of being that is who we are before we realize it as a thought or feeling.”

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In the level of the Soul and the Spirit, there’s no hierarchy of value that one polarity is of higher or superior value to the other polarity. As we go into Spirit, it comes into an equality. So polarity has no meaning in the Spirit. It’s all one. It’s all integrated. This is good to know as a reference point because then as we look into the mechanistic, dualistic world, we eventually realize there’s kind of an altercation that happens, a positioning that’s not real. However, thank God, it’s temporary. A real good reference point about that is, “I’m going to return to the integrity of who I am spiritually. But temporarily I will be in this polarized position, this manifest position of how my life circumstances articulate and specify. I’m working through all of my experiences for what’s up in my learning, growing and whatever are for my gains and upliftment.” Now if we take the value and the wisdom of what’s here for us, we can all realize we’ll just love who we are and who we are with. It doesn’t matter the conditionality of any of it. So whatever we could consider about the characteristics of a man or a woman or any form of relationship, there is an arbitrariness about each and every condition. Like whatever came out of the deck of cards that was dealt to us, it’s always just circumstantial. And every condition in this world other than change is temporary. When we get the view from the Spirit, we see, “Love it all.”That would be a way to solve any circumstance. The practicality of that means as you love it all, you’re included. If you’re loving another, it’s because you’re loving yourself first, not as a stopping point, but as from where this love sources and begins to come forth. It begins in the depth of being that is who we are before we realize it as a thought or feeling. If we don’t know loving within, then how can we be loving with somebody else? So we need to come into the loving within in order to experience loving with someone else. In order to experience the love of another, I need to be in the love of who I am to know that love. The love of who I am recognizes the love of who you are coming to the love of who I am. And it keeps bridging across.

If you’re looking at how much you haven’t loved yourself, that may hurt. That’s all right. That awareness puts you in a position to adjust. Whatever you’ve used as the reasons, those were arbitrary, like whatever came out of the deck --- you’re a blond, you’re a brunette, you’re fiveseven, or you’re this shape or this color. All those circumstances don’t translate to, “Therefore, I love myself.” They just translate to, “What do I love? I love this characteristic and this characteristic. I have this history. I have this involvement. I made these choices. I have these results, and I choose to love them.” It’s very important to get your love for yourself resonant as a love of God so it’s the foundation of who you are for all of the creation. Loving becomes the source for how you express yourself and how you involve yourself. What’s also amazing is loving heals whatever needs healing. When you resonate in the love of who you are, it’s vibrating and it’s in the foundation of how you express yourself. You go forth in love as your true nature or you don’t go forth. When it’s in that level of resonating, then it has a way of healing all your relationships, all down the line, right through your existence. What that means is all of the things that need healing are going to be healed here and now in the way you relate to yourself and then to others with your love. What’s also beautiful is your loving is not actually dependent on other people or conditions at all. Loving is truly your nature. God is in control, which is really good, because God always has our best interests in mind. As we understand this control, we can then understand how God’s Will is done as the loving of all. So with that understanding, then we choose to be loving of all. We are here to heal and balance ourselves with whatever has happened in our life throughout our existence. We heal by being in acceptance, loving and forgiveness. As we can do this with ourself, we can do this with others. Complete healing is forgiveness of all things. Healing comes from the willingness to forgive. msia.org

Impeccably You When you’re true to who you are, there’s an impeccability that comes through. It registers as a kind of clarity or cleanliness. You are someone who is true and clear. So how would you come into this impeccability? Part of it is how you regard and identify yourself. Of course, it would be wonderful in some way if we could just sign on as, “I’m loving, true, and impeccable,” and just because we sign on, we are thus so. However, it’s one thing to profess, but it’s another thing to be a living demonstration. It takes tremendous dedication and courage to uphold impeccability. You’ll find out about your commitment and courage because in the world impeccability isn’t necessarily sanctified and honored. When someone has this impeccability and sense of honor, then their life has a way of holding it up. There is a kind of reliability with that person --- that when they speak, they give their word to be the truth. And if their word does not hold up in the truth, then there’s a real good reason that still honors the truth. It’s like God spoke instead and moved what is involved in a new direction that upholds God’s impeccability. One of the limitations that God puts in place is what we can handle. That’s completely in our favor. @msia.org

God registers as the highest consciousness, the consciousness of the highest good. The omniscience allows for the knowing. The omnipotence is the ability to do what needs to be done. God has the power, the knowledge, the authority, to keep the highest good in place for all the creation. By employing the highest good, then the limited mind can be suspended and released. And what it often looks like is, “I don’t know how it’s going to work out. I just know I want the highest good and have the willingness to do whatever that requires.” When you can register that you want the highest good then you may need to ask to release any limitations that are no longer serving the highest good. Appeal to the authority of God and ask God to act as your co-creator. Trust and surrender to the Christ Beloved within you as you. And remember, you will be tested from the inside out. But the Lord is within you, as you, loving you always and forever more.

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Dan Brown’s widely popular novel The DaVinci Code began an upsurge in controversy about the nature of the apostle Mary Magdalene and her close relationship to Jesus. Most Christian scholars do agree that she likely was a favored confidante of Jesus Christ, the “apostle of apostles” whose devotion, faith and service led to her canonization and a firm place in important Christian history. Besides a brief description her presence at Christ’s resurrection in the Book of Mark, the Bible also tells of Jesus cleansing her of seven demons, or sins, which some modern scholars believe were actually forms of physical or mental disease. The traditional view of Mary Magdalene features her as a sinful, penitent whore, a reigning image that many modern scholars have disputed. Outside of the conventional canonical writings, the Gnostic texts raised her standing among other early Christian figures. Her time in France, especially, led to a succession of cults and legends that venerate the woman and her contribution to Christianity.

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Mary Magdalene is best known for having been the first one present at Jesus Christ’s resurrection, and a symbol of His power of forgiveness and transformation. Though her true story has been altered, and perhaps many facts added or removed over the centuries, more details and theories of her life have surfaced in recent years, calling into question whether the usual depiction of Mary Magdalene as a sinful prostitute accurately reflects her entire persona. Mary was a common name in those times, and while Biblical texts are unclear as to whether Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalene were actually the same woman, it’s typically agreed that Mary was a devout follower of Jesus, one of the few noted females in Biblical history who spent much of her life carrying Christ’s message to others. The devoted followings that developed around her life and circumstances are often referred to as “cults” in the writings available, with one particular legend gaining ground with devotees in the Middle Ages, and now with many religious historians. “The post-Ascension portion of the legend developed in a great variety of ways,” writes Sherry L. Reames, editor of Middle English Legends of Women Saints, “but the

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dominant version in the West was clearly the one that claimed that she journeyed to Provence in a rudderless boat, had a successful career as an apostle in Marseilles and Aix-en-Provence, and then spent 30 years alone in the wilderness nearby as a contemplative hermit.” The more limited Biblical rendering of Mary Magdalene as merely a wicked, penitent prostitute contrasts with the multiple versions that circulated during the Middle Ages and which expanded her accepted biography. French church historian Victor Saxer, best known for his pioneering work on the cults and study of Magdalene legends, has distilled the most popular French Provence example into components that originated separately and bore changes and additions typical of the Roman Catholic Church’s habit of altering doctrine to please the existing hierarchy. In nowhere more than France have Magdalene cults flourished and added new and varying details to known

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records of the saint’s life. Roman Catholic tradition combined traits of Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany and a third Mary present at the Crucifixion into one woman, the so-called “composite Magdalene” which has become a favored view. The dominant legend, as noted above, highlights her apostolic career in what was then Gaul after three siblings—Mary, Martha and Lazarus— took a dramatic voyage by sea. In greater detail, the leading French tale goes like this: Hostile to those first seeds of Christianity being carried by Mary, Martha and Lazarus, Egyptian Jews eventually put the three out to sea in a vessel without sails, oars or helm. They braved a dangerous passage from the Holy Land to spread Jesus’ teachings after his crucifixion. Their miraculous voyage with other Christians ended with a safe landing in Saintes-Maries-de-laMer, after which they began their new lives spreading Jesus’ teachings around the French countryside.

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Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume Mary’s relics are entombed here. Mary Magdalene is said to have preached to the locals in Saintes-Maries, converting many to Christianity. But since female apostolacy was rejected by the Church at the time, some “monkish narrator” (as described by author Susan Haskins in her book, Mary Magdalene, Myth and Metaphor) decided it was best to change the legend to better conform to prevailing Church doctrine. So instead of preaching after landing in France, the new version had Mary Magdalene seeking a life much like a hermit, one of solitude. Saxer has cited the vita eremetica, this story of her contemplative life in wilderness seclusion, as likely having been borrowed from a Greek legend about a reformed prostitute known as Mary of Egypt.

As this version continues, Mary Magdalene makes her way to a grotto near Provence that’s crowned with an enormous, solitary rock. La Sainte-Baume (“Holy Cave,” baumo in Provençal) became her first sanctuary. Her “life of penance” included deep contemplation and holy rituals; she lifted up each day, fasting and taking of heavenly communion, and traveling the inner realms of light. In the Gnostic Book of Thomas Mary describes the soul’s journey through the spheres. She was the “apostle of apostles, the woman who knew all,” a veneration originally ascribed to a particular sermon given by the 10th century Catholic Saint Odo of Cluny, who’s also credited with being the first authority to combine the three Marys of the Gospels into one woman. In the autumn of her years, legend goes on, Mary had a dream of her death. She started a long journey from Saint-Baume to St. Maximin, named after the first Bishop of Aix who received her and prior to her death gave her the Communion of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. St. Maximin laid her body in an alabaster tomb and prepared his own burial space opposite the monument. Contrasting religious legends and historical records aside, to the faithful Mary Magdalene’s bones had in fact come to rest at St. Maximin. This longstanding belief is strongly enhanced by a “divine inspiration” that reportedly overcame a leading figure at the time: Louis IX’s nephew Charles of Salerno, the count of Provence and son of the king of Sicily. Only five months after the tomb’s discovery, on May 5, 1280, an exhumation of its relics was performed by local civic and ecclesiastical dignitaries and presided over by the inspired Charles.

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“Thus Charles and his allies attempted to reclaim the saint’s patronage and protection,” writes Reames, “. . . But the cult of Mary Magdalen in France was a larger phenomenon than the claims of any single region or family. . . . The tradition that she and Lazarus personally brought Christianity to Gaul in the first century had such patriotic appeal that it remained stubbornly lodged in French popular belief until the nineteenth century, despite the best efforts of historians to debunk it.”

hid the winding path upward. Signs posted along the way read, “Silence.” Warm sunshine enveloped my being. At the top of the gravel trail, a column of stone stairs leads to a re-creation of the Passion of Christ. A few steps further, and there is the opening to the legendary home of Mary. Seven Dominican priests take care of the chapel inside where Mary Magdalene is said to have lived, with an altar and statues of her placed around the grotto. Seven stained glass windows give the dark cave light.

The cult at St. Maximin still lives on as the Catholic faithful commemorate their saint during the week of July 22-28. They visit the famed grotto and hold midnight mass on the night of July 21-22. Days later, the townspeople carry about a blackened skull said to be that of a woman of the first century and believed to be Mary Magdalene’s head. Today, the sacred relic is held the sacristy located in the eastern wing of the Basilica Saint Mary-Magdalene and the Royal Convent in Saint-Maxima, with her other remains held in a tightly secured vault.

As we sat inside on folding chairs, I asked my friends if they would like to pray with me. They agreed, so I called in the Light and we chanted HU and planted a light column in the grotto and the mountain. I was open to receive anything that Mary Magdalene might want to share. Then my friends and I moved around the grotto. I walked down into a smaller chapel where a statue of Mary stood beside some lighted candles. I called in the Light a second time and began doing my tone. A bright, radiant light appeared in my inner vision. The loving face of a beautiful woman appeared and she said to me, “Welcome, sister.” I felt like we knew each other. The loving was very present. There is serenity in Mary’s pure and last castle Magdalo, her mountain home, and everyone is welcome.

On May 14, 2015, Ascension Day of Jesus Christ, two new friends and I walked the steep gravel “La voie Royale,” a royal path used by the French kings while going up to the grotto. The peaceful forest was filled with singing birds; a breeze filled the tall trees that

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SEA OF PEACE

by Anne Naylor

What are Light Colulmns? “Let’s just say that we should all be Light columns first. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, we should be a Light column. Then, wherever we go, wherever we sit, wherever we talk, we should leave a column of our beingness of Light there. We should project it collectively into areas so that we’re just riveting everything together like a cobweb of Light forms, energies that are so intricately intertwined but as graceful as the most delicate lace.” — John-Roger, DSS 34 New Day Herald

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My home, overlooking a beach and the Mediterranean Sea, faces East. Over the past several years, I have celebrated the International Day of Peace (http://internationaldayofpeace.org/) on or near 21st September with a one hour sunrise Ani-Hu Peace chant, together with friends. After the chant, we share a breakfast of fruits, juice, croissants, pains au chocolat, pains aux raisins, and coffee on the terrace, to the sounds of the sparkling sea splashing on the beach, and gulls flying by. These are moments of deep peace to start our day. Throughout the year, I stand each evening on the terrace and thank God for my home, the amazing views I enjoy and all the many blessings that enrich me. I have so very much for which to be grateful. The Traveler has always been truly close by me in the nearly 25 years I have been living in the South of France. In the summer months the beach below is very busy with holiday makers, swimming, playing in the water, squeals of delight from children, families shaded under umbrellas, or relaxing in the sun and catching the rays for their take-home tans. In the evenings, friends gather around long tables for picnics, music and generous conversation long into the night. Although it is a while since I participated in a “live” seminar, I really appreciate all teachings that are presently offered online. I have seen at least one seminar in which J-R asks everyone to hold up their hands and he waves the Light over us. I can even feel the energy coming from him as I watch the recording. So I have taken to “sweeping the beach” below with a similar gesture in the evenings. clearing

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away negativity that has been released with a couple of long sweeps, and then sweeping again a couple of times, asking for blessings of Light for the highest good for the people who will be on the beach the next day. Then I have been hearing about how we can make large Light columns, even 5,000 miles wide. So what about the Mediterranean Sea at my feet? The distance from Gibraltar in the West Mediterranean to Syria in the East is close to 2,500 miles. So I am holding the vision of the Mediterranean Sea of Peace. In my vision, I see all the beaches blessed with Light, the people who sail on the sea in boats, yachts and ships, jet skis, wind surfers, kite surfers, and paddle boarders – all the coastlines – sandy and pebbly beaches, rugged cliffs – the many islands, migrants from war torn countries in the East, and the South in Africa, crossing the Sea to find new lives in Europe, the fish, animals, and all living beings in and around the Mediterranean. Angels of peace, healing and grace are showering their blessings over this beautiful Sea in generous profusion. The Mediterranean Sea has a magnificent Light column extending down from the highest heavens and deep into the centre of the earth, blessing all with Peace and Plenty for the very highest good, from now into eternity. Please join with me in continuing to participate with and share the vision in any way you feel inspired:

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2015 PARLIA MENT OF TH by Candace Semigran

Reclaiming the Heart of

Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Ju

10,000 People 80 Nations 50 Faiths

Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, Utah On October 16, 2015 John Morton and Leigh Taylor-Young Morton will be presenting a workshop at the 2015 Parliament in Salt Lake City, Utah entitled: Silence as a Dynamic Way to Compassion and Peace Awareness. Their workshop will focus on experiencing: Silence as a form of communion, a universal language, its own vibration that transcends differences, hostilities and misunderstandings and attunes us to the oneness, the unity, the humanity of all humankind.

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Learn more about John and Leigh’s workshop ‘Silence as a Dynamic Way to Compassion and Peace Awareness’ —Click Here

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If you want to take a few minutes and experience the power of silence right now, you might enjoy “The Silence Within” by John-Roger, D.S.S. Click the video below:

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In preparation for the 1893 Parliament, the General Committee formulated ten objects of the Parliament: 1.To bring together in conference, for the first time in history, the leading representatives of the great historic religions of the world. 2. To show to men, in the most impressive way, what and how many important truths the various religions hold and teach in common. 3. To promote and deepen the spirit of human brotherhood among religious men of diverse faiths, through friendly conference and mutual good understanding, while not seeking to foster the temper of indifferentism, and not striving to achieve any formal and outward unity. 4. To set forth, by those most competent to speak, what are deemed the important distinctive truths held and taught by each Religion, and by the various chief branches of Christendom.

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the largest and the most inclusive gathering of people of all faiths and traditions. Originally convened in 1893 on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago as part of an original World Trade Fair, this was the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. Today it is recognized as the birth of formal interreligious dialogue worldwide. The intent of Parliament is an interfaith gathering now being held every 5 years, including so-called new religions, to apply the collective wisdom of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religions to establish a global ethic for the needs of the world. For those of you interested in a little history, John Morton previously participated in the 1999 Parliament held in Cape Town, South Africa and the 2009 Parliament held in Melbourne, Australia. @msia.org

5. To indicate the impregnable foundations of Theism, and the reasons for manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faith in Immortality, and thus to unite and strengthen the forces which are adverse to a materialistic philosophy of the universe. 6. To secure from leading scholars, representing the Brahman, Buddhist, Confucian, Parsee, Mohammedan, Jewish and other Faiths, and from representatives of the various Churches of Christendom, full and accurate statements of the spiritual and other effects of the Religions which they hold upon the Literature, Art, Commerce, Government, Domestic and Social life of the peoples among whom these Faiths have prevailed. 7. To inquire what light each Religion has afforded, or may afford, to the other religions of the world. 8. To set forth, for permanent record to be published to the world, an accurate and authoritative account of the present condition and outlook of Religion among the leading nations of the earth. 9. To discover, from competent men, what light Religion has to throw on the great problems of the present age, especially the important questions connected with Temperance, Labor, Education, Wealth and Poverty. 10. To bring the nations of the earth into a more friendly fellowship, in the hope of securing permanent international peace. New Day Herald 37

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to be close to “Madiba” (an affectionate and respectful name used for Nelson Mandela), especially after having seen Robben Island and his tiny prison cell there, where he was incarcerated for so many years.” 38 New Day Herald

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Traveling with a Traveler in South Africa by David Morton Somebody in our group was arranging the

boats to take us to Robben Island. This was the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for decades. The island is located out in the bay fronting Cape Town. We were going to participate as John Morton placed a Peace Pole on the island and in front of the prison building. The island and prison is a designated World Heritage Site, so that the many future visitors would see and experience the Peace Pole. By the time it came to Sunday morning hundreds of people from many countries wanted to participate, so more boats had to be arranged. When it got to be time for the Peace Pole there was a multitude of folks in their colorful national costumes lined up holding their flags from many of the worlds countries. I was standing behind John and off to one side taking pictures. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why, but my abiding memory of that moment in time as I saw all the wonderful colored costumes and the flags

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whipping in the breeze....was of the Nuremberg Rallies in Nazi Germany....back then thousands of people, costumes, flags, and Adolf Hitler whipping the crowds into a frenzy of adulation. But today was similar but different, it had many of the same ingredients, but it was John Morton, it was about peace, about prayer, about God, and coming together to bless a place where men had suffered. It was a wonderful moment in time for me personally. I had the awareness that these people had traveled from all over the world to represent their religions and their countries, and that Capetown in South Africa at the tip of this great continent of Africa was hosting this amazing focus of religion and Spirit on the planet. Another great experience was attending Cape Town City Hall to see and hear Nelson Mandela. Thirty-three years earlier I had been in the Royal Navy based in Simonstown which is close to Capetown. And I had been part of the cast of the Firebird Ballet at the City Hall, while Mister Mandela was soon to reside in

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Photo Left: Entering Robben Island Photo Right: Outside Mandela’s cell

prison close by. Now I was returning to this City Hall to hear the great man speak. When we look back at the twentieth century there have been many infamous men who perpetrated evil on humanity. But for me there have been very few men who were known for their greatness because they espoused peace and compassion to their fellow man....and in my book Mister Mandela was one of the few. Of course he got a rapturous reception from the packed house....it was the hottest ticket in town. I don’t remember a lot of what he said that night. But I do remember a story he told about taking a vacation to the Bahamas with his wife Winnie after being released from decades in prison. They were walking along in Nassau when an American man saw Mister Mandela and said to him, “I know you, you are somebody famous.” To which Mandela responded, “No, I am not famous.” The man said, “Yes you are. What is your name?” Mandela said, “Nelson Mandela.” The man emphatically stated, “I have never heard of you.” And walked away. This anecdote for me summed up the humility of the great man. One day John decided he wanted to go south to the Cape of Good Hope Park, to see the condition of the Light Columns J-R had placed their some years before. So I drove us down there with Joan Beisel, Vincent DuPont, Brenda Fishbaugh, and one local minister. When we arrived at the park it was closed, but there was a man at the gate. We asked be be allowed entry, and even offered him a bribe to let us in...but he was adamant, the park was closed. At that point John said that he could check the Light Columns from there, and that it was all fine. So now we needed to head back to Capetown. I had driven us down the west side of some mountains called the Seven

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Apostles to the park. But I thought we would go back on the other side of the mountains through my old stomping ground, Simonstown. It is a pretty small place, and as we arrive there John says, “There is a good restaurant here.” And he guided me to it. In my mind I am trying to figure out how John could have possibly known of this restaurant. I was the only one who knew we would be going back that particular way....how on earth could John come up with this place? I guess I forgot who I was traveling with! After eating as we walked across the parking lot to the car, John quietly said to me, “You never have to come back to this place again.” Wow! Another day John announced to myself and Brenda Fishbaugh, “You two can teach the Forgiveness Workshop this afternoon. I will be busy in a meeting with many religious leaders.” I don’t know about Brenda, but I started being really worried as I had never taken this workshop. So I said to John, “What about Vincent, he can teach it?” “Vincent will be in the meeting with me. Here is an outline of the workshop. Off you go.” Brenda and I quickly started swotting up on the workshop. When the class started we had people from many countries including some Japanese who didn’t speak English. But to suffice it to say Spirit kicked in and pretty much ran the workshop for us. After we explained things there was one older lady who asked, “Are you telling me if I just say I forgive myself something will happen?” Remembering I hadn’t done this workshop...I just asked for help from Spirit. My mouth opened and the words fell out, “Why don’t you just try it and see what happens.” “Oh, what a good idea.” she said. Afterwards she was pretty happy with her experience, as was I with the way it all worked out with Spirit’s help and guidance. New Day Herald 41

With John Morton in South Africa at the Parliament of the World’s Religions by Brenda Fishbaugh

Joan Beisel, John Morton, Brenda Fishbaugh, and Carolyn Sachs

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at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1999. My mother was Italian, and she would often say, “Vedi Napoli e poi muori!”, which means, “See Naples and then die”. The idea was that seeing Naples is so fulfilling, that one has had a complete life after having been to Naples. I never really understood the saying, until attending the Parliament of World Religions with John Morton and Vincent DuPont. As part of our trip, we rode a cable car to Table Mountain, far atop Cape Town in South Africa. When John Morton called in the Light on the top of Table Mountain, I did have a powerful experience that my life was complete and I could die. To be more precise, I felt that a part of me died and I was a completely different person, in a whole new chapter of my life. Below are my notes from that magical time. I notice in my article that I didn’t even mention that we attended Nelson Mandela’s speech at the Parliament of World Religions! Of course, it was amazing to be close to “Madiba” (an affectionate and respectful name used for Nelson Mandela), especially after having seen Robben Island and his tiny prison cell there, where he was incarcerated for so many years. The lights were kept down while he spoke, as his vision was ruined from the unrelenting sun on Robben island. The Dalai Lama was also present, although I did not see him.

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Posted on Thursday, December 23rd, 1999 at 12:00 am Arriving South Africa – What an amazing night. Monica Willard and Deborah Moldow December 3 I am so excited to be in Capetown! I saw the ad in the NDH for John’s visit to Africa and KNEW I had to be here. I didn’t see how it could happen, but I leaned into it and it all happened with amazing grace and ease. John, Vincent DuPont and David Morton arrived yesterday. They invited me to dinner tonight at the Cape Grace Hotel. 42 New Day Herald

from the World Peace Prayer Society joined us. Monica and Deborah have been working with Carolyn Sachs (MSIA South Africa rep) to put together the Peace Pole dedication at Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned). They aren’t familiar with MSIA, but quickly picked up on the Traveler’s peace. We all connected so easily and had such a sense of intimacy together. John’s magic in full gear.

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Table Mountain Light

December 5 Up before dawn to catch the two ferry boats to Robben Island for the Peace Pole dedication. Carolyn did a remarkable job making this happen—300 people of every faith and the flags of all nations. Ahmed Kathrada, a former prisoner of Robben Island, stood beside John his entire speech and held the South African flag. It was really beautiful. John was so moved by the energy that he was almost in tears. His voice broke a couple of times, but made his words even more impactful. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when the ceremony was over.

December 4 John, Vincent DuPont, Carolyn, David and I attended Yogi Bhajan’s workshop today. Yogi Bhajan is the Master of Kundalini Yoga. He was quite a character and had great simple techniques for removing negativity, increasing happiness and creating more life-force. I really had fun watching other devotees with their master. Yogi Bhajan scolded his sound crew every two minutes—it was just like J-R at Conference. John did a presentation on MSIA at the Parliament of World Religions. We had a small but very interested group. The Parliament is a great forum for our church and John seems very well received. After John’s presentation, we walked outside—a beautiful day with Table Mountain behind us. John put his arms around Joan Beisel (MSIA New York rep who was at the Parliament with United Youth International), Carolyn Sachs and me and then conducted a Moment of Peace. An incredible experience to be touching John when he is wearing his Traveler Mantle. It was a very special moment. @msia.org

After the Peace Pole ceremony, John and I toured the prison and saw Nelson Mandela’s cell in solitary confinement. The cells were so small and the conditions must have been horrible. A good place for a Light Column!

December 6 John and Vincent attended Parliament Assembly meetings today. When John realized he wasn’t going to be able to facilitate his Parliament workshop on Forgiveness, he asked David Morton and me to handle it. It was the most Spiritfilled thing that I’ve ever done. Spirit just charged David and me—we were so full of grace. The workshop went incredibly well. Standing in for John Morton—now, there are some shoes to fill! My three and half days with the Traveler in Africa were the best of my life, absolutely the most amazing time. John is a walking miracle. I’m so blessed to have been in South Africa to experience it. New Day Herald 43

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J-R at the Great Wall of China (Phil Danza on right)

“I did know early on that this was special. I remember putting a mic on him at some seminar in El Paso and I said, “I just want you to know, J-R, that these are the good old days.” I knew it. I knew that this wasn’t going to go on forever, that he was a magnet, that people would be pulled in, that this darshan was there, and the people who got into that would be lifted. You can hear it when you listen to the tapes or watch the videos.” 46 New Day Herald

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by David Sand

NDH: How did you start working for J-R? Phil Danza: In 1974 I was living in Berkeley and coming to southern California for seminars. I was at a seminar here and before it starts I raise my hand and say, “I need a ride to the airport.” J-R says, “I’ll take you.” I thought, “Wow, this is great.” After the seminar we hop into this limo that he had in the early days. Michael Sun was driving. And J-R goes, “Hey, do you want to see my house?” I say, “Sure,” and we come here to Mandeville. They had just bought this place. He takes me in the house and my memory is that we go immediately downstairs. He walks me in and we’re in an unfinished basement, just one big room, the ceiling isn’t in, no lighting, and it’s just filled with junk. We’re standing here, and I’m thinking why is this guy showing me his junk room? What is the deal? And of course this ended up being where my offices

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were for the last forty years. At the time I wasn’t thinking about moving out of Berkeley or coming down here to work or anything like that. I look back on it now and see that he was saying to me, “Here’s the space you’re going to be working in.” Actually a year later I started duping tapes here as my first volunteer job. It took me a while to actually reflect back on that moment in time and realize what it was all about. But there was no explanation. He didn’t say anything like, “In a couple of years you’ll be working here.” NDH: So what’s it like working with J-R? PD: It’s funny. If you move into loving and cooperation, and the oneness and the partnership and the one accord, it’s fantastic. If you step outside of that it’s going to kick your butt. It’s going to be really hard to work that. But if he gets that you’re putting forth your best effort, he’s just there for you. I love the clarity. He was incredibly clear about what he wanted. I enjoyed that. Even though the bar was high New Day Herald 47

in terms of quality, it was something you could reach, and he would support you. You had to remember that he was the boss. But you could ask him anything and he encouraged that. What didn’t work was any kind of dishonesty or withholding—not telling him stuff. The whole game was to constantly dialogue, and tell him what was going on. There was no part of the work that was too small. You could talk about anything. I’m sure a big part of that was getting the light in there. For me, the person that started here and the person that’s here now is the same Soul, but in terms of training, and how I perceive things, I’m completely different. I loved having him as boss. It was just the best. Not that it couldn’t be difficult, because you could be asked to do a lot. There was just this clarity and crispness in how things were done. NDH: Sounds like a lot of work, but fun at the same time.

“For me, the person that started here and the person that’s here now is the same Soul, but in terms of training, and how I perceive things, I’m completely different. I loved having him as boss. It was just the best. Not that it couldn’t be difficult, because you could be asked to do a lot. There was just this clarity and crispness in how things were done.” 48 New Day Herald

PD: You have to understand that back in the day we were all young and we were working seven days a week, and that’s just what we did. There was nothing else going on. It wasn’t like there was another life. Staff was small. It was just so good to have that kind of focus about what we were doing and how he wanted things done. I certainly learned how to write memos. (This was before computers.) You typed or printed it out and made three carbon copies of everything. We knew email was coming someday, you could just feel that things were headed in that direction as computers developed. I don’t know if it made things better. At first it was fun because it was new, but then it snowballed and you could copy all of staff instead of just three people. It made things easier and faster, but I don’t think it really simplified the process. I used to like the fact that I could call J-R on the phone. We would just knock out the work. He wasn’t messing around or joking around when it came to the work, and we picked that up so we really wanted to get the job done well.

Nobody could keep up with him. He had so much energy. He was just this powerhouse. We would travel for weeks, months. There was one time when we traveled for about three months straight. I think that later on he tried to retire to the ranch up in Santa Barbara, to Windermere, but being who he was of course he was going to draw a crowd. And the next thing you knew people were giving him horses and the whole Windermere thing grew. So I don’t think he ever got to retire, and I don’t think he’s retired even now. The physical guy J-R was a nononsense guy but he was also fun. Some of my favorite times were when the business was done and you’re just sitting in the kitchen, and he would start to tell stories. I loved listening to him talk. He could just go on and on with great stories. When I would get around him all questions would leave my mind. It was just a blank slate. I’d plan to ask him questions and I’d get to him and they would just be gone. It didn’t matter. Darshan was on, and you were in that energy field, and you just

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had to figure that if it was important it would show up later. NDH: Did you appreciate all that while it was happening or did you just take it for granted? PD: You take those things for granted when they’re happening. You don’t think that there will be a day when that’s not here. And then when it ends you look back and go, “Oh wow.” But I did know early on that this was special. I remember putting a mic on him at some seminar in El Paso and I said, “I just want you to know, J-R, that these are the good old days.” I knew it. I knew that this wasn’t going to go on forever, that he was a magnet, that people would be pulled in, that this darshan was there, and the people who got into that would be lifted. You can hear it when you listen to the tapes or watch the videos. People would be laughing—and the jokes weren’t always that funny—but it was just the Spirit. The spirit hits you and you’re in that zone, being lifted. Gosh, the juice was present. The darshan was

on 24/7. It wasn’t like it was on from 9:00 to noon. It didn’t work like that. All you had to do was be in the room. NDH: Was it just a physical training for you, or was it spiritual, or both? PD: You What worked also with him was that my intention was to do the best that I could do, and then use my skills, and he would help to hone those skills. I also knew to give him space, that he needed that. He might be looking like he’s reading something but he’d be working. I knew to leave him alone because he’s busy. I still laugh at all of that. I’m still coming to terms with how mystical that was, in terms of what he was doing. You might be sitting there working on something and he’d say, “there’s that thing right there in your body, let’s take that off of you.” At one point he said to me and my wife Brooke, “You have to take into account that you’ve never been to the hospital.” I hadn’t even thought about that. When you look at how many hours we worked, and all the travel, you realize that you

never got really sick. He was letting me know how much support I was getting. I don’t know if people realize how much we worked, and how little equipment we had to work with back in the day. I look at what we had to work with at some of those big venues and think about then compared to what we use now, it was amazing we pulled it off. It wasn’t always easy physically.You were being called on a lot to put your body on the line. He was a taskmaster, he was demanding, but when you mastered a task, believe me, you really learned something. I see lots of people in my field who don’t have that kind of training. They don’t have that kind of carry-through that a lot of us got trained to do. It was a good training ground, even though it was painful at the time. You’d wonder why we were so close-tolerant about stuff, but that’s what really makes it work. He was a guy who could go very wide or very narrow in focus, and he could move those in a moment.

“At one point he said to me and my wife Brooke, “You have to take into account that you’ve never been to the hospital.” I hadn’t even thought about that. When you look at how many hours we worked, and all the travel, you realize that you never got really sick. He was letting me know how much support I was getting.” A later trip @msia.org

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I don’t want to pretend like it was all cookies and cream, but it was cookies and cream if you stayed in the zone and ordered up cookies and cream. If you didn’t want to bring your best you would get your butt kicked. I would watch people try to give it the short effort and it was obvious immediately. It was great, great training, and a lot of it was strength-building. His consciousness was so experienced and so wide, that I did a lot of running to catch up. If you wanted to learn, it was great. He was one of the more brilliant people I’ve been around. He knew so much about so much. But if he didn’t know something he’d tell you that too. As I got more experienced in audio and video, I would build trust and he would give me more to do. But I’m under no illusion that it was anyone but J-R and the spirit who built this. I just followed and did my job. When I got involved there was just his little house in Baldwin Park. There was no Windermere or Insight, or Prana. Later as all those things came online it got busier and busier, and you’d constantly have to adapt. And then there was the travel schedule on top of that. And satellite broadcasts, and then webcasts after that. Then all of a sudden we’re going to do a 2000-person guest event for Insight at the Convention Center downtown. We’ve never done an event for 2000 people. All of a sudden you’re in this huge room and the game is on. That kept happening as things grew. It was never stale, it was always moving. J-R always kept up with the latest technology. He had the first mobile phone, which was like a whole suitcase. Then all of a sudden one day he wanted a walkie link between Windermere and Los Angeles. That was a completely new thing for us to arrange, but people didn’t have much cell service at Windermere, and J-R wanted a way for us to communicate. There was just one mountain peak that had line of sight down to LA and we found it. It was wonderfully challenging, and a bit of a white-knuckle ride, too to get it set up. When we were done people in LA could communicate instantly with people at Windermere and J-R could get daily reports on the 50 New Day Herald

business there. And one time J-R called and said he was down near the Mexican border and he was getting the walkie signal from Windermere! It was fun, but the main thing was we were supporting the work. And even with all that was built, it was never really about the physical level. And yet he assisted me in training me how to handle that level, so that nothing was excluded. The physical was just something to be handled while we’re here. He was smart about it, and he got a bunch of people around him who would handle the physical stuff. But even with all that he never really got to retire. He just moved up to another level. And he was never not the boss. I don’t think I could have worked for anyone better because the training was so multi-level. You were just immersed. And as you attune more into the spirit you can handle the physical even better, because a part of you is paying attention. Then more and more the levels start to become one. If you listen to that voice it will guide you. One morning I got out of bed to go to the bathroom and this voice said, “J-R’s water heater.” That’s all it said. It was so clear. I put on my clothes and went outside to the small shed that housed his water heater, and that thing had come off the slab of cement that it was sitting on, and it was tilted so it was no longer being properly vented. It was a fire hazard. That sounds like woo-woo stuff but it’s also very practical. That voice doesn’t yell; it’s quiet, you hear it, and you just move on it. It happens all the time. I still don’t feel like I’ve scratched the surface of the mystical part of working with J-R.

NDH: There was so much to learn and so much to do. How did you take care of yourself? PD: When I hit forty my body just kind of crashed and I couldn’t work all those hours anymore. I was not doing well. I had to find a new way to take care of myself. I kept trying to go back to the old way, and it was like, that’s not going to work, dude. I had to re-learn how to work, sleep, exercise. It starts to meld into one, where the physical thing I’m doing is for God, spirit and the oneness,

but if I do less of that it’s still no less. It’s still all good. I don’t know how many times I’d see J-R and he would say over and over, “Take care of yourself.” It would be the first thing out of his mouth when he saw me. There’s the whole romance of working for the Traveler, and within that you still need to do SE’s, sleep properly, eat properly. I realized that there was so much to do that you could work 24/7 and you’d never get through it all, so I might as well chill out and do things the best I could while taking care of myself. It’s not about being lazy, it’s about msia.org

And even towards the end he wasn’t talking as much, but he was still so present. He was just more economical with words, more “zen.” I remember helping him into the car, and I was just going through my process, processing all my junk in my head, and he just looks at me and says, “You can be fearful or you can be bright.” He could sum up your whole process in a few words. And that’s been a guiding light for me ever since. But spirit is always present, and he’s still present. We can’t call him on the phone but when we go inside the answers are there. I’m still aware of how much I don’t know, how much I listen to him say the same things in seminars and I’m still working on those areas. That seems to go with the dumbness of the physical level. I remember once putting his microphone on at Conference and asking, “Hey is there something you need?” And he says, “Yeah, remember to press record.” There was always that practicality.

“But spirit is always present, and he’s still present. We can’t call him on the phone but when we go inside the answers are there. I’m still aware of how much I don’t know, how much I listen to him say the same things in seminars and I’m still working on those areas.” being wise, and using a more efficient approach to this level. And I found that when I went through all that, J-R was so there for me. He’d check in with me almost every night on the walkie. “Hey… what’re you doing?” He was letting me know he supported me. NDH: And there was such matter-offactness and practicality about the whole thing. I remember putting on his mic at a workshop and he asked how I was, I said fine, how are you, and he said, “I feel like @msia.org

I’ve been beaten up by a baseball bat.” Meaning he had been taking on so much karma from other people. What struck me about it was the neutrality. Usually when someone tells you something like that there’s something on it, some attempt to get pity or some self-pity. But there was just this absolute neutrality. And the next day his face and eyes were swollen and bloodshot, and he looked like a mess, as he sometimes did during workshops when he was taking people’s karma through his body. And I’m putting on his mic and he just starts cracking up. And I start cracking up. And we’re both standing there laughing at the absurdity of the situation, in spite of the situation, like two fools just laughing in the middle of this storm. And then the next day he looks great. PD: Yeah there are so many times like that, where you’re tired, and he’s tired, and you’re just going to go do it anyway. And when it’s done it’s like, let’s go get something to eat. It was always about carrying on but having fun at the same time.

In the very early days I came into work one day where we had all the duping equipment for tapes, and then there was a workbench where another guy used to service all the gear. This guy says, “Oh man you just missed it. J-R was just here and he comes downstairs and goes to the workbench and says, ‘Is this the tape deck that’s been messing up my work?’” The guy says yeah, and J-R takes the tape deck—it was an old reel-to-reel deck— and he just drops it onto the concrete slab, and it just shatters. And J-R says, “Well that’s the last time it’s going to do that.” I used that as a reference point for people who would come to work for NOW Productions. I would say, “Look, the game here is fix it or get a new one. But it has to work. Because J-R does not want stuff messing up his media.” That’s always been the guiding light in terms of how things would be done. He’s always loved his media and would always check what he was putting out. As we went from cassette to CD to MP3 to iPods—whatever it was, he was always there checking his stuff. I always thought that was cool. Although he was an English teacher and loved books—I always thought books were kind of his first love—he also really loved his media. New Day Herald 51

NDH: What was it like editing his work? PD: In the early days he would come downstairs and check tapes with us here in the editing bays. He would come into the audio bay with me and tell me what he wanted. He was very clear about how he wanted his stuff edited. He would go, “I want this, this this,” and I’d say, “What about this?” and he’d say, “If you can get that, great.” J-R always used to talk about his “ghost writers” (in spirit) who would assist him in giving seminars. If you listen to his original recordings, they are so clear. The English, the syntax, everything is so clear that working with the recordings is just so easy. And he was smart enough that he knew that if he blew a word he could just repeat it and we could fix it in post. He was a really savvy guy. I’ve worked with other people’s media and they can be all over the map in terms of sentence structure, and you’d have to sit there and kind of work to re-create something. I’ve worked on J-R recordings where it was like, the seminar starts here, and it goes here, and then it’s Baruch Bashan, and there’s almost nothing to fix. He would pause for tape changes, or sometimes he’d say, “We’re going to cut this part out,” but it was just so clean. On some recordings you can hear him doing the intro, telling jokes, and then all of a sudden the spirit would come in, the seminar starts, “BOOM” and he would just go, and it’s just “on.” He would sometimes tell us that sometimes in the beginning of a seminar he was just talking to fill the space, waiting for spirit to get the script to him. And you can hear where the seminar starts so clearly on the recording. He was always flexible, always open to finding what would work. If he was on stage and his mic needed to be fixed, he would stop everything to fix it. It was never a nuisance. It would have been more off-base to not take care of something like that, because the recording was going to live on. Very practical. He would always come back to the sound table and check in, and ask how things were going. I’m still amazed that we never had a live sound check with him. That was his style. There were no sound checks in the early days for 52 New Day Herald

people who were performing. It was all spontaneous. You could put 3x5 cards on his chair with questions, and he’d answer them. He could do all this amazing mystical stuff and then crack a joke. He could have a great time even telling bad jokes, and crack up. Sometimes it even got into kind of a standup comedy kind of thing. He loved to joke. I remember we were doing a workshop in Yucca Valley, CA and I didn’t like the food. I just thought I’ve got to get out of there and get something to eat. So I jump into the car and head into town, and there’s a Denny’s. I’m thinking that this is great, I can get some steak and eggs, I know I’m on a timeline because I have to get back, and I’ll just sit down quickly at the counter next to this old guy. I sit down and order. All of a sudden I get this, “BAM,” and somebody is hitting me on my shoulder, and there’s J-R sitting right there. I hadn’t recognized him at all. I’m like, “J-R, how did I not know it was you?” He said, “Well, I kind of had the ‘cloak’ on.” There was that kind of fun, and magic at the same time. You didn’t always know what was going on, but you could always just talk to J-R. It wasn’t all about the higher realms and spirit and clearing karma. I remember picking up the phone at the house once and I hear this crowd noise, and it’s J-R saying, “Do you hear that? I’m at the Laker game.” It was so cool, because he knew how much I like basketball, and he was like, “I want to share with you that I’m enjoying being here, and I care enough to call.” You miss that kind of stuff. He was very clear about what he wanted, and when we produced what he wanted it worked great. Our intention was that we’ll spend the 25, 30, 50 hours to get it right, so J-R just has to watch it one time. That’s how that went. He rarely had changes. But the “scripting” was so good that usually it didn’t take that much time. Eventually we found a way to run wires through the ceiling to his bedroom so he could check his media there. We could call him on the intercom and say, “OK J-R,” and we’d press play, and he could lay back in his bed and listen. Later on we set up playback machines and made him copies.

J-R was always on the cutting edge of technology. When he went to Japan in 1988 he said to me, “We’re going to Tokyo, is there some electronic equipment that you need?” I said, “Yeah, a couple of the new DAT digital tape decks.” You couldn’t buy them here yet. That changed everything, in terms of being able to stay on the cutting edge. We always had that great support from him. What I liked was that the bar was always set very high, standards were the highest, and then he would step up to support and make it happen. It wasn’t just idle words. It didn’t happen without his green light. That’s the way it was getting out the thumb drives and remastering all his work. When he said yes, all the support was there, and I loved that consistent approach. Now there are about 96,000 pieces of media in our vault. There may be other catalogs as broad in scope about the human consciousness, but I don’t know of one. J-R touches on just about every aspect of human consciousness. I’m still amazed by it, and I still continue to find new things. And at the same time the core teachings are so simple. As I go through the media database that starts in 1968, it was just MSIA. There was no USM, Heartfelt, Insight, Windermere, etc. He would do five or six seminars a week. I would be amazed at how he could teach school and do that schedule. I just chalk it up to the fact that he was plugged into something special. Back in the day he’s going all the way to Thousand Oaks to do a seminar. Just the amount of seminars he did was amazing. Seminars were $3, or $5 for couples. I had my first light study with J-R in San Francisco in 1971 that was one hour one-on-one with J-R for $50. I remember after that first light study saying to myself, “This guy gets me.” He could just sit with you and tell you how you’re wired, what your karma was. He could show you not just what your positive stuff was, but also the negative stuff, the flip side, so you could clearly see the choices you could make. What I got was, “you’re powerful either way, so choose wisely.” It was so clear. msia.org

One time when J-R was in the Bay Area doing seminars and light studies we asked J-R if he wanted to take a tour of Alcatraz—the old prison had just opened up to tourists. He said OK, and we were in there taking the tour and a guy comes up to us and says to J-R something like, “Have I met you?” and J-R goes, “No.” And the guy walks away and J-R says, “He’s seen me in spirit and thought he knew me here.” And I thought that was so cool, it was like, J-R was always working, always doing his thing, even when I thought we were doing something mundane. NDH: How has your life been different since he’s been gone? PD: I think when anybody important in your life is not around physically, it takes some time to sort it out. You know your life is going to be different but you don’t know how it’s going to be different. I think I’m still in the figuring it out phase. One thing is sure, you can’t replace it. That darshan that was always around him was a very addictive thing. But spirit is always present. So now that he’s not here physically, it means spending more

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time going inside and connecting with that. In a way it’s a good thing because you can get kind of spiritually lazy being around him physically. He’s been gone about ten months now, and I’m still getting in touch with how much I miss him. I remember him telling me about parents dying, and how you reach a point where the pain goes away, but you always miss them. I don’t have that much pain about him, but I remember in the first month or so after he was gone, looking over at his chair in the living room and thinking, “Oh he’s not there.” I miss having him here. I’ll probably never get over missing him. I still miss my mom and dad, too, they passed over many years ago. Brooke and I miss working and traveling with J-R, but we’re so thankful that we were able to assist him with travels to so many countries and working with so many wonderful people. The thing I feel blessed about is that as he was gradually less available, there was a long good-bye where he wasn’t hanging out as much. So it was not a big shock or a big break when he died. I give thanks for that. But I still

miss him. But the cool thing is that because that spiritual part is active, the experience goes on. It’s not like it’s over when he drops the body. We’re still hooked up. But you miss the little things, going by the kitchen and waving hi, going out to eat with him. But the positive part for me is I still work with his media, so I get to see and hear him every day. We just prepped 136 excerpts for the PAT 8, for the trip to France. It’s all still engaged, still really active. The ride doesn’t end. He’s still so active, and he’s still there. You call on him and that energy is right there.

I think when anybody important in your life is not around physically, it takes some time to sort it out. You know your life is going to be different but you don’t know how it’s going to be different.

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John-Roger Quotes

on Resurrection

Q: How can I relate to the idea of the crucifixion and resurrection in my daily life? J-R: Become an eager eater and dissolve everything that comes your way. I think when you’ve done that,

you will have entered into the resurrection. The resurrection is not an end process. It is an ongoing, every day, every second, every moment, resurrecting process. You give up the past to get to the new moment, and you do it with a willingness to do that with the most joy you can find, or the most profound love that can be there.

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J-R: There was a dead fellow in the Bible and his name was Lazarus, and his sister wanted Jesus to

come and help him, but when he got there the fellow had been buried for a few days. She said, “Well, in the future he will be resurrected,” and Jesus said, “What do you mean ‘the future?’ I am the Resurrection and the life right now.” Don’t live for future date, live now. Now is it. That’s really a very profound statement. Don’t worry about the future, don’t worry about the dead.. Here it is, this is where it’s at. That statement of truth is valid even now at this time, so that that worries about the Second Coming of Jesus have missed the continual coming.

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J-R:

The challenge now of the resurrection is: Can we bring lightness into the darkness around us? No one’s going to own up to perceiving darkness, or being in dark. We all like enlightenment, but who goes for “endarkenment?” It’s not popular. By the very nature of what we do, we’re accruing debts and karma from which we’re unable to mend. There are too many broken hearts in the world, too many things that we’ve done that we can’t undo. How are we going to undo all that? It’s past, they’re dead, they’re gone, and we’re here. So how do we forgive? I know of one way, a very simple way, and that’s just to be held, to let somebody hold you until that’s broken free. Jesus sat on the side of a mountain and looking at Jerusalem and said, “I would have held you. I would have nurtured you. You wouldn’t let me.” So what’s our responsibility now? We’ve got to step forward into that in order to be held. If He were to appear, would you allow him to hold you? But he said something else also very interesting: “This that I do, you’ll do, and even greater. Because I’m going to do go to the Father.”

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Some people think that it was Jesus’ death that brought forward forgiveness as a mechanism to get back to God. Actually, though, it was his resurrection that did it all. The resurrection, the transformation, is what is taking care of all the “sin”.

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The man, Jesus, seemed like any other man. And the Christ is the essence of God in every person. All the trials and tribulations, the training and the discipline that Jesus went through were the demonstration that he was part of these earthly patterns. Jesus brought forward, demonstrated, and completely fulfilled the ancient law of Moses—which reads “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” Jesus foreordained even his own sacrifice, and so demonstrated that mankind must perpetually sacrifice the illusions of the physical-material world in order to gain the reality of the spiritual world. In the fulfillment of the law of Moses, Jesus dissolved that law for those who would follow the Christ, and he instituted the law of grace. Through grace, the form of Jesus the man was resurrected as the Christ, as the extension of God almighty, as universal consciousness.

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own ignorance, and proclaimed that those who would call upon his name could not be denied the existence of Light. And so he broke the chains of hell and purgatory and extended to all who follow the Christ consciousness the grace to move from the despair and darkness of their own bondage and imprisonment, into the Light that is the Christ within, into the soul as it transcends all the lower realms and realizes its own joy, beauty, and perfection. The resurrection of the Christ is the transcendence of the soul.

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What is the relationship of Jesus the Christ who lived two thousand years ago to the Christ Consciousness that is here today?

J-R: We all have access to the Christ

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Consciousness today because the Christ said this was possible. And as soon as you say, “I believe,” you’re halfway there. The other half is to demonstrate it. Prior to the time that Jesus entered into the sacrifice, the negative powers confined man to the lower realms of Light. People were confined into the physical, causal, astral, mental, and etheric realms; they could not get back into the Soul Realm, back to God. The cosmic Mirror, which divides the etheric and Soul realms, always reflected man back into the lower reams so that he kept reincarnating back. Jesus came through from pure Spirit and bridged from the positive into negative. In this bridging, he came down into the negative realms and told the negative forces that any human consciousness on any of these lower levels who turns towards God and Light and Purity cannot be denied that turn and that movement. The Bible says it in different words; it says that Jesus unshackled, that He started the resurrection — not just of the physical, but of the whole, total process. This is why He is like one of the great hinges on the door of this dispensation into which we are moving. Buddha was also a hinge on the door, as was Moses and Abraham and many others. But I took at Jesus as being the top hinge. However, without all the other hinges on the door, Jesus’ work would have been fruitless. We are also hinges on the door; we’re also the door and the bridge on the other side of the door and we get to walk across the bridge. That’s our job in this time. We chose it, everyone of us. The key is to do it.

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Your Christ Consciousness will bring you into a position where you can enter into your own Self awareness, 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 Omega from everlasting to everlasting—because you already are. To me, that is the greatest heritage of the Christ Mass or Christmas as we celebrate it. We’re actually celebrating our own birth. We’re celebrating our own resurrection. We’re celebrating triumphantly our own movement back into our own Self or Christ Consciousness. In fact, many of us are rushing into it, arms and heart wide open, full of love and knowing not one thing is coming our way we can’t handle.

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Why would Jesus call Lazarus out of a grave back into physical body life? Why would he raise his own body out of that into a physical body life? Because you don’t get to heaven by dying. It’s really simple. You get to heaven by living. And this level is the springboard to that place—right here. Jesus was proving that at the time of the resurrection.

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done by John the Baptist. There’s no place where it says that Jesus took them and immersed them in water. But his disciples were baptizing as part of the doctrinal statement of John the Baptist that Jesus supported and upheld. When he did the initiations, it was very similar in that people would lie in a tomb, like Lazarus, or they would symbolically lie down with nothing on. They would go into the grave as the womb. They might be placed in a box, or a sheet or something similar was placed over the top of them. And then as they were being initiated into the Sound Current, they would resurrect out of that. And they would then be a new person, a new creature in Christ.

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Q: What does it mean in the New Testament when it speaks of the dead in Christ arriving at

the last trumpet and resurrecting from the grave, and “if a man believe in me he shall never die?”

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As a man (and woman) believeth in his heart, that is eternal life. Of course we’re talking about the metaphorical heart, and even then, it’s more than just believing on a word-level, it’s a matter of living that belief as an expression of your next breath. The beauty of your body will die but the beauty of your Soul lives on.

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Find your joy. Discover what you love. connect with your best self.

We would love to have you join us!

“. . .That love and peace

come from within me first, before transmitting to anyone else. It has taught me how to find a balance in me, when the outside world is out of balance.”

- A Class Member Sharing

Bringing The Light by Grace Allison Blair

We began meditation classes August, 2013.

Currently 52 people have joined our group, and 3-6 people attend each month’s seminar. We meet once per month to explore how peace can improve your life. The classes are free. Since moving to Lubbock, Texas from Dallas in June, 2010 I have missed a spiritual community. My husband John suggested I offer MSIA home seminars. In 1973, I found MSIA and the Traveler through Rama Fox and Laren Bright, who opened their homes for people like me who were searching for the spirit. I wanted to share my enthusiasm of the teachings with people who were searching for the joy of the spirit in West Texas. Lubbock is about 6 hours west of Dallas and 10 hours north of Austin. The greater population of Lubbock and West Texas is in the Bible belt, and offering peace through meditation and spiritual exercises was a simple message that I could communicate to them. In August, 2013 I began advertising a class on the Lubbock Meet-Up internet site. The class is called “Finding Peace through Meditation”, from 7:00-9:00 PM in my home. I am not charging for the classes. Here I found an excellent opportunity for my ministry. The evening begins with calling in the light, J-R’s “Our Song of Love” prayer, spiritual exercises, sharing and a J-R video seminar. There is a charge to use Meetup;

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however the results far outweigh the cost. Today fifty-two people have joined our Lubbock group. There are between three to six who attend each month. Several are considering discourses. I plan to offer correspondence courses when we have people on discourses. Meetup.com is the world’s largest network of local groups and has more than 18 million members worldwide. I encourage those who want to reach out to the community for home seminars to join Meetup. More than 9,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities. Here is a link to my site http://www.meetup.com/Finding-peace-through-meditation/ At the end of class, I offer a free two-minute meditation in my voice that they can use anytime, anywhere. I also send them a link to the MSIA website where they can explore MSIA meditation techniques, books and tapes. During the month, I send MSIA links of The New Day Herald, Peace Meditation and the Daily Loving Each Day to keep the newcomers connected.

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to Lubbock Class member sharings:

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“Grace, the class has taught me how to look at myself and know I deserve to be happy with who I am. That love and peace come from within me first, before transmitting to anyone else. It has taught me how to find a balance in me, when the outside world is out of balance.” “I have been interested in meditation for some time but could not seem to find, the right person to help. I have now attended three classes with Grace, and I feel this has changed my life. MSIA is a place I can learn to open myself up to knowing God more and has all the tools to show me what I can do. Grace has helped so much in opening her home and knowledge.”

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The teachings of MSIA and the Mystical Traveler gave me a new lease on my life. Now like a pioneer of the west, I am bringing the Light to Lubbock.

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My ministerial blessing: “Call yourself love and minister through the spiritual heart, the Holy Spirit, The light of the Christ and the Mystical Traveler to all.”

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Want to create your own meetup group? 1. Click “Sign up” at meetup.com to create an account. 2. Then click “Start a Meetup Group” and follow the user-friendly form. Interested in connecting with others? A group of MSIA staff have joined together to create a monthly support call to support our communities around the world that are hosting events for new folks in their area. We’d love to have you join the group and be part of our monthly support calls - held over the phone and via skype.

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Resurrection: A Community Effort

a thank you note from

Bea Amnidown On March 31, 2015 I tripped over a curb and—only— broke both wrists.

“May I return the good by healing daily, inspiring those who think they cannot heal, are afraid to tell the truth and or ask for help. ”

I felt like a little fragile bird with her two wings broken. Arms in casts for 2 months. I am grateful that I did not hit my head, or break my back or legs. 5 years ago I fell and broke my right shoulder. 4 more falls happened where I injured my knees, back, wrist & foot. 30 years ago I was in a head-on auto collision. Arms, ribs, breast, nose, lungs, hip, nose, both legs, foot and eyes were injured. One leg had to be shortened. Why have I had these incidents come to me? I have created them in order to learn about patience, trust and respect. I add faith firmly. I thank the long list of many loving souls who have come as blessings.

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May I return the good by healing daily, inspiring those who think they cannot heal, are afraid to tell the truth and or ask for help. My three daughters, and granddaughters, my spiritual families have exemplified what service is. How the community comes forth in need—Heart Reach, MSIA. Travelers. Ministers were there, are here. I add gratefully The Brentwood Presbyterian Church and my health insurance Kaiser Permanente.

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Living alone and not qualifying for convalescent care elsewhere I knew I would have resources to be cared for in my apartment. I was. One friend immediately moved in to care for me. Others were there to drive me to many doctors. These giving men and women waited, listened and cared. They shopped, prepared dishes, cut my food. Others took me out to eat, to the hairdresser and for mani/ pedi. It felt so good to care for my appearance. I was shampooed in my kitchen sink; sponged, my whole sore, dry body rubbed with lotion and massaged by massage therapists. My physical therapist/ Yoga therapist/ friend came to my home, (and …yes!; a house call) to care for me and placed kinesiology tapes on my arms and right shoulder. I was dressed, fed, and taken on slow gentle walks in a park so I would feel safe and balanced. Students continued to attend my home/studio YogAbility classes. Seated in a chair, right after the fall, arms in casts, my instructions were followed responsibly and with appreciation. Doors and mail needed to be opened, groceries put away, laundry done, a housekeeper, and a caregiver were offered as gifts. Unexpected, generous donations

came in the mail to assist me with expenses due to my loss of work outside my home/studio. I was assisted with trips to the bank, post office, and cleaners. I note that the time I spent with these many people, ministers all, gave me the opportunity to get closer to each one. This includes the medical staff. I could have blamed or judged these accidents. I am forgiving and thanking God which is Love…. for all that has come to me and knowing that I may and I have made this … for my very highest good. At 77 I continue to practice and instruct gentle Yoga therapeutics, adding for my recovery physical and occupational therapy daily. I walk, swim and drive. May I exemplify how a senior woman restores, changes her pace (reducing her activities), modifies her needs, is honest and mindful 24/7 about her situation. I am so grateful to be able once more to hold a book and turn pages, write with a pen, use my computer; to resume my YogAbility instruction and my journalistic life. Again, thank you and please note I am wishing to offer back the “more than I need” by being of service. Please friends and family let me know how I may be there for you.

Bea Amnidown’s Ordination & Blessing 1982

“One of the keys is that of

compassion and empathy. For though this has been your experience in this life, you will begin to know it now from the source. Through it you will begin to discover the unity of all things, so that which appears to be independent action, independent thought, independent will, will begin to merge and blend into the oneness that is.

Through this then, you will begin to experience the depth that is within the hearts of others and most assuredly the depth of your own. Through this discover the tranquility that is of spirit, the timeless quality, the stillness within action, the abundance and vitality within peace.”

I offer one free class to all ministers who have not taken one. Many have taken this when I taught at Prana years ago. Nice to share this again.

- Bea @msia.org

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Being with

John-Roger

Trusting, Receiving, Choosing, Knowing by Bonnie Nickoloff

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Where do I begin? I trust it will never end. J-R is my friend. He always has been and will always be with me.

I have, as all of us have, been so blessed to have known, studied and played with J-R—but most important, I’ve been loved by the Travelers. Having spent physical time with him, doing so many of the things that touch my heart, it’s hard to choose what to write about. He helped me raise my son with his love, support and guidance. I see the teachings in my son David and my grandsons Rylan and Mason. I saw J-R often at Windermere. He allowed and trusted me to participate with the horses as I chose. I was, for all intents and purposes, given the horse Aziri and my boxer BJ by J-R. I spent a great deal of time with the horse Future and the rest of the herd. They always protected me and I enjoyed wonderful adventures filled with joy. We rode Arabian horses at Saqqara in Egypt, on the vast sand dunes overlooking the country club. We also attended the annual Scottsdale, AZ Arabian Horse Show.

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How do you give back to a Traveler? I have a picture taken with J-R at Capernaum, Israel on PAT IV (the MSIA journey to Israel and Egypt) in 1989 that I look at daily. When this picture was taken he was telling me about searching for a Palomino horse. (I had heard about people looking for a horse for him, but at that time I had no interest in finding one.) J-R said that there had been a number of horses found, but none passed the vet check. He looked like a little boy. I thought, “Bonnie, get out of your own way,” and I looked at J-R and said, “I know he is close to me and when we get back to the States I will find your horse.” A month after returning from PAT IV I began looking. The process took about two weeks. As soon as I saw Sonlight I knew he was the horse. After contacting the people coordinating the sale and providing pictures, I was asked if I wanted to know the outcome. I said no. I had fulfilled my commitment.

A couple of months later at a Ministers Meeting it was announced that J-R was at Windermere riding his Palomino, Sonlight. I was excited to get validation of what I knew. Later on at the meeting, a friend told me that many people had looked for Sonlight and that it was J-R’s boyhood dream to own a Palomino. What a privilege and blessing to have been able to give back for the many gifts I had received from my friend! In the late 80s and 90s I was able to spend time with J-R. At a certain point I realized that if I never spent any more time with him in the physical world, I had received more than enough. It makes it easier for me now because he’s always with me and it’s the same in my dreams and memories. J-R did the heavy lifting, and I chose back and will continue to do so. God bless you John and thank you for all you do with your love and support.

J-R and Sonlight

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Editing With Love The Life and Times of Nancy Carter by Leigh Merrihew The author, Leigh Merrihew, left; and Nancy Carter, right

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Heart-to-heart healing is the goodness of one heart moving and touching another heart, which can remove [edit out] hurts, regrets and envies. This other heart will then come forward and touch back to the first heart, and these hearts will start to heal each other. - John-Roger, D.S.S. (Loving Each Day for Peacemakers, Choosing Peace Every Day)

Having spent

the last few decades experiencing the teachings MSIA far from LA, I find a great support coming to me through both through the free seminars online and recordings for sale at the MSIA store. As a result I have developed a deep love for a person I never met, our very own Moment of Peace (MOP) Queen, Nancy Carter. If you don’t know what a MOP is, it’s a short video clip combining an inspirational or thoughtful message with captivating scenery (including J-R, our founder) often played at the opening of a video or on its own. Here is a favorite from our own gardens: Click Here To View: ‘A Moment Of Peace on Soul Transcendence’ Nancy has created and edited nearly every Moment Of Peace published. On my most recent trip to California I tracked down this amazing artist. “I have the best job in the world.” She said at the opening of our interview “I hear J-R all the time, word for word. All the time would be like every day.” Can you imagine searching the archives for the very moment when J-R’s or John’s words coalesce into a brief but complete teaching, then coupling that with music and video? Creating an experience that changes you right then and there? Nancy can, and she’s done it hundreds of times. “I always start with the audio…” She explains of her editing process. “It takes a lot of research to match footage—to match it up with what J-R said in the form of a learning lesson. Sometimes it’s just funny, sometimes it’s just beautiful….” Nancy looks for a certain quality of message that serves as her inspiration. She is “mining” J-R’s works…literally.

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As most of the J-R seminar material has already been published, NOW Productions is turning to J-R’s Q&A’s. Finding sound bites from these seminars takes more listening time. I was of course curious how Nancy made her way to be an editor for MSIA. Had she suddenly felt a pull to serve Spirit or did she have spiritual yearnings as a child? “There are people who saw this bright light but that’s not me… for me it was more getting on a bus, jumping to the back seat where only the black people were supposed to sit and knowing how wrong that really was.” She innately understood unconditional loving.

“Nancy looks for

a certain quality of message that serves as her inspiration. She is “mining” J-R’s works…literally.“

Nancy added “I remember being small. I used to ask myself if I saw someone in pain or having a difficult life, ‘is this what I am supposed to do?’ I spent a lot of my life thinking, ‘What are we doing here? What is our mission, what is my mission?’ “The answer was—and in hindsight I live my life based on this—What’s next in front of me to do? .…The message was ‘you are noticing it but it’s not for you to do.’” What was in front of her during high school in her Cincinnati living room was her first TV. “I made a deal with my mother that I would do homework right after school so I could stay up late and watch the show “Broadway Open House,” a precursor to the Tonight Show. This was before videotape was available so the show was live and great fun, and they made creative use of the cameras, using them subjectively for instance, as if they were another person in the room. That’s when I told myself I wanted to work behind the camera, dreaming up ways to use the resources creatively.” Nancy was true to her dream and eventually made her way to NYC where she progressed from a talent director, associate producer and then producer. “Women had no power and were secretaries… I said, ‘I’m not going to do that’…I worked my way up very quickly. ” She was instrumental, and either the first or second person to put Barbara Streisand on the air.

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After 15 Years she found NYC smoggy and unpleasant; greed became evident in the industry. She and a few friends decided to take a sabbatical in Greece. “Why Greece? Why not? The island of Mykonos was open minded to more unique ways of living.” The time away in Greece did Nancy well. She had always been interested in human relationships and formulated a goal of training to do “what people had asked me to do much of my life...be a counselor. I felt my mission was to help people love themselves enough so they could love others.” And again, though not yet in MSIA this was fulfilling a core teaching as noted by John-Roger: “Sharing with another human being is not only possible but available according to your loving source. You need not be a whim of anyone else’s love-quotient. As love comes out of you as a natural state, that attracts the essence of others who may choose to share their love with you. Then it becomes a matter of each person sharing the loving that is inside of them.” – John-Roger, D.S.S. (From: Relationships: Love, Marriage and Spirit, p. 147) A friend had written to her about Psychosynthesis, so after three years in Greece, she went to Montreal to be trained at the Canadian Institute of Psychosynthesis. She now practices as a Marriage and Family therapist, in addition to her work with NOW productions. Some people might be surprised to see connection between editing and therapy. She explains: “To be a therapist you need to be able to see where peoples’ issues are that they may not be able to see. The rest of it is something to note…but it gets edited out. It’s very much what I do now [at NOW Productions, the audio-visual part of MSIA]…. to see what is useless and what isn’t.”

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Following her training in Canada she traveled to San Francisco to attend a graduate school “much like University of Santa Monica,” but eventually this group turned “cultish”. They began practicing “as if you didn’t spend every second doing their work there, you were taking away from God’s work. I didn’t dare shop for Chapstick or see a movie.” Not a balanced, loving, giving-from-the overflow approach! Thus her quest continued. She was “looking for a guide – I was doing good [on the] inner but looking for an outer teacher.”

And did she find her spiritual family in MSIA?

And in the magic of spiritual coincidences one of her old friends, Mark Holmes, suggested she connect with MSIA. “Someone had already told me about J-R. At the first seminar I really took in the tool ‘Take care of yourself so you can take care of others’… I said if he means it, I am on board. It gave me new permission to take care of myself.” This remains one of the foundational teachings of MSIA.

“It’s fabulous…we’re a team,” she says of her coworkers, the NOW staff/volunteers whose work recently has been devoted to finding messages about the Christ for MSIA’s 2015 Conference. Initially the inspiration for this came from Paul Kaye, who was looking for material for his 12 IHOP classes this year, but now has morphed in the newest packet, The Christ Consciousness This Too You Shall Do.

Nancy has participated with MSIA ever since. “I was looking for spiritual community.” At one point she learned they needed film/video editors and told them “Well, I can do that,” and thus her MSIA career officially began… more or less…as she started doing per diem work. MSIA wanted to hire her full time two years before, but she declined the initial offers. “Why?” she told them – “This is working just fine.” But eventually she agreed and has been on MSIA’s staff since.

When describing the conference release Nancy says: “The project is researching everything J-R said about the Christ and making excerpts about it. That package is really interesting. I am using footage that no one has seen before unless you were at the event.”

When asked if Nancy ever went “out of her body” when listening to J-R, or found concentrating difficult, she said “For me…to carry a J-R vibration that is very healing, attention-getting and beautiful… the answer is not really. I pay attention when I am working with J-R’s material.” Has being embedded in the teachings of MSIA nearly every day helped her? “Over the years I worked with J-R’s teachings word for word and listened. I know it has definitely influenced me so that I feel very clear and very solid in my spiritual life. So my experience is that I am totally guided and I can trust it.” That said, Nancy admits she benefits from reminders. “Yes – I would guess that everybody [does] because there are so many distractions and we are human”. And the lessons keep coming. Did Nancy have an example of this? “I have a good one,” she said with a laugh.

“Take good care of yourself. Find out what works to fill you and balance you; then you can give of your overflow and loving to your family.” – John-Roger, D.S.S. (From: Loving Each Day for Moms & Dads)

“It is very focused—a packed group of excepts in which J-R talks very intimately about the Christ, the Christ energy, and why we should even care. And what he comes to over and over and over, what he assures us, is that we are the Christ already. Our job is to accept that and behave like it. He keeps citing, ‘And this too you shall do.’ saying that we can do that if we choose it, and the ‘that’ is to be loving.” Thank God for small miracles, or in this case, a big one, our amazing Nancy Carter. “Love is given to everyone, just as the sun shines on everyone. Not everyone, however, wants to stand in the sun. So, you are the one who determines the level of your experience with love. Love sits by you until that time when you will let love flow through.” – John-Roger, D.S.S. with Paul Kaye (From: Momentum, Letting Love Lead - Simple Practices for Spiritual Living, p. 15)

“I have some responsibility for the Christmas eve events. In 2014 I was exhausted and out of balance and pushing myself, and I was distracted from taking care of myself. I needed to stop and rest and gather my head up. My body gave me a wake-up call. And I had to stop and apply that teaching to my life.” @msia.org

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“Michelangelo carved a stone, and David emerged. Through my participation in the PTS Masters Program, who I am emerges. Week by week, month by month, patiently, gently, effortlessly, the one I always hoped for, the ‘me’ I knew was there, emerges, takes shape and comes alive.” - MM

Prerequisites: Active subscription to MSIA Soul Awareness Discourses for at least one year prior to beginning of program (12 complete) and active subscription to Soul Awareness Teachings (SATs) For details: check with www.pts.org and www.msia.org

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Prerequisites: Graduate of PTS’ MSS Program, active subscription to MSIA Soul Awareness Discourses and Soul Awareness Teachings (SATs), active MSIA Initiate and MSIA Ministers, regular tither to MSIA, and official acceptance by PTS Administration. Completion of DSS-1 for DSS-2; DSS-2 for DSS-3, etc.

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Directory of Organizations “The journey of your Soul is to return to an awareness of and a oneness with God.” – John-Roger, DSS

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 and to greater spiritual awareness. 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. P.O. Box 513935, L.A., CA 90051 (323) 737-4055 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.

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.

IIWP also owns Windermere Ranch, in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. Windermere offers people the opportunity to explore and experience peace in a natural setting. 3500 W Adams Blvd, L.A., CA 90018 peace@iiwp.org www.iiwp.org (323) 328-1905 Facebook: http://groups.to/msia/

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The University of Santa Monica 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.

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 Soul-Centered education recognizes spiritual reality and begins with the assertion that rather than human beings who have also enjoy volunteering in the offices and doing spiritual a soul, we are more accurately described as souls having a exercises in the solarium. human experience. This assertion evokes a radical paradigm 3500 W Adams Boulevard, L.A., CA 90018 shift, which results in a psychological and educational (323) 737-4055 www.peacelabyrinth.org process whose goal is to bring forth the beauty, wisdom, and programs@peacelabyrinth.org compassion inherent in every human being.

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.”

Founded in 1977 by John-Roger, PTS is a private, non-denomAn important part of HeartFelt’s work is the HeartReach inational educational seminary that teaches practical spiriProgram, which responds with Light and assistance to tuality. PTS provides educational opportunities that support students in becoming more aware of the Divine in themselves. members of our spiritual family who are undergoing lifechallenging or medical crises. 3500 W Adams Blvd., L.A., CA 90018 The HeartFelt Global Network reaches out to our worldwide (323) 737-1534 family, connecting us in our service to our communities, with www.pts.org registrar@pts.org the intent of sharing and inspiring the serving heart. For more info please contact Skyler Patton (serve@heartfelt. IIWP org) and subscribe to receive future HGN Bulletins at INSTITUTE FOR INDIVIDUAL AND WORLD PEACE® (IIWP) is a http://heartfelt.org/subscribe-to-heartfelt-global-network nonprofit 501(c)(3) foundation whose mission is to identify 3500 W. Adams Blvd., L.A., CA 90018 and present the processes that lead to peace. Its unique (323) 328.1908 approach is based on the principle that peace is present and www.heartfelt.org serve@heartfelt.org that it starts with us, as individuals. IIWP presents peace processes through lectures, community peace projects, and workshops. Workshops are designed to anchor the experience and power of choosing peace as a practical reality in one’s life.

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Esprit Travel & Tours Founded in 1975, Esprit serves our community and the general public.Esprit’s Independent Travel Department specializes in creating individually crafted cultural tours of Japan and Asia that journey deep into the arts, crafts, history, culture and cuisine of distant lands. Our custom tour itineraries deliver extraordinary cultural travel experiences. For more info about tours, contact us at: (800) 377-7481 info@esprittravel.com www.esprittravel.com

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

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 self-awareness, loving, caring, compassion and service. Insight operates throughout the world. Through the Insight Seminar Series, people 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. 2101 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 221, Santa Monica, CA 90403 www.insightseminars.org 1.800.311.8001

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MSIA Resources Home Seminars 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.

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, info) 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!)

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.or

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 @msia.org

Initiation Students in MSIA have an opportunity to be initiated through the Mystical Traveler Consciousness into the Sound Current, the audible stream of energy that comes from the heart of God. The levels of initiation in MSIA correspond to levels of consciousness both within and outside each person: astral (relating to the imagination), causal (relating to the emotions), mental (relating to the mind), etheric (paralleling the unconscious), and Soul (relating to who we truly are). There are also initiations above the Soul level. The astral initiation happens in the “night travel” (dream state) after a person has in some way come in contact with the Mystical Traveler; it is not anchored physically at that time, and the person may do no more with it in their lifetime. The next initiation is the causal, which can generally take place (be anchored) after two years of study with the Soul Awareness Discourses. (The astral initiation is anchored at the same time as the causal initiation.) Successive initiations are mental, etheric, and Soul. 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 of being initiated or simply read them as information. This is up to you. If you do choose to study toward initiation, you need to write a letter as soon as you have decided and then email (or mail) it to the Traveler, saying that you are doing this. If you write this letter, the Traveler works with you more closely, and you may notice a greater spiritual awareness in your consciousness as this inner work goes on. After two years of study with the Discourses and if you have written and sent your intention letter to the Traveler, you can apply for causal initiation, generally when you have completed Discourse 24. The Traveler will look into your request, and you may be offered the opportunity for initiation. For astral/causal, mental, etheric, and Soul initiations, the person meets with an initiator and is given an initiation “tone” (the name of God for each realm that applies to the tone), which the initiate chants inwardly during spiritual exercises. These initiation tones are charged with spiritual energy by the Traveler Consciousness for each person individually, and the Traveler assists the student in clearing enough karma on one level to be initiated into the next level. For the levels of initiation above the Soul level, no initiation tone is given physically. For more information about initiation, you could read the chapter called Initiation in John-Roger’s book Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise (available in paper and electronic versions). And we also recommend these seminars by John-Roger: “Initiation—Molding the Golden Chalice” The key seminar about studying towards initiation and being an initiate. Available in CD and MP3 formats. “The Sound Current: The Road Home” An excellent overview of MSIA and initiation. Available in DVD and MP3 formats.

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follows the life and times of Dr. John-Roger...

NY Times #1 Bestselling Author and Spiritual Wayshower. From adolescence John-Roger was aware of much more than this physical level. This film follows his life from early childhood, through a near death experience in his early twenties and the anointing of the Mystical Traveler consciousness, followed by over 50 years of dedicated service to peace and spiritual upliftment worldwide. Breathtaking footage of pilgrimages through the Holy land and travels all across the globe, this visually stunning documentary will inspire and move you.

Subtitles in 13 languages included: English SDH, EspaĂąol, PortuguĂŞs, FranĂ§ais, Polski, Hebrew, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Farsi, Hindi

Tons of special features:

Special commentary by Zahi Hawass, Egyptian archaeologist and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, new 3-D images of John-Roger, never heard before 1956 Voice-o-Graph recording of J-R to his mother, photo gallery and more.

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