John Smallman

Saul: Your Collective Intent Is the Determining Factor, channeled by John Smallman, November 1, 2013 at: http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com

John’s reading of this message can be found here:
http://johnsmallman.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/2013-11-01-saul-audio-blog-for-friday-november-1st.mp3

Here in the spiritual realms we are watching with joy as humanity’s progress towards the moment of awakening becomes ever more powerfully focused. We have told you many times that it is a done deal, which indeed it is, but your collective intent is the determining factor, the force driving you forwards and homewards so purposefully.

It has always been your collective intent to awaken, ever since the moment of apparent separation, but of course the distractions and enticements of the illusion that you had conceived and built were quite fascinating, and for all practical purposes you had forgotten that ineradicable intent and became lost and distracted in the vast maze that is the illusion.

Many have come among you over the eons to remind you and show you the way home, and finally their loving and persistent efforts are coming to fruition as ever more of you open to the realization that you are indeed eternally alive spiritual beings undergoing learning experiences, requiring physical bodies, that will lead you out of the illusion and home to Reality. The way ahead is clear, there are no obstructions or obstacles that entail any more diversions or detours, just hold the intent to awaken, for yourselves and for all of humanity, and reconfirm it at least once daily, and preferably many times because your task is to wake up and remember with wonder who and where you truly are.

You have a saying: “Home is where the heart is,” which basically means that home, where you all perpetually desire to be, is a state of knowing that you are always and unconditionally loved, and where you want for nothing; but within the illusion that is an almost impossible state to attain. Yes, some of you have wonderful relationships, when judged by your human standards, but even then you know that however good it is something is still not right, something is missing. You are always on the lookout for something more, and that of course is your divine and eternal connection to God.

That connection has never been broken and never can be, but your awareness of it, your knowing it is lost temporarily, and you yearn for it – which is why, as a human, you can never find true satisfaction – because deep within you knowthat that is what is missing in your lives, and there is absolutely nothing that can replace it. A few do become aware of this and turn to God full time for the Love that they know is their due, and in doing so they fall fully and finally in love with God. But only a very few have sufficient dedication and persistence to come to know Him and dwell in His Presence during a human lifetime.

Now, with the intensifying field of divine Love bathing and embracing the planet and all sentient life forms, an awareness of this is growing throughout humanity, that you are indeed spiritual beings. Many are finding this hard to accept. Nevertheless, their awareness is strengthening despite their doubts and skepticism, and resistance is futile. You are beings of Love, eternally connected to your divine Source, and denial of the reality of that divine Truth can no longer be maintained. And for many that is very unsettling.

Having bought into the apparent reality of unreality it can cause considerable emotional distress to acknowledge that you had made an error, and that the environment of pain and suffering that seems to envelop you is a figment of your collective intent. You focus intently on your ingrained beliefs to convince yourselves that you are right, that the world around you is most definitely real – after all you experience it directly with all your physical senses, so it must be real, right? And in that rightness is your unhappiness and dissatisfaction firmly maintained.

So often you are in places or situations where it seems you cannot safely be yourselves, and so you have all donned disguises that you have become so accustomed to wearing that you believe they really are you. Then something unexpected happens and you find the disguise cannot cope with it and an aspect of yourself you had forgotten you had breaks into your awareness. It can be a sense of great strength and ability to cope, or a terrifying breakdown into emotional collapse. Either way it is shocking for you. Rest assured that when something like that happens to you it most certainly is not an accident but a wakeup call, a learning opportunity that you had built into your life path to assist you on your way to awakening.

You can still deny its meaning and refuse to become aware of the lesson with which it has presented you, but even so it will have such an enormous impact on your life perspective that you will eventually have no option but to acknowledge it, leading you to make necessary alterations in your attitudes and behaviors. It is a little like finally admitting to alcoholism or drug addiction and agreeing to take part in a twelve step program. And, as you all know, doing that can be a life saver and a life changer, bringing amazing rewards to those who find the courage to admit that they need help.

You need to keep remembering that a human life on Earth is an ongoing learning experience, an experience you willingly chose to undergo for the essential lessons with which it would present you. Once you accept that and start to accept what life presents to you with equanimity and patience your stress levels will fall, and you will find yourselves far better able to cope with the unexpected situations or crises that life seems to throw at you.

At first, when a crisis occurs, go immediately into your inner space, give yourself time to unwind a little, to relax a little, and then ask for help from your angels, guides, mentors, saints – whomever you feel most comfortable, or perhaps leastuncomfortable calling upon – and you will receive it, instantly. But be aware that the guidance that is offered so wisely and lovingly may not fit in with your presumed need. You will need to be prepared and ready to see things differently so that you can understand, appreciate, and then put into effect the assistance on offer.

Learning life’s many lessons is all about surrendering to Love, God, the Source of all that exists. Love does not judge, blame, condemn, or deceive, It offers a wise and loving embrace that will solve all issues. Holding out for justice or restitution encourages a state of bitterness and resentment that burns – it is like holding your hand in a flame, the only remedy is to remove it. When you first feel the pain that another seems to have caused you, possibly with intent, it is difficult to stand back from the situation and maintain an awareness that that other is also in pain, and that the remedy is Love, because part of you wants to hate! But you know from experience that clinging to a hurt, a mistreatment, a betrayal, or any other form of attack only ensures your own continuing pain.

When in pain, therefore, whatever the reason, go within to ask for help and for a loving embrace. Open your hearts as you do so to be ready to receive the incredibly powerful loving embrace that will be offered immediately, and let your intuitive knowing that you are indeed doing the right thing in that moment relieve the pain and stress that you are experiencing. At a deep level of your being you know this is so, because you know that all is Love.

With so very much love, Saul.

Jesus: Your True Nature is Love, So Make a Point of Being Love in Every Moment. Channelled by John Smallman – November 3, 2013. http://wp.me/p1B8dY-h3

John’s reading of today’s post can be found here:http://johnsmallman2.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/2013-11-03-jesus-audio-blog-for-sunday-nov-3rd.mp3

The enthusiasm to awaken and to know God is intensifying daily as more and more of you add your intent to the human collective intent that God be known and honored all across the planet.

You are going to achieve this by living lovingly and compassionately and by co-operating peacefully and harmoniously to change yourselves, thus letting go of any egoic self-serving agendas to which you may have been attached, and by so doing changing the world into a place of holy joy. This is not a pipe dream, this is an environment that you are working constantly and most effectively to bring into being, and success in your Divine venture is inevitable, because it is the Divine Will.

What is occurring on your beautiful planet is quite astounding, so stand ready to be amazed when you awaken and discover what you have brought into being. You are all part of God’s Divine Creation, and you are, therefore, creating with Him a state of incredible beauty and goodness, the like of which has never before been seen on Earth.

It has been a long time in the planning and a lot longer in the accomplishing as you experience the stages of development from initial design concept to completion in linear time. In truth, however, the entire creative process from inspired idea to fulfillment and completion has taken but a moment, just as long as it took to imagine and intend that it be so.

As Divine Beings your ideas or thoughts, when so intended, are created instantly, in the now moment. That is how creation was designed and it is continually fulfilled by your infinitely wise and loving Father.

However, once you entered your illusory world of extreme limitation this was no longer possible, and because it seems so real to you, you believe that to create anything of value – in fact anything at all – takes a very long time. And because of the limitations with which you have freely engaged this is what you experience. This need not be so! When you awaken these self-imposed limitations will just fall away, leaving you free to create whatever you desire instantly.

Within the illusion the limitations that you imposed on one another, by your collective choice and intent, have enabled pain and suffering on a massive scale to enfold you with apparently no adequate way of relieving it. It appears to be an endemic and constant companion in your daily lives, whether you are a member of the wealthiest self-serving 1% or one of the rest of humanity.

You are all, by your freewill choices, subject to the limitations of the illusion in the form of illness, violence, pain, suffering, and finally death. No one escapes, the wealthy just get to experience their suffering in relative comfort! And that offers them very little actual comfort.

But that is all to end because its time has passed, and the New Age, which was established very recently, is one of joy, peace, and abundance for all, although you still have linear time to contend with and so its fruits are not yet fully apparent. A little more patience on your part is still requested, and that is proving very difficult for many of you because your hopes were raised and then seemingly dashed as apparently nothing of note occurred as the New Age birthed late last year.

Of course there has been an enormous energy shift right across the planet, as evidenced by the public and ongoing disclosing of so much of the endemic corruption that has held you in its thrall for so long. Much has changed, it is just that you were expecting change of a different nature – a magic wand sprinkling fairy dust, perhaps? – to see corruption and all its allies defeated and shamed.

Nevertheless, the intense and powerful field of Divine Love enveloping the planet and all sentient life thereon is having a truly remarkable effect on all of you and your hopes have become a very strong intent that is bringing in the changes for which you have been hoping and praying. The old order is collapsing, their power is dissolving, and their selfish and self-serving agendas can no longer be made manifest.

Political organizations everywhere are in severe disarray, and the economic policies that have caused so much damage worldwide over the last several decades can no longer be displayed as magnificent models that have proven to be effective in bringing wealth to many – the much-touted theory of “trickle-down economics” has rightly been totally discredited. The truth of the matter is, as all are now seeing, that those policies never worked as claimed, that they have always been used to enrich the already rich and disenfranchise everyone else, and that can no longer be permitted.

The days of “every man for himself” are long since passed, but the clearing away of the distrust and damage those policies produced does take time, which is why all that you had been hoping for so enthusiastically is taking a little longer than you had imagined to bear fruit.

The fruit is there and it is growing beautifully, so do not despair – that never helps anyone – observe it growing and swelling as it must prior to becoming ripe and abundant as the harvest approaches. No one will be left out, short changed, or denied their share, for all will partake of this magnificent abundance, and joy will be boundless in the ensuing celebrations.

Keep returning at least daily to your place of inner peace and holy quietness. When you are settled there, reconfirm your intent to be channels of Divine Love assisting all to awaken by living, teaching, and demonstrating Love in action.

All in the spiritual realms are with you encouraging and inspiring you to reach out and lovingly embrace all with whom you interact in any way at all. A physical embrace can often be misunderstood or misinterpreted, but holding the intent to embrace all with Love without engaging in the physical aspect is exceedingly effective, and will most definitely be felt by those at whom it is directed.

But do not let that discourage you from physically embracing those whom you intuitively feel are open to it – remember that seeing loving hugs being exchanged uplifts the onlookers. After all people go to the movies to enjoy watching demonstrations of love in action, and mostly they feel insufficiently loved in their normal daily lives.

Your true nature is Love, and within the illusion no one gets enough of It, so make a point of being Love in every moment, sharing It, and thereby bring all to their awakening.

Your loving brother, Jesus.

Welcome to the Seventh Gathering Around the Pond – Sunday November 3, November 2, 2013 by Aisha North at http://aishanorth.wordpress.com

Dear friends!

Tomorrow we have another Gathering at 21:00 Oslo time. It has been an intense period for many of us, and I think we are all looking forward to this chance to sit down and BE together, united with the magnificent energies that surround this Pond. Here is what the CCs have to say about it:

“As you all know, tomorrow will be an important day in so many ways. The celestial signs will be more than ready to tell you so, and you will all in some way be touched by this magnificent display in the heavens. However, there are other things we would like to focus on now, and that is your role in the about-turn of this precious planet that you all call home, and tomorrow, this will be highlighted for you all.

For as you sit down to connect with this human grid of light you call the Pond, you will all be called upon to give your contribution to this display of love and light that will start to rain down on you all. For you are an intrinsic part of this process, and as you have already seen, you all function as hubs in a wheel. For from each and every one of you there radiates out so much power in the form of enlightened energy, and tomorrow, the force of this power will multiply manyfold.

So as you sit down and open yourself to the powers you carry within, they will be joined by those heavenly messengers shooting out from your benevolent neighbour the Sun, and together, you will once again make magic happen. For you will touch deep, deep within your fellow men in a way you have not been able to do before, and as you do so, a light will go on within them, a light that has been waiting for just this last little push to pull the switch to ON.

So again we say a heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you, as you are not only radiant lights yourself, more than equal to your Sun, you are also mirrors that will reflect this light into the very deepest chasms of despair in your fellow men. And when the light touches ground there, it will put down deep roots that will keep it there forever and beyond.

For you will ignite a slow burning fire in so many by your willingness to act as conduits for this empowering light that comes from Source, and like yourself, others will become as if born again as they too will discover this burning flame within themselves that will help them to find their way out of the cul de sac they have been trapped in for such a long time. So sit down and open up to the most wonderful spectacle of them all, a display of loving energy that will be enough to take the breath away from you.

And while you do so, remember to give yourself a huge helping of this same loving light that you so selflessly bring out to others. For you must not forget that without you, they would not be at the receiving end of all of this love, and without you, the light would have a very hard time reaching out and into all of these beating hearts still unsure of their own capacity to love not only themselves but also the rest of the world. For you also deserve all of the accolades and all of the love that will be pouring into each and every one of you, so do not forget to open yourself completely to this shower of love coming your way tomorrow.”

As I received this message today, it reminded me of Rjukan, a small Norwegian town situated in a deep valley. From September to March each year, they do not see the Sun because the mountains block it out. But this week, the winter Sun shone on Rjukan for the very first time ever. They have constructed a mirror that reflects the Sun’s rays down on to the town square, and it was magical to see the joy on people’s faces when the light touched them. (You can read about it and see some photos here.)

We are like these mirrors, dear family, and we are here to send this “heavenly light” in all directions, touching hearts and souls all over this planet. Thank you so much for being a part of this magical task!

With much love and gratitude from me, Aisha

Here are some examples of local time that corresponds with 21:00 Oslo time.

London: 20:00

Helsinki: 22:00

Daylight saving time ends in many areas this weekend, so to avoid any confusion I have not included the whole list this time. You can find your local time here:http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/

As always, you can do this whenever you feel it is best for you. All you need to do, is to sit down and connect with this energy with an intention of being a part of this Gathering.

(Continued from Part 5.)

Everyone will Realize God One Day

Another point upon which all sages are agreed is that it’s the destiny of everyone to realize God one day. Thus this point would also be a tenet of the Perennial Philosophy or Ageless Wisdom, rather than of only some religions.

If everyone of us follows a sacred circle away from and back to God, then it follows that all of us will realize God in the fulness of time. And yet it isn’t something that most people know. Let’s listen to the masters develop this point for us.

Krishna says that:

“All mankind Is born for perfection 
And each shall attain it 
Will he but follow His nature’s duty.” (1)

He introduces the idea that we all have a natural duty, inclination, or path. The duty of one is not the duty of another. If we follow another’s natural duty, rather than our own, we may confuse ourselves and experience dissatisfaction.

Thus a lover of God (bhakti yogi) may find the path of knowledge (jnana yoga) dry or a servant of God (karma yogi) may find the path of knowledge too passive and the rituals of the lover of God unfulfilling. But if we follow our own natural inclination, that road will lead us back to God in the straightest and most fulfilling fashion.

Both Isaiah and Lao-Tzu say surprisingly similar things which have been misinterpreted by many. They both describe how, in time, everything crooked, everything that leads away from God will be made straight, bringing each person at last to God.

“Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.

“And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” (2)

One could say that Isaiah may be pointing to the moment of Ascension when all who are open to the experience will see the Glory of God. The Glory of God is another name for the Divine Mother, also called Royal Glory by Zarathustra.

Every wise saying from a master has several levels of interpretation and Isaiah may very well have been speaking about Ascension. But he is accurate more generally as well: everyone shall eventually see and realize God in the final experience of mergence or union.

Surprisingly Lao-Tzu has a very similar statement to make:

“The crooked shall be made straight 
And the rough places plain; 
The pools shall be filled 
And the worn renewed….

“The saying of the men of old Is not in vain: 
‘The crooked shall be made straight’
- To be perfect, return to it.” (3)

To be perfect is not something we cultivate. We’re always already perfect and need only drop the imperfect ways we’ve added to our repertoire. There’s nothing ultimate we want that we don’t already have, Lao-Tzu tells us.

Remember that when Jesus says “I,” he speaks as the realized Christ and the Christ is the soul, the Atman, the divine spark. In this passage, keeping in mind that he’s speaking on several levels, he says at one level that all shall realize God; that is, that all shall be raised up through enlightenment on the last day of mortality before the first day of immortality.

“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (4)

It would repay us to look at the last verse. Since the Son is the Christ or soul, the prince of peace and pearl of great price, we all, having a soul, already have everlasting life. If all of us are already immortal and always have been, what does Jesus mean by saying that we shallhave everlasting life?

Well, he means that we’ll enter the Kingdom of Heaven or Fifth Dimension, in which we can trade our old body for a new one without ever again needing to go through the experience of being born and growing up from childhood. The soul has always been eternal but it now need not be born and die again in a physical body.

Paramahansa Ramakrishna also tells us that all will be freed through the experience of enlightenment. It’s just that some will reach it earlier than others.

“All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food. All, without any exception, will certainly know the real Self.” (5)

“Let me tell you that the realization of Self is possible for all, without any exception. “(6)

So far we’ve seen the same statement being made by teachers associated with Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, and Christianity. We could continue working our way through all the great spiritual traditions of the world but we’d simply find the same statement echoed.

The fact that it’s echoed throughout the religions means this truth is not available only to Christians or Jews or Hindus. It isn’t that only those who believe on Jesus will be saved: allwill be saved.

This tenet is therefore a universal truth and thus a part of the Perennial Philosophy which underlies all religions and not the exclusive truth of only one religion such as the followers of Christ. And yet many, many people today believe that only those who accept Christ or follow Mohammed will be “saved.” All are bound and destined for glory, not just the followers of one religion.

Therefore the basis of the Crusades and all other religious wars – that one must accept the words of that faith alone – are invalid and have always been so. Millions and millions of people have died for what is essentially an untruth.

These statements are echoed in all religions because they are true. The fact that all will realize God one day holds for all.

(Continued in Part 7.)

Footnotes

(1) Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 126. [Hereafter BG.]

(2) Isaiah 40:3-5.

(3) Lao Tzu, The Way of Life. The Tao Te Ching. trans. R.B. Blakney. New York, etc.: Avon, 1975, 74.

(4) Jesus in John 6:39-40.

(5) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 818.

(6) Ibid., 256.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013