5 - The Channelling Activation
From our side when a human reaches up to channel, it is almost an irresistible urge to join with that human if that human is right for that particular guide ... we are unable to resist that call to assist because we have already pledged so to do.
Ortan
Making The Connection With Your Guide
At channelling classes people invariably find that the first time they channel is the most challenging. On subsequent occasions it usually becomes progressively easier.
There are clear stages in the experience of channelling. Usually after the first session people are both exhilarated and very relieved that they really can do it.
What follows is a transcript of a taped discussion with some of my students at an intermediate-level class, which gives a flavour of their experience with channelling. In the interests of confidentiality, I have not given the students their full names.
LITA: What was it like when you first opened to channel?
T: I can do it!
LITA: What was the feeling like when you first contacted the guide?
T: Very natural, a warm feeling.
LITA: What? Physically warm?
J: Yes, warmth in the body.
T: It's like meeting an old friend. Somebody really special.
R: And the depth of love, the quality of love - it's just completely different.
LITA: That's the thing I remember most. It's this incredible love. I mean, I cried my eyes out - did you?
R: Oh yes. I still do.
J: I think I was relieved, too, because I thought I wouldn't be able to do it. So that was another emotion.
LITA: I think everyone who comes to that class ... they think they are going to be the one ... everybody else is going to channel and they're not. And then even when they do ... I think at the beginning ... what about the doubts - did you have a lot of doubts?
R: It was very helpful when you said you all channelled and that all the guides were present, and then that was a real confirmation. You need to be told at the beginning that actually you are channelling, because there are so many doubts and it's so incredible that you really are. You need to be reminded!
During the first channelling session it is common for channels to cry as the guide comes in - tears not of sadness but of joy, as their heart opens to the almost unbelievable experience of the total unconditional love that their guide has for them. When I teach channelling I insist that, wherever possible, participants tape this and all the subsequent sessions so that they have a record of themselves. Listening to those tapes can be very helpful at the later stages of channelling. You can do this too if you are learning from this book.
When you choose to channel a guide, at the beginning there is an important stage which we call the activation process. You do not need to attend a class to experience it. The class is a useful place to experience the initial opening to channel: because all the guides are there, along with angels and other beings of light, the energy is very high and it is very easy to channel in those circumstances. But you can learn to channel without other people being present if you want to. On p. 158 you will find a contact address for the School of the Living Light from whom tapes are available.
Beginning To Channel
When you are ready to channel there are a few things to bear in mind.
Posture is important
To facilitate the connection with your guide, strengthen your back muscles so that you can sit with a straight back. The easiest way to sit is the Egyptian posture with your back very upright, your shoulders relaxed, your feet planted firmly on the floor and your hands resting on your legs. This is a very stable posture and can be sustained for long periods. Move your head very slightly back and forward until you feel that the area where it joins the top of the spine is open and relaxed. By keeping your back straight you are allowing the energy flows in the body to move without restriction.
As the guide connects with you there is often a surge of energy, and if you restrict the flow you can set yourself up for lots of physical discomfort - particularly aching shoulders and neck as well as headaches and other minor discomforts. Don't worry too much about this because any discomfort will pass very quickly, but if you want to channel long-term you do need to pay attention to your posture.
Pre-Empt Interruptions
Put on your answering machine or take the phone off the hook.
Relax And Stay Calm
When you first channel it is a very exciting experience. Try to stay calm and collected, without any particular expectations. This may be difficult; but the clearer and calmer you are, the easier will be the connection for you and your guide. Let your mind be as clear and as calm as a mountain lake.
Surround Yourself With A Bubble Of Light
When you are going to channel, calm your energy, then surround yourself with a bubble of light. Imagine that this bubble is filled with the highest light, the light of your soul, forming a bubble to protect you from any influences that are not aligned with your soul's light and your soul's purpose.
Trust Your Guide
Guides are very loving and caring, and want to help humanity. If you keep this in mind it helps considerably. Don't try to edit what your guide says - this is a great lesson in trust. Trust the guide to know what the person talking to the guide needs to know.
The high perspective of guides means that they have a much broader, deeper understanding of what to say than we do. We operate in day-to-day reality at the personality level; sometimes this is referred to as the lower self or personality self - you at a normal level of functioning. At a personality level it can be difficult to know what a person needs from a reading, but from the level of the guide everything looks very different. Here is an example.
Ortan and I gave a reading to a well-known television personality, a very attractive, high-powered, dynamic woman whom I shall call Jane here. She had been suffering health problems, particularly with her digestion; because she was a workaholic she was not taking enough rest, not eating properly and driving her physical body into the ground. She was also having relationship problems with her husband.
Within a few minutes of beginning the reading, Ortan told Jane that the root of many of her problems was that she was an alien. I, as my personality self, cringed at hearing this. What would Jane think? Ortan explained that the reason Jane had so much trouble taking care of herself was that she had not had a human body for many incarnations and had absolutely no idea how to take care of it.
After the reading I came back and looked at Jane, who grinned and said she had always known she was an alien! She further told me that she had trouble remembering to eat and a deep belief that she really did not need to sleep or even to rest. Once she understood why she had this belief she was more able to work with her difficulty about being a human being.
If I had edited out the information Ortan had given her about being an alien I would have done Jane a disservice. Ortan knew that she needed to know this; he was right. Over the years that we have worked together Ortan has given me numerous lessons in trust, in letting go and allowing the higher realms to work through me as a channel. The more I have been able to let go, the easier and more joyous my life as a channel has been.
Let the information flow
When you first begin channelling your guide the experience is often overwhelmingly beautiful and you may feel immersed in love, acceptance, support and joy. As a result you may forget that you made the connection in order to channel information verbally to assist you. From the guide's perspective life is very easy, and it can be difficult to understand that when you are back as your personality self you will be disappointed that you didn't channel verbally.
When we teach channelling we often have one or two people in the group just sitting happily with their guide, and when we connect with them at an energy level we find that they are drifting around in an expanded state of consciousness. At this point we will talk to both channel and guide to remind them that the channel will be sad if no information is brought back to the earth plane.
When you are in that very high space everything seems perfectly obvious. When you are asked a question the answer comes immediately, and it is difficult to understand why anyone would ask something so simple. But when you are back as your personality self the answer does not seem so obvious.
Learning to choose to bring back information is one of the skills of channelling. By doing this you are grounding in your guide's wisdom to the earth plane and to ordinary everyday reality. When you are in the space of your guide you may not want to be bothered to do so, but when you return you will be very pleased that you did.
Channel The Answers Even When They Are Obvious
Following from the previous point, people often think that since the answers to questions are so obvious when they are in contact with their guide, they must be answering those questions themselves. This can lead to a lot of doubts. Is it really me? Is it the guide? How can I be sure I am channelling? The best way to be sure you are channelling is to do it. Bring the answers back, note them down or tape them, and then put them away for a few days or weeks or even months. When you look over them later you will be astonished at the depth of the answers you receive, and this will be your confirmation that you really are channelling.
Not Everyone Hears Voices
One common misconception is that channels hear a clear voice in their mind and all they do is to repeat the words they are hearing. This might be your experience of channelling, but the connection is not like this for most people. At the beginning a lot of trust is involved - you just have to let the answers to questions come, and often when you begin a sentence you won't have any idea how you are going to end it. Keep remembering it is not you doing this. Let go of worrying about what the guide will say, and keep out of the way. Your guide will then find it easy to connect with you and to send to your mind the impulses of energy that come out as you channelling in words.
Opening To Channel
When we teach a class, I gather all the humans together in a room whilst Ortan gathers all their guides together in one energy location in the higher realms. When the human participants are ready to open to channel they are directed to the place where the guides are waiting for them. The guides can see them reaching up to the higher realms and they in turn are reaching down towards them; their reaching is like a sort of yearning. The human participants reach this energy location by rising up through the planes and dimensions until they reach an energy gateway. By choosing to pass through this gateway they enter into the realms of light. Ortan and the guides will then come forward. At this point, all each human participant has to do is to open his/her heart and ask for his/her guide to come.
Remember, high-level guides will only come to you when specifically asked to do so. Later on in the relationship you can agree how and when you will connect, but at the start high-level guides are especially careful not to intrude on your energetic space. These guides have an extremely strong sense of the integrity of your being. A feeling of unconditional love and respect is the key to knowing that your guide is a high-level one.
Choosing When To Connect With Your Guide
All you have to do is ask your guide to come and assist you, and they will. You may find that you are very conscious of your guide at the beginning. Some people prefer to have distinct times when they connect with their guides. If this is something you would like, discuss it with your guide, explaining that you like a structured relationship.
Connect With The Highest Possible Guide
When the human participants ask their guides to come to them, they do so instantly. At this point it is important to check the energy of the guide. Ortan always directs students to ask two questions of the guide. Firstly, 'Are you from the light?' If the response is not yes, the entity must be firmly requested to leave forthwith. Secondly, ask, 'Are you the highest-level guide that I can channel at this time?' Again, if the guide says no, request them to leave immediately and ask for the highest-level guide to come to you.
There will be no problem. It is a law of this universe that you have only to ask clearly for the entity to leave and it must obey. If you follow a particular religion you may care to ask the entity, 'Do you serve God [or Allah or the Divine]?' All God's names work equally well for this purpose, because energetically the concept of God is the same whatever he or she is actually called. If you are working at home from this book, make sure that you perform this very important step.
Why should you ask to connect with the highest possible guide? By doing so you choose your highest possible path of growth and you align with your highest purpose. As a result you will be able to experience your highest path and a sense of acceleration on your spiritual path. Only by channelling the highest possible guide do you really stretch yourself.
Meditation: To Connect With Your Guide
The 'third eye' mentioned in this meditation is a chakra (see Chapter 8) in the centre of your forehead. Known also as the ajna centre, it is where your psychic abilities can be awakened.
Begin by finding a comfortable position, letting your body become very relaxed and comfortable and your mind clear and focused.
Spend a few minutes visualizing a wonderful bubble of light forming all around you, and reach up to your soul and ask it to fill this bubble with its light. Try to visualize the light of your soul shining down on you, filling you up with light, and this light also filling the bubble around you with your soul's light. Ask your soul to protect you. Use the process to expand your aura now in readiness to accommodate all the energy that your guide will be holding.
Let yourself choose to make this easy, to make this joyous and to make this sacred. Once again, imagine that you are lifting up, higher and higher, rising up through the clouds, your energy clearing as you lift and you feel the light shining down upon you, clearing your energy, lifting your vibration. Rising up, very safe in your bubble of light. Imagine that your mind is very focused, very clear, very alert and very open.
You are rising up higher and higher until you sense that you are reaching a higher plane of reality, you are reaching the realms of the guides. Imagine that there is a gateway between the two realms - you might imagine it as an energy portal. Go very quiet within and decide that you are going to go through this portal. On the other side of the portal take a few moments to adjust to the higher light that is surrounding you.
Now begin to call your guide to come to you. Imagine you are sending lines of radiant light out from your heart to your guide's heart, and with your inner voice call out to that guide to come to you. (Don't worry at this stage if you cannot see the guide in your meditation. Just trust the process and keep going.)
Let your guide come close to you now and ask with your inner voice: Are you from the light? Do you have my growth and my spiritual evolution as your priority in our work together. Are you the highest guide I can work with at this time?' If you feel comfortable, and if your guide has answered in the affirmative, continue.
If not, go back and call another guide to you. If you have a sense that a guide is present and this is the one that you are to work with, greet this guide warmly, letting your heart energy meld with your guide's heart energy and feel the joy of union. What does your guide look like with your inner vision? Your guide may simply appear as a glow of shimmering light or just an inner feeling, a sense of comfort or just knowingness. Ask your guide now to intensify this feeling so that you will be able to recognize and know when your guide is with you.
Now ask your guide to assist you now in opening your energy, in adjusting your energy, and imagine that the area at the back of your head and neck is open to the light of your guide. Tell your guide that you are now ready for the channelling activation, and visualize the light of your guide shining into the back of your head and neck and into your heart centre.
Imagine the light of your guide activating your third eye in the centre of your forehead, opening you up to higher love and to higher wisdom. Ask your guide to continue to strengthen the connection between you. You may feel the connection stabilizing and deepening as you go on. Stay here in this space with your guide as long as you want, letting the connection between you develop and deepen.
Now slowly begin to come back to the room, thanking your guide for all the love and assistance you have been given. Let the bubble of light around you dissolve, and come all the way back.
Once you have connected with a guide who is from the light and is the highest possible guide for you, it is safe to proceed. When you first open to channel, you and the guide are learning how to make a clear, steady, easy connection between you. Remember that this is a two-way learning process - your guide, too, is learning how to connect. Many guides have not been channelled before and have to learn how it is done. So bear in mind that you need to be patient, loving and open towards both your guide and yourself. Give yourselves the time and space to get acquainted.
As the guide moves into your energy you will need to increase the size of your aura. As the guide comes in, let your aura expand to accommodate the increase in energy.
Your guide vibrates at a higher, finer frequency than you do. Much of the process of getting to know your guide is about tuning yourself into the frequency of light that is the energy signature of your guide.
The Light Activation
Your guide will use a light activation process to trigger your ability to channel. First of all, a ray of light is beamed to an area known as the medulla centre at the base of the skull where your head and neck join. If you move your head very slightly you will be able to bring your awareness to this centre. The ray of light moves down from the back of the head through the body to the heart centre, which is located in the centre of the chest.
The guide then beams a ray of vivid blue or indigo light to activate the third eye in the centre of the forehead. This light opens you to higher love and wisdom and expands your intuitive ability to tune into higher thoughts and your own inner knowingness. This activation may be felt as anything from a slight tingling or even a tickling feeling right through to a very strong physical sensation like an ache or a pulsing or throbbing in the area of the third eye or the physical eyes. Some people experience a slight dizziness or disorientation. The physical sensations soon pass and are not usually uncomfortable - indeed they can be comforting since you know that something is happening.
It is through the activation process that the guide can assist you in increasing your vibration, whilst stepping down their own vibration. This change in vibration is the reason why, when you first connect, you may feel very emotional or just odd. If the guide has not stepped down their vibration sufficiently, you may have problems in tracking the information as it comes through. Commonly, the information comes through so quickly that you are overwhelmed - it can feel as if you are getting nothing because you cannot grasp the information. It is useful to ask your guide to spend some time adjusting their vibration to yours - it is practically impossible to spend too long on this stage.
The Experience Of Opening
I asked some of my past students what it had been like when they first channelled their guides. Here are some of their responses:
Before we arrived we felt very excited, yet very nervous - we likened it to going to the dentist. ... On the way home from the channelling weekend we were on a complete high. The car seemed to be flying along and we sang songs all the way home with the music blaring out, like a couple of teenagers! It was a wonderful experience.
The atmosphere in the room on the first morning was amazing. It was also very emotional - the strength of the love that is there touches you very deeply. I felt lots of tingling and energy around my throat, and as soon as I opened my mouth words just came.
It was scary at first, not fully knowing what to expect. Then it became an exhilarating feeling, knowing and finally realizing that there was more than just our physical bodies.
How Guides Communicate With You
Your guide makes the connection with you at a higher level, the soul level. The energy is then transmitted down to you at the personality level. The energy transmissions enter one of the many areas of the brain that lie dormant, and you then find the words to match the transmissions.
Physical Signals
Many people say they experience a physical sensation when channelling. For example, one student told me, 'I notice a strong feeling like a heaviness between the eye and the nose on the left side of my face.' Another feels a sort of tickling at the top of the head. When I begin to channel Ortan there is a slight movement of my body, and I feel very expanded and extremely peaceful. These feelings are very common and also very pleasant.
It can be useful to ask the guide to strengthen these physical sensations so you know if your guide wants to communicate something to you. It is also very confirming to have these strong signals. A recent student told me that he had asked his guide to twitch his ear when he was present, now his guide will always give him this sensation when present.
Various Means Of Transmitting Information
Information can be conveyed in a number of ways. For instance, sometimes the guides arrange for you to acquire knowledge through reading, or talking to others, on the earth plane. Guides will also bring to the surface knowledge that was lying hidden in your subconscious - in other words, things you knew already but were not necessarily aware that you knew.
Assistance From Other Guides
During readings I have sometimes found that Ortan has suddenly gone away for a few seconds. When his energy returns I have a strong sense of another presence with him - he has gone off to find another guide to help answer the question. Very exceptionally he has gone and made a connection with a person who has died; this has happened when the person really needed to contact the person having the reading. It is not I who make the connection, but Ortan, so he relays the message to me.
It Is Possible That You Have Worked With Your Guide Before
Ortan and I have worked together before in past lives (see Chapter 8). We have made an arrangement that, although he connects with our students, he will not be channelled by anyone else in my present lifetime (for a channelling on this see p. 133).
Asking For Your Guide's Assistance And Wisdom
When you begin you will probably have masses of questions that you would like to channel on. The questions below are the sort that many guides are happy to answer, and may be helpful to you. You could use these questions when you have a friend with you to put the questions on your behalf. If you are on your own you could tape the questions. In either case you will channel the answers.
1. Can you tell the channel what it was that drew you to work with him/her?
2. Have you ever been incarnated? If so, when and where?
3. Can you tell us something about the changes for humanity that are happening now?
4. Is there anything that the channel could do to prepare for these changes?
5. Can you give the channel some advice about how to maintain total, radiant, good health in the physical body?
6. Please will you give the channel some ideas about how to be totally fulfilled and happy in this lifetime?
7. Can you tell the channel about what it was that drew you to work with him/her?
8. Can you give the channel some ideas about how to be more abundant in his/her life at this time?
9. What spiritual practice/s would assist the channel at this time?
10. What is the channel learning in his/her relationship with ---?
11. What is the most important life lesson that the channel is learning at this time?
12. How can the channel bring more joy into his/her life?
13. Is there anything else that you would like to tell the channel? [It is good to finish a session with this type of question each time.]
Being With A Guide In A Reading
Although it is rather long, I have included some of this reading, with a client whom I have called Jane, to give you a flavour of what it is like to be with a guide for this purpose. The words are a pale reflection of the energy that accompanies them, especially the feeling of unlimited and unconditional love. Notice that the guides use language slightly differently from the way we do. I call this 'guidespeak' - the phraseology is unconventional, particularly the use of 'dear one'. See Chapter 10 for further channelled material.
The Bodhisattva vow referred to is taken in the Buddhist religion. Those who take it vow to stay on the earth plane, being reborn over and over until everyone is enlightened.
GUIDE: Greetings, I am Ortan. I greet you, dear one, with much joy and much light from our realms to your realms. Begin to compose the physical body as we begin to connect at an energetic level, for in some senses the dense matter of the physical body can be something of an encumbrance to you as we communicate in these realms and at these levels, so to speak. And if we can find a tuning between us the information will then move directly from my heart and my energy to your heart and your energy, even though as you understand my heart is not physical. But the heart is always a presence within the energy, and we notice that you are taking a great interest in the affairs of the heart, so to speak, and it is when one such as you starts to reach up and to ask these conscious questions that you will open yourself to the possibility of broader and richer energetic experiences.
But it is a reaching that must be done by the human person and cannot be done from us to you, for, as we have often explained, it is a law of the universe that you must ask. And a great deal of this ability to open the heart lies in the ability to make a full and conscious connection with the soul, for, as you will understand, at a soul level all is love. There is nothing else that is more important in the frequencies of light than the concept of frequency and the vibration of love, for in the living light which is the substance and body of the divine creator this frequency of love is the most preponderant. You could say it is the one which contains many other frequencies, and because of this it is one of the dominant frequencies of the universe, for there are many sub-frequencies which lie within it.
And we have explained to the channel in the past that there are different types of love, and you are aware of divisions, and in your earthly manifestations there are many kinds of love. But the love that will take you to the soul planes and connect you fully to the soul is the resonance of compassion. This is the key frequency of love. It contains many other frequencies, and when it manifests upon the earth plane it manifests in many forms. But in these forms there are always commonalities, and these commonalities will tell you that it is compassion that is present. There will never be a mistaking of compassion, for it is such a strong and dominant vibrational frequency.
Connecting into the frequencies of compassion and opening the heart to the extent that you wish to do can be achieved upon the earth plane by taking the Bodhisattva vow. But you must understand that in taking vows you will bind yourself karmically for all time, and we do not advise that vows are taken without very, very much consideration of the meaning of such a binding upon the karma for so much possible time. Indeed, for an infinity of time, upon the earth plane the Bodhisattva vow has been of great importance and many of the greatest teachers have taken it.
But it is one that you must take after several months or years of contemplation and understanding the true meaning of what this could do and how this could change you. And it may be that your personality, your lower self, will not be ready for such commitment. But the path that leads to the vow is one that is quite well understood among humans, and upon the earth plane there is instruction.
The easiest way for you to do this is to consciously reach up to the soul. It is the soul level that will open the heart fully, for when you exist fully as your soul your heart will be completely open, your experience will be unbounded expansiveness, an understanding of the true, unbounded and limitless abundance of all that there is. And this abundance especially concerns the frequencies of love, for there is no limit to love — it is all about you.
By tuning into this abundance of frequencies, this abundance of love, of course you will tune into an abundance of all else your heart desires. But the interesting paradox of human growth is that when humans open to true compassion they are no longer interested in all the abundance of manifestation in quite the same way.
They find the simple sight of a butterfly, the ripple of water, the rising of the sun, to be more exquisite than any beautiful antique or lovely painting. Although these two will still be appreciated as the beautiful products of skilled hands, yet it is the natural and divine-sourced manifestations which will give the most pleasure. And there will not be much pleasure in watching the accumulation of the money within the bank account, for this trivial manifestation is not one that introduces much joy. It may bring happiness, but this is a different frequency. But it is not an untrammelled frequency of joy, which is part of the compassion range.
JANE: When I experienced the state of having the heart open it was far more enjoyable than anything I could have imagined to do with achieving any other desire. When you say 'Bodhisattva vow' is that state what you mean?
GUIDE: The Bodhisattva vow is the vow of service, dear one, of achieving enlightenment but not choosing ascension, and this is an interesting balance. Those who choose the Bodhisattva path are those who will be admitted into the heart of God, but they choose to stay without until all can enter the heart of God. It is an especially special path of service. By choosing such an open-hearted path of service one's process of understanding the heart of God is opened more easily, but it has to be 100 per cent dedication to service and it is not for all to take. It is the path that is chosen by the great teachers, by the great healers, by the great servers of mankind.
All the angels have taken similar vows - although on their plane they are not manifest, of course — but all the angels have chosen such an existence. They will not be enfolded once more to the heart of God until all beings, all entities reach that heart. And it is this service of others, this joy in opening your heart to humanity, that is an important key in achieving the pure joy of compassion.
Compassion, the opening of the heart, is not a selfish pursuit, for all personal development, all spiritual growth is carried out on a path of service. Those who are not on the path of service show little interest in spiritual growth, dear one, for they cannot see the point of it. And they will even tell you that it is a selfish pursuit, which is an interesting view.
For by increasing your own frequency you make it easier for those behind you to follow you, and you are able to extend your heart and your hand to those who are willing to grow. And by your example and your beautiful, true, open heart you will lead them through the gateway to the heart of God, which is always open, always available. Regrettably, few yet are awakening to the true possibility of such an experience, but your experience at the weekend, dear one, was the beginnings of what it is like to truly have the heart of your soul upon the earth plane.
There is another thing we would say to you about this experience, and this is that it is important that you do not grasp after experiences of this type. They will arise, but they cannot be grasped after. If you spend time trying to be in that experience you will close yourself off from other avenues, and you will indeed close yourself off from that experience. For it is only when you completely give up grasping for experience that experience can arise. It is the pure unbounded ground of consciousness that you are starting to contact here, the clear blue sky of awareness.
JANE: So instead of trying to re-create that experience, what would you suggest as a means to open the heart more? Not to re-create it, but to actually create it?
GUIDE: Correct. The way to open the heart now is to first of all release yourself from any expectations. Humans are truly bounded many times by expectations of how it should be, how it ought to be, how it must be, where they want to go, how they must go there and all of these things. So when we talk of letting go of expectation we mean simply following simple spiritual practice, with no thought other than joy at the practice. To do this you must follow your heart.
Now, this sounds like a paradox. But what we mean by this is that you must look about you and find the frequencies within activities that reflect the frequencies of an open heart. And it is a key to know that joy is one of these frequencies. Therefore your spiritual practice is the practice that will bring you joy.
However, although at first your heart may leap with joy and you may find the practice to be fun, to be enjoyable, there will be times when the practice will become onerous. These are the times when discipline and integrity become important. Do you understand this?
So the open-hearted meditations are always centred around working to love all humanity, first of all practising the loving kindness, the metta meditation of the Buddhists. It is a very tried and tested technique to opening the heart. It is easy, it is simple, it is pure - but regularly practised it is very effective.
Opening the heart involves opening the heart to loving the self and to loving all who come to you for assistance without depleting the self, finding the lines, the boundaries, the places to be where you are truly yourself, at one with your own energy. And yet you are centering your awareness within the heart centre, as if you could move your awareness from wherever it is at the moment into the heart, as if you looked out from that jewel in the heart. Do you understand that? If you looked out from your heart, what would you see?
JANE: Myself, I think.
GUIDE: You would indeed see yourself, and you would see the world from the perspective of loving light. One of the keys to opening the heart is to live within the living light of God, and looking out from your heart you would begin to see the light emanating from source. And this would indeed change your experience. Do you understand this?
It is a practice. Play with it, move your awareness to the heart and look out, play, notice, observe. Another practice that is most important is observation and mindfulness of the moment — no grasping and no expectation, staying entirely in this moment, enjoying all that is present at this time, not looking forwards nor looking back, not asking, not accepting, simply being. For it is very difficult for humans working with matter to be in a state of pure unbounded awareness, but this too is one of the answers to opening the heart.
JANE: I usually think there is something more that I should be doing.
GUIDE: When you get to that stage you must look deep within the experience. You do not float or drift, you become more focused. And as you focus you move the light more deeply into your experience. As you do this you start to uncover other states of awareness. It is one of the spiritual traps of the path to be in the joy of apparent nirvana, but there is far, far more beyond this particular state. And this is only a state of beginners who arrive at the state and think that they are there.
Regrettably, nothing further will happen. It is important at that stage to then look more deeply into the heart, to really start to delve deeply into your experience, and to call upon the divine source for assistance in going more deeply.
JANE: Is it possible for me to reach a stage when I do love everybody?
GUIDE: Most certainly. It is rare, but it is most possible.
JANE: Can you suggest anything to practise?
GUIDE: Certain forms of yoga are beneficial in opening all the energy centres. The key to it is this: the physical body must be 100 per cent healthy, all the meridians balanced and flowing, all the simple systems of the body, the chakras, the meridians, the chi must all flow, be aligned and in balance. The higher frequencies of energy, the light body frequencies also need to be aligned so that the physical body is in perfect balance. Because you are born into a world of matter, to anchor in the perfect experience depends upon a total flow within the physical body, if you can achieve it.
This is not to say that those who are physically disabled are unable to have these states. What it means is that they must find the perfect flow within the structure that they have been given to work with -perfect flow and a full connection with the soul. For as you bring the soul down through the antakarana then you will be able to live with a totally open heart, looking out from the heart as your soul. It is this key that will really change this experience.
