What is the difference between channeling and being connected to a deeper sense of wisdom and truth?
On one level, it is just semantics.
Some would say that channeling is being taken over or receiving the consciousness of a nonphysical entity.
And that is true to some extent.
To others it can feel more like a blending.
The important thing is not what you call it. The important thing is that it is not corrupted.
How do you know whether it is corrupted or not?
First of all, it is your intention. When you call in whats in your highest good, you get that, and only that.
Second, you know when it is corrupted and when it is not. Stop kidding yourself.
Your skepticism is useful up to a point, and only up to a point.
You know perfectly well what lands in you, and what resonates, and what is true.
You know what is loving. You know what is in alignment.
Don’t let your mind distort this through its skepticism. Skepticism is a form of corruption, too.
We’re not saying you should blindly believe everything you hear.
But how many times do you have to witness something before you accept it?
At some point it becomes less about the evidence and more about your resistance to it.
Only that which you are open and receptive to can enter your being, which is why we talk so much about willingness.
Which is why the invocation/prayer/declaration at the beginning of channeling is so important.
The question you are essentially asking at the beginning of this session is: How do I trust myself? How do I trust you? How do I know who to trust?
As we said yesterday, it is about refinement, about removing the obstacles, the noise, the static in the system. It is also about intention.
You have to want to trust.
You have to be willing to get uncomfortable, for trusting in something you haven’t been trusting is a stretching. It’s an expansion.
Set the intention:
I want to trust myself.
I want to know what is best for me in every moment.
I want to be in alignment.
Don’t overthink it.
Trust isn’t something you achieve with a strategic business plan.
Let’s use Anton’s work with intention as an example.
At one point, the concept was new to him and he didn’t understand it or believe in it. Then, he experimented with it.
What’s the worst that could happen?
And he found that the intentions he set started magically coming true. That was evidence that there was something to this process, and he invested a little bit more into it.
And all of that was supported by teachings from Eckhart Tolle, Abraham Hicks, Joe Dispenza, many others, and us.
It was a combination of seeing it work for others, and experimenting.
And that right there is a powerful formula for learning:
Intention PLUS conceptual understanding PLUS experimental/embodied understanding.
Wanting to play a musical instrument PLUS music theory PLUS practice.
The best teachers combine all three. Practice/experimentation/experience are vital and should take up the majority of the learning process.
Learning dance should be mostly dancing, not talking about dance technique.
Technique is important, and absolutely useless if its not integrated.
Learning technique without integration is like learning to cook without ever actually making food.
And it is important to understand that great learning is never merely memorization. Memorization can be a great foundation but it is not the building built upon it.
Why do we talk about learning so much today?
Because learning is vital to everyone’s journey here and deconstructing it conceptually is vital to it happening.
It is important to demystify it.
To refine the process of learning so that you can focus on what works and accelerate your journey.
It is easy to repeat the same experiments and be stuck in a loop rather than truly learn. To learn, things must change. Learning requires variety. Variance in parameters. And as a teacher, you must design a process that includes practice and experimentation.
As a teacher your role is only 20% to share concepts, and 80% it is to create a container for people to learn, to experiment, to arrive at the truth themselves.
You cannot tell people the truth. That is not teaching. That is preaching.
Teaching is not merely the transmission of information. Teaching is the facilitation of transformation in someone so that they may grow in the way that is int heir highest good at this time.
Teaching is support, not indoctrination.
The role of a teacher is more like that of a guide, a sherpa, a midwife.
No matter how “good” you are as a teacher, you cannot birth a child on behalf of someone else. That is their work, and only their work.
And any process of transformation is one of metaphorical birthing.
Teachers don’t say the truth, the point to the truth.
Know your place as a teacher. Speak with conviction, but without attachment.
Hold your students in love. Love them as they are.
We are all teachers, and we are all students. You’re never only one or the other. Neither one is superior or inferior than the other.
Don’t let your role as a teacher or as a student enhance or diminish your Ego or personality. This is important.
Because when you teach without Ego, and you learn without Ego, you do both to a much higher level and without corruption.
And ultimately, at the highest level, when you are a teacher, you teach yourself, for you and the other are just illusions of separation of the whole, and you cannot be superior or inferior to what you already are, essentially.