November 3, 2012 Saturday, Co-Creating with Spirit Workshop
Working with Our Guidance, and Channeling;Guided Chakra Light Meditation and Meeting Guides
Barbara: We offer the intention today to open to the highest guidance we can find, our intentions being those of loving support for all beings and harm to none. We ground ourselves in the love that is within our own hearts, and invite all positively polarized loving entities to join us here, to help enhance our learning, and to be with us. Thank you to all the humans and loving spirit that are filling this room. Let us co- create together.
(3 small taps, to everyone’s amusement) (smiling–) Knife on dinner glass in lieu of lovely sounding bell!
Good morning. How many of you were not here for the last gathering? Put your hands way up… most of you were. A special welcome to P and G who have come all the way from the east coast, where I hope your home was not devastated by Sandy.
Last gathering we worked deepening our intentions. The reason for that, as I explained, is that we want to invite highly positively polarized entities. We open ourselves to negatively polarized entities if we’re stuck in anger, fear, blame or other contracted emotions. We do not have to get rid of these kinds of emotions, simply to learn how to let them arise and pass away without self-identification with them.
We’re human. The emotions will exist. Body pain and sensations will exist. If we try to stop sensations and thoughts from arising, we move into a contracted fear-based energy. When we can keep our hearts open, present with things as they are, we move into a core of light within ourselves, and we begin to know, “This is what I am, and the rest is just conditions still expressing.” If I walk through a heavy cloud of dust, the moment I went like that (demonstrates, patting shirt), dust would rise off my shirt. After I pat it off enough it will be gone. The emotions will come. Don’t get hooked in by them.
So this was the core of our work the last gathering, looking at how we can relate more openheartedly with unpleasant physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts, not be so self-identified with them. And how we balance that also with our strong intention to service for all beings, for the good of all beings, with harm to none.
We also worked with body energy, feeling energy in ourselves; getting more accustomed to our chakras; feeling energy in other people; feeling the energy fields in the room around us. I hope that most of you brought your crystals with you. We will work with them a bit later today, and I have some for the people who were not here last time.
We’ll be meeting our guides, here in a safe setting. When I first met Aaron, I could see him. I could feel his energy. He was sending me thoughts, and I said, “I’m hallucinating!” Part of the work here is to get used to trusting what we hear. That comes more easily when we simply meet our guides and start to feel comfortable in their energy field.
Way back the first year I was channeling Aaron, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Ram Dass, and Aaron spoke to him. And I asked him (Ram Dass), “How do I deepen and clarify this?” And he said, “Just spend time hanging out with his energy field. This transforms you.” It really does, because these entities have such a high vibrational frequency and they’re so loving. It’s very hard to maintain fear, confusion, doubt, in the face of that strong loving presence.
Today we’ll do a number of exercises, meeting our guides, or for some of you, perhaps your higher self, and that’s okay, too. We’ll become comfortable in their energy fields and more confident about discerning what is present.
There are three categories of beings that can guide us; higher self, guide and master teacher. By higher self: we are as human presently 3rd density entities, many of us becoming 4thdensity entities. Density is a way of describing the vibrational field. As we move into a higher density, we have a higher vibration. Each of us, as human, is also simultaneously a 6thdensity entity. This aspect of us is what we call the higher self.
Each of us has different aspects. There’s a physical body. There’s an emotional body, that in which the emotions arise, both pleasant and unpleasant ones. There’s a mental body, and there is a spirit body. They all come together as this human. If the physical body has a very slow vibration, it drags down the vibrational frequency of the other bodies. As the physical body moves into a higher vibration through energy work, through the crystal baths, those of you who have used those, through meditation, and as the emotional body moves into a higher vibration, we gradually ascend into the higher vibration of the spiritual body. As humans, the spiritual body does not come separate from the other bodies. However, we can begin to hear that pure spirit body of ourselves, that 6thdensity aspect of ourselves.
Aaron reminds me my 6thdensity higher self is just as wise as he is. So we don’t need outer guides, but sometimes it’s easier to hear the outer guides. For some people it’s easier to hear the higher self.
How many of you have experienced any direct connection with your higher self? A number of you. It’s a beautiful experience, isn’t it? When I first met my higher self, it felt like symphonies were playing, and I was in a light-filled space. I felt so much love, joy and gratitude. And I just wept with joy. My higher self is quieter now because Aaron is more predominant for me as a guide. But our higher selves are available.
We each have a guide with whom we took incarnation, with that entity planning to be available to us throughout our entire lifetime. There may be several guides. There’s always at least one. Before the lifetime, it was planned that that entity would not incarnate him/herself while you were still alive.
Aaron describes the experience of a guide. He says, pretend you’re walking with heavy weights and a long snorkel tube. You walk into the lake and reach the point where the water comes over your head. The snorkel tube is sticking out, so you can breathe. The weights are holding you to the bottom. You won’t float. You keep walking. There’s an obstacle course of buoys out there, but you no longer can see them because you’re underwater. This is a pretty good metaphor for our human experience. We live behind what is sometimes called a veil of forgetting. We invite our guides to come up and sit or stand on our shoulders, and they can see everything. And they can nudge you, “A little bit more to the right. A little bit more to the left. Straight ahead.” So they can see what we cannot see.
Some of our guides are simply third density entities like ourselves, in between incarnations. We may ask, why do they know more than I do? It’s not that they know more, it’s simply that they’re sitting up on our shoulders with their heads out of the water. We have agreed to this veil brought on by the human incarnation. We forget who and what we are, and we’ve agreed to that as part of coming into incarnation. So our guides offer us the view that’s inaccessible to us as humans. For us, we develop faith as we work with our guides, and faith is a hallmark of third density experience. As we meditate and practice and grow spiritually, the distance between the higher self and the human self disappears, so that more and more often I can see through the eyes of my higher self just in daily experience.
Our guidance comes in levels. If you have a third density guide, that guide is part of a much larger spiritual family of which you are also a part. I see it as the kind of university system where the student may meet with a grad student or TA. That TA knows what you need for your class work but may not know a vast amount about the subject. But if you learn enough that the TA can’t answer your questions, he turns to the assistant or associate professor or whatever, and on up to the department chairman, who supposedly knows everything. Maybe, maybe not! Aaron says he doesn’t know everything. I’m paraphrasing him. He says, “Then again, he’s not a department chairman, he is simply a guide.”
So, you start with whatever level of guide is most appropriate to you. This is who we’ll be inviting in today. Don’t worry about what density they are, how enlightened they are. The question is, do they radiate loving kindness to you? Do they resonate with your intentions? If they are well-intentioned, coming harmonious to your highest intentions, they are a suitable guide for you. And if your questions and understanding exceed their ability to respond, they’ll pass you on to a higher level guide.
How many of you have heard me channel Aaron’s teacher Ariel? A few. Ariel is one of the guardian angels of the Earth. He has a very high energy. Usually when he incorporates he knocks out everybody listening. People fall asleep! I stay awake, able to channel him, but when I finish channeling him I just have to go in and sleep.
I channeled Ariel a few times way back in the early ‘90s, and they decided Aaron could say anything that Ariel could say. Our “earth history” transcripts come from Ariel, because Aaron said he wanted them to come from the source and not from what he had heard from the source, so Ariel offered them. We have transcripts. But I don’t think most people were awake through those sessions. They read the transcripts! Occasionally now I’ve also channeled Ariel.
My point here is, whatever level of guidance is most appropriate to you is what will come. Even after I met Aaron, other guides came to me, helping me. I did a lot of exercises envisioning different colors of light, clarifying my energy field, raising my vibration so I could tune into Aaron better. We’ll do some of these exercises today, and you take them home with you so you can practice them.
It’s like receiving a radio signal. You’ve got to turn the dial to the signal. You’ve got to be tuned to it. So we’ll practice tuning ourselves today in different ways. And then hearing, or experiencing—I say hearing, but you may see your guide. I got a wonderful email from somebody yesterday. She’s trying to decide on a place to live and had considered different locales. She was not sure how to drive to get from where she was to get to her home so she pressed “Home” on her GPS. And when she pressed Home, and her home is clearly entered on that device, it came back to her with one of the homes she had looked at, quite a distance from her actual home. Home—oh, this! Spirit and guidance has lots of ways of communicating with us.
The question is are we open to listen. One of the exercises we’ll do today, if the weather permits us, because it’s something we need to do outside where there’s space, just 15 minutes or so, is to form separate groups of about 20 people. Q, how many people do we have here today? About 60. So we’ll form groups of 20, 10 or so on the outside making a circle, 10 on the inside. This is something for the afternoon after you’ve connected with your guidance. Those on the inside of the circle will close their eyes and they will simply walk, holding the intention, asking their guides to tell them when to go straight, when to go right, when to go left, when to slow down, when to go faster. The worst that will happen is two people will walk into each other. It probably won’t happen. When we’ve done this before; very few people have walked into each other, and people were not making straight paths but weaving in and out, really able to hear the guidance. It’s very powerful, because it proves to you that youcanhear your guidance. So with weather cooperation, we’ll try that later today.
The third form of guidance we have is what is called a master teacher. Those of you who have readCosmic Healinghave read my very few but precious conversations with Jeshua. Connecting with Jeshua, he’s a master teacher. He is not my personal guide as Aaron is, but he’s available. Many different master teachers are available to you, really depending on your own karma and resonance. Some might be more inclined to a being like Kwan Yin. Some might be inclined to, I’m trying to think of some of the multitude of master teachers, there are so many. Just usually non-living beings who existed in history who we consider as the great masters. At the Casa, Dom Inacio is a master teacher.
Today’s work will be oriented toward meeting our personal guides. If your higher self or a master teacher comes in, that’s also fine.
Channeling does not necessarily mean channeling for others. It doesn’t mean the kind of verbal channeling I do with Aaron. It’s just connecting. The friend who sent me that email, she was channeling. She didn’t think of it as channeling, perhaps, but when she pushed the button on her GPS for Home, holding the intention to get home, and also in her heart, holding the intention—“Which of these homes am I going to choose? Where will I live?” Spirit came through very clearly: That way! This is a form of channeling.
We are constantly channeling. So here we’re just refining it a bit. Some of what comes through to you may be in terms of colors or light. It may not be in verbal thoughts. It may be an image. There are different forms of channeling. When I channel Aaron, paraphrasing him—for example, Aaron, can you say something to them?“My blessings and love to you. I am present with you. I am not incorporated in Barbara’s body now; she is simply catching thoughts, shall I call them thought balls? Here is a ball of thought that I toss her. It comes into her mind as a thought. It’s not her thought. She knows it has come from elsewhere. She unravels it and phrases it in words, but they are not my words. That is why when I channel in this way I occasionally say to her, ‘That is not well-phrased, please rephrase,’ because the phrasing is coming from her. When I incorporate, I choose the words. ”Thank you.
Could you feel Aaron’s energy? It’s different than my energy. But he’s not incorporated. Now, all of you have also felt Aaron’s energy when incorporated, and also many of you have felt some of these Brothers and Sisters of Light’s energy incorporated. When Aaron incorporates, I am out of the body. He is using the body, and therefore the choice of words is his. So he never says, “Please rephrase.” Sometimes he gropes for a word, because my English vocabulary is better than his. They’ve taught me to stay just at the edge of presence so that he can nudge me and say, “What’s the best word for this thought?” Then I supply the word, phase back out, and he uses the word. His vocabulary is getting better!
We’re not going to be doing this form of trance channeling today. We’re simply going to be doing conscious channeling. Therefore, what you receive will be in some way or another a thought, that at some level you know is not your thought, or you guess it’s not your thought.
The way I teach this, when I work with people individually or in small groups where I only have an hour, not a full day with them, is I ask people to go through all the tuning process that we’ll be doing today. Then people hold a note pad. I ask them to think of a question for which they’ve not been able to find an answer, such as, “How can I get along more harmoniously with my boss? How can I clarify that relationship and make it smoother and kinder?” The person has been stuck in a friction with the boss, so they’ve tried a lot of logical answers and they haven’t come through. They invite spirit in. We go through the whole tuning process. And then they ask the question and they begin to write. It’s a kind of automatic writing. It may be a few words; it may be a few paragraphs. We allow what comes through without trying to monitor it, without even following it, so that when the energy stops and you read it, it’s a surprise.
If it speaks clearly to your question and raises a further question, like “Okay, that’s good. How do I do that?” then you go back and ask again. If it comes through saying, “You’re right and your boss is wrong and you should just punch him in the nose.” then it’s pretty clear this is not the entity or guidance I’m looking for. It’s not harmonious with my own personal intentions for harmony. Yet at some level I have invited this response so before I proceed, I need to look at any remaining anger and wanting to get back at the boss. Once I’m clear n my highest intention, I simply say, “No thank you. This is not what I want. Is there another entity out there who comes with positive polarity and love and can help me work through this in a way that really is for the highest good, and loving to myself and my boss?” You step back, saying a clearnoto the negative entity. That negative entity was invited by a part of yourself that said, “I am so mad at my boss I could punch him in the nose!” So here comes an entity saying, “Sure, let’s do that! Ooo, fun! What havoc we can create!” Just say no.
So this is how I teach mediumship in a place where I’m not with you while you’re working; where you’re going to be taking it home and working with it. Here we have a protected environment. We have already set that protection in place. What I do when I channel is to invite the archangels to come into each corner of the space and protect the space—Ariel, Raphael, Michael, Gabriel, holding the space as a sacred space, protecting the space. I invite other loving entities like Jeshua, also, to help protect the space, so that nothing really negative can come in.
So at this point, it is then safe to practice vocal channeling. But when you go home, you may want try the writing practice I’ve just described, and spend a little while getting to know your guides in that way, where you have more control over what comes through. You may feel confident to simply sit with them in meditation and hear them, and that’s fine. If your intention is clear, what comes through will be loving. If what comes through is not loving, it’s time to go back to the drawing board, to look at yourself and say, “Where am I holding negative intention?”
I’m going to read just a little here that came from Aaron, and is in Part 2 of your notes that were sent out, the basics of inner peace, clear flow of energy through the chakras, knowing why you want to channel. This is the part I want to read. This is a quote from Aaron.
“Channeling opens a door to higher understanding and higher energy. This is a Pandora’s box, in a sense. Once you cross that threshold, you can’t go back to ignorance, and you are responsible for what you know. Are you ready to be that responsible?”
If you’re not sure, don’t open the door. I trust Aaron to have told me if there was anyone here who wasn’t ready to participate, but it is your decision, not his. This is a real doorway. You are making a commitment to service to the light, to aspire to purify your own energy, and to experience a higher vibrational energy. This commitment can be life-transforming. Don’t take it lightly. After walking through this doorway, your life may begin to change dramatically. You have said, “I am willing to serve,” and opportunities in abundance will appear. Having stated your commitment by walking through this doorway, you may experience a sense of brilliant light and intense joy. You may not. That’s okay, too.
Be mindful of any fear. No judgment. We do this work with love, not coercion, or hatred of ourselves or another.
How many of you have not readCosmic Healing? Have you all read my bookCosmic Healing? Most of you have read it. Okay. I will say this very briefly, then. You remember my speaking inCosmic Healingabout something that was happening in my church with a man who was very angry, and people not knowing what to do with his anger, because he would stand up and send out rage, and nobody knew what to do with that. He said, “This is my ministry. I am angry.” And it was rage directed specifically at people who were there.
So I agreed to meet with him to see if I could do anything to help him understand how much he was hurting people. This was early on in my knowing Aaron, and I was pretty scared. I was not going to channel Aaron there, but Aaron was present and guiding me. But my commitment was to service to the light and to love.
I could not get past his negativity. He was just too caught in it, too afraid, and nothing that I said made any difference. So I went back home that night and I asked, what do I do with this? How can there be healing? There was a strong commitment from me, “I’m willing to walk through this door. I commit myself to service. And I don’t know what that means, exactly. But I’m willing to do it.”
During the night, his energy came in. All that anger, all that negativity. I woke from sleep feeling the sense of horror around me, and darkness. I tried to recite the Lord’s Prayer and I couldn’t remember the words, the Twenty Third Psalm and I couldn’t remember, everything was gone. Aaron said, “Get up, get the Bible, and just open it to the Lord’s Prayer and read.” After a while I calmed down and began to be able to talk to this man, I suppose my higher self was talking to his higher self. Where Barbara the human couldn’t reach him, the higher selves could reach. There was real communication there. I was no longer recoiling from his hatred and anger and fear but just holding it in a loving space.
Finally his energy left and I just sat there meditating. And as you’ve read inCosmic Healing, Jeshua came in. And it’s one of the most precious experiences of my life, if not the most precious, the powerful teaching about love that he gave me, which is recorded in the book. For me, it was clear that I was taking a giant step and committing myself to being of service to the light, putting fear for myself aside and trusting I will have the loving guidance that I need to do this. It wasn’t an ego statement, “I can do this.” It was more, “Love can do this, and I align myself to this love.”
The next day at the service, this man came in. Some of us were standing in front of the doorway, refusing to let him to go into the main room, keeping him in the lobby. He simply walked up and took my hand. We had parted the day before, not with great anger, but him saying, “You’re wrong. You’re entirely wrong.” And he walked out.
He took my hand, looked into my eyes, and said, “Thank you.” And then he left. Something came through. We never know how the love and light will work. But something came through. It was not the end of the situation with him, but it certainly was a healing shift.
The reason I’m sharing this with you is to emphasize you are opening a big door here. You’re deepening your commitment to be of service to all beings, to co-create with spirit for the highest good of all beings, and with love. When you open that invitation, things are going to change, and some of what’s going to come in front of you, you’re going to say, “I can’t do that!” as I did that day with that man, when people in that meeting asked if I would meet with him. “Me? I can’t do that!” But it became clear, “I need to do this, and spirit will guide me.” Sometimes you don’t really feel you can do it. If you have to say no, that’s okay. You always have free will. But remember, you’re not alone, and spirit is guiding you and supporting you.
You use this co-creation with spirit in different ways. I’m looking here at some of you who I know do bodywork of different sorts, and of course you feel spirit there with you as you work. The more you establish a firm clear relationship with one or several of your guides and feel their presence, the clearer the guidance when you say, “I don’t really know what to do here.” A suggestion comes in. You are not coerced to accept that suggestion. It’s just a suggestion. Spirit is always happy to discuss the pros and cons of it with you.
Sometimes Aaron suggests something to me and I don’t really agree with him and I say, why this? He explains it. The choice is mine. But it’s like I’m underwater. He can see what’s going on out there, I can’t. When I say, “why this?” and he says, “Because this or that,” well I’m underwater. I know he can see more clearly than I can, and my experience bears this out. So eventually I started to truly trust him, as I do now. And eventually you will trust your guides more and more. But you are always responsible for your choices. You can’t hurt somebody and then say, “Well, spirit told me to do it. I’m not responsible.” You’re responsible.
Your guides will not lead you into doing harm unless you bring in a negative guide because of your own unresolved negativity. And if that happens, it’s a wonderful opportunity to resolve that area of negativity.
Another brief story: This happened over 20 years ago at a meditation retreat in another state. A man came to me the first day for a private meeting and told me that he had been a child abuser, and that he had worked hard to move past that. His statement brought up so much rage in me. And he was sincere; he was there at a weeklong retreat, wanting to look into himself, to learn how to forgive himself, to be sure he would never do such a thing again. He had been through a number of years of therapy. He had also been in jail. But now here he was sitting in front of me. And it brought up so much rage for me. So I had to say to him, “I don’t know what to say to you now. Let’s meet again tomorrow.”
I needed to do my work with this, because I was aware that what I wanted to say to him was, “How dare you do that!” Just to express that rage. How could I open my heart to him? So I spent much of that night meditating and doing my own inner work with it, until I felt ready to invite Aaron in, to rest in my own self from a place of love, and talk to him from that place of love. We are responsible.
So you will use this mediumship training in many ways. Many of you have been either attending or are volunteers at the spiritual healing sessions out in Jackson. One of the ways this workshop started was that we wanted a way to train the volunteers into deeper mediumship. When you’re working out there, this is a way of service, using co-creating with spirit, mediumship. Connecting to your own higher self, your own guides, and working with the high energy in the room there in ways that support the highest good of all people there.
As an aside here, I’d say two things. First is the importance of bringing this work out into the world. That’s what our December workshop is going to be based on. These sessions at Corinthians give you a wonderful opportunity for service, and to practice what you’re learning. We do need reliable volunteers out there. There are some of you who have done an amazing job, a lot of work, holding the energy in the room. I can’t do it myself. Just a few people can’t do it. The more of you that are present, holding that high energy as a form of service, the more clear is the work. This is important. There are also many specific volunteer jobs. Talk to Anna Marie if you wish to participate.
Coming back to this workshop, the specific things we’re going to do next after our break: Tuning, meeting our guide or teacher, channeling, challenging, and learning to trust what we hear. The tuning process is one of clarifying the energy in our bodies. Stating our highest intention. Working with energy, working with chakras. Then a period where we bring in, invite ourselves opening to some kind of energy. And once we’ve opened to it, we challenge it. What I mean by challenging is we state our own highest intentions, our own highest values, and that nothing that comes through me or into me, nothing that’s offering me thoughts or ideas may speak to me if it’s not resonant with my own highest values.
After 24 years of channeling Aaron, I always still challenge him before I invite him into my body, always. This is a vital step. You’re opening yourself to spirit. You don’t just throw open the door and say, “Hey, anybody who wants to, come on in!” Who do you want to come? When you feel somebody knocking on your door – maybe you’ve opened your door and said, “I’m having a party, inviting all people who are loving. Anybody, open house.” And somebody knocks on the door and he’s got a knife in one hand and a gun in the other hand, and he says, “I want to come in.” “Are you here in loving service to all beings?” Now, let’s pretend there’s a rule that says you have to answer truthfully. When you challenge in the way I’m going to explain to you later, they must answer truthfully. You might get a, “Well, umm,…” kind of fuzzy response. But if this guy drops his gun and says, “Of course I am. I’m sorry I frightened you,” then probably it’s fine to invite him in. If he says, “No, I’m going to see how many people I can hurt when I get in there,” you’re going to slam the door. If he says, “Well, I’m going to think about it,” you say, “Well, sit outside and think about it and knock again when you decide. You can listen to what’s going on in here, but you may not come in until you’re sure that your intention is for the highest good of beings.” So we’ll go through all of this.
Let’s take a 15 minute break and then we’ll get started with the next step.
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Guided Chakra Light Meditation, and Meeting Guides
Aaron: I’d like you to settle yourselves comfortably in your chair, eyes open or closed, as you prefer. Place one hand on the crown chakra. Feel yourself sitting in a cylinder of light, inviting light and energy in through this crown chakra. After a minute you can take the hand down. Some of you may feel how there’s energy moving up from the crown chakra too. Open your eyes for a minute so you can see me. Feel this energy coming down from above, not touching the crown chakra with the finger, but feeling the energy invited in. Good. Now, experience yourself sitting in a cylinder of light. It’s coming through the crown chakra and down into the body.
Breathe in as much of that energy as you can. Bringing it down through the third eye, and the throat, and the heart, through the solar plexus and the spleen chakra into the base chakra. See it as red light, filling the base chakra. Breathe in and feel it expand. And relax, release. Breathing in more light, down into the base. And again. Feel that red light energy filling the whole base chakra area, and moving up into the whole body. The toes, the fingertips, flooded with red light. With each new breath, bringing in more of that energy, base chakra energy. When you feel that you can’t hold any more, with the in breath draw it in, in a concentrated mass into the base chakra so it’s strong and pulsating there.
Then reach up through the crown and draw in more energy, bringing it down to the sacral chakra at the spleen. Repeating the same steps. With each in breath, drawing more into that chakra. See it pulsating as orange light. Letting it expand into the toes, the finger tips, filling the whole body. With each breath, more orange light, more orange sacral chakra energy.
Try to envision the base chakra as this strong, concentrated red light, spinning. The sacral chakra is also spinning and reaching down to connect to the base chakra. Drawing all the orange light energy from the body into a concentrated mass at the sacral chakra, just behind the naval. Feel them both spinning together and passing energy through each other.
Draw in energy again through the crown, bringing it down to the solar plexus. Visualizing it as yellow light. Filling the body more with every in breath, so that the whole body is pulsating with that yellow light energy. And then, gently draw it in to the solar plexus chakra, and feel it link in to the base and sacral chakras, all three of them spinning. Feel the power of each, and the power of them combined.
And then, reach up again, drawing green light this time into the heart center. This exercise helps to open the chakras, but it also gives you practice in staying focused in two places. So keep awareness with these lower three chakras—red, orange, yellow– spinning and connected, and bringing in green energy, filling the heart. Filling the whole body with green energy except for these three masses of color at the three chakras. Everything else is green. And then, gradually drawing it in to a concentration in the heart center, and feel it link with the lower three chakras so they are all spinning together.
Draw in blue light to the throat chakra, letting that blue expand through the whole body. See if your awareness can hold both the spinning, connected 4 lower chakras—red, orange, yellow, green—and also this vast, almost like a watercolor quality blue painting, filling the body with blue. Let it collect into the throat, and feel that spinning throat chakra snap into place, connected to the red, orange, yellow, green, and now blue lights, spinning in the core of the body.
Keep them spinning. When I say keep them spinning, no effort. Permit them to continue to spin, invite them to spin. And find joy in their spinning.
Bringing in indigo light to the third eye. Feeling it flood the body, aware of the red, orange, yellow, green, and blue linked chakras spinning just beneath this indigo. The body is as filled with the indigo color as is possible. Then collecting it into the third eye. Feel it snap into place as its spin connects to the other chakras’ spin.
You may feel moved to sit up straighter, feeling this energy moving through your body. If the body is slumped, the energy can’t flow as smoothly.
And now, feel the violet light at the crown chakra. Coming into the crown and spreading from the crown through the body, touching every cell of the body, flooding the body completely. A violet sea in which all that can be seen are the glowing red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo orbs, spinning and connected through the center of this violet sea.
Now, gather that violet energy into a compacted ball at the crown. Feel it click in to the other chakras so that you feel this flood of energy through the whole body, base to crown, a spinning rainbow, each one unique but also all connected. So at the places where they come together, blue light merges with green, green light merges with yellow, and so forth.
Now envision a ball of white, brilliant white light above the crown of the head. Invite it to link in to the other chakras. Some of you are more visual than others, so for some of you what I propose now will be easier, and for some, harder. Don’t try to force it in any way. Simply gently invite. Begin to see the visual of your outer silhouette of a body with this strong energetic core: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, and white.
What happens to these different chakras as you wash the white light down through, all the way to the base, so that each chakra does not lose its own unique color but becomes touched with radiant silver white light? As much as possible, relax and allow yourself to feel this core of energy, the chakras open and spinning.
Guided Contact with Guides, and Challenge
Offer from your heart, use my words if you wish, but otherwise use your own words, your highest intention. “I offer this energy, this heart, this wisdom mind, this body; I offer this all in service to the light. My intention is service for the highest good of all beings and with love.”
Holding your hands up and open, the intention, “Whatever spirit guidance may be with me, I invite it to make itself more known to me now.” You may or may not feel the presence of an entity. If you don’t, you’re not doing anything wrong, just relax. Your guides are here. Some of you are more sensitive than others, or more trained than others, and able to feel them more distinctly. But be assured they are here, whether you feel them or not.
Eyes are closed, but I’d like to get a clearer sense of what is happening for people. If you feel something that at leastcouldbe a spirit entity or guide, with your eyes still closed please raise your hand. Good. And how many of you are feeling nothing? Again, this is anonymous. Thank you. That gives me a good sense of what’s happening for people without intrusion on your privacy.
If you’re not feeling anything, raise the request to your guidance to make its energy stronger to help you feel it more clearly, and also the intention within yourself to relax any armoring. I and other loving spirits are protecting you. Nothing strongly negative can come through.
Whatever energy you are feeling now, both your own strong core energy open to the light and any guidance, we’re going to challenge together. For now we will use my challenge, as I teach it, but the next time you do this I will ask you to create your own unique challenge.
“Do you come for the highest good of all beings, in service to the highest good of all beings?” Ask the question, and then feel what kind of response you get, from whatever entity you feel.
“Do you come in love?” Again, allowing yourself to feel any response, or if there is any subtle withdraw, to know that.
“Do you come with the intention to non-harm for every being? Do you come in fullest harmony with the energy and heart of ”—here, substitute your own choice of name—Jeshua, the Mother Mary, the Buddha, Kwan Yin, perhaps Abraham, Mohammed. Substitute what works for you.
Now thank your guide from your heart. (pause)
I offer gratitude to all these loving guides who have arrived. For those of you who either have not felt that guidance or who are feeling doubt, just relax. I promise you they are there. And I think at some time today you will begin to allow yourself to feel their presence. But for some it may take more time. Your karma is each unique. There’s nothing wrong with its taking more time. For those who take more time, you are probably more of the perfectionist slant who want to be sure you’ve got it right, very deeply committed to doing no harm. And so with some subtle armoring of fear, because you don’t really feel you control at this point who this guidance is.
May all beings benefit by our practice here.
May we find ever deeper service to the light and to love.
You may open your eyes. Please maintain silence, though. If possible, keep your connection with whatever has come.
Exercise Speaking with a Partner
Now I’d like you to do an exercise that will involve stepping away from this space a little bit, but not completely. I want each person to find a partner, just the person sitting beside you, behind or in front of you is fine. It can be somebody that you know, or not; that’s fine.
Mediumship involves holding two things at once: staying connected to this place of light and openness and spirit, and being able to share what you hear with another. We’re going to practice in a specific way. Turn toward each other now, form your pairs… As quietly as possible, no simple conversation, stay connected.
All right. Person 1 and Person 2: Both people are going to continue to maintain this connection to light and energy. We’ll take turns with it. One person will say something; in a sense will be the part of the guide offering a thought. Now, it doesn’t have to be an especially wise thought. It can simply be, “Oh, that was interesting.” Or, “I found that hard.” Or, “I feel the energy.” Or, “It’s a pretty day.” Or whatever you find to express. Let’s call them Giver and Receiver, but you’re going to keep switching roles, here.
The Giver offers a certain statement. I want the Receiver to hear those words and repeat them back to the Giver– here’s the hard part– without losing this light space and connection. See both yourself as Receiver and the Giver. Now the cylinder of light is not just around you but around both of you together. Feel both of you sitting in that cylinder of light. The Giver offers some words. The Receiver hears them and repeats them back. Then the roles switch, and the Receiver offers some words. The original Receiver, who is now the Giver, offers some words. The new Receiver offers them back.
So you have a short conversation with each other. It can get into a longer and complex sentence. Keep it to a few words at first. What you’re attempting here is to stay centered deeply in this cylinder of light that holds you both. To hear at this point not telepathically but the actual words offered by your partner, and just repeat them back. You can see how this is going to go on to the next step, where you’re each sitting quietly with your guides and hearing.
Just let it flow back and forth. We’ll take about 10 minutes with it. You may begin…
(exercise)
Of special focus here: not to get caught up in the intellectual mind, as you would taking notes in a class, but to stay centered in the light, and feel both your energy together in that light, so that what hears and responds is that part of you that is within the light, not just the intellectual brain.
(exercise continues)
We’ll have a break in a minute. Please maintain an inner stillness, though, not moving into chatter type talking. Could you feel the difference between the brain going after what your partner was saying versus coming into this centered space where you’re in the same space and your whole being hears it? How many of you could feel that, that distinction? It’s normal, because this is your habit of a lifetime, that the brain jumps in to try to understand. So you must constantly gently just step back and remember the cylinder of light, this energy, and your intention to stay with this energy.
Now we’re going to ask you simply to stretch in place… 5 minutes.
(break)
Again we go through the tuning process, each of you stating to yourself your highest intention, phrased in whatever way your heart prompts. By way of example, to offer the self as in service to all beings, for the highest good of all beings. To rest in the uncontracted spaciousness of love, and offer that love out to this universe. To learn how to rest more stably in the heart of love, releasing fear, negativity, and contraction, and to help others to do the same.
Clarify for yourself, what are your intentions? It’s fine to include the self in this circle of intention. May I be well, be happy, free of suffering. May I be loved. So include the self in whatever way you feel prompted, but knowing that the self and the others are not separate. And that what you wish for others, you wish for yourself. What you wish for yourself, you wish for all beings.
Sitting more erect now, bring your memory back to that cylinder of light, and feel yourself surrounded by it and filled by it. Bring attention briefly to each of the chakras, feeling them fully spinning. And if they are not fully spinning, inviting that spin. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, white. Feel the energy flowing through them, through the core of the body. Feel a cylinder of light surrounding the body.
From the heart, and from your deepest intention to live your lives with love and in service to all beings, ask for guidance. The asking must be sincere, that you really want this help. For example, acknowledging that anger or confusion do arise, and that they may sometimes impede your open heart in service, ask for help to know how best not to get caught up in those feelings of anger, doubt, or fear. Literally ask for help in whatever area you most request that help. Or simply to feel the presence of this loving guide even if you don’t yet know what you ask of the guide. Just feel his or her presence.
Guided Meditation to Meet Guides
Now we’re going to do a guided meditation together.
We have climbed a steep hillside together. At the top of the hill we find many paths entering into a dark woods. Each must choose his or her own path. These woods are not dangerous. I would not take you to a dangerous place, but they may feel a bit frightening, because the trees are so dense that little light comes through. You hear wild animals just out of your sight. Is it a rabbit or is it a bear? Who knows?
This is just you, each of you, your own self, walking through the woods. Dante said it beautifully:
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita.
“In the middle of the path of my life, I came into a dark woods where the direct way was lost.” This happens to most humans and is a beautiful metaphor. Which way do I go? The path forks. There are shadows just behind the underbrush. Large gnarled roots lie underfoot. I am lost! If fear arises, know the experience of fear from this core of the open heart without getting caught up in the fear. But acknowledge that desire for light, the desire to find your way through the woods.
Here is another fork in the path, with no indication at all which way to go. You simply must choose. But remember you have an extra tool. “I choose to be guided toward the light. I know this way opens out into a beautiful sunny garden. Please help me find my way.” Reach out to spirit in this way. Try to visualize the fork of the path in front of you, perhaps even three choices, and invite spirit to help you choose the straightest and gentlest path.
Your path leads you into a crevasse between two rocks. As you walk, the sky dwindles above you, just a narrow gap of space. The path is rocky now, and with boulders. Bats fly overhead. You think you see the movement of a snake. Breathing in, I am aware of fear. Breathing out, I smile to the fear. Remind yourself, “I am safe. Spirit is with me.” And restate your intention to come through these woods, to the place where you may be free of this darkness and more able to serve others.
That narrow chasm opens out again. More woods, more forks on the path. Each time you come to one saying, “I don’t know which way,” see if you can step back from the brain trying to decide. Don’t look to see which one is best travelled or which one looks lighter at this point, because it can change 50 yards from now, but go inward and ask your own higher self and your guides, which is the smoothest and most direct way? Follow it. If doubt arises, it’s okay. Can the heart stay open to receiving, even when there’s doubt?
And now the trees begin to thin a bit. More sunlight is coming through. You see some of the small sweet animals like rabbits, chipmunks, and squirrels. Birds are singing on the branches. Ahead of you, you see even more light, what seems to be a break in the trees. And you finally emerge from the edge of this forest onto a grassy hilltop.
Down the hill, you see radiant beings walking, some alone, some in conversation with others. A silver radiance shines from some of them. You can feel the energy filling the valley. Call out, “Is my guide there? Here I am!”
Watch one radiant being separate him or herself from the others and begin to walk up the path toward you, arms outstretched. See this being in whatever form comes to you—male, female, young, old, straight or stooped, human or not human. It might appear as one of your power animals, for example, as a silver stag, a panther, a bird, or even a snake. It might appear as a tree, flowing and filled with energy, and in some odd way mobile and able to come up the path toward you. It may walk. It may fly. Allow it to be as it is. You may think, “I’m imagining it.” Not really. You’re seeing it, but you are so used to imagining that you think you’re imagining.
Let yourself see what comes toward you clearly. Feel its desire to embrace you, to support you, to offer you love. Let yourself fall into its embrace, and feel its energy field holding you, loving you.
Some of you are feeling, “I don’t have a guide. Why am I forsaken here?” You are not. Relax. Just sit on the grass. Hold your hands up if you have not felt your guide’s presence. Just inviting. Those of you who are not feeling your guide are most likely trying to push the guide into something you believe itshouldbe. Relax into what you see. Perhaps it’s just a flower or a ladybug. Guides come in many forms. Hold your hands up open to it. “However you express to me, even as the touch of a sunbeam or a breeze, I invite you, and I thank you.”
Feel the joy of this connection. Allow gratitude, if it’s there. Don’t think too much; just enjoy the energetic connection.
Some of you may feel tears of joy or relief; some feel sadness or pain, feeling, “My guide does not look as radiant as the others. What’s wrong with me?” If you dress him or her in clouds, he will not look as radiant. But I assure you they are all radiant. Some of you may think, “I expected a human and here I have a butterfly.” Enjoy the butterfly, or even a breeze that caresses you.
Just sit with this energy for a minute.
Together we will challenge our guides, asking this guidance,
“Do you come for the highest good of all beings and in love?”
You may not get a verbal yes. Perhaps just a sense of a stronger embrace, or a current of soft energy.
“Do you come fully harmonious with” whatever being of your choice—Jeshua, the Buddha, any others. And again, feeling that flow of energy.
“Do you come with the intention of non-harm to every being, but with love?”
Don’t worry about whether this is all your imagination. Don’t be so cerebral; just be in the experience. Feel the love. One of you is experiencing a small blue butterfly fluttering on your shoulder, and is thinking, “No, I’m making this up.” It’s real. And be assured your guide is not only a butterfly. That is the immediate expression of it, because it touches your heart.
I do not experience any negative energy in the room, but if any of you on challenging your guides feels any hesitancy, or does not feel that loving energy, simply make the statement, “You are not the guide I seek. I ask for a guide that is grounded in love, in non-harm, and in service.” Sit yourself back on the grass and hold your arms open and wait for another guide to come.
Now I would like you to ask your guide, “Do you have a name that I can call you?” It may come as a common human name, or it may be something like “Blue Light” or “Love” or “Kindness.” It may be an almost unpronounceable name of another language. “How can I reach you again? By what name can I call you when I invite you to be present with me?” Here’s where a lot of doubt comes up. “Maybe I’m not hearing it right.” People always want me to confirm, “Did I get the name right?” If not, your guide will correct you. Don’t worry.
Now I want you to ask your guide a personal question. Not something practical, like what shall I eat for dinner, but more the type of question that you’ve not been able to answer, such as how can I smooth my relationship with this person. Or, how can I move past my fear in this or that situation. We’re going to sit silently for a few minutes, and I want you to simply see what images or guidance might come. Many of you are going to think, “Oh, I’m making that up.” I doubt it. It’s possible, but most of you right now are deeply connected to your guidance, although you have not yet practice hearing.
Go back to the practice you just did with a partner, holding the space of light, opening the door and allowing whatever comes to come. Just hearing it. Then you can repeat to the guide, “What I think you’re saying is…”. Sometimes it’s a new insight, a way you have never looked at it. I’ll be quiet now for a few minutes.
(exercise)
Barbara: Okay. Keeping quiet, no social conversation, let’s move into seven groups… What I want you to do: Sit in a circle. Opening again to the presence of your guides for 5 minutes, if you’ve lost this. Challenging, if you need to. Then ask a group question. Aaron has suggested, what do we most need to know right now to allow ourselves to be clear channels? But if a different group question arises, that’s fine, go with it.
If you feel uncertain about what you hear, don’t worry. No one is judging this. If you hear nothing, describe what you’re feeling or seeing. Just, “I feel all alone. There’s nothing here. I don’t feel guided. I feel sad.” And let the whole group hold space for that and invite in the presence of your guidance. If somebody else in the group feels your guide present with you, they might want to describe what they see to you.
These guides will not interrupt each other, so ask this group question, and then each speak as you feel moved, inviting your guide to talk. You’re probably going to find that one guide says this and then stops, and then there’s a moment of silence, and then another guide builds on that. And then another one. And there’s a sense of wonder that they really are talking! And then there’s that, “Oh, we’re making this all up!”
Just note, within the group, note any doubt that comes up. Just keep holding it in love. If you don’t feel a guide’s presence, you are not a failure. Your guides are there, and it just takes time to allow yourself to really connect and feel them.
So we’ll start in this simple way now. The groups have anywhere from half an hour to an hour. At 1pm people should go to lunch. But if you feel that you’ve finished with the group at 12:30pm, you’re free to have lunch then. (describes options for lunch break)
I would like you to be ready to start again by 2:15pm, and we will do this whole opening again. We’ll break into circles again. We’ll have an hour of talking about the experiences at the end. I don’t want to talk about it now. I want you as much as possible to stay in this centered space. So for now, no conversational talking before lunch…
That’s all. Enjoy this. Don’t try too hard. Just relax and let it be.
One more thing, Aaron says if you see images, like certain colors of lights, rainbow, one or another hue of light, or water rushing past, or some other visual, but you don’t hear anything, just describe what you see. This is another way that your guidance is coming to you. Just describe it. Perhaps another guide in the circle will come up and say, “Oh, you see water flowing,” and another guide may come up and say, “Yes, you’re seeing your guide River. River is trying to express itself to you.” So just rest there with River for now.
Okay, enjoy!
(exercise, lunch, continuing with Saturday afternoon)
Aaron: First, about your groups. When the groups form, hopefully spirit has led us into an appropriate collection of groups, but ask within the group: were some people who felt that they connected with spirit in each group? Were there some that did not? Hopefully it will be balanced. Some of you have, I would not say a clearer connection, but a clearer confidence in your connection, than do others. If you end up with a group of 7 people who all say, “I don’t get it!” turn to another group and say, “Will you either merge with us or split with us?” If you look around your group and everybody says, “Oh yes!”, look around and see if there’s someone who needs some of your help, so that each group has some people who do feel a clearer connection.
Because what will happen is, as these guides come through, they will offer guidance to the whole small circle, helping those who are not feeling connected. I can’t be in every group. I walked around; I felt a strong connection with each group. So I want the guides that are coming through clearly and those who are channeling them to be able to support those who say, “Don’t know.” This is part of the intention for service.
Now we’re simply going to silently return into this same circle of light. I’m going to guide you to a somewhat shorter process, maybe 15 minutes instead of half an hour. But it’s important that we not skip the process entirely. There has to be a statement of your highest intention, a period of tuning and opening energetically.
Those who did not get a crystal the last time, please take one from here. Pass it around, find the ones who need one… Use your crystals as an energetic support, if it’s helpful to you. Please do not take one if you received one last time, only if you were absent last time. If you simply forgot to bring one today, just be without it for the day… These are little intelligent voices of energy.
Sitting straight, then, so that your energy can run freely through the body, no slumping, feel your feet on the floor and the earth energy coming in, this forest around you, the open sky above you. Take a minute or two to experience each chakra, just bringing awareness and gratitude to it. Feel the energy therein. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Allowing each of the chakras to be open in this way. Inviting the connection.
If any of the chakras do not seem to be spinning fully, bring your attention back to it. Never forcing, but inviting connection. You can hold a hand over that particular chakra, bringing new energy. If it still seems reluctant to open, put a hand on the chakra, I’m using the throat as an example, here. I would put one hand on the heart and one on the third eye. Inviting the energy from the third eye to move down, the energy from the heart to move up. Just touching the throat chakra with love, without going directly to the throat, but bringing the energy down and up into it, opening.
Feel yourself in that cylinder of light, and state to yourself your highest intention. Then state an inner question. It might be what we worked with this morning, how to be a more clear channel for light. Or there may be a personal question. Opening the hands, literally, ask for help. Do not assume that it will be the same guidance that came this morning. The butterfly or the breeze may have been a small teacher helping you to learn how to open to a higher level, and a higher vibrational guide can come through.
I see I gave an inaccurate example, there, because some of you are then thinking that the butterfly and the breeze are lesser guides. Perhaps the spiritual being that came through is the teacher, helping you to open to the butterfly, who is your highest guide. Don’t presume anything, simply ask for the highest guidance that you can stably hold. If it’s too high, you won’t be stable in it.
The first thing many people hear from spirit is how to increase their vibrational frequency so that a higher-level guide can be stably heard. So if you receive images or words or thoughts, to breathe in a certain color of light, or to think perhaps of something very loving and wonderful that happened to you that brings joy to your heart, simply do it. These are all ways of raising your vibrational frequency.
Opening to that guidance, whatever it may be. Feel yourself connecting, back into the embrace of this guidance, energetic embrace. The guide is beloved. You are beloved to the guide. Feel the joy of that connection.
I remember once in a similar workshop somebody encountered a ladybug and felt disappointed. “Ladybugs are nothing. I want something more substantial.” We were sitting in a room and meditating, about 15 people, and suddenly this person was surrounded by a literal horde of live ladybugs, 10 or 15 ladybugs all flying around this person until she finally began to laugh and say, “Okay! I get it!” Whatever comes is just right.
Opening your heart with gratitude. As you feel the presence of your guide, challenge: do you come in loving service to all beings? Feel an affirmation from the guide. Do you come fully harmonious to whatever your highest teachers are? And again, wait for the affirmation. Do you come committed to love and to light, and with harm to no being, in harmless and love?
There is nothing near any of you that would not answer of that positively, so if you’re feeling any question, that is your own inner doubt. But I can speak for your guidance. There are some, let’s call them curious spirits here in the room, just watching. Some of them are wondering if they can push their way in and do a bit of mischief, but they can’t, because we are holding a force field of light. Some of them are just curious. It’s okay for them to listen. Make it clear, “You may not run what is happening. You may not speak. But you are free to listen, and to learn about light, love, and service.”
One of you is experiencing a tree and wondering, can this really be my guide? Not a lovely, soft, graceful tree, but a tree that looks partially dead, rigid, tall, with angular limbs. But in the heart of this tree runs a deeply loving and ancient awareness. You have strong affiliation with it. So welcome it.
Several of you are seeing your power animals, in different forms, and these also can be guides to you. A few of you have had the thought, can this really be my primary guide? It may not be your primary guide. The guide that shows up today is where we start, and will help me connect to your primary guide. It’s the vibration level that you are capable to stably hold, and will help you to raise the vibration and energy so that you can more clearly connect to your primary guidance.
There are still a few of you who are saying, “I don’t get it.” I would ask those to hold their crystals or possibly, I think there are some flowers besides these at the table, but the ones on the table here have beautiful energy. There’s a big crystal up here on the windowsill. So if it’s useful, when I’m finished talking, take the pot of flowers or a crystal, just feel the loving energy form that, and ask it to be a surrogate guide for now. Just feel its energy.
For those who received a name before, if this energy feels similar to you, you can ask, is this Joe, or Bluebird, or whatever name you received. If it feels different, ask again for a name. Who is this one?
I welcome all these beautiful entities who have come in service, one or several to each of you, to help guide you. In a moment we will break into groups. (Instructions for placement of groups in room.) Please limit the talking. No conversation when you find your group. Just coming together, moving together to a place. Rearranging if it’s necessary. Ask the question, how many in this group felt a strong connection to spirit? If it feels balance, then that’s a good group to work with. If it feels unbalanced, look for another group to merge or share.
Use the same process as this morning. Some of you brought tape recorders. For this afternoon, if you wish to record what is being said, if there’s one working recorder in a group, a person can record what they’re saying and then just listen to it. It may help you find confidence in yourself and the way spirit is coming through you. If that doesn’t feel necessary, that is fine.
I encourage these wonderful entities to talk back and forth, so that you develop some kind of dialogue where you feel the entities coming in and responding to each other, much like Q’uo and I did withThe Aaron/Q’uo Dialogues. But here you have 6, 7, 8 people, 8 different entities. Just let them dialogue. Ask the group question and let them dialogue. And then after a while, if one person has a deep personal question they wish to ask, they can bring that to the group, asking for guidance from others’ entities in the group, as well as their own guidance.
You have one hour, a little over an hour. If it’s useful, take a break at any time. Just get up and stretch. Have a cup of tea, use the bathroom, and then come back together. Some groups may wish that. Other groups may wish to continue for the whole hour. Whatever is most appropriate for your group. Are there any questions? (No.) We’ll go until 4pm. Have a 5 minute break at 4, and then come back here for a question and discussion period. Thank you.
(resuming after group channeling guidance session)
Barbara: Let’s talk briefly about the work at Corinthians. We have people we might call usher mediums. You’re a medium. You’re co-creating with spirit. We talked about this last workshop. When you paint a picture, you’re being a medium between the paper and the paint and the water, or whatever kind of paint it is, the brush. You’re part of the whole chain of creation. It may or may not be prompted in part by another spirit. It may simply be you, the personality self, or the higher self, or both. When you sing a song or play music, you’re a medium for that music, sharing that music with the world.
So, the work that’s happening out there, we’re all mediums, and that’s why we wanted to do some mediumship training. To help you, first of all, to know you have the power to do this, and the ability. And second, to begin to ask yourself , in what ways can I most be of service to others? I said earlier to talk to Anna Marie if you want to volunteer. We do need volunteers. Spirit, Father John, has made it very clear that they will only go as deep as there is support for what they’re doing. The more we hold that energy in support, the deeper they can go in terms of supporting healing for people. So this is a wonderful way to practice and give back for what you’re learning today.
Okay, that’s enough from me. I’d like to get a sense of your questions; what happened in your small groups. At any time it feels appropriate, Aaron will incorporate and speak in place of me. So I’ll stay here for now. But I assume Aaron will come in. Questions or just sharing. (Barbara indicating the signer) This is another form of mediumship, taking the thoughts that people send out and putting them into a form that I can hear. Thanks to all the finger-spelling mediums out there!
Q: I have a question about being tired while you’re channeling. Feeling tired while you channel, and then afterward feeling tired and exhausted.
Barbara: You’re bringing in high energy, a higher energy than you’re used to carrying in your body and it’s tiring. I related how when Ariel used to incorporate, everybody fell asleep, including me, with the high energy coming through.
As you get used to it, and your body’s vibrational frequency gets higher, you’ll be less tired. Ask for help. This is part of the reason at Corinthians why we suggest to people to really plan to take the afternoon off and rest. How many of you have been to the Casa? I know a number have– Many. At the Casa we’re tired a lot. We take a lot of naps, because there’s very high energy.
If you ran a marathon, you’d expect to be tired. This is a kind of spiritual marathon, it just comes with it. But as you do more and more of it, and as you are more tuned in to spirit so that you’re vibrating in the same wavelength, so to speak, there’s much less tiredness. It’s a gradual process of growth. Spirit will guide you to tune so that there is less friction in the connection, as your energy is higher and more open.
The other part of this is that conscious channeling is more tiring than trance channeling. What you’re doing here today is conscious channeling. What those of you who are bodyworkers do, for example, is conscious channeling, where you’re tuning into spirit and you, your personality and your skills are in your body, and spirit is working with you to co-create. What we’re doing at Corinthians is conscious channeling.
When I trance channel Aaron, I literally move out of the body and he moves his energy into the body. The first year at the Casa I asked, I think it was Dr. Augusto, “I am always exhausted after I channel.” And he said, “You’ve got to get out of your body and let spirit just move into the body.” That’s when they taught me to trance channel Aaron rather than conscious channeling.
For your purposes now, the conscious channeling is fine. If a few of you develop your mediumship to the point that trance channeling is useful, we’ll be happy to help you make that next step. But for now, conscious channeling gives you a better chance to co-create, rather than just get out of the way and hand the body to spirit. I could not have done that with Aaron until I really knew him and trusted him. Okay?
So expect there will be some tiredness at first; ask spirit to help you tune to the guide in such a way that the human is more comfortable.
Q: I have a question about the chakra system and getting in tune and aligning with the higher realms to receive the divine guidance. In one of my teachings I was taught that male and female chakras spin opposite. So the root chakra
Barbara: You’re saying that the root spins for a woman counterclockwise, then the sacral spins clockwise, the solar plexus… Aaron, is this accurate?
(Aaron incorporates)
Aaron: I am Aaron. My blessings and love to you. I’m smiling at Barbara’s, “I don’t know.” She simply said, “I’ve never looked at that, Aaron. Is it accurate?”
It’s far more complex than that, daughter, and you don’t really need to know. You don’t need to know which direction they’re spinning if you’re male or female because that leads you into a position of trying to control it. And each of you is truly both male and female, though one is expressing more fully in the present body. If you leave the chakras alone, they will simply spin in the appropriate directions. At a certain point, if a chakra feels stuck, you may want to know in which direction to invite its movement. But again, you don’t have to decide, “Well, I’m a female so it must be this direction for this chakra.” rather than just feeling within the chakra, which way does it want to move?
What’s most important here is releasing any need to control, and simply inviting the chakras to open, offering the intention to help support them spinning. If you feel it wanting to go a certain way, just encourage that. It’s further complicated by the fact that this is just the core chakra system. There is a whole back chakra system. The various meridians of the body have their own separate chakras, in the limbs and so forth, energy centers throughout the body.
So my advice to you is not to be concerned about this. Just watch and see. If it’s not fully open, feel where it’s not open, and hold the highest intention for it to spin and let it spin in whichever direction it wants to spin.
Others? I’ll stay in the body for now.
Q: I have a question about food intake and substances, like caffeine or alcohol, and channeling. How do they affect channeling?
Aaron: For the most part, Barbara does not eat for two hours before she channels. She left here at 12:30pm to go up to her cabin, thinking her lunch was in the refrigerator, and found out that by mistake it was down here, so that she was not able to eat. Because by the time she got back it was too close to the time I would incorporate. She had a small birthday cupcake, but chose not to eat heavily. The heavier energy of food does affect your ability to do the trance channeling she is doing, but for those who are doing a more general mediumship, like what you’re doing at Corinthians, it’s fine to eat before. Just be aware that your energy will be heavier.
For those who work directly with spirit doing bodywork of one sort or another, you will probably find that there is a clearer response in the body if you do not eat a heavy meal just before you need to work. There are no hard and fast rules, just be aware whatever you take into the body affects the energy system of the body.
Ask, is this wholesome? Take a small piece of chocolate, take a demitasse cup of coffee, and then ask, how is my body relating to this? Is this wholesome? My intention is for the highest good and to be as clear a medium as possible. Do I want to save the chocolate or the candy until after I’ve done my work?
Some of you become addicted chemically to chocolate, to caffeine– not even talking about alcohol, although that, of course, yes. But even these lesser substances like chocolate and caffeine or other things. You can become addicted. Your body can become addicted to almost anything. Simply hold the highest intention: is what I’m about to do, drinking this double-sized cup of black coffee, is this suitable to my highest intention? If not, what could I substitute? Just work with love with the body.
It’s important to nourish the body. Food such as the soup we’ve been serving at Corinthians, the soup that you, daughter, brought to Barbara, certain kinds of food have such a high energy because they’re made with fresh vegetables or meat, made with love. They don’t affect the body energy nearly as much as other foods. Does that answer your question?
Q: What about alcohol?
Aaron: My experience is that alcohol always shifts the body energy. There’s a big difference between two double-glasses of Scotch and one half-glass of wine. If you are going to be channeling you don’t want to drink alcohol. If you feel you need it to relax yourself with drink, you’re not ready to be channeling. You need to learn to meditate first and find that spaciousness and ease without the alcohol. But if you’re having dinner with friends and you have a few sips of wine, and afterward you’re going to be doing some channeling, it should not be a problem. It’s moderate.
I think the addiction aspect is more important than the chemical aspect of it. For chocolate, for caffeine, for alcohol, any part of you that feels, “I need this,” diminishes the clarity. Because that shows that you’re trapped in some way, and you have some inner work to do to move past that place of belief of limitation, fear, “I need this.” Not that you cannot channel with that substance in your body, but that you’re more likely to draw in something negative, because there is this fear, “I need this first.”
Barbara went through this briefly with her response to my saying: only very limited quantities of solid food for two hours before you channel, because it affects your energy. And then it became, “I MUST not.” And there was a rigidity to it that could invite in negativity. So I had to remind her, it’s okay, relax. Hold love, not fear. Other questions?
Q:Along the same lines as food, if we bless food, does it change the vibration for our bodies?
Aaron: It changes the vibration when you bless and thank the food. But also, some food is far more wholesome than others to begin with. When you buy your typical hamburger in the market, it comes usually from a cow or steer that has suffered and died with fear and pain. And that vibration is in the cellular tissue you’re taking into your body. It may be an animal that lived its life suffering, bound up in a small confined place. Whereas when you eat what they call free range food, hormone-free, from animals that were treated with kindness and were literally killed with a kind intention, somebody pausing long enough to put a hand on the animal and bless it, thank it for giving its life, and then killed it in a merciful way, where the animal is not led in a line of bellowing frightened animals, but one at a time is simply individually loved and blessed and then killed with thanks, the whole vibration of the tissue in that animal and what you’re taking into your body is very different.
No matter how much you bless the food, you cannot really overcome the negative effects of the way it was raised and the poisons that it may have taken into its body through the different hormones and chemicals, if it was not fed in a natural way. So it helps, yes. But even more important is to work throughout your whole world to ensure that the foods that you eat are wholesome. And to fight against—fight is not the best word, to do what you can to advocate agriculture and animal care that is done with love and without chemicals.
Others?
Q: Sometimes when asking questions, a feeling of knowing the answer speaks. From what voice does that come if you don’t recognize a guide or spirit speaking?
Aaron: Often it is the higher self, your own deepest wisdom, that knows. The question brings forth the knowing. If a question comes up for you and there’s an immediate feeling of knowing the answer, but, it is not your higher self, ask. With Barbara and me, sometimes she has a feeling of knowing the answer and she knows it’s coming through me.
But you’re saying you don’t know where the answer is coming from. Then there are two things to do. One is to pause and say, “Is this answer resonant with my own deepest truth?” And also you may wish to challenge. If you feel the direct sense of another entity there, “Do you speak this answer for the highest good of all beings and with love and without harm to any being?” And see if it meets your challenge. And if it meets your challenge, then listen, and then ask yourself, does this resonate with my own deepest truth?
As you become more accustomed to doing this kind of work, increasingly you will learn the energy fields of the most frequent visiting entities. You’ll start to recognize their energetic signatures and be able to say, “Oh, that’s so-and-so.” As Barbara pointed out, whenever she channels me, she still challenges. Not constantly, she’s not coming back into her body every 30 seconds and challenging me. She trusts that once I’m in the body, no one else is going to come in. But in conscious channeling also, she just keeps going. I’m not incorporated in the body. A new question is raised and I answer it again. She feels my energy and she doesn’t challenge every moment. But if she feels any least ripple of disturbance in the energy field, any concern about the answer, she immediately challenges. But gradually you start to know the most frequent energy signatures that come through.
You also can ask that they identify themselves. As you get to know your guides and they begin to give you names, ask when a guide comes in with a thought that it identifies itself. Okay?
Q: As I understand where humanity is in its evolvement, it has been shared by many that we are integrating our I AM presence here on planet Earth.
Aaron: …What do you mean by integrating our I AM presence on planet Earth?
Q: Meaning that those that intend to ascend with Mother Earth we will be connected to her.
Aaron: …You’re speaking of integrating our energies with Mother Earth?
Q: …With our I AM presence. Can Aaron expand on this?
Aaron: Not really, except to say it’s accurate! You are in part physicality as Mother Earth is physicality. You are in part tissue, material. You are in part energy. You are in part spirit, and so is the earth. The I AM presence is not separate—you, you, you, you, Earth, the trees out there. There is one I AM presence that is expressing itself through all these myriad voices.
You are moving into a higher vibration, a higher density, and so is the earth. Hopefully you will do it harmoniously, but at times, for example last week the earth had a giant sneeze! It’s the only way I can express it– storm, waves, wind, disruption, which was a way of breaking past a place where it was stuck. As the earth moves into a higher vibration, there are going to be some dramatic shifts. The more you as humans are able to hold those shifts with love, to use your technology to anticipate them and move beings out of harm’s way, not to blame the earth for sneezing, simply to understand the earth is also a sentient being and she’ll do this now and then, as you hold love around these shifts of your Mother, she will move more stably in her necessary shifts. Her intention is never to harm you, as humans. It’s simply to move through her own action of evolution and change.
Simply remember that this core I AM within you is no different than that core I AM within everything, and honor the trees out your window and the sun, the earth, your neighbors, the rivers, the hurricanes, all of it.
When there is real destruction on the earth brought forth by humans, like this fracking process, it’s a way of fear betraying the earth. You would not come up to a human being and say, “Okay, I’m going to stick needles in you and pull out some of your core energy. I don’t care whether you want that or not, I’m going to do that to you.” There is profound disrespect of the earth in much of the mining, fracking and other such procedures. I’m not saying these cannot be done. But right now they are being done mostly by humans with greed as the primary reason and not as co-creation with the earth.
If people mindfully come into an area where there could be gas or crystals and ask the earth, “What will you give us?” Not, “What may we take from you?” but, “What will you give us? Will you please give us access so that we may take some of these crystals, so that we may have the use of them, and the joy and beauty of them?” the earth will offer them. But if you say, “How much money can we make here? Let’s just cut into this space.”, not asking the earth, the earth will rebel. It will bring harm to you and to the earth. It’s no different than what I said about animals. Serving the earth with kindness. Co-creating with the earth, always asking, never forcing. Never demanding.
Barbara and Hal had an interesting experience several years ago. There were a great many acres of rolling, open land, wetlands and woods behind their house. The acreage was bought, and it was going it would be completely demolished, the woods cut down to create a giant subdivision. Barbara decided to go back there and transplant a number of small 3’-5’ evergreens, bring them up to their property and put them along the property line, which is a long property line, both to save the trees and to create an energetic and visual defense against the new subdivision back there.
So she and Hal and their sons went back there and they just started digging up trees. The trees didn’t live, the first batch of trees. So I said, “Maybe you’re not doing this right. Did you ask the trees which ones want to move?” They went back out there. She sent the boys, three young men, to patrol this hundred acres or so, asking for trees that wanted to move to their yard, and tying ribbons around those that said yes. They eventually got 20 or 30 trees that said yes.
They brought the trees in, and they had holes ready for them. They started to put the trees in the holes and I asked, “Did you ask the trees where they want to be?” Many of the trees were satisfied to choose an existing hole, but a few trees said, “No, we want to be out there in the center of the yard.” I said to Barbara, you’re co-creating. It’s okay to say to the trees, “No, this is going to be open lawn space. You may choose any space you like on the periphery of the yard.” The trees eventually chose a space, and they’re thriving. Some of you have seen the back yard with, what are they, 40, 50, 60 foot evergreen trees.
Co-creating, never forcing. Other questions?
Q:How did the trees say yes? (laughter)
Aaron: You can ask Barbara that, but basically she had 3 well-trained young men who each walked up and down the yard with a tree, holding it until they felt a vibration from the tree that said, “Here!” And then Barbara came up with them and we confirmed that this was what the tree wanted. But the boys basically co-created with the trees where they wished to be planted.
We only have another 10 minutes here. I want to give you some guidance to take home with you. Try at least a few times a week sitting in meditation to connect with your guides. Do it as we did it today. Spend a few minutes feeling this energy flow through the body, feeling yourself in a cylinder of light. Ask the question. Open to spirit. Challenge when it comes in. And then simply listen.
You can use the writing process I described earlier. Just holding a paper. Don’t try to monitor what you’re writing. You may get a few words or a few sentences or paragraphs. Let it keep writing itself until the flow stops, and only then go back and read it. If it’s helpful to you, and it raises a new question, ask the new question. Instead of a group here, you’re creating your own group, in a sense. Hearing spirit’s response, and then you’re responding with your question or thought about what was said.
If it does not resonate as truth to you, simply say, “No, this is not the kind of answer I’m looking for. This is not harmonious with my intentions to service and to the highest good. I invite some more highly positively polarized entity to reply. If you keep getting a negative reply, stop. Go into your meditation and ask, in what way am I inviting this kind of reply, ‘Punch him in the nose!’ You don’t want to punch him the nose? Then stick him with a sword. Beat him dead!’? Why am I inviting this kind of reply? Is there some anger that I’m not aware of in myself? What do I need to take care of in myself so that I stop opening the door to something negatively polarized that wants to thrust out and hurt people?
You do your own inner work, and as you do that, you invite positively polarized entities. All of you today made some contact with positively polarized entities. You were able to hear the guidance in a hearing-thoughts kind of way, some more clearly, some less clearly. Some simply saw colors or lights or forms, heard different kinds of sounds. You’re still receiving these positively polarized entities. Every one of you connected with some form of positively polarized entity beyond the higher self.
It takes practice. It takes a great deal of self-honesty. If spirit is coming through with something that doesn’t feel resonant with what you would state as your highest truth, in what way are you denying a certain kind of anger or fear, and stuck in it?
Spirit will help you if you ask. It may give you instructions that seem simple, like simply chanting the same tone over and over, or visualizing a certain color, bringing it into your whole body. It’s basically helping you find better balance and a higher vibration so that you can tune yourself more easily to spirit through that guidance.
So you can do it through writing. You can do it through vocal channeling, especially if you have a friend to do it with you. If you’re alone, the writing may be the easiest way at first. You’ve all readCosmic Healingand you know that’s how Barbara began channeling me. Just conversing back and forth. She would ask a question, I would answer, and she sat there with her pencil, writing it down.Cosmic Healinggrew out of those journals.
At some point, if you’re writing you may want to graduate to recording it and then listening. But if you have a partner to work with, your partner can give feedback. Take it gradually. The focus at this point is to develop confidence…
1) that there is a connection with your higher self or a guide,
2) that you are able to discern the thoughts or energy from that being, and to hear with some accuracy,
3) that you are willing repeatedly to go back into yourself if you’re drawing something negative, and ask, in what way am I inviting this? What inner work is this directing me to? So that as you purify it and release it, what comes through is a higher vibration and more clear.
You will not bring in a very highly powerful positive entity until you’re ready, because a highly powerful negative entity could pose as that highly powerful positive entity. You have no intention to do harm. Perhaps the most serious difficulty people get into with channeling is that the ego says, “Oh, look what I’m doing!” Gets caught up in this as an ego trip, of sorts. Uses it to control other people and other things. “My entity says you shouldn’t do that!” “But my entity says it’s okay!” “My entity is smarter than your entity!” (laughter). If your ego is prompting you in that way, pause and do your inner work to release whatever ego and fears there are so that you’re clear again. Do it with love.
Remember not to expect just one entity to come in all the time. There may be various guides that will come forth. They each have a different signature of energy. I’m going to give you an example, here.
(The Mother incorporates)
The Mother: My blessings and love to you all. Many of you recognized me immediately as I came into the body. I am the one you have called The Mother. Can you feel the difference in my energy and Aaron’s energy? It’s not just my voice; it’s my whole energy field. Barbara is much more able to consciously channel and paraphrase Aaron because she knows his energy so well. She is just now beginning to be able to consciously channel and hear me in that way. She feels my energy, but she cannot quite reach my thoughts without my being incorporated in the body.
You all have different experiences with different entities that come in. Just challenge, and be sure that they are there for the highest good, in service to all beings and with love, and you will have no difficulty at all. Remember that we are here with you and guiding and helping you. You may call on me at any time. I love you and I am here to support you. I will return the body to Aaron.
Let me add one thing before I return the body. Barbara has mentioned the work at Corinthians. I have met and looked in many of your eyes out there, shared energy with you. While we are doing that, so much other work is going on around the room. Your presence in whatever roles you play there helps in two ways. It helps Barbara, this physical being whom I know you love, because it helps to support her energy field. And it helps all of the others in the room, because so many entities are working with them.
When you open yourself to spirit and hold that space of love, it’s like holding a vast door open so that many loving entities can come in and help throughout the room. We cannot do it without you. You are vital to this effort. We thank you. I will release the body to Aaron.
(Aaron reincorporates)
Aaron: I think many of you could feel the distinction between the Mother’s energy and mine. Remember that energy fields will vary. What I am giving you of me is a very shielded version of my energy field.
(pause) Can you feel my energy growing stronger?
(pause) I’m opening it. I’m still shielded but I’m opening it a bit more, letting out more and more energy.
(pause) There is a difference between the specific signature of energy and the strength of it. When you bring in your guides, sometimes they will be stronger, sometimes milder, in energy. It’s like a note (makes soft ahh, louder ahh)—sometimes loud, sometimes soft. But it’s the same tone.
Don’t be concerned with how loud it is so much as getting the clarity of that tone, that specific energy signature of that guide, and getting to know it. As Barbara said in the beginning, simply hang out with it in meditation without passing questions back and forth. Just getting to know it and with gratitude for its presence. Develop a friendship with it.
I’m going to release the body to Barbara. My blessings and love to all of you, and thank you for your participation today, and for my anticipation of your ongoing work this month to polish what you have learned.
Barbara: That’s all for today. Thank you all for being here. We look forward to being together again in a month. Hopefully will see some of you next Sunday at Corinthians, and if you have questions, feel free to email. I do not promise an immediate response, but I will respond as quickly as I’m able. And thank you for your loving birthday wishes! That’s all.