The Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores Channeling and the Michael Teachings (Summerjoy Michael Series) - Softcover

Hoodwin, Shepherd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885469004 ISBN 13: 9781885469007

Publisher: Summerjoy Pr, 1995

Synopsis

How did you become who you are? Why are you here? Where are you going? Discover the big picture of your life through the Michael teachings and join the growing numbers of people who are finding useful guidance in channeled messages. Michael outlines the roles we choose to play; the elements of our soul and our personalities; our position in relationship to others; the progression we make from life to life; and the goals modes attitudes and agreements by which we operate. Despite their detail the Michael teachings are grounded and relevant to our daily lives.

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About the Author

Shepherd Hoodwin has been channeling since 1986, and specializes in the fascinating Michael teachings, about how we set up our lifetimes. He is an intuitive, workshop leader, and teacher. He also does healing, mediumship, past-life readings and therapy, counseling, and channeling coaching (teaching others to channel). He is the author of the hilarious Enlightenment for Nitwits: The Complete Guide to 2012 & Beyond! His most recent book is Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings (second edition, North Atlantic Books, 2013). He is also the author of Meditations for Self-Discovery: Guided Journeys for Communicating with Your Inner Self (available in print and on Kindle). Upcoming books include Divine Innervention: How God Stops the Bad Guys Without Ruining Her Hair, Opening to Healing, Growing Through Joy, and Being in the World. Shepherd lives in Laguna Niguel, California. He can be contacted through his website at summerjoy.com (where you can sign up for his Perspectives newsletter). His blog is newagevillage.com/perspectives.You can find more of his material at:enlightenmentfornitwits.com (where you can sign up for a newsletter devoted to that book) Twitter: @EnlightenNitwit, @shepherdhfacebook.com/shepherd.hoodwin

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WE ARE RESPONSIBLE

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know. In addition, we all have our own experience of reality and ways of describing it. There is no right and wrong in this regard, only infinite facets of truth. We do have much to learn from each other, and those on higher planes usually have more experience, greater resources of information, and a larger perspective than we do on the physical plane. However, their counsel is more accurately viewed as coming from loving friends than from a deity. No one is more "God" than anyone else. We are each responsible for ourselves. We experience more growth if we don't do things merely because we think someone else, incarnate or not, told us to. It is well to examine what we hear others say with appreciation and respect, but we don't always hear what is actually meant, for one thing. More importantly, no one knows us better than we know ourselves, at least potentially. We must make our own decisions and mistakes, and form our own understanding, if we are to learn to guide the course of our lives wisely. Besides, true teachers don't tell people what to do. They give greater perspective and understanding so that their students can make well-informed choices. Beware of those who issue orders, or who are certain that they know what's best for someone else, even if they are being channeled from a higher plane. Just because material is channeled does not mean that it is appropriate or a fully realized expression of truth.

RECOGNIZING TRUTH

Channeled material, like everything else, must be interpreted through the understanding of the hearer. Sometimes we draw conclusions or make associations that are not valid, or we simply misunderstand. I am sometimes amazed at what clients say Michael said. The truth is precise; it is as important to hear what is not being said as what is. The ability to recognize truth is crucial. Truth is always associated with love. It has a certain feel about it. It is not necessarily comfortable, but it is penetrating and ultimately liberating. Often the truth or value of channeled material isn't fully apparent until later. It may seem at first to be deceptively simple or general. If we have that experience with something channeled for us, we have nothing to lose by living with it a while and seeing if it looks different later. One client told me that after her session, she wasn't particularly impressed, but two months later, she listened to her tapes and couldn't believe that Michael had said what they did; it was almost as if she hadn't heard it the first time. This is a common reaction. In my brochure for new clients, Michael says: "You will get the most out of this session if you review the material in a week or two. It's hard for so much new input to soak in the first time. A defense against overload is to make it seem less than it is. This is normal, but often, our students find their channeling to be far more meaningful weeks or even months later. It is the mark of a good teacher (and we aspire to this) to give what the student is almost but not quite ready to hear. That way, we promote growth. Obviously, the material becomes more meaningful when the student is actually ready." Our Western society's model of truth is based on polarity: something is either true or it isn't, and if it's true, something else must therefore be false. In my experience, two statements that seem contradictory can both be true, or at least, mostly true. I have sought to demonstrate that throughout this book. Michael speaks of personal, world, and universal truths. That concept points out that something may be true for an individual or even many individuals, but not be true for everyone in the world, let alone in the universe. Gravity, for instance, is different everywhere on the planet, partly because of varying distances from the earth's core. If we didn't know that and saw two different measurements of earth's gravity reported, we would probably assume that one report was wrong. When we don't have enough information, when we lack "bridge information," we can tend to be judgmental and simplistic in our views. Truth is infinite, and is therefore vast enough to hold an infinite number of facets. Someone said that the measure of an idea's greatness is the degree to which its opposite is also true. If there are poles of absolute truth and absolute falsehood, there is a long continuum in between, the infinite shades of gray between white and black. But more likely, absolute truth and absolute falsehood do not exist in the dimensional universe - only in the Tao is absolute truth. Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, refuses to be rounded off - it just keeps going into infinity: 3.14159265.... We do round off pi so that we can work with it - that is a convenience, but it is not the whole truth. With any spiritual teaching, we are working with rounded-off truth, because we cannot work directly with the whole truth - it's too big. I discussed models of reality in the Preface. We have no choice but to work with models. What else do we have? However, a good model connects us to the infinite truth that it models, and although that cannot be fathomed, it can be felt. The more true we are to the truth of ourselves, the better we can recognize truth in models.

THE LARGER PERSPECTIVE

We are in the midst of a planetary transformation. There are many nonphysical beings who are assisting with it, whether we know it or not. Channeling is a means of consciously working with them. They are often as gratified to make the connection with us as we are with them. Used in a responsible way, channeling can be an important tool in our personal and collective growth. Whether or not we call ourselves channels, it is becoming more and more essential that each of us develop our inner connections with the larger universe if we are to move creatively with the changes occurring.

Edition details

• Publisher: Summerjoy Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885469004
• ISBN 13: 9781885469007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 418