MODULE ONE
Your Journey Begins
Thank you for beginning this journey with us. The course process began most unexpectedly when Susie and I decided to get together to rekindle our spiritual focus and reconnect with Virgil, following several months break from channeling. It is interesting to reflect though, that at the time, our lives were in turmoil. Both of us felt very frustrated by the fact that, despite all our spiritual understanding, we had no clue as to why we were manifesting difficult lives, much less how to change them.
Essentially, we were tired, exhausted perhaps, of trying to live by the ‘spiritual rules’ we had been taught. We were disappointed by our lack of success in creating satisfying, nurturing realities, while our growth seemed to revolve around hard lessons grounded in hindsight. We wondered if we actually understood spirituality at all and whether we would ever be able to master growth without pain. At our core, we were feeling let down and abandoned by Spirit – as though we had been left to flounder alone. Despite this, we supported each other in expressing our fears. We were both tired of wallowing in failure; we eagerly awaited Virgil’s presence that evening.
This book is the culmination for Susie and me, in actually learning to walk, not just talk, our spirituality. Since that first session, we and many others have grounded this course into our daily lives in our own unique way. Right from the outset you, the reader must accept that there is no right or wrong in the process about to be revealed to you. Participate with an open mind, and an open heart. Take what you will out into the journey that is your life – just as we all have done.
During this course, I will offer you an insight into what was occurring for us, as participants, via a short preamble to each chapter. For the most part, my narration relates to Susie or myself. However, we have run many courses since then, and I have included the experiences of other participants where they are particularly relevant. I now hand you over to Virgil. Know that you are welcome in joining our extended family of participants and therefore as he is talking to us, he is of course, including you.
Sally…
Good evening, my friends, Virgil is with you. Welcome to the first lesson of our wonderful course.
Thank you for coming through so quickly Virgil.
Indeed, it is much easier to connect when the energy is as vibrant and welcoming as you have made it this evening. I thank you for your open focus and for your very clear intentions. This has raised the group energy of the room to a heightened vibration. This means that you have reached up to me, and therefore, I do not have to lower my vibration to a large extent. Maintain your open focus and we should have a very powerful connection. I welcome you all here and give you my blessings. I understand the reasons that drive you to attend this course. I ask that you trust me to guide you through whatever manifests, while you are entrenched in it. You see, my friends, I see before me energies so beautiful, energies not hidden by the mask of ego, but instead dancing in the knowledge of their own light. I see wisdom, and a collective urge to move through the physical density with the light of Soul. However, as I move my energy to match the vibration in which you tackle your day to day world, I see what you would refer to as blocks. These prevent you from seeing and more importantly, experiencing who you truly are. Your own inner light seeks to guide you. I will take on this role for a short time and be the bridge between your normal ego awareness and the higher aspects of your own self. Soon, you will recognise your own light and will no longer need me, the bridge, so to speak.
You have a deep feeling tone that pervades your life. This feeling tone is calling to you in a gentle, rhythmic fashion. It is never needy or desperate, just present, patient and real. It is so subtle that you hardly recognise it, but in your heart, you all know that it exists. You call it by many names, perhaps God, The higher self, or Soul to name a few. The terms are basically meaningless, for there is no separation to the self. You are familiar with these terms, so we use them here to assist in the communication process. Whatever name you call this feeling tone, this ever present connection to source, know that it is real in your life and that through it, I have a wish for you to find your way home. Patience and perseverance are what are called for here. I know that you are up to the challenge.
To begin, we need to expose all that you would accept as fact about this reality and particularly your self-image within it. We then need to undo all that which is not aligned to the reality of Soul – your true nature. This undoing can be done in a moment, but so dense are the barriers you have built around yourself, for most, it must be undertaken as a process. This is where I am to assist you. I have designed the process to speak to you where you are right now, then slowly draw your focus away from ego awareness and into your own light. Your light is the key here, not the light of mine or others, but an acknowledgement and acceptance of the powerful light that you contain.
Through your spiritual classes you have been told of the capability of union with your Soul reality and to heal the apparent separation would reveal a ‘Nirvana.’ You have all at one time or another aspired to experience this union, yet despite your considerable efforts, it never seems to materialise. All the guides and teachers tell you that it is possible and this is the truth. The state of knowing cannot be provided to you; instead you must open your eyes and recognise this as a place within. You need to seize it as your own and you need to reflect it all about you. This is what we will be trying to achieve over the next weeks.
You all feel prepared to participate fully in this journey, for which I am pleased and excited. I will be here to support you along every step of the way within each course meeting. You can also call on me at any time and I will be present to influence and assist. Understand though, I will only be available via your feelings, for this is the foundation of your own innate wisdom.
You all understand the intellectual concept of creating your own reality, yet consistently things appear in your reality that you disown. Circumstances occur, which you believe you could not have possibly created by your own thoughts. Make no mistake; all things that appear within your reality are part of who you are, at this point in time. The first step in understanding their meaning is to embrace them as your own creations and then to show them the light that is within. For they are protecting what is you; that beauty, that spark, that inner feeling tone.
Presently, through positive affirmation and kind action and thought, you hope that one day you will have the life that you desire. Yet somehow ‘unwanted’ events occur that you seem to have no hand in creating. I will teach you that it is indeed your hand, which paints your environment. You will learn how to trace the source of your physical circumstances back to the inner tone where you can heal it. This is our greatest hope for you. Thought alone, positive or otherwise, does not create your reality. If this were the case, can you imagine how even more chaotic your life would be? Thoughts are but one, albeit significant, aspect of the miracle of manifestation. At its very basic level and what energises those thoughts, is your own unique feeling self.
The theory of creating a wonderful reality appears complex. Many of you have been attempting to understand and master the rules of manifesting for some time now. As you have learned and tried to obey the myriad of spiritual ‘rules’ that abound, one cannot help but be more confused when events are birthed that are seemingly the opposite of your intention and effort. This course will lead you beyond the intellectual mire and into true spiritual knowing, whilst at all times respecting and loving your unique humanity. It is through your feeling tone that your reality stems and grows upwards through the layers. At any point you can either; recognise and listen to the inner, or you can ignore it; soon it will be projected outward. Having ignored the inner roots that gave the projection life, it appears foreign to you and it is therefore disowned. Anything that you project outward, even that which you consider ugly, is an aspect of self that you have considered ugly and consequently will not embrace. You understand these concepts intellectually, but still this knowledge does not urge your focus inward, so there is no change afoot and the cycle continues. We will teach you to no longer understand the spiritual nature of this world intellectually, but to know it, because you are it.
You are intrinsically connected to all things and to know this is the critical aspect of moving forward. What you have done, up until this point, is trained the conscious mind (or ego) in the nature of spiritual theory. The ego is a clever tool, but a servant to your current beliefs, therefore it has adapted its behaviour to suit – just as when you were a child you adapted your behaviour to suit the demands of your parents. As the course progresses, you will be consistently confronted with the choice of continuing to operate from a level of intellectual knowledge, or to move into the feeling body- where you operate from a level of just knowing. An easy choice in theory, but you will learn, this takes courage.
Your ego thoughts, in this day and age, tend to be what directs your world. You follow them at whim and often you will lose your true self for a time. This is not the true order of your existence. The ego’s function is valid, but it is not equipped to take on the role of leader, its vision is not whole. For example, your eyes are the lens by which you view the physical world. The physical eye does not make a decision about which direction you should take, it is merely the means by which you view the surroundings. You can receive and interpret data, which then allows you to overcome or avoid any obstacles. Similarly, the ego was designed to be the lens by which you viewed your conscious and unconscious world, bridging the two and providing each with a reference point. The ego was never meant to make decisions about the direction your life should take as a result of its observations, any more than the physical eye can decide your physical direction. The ego was designed to gather and interpret information derived from this physical environment and turn it inward, so the Soul self can comprehend the experience of life on this Earth plane. The ego was then meant to await feedback from the inner that would influence its ultimate decision. Therefore, the ego self is an open-ended system designed to seek information from both within and without. In this day and age, it appears to be especially biased toward the events without.
Your Soul self in its natural state is so magnificent that its high, fine vibration can not incarnate fully within the dense physical flesh. It therefore creates a portion of itself that rises up to take on the challenge of physical existence. This portion is often referred to as ‘ego’ or ‘personality self.’ Its nature changes as your conscious and unconscious thoughts change. It interprets all psychological events and physical objects of this realm; returning the information to the Soul for the greatest growth and learning. The ego allows all that is foreign to the Soul’s realm to be experienced, so without the ego’s skill, physical existence would be without purpose. Therefore, the ego is the bridge that heals the concept of separation, not the cause of it. It feels alone and abandoned because it has been hypnotised by the physical realm and has forgotten to look inward.
Many of you have heard variations of this separation concept before – it is not new. What we are intending to do in this process, is to return the ego to its rightful place – to allow it to be guided from the higher self. In this way, rather than make decisions at whim, based on the intellectual beliefs of the ego, your life can be guided at a conscious level from within. Then, you can interpret the events that occur in your lives and move through them with greater clarity and love. Within this clarity, an assuredness will emerge that the events, in physical terms, are meaningless except for how they affect you and your own internal feeling environment. These are concepts that you will probably have no difficulty in understanding intellectually. Our challenge is to remove the intellectual understanding and create an inner knowing.
At this point, I would ask if you have any questions.
Virgil, I just don’t understand about how the Soul self is only a portion of ourselves and how the ego is feeling separate and abandoned.
The Soul self is an energy of such a fine vibration that it cannot possibly be fully incarnate in this physical reality. The denseness of this matter in your earthly plane could never contain it. In order to experience this dense physical reality, the Soul sends what you would refer to as a portion of itself forward in time and space to engage here. It creates an aspect of itself and endows it with special skills to enable it to adapt here. When I refer to a ‘portion,’ I do not mean it as truly separate. If you like, imagine a star sending out light in many different directions. There is no real separation of the light points of that star as they are emanating from a common source. Yet, if the light only focuses outward, there is only darkness and aloneness before it and its fellow beams look distinct and apart from it. If, the focus is turned inward, then it would see its own core shining so brilliantly and recognise it as the source of its power. It would also recognise all the other, apparently separate light beams, as being derived from the same shining source. The ego is an extension of your Soul self in the same way.
The ego’s nature and beliefs change according to the prevailing attitudes of the conscious mind. The conscious mind deals directly with the mental environment of this plane. The ego is the ‘lens’ by which the conscious mind is able to interpret conscious, unconscious and physical data. It is highly attuned to this physical environment, so much so, that it feels most comfortable within limitation and rules. The ego is essential to your Soul’s purpose in this physical environment, for the Soul could not experience any physical events without it. The ego allows you to do things – it is the physical specialist. For example, it allows you to manipulate the body. It has so highly refined this task that at times it believes that this is its only function. This feeling of separation, this conscious mind versus Soul, was never meant to be the case. The ego has always had the ability to look outward as well as inward, but at this point, it has forgotten to look inward. We want to tune and refocus its vision so it seeks expression and guidance from the inner, rather than feeling alone in a series of seeming random physical and psychological events. Once it peers inward it will understand the source of its life and the love that is within.
Virgil, why does the Soul self seek expression in this physical reality?
This is a grand question. This physical reality you are experiencing is dominated and tainted with the notion of polarities; that is one of opposite forces. Your ego especially feels comfortable with these ‘facts’; it has been specifically designed to operate within these rules and boundaries. Extremes of hot and cold, up and down, male and female are unquestionably ‘fact.’ Overlaying this is that all things in this reality appear as separate and are seemingly temporary. This reality allows an expression of Soul, of consciousness, that is unlike any reality that exists anywhere else, even other realities that are physical. This reality represents all that is foreign to the true nature of Soul and therefore it is a grand experience.
You are immersed in the challenge of creating wholeness which is your natural state and therefore unassailable. At the same time you are experiencing a polarity which is especially convincing. It is a dense reality – being foreign to your natural state, many become distracted by its beauty and terror. The reason this reality must be so dense and therefore difficult to navigate, is that it can only be created upon a solid foundation of judgement categorised by the notions of negative and positive. Judgement does not exist in the less dense planes, yet it is a prerequisite of ego consciousness or you would not be able to discern this reality at all.
Judgement need not be a dirty word for it is the foundation of the notion of polarity and therefore this entire physical plane. Judgement only becomes tainted when it is wielded either against others, through projection, or against yourself, through suppression. This will become of greater significance to you as the course progresses. So to answer your question: you seek expression in this physical reality to evolve consciousness, thereby adding another level of experience to the Soul self – that of polarity; yet simultaneously maintain your natural state of union.
I will move on at this point to your task for the week…..
We trust that this first chapter has stirred your Soul and perhaps intrigued your ego. If you choose to join us we have a wealth of assistance and support available. We hope to see you in either our physical or on-line communities soon.
Virgil, Sally and Susie.