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Traveler John Morton takes sharing at the Spiritual Exercises Workshop at Windermere, October 2024

The Garden of the Traveler

“As you awaken to the Traveler, you find that your purpose has the highest intention, with malice toward none. Your actions become clearly determined by the spirit of God. You become on purpose with the highest consciousness upon the planet.” – John Morton

This article was originally published in the print New Day Herald in May-June 1991 and is a beautiful, powerful, timeless gift for us all.

How do I identify what determines my life? Following the Traveler has been and is still determining my life right in this moment.

The Spirit is not limited to a personage or a body. The rule of thumb for the Travelers is that there has always been one. There is always someone who takes the anchor point simply by the willingness to take on the energy. Even if there is unwillingness at the personality level, the Traveler Consciousness still conducts the divine energy. The ministering of the Traveler Consciousness is primarily silent and invisible.

The Traveler is the consciousness that is influencing all of us, including what is taking place on the planet. It represents the consciousness that is bringing Spirit forward now. The Traveler stands on the point of energy for the planet that conducts the living consciousness of God.

To consider myself as the Traveler could appear as an extreme example of egomania until you understand how utterly impersonal the Traveler Consciousness is in its functioning. Then you would realize the Traveler could function through anybody of its choosing. When I look back and consider when I first knew I was the Traveler, I can find various points both before and after the event of declaration. The Traveler is a consciousness that comes awake and keeps on moving you to the depths of your Soul.

When you awaken to the Traveler, there is a great transformation. The Traveler is absolutely on purpose with who you are. There is an unwavering quality in the knowledge and complete freedom to do what you choose. Your purpose becomes revealed as larger than any outer circumstances or events. You begin to know that your life is determined by something from within you that is larger than you and is you – – – by something that is truth and is still unknown. As you awaken to the Traveler, you find that your purpose has the highest intention, with malice toward none. Your actions become clearly determined by the spirit of God. You become on purpose with the highest consciousness upon the planet.

As you come into the consciousness of the Traveler, you may feel as though you are nothing and are devoid of worthiness. Yet it is so magnificent that you may feel that you would do anything to have more of it. The Traveler cannot be possessed or controlled. It cannot be defined or described in words. The Traveler must be known by direct experience.

At times the Traveler is the most beautiful experience of surrender. At last you are finding the one you can completely trust and realizing that presence dwells within you as you. You learn to let go of the aspects of your being that are less than God. You know there is never a reason not to choose loving. You know the human struggle is temporary and only the goodness of life endures past all things. You know there is someone that is always watching over you with your best interests intact. You know that somehow that someone is you. You know the futility of resisting and, instead, find the triumph in complete acceptance. You know the answer is present as you begin to laugh at, and you even forget, the question. You let go and find that God is accompanying you as you in all of your experience.

If I had a gift for you, it would be the experience of the Traveler. Yet the Traveler is a gift that cannot be forced upon you. You receive the Traveler as you are open and prepared to handle what comes with it – Soul Transcendence. The Traveler may come to you simply because you ask. It may come as you are willing to give up the level in which you find yourself and appeal to a higher consciousness to help you. The Traveler can come to you as you are willing to take responsibility for your life for the highest good of all concerned.

As you have an initial physical contact with one carrying the consciousness of the Traveler, the seed of returning to God is planted. If you are prepared for the necessary growth, then the Traveler awakens and grows in you through your willingness to conduct your life according to your spirit. This process continues as long as you are willing. Those who are unwilling or unprepared go about their life with the seed dormant until such time as they are open and willing to follow their spiritual heart once again.

Through the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, the Traveler is extending the teachings of the spiritual heart into a greater manifestation upon the planet. The impact of the Traveler upon your conscious awareness relies upon your willingness to overcome the concerns of the world and place your focus into the spirit and the truth of your being. As you actively participate in MSIA, the Traveler is bringing to you all the information and experiences necessary for you to awaken to the Soul. By participating with the Traveler, you are aligning with a direct line to God that fulfills your divine heritage so long as you are willing to endure the process.

It’s important you realize that God never makes the process something you cannot handle. It is only you who may make the process overwhelming by making unnecessary choices and holding negative attitudes. The overriding quality that will bring about your fulfillment in Soul Transcendence is your willingness to choose back.

Virtually everyone will question the validity of the Traveler’s action. The karmic situation that each person is working through largely determines their ability to recognize the value of Soul Transcendence. Few people are awake and clear enough in their karma to recognize and choose to participate in the action of the Traveler through Soul Transcendence. Others’ experiences and attitudes toward the Traveler or MSIA have nothing to do with the value of your participating in Soul Transcendence. Once you begin to comprehend this, you will be amazed that your relationship with God is entirely direct and personal in that nobody or anything else is blocking the way.

We are entirely God made. We all have the complete, whole essence of God within us. In Spirit we are complete and whole in our creation. It is in our manifestation and realization of the Soul that we are incomplete. Part of the results of your participating in the school of the Traveler will be the spiritualizing of the material. You are learning the value and ways of overcoming the dense, negative nature with the light and love of your true nature, the Soul.

This physical world is just one of the many way-stations upon the path to God. Virtually all dimensions of God’s creation converge into this one, making for direct access into the heart of God but also into just about every other aspect of God’s creation. The greatest of God is here and so is the most extreme negativity, all at once. It’s all playing out in the same field, which is what makes this level unique and such a magnificent opportunity when you choose to make the most of it.

Consider someone whose entire experience of mustard was seeing just the plants that grow above the ground. What if I was holding a mustard seed in my hand and proclaiming it to be the whole mustard plant? That person’s response would probably be something like, “You’re nuts. That’s not a mustard plant.”

Was the mature mustard plant present originally in the form of the seed? Is all of God present in the original form of the human as you? People often deny their Godhood because they don’t see the God-presence past the limitations of the human form.

It is rare that anyone is awakened enough to fully see their manifestation in the glory of God. The reality of God completely transcends that which can manifest in this world or any level below the Soul. Once anyone even glimpses the glory that is to be with God, that attainment becomes the magnificent obsession. The paradox is that the glory of God already fully exists as the Soul within each person.

We are in a level that in part requires the faith of the mustard seed. Like the mustard seed, we are planted into this psychic-material existence so that we can grow into our fully mature Godhood. We often begin our earthly existence in a dense state that is removed even from the light of day. Nonetheless, the elements necessary for our complete growth are present within this dark, dense earthly environment that is actually perfectly suited to our particular human nature. There are many varieties, each with its own particular set of conditions. With nurturing from the necessary conditions in our earthly environment, we germinate, transforming from human seed, and growing upward toward the source of light. Our greatest growth begins as we burst up from the dark, dense earth below into the enlightened atmosphere above.

Even though all the earthly elements are important to nurturing our growth, it is the source of light radiating from the sun that is most essential for sustaining us into full maturity. In the process, we discover that we are much more than the various seed-forms of human existence. We realize that we are the very life force in the light that sustains our existence. We are the glorious presence that is God.

Every seed that fully matures through its destiny bears the fruit that gives life back to the earth. Eventually, even the most mature plants die from this level. The Traveler is like a master gardener who tends to our growth until full maturity so that we can die from each level we are on in our psychic-material existence and move on to the level of eternal life, the Soul, where there is no death.

Some people prefer to maintain a wild, unattended existence outside of the garden of the Traveler. They prefer to take their chances with the laws of nature instead of allowing for the caretaking and protection that the Traveler can provide. In so doing, they bypass ensuring the greatest opportunity for reaching full maturity and bearing the fruit of this earthly existence once and for all times. They are bypassing one who removes the weeds, fertilizes the ground, waters correctly, provides support, adjusts the environment as needed, transplants, and tends to all the plants growing in the garden until they bear the fruit of eternal life with God.

You might wonder why someone would be so stupid as to pass up such a supreme opportunity. Simple. They don’t know better. Thank God there is forgiveness and even a divine plan for such ignorance. In the eyes of the law, there is no excuse allowed. In the eyes of God, there is grace by forgiveness and unconditional loving of all of God’s creation.

Do you now know better? Unlike plants, the choice is entirely yours as to whether to remain rooted in the wilderness that is this earthly existence or rooted in the garden of the Traveler that is Soul Transcendence. Otherwise, the choice would not be available to you. Choose wisely. For me and my house, we tend to all those in the garden of the Lord.

Counting Your Blessings

Take a moment to be aware in the ways your life is beautiful. How’s that? That’s your assignment, whatever class you’re in. Tell us how your life is beautiful. Yes, maybe we should have that assignment in every PTS class because it works. Then extend to what makes life beautiful, that there’s enough. There you go. “I have enough.”

When we really come into the understanding of what we have, the material things and the conditions in our life, we have more than enough. Let’s translate that into we have abundance. We have prosperity. We have wealth. We claim it. You claim it.

We also have much more. So let’s claim whatever blessings come present. I’m going to remind us of what John-Roger called out as blessings. Ten of them. He called out wealth, prosperity, abundance. Can we add some riches? Yes, riches? What’s that? It’s really beautiful stuff, beautiful things. They can even be jewels around your necklace that are people. “I can do that?” Yes. Let’s also add health, happiness, loving, caring, sharing, and touching.

If you have precious people around who are gems, gems in your life that make you a rich person, count your blessings. Let’s consider you would go soul traveling before you could count all of your blessings. Then when we go soul traveling, let’s consider we’re with God, and that’s an eternal blessing. We’re also in this world. So that’s who I’m talking to right now.

The Traveler consciousness is working with all the souls in every level of God’s creation. That’s the power in this blessing. It’s working with all consciousness, all souls.

It’s important that you call forward what blesses you. Then meet it in the point of your action. What would you do to meet the blessings? I’ve got one for you. Go to where the blessings are waiting for you. Where would that be?

In someone’s eyes. There’s a blessing when you look at somebody. It doesn’t have to be the eyes because every thing has the light, has the spirit. Now we’re just learning how to be in communion with that, to be in harmony with that, so it comes into our awareness regardless of what’s present. That’s important in this life.

One of the things that is a blessing, and maybe you didn’t expect this one, is forget about it. What?  The things that bother you, disturb you, the things you’ve done that you’ve judged, that have been hurtful, whether it’s been done to you or it’s been your way of doing your life, forget about it. How’s that?

Remember yourself as one with the Lord, in this holy presence right now. The way I’m seeing this is the Lord has got a hold of you. I mean that physically, right now. “Is that like the Lord is going to make me or control me?” Eventually. “Well, what’s holding it up?” Do your part.

Not one soul is lost. How is that going to work? It’s going to work because it’s already done. There’s nothing stopping it. So if we want to make the choice that’s here and now, give a message so if the Lord is holding you completely, touching you, embracing you fully, do it right back. Maybe tell the Lord, “I’m going to show you what real love, real embracing, real caressing with the beloved is. Here we go.”

Baruch Bashan

The above blessing comes from a sharing John did with Peace Theological Seminary’s undergraduate program students in September 2024.

NOTE:  If you like blessings, you may want to check out John’s blessings books available at msia.org/shop:    Blessings Here and Now, The Blessings Already Are, and You Are the Blessings.

1 thought on “The Garden of the Traveler”

  1. WOW! So many jewels of wisdom in one place. I want to copy this article and highlight this and that…like almost everything here! I feel good, very good.
    Thanks
    Taras

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