THE THREE SELVES
Q: Is the personality a combination of the basic self and conscious self?
J-R: The personality is more a combination of the ego along with various karmic traits and inclinations that a Soul has agreed to bring into a lifetime.
INCARNATION
Q: When you reembody, do you always come in with the same basic self and high self?
J-R: No, it would be a waste of time to come in with the same ones. You come in with diverse basic and high selves, in order that the Soul can experience more things.
Q: If we do have to reembody, when will we reach the point at which we can be with God without separating from Him in any way?
J-R: It happens at any time in Spirit.
KARMA
Q: Are there any things I have done to my parents that caused them hurt and that I need to address in order to clear my karma with them?
J-R: This applies to your parents and to anyone in your life. Ask them if you are part of any of their hurts and, if so, what part, how it came about, and what they want you to do (if anything) to assist them in healing their hurts. Then you can decide if you want to be part of it in any way.
Q: You told me that I still have karma with a certain person. Can that be completed from a distance?
J-R: Sure. Most karma is just a state of mind/emotion, and sometimes it can be done in that level and not done physically at all. Yours can be done in the mind/emotion level, and there is no need to participate in the physical. And if you do decide to do anything physically, you can “call the shots” as to how much you wish to participate.
THE LIGHT
Q: What if I can’t be neutral in a situation, but I still would like the Light to be there for the highest good?
J-R: Just ask for the Light to be there for the highest good. You aren’t doing it; God is doing it. You are simply asking. You can also ask that the Masters of Light send the Light to the situation or person. Doing that can filter out your emotional attachment to the outcome.
Q: If I ask inwardly for you to send the Light to someone, is that less effective than if I talk or write to you or call the MSIA office and ask that you do this?
J-R: It’s just as effective to ask inwardly. You can also write to me and burn the letter. It doesn’t have to be done physically because the work I do is done spiritually, and it’s done instantly, as soon as you ask inwardly.
SOUL TRANSCENDENCE: THE WORK OF THE MYSTICAL TRAVELER
Q: I am hesitant about working with the Traveler because I don’t want to submit myself to anyone else.
J-R: I think you are wise to be wary of submitting yourself to any person. I’m not interested in having anyone submit himself or herself to me. When a person participates in MSIA and works with the Mystical Traveler, that person is, if anything, “submitting” to himself/herself, to the Christ within, to the God within. And that is really a joyous surrender to love.
Q: I have heard people call in the Light and ask for the Traveler Consciousness through John-Roger. Is that how we should do it?
J-R: No. When you call in the Light, call it in through the Traveler in your own consciousness. Claim it for yourself. The Traveler Consciousness is in each one of us, so don’t give it away to my physical form or anyone else’s physical form. Awaken and strengthen the Traveler in yourself.
Q: Does the Traveler work through all of us?
J-R: The Traveler is within each person. How much or how little a person is aware of and consciously working with that consciousness varies tremendously. The Traveler does not work through everyone the same way. Many people do things that are diametrically opposed to the Traveler’s teachings.
INITIATION
Q: I have been a Soul-level initiate for ten years, and you and I have agreed to work together above the Soul level, but I haven’t received any further initiations. Is there anything I am doing to delay or interfere with my spiritual growth?
J-R: No. You are clearing karma. Be joyful.
Q: I’m afraid that if I don’t move on a business venture that has come up for me, I will have to reincarnate because I won’t be complete.
J-R: That is not the reason for reincarnation. The reason for reincarnation is not being connected to the Sound Current.
Q: I was a little surprised when a friend of mine, who had received Soul initiation, decided not to continue in MSIA.
J-R: Many times, as we have seen, Soul initiates get the initiation and then leave. They won’t stick around to help others.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES AND SOUL TRANSCENDENCE
Q: My mother is an initiate, and she is too ill to remember her tone and to chant it. Does the Traveler work with us when we can no longer remember our tone and don’t do s.e.’s?
J-R: The Traveler will chant the tone for the initiate if the initiate doesn’t chant it. The Mystical Traveler is doing that for your mother.
J-R: Twenty-four hours a day. It goes though my body continually. When I am talking to someone, I can hear something back inside me doing spiritual exercises, and when I stop talking, I can hear it come forward. Sometimes it distracts me, but there is also a great joy that is there, that continually floods me.
Q: How can I stay in the body more?
J-R: That’s not the approach. The approach is how to have multidimensional awareness, to be both places at the same time and handle it physically. That takes practice.
STUDYING IN MSIA
Q: Would you call MSIA successful?
J-R: There are at least two ways an organization can be successful. One is in the world, and that would be measured partially by financial success. Without money, an organization doesn’t exist, so finances have to be considered. But if the Church is a financial success and a spiritual failure, it has failed in my way of looking at it, and I wouldn’t hesitate to stop participating in it immediately because if the Spirit is not present first and foremost, then there is no reason for me to be involved in it.
DREAMS
Q: I would like to maintain awareness while I sleep. Is this a stage that students on the path of Soul Transcendence are led towards or likely to experience increasingly?
J-R: We have multidimensional consciousness, that is, consciousness on many levels: physical, astral, causal, mental, etheric, Soul, and above Soul. This multidimensional consciousness also includes the sleep state/night travel. How aware you are of your multidimensionality has a lot to do with your intention to have it.
DEATH
Q: If death is nothing to be feared, why not die now?
J-R: The Travelers teach longevity to clear as much karma as possible. It’s wise to stay here on the physical level as long as possible because the last while prior to leaving is a great time to finish off huge amounts of residual earth-karmas.
Q: The doctors told me that my friend could die in the next few hours. What can I tell her to do?
J-R: Tell her to focus above her head into her higher self. You can tell her this even if she is unconscious.
Q: When I die, I would love for you to be there with me physically.
J-R: I don’t go to a transition because the Soul of the person would stay near the body and watch me, instead of moving on into the higher spiritual realms. Anyway, I do my work spiritually, and I don’t need to be there physically.
Q: My mother died over a year ago, and I still feel sad that she’s not here with me.
J-R: I really understand that. I miss my mother every day of my life, but it’s not as hard for me now as it was just after she died. Give yourself whatever time you need to grieve for her. But don’t worry about her. She is doing fine.
NONPHYSICAL INFLUENCES IN OUR LIVES
Q: Has psychic attack always been around, or am I just more aware of it lately?
J-R: Psychic attack has been around “forever,” and for a long time I handled it for the initiates. But I have been letting the initiates experience and handle more of it for themselves so they can learn what it is, how to deal with it, and how to strengthen themselves. And as more people in MSIA have been getting higher initiations, they move into a position to help deal with the negativity more.
THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Q: How can I live life with more trust and love?
J-R: It is called being less materialistic, thus no hidden agendas, thus no suspicions, thus trust, thus love. Thus spoke love.
THE 10-PERCENT LEVEL AND THE 90-PERCENT LEVEL
Q: How can I expand my capacity to hold more spiritual energy and remain balanced in my day-to-day life?
J-R: Don’t be greedy for more spiritual energy. Become balanced with what you have now, love yourself and others as much as possible, and know that God will give you more as you can handle more.
THE IMPORTANCE OF ATTITUDE
Q: How can I learn to stay in my peace more consistently?
J-R: Keep a safe place inside of you for everything that is said to you or about you or that you say. Have no attachments to anything that comes in or goes out. That means to have an attitude of nonjudgmental acceptance of it all.
RELATIONSHIPS
Q: How can I have more patience and acceptance with people and be less frustrated and irritated with them?
J-R: All the people around you have been sent by the Spirit to help you by letting you see what bothers you so you can deal with it in a more uplifting manner.
Q: I have heard that the karma changes when two people get married. Is this so?
J-R: When a person gets married, almost 100 percent of the karma is affected. When you get married, you take on some of the karma of your spouse.
Q: My husband and I want to have children if it’s God’s plan that there are Souls for us to bring into the world as our own children.
J-R: Be sure and get along together before trying to bring Souls forward because when they come in, the karma changes.
Q: I want a divorce, but I don’t know if my karma with my husband is over.
J-R: You can find out what the karma is by trying to divorce him. If you can, the karma is over. And if for some strange reason you can’t, then the karma is still present.
MONEY
Q: Even with all the work I do, I am in ever-greater debt. I feel the abundance of Spirit, but somehow I’m not manifesting as well as I might on this level.
J-R: While looking at ways to manifest more abundance, look at the basic thing on the physical level—what you spend vs. what you bring in, and then see if you can cut expenses. Be practical.
WORK AND JOBS
Q: I am thinking of something else to do for work. I’m sixty-six years old, and the doors aren’t closed, but they aren’t wide open either.
J-R: Open wide the doors of love.
HEALTH
Q: I am going to be given general anesthesia when I have surgery. Is there an affirmation or something I can tell myself as I am “going under”?
J-R: You could say, “I accept the spirit of love in my heart.”
MY WORK AND MSIA
Q: Do you have any rules you live your life by—you, personally?
J-R: My “rules” are to love each other and don’t interfere and hurt people. Share with them what you can and try not to possess anything. And just be free.
Q: Did you make up the notion of the Mystical Traveler?
J-R: It was there, not as a notion but as a reality that had to be spiritually seen to be known and experienced to be understood.
Q: You’ve often said that you go through our karma with us. What does this mean?
J-R: I’m like a snowplow. I plow the snow so that the bulldozer can get through. I’m right there on the front lines.
Q: How would you like to be remembered? What’s the most important thing for people to know about you?
J-R: Probably nothing. If I were remembered as nobody who did anything and didn’t make a wave or create karma for myself or for others, I think that would be terrific.
