One of the ways you play in this level is making a choice on what you focus upon, what your reference point is. It\u2019s just a constant game. We can move so we\u2019re more adept at placing our focus where it most serves us. We can do it now and hold a more positive, loving focus wherever we want to place it, more with the Spirit. <\/em> This article is taken from a seminar John gave in March 1992 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/strong><\/p>\n A lot of what being on a spiritual path is about is building and discovering what our support system is. It\u2019s a process of learning, growing and relating to how that works. My prayer is that whatever emanates from me comes from a place of truth that I am connected to in a place of loving. Then we get as much joy as we can as well as peace and goodness.<\/p>\n When we come into a spiritual focus there is a special opportunity to leave things behind that would normally bother or disturb us. If you have a disagreement with somebody or some situation, in a spiritual focus there is agreement. If there\u2019s a place where you have hurt, in a spiritual focus there is healing. If you experience separation or a longing for somebody, in this spiritual focus they are with you.<\/p>\n Are you getting the idea?<\/p>\n That\u2019s very much how I relate to a holy place. It\u2019s where what\u2019s missing comes present and what we want in our heart is here. What I do is prepare a place where I give over to what\u2019s present. The teachings are disseminated from inside. We talk about Soul Transcendence and doing spiritual exercises saying that part of it really has nothing to do with the physical world. What you are doing when you focus on the name of God takes place in the Spirit.<\/p>\n One of the signs of the Spirit we are working with is that it doesn\u2019t inflict. It\u2019s invited. It\u2019s not very far away. It\u2019s very close, closer than your breath. Nonetheless, there is a level of Spirit you must invite in and keep inviting in.<\/p>\n Do you ever wonder how you are doing in the level of inviting the Spirit in and holding it present? Are you getting good grades or being held back in remedial school? In my experience we are all in a remedial school called Earth. If you look at that idea of remedial, it also has a remedy in it. That means something must be off. I must not be feeling very good, and I\u2019m perhaps a little sick, and I\u2019m looking for a remedy. Something to balance the situation out or clear it up. Do you ever feel that way towards your life in this world?<\/p>\n I\u2019ve got a clue for you. The way our consciousness works in this level is that it has a very narrow focus. Has it ever occurred to you that it\u2019s very particular? If you had to know everything about the level of consciousness you are on in order to graduate to the next level, it could take a while and seem like a very futile process. There\u2019s a point to futility, and one of the points is desperation.<\/p>\n When you start getting into a consciousness of, \u201cWhatever it is I want and I desire, I don\u2019t seem to achieve or experience,\u201d there\u2019s something in there that can move you to a point of desperation. Desperation isn\u2019t something to avoid if you run into it, if it\u2019s occurring because of your experience. You may have what\u2019s referred to as \u201ca quiet sense of desperation\u201d. Sometimes it\u2019s not so quiet, at times getting quite loud, so you become angry. I\u2019d be willing to bet that if you took a personal inventory you\u2019d find some desperation. You\u2019d find some anger, some disturbance, some upset, some disappointment, or hurt feelings.<\/p>\n Is that what you really want or need as you work through this level? Do you have other preferences that you are aware of? In a sense, if you aren\u2019t aware of other preferences, that may be even worse.<\/p>\n If you aren\u2019t considering what you are doing, if you have no rudder, no aim, no chart to set your course, you better take a look at your life. Your life does have meaning and purpose even in this very narrow, small existence relative to all of what is. It\u2019s very important that we take a look and see what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n What I want to point out is that regardless of the negativity in your experience, my experience is this level is full of negativity. There just seems to be an unlimited amount of negativity around. I never found a shortage. In my greatest moments, my biggest celebrations, I was aware of some negativity. There was some doubt, fear, jealousy or envy around. And it wasn\u2019t just outside. I experienced some inside of myself.<\/p>\n One of the ways you play in this level is making a choice on what you focus upon, what your reference point is. It\u2019s just a constant game. We can move so we\u2019re more adept at placing our focus where it most serves us. We can do it now and hold a more positive, loving focus wherever we want to place it, more with the Spirit.<\/p>\n As we determine what this process is, positive or negative, the game on this level is where we are going to place our focus. Part of what we are doing here \u2013 part of the whole \u2013 is this thing we call Soul Transcendence. It means we\u2019re going to locate the Soul and move into the level of the Soul. We move beyond this level. We transcend this level.<\/p>\n The focus of the Traveler is upon God. That is the consciousness that moves in a beeline to God. No excuses, no \u201ctwo hundred dollars passing go,\u201d just direct. I know there\u2019s One who delivers and that One is here with you.<\/p>\n Are you stopping the delivery? How are you doing with what\u2019s been delivered to you up to now? Are you handling yourself in a way that\u2019s open and expansive? Are you doing those things that identify a spiritual consciousness? Are you remaining accepting? Or are you getting caught up, tripped up and focusing on things of the material nature that are magnetic, fascinating, easy to focus on and very popular?<\/p>\n Thank God there\u2019s this thing called Spiritual Exercise. Thank God the temple is inside of you and nobody can take it away. Thank God you have the keys to the temple. What have you allowed to enter the temple?<\/p>\n The temple is set up as the dwelling place of the Lord. Guess who designed it? Guess who built it as you? And in taking you in as a co-creator, as a brother and sister of the Lord, as one of the Lord, you get to decide the nature of the temple. And it is you. You are the temple.<\/p>\n Your temple can be clean. That\u2019s its natural state. Or it can be allowed to take on the material elements \u2013 dust, dirt and decay. Do you suppose the temple is this very precious thing that can be allowed to be covered or become tarnished by the way you conduct your life?<\/p>\n If you want to realize the magnificence and holiness of you as the temple, you have to do those things that cleanse the temple and keep it cleansed. As a Spiritual Warrior, one of the qualities you must be willing to enter into is ruthlessness. Not in the negative sense, but in the commitment that will not swerve or compromise. And you hold yourself to that.<\/p>\n The beauty of these things that are most precious is they hold their preciousness. Do you think that all the things that go wrong on this level can really destroy those elements inside of you that are precious and of the Spirit and Soul? No, they hold their nature.<\/p>\n In actuality, we are all Saints. Only Saints get to hold the consciousness you hold. You\u2019ve been noble, good, loving, and pure and sometimes you haven\u2019t. Which do you want to identify with? Are you willing to identify with yourself as a Saint? Let it be declared by God and the Glory of God in you.<\/p>\n I\u2019m speaking to you as a Saint, as a Holy One. I would sit at your feet; wash your feet, do whatever it is to be close to you. It\u2019s important to keep yourself in that place of looking for the Lord, looking for that presence in each one that greets you and meets you in the day.<\/p>\n Once, a woman who was assisting at a teen Insight Seminar asked if she could read a poem she\u2019d written. And the Lord spoke to me through her. Perhaps we can consider she wrote it to all of us:<\/p>\n \u201cYou are the most beautiful being. Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n WATCH A BLESSING WITH JOHN MORTON<\/strong> One of the ways you play in this level is making a choice on what you focus upon, what your reference point is. It\u2019s just a constant game. We can move so we\u2019re more adept at placing our focus where it most serves us. 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\n– John Morton<\/p>\n
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\nYou show me my heart.
\nYou deliver the truth, the joy that is God.
\nYou show me the way that I\u2019ve looked for all my life.
\nYou prepare the path that I walk on.
\nYou wash me.
\nYou cleanse me.
\nYou make my Soul shine.
\nI look into your face and I see the Light.
\nI hear the Glory of God singing in a chorus.
\nYou are the beauty of God.\u201d<\/p>\n
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