{"id":111163,"date":"2022-08-29T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=111163"},"modified":"2022-08-31T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:16:41","slug":"building-your-spiritual-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/111163-building-your-spiritual-practice","title":{"rendered":"Building Your Spiritual Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s build your spiritual practice so strong that it is like God incarnate in you as an initiate.\u00a0<\/em> – John Morton.<\/p>\n

This article comes from a sharing session John had in July 2022 with participants in\u00a0The Harmonic Self Class, a class offered through Peace Theological Seminary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you think you aren\u2019t hearing the Sound Current, let\u2019s take a look.\u00a0 Are you listening?\u00a0 Are you chanting your tone?\u00a0 I say do both. That works.\u00a0 Are you chanting your initiatory tone inwardly, silently?\u00a0 You don\u2019t say it out loud.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know how to do both, you can do chanting and then you can do listening.<\/p>\n

Call it about fifty-fifty.\u00a0 If you are going to do twenty minutes of spiritual exercise, it would be ten minutes of chanting, then ten minutes of listening.\u00a0 There can be variation there.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to know exactly when it\u2019s ten minutes, that\u2019s arbitrary.\u00a0 I encourage you to chant for a while and then listen for a while.\u00a0 That works.<\/p>\n

How would you know it is ten minutes?\u00a0 Maybe you set a little alarm, or you open your eyes and check out what time it is.\u00a0 If, when you open your eyes, it engages you away from the inner and seems like it doesn\u2019t work, that\u2019s okay.\u00a0 Even if you use an alarm, it can be as if you are away somewhere when the alarm goes off.<\/p>\n

How long should you listen?\u00a0 Maybe as long as you chant your tone, you listen.\u00a0 Then go back to chanting the tone.\u00a0 Does it have to be exact?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Let\u2019s consider that\u2019s a relief.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry about how long you are listening.\u00a0 Have you ever had the experience that you went somewhere, and you don\u2019t know where you went, but you came back?\u00a0 Can you do that more than once?\u00a0 Sure, of course you can.\u00a0 See how relaxed it is in Spirit?<\/p>\n

Do you have to count chants or minutes?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Do you have to keep track of how many times?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Do you have to chant your initiatory tone as it was given to you?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 That is very exact.\u00a0 I don\u2019t apologize for that.\u00a0\u00a0This<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the tone,\u00a0your<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0initiatory tone.<\/p>\n

The initiatory tone has an order, like syllables but not really syllables.\u00a0 Is it a word?\u00a0 In the Scripture, they call it the \u201cWord.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(John 1:1)\u00a0\u00a0 Is your tone like a code name for God?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(John 1:14)<\/p>\n

Your tone is not necessarily about a language.\u00a0 It is a sound, charged spiritually.\u00a0 That is important.\u00a0 You had your tone charged for you with your initiation.\u00a0 A lot of people haven\u2019t had that initiation, at least in this lifetime.\u00a0 Yet it is working.\u00a0 We begin with the astral name.\u00a0 We give you something like \u201cHu\u201d, \u201cAni-Hu\u201d and other sounds you can hear and learn through classes and recordings, such as the \u201cInner Worlds of Meditation.\u201d\u00a0 You can work with these tones.<\/p>\n

When we get to the causal level, we are doing something that\u2019s going to take hold, setting a foundation in you.\u00a0 The key is for you to show up and chant your tone.\u00a0 There is an excerpt from a recording of \u201cThe Greatest Insight\u201d where John-Roger asks, \u201cCan\u2019t you just spend a little time with me?\u201d\u00a0 That is really important.\u00a0 Notice he said, \u201cA little.\u201d\u00a0 He didn\u2019t say, \u201cA lot.\u201d\u00a0 He didn\u2019t say eight hours a day.\u00a0 He just asked you to give some of your time and attention.<\/p>\n

Have you ever started spiritual exercises and within thirty seconds you were gone?\u00a0 Thirty seconds!\u00a0 You may think you\u2019ve passed out.\u00a0 I say that\u2019s not what happened.\u00a0 It may feel like that, where you seem to go unconscious.\u00a0 You weren\u2019t aware of hearing the sound current.\u00a0 Actually, you went into a state where you were hearing the sound current, just not consciously.<\/p>\n

It’s in the teachings of MSIA that chanting your tone will take you into a state where you are in the sound current.\u00a0 You are in soul consciousness.\u00a0 Consciously?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 That would be a restriction.\u00a0 You wouldn\u2019t go soul traveling if you were insisting on staying conscious.<\/p>\n

I have a willingness to go soul traveling and not stay conscious.\u00a0 John-Roger certainly had a willingness to do it.\u00a0 I was around him a lot physically when he was \u201cgone.\u201d\u00a0 I was around him physically when his eyes were open, he was talking, but he was \u201cgone.\u201d<\/p>\n

With John-Roger, it seemed like he was here but not here.\u00a0 The body knows how to breathe.\u00a0 It was like a caretaker, a remnant, someone who was \u201cholding down the fort.\u201d\u00a0 How does all that work?\u00a0 Beautifully.\u00a0 Perfectly.\u00a0 In John-Roger\u2019s case, it worked mystically.\u00a0 Something on a very high level is going on, but we don\u2019t know what that is.\u00a0 We don\u2019t comprehend or understand it in the mind.<\/p>\n

There are some practical things about chanting.\u00a0 Don\u2019t hurt yourself.\u00a0 If you like to do spiritual exercises standing up, check how that works for you.\u00a0 If you fall occasionally, how does that work for you?\u00a0 What are you doing?\u00a0 Don\u2019t hurt yourself.\u00a0 Don\u2019t hurt the body. When we do spiritual exercises, we are going through a threshold.\u00a0 There is a price.\u00a0 One price is to show up.\u00a0 When we show up for spiritual exercise, there is a lot of clearing that goes on.<\/p>\n

A core of the Traveler\u2019s work with you, as an initiate, is to clear the karma.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 We are trying to build something like an eight-lane highway that is indestructible in the spirit, such that the negative power cannot take it down.\u00a0 What do we mean by trying?\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to tempt the negative power to be able to say, \u201cWow, you set a record as the highest-level initiate ever to be taken down and fall because of the negative power. You are the record holder.\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t want that record.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want any initiate to have the desire for that.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s build your spiritual practice so strong that it is like God incarnate in you as an initiate. It\u2019s not about perfection on this level. In this world, it doesn\u2019t always line up nice, neat, and clear in how it works out.\u00a0 Give some room for the Traveler to clear the karma.\u00a0 If you are doing spiritual exercises for your liberation, your soul\u2019s liberation, there is always a checkpoint.\u00a0 Are you hurting yourself or anybody else?\u00a0 If you are, that is off.\u00a0 That\u2019s juice for the negative power.\u00a0 Stay out of that.\u00a0 Stay clear.<\/p>\n

Do things that take care of yourself with room for helping to take care of others.\u00a0 But you are not here to satisfy others.\u00a0 They are here for that.\u00a0 Everyone has a one-hundred percent responsibility in their own level of taking care of themselves.\u00a0 We can help each other.\u00a0 That is allowed.\u00a0 That\u2019s good karma.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t worship it or make it an obsession.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get into, \u201cI\u2019ll only be happy if you are happy.\u201d\u00a0 Watch out.\u00a0 You may throw your happiness away because they are choosing not to be happy.\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t get into, \u201cI won\u2019t be happy because I love them and if they\u2019re not happy, I\u2019m not happy.\u201d\u00a0 Where does loving say that is the way it has to be?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 How does all this work out?\u00a0 Hopefully in an interesting way that you like, at least for the most part.\u00a0 Keep evaluating if it is working.\u00a0 If you say, \u201cI am learning so much.\u00a0 This is the best class I\u2019ve ever been in,\u201d that\u2019s terrific.<\/p>\n

As for hearing the sound current, claim that you are hearing it.\u00a0 How would you know you are hearing it?\u00a0 Here is perhaps the most profound answer of the day \u2013 Silence.\u00a0 Do you ever hear silence?\u00a0 Let\u2019s say we are all hearing silence right now.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the noise, outer sounds in the world, echoes, vibrations, or their reflections.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about real silence, always present as silence.\u00a0 The sound of silence, always here.\u00a0 It is.\u00a0 You can listen.\u00a0 I\u2019m listening for the silence when I am listening.\u00a0 The sound is in the silence.<\/p>\n

I have been places where the sound of silence is loud.\u00a0 If you have had that experience, then you\u2019re hearing the sound of silence.\u00a0 You are hearing the sound.\u00a0 It\u2019s in the silence.\u00a0 If you are hearing the silence and it\u2019s like a cricket or circadian sort of sound, that is in the world.\u00a0 You might say there is something there, but it\u2019s not really crickets.\u00a0 It is like a buzzing, vibrating aspect, or quality.<\/p>\n

Sound is vibration.\u00a0 That\u2019s physics.\u00a0 It is a sound wave or frequency.\u00a0 It has a pulse.\u00a0 There are different versions depending on the instrument or the person.\u00a0 Each person is an instrument.\u00a0 A violin, piano, percussion, or horn?\u00a0 It gets interesting.\u00a0 The sound vibration has different oscillations and frequencies that come into harmony.\u00a0 There is a perfect harmony.<\/p>\n

If we let go and allow sound to be what it is in its true nature, it comes into a clarity.\u00a0\u00a0It is on tone.\u00a0\u00a0We release dissonance that I call static in the channel.\u00a0 It\u2019s noise that is not harmony. \u00a0How do we do that?\u00a0 Let go.\u00a0 We relax so we are not doing the noise.\u00a0 We\u2019re allowing our self to come into harmony, the frequency of the tone.<\/p>\n

There is a tone in the physical level.\u00a0 That is how the sound current would register in the physical level.\u00a0 It is a vibration that\u2019s harmonic.\u00a0 There is something about that, that engages our harmonic if we allow it.\u00a0 How do you allow it?\u00a0 Relax.\u00a0 What\u2019s another word for relax?\u00a0 Two words—-do nothing.\u00a0 Release the negativity because it goes to the nothingness from which it came.\u00a0 There is \u201cno thing.\u201d\u00a0 But there is something going on with \u201cno thing.\u201d\u00a0 There is a movement.<\/p>\n

Movement is a key word.\u00a0 I relate to movement as life.\u00a0 Movement is alive.\u00a0 \u201cSomething\u201d has movement.\u00a0 What is the heartbeat of God?\u00a0 Do we see the heart and then get the beat?\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s a sound like a beat, pulse, or a wave.\u00a0 It has rhythm.\u00a0 What is causing that rhythm?\u00a0 It goes into dimensions.<\/p>\n

The tendency is to \u201cgo out\u201d when we do spiritual exercises because the Traveler allows it, so you are in the consciousness of the Traveler.\u00a0 The Traveler is allowing you to be in the field getting the experience.\u00a0 The price you pay is that you don\u2019t remember.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a veil, a forgetfulness.\u00a0 You come back into the psychic-material nature, and you don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n

You may think you went deaf, dumb, or blind.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t see, hear or remember but I had the experience,\u201d even though you don\u2019t have any awareness of the experience.\u00a0 What happened to your experience?\u00a0 It\u2019s there and the benefits are there.\u00a0 What would that be?\u00a0 You become a nicer person.\u00a0 That\u2019s one way I would put it.\u00a0 What is the effect of the sound current and its radiation?\u00a0 There is illumination, like \u201cI hear, and I see.\u201d That is powerful.<\/p>\n

What is the benefit of hearing and seeing?\u00a0 Intelligence.\u00a0 Wisdom.\u00a0 Hold for the light action.\u00a0 Hold for the harmony of who you are – to be what you do.\u00a0 What if you do it clumsily compared to the \u201cI AM\u201d such that it\u2019s almost like \u201cWhy bother?\u201d\u00a0 You increase your ability by the practice of spiritual exercise. There is a reason to show up for the spiritual exercises.\u00a0 You are increasing your ability to be conscious, even for a moment.\u00a0 If you have a moment with conscious awareness of the sound, it\u2019s a turning point in your existence.<\/p>\n

If you did it in another lifetime but you weren\u2019t finished with the psychic-material karma, and you came back to finish, there is a reordering and remembering to reset.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost like you got out of the class after three sessions, but there were twelve sessions.\u00a0 When you came back to redo the class, you wanted to start in the fourth session.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t work that way. You are progressing to keep progressing, to keep passing the classes, not bypassing them.<\/p>\n

Often, how we work off some of the karma is by helping others to release their karma in levels we have been through.\u00a0 We become wayshowers in our way.\u00a0 That progresses us so we come into what I call \u201cA good life.\u201d Basically, it\u2019s just for you to do good, however you do that.\u00a0 It can be in very simple ways.\u00a0 You do the best you can.<\/p>\n

God bless you.<\/p>\n

Blessing of Anointing through the Traveler Consciousness<\/p>\n

Lord God, through Your Christ
\nas it is anointed in each one of us,
\nas that flame, that we know as the Light,
\nas the illumination, that moves through all consciousness
\nilluminating our spirit and the presence of the Light and love for all.
\nThat we are those who gather in Your name,
\ncalling out in our dedication, as You have called us.
\nAnd we know that as coming home,
\nthat there is a rejoicing as we open our consciousness in Spirit,
\nthat can be heard and seen and felt.
\nThat we take hold of it here.<\/p>\n

We are those anchoring into this place, into this time,
\nright into this point here and now.
\nThat this is a blessing through the Traveler consciousness on all levels,
\nwith those who are the initiates and ministers
\nof God\u2019s love, light and sound.<\/p>\n

In your silence, we behold forever, forever, and ever.<\/p>\n

And as we are amongst the beloved here, let us connect one to one,
\nagain and again to Your eternal spark
\nthat is the divine nature in each and every one of us.
\nThat we connect to this blessing going forward into the world.
\nThat we are invoking this presence
\nthat has been the spiritual promise in this day all the more.
\nAnd we know that this is done in Your grace and all the compassion,
\nthat we are released from the limitations
\nthat we know as the karma and as the darkness.
\nIn Your light, in Your love, we celebrate.
\nBaruch Bashan<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The above blessing was given by John at the conclusion of a Meeting of Representatives from MSIA and related organizations, in Westlake Village in July 2014, as part of the MSIA Conference of Soul Transcendence. It is one of the many blessings in John\u2019s latest book\u00a0Blessings Here and Now<\/u>, available at www.msia.org\/store<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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