{"id":112633,"date":"2026-01-21T18:50:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112633"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:55:49","slug":"on-the-verge-of-soul-transcendence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112633-on-the-verge-of-soul-transcendence","title":{"rendered":"On the Verge of Soul Transcendence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christ action does not stop, saying, \u201cThis is as much as I can do, and there is no more.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s more we are just getting started, but it needs your involvement beyond your inertia.\u00a0 It needs you enduring to the end.<\/em> – John Morton<\/p>\n

This article comes from a sharing session John\u00a0gave for<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the \u201cVerge of Christ\u201d class held in Los Angeles in August 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Christ action does not stop, saying, \u201cThis is as much as I can do, and there is no more.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s more we are just getting started, but it needs your involvement beyond your inertia.\u00a0 It needs you enduring to the end.<\/p>\n

We can do that on faith.\u00a0 Faith becomes like going to the other side of the moon where it appears to be dark.\u00a0 We can know we are going through this.\u00a0 The darkness is just a temporary state. But for the mind and the rest that is caught up in illusion, it is an opportunity to walk in faith.\u00a0 It is an opportunity to be in the vehicle doing the endurance part of what\u2019s called for.<\/p>\n

We are on the verge of what we call Soul Transcendence.\u00a0 It is love of God and to know that directly, such that you don\u2019t ever forget it.\u00a0 It then becomes something pervasive.\u00a0 John-Roger talked about it when he said, \u201cI can\u2019t forget about the Traveler consciousness because whatever I do, it\u2019s always in front of me.\u00a0 I am here and I can\u2019t say the Traveler consciousness is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Traveler consciousness has ways of showing us it is here.\u00a0 That could be showing us things like mercy, forgiveness and joy that surpass understanding.\u00a0 We could pass out because it is so awesome that part of us that is limited, like a mind, can\u2019t even take it.\u00a0 It cannot keep up with the awesomeness of what is.<\/p>\n

Having that knowing, and understanding the body condition you are in, your compassion for what you are going through can be the ticket into \u201cIt\u2019s all done, It\u2019s complete.\u201d\u00a0 How would you do your \u201cswan song?\u201d\u00a0 Make the swan song now.\u00a0 There may be another swan song. You may say, \u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u00a0 I thought it would be over, like I\u2019m done after this song.\u201d\u00a0 No, the music keeps playing.\u00a0 Can you keep playing?\u00a0 Maybe you weren\u2019t planning for that.\u00a0 That is about enduring.<\/p>\n

There are things in our life in this world that are disappointing, discouraging, and painful in whatever capacity we experience the negative power.\u00a0 How about you\u2019ve got one foot in it?\u00a0 That would describe how the Traveler does it physically.\u00a0 One foot in the negative power, the other foot in Spirit.<\/p>\n

Keep your balance.\u00a0 You better know which one you are going to give over to.\u00a0 If you are out of balance, grab hold of the Spirit.\u00a0 But we can\u2019t grab hold of the Spirit.\u00a0 So, what do you do?\u00a0 We do something like a leap.<\/p>\n

Use your lungs to leap. If it\u2019s your last breath, use that to make the effort to do what love would do.\u00a0 It can be that right now you don\u2019t know what that is like or what to do.\u00a0 That\u2019s a fairly popular state in this world.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know what to do.\u00a0 It\u2019s confusing and I don\u2019t like it.\u201d\u00a0 Now what?<\/p>\n

Do the best you can.\u00a0 What would that be?\u00a0 It\u2019s on you in the moment, as if we are on the verge of the heart of God.\u00a0 That is one way I would put it to any initiate.\u00a0 We are on the verge of the heart of God.\u00a0 It is available to us now.\u00a0 What would you do?\u00a0 You do your part.<\/p>\n

Would you love yourself?\u00a0 Would you forgive yourself?\u00a0 If you are doing that for yourself, would you do it for another?\u00a0 It is understanding that when I have done it to any part of creation, I have done it to who I am.<\/p>\n

Where are you right now?\u00a0 Are you the least or the most consequential part of the creation?\u00a0 In a way it doesn\u2019t matter. It is like flipping a coin.\u00a0 The coin is going to say, \u201cYou are God right now\u201d or \u201cYou are the least one of them now.\u201d\u00a0 Which one are you?\u00a0 All of it.\u00a0 What would you do?\u00a0 What would love do?\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know, just do the best you can.<\/p>\n

Is this loving?\u00a0 What I am doing, what I\u2019m thinking, is it loving?\u00a0 If you go, \u201cI can do better than this,\u201d then what would that be?\u00a0 Now you are entertaining allowing how God would move you.\u00a0 Keep that up. At some point, there is no effort in it.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to think about it.\u00a0 It is resounding joy.\u00a0 Everywhere I turn, I experience pure joy.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t require a witness or somebody who is going to ask, \u201cWhat is that?\u00a0 I want to define that for the dictionary.\u201d\u00a0 It does not require that.\u00a0 It requires you be who you are right now.<\/p>\n

If we understood it, it is not long.\u00a0 It\u2019s not in something called \u201cGod time.\u201d\u00a0 We are on the verge of now.\u00a0 At some point, we are not on the verge because we are in it.\u00a0 Do you understand?\u00a0 We are in it.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

\n
Blessing of Welcoming our Life
\nFrom John\u2019s book Blessings Here and Now<\/a><\/h6>\n

Lord God, we welcome our life.
\nWe embrace it — long lost friends perhaps —
\nand get more attuned, more familiar
\nwith what is awkward, strange, or lacking in our life.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in cooperation.
\nWe\u2019re in our abundance.
\nWe\u2019re in our flow of creating greater value, greater beauty.<\/p>\n

We see that we have great gifts to imagine.
\nWe see a world that is flourishing and harmonizing,
\na world where people take care of one another.
\nShare the wealth.
\nShare what we have.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019re also waking up to the blessing of Your patience
\nthat You have placed so well inside of us.
\nSo that when we come upon Your will being done,
\nthat every need is taken care of.<\/p>\n

And we are those who are making it right,
\nputting it right,
\nputting it back into place
\nso that we restore this world to its paradisiacal glory.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

Santa Fe, New Mexico
\nOctober 15, 2012<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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