{"id":88851,"date":"2017-09-14T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/88851-msia-grad-stories-marina-van-wormer-full-interview-copy"},"modified":"2017-09-26T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T22:40:56","slug":"the-royal-road-the-path-to-mastership-sherie-wylie-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/88851-the-royal-road-the-path-to-mastership-sherie-wylie-interview","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Royal Road with Sherie Wylie [Full Interview with Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\/raw--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sherie Wylie is the Academic Dean &amp; Director of Regional Events for Peace Theological Seminary. She oversees PTS events worldwide. As Academic Dean, Sherie ensures that events are produced smoothly and joyfully. Her background includes working as a therapist and being on staff at the University of Santa Monica. After a transformational experience in a Peace Awareness Training, she heard the call to work with PTS.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sherie has been on the script design teams for creating annual Conference events and yearly PTS retreats for the past 4 years. The teams work under the direction and guidance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/john-morton\">John Morton, MSIA&#8217;s Spiritual Director<\/a>, who reviews all aspects of the trainings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sherie is currently working with John Morton, Phil Danza, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Candace Semigran to design the script for this year\u2019s PTS retreat at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The title of the retreat is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Royal Road &#8211; The Path to Mastership. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is NEW seven-day PAT (Peace Awareness Training) retreat that expands on the Living in Grace Retreat format with workshop exercises, spiritual exercises, meditations, sacred processes, and sharing with John Morton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this interview with Lucia Doynel, MSIA\u2019s Marketing Director, Sherie shares about writing the script for the Royal Road, tracking Spirit, and how you can help build the energy for the retreat.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nCeVJcemcuo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>LUCIA: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell me about your experience preparing for the Royal Road and coming up with the script. What has happened up until now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SHERIE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot has happened. First of all, the way the workshops come together is very organic. I didn\u2019t know what the Royal Road was six months ago until Mark Lurie [shared a quote by John-Roger] at an MSIA staff meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As soon as he talked about it, my heart opened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Mark sent me the quote, and I listened to it and J-R talks about the Royal Road being Soul Travel and he talks about the importance of Spiritual Exercises and that if we gather all of our energy into the point of our Soul where the Soul is the center of what we\u2019re doing then the mind gets in line, the emotions get in line, and the body gets in line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there\u2019s just this still point where this amazing energy moves forward and we manifest from that space because we\u2019re allowing Spirit to direct us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s my synopsis of it. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s what J-R said directly but that\u2019s what I got out of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I asked Mark Lurie about it and then Mark and the prez presented it to John Morton as a possibility for a title for a training and John loved it. So we ended up with the Royal Road. And then we had a script meeting with John, Leigh, Candace, and Melissa and John added on the Path to Mastership. So now the training is called,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Royal Road &#8211; the Path to Mastership<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So with this particular workshop, we\u2019ve had two meetings, and John gave us this book to focus on [<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/store\/product.php?productid=3317\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Path to Mastership<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by John-Roger]. I\u2019ve been working with Phil Danza and John and Leigh and Candace. I just finished reading the book for the second time and the it\u2019s amazing. It\u2019s really about being who we are. And what does Mastership look like to you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me it\u2019s being present, it\u2019s being Spirit led. It\u2019s allowing Spirit to direct and use me. It\u2019s being an instrument. It\u2019s being 100% into something &#8211; being all in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>LUCIA: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is it like to write the script for you? What have you come up with?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SHERIE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fun part of writing a script is that it\u2019s really about tracking Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, this past weekend I drove up to Windermere on Friday and I started reading all the materials that I had &#8211; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Path to Mastership<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the J-R transcripts that Barb [Weiland] sends me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I went up to Windermere and I was up until 5am reading all of this stuff and by Saturday morning I was full.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, on Saturday, I just hung out. I walked the land I hung out with the donkey. I ate lunch. I hung out with MJ who lives up there and then at 6pm this energy came in and it\u2019s like \u201cOK! It\u2019s Royal Road time!\u201d And all the stuff that I read was ready to be put into a form. So I created all the short schedules, which is what we&#8217;re going to be doing each day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not really me doing it, I just have to get out of the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>LUCIA: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is something about the Royal Road retreat that people can look forward to?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SHERIE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For [The Royal Road], the meeting that we had with John was really amazing because of the simplicity. It had a grace to it, a spaciousness, a flow, and a presence. And at the end of the meeting I was talking to John and he said, \u201cI think this is going to be graceful. And I said,\u201dme too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the things [John Morton] wants is to add more space into the training so that the spaciousness and the Divine Presence and the loving and the mastership are in the script. It\u2019s all being laid down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People are also excited to be there. We have more than enough people for the assisting team. And there are people signing up, they\u2019re saying, \u201cI want my room!\u201d \u00a0People want to participate because there\u2019s something good that happens [at Asilomar].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then there\u2019s another thing that comes up that J-R used to say about Living in Grace and I experience this a lot at Asilomar. I\u2019m making this up but who cares because I think it\u2019s true:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have these trainings so that we can give a gift to the planet that\u2019s available. We all gather, we\u2019re ministers and initiates and one of the special things about this training is that you have to be at least a Causal Initiate, so everybody at the training is an initiate which means that we\u2019ve given the Traveler permission to work with us. And they\u2019ve all taken at least a PAT training so we know what that experience is. And we\u2019re together. You know? One hundred and fifty people in a room. So that opens up a huge portal for the Light to use. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>LUCIA: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which quality came forward for you and made a shift in you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SHERIE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the qualities that we\u2019re focusing on is truth. So that&#8217;s been coming up a lot and I had an experience the other day where someone asked me a question and I just said what I was thinking. And I was very much like that as a little kid. I would just say whatever and I censor myself more since I\u2019ve gotten older. But with this workshop whatever that focusing on the truth is, it just comes out and it\u2019s funny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s been fun for me &#8211; to allow myself to be myself more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>LUCIA: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What has been your experience of Mastership?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SHERIE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m still in the beginning of that Lulu. There are eleven qualities that we\u2019re focusing on:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of them is truth.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another one is sacrifice.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s faith, creativity, intelligence,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will (and we talked about God\u2019s Will, just to be clear),<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then devotion, discipline, service, love, and mastership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main ones that really open my heart and resonate with me are truth, which is the key to mastership, and love because there\u2019s nothing on the planet but love. I\u2019m always asking myself, \u201cHow do I manifest more love inside of me but also in the world?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another big part of mastership for me is to not get caught in all the lower levels. This book talks about how we choose the upward path or the downward path and that we&#8217;re doing that all the time. So there\u2019s a vigilance to it and that\u2019s what I feel in my life right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of this training is spiraling up. In most of our trainings, like Living and Grace, we do a positive quality and a negative quality. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Path to Mastership<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is all positive qualities! It\u2019s like, \u201cCan I handle that?! I hope so!\u201d [Laughter]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>LUCIA: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What would you say to people who are hesitating about signing up for the Royal Road?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SHERIE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d say, \u201ccome play with us!\u201d \u00a0because I think it\u2019s gonna be really good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I think there\u2019s a huge opportunity when we gather in the name of God as Initiates and we have a focus like the Royal Road. Because it\u2019s really who we are. The Path to Mastership is really what we\u2019re doing here [in MSIA]. It\u2019s Soul Transcendence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>LUCIA: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One more question: How can I prepare for the Royal Road Training?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SHERIE: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read this book. Read this book. Read this book. This book is called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/store\/product.php?productid=3317\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Path to Mastership<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It\u2019s an amazing book and it\u2019ll talk about all the qualities of Mastership. It\u2019s only 70 pages but it\u2019s rich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another thing is Spiritual Exercises. SEs are so good and it\u2019s a way for us to prepare the space. Just doing SEs, even if it\u2019s a couple minutes a day, is building that connection with the Soul so we\u2019re looking through the eyes of the Soul more of the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another good way to prepare is the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Travelers Through the Ages<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 10-week class because we focus on Travelers who have brought forward God\u2019s gifts throughout time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we\u2019re all building the energy towards the training by the time we get there it\u2019s gonna be like WOAH!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Laugher] [Lots of laughter]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/event\/royalroadasilomar2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here to Sign up for The Royal Road &#8211; The Path to Mastership<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"mailto:Antonietta@pts.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here to Email Antonietta to Sign Up for Travelers Through the Ages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sherie Wylie is the Academic Dean &amp; Director of Regional Events for Peace Theological Seminary. 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