In March 2018 faculty members of PTS\u2019s new MSS Program in Transcendent Leadership came together for a working retreat. The time together was filled with blessings, including the beautiful gift of time with our Beloved Traveler, John Morton.<\/p>\n
John asked us to share what brings us here today. He said he was wide open and so were we. Here is our collective response to John.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m happy to be here. I feel that what we are doing is already done and we are just finding it. It exists and our job, my job, is to be in relationship to Transcendent Leadership\u2014that consciousness within me\u2014and see how it works through me. I\u2019m here because I\u2019m called to be here. In my last conversation with J-R he asked me if I was a teacher and I said \u201cYes\u201d and he said \u201cGood.\u201d So I\u2019ve been looking for ways to be in this environment.<\/p>\n
In gathering together here and in our video meetings I find that this is something I\u2019ve dreamed of: To come together in this way of spirit-led work. To have the gift of starting something new. To be free of the lenses of the past in a way. I\u2019m overjoyed to get to do this with all of you and to find out what happens when we come together in this way. To me it\u2019s a universal adventure. It\u2019s not just about this two years in transcendent leadership, not just this master\u2019s program, it\u2019s about everything. It\u2019s about the relationship to spirit and to practice asking \u201cWhat would love do?\u201d and then finding out what that is and having the joy of sharing it with everybody. I\u2019m here because there\u2019s nowhere else I\u2019d rather be. I\u2019m here in a way I\u2019ve always wanted to be so that I can move away the things that would be in the way. So I can be all here. My wife and I call that being all in.<\/p>\n
I feel that I\u2019m called to be here. I find myself joining and then pulling out and then finding another way to be a part of this and then being called back in. I\u2019m looking for my place to take leadership\u2014in the loving and in the light. I\u2019m working to organize my life so I can do more of this. I love to teach. I love this group of people. I love you. I love you and this Movement. I love being here. There\u2019s a piece of this that is about leading into the light and handling my life, making more room in my life for that\u2014that\u2019s where I find I am right now.<\/p>\n
I say yes inside. I didn\u2019t necessarily know what that looked like from the beginning. I\u2019m here to listen within and to participate in any way I can. I find myself stepping up more in that. I love that point of receiving the information, that moment of grace, of loving, of spirit. I love being very clear and present with what\u2019s in that loving, so I\u2019m here with all of you and I\u2019m grateful. This is fun! It\u2019s uplifting and joyful. I\u2019m here to share in the loving. Besides, I love an adventure. I love what you said in the beginning, John, about just getting started. It\u2019s a new beginning. I like the idea of allowing past education to fall away and being present now with what is. I\u2019m grateful for that.<\/p>\n
The opening has been momentous since I made the decision inside my consciousness. Part of what has opened for me in recent months is layers and waves of being more connected with loving. Layers and levels that are like endless waves of loving. As I was reading our program yesterday I was astonished at how much loving and how present loving was in the curriculum of this program. I\u2019m very grateful for that and I open to discover further those higher levels of loving.<\/p>\n
Yes. I\u2019m here. You know how sometimes when we call in the light we ask the light to extend down to the center of the Earth and anchor there? I\u2019m all for that. I\u2019m standing in that and holding for that. I\u2019m glad to be able to do that with you all and share from that place, so we can be connected in it and trust that it is here on purpose and in spirit\u2019s awesomeness and timing.<\/p>\n
My first answer, John, when you asked what brought me here was \u201cYou.\u201d And I look around and see that it is each of you. This group is such a blessing. I absolutely know in my heart that the thing that brought me here is beyond anything I understand. Spirit brought me. I know that J-R planted the seeds for this many years ago. Spirit has known that this was going to happen, with this group of people for a very long time. I feel like I opened a door, went in, and said \u201cOh my! This is what I get to do??!\u201d I\u2019m thrilled and I\u2019m doing my very best to let my heart lead and keep my head out of the way (as much as it can be in an academic program) and let spirit do what it\u2019s going to do.<\/p>\n
This morning a group of us went downtown and joined the March for Our Lives. We stood with the kids, and my goodness, they were so beautiful and there\u2019s so much hope. They are our transcendent leaders. They are our future. It was powerful to be there and bring our energy and our light into this and plant light columns. They are what we get to say yes to.<\/p>\n
I get how much you get this, John, and I am so grateful that you recognize that on all levels we have the opportunity to bring forward something that J-R wanted very much. I\u2019m blown away that J-R said, \u201cAre you a teacher?\u201d I believe that at some point he just laid it all out and lined us all up. I\u2019m grateful to be part of it. There\u2019s nowhere else I could be. I\u2019m absolutely blown away by this journey.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s true for me is in my life I\u2019ve looked for ways to have fun and, given the amount of laughter that took place last night, this is going to be a lot of fun. We\u2019ve got some serious work ahead of us and some serious business turning the focus of the planet to loving. I think this group is more than capable of it and I certainly know that we\u2019ll have a lot of fun doing it.<\/p>\n
When Greg and Joanie first reached out to me and throughout these last few months, the answer remains the same\u2014the reason I am here is to be of service however that shows up. Even if it means taking on something I\u2019ve never done, I know that my heart will be in it. It is truly a blessing to be with this amazing group of people and share this journey. That is what it feels like to me, another step on my journey. I have the vision of us standing on the shoulders of those who\u2019ve come before us, but also standing with our arms around those who\u2019ve come before us as well as all of these people here. It\u2019s part of the opportunity, I think, to bring unity and wholeness and so I thank you all for that.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m here for loving. I\u2019m here for showing up. One of the ways I experienced that the traveler touched me as a younger person was when I was playing softball. The coach wasn\u2019t playing me and I asked to play. The coach said, \u201cI keep you available as my utility player because I know I can put you anywhere on the field and you\u2019ll get the job done.\u201d That\u2019s how I see us and I want to step up to that. I want to speak to that part in my consciousness that still needs to be worked, that can be lifted, that hesitates, that holds back, and open freely to share the joy of the song of my heart. The song that brings me here and the cadences of living love so that they are with all of us.<\/p>\n
What brings me here is that same thing that breathes me. I feel my life is a collection of serendipitous and perfectly timed accidents and this may be one of them. I feel that for me there\u2019s always been this choosing inside of me. I\u2019ve chosen this path because I\u2019ve fallen before and choosing back into it there\u2019s this intensity like nothing\u2019s going to come between me and that. Why am I here? I\u2019m here because J-R is here and I want to be where J-R is. And now in my relationship with you, I can say I want to be where John is. It\u2019s a very simple answer\u2014consciousness has this simplicity to it. I don\u2019t really have a lot of the pomp and circumstance other than I want to be where you\u2019re at and follow that energy into the truth that I am so that I could somehow know myself and the infiniteness that\u2019s in me, through the infiniteness that I see in you and your eyes. I\u2019m here to know me and I\u2019m here to know every molecule in every universe. If I can love me and make me more whole, then somehow that wholeness reverberates through all existence. It\u2019s this simultaneous thing; I\u2019m loving you, loving me, loving us. I\u2019m here at the pleasure of the Traveler.<\/p>\n