A Headbander’s Guide to Opening Your Intuition

1. The Nature of Intuition

Channeled by John McCurdy during a live Zoom session on June 7, 2023

This transcript has been edited from the original recording to ensure that the intended meaning is conveyed as clearly as possible. Note that Hmm, Mmm, and lines with just a dot signify places to pause, and to feel into what is being said.

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John:

So, welcome everybody! I’m glad you’re here.

I’ll point out Chris. I think most of you already know he’s going to be helping me manage things. I’m not going to be paying very much attention to the chat or to the participant list, so he’ll bring things to my attention if necessary.

Hmm…

So…

I’m going completely blank, so I think it’s time to breathe a little bit and bring in Master John.

As I’m sure you already know, that’s just the handle I give for my soul, the bigger part of me.

So, I’m going to breathe for a couple minutes, and you can join in. I don’t do anything special to lead the breathing. I’m just going to breathe for a couple minutes, and we’ll get started.

[pause to breathe]

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Master John:

I am that I am!

Master John, of Magical Service.

Ahh…

My human is having to get used to all the energies, and to all of you here together live. Oh, it’s exciting for me! And for him too, but he’s still getting used to it.

So, welcome!

Welcome to, A Headbander’s Guide to Opening Your Intuition.

I assume that everybody here knows the headbanders story that Adamus talked about, from the Crimson Circle. About how, in Atlantis, we used headbands and various other means to standardize the human mind, to make it conform. And in doing so, we took away so much of our intuition.

We locked the human into the mind.

Hmm…

And here we are. For the first time ever, especially since Heaven’s Cross, we can begin opening that up again in ways that simply haven’t been possible before.

Basically, what we did is give the mind the job of blocking out the intuition, of blocking out Soul, Divinity, so the human could be fully present here and fully in the experience. But we also shut out a lot of our knowing, and a lot of the experience we could have had. Who knows how that would have gone, but here we are.

So, let’s talk a little bit about what the intuition is. (We’ll let John close his eyes part of the time here, just because it’s easier for him.)

Ahh…

The intuition. If you come right down to its essence, it is your soul. It is your Divinity.

And it has always been here. It has always been part of you, but we got so focused into the mind—the human, when it came here, got so focused into the mind—that it could not feel the rest of itself. But it was always here. Soul has always been here.

I have always been part of John, and of every other of our incarnations. Always communicating with you, or trying to. Always showing you, guiding you, but most of the time you couldn’t feel me. You couldn’t feel your own Soul.

Hmm…

Throughout this class, I will sometimes speak as your soul. Your souls are all here, whether you are here live, or watching or listening or reading this later, you are here. Your soul is present, and there are times that I, as John’s soul, am joining with all of your souls, and we will speak to you as your own soul.

Ahh…

So here we are.

Deep breath, John.

Mmm…

Let’s start with a story from John’s life.

John had his awakening back in his middle twenties, and he started opening up to himself and to the other realms. He started reading like crazy, like so many of you, learning about the other realms and about his past lives, and interacting with other like-minded people.

And so often he would read stories, or he would watch friends, talk about their past lives and all the other things that they were sensing, and he’d ask himself, “What’s wrong with me? Why don’t I remember my past lives? Why don’t I sense all these things that these other people are sensing?” and he’d get frustrated, and he’d try to open up, and of course it just didn’t work that way.

Then one day—oh, he’d read a number of books by a well-known hypnotist by the name of Dick Sutphen, who wrote a lot about past lives and led group past-life regressions. He would lead the whole group into opening up to one of their past lives, and he did a lot of work with that.

One day, John had the opportunity to go to one of his workshops, it was just an evening, hoping that maybe he could make some breakthrough in opening up.

At the workshop Mr. Sutphen said, “You know, in all the work I’ve done with past life for regressions, in every past life regression I’ve ever done for myself or for anybody else, everybody always says the same thing that I feel, and that is that I am making it all up. But every time we’ve been able to check out the memories that somebody thought they were making up they always checked out, so you have to realize that you are making up something real.”

Well, that was a huge breakthrough for John! And he went through the regression that evening with the group and opened up a lifetime that had a huge impact on him. And he opened up a connection with me that has deepened so much over time.

It was still many years before he opened up enough that we could talk like this, but that realization that Dick Sutphen talked about totally changed his perspective. And, as he went through his life, he started realizing that if he trusted what he thought he had been just imagining, it always became so real. And he realized that he actually was remembering past lifetimes.

This class actually came into being because one of the people who signed up for it, and who will be watching this later, contacted John and said, “I don’t know if I’m qualified for this. I just never seem to have these experiences that everybody else has.” And John wrote back and told her a little bit about that experience, and then he realized that it’s such a key.

So many people don’t realize that you are having the experience. It’s right there. The experience of your intuition, of your soul, of other beings. But so often you just don’t recognize it. You don’t trust it. Your mind just goes, “Where is that coming from? I’m just making that up!”

But the thing is, it is not possible to make something up.

Partly, that’s because this is all made up. Everything that you call reality is your soul’s imagination.

It’s like your kid’s video game. It’s this wonderful, fantastical, elaborate game that’s running in his or her computer, and there are all these other people running the same game in their computers. And there’s a connection—you call it the internet, we’ll call it the Soul Net, the Angel Net—that connects between those games and tells the game what’s happening in somebody else’s game. That way the avatar that is in your game representing that other person can reflect what they are doing in that other game.

But it is still all your game. And, ultimately, it is all your soul’s imagination.

Your soul is imagining this physical world, otherwise it would not exist. But it is imagining it according to the template of this game.

A bunch of you got together and said, “Hey, let’s have some fun! Let’s create similar realities and connect this communication between them, and we can play there!” And that is all your reality is. And it became so engrossing that you forgot it was just your imagination.

So, at core, you can say that intuition is your imagination.

Oh, but it is so much more than what the human thinks of as imagination! The mind has its, oh, its kind of pretend imagination. It tries to imagine things, and it tries to tell lies. It tries to imagine things that aren’t real, and yet it is all real in some dimension!

So, opening up to the intuition starts with noticing what you think is just your imagination, and considering the possibility that maybe it is real.

Hmm….

And how do you know if it’s real?

How does it feel? Does it resonate with you? Do you feel a resonance inside of you? Then trust it.

So, let’s pause here for a few moments. Does anybody have any questions or comments?

There’s a button somewhere to raise your hand and Chris will unmute you, or you can unmute yourself. Or you can just wave your hand and we’ll see you.

Participant 1: Hi John, Isabelle here.

Master John: Yes, hi Isabelle.

Isabelle: I actually have a question which is particular to my own experience. I can let in a lot of wisdom and information easily, but it comes out especially good when I don’t think about it.

Master John: Indeed.

Isabelle: The moment I, for instance, try to do something like you, like now I’m going to channel myself, my wisdom, or whatever, with a conscious intent to let in, you know, whatever, or let out, in this case sharing, I just pfff, my mind comes in. It becomes blank (laughter). And it’s not impossible, but then I start doubting anything else after that. But if I happen to be talking without thinking about whether it’s coming from my deeper wisdom or whatever, I find myself in very good places of wisdom and intuition.

But I would love very much to stop this block that, when I choose consciously to let myself open up, something blocks in me. And when you announced this program and all the, you know, these metal bands, I thought it must be it. Because it doesn’t make any sense, you know? This contrast. And I got very, very excited about this possibility, because this really came at the moment where I was thinking, I’ve got to find a way to discover what this is, where it starts, what happens.

And so, since you ask us to ask a question, this is my question. Thank you very much.

Master John: Indeed, and thank you for your question! And it’s such a common question, and it describes exactly John’s experience.

Isabelle: Yeah.

Master John: Oh, indeed, John used to lay in bed at night. His parents argued a lot right outside his bedroom, and so he’d go off in a fantasy world to try to get away from all the noise when he was a child. And he would have these fantasies about being a preacher. He had a Christian family, and he’d have these fantasies about being a preacher and preaching powerful sermons that touched people’s hearts.

Then he’d get up the next morning and think back on that fantasy and go, “What am I thinking? I could never do that because…” Well, because he was one who, if somebody ever asked him a question in front of other people or put him where he felt ‘on the spot,’ his mind would just go blank. All his words would go away. And so, to imagine being up in front of people and talking was just—he couldn’t even imagine it.

Well, he obviously did imagine it in his fantasies, but he couldn’t imagine it being real. And now look at him! (Laughter)

But see, even now he has trouble with words when he feels under pressure. But somehow, together, over the years—it took some time with me working with him. It took some time for him to start trusting. And he realized, at some point, that the words were there, but he didn’t trust them.

There was a time when he felt—when I pushed him—to start a group. Oh, gosh, it was 20 years ago in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when I pushed him to start a weekly discussion group. And he got there, and he was leading the group, but he didn’t have any idea what to do. Fortunately it was friends, and so other people would carry the discussion.

But he knew there was something he needed to do, and he started feeling Mother Mary really close and saying, “I want to talk.” And he knew, in that moment he knew, the first one or two words. But his mind was like, “Well, if I say those and there’s nothing else, then what?” And so he couldn’t do it, and that one evening in particular, he finally turned to somebody else who was used to channeling and said, “I feel Mother Mary here. Can you bring her in? Because I can’t.”

And it was a long time before he learned how to trust that knowing of that first word, and speak it, and then the next word would be there. And the next words, and the next words. And oh, even now he gets afraid that—even right here while I’m talking, he gets afraid that he’s not going to know what to say. And he has to take a breath, and then it’s there.

It’s about trusting yourself. The words are there, the knowing is there, but the mind shuts it down because it doesn’t trust it.

So yes, we’re going to be working on opening that up and going deeper with it over the course of this class.

Isabelle: Thank you.

Master John: Anybody else?

Christine.

Christine: I would like to know how it began with you. How did you begin to speak with your soul? Did it happen suddenly? Or you tried a lot of times? Or?

Master John: You know, you might know that Jean Tinder, with the Crimson Circle, is John’s sister. And one time, oh, back around 2010, he asked her for a channel. He was so frustrated because he could feel he needed to write, that something needed to come out, and he didn’t know how to let it out. Because every time he’d sit down to write—and he was like Isabelle. If he was talking with somebody the wisdom just came. It was just there if he wasn’t thinking about it, and he could write beautiful messages in a discussion group or emails to people, and explain things beautifully. But when he sat down to just write, like to write a book or write whatever, it just all turned into mud in his mind. And he was really frustrated with that, because he could feel that something has got to come out!

So he called Jean and asked for a channel. And he asked his angelic team, for that was what she channeled at the time, “Why is this so frustrating for me? Why can’t I do this? Why does it just all turn into mud?”

And they said, “Well, of course, as you know, your mind is getting too involved.” So they gave him this assignment and said, “We want you to, for the next month, take one hour every day without fail, to just write down whatever is in your mind. It’s not about writing anything particular. It doesn’t need to make sense. It’s not for anybody else. Just write whatever random thoughts are going through your mind.”

And so he did that. And after about a month of doing that for one hour every single day, something was coming up in his life that he was concerned about, and he wrote a little bit about it and wrote a question. And he found himself writing an answer. Just whatever was going through his mind, he wrote his own answer.

And then he stopped and looked at it and thought, “Oh, wow. That was pretty wise! There’s a lot of wisdom in that answer!”

And he wrote another question, and another answer.

And over the next few days he realized that he was writing with his soul, with me, and that whenever he asked the question and then allowed himself to write the answer, it was me that answered.

It took him a little bit to realize that, but by then he was starting to get it. And he started to trust that. And pretty soon we were having a conversation, a conscious conversation, in his writing.

Then I said to him, “Why don’t we start talking? Why don’t you get out your voice recorder, and let’s start doing it that way because it’s much quicker than writing. So he did. He turned on his voice recorder and took a deep breath, and asked a question. And then spoke the answer. And more and more, he realized that it was me speaking the answer.

Then I said to him one day, “So, what about that book you were going to write? Let’s do it!” So, he sat down and started. Every morning he would turn on his voice recorder and channel me.

Well, it didn’t so much turn into a book, but it became the lessons for Creatorship 101, the class you might have seen over on our Library of the Rose website. And he started putting those on the internet, and suddenly we were famous in South America and other places where they speak Spanish! Because somebody translated it. Not many other people noticed it, but somebody translated it and spread it around in Spanish, and suddenly we were quite well known. And that was his beginning of channeling.

Oh, it was still a number of more years before he was ready to sit in front of a group and open up like this, and even this has been evolving.

So, that’s how we started.

Christine: Thank you.

Master John: I would recommend that exercise to you, if it calls to you. Just take some time. The idea of writing down whatever random thoughts are in your mind is just to kind of give your mind a little bit of satisfaction, so it can relax.

Let it unfold. Let it take you where it takes you. And pretty soon you might discover yourself having a conversation with your soul.

Because your soul is right here. It’s you. It cannot not be you. It is you. It’s your reality. It’s your energy. It’s your consciousness. It’s all of you. It’s right here. It’s just that the mind doesn’t trust it.

The mind was programmed, with those headbands in Atlantis, not to trust Soul, and not to trust the intuition or anything outside of what you call your human reality, and so it is still doing its job. It is still discounting those impulses that are constantly coming from your soul. They are not in words, so your mind says, “How can anything that’s not in words and verifiable be real?”

Well, another way to look at it is that, if it’s in words, it is not real. Not fully real.

That doesn’t mean words aren’t real. It means that… Oh, even here we are using the mind to translate feelings into words, so that the mind can hopefully begin to understand that it can let go of its job. It can start allowing itself to notice, and trust, its intuitive impulses that are always there.

Hmm…

Any other questions or comments?

One of the reasons for doing this class is because we wanted other people to come in and bring your own wisdom, bring your own questions, and bring your energies in here. It helps to take us all deeper.

We’re going through something here that has never been gone through before, this opening, especially since March 22. With this opening our own divinity is waking up inside of us, and it is confusing as heck sometimes! But it is also amazing.

Hmm…

Any other questions?

Christine.

Christine: Oh hi, I’m there, ok. It’s about… In fact, I used to do that before, because like you, in my mid-twenties I began to listen to what I call my higher self, and all that. But then I lost confidence in it because it was very difficult to know what was just my mind saying, “Oh, you shouldn’t go out with this guy,” or really a deep, sound connection. And that’s difficult, even now.

I speak a lot with my soul, and thanks to you I was really following—I love your channeling, since the beginning. They are really more practical than what we have with Adamus, and very useful immediately. That’s what I like. And very often you were answering questions I was really asking myself.

But now I have this difficulty to know what is from the mind and what is from the—you know, my past or my schooling or my parents or…—and what is really in my true song. So that’s really… Maybe you were waiting to speak about that in the next sessions, but why not now?

Master John: We’re going to speak about that quite a lot, because that’s another big thing with opening your intuition.

It’s all about feeling. But how do you tell the difference between a feeling that’s coming from your soul, and an emotion that’s coming from your mind? That was a really confusing thing for John, and it still is sometimes.

In another session we’re going to focus more on emotions, and the difference between feeling and emotions. But for now I would say, feel in your body. When you are feeling different choices, different feelings about things, how does your body respond physically? Does it clench up? Does it open up?

That’s one way to begin to tell what’s real and what is just your mind trying to distract you from what’s real.

And we will talk much more about that.

Christine: Thank you. It’s a good one already.

Master John: Ahh…

Romana, do you have something to share?

Romana: I would maybe just add my experience on this question. I mean, there are so many layers on that question because it is discerning what is coming from the mind or what is coming from emotion, or what is really coming, so it’s a big topic, I believe.

But one of the things that I learned over the years, is that this difference is, as you said, so much about feeling. And feeling is usually very simple.

When intuition is speaking, when my soul speaks, it’s very simple. It’s very clear. It’s kind of light in the feeling. It kind of feels good in the heart.

It doesn’t feel sharp. It doesn’t feel intense. It doesn’t feel glitzy. It just feels very simple, usually, for me, when it’s the right thing.

It’s usually just this feeling of lightness. Or very subtle, like a little whisper. It’s not loud. It’s just so, so, yeah, simple is the word that comes to me. And when this light feeling comes and it’s feeling good in my heart, many times it’s without lots of excitement or emotional… It’s joy, but even this joy is simple. It’s not very fiery. So, for me, when this feeling comes then I’m totally sure that it’s not my mind.

So, this is one little, you know, insight or something that I notice from my experience, and over the years it turns out as very, very useful feeling for me.

John: Yeah, that’s been a big part of it for me, too. Just noticing that if I’m getting all excited, it might be an emotion instead of my soul. My Soul is like the still small voice that is always there. But it’s easy, really easy. The mind is like the neon light that drowns it out. Or the loud radio, or whatever, that drowns it out.

Thank you, Romana.

Romana: You’re welcome.

Isabelle: I would also, um, I was just feeling inside and there is, at least I’m aware of for me, a certain fear of wisdom. Because it takes a lot of responsibility, as a human, to think in terms of divinity, and authority, of knowingness, of certainty.

So, it can be, as well, who am I to know all this? To be aware of all this? And I’m not supposed to. Maybe this is all a made-up thing?

It’s very much, as well, the fear of the grandness.

Master John: Yes.

Isabelle: Yeah.

Master John: Part of what we did with the headbands was program the mind to doubt everything, especially itself.

Isabelle: Yes, because if once you accept all of that you’re no longer a human, as described normally, in a 3D packet.

Master John: Yeah.

Isabelle: And you have to own that.

Master John: Yes.

Isabelle: And that’s a huge step.

Master John: Yes, it is.

Isabel: The words. Everything.

Master John: But it’s a step that you are way far beyond. So…

Isabelle: Yes, but it’s for the human to own it.

John: Yes. So, why don’t you own it right here? Tell us about your grandness.

Isabelle: (Laughter) Ahhhh…

Well, the grandness is not something we talk about, but we just feel. And it shows itself when it’s just open. You know, when the human steps aside and just speaks. And since I was very young I used to say things that people thought I was crazy, so I have a history of, who am I to be so different?

So, the wisdom continued expanding. Sometimes it becomes almost schizophrenic, because you can live moments that are totally opposite, in different states.

Master John: Yes.

Isabelle: The state of humanness, and then the state of divinity.

Master John: Yes.

Isabelle: And I have no doubts of that. The difficulty is merging them together.

Master John: And that might be the mind trying to do something that maybe doesn’t work quite that way.

Isabelle: Yeah.

Master John: And this reminds us of an experience John had one time. He was involved in a group, he doesn’t remember right now what it was about, but he often found himself saying things that had a lot of wisdom in them, and sometimes people didn’t want to hear them.

One day he said something, and somebody got upset. Like, “How dare you?” whatever it was.

And he went home feeling kind of ashamed, and saying to himself, “What did I do that for?”

And I came to him. He didn’t recognize me at the time, but I came to him and I said, “John, you are God also, and God does not make mistakes. So can you trust, and be open to the possibility, that whatever came out of your mouth was God speaking, and God does not make mistakes?”

Hmm…

He had a little bit of a hard time with that, but he opened to it. And it changed his life.

He started lightening up on himself, and realizing that, oh, there were things that came out sometimes that he wouldn’t say that way next time, probably, but that’s what was there. And it could be trusted that it was the right thing.

And that has been a big part of us opening our intuition.

It’s that trust. The trust that you can’t get it wrong, even if somebody else gets upset.

And that’s a big thing that blocks people from their intuition: the fear of somebody else being upset about whatever it was they said or did.

And you can let that go, and begin to realize that you cannot get it wrong, no matter what anybody thinks. That’s just their opinion, and that’s about them. It’s not about you. And you can lighten up on yourself, and you can start to trust yourself. And to love yourself.

It’s pretty hard to love self when there are all these judgments about how many things we’re getting wrong.

And so much of this is just about making a choice: I am not going to treat myself that way anymore. I am not going to judge myself just because somebody else does. I am going to start accepting me, and whatever it is that comes out of me.

Can you feel that?

Isabelle: Yeah.

Master John: Yeah.

Isabelle: It’s just that I do this kind of talk with myself very often, almost every day, and I have no doubts about all of that.

It’s just that something is stuck, and pops in. I know it’s illogical. It doesn’t agree with what I really know and believe, and now really experience. But there’s something, maybe a memory of those headbands, or whatever, that I haven’t been able to get to and release. Because it’s just an irrational sensation when this happens.

Master John: Indeed.

Isabelle: Otherwise, everything is beautiful. It’s just this thing right there.

Master John: I’d like to suggest that it has been stuck, and it is getting unstuck.

You see, that’s about you making that choice, not me. When you talk about it different, when you make the choice, “I am not going to say ‘I’m stuck’ anymore!”

Like Adamus said about “I don’t know,” stop it! Stop saying “I’m stuck,” and then open to the possibility that it is moving. And give it to your soul.

It is not your job, as the human, to get it unstuck or to find it and release it. It’s not your job!

Your job is to say, I’m getting unstuck. My soul is getting me unstuck, and I’m just going to let it happen. And I’m going to trust whatever happens, whatever impulses come, and whatever comes out of me along the way. I’m just going to trust it. I’m going to be the observer instead of the one that needs to fix it all. I’m going to watch my intuition open, rather than trying to open it.

Isabelle: Yeah, thank you.

Master John: Anyone else?

Yes, Monica.

Monica: My conscious conversation with my soul is happening by writing in poems. It’s just a knowingness that the soul is writing. But when it’s about speaking out loud, then I have already wet hands and shaking. And I have also created, before this workshop, I was twice by the dentist in emergency, because I had inflammation in my mouth.

The last time, yesterday, quite intense, and I have the idea it has really to do with this opening up. There is still a resistance, and it shows also in my throat. It started already a few months ago, that also there is a resistance. So something in me wants to open up, but I don’t let it happen really.

And I don’t like to say ‘I don’t know why,’ but I have to say it now because I don’t receive the inner answer. Why? I try to speak with my soul. It’s nothing. Nothing. I don’t hear it. I can’t hear it.

Perhaps I’m so afraid. In connection with this inflammation I had immense fear of death the last days, and the last two weeks. This was all connected together.

Yeah, that’s my present experience with this theme and workshop. Thank you.

Master John: You’re welcome. And, I would invite you to let go of the question ‘why.’

All of you, the question ‘why’ is a mind question.

The real reasons ‘why’ don’t fit in words. And another part of opening your intuition is realizing that the soul doesn’t speak in words. As your mind opens up it will sometimes hear your soul and translate the feelings into words, but so often your soul just wants you to feel.

Your soul wants you to know that yes, all of this is related to what we’re doing right here. It’s related to the mind letting go of the job that we gave it, the programming that we gave it back in Atlantis. And we programmed it really well, and we said, Mind, you need to do whatever it takes to keep us from popping out of our bodies and coming back too soon, to keep us from getting distracted from our experience on Earth. And that’s how it has been.

So now here we are, and we are telling the mind, This is not your job anymore. It’s not your job to figure all this out. Your job is simply to let it happen. And that brings up a lot of fear. It brings up issues. It brings up fears in the body that manifest as inflammation and all these other things.

John had to go to the doctor about his eyes having inflammation just the other day! And yes, it’s all part of this opening. This incredible opening. And the fears come up. All these things come up.

It is not your job to fix those, or to find the reasons why.

Your job is simply to have the experience and let your soul take care of it and take care of you. Your soul is the one, the only one, who can truly release those issues. The human can’t, but the human can let it happen.

And that’s just a choice. It’s not anything you need to do. It’s just, I choose to let these things move, and I trust my soul to do it in whatever way it needs to happen. And then turn your attention to life, to living your life as best you can.

You cannot get it wrong at this point. You can only live, or worry.

Monica: Yeah.

John: Does that help?

Monica: Yes. Thank you very much.

Master John: Anything else?

Sylvia: Oh, hi John, can you hear me?

Master John: Yes.

Sylvia: I am Sylvia. I paused the video because I have a child naked running around. (Laughter)

Well, anyway, thank you for doing this. This is what I was looking for. And as a matter of fact, yesterday I learned from you, from your videos, that everything in my life is my soul that created.

And yesterday I realized that I was fighting with my mind, and because of that, that’s why I lost the connection. And before that, it happened naturally. Everything naturally. But I lost it and … I didn’t feel me as before. It’s totally different now, but I realized that I was fighting with my mind. So I just learned that I don’t have to fight, and I just wanted share this.

Master John: Yes, thank you! And that’s such a big thing. It’s like we started—I think all of us, we started waking up and started realizing that there’s so much more than the human, so much more than the mind, and we started realizing all the limitations that our mind puts on us. And it was like, “Oh, I’ve got to get rid of my mind! I’ve got to quiet it! I’ve got to…” and it turns into this big battle.

Hmm…

There’s a channel we did a couple years ago called, Ode to the Mind. It’s somewhere on the website and you might want to check it out. It’s about honoring the mind. [It’s actually A Tribute to the Mind]

Sylvia: I saw it, but I realized also that every video that I watched before, it has a different meaning.

Master John: Yes.

Sylvia: It’s like I never heard it before. It’s like a new wisdom every time. But yes, I’m going to check that out.

And thank you for your channels, because I feel like really you are speaking to me.

Even though we had a channeling once, a personal channeling, my soul was just laughing because I choose to communicate with it through you, since I can do it directly. So that’s why that was funny.

Master John: Yes.

Sylvia: But anyway, I’m here again, so I can relax my mind. In a way, that’s the word: relax my mind.

Master John: Indeed.

And at the same time I am so nervous, and happy and excited. All those emotions, like, umm… You can feel.

Master John: Yes, we know them well!

And the thing is, being a master doesn’t mean that you never have emotions, or that you never have doubts or all of those mind things. Being an embodied master means you actually do have all of those things, but they don’t matter anymore so much. You’re not stuck in them, because you start feeling your soul taking care of them.

Oh, they pop up here and there, and then your soul takes them and you let them go.

Sylvia: Yes, I am learning that these days, again.

Master John: Yes. There is so much freedom in putting down the sword and letting go of the battles.

Sylvia: (Laughing) Oh, that too! Yes, I’m starting to do that. I’m being aware of that. That’s the good thing. I wasn’t aware.

Master John: Yes.

Sylvia: Thank you for having me.

Master John: Thank you for being here.

Ahh…

Yes. Letting go of the battle with the mind is the biggest thing, the number one thing… It took John a minute to let that in… But it is the number one thing you can do to open to your intuition, to open to your soul. It’s just stopping that battle with your mind.

Anything you battle gets stronger!

Hmm…

Romana and John were talking the other day about this metaphor of “taking the bull by the horns.”

Well, it’s an interesting metaphor about taking charge, about grabbing the situation and fixing it, and taking control of it. And, well, the truth is, if you grab a bull by its horns you are going to die, because that bull is a lot bigger and stronger than you.

Oh, John used to have a billy goat [a male goat]. He was a kid and they were about the same size and pretty equally matched, and John didn’t know how to train the goat so it wasn’t very well mannered, and he’d get frustrated with it and grab it by its horns. Because they were handy handles.

Well, that would trigger the goat’s instinct to resist, and John would find himself in a stalemate with this goat. He’d have it by its horns, but he couldn’t let go because then the goat would hit him with them, or whatever it wanted to do. But he couldn’t get it to move because he wasn’t bigger than the goat.

And it’s a good metaphor for how we so often treat our minds, and ourselves in general. But especially our minds.

At some point, you have to let go. Let go of those horns, let go of the battle, because anything you fight has to resist. It’s just a law of nature that if you fight something it has to resist, and it just makes it stronger. And that goes for your mind as well.

So, letting go of the battle with your mind. Honoring, loving, your mind.

We don’t need to get rid of the mind, and we’re not going to get rid of the mind. Though it feels like it right now, because the mind is so confused about everything that’s happening right now.

What it needs is a hug.

It needs you to go to it. Just call it up in your… Ha! In your mind.

John’s mind gets confused about this, but it’s real: Talk to your mind. It’s actually me, your soul, talking through you to your mind.

Tell it that it can relax now. Its job is done, and it has done it so very well. It kept you here until your journey on Earth was complete. And now it is complete, and that job is done.

Tell your mind how much you love it, and how much you appreciate it for what it did for you.

Oh, you can argue about whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that we did with the headbands, but it doesn’t matter. This is where we are, and your mind did the job that we gave it. Can you honor it for that?

Can you allow yourself to give your mind—it’s just an aspect of you—a hug? To hold it in your arms and in your heart?

Give it a hug. Thank it. And remind it that it can rest now.

It’s so tired, so very tired. It’s been a long, long journey with a lot of frustration, and your mind has fought so hard to take care of you in the way that it was taught to do. Thank it for that!

Mmm…

And you’ll find that the battle begins to subside, and as you stop fighting it, it will stop fighting you. And it will stop fighting your intuition.

Hmm…

So, we’re off to a good start here!

Let’s wrap this up for today. If any questions pop up, there’s a form on the website. I was hoping we’d have a discussion forum available, but John has too much technical work at the moment and he’s still working on it, so there is a form on the class page where you can submit a question. And oh, I’ll read it with John, and whether we answer it directly or not, it will be integrated into the next session.

And that goes for everyone who listens to the recording or reads the transcripts, or whatever: feel free to ask your questions and offer your comments.

Mmm…

So, it has been an honor to be here and to have all of you here, and I’ll see you next week.

And so it is.

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