How to Change Your Life

5. Be Curious

Channeled by John McCurdy on September 27, 2022

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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And so it is!

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John wasn’t expecting that greeting! And he’s not quite sure who this is.

Hmm…

It’s because there are a whole group of us.

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Indeed, Master John is here. John’s soul, John’s divinity.

Oh, many of the ascended masters that you know of are here. Jeshua, the one known as Jesus, is here. His mother in that lifetime, Mary, and his beloved, Mary of Magdala. Oh, so many! And yes…

[thunder rumbles in the background]

Indeed, a roll of thunder—perhaps you could hear it—to begin our message!

Ahh…

And yes, every one of us have answered that grand question for ourselves: Who am I?

We understand this journey of Earth. We’ve all been through it.

Some of you think that we are out of date, out of touch, because it’s been a bit of your time since we were embodied on Earth. But we do understand.

We would ask you to consider: is it because we are out of touch, or is it because you are still struggling to break free of this human condition, this human hypnosis?

And because your mind, which is your primary mode of awareness within this hypnosis, doesn’t understand some of what we talk about, you assume that we are out of touch. That we’ve forgotten. But we haven’t, and we are not.

And you, dear friend, you are very quickly taking down this veil of illusion. You are coming to understand the true nature of reality. Oh, it isn’t at all what you think, or what your mind thinks.

Ahh, and it’s such a gift when one such as Master John, a soul who has a current incarnation on Earth, has opened up enough to channel the wisdom. Oh, it can bring so much human perspective.

But even then, where we are going, oh, there is so much that the mind just doesn’t understand. So it reacts and it says, “Oh, you’re not here! You don’t know what this is really like!”

Well, we’ve been there, every one of us. We do know what it’s like, and we do know what it takes to go beyond.

It takes a shift in perspective.

It takes the willingness to release those old ideas of how things are, and to open up to new possibilities.

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So, here we are: lesson five of How to Change Your Life.

We’ve talked about power, and what it does to you. We’ve talked about the knowledge of good and evil, the choice to discern good from evil, and what that does to you. We’ve talked about the Tree of Life, your light body, your divinity, and what it takes to access that.

We’ve talked about human agendas—oh, any kind of agendas, angelic agendas too—and how they cut you off from that tree of life and from your own divinity. How they destroy your body.

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Ha! So you look around and you go, “How do I change all this? How do I let go of my agendas? They seem necessary here!”

And indeed, we want to acknowledge in the strongest possible terms that this human experience that you are having, oh, it’s built out of agendas! Indeed, this whole planet was built out of a need to understand energies. It was built from a place of power, and of not understanding that power is an illusion. So everywhere you look on this planet, there is power.

Even the animals play power games with each other. They eat each other. They’re constantly—oh, even animals of the same species are constantly battling with each other, testing each other, testing themselves against each other, and playing out these power games.

Even the weather of your planet is chaotic. It’s full of power games. It’s full of expressions of power. It destroys things.

Oh, human life. It seems like it’s all about power, like it’s all about gathering enough power so that you can get through life somewhat effectively, and constantly struggling to keep it from slipping away or blowing up in your face. And not even realizing that, even when it’s not doing those things, every time you use power it comes back around and hits you somewhere in your life.

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So here you are, a master.

Yes, you are, if you are here!

A Master who has discovered your own answer to that question. A master who now knows, at a very deep level, what the solution to the power problem is.

Yes, you do!

And yet you have chosen, you and your soul have chosen, to remain here on Earth, in this power-hungry environment, this environment where everything is about power.

You use power to move yourself across the planet. You burn fuel made from dinosaurs to power yourself across the planet.

Oh, it’s shifting. Now you’re using the power of the sun and the power of the wind. You’re gathering it up, putting it into your new cars and soon your new airplanes, and using that to move you around on the planet. It’s all about power. Everything is about power!

You eat food in order to power your body so that it can survive, in order to keep it strong so it has enough power to push the things around in life that need to be pushed around for it to survive.

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So you see, despite everything we’ve said, it still comes down to the fact that everything you know as your human reality is built on power and almost everything you do in life is some form of a power game, trying to find enough power to keep you alive and to keep you in this body.

[thunder rumbles]

Ah yes, the power of the weather! Lightning flashing, thunder rumbling. Ha! What a perfect time for this message!

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So, why are we saying all this? How can you step into Rumi’s field when everything in your life seems to be about power and about agendas, and about the need to protect oneself? About the need to empower oneself?

Well, there is a way.

You see, it’s all just another experience. So instead of trying to change it and fix it and heal it and get rid of it, we ask you to taste it.

Ha! Don’t worry, John, we’re not going to talk about mayonnaise anymore! Ha ha!

But, we ask you to taste it without agenda, without judgment, without a label of good or bad.

Just taste it. Just feel it.

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When you do, you will find yourself having a very different experience than what you expected.

We are not going to try to describe that right now, because it will be unique for you. But you will find, when you truly take the time, take the breath, to taste and to feel whatever experience you are having, you will find that that experience, and certainly your perception of it, transforms.

When John took the time to actually taste some of those things that, before, he had thought were so disgusting, when he took the time to just taste them, without judgment and with curiosity, what does this really taste like? Ha! He found it was actually a kind of an interesting flavor! And then his experience of it became completely different.

Some of those things, he now likes very much. Some, he still doesn’t like very much, and that’s perfectly fine.

You see, as you are becoming aware of all the power games in the world—oh, believe us, most people are not aware of them! You are unique, and as you become aware of all these power games, your tendency is to try to use power to get beyond them. Ha! And you have discovered how well that doesn’t work.

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Oh, for eons you have tried to use power against the power of others. And look where it got you: Lots and lots of battles and wars and fights and arguments and broken hearts and broken lives. It goes nowhere.

[thunder rumbles]

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It goes nowhere, because you are battling with yourself.

Oh, wise people all through the ages have talked about letting go of power. Even dear Jeshua is quoted as saying, “If someone strikes you on the cheek, turn the other cheek.”

Ha! And right now he’s laughing and saying, “That was one of the stupidest things I ever said!”

And yet, there’s an element of truth in it. But he didn’t understand then, even he didn’t understand, what he was really trying to say. Or at least, he couldn’t find the words for it.

It’s not about turning the other cheek and letting somebody hit you again. It’s about stepping into that field beyond agendas, beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing. It’s about becoming truly powerless, and in that, becoming such a bright light.

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It’s not about letting somebody hit you again. It’s about being clear in yourself.

Sometimes it’s about—if somebody is attacking you, it’s about getting in their face and saying, “No more! I’m not going to play this power game with you anymore. I’m not going to push power against you, I’m not going to fight you, and I’m also not going to give in to you.

Oh, in human reality that takes many forms. Sometimes, when someone invades your home or your country you have to fight them, because that’s what it takes to say no more. But for you that’s very unlikely to happen, because now you know.

You see, power comes against you because it sees power in you, and it needs to fight that power. It needs to beat it down and suppress it, because it’s a threat. Your power is a threat to their power, just as their power is a threat to your power, so power needs to fight itself. To fight each other.

So as you come more and more into Rumi’s field you’ll find less and less power coming against you, because you are letting go of your power and power cannot see you when you don’t have any.

Oh, the human goes, “Me, powerless? How could I possibly do that? Wouldn’t that be irresponsible?”

No, dear human, that is the strongest, brightest, clearest place you can be!

When you stand simply in your light—your light is not power, it is simply awareness. That is all your light is: awareness.

Consciousness, awareness. They are one and the same, and that is what your light is. You can’t shine awareness on anybody or anything. But you can be aware, and in that awareness you become invisible to power and you illuminate potentials for everyone involved in whatever situation you are aware of.

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That’s why it’s important for you to pay attention to what is going on in the world.

Oh, don’t get caught up in watching the news all day long. You don’t need to do that. That’s a huge drain. But be aware.

Every day John skims the headlines on the internet, just to stay aware of the major things that are happening in the world. He doesn’t get involved in them, but he just brings his awareness to them, and that illuminates the situation for everybody involved. It illuminates potentials that they couldn’t see before.

Oh, not everyone will choose those potentials right away, but the more they are illuminated the harder they are to ignore, and the more power loses its grip. Because power depends upon ignorance.

Ignorance is the opposite of awareness. Some of you try to get through life by staying ignorant of what’s going on out there, but that’s just another power game. Bring your awareness to it, instead. Not your agendas, not your judgments, not your evaluations. Just be aware.

And when you find someone attacking you, bring your awareness, your wisdom, to the situation, instead of your reactions. Instead of your agendas and your ideas of how things should be. Let all of those go and bring your awareness.

Oh, stand tall! Stand clear!

Don’t try to shine light. Simply be aware.

When you sit on a park bench, it’s not to shine your light out on everyone else. That’s just another power game for many of you.

It is to be aware, to simply observe.

Observe the life around you, the people going by, the animals and the birds.

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As you as you practice simple, pure awareness, you will discover more and more layers of awareness and of what you call reality.

If you try to shine your light into it, you’re just pushing an agenda. Instead, be the light.

And that means, be aware.

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Oh, so often, you recognize power games in yourself and go, “How do I get rid of this? How do I stop doing this? How do I fix this?”

What you don’t realize is that, that’s a power game! Instead, bring your awareness to it.

That does not mean focusing on it with your mind. Please, please!

It means just noticing it: Oh, huh. Okay, I’m doing that.

That’s all it takes! You don’t have to fix it. You don’t have to stop it. You don’t have to change it. You don’t have to heal it. You don’t have to do anything. Just notice it!

Now it’s in your awareness. Now, if you leave it alone, it can transform all by itself. Because that’s how the energies work.

They are your energies, and when you become aware of an element of your energy, well, it has to find resolution. It has to be in service to you. Simply be aware of it and say, “Oh, that’s a power game I’m playing. Okay, I don’t need power games anymore, but whatever. I’m going to taste it.”

You don’t even have to do that. Just notice it. Acknowledge it. Name it for what it is: “It’s a power game.” That’s all it takes, and that old habit—that’s all it is, an old habit—will dissolve away.

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We’ve told this story before, but we’ll tell it again. Many years ago, John was discovering himself. He was diving deep into himself, learning about himself, and he started becoming aware of the issues in his life. Oh, some of them he didn’t like at all, and he started working on them. Some of them seemed so big that he didn’t know how to work on them, so he let them go. “I’ll come back to those later,” he said to himself. “Right now, I’m going to focus on the ones that I feel like I can manage.”

So that’s how he went on with his life. A couple years later, he was writing something one day on a discussion group about metaphysical things, and suddenly he remembered that point a couple of years before and thought, “Huh, what happened to all those issues that I was so concerned with?”

He looked back at his life over the last couple of years, and he realized something astounding. He realized that many of the issues he had taken on as challenges to manage and to fix or resolve were still with him. He was still struggling with those issues, still trying to fix them, still trying to find his way through them.

Then he thought about some of those other issues, the ones that were too big to touch. What happened to them? He looked at his life and realized that they were gone! They had dissolved away! That part of his life had changed, and they were no longer issues!

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That was a huge moment of illumination for John! Oh, even for Master John, for his soul. It was a moment of realization.

And yes, there isn’t just one moment of realization. There are many. That was one of the big ones, when John realized that you don’t have to work on those issues. All you have to do is notice them, acknowledge them—oh, there’s an issue that needs to be resolved. And then you let it go. You go on with your life.

And deep within you, your soul notices. Your consciousness, your awareness, notices, and that’s all it takes. In that light of awareness the issue, the energies involved, can find balance, and they can come back into true service of you.

And that is the key, dear friend, to everything in life!

Oh, you are never going to figure out in your mind how to navigate this human environment without power. You’ll never figure it out! You’ll never be able to explain it! We cannot explain it here. But you will know, when you simply allow yourself to taste it.

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Tasting is a form of awareness. We’re using it as a metaphor for awareness.

Just taste it! Take a moment to really taste it, to really feel it, whatever the situation is. That’s all it takes! And while you’re doing that with yourself, that light of your awareness is going out to all of the world, to all of creation, and illuminating potentials.

You’re not doing it for those others, even though Earth really truly needs it right now, at least from the human perspective. You don’t do it for that reason. You do it simply because, well, you’re curious!

That’s the key, dear friend. Be curious, because curiosity brings awareness.

When you find yourself facing an issue in life, your reaction is the opposite of curious. Your reaction is, “Oh no, not that!”

Instead, be curious! Open up your curiosity!

They say that a cat has nine lives. They say that curiosity killed it. Well, it is because of its curiosity that it has nine lives!

It’s all a metaphor, of course, but be curious, dear friend!

Where has your curiosity gone?

When you first came to Earth, oh, you were so curious! You wanted to dive into everything, to explore everything!

But then you started judging what you explored. You started judging your experiences as good or bad. And then, instead of being curious, you started protecting yourself, defending yourself, battling with others, and your curiosity got lost.

Oh, the human mind doesn’t want to be curious. It’s so tired! It’s so tired from so much battling, from so much judgment, from so many power games, and from feeling the constant pounding of that power coming back onto you. It’s so tired that it doesn’t want to be curious.

But dear friend, awareness and curiosity—you could almost say they’re one and the same, but what we’ll say is that they go hand in hand. When you are aware, when you are truly aware, curiosity is natural. And when you are curious, you are aware.

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John became curious about those flavors that he didn’t like, and when he tasted them from that place of curiosity, they changed. And he realizes that if he wanted to, he could do that with any flavor. He doesn’t always want to, and that’s okay. But you can do that with anything in life, dear friend.

Be curious!

In the group we talked about, this Celebration group, they would have these council meetings. And one of the things, perhaps the biggest thing that changed the dynamics when they had an issue that they were struggling to resolve, was curiosity. People would stop. They would consciously let down their guard and their defenses. They would open their curiosity. They would ask—from that place of curiosity, rather than of agenda—they would ask the person who was opposing them what they meant, what they were really feeling, what they were really wanting.

They would ask from that place of curiosity, of trying to understand, of trying to feel, what is the other person feeling? From that place of wanting to truly taste this experience.

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[sudden thunder crashes]

Ha ha! Yes indeed, that’s when magic happens! That’s when lightning strikes and new ideas come with it.

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If you ever find yourself in a conflict with another person, take a moment. Take a deep breath and notice how you’ve tensed up, how you’ve closed yourself off, how you’re protecting yourself. And just for a moment, try opening up. Open up to curiosity.

This person, they’re not just attacking you because they want to attack somebody. They’re attacking you because they are hurting inside. They’re feeling something. And when you open up to curiosity, when you start to communicate with them from that place of curiosity—not from an agenda to try to make them understand something—but from curiosity, the desire to understand what it is they are feeling, oh, you might be surprised what happens!

You might be surprised how that is the same as opening your awareness, as bringing your awareness to the situation and to them, and you’ll find things changing. You’ll find that your curiosity changes something in them!

Oh, it might not be what you expect to change. It might not have the effect your mind would like it to have, but it will change something and it will begin the process of bringing balance and resolution to the situation. It might take time. It might not happen in that moment, or even that day or week or whatever, but it will happen. It begins the process.

When you can approach these situations, no matter what they are, from this place of curiosity—no, not from giving in, not from turning the other cheek, but from curiosity—oh, you could say that curiosity is the ultimate compassion, because instead of trying to change the situation you are bringing your awareness to it. Instead of trying to change a person you are trying to understand them. You are trying to feel what they are feeling. Not to take it on—please don’t do that!—but just to understand what it is they are feeling.

Oh, you will find that opens up so much understanding! And very likely, it will begin the process of opening up their understanding also, and you will find magic happening.

It takes a lot of patience, but you are a master. You can be patient.

You are a master. You can be curious! It won’t hurt you. It won’t suck their energies into you.

Oh, if that happens, you’re not being curious. You are pretending to be curious and pushing an agenda.

When you are truly curious there is no agenda because your curiosity distracts you from the agendas. Curiosity has no agenda. It just wants to see. It wants to understand, or at least to feel. Not to feel it as yours, but simply to feel what it is that the other is feeling.

Don’t take it as yours. It’s not about sympathy or empathy.

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Words. They have so many different meanings. There’s no way to say the right thing sometimes, but we think you’re getting the point.

Don’t take on what they feel, but become aware of what they are feeling. That’s what curiosity does.

It doesn’t take it into you, but it becomes aware of it.

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And that, dear friend, is your light in action.

And that is how and where you will discover the solution to every problem and every issue.

Some of you have issues in your life, issues with other people, and you are longing for us to give you the solution. But we can’t. It is for you to discover.

It’s already there. It has already been created. Because the problem, the issue, could not be there if the solution did not already exist.

That’s how it works!

It’s already there. But you can’t find it, you can’t discover what it is, and no one can tell you what it is, because it’s yours. You can only discover it at the right moment, and only when you are curious enough to become aware of it, to let it in.

Oh, the human mind is so busy. John feels our words and his mind is already running down all the different arguments and ways that the human turns this into just another agenda.

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So we ask you, dear John, dear friends, to take a deep breath. You know what we are talking about. You already know it, or you wouldn’t be hearing it. We’re just reminding you, so let it in.

Stop trying to figure it out. Curiosity doesn’t figure anything out! Curiosity just becomes aware, and through it, solutions appear.

Then your mind goes, “Oh, I finally figured that out!”

Well, have it your way, Mind, but that’s not actually what happened at all. What happened was, in that opening, in that light of curiosity, of simple, pure awareness, the solution appeared and you saw it. But you didn’t figure it out, dear mind. You just saw it and went, “Ah, I understand now! I figured it out!” Ha ha! No, you just saw it.

Let it in.

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Curiosity.

John was trying to figure out how we were going to say all this, and he never thought of curiosity.

Such a beautiful word! Such a beautiful experience!

And dear friend, when you open up your curiosity you won’t just have nine lives like the cat. You will have—you will discover—life itself, in ways you cannot even imagine!

And that is how you change your life.

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Curiosity. Simple, pure awareness. Consciousness.

They are all the same.

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There was that grand question you asked yourself, that started off this whole game, and you asked it in pure curiosity: Who am I?

And in absolute pure curiosity, you dove into yourself and set off to discover the answer, to experience the answer in every possible way. And oh, what an incredible experience you’ve created!

From curiosity.

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As you shift your orientation to life away from power, away from self-protection, which is just another form of power, as you shift it over to curiosity, as you approach life with curiosity, you will find the power games falling away. You will find that you know, in every single moment, in every single situation, you will know in the moment exactly how to act, exactly what to say, and exactly what to do. And you’ll do it in curiosity instead of from an agenda. You’ll do it because you want to have this experience, rather than because you want to fix something in your life.

Oh, and then, more and more, you will discover that there is nothing left to fix in your life, because it all fixes itself.

And in that place of curiosity your life becomes so full, so magical, so beautiful, and you find yourself like Rumi and don’t even have words for it.

Hmm…

Ahh… Curiosity.

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So, for the next 24 hours or so—or, well, for the rest of your life if you are willing—open up your curiosity and find out what you discover.

We can’t tell you what you are going to discover. We can tell you it’s incredible, but we cannot possibly tell you what solutions you are going to discover.

But we can tell you that, in your curiosity you will discover the solutions for everything in your life, for every situation that you face. You will discover the solution, the resolution, the joy, the beauty, in your curiosity.

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Open up to it. Practice it.

We don’t like that word too much, but practice being curious.

Bring your curiosity to everything! And watch where it takes you.

That is your light, dear friend.

If you want to shine your light, well, be curious! Because that is where it shines the brightest.

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Take some time with this message. Listen to it again, if you wish. You’ll find it opens different things next time you go through it or read it, or both.

Take some time and let it in, and we’ll be back for the next lesson in, How to Change Your Life!

Ha! Be curious!

Ahh…

We are that we are.

And you are that you are! Ha ha!

And so it is.

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