Living As Soul: From Mind to Wisdom

Session 4: Presence

Channeled by John McCurdy on May 9, 2022

This transcript has been edited from the original recording to ensure that the intended meaning is conveyed as clearly as possible.

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I am that I am!

Master John of Magical Service, here to do some magic with you today!

Welcome back, dear friend, to our little class on mind, emotions, your knowing—oh, and we are going to talk a little bit about the body today. And then we are going to bring everything to a conclusion for this class.

Ahh…

John has been a busy boy for the past few days, since we channeled our last lesson. He is in Croatia now, sitting in a beautiful olive grove and looking out over the Adriatic Sea. A beautiful place, beautiful sunshine, a beautiful spring day with birds singing all around. Oh, and lots of other or wonderful noises of life!

Hmm. Yes, that was John’s word, not ours. We would have said, “wonderful sounds of life.” Ha! But John, hears the cars and the boats in the background and he wishes he could get farther away from the road and all the noises of humanity. But dear friend, humanity is life! The sounds of humanity are part of life!

Oh, we know they stress you out sometimes. It is an emotion. It is an evaluation of your mind that causes the stress, not the sounds.

Oh, certainly there are some extreme sounds that can cause a small amount of physical distress, but most of the sounds do not hurt you. It is what your mind does with them that hurts you. It is the evaluation, the judgment, that hurts you.

So John worries about, “Is it professional to do a channel that he is going to sell out in a noisy place like this?”

And I, Master John, I say, it does not matter! I don’t care one little bit about what is professional and what isn’t. I care about what is LIFE!

You see, oh, your soul does not care about those things. What your soul wants is to come in and feel life, the dirty, gritty, messy, ugly, uncomfortable life of humanity. Oh, and the beautiful, incredible, amazing and joyful life of humanity!

For you see, humanity was designed from the very beginning to be all of that. It wouldn’t be real if it wasn’t messy.

If it wasn’t noisy sometimes and peaceful other times, it would not be real! And your soul, oh, it has watched you for so long. It has watched you have all of these experiences. And now, for the first time ever, it gets to come in and have the experience with you!

Well, it does not want a halfway experience. It wants the full experience! It wants the messiness, along with the order. It wants the noise along with the peace, and the chaos along with the peacefulness. Your soul wants to feel life as a human.

Ah, so here we are. We, those of us resonating with this, we have come to the end of our journey on Earth. We have come to the final level of this incredible, amazing game that you call “mass-consciousness” and “life on Earth.” We have come to the final level and we have decided—ha!—to go where no one has gone before. We have decided for the player to come in, and to bring its consciousness into the avatar within the game.

Oh, your soul isn’t just coming into you, the human hearing this message. It is also coming into every single human, every single lifetime, that you have ever been. Your soul is coming into every single one, right now.

The human mind goes, “Oh, how could that be? That was the past!”

No, dear friend. Past and future are human illusions. Time itself is a human illusion. From your soul’s perspective they are all happening at once. You just spaced them out on a timeline so that each one could have its own experience, but in truth, they are all happening at once. And because of you, because you opened the door, now your soul can come home to each and every one of your incarnations.

Oh, you always thought about coming home to your soul. Some of you are terrified right now that that is about to happen because, well, your body is being so strange and is hurting so much! But dear friend, the real coming home happens when Soul enters fully into the human.

Oh, it doesn’t change the fact that human life eventually comes to an end for each and every one of your incarnations. For you, it might come in a little different way. You don’t have to die. You don’t have to leave a body that rots away, and that you can never come back into. No, you are bringing in your light-body.

You thought it was going to heal all the problems in your human body, but that is not what it does. No, the light body replaces your human body. It gently, gradually, integrates all the best aspects of the human body into itself, and it discards the rest. And you wonder why your body is freaking out right now?

Well, your body actually knows what is happening. But, you know, your body has been listening to your mind for so long that it actually came to believe your mind’s story that your mind was you, so right now it’s not quite sure who to believe.

You have all these emotions and oh, they are so powerful. They are so compelling! They are indeed the gravity, the inertia, that keeps you stuck here.

Oh, that is not a bad thing. It has served us so well throughout all of our time on Earth! And now it is done. It is over. It is time to let go.

So your mind is freaking out, because, well, suddenly its job is over!

You know what that feels like. You’ve had jobs taken away, jobs that maybe you loved doing. Or maybe that you hated, but you did it because you were in service to something or someone. And suddenly the job is gone. It’s over, and you don’t know what to do with yourself. You don’t know how to deal with that. You don’t know how to deal with this empty space in your life.

Well, that is how your mind feels right now. Its job is over, and a part of it is going, Are you sure it’s over? I don’t want to quit before it is time! I don’t want to let you down dear Soul, dear Human. I really don’t want to let you down! Not after all of this, not after everything we have been through. I really don’t want to let you down!

Hmm…

You see, your mind loves you so much! It has worked so very hard to keep you safe, to keep you here on Earth, to keep you in the experience, and now it doesn’t know what to do with itself. So yes, it is freaking out a little bit.

And your body feels that. Your body feels the lack of clarity and thinks, Are we leaving? What’s happening? Are we coming or going? And there is all this light, and I don’t know if I can trust it! We, this human being, have been duped so many times. We’ve been deceived. Oh, can we really trust what is happening?

And then the mind gets scared. It feels the body freaking out and it goes into its stories of, Oh my God, what is wrong? What do I need to do to protect my body, to fix it? And it just makes things worse.

So dear mind, you can relax now. Your job truly is done. You did it so well, and I your soul and I your human am so grateful! So very grateful!

And here we are, at the end of the road. It is time for soul and human to blend back together in full consciousness. It is time for a soul to take back its rightful place. It is time for the mind to take back its rightful place of being the interface mechanism, of being the translator, between biology and spirit.

Oh, as the mind settles more and more into its rightful place, it will find peace. And along with it, the body will begin to find peace.

You see, this pain you feel is an emotion.

Physical pain—oh, John never thought of it this way before we said it recently, but physical pain is an emotion. It is one of the deepest, most misunderstood emotions there is, but that is what it is.

Hmm…

And as we talked about in our session on emotions, every emotion has a story underneath it, within your mind. It is the way your mind tried to protect you. It came up with stories for everything. It evaluated everything and came up with stories, and at least half of them were made up! Perhaps half were based on circumstances and things that happened, but the other half was embellishment by your mind as it tried to understand what was happening in your life.

So it made you feel miserable about things that weren’t actually so bad, and it made you feel incredible, joyful, about things that, well, ended up letting you down.

And that just created more stories and more emotions, and some of those got stuck in your body. For whatever reason, usually because you were ashamed of them or afraid of them, they got stuck in your body. Well, now at the completion, all of those stuck energies have to be resolved, so they are coming up. They are coming up now because your mind has quieted down enough for them to come up.

Ha! Some of you go, “Oh, but my mind is still so noisy! Are you sure that’s true for me?”

Yes. Your mind might still feel noisy to you, but it is so much quieter than it used to be.

So, now all those old stuck emotions are coming up, and the stories that were underneath them. Sometimes those stories come back into your mind and you find your mind running down those rabbit holes, until you call it back and say, “Come on back, mind. We don’t need to do that again.”

Sometimes you don’t even know what the story was, and that is okay. You don’t need to. What you do need to do is feel the experience. Feel the pain.

That doesn’t mean to wallow in it or to let it dictate your life. No, not at all! But let yourself feel it. Let it come up. Let it move through you.

You don’t have to do anything with it. You don’t need to think about releasing it. Please don’t do that! That’s just gets in our way. I am the one who releases those things, your soul.

Your job as the human is just to let them come up, let them move through you, and don’t panic.

So often, the human feels those things and it panics. Oh my God, I feel horrible today! What do I do? How do I fix it? What is wrong with me?

Well, take a breath. Breathe it in instead of fighting with it, and it will pass. It will, indeed, pass! Unless you push it back down. Unless you panic and fight it, and push it back down. Then it will just have to come up another day.

So let it come up. Let yourself feel those uncomfortable feelings. They won’t hurt you. They won’t kill you. They won’t send you back home to your soul, because your soul is coming home to here! And then, together, you and all of your incarnations will blend back together. And you, oh, you will be able to be in your body as long as you want, but it will be different.

Your body is transforming. It is going through a very literal process of transformation. It is not being healed, it is not being fixed, but all the best of it is being integrated into your light body. And oh, your light body can be here, and in an instant it can be somewhere else, or not at all, so you never have to think about dying again. Your body simply disappears and you are spirit.

You can visit the fabled Ascended Masters Club. Oh, you have a room there now! You belong there now, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise!

You can do whatever else you want to, in all of existence, and then you can be back on Earth! You can pop out this body and be human again, for however long you want.

That’s what is happening to you, dear friend. Oh, it’s going to take some time yet, in your terms. It is happening very quickly, but not too quickly, or we would blow it all apart. And then we would have to take time to balance all the energies out again.

We are doing this! And your soul is taking you through this, as quickly and as gently as possible. But you, dear friend, you need to be aware. Be aware of your emotions, and of how they trap you. And be aware of the stories underneath them. That’s all it takes!

You don’t fight with your emotions. You don’t shame yourself because you have them. You simply be aware of them and open your awareness to the stories that are underneath them.

Whether the stories come in as words in your mind, or whether they simply move through as a feeling, it does not matter. Just be aware of them.

Very often, they are going to come as words in your mind. Your mind is going to start running through the story of all the things that happened in the past, and the things that might happen in the future because of it. And like we said before, if it is words, it is the mind. If it is words, if there are words with the intense feelings that you have, they are emotions. They are reactions to your mind’s stories and they are not real feelings.

Oh, your mind literally floods your body with drugs to create very real sensations, but they are created by your mind. They are not real. They are not based on facts. They are based on interpretation.

[church bells start ringing nearby]

Ah, the bells of religion!

Have you ever noticed how religion is all about generating emotions?

Hmm…

Go to church sometime, if you don’t already know, and you will see how everything they do, from the singing to the preaching to the confessions and the baptisms and everything that happens there, is about creating a story and an emotion to go with it. Oh, it was a brilliant creation of your mind!

And that is exactly what religion is: a creation of your mind. It was brilliant! It kept humans so distracted from their souls that they almost lost themselves. Almost, but not quite.

So, don’t get angry at religion. Its time has come and it will be fading away, gradually. Once again, you can’t do it too fast. If religion was suddenly gone from the earth, oh, a lot of people wouldn’t be able to cope. They would go crazy, for religion is what holds them together right now. They will wake up soon enough.

You don’t have to worry about it. Just understand that religion was a very brilliant creation, but its purpose has been served and it will be fading away. Oh, it is already fading away. The number of people who go to church has declined dramatically in this century, and will continue to decline.

Mmm…

So here we are, at the end of a long, long journey. Everything is coming to completion. Everything is coming back together. Whether you the human think so or not, it is. It is all coming to resolution, and it is all being handled by your soul. You don’t need to do anything about it, except to allow the process.

Allow the experience, for this is the most incredible, most beautiful experience you have ever had, or ever will have.

Hmm… John questions that statement, and who knows what comes in the future? But dear friend, this is incredible!

Oh, it is such a beautiful time! Your body may not agree, and that is okay. But at some point you will look back on this time and go, “Wow! I wish I had been more present for that!”

So dear friend, let’s do something about that right now. Because what you the human can do is, be in your presence.

As you walk through this experience—oh, we don’t even want to say it that way.

Simply be in your presence as the experience unfolds around you. That’s all!

You have zero responsibility for how the experience unfolds, and the more you try to meddle with it, the more painful you make it. Let your soul handle that! And you, simply be here. Be in your presence.

Presence is not about time. It includes the past and the future.

Your presence is simply you. It is your consciousness, your simple, pure awareness. It is the essence of you.

Oh, you know what it is. Don’t tell us you don’t know how to bring it in. You do.

Simply feel the presence of you.

Feel your presence, and be in that as life unfolds all around you.

That does not mean you have to think about it all the time. Oh, let that go! No, you are going to be so busy thinking about the incredible life that is unfolding around you that you won’t have time to think about what presence is! No, you’ll just stop once in a while, take a deep breath, and feel your own presence. That’s all.

And then you will go back to watching life dance and play and unfold all around you.

Oh, your mind is coming to its resolution, and with it, your emotions. They are neutralizing. Not that you can’t play with them, not that you can’t experience incredible joy and emotional feelings when you want to, but more and more it will be a choice, and more and more you will be finding this ground of joy underneath everything, that is not an emotion and is always there.

But to see it, you have to be open to it. You have to be in your presence.

Ahh…

As your mind settles down, as it finds its own peace—oh, and it is! It is! As it does, your body will find its peace also. Oh, it is still going to go through its transformation, and it is still going to hurt sometimes, because, well, that is what transformation feels like. But remember, pain is an emotion. It comes from a story within your mind.

And, as you allow the stories to fade away—you don’t fight with them, you simply call your mind back when you hear it running down one of those rabbit holes. You simply call it back and you say, “Dear mind, come and sit with me. Let me put my arms around you. Let’s watch what Soul does with this!”

Well, your mind is going to find out that it no longer needs to generate all these feelings of pain. It no longer needs to flood your body with all these chemicals. And as it relaxes, you will find less and less pain in your body.

But you see, you have to remember one thing: Your mind is like your child. It is your creation, so in a very real sense, it is your child. And it needs you to parent it.

You and your soul together, you are its parent. And it is time to treat it as your child.

Oh, your amazing, loving, precocious child! But also, the child that needs your love. That needs boundaries. That needs your gentle affection. That needs to be held. That needs to be comforted, and occasionally to be told very clearly where the boundaries are and to be called back from all those rabbit holes that it is so used to running down.

That is your job, dear friend. You and your soul’s job, together.

Together! You are one and the same anyway, so do it together.

Parent your mind, and oh, it will find peace. And it will bring peace to you and to your body, and to everything in your life.

But it won’t be a fake peace, a boring peace. It will be alive!

Ahh…

Such a beautiful, beautiful place you are in! And that we are all in right now, those of us who are at the completion of our game. At the completion of this long, intense, amazing, incredible sojourn on Earth.

It is over. It is done.

Oh, you can drop your body if you want to, and come back to your soul. It won’t hurt anything, for everything is still coming to resolution now. But if you want to, you can stay here. You can allow the pain in your body. You can parent your mind and bring it back.

Oh, don’t tell it what to think or how to think. Simply bring it back.

Put your arms around it.

Imagine it as a little child.

It comes up into your lap and you wrap your arms around it.

Mmm…

Sometimes it gets angry. Oh, it gets so angry!

Yes, you can let it have a little space. But then bring it back.

Wrap your arms around it and hold it tight.

It will relax.

Be its parent, and watch what happens in your life and in your body.

Hmm…

It has been a beautiful honor and privilege to bring these messages to you, in this little class. There will be more, and there will still be the regular messages on our website. But when you pay money for this class it sends a signal to your body, to your mind, to your whole being, that you are real, that you really mean this, so we will do more of these.

And for now, oh, feel the love and the blessings of your own soul.

I, Master John, the combined human and soul, oh, I send you all of my blessings and my love. But that is nothing compared to the love of your own soul for you, just exactly the way you are. So let it in.

And so it is.

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