Living As Soul: Understanding the True Nature of Reality and Creating

10. Real Magic

Channeled by John McCurdy on May 20, 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. Ah, here to do some magic with you today!

In a way, dear friend, that’s what this class is all about: Magic.

Mmm…

You think of magic as a way of manipulating power. Ha! No, let’s say that again.

You think of magic as a way of manipulating your reality. But that is not magic, that is power. Whether you somehow do it with your mind or your intellect, or by physically pushing things around with your body, it is still power. It is still manipulation.

No, real magic is what this class is all about.

Real magic is in the realization that your reality is all within your own imagination. Not your human imagination, not your mind’s pretend imagination, but it is all within your imagination. Your soul’s imagination—but you are your soul, so it is your imagination.

Hmm…

When you understand that—no, let’s say that different too.

When you realize that, and accept that—you will never understand it, that is your mind—but when you realize that and accept it, then you will know that you can change your reality in an instant. Oh, certainly not at the command of your mind, or of a thought, but all you have to do is imagine something new.

The mind goes, “Oh, goody! How can I do that? I’m so tired of this old. How do I do that?”

Well, dear mind, you don’t. But your soul does.

You see, your soul sees all the different potentials that are available to you. Your mind does not. It can’t. The mind can only see the past, and a little bit of the present. The mind cannot see potentials. Oh, it can look at the past, and it can try to project what it learned in the past into the future and imagine different possibilities, but they are all based on the past.

And so your mind tries so hard, and Soul just sits back and watches. Because, well, you have the freedom to have this experience, and as long as you choose to give your mind more authority than your soul, well, your soul just sits back and watches. Because whatever happens, it is going to be a beautiful experience with lots of wisdom for your soul to distill from it.

But when the mind finally says, “I’ve had enough of this. I can’t do this anymore! Dear Soul, please take over. Please take my life. Live it your way, because I cannot do this anymore. I can’t fight anymore. I can’t stand these battles anymore. I can’t stand this responsibility of trying to protect my human, of trying to make my human’s life work. I just can’t anymore. So dear soul, please take over. I’ll step back. I surrender. Take this life. Live it. Make it yours, dear Soul.”

Ahh… That is when magic can begin to happen in your life!

Oh, it will scare the mind at first, because things will start changing. Things will start feeling very strange from the human perspective, but you will get used to it. And as old things fall away, and you let them, oh, things you thought were so important, when you have the courage to let them fall away it makes space in your life for new things to come in. New people, new abundance, new things to do.

Hmm…

So much beauty! It’s all there for you, but it cannot come in until the mind let’s go.

Oh, it’s happening. There is nothing wrong with your mind, even though it feels like it lately. It is just in this process of letting go, of letting go of the job that you gave it of keeping you here on Earth, of keeping you distracted from who you really are so that you could fully have the experience.

So, don’t blame your mind. Don’t try to drive it away. Don’t punish it. It has just been doing its job, and now it is doing its very best to let go. It’s having a hard time because, well, it is a really strong habit, but it is doing its best to let go. And as it does your reality is changing, so don’t let that freak you out too much. It is a natural part of the process.

Yes, things have to leave your life. People have to leave your life, because they don’t match you anymore. Perhaps your home has to leave your life, because it doesn’t serve you anymore. Whatever it is, pretty much everything in your life that you thought you depended on has to leave, because you don’t actually depend on it. You don’t need to depend on it. And the sooner you I realize that, the sooner the new can come in and the more easily the old can move along.

You thought that your reality was set in stone, literally. That’s what your planet is. It’s a big ball of rock! It’s hard. It’s firm. It’s oh, so real! And yet, it is just an illusion.

Oh, it is a real experience. It feels real, but the truth is, you are recreating it in every single moment!

If you were to turn your attention away—we are speaking of your soul’s attention now, not just the mind—it would not exist anymore. This whole earth would not exist!

You think, “Well, what about all those other people’s attention?”

Oh, they will create their own. But it will not exist for you unless your attention is on it.

It’s all made up. Oh, for lack of a better metaphor, you created a template along with all those others, and whenever you look at it, you literally create your own earth in the same space as everybody else’s earth. You create it according to this template so you all have a common frame of reference, and as you interact the template evolves and changes. But you are still recreating your reality, every bit of it, including this planet, including the stars in the sky. You are recreating this planet in every single moment.

And oh, when you know that, it changes everything!

It means that it is not set in stone. The past was only one possibility, and you can change it! It is just the memory of your imagination, and you can change it.

More importantly, in the present you no longer have to create according to that template. You can change it. You are still trying to do it with your mind though, and that does not work. But you, dear Soul, you can change the whole thing in an instant!

Oh, you are taking it slowly, but you are already changing it. You are taking it slowly so that you don’t destroy this dear, precious mind of yours.

Oh, it has served you so well! This mind has served you so well! It is what created this template which allowed you to dive into this incredibly sensual experience, so you do not want to destroy it. You just want to be free.

So, you are becoming free! Slowly enough so it doesn’t destroy the template or your mind, but you are coming to realize that everything you see around you is your own construction within your own imagination. And it is changeable.

Every single part and piece and aspect of it is changeable, in an instant!

Hmm…

Your minds still keeps asking, “So how do I change it?”

Dear Mind, you take a breath. You step back. You cannot change it. You were designed and created to work within this reality and to maintain the illusion that it is set in stone, so you are not able to change it. But what you can do is to allow the change to happen.

You see, things start to change, and you freak out, dear Mind! Your soul says, “Oh, look over here. Wouldn’t it be fun to do that today?”

And the mind says, “Yeah, but I have to go to work today! I have this job that I hate, but I have to go do it because I have these bills I have to pay, and I don’t see any other way to pay them!”

Then your soul says, “Okay, I’m good with that.” And you go through another miserable day.

So your job, dear Mind, at this point, is to allow your reality to change.

How do you do that?

You pay attention when your soul says, “Oh, wouldn’t that feel good to do today? Let’s go to the beach! Let’s go sit on a park bench somewhere! Let’s make a nice meal! Let’s lay in bed and sleep all day, because we’re tired today!” Whatever it is, your job, dear Mind, is to do it.

Not to argue, not to say, “I have to pay those bills! I have to go to work!”

Your job is to follow those little nudges of your soul and to say, “Okay, let’s go to the beach. Let’s have some fun. Let’s take a nap. Let’s sit on a park bench. Whatever!” Your job is simply to do it.

Ah, and to not panic when your life starts changing. Because it will.

When you let go, when you start trusting your soul, when you start noticing those little subtle feelings, when you start noticing what makes you happy in this moment and start acting on it, oh, your soul gets all excited! The energies of your life get all excited, and your life starts changing.

So your job, dear mind, is to let that happen. You have to trust that your soul knows what makes you happy, that it knows what thrills you a lot better than you do, because it created you. And when you let it happen, oh, you will discover the joy—the true joy, not the emotional joy—the true joy that will become the ground of your life.

And even when you are having a bad day and everything feels shitty, and you can’t figure out what is happening, underneath that you will feel that joy. And you will know that it is just a bad day, and it is going to be fine because that is how human life is. That is what your soul is here to experience.

Mmm…

Oh, so often the mind comes up with this excuse that says, “Oh, that all sounds so good, but I still have to deal with this reality!”

Dear friend, dear human, dear mind, it is time to let that go! It is NOT reality. It is imagination, every bit of it! And it is not going to change as long as you think it is set in stone.

So, that is what this class is about: The true nature of reality and of creating.

It is not what you thought. It is so much more! It is not set in stone. It is fluid. It changes, constantly. It is your mind that keeps holding it in this one little track, but now it is time to let go of that.

It is time, dear Mind, to allow your soul to change your life.

You are not going to understand it, and you have to give up on that. You have to let it go, for you are never going to understand it! Oh, you are coming to understand more of it, little by little, but you are never going to fully understand it. Because, well, you are a creation. Your soul is the creator.

Your soul doesn’t even know what ‘understanding’ is. But it knows.

Because it is the creator. It knows, just because it can, and because whatever it knows becomes reality!

When you start to trust that knowing of your soul, ah that is when your life becomes magical, graceful, beautiful and amazing.

So let go of the stone. It too does not exist. It is just an illusion designed to appear, to feel, solid, but it isn’t. It is as changeable as your imagination!

Dear mind, you have your own version of imagination, and you change it all the time. It is all based on the past, but every now and then your soul slips in a new picture. Ha! So you know how quickly your imagination can change.

Well, all of this thing you call ‘reality’ is your own imagination. It is your soul’s imagination, and that is a lot more changeable and a lot more flexible and a lot more real than your mind’s imagination.

But the mind cannot see it. It catches a little glimpse every once in a while, and as it lets go, as your mind lets go, it will be able to sense your soul’s imagination more and more. Then your mind and your soul will start to work together, and instead of your mind controlling your life, it will be the interface. And oh, it will create a new kind of magic in your life!

Hmm…

John is scanning for words to try to describe that, and it is not working. And that is okay, for you know what we mean. Oh, you know it! Because you are your soul, and your soul knows it. Your soul knows everything!

In the question and answer session we talked about how the answer is always there before you can even ask the question. But it is there in your soul’s knowing, because your soul knows everything. Because it creates everything.

But your mind is a creation, and all it can do is ask questions. But it will find, as you make that choice, as you deliberately and consciously begin to trust the knowing of your soul, oh, you will find that the questions fade away.

Hmm…

It has been quite a while since John had a question for a question and answer session, and that is because he trusts his knowing and there simply aren’t any questions anymore. Because, well, he knows! He knows the answer before he can even ask the question, so why ask it?

So dear human, dear mind, open up. Open up to the knowing.

It does not make sense, most of the time. Sometimes it makes a little sense, but most of the time it is not going to make sense to you. And it is going to completely contradict your human common sense. Oh, so many times, so much of the time, it will completely contradict your mind’s wisdom!

So your job, dear mind, is to open up to that and to understand that your wisdom is all based on the past, on your very, very limited perception of the past.

Your soul’s wisdom—oh, it takes everything from the past and distills it, and combines it with everything from the future, you could say. But more importantly, it combines it with its own knowing. And then you get this amazing golden nectar, and then you just know.

Ahh…

And dear friend, you know what we are talking about. You do! If you are here, if you are feeling this, if you are resonating even a little with what we are talking about, you know it! You already know it, otherwise you would not be hearing these words.

So open to that knowing. Open to that feeling, to that feeling that is so much deeper than any emotion.

Ha! Oh yes, do check out our class on mind and emotions and wisdom, real wisdom. It will help you to understand those emotions better, and how they keep you stuck, and how to sense the real feelings, the sensations, of your own knowing.

Open up, dear friend, to a whole new reality! A reality that is fluid and flexible and amazing and sensual, but never, ever, set in stone. A reality that can include this whole human experience, this whole human illusion, and still remain soft and flexible and changeable, and can become so very much more.

Hmm…

Open up to that. It’s here! It’s not somewhere in the future. It is here, now, and the only thing it is waiting for is for you to let go of that old rock that you think is your reality.

Ahh…

So, it has been our pleasure, our honor, and so much fun to do this class with you! To shake up your perceptions of reality and open you up—even if it’s just a little bit, but hopefully it is more—and to open you up to the true nature of reality.

Hmm…

It is not set in stone. It is just your imagination.

It is a beautiful, amazing, wonderful experience, but it is not set in stone.

Open up to that, right now. Don’t wait for it in the future!

Let it in. Open up.

It is not in the future anymore.

You can wait as long as you want to, but that is your choice. It is not because it is not already here, so make the choice.

In our last session we said, make that choice now, and act on it! If you want a different life, choose a different life!

The human goes, “Yeah, I tried that already, and it stayed the same!”

Well, that is because you were thinking about the future and acting on the past.

No, step back. Come to now.

If this were the last day of my life, what would I want to do with it? What would be fun? What would be fulfilling for this day, or even this hour, or this moment?

And then go do that.

Humans are always living in the future. Or at least for the future, for they do not know how to actually live in the future.

The future does not exist, so let it go. Come back to now.

You cannot change your life in the future. You can only change it right now, in this moment. So change it!

Make a new choice. What would be fun to do right now? What would feel fulfilling to do right now if there was no future, if I couldn’t get anything wrong, if I knew everything was going to work out?

It’s another way of saying, if there was no future, what would I want to do right now? What would make me happy? What would feel good?

And then do it!

Don’t just think about it. Don’t say, “Oh, I can’t do that because, well, I have to go to this job and I have to pay those bills.”

Well, you can do that if you want to, but then you will be doing it for the rest of your life.

Instead: You want a new life? Then choose it. Right. Now.

Not for later, not for the future, but for right now.

And act it out, right now!

Oh, don’t go spend a bunch of money, unless you just have it laying around.

Just choose it.

Take time for you.

Nurture yourself.

Do something fun!

Change your life right now, and then watch how your life changes around you.

Oh, and don’t freak out when it does. Yes, you will probably lose your job. You will probably wonder how you are going to pay those bills. Some of them might not even get paid.

Can you let that happen?

Can you let those things fall out of your life?

Can you let the magic come in and work things out in ways you cannot possibly imagine or expect?

Oh, years and years and years ago, John was struggling to find a job. He was sitting in his truck reading his newspaper, reading the classified ads for a job (this was before your internet). And he was feeling horrible, because I was there and I was making sure he felt what he was doing.

Suddenly he heard me, and he looked at his life. He looked back over his life, and he realized that every job, every opportunity that had ever worked out for him, had just come to him. He hadn’t been looking. It came out of the blue, so to speak, like it fell out of the sky to him. And every job that he had gotten through searching for it, through the classified ads or whatever, had been miserable and had not worked out.

When he saw that, he took a deep breath and threw the newspaper in the nearest trash can. He said, “Okay, Soul, bring me what I need.” He was near Sedona, in Arizona, at the time and he said, “I’m going to go take a hike. I’m going to go have some fun, because I don’t know what else to do!”

Well, that’s when I jumped into action! His soul and the energies of his life jumped into action, and everything fell into place. People called him, out of the blue. Opportunities came, and everything worked out. Oh, some things didn’t look so perfect to him at the time, but in hindsight he sees how perfect they were!

And that is how it will be for you, too, so don’t panic when it looks like everything is falling apart. Let it!

At some point in the future you will look back, and you will see how necessary and perfect it was. Your soul knows exactly what you really need, and when you give it a chance, it is going to take away all those things you thought you needed and replace them with what you really need, which will be so much better and so much more fun. But you have to let it happen!

You cannot change your reality as long as you are holding on to your old reality.

As long as you think it is set in stone, you cannot change it. But when you let go, turn it over to your soul, change it right now—ha! What is it you really want?

You don’t really want some different job for the rest of your life. You don’t actually care about having gobs of money in the bank. That’s just another problem to deal with!

What you want is the joy. What you want is a fulfilling experience right now, so have that! It is always there. It is always available!

Oh, you are looking for something big and dramatic, like a new career.

Well, that is not going to happen!

Sorry, but it is not. Not at this point, because it is not compatible with where you are now.

No, what you want is the fulfilling experience of this moment, the joyful experience of this moment. So open up to that, in this moment.

Stop doing the things you don’t like to do. Just stop it!

Start doing what calls you in this moment, what feels good in this moment.

Ha! The human goes, “Well, I don’t feel anything like that right now. I just want to sit in my chair and veg out!”

Well, then sit in your chair and veg out.

That is your soul saying, “Dear human, take a break. Let go. I can’t do anything for you while you are trying so hard to manage your life! So sit down. Read a book. Watch a movie. Do something. Veg out, so that I can go to work in the background.”

Oh, and a moment will come, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, when you are like, “Ha! I’m ready to get out of this chair! I feel like going to the beach today, or going to the park, or going grocery shopping,” or whatever it is. Maybe even doing something like a job or a business, or whatever, but it will inspire you! It will be an inspiration that feels good in the moment. Not for the future, but for right now!

But it will come to you. The inspiration will come to you, when you trust your soul enough to just sit down and chill out for a while, if that is all you can come up with. There is nothing wrong with that. Sometimes your soul needs you to sit down and chill out for a while and to distract your mind with something fun or pleasurable or whatever.

Oh, try not to do drugs or too much alcohol. Because, well, that does get in the way sometimes if it’s too much. It numbs you out, and that is not what we want. But watch a movie, read a book, or whatever.

The inspirations will come, but they will be in the moment. They will be about the moment. They will not be about the future, because the future does not exist. It only existed in your mind, and your mind is not in charge anymore, so there is not any more future for you. So be here!

Change your life.

You can—everybody can—change their life for a moment, for this moment. You just choose it, and you do it. Everybody can do that! So do it.

Choose what feels good instead of what feels bad. Choose what feels good instead of what you think you should choose, for this moment.

Oh, and then for each moment. For the next moment and the next moment. And then watch what happens with your life.

It will change. Let it. Let it!

It will scare you.

Be with the fear. Walk through it. Do it anyway, and the fear will go away eventually.

Make the change now, for this moment, and all of your reality will change to support that, because that is how life works.

That is the true nature of reality and of creating.

You choose for this moment, and everything else conforms to that. That is nature. That is how it really works.

Oh, you are frustrated because everything keeps going down the same old boring path. That is because that’s what you are choosing, so that is what reality supports.

Make a new choice!

Not for the future. Forget about the future! It is not going to go the way you imagine it going no matter what you do, so forget about it. Be here!

Change your life in this moment, for this moment. But change it the way you want to change it, instead of the way you think you have to change it or should change it, and watch what happens.

It will change, and when you are choosing what you want for this moment, life will begin to bring you what you truly want in every new moment.

And that, dear friend, is creation. That is the true nature of reality.

Ahh…

And that, dear friends, is the conclusion of our beautiful class on understanding the true nature of reality and of creating. Hopefully, now your mind has a little better understanding. It is never going to understand it fully, but now you know.

And hopefully, you know that you know.

Ahh…

Blessings, dear friend. Magic and grace to you!

And so it is.

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