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

7. An Experience of Simple Awareness

Channeled by John McCurdy on February 23, 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!

For that is what this class, this series of messages, is about, dear friend. It is about magic!

Oh, you think of magic and you think of power games. You think of manipulating your reality, of forcing things to move without touching them. Those things are possible, and you have done it. Probably not in this lifetime, but in other lifetimes you have, every one of you. You have played those games, and at some point they got so messy that you stepped back a little bit, you and others. You looked at this game and said, “This doesn’t really help. This isn’t really what we wanted it to be.”

And so, in a sense, you could say that you deactivated those powers. You chose not to bring them into this lifetime, or into any of your recent lifetimes if you look at it in terms of time, because at some level you realized that it was just another power game.

So here you are, in this lifetime.

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You have come to the highest level, the final level, of this game that you call ‘Life on Earth.’ You have been in this game many, many, many, many times, and here you are at the end.

If you are listening to or reading this, you probably will not be back for another human lifetime. It’s up to you, and you might come to visit in a different way, but you have completed what you came here to do and now the time has come to bring in the real magic.

But in real magic, there is no power. There is no control. You don’t use it to control things or push things around. You simply BE it, and life becomes magical all around you.

You see, it is all about who you are. And you are pure, simple awareness.

You still think that’s boring, but it is anything but. When you take that deep breath, when you step back from all the challenges and problems of human life, when you allow that pure, simple awareness, well, suddenly you discover the real magic.

The mind says, “Oh, I want that so bad! How do I do it?”

Be still, mind. You don’t do it.

Real magic is not something that you DO. Real creation is not something that you DO. You always thought that a creator must be the most powerful being in all of existence, because, well, you can create whatever you want!

A creator has no power, whatsoever. But a creator understands awareness. A creator simply is aware, and in that awareness, creation springs up all around the creator. There is no power. There is no control. It simply springs up!

Now, you think that you forgot how to create a long time ago, and that is why your life is such a mess. But that’s not true at all. Your life is a mess because that is how you created it. You are still a creator, but you got so focused on the mess that it had no choice but to keep being in your life!

When you step back, you realize this is just a game. None of this is real. Oh, you will always carry the memories and the wisdom of the experience, but none of this is real. It is a fantasy, an imagination, within your awareness. When you remember that, and allow yourself to simply be aware, without judgment, without evaluation, to simply be aware, ah, then life, then creation, can come forth in a whole new way.

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So, we ask you now to take a deep breath.

Get comfortable, and come into your awareness.

Notice your body.

If there are aches and pains, simply notice them.

Don’t evaluate them, don’t try to figure out what is wrong.

Simply notice them.

Be aware of them.

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When was the last time you allowed yourself to simply, truly, be aware of a pain in your body?

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The mind says, “Oh, I’m aware of those all the time!”

Perhaps.

Or, perhaps you were thinking about them all the time.

You notice them, and then you start thinking about them. You start trying to figure out what’s wrong and how to fix them.

We ask you to simply be aware of them.

No thinking, no words.

Remember, if it is words, it is coming from your mind. And it is false.

Oh, that’s true in a way, John, but let’s step back from the judgment.

If there are words, it is coming from your mind. That is all.

Be aware of them.

You don’t need to fight your words.

You don’t need to fight your mind.

Simply be aware.

Notice the words.

Notice the thoughts in your mind, but don’t argue with them.

Just be aware of them.

Don’t evaluate whether they are true or not.

Just be aware of them.

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Be aware of the sounds in this recording.

John is sitting high on a mountain in Slovenia.

The sun is shining.

He is sitting under a tree, on the edge of a hay field that is just beginning to come back to life after a cold winter.

The grass is all still brown.

There are dead leaves from the trees all over the place. You might hear them rustling in the breeze.

You might hear the breeze in the microphone.

You might hear John’s jacket rustling as he moves around a little bit.

You might hear the birds in the background.

Simple awareness.

No thoughts, no words.

Or if they come, just be aware of them and come back to simple awareness.

Come back to the awareness of your body, and of what is happening within it.

No judgments, no evaluations, no diagnoses. Just awareness.

Don’t even try to relax.

Just take a deep breath and be aware.

Be aware of the tensions in your body.

You might find that as you bring them into your awareness, without judgment or agenda, that they relax on their own. Or not.

Just be aware.

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Bring your awareness to the room around you, or wherever you are sitting or lying or standing, or whatever you are doing.

Bring your awareness to your surroundings.

Simply observe.

Oh, don’t even observe. Just be aware.

They are kind of the same thing, but ‘observe’ carries a bit of the energy of doing something, of taking note of something, and that is not what we are asking you to do.

We are asking you to simply be aware.

This isn’t about remembering what you were aware of.

It is simply about being aware.

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Bring your awareness back to you.

Mmm…

Can you feel the you that is simply aware?

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It’s not your body.

It’s not this human.

Can you feel it?

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Oh, the mind jumps up and says, “I don’t feel anything. I don’t know what you are talking about.”

Relax, mind.

Just be aware.

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You will know when you touch that part of you.

It doesn’t matter when that is, because it is you.

It is who you are.

And although you can get distracted from that, you cannot lose it.

Any more than your finger can lose you.

Hmm…

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John is searching for better metaphors here, better words.

We’ll ask him to just be still, to just be aware.

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You know what we are talking about.

We don’t have to get the words precisely right. In fact, the less precise they are, the closer they come to the truth.

Just feel, dear friend.

Feel.

Be aware.

[pause to feel]

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Bring your awareness out to the world.

Oh, there’s a lot going on out there!

At the time we are recording this, there is a potential war brewing in Eastern Europe.

There is a whole vortex of power games playing out, especially in Eastern Europe.

It is really playing out across the planet, but that is the focus at the moment.

Just be aware of it.

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Be aware of the energies.

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Be aware of what is happening with the people.

Not the leaders, not the politicians, but the people.

Oh, they’ve just come through this difficult time of the Coronavirus, and of COVID-19.

They are frustrated.

They are becoming aware of all the power games going on around them, and they are not happy about it.

But they are becoming aware.

They are waking up.

They don’t know what to do about it yet, and they’ll try to lash out with their own power games.

But as their awareness expands, they will start realizing that power goes nowhere.

Mmm…

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Bring your awareness back to you.

Simple, pure awareness.

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Be aware of yourself.

Be aware of your light.

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Oh, awareness itself is like a light.

It radiates out from you.

When you allow something into your awareness without agenda, it shines a light.

It illuminates whatever it is.

It illuminates the potentials around it.

It illuminates new choices for the people involved.

And it reminds you that it is all inside of you.

Hmm…

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Be aware of your light.

Be aware of the light of your awareness.

When you bring your awareness to something, whether it is something in the world or in your body or in your mind, or wherever it may be, when you bring your simple, pure awareness to it, it illuminates it.

It illuminates all the potentials, and it tends to bring balance.

Just be aware.

Hmm…

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If at any point the things of life are confusing to you, if you find yourself struggling with life, take a deep breath.

Come back to the pure, simple awareness of you.

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This is the magic of the Masters.

It is the magic of the Merlin.

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It is not about manipulating reality, and yet, reality itself will change around you.

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Let go of control.

Let go of manipulation.

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The human thought that was its responsibility, but it never was.

And now, at the end of the game, you have no more time left for manipulation and power games.

They will rip you apart inside, because, well, now you are too aware.

So, just be aware.

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When you find yourself reacting to things, getting angry at things or having agendas about things, take a deep breath.

Come back to the pure, simple awareness.

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Bring your reactions into your awareness.

Be aware of them.

Don’t just think about them.

Remember, if there are words, it is your mind.

So just be aware of your agendas and your reactions.

Don’t fight them.

Don’t try to fix them.

But be aware of them.

Feel into them.

Feel where they are coming from in your body and in your mind.

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Feel them.

Become aware of them.

Allow them to show you what they need to show you.

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You see, every feeling, every reaction, every emotion you have, every pain, everything has a message for you.

Not a message in words, not a message of shame or guilt or what you did wrong, or anything like that.

It is a cry from that part of you saying, “See me. Don’t judge me, see me!”

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You see, that is what makes aspects. Something happens and you feel ashamed of a part of yourself, and you push it away and try your best not to look at it. And that part of you is lonely. It’s afraid. It’s desperate.

Like a child longing for its parent’s attention, it is desperate for you to SEE it.

So, see it.

Allow it into your awareness.

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You will begin to see everything around it.

You will begin to feel how it came to be and where it comes from.

Not so you can judge it.

Simply so you can see it.

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You will begin to see how it has served you, and how it continues to serve you.

And then you will be able to see it integrating back into you and becoming part of your wholeness, your oneness with you.

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The pains in your body: see them.

You keep trying to get rid of them.

You keep trying to heal them and fix them.

Instead, see them.

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Don’t get in your head about this. You know what we are talking about. You can feel it.

Remember, if it’s words it is your mind.

Oh, sometimes you’ll feel something and your mind will give you words for it, like John is doing for our message today. But the words are not to be argued with. They are not to be corrected. And they are not to be obeyed, either.

Just see them.

Hear them.

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Be in your awareness, and then you will know.

In the moment, you will know exactly what to do with that moment.

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Bring your awareness to the problems you see in your life.

Don’t try to solve them.

Don’t think about them.

Just be aware of them.

See them.

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Then you will know.

Are they real, or not?

Are they in the future or the past instead of now?

You will know.

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Just see them.

Don’t evaluate them.

Just see them, and come back to now.

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What are you aware of right now, in this moment?

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You’ve looked around at all these other things.

Now come to now.

What—no words—what are you aware of in this moment?

Mmm…

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Just be in that awareness.

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We will step back now.

We will let the music play for a while.

We invite you to simply keep coming back to this awareness.

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Just be in it.

No words, no questions, no thinking.

And if you do, just be aware of it.

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Pure, simple awareness.

Learn to live here.

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Oh, don’t learn! You already know how, because it is your essence.

Just be here.

You do live here!

And when you realize that, your life is going to be very, very different!

And so it is.

[take some time now to just be in this awareness]

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