Preface/Introduction 1

P. ix-2

“In the recent history of channeled literature—from Cayce to Jane Roberts and the Seth material to Helen Schucman and A Course in Miracles—it is possible to detect an intimate and important connection between the channeler and the intelligence that speaks through him or her. Paul’s messages arrive from a consortium of unseen “Guides,” whose voices are deeply ethical, penetratingly insightful regarding the foibles of human nature, and unsparingly blunt about the possibilities and pitfalls facing us in the present era. As an intellect, Paul, too, possesses these qualities and serves as a fine instrument—a kind of Stradivarius of the soul—through which the Guides can play their notes.”

“The expanding popularity of Paul’s work is remarkable on several counts. While the viewpoint of Paul’s Guides is very much in harmony with tenets of New Thought and the ideals of the human-potential movement, the Guides do not offer a narrowly conceived message of personal attainment or self-enrichment. The Guides do not eschew such aims, but their teaching requires a concurrent growth of self-understanding and personal observation on the part of the individual; it demands the cultivation of empathy and inner study; and it often offers rigorous exercises in these pursuits. This teaching is not for people who are easily distracted or narrowly self-interested. It places a demand on the whole person.”

I thought these paragraphs from the Preface offer a concise introduction to our work.

(By the way, Mitch Horowitz, the author of the Preface, is the publisher of Paul and the Guides work. I think we confused him with Mitch Albom author of Tuesday’s with Morrie).

#Also, if you just began with us, or have been away for a while, I would encourage you to read the first blog. I believe it contains some helpful clarifications.

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“This is a time of great change and a great awakening is upon you, but you must attend to yourselves as the one who is responsible for your own identity. And we underline this: You must be responsible to yourself as the one responsible for your own identity.

The claims that you make, each one of you, “I know who I am in my life, in my work, in my gatherings, in my exchanges,” are the ways you identify yourself with. And what we must tell you now is that when you operate in a diminished sense of self, you operate in lack and in fear. You have not been told who you were and, consequently, you identify yourself through structures that adhere to limitations.”

I am often reminded of that wonderful line from a Jackson Browne song (The Pretender) “I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring where they only the fitful dreams of a greater awakening.”

All through this work and the other works by Paul and the Guides, there will be quotes and indented paragraphs to repeat either in your mind or out loud. If time and place permit, I would encourage you to say them out loud.

There is a huge difference between these statements of truth and the affirmations that we might have formed for ourselves in the past. We are not speaking of something we would like to be true, or desire to be true, or hope to be true. We are speaking of truths that we already know are true, that resonate with at least some aspect of our being. And as we do, we claim that more deeply as our truth. We continue to do that until we become so rooted in the truth that it is our natural response to anything that shows up in life. In other words, without even thinking about it, we are always seeing with the eyes of the Christ.

It is also important to note that we are going beyond baby steps here. This work of alignment with divine truth, with the divine self that you are is not about feeling good so much as it is being aware that you are good, that you are whole, that your essence is divine. Sure it is wonderful to feel good, to have all of your material needs met, but that is not our purpose here. Our purpose here is the transformation of the human race that has been locked in separation and fear, to raise this vibration to a new and a higher level of one that resonates with unconditional love. That is our task; that is our goal.

“What is happening now on this plane is that those of you who have gathered have decided to incarnate at the highest level available to you, and the acquisition of knowing of who and what you truly are is what is required to make this so. When there is a mass elevation in consciousness, what begins to happen is that the incarnations that you stand in begin to align to the next phase of development on this plane and the plane must shift itself to reflect the new knowing that each of you are born into.”

(Please read the rest of p. 2-3 and the top of 4) I’m jumping ahead here a bit.

 Your worth is an expression of who you think you are. As we go throughout our day, if we are aware enough, we find ourselves sometimes recalling that deepest truth, that we are a unique expression of the divine, and then at other times we find ourselves so engrossed in our own story, in the role we are acting out, or the particular limited identity we have become attached to that we lose track of our truth. I become someone standing on line, or someone who is angry or annoyed, or someone eating a hamburger. (Obviously none of those are who I really am, but my thinking and perception have shrunken into this space of very limited awareness.

( A few moments ago, I was simply wring this, in tune with the guidance that was coming to me, but not long after that I became aware that I was someone writing a class summary! It is so easy to lose it!)

 I’ve discovered one of the simplest ways to realize I have gotten lost in my ego/personality-self is when I become aware that I am making up stories in my head.

This work is about awareness, not about judgment. We have suggested this many times in the past but it always deserves a reminder. When you come back into your awareness of your truth as a divine child of God, we encourage you to rejoice in that awareness and do not be angry or upset at yourself for falling into forgetfulness. The gratitude you have for the deep awareness of the truth you are is one of the most powerful forms of self-love.

Peace