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In case any of you might wish to do so, I would like to offer readers and listeners a means of communicating with me personally. To that end I have established an email account just for that purpose.
If you choose to contact me PLEASE limit your message to 200 words. I have no idea how many of you will make contact, but it is possible that I will find myself unable to reply to everyone individually. And I may well be a little slow to respond. However, by limiting the length your message it will increase your chance of receiving a personal reply.
I might possibly use one email to reply to more than one person, and in that case I will address it to myself and BCC to those for whom it is intended, thus protecting each person’s privacy.
Here is the address:
johnsmallman@proton.me
I shall look forward to hearing from you,
John
PS Occasionally I may add a message on this “Contact John” page. So check in every now and then.
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Friday August 16th 2013.
Hi Friend, Readers, Listeners,
I intended to reply to a number of you who used this email address to make contact with me. However, I was just looking at the “Sent” box and there is NOTHING there. Did I forget, or are my less than adequate skills catching up with me? I don’t know. Anyhow here is a message I meant to send to a group of you some considerable illusory time ago:
Dear Friends,
Some have asked about universal law in response to being told there are No Laws in Reality. Well, In Reality all are One, there is ONLY God’s Will and all abide by It without having to consider what it means because all know what It means, all are perfectly in alignment with God’s Will, so “Laws” are unnecessary. As a saying I heard somewhere says “Love God and do what you please!”
EVERYONE wants to know when “It Is All Going To Happen.” Channels do NOT forecast dates because in Reality there is no time, only the eternal Now. Time is of the illusion, and the illusion is disintegrating, therefore so is time, and that is when it will all happen. I think it will be soon in illusory time, but I don’t know. Only time will tell!!!!!!!!!! Actually have Faith in God’s Love for us, tune in to It and stop worrying about when. Not always easy, but it’s better than tuning in to the “Worry Channel.”
Those of you who channel and are having difficulty connecting know that you are not alone. Sometimes I sit down and messages flow easily from Jesus or Saul, whereas at other times I just can’t make contact. Maybe it’s all the energies cleaning things up, or maybe it’s my skeptical ego causing a block. You CAN’T force the channel, just allow it to come through. If it doesn’t, then take a break – hours, days? – then sit and listen again. If you are attached to hearing your guide and get cross with the guide or yourself for not delivering, then it’s your ego playing games. Just let it go – Laugh – and try later when you are more relaxed, there are NO deadlines involved!
And of course you do not have to feel some presence when you are channeling. I never do, I just relax and words “fall” into my mind and I type. On reading them afterwards it’s quite apparent that they come from a far, far wiser mind than mine, and that is my confirmation that the words are indeed channeled.
All our issues seem to be coming up now so that we can acknowledge and release them, so maybe more fear, anger, resentment, sense of victimhood/helplessness. All those feelings are a bit like the weather, they will just flow through if you acknowledge them without engaging with them or attempting to reason out their cause or meaning which mostly is not possible. Just don’t project them! If someone or something upsets you it is your issue, not anyone else’s.
And of course if you are involved in spiritual energy work to assist in planetary cleansing or in the awakening process of others who are (apparently) deeply asleep you may well find yourselves feeling exhausted for no obvious reason. If you can, take a break, or a “power nap.” Whatever you are doing, do it with loving intent, even if you don’t feel loving. That is what “holding the light” is all about. And remember that you are always, and that means in every moment – whatever is going on, whatever you are doing – infinitely loved by our divine Source.
Love and hugs to you all,
John.
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Dear John good evening going to test and see if this goes through to you because lately nothing is being sent out from the the phone I’m using hey so this is a test one two three
Dear SheilaAnn,
Yes, I received your test call 🙂
John.
Thanks John the writing alway’s bring a bit of happynes to me, and hopefully you and others😊
Hi John just wanted to say thank you for your messages, I really love them. I am the clown that is a friend of Caroline. My next radio program will feature a fellow Englishman who is a healer. You may find it interesting to tune in, so it will be published on Awake 2 Oneness in the US next Sunday. Have fun and again, thank you for the great service you are undertaking. I always resonate with messages of love. Peace, Susan
Hi Susan,
Thanks for your comment. I listened to your recent interview with Caroline and very much enjoyed it. Previously I had called Caroline when you failed to show! So we had a nice chat. I shall make a point of listening in on Sunday on Awake 2 Oneness.
Best wishes,
John.
Love and Blessings to you John for your inspirational sharing… many thanks, Monica in Melbourne Australia
A MINIMALIST’S GUIDE TO ENLIGHTENMENT
PRESENCE:
Be here now.
Pay attention.
Do one thing at a time.
Do everything in a sacred manner.
Your purpose is to awaken, and to remain awake.
Let present-moment awareness be your spiritual practice.
This moment is the only reality; all else is abstraction, a mental construct.
Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being inwardly still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you.
Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself, the living God. It joins the perceiver and the perceived in a unifying field of awareness.
The present moment is deeper than what happens in it. It is the space in which it happens. Eventually, the focus is on the inner, silent, still presence of awareness itself rather than on its passing content.
You are responsible for reining in your attention, taking command of this power of focused awareness, and purposefully choosing how you will live the moments of your life. You can waste and dissipate them, or you can center yourself intentionally and live fully in the present moment. It all begins with a decision to live in such a way, a decision that you refuse to betray.
SILENCE:
Things are the meaning of things.
In the godhead there is no thought of God.
Stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand.
Spiritual awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
You are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is.
You are not the voice in your mind, but the one who is aware of that.
Call off the search for self-definition. Being must be felt; it can’t be thought.
The single most vital step towards enlightenment is learning to disidentify from your mind.
Observe all the content of evolving life without making any mental comment, criticism, or judgment.
It is when you are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that you lose the ability to sense the oneness of all that exists.
The world does not really need your personal opinions about anything at all. Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
When the criticalness and discrimination of dualistic perception are set aside, the absolute perfection and beauty of everything stands revealed.
Enlightenment happens when you have become capable of finding the inner being, the meditative quality within, the gap between thoughts, the inner silence and emptiness, so that it becomes a natural quality. You can find the gap whenever you want. You have found the door to God. You have come home.
ACCEPTANCE:
No drama.
No whining.
This, too, will pass.
Merge with the situation.
Enlightenment is the quiet acceptance of what is.
Surrender to the natural course and sequence of things.
Why is there so much suffering in the world? No reason.
Cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.
When you become a lover of things as they are, the war is over.
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When you don’t struggle against it, you are in harmony with reality.
All you really need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.
Weather comes and goes, but the sky remains unchanged. Enlightenment is merely the shift of identity from the cloud to the sky.
The world is neither bad nor defective, nor is it in need of help or modification, because its appearance is only a projection of your own mind. No such world exists.
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
REALIZATION:
God is not a being, but a state of being.
You are awareness, disguised as a person.
You are not in the universe; the universe is in you.
You are here to awaken from your illusion of separateness.
Your state of consciousness is primary; all else is secondary.
“In here” and “out there” are mirror reflections of each other.
Heaven is not a physical location, but a state of consciousness.
All the consciousnesses in your life are your own consciousness.
All the separate activities in the universe are actually one activity.
You are an aperture through which the universe is exploring itself.
Consciousness is continuous and present in everything; it is the one reality.
The eye by means of which God sees you is the same eye by means of which you see God.
There is neither a perceiver nor that which is perceived because they are one and the same.
Nothing in the universe happens by chance or accident. Everything influences everything else and is in perfect balance.
The entire universe was designed for the purpose of creating and expanding a consciousness capable of observing and understanding itself.
The very ground of the enlightened state is the absolute, unequivocal, unshakable confidence in the perennial mystical revelation that IT IS . . . and I AM THAT. It is experienced as a clarity that is empty of content; a weightiness that is full of nothing in particular; a profound knowing that dissolves all questions. You simply know, unequivocally, before thought, that I am. That’s the only answer: I AM. There is no why.
PRACTICE:
Don’t try too hard.
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
Laugh! Even seriousness itself is humorous.
The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.
Generate consciousness through the activities of daily life.
For most of us, enlightenment comes little by little — otherwise it would overwhelm.
Enlightenment is not the end, but the beginning of an unending process in all dimensions of richness.
Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are.
The essence of spiritual practice is to activate by inspiration, dedication, and decision of will those aspects of consciousness that become progressively self-actualizing.
Seemingly small steps in spiritual evolution often occur almost unnoticed, but it is the small shifts which occur out of sight below a mountain of snow that result in an avalanche.
Live effortlessly. Enlightenment is not a desire, is not a goal, is not an ambition. It is a dropping of all goals, a dropping of all desires, a dropping of all ambitions. It is just being natural.
Enlightenment is not a destination or graduation into a permanent higher state of consciousness, but a moment-by-moment experience constantly fluctuating between degrees of wholeness and limited consciousness.
A given level of consciousness is not better than another but merely represents the level that is being worked on. It is the basic building blocks that enable a structure to ascend, and it is the dedication that ensures the completion of a cathedral.
Spiritual commitment simply means recontextualizing the meaning of your life. This needs to be done totally, all-inclusively, so that life does not become segmented into spiritual work versus ordinary life. All life now becomes spiritual practice. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
This is just so lovely
Thank You for sharing!
Beautiful!
Love and Peace to all
I feel such gratitude when I read what you write or when I listen to you. There is so much confusing information coming from wise people. I have to simplify the confusion. I connect to the Divine and I have a knowing that it is the truth. That’s it. Just this gut knowing. And then I have a judgement against my partner and I am off the grid, until I’m not… it takes willingness to surrender, again and again, ad infinitum. Thank you for choosing your path of service. Your loving friend, Marsha.
Hi John,
I love your blogs and messages. I had to get 2 different cell phones and have thus missed getting your living blogs. I had sent a gift of $ when your heating device quit, and had a healing from you which was needed and helpful.
Wishing you always the highest Best in Love and Light, Truth and Peace
Dear Jeanie,
Thank you for your support which I greatly appreciate. I am delighted that the distant healing session you received was helpful in a time of need.
Blessings,
John.