Angela Deutschmann Newsletter
March 2011
Hi everyone
There are many ways to spot your shadows – the one I least recommend is blurting it out in the middle of a meeting. :-) This week I attended a small gathering of extraordinary and experienced practitioners of personal and organisational development. We were talking about raising consciousness on the planet (I presume this is what all business meetings are about?) and most folk present were inclined to think that one of the ways in which this is best achieved is by revolutionising the corporate world. I reacted with some passion and resistance to what I often worry is the elitist, blinkered, white, evangelical and westernised approach to the personal growth arena. Whether this is or isn’t so, is not what’s important because it can (and does) get argued either way. What was important for me to notice was the ‘charge’ this issue carries for me. I reacted, instead of responded; I separated issues instead of integrated them – this is unquestionably an issue in my shadow. There is something I haven’t accepted about my own work and its positioning in the world, something I am not at peace with, not owning - and I could see this clearly even as I projected it onto an industry ‘out there’.
Happily no one in the room (having been steeped in their own growth for years) was a stranger to the notion of shadow selves. In fact I was delighted by how often this was brought into the conversation relative to both personal and professional questions. It reminded me that exploring Shadow Work is a vital inquiry for anyone who wants to take their own development seriously. My Growth Clubs are having an Introductory Shadow Workshop on Tuesday 29 March, and you are welcome to join us. Details below.
The last Embody workshop of the season is happening on 8 – 10 April. If you want to love your body but already know that this can’t be achieved by willpower, control, positive thinking or expert information, then this workshop is for you. Graduates report real and sustainable changes in relationships, career satisfaction, weight loss and above all, a sense of not only comfort but joy in their bodies.
If you’d like some self-coaching options (something becoming increasingly important), I cannot recommend Jane Toerien’s Bird Cards highly enough – we have both sets in stock - and you are also welcome to subscribe to our monthly Insights From the Edge teachings: an audio reading and transcription delivered to you each month with cutting-edge new ideas and practices.
It’s been a while since I have shared a full reading in this newsletter because it seems too bulky – but this one I couldn’t resist! It’s called From Puppet to Partner and speaks of a paradigm change in spirituality with the potential to rock the world. It contains such wow gems as:
• Judge something by its effect, not by what you deem to be its
‘Truth’
• Don’t let ideas use you
• Loyalty has no place in an evolutionary system
• If you continue to project all your positive attributes onto Divinity
you are going to keep yourself at a ceiling of development
I hope you enjoy it and do share it around as much as you like. I am regularly posting notes, pics and snippets from my readings on my Angela Deutschmann Facebook Page (not the same as my personal account). Please visit if you’re interested so we can turn this into a useful resource and fun community.
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Introductory Shadow Workshop
All of us have internalised the idea, to greater or lesser extents,
that there are qualities, emotions and experiences that are wrong –
envy, cruelty, desire, laziness, too much happiness etc. This has
resulted in most of us suppressing or controlling these feelings to such
an extent that we swallow instead of express them and, in so doing, push
them into the shadow. After a while of pushing parts of ourselves away
from our conscious recognition we begin to be very fragmented, resulting
(most commonly) in fatigue, confusion or self-sabotage.
It’s impossible to know your passion if you have not really known your
anger because anger and passion are two sides of the same coin. By the
same token, if you are repressing your pain you are undoubtedly also
repressing your joy.
Join us for an Introductory Shadow Workshop where you will be
comprehensively introduced to this vital aspect of personal growth and
have the opportunity to spot, smile at and surrender the emotions,
qualities and experiences that you have repressed so that they no longer
own you.
It’s an interactive workshop in the sense that you will answer questions
in your journal, but not in the sense that you will share these with me
or other attendants.
Date: Tuesday 29 March 2011
Time: 7pm sharp to 10pm
Venue: Triba Wellness Centre, 39 – 41 St Albans Road, Craighall
Cost: R275.00 per person payable in advance. Includes tea and coffee
To book: Contact Garrick at 0844608667 or
admin@angeladeutschmann.com
For more information and personal stories on my own shadow work you can read the articles “Vampires and Vultures’ and ‘From Holy to Wholly’ on my blog http://angeladeutschmann.wordpress.com or on my Public Facebook Page
Embody
You can download a free talk about
Embody from our website, which speaks of the origin and philosophy
of the process, and answers lots of questions.
The Embody workshop is the result of my personal pain about my body. For
years I was so confident, sure and present in my mind and spirituality
and at the same time, so ashamed, disconnected and undeveloped in my
body. I opened up all this pain and transformed it into an exceptionally
powerful and unique workshop that puts you back in touch, in
conversation and in love with your body even if you haven’t been there
for years.
Our bodies, like everything else, are communicators to us. They
communicate our divinity, in an immediate, uncomplicated manner. Our
bodies are as profound a source of wisdom to us as our minds and
spirits. They are faithfully attuned to our highest path, even though we
are ashamed of them, hate them and, more often that not, attempt to
control their expression.
It is not us who are meant to shape our bodies, it is our bodies which
are meant to shape us
If you are brave enough to fully see and own your own body,
compassionate enough to accept the bodies of others and wild enough to
fall unconditionally in love with your body – forever - then I invite
you to Embody.
Two graduates’ experiences:
Not in my wildest dreams could I have anticipated the powerful results
of the Embody workshop. This unique experience has helped me to finally
shift the years of self-loathing and body issues I have had and believe
me I have tried on many occasions to shift them!
In her usual gentle, compassionate yet firm way, Angela encourages one
to delve deep into the self with a series of powerful processes and she
creates an amazing, safe space in which to do this. The best thing about
Embody is that the changes literally happen overnight!!! This is without
a doubt the most phenomenal workshop I have ever done in terms of
personal self-growth. I feel more alive and more free than I have ever
done before and I do not hesitate to recommend it. If you are drawn to
Embody - go for it!!
You will not be sorry. Di
Wow what an experience, what a journey!
When my friend mentioned embody to me I knew instantly this was
something my soul was calling for. I was tired of controlling my weight
and quite frankly I was no longer getting even the temporary successes.
I could not have imagined what was in store for me. The processes were
so powerful, the environment was supportive and beautiful. Angela’s
guidance, and the group’s support helped me go through stuff that I had
hidden somewhere in my mind not realizing how it was contributing to my
habits of not honoring myself and in particular my body. I got insights
on how this cascaded to other areas of my life and how I limited my joy.
Some of processes were such fun, I have not danced so much in a long
time and laughed so much.
I now have a renewed sense of identity and beauty. I feel energetic, light and my mind is sharp, work flows and I feel much more productive and present in my activities.
I got a complement from a neighbor who had not seen me for a couple
of weeks on how beautiful I looked and were it not for the lines that
she could see on my face she said, she would have thought I had plastic
surgery.
Oh! Hubby is just too happy to have his wife relaxed and joyful. He says
anytime I wish to go for another Embody he will sponsor!
I now have the dance teacher’s number to call this afternoon and the
name of the shop to buy my dancing shoes. Xoli
You can also read more about this pioneering process, including stories from graduates, at Embody Workshop
Next Embody:
Date: Friday 8 - Sunday 10 April 2011. Please book soon to
make sure you get your place
Venue: Boondocks Mountain Lodge, between Nelspruit and Barberton
Cost: R 5 800.00 includes full accommodation, delicious meals, 30 hours
of personalised input from two expert facilitators and exclusive use of
this magnificent lodge and labyrinth
Payment plans available
To book: Contact Garrick at +27844608667 or
admin@angeladeutschmann.com
Spiritual Growth Clubs
‘Having worked with Angela this past year has been an amazing
experience. I use the word experience as through her processes and
methodology I have been able to move from the intellectualising and the
cognitive awareness that I used to deal with life and actually start to
feel, emote and engage totally differently and live the aspect of
“Experience trumps Awareness”. It has been an amazing journey for me to
get to this place, it is through her brilliant application of Ontology
that has made this possible. Getting to this point has added huge value
to not only my life but has taken my coaching to a whole new level.
Spending time with the group each month and ending off with our own
tailor-made Jump workshop has been invaluable to me on so many levels
and has given me a lucid indication of where my Joy lies. I have had a
profound shift based directly on the workshop and know that choices that
I have made in the days, weeks and month following the workshop have
been done with clarity and certainty that they not only add my Joy but I
am liberated to follow and commit to it.’ Gavin, Ontological Coach
An increasing number of people are committing themselves to conscious,
responsible and empowered living. The number and variety of spiritual
workshops and therapies attest to this. Yet, more is required to
manifest awareness in action than just a once-off intervention. Personal
transformation is a dynamic and ongoing process and requires consistent
integration and support, whether that is in the form of honest feedback,
access to new knowledge or motivation. Often we attempt, or feel we are
forced, to pursue our spiritual development in isolation. Besides the
fact that this reinforces a consciousness of separation, it can also
leave us blinkered to our own stumbling blocks or gifts or next steps.
My popular Spiritual Growth Clubs provide a rare opportunity to walk
your personal path in fellowship with like-minded people who are open to
learning, sharing and growing as much as you are. They also come with
expert facilitation and access to all the new insight with which I work.
Contact Garrick before 30 April to register for a 2011 group (Johannesburg only) or to learn more.
‘It has been very difficult to put into words how best to describe my experience in a Growth Club. The Growth Club provided me with a safe and respectful space to express my deepest pain and emotions - a place to be real, raw and authentic. Through this year long process I was able to grow, to shift, to gain such huge awareness about myself, learning to trust myself, to respect and honour my intuition and to fully experience the rawest of emotions that I would ordinarily never have had the space to do so. Angela’s exceptionally respectful and honouring approach is hugely appreciated and her gentleness and beauty permeates in everything. I thank her for giving me the cushion to "land safely" through the year and my Jump process and to gain inner strength and depth. I value the privilege of having been given this blessing to learn and grow with her. A very privileged Club to be in. Thank you’ Ilana, owner Magical Moments
Insights From the Edge
Each month I make available a full-length teaching on a topic pertinent to humanity at the time. The topics cover a range of aspects about the human condition from health, money and parenting to personal and collective evolution. The insights are radical, yet gentle; profound yet surprisingly practical, and attract interested readers from all over the world.
Insights from the Edge will inspire you, challenge you and equip you to live in the middle of the risky, new and wild place that is Joy.
To subscribe to Option 1 for 12 months costs R 1 000.00. Once a month
you will receive a link to a brand new reading and transcription.
To subscribe to Option 2 costs R 1 400.00. Once a month you will receive
a link to a brand new reading, transcription PLUS some notes on how to
apply the reading to your life.
You can also purchase the products above on a once-off basis for R200
and R250.00 respectively from our online store. All of the above can be
paid for by credit card from our store.
Click here for a free sample or to sign up.
Insights From the Edge in 2011
January 2011: ‘The Power of With’ is a daring invitation into living a ‘with’ life instead of a ‘without life’. This reading makes it clear that the only way to do this is to stop, turn around and face whatever you have been running from, what it is you most fear. The illusionary nature of a fear can only be seen and be dissolved when you are intimately close with it. In that moment, you choose a ‘with path’ (instead of flight or fight) and Divinity is experienced profoundly.
February 2011: ‘The Experiencer and The Observer’ explains our two minds: the Experiencer mind and the Observer mind. It teaches the difference between the two and stresses how both are valuable and necessary for full life. There is a list of symptoms to look for if you suspect you give more time to observing than experiencing and four steps to correcting this imbalance. A very useful distinction, especially for the cerebral among us!
Personal Readings and Spiritual Coaching Sessions
A personal, or couple’s, reading is a session where I channel insight from your higher self about what is most dominant in your ‘field’ at that time. This can include patterns you are holding, some of your life themes, blockages in your body, the particular cycle you are in at the time or what thought patterns may be holding you back from feeling free. Usually there is an opportunity to ask specific questions if you wish to, but the reading will take on a particular direction or set of themes right from the start. The energy of these conversations is gentle, incredibly loving yet also full of humour and practical suggestions.
Time required: 1 to 1.5 hours
Cost: R650.00 in office hours. R700.00 after-hours
A spiritual coaching session does not involve direct channelling. It is an opportunity for you to bring specific issues to the session, perhaps those that came up in a previous reading but not necessarily, and to work with my questions and ideas on these. I don’t follow a specific coaching methodology and will work with what comes up in the moment using discussion or physical movement or conscious dreaming or anything else that can move you forward. A warning: I’ve been heard to say ‘I couldn’t give a damn about your success…I’m only interested in your Joy’!
Time required: 50 minutes
Cost: R500.00
A baby blessing, which can be done at a baby shower or as a regular reading, is a conversation with an unborn child. They are normally shorter than an hour, though this depends very much on the chattiness of the child. Best time to have one is between 20 and 35 weeks pregnant.
Time required: 1 hour
Cost: R650.00 in office hours. R700.00 after-hours
Please contact Garrick if you are interested in booking a distance
reading or a one-on-one session in Johannesburg, Cape Town,
Bloemfontein or White River.
It is also available to have a coaching session over
Skype.
Parenting Lightly
I’m delighted to have made available my first ebook: ‘Parenting Lightly – the Five Pillars of Raising Children with Joy’, which can be purchased for R55 from our online store. This book does not examine parenting techniques but, more importantly, a fundamental parenting philosophy. It invites you to be truly available to your child rather than internally enslaved to an idea of who they are supposed to become or what kind of parent you’re supposed to be. I have also turned this approach into a talk if any of you / your networks would be interested.
Bird Cards
For those interested in joining my fascination and work with Jane Toerien’s Bird Cards (www.birdcards.net) I am now stocking these myself and you’re welcome to contact Garrick to purchase them at R300.00 per box set
Bull’s Eye
From Puppet to Partner
The Most Important Paradigm Shift You Can Make
March 2011
Here is a divine conversation to explode your ideas about truth, loyalty, change and who you are relative to divinity. An invitation to step into creatorship. Key ideas have been italicised.
We come forward, we come forward here willingly, joyfully, exuberantly. Not to lead you, nor to guide you, nor to show the way. We are very aware - as we engage with the collective field - of what we might call a new paradigm emerging. Always paradigms have application, or use, or relevance on a number of different areas of your lives. A paradigm is deeper than a circumstance in other words. A paradigm is also deeper than an issue. A paradigm is how you interpret your circumstances, and make sense of your issues. And so while we recognise and respect that the activity, the churning, the issues, the events that occur in the circumstance of your lives are important, and worth sharing, expressing, and learning from, we must also say that without shifting on the level of paradigm, no real change ever occurs in the circumstances. They may look different a few months or a few years on, but the essence of the challenge, or the tension, or the block, or the leak, whatever it may be, will be just the same.
So as we come forward here - not heavily, not with sombreness, or seriousness, or even not with great reverence - we come forward here joyfully, happily, exuberantly and we wish to open up for you a paradigmatic suggestion. As always this is only a suggestion, just an invitation to which you are welcome to say yes or no and there will be no withdrawal of love for you from the Universe. There will be no less approval, no implicit judgement and punishment, depending on whether or not you take up this invitation. We understand that that may be your experience of love, but that is not the way we love. And so what we bring is simply, and purely, an invitation.
It has to do with who you think you are, relative to God. Now you may presume that that aspect has little or nothing to do with the issues and the circumstances with which you are grappling in this stage in your practical, everyday lives. We are saying to you it has everything to do with that.
Common Paradigms – The Puppet
So if we may, we will share some of the common paradigms that are visible within this culture in this time. Paradigms about who human beings are relative to God, abound. There are many different belief systems, many different ways of making sense of that. And humanity is evolving in these. But what is most visible in this stage, in this culture, and which will therefore have influenced you the most, are these two models.
The first is the model of the puppet, where God or the Universe (it doesn’t really matter the language, it is the paradigm that is important, not the naming of things) is seen to be in charge. Perhaps not in charge in the old way of thinking about it like sending lightning bolts as punishment. Perhaps these days it is understood that God is in charge by sending disease as punishment or bad events of some kind. It is just the same thing as believing in a God who sends lightning as punishment, if you believe that disease is also punitive in some way. This is the puppet paradigm, the idea that a higher force is in charge of everything. That what happens in the world is the will of that higher force and you must simply play the game as best you can within the limitations of your own destiny as designed by that higher force.
Those people in the puppet paradigm, in the puppet mentality, will often say things like: “It was meant to be”, or “It wasn’t meant to be”, or “In God’s timing”, aspects like that. Not necessarily every time those phrases are uttered are they coming from a puppet paradigm, not at all, not at all. There is also truth around the aspect of grace, not forcing thing on life, but being open to a natural rhythm and that can be a very empowered stance. But sometimes those phrases are indicating that the person uttering them is living in a puppet paradigm.
The implications of living in that paradigm - and it needn’t be consistently, it can simply be sometimes - are quite obvious; a lowered sense of responsibility, a lowered sense of power, an understanding that everything you have must be earned, that your purpose in life must be found, you must find it and seek it, and then obey it. Those kinds of thoughts come from puppet paradigm.
When we call it puppet paradigm, we are turning it into a caricature, an extreme way of saying what we mean in that paradigm. But not all people who are living out of this paradigm are necessarily unintelligent, not all are unspiritual, some of them appear to be very spiritual, but you’ll see by the working of their lives, that their ability to create what they desire - and that is the definition of power - is relatively low. The problem is not their intelligence, the problem is not karma, the problem is not spirituality, the problem is the paradigm.
The Second Common Paradigm: The Student
Usually - because paradigms work on an evolutionary basis also - a little while after living in puppet paradigm, a human being will begin to flirt with the paradigm of the student where, instead of Divinity being in control, instead of Divinity being a puppet master, It is now the teacher and a human being is the learner. That is the student paradigm.
People who are steeped in this paradigm - and there are very many at the moment - will usually talk a lot about the lessons in their lives. They will consider that they are here on the planet to learn, that the curriculum is predetermined and that their job is to work though lessons one by one so that they will be rewarded by moving on to the next lesson. That is a very common mythology at the moment.
We will never call any of these paradigms wrong. Notice, we have not once said that. They are not wrong, but they can be outgrown. At a certain stage in your life, becoming aware of the puppet mentality may be very useful for you. It may bring you some peace, it may give you hope, it may help you get through a situation, or a childhood, as it often does. There are times in the human journey when that paradigm is appropriate, but it simply is not sufficient. You will grow your way out of that being a useful model by which to understand your relationship with God. And if you do not allow yourself - and it’s tough - but if you do not allow yourself to shift your fundamental paradigm when you have outgrown it, then there is no way you can change, fundamentally change the circumstances of your life. As we said earlier, you will just circulate within a paradigm that you have actually outgrown, but cannot get yourself to leave behind.
So the student paradigm is not wrong, in fact it is a positive development when somebody allows themselves to move out of the puppet paradigm, and into the student one. There is a little bit more responsibility taken in the student paradigm than there is in the puppet. But the nature of the responsibility is all around learning. That is the word that is used, it is the mentality, and therefore it becomes the way that everything is seen.
In this particular paradigm people are often very devoted. They work very hard on themselves. They are reflective a lot, perhaps sometimes too much. They become very observant of themselves, but not so willing to take risks. That is part of what it means to be part of the student paradigm. Also people use that paradigm to explain why they don’t make real shifts: “I still need to learn the lesson here”, is often uttered in this paradigm, “I’m not changing this, or creating something different, or leaving that behind, because I just haven’t learned it yet”.
So, as with all paradigms, it isn’t wrong, but at a certain stage of your journey it becomes a limiting theory, and not an empowering one anymore. When you were just stretching into responsibility, and out of victimhood, then it was useful for you to take upon you the student paradigm. But it is not the fullest truth. And we would invite you to examine yourself very closely in terms of how you use these two paradigms, in what situations you revert to them, and how you might indeed be hiding behind them. This is not an intellectual analysis, it is a simple truth-telling exercise.
But it is deeply frightening to a human being to allow their paradigm about God to shift, or change, or expand in any significant way. It feels blasphemous, it feels wrong, it feels irreverent. More than that, if you make adaptation to your belief about who you are relative to God, maybe that makes a mockery of the way you have lived for the past few years, and that does not feel good. But that’s why we are saying to you, the paradigms - none of them - they are not wrong. They were of use to you at the time, they have simply become outgrown.
So you can look back to a phase in your life when your relationship to God was very different and you can still recognise, respect, and honour that at the time it was necessary and useful for you to engage with Divinity in that way, whether you were doing that consciously, or unconsciously. And now you may have found a new paradigm that has a better effect on you. Because that’s what we are looking for here: not truth but effect of a truth.
Judge Something by its Effect, Not by What You Deem to be its ‘Truth’
There is no way, while you are within a human mind, that you will know the full Truth with a capital T. It is not the design. In agreeing to express yourself physically, which is a marvellous privilege, you also agree to withhold or suspend, full awareness. You are not going to know the complete picture about Divinity, or life, or humanity or even your own self while you are physical and living in duality. But neither do you need to. It is not that life is the constant search for Truth with the capital T, it is for you to use, and we say use, whatever truth works best for you at anytime of your life, whichever truth feels to you the most honouring, the most thrilling, and has the best effect on you.
Judge a truth, or a theory, or an idea, or a belief or a fact for that matter, by its effect on you. If an idea sets you free, freer than you where before, if it gives you a little more energy, enthusiasm, excitement, empowerment, trust, self love, ideas, creativity, mobilisation - all the things you might like – if it brings you an increase in what you respect, then make use of that belief system, for now.
You don’t have to call it the Truth, you can call it a truth, a truth that at this moment in your life, at this time, allows you to become more of who you wish to become. You do not need to be loyal to a paradigm, you do not need to be loyal to an idea, a belief system, a theory, not at all. You never need to exchange your fullest well-being for any loyalty. Not any single loyalty in existence is worth exchanging your well being for, including loyalty to an outdated idea about God and who you may be relative to God.
The student model of Divinity - where Divinity is the teacher, life is the school room, and you are the student - can be of value. But humanity is nearing the end of the time where that paradigm serves you.
So, while in puppet mentality someone might say they need to find what purpose God has intended them for (and it doesn’t matter if they say God, or life, or the Universe, or Spirit it’s all the same), in the student mentality they will say: “I need to learn the lessons I came here to learn.” Both of those, to some degree, are disempowering paradigms.
An Invitation Into The Partner Paradigm
And so we wish to invite you today, to begin to tease, or flirt, with a more expansive paradigm, the one that we call the co-creative or partnership paradigm, where you are not living out a destiny over which the universe is in charge, nor are you sitting in your life as a student, trying to make your way through a curriculum but instead you - just like us - are a creative force in existence. No less valuable than the non-physical companions you have, but simply operating in a different dimension.
The dimension from which you operate does not necessarily indicate your value to the system. You have presumed this all along. You have presumed that because you exist in a dense dimension, that that must mean that you are lower life force than for example those of us who exist outside that dimension by a short margin. It is not so. You have different abilities from us, but they are not lesser. You have a different role from us, but it is not lower.
You are very welcome to reject this truth if it is not good for you. Don’t reject it ideologically, reject it because its effect on you is not an effect you like.
But let us tell you some of the implications of the co-creator paradigm. In this paradigm no one says: “I need to find my purpose.” They say: “I want to create a purpose. I want to make for myself a life, that according to me, has got great meaning, and great joy, and about which I’m very inspired.” In the co-creator model there is the recognition that my experience in my life is as important as what my life ends up being, or doing, or giving, or achieving. There is the recognition that it is vital that I make sure I am inspired, that I make sure that I exist in the way I wish to exist. So there is much more responsibility in this paradigm than in the other two at that’s often the real reason why people reject it.
On the surface, they reject it because it sounds blasphemous to posture that human beings might just be equal to Spirit. But often the real reason for the rejection is because the implications of that are very overwhelming relative to the kind of responsibility and power and beauty and influence you all carry. You don’t all feel it, and you don’t all exercise it, but you do all carry it. And that thought can be very overwhelming.
If it is overwhelming, if this is not a useful paradigm for you at this point, then it will not have a good effect on you. But if it is a useful paradigm, it will make you feel more free, even a little giddy with freedom. It will make you feel a little apprehensive, as paradigmatic leaps always do, but it will also raise your sense of fulfilment and mobilisation.
We find it both amusing and sad that people become deeply trapped, imprisoned, by a notion of a purpose. They articulate that until they find their purpose they can’t be joyful. The idea of purpose is having an immobilising effect, a paralysing effect, and still they use the idea. Even if that idea, that paradigm, is not having a good effect, it is still adhered to.
If there is one thing you take with you today, it is this: Don’t let ideas use you. You use ideas. So if they work for you, use them, whatever belief, whatever truth is good for you use it, until it is no longer good for you, and then let yourself expand it.
You don’t need to judge something in order to let it go. We hope you heard that. You don’t need to judge something in order to let it go. You can simply choose a more expansive, or simply useful, paradigm, job, belief system, whatever it may be. Simply because you let go of one thing does not imply that you are judging it. You can honour what it has meant to you previously, you can honour that at one stage its effect on you was good.
What we are talking about lies at the very deepest level of belief, which is about who you are relative to God. Simply have a look at what beliefs, whether conscious or unconscious, you have been employing about this. You have been employing a belief. It is impossible for someone not to employ a belief about themselves in relation to Divinity. Even if for them Divinity doesn’t exist, there is still a relationship. So have a look at the way you have been deeply relating to Divinity, and have a look at the effect it has on your decision making, on your ability to life a full, content, exciting, balanced life. And then see if a more expansive paradigm will serve you better.
Loyalty has no place in an evolutionary system. We know that in certain paradigms loyalty is very valued, highly priced. But if your interest is in your own conscious evolution, loyalty is not going to be a useful attribute by which to run your life.
[Addressing the people in the room:] We are very pleased, even proud, to position this here. We have never done it quite so clearly and you have made that possible.
If you are coming from a puppet paradigm, or a student paradigm, then what we have just said would feel wrong because, in a student paradigm, you should be here learning from us who have superior wisdom and, in a puppet paradigm, we are the ones who have made all this possible anyway, you are just puppets. But in a co-creative paradigm it is both you and us who have made this conversation possible. It is because of the insights you have let in, in your previous conversation a few moments ago, that we could speak as we did here. It’s because of the steps you have taken, the leaps you made, the letting go you have allowed, that has made this particular conversation even a possibility.
And so understand that this very experience here has been literally created by both you and us. So if it appears to be useful, or intelligent, or wise, then understand that those are attributes that are also part of you. If you continue to project all your positive attributes onto Divinity you are going to keep yourself at a ceiling of development. We know that it feels somehow perhaps right and respectful to project all of your positive qualities onto spirit, but have a careful clear look at what the actual effect of that is in your actual life.
That is how you judge your belief system. Not because it sounds nice, not because it’s currently popular and what everyone else is saying, not because it appears to be high-minded and lofty but because of its actual effect on the living of your everyday life. And so we offer you a paradigm that is highly respectful of you, and in our opinion a lot more mobilising than some of the paradigms you have been used to using. It’s not the last paradigm you are going to encounter either, but for now it is a very valuable one on offer.
We are so grateful to express, and experience, this.
Thank you.
This teaching was channelled by Angela Deutschmann 2011
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