Being Courageous

within our hearts. We come prepared to empty ourselves of the little self, the ego self, the part in us that is afraid of our divinity, the part of us that sabotages or inhibits our life in any way. We bring this to the altar. We place it as unconditionally as possible on to the altar.

We say, "Father mother God, we give thanks that you're willing to receive such a strange gift from us, and in return you give us everything". In return, the divine mother is sent to us, the Spirit of God to descend into our being, literally and metaphorically, filling us until our cup runneth over, and our life of love spills over onto the world. It brings visions of holiness where there was inhibition or fear.

It brings visions of love, peace, joy, and abundance, and a world of sharing. Because we know that the divine in us can only be realized in proportion to our willingness to share it, and so this is what we choose to do. And so it is. I was on tour last week in South Florida. On tour meaning once a month I I was on tour last week in South Florida.

On tour meaning once a month I still go out and about teaching at other centers around the world and around the country. Nowadays I've cut back on traveling anywhere else in the world for all kinds of reasons, but it was great being at, it was a new center. There were a lot of students that came from there and far.

I think there were like five people even from Sedona that showed up at the talk in Florida. It was like, "Wait, I know you!" But it was interesting. It's beautiful to be and always in different places different groups, and you know, catching a vibe and where people are at and what they're looking for. One of the topics that came up, because I had asked, "What do you folks want to hear about?" I often do that, and then people throw in ideas, and then that's what we talk about that day. But one of the themes you know,

if you were to distill it down, is fear. So instead of saying, "Hey, let's talked about fear for half an hour." What I wanted to share today is the opposite - courage. To really understand what it means to be spiritually courageous, because that really covers just about everything else. S

omebody might say, for example, "I don't see the relationship of courage..." like we just had Fourth of July within weeks ago, right? And we talked about the courage it takes to find independence, to stand up and for the sake of clarity and for one'a sanity, right? That that takes courage. Well, so when we get into courage, some people might wonder well, how does courage blend in with love? How does courage blend in with some of the other more sublime topics? Because we think, often erroneously, that spirituality is like, it's all about being all tranquil, you know? Just like...

And you whisper a little bit when you talk, you know, because you're just so stinking enlightened, so spiritual. So we just talk like this, you know, and whatever...It's like...that's not what it is at all. iI's only that if that's what I'm in the mood to do.

But what if you're in the mode where you need courage? It's like, you can be tranquil and courageous at the same time! Humans don't know how to do these things, so they mess it up. They teach it's impossibl,e or they don't teach it at all, but we've got to find our center, man. We've, you know, we say, "Okay oneness with God.

" If you fill one with God, then you become almost a spiritual warrior. Spiritual, yet warrior. Those two words blended, so really it's about coming to life. But even something like forgiveness takes courage. you think oh I thought forgiveness means okay I'm bummed out because I realize you know I have to you know forgive somebody that I don't want to forgive and so we kind of passively trip over the idea of prompt forgiving forgiveness takes courage it means you know like I so good so clear so strong that I can let go of whatever I thought you did to

me and have it not fazed me any more that takes courage because it also before I can even get to forgiving anybody I have to be willing to face whatever even been done if I'm like oh no I'm good that's not courageous and you cannot forget all I've forgiven everybody I just don't want to think about it you're actually being coward the coward you're letting your fear get the best of you you cannot heal what you don't bring to the light and it does take courage to bring things to the light when we hear about the concept of

courage you know there's lots of levels and lots of variables so it's not just right or wrong there's variations but one of the most common is external but the most important is internal courage you know there's people that say oh I'm very courageous man I'm a thrill seeker I've jumped from airplanes I've done it to prove that I'm so courageous that's not actually courageous most real seekers are actually terrified and they're overcompensating proving that they're courageous because what they're doing is creating a false sense of

chemical fear inside I'll confront fear by jumping from an airplane or doing whatever they create this false chemical version of fear thinking they've now confronted fear and think of that as a success from courage when in fact it takes greater courage to look inside ourselves it takes far more courage it's easier to jump from a plane or skydive or whatever you know people do things like that or jumping off cliffs with a parachute you know all these really really amazing things that's easy far easier compared to the journey

inside looking at our our shadows looking at our gross memories of things we've done and things done to us in fact that's why it like I said people will go and jump and do and get stimulated you know like versions of adrenaline rushes to avoid that very thing that's what's amazing is to find to be the courageous to find the inner hero you know in Greek mythology they consistently would say that the heroes that become you know demigods and goddesses humans that become like masters you know we're going to stop

this you know we're just humans and we're messed up and then there's ascended masters and aren't they wonderful saint-germain and all that you're supposed to be come on to them you know stop talking about we have to live this living mastery living ascension we have to become these things but those demigods and is of Greek mythology and other mythologies in Norse mythology you know it could be from northern Africa all kinds of mythologies they tell us the same thing you cannot become that greater thing without first

descending into hell without first looking at yourself remember Star Wars you know there's a scene or whatever where Luke's talking to Yoda the diversion of a master at that time and you know and Yoda is telling me you know he's going to have to go into this cave and he says well what will I find in there and he says only what you bring you know that's that's that that's the story of a journey inside but you know Luke says to Yoda I'm not afraid and Yoda replies you will be specific you know just you eight it's easy to think

we've got this covered but to really sit and look at what you know the stuff that goes on inside of us and I really admire people that have taken the time to demonstrate courage inside and out I'm not dissing external courage all I'm saying is we have to be careful because a lot of the external versions are really just adrenaline trips but I really admire people I admire and they're not even people you might know of or heard of but I admire anybody that demonstrates courage an example would be a woman named peace pilgrim now you know

she didn't go out and show up in Washington and shout and she didn't stop war she anything like that but the woman who was an older woman and a woman at that in the 50s I think it was just walked out of her house and never went back and she never stopped walking she just walked the country talking about peace she wouldn't accept money per se she didn't accept help per se once in a while she'd accept a ride for you know to get to a town or something but she just talked about peace I mean she was arrested for vagrancy because

she wouldn't have any money she would accept food if somebody offered it and that was it I mean that's like a living Buddha right that's a modern-day Buddhist in the greatest sense of the word you know just walking she'd have you know little you often uh what would you call sweatshirt you know with the words peace or something to that effect on her on her chest you know it's she was just all about that but that she could walk away from the mainstream life at a time when you you know it would be harder for

a woman to get by at you know and do something like that but man she just did it I admire of course Jesus and the courage of Jesus I you know any being that's demonstrated the willingness to face their own fears as well as the fears of all other people and just say you know fears cannot get the best of us Martin Luther King is not walking matted and out in the open you know essentially a peacefully demonstrating a statement about racism and at the risk of death I love all these people and then there's

others that are far less externally dramatic you know maybe they're not as big and grandiose as Jesus or whomever else Gandhi or whatever but I always admired that guy Steve Irwin alligator you know did I got it was just weird like you know all right we're going to look for a midget and if you even get within 10 feet of it your eyes will pop out let's go play with it you know like it's like dude like everybody else be like shouldn't you not do that you know and you'd like to be brushing the teeth of these things like he was so odd and

died doing what he loved you know don't don't oh the poor guy died he died you forget the rest of the sentence doing exactly what he loves doing now you know that's something God we should all be so lucky to say I was always doing what I loved to doing and making a difference because you know he's wrestling with things that people that creep people out now you can say that's a linear thing an external thing you know he's chasing lizards and all kinds of weird in the snakes and whatever else but what's the metaphor of

that isn't that a metaphor of somebody wrestling with mankind's fears and saying you know what these are critters these are just critters they don't actually there aren't actually you know reptilian beings on the Galapagos Islands looking for you in Sedona trying to hunt you down these are just critters getting by and people make them good or bad and he's like saying let's neutralize that stuff you know he didn't walk around talking God and you know spiritual sublimity is you know things that are just like wow look at how

beautiful I you didn't get into all that he just lived it and you could say I remember from the first time I reviewed saw that guy I thought well this guy is unique I remember you know in his passing everybody was very moved that you know about a speech his daughter made about how proud she was of him living the life so it takes courage to live the life I mean it can even be coming to this town or moving to a new job or saying I'm going to end a relationship these are not linear things these are initiations these are tests of

life if you die and you didn't do that thing you knew in your heart you're supposed to be doing whether it was personal family global whatever it is if you didn't do it on the other side all they're going to wonder is why not now they're not because they're curious they're asking why not so that you can figure out what you'll be doing in your next lifetime you said I'm saying all it is is a test of ourselves on the other side they're not they're not really like

you know gosh we were hoping you were going to do this you were committed we had a contract you promised it it's not like you're guilted into what you should have done and didn't do it's more about us having to look at ourselves why why did you not do that didn't you didn't you say you wanted to do that you wanted to step up and transform parts of yourself what happened I just became too scared and they'll say that's okay don't worry we can rearrange another lifetime where you can do that

again my question is why would you want to do that the old question right if not us then who and if not now then when you know just why not just step up we have to learn to ask questions like what is the reason you don't do it well you know I just didn't that's a lie just stop that looked really what's the worst-case scenario what are your greatest fears and what's the worst thing that can happen if you did do such-and-such well somebody might not like me or something else this and something else that what if it's a job

well like what am I going to do if I don't have that job I walk out of it I didn't say don't get another one first it's okay for you to be practical it's okay for you to take care of those things if you're having to deal with a divorce I don't think you'd necessarily like peace Pilger have to walk out your door and prove something to the world if there's nothing wrong with them planning arranging you know working these things out there I don't believe there's

anything wrong with sort of giving ourselves less reason to be afraid to do something but at the end of the day it's really just life as a metaphor life is a dream all the things you think are happening outside are like a mythology once upon a time there was this young man or older man in my case there's this older guy and and he was feeling inspired to do such and such but he didn't because I mean is that how most hero stories end you know Hercules thought about nobody didn't you know Jesus was going oh no he just died that

was the end you know like really Buddha thought I am determined to reach enlightenment but then he said God I'm hungry and he gave it up the great heroes gods and goddesses in in mythology that's not how it goes the ones that survive the ones that make it the ones that pass the test there's a great achievement to come and life is a dream it's a metaphor so all we're really doing is raising consciousness within it looks like it's external things like jobs and whatever but it's really just consciousness shifting we're

dreaming of being here and what we're doing we're dreaming of being here and raising consciousness so really you could say we're all still in God and if this sounds too out there for you then no problem but we're all actually we're all still in God in heaven at this moment dreaming that we're here going through tests but at the end of each day I want to know that I've passed my tests just like on earth when I lay down each night I don't want to think man I really screwed the day up really well I'd like to think wow you know that was

challenging but I'm glad I did that you know they saying in the Bible don't don't lay your head down don't go to sleep while holding a grievance try to clear things the sooner the better you know this stuff we call ourselves I'm a Buddhist I'm a Christian I mother those are all just stories those are all just labels are you living it you know don't you say you're this or that are you living it are we living it day and night because at the end of that day or night we have to answer to ourselves so to me you know it takes great courage to

become a master to become awakened you know you can't just sit around and meditate and go I'm almost there I meditate longer than anybody I know look at me I'm a great meditator if you can't come out of meditation and show me you're a nicer person I honestly don't care I have no interest whatsoever hypocrisy just doesn't impress me at all so somebody can tell me look at me I've done this and I've done that I meditate all the time and I eat only vegan and all these kinds of things but if you're still a judgmental person it

doesn't impress me speaking of weird things and contradictions somebody sent me a news announcement and this is for real but a news announcement that dumb teen you know in in the Catholic Church there's the wafers that you do in communion which represent the body of Christ whatever right so they have to use these bread wafers you take because it's the bread from the Last Supper right but some people were like well I can't do gluten pretty god they can't do gluten so they won't take the host now

you think that's weird the Vatican actually said if the wafers don't have gluten they will not work I thought wow that's amazing that's a religion I want to join one that says that the being of its you know of its isolation you know the being of its of its worship can't pull off gluten you know issues or whatever it's like wow can't get past the glue then I thought to myself if the gluten free wafers don't work does it mean if you're a gluten free person none of your sins are

real either think about it could be it's all in the volume anyway courage to heal courage courage man and and to become a master you don't become a master without the willingness to look at yourself and that would include traumas traumas a very interesting thing because in a sense trauma is when you've been taking me to the edge of a cliff and pushed off meaning harmed you usually it's you trusted and then you're pushed out you know it's like that that's the metaphor of trauma you trust it and then you're

pushed over the cliff and you get hurt but healing actually takes going back to the same cliff but being taught how to fly instead of pushed over they're very similar they both have to in bulk they both do involved us going to the edge of our trust and safety but in one were brought there and hurt the other we're not we're taught to fly that's why we feel such a cathartic shift when we heal old wounds it's scary sometimes we didn't want to remember that or talk about it but it's like hey

Yogananda says you know just open up and say Here I am here I all of me you know don't say well Here I am the part of me you know let me hide this it's like just show yourself because if God looks at you and you're saying Here I am man all my weirdest and greatest attributes whatever just Here I am completely all God does is love now what about people though because I'm not just worried about what God thinks I feel like God will probably be pretty okay with even the strangest parts of me but it's people I'm concerned about Here

I am and there's always going to be people throwing tomatoes at me you know and it's like wow well if they're of a you're of a concern then you just don't get that you're done you know you're not passing any tests if everybody else is going to determine determine your courage level then you're already up Creed but you say Here I am this one's going to say you shouldn't have done that in this one should have said you should have done more of that I mean there's left and right you just can't win so it's Here I am and knowing the

real spiritual God self in everybody will not throw the two mans it'll be their egos that throw the tomatoes it'll be their broken selves that throw the tomatoes the judgment and how much do you want to care about that because if I allow your ego to influence my level of peace that makes no sense why would I have expected your ego to be okay with my level of peace Greg gaining greater levels of peace that's contrary to what the ego wants anyway so I really really love when people can be courageous even if it's with no in the most humble ways

and I really admire people that are saying hey you know what I'll go I'll go to the edge all I'll talk about whatever I need to talk about I'll face whatever it could be the past you know for me even coming to Sedona took courage you know because of that so many changes have had to have for me to get here and the bizarre competitiveness in this town amongst teachers and healers and all that it was like very odd you know and then certainly wasn't why I thought I'm gonna move to Sedona so I can have a bit of

that you know but but we do what we have to do so I had to decide is this worth it and then say you know it is I came upon an accident once Madan you know I didn't start my day going I would love to see a terrible accident but I came upon an accident a guy in a motorcycle accident and part of his leg was over there and I'm like I could think of all kinds of things I'd rather be seeing today but somebody had to go find it it was off to the side you know his his part of his leg and I did I just you just do what needs done that's part of

what courage is just this is what needs done you know it's the next right things I go and I pick up this you know lower part of his leg and then foot not bring it over and the paramedics are then arriving I'm getting it to them because it get put it on ice and they might be able to save it you know but it's like this is what needs done and I remember one time I I saw this lizard in a trap and it wasn't going to get out if it was it was badly in this trap and it wasn't going to survive now I'm looking at that I could just go well I'll just walk away

from the trap it'll just die eventually that doesn't feel good you know what I need to do is kill it oh that doesn't feel good I'm going to first try it it you know extract it from the trap and that was making it worse so I'm in a no-win situation I'm like jeez you know I have to kill this thing there's nobody else around I can't say hey listen can you kill this thing for me you know you know I just try to pass the buck you got to do what needs done so I'm like okay

and I had to get this rock you know and sit there and you know and some people go oh I'm tough I'm courageous I can tell it see killing it but not looking at what it's bringing up is not actually courageous being afraid being scared being annoyed I was all those thing I was kicked off - I was like just ticked off that then it has to happen and that there's nobody else and that you know all these feelings so I'm like okay I had to just put aside all stuff and concentrate on the thing at hand I said

a little prayer for it as you should you know I'm sorry I'm sorry is not what people say it is it's not a statement of weakness those are just weak people telling you it is saying I'm sorry is so vulnerable and so you takes courage to say I'm sorry because I'm sorry doesn't mean like some people with their watch your words because sorry means you're in a sorry state of mind that's just ridiculous okay that's just ridiculous those are people that are just being too

nitpicky the bottom line is that when you say I'm sorry it means my heart mourns this experience I'm I'm really sorry that we did this or that we had to do this or you did it or I did it means you know I'm really you know sorry that this happened there's nothing wrong with that's beautiful so I took that in boom you know just dad to do it and and you know it's not just like okay you just had to do it you have to are you willing to look inside and I looked at that I thought God you know it's just what needs done okay fine got that then I sat

with it for a second and you know what else does it bring up and I thought well I remember one time I was doing some yard work over at my dad's house and this bizarre lizard never seen anything like it it had to slick like more like it wasn't scaly it was this slick smooth bizarre texture and color it just it was so trippy looking and I said dad look at this and I'm like close like wow over my shoulder when with a hammer just mastered and I just sat there in disgust and shock so some of that was coming up

with I had to do that thing see what I'm saying stuff brought up stuff but that wasn't enough I also realized that it's the whole feeling of being in this world and seeing stuff happened we have to deal with you know seeing a woman in pain but she's going to deliver and it's going to be okay that's good but seeing her in pain seeing people afraid to die the lizard thing becomes everything it becomes every client I've ever had all these things are connected and we have to be willing to look inside and what

these things bring up if ever I've known somebody that's struggling with some issue or mortality it's the same that brings up the same stuff as the lizard because you know sometimes people are in stuff that's so entrenched they're probably not going to get out of it in this lifetime they may pass over instead of being healed they may not you might know for sure they're not going to ever let go of that relationship and that's like the lizard you see so the lizard thing brought up everything that making sense but we have to learn to see things

in quantum levels like that I'm not saying you overanalyze things but you just start to realize wow you know this is this is much bigger than I thought you know this isn't just that it's what does it bring up inside of me and then being able to take the right action you know can we do that can we all take the right action um one of the things I've done in my life is having to decide what to do in terms of my healing work or having taught you know a written a book on sacred sexuality or taught healing in this area one of my points to that was

like sometimes I feel like saying to the world like guys let it go like their sexuality is such a wounded issue I felt like let's talk about it let's teach about it but what comes up like like I'm going to move to Sedona what comes up isn't just moving to Sedona it comes also all the competitiveness and pettiness of other teachers and healers to get weird about that sort of thing when somebody comes to town well it's the same thing going to each about sacred sexuality I'm just thinking okay cool this would be really good for

people then you realize there's most most women that have been abused most of the time it's from a male so you don't get to just teach you get to take the hits of all that and then there's also issues of you know the common stereotypical opinions of males in sexuality so so you don't just enter a thing and do it Martin Luther King doesn't just go I have an idea why don't we just talk about racism and everybody will be okay with that everybody was not okay with that right everybody was not at all okay with that

it people attacked him so it doesn't mean you have to be attacked but sometimes when you say I'm going to end the relationship this isn't going to be just the only sentence shared with it can come everything else like the lizard story I shared with it can come everything else that's why I was sometimes instill and sometimes a little bit hard on teachers that hurt people like especially the Tantra teachers and fixed sexuality there too often predators and it's not like I'm trying to harm them or their

careers but I'm saying guys you're ruling the subject more we're trying to bring healing to people and you're sort of twisting the topic more and it makes it hard to teach you know so what can we do to make a difference but man be advised whatever topic you want to bring to the world starting with your own shifts I don't mean you have to always preach to the world but starting with any changes you want to make in your life with it comes everything else if you're a successful business person you have a family and you say you know what

I just want to paint I don't know what it is you're going to have the opposite voices saying that's very irresponsible you're not going to make a living like you were with painting but you have children to feed you know your intentions are not like hey kids guess what you're going to learn how to fast because I'm not working anymore you know that's not at all what you're doing but people are going to tell you that's what you're doing that you're being insensitive right now the behaviors and reactions of

people for the great work that you do and that I believe I have done in my life the reactions they have are insensitive they're hurtful and so forth but there are also tests if they're spouting they're failing their tests that's why I've said to you man you hear somebody gossiping about especially about good people but you hear people gossiping it's a test what do you do about it enable it or step up and say that's enough what you're saying is not true so stop correct them teach them step up and

do something you don't have to but if you don't you're failing your test but all the stuff that goes on it's not nice that people are attacking you and commenting you know you're a contractor all contractors is that you're a car salesman all car car salesmen are like that see if I was a car salesman I would find a way to try to change the reputation of car salesmen I'd be like okay how can I you know what I'm going to do I'm going to give rebates back to people that buy cars from me and you know what that's going to do is

make those people appreciate it but it's going to tick off all the other car dealers because you have a nicer reputation you see what I'm saying with every act of goodness comes all the stuff which is not very nice of those people clearly they're in there evil and they're insecure and all that and a lot of times that's why people attack you typically because they're insecure and they don't like that you're shiny but we also have to take it as our own test if you don't like being the car salesman who gives rebates to buyers and has a

great reputation and with it comes other in those car salesmen that don't like you because they're not selling as many cars if that's an inconvenience then don't be nice lay low and don't shine that's the other option we have staying married you don't want you know the family to be upset so stay married you know see how that flies and you're going to come back and have to deal with it anyway think about it if I don't take any greater action most importantly why and I have to say men if it's a fear for me generally if I

see that it's because I'm intimidated in some way I'm almost definitely going to get up and go and you be just because of that if I know I'm being controlled by fear I almost always have to get up and just go because in my mind I cannot sleep well so to speak thinking that I would let that happen but in your own lives please consider it why are you afraid what's the worst thing that can happen and typically the worst thing that can happen of course in miracles' is telling you you're always trying to preserve the body you're always trying

to preserve the lower self it isn't God you're trying to preserve because the god self is already fine well I my mom will be mad who cares like big deal she'll be mad as soon as she dies she'll get over it I don't mean that in a rude way I mean when she died somebody on the other side will explain it to her you see I had this a clairvoyant once I was at a psychic fair doing talks and this woman said Michael did can I talk to you for the guy said sure Gina under it she was unknown medium and

she said if you don't mind my saying did you have somebody pass over recently I said yeah she said your dad I said yeah she knows it's strange but he's telling me something and I thought he's always got something to say but okay okay you know I said okay what and she said he said he gets it now and I'm like I mean I was thinking you know whatever she says it's like okay whatever and mostly it was whatever but to a degree there was that Wow he gets it you know I don't need him to apologize but the idea that he gets it does feel good

anyone that would ever have not liked me for whatever I try to do in this world teach them whatever to think that they get it is really beautiful if you're an artist and somebody scoffs at your art but then you realize that on some level they get it it's quite beautiful you know it really is it's real beautiful for us to know that people get it but we can never be dependent on that but it is quite nice to know you know I'm like wow I mean she pulled me out of thin air she drops this bomb and it was perfect because it really showed she was

accurate because of her knowing what he was like knowing that he just passed over and all this I was like that's that's pretty pretty cool I unfortunately had a sister who didn't have the same experience she was at a fair somewhere in some psychic actually yes yeah that's right it was um it was my daughter and she was at some fair some tea and some some clairvoyant at the medium said you you had somebody pass over and she's like and she said it's your grandfather she said yeah she said well if you'd like I'll trying to

guess where to go this up and she goes if you'd like you know I'll try to tune into him and then she starts you know trying to and she's kind of uncomfortable and she goes you know what he's just a jerk I don't want to talk to him my daughter's like yeah that's him validation swear to God declare boy she actually what she said was he's a prick but yeah but she did she said I don't want to talk to him he's really a jerk and my daughter is like yeah that would be him so here are some closing questions what are you afraid of learn

to ask that but if you are afraid if you have a partnership I'm not pushing you on this but does your partner know your biggest fears and if not why it's a really amazing conversation to have you know honey by the way what what would you say are your greatest fears you know it's not it's not to use such things against each other and I know I've had people say to me I'm never going to tell my party because they'll use it then why are you with them I mean if you're with that kind of person that's like okay I'm going to hold on

I'm going to write that down again use that in our next argument do you know that think twice about that but ask yourself does it buzz does my partner know I mean they should know your greatest dreams and greatest fears but what are those greatest fears you know to me this is just so wonderful it's so revealing nothing no stone left unturned the great prophet Elijah of the Old Testament you know of the Hebrew people Elisha great being and yet he runs for his life when this Queen threatens to take his head she can evidence into him decapitated so he runs for his life and

he hides out okay that's how Elijah's life ends you know he doesn't get killed by her but according to Jesus Elijah becomes a guy named John the Baptist who has to come back and he gets decapitated right from a woman of royalty but notice what he does he's in the prison waiting for it to happen and he just keeps singing he just keeps singing and preaching he just keeps channeling the message of god they're coming form it doesn't matter he just gets louder because he's saying you know what I ran and I hid and that's

not my higher self right now I know what I need to do and I will not be afraid sing sing let it come out you know praise God during those moments of fear so what they might do this they might think that just praise God meaning to get it's not like gods like huh you know bring it on bring us praise me praise me it's us praising God means we're getting into a higher state of consciousness we're we're focusing on or identifying with resonating with a higher state of consciousness because the Spirit is

willing but the flesh is weak man the human self will do what it can to you know to to keep us off center and this is the level of consciousness of ascended masters this is our destiny all of us are going to this place there's two things on the cross and one of them's like get us out of this - Jesus he says the other ones like you know what we deserve what's happening and Jesus says wow you know what today you will be with me in paradise partly because the guy was willing to own his feelings we screwed up the other guys

trying to like we don't deserve this we're victims get me out of this mess and the other guys like hanging you know what look at the Apostles all but John they all got they'll died horrible deaths but they weren't such great people when they were living you know Peter was a bit of a pain you know and and so he died this death but they just step up and do it meaning not that you have to look forward to negatives but don't be afraid to face whatever you have to face in this world nothing of this world can

actually touch you a spirit came to Martin Luther King and told him and is when he was praying it desperately it said they cannot harm you and obviously gets killed so they lied no they were talking about him his soul these people cannot touch the real you let him do it they made but you do what you need to do do the next right thing you know and so we step up and we live it and and life is going to have its crucifixions I'm going to have mine and you know you're going to have yours you can't have my issues and I can't have yours you have

yours and that's enough for the day you know that's enough for you to work on whatever your issues are but be willing to face them is there anything you've not done in your life because of a fear why would that be okay or another way to deal with it if you need to navigate fears and issues consider asking yourself things simple things like this let's say that you were inhibited about ending a job relationship of work or whatever it happens to be but you are inhibited because of what might happen just ask yourself simple questions like

what if this were your child asking you advice most of the time and I've been teaching a long time and asking questions a long time almost every time I've asked someone about some dysfunctional thing they're doing and they're asking me for advice when I've asked them is this what you would tell a loved one to do almost every time they say no think about that I mean that's twisted but that's us it's twisted to think that we would do things we would not have advised someone we love to do which means the cure would be all we

really ever need do is only do things that we would only advise someone we love to do only do things that you would wish upon somebody else that you care about care about yourself as much as you would your child or whomever else it is I mean it's really weird well I would never tell my daughter to do this but I constantly do it that makes no sense at all that's why people are so afraid to ask questions because they might get answers so ask why are you doing this what do you wish this upon someone you love then

why are you doing it takes courage to be spiritual and people that are spiritual and not courageous are not truly spiritual which is okay so where they're at it's it's fake but at least they're doing something it takes courage to be truly spiritual I've had people come to me and say Michael I just want to share with you that I haven't been coming to unity of Sedona for a little while yeah okay well you okay yeah I just want to tell you it's hard man it's one Sunday you say so many things in a Sunday it's like reading three books or going to buy

therapy session it's a bit much you know I'm like well see should I water it down you know but the fact that they were courageous enough to even tell me that because they're not just telling me something that could hurt my dealings they're telling me something that's very vulnerable for them because they're saying it's too much for me it really shines too much light and we can do lay low and just just read a scripture or something and do something kind of lightweight and you know mellow and I'm like no

okay nice idea but I don't think so and as I'm closing a few years ago I remember I was going to a sacred sites trip the last one I took which was around 2012 and it took a group of people to Egypt and other places and had a couple of people not one but a couple of people here in Sedona because everybody is so psychic but I had a couple people say Michael you really shouldn't go on this trip and if you do you're gonna die I'm like what a drag but here's the money for my ticket you know to me like I if I don't go what

does that mean what am I saying what am i teaching to people and and how would I be passing my own test if I don't go I'm not saying you should do things dangerous I'm not saying that for you all I'm saying when I cannot let fear control me like that so by them telling me that it's like dang you know and I didn't tell the other people going because I didn't want them worrying unnecessarily but you get these people and they're like oh I'm channeling this in a being and it's telling me if you go you're going to die I'm like okay well

we'll see because if I don't you're going to have to rethink your channel but you know whatever so but I had to go I just now now I had to go but but I got to tell you there were some moments that were quite odd nobody knows any of this but we had when we arrived true true story man when we arrived odd things happen from the get-go we arrived and we're on the plane and for some reason they're pulling certain people off when we arrived to go to one bus and others to another bus and I'm like well that's odd you know and so we

had a second flight and I'm looking and I'm noticing that certain individuals were sent on the plane sitting next to each of us and I'm going this is otter but I'm signaling to the people in my group you know don't talk don't tell them what you're doing here don't talk just and they kind of got the hint knowing me so we get off the plane we're separated into a different bus and we end up with police escorts you know armed guards and police escorts taking us on the freeways in Cairo you

know is the strangest thing that was just the arriving and all that bit of strangeness but one of the weird ones was at the end of the trip we're getting ready to leave we're going to go to the airport so this could all be done now and you know and I haven't really told folks about these these predictions of danger but I'm just kind of watching it you know and a couple of them did know and they were like you know Michael you know don't do this and don't go here and don't go down I'm like you know I hear you know and I would just tell them if

anything happens you know I'm okay yeah it's the way it is it is what it is but just one moment I am we're leaving and I knew very clearly there was something I was supposed to pick up in Cairo that I haven't picked up or seen we're on the way the airport so there's no time so I'm like run and the buses taking us there port I said to the guy to sit is there a place that would have something like this well no and it's nighttime everything's shut down and I said god I'm it's weird cuz my guidance was I'm supposed to pick something up here and

they said he said well hold on he pulled the bus over and he makes a call next thing I know a car pulls up and they asked me to get off the bus and we get in the car dump it my friends are of the bus go and I'm like you know I can't not go so you know if anything happens guys it is what it is and love you bye bye now get in this car well you know I hid in this car and they take me to this museum and they're saying okay and I swear it was really strange but they they had a couple of individuals with

different sets of teeth each having not a lot of different locks on this bolt door to get us in the museum swear it was the weirdest thing so they open this up and we go inside and you know they're showing me all these things they said what are you looking for I mean the fact that they would do this in the middle of the night in Cairo you know and I'm walking around looking thinking I might even make it come out of this I mean this is really strange and out of it at the end I just go I'm you know is there something like this here I mean you're

not supposed to be purchasing the things that humans but is there something like this and they said no you know then one the guy the curator said you know hold on a second and he went and came back with this box and I said oh he said yeah he said he said you're you're a Rosicrucian aren't you and I said well yeah I mean I'm into you know the Western mysticism and I've studied all these things he said yeah you have the same energy as my my grandfather and he said I can see it but this is a curator at a museum in

Egypt saying I can see it in your aura and I'm like wow any hands in this box I'm like wow okay so I take the box and long story short I end up cutting the box of the layers of it open and we found some parchment some old scrolls and all that so it ended up being something very magical and cool but none of that can happen if somebody says don't go where else and then I listen to that again this is a very tough thing to explain because I'm not telling you all to put yourselves unnecessarily in danger not saying that at all

but I am saying please take time to look at what might be our own fears what's worth walking through if there are some things you absolutely cannot walk through fine don't walk through them but try and consider what you can walk through what's going to happen if you finally decide that your life is out of control and you have an addiction and you should surrender to the process oh well you know then my my wife will be right so she's right already anyway well then she'll know it so what so what you know

I mean people that surrender to such a thing end up being more loved and lovable so to not be afraid of these things you know what's the worst that can happen I would rather let go of a relationship and be alone than be in one and be in hell right it's like just face these things you're all almost every time we've confronted fears the next sentence out of our mouths is we should have done this sooner it almost never has been a negative outcome let's be honest about it and we would never advise some of the things we've done we would never advise to

other people so let's just you know let's do what we can to come out and be brave and be courageous I can say is the drag meant it is a dragon people are inappropriate and they attack for different things but that's part of the test very rarely have I said you know what this is a bit too much I'm not doing this you know and and and that death wasn't easy but the couple of times I have where I said them you know this is just too much crap you know and I'm not going to do this so like like you know sort of retiring from from

talking about teaching sacred sexuality and that sort of thing for all kinds of reasons but it seems like the greater good I can still teach it I can still talk about it I have no problem with it but such a damaged topic I said I thought god I don't want to fail in that you know there's people that really need this but so many people that attack such a topic so I for the most part settle I'm going to step back from that a bit and I think it's the right decision stealth years later so think about what you can do what you can't do you know be

courageous be brave remember it's not about proving something on earth if you walk through your tests and become more courageous it's on the other side that you've actually had an awakening here you may or may not see it the results of it but guaranteed on the other side the one that's dreaming that it's here will wake up to a new level of consciousness a day later because you will have passed your tests so see things from a much deeper level and realise everything is but a dream and it's a dream of my tests the mythologies of my life's initiation

it's what it's all about let's take a few centering breaths just relaxing and centering just dropping all the stuff of the world what have we here what did we learn today absorbing a few truths whatever they happen to be whether it's to do or what not to do what did you learn just breathe them in calmly gently just breathe them in with a gratitude and appreciation remembering the true courage is not a human statement it's when the human

surrenders to our spiritual self true courage means calling God into everything we're doing it doesn't come from us doing something with more effort to prove something true courage means less effort and if we're really having to exert ourselves to be more courageous we might still be using the egos will it's actually more humility that makes us courageous absorbing anything that made sense today anything that could be helpful to you absorb it as truth for you and of course look at how it applies in any way into your life it doesn't mean you all be

afraid look at how you can apply spiritual courage in your life it doesn't mean if you feel fear you're failing its to feel the fear and do it anyway if it's inspired we can't say you won't be intimidated that you won't have moments of fear that's not the point the point is that while you fear and while you feel faint while you grow weary while you're stressed and anxious it's what you do about it not to pretend it isn't happening what do you do about it so look into your life now and see the kinds of things that could push you a

little bit push and pull you control you keep you bound afraid and instead of trying to force yourself through it try to be gentle and instead say father mother God if it were up to me I would say get me out of this mess but instead I'm going to say be with me while I go through this be with me fill my heart see give me the mind that is beyond mine give me the spirit that's beyond spirit give me the courage that's beyond human courage show me guide me in all that I need to know and be while I walk through this because by calling in the presence

of God while I walk through it I'm actually anchoring light into the event instead of getting away from or escaping the event bring light to it bring light to the divorce room bring light to the relationship issues we bring light to sexual wounds and traumas bring light right into every illness major or minor not get me out of this fix me heal me God but God be with me while I have this and see yourself imagine visualize yourself formerly stressed worried afraid and the presence of God pouring from the heaven through your head into

your heart gradually filling your heart with this glimmering shimmering sparkling light till it fills up to such full powerful capacity the fear seems to have faded you don't have to fight it or tell it or smash it let it dissolve I call this loving the hell out of it let the light grow and grow and grow till it's shine so brilliantly all that's left is this you a spiritual master a courageous spiritual warrior see yourself with wings sprouting from your back and expanding around you like a giant halo you have all that you need

even the symbols on angels like a shield and a spear they're just symbols symbols of what and you have those tools whether the Angels holding a harp or a sword they're symbols meaning that you have all you need you're powerful you're protected you'll know what to say and what to do and when you mess up or screw up a little bit you have all the beautiful humility to be able to say oops sorry visualize this as thoroughly as possible for a minute whatever you're confronting anything and everything

fears aging sickness ostracized from your religion or from your family whatever it is see yourself glorious untouched unscathed by this stuff of life and most important courageous if you're following an inspiration be courageous with it if you're not following an inspiration there's no need to keep it courageous decisions one way or the other courageous and lastly imagine people around you lately or currently that have been a little scared a little inhibited a little afraid to make changes in their life instead of being a human listening

to them imagine you are that courageous radiant being now what would you like to do for them when they're showing you such fear imagine looking in their eyes and they can just see from your look that everything's going to be okay from your smile that they're protected let them see an angel a master let them feel the same confidence that you feel everything is okay you're telling them with a look with a smile everything is okay nothing can harm you it's going to be okay can be that to family members friends acquaintances strangers

and fill their gratitude and your gratitude as we come to a close just waves of appreciation from one to another and any moment that I'm feeling afraid you're there with me guys you're there with me to lift me and remind you to be courageous and anytime you're afraid we're all with you to remind you to be courageous if we can't do this for each other then we're really in trouble because then we'll be in the realm of forgetfulness forgetting our divinity let's commit to do this for each other people are watching online from

thousands of miles away but we're still energetically willing to support them in their courage the fact the truth there is no time or distance there are people in other dimensions people in other times 10,000 years ago a thousand years from now we're sending the same love and courage to every one of them wherever they are they can feel this and waves of gratitude to and fro to in front and so it very cool guys. We're going to do our closing song in just a moment.

Gradually stretch out. I shared with you guys earlier that some people had said, "God, you know, going to Unity of Sedona, it's just like sometimes so much to hear and do and process and all that?" You know, I apologize if it seems to be too much. I don't think I can water it down.

I don't think I could do that. It would be weird, and I don't think I could pull it off. But just do your best to absorb and understand. If you're a master, then there's no limit to what you can learn and heal and process and so on. I'm in this with you anyway.

The deeper we go in consciousness, I'm being brought there too. As we go into healing, I go there too. Vulnerability? I go there too. So you know, I'm in this too. We're all in this process of deepening, and it doesn't need to scare us, okay?