Masters of the Spirit World

Q: Masters, my dog seems to be watching something in the house. My cat gets up and chases after things and there is nothing around. What is happening?

A: Dear friend, animals are very sensitive to the energy of souls that have passed on, and they can see the energy trail of a spirit as it travels around the room. Your dog can feel the presence but doesn’t see it too well because a dog’s fine-tuning to energy is not as acute as your cat’s sensitivity. Your visitor is a former pet that lived in your house and comes to check out how the current inhabitants are treating her old domicile. Your cat is quite possessive of you and is trying to send the visitor packing! To all of them, the physical and the non-physical, it is just part of the game of life.

Q: Masters, I have read a lot of spiritual material and feel that my energy matches many of its principles. Your messages also resonate with me—but I don’t know what the next step in my development should be.

A: Dear One, you are in a delicate situation. You have found or have been led to information that is a key to your continued enlightenment. For you to begin to integrate and live within these feelings you must accept them as your own and tell other people about them. This is very difficult to do, unless you are with like- minded individuals, especially if your new principles conflict with belief systems that have defined your world up to this point.

May we suggest that the first step is to find a group that believes as you do or feels as you feel. If our words resonate with you, there are some groups that follow these tenets, such as the Unity and the Science of Mind churches, where you may feel at home. Also important is for you to experience mind/body practices that make you aware of the energies within your body. They include meditation, yoga, and tai chi, which may give you a sense of certainty about your new path.

What we find crucial to total personal integration is that you hear yourself “lay claim” to your new beliefs. These may include that you are made in the image and likeness of the Source, and that you were broken off from Source and therefore have the power to intentionally manifest the things that you desire. By laying claim to beliefs we mean that until you tell others what it is you now believe, you will not feel comfortable existing simultaneously in two different worlds, the old and the new.

Q: Why can’t I do that?

A: The ego within the human mind controls conscious activity very powerfully. The beliefs of your childhood and the teaching of others, which you have readily accepted, act as default settings. They are superimposed over all new ideas by your ego until you overwrite those beliefs by actually speaking your new truths to yourself and others. Until you feel comfortable admitting to yourself how you now see yourself, keeping a journal acknowledging your acceptance of these new principles will start the process of conversion to your new way of thinking and living. May your journey be comfortable.

Celestial Voices Staff Comment
As of the date of this message, neither Toni nor Peter (the organizers) is currently a member or attends congregational meetings of either the Association of Unity Churches International or the United Church of Religious Science, mentioned informally by the Masters. We see that both church organizations have websites and understand that they welcome enquirers. (For readers who may be unfamiliar with these churches, we add that they differ markedly in belief and purpose from the Church of Scientology.)

Q. Masters, recently I spent time in a rural Italian village which I had never visited before. I was completely blown away by the fact that I seemed always to know what was around the next corner before we reached it. I never had experiences like this before. Have I suddenly become psychic? I can’t seem to do the same thing when I go to a new area of my hometown or anywhere else.

A. World traveler, what you are doing is remembering a locale where you have spent time in a previous life. Your soul recollects places where it has lived before and, if you allow yourself to be open to the experience, you will feel right at home. Since you were on vacation, you had no expectation of what was going to happen or what you wanted to observe, so you were “open” to all the energies associated with that particular location in your current time space, and also in all your past linear ages.

When you expect to travel from one location to another and reach a certain destination, your conscious mind only focuses on the things that you expect to be there. So, either you don’t see things that you do not expect to be there, or you do observe something but cannot recognize it. This is a common human trait. Your mind constantly lives either in the past, re-examining what you have done, or in the future, where you spend time building up expectations for the next moment or encounter.

What happened to you in Italy was an example of living in the present—the “now”. This state enables you to use your senses to their fullest extent because they are unoccupied with things you have no control over (the past and the future). Stay in the “now” and you will have a sense that you have become psychic because you will see, feel, smell, and taste things that did not exist for you before.