The Way of the Heart
I write to you from an odd position. On the one hand, this body and mind has been the conduit through which the extraordinary teachings and actual Presence of Jeshua ben Joseph (Jesus) have graced us all, over 2000 years after His rather famous incarnation.
On the other hand, I have never felt to be other than a student of Him; a soul opening to be transfigured under His Presence. Indeed, it has been surreal to listen to the original audio recordings of Jeshua teaching and realize that, while it is my voice, how the mind is being used to communicate, and what it is communicating, is far beyond ‘me’!
Jeshua first appeared before me out of a field of brilliant golden-white light in July, 1987. My initial year of contact with Him is recounted in The Jeshua Letters.
In those days, He would customarily wake me at 3:30a.m., suggesting that ‘a little sleepiness is conducive to the openness needed to allow the seeds of wisdom to seep in beneath the ego’s defenses’.
Then, a light and vibration of deep peace would seem to descend suffusing me fully. I would then see Him as clear as day, and He would suggest it was time for me to ‘take notes’. As He communicated, the words’ very vibration would literally move my hand to scribe them. It was astounding to witness this occurring on the yellow legal pad on my lap, yet being shocked at knowing ‘I am not doing this at all!’
While He was present, all He shared seemed lucidly clear to me to be Truth. Yet, as He would depart, I would feel as if my own vibration was ‘dropping’, returning to my normal sense of self, and as this occurred, doubt, and a deeply repressed fear would emerge, at times not so gently!
Frankly, it scared the hell out of me! Why?
What was occurring was feeling like the very loss of control that horrifies all of us, yet is the very hallmark of genuine healing and waking, of enlightenment itself. But I was far, far from understanding just how deep this fundamental fear truly is.
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Channeling. The three theistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are ALL emergent from channeled teachings from a Higher Source; the Dalai Lama confers with masters of channeling for guidance, too! The Bible is replete with it; the prophets ALL served as channels for God. Gradually, as I surrendered to Him and the deepest roots of Separation and Ego were flushed up into my awareness for real healing, I came to realize that channeling is what we are all doing, all the time! WHAT we channel depends entirely on what we are open to being touched by, changed by, and what we most truly value, even if we are unaware of it!
I had a very, very deep fear that somehow, my ego was making all this up, and so I demanded of Him that He prove He is who He says He is. And even though He provided objective proof after proof, it still took me nine years to fully feel the deep root of my own distrust finally give way into acceptance of Him, and of my own experience. I remain a believer that skepticism is healthy and necessary and as St Paul once put it, ‘test the Spirits’!
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It is important to note that this book is a transcription of live, audio recordings, not of me ‘scribing’ words heard in the mind, which might be later re-written and edited. The material here, is rather, simply what might be called “Jesus Live.”
Everything is directly His words, each session originally audio recorded, in one go, and later exactly transcribed. No edits, no rewrites. These are Jeshua’s words, given directly to you, the student.
I know that is a radical statement, but it is also very true. How so?
While The Jehsua Letters and The Way of the Servant, the first two foundational books of The Way of Mastery, were scribed (written as I rested in communion with Him), as my communion with Him evolved, a new phase emerged. After a year or so, when He felt I was ready, Jeshua hinted He wanted to ‘speak directly to His friends’ (and by the way, everyone open to wisdom, healing, and growth, moved by the deeper Call within, is His friend!).
This deeper phase of what might be called ‘direct channeling’ followed. He would now speak directly through me, and I knew this would mean exposure, and surrender beyond ALL attempts of control! He gave me a simple prayer to do, and as I gently repeated it, the following would always occur:
I would first feel myself dropping into a deeply meditative space within, mind settling down into a silence. Then, a vibration would begin; exquisite, ‘taking’ me into itself as all awareness of self, body, or world receded. That golden-white light would become “all”, and in it He would emerge, increasing its vibrational suffusion.
I would feel myself lifting out of my body completely. I could ‘see’ the body beneath me in the chair, the group gathered, and then was lifted even higher. As this was occurring, I would see a circle of beings (I called them the ‘white light beings’ around the group.) Then, with a kind of “woosh”, I was soaring into brilliant colored light at a high speed.
Suddenly, Jeshua would appear before me, saying ‘All things are now prepared, and we will begin.’ He then would use the body directly for communicating His words, ‘directly to His friends’ for however long it would take. The body was filled by His Presence, and that I had no consciousness of what occurred.
The next thing I was aware of would be Him telling me, ‘It is now finished.’
Following this, the soaring would reverse itself, and I would become aware of descending, and growing ‘heavier’ in vibration, until, plop! I ‘landed’ in the body. As many as six hours might have passed of His being present and operating both in, and through, this body and mind.
It would take me as much as half an hour before I could activate any movement, or make any sound at all. What I was able to do was notice that the whole body, “my body” (though He has taught to think of it as “the body”, as it is not what we are) was vibrating at a much higher frequency than ‘normal old me’.
Often, after the crowd had departed, I would walk for hours; I could see through common things, trees, garages, and everything was shining not just in light, but as light! Gradually, it would wear off, and boy, would I ever sleep afterward!
There is much more I could share of this, and the process whereby I came to ‘adapt’ or integrate this profound change, etc.
But what matters here is this:
These live recordings, transcribed here in The Christ Mind Trilogy (The Way of the Heart, The Way of Transformation and The Way of Knowing), are of Jeshua entering in full Presence (while I was completely absent), and communicating directly via “my” body.
And it was not only in words that He communicated through the body He was “borrowing” for a time! Indeed, on a few occasions, He stood up, and walked among those present. Many reported that the body appeared broader of shoulders, and that even the color of my eyes had changed from blue to a dark brown!
The very air near them seemed to be filled with a vibration of love, and those in the room said that He would at times stop and say something directly to one or more of them, clearly addressing their private concerns and question, without them having voicing their question first!!
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The message of Jeshua’s teachings here are filled with the power and authority that those students experienced in those times, yet they may not be exactly what most of us have experienced via traditional Christianity. And yet, they do not oppose its essence: forgiveness, the power and reality of love, the reality that you are fully loved of your Creator, and that it is essential to ‘love one another’.
What The Way of Mastery does is consistently and profoundly embrace, yet also go beyond, common interpretations of Christianity, deftly doing away with the limiting theology and dogmatic belief systems that grew as substitutes for the fullness of His original message to us.
For His original teachings, here restored, rest in the radical insight that “you are as I AM”, that YOU, dear reader ARE the ‘one sent of the Father.’ This reality is not lost in truth, but you have merely forgotten, felt guilt and fear, and believed that you are other than you really are.
In these teachings, He guides us step by step in the journey not simply of recovering this realization, but invites us into how to unfold the very nature of the Christ within. That is, how to increasingly become the living channels of God, who is but love, opening via our devoted studentship to the potentials of love, itself.
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The Way of the Heart is the first book of The Christ Mind Trilogy, the formal lessons of The Way of Mastery. It is also the third book of the five core texts, following the foundations Jeshua established in The Jeshua Letters and The Way of the Servant. Each of these is equally important, for they are exactly how He meticulously set about to restore His teachings, and build His Pathway.
At no time during their creation, however, did He explain what He was doing. He simply asked that once a month I join with Him, and turn on the recorder. Only toward the end of the teachings you now have in your hand did He share that He would be continuing with The Way of Transformation, followed by The Way of Knowing. These form a powerful set of core teachings, and are essential, yet by no means the complete teachings. They comprise three of the five core texts, but the texts are only one part of The Way of Mastery Pathway. Jeshua has brought through.
Another part is the group of recordings that came from the, The Early Years, the gatherings mentioned above. From about 1988 until about 1994 Jeshua ‘spoke and walked among’ hundreds of groups around the U.S. This produced hours of brilliant wisdom and guidance all recorded live, and now available for the first time in book form as well as the original audio.
And much more followed the creation of The Christ Mind Trilogy as well. As Jeshua completed their third and final year, He shared to me that ‘the nature of our Work will be changing. Continue to trust Me.” Gradually, I came to be able to both be present and in communion with Him while remaining fully conscious, yet in deep surrendered attunement.
In this state, and after completion of the Trilogy, Jeshua began to quite deeply, and with exquisite, meticulous patience, take me into the creation with Him of another essential part of The Way of Mastery, a series of energetic, attunement and experiential practices called, appropriately, The Living Practices (He had mentioned in The Way of Transformation text that these ‘initiatory experiences’ would be coming in time).
Two of these are LovesBreath, a transformational breathing practice directed by Him, and Radical Inquiry, a remarkable healing practice that is a primary part of the entire Pathway. As these were developed with Him, I realized that He had already been guiding me in LovesBreath (immersing for hours a day) during the years of the earlier channelings, and you will find, as I did, the seeds of Radical Inquiry in The Christ Mind Trilogy every time He asks a ‘wonder question’!
The Living Practices also have as their core a connection to the Aramaic language that Jeshua spoke, and two additional of The Living Pratices are The Aramaic Lord’s Prayer and Radical Inquiry, the latter growing out of another major branch of the Pathway, The Aramaic Beatitudes.
These started originally out of what began as an innocent (I thought) question about what we call the Lord’s Prayer. He replied by saying it in His native language of Aramaic (which I do not speak!), and I felt as if I was blasted by a power Light in every cell!
He then suggested (he never demanded, he always ‘suggested’, honoring our individual free will) that I ‘recover your ancient knowing within what you have felt’. Gradually, I came to realize that the Lord’s Prayer is actually a process of what we might call today ‘whole being attunement’: mind, heart, body, movement, sound, and breath.
It involves extending forgiveness as a fully felt reality, and a deepening of genuine surrender far beyond an utterance of the mind. It took me many months until I could intone the Prayer exactly as He had, in Aramaic, and it is now a beautiful part of The Way of Mastery Living Practices.
Jeshua then began to take me into the Beatitudes (the ‘blessed are they’ platitudes found in the New Testament). After years of integrating them in my growing work as facilitator and teacher, I realized that, understood with the informed awareness of the Aramaic language translations, The Aramaic Beatitudes are truly the ‘spine’ of the Christ Path. Not only do they deepen the journey of transfiguration within us, they also reveal the very journey each and every soul is actually undertaking.
To say that these two collections of His teachings, given first to a handful of devoted students ‘in secret’, have been profoundly misinterpreted over time, and as they have been interpreted from the Bible, is an understatement!
There is even more to all that The Way of Mastery Living Practices, including ‘In The Name”, a Prayer and Meditation, ‘Aramaic Chanting’, ‘Shalu (a guided attunement process), and more. Some can be practiced in private, some in classes, and some in retreats by Pathway Teachers. Together they form a major and remarkable part of The Way of Mastery Pathway. (note: In short time, both The Way of Mastery Living Practices and The Aramaic Teachings, will be available in book form as well).
Dear reader, there are no accidents in Creation. That you now hold these transcribed words from Him, can only mean this: you are ready, and you must have been in some way sending out the Call for greater understanding, healing, and peace as your very soul longs to become increasingly the channel for Love, Itself, and for the creative ways it waits to move you! This is, after all, the universal prayer of every soul, and the purity of it is always answered, by God Who is but Love. When we are ready.
Lastly, don’t be in a hurry! Learn to breathe and soften, and slow down! Whenever Jeshua asks a question, pause, hear it, breathe, and be curious: let the question reveal what is perhaps hidden in the mind to surface. And each time He offers a practice, why not give yourself to it, before continuing? We all have a habit of ‘racing ahead’, attempting to ‘gather information in the mind’. It is, after all, what passes as ‘education’ in our world. But real education means ‘to be led out of’; to be transformed. Far better than grasping for information, is allowing His teachings, His expert use of what I call Wonder Questions, and the stepping stones of practices He gives from His own mastery, to ‘work on us’, to steep like a tea bag, in them! It is the depth to which they work within us that is far more important than the speed with which we (think) get through the pages.
Indeed, originally, each audio was given to be immersed in for at least thirty days. Yet, even this is just a beginning. There is an infinite depth of power transmitted by Him, as the soul flowers, grows, and becomes our true Identity, even as we recover the far more cosmic dimensions of our true Being.
But as these teachings dissolve the roots of our fears, make clear the patterns and strategies of what He calls ‘ego’ (a product of root fear itself), and awakens in us our love of God, our devotion to ‘ceaseless unfolding’ in inevitable! Are we willing to allow Love to truly dissolve all the barriers we have built against it, truly?
Dare we come to accept that each of us is spark of that Light we call ‘Christ’, just waiting to flower not out of this world, but INTO it, so that Love can finally bring heaven to earth through us?
Only you can answer that question. But what is certain is, His ‘Way’ is now in your hands. Let yourself get to know Him beyond all preconceived ideas, and beyond the limiting confines of a merely conventional theology about Him! He asks only that we let him be our brother and friend ‘on the way that you would choose’. Speaking from humble experience, He is one of infinite patience, and unmovable Love.
As I write to you (January, 2019), over 30 years have passed since that first encounter with Him! What has unfolded in surrender to His pathway as His student first and foremost has also involved gradually emerging as a capable teacher and facilitator, yet all I can feel is…humbled and blessed. He has delivered me from the guilt and pain of primordial Separation, and I am amazed at all that has come to pass.
The greatest of blessings has been three decades of encountering folks like you! Beings courageous enough to open to be changed, profoundly so, as they come to ‘take up their rightful place’, caring more for extending Love than being loved; for being led by visions of possibilities than the constraints of the past born of fearful thinking and false self-identities, and so much more.
May you open and receive all He has to give you. He gives because He sees WHO you really are, and wants only for you to fully realize it SO God can ‘give you all of Itself to the one He loves: YOU’!
Blessings to you!
Jayem January, 2019