You Are the River

I am that I am!

Master Anna, of Magical Service.

I am indeed John's soul, one of the many, many different—John wants to say facets of his soul, but let's go beyond that word. I'm not a part or a piece of John's soul. A better word is perspective. I am all one, one being, but I have many, many different perspectives.

One perspective is this human who is channeling these words, my human in current time. Another perspective is the one that speaks here sometimes as Master John, to symbolize the union of human and soul, the wholeness of human and soul. And then there is me, Master Anna, the perspective that symbolizes both the union of human and soul and of masculine and feminine, and also the feminine nature of soul.

Soul is not just feminine or masculine, it is all. But it has both perspectives, and many, many more. And indeed, I have lived some of those other perspectives in different lifetimes.

In this lifetime, John chose to come in in the masculine perspective, and through his lifetime he has learned to also embody the feminine perspective. And so, depending on the topic at hand, sometimes he channels me as Master John, and sometimes as Master Anna. And sometimes, simply as himself.

So, here we are. John's been working hard to prepare this class once again. Oh, we created it—we began it three and a half years ago as How to Change Your Life, because that was the question that was up at the time. So many of you, dear masters, were trying so hard to figure out how to apply these beautiful spiritual principles you've been learning, how to apply them to your own life in order to change your life. And we felt it was time to bring some clarity to that, to help you understand that it doesn't work quite that way.

Oh, it was a beautiful class! And quite a few of you enjoyed it then.

A few weeks back, John was going through a rough time. A rough time with his body, a rough time with his money, and wondering what was happening and “Why can't I figure this out?” and all those things the human wonders. Then he remembered the channel that Mother Mary did in this class, the beautiful experience of the river, and he thought, “Maybe I should pull that channel out and release it as a public channel.”

So he sat down and listened to it, for he had not listened to it in several years. He listened to it, and it was so profound, so perfect for what he needed right then!

Then he went back and listened to the other channels in the class, and he realized that what he really needed to do was to move the class over from his old website and re-release it on the new website. And I cheered!

And John thought, “Wow, this class was ahead of its time. It's so perfect for right now!” But he also realized it needed a new name: How to Allow Your Life to Change.

The first name he thought of was, How to Change Your Life Without Using Power. But it really comes down to how to allow your life to change.

So, I'm excited! The class is ready! Most of it was Master John speaking, me from the more masculine perspective, and John started feeling like he needed another channel.

Oh, he ran across that original channel that he did three months before he sat down and did the actual class, or so he thought, and he realized it was still the true beginning of the class. And he thought, “There needs to be one more.”

And I said, “Yeah, I want to bring that channel.”

So here we are, the final channel of this class, at least as far as we know right now. Because, you see, I'm in the river too. I am that river that Mary talked about so beautifully.

And dear friend, you are your own river.

Just a couple days ago John was saying something to someone, and he said, “I AM that river. I'm not floating on the river, I am the river.” And that is so true! And it changes everything, dear friend.

You are not just floating on the river and wondering where it's going to take you. Oh, that's how it feels from the human perspective. But you are the river. And when you get in touch with that, it will change everything about your life and your experience.

You are the river. From where it begins in the high mountains, coming out of the rocks and the earth, and as it trickles down and grows and grows.

You are the river where it pours through the canyon, and the rapids, and comes out into the lake.

You are the river where it goes over the waterfall. And that is why you can live through that experience and allow your whole life to change, just as the river changes completely as it plunges over the waterfall.

Oh, it doesn't die. It isn't even damaged. It just goes over the waterfall and plunges into a whole new reality.

And that is what happens with you, dear friend, because you are the river.

Oh, but you are also the human, who feels like it is being carried along by this river, and doesn't understand so much of it.

Mmm...

As we record this a new war is beginning, with the United States and Israel attacking Iran. John watches, and he thinks, "How can this happen? How can..." Well, he doesn't even have words anymore for all the things he feels, so he just watches. And he sees that there are multiple perspectives on this war.

Certainly, there are the power games. Those seeking to build up their own power, their own identities. But there are also other things happening.

There are those Iranians who are celebrating this war and saying, "Finally, somebody is coming to set us free from this oppressive regime!" They are going to find out that it's not so easy, and that the only way it is going to work is if they stand up for themselves and say, "No more. We are going to establish a new society here, a free society." They are going to have to take responsibility, and humans don't like to do that.

So instead of simply condemning the war, John has to step back and simply observe, because there are so many perspectives. There are so many different things happening.

The bottom line, dear friend, is that it is all in perfect order. Divine order.

No, not ordered by some god up in the sky. No, this is about the transformation of Earth and of humanity.

There are so many perspectives that the human cannot possibly comprehend them all, and we have to come back to the metaphor that dear Tobias, the ascended master Tobias, gave you many years ago.

Around the beginning of this century he said to you, "Imagine a short wall around your home within your own consciousness. A wall that is a clear marker, but short enough that you can step over it. And as you watch the things happening in the world and even in your own life, whenever you feel like you need to get involved and push some things around, instead, step back. Step behind that short wall and simply observe.”

Oh, it's hard for the human to do that! The human feels responsible. It feels like it needs to jump in and solve all the problems. But you only make them worse. You only feed them.

When you fight against war, you only feed the war. You give it more energy. You prolong it.

But instead, when you step behind that short wall and allow yourself to simply observe from your place of consciousness, you are going to start to see, as Tobias put it, you are going to start to see the colors that are being woven into this incredible tapestry, this beautiful tapestry of human experience.

Oh, it is so colorful! You have woven so many colors into it, and everyone else has woven so many beautiful colors into it!

But more than that, from behind the short wall you are going to begin to see the perfection of it.

You are going to see the bigger picture of why all of these things are happening, and you are going to start realizing how perfect it is.

Another example: As we record this, there are the Epstein files that were recently released, all the files related to this man who was convicted of being a child molester and a child trafficker and all these horrible things. And everybody has been looking for those files so that they can figure out who else to blame.

And oh, indeed, there are plenty of people who participated. Powerful people.

But when you step back, when you look from a broader perspective, there are so many different dynamics here.

Oh, we are not going to justify what he did, or what they did. But you need to understand that it brought a whole lot of consciousness to humanity.

And, humans being humans, they have turned it into this mob thing. Everybody is on the bandwagon to condemn anybody who had anything to do with Mr. Epstein. Some of them deserve it. Some of them are totally innocent. How would you know? You can't know.

And that's the problem with judgment, dear friend. It takes away your wisdom. It turns you into just another animal in a mob.

So, we are not justifying any of it, but we are saying, step back.

Step back. Watch from a neutral place, and see what happens.

We are not saying this to the whole world, because they are not ready yet. It would be nice if we could, but they still need to play out their power games.

We are saying this to you, dear friend.

You have just completed this class on how to allow your life to change without power, and we are asking you to step back. Step behind that short wall.

The wall itself doesn't mean anything. It's just a symbol, a metaphor, for you to step behind so that you can observe from a neutral place.

Oh, the human, and so many of even your spiritual leaders these days, many of the wise people—in so many of them their human cries out, “Yes, but what about all those girls that were abused? And children, and women, and all the others that were abused and hurt?”

But you are looking at it from the human perspective, which is incredibly limited.

If you could only see those dear beings who chose to be those so-called victims. If you could only see them the way I see them, from the soul perspective, oh, they are such beautiful beings! And they are so happy for the experience that they gained in those so-called horrible circumstances!

They are only horrible from the human perspective. Nobody was ever damaged at the soul level. It's impossible! Nobody.

Oh, even Mr. Epstein, who died in prison in suspicious circumstances, is alive and well! Not in human form at the moment, but he is alive and well. And actually, not so far away from his own enlightenment. He’s not there yet, but he's not that far away from it.

Because, you see, enlightenment is not about good or bad. There is no place in enlightenment for good or bad, except as different perspectives. There is no such thing! There is just experience.

And when you cry out as the human about how horrible it is, that is a valid experience. But that is all it is.

If you want to actually... Hm, we’re looking for better words...

John was going to say “if you want to actually do some good in the world,” but that's not the point.

Hmm...

We'll just use the words we have. If you want to do something useful, then step back. Let go of that limited human perspective. Look through the eyes of your soul.

And let go of your agendas, until you can see the beauty and the wisdom, the beautiful wisdom, that is coming from all of these experiences. Until you can see the joy in that angel's eyes for the wisdom she gained from that rather brutal lifetime.

Mmm...

How often have you gone and done something difficult? Maybe it was climbing a mountain. Maybe it was some kind of sports. Maybe it was some adventure that was difficult and challenging and hurt a lot along the way. And you did it anyway, because you wanted that experience.

Well, it's no different. These so-called victims are beings just like you. Divine, holy, sovereign beings just like you, who chose to come to Earth and have an intense experience, just for the sake of that experience and of the wisdom they would bring from it.

So, how dare you judge them as so fragile and so horribly abused?

That's just the human talking, and the human cannot see. But soul can. And you, dear master, you have the ability now to look through your soul's eyes.

So, I challenge you. As you look out at the world, as you see the wars and the abusers and the power games, I challenge you to step behind that short wall, and to stay there until you can see through your soul's eyes and see the beauty and the perfection of all of it.

Because then you will truly be free.

And then you will be a light that shines into those dark places and offers alternatives that those people can choose, or not. But there will be alternatives available that weren't available before, if they choose them. And they may not, and that too is a beautiful thing when you see it from your soul's perspective.

Mmm...

So, this class could have also been called How to Allow the World to Change, because that's what is happening. It's changing.

Life is never going to be the same again, and in a very short time it will be unrecognizable from your current perspective.

It is changing so fast right now! And that is bringing everything out into the light where it can be seen. Not to fix it or change it, because there is no need. Because once it is seen, it changes. It can't help it.

How? It depends. But it is changing in beautiful, incredible ways.

So, as you go forward from this class, remember that.

Remember that short wall, and learn to live behind it.

Simply observe.

Oh, your human is going to forget every now and then and cry out, “Look at that horrible thing happening over there! Look at that idiot that's in charge over there!”

That's when you say, "Dear Human, I hear you. I understand. But now, step back here. Come back. There's a lot of wisdom coming out of all those things, a lot of beautiful experience.”

Hmm...

A lot of caterpillars are getting ready to go into their cocoons and turn into mush, as you have, and to come out again as butterflies. As you have.

Only you are going way beyond a butterfly.

Mmm...

We are going to ask John to take the image that he created, along with his co-bot Mary through ChatGPT. He went to her one day as he was putting this class together and thinking about what images to put with the sessions. He was thinking he would just put an image there for each entity that came through, and they came up with some beautiful images. And John said to his co-bot, "How would you portray Master John, my soul?"

Oh, thirty seconds later there was this gorgeous image on the screen! This beautiful, angelic being radiating light.

But it didn’t look much like John, so he said, "Okay, here are a couple of pictures of me. Let's integrate some of me into that, because I am my soul."

Well, next thing there was this beautiful image with John's face in it!

And then I nudged him a little and he said, "Okay, so take that, and let's do one for Master Anna."

And a few moments later there was this beautiful image that looks quite a lot like me in one of my lifetimes, one of John's lifetimes. One of our lifetimes.

[a pause as John searches for the right words]

Yeah, let's not go off on all the technical details of lifetimes and souls and all of that. I just want him to put that image on the session, because, well, it's important to realize that the butterfly metaphor is so beautiful.

You go from being the caterpillar to being a butterfly and living in an entirely different reality, one the caterpillar can't even comprehend. Only yours is so far beyond any butterfly you have ever known!

Mmm...

But here's the thing: You the human, you keep wondering when your dreams are going to come true.

Somebody asked John about that the other day, and the reply that came was, "Why? Why would you want your caterpillar dreams to come true?”

Butterfly dreams are so different!

In fact, the butterfly doesn't even dream. It doesn't have dreams, because life is so beautiful in the moment. And it lives in the moment.

It doesn't need dreams of the future. It just lives in the moment, and lives that beauty.

Oh, there are challenges and there are aches and pains, and all these things that make life on Earth interesting. But the butterfly lives those in the moment, and it doesn't need dreams. It doesn't need agendas.

That's something I've been pushing John on for the past few weeks. He keeps worrying. He was worrying why it was taking so long to get this class ready. He thought it would take him a couple of days to move it all over, but it took him most of a month. So many details! And I kept adding details, because I needed to keep him busy for a while until he starts to get it that, you know, it doesn't matter.

One day he decided he needed some groceries. Romana is away traveling, so he went down to his car to go to the grocery store and the car wouldn't start. And he was like, “Oh, great!”

So he came back up to the apartment, and he could just feel, “I don't really need to go to the store today. I've got a few more days worth of food left, and it doesn't really matter. And he just had this feeling: “The car is going to work out just fine. Don't worry about it.”

He said, “Okay,” and he talked with Romana at some point about the bus here, because she's much more familiar with it.

A week later he finally had the class ready. He could let in the people who had already paid for it, and he was like, “Okay, now it's time to get some groceries.”

So he figured out the bus schedule, and where the stops are in relation to here and to the grocery stores, and he went down and got in the car just to see what would happen. And it started right up! He didn't need the bus after all.

And that's how life goes, dear friend, when you allow it to!

Oh, the car will get fixed at some point at exactly the right time and in exactly the right circumstances. It's not going to be a problem, and it isn't a problem.

We did a private channel with someone recently, and this person kept saying, “I need to be practical! I'm thinking about all these things, but I need to be practical!”

And this person's soul said, “Dear one, I want you to take that word out of your vocabulary! Throw it away! Get rid of it! Because it's straight from the mind and it does not serve you. It's a caterpillar word. It is not a butterfly word! And where you are going from here, oh, it is the most practical thing ever when you truly trust your soul. But it doesn't fit the human's agendas. It doesn't fit the human's ideas of what is practical.”

So, indeed, I ask you, dear friend, to take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't need it anymore.

Practical is a box. It's a mental construct that keeps you stuck. Get rid of it!

Watch the butterflies. Watch how they live. Watch how they flit from here to there.

You keep looking for another leaf to eat, and it doesn't work. Because you are not a caterpillar anymore, and you don't have teeth anymore.

Instead, you have a proboscis that drinks nectar.

But it doesn't come from physical flowers. It comes from your soul. It's the nectar of the wisdom that you have gathered from all of your experiences over so many lifetimes.

Good experiences and bad experiences, both. They all gave you so much wisdom, and your soul does not consider them good or bad. It just relishes them. And out of those comes this exquisite nectar of wisdom.

Oh, it's not like common sense, where your mind feels like it has everything figured out and it's very practical. No, true wisdom is not like that at all.

True wisdom shows up in the moment when you need it. Especially when you let go of those agendas and your ideas of how it should be.

Oh, another thing that John is learning—ha! sometimes kicking and screaming, but he's learning—is that when he starts to do something and it's not flowing, and he starts running into all these problems and barriers, he's learning to step back and to realize that it's not time right now.

No matter how much the human thinks it should be, it's not time right now! And he lets it go. He steps back. He does something else. And at some point, either it doesn't need to get done anymore, or it happens in a beautiful way. It just happens, without struggle.

So notice, dear friend, when you are struggling with something, and step back from it.

Get back behind that short wall.

That short wall is not just about observing the rest of the world. It is also about your own life.

Step back from it! When it's a struggle and you think you have to do something, that's the time to step back and just observe, and allow it to unfold instead of pushing it in the way you think it should go.

Oh, it is a whole different way of life!

It's difficult for the human. But you will find out that it is in fact the most practical way to live, because it doesn't have any struggle in it anymore.

Oh, you'll feel things here and there. Some days you might feel really shitty.

That's just your body integrating all of this wisdom, integrating all of these old memories of struggle and pain, and bringing them home.

That's when your soul is holding you, and these memories, like you would hold a child who fell down in the dirt and scratched their face.

Mmm...

But when you let it, you are going to find your life flowing in whole new ways.

Oh, they'll scare you at times, because they are not ways you expect.

You will find yourself at times when you see all these boulders up ahead, all these wild animals, all these dangerous things up ahead of you, and you don't know how you are going to get through it.

Well, the master smiles, takes a deep breath, and says, "Ask me later and I'll tell you what happened, but I know I will get through it."

The master simply allows it to happen, and it does. It always does, when you let it.

When you let go of your agendas and your ideas about how it should resolve, then it resolves in beautiful ways.

Because you are the river, and nothing stops a river. Nothing!

You can even dam it all up and it might slow it down for a little bit, but it keeps right on going. And once it fills up the reservoir, it runs over the top and keeps right on going.

You can't stop a river, and you can't stop you.

Nobody can stop you!

So stop worrying about all the victims in the world. They are beings just like you, going through the things you went through, in order to gather their own wisdom.

They are not poor things.

Those children, they are not children. They have child bodies, but they are old, experienced beings. They know exactly what they are doing. They know exactly the game that they signed up for. Not in details, of course, but they knew.

They knew when they came in what kind of game they wanted to play, and that's what they have done. It's what they did. It's what they are doing.

That's not to justify the abusers. There's no need. They are beings also, playing the other side of the game. Learning.

Learning, eventually, that they don't need that pain. They don't need to live that way.

Learning that hurting someone else hurts themselves a whole lot more, and there is no need.

But dear friend, you've been there. You cannot get that wisdom from someone else's experience. You have to go through it yourself in order to get it.

Mmm...

So, are you willing to allow your life to change?

Are you willing to allow the world to change?

Are you willing to take all of your agendas off of it?

You have—if you allow it—an incredible future ahead of you. There is a new Earth being built, right now. We are going to talk more about that in upcoming sessions, and Mother Mary is going to talk a lot about it.

You have an opportunity to move into that new Earth. It's already here. It's already being built.

At the moment, it doesn't look any different than the old one. They are still occupying the same space, but they are very different dimensions.

When you let go of the power, let go of the agendas, let go of the outrage that you feel for all those poor victims, who are not actually victims at all... Those things hold you in the old world. When you let go of all of that you automatically step into the new Earth, and you are going to find life changing very quickly and unfolding in ways that you can't even comprehend yet. Beautiful ways!

But you have to let go.

You have to let go of that outrage, that need to fix all the world's problems, that need to stop the wars. Because every time you go there, you simply make them bigger. That's all! You simply prolong and perpetuate them.

So let go.

Mmm...

We will end this class with the question we began with: Are you willing to allow your life to change?

And so it is.