This is the transcription of a lecture delivered by Paul Selig at a workshop in Boulder, CO on March 11, 2018. To learn more about Paul and his upcoming online and in-person events, please visit https://paulselig.com/.
Now, when we teach you about what you are, you have assumptions that you bring to the teaching. “What does it mean to be in form as the True Self?” “What are the ramifications of the choice?” “How do I live and operate in the material realm when I know myself in spirit or embodied as the True Self?”
The answers to these questions will be brought to you in sequence, some through the teaching you receive here, and some through your own experience of navigating a world from a higher octave. You are always living in an octave. The expression of your body is in some ways a testament to this. You know yourself in a form that operates in congruence with other manifestations, and you are all in vibratory accord, which is how you know who you are, and who they are, although you are of the same stuff.
The independent reality that you occupy as a soul in expression is also in consort with a vast vibratory field, and everything in it is oscillating in resonance, in vibration, in tone. As you amplify your frequency, as you lift up the grid as to, say, the scale of expression, what you call to you in your expression must still be of like accord. The vibratory field that you have does not operate independently from the manifestations of the realm you exist in.
Now, if you can imagine this: You may be in one city where the geography is such, and then get in an airplane and go to another country where the language is different. You are still present, but the rules of the new country are rather different. You must learn a new language, comprehend a world with new instructions. The mandate of the small self would always be to claim the new country as the old had been claimed, and, in doing that, you end up replicating history at the cost of the new that is present for you. “I will move to this country, but I will not adapt to the culture or learn the language.” And you find yourself, finally once again, in a replication of what you had at the cost of the new that is present for you.
The True Self that you are, in some ways, seeks recognition from its expression, which simply means, as the Divine Self aligns in manifestation. As the frequency of your body itself begins to oscillate and transform, the experience of form, the body itself, and the rules of the world that you abide in, must also transform to recognize the new. You live in a world based in agreement. Two plus two equals four. You know the date and time because the shared agreement is what the time is and what the calendar tells you the date is. Because you agree to these things, and because you exist in a confirmed world—the experience of your thinking, the data of history, the rules you inherited all seeking to confirm what you have thought you were or what others are—you actually miss opportunity to realize yourself beyond them. The claim “I am free,” which we brought to you already, has ramifications on the being that you are and on the world that you express in. As we suggested, as you amplify the frequency, your expression seeks recognition in the world she sees. Once again, you get off on the plane in the other country and you don’t expect them to abide by the rules and the language of your birth. You are expecting the transformation of the realm you express in through the new octave that you have aligned to.
When we teach you these things, we are doing them for two reasons. One, so you have some answers to the questions you bring to us, but, more significantly, so that the maps you’ve used to navigate your experience may be recreated. If you expect what you’ve had, you will continue to receive it at the cost of the new that might be brought to you. When you claim the language we offer you—through attunement, yes,—you are actually claiming your birthright, what you have always been and can only be in truth, in freedom, in your expression as the Divine. But because your participation in the familiar world is such, and that your expectations are about replication—“I will see what I saw”—you actually reduce the operative potential that is present for you through the attunements. We will explain this to you now, and for Paul as well, who is questioning the teaching.
The claims we have offered you are always true, but the definitions of them may be transformed as you proceed in your encounter with the True Self. You may understand the idea “I am free” as of what you have claimed in the material realm. “I am free of my job” or “free of my fear of this or that” or “that relationship that no longer serves me.” Or you can understand the claim of freedom, “I am free, I am free, I am free,” as boundless, free of the laws, or the rules, or the inherited structures that mankind has wrought and seeks to confirm through its adherence to them. You become a renegade of sorts because what you are saying is that what was perceived to be true may not be true.
Paul keeps seeing the illustrations from a children’s book he had of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” The emperor was nude, but everybody assumed he must be wearing something because the ones beside them were acting as if he did. The confirmed reality was supplanting the evidence that was before them. And a confirmed reality—that you are bound by time, by the calendar, by what you think you are—would also be an example of the limitations that you have created and have been bound by through your vibratory agreement.
Now, we are not saying time does not exist, but it does not exist as you think it does. Your comprehension of time in linear form is a shared construct that is serviceable, allowing you a set of experiences, and recognition of them, so that you may move through them to a higher awareness. But time exists in frequency, and the idea of frequency being malleable must be understood in order for you to understand that how you move through it in some cases is predicated upon your expectations of it, and in other ways through the uniform agreement that has been held that you have been bound by. When we say “bound,” we mean by your agreement. If you grew up in a family that celebrated Easter in November, that would be the law of the family, and you would be confounded to find that your neighbors did something different. This is the same teaching. The collective has amassed a culture and a way of being known that has solidified a reality that you continue to claim and manifest through your idealizations of what should be based upon what has been.
As we teach you, we actually move you beyond the claims made in history, not so that you may surmount them, but so that you may receive yourself as unhindered by them. The idea of surmounting something is as if you have to mount it to command it, to claim it as a victor. And that has never been this teaching. The reception of the self as what it truly is, the Divine in form and field, aligns you to the true claim of being—“I am that I am,” the Divine Self who knows who she is in expression for the purpose of the claim of freedom for all that she encounters.
To be a liberator is less to unlock the cage that others have placed themselves in, but to rise beyond the cage to the level where the cage cannot exist. That is true freedom. As long as the cage is present, it may be re-entered. The lock may be sealed again. But as you lift above it to the higher octave where the cage cannot exist, you know yourself as free of it and never to return. In the higher octave, the claims of fear are not present, and, because they are not present, you are not operating through them, you are moving beyond them. And, consequently, the choices that you make, one and all, are free of fear.
Imagine, for a moment, each one of you who hears these words, that you could spend one hour of every day as if fear did not exist. The imagination here would run wild, because even an hour of true liberation would give you an experience of the potential you hold to move beyond it. Everywhere you look, you are being asked to be afraid—afraid of those people over there, afraid of what you may be capable of, afraid of how you look, or how you are thought of, or what will happen when. You claim fear as your consort, and the culture you live in abides in fear, confirms the need for it. And then you wonder why you are never not at war. The action of fear has always been to claim more of the same, and the only way to move this is to rise to the level of vibration where fear is no longer your consort, and you only do this because you assume it should be there because it always has been.
Now, what we would like to do with you, as we end this teaching, is attune you to freedom and the claim “I am free, I am free, I am free,” which will attune you to the potential you hold to exist beyond the known. Underline beyond the known. It means beyond the agreements made by any of you as a collective, beyond the fears you have chosen and the alignment to that fear that the material realm has sought to create. You place your money in the bank for safekeeping. You have locks on your doors to protect yourself. You give yourself permission to love only those who are not threatening to you, and because that is the case you barely know love. Imagine a world, your world, your experience of your world, without fear, without the claims of fear instructing you to do this or that. The claim “I am free”—and free of fear, free of the agreements to fear—will lift you beyond the known to the new octave where you may choose in love, in recognition of the inherent Divine, and not be ruled by an illusion.
We will say this to you now, and we will say this for Paul as well. Fear is a judgment and a lie. The judgment of fear is to condemn the reality you exist in as absent from the Divine, and the lie is that the Divine cannot be present where you see the fear. Do you understand this? The confirmation of the lie is the agreement to abide in the lower octave, and you will align to this as long as you agree to fear. To agree to something is to confirm it. To confirm something is to be in alignment with it, the recognition of it in co-resonance. If you don’t like what you are claiming, reach for the higher, align to the higher, and let it lift you. You do not become holy, you recognize your divinity. You do not become the Christ, the Christ becomes you. You don’t deny others their love, you love them anyway. You claim the Kingdom in the face of fear, and you watch the illusion of fear diminish and recede to the gross level or octave it has aligned as.
Now, Paul has a question. He has asked this before. “But if God is all things, is God fear as well?” Yes and no. God is all things, but fear refuses God, so it believes itself to be separate. It is the ruler of its own kingdom, but the moment the lie is exposed, the energy of fear is actually restored to its Source, the Divine that is the Source of all. You can never be separate from God, but you can live a lifetime without the expression of it in your being. You may know yourself as solitary, learn the lessons from fear, and still progress. But the denial of the Divine creates a solitary kingdom that perceives itself as separate and lost and outside of love.
Now, you may know God by any name you choose. There is not one right way. You may scale the mountain of consciousness by any means. There is not one way. But to deny the Divine in anything, in anyone, again and again, is to place you at the base of the mountain and ask you why you would prefer that manifestation than the one that is being afforded you now.
