Jim Self: A Course in Mastering Alchemy
Jim Self: Absolutely, everybody’s preparation for what’s in the process of happening.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Sure. So, how is like and unlike A Course in Miracles?
Jim Self: You know, I’m personally not completely ready to be making that claim because Course in Miracles was such a spectacular contribution. The archangels have said this is the expansion of that, so I’m just going to accept that statement on the face.
But, what happens here is this is very much a how-to, whereas A Course in Miracles basically said this is how; this is what’s happening, and this is how it works in a manner of ways. But, there wasn’t substance regarding doing this, what happened.
The course in Mastering Alchemy is really kind of broken into three parts, and the first part is directed at tools. And as you begin to master some simple concepts, the concepts are just concepts that nobody’s ever told you in the past.
They’re not some major new aha. It’s like finding the center of your head and staying there and observing, being in present time, opening up the heart. It is starting to recognize the vibration within you that you might label as a reference and then observe from it, begin to be this experience rather than talk about some experience that will come to you in the future. That I think is the difference.
Sandie Sedgbeer: The book claims to be more than the words on the page, that energetics are embedded into each chapter and that readers will be able to feel the teacher’s presence and wisdom as they read the text. How can you support that?
Jim Self: For me, that’s one of the easier claims, but it is one of the spectacular claims. In teaching the course in Mastering Alchemy, the way it was structured, I would have a conversation. We decided to record these, and so we had a wonderful person named Joan Walker channel the communication between me and Yahshua or Metatron or whomever it might be, and we designed the class, the next session. And my job was to step the energy down and put it into understandable vibrational patterns.
We are still using the words in the course, the transcripts, the recordings today that were done some years ago, but they were structured so that, as you hear them, whether you heard them a year ago or right now, the energetics and the information are in present time. I listen to it, and I come away with many times a different set of awareness. And it wasn’t that the old awareness wasn’t right. The old awareness is not in present time as much, or the old awareness has now been absorbed into the ethers and people are doing what was kind of guided, and here is the next application of this piece of information.
So, the energetics are very much in present time. The course is designed, the information is designed to feel this experience, not think this experience. And that’s one of the big transitions from the third-dimensional think space to a feeling space. The third dimension is very much thought emotional. This space is very much heartfelt understanding feelings – two very different structures of learning and knowing.
Sandie Sedgbeer: You talked a little earlier about evolution, where we’re going. We hear a lot of talk about ascension. Are the two the same thing?
Jim Self: Yes, they are. What happens, though, that word ascension has been kind of glorified and animated, and it’s kind of been put out there or put on a pedestal or something someday. But, it’s evolution, it is all the time. And so, using the word evolving into this space and basically laying out a roadmap for how it happens and then participating in the process of the roadmap, you find at the end of the day, you’re in a very different place than you were when you started in the morning.
And that evolution is taking you into this concept called ascension, but ascension is not well understood as I have watched people understand it over the years.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Jim self, you had a relationship with the archangels and ascended masters and Lords of light. I know that more than half the population believes in angels, but I’m sure there’s a huge gap between believing in them and believing that anyone can have a two-way dialogue with them. So, tell us a little bit about how your communication with these beings proceeds.
Jim Self: Well, it starts as simple as a little kid dragging a blanket. And that’s that space where that little kid keeps that spiritual alignment in place. And then over a short period of time, the mom, dad, teacher, minister come into the mix and say I have a better idea than you do. And because we come here to have the experience of the experience, we let the blankie fall away.
And in my reality, it never fell away, and it was confusing on one end, and it was very comfortable on the other. That alignment is still very much in everybody’s space. The key comment I just made is we move away. The nature of your own spirituality doesn’t ever leave the heart. It is always there. We move away.
Sandie Sedgbeer: I think part of the challenges that people get frightened of anything to do with spirituality because they don’t understand the terminology. You have a very good way of demystifying many of these concepts that are hard to grasp. What is a living light body, and why would I want one?
Jim Self: Oh, that’s a great question. So, let’s say your intention is your ascension, and let’s say your ascension really involves you beginning to have access to levels of consciousness that you can’t perceive from the limitations of the third dimensional walking around space. Let’s just say you wish to know God or creator or source or begin to have an awareness that in fact, at those other levels, you can hold out your hand and the apple appears. That’s not magic. That’s how that upper level of consciousness works, the creative process understanding the tools.
So, for example, we refer to the mental body and the emotional body. Before the fall of consciousness, which is a fabulous story, the mental and emotional body was one. You would have a thought, and you would bring emotion into it that would support the thought. In the third dimension, you see something, it makes you angry, and the emotion overwhelms you, or many people see the see something, and they go right into the emotion and then say I’m angry. It’s an unmanaged space.
So, you begin in the second half of the book to start to recognize how to put yourself back together, how to use some of the tools in the upper consciousness – the raise of creation, for example, the color codes.
But, the light body is, as you begin to know yourself and step into those higher aspects of multi-dimensionality, there are configurations of energetics that allow you to begin to integrate yourself into those levels of consciousness. So, for example, you know you have something called Meridian System. Well, what is that? Well, the Meridian System is the interface between the physical body and the etheric, mental, emotional, causal, over-soul, Christed over-soul configuration, which is the higher aspects of you.
So, in that second segment in the course of Mastering Alchemy, you begin to have access to all of those parts of you, begin to weave them together without thinking, just simply knowing. And then that Meridian System, connecting what’s called the axial spin points to the Meridian acupuncture points becomes the connecting docking points to that higher consciousness body that is the light body.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Can you tell when somebody has achieved that just by looking at them?
Jim Self: Generally, no. I’m watching all these people that have pursued through the course, and one of the things that I make it clear, you didn’t arrive at the finishing line. You arrived at the starting line. And in that space, you begin to have a challenge because these multi-dimensional layers of consciousness of yourself do not speak in English, French, and Spanish, and the rational mind that processes in your head has no clue. Well, at that point, you have created stability where you’re able to hold an attention point without thinking anything and suddenly having a sense of knowing.
And those multi-dimensional layers are not interested in what bad things you’ve done or what kind of job you have. As you begin to step into those multi-dimensional aspects, fear doesn’t exist. Words like safety don’t exist. Truth doesn’t exist because you can create an experience. There’s no right or wrong, and you also can say, wow, that was interesting, but that didn’t work like I wanted it. And you can deconstruct it effortlessly. So, do people look different in that light body? No. Do they walk around differently? Do they manage themselves differently? Yes.
