Reflections on the Forward and Preface

In these first sections we hear from the two people most responsible for the manifestation of this book, Paul and Victoria, and we begin to get a feel for the guides working with and through them.

Victoria will not be mentioned very often, but a little later on, she will be asking some direct questions to the guides. Paul, on the other hand, will crop up continually. He will ask questions, challenge, form useful and instructive images, and on occasion the guides will deliberately ask him to step aside (essentially saying, “Just shut up for a moment and let us get the message through!).

I have met Paul, and I sense him as a highly intelligent and humble man who will lovingly remind all who will listen that he is on this path and learning just as we all are.

As he says, 

“I am a conscious channel. I am aware of all that is happening but am somewhat receded. I take a step back and allow the information to come forward. I am often questioning the information that I receive as it comes, because I am very much a student of this work, and not the teacher.” 

"What may be most significant about the work that I do is that when I channel, the energy that comes with it is tangible and can be physically experienced, not only by me, but by those I work with. My guides have promised that this will be the experience for those reading this book as well."

As I re-read Victoria’s words in the Forward, I am reminded, again, of all the many choices that have brought us to this learning place. Some of us might have never suspected we would be doing or thinking or working with what we are working with right now. As she said, this is both “an adventure and a mystery.” 

It is also "a special kind of reading experience on two levels of consciousness: as the mind takes in the printed words on the page, the whole person is being ‘worked on’ at the level of pure energy—but only if the person wishes and permits it.”

This is such a powerful idea. It is in our willingness and intention, not only to affirm the Truth found in this book, but, at the same time, to be energetically worked on to allow that Truth to become even more alive in us. Wow!

In his own words, Paul put is this way, “What may be most significant about the work that I do is that when I channel, the energy that comes with it is tangible and can be physically experienced, not only by me, but by those I work with. My guides have promised that this will be the experience for those reading this book as well.”

I’d like to close with Victoria’s reflection: 

“As a witness and novice participant in the birthing of this book, I find on the surface that my feelings about it are sometimes complicated. The deeper I go, however— stumbling suddenly into realms of ‘joy joy joy joy joy,’ then stumbling out again— the simpler they get. Whoever or whatever they are, the self-described “collective energy” that informs these pages is by turns mystical, humane, ethical, optimistic, and above all, loving. ‘We are all in this dance together,’ the guides tell us. ‘This dance, finally, is in its perfection and cannot be otherwise.’ And so, reader— will you join the dance? Blessings on this book and all who come upon it.”