AUGUST, 2004

The Essential Questions
by Eli Jaxon-Bear
What the Hell Is Heaven?
by Dr. John Demartini
From the Heart
by Alan Cohen
Ask Louise
by Louise Hay
Science Fiction
by Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Movie Mystic
by Stephen Simon
Fahrenheit 9/11
Home Planet News
Dispensing with the Peasantries, Et Cetera
Sound Perspectives
by Steven Halpern
The Shared Heart
by Joyce and Barry Vissell
Ask The Swami
by Swami Beyondananda
In Print
New Books of Interest

Weston Jolly is an enthusiastic communicator, traveling the world fulfilling requests for lectures, demonstrations and workshops, and sharing his personal knowledge and Divine connection through his books and experiences. In addition to his speaking and writing comitments, he continues to offer individual sessions. His personal consultations are often interactive and conversational as questions are answered and understanding is imparted.

The Monthly Aspectarian: How did all of this come about for you?

Weston Jolly: Actually it was a really dramatic transition on an innocent vacation to Hawaii. I was journaling for the first time and found that I had some strong spiritual gifts that I wasn’t aware of. I had never read about or been drawn to psychic communication or anything of that nature. I was very traditional in terms of my religious preferences prior to then, and yet this communication was very direct, very beautiful, and, for me, it was literally the ability to hear. My transcribing exactly what was being heard was very easy and it felt phenomenal.

TMA: How did you notice it happening?

WJ: It was something I could feel. People ask me that all the time, how do you know that you’re being communicated with? The only answer that I can share is the feeling. There’s an absolute, perfect, serene peace that takes place when you’re listening correctly. You can tell by how it feels. It’s like experiencing the miraculous. When you experience that, it sometimes is difficult to rationalize outwardly even to yourself, but you can tell by the feelings. That centeredness, that serenity is unhuman, and that’s the distinction that I encourage everyone to tune into.

TMA: Then what happened?

WJ: The drama or the beauty continued to expand or get worse, from the standpoint that I was able to hear, see, then feel. I had very strong visions into the future and also the past, and it was taxing all of my paradigms and all of my perceptions at the time. To a great degree, I wondered whether I was OK, if I was coming to an area that would allow me to maintain my sanity. In truth, it’s the most beautiful thing that I’ve ever experienced. So I made a choice. I said that if this is really something that is an inherent part of who I am, then I ask that I be completely open to receiving it in its total clarity. With that, I have become a conduit.

TMA: What was your religious background?

WJ: Very strict, biblically oriented, usually referred to as fundamentalist. Very strict biblical reference and everything is very literal.

TMA: Did you buy that version of the universe right up until this phenomenon started?

WJ: It was something that I joined when I met my beautiful wife, while we were engaged, and it’s something that we left almost a year before this transition took place. We outgrew what felt like the ability of the church to share with us. It was interesting because there were certain words in the Bible that really jumped and they weren’t necessarily talked about. Just the word “light.” I remember I turned to her at church and pointed to that word and said, “Wow, there’s something to that word that we’re not talking about here.” In hindsight, of course, there’s a whole aspect of illumination that oftentimes is missed in those kinds of organizations.

TMA: If you were still deeply involved in it when this started happening, you would have found it tremendously challenging.

WJ: It was hard. What was preached and shared very strongly was that opening up in this way would have you open up to aspects of the dark. In the beginning, I was very concerned with who I was communicating with. In fact, it’s an old joke that I always ask my journals, “Are you there?” Wanting to make the confirmation, are you really going to continue to respond, and too, “Who am I talking with?” Wanting to make sure that I’m having access to what was initially described as the enlightened side.

TMA: Do you consider that you’re communicating with a particular entity or with the source of knowledge itself?

WJ: That’s a great question. I have not really created an attachment to one entity or one energy form versus another. I have facilitated many energies, ascended masters that many people would be comfortable with, and then I’ve also facilitated very beautifully other energy forms that I didn’t have an affinity or even an acknowledgement of until after the session.

TMA: To be honest with you, I’ve been dubious about the channeling phenomena ever since it peaked in the ’80s. I saw so many ... some were fakes and some self deluded people, but then there were some people that were really tapping into Source. It can be hard for people throwing themselves into it to be able to tell the difference.

WJ: I can honor that, again because I’m really drawn to the integrity of the entirety of the process. There are a couple things to be aware of. Anyone who’s really connecting to Source removes themselves. They remove any need to interpret and create descriptions of what they’re sharing. I remove myself so that information comes forth very directly. That can be perceived as very uncomfortable to the shell of the ego of the facilitator, but otherwise you’re getting in the way of the gift. That is my editorial. The beauty of just allowing it to come forth is a responsibility, but certainly something that’s encouraged by Spirit in all of its forms ... realizing that these gifts are not inherently mine or yours, they are something that needs to be shared. When you become aware of that, there is a unification that takes place. Instead of looking outwardly, it becomes something that you become aware of from the inside. So, how to find out if someone is facilitating in integrity is really pretty easy, by you being in tune, you becoming aware of how it feels to you. If something doesn’t feel right or doesn’t resonate, be attuned to that and you don’t need to create any kind of judgment.

TMA: Well, the information that’s provided is either relevant to you or it isn’t.

WJ: That’s beautifully open. Now, sometimes information will be shared that will take a space or a period of time to begin to comprehend. That’s pretty normal too. But if you remain open, you will find that the information that you’re discerning or receiving will resonate in some way, even if it creates aspects of anger. If someone is really irritated, that’s not a bad thing, it could be used as a tremendous tool to make them become aware of something. Suddenly a shift takes place. It’s not necessarily dependent upon me as the facilitator, but again, be very in tune with your own self.

TMA: All my life, I’ve done something that I used to refer to as channeling. Just opening up and getting information. Sometimes it comes in chunks and sometimes I hear words. When people started breathing funny and putting on phony accents and channeling entities ... I stopped calling it channeling and started calling it tapping into the mental plane or source or whatever.

WJ: Maybe we should define channeling. Semantically, channeling and also the word psychic were very uncomfortable for me in the beginning, probably for the same reasons or perceptions that you’re sharing. I don’t really become somebody else. I don’t lose myself in the form of a different persona. I don’t even go into a trance state. I’m very awake and it’s very easy and yet it’s very much the real me. Now, I have witnessed some of what I’ll refer to as altered states, and again, the best that I can appreciate is that some of that is done in an effort to shed the shell or the ego. So someone might go into a sleep state so that they remove themselves, as I was describing earlier, so that the information can come forth in truth. I don’t think you have to do that, but I can certainly appreciate those who facilitate that way. That’s just not how it works for me.

TMA: It troubles me when people are channeling Zargon from the 7th Galactic Fleet ... I just made that up ... and predicting all kinds of calamities and crazy things that don’t happen, and naive newbies buy in and send them all their money that they use to buy horse ranches on the Pacific coast. Which that isn’t to say that a Zargon couldn’t exist, but the other aspect of it is, just because one may contact an entity from the other side, doesn’t mean that entity knows anything.

WJ: That’s very accurate. This is something that is talked about in the book called Is God With Us? which is a channeled piece that actually came early on in my experience. But everything is free will choice. That’s not limited to just this plane. That means that we, individually, as the physical humans that we are, have free will choice, and all of the different other planes also get to exercise that choice. That means that those other places or expressions may or may not necessarily be in enlightenment. You may not be tapping into someone that is perfectly knowledgeable. Maybe they want to perpetuate a spin of sorts. But again, you can tell, based upon how it feels, whether the energy or the signature of being on this or another plane really is the truest description of who we are. When you feel that, and become aware of what I’ll call again, the luminescence or the energy that composes that, you can tell that which is something that is an aspect of truth as opposed to what could be reflected as a jokester, or someone trying to perpetuate a confusion. Those things become discernable.

TMA: These can be malevolent sometimes.

WJ: Absolutely. If it’s the choice of someone to facilitate and receive in that way, then of course, you can tap into and play and participate in that. There are people that are drawn and interested to do that. If you’re drawn to that kind of expression, you’ll find that that energy in the physical and the esoteric form will come to you. If you’re not, you’ll find that you’re walking or hanging around with a different kind of collective.

TMA: Talk a little bit about how the experience went for you.

WJ: The transition was very tough as I initially perceived it. In fact, I was fighting with it because my beliefs and support system wouldn’t allow me to easily take it on. But at one point I had to quit. What I mean by that is that I literally had to remove the need to try to rationalize all of these things going on. At that point, I had to make some personal choices in terms of what I had been doing versus what I felt very drawn to. The choice to perceive this new way was very scary. In fact, I was reaching up, if you will, into the heavens and asking, of all the talents in the world to have, why can’t I have a voice like Garth Brooks as opposed to something weird?

TMA: Really, couldn’t I have a 100 mile per hour fastball instead?

WJ: Anything that would be considered normal. This was way off the radar screen from my college education. Beautifully, when it came time to share it with the family, it was the kids who were receptive, as if they had already known. Of course, physically they hadn’t, but they were very anxious for this process to continue to expand and for Dad to step into his real self.

TMA: What were you doing in the straight world?

WJ: My degree was in management, and I spent most of my time in high levels of management and marketing.

TMA: This is a different world.

WJ: I thought everyone from the places I’ve come from would shun me, and certainly some of them have. But there has also been an acceptance. It’s amazing to me the number of business people who may not see this as something spiritual, but are still very drawn to the process and the benefits to themselves and the companies they’re working for. What they do with it and how they want to label it are things they get to deal with.

TMA: Judgment has become a bad word, but one still needs to use discernment.

WJ: That’s a beautiful word. Becoming aware of what things feel beautiful for you to pursue is discernment, much like ordering off a menu. You like this way of having your eggs done is a discerning choice as opposed to judging that all of these items on the right hand side of the menu as bad. When you create judgment, you are putting yourself in the way. When that happens, you begin to taint and constrain the ability to receive. Putting those things aside and allowing yourself to participate in those areas that you discern as beautiful, is beautiful.

TMA: It’s the quality of information that matters. So then what happened?

WJ: The process after that was continued encouragement through the journals to allow myself to communicate. Weeks into this, I was encouraged to write a book. I didn’t have a background of this kind. Through a great deal of encouragement, we struck a deal. I would write it and they would tell me what needed to be said. With that, the book was done in three and a half months, with me being obstinate almost half the time. I stopped in the middle of the process and said, this is ridiculous and wouldn’t pursue it any longer. But they continued encouraging and it got done.

TMA: Talk a little about the book.

WJ: It’s a very concentrated piece about becoming aware, and about free will choice. Many of the paradigms that we have adhered to or become attached to have become real and create the essence, the foundation of what we’ve created in this reality. But many of us are not necessarily at one with what we’ve created. Appreciating that these paradigms may or may not reflect the true us, the book addresses becoming aware of who you are and allowing you to step into your higher self, and directly participate in the empowerment of your own connection.

TMA: How did you come into reading for other people? Did you just pop into your local metaphysical bookstore and say, “I’m here.”?

WJ: Actually, I’ve never done that. Initially my wife’s sister, who passed very prematurely through a brain aneurysm at 37, popped in. I facilitated the girls for as long as my mouth could talk. It was she that expressed that this was something I would do. It made me very uncomfortable.

One of the most interesting stories ... I was in a bookstore, in the new age section which I had never been in before, and I overheard someone talking about their dream the night before. I got this huge hit and download to go share the meanings of this person’s dream. I asked within, you’ve got to be kidding me, I’m in a bookstore. I’m not going to do that. As we were talking before, everything is freedom of choice, so I crossed my arms and said I’m not going to do that. They said that’s fine, but there is still encouragement for you to go up to this person and tell them what we’ve shared with you. So after this combative contest, I finally went up and didn’t introduce myself. I just said, pardon me, I overheard you were talking about your dream last night and I gave them the information shared with me. Then I asked, am I done? And I literally ran out of the bookstore. I was so uncomfortable facilitating that; my wife didn’t know where I went. I was hiding in a bathroom in the mall. Now, I’m not asked to do that very often, but I will follow that if I’m encouraged.

TMA: What do you do in your workshops?

WJ: The workshops are very intense, as a means to create an awakening. People have shared that they are very strong, life altering opportunities. They are not heavy or light but constructed in an effort to create awareness. Not to just walk away and feel good, but to really become aware, and if you choose, step into the empowerment of who you are. The workshop is really focused on expressing your divine purpose. This means giving yourself the total permission to come out and be the full you. Many of us have participated in smaller aspects of what we came here to do and sometimes there’s a whole realm that we have not allowed ourselves to express. So the workshop is about discovering those pieces, letting them go, and giving yourself permission to really release and participate. When you do that, the benefit to yourself and others that you’re facilitating is equally incredible. Not everyone is going to necessarily be on stage speaking or writing, and that’s to be acknowledged. At the same time, each of us are participating in this conscious awakening. The more we step into that, the more beautifully we are honoring ourselves in what I call the collective choice to go forward.


Weston Jolly will be in the Chicago area giving clear insight through direct messages from Spirit about life, career, relationships and path on Thursday, August 12th and Saturday, August 14th at the Holiday Inn, 5300 W. Touhy, Skokie, Illinois. For more information, see the advertisement in this issue and visit his website at www.WestonJolly.com.


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