642. Sebastián Blaksley, 2nd Interview

Sebastián BlaksleySebastián Blaksley is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1968 he was born into a large traditional Catholic family.

He attended the Colegio del Salvador, a Jesuit school of which the headmaster was Jorge Bergoglio, the current Pope Francis. Sebastian enjoyed sport in his youth, particularly Rugby football, a game that a number of his family have a long involvement with in Argentina.

Although he wanted to be a monk as a young man, his family did not consider it acceptable, and the inner voice that he always followed let him know that: “You must be in the world, without being of the world.” He studied Business Administration in Buenos Aires and completed his postgraduate studies in the United States and Argentina. He also undertook further studies in England.

He held several highly responsible positions in well-known international corporations, living and working in the USA, England, China, and Panama. He then founded his own corporate consulting firm in Argentina which he led for over 10 years. He has willingly given the company he owned to employees who wanted to continue the business. Sebastián has two daughters with his former wife.

At the age of six, Sebastián was involved in a near-fatal accident during which he heard a voice, which later identified itself as Jesus. Ever since he has continued to hear that voice. Sebastián says: “Since I can remember, I have felt the call of Jesus and Mary to live abandoned to their will so that despite my various activities, I always put spiritual and religious reality at the center. I am devoted to my faith.”

In 2013, he began to record messages from his mystical experiences. In 2016, he miraculously discovered the books comprising A Course of Love (“received” from Jesus by Mari Perron) and felt the call to devote himself to bringing the course to the Spanish-speaking world. More recently Sebastian receives, transcribes, and shares what the voice of Christ—the voice of love—mystically dictates to him.

Most recently he has “received” an astonishing, and most beautiful and uplifting series of messages from Heaven resulting in the Choose Only Love series of seven books, the first of which was published in October, 2019. The seventh and final book was published in March 2022.

Sebastian is living on a small island in the Tigre Delta waterways on the outskirts of Buenos Aires; overseeing the building of a retreat property called, at the suggestion of Mother Mary, the Refuge of Divine Love. People from around the world are warmly invited to spend time here in this tranquil and verdant haven covering some 23 secluded acres, to “live the books” in the company of Sebastian as a welcoming host.

Sebastián is president of the nonprofit charity Fundación Amor Vivo,  through which he shares A Course of Love, as well as the sublime channeled angelic messages which found their home in the Choose Only Love books and audios. The angels lovingly refer to him as “a pencil in the hands of God.”

Websites:

Books: Choose Only Love (7 book series) – English

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcripts of this interview:

Interview recorded April 10, 2022

First BatGap interview with Sebastián.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
  • 00:04:37 – Receiving Messages from Celestial Beings
  • 00:08:54 – Receiving Communications from God
  • 00:13:27 – Universal Love and Recognition of Divine Beings
  • 00:18:07 – Jesus’ Appearance and Artistic Representations
  • 00:22:22 – The Essence of Angelic Beings and Love
  • 00:26:37 – Becoming One with God
  • 00:31:04 – The Universal Connection and Divine Dialogue
  • 00:35:13 – Making the Choice for Love
  • 00:39:36 – Communication without Words
  • 00:43:21 – The New Understanding of Prophets and the Second Advent
  • 00:47:51 – The New Earthly Kingdom
  • 00:51:46 – The Choice between Love and Fear in Times of Transformation
  • 00:56:04 – Understanding the True Identity of Others
  • 01:00:00 – Acting out of Love
  • 01:04:16 – The Union of Mind and Heart
  • 01:08:44 – Return to Unity with the Divine Source
  • 01:13:10 – Remain in me, remain in peace
  • 01:17:49 – The Interconnected Universe
  • 01:21:52 – The Pale Blue Dot and Our Cosmic Existence
  • 01:26:14 – Integrating our Humanity with our Divine Aspects
  • 01:30:02 – The Role of Holy Spirit in Relation to Jesus, Mary, and Archangels
  • 01:33:52 – Not participating in the chain of fear
  • 01:37:46 – The Importance of Higher Consciousness
  • 01:41:39 – Longing for Spiritual Awakening
  • 01:45:20 – Achieving Inner Congruence
  • 01:48:58 – The Debate and the Growing Love and Truth
  • 01:53:11 – The Healing Power of Consciousness
  • 01:57:28 – Unity with God and Consciousness after Death
  • 02:01:36 – Near-Death Experiences and the Undying Nature of the Self
  • 02:04:59 – Love in Action

629. Cate Grieves

Kate GrievesIn January 2015, my mind experienced a huge shift, where I perceived everything as God. In that experience, I had what felt like, a download of knowledge or understanding of the truth. I also felt an inner voice telling me that there was more to be revealed and understood, so I continued to give time to silence so that more could be illuminated. Over the following six months, my mind experienced many deeper understandings, and the teachings of A Course in Miracles were linked up in my mind in a way that I could express them to other students, which seemed to be helpful.

From that inner illumination, I have kept vigilance to ensure that no false ideas enter my mind and distort truth to any student. I was guided to start an online group and share what was illuminated, to anyone that would like to hear.  My main teaching is that our brother is holy and innocent… and in that perception, our mind heals of its belief in sin, guilt, and fear. I teach others how to apply this “Christ Blessing” to all brothers as a way to a clear and happy peaceful mind. What ACIM calls… The Mind of God.

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded January 8, 2022

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
  • 00:04:46 – A Desperate Search for Truth and Healing
  • 00:09:59 – Devoting Myself to Self-Improvement
  • 00:15:10 – Revelatory Experience of Peace
  • 00:20:08 – Awakening to the Illusion of Self
  • 00:25:33 – The Tiny Mad Idea of Separation
  • 00:30:59 – Asking for Help and Shifting Perception
  • 00:35:41 – Surrender and Letting go of Attachments
  • 00:39:58 – Letting go of identity with the body
  • 00:44:52 – Rediscovering the Inner Center
  • 00:49:38 – The importance of personal time for inner connection
  • 00:54:26 – Overcoming the Obstacle of Death
  • 00:59:16 – A Transformational Experience
  • 01:03:42 – The Origin of A Course in Miracles
  • 01:07:45 – Struggling with the Course in Miracles teachings
  • 01:11:42 – Advancements in Spiritual Journey
  • 01:16:10 – Recalling Past Lives
  • 01:20:21 – The Song with God
  • 01:25:09 – Being a Newbie on the Block
  • 01:29:18 – Healing the Body with the Mind
  • 01:34:08 – Being the One Christ Mind in the World
  • 01:38:45 – Anchoring in Peace and Love
  • 01:43:35 – Speaking from Love
  • 01:47:25 – Finding Joy in Painting and Being Present with Love
  • 01:52:19 – Experiencing Grief and Seeking Comfort
  • 01:56:28 – Allowing Emotions to Flow
  • 02:00:43 – The Beauty of Iambic Pentameter and the Course in Miracles
  • 02:05:05 – Finding Your Own Spiritual Path
  • 02:09:18 – Finding Hope in Times of Desperation
  • 02:13:39 – Finding Meaning and Seeking the Truth
  • 02:17:46 – Farewell and Future Communication

602. Diederik Wolsak

Diederik WolsakDiederik was born in 1942 in a tiny village south of what now is known as Jakarta, Indonesia. The first three and a half years of his life were spent in Japanese POW camps and it was here that he formed most of his core beliefs, beliefs which he thought were his actual ‘character’. After some fifty years of self-loathing, alcohol, and drug abuse he decided there had to be a better way, it was time to ‘change his mind’ at the deepest levels. Through a Course in Miracles and Attitudinal Healing, he developed a radical forgiveness process that allows him to transform the self he hated into a Self whose only function is to extend love. Choose Again, his charitable society, operates a healing center in Costa Rica and he gives talks and teaches workshops in many places around the world.

Some main points discussed in this conversation.

  • Everything happens for a reason.
  • Diederik’s work goes beneath symptoms to the core belief that ‘chooses’ the symptoms.
  • Most core beliefs are formed in the first 8 years of life, and sometimes even in utero.
  • Diederik’s birth and early life in a Japanese POW camp. His troubled background.
  • Most children blame themselves when traumatic things happen to them. Their behavior eventually expresses that guilt.
  • Reading this line in A Course in Miracles completely changed Diederik’s life: “Sin is lack of love as darkness is lack of light.”
  • Recognizing that the world is a dream and that we are its author enables us to write a different script.
  • Whatever we do in life reflects who we think we are.
  • Feelings are vehicles that can take us back to the moment when their underlying beliefs were formed.
  • “Nothing outside of me can bring me anything I need and nothing outside of me needs to change for me to be happy.”
  • The essence of all these teachings: I am the author of my experience and everything in my life is for me.
  • If you decide that happiness and joy are your goals, then whatever happens will serve that goal.
  • Bliss is the goal of this process.
  • The importance of ongoing practice. It gets easier if you persist.
  • Diederik’s Six-Step Process:
    • Step 1: I’m upset.
    • Step 2: Me: It’s about me.
    • Step 3: Focus on the feelings.
    • Step 4: Remember my ancient feelings.
    • Step 5: Establish my judgment of myself.
    • Step 6: Embrace the truth about me.
  • “Discomfort is aroused only to bring the need for correction to awareness.”
  • Programs available, remotely and in residence.

Website: choose-again.com

Book: Choose Again: Six Steps to Freedom

Book Diederik mentioned: What They Don’t Teach in Prenatal Class: The Key to Raising Trouble-Free Kids & Teens

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded June 12, 2021

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction and Background of Diederik Wolsak
  • 00:05:15 – Core Beliefs and Self-Blame
  • 00:10:17 – The Formation of Core Beliefs
  • 00:14:26 – The Unbearable Existence
  • 00:19:04 – The Point of Change
  • 00:23:45 – Childhood in Indonesia and Self-Hatred
  • 00:28:03 – A Blindness to One’s Own Behavior
  • 00:32:34 – The Meaning Behind Lesson 135 in A Course in Miracles
  • 00:36:43 – Deep Transformation through the Process
  • 00:41:16 – The Masks We Wear
  • 00:45:42 – The Root of Beliefs
  • 00:49:52 – The Process of Transformation
  • 00:54:24 – The Power to Interpret Your Experience
  • 00:58:59 – The Unexpected Reaction
  • 01:02:35 – The Self’s Influence on Experience
  • 01:06:58 – Healing Through Awareness of Beliefs
  • 01:10:59 – The Guilt of Separation
  • 01:15:24 – The Journey to Oneness
  • 01:19:15 – The Importance of Commitment
  • 01:23:15 – Reflecting Core Beliefs and Healing the Self
  • 01:27:36 – The State of Consciousness and Beliefs
  • 01:31:49 – Finding Purpose in Office Jobs
  • 01:36:12 – Step Two: Recognizing the Author of Our Dreams
  • 01:40:26 – Tracing the Root Feeling
  • 01:44:38 – The Guilt Behind Punishment
  • 01:48:30 – Reforming the Criminal Justice System
  • 01:52:53 – Healing Together in Relationships
  • 01:57:14 – Finding Support Online
  • 02:01:48 – The Completion Process
  • 02:06:24 – The Purpose of Discomfort and Correction
  • 02:10:39 – Gratitude and Farewell