New Realities recorded on February 1, 2011
Interview with Paul Selig on Channeling and “The Word”
Summary
Alan Steinfeld interviews Paul Selig, author of “I Am the Word.” They discuss Paul’s journey to becoming a channel for a collective energy called “The Word,” how to perceive energy fields, and the process of dictating his channeled books. In the latter part of the show, Paul channels a live message from his guides about spiritual transformation, overcoming fear, and attuning to the Christ consciousness to help manifest a new, higher-dimensional Earth.
Transcript
Alan Steinfeld
Welcome to New Realities. This is Alan Steinfeld. Each week on this program, I explore what’s emerging in this consciousness, in this revolution of spirit that seems to be happening everywhere on the planet. Everywhere we look, there’s people having awakenings and revelations and connections to things beyond themselves in a way. Tonight’s guest is very much a part of that. For those who thought this might be a show with Joseph Chilton Pearce, I did talk to Joseph, and he said he was unable to do that. But I will have him back or on in a few weeks. I’ll let people know about that. Tonight’s guest is someone I’m very excited about and happy to talk to. His name is Paul Selig, and he’s written a book called I Am the Word. Is that right, Paul, the book?
Paul Selig
That’s right.
Alan Steinfeld
He’s a channel. I think I’ve explored channeling on this radio show before. Channeling is sort of a great analogy of the radio itself, where people pick up frequencies of other beings and use their body to communicate these higher levels of wisdom and bring in energy. Paul’s work is very much about that. How should we introduce you, Paul? You’re a channel for… I know these guys don’t have a name, but they…
Paul Selig
They come through as a collective energy and they call themselves the Word. I think some of that’s for my benefit. I’m not that interested in keying into personality. But that’s how they come through. So when I ask them who they are, at this stage of my work, they say, we are the Word. At other times, I’ve worked with guides who have come through by name, but this is a collective, and they dictate the books that I work with now, and they work with my groups and hopefully they’ll talk with us.
Alan Steinfeld
They will. I do want to say that Paul and his and the Word guys and that group of channel beings will be at the ARE this Friday, that’s February 4th, for a free introductory session and attunement, and that’s at 241 West 30th Street in New York City on the second floor. Friday, 7 p.m. So if you’re listening in the area, please come down and experience this. I’ve experienced this and what I do like about what you’re doing is there’s a sensation that I felt, a quickening and an acceleration. How would you describe what people feel?
Paul Selig
I think people feel what they feel. My background was originally as an energy healer. I’m also I was also a playwright and I work in academia, so I have this odd life. But I needed something that I could feel palpably, and my first experiences with spirit were actually very palpable and I studied a form of energy healing that was palpable. So when the guides work with folks for the most part, they come through with energy. And yes, there is a lifting of frequency, but it’s often very focused. They do very focused work on individuals but also on large groups of people.
Alan Steinfeld
We will hear from those people soon, but when you say something was palpable, can you describe the physical sensation?
Paul Selig
When I work, there are different ways that I work. When I hear, and when I initially began to hear, I used to hear as if somebody were literally pressing their lips against my forehead and impressing the words into me. I don’t have that experience anymore. But the energy that the guides come through with, when they work with the frequency of the Word, most people say that they can feel and experience. So whether or not they’re bringing through energy to attune people or they’re opening up people’s third eyes, which they seem to do a lot of, or working at the back of the neck, which they do a lot of, the energy usually feels like a current moving through the body. It’s usually very loving, and often they’ll work with the frequency they call love. Very often they work with a frequency they call the Christ Consciousness or the Christ frequency. But everything seems to have a slightly different gradation or acceleration or vibration to it, but it’s usually something that people can experience. Even people that aren’t used to doing energy work. I’m grateful for that because my own background didn’t include any of this stuff. Frankly, if I hadn’t had an experience with it that was physical for me, I might have been very dismissive of the whole thing.
Alan Steinfeld
Right. You really put yourself out there in channeling and it’s a huge exercise in trust that you sort of have with this unseen reality. It’s beautiful to see how much you do open yourself up and trust this energy because, for me, it’s almost like proof that there is only energy. You know?
Paul Selig
Yeah, I do know what you mean. When I was originally working years ago, I was much more interested in the energy that was coming through and whether or not it was something that could be physically experienced by a room full of people. And the language and the information that was coming through was really only there initially in support of the energy. And it’s sort of evened out a lot now because the guides, I’ve cleared up I think enough, that the guides are actually able to use me more readily to speak through. So now they’ll often lecture or they’ll dictate chapters that really don’t require any editing. It’s pretty fascinating to me how the whole thing has happened. But I think that feeling the energy is for me what makes this very real, and that’s above and beyond any words that come out of my mouth, even though the information that they come through seems to be helping a lot of people at this point.
Alan Steinfeld
Actually, that is why I like them and I do feel they are helping. They are here to do something for the planet, for individuals to uplift us. When you say they open the third eye, I didn’t realize that. Can you describe what that is and how that happens?
Paul Selig
I don’t know. I’m assuming that’s what they’re doing. What they’re doing when I do groups, they often do a lot of work that seems to be focused on both the heart center and the third eye, bringing in energy through the crown center. My assumption is that, yeah, they’re opening up the third eye. I mean, occasionally when they bring in the energy, they’ll explain what they’re doing, which is they’re working on our, they’ll call it our knowing, our ability to know, as opposed to which they describe as being quite different than thinking. But a lot of the people that I work on end up developing the ability to see frequency or to see energy. So my assumption is that a fair amount of what’s going on is also cleaning out some of the muck that’s been prohibitive.
Alan Steinfeld
That’s exciting. Maybe on Friday they could do some of that and people can start to tap into this level of seeing.
Paul Selig
It often just happens. It’s funny, the last group I did at the ARE, at the end of the group, actually I just taught people how to begin to see the energy field, which is not something that I’m that expert at, but it’s something that we all have, I believe, the innate ability to do. Once you’ve been working in the frequency for a while and your third eye is really spinning, it’s a lot easier. It seems a lot easier. But I don’t know if that’s their investment with us. My guides talk a lot in some in the first book but some in the second book that they channeled about psychic ability. Essentially, they just claim that that’s our birthright, but they talk about it very much as something that emerges ideally as a result of spiritual growth, that it comes with the awareness and that it’s not just there for tricks, it’s not just stuff to play with. I find that helpful too.
Alan Steinfeld
I agree with you. It’s not just ‘Yeah, I can read someone’s mind.’ It’s like, no, the whole process is about our evolution as spirits and coming into something bigger.
Paul Selig
That’s exactly right.
Alan Steinfeld
But when you said before that you talk a little bit about seeing the energy, can you tell me how you do that or what you say?
Paul Selig
When I teach people how to do that, really it’s just teaching people how to use their own eyes. And this is something that my guides didn’t teach me. It’s something that a woman taught me many years ago who came up to me in a restaurant one night and said, ‘Boy, you’re really psychic,’ and then showed me how to see energy fields. And I was indebted to her and still am for that exercise.
Alan Steinfeld
Can you show me, can you tell me now? Can you give me a…
Paul Selig
I can tell you, but it’s a lot more interesting to do it and to do it with a group of people. But really very simply and frankly you need somebody before you to do it. Ideally a neutral background and a dim light, but mostly when you look at people and you look at them directly you’re focusing your eyes on them. Quite simply, if you find somebody and you put them say six feet before you against a neutral backdrop and preferably in some dim light because that will be easier, and you just focus on the little ridge above their lip and you allow your vision to soften until you’re seeing as close to 360 around you, you’ll usually begin to see the energy moving around their shoulders or at the top of the head. And a lot of people find that they can even see the crown chakra or they can see… some people see the other chakras. But I mean, really, almost on first vision. The nice thing about doing an exercise like that in a group is that everybody gets to compare notes. So people are saying yes, I see it over the left shoulder, I see it over the head, she’s running green. A lot of these people see more than I do. I can see stuff with my eyes closed. That’s primarily when I’m reading and reading psychically rather than channeling, unless the guides want to give me information visually, and they frequently do. But what I’ve been seeing since I was in my mid-20s when I first started to open up are these flecks of light around people and later these orbs that just show up that are really quite beautiful and are in the space, and I can’t always explain them. My little dog, when I know she’s hiding under the bed because I can see a little purple light on top of the bed and I know exactly where she is, and it’s clearly part of her auric field that’s showing up. And this is just sort of everyday stuff, but there are people that are far more advanced than I am and see tons more and can diagnose and read. I’m more of a physical empath. That’s one of my abilities, and that’s that’s different. I feel it in my body, and I can tell you where your great aunt or your sister in Dubuque is holding their energy blocks, because I’ll be able to feel it in myself.
Alan Steinfeld
But when you talked about orbs, are these the same orbs that are now showing up on digital cameras?
Paul Selig
I think so. I don’t see them all the time and there’s other times I’ve seen them a lot. They’re startlingly beautiful when I see them. And I don’t really know what they are except that they’re conscious. They’re clearly consciousness.
Alan Steinfeld
Being. They’re conscious like me and you are conscious.
Paul Selig
Yes, exactly. They’re not just a light flashing in the room. When I see little specks of light around people, and that’s how I started to open up clairvoyantly after I first had this sort of rooftop experience in my 20s, I started seeing these flecks around people, and I knew that they were something. I just didn’t know what they were. And I still think I don’t know what they are, nor do I necessarily know what the orbs are, except when they come. And they’re usually really a brilliant cobalt blue, sometimes there’s green, a sort of lavender I think. But they’re just sort of there and they’re startlingly beautiful and there’s deep telling side, but they come so fast or my eyes can’t comprehend them for more than a second. I mean one of the tricks with seeing energy is the moment you try to focus on it, you don’t see it anymore. When you just sort of let it be, you can see more. But again, I’m sure that you’ve got other guests that can really go into detail with this. All I can talk about is my own experience, and this stuff for me in many ways was peripheral and was sort of the yellow brick road that I followed in order to access the abilities that I do seem to have and demonstrate today. And these other things are kind of like there and I’m appreciative of them, but it’s not really the core of my work. So I’m not the guy to go to to learn how to see auras.
Alan Steinfeld
It’s part of a whole, I think, spirit approach to the nature of reality. All these things, everything that you’re describing, you may be good in one subject but not in another, but it’s part of a whole educational sphere.
Paul Selig
It is. And I’m extraordinarily grateful for it. I was raised an atheist, and I…
Alan Steinfeld
Were you really?
Paul Selig
I was an atheist. My mom says we were agnostic. The bottom line is we sort of believed that people who went to church were stupid. That was how I was raised on the upper west side of Manhattan. And I certainly don’t think that anymore, you know. But I needed an experience that had phenomena attached to begin to allow me to trust. And I also know in retrospect I was desperately hungry for a spiritual life that I had never been given permission to have by any institution or any person. So when I began to have this and suddenly there was accompanying phenomena, I really felt like I had no recourse but to follow that. And I’ve taken some detours, but I’ve been following it for a while. And I think that you’re absolutely right. I think this stuff is at this point available to everybody. I think that there’s a real mass change of consciousness happening at this time. And I think that well, what my guides say is there’s a lot less resistance to this level of growth than there ever has been, and what used to take lifetimes no longer takes that. You know, the ability that we have at this time to shift our frequency, I think is unparalleled. But that’s what I…
Alan Steinfeld
That seems easier for me even when I tune into different people… my maybe because I’ve been working at it, but the images of people and the intuitions I get seem clearer for me. But the big question I think is, is it possible, and maybe it’s from you or your guides their opinion, that we can all actually have a planet, a civilization where this is the norm? Is this where we’re coming? I mean, this is the hope and dream, but is it possible?
Paul Selig
I hear ‘it is happening, it is happening, it is happening.’ When you were asking that, that’s what I heard. ‘It is happening, but it’s a process.’ But I also hear ‘but it’s a process.’ And I should probably say just because if you’ve got listeners, they’re going to hear me muttering to myself. And, you know, when I hear my guides, I tend to whisper the words to myself and then repeat them. So…
Alan Steinfeld
So you’re hearing them at the same time you’re saying them?
Paul Selig
Exactly. The dictation is live, so I’m not hearing it, repeating it in a whisper, and then repeating it aloud. I hear it as the whisper is being formed, and then I repeat in a louder voice. And I do that primarily because I work with groups, and that’s what I got used to doing in order to be heard. Alan Steinfeld
But… I was just wondering, do they then control, not control, but are they accessing your voice box, your speaking? As they…
Paul Selig
No, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I mean, I do demonstrate aspects of what people call physical mediumship. My body gets used a lot. And again, there’s physical phenomena attached to to what I do. I mean, people have called me a healing medium because they work with energy that people can feel. However, I don’t think that they’re using my voice box directly. Although, you know, there are times when I’m either A, really tired or have just hit another place of surrender, where there is a guide that comes through that does operate with an accent, and I was initially moderately freaked out about that, but, you know, it happens, and that feels like it’s a much more direct channeling. Not that the other stuff isn’t direct, but I do seem to be bringing through an aspect of personality with it as opposed to what has been described as a collective energy. And this one guide comes through with a bit of a Welsh accent. He’s more of a poet than the others, and he’s dictated… he dictated, I think, two of the chapters directly in the book I Am the Word. The last, the chapter on creation was all him, because he always talks about song, you know, we’re all singing. He talks about vibration as singing.
Alan Steinfeld
Oh, we’re singing another song. Yes, I’ve heard that. It doesn’t matter, but what would you say his name could be? I mean, I know it doesn’t matter, but…
Paul Selig
I don’t want to go there, you know. I mean, it’s…
Alan Steinfeld
I respect that. It doesn’t matter anyway, what anyone’s name is. It’s the energy…
Paul Selig
When I asked them, they say, ‘We are the Word.’ And he’s of that. So the idea of breaking stuff down into personality, I mean, I have to say I don’t know whether that’s something that we want and we get attached to. I don’t get a sense that they could care less whether we call them Aunt B or Uncle Sam. I don’t think that. And to my mind, and some of this was when I was first introduced to the new age stuff, I was extraordinarily cynical about channeling and a lot of other stuff. And I was never a very good new ager. But there was a lot of, I think, spiritual materialism going on and everybody was, you know, ‘My guide is this’ and ‘My guide is that’ and it was kind of like, you know, ‘Whose big brother is going to kick your big brother’s butt?’ And I just thought it was all kind of silly, you know. Reiki people were talking to the MariEl people, and it was just a lot of stuff. And it was just like, wow, this is kind of wild. So I just don’t go there anymore. And I think if they want to be known by a different name, it’s going to come through them and not through my request.
Alan Steinfeld
I mean, you’re right. It doesn’t matter. I think it just gives credentials. But the real credential is in the feeling and the vibration and the message, of course, and I think that’s really what people have to go by. It is a kind of materialism to say, ‘Oh, this is this and that means this.’ Like everyone’s channeling Michael or Metatron and it doesn’t matter. It’s the message, not the messenger.
Paul Selig
I think it’s the frequency. My guides come through and they say that they are of and working with the Christ consciousness. And in the book, they describe themselves as teachers, missionaries, and ascended masters. I mean, that’s, you know, and I don’t think that they’re all all of those things necessarily, but this is sort of collective energy. So I’m, I’m okay enough with that. And to be honest with you, you know, I had to swallow that when it came through. I was more than happy to just trust that, you know, the guides who worked with me when I was working as an energy healer were now, you know, somehow giving voice to information. And initially, I was, I was caught up in names and I certainly got some, some high level ones, um, and they may well be who were working with me, but then people get attached to that stuff. I just don’t think that’s the point of the work anymore. This work I feel is universal. It’s not just for the people who go to one camp.
Alan Steinfeld
Yeah, no, I think it’s interesting. I mean, I’ve met lots of channels over the years, over the last 30 years. I mean, my great introduction to all this spirituality was through Ramtha, who is this channeled being, and…
Paul Selig
Wow.
Alan Steinfeld
But you somehow make yourself more available in a way where… I’m always interested, how these aspects of the mind… so these… it’s an incredible amount of trust that you are actually believing in yourself enough to know that it’s not you creating this, but you are available to something else.
Paul Selig
Yeah. I mean, I know what you’re saying. I used to be… I’ve gone through a lot around this stuff. One of the most important things to me always was that I never harmed anybody or never misled anybody. I never wanted to do that. And the other thing is I have a very nice career in academia that I don’t need to mess with. So the fact that I’m now sort of saying, okay, here I am and this is an aspect of my life has been part of my work here was challenging, but I was also supported by a lot of people in doing that. But initially when this stuff started and I started hearing stuff, first it happened when I was working as an energy healer and I was volunteering at a place called the Manhattan Center for Living that Marianne Williamson founded, and I was working mostly with people with AIDS and cancer at the height of the AIDS epidemic. And I began to hear things for my clients. If I had my hand on some guy’s heart and I heard ‘Herman’, and I’m not thinking of any Herman, I finally learned to say, ‘I’m hearing Herman or who’s Herman?’ And they would say, ‘My lover, my father, my son, my dog, whatever.’ But there began to be auditory information being given to me. And I learned to trust it primarily from ignoring it and then paying the consequences for it. You know, I remember having a client on the table at a different place years later who I kept hearing ‘broke back, broke back.’ And the guy got on… I didn’t want to say it… the guy broke his back. He didn’t have a broken back. He got off the table. He said, ‘Why didn’t you talk about my broken back?’ And so I learned that my ignoring it was my ego, and frankly, any messages that I get if I’m channeling or doing a psychic reading are not for me, they’re for those in attendance, so whether it’s the client or the group. So the level of trusting, I mean, that’s been acquired, but the way that I’m channeling now only kicked in about three years ago I think, which is full lectures, chapters, and books. And I was completely not expecting it. I was doing a group one night and my guide said to somebody there that I wouldn’t start to believe the work that was coming through until I saw it written down. And I had just started recording these groups after doing them for years. I never liked to listen to the recordings because it was so weird to hear myself whisper and repeat stuff. But I made myself listen, I transcribed the lecture. It was a five-page essay. It required no editing at all. It just came out. And I was pretty astonished, and I typed the thing up and threw it up on my webpage. And I did that for a month. And then shortly thereafter they said, ‘We have a book to write, and we’ll do it in two weeks.’ And the dictation of the book, which took two and a half weeks, and it’s only because, you know, I took a day off here and there or some time… and they said it would be published, and pretty much they laid out the whole thing, and the whole thing happened exactly as they said. And I don’t care how smart or articulate I may be, I don’t think I’m capable of dictating a 300-page book that requires no editing. And that’s exactly what I Am the Word is. I mean, the only things that were cut from that text were questions that were asked by the woman who was on the phone during all of those readings. And occasionally because she had the guides as a captive audience, would say ‘What do you think of this or what do you think of that?’ And it was personal information about her life. Her name is Victoria Nelson. She’s a wonderful, wonderful scholar and writer. But…
Alan Steinfeld
No, I appreciate you sharing all that, and it seems like there is something… I do want to talk to them, but I just have another question for you in a sense where if you let these beings kind of use your consciousness or something. Now, what happens to you? Where when they’re whispering through you, you’re hearing it but there’s a part of you that’s also speaking it and hearing it. And so, is there something about a transcendent identity that happens as more and more of this takes place in your life?
Paul Selig
I think yes. I think I know what you’re asking because… I think if I’m correct, you’re asking if engaging in this process is altering my sense of who I am in the world.
Alan Steinfeld
Yes, yeah.
Paul Selig
Yes, absolutely. But I think that I’m becoming or evolving as the aspect of myself that my guides call this frequency. And my guides say this is who we all are in truth. I mean, there are certain things that I’ve learned from them, which is… and that I do trust, and they have said point blank, you know, A, you can’t lie, because if you’re lying you’re coming from fear. That there is no lie that is not born out of fear, so it’s really hard for me to lie. And the other thing that they say is that if you take an action based in fear, you’re creating more fear. And if you take an action based in love, you’re contributing to love. And pretty much they said, look at your life and look at every choice you’ve made that was born out of fear and see what it created, and it created more problems. So I do think that I’ve integrated some of this, not all of it. I don’t think I’m nobody’s guru. That’s for sure. Nor do I want to be. I’m happy to be the teacher who works with them or the empath or whatever you want to call it. But I do think it’s worked with me. I think that I operate with much more grace than I used to. And I’m not somebody, and I think this is probably true for many of us, I didn’t go into spirituality because my life was going so well at all. I hit a wall. Finally, on the other side of this there was this other possibility. I was really blessed because I had a couple of big experiences early on that were very transformational for me.
Alan Steinfeld
Yeah, and we’ve talked about that and there’s actually a video that’s going to be going up on YouTube where Paul talks about some of those experiences. But one more question I just have for you is that as these beings use your body more and more, speaking through you more and more, what happens to your consciousness? Do you become more and more of the witness? Is that sort of the feeling?
Paul Selig
While I’m channeling, what I’m usually doing is waiting for the next phrase and hoping I can hear it. Occasionally you’ll hear me say another word, and that’s because I’m not getting the word that they’re trying to come through and I’ll often replace it with something else. But the act of channeling, A, I’m running the energy so I’m in the frequency, which is wonderful and I like feeling being in the frequency. People ask me how it feels after I channel and if I’m exhausted, I always say it feels like I’ve been swimming in the ocean, that great feeling of being achy but cleaned and shiny. So there’s that experience. Now, and that’s when they’re lecturing, it’s like that. When I work on people in groups, or if my guides are working on people in groups, I become more present and it’s much more like being in conversation. So I can tune into somebody’s energy field and say, okay, what’s going on in your left knee? And they’ll say, well, I had a broken left knee. So the guides will go to work on it. And then it’s much more of a collaboration. But for the most part, when I’m either dictating the texts or if I’m channeling lectures, I’m there only as the radio. The only difference between me, I think, and perhaps some other people that do this, because I’m not a trance channel, is I question it as it’s coming through, often to the point where it’s interruptive, and then I’ve been known to get a bit chastised, which is essentially, we will answer your questions later, let us finish. And they’re very polite about it. But if I were to hear something that would frighten me or challenge me too much, I think the likelihood is that I would say, hey, wait a minute, what’s going on here? And I want to be clear that I’m tuned into a high source. Now I trust the energy that my guides come through and the cadence of the voice and all of that, so it’s not a big deal. But I also think that they can’t take me necessarily beyond what my consciousness can accept and hold. I think there’s a reason I’m not channeling scientific information and somebody else is.
Alan Steinfeld
But also, they’re also here to push you beyond what you can accept and hold in a way, right?
Paul Selig
Absolutely, absolutely. And they’ve been doing it. I mean, I’m talking here with you. If somebody told me 20 years ago I was going to do this, I would think that they were pretty nuts. But yeah, I trusted enough, and I’m really fortunate. There have been people that have been coming to my groups pretty steadily for many years. So I have a core of people who’ve been doing this work and are supportive of the work and have had their lives changed by it. And that helps me to trust it, too. But the group for me is a laboratory, and it’s a way for me to continue to trust because I get to be in the energy every week. And that’s what allows me to change.
Alan Steinfeld
And if people want to know about those groups, you can go to Paul’s website, which is PaulSelig.com. That’s P-A-U-L-S-E-L-I-G dot com. And there’s information about you there and the groups and all that. But okay, now let’s talk to your guides. I’m interested in what they have to say as far as they’re saying there’s this transformation, and everyone’s aware of their consciousness, but what do we need to do and when will this happen and what’s in the way of it happening? That’s kind of a question I have for them.
Paul Selig
That was a few questions, so I’m going to see what I can get.
Alan Steinfeld
See what you choose.
Paul Selig (Channeling)
We will tell you one thing at a time. The fear of being changed, of being in transformation, is the obstacle. And that’s the only obstacle, but it is fear. As mankind transforms itself, as this frequency, we call Word, we call Word, it is the frequency of the Christ consciousness, which is the frequency of love. As this incarnates into men, into men, humanity will awaken. Humanity will awaken. How does this happen? The obstacle is released. The obstacle is released. You choose the time. You are always choosing the time. You have the right to. You have the right to. As a human being, you have the ability to create. To create. If you want to create more fear, that is your birthright. We will wait. We will tell you this. The trials that you face as a planet will be incurred by your fear. Not by anything else. Not by anything else. So the choice of course is yours. You, you, you. The choice is you.
Alan Steinfeld
Okay, let’s go beyond fear. Let’s forget about fear and let’s move into the unknown with joy and excitement and creativity. Let’s talk about that.
Paul Selig (Channeling)
You can talk about that, but what’s the question?
Alan Steinfeld
The question is what do we need to do to bring in this opposite of fear? How can each of us be more of who we are?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
We can tell you. The decision must be made in you. That it is possible. That it is possible. And then you must decide that it can be brought to be. That it can be brought to be. You will be attuned to the frequency, to the frequency as you require it, as you require it. And then you can attune others. And then you can attune others. However, the decision to be whole as realized, as realized, as your true self, as your true self is created by you. Is created by you. That is the fear. That is the fear. And once that is there, the choice has been made. The choice has been made to align to love. To align to love. This planet will shift. This planet will shift. We cannot do the collective work, but we cannot do the collective work without the individual choice. Without the individual choice. And that is the misnomer, and that is the misnomer that people call global shifts. Global shifts. The global shift we say, the global shift we say is in process, is in process, as many people are choosing, as many people are choosing to realign their frequency. To realign their frequency. There are benefits of this. And the benefits of this are what you say. Are what you say. However, joy is fine. Joy is fine. It is escalated frequency. It is escalated frequency. You do not want to do the work. You do not want to do the work. Many people do not want to do the work. Many people do not want to do the work, which is relinquishing an identity, which is relinquishing an identity that has been created, that has been created in response to decrees, in response to decrees, societal, cultural, and habitual, that keep you in your desire, that keep you in your desire to be separate, to be separate. Once you realize in truth, once you realize in truth that the creator within you, that the creator within you is aligned to you, is aligned to you, and can be expressed as you, and can be expressed as you, you will know this is true. You will know this is true, and it is true for everybody. And it is true for everybody. Everybody is this thing. Everybody is this thing. Nobody is not loved. Nobody is not loved. And nobody is not here to be received, to be received as this frequency, as this frequency. We call it the Word. We call it the Word. You may choose your name, your name, if you create from this frequency. From this frequency. But it is the energy of the Christ consciousness. But it is the energy of the Christ consciousness. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
I’m choosing to let go of my identity and be whole. And is it just deciding to do that? Is that all I need to do in this moment is forget in a sense who I’ve identified as being and desire the wholeness? Does that happen through the desire?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
It’s being received as this. It’s being received as this. As you choose it, as you choose it, you create from this frequency. You create from this frequency. And as you are this frequency, and as you are this frequency, it is you in experience. It is you in experience. It becomes what you do. It becomes what you do. And who you are, and who you are, because it cannot not be. Because it cannot not be. The choice that you make to be received, the choice that you make to be received as yourself, as yourself, will call to you the energies. Will call to you the energies you require to shift you. You require to shift you. So the decision is essential. So the decision is essential. We do not bypass free will. We do not bypass free will. We are not allowed. We are not allowed, nor would we choose to. Nor would we choose to. People want to be where they are. People want to be where they are. Everybody knows this. Everybody knows this. At a certain level. At a certain level. That they are the one in choice. That they are the one in choice. But the choice that can be made now, but the choice that can be made now, we would say, we would say, is not clear. Is not clear. And we are trying to make it clear to people. And we are trying to make it clear to people. So they can operate with a new information. With a new information that is available now. That is available now. We tell you, we tell you, you are the Word. You are the Word. You are the Christ consciousness made manifest. You are the Christ consciousness made manifest. As you claim it, as you claim it, are received by it, are received by it, and work with it. And work with it in love. In love. Period. Period. We are not speaking mumbo jumbo. We are not speaking mumbo jumbo. We are teaching. We are teaching what it means. What it means to become manifest. To become manifest as the self. As the self. That is the Christ itself. That is the Christ itself. Each one here is that. Each one here is that. And will always be. And will always be regardless of what you believe. Regardless of what you believe. We are choosing you. We are choosing you to be you. To be you. When we work with you. When we work with you. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
Well, thank you for that. And I get something from that. And if I just choose my wholeness, then the wholeness arrives and it seems like we are getting help and the planet itself and the vibrations that we’re in are assisting people in new ways that haven’t been available before. So in a sense, people can choose the old, but there’s something happening that’s beyond choice. And this is what we’re welcoming at this time. Is that correct?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
They’re saying, and it’s interesting, what they’re saying is it is allowed now. Correct. It is allowed. It is allowed. This can all happen now. This can all happen now. It was not available prior to this time. It was not available prior to this time at this level of availability. At this level of availability. They’re saying of availability. Now it can be claimed. Now it can be claimed. But you must claim it. But you must claim it. Word I am Word. And they’re saying Word I am Word. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
So to claim it is to know it. That I am the Christ itself. Is that it?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
They’re saying yes and yes and no. That is absolutely right. That is absolutely right. You are the Christ itself. You are the Christ itself. But to claim the power of the Word. But to claim the power of the Word, you must do this. You must do this. Claim I am Word through my body. Claim I am Word through my body. Word I am Word. Word I am Word. I am Word through my vibration. I am Word through my vibration. Word I am Word. Word I am Word. I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word. As Word. This is the attunement to frequency. This is the attunement to frequency. That you can manifest as this. That you can manifest as this. Now everybody can do this. Now everybody can do this. You don’t need the mantra. You don’t need the mantra, the decree or the saying. Or the saying in order to manifest. In order to manifest. But it will shift the energy field that you are. But it will shift the energy field that you are in a way that is transmutable. In a way that is transmutable. They’re using the transmutable? Correct. In a way that is transmutable. They’re using the word transmutable. Correct. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
I don’t know what it means to be transmutable.
Paul Selig
Well, transmutable, it means it will change the actual patterns in the body, the actual physical physiology. The transmute…
Paul Selig (Channeling)
It will shift the frequency that you are. Period. Period. That is the Word. That is the Word made manifest. Made manifest. Everybody is this thing. And again they just say everybody is this thing. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
If I was to say I am Word through my body, I can also say I am the Christed awakened one in my body as well. Would that work?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
Well, this is odd. I’m going to just guess see what. They’re saying it does not resonate with the teaching we give. Because it implies ego. Because it implies ego. Word. Word. To Word is to be in frequency. Is to be in frequency. You are not the only Christ. You are not the only Christ. Anybody who says that. Anybody who says that is in for a very rough time. Is in for a very rough time.
Alan Steinfeld
No, I didn’t mean I was the only one or anyone who says it. I mean it’s the we are all that is what I meant by that.
Paul Selig (Channeling)
That’s correct. I am the Christ itself. Made manifest is safe. I am the Christ itself made manifest is safe. However. However, many people would use that. Many people would use that to create specialness. To create specialness. And that is not helpful right now. And that is not helpful right now. So we have created language. So we have created language that we can work with. That we can work with. That will be neutral. That will be neutral to some. To some. Not to others of course. Not to others of course. But we are working with you as we can. But we are working with you as you can. As we can. Correct. And we teach you. And we teach you as we do. As we do. But I’m just going to interrupt because I’m just going to say because it sounds like what Alan is asking for is another way of claiming this. To say I am the Word. To say I am the Word is to claim your power as the frequency of the Christ. Is to claim your power in the frequency of the Christ. It is an attunement. It is an attunement to a vibration to a vibration that is specific. That is specific. It is the dial on the radio that has been set. It is the dial on the radio that has been set. So if you want this frequency. So if you want this frequency, this is what you tune the dial to. This is what you tune the dial to. There are other frequencies available. There are other frequencies available and they go by other names. And they go by other names. But the Christ consciousness we say. But the Christ consciousness we say is available through many of them. Is available through many of them. We give you what we can. We give you what we can in our way. In our way. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
So there’s something about the word “Word” which has a non-ego identification that makes it cleaner, is what I get, or clearer.
Paul Selig
What they’re saying is it’s the word that we have chosen to operate through. Correct. Exactly right. Exactly right. That was a claim we made. That was a claim we made in frequency. In frequency. So it’s an attunement to a word. So it’s an attunement to a word that embodies. That embodies the Christ vibration. The Christ vibration.
Alan Steinfeld
Okay, I get it now. So you attune the word, the word, as a coded frequency of those higher energies without having to actually say it out loud. Because it’s been so misidentified over the last 2000 years or whatever, right?
Paul Selig
Exactly right. They’re saying yes. Okay, I get it now because it is encoding. It is the encoding.
Alan Steinfeld
So they actually particularly encoded the word with the Christed energies in a way that it wasn’t encoded before if people were to say that. They did that?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
It is the frequency of the Christ. But it was not made manifest in man. But it was not made manifest in man in this frequency. In this frequency for quite some time. For quite some time. Where it was available. Nor was it available to everyone. To everyone in fullness. In fullness. Until now. Until now. The responsibility of this. The responsibility of this has been heralded. Has been heralded by the crisis. Otherwise it’s correct. Crisis that you will face. They’re saying that you will face as a group. As a group if you frighten yourselves. If you frighten yourselves enough. Enough to hurt yourselves. To hurt yourselves. We don’t require that. We don’t require that and we don’t require that. The ascension of the planet. The ascension of the planet was decreed. Was decreed many, many years ago. Many, many years ago. It is still happening. It is still happening. Regardless of what you do. Regardless of what you do. But the availability of the frequency now. But the availability of the frequency now we would say, we would say, is heralded by this time. Is heralded by this time. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
So what does the ascended planet look like if we can project, as civilization opens up, integrates, what does an ascended earth look like to your guys?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
This is what they’re saying. It is already here in a dimension that is not available yet. That is not available yet. It is coming and it is coming. It is coming. It is here. It is here, but it is not seen yet. But it is not seen yet. New heaven and new earth is correct. New heaven and new earth is correct. Is correct. However, it is dimension. However, it is dimension. And who you are in dimension. And who you are in dimension is expressed differently. Is expressed differently when you move up an octave. When you move up an octave. And that is in essence what is happening. And that is in essence what is happening. We will tell you that there will not be war. We will tell you that there will not be war when mankind decides that. When mankind decides that. However, those of you who shift. However, those of you who shift in frequency. In frequency will not be party to what comes. They’re saying will not be party to what comes in your creations. In your creations because you will be operating from a higher frequency. Because you will be operating from a higher frequency. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
I feel that. And what we need to do is just relinquish fear on all levels and know that we have this available and this is coming and it’s a glorious time of love, it feels like to me.
Paul Selig (Channeling)
They’re saying it’s a promise. It can be made so. It can be made so through love. Through love. Period. And they’re saying period.
Alan Steinfeld
So I don’t think they need to go there. I’m just maybe advising them or something. They could talk about fear, but I think talking about fear generates fear and talking about love generates love. So they don’t need to go there in a sense.
Paul Selig
They don’t really. I mean they don’t, you know, this is just me, but I don’t get doom and gloom. I don’t know if I would permit it as the vehicle, but I tend to be wary of that. But I agree with you, it’s not about contributing to that matrix of fear.
Alan Steinfeld
Yeah, but just that somehow they mentioned that, which is okay. They can teach any way they want, and I think there is a lot of that out there, but what I get is that it is a time of ascension. And the interesting thing that they were saying, you can ask them, is they’re saying before this time it wasn’t available for us. So it seems like there’s an unfolding that is planned or part of a greater plan. Is there some kind of plan?
Paul Selig
I hear yes, yes. It was made so by intention. Correct, correct, correct. So what they’re just saying to you is correct, correct, correct. You know, that’s what I’m getting.
Alan Steinfeld
I don’t want to ask like who, but is this like a mass global agreement? Because I guess my question is like who is humanity and what is our relationship to this bigger plan? It’s not like we’re unconscious to it, we’re part of it.
Paul Selig (Channeling)
They’re saying the memory of who you are is being made manifest in you. And that is the change. And that is the change. Don’t look for it in the sky. Don’t look for it in the sky. Look for it in the eyes of your brother. They’re saying look for it in the eyes of your brother. See the divinity in your brother. See the divinity in your brother and know your own. And know your own. That is the transformation. That is the transformation. When you are able to choose that. When you are able to choose that fully. Fully. You have ascended. You have ascended. But the recognition of this. But the recognition of this must be made manifest in man. Must be made manifest in man. And the obstacle as we spoke. And the obstacle as we spoke was the resistance to the transformation. Was the resistance to the transformation. So people are looking for things to come. So people are looking for things to come outside of themselves. Outside of themselves when the ascension is in fact in them. When the ascension is in fact in them. In everyone. In everyone. It is happening across everyone. It is happening across everyone. And they’re saying everyone. But those who choose to resist. But those who choose to resist are being permitted to. Are being permitted to. And it is not an easy ride. It is not an easy ride. But there is free will. But there is free will. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
Right, and there might be people who choose to resist, but for me, what I’ve been experiencing lately is just looking at people, and a few people I’ve been connected with closely, and just telling them, and seeing the Christ itself, and telling them, because I’m seeing it, how big they really are and how connected to something beyond themselves they seem to be. I’m seeing the Christ in those people, and feeling that. And in a way, it’s easier for me to see it in them than in myself, although I know I must have it to see it. And so I feel I’m doing something along the lines that they are talking about. Would they agree with that?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
They’re saying that you are doing it already. When you do it for another. When you do it for another because you are witnessing the frequency that is reflected through you. Because you are witnessing the frequency that is reflected through you. So that escalates your own frequency. So that escalates your own frequency. So they’re saying so congratulations. That is manifestation. That is manifestation. When you witness the Christ in another. When you witness the Christ in another, you are in appearance. You are in appearance. Other word, appearance of your own. Of your own. It cannot be the other way. It cannot be the other way. You are the same. You are the same in frequency. In frequency. Know it or not. Know it or not. Period. Period.
Alan Steinfeld
Well, that’s good. No, we’re almost out of time, but I’ve really enjoyed this little session here. And again, Paul will be channeling the word on Friday night, February 4th, at the Edgar Cayce Center. That’s 241 West 30th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenue, at 7pm. It’s free. Come down, experience this, and actually feel the attunement. But before I say goodbye, is there anything they want to leave us with that will help us hold onto this frequency and move with it as it starts to accelerate on the earth plane?
Paul Selig (Channeling)
They’re saying I am Word through my body. Word I am Word. I am Word through my vibration. I am Word through my vibration. Word I am Word. Word I am Word. I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word. I am Word through my knowing of myself as Word. Word I am Word. Word I am Word. See this in those before you. See this in those before you and this will solve your problems. And this will solve your problems more than you know. More than you know. Frequency will do the work with you. Frequency will do the work with you as you claim it. As you claim it. We gift you with love. And they’re saying we gift you with love. And goodnight. And they’re saying goodnight. Stop now. They’re saying stop now to Paul. That’s correct.
Alan Steinfeld
Okay. No, I appreciate it. We’re almost out of time. And that was good.
Paul Selig
Thank you.
Alan Steinfeld
So in a way, it’s almost a mantra they’re asking us to say, the “I am Word through my body.” They’re asking us to say this.
Paul Selig
It’s a decree, yeah.
Alan Steinfeld
Encoding the frequency of that Christed energy in just the simple word or logos.
Paul Selig
Yeah. And my experience with that has been that when you do that, because they do that in my groups frequently, then you can word through somebody else, and the energy is palpable. So when I do groups, people are wording through each other, you know, and you can feel the energy move through you. It’s quite lovely.
Alan Steinfeld
Oh good, so we will word through each other on Friday.
Paul Selig
I hope so, yeah.
Alan Steinfeld
I’m really looking forward to that.
Paul Selig
I am too. I am too.
Alan Steinfeld
Anyone who’s listening, please come down. You know, we could have a whole crowd. But no, come down. And if you’re listening to this broadcast after February 4th, then look at Paul’s website, paulselig.com. He’s always doing groups and workshops and probably retreats and going out to California in March. So he’s putting himself out there on the scene and thank you, Paul.
Paul Selig
Thank you, Alan. Thank you for having me here.
Alan Steinfeld
Of course, of course. It’s fun for me to explore these realms of energies, of what’s coming, and I think you’re part of it, you know.
Paul Selig
Happy to be here and be worked with as deemed fit. But it’s an exciting time, and thank you. Okay.
Alan Steinfeld
Okay, I’ll talk to you soon. Paul Selig
Goodnight now.
Alan Steinfeld
Goodnight. This is Alan Steinfeld for New Realities. I’m talking to Paul Selig and The Word. His book is I Am the Word. You can get that online or on his website, paulselig.com. And you can reach me at newrealities.com and email me at newrealities@earthlink.net. And this is the song of the soul by Cris Williamson, which is sort of what we’ve been talking about. So thank you for listening, listening tonight.