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A Channel Explores Channeling and the Michael Teachings By Shepherd Hoodwin |
EXPLORES SOURCE OF OUR INDIVIDUALITY
LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA--Even at birth, everyone is unique. Can heredity alone account for the complex differences in people's temperaments and styles? The Michael teachings, an increasingly popular body of channeled work, propose that we are each unique souls who deliberately take on a specific combination of traits to give us the experiences we seek. In this fascinating and beautifully written new book, The Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores Channeling and the Michael Teachings, author Shepherd Hoodwin expertly discusses these teachings from his vantage point as a Michael channel.
Channeling is an age-old process in which an individual allows a discarnate being to speak through him or her. Michael is a group of 1050 individual souls working in cooperation who have completed their lifetimes on the physical plane. There are several Michael channels and books about the Michael teachings. These teachings address many age-old questions, such as "How did we become who we are?" "Why are we here?" "Where are we going?" and "How does the universe work?" In addition, The Journey of Your Soul seeks to shed light on questions about channeling itself such as "How does channeling work?" "Why do different channels receive apparently or actually conflicting information?" "Should channels charge money?" and "What does it take to be a channel?" This may be the first analytical book about channeling written by a channel.
Michael teaches that we are eternal beings journeying from the Tao and back again in an adventure of exploration and creativity. Each step along the way, we make choices that shape our experience. For example, after committing to a series of lifetimes on a planet, we choose one of seven roles, which is like a career or style: artisan, king, server, priest, sage, scholar and warrior. When planning an individual lifetime, we make other choices called overleaves that form our personality and allow specific achievements. As with the roles, there are seven each of the goals, modes, attitudes, etc.
Despite the grand picture painted, people typically find that the insights they gain from the Michael teachings are highly useful and liberating. They help us understand why things are the way they are and how we can effectively work with them. This results in increased acceptance of ourselves and others, ultimately leading to agape, or unconditional love, which Michael teaches is our highest goal.
In his Foreword, Jon Klimo, Ph.D., author of Channeling, says, "Shepherd Hoodwin has given us one of the best books to date about the phenomenon of channeling. The Journey of Your Soul may well also be the best of the Michael books due to its clarity, thoroughness, and detail, and thanks to the fact that the author, an exceptionally clear-headed Michael channel himself, brings real integrity and authenticity to our understanding of Michael in particular and to the channeling process in general."
The Journey of Your Soul is appropriate both for those new to the Michael teachings and for advanced students. It is printed on 50% recycled acid-free paper with soy-based ink. It contains an extensive glossary, index and bibliography. The liberating and highly useful insights in The Journey of Your Soul can help readers love and live more fully.
Shepherd Hoodwin is a Laguna Beach, California channel, workshop leader, and teacher. He does counseling, past-life therapy, and channeling coaching, in addition to both individual and group channeling sessions. He is the author of several articles on the Michael teachings and six books of channeled material, including Loving from Your Soul: Creating Powerful Relationships and Meditations for Self-Discovery: Guided Journeys for Communicating with Your Inner Self, as well as a children's book, Sabina and the Angel's Golden Crystals. He has been channeling Michael since 1986.
EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS AND
LETTERS
Shepherd Hoodwin has given us one of the best books to date about the phenomenon of channeling. In particular, he has given us a meticulous presentation of the information channeled from the source known as Michael, which is especially interesting. As with the Edgar Cayce and Seth material before it, a whole subculture has grown up around Michael and their teachings in the last 13 years, represented by at least a dozen books on the subject. The Journey of Your Soul may well be the best book of them all due to its clarity, thoroughness, and detail, and thanks to the fact that the author, an exceptionally clear-headed Michael channel himself, brings real integrity and authenticity to our understanding of Michael in particular and to the channeling process in general.
- --from the Foreword by Jon Klimo, author of Channeling: Investigations on Receiving
- Information from Paranormal Sources
I have seldom been so entertained while being enlightened as I was by this remarkable new book. It begins with a comprehensive description of all that channeling is and is not, which makes this a valuable reference for anyone who is new to the topic. The body of the book concentrates on the Michael system itself. Through all of this potentially heavy going, the author maintains a delightful conversational style, talking rather than teaching, sharing rather than lecturing. Indicative of Hoodwin's approach is the Appendix, which presents "channeling humor." This is one of the best books on channeling you are likely to read this year.
- --Patricia Monaco, NAPRA ReVIEW
A fascinating text that offers a unique perspective on the human experience. Highly recommended.
- --Cindy Dorman, Connecting Link
Shepherd Hoodwin shines an expert light on the subject of channeling and the fascinating teachings of the entity known as Michael. In this excellent book, you will find an absolutely clear and comprehensive discussion of channeling-what it is, how it happens, what it means.
- --Leading Edge Review
The Journey of Your Soul may very well become a New Age classic. It is a beautifully written and distinguished primer for both the beginner and the more advanced spiritual follower.
- --The Book Reader
There are splendid ideas and turns of phrase in these pages. Journey clarified many issues that other books raised but left unclear for me. It is no picnic for a writer to address the structure of the soul and the universe in easy, multifaceted prose, but Shepherd Hoodwin has done it in this book.
- --Kenneth Tompkins, attorney
The Journey of Your Soul is a joy to read. This book is simply full of "Ah-ha's"!
- --Donna Stirling, R.N.
The Journey of Your Soul is easy to read and understand for beginners, yet it contains lots of detailed information not found anywhere else for the advanced student. It is an essential source book for anyone interested in the Michael teachings.
- --Emily Baumbach, author of Michael's Cast of Characters
The Journey of Your Soul is totally fascinating. It is lucid, concrete, detailed, down-to-earth, and very readable. It should be a bestseller.
- --Mayo Gray, author of The Savage Season, actress, poet
Journey is one of the best metaphysical books that I have seen come out in years. Shepherd Hoodwin has really put together a "must read"!
- --P.D., Manassas, Virginia
I've been reading Journey and am absolutely engrossed! Thank you for such an interesting and in-depth treatment of the Michael material.
- --R.B., Jamestown, Colorado
I recently purchased The Journey of Your Soul. It was one of those instances where it nearly jumped off the shelf at me, and true to form, it was one I feel I was meant to have.
- --S.B., Toledo, Oregon
The Journey of Your Soul is excellent. Hoodwin has achieved a peak in articulating the Michael teachings.
- --Zephyr Pangaia, author, Instinctive Eating
This book is terrific! It is clearly written and wonderful for people who know little about the subject.
- --C.S., New York, New York
A paradise of new information regarding the Michael teachings. I've really enjoyed reading it.
- --D.H., Los Angeles, California
What a fascinating piece of work. I've been studying Theosophy for the past year, and all of a sudden, all these abstract things I've read are becoming crystal clear.
- --B.F., Incline Village, Nevada
As one long interested in the Michael teachings, I found that Hoodwin brings freshness, vitality, and humor to this subject.
- --J.R., San Francisco, California
Since I found The Journey of Your Soul a month ago, I have read it several times and found it very helpful. It has had a great impact on me.
- --E.M., Concord, California
I completely enjoyed Journey. It clarified a lot of things for me. I'm excited about obtaining Hoodwin's new books when they're released.
- --M.M., Nashville, Tennessee
I am a family nurse practitioner and emergency room nurse, constantly working with people in crisis. The words from Journey have helped me hone my helping skills and have translated into making a positive difference in others' lives.
- --L.W., Cambria, California
I am on my second reading of this excellent book. It is a wonderful addition to the published body of Michael's teachings, and I am finding it very helpful in my own process of opening my channel.
- --L.V., Boulder, Colorado
The best Michael book ever! So thorough and encyclopedic. It is worth every shilling, especially the humour Appendix.
- --D.H., Vancouver, British Columbia
I bought eight or ten Michael books. Journey was by far the best of the lot--I could not put it down.
- --H.M., Stockton, California
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