Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Each day I will read a passage from The Way of Mastery and share my commentary on it. The intention is to provide an opportunity to develop a consistent, simple spiritual study practice and grow together.
Living The Way of Mastery with Jason Amoroso
Lesson 17: The Journey of the Soul
What if your life isn’t happening to you or even for you, but from you? We open Lesson 17, The Journey of the Soul, and dive straight into a bold idea: the world you see is shaped by the meanings you choose, not by forces outside your control. That shift - from reaction to authorship - changes how you relate to conflict, health, money, and relationships, and it becomes the doorway to a steadier, freer inner life.
We unpack the four levels of consciousness, highlighting the subtle trap of “life happens for me” and the liberating stance of “life happens from me,” before pointing to the stillness of “life is.” From there, we get practical: thoughts show up on their own, but attention is the vote that turns them into beliefs, and beliefs quietly script your moods and actions. We talk about projection, why behavior change fails without inner work, and how to upgrade your “operating system” by choosing cleaner inputs and more truthful thoughts. The idea that “all events are neutral” challenges the ego, especially around illness and injustice, yet we share how crises can become catalysts for purpose when met with a new lens.
Freedom, we argue, is closer than your breath because it’s built into consciousness itself. The simple phrase “I and my Father are one” serves as an anchor, a somatic reset that brings you back to your creative center when fear flares. We explore the blank-canvas metaphor—how you can paint nightmares or masterpieces—and why empowerment replaces hero worship: no teacher can do your walking, and that’s the best news you can hear. Expect stories, clear practices, and a compassionate reminder that responsibility is not blame; it’s the power to choose your experience and bring love into the moment you’re in.
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Hello and welcome back to Living the Way of Mastery. I'm Jason Emeroso, your guide and friend and fellow student. And today I'm so excited. We start lesson 17, The Journey of the Soul, one of my favorite lessons. It's going to be awesome. Let's dive right in where Jeshua begins. Beloved and holy friends, we come forth in this lesson to yet again remind you that all that you think, all that you see, and all that you do is not the result of that which comes to you, but rather that which comes from you. For always and forever the world you perceive is uncaused save by yourself. I mean, if that just doesn't say so much, oh my goodness, it makes me think about the four you've seen these memes or you've heard these things, or I've heard it, the four levels of consciousness. The first one is that life happens to you. We all can relate to that one, where you are basically like a victim to the forces of life, of fate, of uh other things that are happening to you, and you're just always on kind of defensive reactionary mode. The second level of consciousness is that life happens for you. Now, there's actually more than this, but life happens for you. But you're still in this, you're still in kind of like the victim mentality without realizing it. So it's like instead of bad things happening to me, then they're good things happening for me. It's still like the universe being this kind of outside force upon you. But instead of bad, it's good, right? Oh, and when, but it's still an upgrade of consciousness. It's like, hey, if you're gonna, one of my early mentors said if you're gonna uh fantasize about your future, you might as well win in your own fantasy. Most of the times when we fantasize about the future, it's all negative about what could go wrong. But instead, might as well, what could go right, or might as well see that everything that happens to you is life happening for you. Life is my friend, not my enemy. Those are two different levels of consciousness, but really kind of on the same coin of victimhood or separation, let's call it that. That there's life and then there's me, and things are happening, and I need to respond and react to those forces. Now, the third level of consciousness is that life is happening from me, that I am the source of life. And not the ego personal self, but the higher self, that life is happening from me. And this is what Jeshua is speaking to. And he also, at many points, speaks to the fourth level of consciousness, which is that life just is. It's not that life's happening, it's just life is. There just is. So let's get back to this. This is where he's talking about all that you think comes from you. Makes sense, right? All that you think comes from you, your consciousness, what you are choosing. And sometimes thoughts just pop in, like, oh, control your thinking. We all we have all kinds of thoughts. And Jeshua talks about this throughout the Webmastery that thoughts are like a dime a dozen. Thoughts are just floating around, and they can pop into our head out of nowhere, seemingly unrelated to anything. But where we have choice is will we entertain it? Will we value that thought? Will we invest in that thought? And the more repetitive we do and we value a certain thought, then it becomes what we would call maybe like a belief. Oh, this is how it is. It becomes a value to you. If you value something, it's a value to you. So the thought that life's not fair, if you repeat it and value it, and one way to value something does not mean you like it. It just means you're making it real. So the more you think something, the the more invested you become in that thought. Life's not fair. You're gonna experience everything in your life, everything, relationships, money, politics, health, everything, parenting, all of it is gonna come through the lens of life is not fair. It's like wearing rose-colored glasses, it's like wearing life is not fair glasses. So everything Jeshua is reminding us yet again, because we need it over and over and over again. I know I do, that all that you think comes from you. It doesn't come to you. Now you can be influenced by things, right? Things coming to you. But let's just say you're watching, you're, you're drawn to a lot of like junky TV and media. That's not an outside factor coming into you. It's something within you that is, let's say, vibrating or resonating at a certain frequency that is allowing that lower frequency medium media into your life. And as we start to raise our frequency or be more discerning in the quality of thoughts and the content and the things that are in our life, you notice that those things kind of they fade away, they disappear. They're not a part of our life anymore as we grow and mature. But some people never grow and mature, and they have those things, let's say low-quality media or music or whatever, just always a part of their life. But it's all happening from you. You are the consciousness, you are the creator of your experience. Let's look at the next thing, Jeshua says. All that you see is not coming to you. That's what we think. We've been kind of taught in this world that things are always coming at us. Life's coming at me, and I gotta dodge the bad things and react and respond to the things that I can't avoid that I don't like, and I gotta do all these things. But think of it more like a simulation or a video game or a movie projector, that your consciousness is projecting out and it feels real. This 3D world feels very solid. It feels like there's a me and there's a you and there's a car and there's a tree and there's things coming at me. But it really is your consciousness is the projector and it creates this entire, you could call it the matrix, you could call it the simulation that you are experiencing. So all that you see is coming from you. And all that you do, all the actions that you take, the behaviors that you participate in, all that you do is not the result of things coming to you, but coming from you. All that you do comes from you. The thoughts that you invest in that you value, that you decide are important, whether or not you like them or not, those thoughts impact your feelings and your moods. And based on your feelings and your moods and your thinking, that that follows through in the actions that you take. So so many people try to change their behavior, try to just change the doing without addressing the mental and the emotional component. And that never works. We know that. You can they try to change the things on the outside without changing on the inside or making a different choice on the inside or raising awareness about the quality of thought. The the belief systems are the operating system of our life, just like a phone. The the phone is stupid. The you know, smartphones are stupid, computers are stupid. They can only process what the the hardware can only do what the software tells it to do. And that's like our consciousness. Right? Our we can only do what the the level of our consciousness is at. So as we ex I would say I like expand more than raise. So expand means more is available to you versus like higher and lower. It's very easy to be like, oh, higher consciousness is better, and I don't want to be low conscious. It's more of like an expansion of consciousness, a greater awareness. The more our consciousness expands, the more we see that the thoughts that we invest in become our beliefs, the misunderstandings we invest in become our experience, and that we can consciously choose which thoughts, which thoughts to invest in and value the good, the holy, and the beautiful, or fear and lack and doubt and not enough and scarcity and unworthiness. But it's our choice. Nothing is set in stone. That's the good news. And and the also the empowering news, which I come back to over and over and over again, Jeshua's not really saying it here, but I have to say, is the the reason Jesus is the fucking good messenger is because he's like, no one can do it for you. You must do it for yourself. Yes, we can, there's guides and I love you, Jeshua's saying, and I'm here, I'm showing you the way. I'm the way shower, but you gotta do it, which means no one can do it for you. So you're not a victim. It's the most empowering message. These things and more ye shall do, he said in the Bible, something like that. So he's like the most empowering way shower. I'm showing you the way. I saw this the other day. I really loved it. It said, and maybe this is like common in, I don't know, I would say it's probably not common in the Christian church. And I don't consider myself Christian. One, uh, Jesus didn't consider himself Christian. Jeshua wasn't like, I'm a Christian, didn't exist. But I saw this thing that I really liked. Jesus was not the exception, as many would teach. Jesus was the example. Follow me. Do it this way. I'll show you the way, and you set yourself free. But instead, in our human way, we hero worship, we make special, right? That's part of a Course in Miracles teaching, and Jesus is teaching. The ego makes special. Specialness. Oh, well, Jesus is different than me. Look at him. He's the savior, he's the one that's gonna free me of my sins. The way will, the way he's teaching you will, the consciousness he's inviting you into will. But he doesn't click his fingers and all of a sudden, you know, everything is better. Like he's showing you the way, and you can do the work. You're capable. You are made in the image and likeness of God, just as Jesus was and is. That's what his whole message is. When you stumble and fall, I got you, he says. I'll be right there with you. And then I can't remember what lesson, but it's the most beautiful, empowering thing he says, which is at some point, and I'll be here every step of the way with you, at some point you'll say, Hey, Jesus, you don't have to carry me right now. I got this. Let me do this on my own. I can do it. And that is a glorious moment. That's so this whole teaching is so empowering. So he says, I'm gonna read it again, beloved and holy friends, we come forth in this lesson. We, by the way, so Jesus is not alone here. Uh we come forth in this lesson to yet again remind you that all that you think, all that you see, and all that you do is not the result of that which comes to you, but rather that which comes from you. For always and forever, the world you perceive is uncaused save by yourself. You are the cause of what you perceive, of what you experience. Things are just happening. All events are neutral. We can't hear this enough. And let's just acknowledge, and the human ego fucking hates this, that all things are neutral. What are you talking about? How could rape be neutral? How could abuse be neutral? How could greed and all the injustices, how could these things that are happening be neutral? They are things that are happening. All events are neutral. No thought is neutral. The thoughts, the stories we tell ourselves are not neutral. They absolutely create an experience of oneself, of the world, of what we are witnessing. We decide what to witness. And as people heal, let's say, for example, cancer. Uh, most people would say cancer is awful, it's it's it's awful. Uh, and my brother passed of cancer and uh pancreatic cancer, nine months once diagnosis, he transitioned. Um, and yet, if you hear from uh many uh health practitioners who work with cancer patients, from Zach Bush, who's amazing, to Dr. Bernie Siegel, they'll say that many of their patients say that having a diagnosis of cancer was the best thing that happened to them. The ego's like, what? The best thing? What are you talking about? It woke them up. It made them look at their life differently. It made them look at their emotions differently. Now, with the right, with a certain care and being like, hey, let's use this. Some people are like, hey, cancer write into traditional allopathic medicine and all the things. But some people have support around them to say, hey, what is this really showing you here? What is this an invitation to? Which the part of us that is afraid of death does not think this is an invitation at all. It's an invitation to potentially die and have and lose everything, right? But that is one perception. So so often we go through these challenging situations. They're only challenging situations are only challenging to the ego, to the tiny mad idea of separation. The part that believes it's not eternal, the part that believes it's outside of God, the part that believes it's not enough and unworthy and a low little nothingness, maybe unworthy of even existing. That part, that part hates it. But the part of us, the true self, sees all of these experiences, maybe doesn't even call them challenges. They don't see challenges, it just sees opportunity for expansion and love and forgiveness and more self, capital S self-awareness. The world you perceive is uncaused, save by yourself. You are the cause of your experience, right? This is lesson 17, and we're going back to lesson one. If you just read lesson one, it says everything you need to know. It's amazing. I love it. But we have to hear things over and over and over and over again in different ways, in different metaphors and different stories for it to sink in. And that's how we most of us are, and that's great. You are the cause, you are the creator of your experience, not you're the puppet master of everything that happens. All right, that's all in the first paragraph here. Let's go to the second paragraph. This is why it is always true that freedom is closer to you than your own breath. That, in italics, that freedom is the reality of your being. That freedom is that which is realized without effort. Freedom is realized when you decide to accept the truth, capital T truth, that is true always. I and my father are one. I am that which I am, capital T that. I am that which I am. So Jeshua is saying that this is the freedom is closer than your own breath because it is your very consciousness. The power to choose your consciousness, the power to create using consciousness is beyond, let's say, the physical act of breathing. It's not dependent on the breath at all. It just is your very nature. You are made in the image and likeness of God, and God is pure loving consciousness that creates. That's what God is. Creative consciousness, I guess you could call it. So your freedom is that. You're not, what's the opposite of freedom? Enslavement. You are never enslaved in your mind. Didn't Bob Marley say something like that? Your slavery happens in the mind, something like that. I don't know the direct quote, but uh check it out. And you probably, if you you know anything about Bob Marley or you've seen the quote, you know, you know what I'm talking about. Um, but this freedom is your very consciousness itself, which cannot be um controlled unless we allow that, unless we allow it to be controlled or manipulated. So this freedom to choose your own experience, to choose which thoughts you you it's like a blank canvas. I've had one uh journey, and in my journey, I really experienced and saw, and it was it for a part of me, it was scary that life is a blank canvas, literally. And then what gets put on the canvas is whatever my consciousness chooses to put on the canvas, which could be a lot of scary shit and a lot of dark shit, which was my very first experience in this journey. When I when I had this experience of a blank canvas, it was like, holy shit, I can create anything. And then I got scared of my the power of my own thought. It was like, holy shit, I can create really dark stuff that's really scary. And I'm gonna experience it. It's gonna be really real. That was the first thing. And then I was like, but wait, I can also create whatever I want. And why would I create the dark and scary stuff? I can, because God's not limited. I could create the dark and scary, I could create limitation, or I could create this beautiful masterpiece. Makes me think of the John Wooden quote. Make every day your masterpiece. Every day, if you if you get out of this idea of linear time, if you get out of the this idea of the past, if you get out of this idea of identity, and Jeshua says, Behold, I make all things new. Or somebody says, Behold, I make all things new. Literally, every day is a blank canvas, and you get to choose who you're gonna be, what you're gonna do, where you're gonna invest your time and energy, and what experience you create for yourself and what vibes you put out, what pebbles you drop and ripples you create, might as well do love because it just feels so good and it's true. This is the freedom that nothing can take away from you because it is, and you're you're even free to create the experience of lack. You're even free to create the experience of separation, right? God's not like, nope, can't have the ego because separation is not real, because I'm the only thing that exists. So how could something not, you know, be outside of me if I'm all that is? Well, we can't, we're we can't have that. No, the Jeshua's message is God doesn't care. God is so limitless that it's it allows everything. That is the that's freaking power and and love and limitlessness and the lack of fear. It's all available. And so Jeshua's been telling us that then God creates these infinite, unique, individuated aspects of itself to stretch the limits. Because wouldn't it be boring if everything was like the same all the time? So let's let's test the limits just to see. There are no limits, but let's see what else is possible. That's kind of like for us. There are really no limits of what's possible, right? Impossible, the two first letters are I am. I am possible. And he says, freedom is realized when you decide to accept the truth that is true, always. I and my father are one. I am that which I am. I and my father are one. I am that which I am. Tattoo that on your arm and look at it every day. Write it down in the morning three times, say it out loud or in your Or whisper it to yourself before you go to bed. And say it over and over and over again. Feel it over and over and over again. When you're afraid, say it. I and my father are one. When you're seeing something that's upsetting you, or you're feeling so limited, you're feeling so down, you're feeling so negative. I and my father are one. Yes, feel your feelings. Don't deny the feeling. And reinforce the truth. Have the intention, desire, intention, surrender, allowance. I think I went allowance, surrender, humility. Those are the five keys to the kingdom. But like with intention. Hey, I and my father are one. When I see someone who I'm judging as an other, when I drive in the car, and they don't put their blinker on and they just merge right in front of me and almost cut me off. I and my father are one. I'm not a victim to the world I see. I am the creator of my experience. What experience do I want to have? A peaceful one, a joyful one, a creative one, a limitless one, a courageous one, a generous one, or a lack-filled one, a not enough-filled one, a doubt-filled one, a fear-driven one, a guilt-driven one. You get to decide. And just because you grew up in a certain culture that had certain beliefs, or your parents had certain beliefs and flaws, and their own software system that that's running, their belief systems, their misunderstandings about life, doesn't mean you need to adopt those two. As you become more aware, you get to choose. This is going to be such an awesome lesson. Um, I'm really excited to be back more consistently now. Uh reach out, let me know how you're doing. 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