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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
I am the word: a guide to the consciousness of mans self in a transitioning
timea channeled text / Paul Selig.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-18830-9
1. Spirit writings. I. Selig, Paul.
BF1301.
133.93dc22
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FOREWORD
A range of life events and choices, some purposeful, some seemingly random, brought me to the experience you are about to have as a reader of this book.
If I had not decided (rather casually, it has to be said) to reenter the world of college teaching by joining the faculty of a graduate writing program run by a small progressive college in Vermont, if I had not been curious enough to seek a psychic reading, for the first time in my life, from its program director, Paul Selig, and (as it slowly dawned on me that these readings delivered, far more accurately, the same kinds of transpersonal information that dreams do) if I had not continued to seek readings not so much for spiritual enlightenment (again, being strictly honest) but out of concern for maintaining my place in the worldif all these things had not come to pass, then I would not now have the pleasure of inviting you to share the adventure and the mystery of this book.
An adventure and a mystery. I Am the Word is both these things. It is also a spiritual teaching that promises, to those open to it, a special kind of reading experience on two levels of consciousness: as the mind takes in the printed words on the page, the whole person is being worked on at the level of pure energybut only if the person wishes and permits it.
The exact nature of the teaching I leave to Pauls guides to lay out in the specific language in which they have chosen to deliver it. Let me simply say here that through a prologue, twelve chapters, and an epilogue, in a voice alternately urgent and loving, playful and serious, I Am the Word exhorts individuals to rise to a higher level of self-knowing and self-worth that in turn will help foster a radical shift in human consciousness in our planet.
I heard this book before I read it. Heard it over the phone an hour each morning for two and a half weeks as it was transmitted to Paul, 11:30 A.M. his time and 8:30 A.M. my time, from late February through early March 2009. I took notes as I listened, then read the transcripts that Paul typed up from his recordings. In slightly under three weeks of these hourly sessions a three-hundred-page transcript appeared that, with very minimal cuts and no additions, is the book you hold in your hands.
The process of dictation unfolded so quickly and so easily that the enormity of what was happeningcompletely coherent sentences, paragraphs, and chapters coming out of Paul far more rapidly than I could record by handbecame something taken for granted rather than marveled at.
Paul Selig is a gentle man in both senses of these words, a talented playwright and teacher who caretakes a little dog and oversees his two graduate programs with maternal solicitude and an impeccable sense of boundaries. As a channeler, Paul stands in an American tradition that, in the century just past, includes Edgar Cayce and Jane Roberts, but has older roots as well.
Paul will tell you in his own words how he hears his guides, but Chapter 6 describes the transmittal from their perspective:
We are not speaking to Paul as if he is on a telephone. His physical ears are actually not even involved in this process. The thought is imprinted into him, and because he trusts our energies, he aligns to this and he is able to hear and repeat.
This description is strikingly similar to that given by the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, who in the year 1745, at the age of fifty-seven, began hearing and conversing with entities he described as angels. The speech of the angel or spirit flows first into our thought, he says in
Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell: From Things Heard and Seen, and then by an inner route into our organ of hearing so that it activates it from within. Swedenborg explains the process further:
When angels talk with us, they turn toward us and unite with us; and one consequence of this union is that the two parties have much the same thought processes... they enter into our whole memory so completely that it seems exactly as though they themselves know everything we know, including our languages.
In the same way, Pauls guides assert that the language and vocabulary they use is Pauls while the energy informing it remains something entirely outside him.
They also express concern about preserving the integrity of these words exactly as transmitted through Paul. The epilogue sets forth their wishes about editing (or more precisely, not editing) the text, which we carried out in a painstaking process of punctuating, proofing, and reproofing the oral transcript. Paul queried his guides about every suggested change or dropped word. In most cases, because this text is at heart an energy transmission, the guides wanted even ungrammatical syntax to stay intact, and we have observed their wishes. Their sometimes antiquated referencesto Dictaphones, tapes, even steamshipsremain intact. A few passages of personal material or outside interruptions were dropped with their approval.