How We Met SOTU

30 or so years ago I was sitting on our old couch in the living room of our 1700's house in Medusa, NY. I could not have guessed the extraordinary experience about to happen would forever change our lives and would, so many years later, ultimately bring you here.

My husband and I had played around with channeling, a shared passion having met a several years earlier at a channeling group.

Because we hadn't yet been able to make our lives work (applied metaphysics) using what we'd learned from the channeling of others, we decided to try channeling ourselves. We wished to understand how we were creating our lives.

We each developed our ability to channel (which anyone can do to some measure) by exploring what it felt like to channel all sorts of consciousnesses...many beyond the beliefs of most people. We reveled in the differing perspectives of life here on earth as seen through other consciousnesses eyes.  There were plenty of consciousness willing to join in. It was big fun, and we were so very, very naive.

After a particularly physically uncomfortable channeling experience for Josh, suggestions came from the non-physical that he engage a consciousness to act as a gatekeeper. The gatekeeper would not let anyone through for channeling that wouldn't serve us and our parameters for channeling; parameters to grow spiritually and be clear enough to not distort the messages.

There I sat, expectant, relaxed and unaware. Josh sat across from me, closed his eyes, took a few deep intakes of breath and this deep sound came out of him, a growl issuing so deeply, like from the depths of the earth. The energy of this consciousness filled the room, goose bumps rose on top of goose bumps, my hair seems to blow straight back and finally the garbled deep sound of "E...ZEK...IEL" boomed out.

That moment started it. Unlike any of the singular consciousnesses we had channeled Ezekiel was bigger. Different. More intense. They quickly learned how to use Josh's voice box, they filled us with information on how we were creating our reality, messes and all, and we eagerly shared it with others.

We worked with Ezekiel for about 10 years, taking them public for individuals and growing groups. We took Ezekiel to Egypt, Greece and Europe with groups, working all the while on changing templates of behavior in each participant to the degree they were willing. Ezekiel worked with us all on cutting the first maps of healing the emotional wounds that are implicit in living in a paradigm that teaches us to compete to survive. They were years of lots of crying, tissues, personal muck and trials. Yet we continued to grow, discover and deal with our shortcomings, build our strengths and gain a modicum of objectivity.

Then in 2003, around late January, the time of the State Of The Union address by the President here in the states, an expanded consciousness came through instead of Ezekiel.

Yes, for Soul of the Universe...or State Of The Union, you pick

They informed us that Ezekiel was in fact a facet of Them and that Ezekiel was retiring, we were ready for a larger viewpoint. We were ready for the bigger picture and to start to actually care about the larger world. Over Soul time.

What would we call them? With a twinkle, this more subtle (Ezekiel often used a ball peen hammer to help us break through the tough emotional patterns we would stubbornly hold) consciousness suggested SOTU. SOTU?

Yes, for Soul of the Universe...or State Of The Union, you pick ... humor, one of their finer, strategic tools.  Soul of the Universe is way too big I thought. They answered simply, we are the energy of growth in this universe and you all, humanity, are about to make a leap of growth unparalleled. Growth is cool, especially with help from outside the universe.

So many years later, with much growth, maturing, grey hairs and winnowing away of the bull*** under our belts, SOTU and we turn to you as our shared world is turning inside out.

SOTU says we’ll make it. Earthly Humanity will become the advanced civilization we dreamed so very long ago. The question is when. How many lives and lifetimes will we need to expend before we remember who we are?

SOTU offers expansive “What Could God Be Thinking?” perspectives and practical DIY techniques to ease change. They remind us, at least emotionally, of who we really are and meet us at every question with an answer that both satisfies and provokes. They are here to help us to make a marvelous leap...with less kicking and screaming.

And as they would say, they cannot do it for us. They can only provide the tools.

And as they would also say - question everything they say - only you can decide for yourself if it is truth.