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Steve Rother
Steve Rother has been channeling the group, a collection of angelic beings, for over 28 years. An author, presenter, and spiritual teacher, he is a a five-times presenter at the United Nations on two continents, and the only presenter to have taught a class on channeling to the UN staff. His Beacons of Light monthly messages featuring timely reminders from the group are distributed internationally in many languages and have been published in the prestigious Sedona Journal of Emergence every month for more than two decades.
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My 10 Best
(In no particular order)
The Power of Positive Thinking
I read this before I started channeling, and I realized that there’s magic here, and I had to get more. It really opened me up, and I started reading the entire Wilshire Library, which had all of Norman Vincent Peale’s books, and U.S. Anderson’s, and many more. I think they helped prepare me for channeling, by getting me into a position where I could understand what the group were bringing through. I was a contractor; I had seven guys who worked for me, and every other word started with “F.” I was living in an entirely different world. Suddenly, I had to start cleaning up my act.
The Magic of Thinking Big
This book was was just another explosion about how we can create magic in our world if we just eliminate some of our limited thinking. We all know that positive thinking helps. The group says we are creator beings so that’s what we can balance between our head and our heart. In other words, we have to feel it and we also have to think it, so if we balance between the two, we manifest it. I was manifesting a whole bunch of things that had limits until I read that book. It helped me to remove the limitations that I had put on myself and what I would allow into my field; what I was allowing to be my truth, and who I was trying to please at the time.
Three Magic Words
U. S. Andersen is along the same vein regarding how we can create magic if we believe. But he took a difficult leap. That may be why few people know about him because he wasn’t that popular. The three magic words are You Are God. Back in the 1950s and 1960s that was almost blasphemy. But the message behind it made so much sense and he kept building it up through the entire book. He said, “You can skip to the end right now and read the three magic words, but you’ll spoil it.” And I did, I cheated. Back then, I knew I was being led to these books. Even to a job in publishing where I got all my paperback books for free. I had such a wide variety of material to choose from. I was being taught. Anderderson dared to say things that were very challenging to the far right. That particular book planted seeds in me that I have no doubt the group was behind. They were sitting there going, “Turn the page, turn the page. Come on—read the next one, read the next one.” I still read fiction occasionally, but I really miss being into some good material and seeing somebody else’s perspective of life in a different way. I did enjoy that. I miss that.
Journeys out of the Body
This was my venture into weirdness. Three Magic Words and Thinking Big, and all the rest, fit into mainstream. Now I’m getting into weird stuff because I’m reading this book where someone lays down for a nap one afternoon on a couch in his office. He puts his hand down on the side of this couch and it goes through the floorboards and he’s able to feel what’s below the floorboards. I thought, okay, you’ve got my attention. It was about an out of body experience. Then I read several books about astral projection, and I tried like crazy to do that. Every night I would go through these exercises and there was only one time I think I was successful. I got up, I went to the foot of my bed, and I saw my wife Barbara still in bed and these entities grabbed my hand and started spinning me around. I got scared, I got back into my body and that was it. I never got out of it again.
Far Journeys
Robert Monroe was starting to connect spirituality with his experiences in this book, and that’s when I started looking into other material off the norm and started receiving some incredible information. I had all these books stacked up on my headboard and I’ll never forget reading a theory about that one day— I think it came from Einstein—If you have your books stacked on your headboard for more than three months and still haven’t read them, you don’t need to; you’ve got them by osmosis. Did it work? Kind of. Because just having and looking at a book even if you haven’t read it, you’re influenced by it just by having it in your presence, so it does work to some degree.
Strangers Among Us
Now we’re stepping into the woo-woo stuff. Now I’m getting away from practicality all together and seeing this strange stuff which was a big stretch for me. I couldn’t decide whether this was real, but Ruth Montgomery just grabbed my heart, and these messages went straight through. I felt like I was channeling them. One of the entities she channeled was Arthur Ford, a famous medium and good friend of hers who passed away. He started talking to her from the other side but there were also other beings that were working with her at the same time—Lilly, Art, and the group. And I’d forgotten all about that. Her third book, in which she introduced the idea of walk-ins, was Strangers Among Us. That just changed the metaphysical world. Everybody was a walk-in from that point forward. Today it’s kind of faded.
Here and Hereafter
Here and Hereafter gave me a way to tie a lot of this experience into what I understood to be spiritual. I was raised in a Christian religion, believed in it, thought it was all there was, until I started reading some of these books and realized there was so much more. Even the religion I studied only covered a small portion of some of the things they she talking about. I read her books out of order, and I think that this one was probably the book that turned me toward spirituality in the way that I understand it today.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
This is a story about about 12- to 13-year-old girls and it’s all about female empowerment. It’s the first book I read that was fiction. Judy Blume writes about sexuality, awakening, empowerment, without all the dramas, without all the guilt, and without all the other things we often see associated with it—and she just really opened my eyes. I was very interested in sexuality at that time in my life. I was probably in my early 30s, and I was curious about what sex looked like from a girl’s standpoint. When I came across this book, the title grabbed my attention right away. I was able to put myself in the situations that these girls were going through, and it gave me a good understanding of the feminine aspect at that point in my life. I read several of her books after that. She had this incredibly open idea of sexuality, and it was very freeing, and she was teaching this openly.
Blubber
This is an adorable novel about a fat girl trying to get along in the world, to discover herself and her sexuality. It opened me up to hypersensitivity—especially in women—hypersensitive women, and hypersensitivity in general. The book is about a teenager going through school, being fat, being made fun of, and being bullied all the time. Even though it was written for teenage girls, it influenced me greatly. I learned so much about the feminine aspect from Judy Blume’s books.
Kryon – The End Times
I was reading Ruth Montgomery, and was aware of the Seth Books, but hadn’t read any of them. One day I was at Costco, filling up my cart, and on my way to the checkout, my cart hit a stack of books that were piled up on a pallet, and I had to pick them all up from the ground. When I got to the checkout, one book had slipped into the bottom of the cart. It was a Kryon book. Why a Kryon book was carried at Costco I still don’t know because it’s not the normal fare. But that book caught my attention and when I read it, I had tears in my eyes, I was feeling home. I felt the same way I had reading Ruth Montgomery’s work—it just really opened me up and touched me deeply.