How many legs does your self-value rest on?

How many legs does your self-value rest on?

Hakann via channel A. S.

Posted on May 8, 2026

 

My dearest brothers and sisters,

This is Hakann speaking. I greet you in peace and love.

Suppose some person’s sense of self-value only has one “leg” to stand on. Namely: their sense of self-value is propped up by only the fact that they’re an active political activist, or only the fact that they’re a great athlete, or that they’re a great parent, or that they’re spiritually advanced, et cetera.

In this case, if that one leg gets knocked out from under them, their self value falls painfully to the floor. For example:

- if someone’s self-value rests on the fact that they’re a political activist and “fighting evil” (the other political side), then they may become very unreasonable in political debates, demonizing the enemy side and refusing to acknowledge their side’s flaws. This can contribute to a country’s political polarization or culture war.

- a great athlete may become obsessive about their sport to strengthen that one leg their self-value rests on, becoming truly amazing at the sport in the process. However if that great athlete gets seriously ill, their self-value may fall to the ground unless they can find a new leg to stand on.

- if someone’s self value only rests on “I’m a great parent”, then they may be completely unwilling to listen to genuine criticisms / grievances their child may have for parenting mistakes they made.

- if the spiritual person buys into an unhelpful concept or ideology, and it gets pointed out to them, they may not want to accept that. In fact they may engage in performative spirituality or denial of reality to “strengthen their leg” (get more self-value reinforcement)

However, now suppose that someone has at least two legs to stand on. Now suddenly they can admit that they, or their side made serious mistakes -- because even if one of their legs is temporarily knocked out from under them, their self-value still doesn’t fall to the floor. It’s simply resting on the other leg for a while.

Now yes, ideally, someone’s self-value can actually levitate: it remains high no matter what happens, no matter how they’re treated, no matter what disappointments they face.

A very few people’s self-value can levitate, and for those people that’s absolutely fantastic.

However this is very rare. And most people can’t just choose to have their self-value levitate. [Channeler’s note: my self-value can’t levitate yet.]

What’s far more common is that someone thinks their self-value can levitate, but actually it can’t; and they simply refuse to acknowledge or even see flaws in the leg they actually are standing on, because they depend on that leg. This is the person who denies the very obvious reality that most other people can see. Or this is the person who buys into hyperbolic, good-sounding ideas that fall apart if you think about them critically.

So. Unless you’re one of the few whose self value can levitate, try to have at least two legs that your self value can stand on. In the context of this spiritual community, that means: it’s fine to mostly focus on spirituality if you wish, but I wouldn’t have it as the only leg your self value is standing on. In other words: develop some “non-spiritual” skill, go contribute in some “non-spiritual” way, et cetera.

Yes, this spiritual message is suggesting that you become good at something “non-spiritual” or contribute in some “non-spiritual” way too. Balance is underrated. Also, you can do “non-spiritual” things in a “spiritual” way too, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned in the “normal” outside world.

Just consuming something non-spiritual is fine, but not sufficient: if you’re only standing on your one spirituality leg, then a nice holiday is great but you may still feel threatened in your self-worth if afterwards someone disagrees with a spiritual view you have.

Also, if your two legs are “I am spiritually advanced” and “I have a spiritual business” then you still really only have one leg: spirituality. (Or if you prefer, you can think of those two legs as being tied together.) This still leaves you unstable and open to spiritual ego, to blindness to wrong beliefs you might have, to possible performative spirituality, etc.

This also means that even if someone else is blatantly and very obviously wrong, you’re not going to be able to point that out to them if that’s the only “leg” their self value is standing on. They’re arguing for their “survival”; you can’t talk them out of their “survival instinct.”

Have compassion for this.

And if someone is trying to get you to only stand on one leg -- them -- that’s a red flag. This is how cults (or controlling partners) operate: “cut off contact with your friends, they’re only holding you back; quit your job and come work for us / me.” And then the cult (controlling partner) becomes your only leg and it becomes really hard to even see flaws in that one leg, let alone leave.

Finally, legs do need to be at least somewhat strong to actually support you. If you dabble in twenty things and never really commit to anything or become really good at anything, you’ll have twenty very weak, wobbly legs. That’s not solid footing either. Most people will benefit from having 2-3 legs that are really solid, either with or without a clear primary focus on one leg. (Young adults or people in survival mode might need to focus strongly on one leg for a while.)

Yes, there are stories of the person who focused 100% on spirituality and became enlightened, but for every such person there are five hundred cases where the singularly focused spiritual seeker got lost and was unable to see that. After all, if someone is standing on just one leg, it’s really hard for them to see flaws in that leg. It’s still fine to focus mostly on spirituality, if you wish: I just suggest a bit of balance.

I hope this was helpful.

With all my love,

Your star brother,

Hakann

A. S.

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Life of Betterment

Life of Betterment

The Elders

Channel: Robyn G Locke

Posted on July 8, 2025

Mankind has often opted for life in a way of betterment. But what is the intention behind that concept? What is the long-lasting ingredient to be discovered here? Is it betterment in a tangible or in an intangible way? Do you know? Do you seek to know now?

You see in the tangible way, there are those who do warrant your consideration and a degree of contemplation. There is merit to providing food, housing, and a degree of material things, for this world is a material one. And so there is value in being in a situation where you are sustained in a safe, secure, and vibrant way. Sustained in a way of betterment. We do not contest that.

But in this world, there is also a degree of wanting more things, more items of physical merit and adornment, as opposed to growing something much more intrinsic than the one previously held. Do you see, there is only value in things to a limited degree? Yet, the mind will have none of that. The mind seeks to know more than that. There is a degree of being catered to that the mind does suppose is of measure and worth knowing. We suggest to the contrary.

You Cannot Satisfy the Mind

We suggest that the mind will never be satiated. It will never be satisfied with what you achieve, as it will always want more. It will always want what it does not have and move the one to work harder and longer in order to accomplish what it wants to know in a gratifying way. It will not relinquish this line of thinking, for this is what it does. This is who it is. We suggest you step away from that.

Step away from what the mind seeks for you to do, for you are not your mind, nor are you the thoughts you think. Does that seem odd? How can you not be that judgmental mind? How can you not be the thoughts you think? How can you not want all the material things that surround you? All are attached and connected here, so why is this thing not you in some form or fashion? But you see, these thoughts are the more lowly part of you and not connected to the divinity you are also connected to. Seek to receive insights from that part of you and not the other.

The other is a more lowly fight-or-flight mechanism that you might equate as your body’s computer. It is the computer that is now instructing the computer’s operator on what to do. It is that the true operator must take back control over the vessel which it is meant to navigate and orchestrate. It is meant to run the show in the many ways that the mind now does. You must become conscious of what is going on. You must become consciously aware and orchestrate things differently than before.

Pause So That Betterment Might Be

Recognize that you are meant to pause and observe rather than act upon the thoughts you think.

You are meant to move away from those lesser thoughts and into more highly attuned thoughts. You are meant to be more today than yesterday. You are meant to be the one who recognizes what is off and adrift. You are meant to be slow to react. Do you see that this combination would not have you doing things in a reactional way? Be the one who does not seek to orchestrate in a more lowly way but in a way of betterment.

Recognize this and know that you must become the captain of your vessel. You must regain the controls. You must become conscious in this world where so many are not. You must know that you are not the thoughts you keep. You are so much more than that. Take the reins of control back and know that it is time for more to be.

Robyn G Locke

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Perspectives are your toolbox

Perspectives are your toolbox

Hakann trough A. S.

Posted on March 1, 2025

 

My dearest brothers and sisters,

This is Hakann speaking. I greet you in peace and love.

If you read enough spiritual articles from various sources, sooner or later you will encounter perspectives that seem contradictory.

For example, you should choose some kind of spiritual practice and do it regularly. But you should also go with the flow and not force things. Which should you actually do? What if on a given day you don't feel like meditating, or you feel like going for a walk instead of meditating?

Spiritual sources say that you shouldn't be excessively attached. But don't you need a large amount of attachment to your spiritual path in order to have the discipline to sit down and do some spiritual practice every day?

You should focus on love and light. But isn't that kind of naive in a world where dark controllers are trying to enact depopulation and kill most people? Shouldn't you be practical?

Tunia once said to drop the concept of good and evil because so much judgement and hate and feelings of being better than them comes with it. Yet, us galactics are fighting evil-doers. Isn't that contradictory?

We're told that duality is bad. But when you really drill down to it, you could label pretty much any message as being dualistic in some way. Eating when you're hungry is dualistic. Locking your front door is dualistic. So, what gives?

Some sources say that all you need is love, or all you need is to be present in the current moment. Yet, endless messages get written regardless. So is just being present all you need, or not?

Should you focus on improving your own life and doing your own spiritual practice, or should you focus on helping others?

So, as you can see, there are a lot of messages that say at least seemingly contradictory things.

Now, in a lot of cases these things aren't actually contradictory. For example:

- helping yourself is a valid path, and helping others is also a valid path, and from a high enough perspective both of these things are sort of equivalent because all is one.

- for some people it is optimal to focus on love and light, and for others it is optimal to focus on practically working against the dark controllers in some ways.

- it is possible to work against the dark controllers without judging them or being emotionally hostile to them.

- once you embrace that you are in fact a reincarnating soul, it may become possible to focus on love and light, or focus on your spiritual practice, or focus on helping others, without being excessively preoccupied with what the dark controllers are doing. Because after all, on the most fundamental level you are safe.

Still, in some cases contradictions may seem hard to resolve. Then what should you do?

Well, I would give up the Earth human idea that there is only one universal truth that applies to everyone. Instead, I would adopt the idea that perspectives are your toolbox. And you can work with them as appropriate.

So for example, the idea of "go with the flow" is one valid perspective -- it is one useful tool that you can apply as is useful. And the idea of "have discipline and do your standard spiritual practice regularly" is another valid perspective, and is another useful tool to have in your toolbox.

Which of these two is the one universal truth -- is the one universal truth that you should go with the flow, or that you need to have discipline and be regular in your chosen spiritual practice? Well, neither of those two really is the one universal truth, because some people should be going with the flow more, and other people should have more discipline about their chosen practice.

Some people should care more about what others think, and some people should care less about what others think. And both of those perspectives -- "you should care more about what others think" and "you should care less about what others think" are useful tools that you can keep in your toolbox, and you can use them as appropriate.

How do you know which tool you should use when? Well, that is where wisdom and intuition and guidance comes in. Or if you struggle to access those things, just live and try out things and you'll get experience and you'll learn what works well for you.

There are also some perspectives that are only useful at a higher level of consciousness, and other "training wheel" perspectives that are useful at a lower level of consciousness. For example, the idea that all you need is love and light is the perfect thing to teach to a spiritual novice, because love is so fundamental. But a more spiritually advanced person needs to learn that being kind and loving in the normal way is only the appropriate thing to do 90% or 95% of the time. The other 5-10% of the time you should call out dysfunction, or be firm with someone, or not tolerate the intolerable, et cetera.

So, which is the true perspective -- that all you need is love and light, or that you need strength and wisdom too? Well, I would advise love and light to the spiritual novice, and I would advise love and strength and wisdom to the more spiritually advanced person who has already learned the lesson of love.

Higher perspectives aren't necessarily better than lower perspectives, because higher perspectives often come from non-physical beings, and you don't have the luxury of being non-physical at the moment. Therefore you need to care about lower concerns that higher non-physical beings don't have to worry about.

Furthermore, some higher-consciousness lessons may be counterproductive if low-consciousness people try to learn them. If someone is told that strength is important, before they've learned about the importance of love, then that can encourage jerk-like behavior. Similarly, teaching someone about the concept of flow, if they don't yet have any kind of discipline or good routines, can lead to a situation where the person mis-uses the concept of flow in order not to do useful, unpleasant things.

So, it's best to not focus on which perspective is the one ultimate truth, and instead to see which perspective is useful for you at the present moment.

Also, if there seems to be a perpetual culture war between two things, then probably both sides have some good points and some blind spots, and neither side has the ultimate truth (even though one side might be more functional than the other side). So for example, is mainstream left-wing politics or mainstream right-wing politics the one universal truth? Well, neither of them is. Both sides have their strengths and their flaws. Ultimately mainstream left-wing politics is the unintegrated feminine, and mainstream right-wing politics is the unintegrated masculine, and you can't really throw away either the feminine or the masculine without unbalancing things.

Ideally you have both the left-wing and the right-wing perspective in your toolbox, and you see the strengths and flaws in both, and you can look at the world through either lens. Now, it's entirely fine to think that overall one of the two is currently significantly more functional than the other. It's fine to vote for one of the two. But neither of the two is the ultimate truth.

Of course, it's also fine to just not care about politics and to focus on self-improvement or helping people instead. Just because you can gather tools in your toolbox, doesn't mean that you necessarily have to do so.

So, in summary: rather than trying to figure out which perspectives are the sole objective truths and which perspectives are objectively false, it's more useful to see perspectives as tools in your toolbox. And you can take them out and use them as needed.

Ultimately, words are just man-made concepts anyway. So rather than focusing on whether a particular sentence is the ultimate truth, ask yourself whether a particular sentence is useful for you in the present moment.

A good spiritual message can show you a map of the terrain. It can be beneficial to spend some time looking at maps, but ultimately maps aren't the one ultimate truth. Maps are maps, and no amount of staring at maps will bring you ultimate fulfilment. Instead, occasionally look at maps while continuing on your spiritual journey -- walk, breathe, do your spiritual practice, meet your needs, spend time in nature, and follow your intuition and your soul.

If you want to know the ultimate truth, sit down in nature and breathe, and feel your connection to everything. That is the ultimate truth. Now, you may need to first let go of illusions and old pain and old concepts to fully appreciate that, and that is what spiritual practice is for.

I hope this was helpful. I love you very much and I wish you a very good week.

Your star brother,

Hakann

A. S.

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What If the Meaning of Life Is in the Body?

What If the Meaning of Life Is in the Body?

By Julie Peters

Posted on January 6, 2025

How would your day-to-day life change if you knew your sole purpose in this life was to be in your body well?

The meaning of life is a big concept, of course, and no one has ever been able to satisfactorily answer what, exactly, it is. And yet many of us still wonder what it is we’re doing here, what our purpose is, and what we must accomplish during the short time we have on Earth.

Some believe we should pray, connect with God, and join with divinity. Others believe we must follow the rules of a religion to have a good life. Some of us believe there is no meaning; we’re just here following our animal instincts. From other perspectives, our higher self has some plan for us—but we don’t ever get to find out what the plan is.

What if the meaning of life was a little simpler than all that? What if the meaning of life is being in a body well?

Discovering Your “Spark” Through Lived Experience

The Pixar movie Soul addresses this very question through an exploration of death, the afterlife, and the before-life, when we are souls getting ready to come down to Earth and begin our lives. In the movie, Joe Gardner is a musician who finds himself suddenly dead on the very day he’s supposed to play jazz with his hero. He connects with a soul named 22 in the before-life who has no interest at all in becoming alive, and the two scheme to get Joe back into his body and allow 22 to avoid having to go through the bother of living a life.

The two work to help 22 find her “spark,” which is the inspiration with which she will live her life on Earth (so that she can give it to Joe). The two spend a lot of time trying to figure out what a “spark” actually is. Joe is sure his is jazz music, while 22 has never felt interested in any of the mundane tasks of human life. Through a series of hijinks, the two end up on Earth, with 22 inhabiting Joe’s body and Joe stuck for a little while in the body of a cat. While in Joe’s body, 22 experiences things she couldn’t in the before-life that introduce her to concepts like music, art, performance, and so on. She gets to eat pizza. She walks and feels the breeze from a subway vent. She collects a maple seed pirouetting from a tree. She listens to music, feeling the rhythm with a body she’d never had before. And, sure enough, she finds her spark.

The movie carefully avoids defining the meaning of life, but there is a moment in the movie when the beings of the before-life explain that our purpose is not about having a particular “thing” to accomplish. It’s more about the desire to experience life on Earth, in a body.

The Meaning of Life as Experiencing Your Body

Some people are so sure they know the purpose of life that they devote their entire existence to worship through abstinence. They don’t drink, barely eat, and never have sex. Most of their time is spent in deep contemplation and meditation. What if one of these people made it to the afterlife expecting a great reward, only to discover they’d gotten it completely wrong and needed to go back and try again? What if the meaning of life is about experiencing rather than denying your body?

There are plenty of theories about what happens before and after life, but the one thing we know for sure is that we have some limited amount of time to exist in a body. Even if our consciousness continues in some heaven-like place, it’s without a body that can feel pleasure or suffering. If we are reborn into endless new lives, we only get this body, this life, once.

Emotions are physical, after all. Big emotions like sadness, joy, and rage are fundamentally physical. We may have thoughts about them, but they are called feelings because we feel them. Whatever we can think or judge or imagine about our before-lives and afterlives, we likely can’t feel them.

There is a funny moment in Soul when Joe and 22 are experimenting with the different theoretical experiences that could help 22 find her spark. They come across a piece of theoretical pizza. They try to eat it, but they can’t smell or taste it, and when they put it in their mouths, the piece of pizza pops, fully formed, right back out of their behinds. They can experience almost any theoretical reality in the before-life, but they can’t smell, taste, or touch anything. These are the gifts we can only have during the short time when we exist within a body.

So, what if our work here is not so much about changing the world or leaving some type of mark, but simply experiencing the world? Having empathy, connection, loss, grief, joy, and pain? How would your day-to-day life change if you knew your sole purpose in this life was to be in your body well?

Julie Peters

• https://www.spiritualityhealth.com/meaning-of-life-the-body