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Question

Masters, I have been wondering if a Light Being must embrace a completely vegetarian diet in order to reach the level of a so-called “light body.” If your diet has meat involved (e.g., soup) but you refrain from eating the meat, is there any difference?

–CATHC, Hong Kong

ANSWER

All souls having a human experience are also light beings — they just have not awakened to that fact. Each human has a “light body,” sometimes referred to as the Merkaba, that makes it possible to travel throughout the entirety of existence and to communicate in other dimensions with teachers, masters, and other souls.

The steps to awareness have to do with the vibrational level of your essence and whether or not you can feel the presence of other beings around you. In human form your vibrational frequency is affected by a number of things. You may be sensitive to the energy of the nutritional materials consumed by your body, or weighed down by your ego’s judgmental decisions, such as needing to know what is considered by others as right or wrong.

The first part of your question can be answered by your beliefs. If you believe that you must be a strict vegetarian, eating no meat or meat by-products of any kind, then if you consume anything of that nature, your ego will not allow you to reach a higher vibration. If, though, your understanding is based upon your feeling that what you consume is solely power for your body, whatever you eat will not prevent lift-off.

It is essential to find a vibrational resonance within yourself. Some sensitives feel the angst of animals, fish, even grain that has been harshly harvested, and their own vibration is disrupted by the carryover as the nutrition flows through their bodies. Only you can feel how your food affects you. It is very much like consuming peanuts or shellfish if you have an allergy to them. They are the source of life for many and death to others.

You should be aware that your body may also change from time to time; it may be content with a vegetarian diet at one time and crave meat at another. Listen to your body for the answer to your question. Neither is right or wrong.

QUESTION

Do only certain people have the capacity to become direct channels for the Masters, as Toni is, or can anybody who has the dedication and intent share the Masters’ wisdom with others? Is it possible for a healer/teacher such as myself to include channeling as part of the service I offer? Does this ability have to be pre-arranged before incarnating? I would dearly love to be able to channel the Masters more directly, but will understand if this is not part of my path, and if there are more beneficial ways that I can serve.

– AM, Australia

ANSWER

There are many ways that “channeling” occurs. The prerequisite for a clear channel who hears us readily is a vibrational level that allows for easy communication between the Earth and Home. With some people this can be accomplished in a conscious state and for others it requires that a trance be used. In a trance state the individual is not aware of what is going on and is unconscious of the whole process.

Conscious channels “hear” at the level to which they can raise their own vibration above the denseness of planet Earth. This means that the more that they can remove ego (Earth impediments such as self thoughts and judgments) the purer will be the communication.

One aspect of this ability has to do with how “old” the souls are—that is how many incarnations they have gone through and how much knowledge attained has been turned into wisdom. If a not-so-old soul has been able to rid itself of sufficient ego to hear the other side, it will not be at as high a level as an older soul (possibly, at an undergraduate level as opposed to a professional school). The level and extent at which you choose to operate in each lifetime is also determined by you prior to incarnation.

Communication also has many forms. The healing that you help facilitate is the result of channeling. You channel through the universal energy that allows all things to be balanced. You also have an intuitive channeling ability that allows you to give advice to your clients to assist them in removing the blockages that cause dis-ease. Your teaching has been helped for many years by listening to the Masters and passing on their wisdom to your students.

“Hearing” does not always imply that we are giving verbal instructions. The Masters give you intuitive feelings, unique ideas that seem to come from nowhere, urges that when followed change your life: all these are channeled. You see in this explanation in how many ways you already are bridging the gap for others. You’re doing what you chose to do and we thank you for your assistance.

About the Channel

Toni Ann Winninger comes from Chicago, USA. After working as a medical technologist she studied at the John Marshall Law School and became an assistant prosecutor in Cook County, Chicago, a position she held for 27 years. After training as a Reiki master and hypnotherapist she was called by the Ascended Masters to be a channel. Developing her skills as a clear channel and light language teacher, she channels the Masters’ Internet blog and the books they have authorized. www.mastersofthespiritworld.com