The Council is a group of entities, or inner teachers, who have communicated the teachings in this Web Site and in the book Listening In to author and conscious channel, Ellen Meredith. They are non-denominational in their affinities, and generally work to promote a grounded, balanced approach to spirituality through everyday activity and creative expression. The following short excerpt is from the Introduction to the book, Listening In: Dialogues with the Wiser Self.

“We call ourselves the Council, and we are a group of entities who meet in a place that you might call the “inner planes” or “a source of wisdom”. It is the home of the Wiser Self.

“Our goal in presenting our understandings to you is to help you come home to your own greatest truth, your own greatest good. We hope to give you some ideas about bringing your life into more meaningful constellation, becoming more awake to who you are and how you are. What we have to offer is a mix of ideas and suggestions which can perhaps help you to deepen your sense of inner authority, and to find a richer, more resonant way of living your life.

“It might be important to you to know whether we are male or female. We are both and neither. Each of us has known lives in many forms, male and female, and many gradations in between, in a variety of cultures where those terms meant different things at different times. So we feel that we have insight into the spectrum of what those designations might mean, and do not at this time identify our energy as particularly male or female. We chose the name Council because it is neutral and plural, and we feel it has a nice ring to it.

“There is something in the nature of our energy that can be very useful to you in recognizing or activating your own. It is like the striking of a bell or gong. You hear the sound and you feel the sound. And by the same token, our consciousness comes to you both through hearing and through feeling. Allow us to speak to you on these levels. Our purpose in asking Ellen to write this book is to invite you to come work with us. To come study with us, over time, when you feel comfortable tuning into our awareness.

“How can we be of help to you? Imagine that you are climbing a mountain and we happen to have reached the top of that particular mountain. We're up here with walkie-talkies, and you're just setting out to climb. You each have a walkie-talkie too: this book is about how to use your walkie-talkie.

“You will hear us saying, "The next half-mile has a lot of big boulders on it so you might want to be careful and conserve your energy. Take it more slowly." Or we might say, "You have three paths coming up ahead and from what we can see the left path has a lot of thorns to go through, the middle path is quite steep, and the right path is twice as long. Your choice." We're here (like other entity guides) with our walkie-talkies giving insight from our perspective. We also have our guides with their walkie-talkies, giving us guidance.

“Ellen hesitates when we use the image of climbing a mountain, because in your culture higher often means better. But we see the climb up the mountain as the climb home to yourself. You are climbing home to your truest self-expression and self-awareness. You do this through the events and experiences that you create in your lives.

“ We are not a right- answer machine, we are not a source of all-powerful wisdom. Our guidance is not the Word of God coming down from on high and absolutely correct. But we are part of the divine as you are part of the divine. And we have a perspective on the experiences you are living that perhaps can be useful to you.

“On the other hand, you still need to take each step on your path yourself. No one can take steps for you. We can say, "Watch out, there's a hole," but it's your choice whether or not you step into it. It is your choice what you do with our information. We try to give guidance in ways that are not invasive to your free will, your free choice.

“The teachings we offer to you are part of a spiritual curriculum for developing greater insight and equilibrium in your life. We have tried to incorporate responses to many of the questions we have received over the years from our various students and in-body friends, so that you could see these lessons in concrete and everyday terms. As you read, let your mind wander and free-associate. Let your imagination play with the images and concepts. Let your everyday life provide the workshop for experimenting with these perspectives. As you do this, you will feel the dialogue which has produced this book reconstituting within you.”

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