Diving Deep

By Catherine Weser

Since 1982, when the presence of the spiritual master, inner teacher, and guide known as Dwahl Khul, or DK, entered her life, Catherine Weser has been sharing his teachings with a constantly growing international audience.

Now, in Diving Deep, she combines her own knowledge and creativity with DK’s wisdom of One Life consciousness. Her new book is a fully integrated blending of Catherine’s fascinating personal journey with DK’s inter-dimensional guidance, and includes powerful affirmations of gifts and resolutions to challenges.

As with Catherine’s many articles and workshops all over the world, all the lessons of Diving Deep are guided by the presence of DK as inner teacher, influencing and guiding the information.

One Life, as Catherine notes, is a non-dual philosophy. To know One Life is to experience all in an awakened state of being. In the One Life, all sentient beings are one. There is no path to the One Life; it is simply here and now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Terra Nova Books
• Release date: Mar 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781948749442

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Preface

Ihave always been fascinated by art and spiritual things. As a teen-ager in the 1960s, I was exposed to the cultural upheaval and attended my share of rock festivals and concerts in tie-dyed T-shirts and bell bottom jeans. During that spirited time, the Beatles traveled to India to meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and Carlos Castaneda wrote his first Don Juan book. I was intrigued by all of it, and by the time I went to college to study fine art, my creative expression and my spiritual explorations were intertwined. In the midst of the psychedelic era, I was seeking an initiatory experience, a spiritual awakening, a creative awareness beyond what I was learning in art classes. In 1971, Ram Dass published Be Here Now, a book on meditation, spirituality, and yoga. His writings became my guidebook as I navigated through diverse Eastern philosophies and started a serious practice of yoga and Transcendental Meditation.

After college, I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and found a vibrant community of young artists and spiritual seekers. While in school, I had joined with a group of transcendental meditators and vegetarians, but in Santa Fe, I found myself engaged with a much broader array of spiritual teachers, alternative healers, and people committed to being on a path. I started exploring glass as an artistic medium, and began working with light and color, including the light and color of consciousness. It was in Santa Fe—after being exposed to channeling, reading Jane Roberts’ Seth books, meeting spiritual teachers from Muktananda to Jose Arguelles, and making art—that I asked for a deep connection to the most informed spiritual teacher I could meet. Then, one day, I had a vision of a Tibetan who told me telepathically: We are One Life. I soon began training with other channels and teachers, and developed the relationship with my inner teacher and guide, known to me as Dwahl Khul.

Friends encouraged me to engage in this relationship, and wanted group sessions in which I would share the wisdom I was receiving. It wasn’t long before countless people were coming to me for guidance derived from this union of an inner teacher and myself.

I am a conscious channel as well as a trained artist, and it is natural for me to seek inspiration from within. On the one hand, there is nothing exceptional about my relationship with an inner teacher, but on the other hand, it is extraordinary in many ways. For over thirty years, I have been counseling others from a deep place within and in symbiotic connectedness with the energy I have called DK. Yes, there is an entity known as Dwahl Khul, and books written by Alice Bailey have been credited as being inspired by this entity. I make no claims that the source of my inspiration is the same, and yet there seem to be similarities in many of the basic teachings. My interest, however, has never been concerned with who this guide is but with what this guide has to share with me.

This book contains excerpts from workshops, lectures, and sessions collected for many years—One Life Tutorials, the teachings I have received from the inner planes and have transmitted to others. You and me, every one of us, are One Life.

Many of these teachings speak to a few simple understandings, approaching them from different points of view. It is important that you know none of this material is presented as dogma. If it feels right and useful, trust yourself and embrace it. If it does not echo your experience, let it go. What matters is your experience. I can only verify that the teachings have transported me to states of awareness that compare with nothing else I have known. For me, and hopefully for you, we will find ourselves on a journey of Diving Deep Into One Life Awareness.

Acknowledgments

Iwish to acknowledge first and foremost my husband and daughter, who have supported really everything I have done in my life. Jeremiah, who has lovingly built the spiritual cave at Raven Gate that I enter into for creative regeneration and peace, and Veronica who has inhabited this world with me joyfully from the moment she was born: two beings with whom I share all that I am.

I also must acknowledge all the many people over the years who have sat with me and been willing to dive deep into themselves in order to have greater compassion and understanding in their lives. They have taught me more than any method. They have shared with me their sorrows and frustrations, their joys and their triumphs, with great courage. It is because of all these profound beings who have been in my circle that I have written this book. You are Michael, Skip, Monica, Nancy, Jim, Archana, Bo, Michelle, Kimberley, Edith, Donna, Susie, Rita, Hutt, Joy, Jon, Beth, Lynne, Eric, Melissa, and many, many others. From the head, the hand, and the heart, So Be It!

Introduction: Effortlessly Diving Deep

Paradox has always been a part of spirituality. The title of this book as well as its exposition are paradoxical and ask the question, How can you dive deep and do it without effort, as diving deep would seem to entail quite a bit of skill and effort, as well as mystery.

Diving deep is simply letting yourself be immersed in the depth of your own being. It is like standing on the edge of a diving board, not knowing how or if the water will embrace you—and still, you dive anyway. If you have ever explored a spiritual path, you have practiced diving. Once you leave the edge, no matter how tightly you had your toes curled, you will hit the water in some configuration or other. Like a leap into a pool of water, a dive into Self has its risks but offers great benefit. All that is required is a willingness to submerge.

Some spiritual practices recommend striving to become enlightened, progressing through a series of steps and ultimately arriving at a destination of self-liberation. The One Life Tutorials suggest something else—a pathless path of paradox in which as a human living a human life and yet simultaneously a spirit expressing spirituality, we are always free, aware, and alive in states of pure presence.

Effort is a part of our culture and bears with it the notion of paying dues, the concept of climbing the ladder of success. The very idea that life, let alone spirituality, could be effortless is not a part of our world. The notion that effort brings expertise might make some logical sense, but it also fixates us on stories of required tasks and feeds our obsession with self-judgment. Effortlessly diving deep is an opportunity to explore who you are not only with the depth of purpose and clarity of any other exploration but also with a simplicity and naturalness that fosters relaxation instead of struggle.

There are four main parts to this book. The first springs into the understanding of One Life, of living life beyond the material experience by understanding the nature of a spiritual path as one of paradox. Part Two addresses the question usually asked first when plunging deep into oneself: Who am I? The third part concerns the nature of service, and the fourth looks into the unconditional nature of love.

In most chapters, I describe in my own voice what I am learning, followed by the tutorial in the plural voice—the voice of the inner teacher and guide affectionately known as DK and my own voice in a uniquely integrated state of consciousness. Sometimes the voice is dense, sometimes poetic, sometimes Zen-like. We always address you as an equal explorer with the capacity to agree or disagree, to enjoy with ease or to labor with the concepts presented. It is always a voice that is through me, to me, and to you, simultaneously. All of it is One Life; all of it is valuable and honored. Just dive in, know that you are loved and that all will unfold effortlessly.

Part One

One Life

1

One Life

Although I opened to channel many months earlier, I committed to One Life Awareness—my journey with an inner guide and teacher—more deeply when the vision of a being looking like a Tibetan monk appeared before me. In a para-verbal language, I heard, We are One Life. I felt as though this visionary monk stepped into me energetically as the words were spoken. I didn’t know what that meant at first, thinking it was an invitation to join forces in some way. I believed it was a new chapter in my spiritual seeking, an answer to an invocation for a profound teacher to guide me on my path. I had been meditating regularly for years, and it seemed as if I had reached a kind of spiritual plateau. Most of the friends with whom I shared this event thought it was a direct invitation to bring forth the teachings of this Spiritual Master.

I had been channeling for a while for friends but had not made the process public. This merging experience convinced me that more would unfold, with channeling at the center of my exploration. I began to explore the process of conscious channeling, immersing myself into it. Channeling was natural. Nothing about it seemed outrageous or risky. I simply wanted to come to know what the meaning of One Life was, and how its significance might affect others.

My understanding of One Life has expanded over the thirty-six years I have been listening to the guidance of the presence who initially spoke to me. An integration has taken place gradually, and I no longer feel a sense of separation between this being and me. We have truly become One Life. However, One Life is more than just my personal process of integration. One Life is a non-dual knowing, a deep dive into Awareness, something that is known without necessarily being able to describe it or understand it intellectually. I have experimented with many ideas about what One Life Awareness is, knowing it to be the foundation of whatever I am experiencing in my life. At times, while examining myself, I get lost in the concepts while at other times, in stillness and ease, with my channel open, One Life Awareness becomes crystal clear.

In these tutorials, you are invited to calmly let the words flow without necessarily trying to discern every nuance of meaning. You are also invited to disagree, to test, and to experiment. Most of all, you are invited to effortlessly dive deep—reading while allowing the analytical mind to relax with the information and trusting where it takes you.

One Life

The Tutorial

One Life is the term we use for non-duality, closely associated with the common understanding of non-duality but not necessarily aligned with any