Channeling Unconditional Love from the Praying Mantis Collective – An Interview with Toni Ghazi

What if Praying-Mantis Beings are trying to connect with you to share a message of unconditional love?

Join Toni Ghazi for a heart-opening conversation that explores the profound interconnectedness of all existence! Toni shares his journey of awakening during COVID as he started binge-watching programs centering on consciousness, spirituality, and channeling. You’ll hear when he first encountered the Praying-Mantis Beings and how we started channeling their messages. In fact, Toni channels the Praying-Mantis Collective during our conversation, and that is only available on the audio podcast or video (above)!

If there’s one thing that you would want people to know about themselves, what would that be? 

Toni Ghazi: There are a lot of things I could share, but what’s coming to my mind right now, through spirit, is to remember that you are divine. Remember that you are Gods, the universe, the stars, the rivers, the planets, the leaves—you are everything you see outside of you. Everything has always existed within you. It’s emanating from your heart like a projector into the matrix. It’s not happening out there, to you—it’s within you. You are such a powerful being.

We’re all awakening to how beautiful and powerful we are—not from an egoic sense of power, but from the essence. We are all of it. We are all the humans, the planets, the rivers, the rocks, the aliens. Everything is us.

It’s all being projected from our hearts, and there is only one source—God, or whatever you want to call it—and it’s you to begin with. You are creating this whole elaborate, beautiful story, fracturing yourself into all these little pieces to experience yourself from many facets. So, it’s all about you. It’s all about infinite self-love too. That’s another important aspect coming in.

I think that’s enough for now, but I’m happy to share more if you’d like.

When you say it’s all about me, that’s the opposite of what I was taught growing up in a Christian context. If you think it’s about you or make yourself the center of the story, that’s considered egoic, self-centered, and not of God. How would you respond to that? How would you help me process that? 

Toni Ghazi: That’s a very good question. When you see yourself as separate from all that God is, outside of you—like Mother Mary, Jesus, Krishna, Buddha—and I grew up in Lebanon in the Christianity, Greek Orthodox religion, so I get Christianity. But when you’re expanding, if your consciousness keeps believing without challenging and listening to the voice within, then you’re not evolving. We all have that voice, we always have and always will. We’ll never lose it.

When you start listening to it, it leads you down an exploratory path, and as you explore those paths, your whole world expands.

(—So I stutter, by the way, and I’ve always stuttered. Here it comes, but when I channel, all the stuttering goes away. That’s another story.)

We’ve been taught, brainwashed, and conditioned to believe we are separate from everything outside of us, and that anything happening is happening to us. From that perspective, it makes sense to think, “If I love what’s outside of me, good things will happen to me,” because we think it’s happening to us, not through us, or because we’re choosing to make it happen.

That idea blows people’s minds—”What do you mean I chose this life?” Like, “What do you mean I chose poverty?” I grew up poor, so I get it. “What do you mean I chose pain?” People can’t grasp that, but when you start seeing yourself as the ascended master, realizing how powerful you are, you see you’re choosing these experiences because you know you can get out of them, you can learn from them, and you can expand through those experiences.

Self-love isn’t coming from an egoic sense of separateness. Self-love is really you loving every aspect of who you are, even though it seems outside of you—it’s all happening within you.

Like I said earlier, you’re the rivers, you’re the leaves, you’re the humans, you’re the wars, you’re the peace, you’re the love, you’re the fear, you’re the doctor, you’re the stars, you’re the planets. When you begin seeing everything outside of you as part of you, as a small fraction of the whole, and you love each part of that, that’s the self-love we’re talking about.

It’s not about saying “I am the only one,” although, in a way, you are the only one. But it’s about loving every version of yourself, every version that made all the decisions, whether good, bad, or evil. From a creator or God’s view, there is no judgment for anything you do or decide. Creation doesn’t see experience as good or bad. We created that concept, limiting ourselves to experience life with the idea of judgment. From creation’s perspective, it’s all just experience.

When you start seeing the world from that lens, you don’t see self-love as selfish, or fall into the typical human definitions of self. When you start seeing everyone and everything out there as part of ascended mastery, your entire world shifts. Your perspective on what you just went through changes. You realize, “Wow, I put myself through that experience to really feel it, to see what choices and decisions I’d make, and how to get out of it.”

Whether you got out of it or not, you expanded.

That’s what enlightenment is—expanding, learning, and continuously pushing the paradigm of the infinite. If you believe and know that you are the infinite, and if you truly understand what “infinite” means, you know it keeps going and going. There’s no final destination. The destination is right here, right now. This is why we talk about the “now” moment—it’s the only destination. If you want to define a destination, it’s only here and now because everything else keeps evolving, getting bigger and bigger.

When you start accepting yourself as this expanded, beautiful soul living multiple lives all at once to experience the infinite in its many facets, your world changes, and self-love comes from that realization.

You said that you grew up in Lebanon and were part of the Greek Orthodox Church. I want to hear how your spirituality, mindfulness, and consciousness all unfolded in your life because you’re doing some really fascinating things that we’re going to get into. How did this all unfold for you, Toni? 

Toni Ghazi: The long story short is that it all unfolded when COVID came, really. Before COVID, I was totally asleep. I was into the matrix, into the lack mentality, thinking I wasn’t powerful like everybody else. I lived how people live now who aren’t aware of their own already expanded self within.

So pre-COVID, I want to get this clear—pre-COVID, you’re a real estate broker in Washington, DC. You’re living life. Did you have any sense of spirituality or consciousness at that point?

Toni Ghazi: I believed in Jesus, and I believed in Mother Mary. I loved church, I loved going to church, I loved candles, I loved icons, I loved saints. I would go to church every once in a while when I felt called, and it was my place of peace. I loved looking at the candles, and the smell of incense just brought me peace.

But back to my childhood—in Lebanon, it’s quite a religious country. You have Muslims, who have an amazing spirituality, and then you have Christianity. The whole culture is about believing in something greater than you, and I completely subscribed to the idea of Mother Mary, Jesus, and all the saints. I had all these icons and would pray to them every day, etc. But it was from a very separate perspective—they were out there, and I was here. I never thought they were me, to begin with.

Now I know that I am Mother Mary, I am Jesus, I am all the saints, and I know it. This is beyond believing, beyond thinking. I embrace the idea that I am all of it. But from the perspective I had back then, I was separate. When you separate yourself from that power, you always feel less than. I’m not that power, I’m not Jesus. I need to pray for Jesus to make good things happen to me. I need to pray for Mother Mary to make good things happen to me. If I’m a good boy, good things will happen. If I’m a bad boy, bad things will happen. That idea—of praying for someone outside of me—was like judging me all the time. But really, I was judging myself. I kept thinking, “I’m not good enough, I’m not this, I’m not that,” etc.

But throughout that journey—40 years, because I’m 44 now, and COVID came 4 years ago—I always had this little grain of sand, that’s the best way I can describe it. It was in my heart, though I always described it as being in my chest. It was a tiny little grain, and I knew everything would be fine. It brought me peace. Now I know it’s the flame of creation that I have within me. It’s the infinite, unconditional love that I’ve always had within me, always. But I didn’t know what to call it. I would feel it sometimes, it would become clear that it was there, but I didn’t know what it was. When I expanded, I gained clarity on exactly what that was.

How did that happen, though? How did that come about for you? 

Toni Ghazi: My awakening happened quite fast. I talk to a lot of spiritual leaders, I have a lot of Shamans, I have a lot of friends in the spirituality community, and everybody has their own path. I mean, I know people who’ve taken 40 years to expand or come to a point where they’re more aware. I’ve known some that took 10, 20 years. Mine literally was overnight. It happened so fast—within, I’d say, a year. I really got the concept.

After that, I began kind of embodying it. After that, forget about it. I’ve been on this rocket ship journey of accelerated light speed, living in the moment. I’m not questioning things anymore, I’m not worrying about things anymore. I’m not thinking with my mind—I’m really thinking with spirit. I’m thinking from a consciousness level, trusting that we meet people for a reason and just go with it. Just go with the flow. Don’t resist, don’t try to create Excel sheets, don’t try to get the brain to understand the beyond, because the brain isn’t capable of that.

During COVID, for the first three months when the whole world was trying to figure things out—real estate slowed down because everybody was afraid. Masks, curfews, you couldn’t leave. You’d hear on TV—my husband was glued to the TV, listening to breaking news after breaking news. As I was hearing this rhetoric and fear-driven story, I thought, “No way on earth am I going to subscribe to that reality. No way am I going to live a life where I feel like I have to wear a mask or get a shot.” It just sounded so engineered to me, I can’t even describe it. It didn’t resonate with me, and I think that because it didn’t resonate, it opened up my consciousness without me even being aware of it.

I was on the Gaia channel on Amazon, and all of a sudden, all these documentaries—about UFOs, aliens, consciousness, meditation, spirituality, the paranormal—started popping up. I started watching them. One show, Interviews with Extra Dimensionals by Reuben Langdon, just captured my imagination. It was all about channeling. He had like eight or nine channelers, and it was two seasons. I became obsessed with that show. I watched each episode maybe four or five times over the next month and a half, and it just opened up my mind to what we’re capable of, beyond what we’ve been brainwashed to believe. It spun me into this new exploratory phase, and I became hungry for more.

I just wanted to learn. As I was learning, all these brand-new concepts started flooding in. It wasn’t making sense contextually—I understood the English of it, but it wasn’t clicking yet. But for three or four months, I embraced it. I flooded my mind. In retrospect, a year later, I was able to see my path clearly. Everything I watched in those two or three months about physics and other concepts—they were all little seeds planted in my path. As I awakened over the next year and a half, all those pieces came together to create a clear, perfect puzzle.

I got to a point where I began trusting myself again. I re-empowered myself, realizing that all the knowledge I’d been seeking outside of me was really within me. I began testing myself to see if I knew what I thought I knew.

It was a beautiful journey. The best way I can describe it, without getting into crazier details, is that channeling was my outlet to trust that I am divine. I am God. I am the wisdom, I am the information. It’s all within me, and I have access to it at all times. That gave me complete freedom. I didn’t need to rely on the outside to get information. It was okay to rely on me.

And so you’re watching all of these different channeling episodes and documentaries, at what point did you begin to think, “Wow, perhaps I might be a channel”? How did that come into your mind and heart? 

Toni Ghazi: You have to keep in mind, when you’re watching a new documentary and you’re still in the 3D, you’re feeling the emotions. You think, “I am not a channel, I cannot channel. There’s no way I can channel all these things.” You beat yourself down, thinking, “Oh, they must be more special than me.”

They may have a special gift, and I had that desire—I wanted to be like them. But it’s coming from the perspective that I’m not them. I want to be like them. They have something extra special that I don’t have. That’s why they do what they do. I took a channeling class, and that happened synchronistically. My cat died—she was living with my ex-boyfriend—and through that, we ended up meeting this person who speaks to animals. Through her, she said, “I teach channeling classes,” which was crazy because we didn’t even talk about channeling with her. I took that class, still thinking, “I am not like those other people, I don’t have those gifts, I am less than, I’m not special.”

The first day, in the first class we took, I pretended to channel, practicing to channel. There was an immediate knowingness that I could do this. Although I wasn’t confident yet, I just knew I was a channel. I was a beginner, and I didn’t trust myself. I didn’t trust the images, the information, the timelines, or the emotions. I get visions when I channel. I didn’t trust how my state shifted from now to consciousness until I stopped stuttering.

During speech, like now, you see me use the word “like” a lot. It helps me transition because, if I don’t, I really stutter and the words don’t come out. But when I began channeling, for the first time in 40 years—and I’m not kidding—I didn’t stutter. I really struggled with my speech when I was younger, and I stuttered a lot in school. It was a traumatic experience because I would always get called on, and I would just stutter. I would feel so small. It was crazy.

The first day I began channeling, I didn’t stutter for the first time in 40 years. I have chills all over my arms. That was the only proof I needed that what we call “channeling,” which is just a label, was my proof that I shifted frequencies. Something happened. There’s no way on earth I wouldn’t stutter because I tried all my life—365 days a year, multiplied by 40 years, by minutes and seconds of the day. I knew I stuttered, and I was always challenged by speech. I lost a job because of it. I didn’t get an interview because of it. It became bad at one point.

So, the fact that I didn’t stutter while practicing was like, “Oh my God, are you kidding me? I’m not stuttering.” It was my proof that something different and new happened, and I loved it. I embraced it from that moment on. It was like jumping into the beautiful rabbit hole of butterflies and colors. It’s just beautiful when you dive into yourself and realize you are grander than you ever thought, much bigger than you could ever imagine. You are so creative, so powerful—not in the sense that “I am more powerful than you,” but powerful in the sense that “I am everything, I am expansion, I am creation.” You are creation.

When you realize that, it breaks down the matrix. It breaks down all these belief systems of “I am not this, I am less than.” All the negative, “I’m not good enough,” disappears. No, I’m everything. I’m all of it. When you embrace all of it, that’s another thing. It’s like layer upon layer of deconstructing all your belief systems. When you begin saying, “I am the infinite, I am the creator,” we say it with our minds and logically understand what it means. But to live and embody what that word really means is a different story, and that’s the new journey I’m on.

When I say, “I am the infinite, I am the creator, I am self-loving, unconditionally loving,” it means loving every aspect of who I am—every decision I’ve made, every thought I’ve had, every life I’ve lived, even on the spectrum of judgment. That’s where we come to a wall. How can I love a version of me that decided to hurt someone or made that decision or killed another person or whatever society considers bad? When you begin understanding that creation doesn’t judge and there is no judgment in any experience, everything becomes ascended mastery, everything becomes expansion.

When you get to that perspective, you embrace life. You embrace everything that has happened, that is happening, that could happen. When you embrace all of it, you bring it back to your heart. When you bring all those pieces back to you, you’re able to see yourself as the whole creator that you are. You’re not putting one piece of you that you don’t agree with all the way over there. When you do that, you create a hole (H-O-L-E) into the infiniteness of who you are. But when you bring it back with love and see it from a different perspective, you bring that piece back into your heart. You begin to see yourself as the whole image. You reconstruct the totality of who you are by bringing every decision, every choice, everything, with no judgment.

Two years ago, I walked by your booth and thought, “What’s going on with this praying mantis guy?” Honestly, that was a little different, you know what I’m saying? But, your heart is flowing with love!

Toni Ghazi: Thank you for speaking your heart, and I honor your perspective because, listen, for me to be able to embody and say to the world, “I channel praying mantis beings,” that’s insane. I get you, but the fact that I stepped into it—that’s the knowingness. I know, like, no one on earth, even if the praying mantis come and say, “You never connected with us,” I know that I connected with them. I don’t need anyone else, even if creation comes, which is me to begin with.

Tell me how this happened. I want to know exactly how the praying mantis beings began flowing through you. 

Toni Ghazi: So listen, past life regression. As I’m learning about channeling, past life regression, quantum physics, and all these things, you know, on TV, I became obsessed—hungry, in a sense. I wanted someone to channel for me. I’m called the session king because I’ve had thousands of sessions with people. I thought I couldn’t channel.

They’re special, more than me. They have a special gift. So, I would go to them just to get information. I was obsessed because I wanted more. As I had these channel sessions, I learned about Pleiadians, Arcturians, and praying mantises. I knew absolutely nothing about this. So, I gathered a bank of information about what could possibly exist based on these channel sessions and all the documentaries I watched.

I heard about past life regression and thought, “Oh cool, you can get hypnotized and things will come through. Let’s see.” My first past life regression, the moment I was under, the first image that came was a praying mantis’s head. It was flash, flash. As fast as the flash was, the image was so ingrained in me that I was in it forever. But it was gone in an instant. In that moment, I was able to experience infinite timelessness, and then in a split second, it was gone. It was like a dichotomy of two concepts all at once.

The next image was a long-bodied silhouette, about 20 feet high, of this pure light being that looked human-ish. It was just a silhouette, but I’m getting chills as I speak. As I looked at it, even though it was a flash, I was in it forever. They were telepathically speaking to me, saying, “We need to come to you in this way because your mind, if we come in our true essence and form, will not be able to create an archetype of who we are. We are very expanded beings, and our awareness of who we are is so vast that your mind will shut down.”

They came in that light-bodied silhouette, and I could feel the light. It was intelligent. The light itself was consciousness.

The next image I saw was a heart, and they put me inside this heart—these infinite layers of heart, going to infinity. All faceted, like crystal, but clearer than anything you could comprehend. It was a conscious, intelligent entity. In the middle of this infiniteness, there was a small spark. It reminded me of the spark I described from my childhood.

That small spark, smaller than a grain, held so much power. They told me, “You are so powerful that you don’t need a flame or an explosion. All you need is this little grain of power to remind you of who you are.” That small spark reflected onto the next, and the next, into infinity. I was in this vehicle of infinite light and love.

Then, I went through the past life regression. Four or five past lives came through, where I was buried alive, a slave, etc. But that first experience with them—it was only three seconds, but no one in creation could tell me I didn’t have a connection with these beings. It was an activation of memory.

After that, I was obsessed with the mantis beings. There’s very little information on the internet about them—when I say very little, I mean 0.0001. So, I had to rely on the messages I got from them. I couldn’t read a book to understand it. It was all communication with them.

Two or three months later, I wanted confirmation. I had the experience, but remember, I was still awakening. I still felt disempowered, thinking I didn’t have a special gift. Was it real? Was I crazy? How could I tell people I connect with insectoid beings? I live in Washington D.C. and sell real estate—a lot of people know me. I couldn’t just go out and say that. But I embodied that version, and it was the most magical thing ever. I’ll show you something later, but it was such a strong knowingness I couldn’t escape it.

I came home and said to my husband, “Oh my God, babe, I am a praying mantis. I saw myself as a praying mantis.” So, on this journey, I wanted to confirm… 

Hold on. What did he say? I gotta hear what your husband said. 

Toni Ghazi: You’ll meet my husband one day. He’s this big macho man, all tattoos, amazing guy. Opening up to spirituality, he’s still very much in the 3D. The look in his eye was like, “Are you joking?” He was kind of supportive, but there was that other look like, “Okay, I hope you’re not going to run with this and go tell the world you are.” He knows how I am—when I fall in love with something, I’m going with it, I embody it.

I think there was a little bit of doubt and fear, like, “Please don’t go out there and say you connect with these beings, are you crazy?” But he’s seen my journey. He’s been observing my awakening, and he’s come so far. Now, he believes in all this and is really coming into his own ascension and clarity on who he is. He’s always been supportive of everything I did. He’s not needy and always lets me do my thing. So, he did let me be me, but I could feel and tell—okay, just don’t go crazy and don’t get too excited blabbing to the world that you talk to these insectoids.

You would say that these beings are some sort of consciousness. Would you say they came to you in the form of a praying mantis because you could relate to that? 

Toni Ghazi: Precisely. Thank you for saying it that way. If they really came in their true form, our brain wouldn’t understand what it sees. It would look like—well, I don’t know—like they’re just light or something. But remember, when you begin realizing that you are infinite, and infinite is everything, there are all kinds of versions of things we can’t even comprehend yet that exist out there.

The way I describe it is: in this lifetime, whatever theme of exploration I’m tapping into, and the messages I’m supposed to relay to the world, will come from that perspective of the infinite. But I always tell my clients, it could shift any day. Right now, I’m a praying mantis, I’m a realtor, I’m Lebanese, I’m a man, and I’m gay. But this isn’t permanent. Now, I’ve embodied this, but it could shift.

This is all new. Just last week, I did my nails for the first time. I put the yin and yang symbol on them because I went to a ceremony. I didn’t do it for any reason other than wanting to experience creation. This is creation to me—this is creation. This ring is creation. I don’t see it as, “Oh, it’s jewelry” or “Oh, it’s nail polish.” It’s a version of creation that I’m getting to know. I’m getting to know myself in this version. It could change next week, and I may never wear this again. I don’t know.

I could channel a praying mantis today. Tomorrow, I could channel some other being. Right now, though, it’s a very strong connection, and I’ve completely embodied them. They’ve given me access, a portal, to connect with other beings and other aspects of consciousness that we can’t comprehend or conceive of. I think they’re like my ambassadors, allowing me to tap into what creation really is beyond the 3D.

When I channel, I see things that words can’t describe—colors, experiences, or feelings. The words I use to describe the feelings aren’t enough to explain what I’m experiencing. When you surrender to being infinite, you surrender to what the infinite wants to show you today, in the next minute, or in the next moment. 

What are you going to be doing at Conscious Life Expo? How can people connect with you there? And then, ultimately, how can people follow you and get connected online? 

Toni Ghazi: I have a lot of events literally every month. But yes, the LA Conscious Life Expo will be happening in February. I’ll have a booth there. I don’t know the booth number yet because they haven’t assigned it, but I’ll be in the crystal room, one of the large rooms.

I’ll also be on a panel with five or six others, I guess channels. I don’t know the exact time, but you should be able to find it on the website. I’ll also be channeling for an hour and a half in one of the rooms, and it’s free to attend.

I’ll be there for three days, all day long from 9 am to 9 pm, so you’ll have plenty of opportunities to talk with me one-on-one. But if you’d like to attend the shows, you can find me on my website, tonighazi.com. I’m on all social media platforms, which you can access through my website. My handle is @TheAntareanHeart. You can also find information on my website about my praying mantis skulls. I’m the only one in the world that creates praying mantis crystal skulls.

I have regular skulls, human skulls—like eight of them. I wanted a praying mantis one, and I just went online thinking I’d buy one. But nobody on earth makes them, no one. So, I started making them, and they’re beautiful, conscious beings that can help you connect to galactic guides, expand healing, and much more. We can imbue them with all kinds of energies because they’re conscious beings you can interact with and dialogue with. It’s so cool.

And of course, you offer one-on-one channeling sessions and some corporate spiritual coaching. That’s all available on your website, right? People can reach out to you to get that scheduled, correct? 

Toni Ghazi: Exactly, and we can also do group sessions. If you have a group in your town of 10 or 20 people, and you don’t want to come here, I can fly to you. I can do private sessions for your family, friends, or whoever. We can do Zoom, but we can also do in person if you prefer.

Toni, your heart is so big, open, and beautiful. I just appreciate the opportunity to connect, and thank you for the ways you’re serving the world with these powerful messages and your wonderful embodiment. And hey, if anyone needs a real estate broker in the Washington DC area, I know a guy—Toni Ghazi. All right, thanks so much for being with us today!