I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from January 19, 1997:
How can we live from the open heart?
(Carla channeling)
We are known to you as those of the principle of Q’uo. We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We thank each of you most profoundly for gathering and calling us to share our thoughts with you at the gathering. It is our blessing and our privilege to share these thoughts with you. As always, we ask that you remain careful in what you take in from that which we or any source might say, for you are the guardian of your temple. You will recognize the truth that is your own. The rest you may leave behind without a second thought.
You ask us this day concerning how to live with the heart opened and vulnerable, and we say to you that this question is central in attempting to make the choice of service to others or the choice of service to self that this incarnation that you are now experiencing is so much concerned with. There is always an abundance of ways in which we may speak of the ways of service and the ways of polarization, and yet nothing is more direct a way of addressing the issue of polarity than to speak of the open heart. Those who wish to serve the Creator by serving others are those who truly wish to open the heart. Those who wish to follow the path of service to self find a closed heart necessary in order to polarize negatively. Now, as we speak of polarization in consciousness it might be helpful to think about polarization in more familiar terms.
If there is a weight hung in space it is, first of all, going to respond to gravity and will hang directly downward. If the pendulum that this represents is very heavy it might take a great deal to get it to sway from side to side. And the first time that the effort is made to swing towards one or the other extreme will most likely be barely sufficient to break the lack of momentum of the downward hanging pendulum, and there will be just a slight movement. What happens with most entities, and this includes those who seek most earnestly after truth, is that with the effort made to polarize towards a radiance of being, a generosity and an openness of being, there is an equal and opposite reaction that contracts against fears and makes separations betwixt one thing and another in order to feel more safe. This brings the pendulum back so that there is a slight movement towards service to self. And the pendulum never gets very far in either direction.
What you hoped to do as you attempt to work with you own consciousness in order to accelerate the rate of evolution of your own spirit is to be enough consistent in opening and radiating love that the pendulum begins to move more and more towards the extreme. The more polarized the reactions, the more obvious it will be to you when you make an error. And this means that it can be very poor judgment to become involved in gauging one’s polarity or assessing one’s progress. You have heard that a watched pot is slow to boil, and the over-concern with how one is doing in polarizing will actually be a brake upon the very activity that you had hoped to emphasize.
So the first thing that we would suggest to those who wish to open the heart and to live in the open heart is to refrain from attempting to give the self a spiritual grade. Avoid thoughts of how you are doing. They will come regardless of whether you encourage them or not, but it is your choice if you are wise to allow those thoughts to come and go, for within the illusion that you have worked so hard to enter it is almost impossible to be aware of how one is actually serving. One must simply serve in faith and allow that faith to be sufficient.
There is within your earthly condition a great array of choices which face you every day, every hour even. And it is easy to begin to look at the things that occur and to think these things have no spiritual nature. “These things are of the world and do not need my attention but only my activity.” And yet we say to you that all things are full of the Creator and by this we mean every stone, every bit of earth, every iota of the wind that blows, and the rains that fall, every diaper changed, every dish washed, every chore, every onerous task, all of these things are instinct with the magical, utter life and that life is Love. And the life within you is Love also.
When one is attempting to live with the open heart every missed step seems to be a difficulty, and this is because the attempt to live with an open heart is neatly and fully circumscribed about by the perils and tests and round robins of a very active spirit that watches over each with the firm intent of offering the maximum amount of helpful catalyst. When this catalyst hits the sensory input of your being the earthly, normal thing that one does is to contract around that thing, assess it, and decide what to do concerning it. These actions tend to close the heart. This is not to say that the way of the open heart has no input from intelligence or thought but, rather, to emphasize that much of one’s care in assessing incoming data has much to do with the lower energies of the body, and as one gives these concerns priority the self tends to continue acting from a place within what this instrument would call the head. And, using that terminology, we can say that the spiritual life of third density is a journey from head to heart.
And we have noted before that the energy that comes into your being is infinite, but that there are ways in which each of you, by the choices that you make, contract and narrow and limit the amount of energy that can come into the body and move up the spine. The first center—we will simply summarize—has to do with issues of life and death, breathing, eating, the sexual polarity. These are the concerns of red ray. The concerns of the next ray, the orange ray, are those that the person has with himself or herself, and the person in relationship with one other person, the dynamics betwixt self and self, and self and other self, without reference to groups, but just one person and another. These are the concerns of orange ray. The concerns of yellow ray, this being a yellow-ray density, take on a good deal of centrality of importance. This is the heart, shall we say, of third density—the relating of self to groups, the opening of self that will in fourth density become the social memory complex when thoughts are shared, private thoughts simply skirted about, seen, appreciated, respected and left alone. There will be other lessons to learn in fourth density, but this lesson that you now work upon, of opening the self without fear, this one you will work upon until you are able to feel that contact with other selves as an identity of one to one, heart to heart, and love to love.
Now, those issues of red ray, orange ray, and yellow ray are neatly designed and most tidily packaged to maximize your confusion and to limit the power that you may bring and allow up to the heart center, the next one after red, orange and yellow. Each time that you put yourself down, each time that you are harsh, each time that you feel so isolated and alienated that you deny your brotherhood with all that is, you close down a little bit of that channel which is bringing in infinite creative energy to your body, and each time that occurs there is less energy into the heart. So, basically, those who have not worked through the issues that confront them at these three levels—self, self with another, and self with its groups—each time that you allow these issues to come and to be feared you have shut off some of the power that you need in your heart in order to live the life that you wish to live.
The group question for this session was: “How can we live from the open heart?” Q’uo began by saying that the living with the heart open and being vulnerable was the primary work of third density in choosing to be of service to others with an open heart or service to self with the heart closed. Q’uo went on to use the analogy of the heart that has not been opened was like a pendulum that moves only slightly in the positive sense or the negative sense when efforts in either direction are attempted so that there is a movement of the pendulum in the opposite direction for positive and negative choices, so the pendulum never goes very far in either direction. Then Q’uo said that if we continue to make efforts to serve others on the spiritual path the pendulum will move more in the positive direction, but it would also be obvious when an entity has made an error, so there should not be any judging of the self on the spiritual path, or the progress will be slowed, and the better idea would be to let the thoughts of self-judgment to come and then go. Q’uo continued by saying that each of us has many choices to make as we go through our daily round of activities, and it is easy to feel that they are not part of our spiritual path, but then Q’uo said that everything that we do is part of the magic of the Creator’s Love which is also within us. Q’uo went on by saying that when we attempt to live in the open heart we often experience difficult catalyst that is our destiny, and that it is easy to try to think about how to handle it in ways which deal with the lower three energy centers that involve using the thoughts of our head, and this causes us to close our hearts instead of traveling the spiritual journey in the third density which is a journey from the head to the heart. Then Q’uo said that the energy that comes into our body is infinite in its nature, but we utilize it in specific ways in each of our energy centers. They said that the red-ray center deals with survival and sexuality. The orange-ray deals with the dynamics of our self alone and of our self with one other self. Then Q’uo said that the yellow-ray energy center is most important in the third density because it deals with our relationship with groups which will eventually transform into our hearts opening to all others within what will become a social memory complex in the fourth density, but now in the third density we will experience the contact with other entities to be of the nature of one to one, heart to heart, and love to love. Q’uo went on by saying that we need to keep the three lower energy centers open because: “those who have not worked through the issues that confront them at these three levels—self, self with another, and self with its groups—each time that you allow these issues to come and to be feared you have shut off some of the power that you need in your heart in order to live the life that you wish to live.” On March 21, 1999, Q’uo spoke of the value of opening the three lower energy centers:
The three lower energy centers that we have talked about before are those centers with the colors of red, orange, and yellow: the base or first chakra being the red chakra and containing those issues of survival, sexuality, and vitality; the orange-ray, that belly chakra, wherein the issues of personal ethics, personal choices, and personal relationships are worked upon; and that yellow energy center which is sometimes called the solar plexus center, which treats with the energies having to do with society and societal groups, the ethics and the relationships and the responses which the seeker may choose to offer to those catalysts which may come about. These are the chakras which need to be open and in minimal balance in order that the full energy that the Creator offers may come from the base of the body up into the heart.
May we say that the conversation preceding this message was, we felt, most enlightened, for each was speaking of the being as opposed to the doing. You see, it is the love with which you do things that radiates; it is not the things that you do. Among your peoples this has been much misunderstood, for people look to see if there is some service that can be their spiritual gift to the world. They are looking for a dramatic role to play, to teach or to heal or to prophesy. And yet these things are forever secondary to the primary mission of each of you upon this particular planet in this particular density at this time. The mission before each of you is simply to address all of that which comes to you with an open heart, just that. And yet just that is the work of lifetime upon lifetime, for how can a person in a heavy illusion such as you now enjoy being fearless? It is not within the physical body to be fearless. It is not within the earthly brain, that choice-maker, to be fearless. Indeed, only the foolish are fearless, and yet the teacher known to you as Jesus the Christ has said that it is only to the foolish that the wisdom comes. It is only to those who live as little children that the kingdom is inherited.
How can a sensible, sane person, gazing upon a rather dangerous world, feel no fear? This is the crux. Here is the center. Just here, where fear shuts the door of the heart, here lies the opportunity to learn. This instrument has moved past the death experience and returned. Consequently, this instrument’s life since that experience has been relatively fearless. We bring this up to emphasize that what each fears in an archetypical sense is the cessation of being. When one feels threatened those emotions which do not have intelligence but are simply instinctual rise up to defend and protect. And it takes a great deal of care and discipline and perseverance to teach the self to lay down its arms and to be peaceful with the self.
Each of you has the issues of all the world within you. This instrument is concerned for the peace of the world and prays for it often, and yet if this instrument prayed for peace within itself, it would be the same prayer. Indeed, it is our humble opinion that the most efficient way to bring the world to peace is to learn peace within the self, for as you think, as you are, so your universe in toto is also, for your consciousness is as a field and each bit of fear that you are able to let drop, each time that you find your heart expanding, the consciousness of your planet is being lightened. There is no lag time between the open heart of self and service to the planet, that lightening of the consciousness of planet Earth. You came among these entities of flesh and bone. You took that flesh upon yourself and buried yourself in a world of shadows because you wished to make a difference. You heard the sorrow of those who dwell with you now. And you wished to stand among them as a witness and as one who was a channel for love. This is your great chance. These are the days you hoped and prepared for, and now the time is upon you, and how quickly, my friends, it is going. Is it not?
You have sped through childhood and adolescence and adulthood, and each is thinking to the self that, “Well, it’s all downhill from here.” And yet we say to you that as the physical vehicle hews less and less to the electrical body’s blueprint, so the heart, so much more experienced than when new to the planet, has its time to open and flower and blossom. You see about you so many entities who have maturity but without joy. Who have wisdom but without love. Who have become bitter rather than sweet, and tart rather than mellow. Learn from these people how not to be, for these are the entities who are forever attempting to move out of the gravity well of neither service to self nor service to others but just back and forth, good days and bad days. You are hoping through your life to bear witness to a Love that loved you first. You are hoping to be as the keepers of lighthouses, that your Love, that Love that flows through you, not from you, may shine upon that sea of confusion in which all are swimming and might warn entities of those rocks of despair, and anguish, and hopelessness.
There is suffering involved in each door you open in life, wherever you look, in whatever land, in whatever subject you find that those who would be true servants have made tremendous sacrifices, even unto giving up the life for others. You find people in each situation whose heart has remained open regardless of the circumstances. And you feel the strength of inspiration from those entities, those people who make the news for a day or two because they have leapt into the water and saved five people before they drowned or went into a prison and released the prisoners, paying with their lives. And these stories touch deeply within your being and let you know of the depth and profundity of Love that you have within you and that resonates and exalts and expresses the light and joy for knowing the beauty of those spirits and their great gifts.
But we say to you that there are many, many millions more whose sacrifices and suffering you never see, for they suffer emotionally, and mentally, and spiritually, bearing witness to Love, being givers of Light regardless of the circumstances that would fell a lesser being. And each of you has opportunity after opportunity to meet situations without fear, to open to any catalyst whether it seems positive or painful. The faith to remain steady is to be prized for there is in steadiness a vision, clear sight, and in persistence of openness, healing and forgiveness. And these do not come from you, for from you can come very little until you run completely out.
These things must come through your channel. You simply have to allow that channel within not to get clogged up with the lower energy concerns. If we could leave one thought with you this day it would be not to despise your lower self but to love, support, respect and make allowances for the instinctual behavior, the needful behavior of that being that you are, part animal, part angel, and rather a hash between the two, holding you together. Love, care for, and nurse this physical vehicle of yours. Know that this is the building wherein the Creator now lives, and the ground on which you stand, or upon which you sit, is holy ground; not somewhere else, not when you were better, but now, exactly as you are. This is your moment of holiness, and all moments are potentially sanctified, and what sanctifies but the recognition of love in all things.
We do not want you to think that we consider this easy. We do not. We remember most keenly being in third density, living without the memory of things as they really are, and having only that yearning of desire and that movement of faith to rely upon. In this you are wise to encourage relationships with those who have the same concerns, for the gift of one entity to another, both being spiritually concerned, is the gift of the clear mirror that lets the other self see what it is doing, how it is coming across. You cannot see yourself. You must depend upon others to help you, and this is profoundly the work of third density.
We would like, before we open to questions, to address a concern which was given in the conversation preceding this session. And that is the concern that perhaps we of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator get bored or tired of saying the same thing over and over. We assure you that we do not. Each group that calls to us is in an unique position, even if you are the same group time after time. The point at which you are within moves and the combination changes each time so that while there is a stability of recognizable dynamic in the interplay of each of your vibrations which makes up this circle, there is also something new each time that the circle meets, for you are other and more than you were before. That is what the illusion of time is for: to enable entities such as you and we to have that illusion of sequence and to see, if only illusorily, that progress is being made.
So, each time that the question is asked to us that may have been asked before, we speak to entities who are in a new place, who are looking at the same subject but from a different level. And there are as many levels of being to you as there are to an onion, and you are a big onion with many, many layers, and as you peel each away it looks so smooth and whole and clear. And yet it too falls away, and there is a deeper truth, and so forth. And this goes on, as far as we know, infinitely.
Each opportunity that we have to speak is unique. And we ask you never to fear that we are weary of your concerns. This is why we have come among your people in the inner planes of this planet. This is why we have placed ourselves here, simply to talk with those who would find what we have to say possibly useful. This we do with an open and loving heart, and we assure you that we shall not tire of speaking about love.
Then Q’uo said that it was our being, our intention, to share love with an open heart, no matter what we are doing, that was of the most importance, and they said that we should be fearless in offering our service because the greatest fear that can be felt is the dying, and we should lay down our fear and be peaceful with the self because the instrument had been through the experience of death and knew that life is eternal. Q’uo went on to say that we can also reduce the fear of the wars in the world by finding peace within ourselves because our consciousness is a field of energy connected to the planet, and as we pray for peace and feel our heart expanding the consciousness of the planet is lightened. Then Q’uo said that so many people are caught in the gravity well of indifference with good days and bad days, who have maturity without joy, and wisdom without love, so they said not let this be our journey. They suggested that we become a lighthouse and let the Love of the Creator flow through us so that all may see the dangers within the sea of confusion that we are swimming in. Then they said that each day can bring difficult experiences, but we should take heart when we see people who are willing to give their lives to save others, and we could rejoice that we have that same depth of Love within us, and we should keep our lower energy centers clear so that we can continue to be channels of this Love that flows through us. They went on to say that we not despise our animal nature that is instinctual and connected to the lower energy centers, but we should love, respect, and honor that animal as we are also part angel in which the Creator resides, and we should realize that we stand on holy ground, that all moments are holy when we recognize the love in all things. Then Q’uo said that this was not an easy path to follow, so they recommended that we get together with other seekers of like mind to help each other on this journey by being mirrors of our own experiences with each other within the third density illusion. Q’uo completed their response by saying that they never get bored in answering the same questions over and over because we are like onions with many layers of experience that are slightly different each time that they join our group, so they are able to respond to these questions with deeper levels of the truth, and that they would never tire of speaking of the concept of love. On October 15, 1995, Q’uo spoke of the value of joining with others of like mind to find the love in all things:
As we gaze into each other’s eyes, as we touch each other’s hearts, whether we are in incarnation as are you or are speaking from other levels of manifestation as are we, we bloom together and that blossom is taken away by all, strength added to strength, weakness shared with weakness, and love in all things found and felt in ways that do not harm, but rather support. These gifts you can hardly help giving around such a circle as this, and this is a gift that you give yourself, to come together.
The reason that synchronicity seems to occur more in groups is simply that as more and more entities who are spiritually awake come together each individual’s path being synchronous with its own destiny, when the group joins and shares its thoughts and experiences the commonality of synchronicities becomes remarkable. The strength of a group as opposed to an individual or a couple who work together is that the group universalizes each entity’s unique path so that instead of being caught within the biases created by the long path which has lead the individual to this moment, each individual remains free of the limitations of self and of the dynamic betwixt one and another of a couple, so that each has wisdom that becomes available to all, and in this atmosphere each can somehow gain light and strength. This is a completely natural and highly-to-be-encouraged event or process, and we do feel strongly that the awareness of each is nurtured by regular dwelling within a group of those like-minded. Blessed indeed is the entity whose path has brought her to a place where this option is available.
Before we would leave this instrument we would ask if there are any questions that you might have at this time?
B: Does it interfere with your service to us if we hold back on expressing our concerns?
We are those of Q’uo, and, my brother, service to others is a very ticklish business, and the key, we feel, is that service may be characterized as a response to a request for service. That is, we identify our service as that of answering those concerns which you bring to us. If the concern is not ripe within you and is not ready to be plucked but still has growing to do in order for that concern to develop its final nature, then that is not a question that is ripe for the asking, and we do not feel inhibited or limited because we cannot answer that which has not been asked. We feel that this opportunity to share thoughts with you is that which you…
[Side one of tape ends.]
(Carla channeling)
…We feel that by your coming together you ask us to share thoughts with you, and that defines our service. We would not be able to preserve the free will of those to whom we speak were we to take up concerns whose help you have not asked for.
May we answer this concern further?
B: I’m looking for whatever way I can find to help you accomplish your service. Is there anything that any of us can do to assist you in your service?
Q’uo: My brother, we would simply ask you to hone your appetite for the truth. This is your service to us.
May we answer you further?
B: Hone the appetite for the truth? I don’t understand.
I am Q’uo. That which is love within your density may be described also as desire. The desire that brings each to this circle of seeking is the desire to know and to share love. That hunger, that thirst for righteousness, as this instrument would say, that desire to be a positive in the balance of life, that hope that there is a greater meaning behind the suffering that seems inevitable. These are the desires and hungers that call us to you. And as the desire is sharpened and the appetite is whetted for more, then that contact with us becomes stronger. And the keener the desire, the better the contact.
Does this make sense to you, my brother?
B: Yes, it does. My image has always been that I come here in need of help myself. But now I see that I can work with you to help serve others. Does that make sense?
We are those of Q’uo, and yes, my brother, this makes sense. Remember always, that in the spiritual sense all is already perfect. All is as it should be. It just looks weird. So, in order to get at the heart that lies beneath the often uneven surface of ordinary happenings one simply looks with eyes of love. And each time that you find yourself looking upon a world with eyes of love you will know it, for a world seen with love is a place of surpassing beauty.
Is there another query at this time?
R: [Inaudible]
We are those of Q’uo, and yes, my brother, that is the usual way. The excitement of that which is new, over time, fades and the work that is not obvious at first blush begins to take the center of the stage. Actually, my brother, in this instrument’s way of measuring time we can say that your fidelity to seeking is unusual, for many who have come to these sessions through the years there was a place perhaps five or six months into the experience of these meetings where there was no longer the will to attempt to live the message that was heard, and when the attempt to continue fails, then it is that we must repeat and repeat. And then those entities who did not wish to hear of work the first time wish even less the second and the third, and so there is that natural parting of the ways, and that entity has gained all that it can. Therefore, we commend you for your faithfulness and note that it is the big flashy beginning that looks so wonderful, but in truth it is the quiet, persevering heart that continues quietly but persistently to love that is the true star, the true flash, the true victory.
May we answer you further, my brother?
R: [Inaudible]
We are those of Q’uo, and we thank you, my brother. Can we scare up any more queries by our speaking, or shall we call for a motion to adjourn? This instrument has been at a church meeting today, and she is full of it. Our apologies to this instrument. Yes, my friends, how good it is to laugh, to take the self lightly. We leave you in the wonderful sense of rightness that laughter is, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, now and always. We are those known to you as Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.
This morning I went to the vet and got some food and a medication for Bosco. He is not eating much these days even though I have given him about ten different choices that he has only taken a few bites of, and this food is the same food that the vet gave me yesterday which Bosco has eaten.
This afternoon I vacuumed the first floor of the house. Then I went outside and was amazed at how many tree limbs, both small and large have been blown down by the remnants of Hurricane Helene. I will be doing a lot of limb cleanup in the next few days, but while I was outside I used three more 8 foot metal poles to stand up the 12 foot Iron Weed that the wind blew over, and then I used four more 8 foot metal poles to offer additional support to the pyramid of Morning Glory vines in the center of the cross area which had also blown over.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
September 27
The Touch Of The Spirit Of Love
Greetings. I am the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ in the vibration which comforts this instrument.
When you experience for the first time the touch of the Spirit of Love, you are as a bride who goes to her marriage bed, becoming a new being, one in flesh and Spirit with the beloved.
Although a virgin may be irresponsible, yet a wise householder has the passive responsibility of being an instrument through which new life may be channeled. There is also the active responsibility of a discriminating stewardship of all those gifts which are held in trust from the Father, and which should be used to the glory and celebration of the consciousness of Love.
My peace I leave with you.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
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