I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from November 16, 2003:
Q’uo, our question today concerns the eternal present moment. A human author urges us to access the power of now. He states that in the present, suffering cannot exist because suffering depends on time. We are told, time and time again, that time is an illusion. So, we would like to know what exactly is the “power of now”? How can we gain access to that power? How can we live more and more in the moment? How can we realize that we are creatures of the moment? What does the present moment look like to one that has discovered it? What results can be expected in a seeker who indeed has discovered the present moment?
(Carla channeling)
We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we are happy to be and in Whose service we come to you today. We thank you so much for calling us to your circle of seeking by your desire to seek the truth. It is a great honor to us to be asked for our opinion and indeed it is our method of service at this time. So, it is a great help to us to be able to speak with you since that is our method of service to others. It is a very precious thing to us, and we shall do our best to share thoughts with you that will be helpful. However, in order for us to be able to speak freely, we would ask of you, as always, that each of you employ your discrimination very carefully in listening to those things which we have to suggest. For we are in every case not those of authority but those who are as you, students and seekers of the truth, of that great mystery. We do not know the mystery, but we seek it as do you, and we are glad to offer our notes from the road with the understanding that you will take only those things which are fair to you and leave behind without a second thought anything that does not sound just right. For truly each of you can recognize and resonate with your own personal truth.
You ask this evening concerning the present moment, the now, and how it may be discovered, recognized, entered, enjoyed, appreciated and, above all perhaps, how it may be learned from. In order to speak about this interesting subject, we would begin with some thoughts regarding time itself. The illusion of time is that which allows your experience to occur within your being. Without the illusion of time and space, without the structure that the Creator has builded for your particular body, mind, and spirit to dwell in, you would not be able to process catalyst into experience. You would indeed not have catalyst. You would simply be. This is in fact your true state. You are, period. It is not that you are a human or that you are a soul or that you are any quality or condition, you are a part of all that is. You are an Is-ness. It is very difficult for us to express this concept through words. But beneath all movement, you already and eternally are.
Sincethat sounds like such a delightful state, one wonders perhaps why the Creator would indeed create a house, such as the universe which you enjoy, which is nothing but an illusion, or a system of illusions that are interpenetrating. The reason is that about which we were speaking recently, that first distortion of Free Will. The Creator chose to know Itself. And in order to know Itself, It created, with Love and with Light, a creation in which entities could examine whatever of the material of their essence or Is-ness that they wished to examine, against a backdrop that seemed plausible and solid so that there would be a believable, self-correcting, consensus reality dream in which all of those within a planetary system, such as yours, could take part and help each other to learn more about that entity which all of you are or which each of you is. For, again this is difficult to say. While each of you is utterly unique, at the same time each of you is a part of one energy system which is the Creator. You are in the process of learning from your inner self with the help of your outer or other selves.
The world, then, may be seen as a dream, as a kingdom, or as a prison. But certainly, your physical world, though an illusion, is quite solid, quite substantial, and quite believable. Without time, you would not be able to have the experience of consecutivity. You would not be born, live, and die, rather you would exist in a being born, dying, and everything-in-between-state, all in a big soup. The desire of the Creator was that hope of becoming a fuller, more richly realized beingness. There was a dedication of the principle of Godhead to an examination of self, a celebration of self, and a learning about self.
Each of you, then, is a spark of that Creator Who has chosen at this time to come into this particular environment of what this instrument calls third density, to live in incarnation amongst others of your kind, being mirrors for others, to reflect to them that truth which they offer you, seeing the mirrors of others that reflect the truth of you back to yourself, and, through all of the mazes and mirrors, beginning to come to a competency of understanding regarding the nature of the illusion that allows you, as a spirit who is seeking the truth, to penetrate more and more that which is not of the essence of self, so that more and more, you are able to take life lightly, to remove from the self the feeling of prison and to replace that with the feeling of the dream or of the kingdom.
There are many ways to lose that feeling of being a slave to time or being imprisoned within time and space. We certainly recommend meditation, as always, but there are many ways to shake the trammels of the noon-day thoughts and chores and businesses in order to lift up from that mental narrowness of thought that does not remember who you are or why you are here. It is very easy to be caught up in the never-ending series of lists, as the one known as T1 was seeing; the doing of things on a daily basis, as the one known as Jim was saying to this instrument earlier, the never ending mountain of chores to be done and duties to be fulfilled. How easy it is to become completely convinced that these are the building blocks of a complete existence! Yet, in and of themselves, there is no real substance or meaning in these things. There is simply that structure which allows experience. Without further seeking, then, the world may seem a kind of prison where the sentence is life, and the eventual sentence is death. One cannot escape the life except by the door of death, and when one escapes by that door, as far as those remaining can see, that entity has become nothing, dust has returned to dust, and the cycle of life and death is completed.
The group question for this session was: “Q’uo, our question today concerns the eternal present moment. A human author urges us to access the power of now. He states that in the present, suffering cannot exist because suffering depends on time. We are told, time and time again, that time is an illusion. So, we would like to know what exactly is the “power of now”? How can we gain access to that power? How can we live more and more in the moment?” Q’uo began their reply by saying you ask this evening concerning the present moment, and how it may be discovered, entered, and how it may be learned from, and in order to speak about this interesting subject they began with some thoughts regarding the illusion of time as that which allows our experience to occur within our being because without the illusion of time and space, without the structure that the Creator has created for our particular body, mind, and spirit to dwell in, we would not be able to process catalyst into experience; we would not have catalyst; we would simply be, and this is our true state, but it is not that we are a soul, or that we are any quality because we are a part of all that is, and beneath all movement, we eternally are. Q’uo went on to say that since that sounds like such a delightful state, why did the Creator create the universe which we enjoy which is nothing but a system of illusions that are interpenetrating, and Q’uo said the reason was the first distortion of Free Will where the Creator chose to know Itself, and in order to know Itself, It created, with Love and Light, a creation in which we could examine whatever of the material of essence that we wished to examine within an environment that seemed solid so that there would be a believable consensus reality dream in which all of those within a planetary system could take part and help each other to learn more about that entity which each of us is because while each of us is utterly unique, at the same time each of us is a part of one energy system which is the Creator, and we are in the process of learning from our inner self with the help of our outer or other selves. Q’uo continued by saying that the world may be seen as a dream, as a kingdom, or as a prison, but our physical world, though an illusion, is quite solid and quite believable, but without time, we would not be able to have the experience of moving in time since we would not be born, live, and die, rather we would exist in being born, dying, and in an everything-in-between-state, all in a big soup so that the desire of the Creator was that hope of becoming a more richly realized beingness since the Creator was dedicated to an examination of Itself, a celebration of Itself, and a learning about Itself. Then Q’uo said each of us is a spark of that Creator Who has chosen to come into this environment of third density and to live in incarnation among others of our kind, being mirrors for each other and reflect to them that truth which they offer us, seeing the mirrors of others that reflect the truth of us back to ourself, and through all of the mirrors, beginning to come to an understanding the nature of the illusion that allows us, as a spirit who is seeking the truth, to penetrate more and more that which is not of the essence of ourself so that we are able to take life lightly and to remove from ourself the feeling of prison and to replace that with the feeling of the kingdom. Now Q’uo said that there are many ways to lose that feeling of being imprisoned within time and space, and they recommended meditation, but there are many ways to shake the restrictions of the thoughts and chores in order to move ourselves from that mental narrowness of thought that does not remember who we are or why we are here because it is easy to be caught up in the never-ending series of lists of chores to be done, and it is easy to become convinced that these are the building blocks of our complete existence, yet there is no real meaning in these things so that there is simply that structure which allows experience, and without further seeking the world may seem a kind of prison where the sentence is life, and the eventual sentence is death, and we cannot escape the life except by the door of death, and when we escape by that door, as far as those remaining can see, we have become nothing; dust has returned to dust; and the cycle of life and death is completed. On March 25, 1989, Latwii spoke of the nature of the door of death:
For the most part, the reason that there is so little of communication between those who have moved through the door of death and those who remain within the conscious incarnation is that there is little, if any, attempt made by those remaining incarnate to communicate with those who have moved into what you would call the discarnate or state of consciousness on the other side of the door of death. There is little belief amongst the majority of your peoples that such communication is either possible or advisable if it is possible, for that which is unknown amongst your peoples is feared to a large extent, and it is much more comfortable to most of your peoples to allow that which is unknown and that which is feared to remain untested and to not set foot within such mysterious fields, shall we say.
Another reason why there is little communication betwixt these two groups of your peoples is that, for the most part, those who have moved through the door of death have within their being a feeling of completion for the incarnation which has just ended and have a great feeling of the desire to explore that which is obviously awaiting them on their own journey of seeking, so that there is little desire to move back, shall we say, to that illusion which they have so recently left.
And so, for the first cycle of seeking, shall we say, there is that tendency for the new seeker to begin to feel that life is a dream. There is that realization that these seemingly solid building blocks of chores, and days, and seasons are not substantial. And there is a tremendous feeling of relief and freedom of the lifting up from having to take the work time, the chore time, the time of duties, too seriously. Within one of your philosophical distortions there is that phrase, “First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.” The time of experiencing life as a dream within a dream is that time when there is no mountain. It is a time when sudden realizations and new information may create tremendous excitement within the self and a time when the dark night of the soul can plunge one into the abyss of the deepest sorrow and grief, and yet always with the feeling that one is actually a spirit rather than a body, and that one is experiencing a dream and that nothing is terribly important. It is a precious time in many ways and much good comes from the seeking that is done during this time.
Beyond that time, there comes a time of reintegration, the dream and prison coming together to form a new picture, which is that of the kingdom, a realm, a magical place. We find that this is where many of you within this circle are attempting to live at this time and we commend you for having moved along the path of seeking, through so many bends, and curves, and difficulties in the road, that your spiritual maturity has begun to allow you to see the riches of the illusion, the tremendous richness of the environment that has been provided for this school of life that you experience during incarnation. It is a time when the bitterness begins to dissolve. There is no longer anger at having to work for a living, or feed the body, or cleanse the body, or take of the environment that one has chosen.
Most entities among your peoples live a kind of inner life that we would describe as horizontal. The world of things spreads out like the skyline, full of detail. And it is that within which one lives. One drives the streets, one walks the sidewalks, one moves horizontally along the face of the planet. To all illusory intents and purposes, it is a flat existence. If that horizontal life were called the x-axis, then the world of spirit could be seen as the y-axis, the vertical life. Imagine standing upon the ground, seeing with the physical eyes that it extends flat in each direction, horizontally as far as the eye can see. The feet meet the ground in just so and so a place. There is contact between the soles of the feet and the ground. And that thin meeting place represents the depth of reality. But imagine suddenly realizing that precisely where the sole of the foot meets the ground there is an infinite opening, upwards and downwards; upwards into the world of ideals, guidance, Godhead; downward into the ground of being. It is as though chasms open beneath you and above you, and suddenly you are not standing upon a thin slab of ground but upon the razor’s edge, in intersection with eternity and infinity. This is in fact, your situation. You are in the position of being able to live both a life in space/time, the horizontal life, and a life in time/space, the vertical life, simultaneously.
Then Q’uo said for the first cycle of seeking there is a tendency for the new seeker to feel that life is a dream and the realization that these building blocks of chores, days, and seasons are not substantial, and we have a feeling of relief and freedom of the lifting up from having to take the time of duties too seriously so that the time of our experiencing life as a dream within a dream is that time when there are no chores or duties, and it is a time when sudden realizations may create excitement within ourself, and a time when the dark night of the soul can plunge us into the abyss of sorrow and grief, and yet always with the feeling that we are actually a spirit rather than a body; we are experiencing a dream; that nothing is terribly important, so it is a precious time, and much good comes from our seeking that is done during this time. Q’uo went on to say that beyond that time, there comes a time of reintegration of the dream and prison coming together to form a new picture which is that of the magical place, and this is where many of us are attempting to live at this time, and Q’uo commended us for having moved along the path of seeking through so many difficulties on the road so that our spiritual maturity allows us to see the riches of the illusion that has been provided for this school of life that we experience during our incarnation, and it is a time where there is no longer anger at having to work for a living, or feed the body, or cleanse the body. Q’uo continued by saying that the prison doors open because there is freedom to see the blessing of everything, and there is no need to justify suffering and duty because we finally see–not as that which limits and narrows the light– but that which has been given to us as a gift which is each moment coming fresh from the Creator so that is the time of jubilee, and it is truly the first place within our mind from which a point of view may be taken that has great depth so that we may survive those realizations which shall come when we have become unafraid of the prison and unafraid of the dream. Now Q’uo said most entities live a kind of inner life that we would describe as horizontal so that we drive the streets; we walk the sidewalks; and we move horizontally along the face of the planet which seems like a flat existence, but if that horizontal life were called the x-axis, then the world of spirit could be seen as the y-axis, the vertical life, and if we could imagine standing upon the ground and seeing with our physical eyes that it extends flat in each direction, and our feet meet the ground beneath them there is contact between the soles of our feet and the ground so that thin meeting place represents the depth of reality, but if we could imagine suddenly realizing that where the sole of our foot meets the ground: “there is an infinite opening, upwards and downwards; upwards into the world of ideals, guidance, Godhead; downward into the ground of being. It is as though chasms open beneath you and above you, and suddenly you are not standing upon a thin slab of ground but upon the razor’s edge, in intersection with eternity and infinity.”Q’uo said this is our situation, and we are in the position of being able to live both a life in space/time, the horizontal life, and a life in time/space, the vertical life, simultaneously. On November 5, 1989, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the horizontal life:
The practice of this yielding, this tabernacling with the one infinite Creator, the immediacy of this presence, when carried on persistently, patiently, and with no dedication to outcome over a period of time begins to set within one a growing awareness of infinity. For as you meditate and listen, you are lost in the present moment. And this present moment is instinct with joy. The present moment is infinity. It is as though one were at the intersection of time and eternity at each present moment. The difficulties people experience are due to living the horizontal life without being aware of the resonances of the vertical life which is moving infinitely within one at all times.
You see, it is so tempting to think of oneself as the physical vehicle which you may see in one of your mirrors. It is so tempting to give oneself characteristics and qualities based upon various parts of one’s physical appearance, emotional makeup, and so forth. It is very, very easy to become entwined with many, many intellectual thoughts which always end in mystery and paradox.
Wemight say that the ability to remember this image, the ability to remember that which is unseen, that which opens to the Creator and to the essential self, is a measure of how well you are doing with the simple act of remembrance that is the key in many ways to progressing in spiritual, mental, and physical evolution of self. How to remember that what you see is not all that you get? How to remember the intersection with wonder and magic and infinite possibility? This instrument pursues a daily and weekly spiritual or religious program which includes group worship within that distortion of spirituality called Christian. This is one way in which she attempts to be a creature of remembrance. There are many ways to be remembering who you are and why you’re here. That is one way, the simple act of setting aside time, such as you have this day, to seek together. No matter how the meditation goes, no matter how you feel that you have been as a part of a seeking circle, the intention, the dedication of time, are the things that create the feeling of remembering and honoring the portion of yourself that is living that vertical life. In moments such as this, as you allow the energy to move around the circle, we feel sure that each of you has that riveted feeling of opening to the infinite possibilities of the moment.
But there are, as the one known as T2 said, so many different ways of coming into a state of remembrance. Each of you has five senses in the physical. The example that the one known T2 gave of washing the hands and becoming aware of each characteristic and nuance of feeling in that experience operates on the principle of using the gifts that are given to you. Each sense is evocative. Each sensibility may be triggered, tuned, and even transformed by choosing to be alert, to be watchful, to be attentive, to pay attention to the little things. This instrument is fond of saying, the smaller the thing, the more common and everyday, the more sacred it seems to her. And while we find everything equally sacred, we understand what this instrument is attempting to express. Consider that act of washing the hands, of emptying the bowels, and rising from that natural function to wash the hands and to go forth to meet the day. It must be done every day, perhaps more than once but certainly in the morning. For each of you this is a life sentence of natural function that must be attended to for the sake of the body. But that is a heavy energy, that is a grudging life when one “has” to perform natural functions.
However, if one enters into those natural functions, and the natural ways of cleanliness, and preparing for the day with every sense awake, each humble, necessary chore can become a symbol, in the physical, of processes which are moving on within the inner being, processes that move from nuance to nuance and half tone to half tint. And the ability to enter into the joy of removing the old from the system and clearing it for the day and then rising and washing the hands and blessing that event, experiencing that magical flow of water as it cleanses, experiencing all the feelings that are attendant upon the cleansing: the pleasant smell, the texture of soap, the texture of the towel; attending to each of these to see the beauty in them, softens and gentles the harsh edges of necessity into things of unutterable beauty. And as each tiny thing begins to become open to that view, the sacredness of things emerges and lifts one up into the glory of the illusion of incarnation. Each moment is a bounty, a feast, a banquet; it is brimming with information; it is whole and perfect and one. The only way to come into that sense of consciousness is to learn the attentiveness to the sacredness of everyday things.
Within a sacred space, with altars and pews and vaulted ceilings and stained glass windows, it is easy to feel that one is in a sacred place. Yet every child of dust within the illusion of earth stands on holy ground, whether they are starving or fed, whether they are cold or clothed, whether they are sick or healthy. No matter what state or condition they may be in they stand upon holy ground, and they themselves are holy. And you, child of dust, also are infinitely, ineffably, holy. You are a sacred essence of the divine. How may one begin to experience this point of view? In some ways it becomes a matter of sheer discipline. There is a certain amount of what this instrument would call struggle involved in training the mind to come into a state of remembrance. There is much help which is available to those who wish to become present.
Now Q’uo said that our ability to remember this image is that which opens us to the Creator and to our essential self, and is a measure of how well we are doing with the act of remembrance that is the key to progressing in spiritual, mental, and physical evolution of ourself, and the way to remember the intersection with wonder, and magic, and infinite possibility is the simple act of setting aside time to seek together in meditation, and no matter how we feel that we have been as a part of a seeking circle, the intention and the dedication of time are the things that create the feeling of remembering and honoring the portion of ourself that is living the vertical life, and as we allow the energy to move around the circle each of us has that feeling of opening to the infinite possibilities of the moment. Q’uo went on to say that there are many different ways of coming into a state of remembrance, and each of us has five physical senses that may be triggered and transformed by choosing to pay attention to the little things such as the act of emptying our bowels, and washing our hands as we go forth to meet the day, and we need to do this every day because for each of us this is a natural function that must be attended to for the sake of our body, but that is a heavy energy when we perform these natural functions. Q’uo continued by saying that when we enter into those natural functions and are preparing for the day with all of our senses awake each humble chore can become a physical symbol of processes which are moving on within our inner being so that our ability to enter into the joy of removing the old from the system and clearing it for the day: “and then rising and washing the hands and blessing that event, experiencing that magical flow of water as it cleanses, experiencing all the feelings that are attendant upon the cleansing: the pleasant smell, the texture of soap, the texture of the towel; attending to each of these to see the beauty in them, softens and gentles the harsh edges of necessity into things of unutterable beauty.” Then Q’uo said that as each tiny thing that we do begins to become open to this perspective that the sacredness of things emerges and lifts us up into the glory of the illusion of incarnation so that each moment is a feast full of information that is whole and perfect, and the only way for us to come into that sense of consciousness is to practice the attentiveness to the sacredness of everyday things. Now Q’uo said that within a sacred space of a beautiful church it is easy to feel that we are in a sacred place, yet every child within the illusion of earth stands on holy ground no matter what condition they are in; they are also holy; we are a sacred essence of the divine; and we can begin to experience this point of view by exercising discipline in training our mind to remember these truths, and there is much help to into the present moment. On January 15, 1995, Hatonn spoke of the nature of holy ground:
We suggest that each encourage those thoughts which refrain from judgment and discourage the self in its desires to castigate and rebuke the self for its shallowness, its lack of appropriate awareness of the present moment. This we say in order that those many times when the self is perceived as being out of harmony with eternity, that the judgment will be not chosen, but rather a shrug, a laugh at the human condition, and a turning once more to thanksgiving and naked praise for the infinite One which fills the days, the moments, the years, and the life with such beauty that it is beyond description.
Now having said this, we do encourage each student to muse often within that sacred tabernacle within, to sit mentally and emotionally down within that holy ground of being, where lies truth and eternal things; to sit with bare attention, knowing that silence which speaks of the mighty presence that is both Creator, creation, and created. For these are moments out of time, out of space, and rather eternal and infinite. These moments of practicing the presence of the Creator may be keyed according to your individual needs and circumstances.
And it is indeed a noble task to set for the self, to become present. It is not that one wishes to be without a context. We do not call you away from the world, we do not look down upon any part of the life lived by the ordinary human being. We do not suggest the need for retreat and alteration of the outer circumstances. Certainly, times of quiet, such as the one as T1 has described, are extraordinarily helpful. When there is the sabbatical there is the opportunity to take stock, to express the self as a seeking entity rather than as one who must attend to the ordinary challenges of making a living and coping with the financial side of life. And yet life for the most part is lived in the hurly-burly, in the spotlight of the passion play, as the scenes upon the stage revolve.
We give this instrument a view of a complete lack of location. Picture, if you would, the sensation of weightlessness, of lack of input into any of the senses. Lifted from the constant contact with the senses, one is left within a kingdom which is within. Within that inner kingdom of self lies the truth and a great deal of distortion. Where did this distortion come from? An entity is born into incarnation with certain preconceived distortions already. Each of you has chosen a personality shell that is rich in gifts and in challenges. Each of you has scripted for yourself incarnational lessons which will occur thematically, repeatedly, during the incarnation, teaching you the lessons that you have chosen and offering you the opportunities of service which you have hoped for. In this inner life no mirrors exist, and it is exponentially more difficult to see the self clearly than when one is receiving information from the mirrors around one.
So, while we value time spent in a completely inner search, we feel that the more efficient path, in terms of the rapidness with which evolution may occur, is an environment in which the inner life and the outer life marry. Rather than fighting and dividing inner life from outer life and struggling to get more inner life, we would suggest every way which you may think of personally to stamp the outer with the inner and to relate the inner into the outer, making every connection that you can, so that all of experience becomes one, and the physical and the metaphysical become a dance for two that carries both the male and the female aspect of living within one consciousness.
Bymale and female aspects of living, we are, in our distortion, suggesting that the outer or horizontal life is masculine, or “yang” as this instrument would say, in its activity, its reaching, its power to do, whereas that inner vertical life is as the potentiator, that which awaits the reaching, that which does not have the form but which is productive of all form, that which may be called guidance, or inspiration, or infinity, or eternity. To allow the infinite and the eternal to become a part of the passing scene and to allow the passing scene to become stamped with infinity and eternity is to make that marriage within the life of those aspects which otherwise might fight for dominance. We assure you it is not at all easy to do this. It is much easier to compartmentalize and to do the spiritual practice, and to move into the daily mode, and then back into a spiritual practice, and back into the daily mode. Yet we may say the fewer transitions that you must choose to make, the more often that you are able to blend the inner and the outer being, the more substantial will be your stance, and your point of view will benefit from this unification of inner and outer living. What is the essence of you? That is the question, you see, and the answer is so simple. You are. You are not creating yourself; you are simply discovering the self that is there. You do not choose from nothing; you came into this incarnation a very real citizen of eternity. You are simply peeling away layers of distortion to see yourself clearer and clearer, to have a deeper and deeper sense of your own essence. It is a fascinating journey and we are so glad to have you as companions upon it.
Q’uo said that it is indeed a noble task to set for ourself to become present, and it is not that we wish to be without a context for our life, and they said that they do not call us away from the world, or look down upon any part of our life as we live as ordinary human beings, so there is not the need to alter our outer circumstances because times of quiet are very helpful so that when we have time off we have the opportunity to express ourself as a seeking entity rather than as one who continues to make a living and earn money, and yet most of our life is lived in the in the spotlight of the passion play as the scenes upon the stage revolve. Q’uo went on to say that we should imagine being weightless, with no input into any of our senses, and as we lose constant contact with our senses, we are left within a kingdom which is within us, and within that inner kingdom of ourself lies the truth and a great deal of distortion from our personality shell having chosen distortions in the form of gifts and challenges because each of us has written lessons for ourself that will occur repeatedly during our incarnation and will teach us lessons that we have chosen, and giving us chances for service which we hoped for, and in this inner life there are no mirrors, and it is very difficult to see ourself clearly when we are receiving information from the mirrors around us. Q’uo continued by saying that it is valuable for us to spend time in an inner search as it is the more efficient path in terms of the rapidness with which evolution may occur because it is an environment in which our inner life and our outer life marry rather than fighting and dividing our inner life from our outer life, and struggling to get more inner life, so Q’uo suggested that we make every connection that we can so that all of the experience of our inner and outer life becomes one, and the physical and the metaphysical become a dance for two that carries both the male and the female aspect of our living within one consciousness. Now Q’uo said that by male and female aspects of living, they were suggesting that the horizontal life is masculine in its reaching and its power to do, whereas that inner vertical life is as the potentiator which awaits the reaching, and does not have form, but which is productive of all form, and that which may be called guidance or infinity, and to allow the infinite to become a part of the passing scene and to allow the passing scene to become stamped with infinity is to make that marriage within the life of those aspects which otherwise might fight for dominance so that Q’uo assured us that it is not easy to do this: “because it is much easier to compartmentalize and to do the spiritual practice, and to move into the daily mode, and then back into a spiritual practice, and back into the daily mode.” Then Q’uo said that the fewer transitions that we must choose to make, the more often that we are able to blend the inner and the outer being, the more substantial will be our stance, and our point of view will benefit from this unification of inner and outer living, and our essence is that we are, but we are not creating ourself; we are simply discovering that ourself is there; we do not choose from nothing; we came into this incarnation as a very real citizen of eternity, and we are simply peeling away layers of distortion to see ourself more clearly, and to have a deeper sense of our essence, and it is a fascinating journey, and Q’uo was so glad to have us as companions upon it. On January 15, 2006, Q’uo described what it is for us to be a citizen of eternity:
It is possible for an unexamined, confused situation to crush you so that you have almost no hope, no power to go on, and so forth. It is also possible with that same situation to do what little you can in your mind at any given time to remember who you are and take back your power from that which is crushing you. It does not matter when you are taking back your power whether or not you have the ability to affect the physical situation at that moment. Taking back your power as a soul or spirit is involved in remembering that you are not limited by life and death: you are a citizen of eternity. You are a Creator, and you have a creation that you can populate with the ideals and the beauties that you love. You can forgive the people or the situations that are crushing you.
The power to forgive is tremendous. You have the power to declare that a situation is as you see it and not as the world sees it. And by serenely sticking to your story, you can save your mind, your emotions, and your heart from undergoing the crushing action of physical circumstance. This is not something that the world can understand easily. It is something for you to take within yourself and with which you can experiment.
We would ask you to experiment with taking your power back whenever you feel helpless and hopeless. Remember who you are and why you’re here. Take courage and feel the dignity of your reality. You did not come here for casual purposes. You came here as a sacred journey, and you are doing very well with it. Take pride in yourself. Have faith in your process. And know that your guidance is closer than your hands and feet and nearer to you than your next breath.
This instrument is informing us that we have spoken long enough upon this most fascinating subject, and we bow to her wisdom. We confess that in this particular case we could go on talking for quite a while, for this is a beautiful subject, and we thank you for asking about it. But at this time we do relinquish this subject and ask if there may be other queries that we may respond to at this time?
V: Q’uo, you’ve spoken before about the use of the imagination to discipline rogue energies in the personality, and I wonder if you would expound on that some, and specifically with regard to affirmations and why it would be so necessary to state affirmations aloud or write them down to externalize them in some form in order to make manifestation possible?
We are those of Q’uo ,and we grasp your query, my sister. Perhaps you are aware of the kind of personality which thinks repeatedly about doing something but does not do it. All the thinking in the world is not productive, in terms of creating something in the consensus-reality universe, without action. In the case of making affirmations, the disciplined soul may well be able to make affirmations within the mind without writing them down and having them become “real” things; such is the power of the disciplined personality. However, for the soul who is attempting to become more disciplined, it is well to marry, again to use that simile, the inner intention with the outer fact, to make from the inner dream the outer reality. The act of writing on paper or speaking into the ether where sound may be heard is the act of putting inner vibration into the outer vibration and blending, or marrying, the two. You are aware, my sister, of the old adage, “As above, so below.” The idea of externalizing these affirmations is the idea of bringing them into reality. It is an interesting thing that it is easier to believe in the self when one can see the words that one has written and when one can repeat them and hear the sound.
May we answer you further, my sister?
V: Yes. Actually, I would like to ask about the discipline of the personality and a thought that I had the other day regarding what my mother used to say to me which was, “Guard your tongue.” It occurred to me that, in fact, what the discipline is about is guarding the thoughts and creating the truth within you that says, “I see the beauty, I see the perfection,” rather than looking at it and seeing the cynicism and only expressing the beauty. Could you illuminate that for me?
Q’uo: My sister, we feel that you have illuminated it very well. The only thing that we could add is an encouragement to play with this awareness that you are a creator, a co-Creator and that, as you think, as you actually begin to train yourself to think, you do not narrow that which you comprehend. You are as able to see the thoughts of cynicism, sarcasm, anger ,and so forth as you were before, perhaps more able. What you are doing as you use the discipline is shaping your heart or— we correct this instrument—shaping your mind to be able to contain the thoughts of the heart, rather than simply the thoughts of the mind. It is not incorrect, we feel, to be aware of the ridiculousness, the sorry-ness, or the wretchedness of any particular situation. It is not wrong to have sarcastic thoughts or to react naturally, and fervently even, to those things which make one uncomfortable or create catalyst.
The heart, however, thinks substantially differently from the mind, the thoughts of the heart coming from that vertical part of living, that time/space or metaphysical portion where the thoughts are the thoughts beyond incarnation, beyond circumstance or estate. Those thoughts are the thoughts of the infinite being that you are. They are the thoughts of the consciousness within, and that consciousness is safe within your heart. It is a matter of opening your own doors into that heart, sitting there and gazing from that heart out into the world. One still may have all of the inner opportunities for making the self laugh to the self with cynical thoughts, such as this instrument does as a hobby, we should say! But allowing the shape of the heart’s thoughts to be the shape of the thought as it evolves in the awareness of the inner self gives one grace, and distance, and remembrance of who you are, so that your expression, even to the self, is a kinder and gentler thing. And certainly, the expression to the outer world carries with it that maturity of thought that keeps that heart open and does not consider the imperfection of things as a reason to lose faith or to become embittered.
May we answer you further, my sister?
V: If you are so inclined, I would love for you to answer further but I don’t have a further query so I’ll pass it to T1.
T1: I’ve been reading a lot of the material channeled by the Seth entity and one of the constructs that is causing some confusion in myself is that of probable realities. The choice. Seth indicates that in each decision in this incarnation there are infinite other versions of the illusion in which other decisions were made. The teachings of the Confederation state that the aim of third density is the choice of service-to-others or service-to-self. Which choice one has made is due to one’s polarity. Taking these two together, probable realities and choice, it seems that the choice is made separately and differently by each probable self projected by the soul. Perhaps I’m just wrapping myself up in constructs here and becoming confused but is there a way which Q’uo perhaps could untangle some of my thought processes there?
We are those of Q’uo and aware of your query, my brother. Indeed, we do not know if we are able to untangle your thoughts but we are glad to share ours with you and in their own tangle, my brother. The self is a concept which understandably within humans is limited and defined by the shape of the physical body and the inevitable flowing forward of sequential time. At each decision point, at each fork in the road, the choice of which fork to take obviously creates a different probable reality than the one that would occur if the other fork in the road were taken. However, perhaps it may clear this up for you a bit to contemplate that whichever fork in the road that one takes one is still equipped with the same incarnational lessons, the same things upon the scroll of life, that will come up repeatedly, so that it is impossible to avoid one’s plan. Certainly, one may see that there are widely divergent paths and the tuning song that this group enjoyed this day asks that question, “Is there any other way I could have lived but this one? Is there anybody else I could have been?” Certainly there are other choices that could have been made, but would the person that made those choices have turned out differently, or would those same choices have appeared no matter what road was taken?
In the physical life you walk down paths and turn corners and there is a new place. Turn another corner and there is another new place. Living the vertical life of which we have been speaking, the path is a spiral weaving always around and always anew; not the circle that becomes old, for every time that these themes come around again you are approaching them from a new standpoint, from a new place in your process, a new state of realization.
May we answer you further, my brother?
T1: No, thank you Q’uo. I think I need to read through and think about the explanation that you offered, thank you.
Q’uo: We thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?
G: Q’uo, you have often described the process of coming into that relationship with that self, that undiscovered self beyond the personality, of accessing those deep stores of self-knowledge, as a process of “courting” the subconscious mind. My question is: how does one go about, as you say, “wooing” that lover, and courting the subconscious in order to retrieve that needed information and to create that authentic contact with love and with light and with the Creator?
We are those of Q’uo and are aware of your query, my brother. Each lover must woo in its own way. Let us consider the object of love here. That object of seeking is the self within. It awaits the reaching in the archetypical manner of the Matrix and the Potentiator. The self within is as the unread book, the unknown mystery. In the archetypical tarot images, that is pictured as the woman who is veiled. One can barely see the book of wisdom that she holds at her heart. You are attempting to lift the veil from that book of self. How would you court that self within? We have at times suggested to you to think of that not as courting but as parenting, as if the self within were a child that needed comforting so that you take that self within and rock it and ask it what it needs, what its dreams are, what its hopes are, and then spend time listening to that self.
The ways of courtship are slow and sweet; they are full of passion and yet full of restraint, for the object of love is sensitive, young, inexperienced. And certainly, as an essence, living within consensus reality, your hearts are indeed innocent babes in a wicked world. So there are the hints that we give you. It is not seeking as a man seeks a woman, and yet it is, in that there is passion, there is true love, and there is the hope of serving.
Find the ways that your own inner self wishes to express itself. Is it walking in nature? Is it filling your mind with great music or great words? Is it the act of service? We find within this instrument’s mind an example from earlier this day as she was speaking with the one known as Jim and he was expressing to her how he feels grateful for the opportunity to cut and trim the lawn of the client so that he creates a place of beauty and as he leaves, he looks back over his shoulder with great affection and pride because he has loved that place and danced with the love that is in that place. Perhaps that undiscovered country within you is a place that you may love and that you may dance with and in.
May we answer you further, my brother?
G: No, that was beautiful, thank you Q’uo.
Q’uo: We thank you, my brother. Is there a final query at this time?
G: Q’uo, I’ll take the opportunity if no one else does. I have an e-mail that has the potential to create great change sitting in the pending file and I know you can’t offer me advice on right or wrong, because there is no wrong, no mistakes, but could you help, give me some info, offer me some advice on what I might consider before I send it and what it might do to the energy configurations between me and this distant person?
Q’uo: My brother, we are aware of your query and find ourselves full up against the stop of free will. We can give this instrument the image of one of her favorite sayings from the Psalms concerning the entity whom everyone thought was a fool until he opened his mouth and removed all doubt. Every word spoken changes the shape of your world. Look at each word for its truth, its compassion, and its service.
We are those of Q’uo. It has been enormously pleasureful to us to speak to you. We find the beauty of your seeking most delightful and we thank each of you for that beauty that you share with us so freely. The energy exchange has been most salubrious for us. We leave you in peace. We leave you empowered with hope, with the awareness of your own magical natures. We leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator and of each other. We are those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends, Adonai.
This morning I went outside and used my backpack blower to blow the snow that we got overnight off of the driveway and the two parking areas, one in front of my home, and one in front of the pet cemetery.
This afternoon I went to my PCP to have my physical exam and discuss my fasting labs that were taken last week. All the readings were good, and my A1C reading went down from 6.0 to 5.9 so my pre-diabetes diagnosis is also better.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
February 21
The Key
I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of divine Love.
We who dwell in love ask that this day be a day of forgiveness.
In each situation betwixt two entities there is the constant opportunity for miscommunication, misunderstanding, and hard feelings.
In every situation where one must wait in traffic or in your stores, there lie many, many opportunities for the forgiveness of rudeness in others and that same impulse in yourself.
Make this a day when there is nothing so terrible that it cannot be forgiven in your heart. Allow your heart to be made soft. For forgiveness, given again, and again, and again is the key to the full realization of the Love of Christ.
We leave you in love and peace, now and ever. Amen.
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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