I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from September 19, 2004:
Today, Q’uo, our question has to do with how we might be able to determine, perhaps even define, our spiritual path through our daily round of activities. As we’re immersed in all the things that we do during our regular days, it’s so easy to get lost in the details and the ups and downs. Could you give us some little way or a shorthand way of reminding ourselves who we are and what we’re doing, of how to find our way through the maze and to make a spiritual sense of it all?
(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 come to you this day. It is a great privilege to be called to your circle of seeking, and we thank each of you who has taken the time and the energy to seek the truth at this time. The beauty of your souls as you tabernacle together in silence and in unity of spirit is a beautiful, wonderful play of colors as your energies combine and swirl together to form a literal tabernacle of light. It is most inspiring to us. Your hearts and your souls express most beautifully the challenge of the tempering furnace and the extreme beauty of the subtle colors that are brought about by the interplay of tempering influences in that furnace of catalyst and experience.
You create a unique thing when you come together in groups such as this—a point of light that cannot be expressed in any physical sense, but which is an event and an occasion for rejoicing in the unseen planes, or as this instrument would call them, the inner planes. Such events as you as a group choosing to come together are as locations in time/space and beacons of light that strengthen the light of the whole of those unseen planes within your Earth energy. Thank you, for this expression of seeking and for the beauty of it. It inspires us greatly.
As always, we would ask each of you to listen carefully to those thoughts that we share, realizing that we make many mistakes. Please keep those thoughts that you find useful and discard the rest. This will enable us to share our thoughts freely without being concerned that you might see us as authority figures and try to follow thoughts that simply were not your own. If thoughts do not resonate to you then please leave them aside without a second thought. We thank you for this care.
You have asked this day concerning how to wend your path through the miasma of details and the seeming chaos of manyness that you are offered each day as you awaken and open your eyes to the kaleidoscope of events that will unfold. As you rise from the bed perhaps you cannot imagine what the day will bring. Certainly, if you are thoroughly sure of what the day will bring you shall be surprised, for each day has its uniqueness and any hope of a perfectly conformable daily schedule is usually lost by midmorning. Much is occurring within your physical world and the ability of each entity to communicate with each other entity in a variety of ways and mediums creates a continuing atmosphere of surprise because, at any moment, entities might call or use the internet to write email or send paper mail so that you are constantly receiving a new voice or a new e-message or a new letter which changes the details of the day—adds to them and creates a new list of things to do and perhaps, a new way of prioritizing those things that you need to do. Seldom is it possible for any of those within this circle to arise, face the day, and go through the day with every aspect of the day being that which was expected and that which does not create any requirement for discipline or for the amalgamation of change.
Indeed, it has often been noted by many in this group and in your society in general that the rate of change seems to be accelerating, and therefore time itself has the illusion of seeming to accelerate. There is a feeling of becoming swept up and carried away by the torrential waves of chaos and detail that wash over each of you. In this atmosphere, it is easy to lose one’s balance and to surrender to a state of mind in which the requirement is simply to survive, to do the next thing on the list, and to make it to bedtime without losing one’s precarious and tenuous place in all of the bewildering array of detail. Your request was to find ways to determine and define what the path was in the midst of all these details, and there is, we would be quick to state, a path for each of you. Not a regimented, strait-and-narrow, straight-line path in which there are no deviations—this is not what we intend to suggest. But there is a path of… we are challenged, looking for a word within this instrument’s vocabulary for what this path would be called. If we call it a path of rightness, that suggests that there is a wrong path. If we call it a path of resonance, that immediately places an entity upon very subjective ground. Let us work with this concept of a path. The one known as Lao-Tzu created a system of philosophy which is called The Tao or The Way, the word meaning, in general, the Path.
Before the incarnation, you were able to have a good overview of the incarnation to come and of yourself as a soul entity. You looked at that entity that you are, and you asked yourself, where you would like to go? What path that you would like to take from the beginning to the end of that very brief period of incarnation that you are looking at? Perhaps you felt that you had an overbalance of love and needed to learn wisdom; perhaps you felt that you had an overbalance of wisdom and needed to bring that balance between wisdom and love back more towards the true center in which love is informed by wisdom and wisdom is informed by love. We cannot define for you the basic direction of that path; each entity’s path is unique. Each entity, however, has in common that it is seeking an improved, more balanced polarity as it approaches that great testing ground of graduation from third density to existence in fourth density. Each entity hopes that this incarnation will be the final incarnation within third density. Consequently, the concept of polarity is all-important in understanding how the mysteries of the path make themselves known to you.
The group question was: “Today, Q’uo, our question has to do with how we might be able to determine, perhaps even define, our spiritual path through our daily round of activities.” Q’uo began their response by saying that we have asked how to travel our path through the chaos of details that we are offered each day as we awaken our eyes to the variety of events that will unfold, and as we rise from the bed we cannot imagine what the day will bring, but if we are sure of what the day will bring us we shall be surprised, for each day has its uniqueness, and any hope of a predictable daily schedule is usually lost by midmorning because much is occurring within our physical world, and the ability of each of us to communicate with each other in a variety of ways creates an atmosphere of surprise because someone might call, or use the internet to write email, or send paper mail so that we are constantly receiving new information which adds to the details of the day and creates a new list of things to do and a new way of prioritizing those things that we need to do, so seldom is it possible for any of those within this circle to go through the day with every aspect of the day being that which was expected, and that which does not create any requirement for discipline or for the process of change. Q’uo went on to say that it has often been noted by many in this group, and in our society, that the rate of change seems to be accelerating, and time itself has the illusion of seeming to accelerate so that there is a feeling of becoming carried away by the waves of chaos and detail that wash over each of us, and in this atmosphere it is easy to lose our balance and surrender to a state of mind in which the requirement is simply to do the next thing on the list, and to make it to bed without losing our place in the array of detail, so our request was to find ways to define what the path was in the midst of all these details, and there is a path for each of us–not a straight-line path in which there are no deviations—but there is a path of the one known as Lao-Tzu who created a system of philosophy which is called The Tao or The Way, the word meaning, in general, the Path. Q’uo continued by saying that it might be said by this line of thinking that our life is a path, and our incarnation winds its way up and down hills and around corners many times because there is no such thing as a straight or easy incarnation so that we often hope in the midst of our incarnation that our path might be straight and easy, but the essential requirement of our incarnation is mystery since we built mystery into our path along with our guidance which we consulted before our incarnation in order to create the various aspects of our incarnation to come, and each of us carefully chose the relationships that would challenge us in order to bring forward lessons which we wished to tackle, not because we wished to confuse ourself, but because we wished to move the balance of our energies by decisions made within the incarnation. Now Q’uo said before the incarnation, we were able to have a good overview of our incarnation to come and of ourself as a soul entity, so we looked at that entity that we are, and we asked what path we would like to take from the beginning to the end of the incarnation that we were looking at, and perhaps we felt that we had an overbalance of love and needed to learn wisdom, or perhaps we felt that we had an overbalance of wisdom and needed to bring that balance between wisdom and love back more towards the true center in which love is informed by wisdom and wisdom is informed by love, but Q’uo said that they could not define for us the basic direction of our path because each entity’s path is unique, and we share the common desire of all seekers to be seeking an improved polarity as we approach the graduation from third density to the fourth density, and we hope that this incarnation will be the final incarnation within third density, so the concept of polarity is all-important in understanding how the mysteries of the path make themselves known to us. On February 14, 1988, Q’uo spoke of how each of our paths is unique:
Illumination will come, sometimes, indeed, with great Light and radiance, sometimes with a turn of the heart that changes its bias forever in one way or another, sometimes in a very gradual process, unseen by the self, which creates the same change in bias.
Each entity’s path is unique, just as each entity is unique. If you think in terms of crystals, each one of you is, indeed, a priceless gem in an uncut form, and as you seek, the facets begin to appear, and the jewel begins to show an outward and manifested beauty rather than keeping the beauty hidden beneath roughness and dullness.
Within this illusion, we encourage you above all things to seek the face of the Creator without analysis and without intuition, but with hope and faith of passion. Trust that this process is harmonious and efficacious, and that by your meditations you are able in the focusing of your desire and the calling of that to you which is the mystery, that you may more and more offer all unknowing and without conscious thought the light upon the hill that shines that all may see the Creator within.
So it is, indeed, a very good question that you ask in terms of how to find little ways to jog the memory, to create for the self a self-sustaining system of little alarm clocks that reawaken the memory of who you are and why you are here. This instrument was conversing with the one known as J the other day concerning football and in particular the comment of a football analyst that pressure is needed sometimes to change coal into the diamond that sparks the light. The pressures of daily life are not random or unexpected. They are blessed and very much expected and anticipated, not by the conscious self but by the entity that you are beneath the conscious mind. For your consciousness is connected with all of eternity and is infinite, being part of the creative principle. As part of that creative principle, you have a far different schedule or calendar for your life than you as an egoic being with a personality shell might create from day to day. And these mysterious and winding ways of the spirit are very much planned upon and greeted with great thanksgiving and gratitude.
It is difficult sometimes, in the midst of a heated reaction, to corral the self. The reason for this is that much of the reaction to catalyst that is expressed by an entity is the result of habit. For instance, this entity has a habit of interpreting certain kinds of statements as a rejection of the self. This interpretation is biased in the extreme and has long been realized as such by this entity. Nevertheless, this entity often finds itself in the midst of a reaction to catalyst which can be seen in an instant evaluation as being that which has generated heat rather than light, that which is a colossal metaphysical mistake. And yet, because the habit began very long ago within this instrument’s incarnation and because it has never completely been eradicated, it takes any opportunity in which it is given free rein, not simply to play for a moment but to play from beginning to end, as if it were a tape recording that, once started, must be played through.
Then Q’uo said in doing third-density work where we are attempting to improve our service-to-others polarity, we are standing upon that which we are pushing against as our resistance to change that is necessary in order to increase our polarity, so there must be hidden corners and the ups and downs of an adventurous lifetime in order for that deeper entity that we are to constantly be nudged towards awakening to our deeper desires that lie beneath our surface emotions so that it is easy to move from the delight of a good conversation to the irritation of a bad conversation, and how difficult it is to see through the surface details to the issues that are half-hidden by our surface emotions, and our surface emotions have no longevity, but because they recur with such steady regularity over the course of the day, it is easy to become fixated upon watching them and surfing in them, to the exclusion of doing that work which deepens the requirements upon ourself to move into the more mysterious portions of the deeper waters of our path. Q’uo went on to say that it is a good question that we asked in terms of how to create a self-sustaining system of alarm clocks that reawaken our memory of who we are and why we are here when we experience the pressures of our daily life that are blessed and anticipated, not by our conscious self but by the entity that we are beneath the conscious mind because our consciousness is connected with all of eternity and is part of the creative principle, and as part of that creative principle we have a different schedule for our life than we as an egoic being with a personality shell might create from day to day, and these mysterious ways of our spirit are planned and greeted with thanksgiving and gratitude. Q’uo continued by saying that to move into that portion of ourself where these things are true is the challenge which can be seen by our reaction of an emotional nature to incoming catalyst is that of the coal where it will have generated heat, but if our reaction to the incoming catalyst has the emotive qualities of the diamond, it will reflect light, and one way to determine where we are as a person with respect to the catalyst of the day, is to evaluate our emotional set: “Has it generated heat, or has it generated light? Have the emotions of the self been fiery, and bright, and sharp? Or has it been that emotional set which is as the diamond in taking the incoming catalyst and being with it in such a way that light is refracted through you from the catalyst to express light, color, beauty and those ineffable qualities that are part of a system of color and light.” Q’uo said that the effort that we are making at this time is to decrease heat and to increase the light that is produced in our soul’s response to catalyst, so when we experience heat, that may be a good marker for activating that alarm clock that says, “There is work that I need to do on who I am and why I am here.” Now Q’uo said that it is difficult in the midst of a heated reaction to control ourself because much of our reaction to catalyst is the result of habit, and Q’uo said that Carla has a habit of interpreting certain kinds of statements as a rejection of herself, and this interpretation is biased, and she realizes this when she finds herself in the midst of a reaction to catalyst which can be seen as that which has generated heat rather than light, and because the habit began very long ago within her incarnation it takes any opportunity in which it is given free rein to play from beginning to end, as if it were a tape recording that, once started, must be played through. On October 20, 1996, Q’uo described how we can learn by using our incoming catalyst:
We look upon the attempts of each of you to make sense of the lessons of the incarnation, and we see within each a persistent lack of charity in dealing with the self. Often this lack of charity is projected outward, and it is felt by the self that there is judgment upon others. However, the other selves are as mirrors to the self, and whether an irritable point has caught the aggravated eye of self from one’s own behavior or another’s, the message given to the deep mind is a judgment against the self.
It is so easy, my friends, to have judgment and so very difficult to refrain from that judgment which does not stop at being accurate in describing but rather moves on to evaluating the morality, ethics, or beauty of a situation. It is well for all beings to attempt to gaze upon the world with senses wide open, attempting ever more an efficient prioritizing of incoming catalyst.
This is a key way of working upon the balance of the self. Each hour offers much to see and sense, and it can be arranged within the mind in many, many ways, several of them perhaps equally valid. In working upon one’s balance, one is seeking to find the point within the self where there is poise, comfort, and calm within so that the seeker may be ready to take in more rather than being swamped with what has already been taken in.
Agood deal of retraining the self in the disciplining of the personality is in identifying and then going after those triggers to those old responses, those old tapes, that are so deeply buried within the upper reaches of the subconscious mind. A habit is a beautiful thing when it is working. A habit of diet and exercise have created continued health for many and certainly habits of healthful thinking are just as excellent. But when a habit has gotten out of control and is no longer useful, it can be a persistent and irritating difficulty which is constantly nudging that soul that you are off of its path and into the side road of useless, outdated, response.
How to counter these triggers is certainly a tremendous challenge. Mechanically speaking, there are ways to interrupt such tapes, shall we say, from rolling. Identifying the trigger is very helpful. And any work that can be done in honest communication with the self on identifying these triggers and the really deep nature of these triggers, will be a good resource for any. But more than that, when the trigger has been [pulled] and one has only identified that trigger after the fact, it is still possible, through the discipline of the personality, to halt long enough to say to the self, “I am being triggered,” and to stop and celebrate the fact that you have realized this and are therefore taking the first step towards the actual eradication of this deeply buried trigger.
It is helpful, then, if you take additional time to laugh at the self, to give the self a hug, and to ask the self, if it had the choice of any way of meeting this particular situation, what would be the highest and the best way? If there is time then for a little more thought and contemplation on seeing the best way, on envisioning the best way, and on, perhaps, moving forward in expressing this best way, then all of that is a great asset to your seeking. It has taken time to embed this habit. It will take much more time to bring it up, see it for what it is, and allow it to fall away. It must be pulled up into the light of day. It must be appreciated, and it must be loved and accepted as part of you before it can be released. So that which you can do when you find yourself expressing heat instead of light is, if you have the luxury of time, to take that time to interrupt that sequence and to redirect it.
Let us return to consideration of the path. The Path of Lao Tzu was ever undefined. Breathing in and out was the path. Listening and talking were the path. Doing and being were the path. All things were the path. Yet the fact that there is a path in this philosophy suggests that many things are not relevant to that path. And by various stories, the teacher known as Lao Tzu would attempt to describe the way that entities could find their way upon the path. We would suggest that it is impossible to be away from the path. It is possible, certainly, to stop by the side of the path and to amuse oneself without moving forward upon the path in meadows of side interest, places to rest, places to recreate and enjoy the self, places to sleep, and places to dream. It is good sometimes to stop in one of those places upon your path. It is not a path that one must embark upon a certain amount of time each day in order to be worthy. Indeed, in some ways, it can be conceived of as a path that does not have to be trod. It simply is, and you simply are.
But the desire of anyone within a time-bound incarnation is to measure things by achievement and so, inevitably, that path is modeled as a path through space and time going somewhere. Try to remember that there are aspects of your path that never go anywhere, that you are always, if you choose to, able to operate from the very center of your being, having nowhere to go, no “what” to do, no “when” to do it, but simply being as you are, existing in essence and in truth. That is the heart of your path. Who you are is the essence of that path and what you are attempting to do as you wend your way through these mysterious turnings is not to do more but to do anything that you do with more truth.
Now Q’uo said that a good deal of retraining ourself in the disciplining of the personality is in identifying and going after triggers to our old responses that are buried within the upper reaches of our subconscious mind, and a habit is beautiful when it is working, and a habit of diet, exercise, and healthful thinking can create continued health for many of us, but when a habit has gotten out of control and is no longer useful, it can be an irritating difficulty which can take us off of our path and into the side road of useless responses. Q’uo continued by saying that to stop these triggers is a challenge because, mechanically speaking, there are ways to keep these tapes from rolling by identifying the trigger, and any work that we can do in honest communication with ourself by identifying the deep nature of these triggers will be a good resource, but when the trigger has been pulled, and we have only identified that trigger after the fact, it is still possible, through the discipline of our personality, to stop long enough to say to ourself, “I am being triggered,” and to stop and celebrate the fact that we have realized this and are taking the first step towards the removal of this deeply buried trigger. Then Q’uo said that it is helpful if we take time to laugh at ourself, to give ourself a hug, and to ask ourself what the highest and best way would be to deal with this situation, and if we have time for more contemplation on seeing the best way to move forward in expressing this best way, then this is a great asset to our seeking because it has taken time to create this habit, and it will take more time to see it for what it is, and allow it to fall away, so it must be pulled up into the light of day, be appreciated, and it must be loved and accepted as part of ourself before it can be released so that which we can do when we find ourself expressing heat instead of light is to take time to interrupt that sequence and to redirect it. Now Q’uo wanted to return to considering the Path of Lao Tzu which was breathing in and out, listening and talking, doing and being, and all things were the path, but the fact that there is a path in this philosophy suggests that many things are not relevant to that path, and by various stories Lao Tzu would describe the way that we could find our way on the path, and Q’uo suggested that it is impossible to be away from the path, but it is possible to stop by the side of the path and to amuse ourself without moving forward upon the path in places to rest, places to enjoy ourself, places to sleep, and places to dream, and it is good to stop in one of these places upon our path because it is not a path that we must travel upon a certain amount of time each day in order to be worthy, and in some ways, it can be seen as a path that does not have to be traveled at all because it simply is, and we simply are. So Q’uo said that our desire within our incarnation is to measure things by achievement, and our path is modeled as a path through space and time that is going somewhere, so we should try to remember that there are aspects of our path that never go anywhere, so that we are always able to operate from the center of our being: “having nowhere to go, no “what” to do, no “when” to do it, but simply being as we are, existing in essence and in truth. That is the heart of our path. Who we are is the essence of that path and what we are attempting to do as we wend our way through these mysterious turnings is not to do more but to do anything that we do with more truth.” On June 1, 1986, Q’uo described the nature of our being upon the path of a spiritual seeker:
We can, however, suggest to any seeker who is desirous of placing the foot upon the path most securely as its next step that within the meditative state one may take this desire and open the heart of one’s being to the inspiration which the greater portion of yourself may move and speak to you who inhabits this illusion, and in such a manner may you then find for yourself the next appropriate step. We would hasten to add, however, that to focus overly much upon what is next upon one’s spiritual agenda, shall we say, is in some degree to deny the appropriateness and efficiency of the present moment experience which is in itself whole, complete and most appropriately suited for your journey at this time.
Ithelps, in a way that is difficult to define, for you to have some model within yourself for what that path that you are on is, and how it goes. This entity, for instance, being a mystical Christian, tends to model her rule of life and her path on the teachings of the one known as Jesus. And like all paths, and all models of paths, this model and this path has obvious flaws. The one known as Jesus walked the path of the martyr, and while the path of the martyr is to be seen, in the case of the one known as Jesus, as an appropriate and a loving path, yet still it is not obvious, from the surface of the story of the one known as Jesus, that this entity was at all responsible or conservative in walking that path that eventually led towards a cross on a hilltop near Jerusalem. As this entity stretched its arms out upon that cross, it lost all ability to serve within this density. That is the difficulty of the bias of the path of a martyr. And so, this entity must constantly ask itself where the appropriate balance is between service to others and martyrdom. Others following other paths must look at the biases that are connected with that model and that path and then ask the self what the issues are as one attempts to follow the way of a hero or an avatar.
The virtue of having a model or a hero for a path is simply that it is a shortcut, if you will, an icon on the desktop that you can click on in order to see deeper into the issues that you are facing. The cliché of modern day that this instrument would use, then, is “What would Jesus do?” Or as this instrument has altered it many a time, “What would Jesus be?” Asking the self what one’s hero would do or how it would be is often very instructive to one’s own private communication with the self. For one is working in deep waters, and the light is dim. It is not easy to see one’s way when one is attempting to sort signal from noise and truth from chaos. But we would suggest, if there is that feeling for a certain hero, or avatar or icon of some kind, to use that, not blindly, but asking the self, “If I were thinking as this entity, how would I see my situation?” It helps to bring one up from the morass of confusion and give one a promontory upon which to stand, from which vantage point you may see the surrounding landscape of the moment that you are facing. If one does not have a hero, a master, an avatar, an icon, then one simply must move within the self and ask the guidance of the self, “What is the highest and best part of myself going to do in this situation?” And then await that wisdom in confidence and quietness.
It is very helpful when viewing this kind of deep and subtle work within the personality shell to avail oneself on a daily basis of silence. The uses of silence are many but the chief use is simple release. There is a silence in which there is no word. There is a deeper silence in which there is no sound and there is an even deeper silence in which there are no unspoken thoughts. Each of you has these levels of silence within. It is extremely helpful to the decompression of the stress of your daily life to release the self from words, from sounds, and from your own unspoken but certainly multitudinous thoughts. If you do not, they are as the taskmasters that have taken over your precious consciousness. Certainly, they must have their reign. One must deal with words each day. One dwells within a welter of sound and, even as this instrument sits within this chair she is able to hear several different sounds that are expressive of the household working: the buzzing of the sound system, the buzzing of the air purifier, the computer system, and the refrigerator, and the sound that indicates that the fans and the heating elements of the house are working. Without this network of tiny sounds, the civilization factor would cease to exist and there would be no aids to comfort. The food would spoil, the house would become chilly or heated depending upon the weather, and so forth. So all of these subliminally heard tones are useful and helpful and certainly not of negative value. Yet, taken all together, they create a body tension that cannot be ignored. It is a wonderful thing, my friends, to lift oneself away from civilization, from words, from sounds, and from your unspoken thoughts as well. If you are able to do this by gazing at a candle in meditation of the Eastern type, we encourage it. If your way is prayer and meditation in a more Christian sense, we encourage it. If your way is solitary walks in nature, we encourage them.
What we encourage is that you take the time for yourself, to give yourself the healing balm of silence. How blessed a thing that is. It is so alien to your culture that, in many cases, entities are left feeling very uncomfortable if there is true silence. And they will deliberately turn on the television, or the radio, or the sound system to banish that silence and to bring in the more desired energies of song, or speech, or drama. And in their place these are good things. But we do encourage the discipline that keeps the self away from distraction, even if it just be for five or ten minutes in a day. We would recommend, certainly, a period of fifteen minutes to a half an hour within each day. And if possible, we would recommend more than one of those places in the day in which Spirit and that still, small voice of Spirit might actually be able to bloom and to give unto your soul those silent words that are more precious than any sound or word could ever be.
Q’uo asked if we had met entities that were in their integrity in a powerful way, and they did not have to speak much for us to be able to feel the power of their being, and that is the power that lies within each of us, and the way to find that true nature of ourself is in the work that we do in finding and defining what that path is through our crowded and busy days. Then Q’uo said that it helps for us to have some model within ourself for what that path that we are on is, and how it goes, and since Carla is a mystical Christian she tends to create her rule of life and her path using the teachings of Jesus, and like all paths this path has obvious flaws as Jesus walked the path of the martyr, and while the path of the martyr is to be seen as an appropriate and a loving path, yet it is not obvious, from the surface of the story of Jesus, that this entity was at all responsible in walking that path that led to a cross on a hilltop near Jerusalem, and as He stretched His arms out upon that cross, He lost all ability to serve within this density, and that is the problem of the path of a martyr, and so Carla must constantly ask herself where the appropriate balance is between service to others and martyrdom. Q’uo went on to say that the virtue of having a model for a path is that it is an icon on the computer that we can click on in order to see deeper into the issues that we are facing, and the cliché of modern day that Carla would use is, “What would Jesus do?” Or as she has altered it many times, “What would Jesus be?” Q’uo said that asking ourself what our hero would do is often very helpful for our private communication with ourself, for we are working in deep waters, and the light is dim, and it is not easy to see our way when we are attempting to sort signal from noise, but Q’uo suggested if we have that feeling for a certain hero, to use that feeling by asking our self, “If I were thinking as this entity, how would I see my situation?” Because it helps to bring us up from the depth of confusion and gives us high ground upon which to stand where we may see the surrounding landscape of the moment that we are facing, and if we do not have a hero, then we must move within ourself and ask the guidance of ourself, “What is the highest and best part of myself going to do in this situation?” And then await that wisdom in confidence and quietness. Q’uo continued by saying that it is very helpful when viewing this kind of deep and subtle work within our personality shell to avail ourself on a daily basis of silence because the uses of silence are many, but the chief use is simple release, and Q’uo said: “There is a silence in which there is no word. There is a deeper silence in which there is no sound, and there is an even deeper silence in which there are no unspoken thoughts. Each of you has these levels of silence within.” They said it is helpful to release ourself from words and from our own unspoken thoughts, for if we do not, they can take over our consciousness, but they have their purpose because we must deal with words each day as well sounds of the sound system, the air purifier, the computer, fans, and the refrigerator, and without this network of tiny sounds, the civilization factor would cease to exist, and there would be no aids to comfort, but they also create a body tension that cannot be ignored, and it is a wonderful thing to lift ourself away from words, from sounds, and from our unspoken thoughts as well, so Q’uo encouraged us to do this by gazing at a candle in meditation, or prayer and meditation, or solitary walks in nature. Q’uo completed their reply by encouraging us to take time to give ourself the blessing of the healing balm of silence that is so alien to our culture, but if we are ever feeling uncomfortable when there is true silence, we will turn the television on, or the sound system, to remove the silence and to bring in the more desired energies of song, speech, or drama, and in their place these are good things, but Q’uo encouraged the discipline that keeps us away from distraction, and they also recommended a period of fifteen minutes to a half an hour within each day and also more than one of those times in the day in which the still, small voice of Spirit might be able to bloom and to give to our soul those silent words that are more precious than any sound or word could ever be. On March 23, 2019, Q’uo spoke of the still, small voice within us:
If you invoke the Creator within and ask of that Creator to move through you this day, as all days, and to express Itself to you in a way in which you are able to discern that there is an expansion of your awareness occurring throughout the day that you experience, then you become more and more familiar with this quality of the Creator that resides within your very being. Then when you invoke it, you are calling upon the greater portion of your being to make itself apparent to you, that you may see how the Creator meets you in every experience, in every day, throughout your life, so that you may see with clearer eyes, with an open heart, with clear communication, with the ability to create changes in your own consciousness as a result of processing the catalyst that you find yourself emerged in throughout every day.
The Creator, then, is able to become more available to you, more real to you, more present with you, as you discover that it is that quality within your being that has always been there—that still, small voice within that guides you, that leads you, that inspires you, that comforts you, that is such a companion as you have been dimly aware of throughout your entire experience. As you become more and more familiar with this Creator within that is all things, you remember previous experiences within this life in which this contact was made, and magical things begin to occur at the time it was made and throughout your life experience from that point forward.
This instrument informs us that we need at this time to open the meeting to other questions. We thank you for this wonderful question and the fun that we had in working on it and would ask at this time if there are any further queries?
S: [Inaudible] correct physical difficulties, could you elaborate or expound on the causes, perhaps the cures behind them?
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. The amount that we may say upon this subject, as you may understand, is quite limited for we do not wish to remove any learn/teaching opportunities for this entity. We may say that a goodly portion of this entity’s experiences at this time have to do not with any particular present catalyst that is incoming but rather have to do with this entity’s position within incarnation in that this entity has moved into the seventh decade of its incarnational age and is experiencing those systems within the body that are experiencing age and a less robust or youthful configuration and therefore are more open to damage.
The sources of stress within this instrument’s incarnation, as the one known as N pointed out, have certainly been many and that stress is that which has been eagerly and thankfully embraced. This creates an atmosphere in which incoming catalyst has a depth and a sharpness which this instrument would call instant karma, and again this instrument has embraced the quickening and acceleration of these energies. To put it in short words, this instrument has agreed to play hardball and is therefore experiencing each and every part of the shadow side of its nature in ways that are much clearer than in some incarnational patterns. The challenge for this entity, as always, is that finding of the path that is in balance so that there is not an over-embracing of energies that would lead to martyrdom; nor is there an under-embracing of energies which would lead to slowing that acceleration of spiritual evolution that this instrument is most eager to accomplish.
The way towards healing is framed in thankfulness, gratitude, and peace. And this is true not only of this instrument but is in general the attitude that most efficiently embraces and most skillfully makes use of the catalyst of the moment.
May we answer you further, my brother?
S: I think that’s plenty for her to consider, thank you. Another question I had. If the Q’uo work with crystals, I gave one that I had to Carla to hold. I’m just curious if you can tune into its energy and tell me what its purpose is with Carla and with itself?
We are those of Q’uo, and aware of your query, my brother. As we do indeed tune into this entity we find that we are not able to work with this information without infringing upon the free will of those involved. May we answer you further, my brother?
S” Hmm, that’s interesting then, surprising, but interesting. I have none at this time, thanks.
Q’uo” We thank you, my brother, and are most pleased to spend a brief moment of your physical space/time enjoying your presence. It is always a joy to greet you in person, my brother.
S: I’m curious, since the last time I was here, what do you see from your perspective, from your side, of how I’ve changed?
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. We find that the one known as S has somewhat matured in that there is a lessening of naiveté with no corresponding aggregation of cynicism. We find that, in greeting change, the maturing or evolving entity will accept becoming more complex whereas the entity that is attempting to avoid the maturation process will attempt to retain simplicity and in the resulting conflicts find itself becoming more and more bitter. It is that for which we would offer congratulations to the one known as S, that this entity has worked to deepen and to allow complexity within the self without the corresponding tendency towards bitterness.
May we answer you further, my brother?
S: No, I appreciate that thought and for what it’s worth, for all that I’ve been and am becoming, I do want to express my love and gratitude because you are and have been a part of that and I just give you my love and appreciation.
We are those of Q’uo, and, my brother, we return your sentiments most heartily.
Is there a further query at this time?
S: Not from me.
R: I have a question, Q’uo, concerning a catalyst expressed in the physical body as a cancer. I remember reading some explanation of it in the Law of One book. I wanted to ask whether this cancer is in all cases the result of unprocessed catalyst and anger that expresses in the physical body as a growth of cells?
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. The query itself is difficult to get hold of because there are so many different kinds of anger. Some of them are obvious, some of them are very difficult to pin down and are almost a portion of the personality shell itself rather than being connected to certain situations or catalyst.
R: Can I refocus the query?
We are those of Q’uo, and would be delighted for you to do so, my brother.
R: Let’s speak about an incarnation where an entity is offered catalyst of various kinds and finds an anger. I cannot describe the anger in more detail because it is a query that is partly hypothetical, but would it be correct to say that the cancer would be the result of unprocessed anger within that one’s incarnation, discounting the effects of the previous one?
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. That query is easier to answer, and we thank you for the change. That which you call disease, of which cancer is a kind, is literally un-easiness within the physical body. It is dis-ease. It is a moving away from the stasis of perfect balance in the body system. At heart, such disease is only partially physical. A large part of disease resides within the mind and the perceptions of that mind. When entities perceive disharmony in a way that is telling, it makes a mark upon the mind. That perception creates an actual change in each cell of the body. It creates an atmosphere in which any incoming agent of disease will be recognized more readily and grabbed onto by each cell of the body more readily.
Conversely, when an entity begins to perceive that apparent disharmony has no reality and is therefore able to begin to change its perceptions, that lack of triggering of the perception of disharmony again communicates itself to every cell of the body, and therefore when the agent of disease sends its signal to each cell the antennas of that cell do not reach out and grab the catalyst of disharmony because it perceives that there is no disharmony. Therefore, when one is working to lessen the impact of a perceived disease within the body, a part of the working has to do with changing the perceptions that gave rise to a feeling of disharmony.
May we answer you further, my brother?
R: With enough talent and focus each entity is able to find its disharmony within itself, then?
We are those of Q’uo. That is correct, my brother. In general, certainly it is a short discussion of a sometimes quite protracted process for each feeling entity.
May we answer you further, my brother?
R: In dealing with this catalyst, when one is able to bring love and acceptance to the process, is it part of the lessening of the over-activity of the antennas that you have mentioned?
We are those of Q’uo, and, this is correct, my brother. The perception is prior to physical reality and this may be seen, for instance, by the entity that is under hypnosis and is able to walk upon coals without having burned feet or to be stabbed by a needle without feeling pain or bleeding. The body is the creature of the mind.
May we answer you further, my brother?
R: No, Q’uo, that was good. I wanted to make it somewhat general rather than crossing over the threshold of personal data.
We are those of Q’uo, and applaud your discretion, my brother. It is very good to speak with you.
Is there a final query at this time?
R: Not a question but an invitation. Half seriously, if you would be interested to hang around and stay awhile and eat cookies afterwards, we would be delighted.
We are those of Q’uo, and, my brother, we must confess that we always stay for the tea and the cookies. Our hearts are full as we give our leave of you. It is such a blessing to be with you. We leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai.
This morning I went into the living room and arranged all of the new chairs to seat the attendees for our public channeling meditation this afternoon.
This afternoon we had a total of twelve seekers who participated in the round robin that we always begin our meeting with where each seeker shares the most important experience on their spiritual journey which has occurred within whatever time period has meaning for them. Today there were so many open-hearted sharing that connected all of us in a feeling of vulnerability that is very helpful in allowing those of Q’uo to speak more fully in answering any questions that they were asked.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
March 8
Communication To Your Soul
I am of the spirit of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of divine Love.
How words distort, disguise, and conceal the true meaning of the thoughts they mean to express! The spirit works not through symbology or any outward form but, as it were, from the conceptual foundations resulting not in lofty argument and clever persuasion but a sudden sense of justice, balance or compassion, a heightened reality of consciousness.
Thus think yourself most fortunate if those things of the intellect which yield the gifts of Spirit come to you. But consider yourselves equally fortunate if they do not, as long as in your inward path, as you toil onward, you call always to that companion which is your soul’s health, that greater reality may be given, concept by concept.
We are with you always. We wish you peace, now and forever. 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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