I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from December 12, 2004:
The question today has to do with the topic of psychic greetings. Many people look at just about anything that happens to them which is of what they would call a negative nature as a psychic greeting or a way of negative entities interfering in their spiritual growth. We are wondering if Q’uo could give us some information about how to determine whether or not our experience is of a psychic greeting nature. Does it matter if it is, in our overall spiritual growth? And is there anything, a ritual, a procedure, that we could use to balance the psychic greeting?
(Carla channeling)
We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this day. We thank each of you for finding the time to form a circle of seeking and to call us to share our thoughts with you. It is a great privilege that you offer to us, and we are most happy to respond with a full and grateful heart. But we would ask, as always, that each of you guard your thinking well and do not allow our thoughts to creep into your own mind and be used by you unless you honestly feel a resonance with them. If you do not feel a resonance with things that we might say, please leave them behind without a second thought. This will enable us to speak our thoughts freely without worrying about infringing upon your own free will and the sacredness of your own process of spiritual evolution.
The question that you ask this day concerning what psychic greeting is, is a query that is, in a way, quite difficult to answer because the parameters of psychic greetings are, as several in the group have noted, subjective and varied. The essence of a psychic greeting is the intentionality of the greeter. Thusly, not all experienced resistance or experienced catalyst is of a psychic greeting nature. For the term to be properly used, the greeting needs to be one that is coming from a presence, whether it is an individual or a group entity. Further, this greeting has as its focus an encroachment into the energetic body rather than the physical body, in terms of its origin. So, one way of looking at psychic greeting would be a somewhat narrow and carefully delineated way in which psychic greetings are only those greetings which have been sent by an entity, most usually of the inner planes, with the intention of disrupting the process of spiritual evolution and causing an entity to stop its forward progress and to become lost in the side roads of inner questioning and suffering.
Under this definition, you may see that psychic greeting is a term that is much overused and often misused among your peoples. However, if one pulls one’s focus back into looking at what your energetic bodies are and how they experience you and your thinking processes, the concept of psychic greeting may be perhaps redefined as psychic resistance and may be widened to include a wide variety of ways in which your energetic body can experience resistance, not necessarily only from entities but from the mechanism or, shall we say, the works or the machinery of the connection between space/time and time/space, as those two impinge upon the present moment and create the present moment itself, into which you come with your energetic body.
Let us look at your energetic body, for this bears some looking at in terms of working with this concept of psychic resistance. You have an energetic body that is composed, in the terms that this instrument is familiar with, of seven chakras in-body and one chakra directly above the body. And these chakras are in a coherent system. The system as a whole works only as well as the least balanced chakra, in general or large terms. In more specific applications, chakra by chakra and looking at relationships betwixt two or more chakras in a system, part of the chakra body may be working beautifully for you and may be well-balanced for you and yet, at the same time, because of over-activation or under-activation of other chakras, that particular balance may not be working for the overall best balance of the system as a whole.
It is especially interesting we find, looking, for instance, as we have been invited to do, at this particular instrument’s chakra system, that you do not find one chakra that is weak and the other ones strong; rather, you generally find correspondences betwixt two or even three chakras where there is an imbalance that is made up not simply of one chakra being a bit off-kilter but that chakra’s imbalance shadowing or pulling at the balance of one or two other chakras. And in this instrument, we find that there are some weaknesses in both the red and the orange rays of the instrument which echo or reflect into the indigo ray, and the way this works for this instrument is that there are areas of childhood pain, as this instrument was speaking of earlier, having to do with issues of survival and of the person’s relationship with herself which can trigger emotions and processes which directly impinge upon and pull into deep imbalance, at least momentarily, the areas of indigo which have to do with self-worth.
For each entity, there are system-wide balances at which it is very helpful to look daily, and then there are ongoing specific imbalances in specific chakras or combinations of chakras that benefit greatly from conscious contemplation and times of inner asking and challenging of the self, by the self. This is work best done by the self in solitude unless an entity has been able to create a metaphysical partnership with someone with whom there has been formed a bond of trust, so that in some cases it may be possible for two entities together to work on both chakra systems, each entity being a reflector and a mentor for the other, in finding creative ways to address the areas of suffering that have not been healed, that have come through the years within incarnation, carried as a treasure within the self, protected and cradled within the self as if these old areas of suffering were treasures too good to drop, too good to leave behind. It is worth asking the self how the self values these embedded crystals of pain and suffering.
The group question for this session was: “We are wondering if Q’uo could give us some information about how to determine whether or not our experience is of a psychic greeting nature. Does it matter if it is, in our overall spiritual growth? And is there anything, a ritual, a procedure, that we could use to balance the psychic greeting?” Q’uo began their reply by saying that the question that we ask today concerning what psychic greeting is, is difficult to answer because the nature of psychic greetings is subjective, and the essence of a psychic greeting is the intention of the greeter, so not all experienced resistance is of a psychic greeting nature, for the term to be properly used the greeting needs to be one that is coming from an individual, and this greeting has as its focus an entering into our energetic body rather than our physical body, so one way of looking at psychic greeting would be a carefully delineated way in which psychic greetings are only those greetings which have been sent by an entity of the inner planes, with the intention of disrupting the process of our spiritual evolution and causing us to become lost on the side roads of inner questioning and suffering. Then Q’uo said that we may see that psychic greeting is a term that is often misused among our people, but if we pull our focus back into looking at what our energetic bodies are, and how they experience our thinking process, the concept of psychic greeting may be redefined as psychic resistance, and may be widened to include a variety of ways in which our energetic body can experience resistance–not necessarily only from entities but from the machinery of the connection between space/time and time/space–as those two impinge upon the present moment and create the present moment itself into which we come with our energetic body. Q’uo wanted to look at our energetic body as a way of working with the concept of psychic resistance since we have an energetic body that is composed of seven chakras in-body and one chakra directly above the body, and these chakras are in a coherent system which works only as well as the least balanced chakra, and in more specific applications, chakra by chakra and looking at relationships between two or more chakras in a system, part of our chakra body may be well-balanced for us and, because of over-activation or under-activation of other chakras, that balance may not be working for the overall best balance of our system as a whole. Q’uo went on to say that it is especially interesting to look at Carla’s chakra system where there is one chakra that is weak and the other ones strong, but there are correspondences between two or even three chakras where there is an imbalance that is made up not just one chakra being a bit out of balance but that chakra’s imbalance pulling at the balance of one or two other chakras, and with Carla, Q’uo found weaknesses in both the red and the orange rays that reflect into the indigo ray, and the way this works for her was that there are areas of childhood pain having to do with issues of survival and of the personal relationship with herself which can trigger emotions and directly pull into deep imbalance, at least momentarily, the areas of indigo which have to do with self-worth. Q’uo continued by saying that for each of us there are system-wide balances that we need to look at daily, and then there are imbalances in specific chakras, or combinations of chakras, that benefit greatly from our contemplation and times of inner questioning of ourself, and this is work best done in solitude unless we have been able to create a metaphysical partnership with someone that we have a bond of trust with, so that we can work together on both of our chakra systems to find creative ways to address our areas of suffering that have come through the years within our incarnation, carried as a treasure within ourself as if these old areas of suffering were treasures too good to leave behind, so it is worth asking ourself how we value these embedded crystals of pain and suffering. On May 1, 2005, Q’uo spoke of the purpose of our pain and suffering:
It is most true that a great incarnational lesson that is common to all those who take incarnation is simply forgiving oneself for the choices made in coming into incarnation. Before incarnation, everything looks pretty easy. Standing outside the incarnational confusion of what this instrument would call the world of maya or illusion, your memory is intact. You understand who you are. You understand the goals and the missions that you have set for yourself for this particular incarnation. You understand the use of pain and suffering and the necessity for it, the gift of it, indeed. For it is this very displacing pain that alerts one to some situation that needs to be worked out, some patterns that need to be resolved. You see it all very clearly and as a whole. Then you plunge into the womb and the parents’ arms, and everything clouds over, and nothing is simple. Until you enter through the gates of death into larger life and again regain your complete memory and are able to see your life as a whole, the incarnation itself is spent with at least a substantial portion of your time being given over to trying to figure out what the situation really is, what is really going on, what you are really seeing, what you are really hearing, what is really coming into your perceptive web.
There is a great challenge involved in coming to grips with these crystalline, embedded areas of pain. The question to the self is always, “Are you ready to lay down and abandon this crystal? Is this a burden that you feel completely safe in letting go?” It may seem like a backwards question and yet this instrument is well aware of her ability to cradle and protect those pet areas of pain. How important is it to this instrument to say, “I am familiar with this area of pain. I am familiar with this kind of suffering” There is a real difficulty in letting go of old pain. It has glueyness to it. It wants to adhere to you. Something that has repeated again and again, throughout an incarnation, takes on a life and an energy of its own. It ceases being a simple memory and instead becomes a living entity, a thought-form. Most so-called psychic greeting and also what we would call psychic resistance is generated within the individual’s energy body by the entity itself at a subconscious level. Because each of these areas of embedded pain has a life of its own and an attractive ability of its own, these areas then generate signals that move into that present moment as it is breaking forth from space/time and time/space, angling for a target of opportunity. There are many layers to the present moment. There are many ways in which embedded pain can find an echo, a reflection, or a voice within the present moment. And so, some of the voices speaking to the energetic body will be those of a negative tone of voice. And that negativity will be cunningly and specifically crafted to fit into the present moment and to cause the experience of distraction or resistance.
For those who are experiencing a true psychic greeting, the entity with whom one is dancing is an outer entity whose existence does not depend upon you. For the general majority of psychic resistance that is experienced, the entity generating the resistance is the self. Does it make a difference? To the best of our ability to answer this question, the answer is no, it does not make a difference. One can call a psychic greeting the fault of an entity and respond to that entity, or one can assume that, in the larger picture, all entities are the self, and therefore it does not matter from where the greeting is coming but only that it is experienced as an offering to which a response is required. In the former way of looking at it, there may be a few cases, especially cases in which the identity of the psychic greeter is known, in which case it is efficient and skillful to name the greeting and say to whom it is perceived that the responsibility is due and therefore come into a time/space meeting with this individual or this group entity and, standing before the Creator, it is possible then to move into conversation with that entity and to effect a resolution. This resolution is in the form of expressions of love and gratitude for the greeting and the greeter.
We note that this way of dealing with psychic greeting does not balance the greeting for the one who has originated the greeting. It however balances the greeting for you. For the most part, however, we feel that the most helpful way to look at a psychic resistance experience is to assume that stance before the Creator that we described before, where you have moved to the judgment seat, you have moved to the Creator’s space, to that place where you have witnessed in Spirit and where all of those who help you on unseen levels are acknowledged and thanked as witnesses. In this very metaphysical setting, you do precisely what you would do if indeed there was an entity involved: you open your heart and you invite in this area of resistance, however you are experiencing it. You acknowledge it, you look at it very carefully, not shirking or shying away from any detail but trying to plumb the depths of this greeting, of this resistance. How does it feel? What is happening to you? What energies of the chakra body does it seem to be concentrating on? What is the area that it is greeting? Where does the rubber meet the road? What is the nature of this experience? Do not rush through this part of the process because, as we said, there are many layers to experience.
There are many parts of yourself and there are many vantage points from which to look at the various parts of yourself. What does red-ray resistance look like from the green-ray energy? From the blue-ray energy? What does indigo-ray and its dimming look like from green ray, from blue ray? And we focus on green ray and blue ray because, in doing energetic work, the green ray is that great hall that is a totally sacred space. It is that house wherein you dwell, energetically. It is the doorway through which the Creator moves on an everyday, continuing basis, because it is the seat of unconditional Love. This is the energy that created you. You are green-ray entities in terms of your basic nature. The stem of the flower that you are is green ray.
Then Q’uo said that there is a challenge involved in coming to grips with this pain, and we need to decide if we are ready to let go of this crystalized pain just as Carla was familiar with those areas of pain within her that she tended to protect, but pain is difficult to let go of because it takes on a life of its own throughout our incarnation, and psychic greetings and all psychic resistance are generated within our energy body by us at the subconscious level, and each of these areas of pain has a life of its own and can generate signals that move into the present moment as they are breaking forth from space/time and time/space seeking for a target of opportunity, and because there are layers to the present moment there are ways in which embedded pain can find a voice within the present moment so that some of the voices speaking to our energetic body will be those of a negative voice, and that negativity will be cunningly crafted to fit into the present moment and to cause us the experience of distraction. Q’uo went on to say that for those of us who are experiencing a true psychic greeting, the entity with whom we are dealing is an outer entity whose existence does not depend upon us, for we create the majority of psychic resistance that we experience, but that doesn’t make any difference because in the larger picture all entities are ourself, and we experience the greeting as an offering to which we need to respond, and there may be a few cases in which the identity of the psychic greeter is known so that it is efficient for us to name the greeting and to come into a time/space meeting with this individual and, standing before the Creator, it is possible then for us to move into conversation with that entity and to effect a resolution which is in the form of our expression of love for the greeting and the greeter. Q’uo continued by saying that this way of dealing with psychic greeting does not balance the greeting for the one who has created the greeting, but it balances the greeting for us, and Q’uo felt that the most helpful way to look at a psychic resistance experience is to assume that stance before the Creator that they described before where we moved to the Creator’s space, to that place where we have witnessed in Spirit, and where all of those who can help us on unseen levels are thanked as witnesses so that in this metaphysical setting we do what we would do if there were an entity involved: we open our heart, and we invite in this area of resistance, and we acknowledge it and attempt to understand its nature, and we ask ourself: “What energies of the chakra body does it seem to be concentrating on? What is the area that it is greeting? What is the nature of this experience? “Now Q’uo said that there are many parts of ourself, and there are many vantage points from which to look at the various parts of ourself where we ask: “What does red-ray resistance look like from the green-ray energy? From the blue-ray energy? What does indigo-ray and its dimming look like from green ray, from blue ray?” Q’uo said that we should focus on green ray and blue ray because, in doing energetic work, our green ray is a sacred space wherein we dwell energetically, and it is the doorway through which the Creator moves on a continuing basis because it is the seat of unconditional Love which is the energy that created us, and we are green-ray entities in terms of our basic nature. On May 5, 2002, Q’uo described the nature of energetic work:
We may say that it is well to be aware that there are many who are uncomfortable with unconditional love, as the one known as T has said. Do not be discouraged if it seems that your light is not accepted by those about you. That which is upon the surface is an illusion. The energetic work that you do is as it is, and it is not necessary for any to be aware that you are doing this work. It is not necessary for people around you to respond or seem to accept you as you would hope to be responded to and accepted. It is only necessary that you do the work, that you keep your body, your mind, and your spirit in enough balance that energy may flow through and not be stuck in this or that place, or overstimulated so that there is a distortion because of that hectic energy of overstimulation. Realize that the spiritual path is one which extends throughout the incarnation, moment by moment, and unexciting chore by unexciting chore.
So, moving into this sacred space is moving into a safety zone. It is moving into a place where you are loved and where you love. You have the courage and the stamina that may be lacking in the chakra system as a whole at the moment. Moving into green ray is moving into a solid and secure place, a “gated” community, shall we say. You do have to get through your own gate! There are lions at the door of green ray. So lay aside your pride, your arrogance, and your pretensions of all kinds. Metaphysically speaking, drop to your knees, empty yourself and lay down your burdens. We wish to draw attention to this point once again because, in terms of psychic resistance it is all-important: the bravest and the hardest thing you will ever do is lay down your cross. Put it down, drop it! We do not know how to express to you the power of this decision. It is easy to make that decision in your head and say, “Yes, once and for all I lay down this burden. I will no longer be pulled off balance by this particular memory that has become an entity of childhood pain.” But let an hour or a day go by, and that decision made with the head alone is shuffled off into metaphysical Gehenna and a reset button is pushed somewhere deep within and that area of childhood pain is alive and well once again and angling for your next present moment.
There is a way to know when you have finally accessed a point of childhood pain in the green ray, energetically speaking. Because when you have been able to access it, to see it in all of its detail, and to lay it down, you will find yourself laughing. You will find yourself full of laughter and seeing the incredible humor of this effort. We cannot tell you in great detail how to come to that moment, but we can tell you where to start: opening to your own pain, coming to know it—its heft, its shape, its density, its color, and most of all its texture within your life. We suggest working with these energies from the blue-ray standpoint as well because calling upon the energies of blue ray is calling upon clear and honest communication. How do you communicate with yourself? Do you feel that you do a good job of communicating? Is there an edge to your communication with yourself? There usually are many edges to the way entities communicate with themselves, many ways in which the point of view is not straight-ahead but has a slant, an angle, or an edge to it so that perhaps you are not seeing a good picture. The power of blue ray, when called upon and asked in deep humility to come into your experience, is that power to throw light on a situation in such a way that you can see where you have an edge, where you have an angle, so that you are, perhaps, cheating yourself of a full and clear view of what your situation is.
When you have laid down your burden and said, “Yes, I give this back to the infinite,” then there is that moment of embrace, of acceptance of the self as it was, as it is, and as you have every high hope that it will be. This is a heartbreak to do in terms of an entity feeling that he has made progress. It is very difficult to feel that one has indeed made progress when working with psychic resistance, because there is nothing that is “out there.” It is all going on within the inner processes of the self. So, there is no way to check against some objective standard and say, “Well, I have achieved Point 1 and Point 2; I am now on Point 3, and I am progressing through this process, and at the end of it I will have succeeded.” As most entities upon your surface experience, and as certainly those within this circle experience, the greeting is dealt with for the moment and then, at the next opportunity, it simply resurfaces, and the work is there to do all over again.
We would encourage each of you not to be discouraged at the apparently cyclical nature of psychic resistance. Try to understand about yourself the multi-level nature of your being. You can find those pockets of pain and empty them and not realize that there is yet a deeper level from which that pocket of pain is being filled so that one pocket full of pain is found and emptied but that hollow remains within the energetic web, functioning as a kind of attractant hole into which more content is poured from those dark places that have not yet been found deep within the self. Some places of pain there are within the energetic body which cannot even be found doing work consciously because they were never experienced consciously. These include areas of pain that were deliberately brought into the incarnation from previously unbalanced incarnations, and pain to which the unborn child was subjected prior to physical incarnation but not prior to metaphysical incarnation. Of such pain there is no actual memory because those processes of memory do not properly begin until the entity is breathing the air and has formally embarked upon the incarnation.
So it is as though there are springs of pain within you that come from so deep underground within your nature that you cannot root them out. And, for most entities, in one or two cases at least, these springs can be expected to function throughout the incarnation. It is to be noted that in these cases there is a purpose and a use for the work that must be done in response to these experiences of the pain springing forth from these deep fountains within. About suffering in general we may say that it is a part of the “refining fire” that this instrument is used to calling the incarnation. An incarnation for one who is attempting to learn does partake of the pain of that learning. Before incarnation this was understood by you and accepted. The reason for this careless and seemingly casual acceptance of future pain was that from before incarnation or from after incarnation, gazing into incarnation and knowing the full spectrum of the Creator and the nature of creation and of the process that one is embracing in coming into incarnation, it seemed like child’s play. It seemed so obvious that there would be these moments of challenge and certainly there would be discomfort, but there would always be this knowledge of the way things really are.
Now Q’uo said that moving into this sacred space is moving into a place where we are loved and where we love, and we have the courage that may be lacking in our chakra system at the moment so that moving into green ray is moving into a secure place, and we do have to get through our own gate because there are lions at the door of green ray, so we need to lay aside our pride, arrogance, and pretensions of all kinds, so Q’uo wanted to draw attention to this point again because in terms of psychic resistance it is all-important: the bravest and the hardest thing we will ever do is lay down our cross because this decision is one of great power which is easy to make in our head and say: “Yes, once and for all I lay down this burden. I will no longer be pulled off balance by this particular memory that has become an entity of childhood pain.” But Q’uo said let an hour or a day go by, and that decision that we made with our head alone is shuffled off into metaphysical misery, and a reset button is pushed somewhere deep within us, and that area of childhood pain is alive and well once again. Then Q’uo said that there is a way to know when we have accessed a point of childhood pain in the green ray because when we have been able to see it in all of its detail, we will be able to see the incredible humor of this effort, so Q’uo could not tell us how to come to that moment, but they could tell us where to start by coming to know our own pain: its shape, its density, and most of all its texture within our life, so they suggested that we work with these energies from the blue-ray standpoint since that is calling upon clear and honest communication where we can discover ways of communicating better with ourself since there are many ways we communicate with ourselves where our point of view has a slant so that we are not seeing a good picture which the blue ray has the power to throw light upon in a situation in such a way that we can see where we have an angle from which to see it. Q’uo went on to say that when we have laid down our burden and said, “Yes, I give this back to the infinite,” then there is that moment of acceptance of ourself as it was, as it is, and as we have every hope that it will be, but this is a heartbreak to do in terms of our feeling that we have made progress since it is very difficult to feel that we have made progress when we are working with psychic resistance since it is all going on within the inner processes of ourself, so there is no way to check all of the boxes, and at the end of this process we will have succeeded since most entities upon our planet who experience the greeting feel it is dealt with for the moment, and then it simply resurfaces, and the work is there to do all over again. Q’uo encouraged us not to be discouraged at the cyclical nature of psychic resistance and try to understand ourself and the multi-level nature of our being because we can find those pockets of pain and empty them and not realize that there is a deeper level from which that pocket of pain is being filled so that one pocket of pain is found and emptied, but that hollow remains within our energetic web that functions as a hole into which more content is poured from those dark places that have not yet been found deep within ourself, and some places of pain there are within our energetic body which cannot be found doing work consciously because they were never experienced consciously, and these include areas of pain that were brought into our incarnation from previously unbalanced incarnations, and pain to which our unborn child was subjected prior to our physical incarnation, so we have no memory of such pain because those processes of memory do not begin until we are breathing the air and have begun our incarnation. Q’uo continued by saying that it is as though there are springs of pain within us that come from so deep within our nature that we cannot get them out, and for most us these springs can be expected to function throughout our incarnation, and it is to be noted that in these cases there is a use for the work that we must do in response to these experiences of pain springing forth from the deep fountains within us, so suffering is a part of the “refining fire” that Carla calls the incarnation so that the incarnation for one who is attempting to learn partakes of the pain of that learning, but before our incarnation this was understood and accepted by us, and the reason for this careless acceptance of future pain was that from before incarnation we knew the full spectrum of the Creator and the nature of creation that we were embracing coming into our incarnation, and it seemed so obvious that there would be these moments of challenge, but there would always be this knowledge of the way things really are. On September 26, 2009, Q’uo spoke of the value of moments of challenge:
However, in another sense, it is almost antithetically the case that temptations are not distractions from the path. Temptations are the path. There is virtue in becoming eager to meet catalyst or to greet temptation because it is in those moments that you are able to do the work of learning that you came to do. It is in those moments of challenge that you are able to declare yourself as an entity of service to others, an entity that wishes to serve the light and that wishes to be an instrument for love and peace. Without the catalyst, without the temptations, those fine moments would not come, and you would not gain a sense of yourself nearly as quickly within incarnation.
It is very difficult from beyond incarnation to believe it possible to forget the true nature of the self and the creation. And yet, memory is the first thing that goes at the beginning of an incarnation. Your incarnation is protected from your own knowledge so that it can be very real to you, and it can have the effect that it is supposed to have and that you are hoping that it will have. However, from within incarnation, this is not a comforting thought. From within incarnation, you simply want the pain to go away, and yet the pain of living is part and parcel of the experience of drawing breath.
There is a road. This instrument is steeped in the Christian traditions, and so she thinks of this road as the King’s Highway. Others might think of it as the Great Way or the Tao. The one know as R was saying earlier that there is protection for those working on spiritual process. This is true. However, the protection must be claimed, and the work that we have been describing is done before that claiming can take place. The price of admittance to that road is the laying down of all burdens and the taking on of your own truth. In taking on your own truth, you are taking on a self that is perfect, not in the sense of doing nothing wrong, but in the sense of being one with the infinite Creator. The act of laying down and leaving behind the worldly self is key. Once you have lain down your burdens, once you have let your personality go, your sense of justification and rightness and all of those details of self, you come into a consciousness that is real, a consciousness that is yours now and tomorrow and forever.
And once you have that self as your significant self, you cannot be moved from the road. It truly is the “royal road,” and when you are on it, you are one with all; all that you may perceive as those whom you wish to help; all that you may perceive of as those from whom you wish to learn; all entities, qualities and aspects of the Creator whatsoever. And you are all on this road together. You are in harmony; you are dancing, you are singing, and the movement is rhythmic and right. And you are part of the entire creation, wheeling in joy and opening up the infinite night to the light of stars. And on this royal road, one foot moving in front of the other is as the thunder of a mighty stallion or the beat of wings of a mighty eagle that is soaring high above the Earth and gazing with power and knowledge upon all that he sees. There is that feeling of being able to make strides upon that road, and you are truly, as you dance with spirit, creating an ever more indelible impression of yourself that functions as a memory, so that you are more able to move into this space within yourself, where you feel your essence, the next time. It even begins to become a relief to drop the worldly details and to lay down those burdens. But this is something that only occurs with a great deal of practice. This entity is thinking to herself how poorly she accomplishes this as she attempts to balance herself and to dance within her own experience, and yet, we say that each of you is doing excellent work. One cannot judge the self. That is not useful in terms of working with the energetic body.
If you look at this question from the intellectual or mindful level, it will be a party game for you, something that is enjoyable to think about, but there will be no solution. It is from the level of the heart and that alone that this psychic resistance may be dealt with in a useful and skillful way. Part of your query that we would like to touch upon before we open the meeting to questions is whether there is some ritual that one may go through in order to halt the advance of psychic greeting or psychic resistance. And as we have suggested before, there is value to images and icons. What is your image of unconditional love? What image has power for you? This instrument has a tendency to say a one-word prayer, that word being, “Jesus.” She does this with intention. The intention is to move into the mind and the heart of Jesus, to move into unconditional love itself. So, in seeing the name of this icon, this instrument pulls a vibration from memory into use and that vibration is every experience that she has had wherein she was able to rest in unconditional love, having prayed that prayer.
Prayer is an intensely intimate, personal activity, and we cannot suggest to you what your icon for unconditional love should be. We can only suggest that you develop one if you do not have one, and then that you use it with intention, being willing, when you start with that icon and that image, to sit with it until it has done its work in you so that when you open your eyes, you are seeing with the eyes of that icon. This is deep work and not to be undertaken lightly. But we believe that, in terms of instantaneous change, the use of icons and images in the mind is a good way to create changes in consciousness at will, this being the definition of one who does magic. Be a magical person. Call upon the magician within yourself and create for yourself the world in which you choose to live. As always, Spirit, in many ways, is there to help you. And we ourselves, if you wish to call upon our energies, will be there if you, but think of us and ask us for your help.
Q’uo went on to say that it is very difficult from beyond incarnation for us to believe it possible to forget the true nature of ourself and the creation, but memory is the first thing that goes at the beginning of our incarnation because our incarnation is protected from our own knowledge so that it can be real to us, and it can have the effect that it is supposed to have, but from within our incarnation this is not a comforting thought since within incarnation we wanted the pain to go away, and yet the pain of living is part of the experience of drawing breath. Then Q’uo said that there is a road, and Carla is steeped in the Christian traditions, so she thinks of this road as the King’s Highway, and that there is protection for us while we are working on spiritual process, but the protection must be claimed, and the work that Q’uo has been describing is done before that claiming can take place so that the price of admittance to that road is the laying down of all our burdens and the taking on of our truth, and we are taking on a self that is perfect in the sense of being one with the infinite Creator, and our act of leaving behind our worldly self is key, so once we have lain down our burdens and we have let our personality go, we come into a consciousness that is real, a consciousness that is ours now, and tomorrow, and forever. Q’uo continued by saying that once we have experienced that self as our significant self, we cannot be moved from the road because it truly is the “Royal Road,” and when we are on it, we are one with all entities and aspects of the Creator, and we are opening up the infinite night to the light of stars, and on this Royal Road there is that feeling moving into this space within ourself where we feel our essence, and it even begins to become a relief to lay down our burdens, but this is something that only occurs with a great deal of practice, and Q’uo said that each of us is doing excellent work, but we cannot judge ourself since that is not useful in terms of working with the energetic body. Now Q’uo said that if we look at this question from the intellectual level, it will be something that is enjoyable to think about, but there will be no solution because it is from the level of our heart that this psychic resistance may be dealt with in a skillful way, so Q’uo wanted to discuss some ritual that we may go through in order to halt the advance of psychic greeting, and they suggested that there is value to images and icons so they said that Carla has a tendency to say a one-word prayer which is, “Jesus,” and she does this with intention to move into her mind and the heart of Jesus and into unconditional love itself, so in seeing the name of this icon she pulls a vibration from memory into use, and that vibration is every experience that she has had wherein she was able to rest in unconditional love, having prayed that prayer. Q’uo completed their response by saying that prayer is a personal activity, and they could not suggest to us what our icon for unconditional love should be, but they could only suggest that we develop one if we do not have one, and then that we use it to set our intention to sit with it until it has done its work in us so that when we open our eyes, we are seeing with the eyes of that icon, and this is deep work and not to be undertaken lightly, but the use of icons and images in our mind is a good way to create changes in consciousness at will which is the definition of one who does magic, so we call upon the magician within ourself and create for ourself the world in which we choose to live, and the Spirit is there to help us, and Q’uo would be there if we asked them to help us. On August 3, 1997, Q’uo described the nature of unconditional love:
The great quest for this “pearl of great price” is that quest which, for most, encompasses the entire life, for to open the heart in unconditional love to those about one is a task difficult enough that it eludes and confuses most. For it is far, far too easy and tempting to take offense, to give offense, to be confused, and to move through the incarnation on unsteady metaphysical feet. However, when one has been privileged to taste that unconditional love moving to and from one’s own heart, then the blessings of this experience tend to open for one the next step, and the next, and the next, so that the opportunity to share this love is ever present. This love has a power unto itself that is like no other. It draws to one who expresses it those experiences and those entities which are in need of the service of unconditional love.
We thank you for this question and at this time would move into opening the meeting to further queries. Is there a question at this time?
[Pause]
We are those of Q’uo, and we find that the energy is indeed low and that the queries are, for the present, at an end. And so, we thank each of you again and leave you, as we found you, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.
This morning I noticed that the fountain on the fishpond was shooting a little water out of the pond, so I put the garden hose in the pond and filled the pond until the fountain was a foot short of going out of the pond.
This afternoon I went to my neighbor’s yard across the street and spread some birdseed on the ground so that the squirrels and deer can have some birdseed to eat.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
March 12
All That Is Needed Is Given
I am the spirit of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of Love.
Passionately does this instrument pray at this time to be of service to others.
For all who would wish to be of service, we would recommend that passion be turned into surety; that hope be filled with faith. For whence indeed cometh help? Is it not written in the Psalter that help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth? Cannot this great principle of creation, which created all that there is, create those channels of help which are needed at the time that they are needed and not before?
You who have walked the pilgrim’s path have surely noted that all that is needed is given in its time and all that is not given is that which is not needed for the learning and flowering of that individual soul.
Rest back into the strength and the passion that created all and trust yourselves, you who seek to serve, as adequate channels needing only to be open when help is requested. So, you shall serve and infinity flow through you. Worry not that your supply may fail.
We leave you in peace, love and trust, 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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