I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from August 18, 2004:
Question from T: I would like to receive information about the awakening and unfolding metamorphoses of self and its effects on myself and my family. How may one avoid trauma to one’s family who may hold other views and to oneself as one tries to uphold the continuing duties and responsibilities of material life?
(Carla channeling)
We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose name we come to you this day and in Whose power and peace we serve. We thank the one known as T for calling us to this circle of seeking this day and we thank those who sit in this circle in his name and for his service.
It is a great privilege to speak with each of you, and we would simply ask, as always, that you clear the way for us to feel completely free of any constraints concerned with the free will of any of you by guarding your own integrity and your powers of discrimination so that any thought which we offer that you take in be taken in quite consciously and with the knowledge that we are fallible beings such as yourselves, pilgrims along a very long path. We are perhaps a step or two ahead of you, but many steps away from becoming one once again with the infinite Creator. We all are part of that circle, that great Celtic knot of evolution that begins and ends in the mystery and unity of the one infinite Creator.
This day there is a query concerning the shape of change in a person’s life and how that shape can be experienced, not only by the self but by those about the self, with a minimum of difficulty and with an absence of trauma. My brother, were we the wisest of all advice givers, we would not have the solution to coming through transformation without suffering. And although we cannot say that any of your own processes properly can be considered to be the cause of trauma to others, we may also say that insofar as entities are unskilled at gazing in the mirrors which such change projects from your process into others, that too is a process that is likely not to be trouble-free or smooth. Certainly, we can share some thoughts with you concerning how to visualize and work with these very laudable and appropriate desires to minimize the difficulty and trauma for the self and for other selves in the process of initiation. Yet at the same time, we wish to begin by stating firmly that we do not know a way for entities to move the way they think and their point of view from one system to another without creating considerable perceived chaos and pain. It is well to take this in and to realize the cost of transformation. It is always costly to attempt to stand closer to the Light. It is always expensive to gain insight. It is always dislocating to widen one’s point of view.
Now, with that said, let us turn to a more positive tack and sail our little boat of thought and words into the wind of change, and see what we can find to suggest to you as you set your direction and work with the ocean upon which you now sail to bring you as handily as possible into the next port, and the next, and the next. Know always that you are in an archipelago rather than a deep, uninhabited ocean when you are working with yourself and helping yourself cooperate with your destiny. You are not alone for long. There is always a place to stop and provender yourself, make sure of your direction and check your bearings, your equipment, and your own self for wellness and for trimness.
First, let us look at this little barque that you sail at this time. Its sails have been the rising, the yearning of your own soul and heart for truth. Not for change in and of itself, but simply for a higher way, for a truer path. And when this kind of dedication of self is made, the door opens, the questions are asked, and the answers come pouring in. What is in your little boat? You have the sail of your desire and this is well set. What have you stashed in the hold for yourself? Have you kept for yourself a game or two, a chessboard, draughts, a deck of cards, something to pass the time, something to rest with, something light and meaningless? Have you packed some fun? Have you packed a box of taking things lightly? That would be good to pack away. If you have not done so, find yourself the pastimes that truly rest your mind and help your heart to stop racing, and keep them aboard. For there are times when only waiting will work and only unknowing will be the fruitful attitude. And in those times, it is well not to brood; it is well not to think too much; it is well to take things lightly and know that all is well, and that there is time simply to have fun. If the fun is music, be sure and play it. If the fun is walking out of doors or working in the garden, be sure and pack that in, be sure and have that with you. This is a great tool to have when one is going through a process of intense change.
Have you packed sufficient inspiration for your journey? There are times when silence itself becomes too wearying and too intense. It is very helpful to have chosen a few written-down things that you may pick up and read, things that you may count on to give you food. In a metaphysical voyage, the food is ideas. Your food will be concepts that enable you to rest or to become restless but asking, and looking, and seeing a bit further. Have you packed sufficient humility? There is a good deal of that needed on long voyages such as you have undertaken. In a way, the choice to seek is, in itself, prideful, or so it may seem from one point of view. It is a coming into oneself in such a bold and complete way that it startles and sometimes frightens the self or other selves who gaze upon such a one. And the thought is, perhaps, that such a bold move is not called for, is not necessary. It is impossible to explain to another self why must one set out upon metaphysical voyages. The self cannot even be explained to, if there are inner voices in the self that create resistance within the inner workings of the self. There may be a voice within the one known as T that is still saying, “You are not worthy of making such a bold and drastic change. You do not deserve to release the shoreline of previous ideas and to set forward in search of a new truth that is more all-encompassing, that seems to have more integrity.” True humility, however, is that which allows all of the voices of oneself and of other selves to speak their piece to you without the need to defend. What is there to defend, after all? A sailor must set sail. Stays he upon land, he shall drown in the dry dirt. A sailor must take to the water, whatever the voyage, when it is called, when it is time. He simply has to set sail. That is the way with spiritual evolution for most people: when it comes, it is as the wake-up call and there is no going back to sleep. And so, the sailor rigs out his boat, sets sail, and just hopes for the best. This is appropriate.
Question from T: I would like to receive information about the awakening and unfolding metamorphoses of self and its effects on myself and my family. How may one avoid trauma to one’s family who may hold other views and to oneself as one tries to uphold the continuing duties and responsibilities of material life? Q’uo began their reply by saying that this day the query concerns the shape of change in our life and how we can experience that shape and how it can be experienced by those around us with a minimum of difficulty, but Q’uo said that there was no way to go through transformation without suffering, and they said that if we are unskilled at gazing into the mirrors through which change projects from our process into others, that is a process that will contain difficulties, and they could share ways we can work with our desires to reduce the difficulties for ourself and for others in the process of initiation, but they said that there was no way that we can move our point of view from one system to another system without creating pain, so that we should consider this and the cost of transformation when we attempt to stand closer to the Light. Then Q’uo said they wanted to see what they could suggest to us as we set our direction and work with the ocean upon which we now sail to bring us as soon as possible into the next port, and the next, and the next, and to remember that we are in a sea of islands rather than a deep ocean when we are helping ourself cooperate with our destiny because we are not alone for long, and there is always a place to stop and provide food for ourself and check our bearings, our equipment, and ourself for wellness and for trimness. Q’uo went on to say that the little boat that we sail in at this time, and its sails, represent the yearning of our soul and heart for truth–not for change in and of itself–but simply for a truer path, and when we make this kind of dedication, and the door opens, the questions are asked, and the answers come pouring in: “What is in your little boat? You have the sail of your desire and this is well set. What have you stashed in the hold for yourself? Have you kept for yourself a game or two, something light and meaningless? Have you packed some fun? Have you packed a box of taking things lightly?” Then Q’uo said if we have not done so, we should find pastimes that rest our mind and help our heart to stop racing, and keep them aboard, for there are times when only waiting and unknowing will be the fruitful attitude, and in those times we should take things lightly and know that all is well, and that there is time simply to have fun, and if the fun is music, be sure and play it, and if the fun is walking out of doors or working in the garden, be sure and pack that because these are great tools to have when we are going through a process of intense change. Q’uo continued by saying that there are times when silence itself becomes too wearying and too intense, so we need to pack something inspirational for our journey such as books that we may read because on a metaphysical voyage our food will be concepts that enable us to rest or to become restless and looking, and seeing a bit further, and Q’uo said that we need to pack humility because we will need a good deal of that on these long voyages, and the choice to seek is prideful because it is a coming into ourself in such a bold way that it sometimes frightens ourself or other selves who gaze upon us, and their thought is that such a bold move is not necessary, but it is impossible to explain to another self why we must set out upon metaphysical voyages, and we cannot explain this to ourself if there are inner voices in ourself that create resistance within our inner workings that say that we are not worthy of making such a bold change and to move forward in search of a new truth that has more integrity. Now Q’uo said that true humility is that which allows all of the voices of ourself and of other selves to speak their piece to us without the need to defend because there is nothing to defend since the sailor must set sail, for if we stayed upon the upon land, we shall drown in the dry dirt so that we must take to the water when the time is right because that is the way with spiritual evolution for most people: “when it comes, it is as the wake-up call and there is no going back to sleep. And so, the sailor rigs out his boat, sets sail, and just hopes for the best. This is appropriate.” In 48.8. Ra described the general nature of our spiritual evolution:
Firstly, there are those directly under the Guardians who are responsible for the incarnation patterns of those incarnating automatically, that is, without conscious self-awareness of the process of spiritual evolution. You may call these beings angelic if you prefer. They are, shall we say, “local” or of your planetary sphere.
The seniority of vibration is to be likened unto placing various grades of liquids in the same glass. Some will rise to the top; others will sink to the bottom. Layers and layers of entities will ensue. As harvest draws near, those filled with the most light and love will naturally, and without supervision, be in line, shall we say, for the experience of incarnation.
When the entity becomes aware in its mind/body/spirit complex totality of the mechanism for spiritual evolution it, itself, will arrange and place those lessons and entities necessary for maximum growth and expression of polarity in the incarnative experience before the forgetting process occurs. The only disadvantage of this total free will of those senior entities choosing the manner of incarnation experiences is that some entities attempt to learn so much during one incarnative experience that the intensity of catalyst disarranges the polarized entity and the experience thus is not maximally useful as intended.
This is not a prideful act. The only prideful act connected with moving through transformation is the act of attempting to defend or justify to the self or to another self the reasons or the rightness of such a voyage. We do not say that there is no possibility of the one known as T choosing wrongly. We simply say that when there is the call for movement, there is no avoiding movement. It might be done awkwardly or smoothly; it might be done slowly or more quickly; it might be done with great joy or in great trepidation. But when the movement has come from the inside out, as the one known as T has expressed, then one is simply forced to sail, for better or for worse.
Weask the one known as T, therefore, to pack sufficient humility that he may rest from blame and rest from avenging those who would blame. It is perfectly understandable for inner voices and for outer voices to object to change. Change will always be uncomfortable. The status quo will always seem more comfortable, more sensible, more sane. It is to those who have been inspired in a certain way that the courage to enter into that zone of discomfort is given. Pack much of this humility, and along with it, my brother, pack much patience. Indeed, put a whole locker full of patience in. For your journey is not only a long journey, your journey is an everlasting journey, one that you have been on all the while and only at a certain point became aware of.
At the point at which you became aware, you also became able to affect the rate of change of your spiritual evolution. You became able to decide consciously to accelerate the pace of this change, to lean into the wind by asking, by seeking, by looking. Those things are as the powers that raise the winds in metaphysical waters: every focus of meditation, every focus of visualization, every focus of affirmation, and every moment of disciplining the personality, bring up the wind. And as you have set your sail by your desire, so the wind moves you in such and such a way. Consequently, check your desire, check the alignment of your sail, if you will, and see that it is working with the wind. When you get into port and have a moment, sit in silence and check, shall we say, in inner dry dock, the health of your vehicle. Are you creating wellness in your body? Are you creating enough rest for your emotional body? Are you creating enough lack of tension, enough balance between motion and stillness, seeking and resting, wisdom and love, attention paid to the self and attention paid to the milieu about one? This is what we would share with you upon working with yourself.
We come to a more difficult part of your question when we begin to look at the other selves about you. It is rare, indeed, on such a voyage, that one is able to take other selves with him. Most general is the case that you experience, where other selves that are dearly beloved to you and are part of your family are not able to take this voyage with you but must remain upon the shore which you have left. This simple separation of attitude and the direction of hopes for the future between mates and between family members has the strong and understandable tendency to create strife and discomfort on both the side of the self and the sides of other selves involved. Even if there are no hard feelings, the dislocation is felt, and it must be dealt with by the other selves about you.
Then Q’uo said that this is not a prideful act because the only prideful act connected with moving through transformation is our attempting to defend ourself to ourself or to another self of the rightness of such a voyage, and Q’uo did not say that there is no possibility that we may choose incorrectly, but they said that when there is the call for movement, we cannot avoid movement, and we might do it awkwardly or smoothly, or we might do it slowly or more quickly, with great joy or in great fear, but when the movement has come from the inside out, then we are simply forced to sail, for better or for worse. Then Q’uo went on to ask that we pack humility so that we may rest from blaming ourself and rest from avenging those who would blame us because it is understandable for our inner voices and for outer voices to object to change because change will always be painful, and the status quo will always seem more comfortable, but it is to those of us who have been inspired in a certain way that courage has been given so that we may enter into that zone of discomfort, so we should pack much humility and much patience, for our journey is not only a long journey, but our journey is an everlasting journey, one that we have been on all the while and only at a certain point became aware of. Q’uo continued by saying that at the point at which we became aware, we also became able to accelerate the rate of change of our spiritual evolution by leaning into the wind by asking, by seeking, and by looking because these things are powers that raise the winds in the metaphysical waters: every focus of meditation, of visualization, and every moment of disciplining our personality bring up the wind, and as we have set our sail by our desire, so the wind moves us in a certain way so that we should check our desire and the alignment of our sail, and see that they are working with the wind so that when we get into port, and sit in meditation, and check the health of our body to see if we are creating wellness in our body, and if are we creating enough rest for the emotional body and are we: “creating enough lack of tension, enough balance between motion and stillness, seeking and resting, wisdom and love, attention paid to the self and attention paid to the milieu about one? This is what we would share with you upon working with yourself.” Q’uo said that now they came to a more difficult part of our question as they began to look at the other selves about us because it is rare, on such a voyage, that we are able to take other selves with us since it is usually the case that we are not able to take those who are our beloved family with us on this voyage, and this separation of attitude and the direction of hopes for the future between mates and between family members has the understandable tendency to create strife and discomfort within us and with our family, and even if there are no hard feelings, the separation is felt, and it must be dealt with by the other selves about us. On January 3, 1993, Q’uo described how we may work with the emotional body:
Now, as you go forward you may feel that this seems very easy: “I will just take what comes with good humor.” However, the incarnation will turn around and surprise you as soon as you think thusly. Again, what is important in the creation of an attitude is largely that fundamental way in which you as a servant of the good are ready to deal with destiny. In doing this you shall again and again find in theory that you are doing well, but what are all these unhappy and turbulent emotions, and why must you suffer? This is where we came in, and this is what you asked, and about this we may say that building upon the foundation of faith which undergirds all of your existence you may focus upon your emotions, not upon the events causing the emotions, with good results as far as aiding yourself by attitude.
If you focus on events you are lost in meaningless detail. If you focus on your emotions, you see that when you have pain in the emotional body, you resist, tighten up and say “no” in a speechless, silent way. Now, step back from this knot of negation and see that the work of the attitude is concerned with holding, loving, and forgiving that self that is in a knot of pain. The attitude is not relevant to the facts in the way you meant it. It is relevant to how you deal with the emotions which you feel as you move through this lesson. If you are angry, a good attitude cannot make you not angry. However, it can kick in like the afterburner and say, “I accept myself angry as well as calm.”
Certainly, there are many things that you can do to lessen the apparent impact of your voyage. For your voyage is inner. It is not necessary for you to change your geographical location. It is not necessary for you to change the way that you earn money or the way that you participate in your community in order to sail far, far away in terms of the inner voyage of a self seeking the truth. However, as the voyage continues, and as the sea miles pile up, and the life experiences of these inner voyages begin to accumulate, there is an increasing distance in point of view from the old self. Those other selves who were fond of the old self and who miss the old self will begin missing that old self more and more.
It is rare to find mates, especially, but other selves in general, that are able to lift away from previously assumed knowledge of a person and replace that knowledge with the knowledge of the brand-new fledgling entity that is beginning to show himself. Certainly, some are able to do it but for most—and for the one known as T—he will find that it is very difficult for those about him to embrace the changes that have already taken place and to embrace the continuing desire for further change. And so, it is as though the other selves are acting as a drag upon the system, wanting always to regain what they consider to be lost ground, and being completely unable to do so because of the nature of metaphysical change. It is like a chemical reaction. It cannot reverse itself. Once started, it must play itself out. And, unfortunately for the peace of mind of those about the one known as T, this means that, insofar as this creates catalyst for those about the one known as T, they also will need to move through the processes of dealing with and finding ways to balance the perceived reality of these changes.
It is very helpful in such a case for the entity who is changing to refrain from attempting to explain or justify his journey, and indeed to refrain from speaking, unless asked, of the journey itself. It is very helpful to remember that beneath all of the chances and changes of living, the self is as a serene and unchanging stream, changing in surface ways, certainly, as things flow through, but unchanging in the sense of being a citizen of eternity with a certain vibratory nexus that is the pure essence of who you are. That vibration may change a very small bit because of hard work done throughout an incarnation, but you are truly an eternal being, and the magical energy of yourself is only partially brought into incarnation. It is connected through the silver cord into that well of self from which you came and in which you have tremendous power, wisdom, and awareness. This is who you are, only seen through a cloud within incarnation. It is the quest of an entire incarnation simply to penetrate one’s own personality shell so that one is able more and more to rest in the fuller expression of self that this instrument would call Christ consciousness. This is your essence. This is the kind of creature that you are. This is the facet of the Creator which you express.
What a blessing it is to be able to rest back in the essence of who you are. Rest in that essence as much as you can with your family. Stay at the soul level with them, relating to them as wonderful, unique sparks of the Creator, just as are you. So much is veiled, so much is unknown, and yet you can always love; you can always console; you can always lift up, and support, and encourage, and offer hope. You can refuse to shut down; you can refuse to stop being vulnerable; you can refuse to close your heart against anyone or anything. You can endure whatever pain will help those about you as you listen to them express their difficulties, and as you work endlessly and patiently, insofar as you can see a way to help them through what they are experiencing as they experience the catalyst of your change.
Now Q’uo said that there are many things that we can do to lessen the impact of our inner voyage, and it is not necessary for us to change our geographical location, for us to change the way that we earn money, or the way that we participate in our community in order to sail far away in terms of our inner voyage of seeking the truth, but as our voyage continues, and our life experiences on these inner voyages begin to accumulate, there is an increasing distance in point of view from our old self, and the other selves who were fond of our old self, and who miss our old self, and they will begin missing our old self more and more. Q’uo went on to say that it is rare to find mates or other selves that are able to forget their memories of who we were and to replace those memories with the knowledge of the new being that we are, and it is as though the other selves are acting as a drag upon the system of transformation, wanting always to regain what they consider to be lost ground, and being completely unable to do so because of the nature of metaphysical change because it is like a chemical reaction that cannot reverse itself, and it must play itself out, and for the peace of mind of those about us, they also will need to move through the process of dealing with the perceived reality of our changes. Q’uo continued by saying that it is helpful in such a case for us to refrain from attempting to explain our journey and to refrain from speaking about it unless we are asked, and it is also helpful for us to remember that beneath all of the changes of living we are like a serene stream, changing in surface ways as things flow through, but unchanging in the sense of being a citizen of eternity with a certain vibratory nexus that is the pure essence of who we are, and that vibration may change some because of the hard work we have done throughout an incarnation, but we are an eternal being, and our magical energy is only partially brought into incarnation because it is connected through the silver cord into that well of ourself from which we came and in which we have tremendous power, wisdom, and awareness, and this is who we are as seen within our incarnation where it is the quest of our entire incarnation to penetrate our own personality shell so that we are able more and more to rest in the fuller expression of ourself that Carla would call: “Christ consciousness. This is your essence. This is the kind of creature that you are. This is the facet of the Creator which you express.” Now Q’uo said that what a blessing it is to rest back in the essence of who we are as much as we can with our family, and to stay at our soul level with them, relating to them as unique sparks of the Creator, just as we are, and so much is veiled, and yet we can always love, support, and offer hope, and: “We can endure whatever pain will help those about us as you listen to them express their difficulties, and as we work endlessly and patiently, insofar as we can see a way to help them through what they are experiencing as they experience the catalyst of our change.” On July 16, 1989, Q’uo spoke of the nature of Christ consciousness:
The boon, as you have called it, is the positioning for creation of the self by the self through experience and may take the form of the concept which you know of as faith, for though the trail may be long and difficult, there must be the faith within the seeker that there is a reason for traveling the trail. The seeker may turn to those sources of inspiration that are found in your literature which record the voices of those seekers of your past who have traveled this same trail and left records that illustrate the reality of their faith and of faith that might be found by others of their kind on similar journeys. One may look to such sources for a kind of inspiration that speaks to a deeper portion of the self that is beyond the confinement of your narrow, walled illusion and which vibrates in recognition of the truth when it is heard by these voices who have traveled the same journey.
Thus, the inspiration of others may speak to that spark of the self that we have called the Christ consciousness and in which the still, silent moments of reflection, and contemplation, and meditation, and prayerful attention cause a feeling of purpose and goodness and direction to well up from within and bolster, shall we say, the faith that has been nurtured by much experience through each seeker.
This instrument has often said that it is a blessing when entities are unfair and unjust because it gives the self a perfect chance to work with that catalyst and to see that nothing needs to be taken personally, and that all things are subject for prayer. When you can perceive no other way to serve your family, then remove yourself, sit in silence, and pray for their good, for their improvement of mind, for their healing of spirit, giving thanks, always, for every harsh word, every misunderstanding, every injustice, knowing that these are the things that refine one in the fire. These are the tempering agents that make one strong but flexible.
This instrument was talking to one of those within this circle earlier about the reason for continued tempering and continued testing in the fire. “Why,” this instrument was asked, “would that be necessary on a continuing basis? What is the purpose for such a sharp edge when the desire is to love and to bring love to the planet?” And we say to this one, to this instrument and to the one known as T that the continued tempering is that which brings one into the present moment. It is not yesterday’s tempering that will keep one flexible in the catalyst of the day. As each lesson is learned, a new vista opens, and when the student is eager, those new vistas demand further tempering, further work, further catalyst, further opportunities for learning. Why is there no end to it? For the same reason that there is no end to spirit. When there is oneness, there is infinity. There are no markers; there are no stops, there are no categories; and that infinity becomes that great Celtic knot that moves from Creator to Creator with an octave of learning between.
It is a long, long road. It is a road that also is awash with joy and that is an experience that the one known as T has come into time and again, that sun-washed, light-filled experience of bliss and joy in the knowledge that one is in the right place, at the right time, and on the right journey. Bless and remember those times. That act of remembrance will be very helpful, and especially when one may be downhearted. Because one does see that one cannot make the proverbial omelet without breaking the eggs. It is very helpful to remember that this experience is surrounded by supernal and infinite life. It is a blessed journey and even the pain of those about you is a blessing as you work in humility with the awareness of yourself as part of a pattern over which you have no control. Your only control is the choice to love and that choice of loving is endlessly subtle and always in the present moment.
Q’uo said that we should be aware that what other entities say to us is a projection of what about themselves has the ability to confuse them, and each entity will react to what we are going through, not in terms of us or anything about our journey, but in terms of their own processes because even when entities think that they are working with other people they are only working with themselves, and we will constantly be working to get outside of our own limitations into a wider perspective, but we cannot do this for others, and what we can do for them is to be ourself and to: “stay as cheerful and positive as possible, to find patience where no patience seems to be and to find forgiveness for what seem to be unfair or unjust slings and arrows.” Then Q’uo said that Carla has often felt that it is a blessing when entities are unfair because it gives us a chance to work with that catalyst and to see that nothing needs to be taken personally, and that all things are subjects for prayer because when we can perceive no other way to serve our family, then we should go and sit in silence, and pray for their healing of spirit, and give thanks for every misunderstanding and every injustice, and know that these are the things that are the tempering agents that make us strong and flexible. Q’uo went on to say that Carla was talking to one of those within this circle earlier about the reason for continued tempering and continued testing in the fire, and she was asked why would it be necessary to continually have such a sharp edge when the desire is to bring love to the planet, and Q’uo said that the continued tempering brings us into the present moment because it is not yesterday’s tempering that will keep us flexible in the catalyst of the day since as each lesson is learned, a new vista opens, and when we are eager, those new vistas demand further opportunities for learning, and there is no end to it for the same reason that there is no end to Spirit, and when there is oneness, there is infinity, and that infinity becomes that great Celtic knot that moves from Creator to Creator with an octave of learning between. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that it is a long road that is filled with the light-filled experience of bliss and joy in the knowledge that we are in the right place, at the right time, and we should bless and remember these times because that act of remembrance will be helpful–especially when we may be downhearted–because we see that we cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs, and it is helpful to remember that this experience is surrounded by infinite life so that it is a blessed journey, and even the pain of those about us is a blessing as we work in humility with the awareness of ourself as part of a pattern over which we have no control because our only control is the choice to love, and that choice loving is endlessly subtle and always in the present moment. On September 15, 1996, Q’uo spoke of making the choice to love:
In the metaphysical world which your spirit rests in at this precise moment and at all moments, you are a larger being by far. You have chosen many, many things about your present experience that have deep reasons for being as they are. Faith is a matter of trusting that this experience is on the track that you intended it to be before you came. But you will never receive an objective proof of any of the thoughts that we are sharing because it is essential that each entity within these illusions make the choices that they make without the advantage of knowing that they are right. It is always your free choice to love and serve the infinite Creator and to do it in this way or that. So, know that you are underpinned, bolstered by a Self that is as sturdy as you are frail and as wise as each of you feels foolish.
At this time we would pause, for there are two questions this day. May we ask for the second question from T. We are those of Q’uo.
T: In this age of materialism, it seems our children often suffer greatly from a feeling of inadequacy and poor self-worth as they constantly compare themselves to the symbols of materialism. I would like to receive information on how parents of young children can best assist and guide the children in remembering and awakening to who they really are as they mature in this age of transition where materialism still has a strong influence.
Weare those of Q’uo, and we are aware of your query, my brother. What a good query we find this! It is most appropriate to consider the raising of your young beings for, at this time, not only your being and those whom you have welcomed into your home and family, but also virtually all those coming into the world through incarnation’s door as new to it are those who have, to some extent, opened their fourth-density bodies and so, are beings that are quite different than those who have come into incarnation with only the yellow-ray activated body. When a person has a dual-activated body, certain things have changed for this entity.
It may not be that these changes are consciously known by those who may be called Indigo Children, for a general term, but these changes are there. They include a thinner veiling, so that it is easier to remember pre-incarnative data, the ability to access psychic gifts largely because of the lighter veiling, the tendency to be impatient with third-density structures, especially those that seem to stand in their way, and some difficulty in cooperating with the strictures that make the least sense to them. Indeed, in some part, these have always been the characteristics of youth, but when there is a memory that is closer to the surface of a higher way and when the culture is mired in teachings that are directly counter to those sensings and half memories, it becomes fiendishly difficult for entities to make sense of their surroundings.
It may be considered unfortunate by the one known as T that such children do not come into incarnation equipped with what might be called maturity or common sense. Such children are children. They do not have an instinct for maturity. They do not have an instinct for right behavior. They are, as are all of the very young, self-involved, ever-questing, ever-impatient, and very inquisitive of knowledge, of ideas, of ways to be, of masks of all kinds. They are experimenters looking for ways to express that feel right to them. They are tremendously influenced by what is going on about them. And this is not simply the parents and the family but also contains the world of school and peers and the fads of a culture. If you add in the mass media and the tremendous amount of propaganda of mind-entraining material that exists within the programs and the commercials of television, the sum becomes a huge and unmanageable bundle of strictly third-density input for such children.
There is nothing that the parents can do about this except keep them home, turn off the television set, and studiously home school. Some have put a great deal of time aside and actually done this. And yet those children will move out into the world of peers, and fads, and mass media because it is there in such abundant quantity. Consequently, we do not recommend such withdrawal from the society at large. We recommend, rather, some of that endless patience that you have taken with you on the journey. For you shall, as a parent, need to deal with situations one, by one, by one; and we are talking of hundreds and thousands and millions of situations in twenty years of raising a child. And in each of these situations, you will need to be creative, and listen, and find ways to offer positive suggestion and positive counsel when what you would really like to do is tear down structures that you feel are harmful for your children.
We recommend, most of all, that you yourself live in a way that you may endlessly explain and defend. This is painstaking work. If you would like them not to watch television, turn yours off, not once but as a habit. If you would like them to respect the rights of others, be sure that your converse and your comments constantly express the deepest love that you can find for every entity and every situation. Whatever it is that you are hoping for your children, rather than telling them, sit in counsel with yourself until you can find ways to live the life that you wish to embody for them. Be a living example to them, not by what you say, alone, but by how you are, by how you live your day. Do you, for instance, make a point of spending time with yourself and the Creator in silence, every day? If your children see you living a religiously or spiritually oriented life, they will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that that is of value to you, and because you loom large in their small lives, that will have every reason to be considered as a value to them.
T’s second question: “I would like to receive information on how parents of young children can best assist and guide the children in remembering and awakening to who they really are as they mature in this age of transition where materialism still has a strong influence.” Q’uo began their reply by saying that it is appropriate to consider the raising of our children, for at this time, not only our being and those whom we have welcomed into our home and family, but also all those incarnating into the world who have opened their fourth-density bodies, are beings quite different than those who have come into incarnation with only their yellow-ray activated body, and when a person has a dual-activated body certain things have changed for this entity. Q’uo went on to say that it may not be that these changes are consciously known by the Indigo Children, but these changes are there, and they include a thinner veiling so that it is easier to remember pre-incarnative data: the ability to access psychic gifts because of the lighter veiling, the tendency to be impatient with third-density structures, and when the culture is mired in teachings that are directly counter to those half memories, it becomes difficult for these children to make sense of their surroundings. Q’uo continued by saying that it may be considered unfortunate that such children do not come into incarnation equipped with what might be called maturity, and they do not have an instinct for right behavior because they are self-involved, impatient, and very inquisitive of knowledge and masks of all kinds, and they are influenced by what is going on about them, but this is not just their parents and family but also contains the world of school, and the fads of the culture, so if we add in the mass media and the propaganda of mind-entraining material that exists within the programs and the commercials of television, the sum becomes an unmanageable bundle of strictly third-density input for such children. Then Q’uo said that there is nothing that parents can do about this except keep them home, turn off the television set, and home school them, yet these children will eventually move out into the world of peers, fads, and mass media, so Q’uo did not recommend such withdrawal from the society, but they suggested using some of endless patience that we have taken with us on our journey because we shall, as a parent, need to deal with millions of situations in twenty years of raising a child, and in each of these situations, we will need to be creative, listen, and find ways to offer positive counsel when what we would really like to do is tear down structures that we feel are harmful for our children. Q’uo completed their reply by recommending that we live in a way that we may endlessly explain and defend, so if we would like them not to watch television, we should turn ours off as a habit, and if we would like them to respect the rights of others, we should be sure that our comments express the deepest love that we can find for every entity and every situation, and whatever it is that we are hoping for our children, we should find ways to live the life that we wish for them by being a living example of who we are and making a point of spending time in meditation with the Creator every day because if our children see us living a spiritually oriented life, they will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that that is of value to us, and because we loom large in their small lives, that will have every reason to be considered as a value to them. On October 14, 1992, Q’uo described the spiritually oriented life:
As we blend with your vibrations, we find that we need not spend long portions of our precious time with you in speaking of meditation and other spiritual disciplines. Indeed, we must turn about and encourage the consideration that short, even momentary times spent asking for the Creator and It’s silent messages are extremely effective. The time spent in company with the infinite One is timeless. The purified desire that leads the seeker to the momentary thought of the Creator is the powerful portion of the meditation. The long sitting meditations are far more for the purpose of becoming a fairer observer, not becoming one with the infinite One. It is desire that moves each to that close relationship and continuing conversation with the Creator.
It is often assumed by those who are not on a spiritual pilgrimage that the greatest boon of living a spiritually oriented life is the peace of having made such a deep choice and, indeed, there is that peace of commitment to a life in faith. However, what those not on the path often forget or do not know is that the pilgrimage towards eternity, while greatly speeding up the pace of spiritual evolution, is terribly uncomfortable and inconvenient.
It has been a delight and a privilege to speak with you this day, my brother. And we thank those in the support group who have made this session of seeking possible. We are those of Q’uo, and we leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai.
This morning I ran some errands with my first stop being at Thieneman’s Nursery where I bought a flat of pansies. My second stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some food for myself.
This afternoon I went out to the front porch and planted the pansies in the two flower boxes on the front porch. Then I watered them and covered them with netting to keep deer from eating them.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
March 5
We Wait To Serve
I am the spirit of the living Christ.
I greet you in the fullness of the consciousness of divine Love. I greet you in life complete, in experience understood, in sorrow accepted and transformed, in joy, praise and thanksgiving eternal.
I greet you in a consciousness that enriches, enlivens and transforms experience.
We are principles of that consciousness; advocates and encouragers of those who seek to know Christ.
We are the gift of God poured out upon a thirsty people as the inward dew of quietness and strength, the inward food gained in contemplation and prayer.
We wait to comfort. We wait to transform. We wait for the call of those who seek Christ in this and every day.
And we wait and serve as we hope that you may wait and serve—in peace, now and ever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
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