I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from January 16, 2005:
This week, Q’uo, we would like to ask you if you could elaborate upon the pitfalls or distractions that the seeker of truth might run into when the seeking is new and if there is any other type of distraction or pitfall that occurs later on in the path of the seeker. Please give us a general run-down of what to be aware of as one is seeking what is loosely called the truth.
(Carla channeling)
We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this day. It is a great privilege to be called to your group, and we are most happy to speak to you about the pitfalls and distractions of the spiritual path. But we would first, as always, like specifically to request of each of you that you retain the ability to discriminate very carefully as you listen to our thoughts, choosing only those thoughts that really seem good to you, with which you wish to work further and discarding the rest immediately. In this way we will feel much more confident that we will not interfere with your free will or disturb the sacredness of your own process.
For the most part, entities who are not consciously walking a spiritual path stay comfortably within third density and enjoy the various images and illusions that pass before the eye, as the one known as G was saying earlier. It is a comfortable and a familiar thing to pass from image to image as one rises and goes through the day; following the employment, following the need for the body for meals, and refreshment, and for sleep. It is a less comfortable and sometimes frighteningly less familiar thing to follow a spiritual path. And each entity steps onto this path from a misty somewhere before the thought crossed the mind that there was an actual spiritual path. So, this broad spiritual path is home to all of you. Each foot in this room has kicked the dust of that path, and that dust has similarly been kicked by every human being on the planet at one time or another. So, there is a vast variety of attitudes from those who enter the path of Spirit. Consequently, there are various kinds of pitfalls.
Let us approach this question from the standpoint of a model to use to see if you indeed are on the spiritual path. The model of the self on the spiritual path is a model in which you are focusing upon the “I” that you are. There are many uses of the first-person singular. When you think of yourself, you don’t always think of yourself as the same self. When you are thinking of yourself as a spiritual entity on a path, who are you? Who is the “I” that speaks for you when you are on the spiritual path? How would that voice, that identity, that person be different from the “I” that speaks for you in less thoughtful roles?
Hopefully, as you begin to sense yourself as a spiritual entity, the “I” that speaks for you begins to come out of the mist of the surface “I,” the surface personality. The model that this instrument carries in her mind of the entity on the spiritual path is a model in which she is following in the steps of Jesus the Christ. She does not have a model of herself as worshipping but as following after the example of a teacher who seemed to know precisely who He was. He identified himself as an agent of the Creator. This instrument, then, has a model of the self on the spiritual path in which she has an objective referent to who she is because she is following an entity who was of a certain personality. This entity identified Himself strictly as the Son of the Father who was about His Father’s business. And it is notable that this entity, in all of his preaching, has never been quoted as asking for worship but only as asking for being followed.
So, we would ask entities who are looking at themselves upon the spiritual path quite simply, “Who are you?” Because this is the essential center of that which draws entities to the path of seeking. They become aware that all of the wisdom that has been acquired since their cradle experiences is not enough to satisfy the craving for identity and meaning. They realize that they are going to have to set off on a journey. It is not a journey in the physical world at all, but it is very definitely a journey, and it very definitely is upon a path that is common to all seekers.
The group question today was: “This week, Q’uo, we would like to ask you if you could elaborate upon the pitfalls or distractions that the seeker of truth might run into when the seeking is new and if there is any other type of distraction or pitfall that occurs later on in the path of the seeker. Please give us a general run-down of what to be aware of as one is seeking what is loosely called the truth.” Q’uo began their reply by saying that it is a broad question that we have asked about the distractions that we face in following our spiritual path because the spiritual path is a broad road since it carries every being of third density as we attempt to walk between the world of third-density consensus reality and the inner world that sometimes completely overtakes the outer world for its importance and clarity. Then Q’uo said that entities who are not consciously walking a spiritual path stay within third density and enjoy the illusions that pass before their eyes because it is a familiar thing to pass from image to image as we rise and go through our day following the employment, following the need for the body for meals, refreshment, and for sleep, but it is a less familiar thing to follow a spiritual path, and each of us steps onto this path from a misty time before the thought crossed our mind that there was a spiritual path, so this broad spiritual path is home to all of us, and each foot in this room has kicked the dust of that path, and that dust has similarly been kicked by every human being on the planet at one time or another, so there is a variety of attitudes from those who enter the path of Spirit, and there are various kinds of pitfalls. Now Q’uo said that they wanted to approach this question from the standpoint of a model to use to see if we are on our spiritual path, and the model of our being on the spiritual path is one where we are focusing upon the “I” that we are, so when we are thinking of ourself as a spiritual entity on a path: “Who is the “I” that speaks for you when you are on the spiritual path? How would that voice, that identity, that person be different from the “I” that speaks for you in less thoughtful roles?” Q’uo went on to say that as we begin to sense ourself as a spiritual entity, the “I” that speaks for us begins to come out of the mist of the surface personality, and the model that Carla carries in her mind of the entity on the spiritual path is a model in which she is following in the steps of Jesus the Christ so that she does not have a model of herself as worshipping but she is following an entity who was of a certain personality and this entity identified Himself strictly as the Son of the Father who was about his Father’s business, and it is notable that in all of His preaching, has never been quoted as asking for worship but only as asking for being followed. Q’uo continued by asking entities who are looking at themselves upon the spiritual path quite simply, “Who are you?” because this is the center of that which draws us to the path of seeking, and we become aware that all of the wisdom that has been acquired since our childhood is not enough to satisfy our craving for identity and meaning so that we realize that we are going to have to set off on a journey–not a journey in the physical world–but a journey upon a path that is common to all seekers. On February 10, 2024, Q’uo described the nature of our spiritual path:
We do agree with you that joy and laughter are true guideposts along the way, the way that can become difficult because that is the way learning occurs through processing catalysts that creates the pain of change. And yet, when one has created the change, one is a new being moving forward on the spiritual path. However, it is sometimes quite tedious, and repetitive, and difficult, as you have noted, to complete this, one time after another and another.
Thus, the sense of humor, the sense of proportion, of seeing the path as that which contains paradox, contains riddles, contains puzzles to make one smile, the synchronicities the coincidences that remind one that it is not only a spiritual path of purity, and purity of intention, but it is a path that one may laugh, relax, have a good time and be full of that which you have called joy, for the laughter and the joy are also fuel for the spiritual path. If one wishes to travel in a dedicated fashion, as you have mentioned, it is possible to move forward in that way. And yet, if one adds joy and laughter, it speeds the path, for it opens the heart even fuller so that more love can be given, or laughter can be had, or joy can be shared.
Please realize that on this path you are not gathering as much as allowing things to fall away. The deep and true tones of your identity and your right process come clearly, plangently, sometimes plaintively and sometimes triumphantly, but unmistakably, from time to time there will come a moment—this instrument loves to call them “crystalline moments”—that ping like a bell with a very clear indication of meaning and resonance, and in that moment, whatever the realization is, it is easy; it is effortless; and you realize that you have reaped the harvest that has been in process for a long time. You finally hear, and feel, and see the work that you have done but you never know when that moment will come. Such is the progress of one upon the spiritual path. Pitfalls, for the new entity to the path, can involve impatience and that reaching and grasping that are the indication of impatience. These are not difficulties that will end or sideline the spiritual seeking for an entity, but such impatience does get in the way of a creation that is set to respond to your needs but in a timely fashion. This means sometimes that one must wait. It is very difficult to wrap one’s mind around the necessity for simple waiting.
The one known as Jim was speaking earlier of his delight at finding the time during the off-season of his work to sit and soak in the silence, allowing the creation to speak as it would to him. This willingness to let oneself drift in the flow of the moment is a great resource for all seekers. The entity, Jim, spoke of sitting at sundown and allowing the light slowly, gradually, to fade away, listening to the sounds of the creatures of the day as they quieted down and listening to the creatures of the night begin to sing their night song and just allowing all of this creation to roll past his eyes and his ears and, walking into his abode at the end of that time, feeling curiously invigorated and refreshed. This model of patience is a great one to carry. Realize that when a spiritually-oriented question is asked within, the answer may come in the next fifteen seconds, but it also may come two weeks or two months later. Energies have been set in motion that now must be trusted. Moving from the question to the trusting and the waiting is a great skill to learn. When you sense impatience within yourself, gently remind yourself that in spiritual seeking there is no time.
Asthe seeker becomes more sophisticated, as learning builds upon learning, the pitfalls of the path can change. If you are one of those who feels that she has had some experience walking this path, realize that your pitfall may well be knowing too much or feeling that you understand. There is truly no end to the evolving self. As things fall away from you and you become more able to penetrate deeper within your consciousness, you will repeatedly find that you need to release concepts from their stricture. You need to be able to allow new insight to change your carefully built-up intelligence about yourself and the world around you. Do not hold on to your identity or your knowledge in the face of new information. Rather, place aside that which you feel that you know and enter fully into the investigation of that which resonates for you. Do not see it as something that challenges your information, but rather, see it as something that may well help you evolve and put into a whole new pattern the information that is still good for you. When experience mounts up, it is as though some entities were carrying around their entire history of experience and attempting to add everything new in on top of this large pile of acquired information from childhood and previous years. It is a good idea to keep that cup of selfhood tipped out and emptied so that it may receive new wine, new information.
There is a certain amount of pride that entities take sometimes in how many things that they have learned, how many books they have read, or philosophies that they have studied, or religious systems that they have penetrated and can speak about. This kind of pride is often a very deadening influence, and we would encourage entities, always, to relate as simply and as directly as possible to ideas, to patterns of thought, and above all to entities around one who may be attempting to enter into conversation concerning spiritual matters. In a world that rushes continuously on so many levels, we would encourage a truly relaxed and lighthearted attitude towards the very serious business of seeking.
Then Q’uo said that on this path we are not gathering as much as allowing things to fall away, and the deep tones of our identity come clearly and unmistakably, and from time to time there will come a crystalline moment that pings like a bell with a clear indication of resonance, and in that moment our realization is effortless, and we realize that we have reaped the harvest that has been in process for a long time, and such is the progress we have made upon our spiritual path, but pitfalls can involve impatience, and that reaching and grasping that are the indication of impatience are not difficulties that will sideline our spiritual seeking, but such impatience does get in the way of a creation that is set to respond to our needs in a timely fashion, so this means that we must wait. Now Q’uo said that this willingness to let ourself drift in the flow of the moment is a great resource for all seekers, and Jim spoke of sitting at sundown and allowing the light to fade away: “listening to the sounds of the creatures of the day as they quieted down and listening to the creatures of the night begin to sing their night song and just allowing all of this creation to roll past his eyes and his ears and, walking into his abode at the end of that time, feeling curiously invigorated and refreshed.” Q’uo said this model of patience is a great one to carry and to realize that when a spiritually-oriented question is asked within, the answer may come in the next fifteen seconds, but it also may come two weeks or two months later because energies have been set in motion that now must be trusted, and moving from the question to the trusting and the waiting is a great skill to learn so that when we sense impatience within ourself, we should gently remind ourself that in spiritual seeking there is no time. Q’uo continued by saying that as we become more sophisticated the pitfalls of the path can change, and if we are one of those who feel that we have had some experience walking this path, we should realize that our pitfall may well be feeling that we understand because there is no end to our evolving self so that as things fall away from us, and we become able to penetrate deeper within our consciousness, we will find that we need to release concepts from their stricture, and we need to be able to allow new insights to change our thoughts about ourself and the world around us, so Q’uo said that we should not hold on to our knowledge in the face of new information, but place aside that which we feel that we know and enter into the investigation of that which resonates for us without seeing it as something that challenges our information, but see it as something that may help us evolve, and put that information into a new pattern that is good for us, and when experience increases it is as though we are carrying around our “entire history of experience and attempting to add everything new in on top of this large pile of acquired information from childhood and previous years. It is a good idea to keep that cup of selfhood tipped out and emptied so that it may receive new wine, new information. Q’uo went on to say that there is a certain amount of pride that we take in how many things that we have learned, and this kind of pride often has a deadening influence, so Q’uo encouraged us to relate as simply as possible to ideas, and above all to entities around us who may be attempting to enter into conversation with us concerning spiritual matters because in a world that rushes continuously on so many levels, they encouraged a relaxed and lighthearted attitude towards our serious business of seeking. On February 9, 2003, Q’uo described the nature of spiritual matters in our life:
Grasping the dominance within third-density of that distortion known as the Law of Confusion, or free will, it may become clearer why the third-density illusion is made in such a way that it shall always be impossible completely to satisfy the requirements of proof for spiritual truth. It is necessary within third density that all choices to believe in spiritual matters in a certain way be made completely in freedom, that freedom that only exists when there is no proof and it is a matter of faith.
The instinct shall always be within the human breast to reach out to that energy that it senses as being greater than it is. Many are the stories told about this mystery of the Creator, the Logos, the Grandfather, the Father/Mother God. There are many and many a name, and many a story, and in each name and in each story, some may find comfort. And in the words that those entities have said that were written down, or that were written down on behalf of these entities, some may find tremendous and substantial resources. Therefore, the spiritual panoply of riches lies open to the seeker. Yet what shall be that which increases faith? What shall be that for you this day?
What that will do to you, if you allow it to drive you, is to do more and more, to try more disciplines, to add a meditation if you haven’t been doing a daily one, then add another one, and then make that one longer, and so forth. The end of such pressured seeking is that you burn out as a seeker and must sit by the side of that spiritual path for a while, mopping your brow and breathing. It sometimes takes years for a burnt-out seeker to recover his balance completely and to be able to get back into a real process that feels yeasty and good. Walking the path is not a difficult thing, it is more a matter of its being a journey for the one who is ready for a long trek. In most paths available in third density there is a beginning, a middle, and an end. There is the learning process, there is the point in the middle in which you are working very hard, and you are becoming better, and that culminates with a job well done, a degree of education earned, a promotion at work, and so forth. In the spiritual path, death is only the beginning.
There are no endings, there are many, many beginnings, and there is no end of the middle. You are always in the middle of the spiritual path. Perhaps the greatest gift is to know that you know nothing, and that you will indeed fall into many a pitfall and yet it will not take you off the path. You cannot get lost beyond finding and if you do need to rest, even there at the side of the road you have company. As to the distractions that are possible on the spiritual path, there is no end of distraction. But this is true only if you are of the mind to see things as either spiritual or worldly. If you make a demarcation between those two parts of Earthly existence, everything that is not specifically dedicated study will be seen as, in some way, a distraction.
However, we would suggest to you that all things that a spiritually-oriented entity does are spiritual. Going to the bathroom, doing the dishes, taking out the garbage, feeding the cat: these commonplace and everyday chores are necessary and cannot be construed to have any obvious spiritual characteristics. And yet this instrument, for example, finds ways to invest each of those activities with an awareness that is spiritual in its character. What part of your day do you honestly feel is a distraction and only that? What thing that you do can you say has no spiritual value? If you can identify some of those items that can be seen as distractions, perhaps you could sit down and contemplate whether there is a way you might invest these chores with the sacred character that comes from service, from love, and from an awareness of who the self is in the spiritual sense. In our opinion, there is no true distraction to an entity whose heart is set upon the Creator because each and every action available to an entity for choice has the potential for being seen in a spiritual light.
One aspect of the spiritual path that we would mention before we would open the meeting to questions would be the simple aspect of silence versus sound, emptiness versus content, for those upon the spiritual path within your culture are coming to that path from a culture very rich in content. It is interesting to note that, within all of this content, critics of the culture often comment on the emptiness of that content, the illusion that it creates and the illusory nature of the image-after-image-after-image that creates the content, whether the medium of such images in the television, the radio, the newspaper or the computer. A very great portion of the world has cultural influences that lead it more to the appreciation of silence, which seems to lack content, and yet which contains infinite meaning. In your content-rich culture, meaning itself is often lost. Consequently, if you are of the nature that appreciates content, we suggest that you choose your content, for truly, there are many pitfalls, if you would speak of it in that way, for those who are attempting to derive meaning from the surface aspects of your culture, as seen on the television or read in the newspaper. Do not fall into the pitfall of assigning too much meaning to those things that are on the surface. Allow meaning to be a mystery and silence to be your teacher.
Now Q’uo said that Carla is typical of many upon the spiritual path in that she has a hunger for devotion and a sense of being driven to be an agent of the Creator, and it is good to have that back-pressure, but it is not good to allow that pressure to cause us to become anxious, so we should allow that back-pressure to continue to motivate us, but if it motivates us beyond the point where we are patient and have a sense of humor concerning our path, then we have entered into that particular pitfall of hurriedness. Then Q’uo said what that will do to us if we allow it to drive us to try more disciplines like meditation, then add another one, and then make that one longer so that the end of such pressured seeking is that we burn out as a seeker and must sit by the side of our spiritual path for a while, and it can take years for us to recover our balance and to be able to get back into a process that feels right for us so that walking the path is not a difficult thing, but it is more a matter of its being a journey for us when we are ready for a long trek, and in most paths in third density there is a beginning, a middle, and an end, and it is there that our learning process ends with a job well done, and on the spiritual path death is only the beginning. Q’uo went on to say that there are no endings; there are many beginnings; and there is no end of the middles so that we are always in the middle of the spiritual path, and the greatest gift is to know that we know nothing, and that we will fall into difficulties, but they will not take us off the path because we cannot get lost beyond finding, and if we do need to rest, then we have company at the side of our path, and there is no end of distractions on our spiritual path, but this is true only if we are of the mind to see things as either spiritual or worldly, so if we can see a difference between these two parts of our Earthly existence, everything that is not seen as spiritual we will see as a distraction. Q’uo suggested that all things that a spiritually-oriented entity does are spiritual, and these everyday chores are necessary and cannot be seen to have any obvious spiritual characteristics, and Carla finds ways to invest each of those activities with an awareness that is spiritual in its character, so if we can identify some of those items that can be seen as distractions, perhaps we could contemplate whether there is a way we might invest these chores with the sacred character that comes from service, from love, and from an awareness of who we are in the spiritual sense because in Q’uo’s opinion, there is no true distraction for us if our heart is set upon the Creator because each and every action available to an entity for choice has the potential for being seen in a spiritual light. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that one aspect of the spiritual path would be the aspect of silence versus sound or emptiness versus content, for those upon the spiritual path within our culture are coming to that path from a culture rich in content, and it is interesting to note that critics of the culture often comment on the emptiness of that content and the illusory nature of the image-after-image that creates the content, whether the medium of such images is television, radio, newspaper, or the computer, and a great portion of the world has cultural influences that lead it to the appreciation of silence, which seems to lack content, and yet which contains infinite meaning, but in our content-rich culture meaning is often lost so that if we appreciate content, that we choose our content, for there are many pitfalls if we are attempting to find meaning on the surface aspects of our culture as seen on television, or read in the newspaper, so we should not make the mistake of assigning too much meaning to those things that are on the surface, and allow meaning to be a mystery and silence to be our teacher. On March 11, 1990, Q’uo spoke of the value of finding meaning in our lives:
Yet, in that faith there is begotten aid that is of meaning to each entity separately. See each of yourselves as hunters in this analogy, and you will see more clearly that while those eyes which saw clearer than yours detected you, while all was in harmony with you, there was a protection against that which you call evil which has flown from you in the face of planet-wide transformation. This transformation has already begun.
What is it to be alive? What is it to be conscious? What is it to attempt to find meaning of that instinctual hunt which each of you engage in? Are not each of you searching for the center that did not hold, that did not stay, that in and of itself, because of humankind’s uncleverness, removed the easiness with which faith and simplicity were achieved? Without the feeling of being protected, without the feeling of a living faith, vital and alive, one feels prey, not to the positive, but to the negative, for we may note that within the biases of your minds it is far easier to conceive of negativity as having power than of positivity as having power, for that is the way the illusion seems to work, and this cannot be gainsaid by the most idealistic of entities.
The nature of the illusion is to challenge your ideals to the very bedrock of your existence. The nature of this illusion is to attempt to deaden the living spirit within, to give that spirit a solid picture of the creation which is not as you would choose it to be, so that you discover the possibility of choice. And as the time grows further and further into that which has so often been called the New Age, the newer vibrations, though subtle, disturb those without a living and vital faith.
We thank you for this question and feel that we perhaps have spoken long enough upon it. At this time we would open the meeting to further questions, if there are any. Is there a further query at this time?
G: Q’uo, I have a lengthy one and I apologize for its length but, hopefully, its answer should be simple. And it’s easier to read straight from the paper.
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Q’uo, as I move forward in my path, I am experiencing a phenomenon that can be described as the light growing lighter and the dark growing darker. I feel I am experiencing the extremes of what can conveniently be described as a spectrum of feeling. On one hand, I feel strength, vitality, and the spiritual perception increase in moments where, basically, all the spiritual literature that points to the truth not only makes sense to me but becomes alive, a living and flowing reality. And subsequently I feel more empowered through self-knowledge to call upon and invoke the higher forces to transform the lower self of me.
On the other hand, I feel ever more acutely the shadow side of myself: one with seemingly more venomous reactions to situations that create a souring and bittering within me. What I don’t know is whether a shadow is growing more strongly in me as I reach for the light because I am neglecting to be conscious of certain aspects of my patterns or whether it is a case of simply becoming more aware of a shadow that is already within me and has been with me, alive and functioning without my conscious awareness to transform its ways. Can you help me to understand whether it is awareness of what is already there or the further creation of distorted thinking within my mind?
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. The concept of the shadow self is very helpful in attempting to walk into your own shoes as a being. It is difficult to wrap oneself around this idea of a shadow self. Perhaps if we called it a full-circle self it might be easier to see the construction of the being here, because each of us, we and you, are beings that replicate all aspects of the creation and the Creator. By the time that you have reached third density you have done a tremendous amount of amalgamation of experience. You have been elemental, you have been plant, you have been animal; now you are an animal with a conscience, basically, and you strive to go further. And we have become even more refined by experience, yet we carry the full -circle self, just as do you.
What is there in creation? Whatever you see, that’s you. Any murderer on the block is you. Any thief on the dock is you. Any hero who has just saved the world is you. You are the soldier, you are the bread-winner, you are the mother bearing a child, you are everything. And you don’t get to choose whether you have good in you or bad in you, so-called. You have it all. The strictures and disciplines of the parent for the child attempt to train the child up so that he will behave well ,and you have learned to behave well. Loving good, seeking the light, you have more and more been able to place yourself in situations and in environments where you were able to live in the sunny side of self, enjoying service and learning and devotion. And these things about you and about all entities are true. However, equally true is that self that does not get encouragement from virtue.
You still have that; you will always have that. It is part of the strength of who you are that you have that. You would not be able to be a full person and to move forward without the full-circle self. Nothing is left behind as you evolve. It becomes arranged in a more and more helpful way as you learn to balance yourself, chakra by chakra, issue by issue, and moment by moment. You are always in flux, so these moments where you become aware of that so-called evil part of yourself come and go. And it is sometimes quite disconcerting to become aware of particularly articulate and eloquent, angry or irritated thoughts. You feel yourself thinking a hateful thought which isn’t fair at all and certainly would never be said aloud and you wonder where that came from and if the evil within you is somehow growing. We assure you it is not growing. It was always there. It chose this particular moment to reveal itself and this is a gift to you of self to self. Take it seriously, look at it carefully, and see, if you can, where the trigger lay that brought forward this particular part of yourself.
G’s question concerned: I am experiencing a phenomenon that can be described as the light growing lighter and the dark growing darker. I feel I am experiencing the extremes of what can conveniently be described as a spectrum of feeling, becoming more aware of a shadow that is already within me and has been with me, alive and functioning without my conscious awareness to transform its ways. Can you help me to understand whether it is awareness of what is already there or the further creation of distorted thinking within my mind? Q’uo began their reply by saying that the concept of the shadow self is very helpful in attempting to walk in our own shoes as a being, and it is difficult for us to understand the idea of a shadow self, but if Q’uo called it a full-circle self it might be easier to see the construction of our being because each of us is a being that replicates all aspects of the creation and the Creator, and by the time we have reached third density we have done a tremendous amount of collecting experience because we have been elemental, plant, and animal, and now we are an animal with a conscience, and we seek to go further, and Q’uo has become even more refined by experience, yet they carry the full-circle self just as we do. Q’uo went on to ask what is there in creation, and they said: “Whatever you see, that’s you. Any murderer on the block is you. Any thief on the dock is you. Any hero who has just saved the world is you. You are the soldier, you are the bread-winner, you are the mother bearing a child, you are everything.” They said that we don’t get to choose whether we have good in us or bad in us because we have it all, and the disciplines of the parent for the child attempt to train the child so that he will behave well, and we have learned to behave well in loving and seeking the light, and we have been able to place ourself in situations where we were able to live in the sunny side of ourself, enjoying service, and learning, and devotion, and these things about us and all entities are true, but equally true is that we do not get encouragement from virtue. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that we still have that, and we will always have that because it is part of the strength of who we are, but we would not be able to be a full person and to move forward without the full-circle of ourself, but nothing is left behind as we evolve because it becomes arranged in a more helpful way as we learn to balance ourself, issue by issue, and moment by moment so that we are always in flux, and these moments where we become aware of that so-called evil part of ourself comes and goes, but Q’uo assured us it is not growing because it chose this moment to reveal itself, and this is a gift to us from ourself, so we should it seriously, and see if we can see where the trigger was that brought out this part of ourself. On March 10, 1996, Q’uo defined what our shadow self is:
Each entity walks upon two legs. When the spirit finds its legs, one is the light, one is the dark. Together they make one holograph which is identical to the infinite Creator. The shadow self is to be related to, then, as one of the two legs which cause the spirit to stand within the illusion in which each finds itself. One relates to the shadow self as to the musculature, the connective tissue, the power and the strength which enable the spiritual seeker to stand fast through times of difficulty and woe. The shadow that seems so heavy and dark is also that which grounds and sustains and makes secure. The will is part of the shadow self. This will animates, informs and vivifies those ideals, hopes and dreams which the light portion of being so loves to dream. The shadow side is that which persists until all has been accomplished.
May we answer you further, my brother?
G: No, thank you, Q’uo. That was excellent.
Q’uo: We thank you, my brother. Is there a further query at this time?
S: I’ve had a question that I’ve been thinking about for some time. If I wanted to recover all the knowledge and wisdom of all the lifetimes that I had, how would I do that?
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. You are asking this query within third-density incarnation, and our shortest answer would be to say that you would be able to recover that information…
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…immediately following your crossing of the gateway of death. Once through that gateway, reunited with full consciousness and full communication with your higher self, you would have the unimpaired memory of all that you have been and, indeed, all that you would be in the future. Within third density, it is not considered a helpful thing to have that full range of information available. It is considered, as you know, much more helpful for a discreet curtain to be drawn over all previous experiences so that you may hit the particular incarnation in which you are involved running, and give it the serious consideration that it deserves, all on its own.
The ways of penetrating the veil of forgetting are limited within incarnation. There is the dreaming process and those who work with dreams are often able to recover memory of past lives as they gradually find themselves in dream landscapes which constitute a different environment that begins to have a reality of its own. The most common way that entities are able to recover past life information is the contacting of the deep mind by the conscious mind which is done in sessions of regressive hypnosis in which, with the help of a hypnotist, the self is taken back before birth to previous lives, and questions are asked which enable the person to recover some of those memories.
May we answer you further, my brother?
S: That gives me plenty to think about. I have nothing else at this time. Thanks.
Q’uo: We thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?
T: Q’uo, I don’t know whether you are able to respond to this question. The image that I’ve received upon waking this morning, is that a symbol of my need for purification and cleansing?
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. We find ourselves up against the full stop of free will in this matter, my brother, and are not able to offer information except to encourage you to follow the line of thought upon which you have been moving because we feel that you are in a place which has a great deal of material and we encourage you to explore it.
May we answer you further?
T: No, thank you, Q’uo. I understand.
Q’uo: We appreciate your understanding, my brother. Sometimes we are able to offer little real information and we apologize for that.
Is there a final query at this time?
G: Q’uo. I have another one. Just a few paragraphs long this time. I’m sorry, I just need context for my questions.
[Reading]
For years now I’ve been experiencing moments and time periods of a fuzziness of perception which slightly blurs the boundaries between dream and reality. As I’ve heard many others speak of this same experience, it feels as if the solidity of what was formerly a well-defined reality dissolves and all of a sudden everything in waking consciousness feels literally like a dream. There have been a few incidents of late in which I was seriously not sure if I actually said or did something in the “real world,” or whether that same memory was the property of a nightly dream. Is this type of fuzziness the result of the incoming fourth-density energies and the resultant change in consciousness that they bring? Or perhaps, as was cautioned against in the Law of One series, these are symptoms of an over-hasty polarization and the twilight state that accompanies such an impatient drive for progress?
We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. We cannot give you one single answer, yes or no, because, as we gaze into your pattern, we would say that perhaps two-thirds of those experiences are an artifact of your personality type. You, in common with this instrument, have a certain absent-minded quality that can create this feeling without there being any resonance or meaning to the happenstance. It simply is a time when you are scattered. There are other times, my brother, when there has been a significant shift in your perceptive web because of the intensity of your devotion. In the first instance, two-thirds of the experience, that is, there is no meaning involved, it is simply an artifact of personality. In the remainder of the cases there is great material that is there, and it can usefully be mined. So, we would suggest that you look for the kind of peculiar resonance that does attend such a shift in consciousness due to devotion.
The third possibility, which you suggested, was that you were experiencing basically a mistake, that you had rushed too much and so forth. And we would ease your mind in that regard, for it is not in either case an artifact of rushing or of trying too hard. Rather, it is a matter of the way that your particular personality has shaped up and the way it handles experiences that it cannot quite encompass with rational thought.
G: Cool beans! Thank you, Q’uo.
Q’uo: We thank you, my brother. You truly are a cool bean. This instrument is asking us why in the world we offered that bit of inanity, and we do apologize to the instrument and to everyone else.
[Laughter]
And on that note we will leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It has been such a pleasure to be with you and to share your vibrations. Thank you for asking us. We are those of Q’uo. We leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai vasu.
This morning I had an appointment at my dentist’s office where I had my teeth cleaned by a dental assistant.
This afternoon I transplanted another cart full of moss from my pet cemetery into my Moss Garden, and then I put some plywood along the newly planted moss along Little Locust Creek and then put large stones on top of the plywood because torrential rains are forecast for tonight and tomorrow, and I don’t want my newly transplanted moss to be washed away by the rain collecting in Little Locust Creek which is the low point in my back yard.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
March 14
The Power Of Choice
I am of the principle of the consciousness of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of divine Love.
Gaze at time. Gaze at the time that you have to spend within your next day. Gaze at the “talents,” the riches, of hours and minutes that you hold now at the beginning of the day in your cupped palm. Gaze at hours to fill and spend in any way which delights your soul, your mind, and your heart and know the power of choice.
Gaze now at those things not held in the hand, those things held by others’ hands and hearts, those things quite out of one’s control. In spending the minted money of God’s time, it is known by the buyer what is intended to be bought in terms of energy expended upon relationships and towards cooperation in work and planning, but it is not known how it shall be received.
Know that your spending plan of time shall not be judged in respect of those things which could not be controlled by the self. Rather, the spending of your precious time shall be adjudged according to the intentions for service.
Know, then, that the riches and consolation of time in the Holy Spirit of the living Christ may, together, move forward with each precious minute and hour so that one spends it in such a way as to magnify time and the wisdom and consolation of grace. May you see the plenitude of your power in Christ! And may you spend wisely, this day and every day.
We leave you in the grace which alone may contemplate true peace and selfless service, 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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