I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from October 27, 2007:

The question this evening, Q’uo, has to do with the indigo and violet rays. The instrument is about to embark upon writing a chapter in her Law of One 101 book  concerning the indigo and violet rays. From the Ra contact we have a good deal of information that describes the various qualities of these rays, and the instrument would like to ask you if there are any basic concepts or spiritual principles in relation to these indigo and violet rays about which you could speak that would give her additional insight into these rays as she writes about them.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you this day. Thank you for calling us to join your circle of seeking. It is our pleasure and our privilege to do so. As always, we would ask that you employ your discrimination as you listen to our thoughts. Some of them will hit the mark, and some of them will go far astray from what you need personally. Savor and use those that hit the mark, my friends, and let the rest go. In this way we can be assured of not having an undue influence on you but only being in conversation with equals.

You ask this day about the indigo and the violet rays or energy centers of the energy body. Indeed, this is a very deep, almost bottomless, subject, and we are happy to share our thoughts on this subject. This instrument is in the process of looking for the keys to these two energy centers in that she wishes to retain the detailed discussion of these higher energy centers for another volume of this series that is being written. Therefore, there is the desire to move to the heart of the higher rays and in particular the indigo and the violet rays in the present volume.

Thevery heart of the function of these two rays has to do with who entities in third density are when they have been able to penetrate the surface of their lives and to move into the essence of their beings. You could consider yourself as a focal point or an interface in this regard. You have a physical body and a physical mind which ground you, more or less, into the world of the physical, third-density, consensus reality that you enjoy and in which you have your experiences and do your learning. Within you also is the one infinite Creator. In every cell of your body, in every vibration of your thoughts lives the one infinite Creator.

Yet, in terms of process, there is that sensation of needing to move from the outer world through the doorway into the inner world. Basically, you as entities are a living doorway, a living gate, an interface so that the one infinite Creator, in a far less distorted form than you can appreciate with your senses, can move in power into your life. Those known as Ra have described this function as being the gateway to intelligent infinity. In order to approach this gateway, much work has already been done. For it is impossible to enter the gateway of indigo ray until the entity has gathered the entirety and the wholeness of its integrated self into the heart and has done the work of forgiving and falling in love with this integrated self, with its many perceived faults. Therefore, we speak of those seekers who have achieved—either by gifts of the spirit or by a process of work in consciousness and the disciplining of the personality—the ability to yearn for and desire that essence of the one infinite Creator that can be pulled through that gateway and into the energy body which is interpenetrating the physical body, thereby bringing infinity and eternity into a finite environment.

The question for this session is: “the instrument would like to ask you if there are any basic concepts or spiritual principles in relation to these indigo and violet rays about which you could speak that would give her additional insight into these rays as she writes about them.” Q’uo began by saying we ask about the indigo and the violet ray energy centers of the energy body, and this is a deep subject, and they are happy to share their thoughts on this subject because Carla is in the process of looking for the keys to these two energy centers, and she wishes to retain the detailed discussion of these higher energy centers for another volume of this series that is being written, so there is her desire to move to the heart of the higher rays and in particular the indigo and the violet rays in the present volume.  Q’uo continued by saying the heart of the function of these two rays has to do with who we are in third density when we have been able to penetrate the surface of our lives and move into the essence of our beings, so we could consider our self as a focal point in this regard because we have a body and a mind which ground us into the world of the third-density consensus reality that we enjoy and in which we have our experiences and do our learning, and within us is the one infinite Creator in every cell of our body and every vibration of our thoughts. Q’uo went on to say in terms of process, there is the need to move from the outer world through the doorway into the inner world because we are a living doorway so the one infinite Creator, in a less distorted form than we can appreciate with our senses, can move in power into our life, and Ra described this function as being the gateway to intelligent infinity, and in order to approach this gateway, much work has already been done, for it is impossible to enter the gateway of indigo ray until we have gathered the entirety of our integrated self into the heart and have done the work of forgiving and falling in love with our self, with our faults, and Q’uo spoke of those seekers who have achieved—either by gifts of the spirit or by work in consciousness and the disciplining of the personality—the ability to desire that essence of the one infinite Creator that can be pulled through that gateway and into our energy body which is interpenetrating the physical body, thereby bringing infinity into a finite environment. On August 22, 1982, Latwii described the process of the disciplining of the personality:

It is possible for such an entity, through long practice of the disciplining of the personality, to gain what you call the control over these aspects of its deeper mind. This type of study is usually reserved for those who seek quite intensively upon the path of the evolution of mind, body, and spirit. Entities with such a determination and strength of will can indeed find such as would be required for this entity to obtain the control of its many randomly generated personalities.

Themodel of this activity is that of what is known in the Buddhist world as kundalini. You have the infinite Love and Light of the one Creator streaming through the chakra system from the bottom up, feeding it with an infinite supply of Light. This is the power and the energy with which you work in getting to know yourself, becoming friends with yourself, and working with all of the various aspects of physical life on Earth as you know it. In itself, it is a powerful and infinite energy. And yet, as the seeker begins to mature, he begins to have a yearning and a thirst for the immediate impact of divine Light. Therefore, as the seeker becomes more aware of the true nature of his desire, he begins to be able to focus that desire and to set an intention to ask for the highest and best. As the seeker does this on a continuing and intensifying basis, that gateway to intelligent infinity becomes clear. As that intensification persists, the gateway opens, and the Light of inspiration comes through to bless and fructify the fallow and waiting soul.

In the end you might see this expressing as a completed circuit. The bodily energy, having to do with incarnation and carefully enclosed within incarnation, is as the field that is planted and seeded and sown with this fructifying information-ridden Love everlasting that, unlike the energy that streams from the bottom of the energy body upwards, has pointed and articulated information in the silence of that inspiration. The energy coming through from the bottom of the chakras up is that energy which is yours to manipulate or distort, shall we say, in the ways that you find helpful, useful, and beautiful. The divine inspiration that you call through the gateway of intelligent infinity is as a massive information-rich fountain that permeates you at the point at which your desire to seek has matched your intention to seek from above, as it were.

There is in this process a kind of self-abnegation. There is the realization that the mind does not have enough words; the heart does not have enough tears; and the being that expresses on the conscious level does not have the capacity, in and of itself, to understand what it is getting through the gateway of intelligent infinity. Consequently, this work is done in a state of unknowing. That state of unknowing is usually achieved within your density only by a process of self-acceptance that can be lengthy. Self, as it expresses in waking consciousness, simply needs to be put to bed or moved away so that the self is empty and waiting. This is exquisitely difficult for most intelligent people to do. They have that unspoken assumption that their minds and their insights are going to be adequate to processing the information that comes through the gateway of intelligent infinity. However, this is not so. What comes forth from this hidden or non-verbal exchange of information is a shadow of the information itself. And yet, the process of making that connection through the gateway of intelligent infinity is akin to splitting the atom, so that even a shadow of that light illumines magnificently the inner landscape of the one who makes that connection.

Then Q’uo said the model of this activity is that known in the Buddhist world as kundalini, and we have the infinite Love and Light of the one Creator streaming through our chakra system from the bottom up, feeding it with an infinite supply of Light, and this is the energy with which we work in getting to know our self, and working with all of the aspects of physical life on Earth is in itself it is an infinite energy, but as the seeker begins to mature, we begin to have a yearning for the impact of divine Light, so as we become more aware of the true nature of our desire, we begin to be able to focus that desire and to set an intention to ask for the highest and best, so as we do this on an intensifying basis that gateway to intelligent infinity becomes clear, and as that intensification persists, the gateway opens, and the Light of inspiration comes through to bless and fructify our waiting soul. Q’uo went on to say in the end we might see this expressing as a completed circuit so that the bodily energy, having to do with our incarnation and carefully enclosed within our incarnation, is as the field that is seeded, and with this energy of Love everlasting that–unlike the energy that streams from the bottom of the energy body upwards–has articulated information in the silence of that inspiration, and the energy coming through from the bottom of the chakras up is that energy which is ours to manipulate in the ways that we find useful and beautiful, so the divine inspiration that we call through the gateway of intelligent infinity is as a massive information-rich fountain that permeates us at the point at which our desire to seek has matched our intention to seek from above. Now Q’uo said that  there is in this process a kind of rejecting of our self because we realize that our mind does not have enough words; our heart does not have enough tears; and our being that expresses on the conscious level does not have the capacity to understand what it is getting through the gateway of intelligent infinity, so this work is done in a state of unknowing which is usually achieved within our density by a process of self-acceptance that can be lengthy, so as our self expresses in waking consciousness, it needs to be moved away so that our self is empty, and this is difficult for most people to do because they have that unspoken assumption that their minds and their insights are going to be adequate to processing the information that comes through the gateway of intelligent infinity, but this is not so since what comes from this hidden exchange of information is a shadow of the information itself, yet the process of making that connection through the gateway of intelligent infinity is akin to splitting the atom, so that even a shadow of that Light illumines our inner landscape when we make that connection. On January 30, 2010, Q’uo described the gateway of intelligent infinity:

For others, bound in suffering, wracked by doubts, caught in the world of ten thousand things, there is an emptiness of self. The chalice is already ready to receive. And for such entities it is precious indeed to open the self in passive prayer. Some would call it mediation, and indeed the Buddhists would call it vipassana meditation. In this allowing of the self to be nothing and to float as the candle flame floats above the candle, self is revealed just as the candle reveals itself in the flame. It is an indigo-ray use of the gateway of intelligent infinity to ask for the self to be revealed to the self, for the self to feel its own radiance. And that flame comes down into the passive tallow of self and kindles the flame of truth so that the self becomes a chalice, holding the flame of Love. And gently, sweetly, that flame melts away the suffering and the difficulty and frees the caught soul that it may fly free into the Love of the open heart, into the Love of the Logos.

As you sit in meditation, visualize with us your energy body, with its rainbow of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The indigo and violet rays are at the brow and the crown of the head, the very tip of your physicality. Allow the Light and theLove of the one infinite Creator to flow through the bottoms of your feet, the base of your spine, and up your spine. Feel that energy kissing and moving through each chakra. Feel it pouring out the top of your head in a fountain of colored light. That is, light which is colored by your working with each of the chakra energies to bring them into your own unique balance. You can see that there is a circular spray, shall we say, of radiated light that moves from the top of your head in all directions.

Now, allow yourself to feel the essence of your desire. What do you desire? Those ready to work with the gateway to intelligent infinity will be saying something like, “I desire to seek the truth. I desire firsthand experience of the One. I seek to know in order to serve,” and sentiments of that basic nature which ask nothing for the self except to rest with the Beloved at last and practice the presence of the one infinite Creator. As you find that desire, my friends, begin to feel the energy within your third eye vibrate. Feel it come alive. Oh, sacred desire! It is vital to be passionate in your seeking. Then, imagine that contact, that moment when that desire is fructified by the inspiration which is focused only for you and adequate in every detail for all that you could ever wish to know or use in order to serve.

See your radiation begin to have weight. You are now not simply radiating out into a void, shall we say, or the area around your head. You have become a fountain. As the inspiration flows into that portion of your energy body it then bursts forth again, but with a weight, so that it is more like water than light in its behavior. It begins streaming in a beautiful circular, symmetrical fountain and coming back under you to catch up again with the energy of the earth, that Love and Light that comes into the body from the base of the chakras. You sit in the middle of a torus, shall we say, of created light that is your interface with all that there is. This is the essence of the indigo and the violet rays. Beyond all the techniques of the discipline of the personality, beyond any detail, skill, or technique, there is this one overriding essence of connection between energies that are different in a profound way, energies that, when put together, create of you a true and powerful lighthouse.

Now Q’uo said as we sit in meditation, visualize the energy body, with its rainbow of colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, and the indigo and violet rays are at the brow and the crown of the head, the very tip of our physicality, and allow the Light and the Love of the one infinite Creator to flow through the bottoms of our feet, the base of our spine, and up our spine, and feel that energy moving through each chakra, and feel it pouring out the top of our head in a fountain of colored Light, so that is Light which is colored by our working with each of the chakra energies to bring them into our unique balance, and we can see that there is a circular spray of radiated Light that moves from the top of our head in all directions. Q’uo went on to say that we should allow our self to feel the essence of our desire, and what do we desire? Then Q’uo said if we are ready to work with the gateway to intelligent infinity, we will be saying something like, “I desire to seek the truth. I desire firsthand experience of the One. I seek to know in order to serve,” and sentiments of that nature which ask nothing for the self except to rest with the Beloved at last and practice the presence of the one infinite Creator, and as we find that desire we can begin to feel the sacred energy within our third eye vibrate because it is vital to be passionate in our seeking, and then imagine that moment when that desire is fructified by the inspiration which is focused only for us and adequate for all that we could ever wish to know or use in order to serve. Q’uo continued by saying we can see our radiation begin to have weight since we are now not radiating out into the area around our head because we have become a fountain, and as the inspiration flows into that portion of our energy body it bursts forth again with a weight, so that it is more like water than light in its behavior, so it begins streaming in a beautiful circular fountain and comes back under us to catch up again with the energy of the Earth, that Love and Light that comes into our body from the base of the chakras, so we sit in the middle of a circle of created Light that is our interface with all that there is, and this is the essence of the indigo and the violet rays, and beyond all the techniques of the discipline of the personality there is this one overriding essence of connection between energies that are different in a profound way, energies that, when put together, create of us a true and powerful lighthouse. On May 20, 2005, Q’uo described how we all can become a powerful lighthouse:

When you observe a crystal or a gem, you are content simply to gaze upon its beauty. You can see the way the facets of the gem catch the Light, and you can see the beauty radiating from those points of Light and from the true colors evident in the gem or the crystal. You do not demand of the crystal that it do something but rather you behold its beauty and it, in its own way, changes you for having beheld it. This is the nature of your own being as well. You have come among the people of Earth to be, to breathe the air, to open your heart, and to gaze with love and compassion upon the world that you see before you in this moment. All that you are is gathered together in your heart and is radiating from you as the light within the lighthouse radiates out into the air, into the atmosphere, to greet all who come near it and enjoy the beauty of its radiance. The one known as Jesus the Christ said that it was a good thing for entities to allow their light to shine before humankind and not to hide it under a shade. Above all, my sister, we would encourage you to do just that: to let your light and your truth shine before all of those with whom you come in contact.

It is wonderful to be in the presence of an entity with an open heart. That glow, that radiation is so enjoyable to be near! One can always feel the presence of a truly loving heart. There is excellence there of the highest degree. Yet the energy of one who is making contact with intelligent infinity is as the wise man to the youth. The one known as Saint Paul said, “Now I see through a glass darkly; then I shall see face to face.” That is the difference. In both cases, may we ask, “Who is the ‘I’ who is radiating?” And you shall say to me, “It is ‘I’ myself. It is the person that I am.” This is the hardest part to perceive. In the case of the opened heart, there is a simple or simplistic degree of selfhood or ego which is an essential part of the radiating form, for it blesses the light that is radiating forth from your heart. It is a very personal thing, although it has great overtones of impersonality as the open heart makes contact with the presence of the infinite One.

Meditation through the gateway of intelligent infinity is impersonal. And so, the great work of indigo ray is to move the self, very gently, out of the way and allow only the essence of desire to express the selfhood of the seeker. We note from the query that the instrument has chosen to speak of these two energy centers together. And while we feel that there are obvious distinctions between the two in form and in function, we would agree with the instrument that this is a sound approach, for the two work so closely together, in terms of the function of penetrating the gateway to intelligent infinity, that it is not necessary to divide the study. Naturally, it is important, in terms of making a report of what this instrument calls Confederation principles and thought, to distinguish betwixt the two, for there is tremendous movement in indigo ray possible, whereas in violet ray there is a fixed nature to that energy. Yet, as the two work together, they function as that connection to all that there is which can make of a seemingly human entity a magical, powerful, impersonal servant of the Light.

This may be seen also to have its reflections in sexuality, and we would suggest that it is helpful to discuss sacred sexuality as being a part of the function of these two energy centers. The physical body is a wonderful instrument. We realize that it is a very delicate piece of machinery that is often distorted in various ways and in need of repair. And yet at the same time your bodies are wonderfully adequate to feel the most intense emotions and to sing the most heartfelt melodies of emotion. In the world of social intercourse, entities use words to connect with each other. And words always are inadequate to convey wholeness, because of their very nature. The body, on the other hand, in sexual intercourse, can communicate without words. It can make connections that can be felt or even seen by some entities as circuitry that is connected with the joining of the mated pair.  

Q’uo went on to say it is wonderful to be in the presence of an entity with an open heart because that glow is so enjoyable to be near, and we can always feel the presence of a loving heart since there is excellence there of the highest degree, yet the energy of one who is making contact with intelligent infinity is as the wise man to the youth, and that is the difference, and in both cases, may we ask: “Who is the ‘I’ who is radiating?” And you shall say to me, “It is ‘I’ myself. It is the person that I am.” Then Q’uo said this is the hardest part to perceive since in the case of the opened heart there is a simple degree of selfhood which is an essential part of the radiating form, for it blesses the Light that is radiating forth from our heart, and it is a personal thing, although it has overtones of impersonality as the open heart makes contact with the presence of the infinite One. Q’uo continued by saying meditation through the gateway of intelligent infinity is impersonal, so the work of indigo ray is to move our self, very gently, out of the way and allow the essence of our desire to express our selfhood, and Q’uo noted from the query that Carla has chosen to speak of these two energy centers together, and while they feel that there are distinctions between the two in form and in function, they would agree with Carla that this is a sound approach, for the two work closely together, in terms of the function of penetrating the gateway to intelligent infinity, but it is important, in terms of making a report of what Carla calls Confederation principles and thought, to distinguish between the two, for there is tremendous movement in indigo ray possible, whereas in violet ray there is a fixed nature to that energy but as the two work together, they function as that connection to all that there is which can make of a human entity a magical and impersonal servant of the Light. Now Q’uo said this may be seen also to have its reflections in sexuality, and they suggested that it is helpful to discuss sacred sexuality as being a part of the function of these two energy centers because our physical body is a wonderful instrument, and they realized that it is a delicate piece of machinery that is often in need of repair, yet at the same time our bodies are adequate to feel the intense emotions and to sing the most heartfelt melodies of emotion, and in the world of social intercourse, we use words to connect with each other even though words are inadequate to convey wholeness, because of their very nature, but the body in sexual intercourse can communicate without words by making connections that we can feel or even see as circuitry that is connected with the joining of the mated pair. On March 25, 2007, Q’uo spoke of the nature of sacred sexuality:

Consequently, when we speak of true energy exchange, we must consider that the energy between two people has moved a very long way from that beginning red-ray attraction which eventually initiates sexual congress. It has gone from lust to a personal relationship and then often to a legal relationship or a committed relationship which is mated. And then the couple has the opportunity to ask for the Creator Itself to enter the sexual relationship through the open heart.

And so the couple that wishes to express sacred sexuality and to become entities who serve in a certain way in the environment of planet Earth agree together, very consciously, to set forth on a journey together in which they woo each other with true affection and patience, in which they see the Creator in each other, and in which they feel the power of the Creator’s Love and the Creator’s Light. Each mate dedicates itself to loving the other unconditionally. This is green-ray affection, and it is at this point that the female orgasm becomes useful. There are more miles to go indeed in exploring sacred sexuality, but this is where it begins.

When true affection has been established in a sexual relationship, and when that sexuality has been dedicated to the Creator, to each other, and to planet Earth, then the path of progression, for a sexually maturing mated pair, is to spend a good deal of time working with the blue-ray energy of communication. Each entity that is involved in personal relationships and sexual relationships is an oddity, a one-of-a-kind item. That is why entities are so specific about whom they love. They become used to a certain flavor of being that this entity exudes or vibrates. And so, they prefer that entity’s company. Therefore, in communicating with each other, history is shared. The reasons for this quirk and that quirk become available, either because the mate understands herself or himself, or because you observe and become able to understand your mate all on your own. Every piece of intelligence that you have, then, you see, is a kind of piece of power, as this song today was suggesting, “a golden feather, a heart of stone”. What shall you do with this knowledge of each other? Shall you use it kindly, or shall you use it to make points the next time you become upset over a trifle?

When working with sexual energy, it is very important to realize that you are dealing with enormously powerful forces, and therefore, as you become more intimate with your partner, you need to become ever more careful, ever more affectionate, and ever more thoughtful about how you say things as well as what you say. For you have become a powerful person to your mate, and you wish to treat this mate with all the honor and respect that you would give to the Creator Himself or Herself.

And sexuality, of course, goes through all of the chakras from red right straight up through to violet. Each step along the way enhances sexuality. When the heart is penetrated by two entities who are in love not only with each other but with the Creator and Love itself, there begins to be possible an energy exchange that is most helpful to the mated pair as well as to the world around that mated pair. Again, there is the creation of fountains of energy because of that spark, that atom that is being split in the orgasm. When sexuality is a sacred, spiritual activity, that tremendous power is communicated with no words being remotely necessary, but the self becoming that powerhouse that just keeps radiating in fountains of articulated light.

When the mated pair reaches orgasm, regardless of what chakra from which the orgasm is expressing, it is recapitulating the steady state of the creation. It is experiencing the Love of the one infinite Creator in a way which it simply cannot deny. It is a wonderfully focusing thing to approach and go through an orgasm. When the mated pair determines to seek indigo and violet-ray sexuality, it opens a kind of communication with the divine that is otherwise unknown. What a blessing to have a way without words to experience and tabernacle with the one Creator!

We have found that many of your people have so many prejudices against sexuality that it is difficult for them to conceive of a truly sacred sexuality. If there is a desire to make sexuality holy, the tendency is for entities to withhold sexuality from themselves except under certain circumstances, such as deciding to conceive a child. Yet, it is our opinion that the metaphysical nature of sexuality is such that it is one of the most clear-cut and accessible ways to experience the divinity of the self; and yet not the self but the consciousness within the self that you are letting free from all masks and deceptions by the investment of sexuality with your attitude of honor and worship.

Q’uo continued by saying sexuality goes through all of the chakras from red through violet, and each step along the way enhances sexuality, so when the heart is penetrated by two entities who are in love not only with each other but with the Creator and Love itself, there is an energy exchange that is helpful to the mated pair as well as to the world around them, and there is the creation of fountains of energy because of that spark, that atom that is being split in the orgasm, so when sexuality is a sacred, spiritual activity, that power is communicated with no words being necessary, but our self becomes that powerhouse that keeps radiating in fountains of articulated Light. Then Q’uo said when the mated pair reaches orgasm, regardless of what chakra from which the orgasm is expressing, they are experiencing the Love of the one infinite Creator in a way which they cannot deny, and it is a wonderfully focusing thing to go through an orgasm, so when the mated pair determines to seek indigo and violet-ray sexuality, it opens a kind of communication with the Divine that is otherwise unknown, and what a blessing to have a way without words to tabernacle with the one Creator! Q’uo went on to say they have found many of our people have prejudices against sexuality, and that it is difficult for them to conceive of a sacred sexuality, but if there is a desire to make sexuality holy, the tendency is for entities to withhold sexuality from themselves except under certain circumstances, such as deciding to conceive a child, yet it is our opinion that the metaphysical nature of sexuality is such that it is one of the most accessible ways to experience the divinity of the self and the consciousness within the self that you are letting free from all masks and deceptions by the investment of sexuality with your attitude of honor and worship. On February 19, 1989, Hatonn spoke of the value of honor and worship:

Eventually, each spirit decides to seek a love that is greater than the love it has been able to manifest, that it may know it and thus manifest it. This is the true end of all ethical thinking and spiritual seeking. This is the true end of humankind—to learn well enough how to love that death from this illusion rises to life in a far more lovely and more challenging grade of study. You are here to make choices, and you are here specifically to make one central choice—to honor and worship the Creator within you and you within the Creator by serving others, moving towards unity of self with all others, moving toward peace, concern, and passionately held ideals, or controlling others for the good of the self, manipulating those about one and making choices which separate one from the loved ones, from the society.

Asyou deal with the indigo and violet rays, you are dealing more and more with things beyond words; with essences. And that is something for which spiritual seekers hunger. The process of moving into indigo and relishing it while you develop your ability to enjoy it is one of the blessings of a spiritually-oriented life, in our opinion. Those in higher densities also retain sacred sexuality and sacred social intercourse, although not in using the words but in sharing whole concepts with each other and collaborating to form group thoughts. And perhaps what we would leave you with as we leave this subject is the realization that we hope all of you may have: that you have the power to collaborate with the infinite Creator and with each other at this level.

Certainly, sexually speaking, the mated pair collaborates in the most dynamic of all possible ways to practice the Presence of infinite Love. But as you meet people who are doing the same sort of spiritual work as are you, and as you talk about that for which you thirst and hunger, you are creating collaboration through that contact point with intelligent infinity, and you are creating thought forms that then have an independence of existence.

You have spoken in this group about the creation of a new paradigm, and certainly this instrument is very focused on that creation of a new paradigm of living and being. Realize, when you have good conversations going between those of spiritual consanguinity, that you are creating changes in consciousness that will outlive the present moment and even your own lifetime. The opportunity for creating this paradigm is just as we have described for sexuality: conversation which achieves the penetration of the gateway. It is the thought that is focused when an intention is made to seek and to know this new paradigm. And then it is released into the emptiness of outer form so that it may reach the essence that fructifies your waking, everyday consciousness.

Q’uo said as we deal with the indigo and violet rays, we are dealing with essences, and that is something for which spiritual seekers hunger because the process of moving into indigo energies and relishing it while we develop our ability to enjoy it is one of the blessings of a spiritually-oriented life, and those in higher densities also retain sacred sexuality and sacred social intercourse, although not in using the words but in sharing whole concepts with each other and collaborating to form group thoughts so what Q’uo wanted to leave us with as they leave this subject is the realization that they hope all of us have the power to collaborate with the infinite Creator and with each other at this level. Q’uo went on to say, sexually speaking, the mated pair collaborates in the most dynamic of all possible ways to practice the Presence of infinite Love, but as we meet people who are doing the same sort of spiritual work, and as we talk about that for which we thirst, we are creating collaboration through that contact point with intelligent infinity, and we are creating thought forms that have an independence of existence. Q’uo completed their reply by saying we have spoken in this group about the creation of a new paradigm, and Carla is focused on that creation of a new paradigm of living and being, so when we have good conversations going between those of spiritual similarity that we are creating changes in consciousness that will outlive the present moment and even our lifetime, so the opportunity for creating this paradigm is just as Q’uo has described for sexuality: conversation which achieves the penetration of the gateway, and it is the thought that is focused when an intention is made to seek and to know this new paradigm, and then it is released into the emptiness of outer form so that it may reach the essence that fructifies our waking consciousness. On December 19, 2005, Q’uo spoke of the new paradigm:

We ask you who wish to serve at this time to look to your own self-awareness and self-knowledge and to be aware and trust completely in the fact that you are part of a web of Love. Your work has been effective because you have chosen the very difficult path of working in groups. The energy of the group and the energy of groups of such groups is now that which is challenged to undertake what this instrument has called a new paradigm.

What is that new paradigm, you may ask. But it is not for us to answer the question. It is for you. It is certainly not building upon anything that has been seen before, for the old ways have failed. Yet there stirs within the hearts of so many the sure and absolute knowledge that there is a way to create harmony, power, and balance once again at the dusk and the evening of third density. This instrument is fond of saying that she likes to leave a room tidy when she leaves it, as good as it was when she came into it or perhaps even better. That is your work at this time.

You are those who stand as guardians and anchors of Light, holding that bridge open, and, by your vibrations and your thoughts, radiating the Love and the Light of the infinite Creator with your own coloration out into the ambient atmosphere. You are an agent of infection. You are infecting people with the highest and the best of your love. Witness your opportunity to offer your love. You will find, as you attempt to do this, that there is resistance down every path. This is inevitable and ever more inevitable at this fairly radical and extreme point at the end of your cycle that you are now experiencing.

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Carla channeling)

We would say to the instrument that we feel that she will be fully able to discuss the various techniques of these rays, especially the indigo ray. We do not feel that we need to comment further on those details. And thusly, for this particular time, we have offered you what we hope will be helpful at this juncture. Before we leave this instrument we would open the meeting to any questions that might be on the minds of those present. Is there another query at this time?

[Long pause.]

As there are no further queries from this group at this time, we will take our leave of this instrument and this group. It has truly been a pleasure to share our thoughts with you and to be a part of your sacred circle. Thank you for the beauty of your vibrations and the sweetness of your interactions, one with another. What a privilege we feel, my friends, to be a part of this! We leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I ran a couple of errands with my first stop at Paul’ Fruit Market where I bought some petunias, some deer repellant, and some food for myself. Then I stopped in at Walgreen’s Drug Store and bought some Kleenex.

This afternoon I went outside and transplanted one tray of dianthus in one of the small gardens around the Flower Fall Garden in front of my home. Then I transplanted two trays of garden impatiens in one of the gardens on the other side of the Flower Fall Mound. Then I went over to the fishpond and transplanted the petunias into the four containers around the fish pond. Then I watered all of the transplanted flowers with water that had fertilizer in it. Then I sprayed all of the transplanted flowers with deer repellant. Then I pumped out enough water from the fishpond that the fountain was able to flow at its normal height.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 20

The Heritage Of Christ

I am of the principle of the full consciousness of Love.

Once, many years ago, a man you call Jesus walked upon the dry soil of his native land. The reality of an incarnation is such that at times it may blind those who follow such an incarnation of Christhood to the eternal and immutable consciousness of Christ which was carried within that incarnation, but which is available always for those who seek this consciousness.

It is not an illusion or a delusion to seek the consciousness of Christ. Focusing upon the incarnation of Jesus the Christ is a tool and a resource, a blessing and a gift.

However, the very air that you breathe carries the consciousness of Christhood.

Know that you are channels of the consciousness of Christ and, insofar as you may give yourself over entirely to that consciousness, others shall see Christ through you.

For are you not also the sons and daughters of humankind? Do you not also share the heritage which Jesus offered for all? We encourage you to refrain from despair in focusing upon the incarnation of Jesus and contrasting it with your own consciousness.

Peace be with you as you create new life by your consciousness, 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from October 13, 2007:

Jim: Our question tonight, Q’uo, has to do with how we, as seekers, can deal with adversity. Our third-density illusion has the purpose, it seems, of providing us catalyst, and by using this catalyst we hopefully can grow into greater understanding of our place in the universe and of how to be of service. Sometimes, though, the catalyst is either too much, or we feel like we’re getting burned out, or it’s boringly repetitive, and we’re getting tired of doing the work, or for some reason, we just feel discouraged and could use some words of inspiration, something perhaps other than, “Well, remember that you’re all one,” or “Persevere, persevere.” Is there some way that you could recommend that we could look at the concept of catalyst that seems to be a bit much and overwhelming as we deal with it in our daily round of activities?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you this day. It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be called to your circle of seeking, and we thank you for the honor. We are glad to speak to you on the subject of difficult times and attempt to share inspiration with you. But first, as always, we would ask that each of you be discriminating in that which you choose to take away from our conversation, for we are not authorities over you and would not wish to influence you unduly. Please follow the path of resonance in your own thoughts and trust your judgment. If you may do this for us, then we may share our thoughts much more freely, being unhindered by the concern that we may have for infringement upon your free will otherwise. We thank you for this consideration, my friends. It makes us smile that you ask us to offer words of inspiration. The concept is somewhat foreign to us in that our experience of life in every breath is inspirational, if you would call it that. We are in the fortunate position of having no veil that hides from us the infinite inspiration of the moment.

We find in the mind of this instrument the story of the disciples of Jesus the Christ. It is a story told about him and the disciples at a time after he had gone through the crucifixion and had arisen. The disciples had seen him several times before, but it was while they were still in Jerusalem. Now, sad and weary but wanting to go on with the great work which He had left them to do, the disciples decided to travel about and offer the information that Jesus had left with them and also to offer themselves as healers in the name of Jesus the Christ.

They were walking along the dusty road to a town called Emmaus. Part way through the day they were joined by a stranger who joined their conversation. Soon the stranger was offering them thoughts upon the scriptures which they were discussing that seemed most inspiring. It was not until later, when they had stopped for the evening, prepared a fire, and were cooking fish to eat for their supper, that they became aware that this stranger was the risen Lord, Jesus the Christ, among them and speaking with them as if He were still alive, earthly and with them in flesh as well as spirit. To us, this is a perfect example of inspiration in that the inspiration was with them and unrecognized for a considerable length of time. It was only in the relaxation and perhaps the weariness that heralded their evening meal and the end of the day that their rational minds let go and released them from the limitations of logical thought. In that state alone did they finally recognize their beloved teacher and savior.

Inspiration walks with you, just as the one known as Jesus, the Christ, on the road to Emmaus. Like the disciples and the apostles, it is quite common for you not to recognize or in any way be aware of this Companion of your every thought, word and action. The one known as Jesus said also, “I am with you until the end of the age.” The Holy Spirit and tongues of fire leapt upon the disciples’ heads and the message was the same: “I am with you.” “Send forth your Spirit, says the prayer, and I shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.”

The group question for this session was: “Is there some way that you could recommend that we could look at the concept of catalyst that seems to be a bit much and overwhelming as we deal with it in our daily round of activities?” Q’uo began by saying we find in the mind of Carla the story of the disciples of Jesus the Christ, and it is a story told about Him and the disciples at a time after He had gone through the crucifixion and had arisen, and the disciples had seen Him several times before, but it was while they were still in Jerusalem, but now, sad and weary but wanting to go on with the great work which He had left them to do, the disciples decided to travel about and offer the information that Jesus had left with them and also to offer themselves as healers in the name of Jesus the Christ. Q’uo went on to say they were walking along the road to a town called Emmaus, and part way through the day they were joined by a stranger who joined their conversation, and the stranger was offering them thoughts upon the scriptures which they were discussing that seemed inspiring, but it was not until later, when they had stopped for the evening, and were cooking fish to eat for their supper, that they became aware that this stranger was the risen Lord, Jesus the Christ, among them and speaking with them as if He were still alive, earthly, and with them in flesh as well as spirit, and this is an example of inspiration in that was with them and unrecognized for a considerable length of time, and it was only in the relaxation and the weariness that began their evening meal, and the end of the day that their rational minds let go and released them from the limitations of logical thought that it was in that state that they finally recognized their beloved teacher and savior. Now Q’uo said inspiration walks with you, just as Jesus, the Christ, on the road to Emmaus, and like the disciples, it is common for you not to be aware of this Companion of your every thought, word, and action, so Jesus said: “I am with you until the end of the age.” And then the Holy Spirit and tongues of fire leapt upon the disciples’ heads and the message was the same: “I am with you.” “Send forth your Spirit, says the prayer, and I shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.” On April 3, 2005, Q’uo spoke of how the tongues of fire can descend upon us:

How the heart opens, given such an opportunity! And when you have formed the intention of becoming part of a circle of seeking, something happens to the way in which you listen to each other. It is as if, like a shaggy dog, you have shaken yourself off and all of the thoughts and feelings that have been clogging the system have been released. Your energy system clears. Your mind sharpens. And your heart feels at home at last within you. Light begins to gather. It is not Light from without you, it is Light from within you. The power within you, that has been slumbering, awakens, and you minister to each other. Love that is beyond words flows from every fiber of your being as you listen to each other. Even if you cannot say one word, your heart is radiating the infinite Love and Light that lies within you. Tongues of fire, as this instrument would describe the action of Spirit, pour down upon you as your heart goes out, literally, to each other’s spoken and unspoken feelings and thoughts. And within this potentiated space and time, peace descends, that peace which, indeed, passeth all understanding, and power flows, and sparkles, and dances as each cares for each.

Can you move away from this Companion of every moment? No, my friends, you cannot. Physically speaking, you can climb the highest mountain or plunge into the depths of the sea, and your Companion, unconditional Love, shall still be with you. In a metaphysical sense, can any toxic emotion drive away the beloved from your side? No. The beloved presence is with you always in every hour and every moment, day and night, relentlessly, eternally, loving, loving, loving. There is, as the one known as R would say, a glitch, a catch, to this infinite supply of unconditional Love, and that is the veil of forgetting that divides your mind, so that it becomes preoccupied with that which you can see with your senses, hear, feel, taste, and touch. You cannot smell the infinite One as He walks beside you. He is intangible, invisible and usually unheard. Yet unconditional Love is your Companion, has been your Companion, and shall be your Companion.

Love is an inextricable part of your nature. It is your founding father and your nursing mother. It is the child at your knee. Any way that speaks to you personally of perfect companionship, that is the nature of your Companion. You may think of this Companion as Jesus, the Christ. You may think of this Companion, as does this instrument, as the Holy Spirit. You may think of this Companion in a structure which we have given you many times before, which is that of a guidance system. You may think of this Companion as your unseen guru, whose love and affection for you outlasts death, so that even if your teacher is no longer incarnate in flesh, yet still he is the angel on your shoulder and the Companion of every move, every thought, and every word.

How to remember that you are companioned by Love is often a great challenge in this atmosphere of heavily veiled experience. Perhaps the slanting rays of sunshine on a beautiful day may give you that hint that reminds you that you are in full contact with Love. Perhaps the blessed sound of rain when all has been dust, and the rain is needed offers you that chance to recall that you are not alone. But one cannot depend upon a sunny day or a blessed rainfall. Perhaps a beloved face, your mate, your friend, or your teacher reminds you that love walks with you in every step. But you cannot depend upon the presence of a particular person. In some ways the mechanics of helping yourself to remember that you are practicing the presence of the one infinite Creator seems so very mechanical that it does not seem possible that such mechanical actions could possibly have the results for which you hope.

Then Q’uo said physically speaking, we can climb the highest mountain or plunge into the depths of the sea, and our Companion, unconditional Love, shall still be with us, and in a metaphysical sense, the beloved presence is with us always in every moment, day and night, eternally, loving, so there is a catch to this infinite supply of unconditional Love, and that is the veil of forgetting that divides our mind so that it becomes preoccupied with that which we can see with our senses, but we cannot smell the infinite One as He walks beside us, and He is intangible, invisible, and usually unheard, yet unconditional Love is our Companion, has been our Companion, and shall be our Companion. Q’uo continued by saying Love is an inseprable part of our nature, our founding father, our nursing mother, and it is the child at our knee, and any way that speaks to us of companionship is the nature of our Companion, so we may think of this Companion as Jesus the Christ, as the Holy Spirit, or we may think of this Companion in a structure which Q’uo has given us many times before, which is that of a guidance system, or we may think of this Companion as our unseen guru, whose Love for us outlasts death, so that even if our teacher is no longer incarnate in flesh, he is the angel on our shoulder and the Companion of every move, every thought, and every word. Q’uo went on to say how to remember that we are companioned by Love is often a challenge in this atmosphere of veiled experience, but the rays of sunshine on a beautiful day may give us that hint that reminds us that we are in contact with Love, and the sound of rain when all has been dust offers us that chance to recall that we are not alone, but we cannot depend upon a sunny day or a blessed rainfall, so our mate, our friend, or our teacher reminds us that Love walks with us in every step, but we cannot depend upon the presence of a particular person, and in some ways the mechanics of helping our self to remember that we are practicing the presence of the one infinite Creator seems so mechanical that it does not seem possible that such mechanical actions could possibly have the results for which we hope. On January 15, 1995, Hatonn shared the importance of practicing the presence of the Creator:

We do encourage each student to muse often within that sacred tabernacle within, to sit mentally and emotionally down within that holy ground of being, where lies truth and eternal things; to sit with bare attention, knowing that silence which speaks of the mighty presence that is both Creator and creation. For these are moments out of time, out of space, and rather eternal and infinite. These moments of practicing the presence of the Creator may be keyed according to your individual needs and circumstances. This instrument has often used the ringing of the telephone or the sounding of a bell, heard from a neighboring church, to remind the self to turn to offering thanksgiving and praise. This reminder aids and in each life experience there is a structure of habitual use of time, wherein there are predictable moments, which might be best laid aside for a quick visit to eternity. This does not have to be formal or long. Indeed, it can be, if you choose, most frequent.

This instrument is a singer and when she is producing music through her vocal instrument, her thoughts are very often on the mechanics of producing sound and tone. If she speaks the vowel, “e,” you will find her in a broad smile because that lifts that vowel into the facial mask and creates a more pure sound. She has to remember to phrase the tones that she produces so that it is not a mechanical or rote expression of praise, thanksgiving, or prayer that she offers, but rather is musical, with the rising and falling cadences of beautiful speech. Sometimes it seems that an entire performance may go by without this instrument’s experiencing the gestalt that the choir of which she is a part is producing for those who listen. And yet because of these mechanical-seeming techniques, the instrument is able to maximize her contribution to the beauty of the music sung by her choir.

It is in this wise that we encourage you to go through the mechanical rituals which are the resources of those who wish to break through the veil, as the one known as Jim said, to “break on through to the other side.” Friends, you live in two worlds simultaneously. One world is that world in which you become discouraged and feel that your work is in vain. The other world is a world of vibration, color and texture. It is a world of Light without the heavy forms of the physical illusion. You are a citizen of both worlds equally. It often seems that there is a choice to make as to whether to live in one world or the other—the world of form or the world of vibration and light. It is our humble opinion, however, that it is not necessary to choose. What is needed by the spiritual seeker who wishes to access the joy, the aliveness, and the unconditional Love of the world of Light is a dedication to the techniques involved in unifying those two worlds.

The seeker begins by realizing that there is another world, a world far more beautiful, real, and profound than the everyday world of form. That is the time of awakening, and it brings to the seeker a hunger and a thirst for Light and Love. The seeker wants to find out just how to live in that world. So, the seeker begins to meditate or to contemplate. And this is an excellent thing. At the same time, it creates within the conscious and rational mind a sense of separation between the person that you are when you are not meditating and the person that you are when you are meditating. It is often the work of many years of moving into the silence and the meditation and coming back out of it into the everyday world before the seeker becomes aware in a moment that the everyday world is permeated and imbued with the Companion. Everyday things are saturated with the Love of the Beloved. There is no nook or cranny within your mind, or your emotions, and your fears that is not drenched and marinated in Love. 

Now Q’uo said Carla is a singer, and when she is producing music through her vocal instrument, her thoughts are often on the mechanics of producing tones, so if she speaks the vowel, “e,” you will find her in a smile because that lifts that vowel into the facial mask and creates a pure sound, and she has to remember to phrase the tones that she produces so that it is not a mechanical expression of praise, thanksgiving, or prayer that she offers, but it is musical with the rising and falling rhythms of speech, and sometimes it seems that an entire performance may go by without her experiencing the gestalt that the choir of which she is a part is producing for those who listen, and because of these mechanical-seeming techniques, she is able to maximize her contribution to the beauty of the music sung by her choir. Q’uo encouraged us to go through the mechanical rituals which are the resources of those who wish to break through the veil since we live in two worlds simultaneously, and one world is that world in which we become discouraged and feel that our work is in vain, and the other world is a world of vibration, and a world of Light without the heavy forms of the physical illusion, and we are a citizen of both worlds equally, so it often seems that there is a choice to make as to whether to live the world of form or the world of vibration and light, and Q’uo said in their opinion it is not necessary to choose because what is needed by the spiritual seeker who wishes to access the joy and the unconditional Love of the world of Light is a dedication to the techniques involved in unifying those two worlds. Q’uo continued by saying the seeker begins by realizing that there is another world more beautiful and profound than the everyday world of form, and that is the time of awakening, and it brings us a hunger for Light and Love, and we want to find out how to live in that world, so we begin to meditate or contemplate, and this is an excellent thing because it creates within our conscious mind a sense of separation between the person that we are when we are not meditating and the person that we are when we are meditating, and it is often the work of many years of moving into the meditation and coming back out of it into the everyday world before we become aware in a moment that the everyday world is imbued with the Companion, and everyday things are saturated with the Love of the Beloved, so there is no nook or cranny within our mind, or our emotions, and our fears that is not marinated in Love. On February 18, 1987, Q’uo spoke of the value of meditation:

The intention of the meditation we find to be the most important quality that one may bring to the meditative state. To intend to meditate and to offer the self as a receptive instrument to the instreamings of Love and Light that are possible to perceive in a meditative state and to do this upon a regular basis we find to be most helpful, indeed. It is also helpful to find a time of the day which may be utilized, a regular time and a place which is used for this purpose, and to use the place for the purpose of meditation and for no other purpose is also a manner in which a place may be invested with intentions and a practice of meditation. To choose a time which is full of the quietness is helpful as well, and it is usually recommended that the spine be kept vertical so that the instreamings of Love and Light, or the prana, as it may be called, may find an easy entry into the energy centers, or chakras, as you may call them.

With these general parameters in mind, one may then adapt one’s own desires and inclinations in a manner which feels comfortable to the instrument or to the one meditating so that the meditative state may allow the entity to be nourished in the most efficacious manner possible.

This is so in an unalterable and irresistible way because at the heart of every cell of your body is the one infinite Creator, and that Creator has a nature. That nature is Love. When your heart beats, it beats Love. When you breath in, you breath in Love. When you breathe out, you breathe out Love. I have spoken to you many times about the discipline of the personality. It is this discipline of which we speak now again, for the only barrier between your rational and conscious mind that so limits you and creates for you the deadliness of sameness and ennui is the rational mind’s basic assumption that that which it beholds is the sum of that which there is. There are as many ways to help trigger your remembrance of the Beloved that walks beside you and holds your hand and comforts you as there are entities who seek the one infinite Creator.

Wecannot create for you the perfect mnemonic. Each person’s memory will be jogged by a different mnemonic. Recently we suggested to the one known as R that he wear a bracelet with the word “remember” etched upon it so that each time in his work as a technical expert that he looked down upon his hands on the computer he would see that word and remember who he is, and why he has brought himself to this particular moment at this particular time. This instrument was speaking in the round-robin discussion that precedes the seeking through meditation of this particular group about loving everything that she does, and we would comment upon that, for the statement that this instrument made, though she is not aware of it, is not a statement that is literally true. There are many things that she does within her day which she does not, with her rational and conscious mind, love. Indeed, she must encourage herself and even goad herself into taking care of many of the details of her day.

Yet her statement was true insofar as it was her honest and sincere experience. Yet this is not because of the work. Friends, it is never because of work that you find your joy. It is because you have accessed or remembered that you walk with a beloved Companion whose name is unconditional Love. It is because you have remembered who you truly are and why you chose to be here now. We would offer each seeker the assurance that, no matter how dreary life may seem at this particular time, everything in your life is moving just as it should. For you are receiving those experiences which you carefully planned before your incarnation began. No matter how dark or seemingly difficult the moment, it comes with gifts in its hands. The writer of Ecclesiastics said long ago that there is nothing new under the sun. Did this wise entity write those words out of despair? We do not believe so. We believe that this entity wrote those words to pierce the veil. If nothing under the sun is new, then even that which is new to you at one particular time will inevitably be repeated and repeated.

Q’uo went on to say this is so in an unalterable way because at the heart of every cell of our body is the one infinite Creator that has the nature of Love, and when our heart beats, it beats Love, and when we breathe in, we breath in Love, and when we breathe out, we breathe out Love, so Q’uo said they have spoken to us about the discipline of the personality, for the only barrier between our rational and conscious mind that limits us and creates the deadliness of sameness and fatigue is our rational mind’s basic assumption that that which it beholds is the sum of that which there is, but there are as many ways to help trigger our remembrance of the Beloved that walks beside us and comforts us as there are entities who seek the one infinite Creator. Then Q’uo said they cannot create for us the perfect aid for our memory because each person’s memory will be jogged by a different aid, and they suggested that R wear a bracelet with the word “remember” etched upon it so that each time in his work as a technical expert that he looked down upon his hands on the computer he would see that word and remember who he is, and why he has brought himself to this particular moment at this particular time, and when Carla was speaking in the round-robin discussion that precedes the meditation of this particular group about loving everything that she does, Q’uo said this is not a statement that is literally true because there are many things that she does within her day which she does not love,  so she must encourage herself to take care of many of the details of her day. Q’uo continued by saying her statement was true insofar as it was her honest experience, yet this is not because of her work because it is never because of work that we find our joy, but it is because we have accessed that we walk with a beloved Companion whose name is unconditional Love, and it is because we have remembered who we are and why we chose to be here now, and no matter how dreary life may seem at this time, everything in our life is moving just as it should, for we are receiving those experiences which we planned before our incarnation, so no matter how dark the moment, it comes with gifts in its hands, and the writer of Ecclesiastics said that there is nothing new under the sun, and he wrote those words to pierce the veil since if nothing under the sun is new, then even that which is new to us at one time will be repeated. On September 25, 2010, Q’uo spoke of the value of piercing the veil:

The challenge, you see, of third density is moving from chaos into mystery; from the scrabbling to know, to own, to have, to be, into the relaxation of allowing yourself to be who you are; to move beyond the surface of life.

You, my friends are deep-sea divers. You are not satisfied to skitter across the ocean of life like a dragonfly. You dive deep, and you seek the highest and best truth you can find. And eventually you pierce the veil of otherness and begin to feel the threads of the commonality about which the one known as F was speaking, that lie behind the shapes of judgment.

This unity is for all of you. And yet it does not keep you from being an individual. Every choice you have made in every incarnation goes into the personality you chose for this incarnation.

Were you to leave the type of work that you do in order to receive the money that pays your bills, as this instrument would say, and were you to find something that is exciting and new to you, within a matter of days or weeks, months at the very most, your new occupation would seem repetitive and wearisome, and you would think fondly of the possibility of lifting away from these responsibilities and of, as the one known as R said, having just two days in which nothing whatsoever was related to that which this entity does in order to earn his daily bread.

One cannot change things around in the world of form and thereby come into one’s joy. One cannot change one’s circumstances and thereby arrive at a sense of peace and contentment. In seeking otherness, one ultimately finds that every gift one has opened becomes old; every wine, once tasted, becomes stale; every luxury, once repeated sufficiently, pales to nothing. In the world of form there is no escape from weariness and ennui, and this, the writer of Ecclesiastes knew. When you seek for inspiration, do not seek far, for the inspiration is walking beside you. It is filling your heart. It is the air breathing in and the air breathing out of your lungs. It is the pounding of your blood. It is the rustling of every dry leaf and the song of every bird.

Itis not because all is one that these voices speak to you. It is because you are a larger self than you can possibly be aware until you ask for that awareness to become open to you. There in your workplace is that which speaks to you of the Companion. Would it interest you to know that in every key of the computer there is a spirit sitting upon it, laughing and sharing with you the joy of being used, of serving, and of being a part of that dance which you and your computer keys are doing? Would it make a difference if you could see the angel that is sitting on the edge of your wastebasket or resting, literally, upon your shoulder or placing its head upon your knee, so happy is it to be in your presence?

We speak to you of consciousness that has so many facets and so many levels that there is nothing that is not inspirited. Who lives your life? Who sees through your eyes? Who hears through your ears? Who is it that is you? The request for inspiration when looking at mundane things comes down to the heart of who you are. Perhaps mechanics are involved in allowing consciousness itself to live your life instead of your personality shell. Yet, my friends, those seemingly mechanical actions and rituals of remembrance and recall yield fruit as you begin to be aware that you truly are practicing the presence of the one infinite Creator in every mood, in every situation, in every moment. There is glory all around you and within you. Open to it, and let joy become your experience.

Q’uo continued by saying if we were to leave the work that we do in order to receive the money that pays our bills, and were we to find something that is exciting and new, within a matter of time our new occupation would seem repetitive, and we would think of the possibility of leaving these responsibilities and of having just two days in which nothing whatsoever was related to earn our daily bread. Then Q’uo said we cannot change things around in the world of form and come into our joy or arrive at a sense of peace, and in seeking otherness, we find that every gift we have opened becomes old, and every luxury, once repeated, pales to nothing because in the world of form there is no escape from weariness, and when we seek for inspiration–do not seek far–for the inspiration is walking beside us, filling our heart, and it is the air breathing in and the air breathing out of our lungs, and it is the rustling of every dry leaf and the song of every bird. Q’uo went on to say it is not because all is one that these voices speak to us, but it is because we are a larger self than we can possibly be aware of until we ask for that awareness to become open to us, so there in our workplace is that which speaks to us of the Companion, and in every key of the computer there is a spirit sitting upon it, laughing and sharing with us the joy of serving, and of being a part of that dance which we and our computer keys are doing, and there is an angel sitting on the edge of our wastebasket or resting upon our shoulder because it is happy to be in our presence. Then Q’uo said that they speak to us of consciousness that has so many levels that there is nothing that is not inspirited, and we ask: “Who lives our life? Who sees through our eyes? Who hears through our ears? Who is it that we are?” Now Q’uo said the request for inspiration when looking at mundane things comes down to the heart of who we are, and perhaps mechanics are involved in allowing consciousness to live our life instead of our personality shell, but those mechanical rituals of remembrance yield fruit as we begin to be aware that we are practicing the presence of the one infinite Creator in every mood, in every situation, in every moment, and there is glory all around us and within us, so we can open to it, and let joy become our experience. On February 6, 2006, Q’uo described the nature of our personality shell:

When we use the phrase, personality shell, the attempt to measure the personality is not present in our use of that word. To us, the term, personality shell, is indicative of a loose collection of items that have been selected from the 360 degrees of your infinite or eternal soul or spirit. You have experienced many things through many incarnations. You have gained in life experiences and in the long list of deeds well-done and those deeds which upon reflection after incarnation you have decided to revisit in future incarnations. These make up the whole of what we have before called that suitcase full of gifts and limitations which you have chosen as your garments, shall we say, for the dressing of your personality in this incarnation.

We are aware that a good deal of the angst which entities feel occurs when they are in a position of working at work that seems to them to be of no great service to others. Then this question truly intrudes and becomes almost an obsession, because there is that enormous desire to serve others. That desire is also spiked and pushed by one’s own observation of others who seem to be of more service than you, because of having been born with or having developed more gifts of the spirit, more ways to serve. Yet if your work here upon your sphere of Earth was intended to have to do with outer gifts, then you should have received them. If you do not perceive within yourself the outer gifts that are so obvious in musicians and poets, then your gift here, your purpose here, your mission at this time, is not to sing, or to write, but to be.

That which shall assist you most in cleansing yourself of that feeling of sameness is the ability to release the mind. Certainly, many among your people have done this by artificial means. Perhaps they drink an intoxicating beverage. Perhaps they ingest the smoke of some mind-altering substance, or they ingest food that creates an alternate reality. We are not suggesting outer substances as a solution for one who chafes under the sameness of the work-a-day world. We are suggesting that that very work-a-day world is full of angels and spirits and guidance and the Beloved.

It is the peculiar nature of those who live with that veil of forgetting that the very last thing that is thought of is faith. Faith is your stoutest ally in becoming re-inspired. Faith is the spiritual breath of life. And sometimes you need resuscitation, spiritually speaking. The great and fortunate thing about faith as a tool and a resource for the seeker is that you do not have to do it well. You do not have to “believe,” as it were. You have only to claim it and say, “I have faith,” and suddenly your eyes open and you can see that the comrade beside you on the road to Emmaus is none other than love itself.

Q’uo continued by saying they are aware that a good deal of the angst which we feel occurs when we are in a position of working at work that seems to us to be not of service to others, and then this question becomes an obsession because there is that desire to serve others, and that desire is pushed by our observation of others who seem to be of more service than we are because of having been born with more ways to serve, yet if our work here upon our Earth was intended to have to do with outer gifts, then we should have received them, but if we do not perceive within our self the outer gifts that are so in musicians and poets, then our purpose here is not to sing, or to write, but to be. Q’uo went on to say that which shall assist us in cleansing our self of that feeling of sameness is the ability to release our mind, and many among our people have done this by artificial means of drinking an intoxicating beverage, or they ingest food that creates an alternate reality, but Q’uo was not suggesting outer substances as a solution for one who chafes under the sameness of the work-a-day world, but they are suggesting that that very work-a-day world is full of angels and the Beloved. Q’uo completed their reply by saying it is the peculiar nature of those who live with that veil of forgetting that the last thing that is thought of is faith because faith is the spiritual breath of life, and sometimes we need resuscitation, spiritually speaking, so the great thing about faith as a resource for the seeker is that we do not have to do it well, and we have only to claim it and say, “I have faith,” and suddenly our eyes open, and we can see that the comrade beside us on the road to Emmaus is none other than Love itself. On September 10, 2000, Q’uo described the nature of faith:

The trust of which you speak in relation to faith is not only in one’s feelings but the feeling that despite that which one sees and experiences that one knows that all is well, that one knows that all will be well, that what is occurring at any moment is appropriate and may be learned from in an effective manner which enhances the evolutionary journey. Each entity along this journey will have those times of doubt, of trial, of confusion, of feeling lost, of feeling alone. All of these and many more experiences are those which test one’s character, which offer one kind of lesson or another. There are as many kinds of learning as there are entities to learn. However, in each experience and for each entity, if one can uncover that feeling of faith within and let it be the north star, the Polaris of the self, then one may move without fear and accept whatever is the daily round of activities as they come to one. For an entity that is filled with faith, there is no challenge too great. For any entity without faith, all challenges feel too great. Faith is that which one develops by wishing to develop faith. If one feels faith is lacking in the life pattern, begin to investigate the qualities of faith, the nature of faith, and begin to act as though you have faith, and faith will come to you. Moreover, faith will come through you, for faith is like love. It is a basic quality of this and all creations. If one can begin to exercise the quality of faith it is much like your physical muscle. It will grow in strength and ability.

We are those of Q’uo, and thank you for this query, my brother. May we ask if there is a follow-up to this query at this time?

Jim: Not for me.

We are those of Q’uo, and would then ask if there is another query that we may answer at this time. We are those of Q’uo.

[Pause]

We are those of Q’uo, and are again with this instrument. We grasp that we have exhausted the queries in this circle of seeking at this time. We would say a word or two before we leave you, for we do perceive that there is that hunger and that thirst within this circle this evening. There is a yearning too deep for words to break through to a bright and joyful land where the beauty of life creates meaning all its own.

We would that we could share with you on a steady-state basis our perception of life itself as a miraculous and utterly incandescently beautiful thing, a treasure, precious and rare. We cannot. We can say the words and always we can share with you our Love. And you have but to ask for us mentally and we shall be with you, surrounding you and bathing you in our Love. Yet that which comes from the outside, as it were, is never the answer to a spiritual seeker. It is when that which blossoms in the heart then blooms up through all the senses and out into the world that you behold with new eyes.

Remember to relax and release your conscious, rational, fact-driven mind whenever you feel depressed and discouraged by the sameness and the repetitiveness of everyday life. Within the folds of that repetition lie infinite in newness and infinite, sharp pleasure. Open, allow, and it shall come. For it is within you, waiting for you to release the strictures of your rational mind.

This instrument was told by a friend who was a missionary that they were working terribly hard at a hospital which they had founded in a very backward and primitive area. There literally were not hours enough in a day to do that which they felt desperately needed to be done. Each evening they would fall onto their cots exhausted and wondering how they could arise the next morning and do it again. One of them, this instrument’s friend, got the idea to arise even earlier and spend the time in prayer. It was this entity’s testimony that this decision completely renewed and revitalized their lives. Suddenly the sun shown brighter, the rain smelled sweeter, the hours flew more gracefully and graciously, and everything felt different. Yet they were doing precisely the same things and meeting the same difficult challenges that they had been meeting before.

The difference was time set aside within an intense desire to see deeper; to see with the eyes of the heart; to experience as the beloved Companion experiences. We commend to you whatever you may do that will help you to combine the worlds of form and spirit, so that you are never without a keen and present awareness of the power of Love. We leave you in that Love and that Light. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I pumped half of the water out of the fishpond, and while the water was pumping out I fertilized the water lilies and trimmed off the daffodil stalks on all side of the fishpond and put them in a garbage can. While the water was refilling I decided to use my big mower, Venus, and mow the grass between the fishpond and the pet cemetery. After the fishpond was full of water I added AquaSafe to neutralize the chlorine in the water. Then I made a trip over to the Providence Care Home in southern Indiana to visit Connie. I read her the eulogy that I wrote for Carla’s funeral, and then I showed her some pictures of the flowers and bushes in my yard that are in bloom or which I have recently planted. We finished our visit with a meditation.

This afternoon I went to Thieneman’s Nursery and bought two flats of garden impatiens, two flats of dianthus, and one flat of snapdragons. I got the snap dragons and one flat of dianthus transplanted next to the Flower Fall Mound. Then I watered all of the plants with water that contained fertilizer, and then I sprayed all of them with deer repellant.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 19

Be Still And Adore

I am of the consciousness of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in that full consciousness of Love.

Be still!

Be still, each soul which seeks within and without for that stranger that you would identify as mystery.

Be still, each portal of sense and every shadow of pleasure and pain.

Be still! Let all come to rest, to kneel and adore. Let the self become a zero; a heavenly nothing. For only in the zero lies the infinity which then may fill the infinite space within which has been opened to the infinity without.

It is not by striving but by still surrender that the pilgrim of Earth shall know the place where he has been all the time.

We leave you in peace, now and always. 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from October 6, 2007:

Jim: The question this week comes from our beginning discussion of Stonehenge and its original purpose, thinking that it has something to do with seasons. We were thinking about the seasons of the seeker. Are there seasons in seeking? Most people start out very much on fire and very excited about seeking and read a lot, and meditate a lot, and do all kinds of things, and then it kind of reduces in intensity, and the seeking becomes more of a normal kind of thing, a day-by-day thing. So, we referred back to the sessions with Ra where Don’s question was:

It seems to me that the primary thing of importance for those on the service-to-others path is the development of an attitude which I can only describe as a vibration. This attitude would be developed through meditation, ritual, and the developing appreciation for the creation or Creator which results in a state of mind that can only be expressed by me as an increase in vibration or oneness with all. Could you expand and correct that statement?

And then Ra said:

We shall not correct this statement but shall expand upon it by suggesting that to those qualities you may add the living day by day and moment by moment, for the true adept lives more and more as it is.

And in the following session, Don said:

You made the statement in a previous session that the true adept lives more and more as it is. Will you explain and expand more upon that statement?

And Ra said:

Each entity is the Creator. The entity, as it becomes more and more conscious of itself, gradually comes to the turning point at which it determines to seek either in service to others or in service to self. The seeker becomes the adept when it has balanced with minimal adequacy the energy centers red, orange, yellow, and blue with the addition of the green for the positive, thus moving into indigo work.

The adept then begins to do less of the preliminary or outer work, having to do with function, and begins to affect the inner work which has to do with being. As the adept becomes a more and more consciously crystallized entity it gradually manifests more and more of that which it always has been since before time; that is, the one infinite Creator.

So, we would like Q’uo to talk to us about these seasons or cycles of seeking and what we can expect as we continue to seek.

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you this day. We thank you for creating this circle of seeking and for asking for us to join you and to offer our humble thoughts. As always, my friends, we would ask that you employ your discrimination in listening to what we have to say, and if a thought that we offer does not resonate to you, please leave it behind. In this way we can feel comfortable in knowing that we are not infringing upon your free will or interfering with the process of your evolution of mind, body, and spirit. We thank you for this consideration.

Wewould start our discussion with observing the affection of the cat that is in the instrument’s lap at this time and purring loudly because it appreciates the energies of the meditation. Indeed, as the one known as Jim reads from the words of the entity known as Ra, there is a vibration or an essence that is more and more, for the maturing spiritual seeker, the identity of that seeker. That vibration is who he is, and many things affect that vibratory rate from moment to moment, from day to day and from season to season. The seasons of your planet are more than simply those shifting zones of temperature, humidity, and weather. They represent the flow of constant repositioning of the forces that impinge upon your planet from the stars near and far, from the moon, and from your sun especially. Let us look at these seasonal cycles first.

Theculture of those who dwell in cities and who have heated homes in the winter, and cooled homes in the summer, and who work in air conditioned offices for a living can easily disregard the passage of the seasons. They do not affect him overmuch. He is protected by the civilization and the comforts of that civilization. Yet the body, both the physical body and the energy body being components of that energy system, is preternaturally aware on a subconscious level, far from the conscious mind, of these shifting seasons and these shifting arrangements of energy that are impinging upon him and upon his body as the seasons roll around from fall to winter, from winter to spring, from spring to summer and from summer to fall.

The equinoxes, one of which you have experienced recently—that is, the fall equinox—offer to you a time of balance. They are the year’s equivalent of twilight and dawning, that time when one set of nature spirits and weather spirits, shall we say, are going to sleep and another set are waking up. It is a very magical time. Therefore, it is a good idea to cooperate with the fall equinox and the spring equinox by noting its passing and allowing the self some extra time to rest and reflect upon that which has passed since spring, and then in the spring to reflect upon that which has passed during the long night of winter. You are a voyager upon a journey that is affected by that “weather of the spheres,” shall we say, that your heavenly bodies, your stars and star systems, your planets and especially your moon offer you. The equinoxes are times to reflect on those. And another good opportunity at equinox is to welcome the energies that are coming in. It is helpful to recognize and greet the incoming energies.

So, we would like Q’uo to talk to us about these seasons or cycles of seeking and what we can expect as we continue to seek. Q’uo began by saying they would start their discussion by observing the affection of the cat that is in the instrument’s lap at this time and purring loudly because it appreciates the energies of the meditation, and as Jim reads from the words of Ra, there is an essence that is more the identity of that spiritual seeker, and that vibration is who we are, and many things affect that vibratory rate from moment to moment, from day to day, and from season to season, and the seasons of our planet are more than shifting zones of temperature, humidity, and weather because they represent the flow of constant repositioning of the forces that impinge upon our planet from the stars near and far, from the moon, and from our sun especially, so let us look at these seasonal cycles first. Then Q’uo said the culture of those who dwell in cities and have heated homes in the winter, and cooled homes in the summer, and who work in air conditioned offices for a living can disregard the passage of the seasons because they do not affect us much since we are protected by the comforts of that civilization, yet both our physical body and our energy body being components of that energy system, are aware on a subconscious level of these shifting seasons that are impinging upon us and upon our body as the seasons roll around from fall to winter, from winter to spring, from spring to summer, and from summer to fall. Q’uo continued by saying the equinoxes offer to us a time of balance since they are the year’s equivalent of twilight and dawning, that time when one set of nature spirits and weather spirits are going to sleep and another set is waking up, and it is a magical time, so it is a good idea to cooperate with the fall equinox and the spring equinox by noting their passing and allowing our self time to reflect upon that which has passed since spring, and then in the spring to reflect upon that which has passed during the long night of winter since we are a voyager upon a journey that is affected by that “weather of the spheres,” that our heavenly bodies, our star systems, our planets, and our moon offer us, so the equinoxes are times to reflect on those, and another good opportunity at equinox is to welcome the energies that are coming in. On November 17, 1991, Q’uo speaks of the nature of the heavenly bodies in the study of astrology:

Astrology offers one way of learning more about the deeper mind, or what we have called the archetypical mind. It is a complex and detail-driven technology, if you will, the system of ephemeral, mathematical constructs having to do with configurations of heavenly bodies. To the student who wishes to probe more deeply within the self, to become more and more familiar with those uncharted regions of the self represented by the marker in consciousness which you could call sub-awareness, there is this sub-awareness that the deeper studies at this crux may be those which have fruitful results. On this level, let us say, the awareness of specific and personal detail is not that which we speak of at this time, but rather the archetypical mind finds explication by the relationships of heavenly bodies to each other and to this planetary sphere upon which you presently enjoy incarnation. At this level much deep awareness can be encouraged by immersion in that complex set of relationships of star to star, and star to the system of star and planets which you call home.

Theapproach of winter brings outer evidence of an altered environment, cold temperatures, precipitation being snow and sleet instead of rain. There is less and less light as one enters into the depths of this long winter’s night. And these energies are to be welcomed. It is a good time to take stock as a spiritual seeker of what the daylight has brought through the warm months, to give thanks for those lessons and to settle and seat them in the deep mind, appreciated, honored, and respected. The summer solstice and the winter solstice, on the other hand, are times of power, times of epiphany and insight. At winter equinox one is resting at the very nadir of light. The hours of darkness have completed their march, and your beloved planet Earth is at its farthest from the sun. This is the time to set the intentions, to move into the caves and the depths of your being. This is the time to ask the darkness to envelop and cover the seeds that are the fruit of your past work and to set your intention to embrace those, fertilizing and fructifying those energies of darkness that are needed to incubate and nurture those seeds of intent.

It is at this winter equinox that that great figure of Light, the one known as Jesus the Christ, enters the world. So, you may behold yourself wrapped in a cradle of darkness and wrapped also in your firm intent to nurture the infant soul within you. It is a time when it is very easy to slip the bonds of life for those that are marginally living as the darkness descends. It becomes easier to let those tenuous bonds that hold one to life go. This is the cause of there being many elderly entities, especially, who choose the winter months to enter the gates of larger life and leave the world of Earth behind. This particular group has had a practice at the winter solstice of setting the bonfire and giving to the dark all of those things that they would wish to be gone from their world—poverty, illness, anger, and war and all of those difficult and intransigent energies of violence and greed. And this is a good practice, we feel. It is good to mark these points within your cycle of the year and cooperate as fully as you can with the special energies of those times.

The spring equinox is also a time of deep reflection, a time when one is saying goodbye to the night and hello to the dawning of a new planetary day, that long day of spring, and summer, and early fall when the energies begin to manifest, bursting forth from the seeds which you have planted in the darkness of winter. In each density of your planet there is that changing of the guard. In the unseen realms this is just as true as in your everyday world. Powers upon powers, spirits upon spirits in the unseen worlds dance their dance and leave at the appointed time, making way for those entities of the new time. And so it is in spring. As the darkness dies, the energies of fertilization and nurturing and deep intent give way to the welcoming of the light and a readiness to be stewards of the energies within oneself which are coming into bloom.

Then Q’uo said the approach of winter brings outer evidence of an altered environment, cold temperatures, precipitation being snow and sleet instead of rain, and there is less light as we enter into the depths of long winter’s nights, and these energies are to be welcomed because it is a time to take stock as a spiritual seeker of what the daylight has brought through the warm months, to give thanks for lessons, and to seat them in our deep mind honored and respected, but the summer solstice and the winter solstice are times of power and epiphany, so at winter equinox we are resting at the least of light, and the hours of darkness have completed their march, and our Earth is at its farthest from the sun, so this is the time to set our intentions, to move into the depths of our being, and this is the time to ask the darkness to cover the seeds that are the fruit of our past work and to set our intention to embrace those fructifying energies of darkness that are needed to nurture those seeds of intent. Q’uo went on to say it is at this winter equinox that the great figure of Light, Jesus the Christ, enters the world, so we may behold our self wrapped in a cradle of darkness in our intent to nurture the infant soul within us, and it is a time when it is easy to slip the bonds of life for those that are marginally living as the darkness descends because it becomes easier to let those bonds that hold us to life go, and this is the cause of there being many elderly entities who choose the winter months to enter the gates of larger life and leave the world of Earth behind, and this group has a practice at the winter solstice of setting the bonfire and giving to the dark all of those things that they would wish to be gone from their world: poverty, illness, anger, and war and all of those difficult energies of violence and greed, and this is a good practice to mark these points within our cycle of the year and cooperate with the special energies of these times. Q’uo continued by saying the spring equinox is a time of reflection, a time when we are saying goodbye to the night and hello to the dawning of a new day, that long day of spring, summer, and early fall when the energies begin to burst forth from the seeds which we have planted in the darkness of winter, and in each density of our planet there is that changing of the guard, and in the unseen realms this is as true as in our everyday world where powers upon powers, spirits upon spirits in the unseen worlds dance their dance and leave at the appointed time, making way for those entities of the new time, and so it is in spring as the darkness dies, the energies of nurturing and intent give way to the welcoming of the Light and a readiness to be stewards of the energies within our self which are coming into bloom. On September 11, 2010, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the unseen worlds:

As this instrument was saying before the meditation, when one is willing to see the self as an instrument that can receive and send out thoughts, one discovers that one can put oneself in progressively focused states in which the focus is not in the physical but in the metaphysical world. The focus upon vibration itself is especially apt to bring one into a state in which one is very vulnerable to vibration.

There are many, many aspects to this study of that which there is to pick up from the physical universe which holds and nests within its atoms, shall we say, the entirety of all the unseen worlds. Therefore, there is an enormous population of those who would wish to communicate with those who are sensitive and can pick up that signal that is coming through. This instrument recalls the one known as Willie Nelson who said that he never had to make up a melody. He would just pick one out of the air because they were singing all the time.

Itis no mistake that Lent occurs in the Christian year at this time of the year, nor is it surprising that many a housekeeper chooses spring to clean house, top to bottom and make everything new and fresh again. For the time of manifestation has begun. Summer’s heat coaxes bloom and fruit from the slumbering earth in all the glory of spring, and summer bursts into being. On an inner level as well, warm weather is the time for realizing the fruits of those growing seeds within you. It is an active time, not as the one R was saying, a “rushing” time, but an active time, a time of intensity and brightness. The entities who aided those of your peoples to create that calendric structure known as Stonehenge collaborated in this effort because of the great magical potential for cooperating with the seasons.

We would recommend for those who would like to blend more and cooperate more skillfully with these seasonal ebbs and flows, that reading be done in the area of natural magic. Sometimes this is called “Wicca.” It is neither a positive nor negative kind of magic. It is not a polarized magic but rather a unified system of awarenesses having to do with what energies ebb and flow, not only at the equinoxes and the solstices but at the halfway point between equinox and solstice and solstice and equinox. And indeed, there are those sensitive entities who have investigated even further refinements, offering suggestions for each of the stations along the planetary year.

Another cycle that can be used by the spiritual seeker is the cycle of the moon. This is subtle work and yet it is well done, for the moon’s influence is as the influence upon the ocean. There are tides within your body that ebb and flow according to the new moon and the full moon. It is skillful at the new moon to plant new ideas, and set certain intentions that you wish to set or to reexamine intentions that you have previously set. At the full of the moon, on the other hand, it is well to rejoice and open and allow those emotions that are within you that are linked to spirit to express themselves, not with a hectic excitement, but with a passionate equanimity. Seasons for a spiritual seeker are not necessarily totally coincidental with the seasons of the year, for there are deep rhythms within a seeker’s life that are expressed throughout an entire incarnation. Each entity will have its own long rhythms of creation, manifestation and rest. Many have written about the various stages of life, seeing the tiny child grow and swell into an entity in its full state of youth and health and vigor, then seeing that entity complete the circle, dwindling down into that second childhood which ends in death.

Now Q’uo said it is no mistake that Lent occurs in the Christian year at this time of the year, nor is it surprising that many housekeepers choose spring to clean house and make everything fresh again, for the time of manifestation has begun, and summer’s heat coaxes bloom and fruit from the sleeping Earth in all the glory of spring, and summer bursts into being, and on an inner level, warm weather is the time for realizing the fruits of growing seeds within us because it is an active time of intensity and brightness, and the entities who aided those of our people to create that structure known as Stonehenge joined in this effort because of the magical potential for cooperating with the seasons. Q’uo went on to say we would recommend for those who would like to blend more skillfully with these seasonal ebbs and flows, that reading be done in the area of natural magic, called “Wicca,” which is neither a positive nor negative kind of magic but a unified system of awarenesses having to do with what energies ebb and flow, not only at the equinoxes and the solstices,  but at the halfway point between equinox and solstice and solstice and equinox, and there are sensitive entities who have investigated even further refinements, offering suggestions for each of the stations along the planetary year. Q’uo continued by saying another cycle that can be used by the spiritual seeker is the cycle of the moon, and  this is subtle work, for the moon’s influence is as the influence upon the ocean, so there are tides within our body that ebb and flow according to the new moon and the full moon, and it is skillful at the new moon to set certain intentions or to reexamine intentions that we have previously set, but at the full moon it is well to rejoice and allow those emotions that are within us that are linked to spirit to express themselves with a passionate equanimity because seasons for a spiritual seeker are not totally coincidental with the seasons of the year, for there are deep rhythms within a seeker’s life that are expressed throughout an incarnation, so each of us will have our rhythms of creation, manifestation, and rest, and many have written about the stages of life, seeing the child grow into an entity in its full state of youth and health and then seeing that entity complete the circle which ends in death of the body. On January 3, 1993, Q’uo described the value of the deep rhythms of our consciousness:

Now, in seeking the Creator we so often assume that, of course, we accept that we are children under the one great original Creator’s care. However, in the day to day experience this seeming unconditional acceptance is refused and ignored by the thoughts of doubting the goodness of a destiny which would so bombard you with difficult situations and emotions. Once you have seen this portion of your attitude come into focus, that is a simple and profound faith in the system of learning lessons in your density. Then you may choose wisely how you may approach the sense impressions which make up the daily experience. If all things are good but often unknown, then it is with eager interest and positive hopes that one would take up every new thing that came forward to the sinecure of attention.

Yet this remains not so, because the nature of one who is cut off from the processes of the deep mind cannot stay consciously at all times in the deep rhythms of existence. The feeling of being lost on the sea of troubles is quite literally cut off from the sea of consciousness in which all that is separate comes into one unified stem or root, and is ultimately lost in the mystery of Godhead. So, persistently you shall, even though affirming the goodness of all experience and affirming the goodness of your lessons, come up again and again against the outrageous, unacceptable, painful experiences which, by subtle or bold means, shake your comfort apart and force you to deal not only with the situation but with your own feelings about that situation.

You see, you can know that all is well and know that everything is for you to learn, but this does not keep the unruly emotions of a deeply sensitive being which has been cut off from the resting place of eternity from feeling many, many painful things, and seemingly having to feel them in the darkness of solitude, whether it be total solitude or simply the deep loneliness of inner solitude. You cannot expect any attitude whatsoever to buffer you from feeling emotions. This, we feel, is where your query was aimed. We hope you can see that all we said before stands as the foundation upon which we can talk about having attitudes.

Within this incarnation’s long cycle, there are sub-cycles wherein various learnings are begun, executed, and completed. At the end of those times there may be seen to be feelings of part of the self slipping away or dying away and another part of the self coming into bloom. This instrument is aware of those who feel that these cycles are in terms of seven years, yet we would say that this is not a strict truth. Rather, it is true that for each entity there are cycles that take many years to complete. And while this cycle is going on, from the inside of the cycle the experience is that this is the self and this shall be the self for all of the life long. Yet indeed this is not so. If you reflect back on various portions of your life you shall see that you have indeed gained so much from previous cycles that you have been transformed by them. We would perhaps call these cycles of learning and growth those which end with the dark night of the soul and then which spring into new life with the revelation and epiphany that the dawning after that dark night brings.

There is another type of cycle that affects the spiritual seeker, and that has to do with the placement of the self within this time of shift. There are repeated convergences of energies that signal and herald degrees of interpenetration of the new age with the old age, the fourth density with the third density. These are very powerful times for spiritual seekers because the incoming fourth-density energy is an energy of transparency to truth. You may have noticed that various aspects of your shadow side have been mirrored to you in these last few years and that this effect is continuing and intensifying. We can only encourage you to cooperate with these intense waves of energy as they sweep through your energy body and your awareness. These are magical times for those who wish to craft for themselves an ever more solid awareness of who they are.

Q’uo continued by saying within this incarnation’s cycle, there are sub-cycles where learnings are begun and completed, and at the end of those times there may be seen to be feelings of part of our self dying away and another part of our self coming into bloom, and Carla is aware of those who feel that these cycles are in terms of seven years, but Q’uo said this is not a strict truth, but it is true that for each of us there are cycles that take years to complete, so while this cycle is going on, from the inside of the cycle, the experience is that this is our self for all of the life long, yet this is not so, and if we reflect on various portions of our life we shall see that we have gained much from previous cycles, and we have been transformed by them, so Q’uo called these cycles of learning and growth those which end with the dark night of the soul, and then which spring into new life with the revelation that the dawning after that dark night brings. Now Q’uo said there is another type of cycle that affects the spiritual seeker, and that has to do with the placement of our self within this time of shift, and there are repeated convergences of energies that signal degrees of blending of the fourth density with the third density, so these are powerful times for spiritual seekers because the incoming fourth-density energy is an energy of transparency to truth, and we may have noticed that various aspects of our shadow side have been mirrored to us in these last few years, and this effect is intensifying, so Q’uo encouraged us to cooperate with these waves of energy as they sweep through our energy body and our awareness because these are magical times for those of us who wish to craft a solid awareness of who we are. On May 25, 2003, Q’uo spoke of the nature of fourth density energy:

Entities shall move into early fourth density no matter what happens to your sphere as the density changes, and they will repair the planet with the planet’s cooperation. Indeed many entities even now are repairing their little bit of the planetary surface by loving and talking to the Earth, by cooperating with what this instrument would call nature deities or divas, by relating to the surroundings of self with the understanding that all things are alive, all things work in rhythm and in harmony, and all things except those sunk in the mire of third-density forgetting not only love each other but know that they are one. In this atmosphere, the possibilities of becoming a powerful, magical person are great, and as the time sharpens the focus right unto the moment of birth of fourth density, there is in effect a fourth-density energy that is now as real upon your sphere as the third-density energy. It shows up within the physical world only by creating anomalous effects in terms of physics’ sub-atomic particles, but it shows up within the inner life of that wonderful multilayered being that each of you is in a much more clear and obvious way, as the interpenetration of the two densities becomes such that it is much easier for nature, or for the forces of coincidence, to work in order to bring things to your attention which you have asked to be brought to your attention. That is why, in the midst of such challenging times, such times of transformation and change, yet still each of you has had the feeling of entities helping along the way, unseen hands giving a boost and angelic guidance coming through unexpected and unusual means.

It may seem that these energies are inimical. Certainly, there is discomfort at times in seeing the shadow side of yourself in a new way and perhaps for the first time. There is, however, no stigma in having a shadow side. There is no embarrassment or shame in finding that your armor of light is not seamless. You may with calmness observe the uncomfortable truths that may face you as you take in these energies of light and truth. We encourage you never to judge yourself but only to love yourself ever more fully as you understand yourself, ever more fully.

We would address that portion of the question that has to do with becoming an entity which is focused in being rather than in doing, in essence rather than in form. Friends, each portion of your physical reality has a form, yet it also has an essence. Every piece of earth, every flower, and every human being is both form and essence. Your outer culture naturally has to do for the most part with form and manifestation. It is not your outer culture’s habit even to investigate the essence that lies within the forms. To the spiritual seeker, forms shall never satisfy. There is always hunger after essence; the essence of yourself, the essence of the creation around you, the essence of who the Creator is. The portion of you that is involved with forms is also involved with those mental and emotional forms or masks that you may call the ego or the personality shell.

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Carla channeling)

There is a great deal that one can do on that surface level to live more skillfully and much more in cooperation with the environment about you. It is to some extent at this level that you will use the seasons. Yet the influence of the seasons moves into essence as well as form, just as you as a creature move into essence as well as form. As you approach spiritual maturity, you begin to release portions of your surface self. You find parts of your personality shell dropping back or even falling away. And in the place of that personality, you will find an awareness that is deep within you, that is impersonal in nature and that partakes more and more of essence. This movement from form to essence, from personality to impersonality, from the thinking mind to consciousness is the meat and drink of spiritual seeking. At the heart of each of you there is an identity. You are one with each other, and with all that there is. You share in common the same consciousness that is the Creator’s consciousness. It is imbued with and of the nature of unconditional love.

One of the most powerful experiences for any spiritual seeker is to be able to move through the lower chakras into the open heart and from there into indigo and then violet and then the gateway to intelligent infinity. As the seeker does this, he becomes the Creator. Yet, my friends, we would not say that this is the goal of spiritual seeking. Rather we would say that your aim as a spiritual seeker is to become able to move from form to essence and back to form and back to essence, in an ever more flowing and harmonious manner, neither scorning the surface of things nor becoming overly enamored of the higher states of meditation and awareness. Your goal as a spiritual seeker is to find where your heart truly lies in terms of polarity. Shall you serve the light or shall you serve the darkness? When you have made that choice, then you have the rest of your incarnation before you as an environment in which to practice being that entity which is a servant and becoming ever more comfortable in that polarity, so that gradually, over time, you become truly balanced. The dance moves through many cycles and yet always within you, at the heart, is that point of infinite stillness in which essence is all and love rings out to the farthest reaches of the infinite creation.

Q’uo went on to say it may seem that these energies are difficult, and there is discomfort in seeing the shadow side of our self in a new way, but there is no stigma in having a shadow side or shame in finding that our armor of light is not seamless, so we may observe the uncomfortable truths that may face us as we take in these energies of light and truth, so Q’uo encouraged us never to judge our self but only to love our self as we understand our self more fully. Then Q’uo said they would address that portion of the question that has to do with becoming an entity which is focused on being rather than on doing, and each portion of our physical reality has a form, yet it also has an essence, and every piece of earth, every flower, and every human being is both form and essence since our outer culture has to do with form and manifestation, but it is not our outer culture’s habit to investigate the essence that lies within the forms, and as a spiritual seeker forms shall never satisfy us because there is always our hunger after the essence of our self, the essence of the creation around us, and the essence of who the Creator is, so the portion of us that is involved with forms is also involved with mental and emotional forms that we may call the personality shell. Q’uo continued by saying there is a great deal that we can do on that surface level to live more in cooperation with the environment about us, and it is at this level that we will use the seasons, yet the influence of the seasons moves into essence as well as form, just as we move into essence as well as form, and as we approach spiritual maturity, we begin to release portions of our surface self, so we find parts of our personality shell falling away, and in the place of that personality, we will find an awareness that is deep within us that is impersonal and that partakes more of essence, and this movement from form to essence, and from our thinking mind to our consciousness, is the meat and drink of spiritual seeking because at the heart of each of us there is an identity of being one with each other, and with all that there is, and we share the same consciousness that is the Creator’s consciousness which is nature of unconditional Love. Q’uo completed their reply by saying one of the most powerful experiences for any spiritual seeker is to be able to move through the lower chakras into the open heart and from there into indigo, and then violet, and then the gateway to intelligent infinity, and as we do this we become the Creator, but Q’uo would not say that this is the goal of spiritual seeking, but they would say that our aim as a spiritual seeker is to become able to move from form to essence and back to form and back to essence, in an harmonious manner, neither scorning the surface of things nor becoming overly enamored of the higher states of awareness since our goal as a spiritual seeker is to find where our heart lies in terms of polarity by deciding if we will serve the light or serve the darkness, and when we have made that choice, then we have the rest of our incarnation as an environment in which to practice being a servant and becoming more comfortable in that polarity, so that we become balanced because the dance moves through many cycles, yet always within us is that point of infinite stillness in which essence is all, and love rings out to the farthest reaches of the infinite creation. On September 26, 2009, Q’uo said how we can better serve the light:

However, in another sense, it is almost antithetically the case that temptations are not distractions from the path. Temptations are the path. There is virtue in becoming eager to meet catalyst or to greet temptation because it is in those moments that you are able to do the work of learning that you came to do. It is in those moments of challenge that you are able to declare yourself as an entity of service to others, an entity that wishes to serve the light and that wishes to be an instrument for love and peace. Without the catalyst, without the temptations, those fine moments would not come, and you would not gain a sense of yourself nearly as quickly within incarnation.

Therefore, we encourage each to develop an appetite for catalyst and temptation, not because it is fun to go through the tempering of the personality so that the personality becomes a magical one, but because this is the way in which you, as a seeker, are able to advance and accelerate the pace of your spiritual evolution.

We thank those of this group for creating such an interesting question. It has been our pleasure to contemplate various facets of it, for it indeed is a large question and could be probed from many different angles. Before we ask if there are other questions, we would ask if there is a follow-up to this main question. We are those of Q’uo.

[Inaudible]

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware that this theme has been exhausted for the evening. In that case, my friends, we would ask if there is another query that is upon your mind at this time. We are those of Q’uo.

Questioner: [inaudible]

We are those of Q’uo, and find that this instrument would like us to speak to some extent about communication. Recently this instrument completed a chapter in a book she is writing about the issues of the blue-ray energy center, the throat chakra, which is all about communication. This instrument was surprised to find that it was harder for her to write about communication than about any other portion of the energy body. She decided that it was perhaps because she has always been a natural communicator, and so she went back to the work itself upon which she was giving a report—that is, the Confederation material such as that which is being generated at this session of working—and read and studied the Confederation messages about the blue-ray chakra.

Yet what this sparked in her was an awareness that she had not before had. That awareness was how tenuous and vulnerable open communication is to emotions such as hurt feelings and misunderstandings. Her query was to ask us if we could offer some spiritual principles that would enable her to be more skillful in communicating, especially when there were undercurrents and riptides below the surface of communication. We would acknowledge that many times that communication is layered. There is the voice that is speaking the words that are being used, which represents one level of communication which speaks to the logical and rational mind. Yet also, no matter how skillful the words or how well put the sentiments, there are many unspoken layers to communication which do not yield to the logical and rational mind. This is due to the fact that there are emotions and feelings concerning the words that create layers of either helpful awareness or unhelpful resistance to the words that are being spoken.

Carla wanted Q’uo to speak about communication, so Q’uo said recently Carla completed a chapter in a book she is writing about the issues of the blue-ray energy center which is about communication, and she was surprised to find that it was harder for her to write about communication than about any other portion of the energy body, and she decided that it was because she has always been a natural communicator, so she went back to the work upon which she was giving a report—that is, the Confederation material such as that which is being generated at this session of working—and studied the Confederation messages about the blue-ray chakra. Then Q’uo said what this sparked in her was an awareness that she had not before had which was how vulnerable open communication is to emotions such as hurt feelings, so her query was to ask us if we could offer some spiritual principles that would enable her to be more skillful in communicating, especially when there were confusions below the surface of communication, and Q’uo acknowledged that many times that communication is layered so that there is the voice that is speaking the words that are being used, which represents one level of communication which speaks to the logical and rational mind, but no matter how skillful the words there are many unspoken layers to communication which do not yield to the rational mind, and this is due to the fact that there are emotions concerning the words that create layers of either helpful awareness or unhelpful resistance to the words that are being spoken. On April 17, 2005, Q’uo spoke of the value of open communication:

Once you have faced yourself squarely in the mirror of the other, sitting together in the lap of the Creator, surrounded with arms of Love, tickled by the beard of the Almighty, blessed upon the breast of the Mother, loved at last for all that you are, then at last you are free to begin what is sometimes a lengthy process but a joyful one. And that is the moving on from the open heart to the articulated heart. That is what this entity would describe as the energy of the blue ray or the throat chakra. Once you have begun the process of open communication with another, you find that miraculously that which used to divide you now begins to unite you. You find that the truth which seemed before to beat you down and to make you feel less now blesses, and redeems, and heals, and clears the way for you to be.

We could make a couple of suggestions for those times when one is caught upon a moment where one becomes aware that there are unseen elements to the communication, and yet this has confused and muddled the communicative energies that are moving between those two or three that are communicating. Firstly, it is well to remember that you speak with a great deal more than your voice. Each of you has body language which communicates on a level which is below thought. Yet other entities will receive the communication of your body: how you hold it, whether there is tension in it, whether emotions are within you that are causing your facial muscles to change your appearance. It is well to acknowledge those levels of communication and to honor them and if possible to address them within the self.

Secondly, it is helpful to remember that intent is everything, both in the self as it communicates and in the other self as it responds, or in the other self as it communicates and the self as it responds. The same words can be said with various intentions. Therefore we would say, “Look you to your intention!” Is your intention pure? Is it entirely service-to-others oriented? Does it have any aspect of the desire to control or the attachment to an outcome? These are not aids to open communication.

And lastly, we would remind all of those who attempt to communicate that if you hold words in one hand and love in another, love is heavier. Love is more important. Love is the essence; words are the form. Find the love in your heart, and let your heart fill the form of words with love, affection, compassion and laughter.

Then Q’uo said they could make a couple of suggestions for those times when we are caught upon a moment where we become aware that there are unseen elements to the communication, and this has confused the communicative energies that are moving between those that are communicating, so it is well to remember that we speak with a great deal more than our voice since each of us has body language which communicates on a level which is below thought, yet other entities will receive the communication of our body: how we hold it and whether emotions are within us that are causing our facial muscles to change our appearance, and it is well to honor those levels of communication and to address them within the self. Now Q’uo said it is helpful to remember that intent is everything, both in the self as it communicates and in the other self as it responds, or in the other self as it communicates and the self as it responds, so the same words can be said with various intentions, and Q’uo said:  “Look you to your intention!” Is your intention pure? Is it entirely service-to-others oriented? Does it have any aspect of the desire to control or the attachment to an outcome?” Q’uo said these are not aids to open communication. Q’uo completed their reply by saying they would remind all of those who attempt to communicate that if we hold words in one hand and love in another, love is heavier and more important because it is the essence, and words are the form, so find love in our heart, and let our heart fill the form of words with love and laughter. On November 13, 2010, Q’uo spoke of how love is the essence of our being:

Each time your heart beats and sends the blood through your veins, it beats in Love. Love is the essence of your being at all levels. Love is the health of your body, the strength of your spirit, the deepener of your emotions. Seek to love, and remember to allow yourself to be loved in return. No push, no pull, but a resting, a contemplation of beauty, and a devotion; a thirst, and hunger for the Creator’s presence in your life and, my brother, you will make that habit, and you will feel comfortable inside your skin at last. Ask for help. You know we are there, and you know many others are as well.

As we have exhausted the questions within the group at this time, we would thank each once again for the privilege and pleasure of your company. Your mingled auras create a beautiful space along with all those positive energies within your universe which have been called to be a portion of this sacred space. We thank you so much for being asked to be a part of this moment. We thank you for seeking and we thank you for being you, for you are truly beautiful. We leave you in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I ran some errands with my first stop at Thieneman’s Nursery where I bought another 64 Sun Patiens. My next stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some food for myself. My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I picked up a prescription.

This afternoon I went outside and planted the 64 Sunpatiens in the pool portion of the Flower Fall Mound. This completed the planting of this garden, so then I watered the flowers with water that contained fertilizer. Then I sprayed the flowers with deer repellent.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 18

The Inward House Of Prayer

I am of the principle of the Love of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of that living Love.

If you seek to do the Father’s will this day, be not satisfied with actions which leave a residue within the mind and spirit of anxiety, restlessness and fatigue. For if these things are felt, then mundane concerns have not been sacrificed in order that the spirit may be dead to Earth and made alive to the moving will of the Creator.

If goodly and Godly effort has fatigued you, turn to the inward house of prayer and offer up the self with all of the opinions and requirements of the world in which you live.

And await the refreshment that the Spirit gives to those who pray. For it is the soul refreshed in Spirit which faces all earthly tasks without a sense of labor and all mundane toils without the expectation of fatigue.

Be only satisfied in prayer when the state of mind that is within you is that the world is alive and filled with joy, as the Spirit moves and recreates all that there is to become more and more the image and manifestation of Love.

We leave you in the inward peace which is the hallmark of the consciousness of Love amidst any circumstance. 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from August 7, 2007:

Question from G: Q’uo, within this illusion, even with our most certain of hunches, I feel we are doing guesswork in the darkness. I may be fooling myself, but, based upon my own study, some part of me feels that I am currently knee-deep in that phase, point or portion in the development of mystical consciousness known as The Purgative Way. If this is so, is there anything that I could do to accelerate and successfully complete this stage of the journey so that I can more fully realize that which I desire?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a blessing and privilege to be with you. We thank you for inviting us to join your circle of seeking. It does us a great honor and enables us to perform our humble service, just to share our thoughts. As always, we would request that you be captain of that which you take in to think about. As the one known as G has noted recently, it is the wolf you feed that prospers. It is the thoughts that you think that create your reality. Think on those thoughts that have true resonance to you. You do not have to explain the resonance to yourself, but only to note it and to follow it. Equally, it is useless to attempt to become interested in a thought that does not resonate to you. No matter how interesting, it is not for you. Take what is good for you and blow the rest away, as the one known as Robbie Robertson said.

The creation is, indeed, dark to those who have come through the gates of birth on planet Earth to enjoy a lifetime within the valley of the shadow of death. The veil between the local consciousness of your everyday mind and the universal consciousness of the deep mind is thick upon planet Earth. And a powerful, pure free will has been given by this Logos to your people. Your experience, therefore, is carefully arranged that it may have all manner of shades of gray and seemingly inky black. Metaphysically speaking, to awaken the light within you is a challenge you take upon yourself in the dark.

The process which you have called The Purgative Way is intrinsic to the Light, just as the Light is intrinsic to the Dark Night of the Soul. Indeed, that process of spiritual evolution is a spiral, not simply a cycle but a spiral at which, at the same point in the spiral but higher, you enter the natural, intended, fruitful and challenging Dark Night. And well it is called the Dark Night of the Soul, for both the light and the dark parts of this spiral are designed to ready the spirit within to enter the gateway to intelligent infinity. We therefore confirm your assumption that those who are new or feel that they are young upon the spiritual path do go through the Dark Night of the Soul. However, there are many witnesses throughout history who have written about the fact that the night will come again and again as long as you are incarnate in third density. This is not a function of punishment or judgment, but of your desire to progress spiritually.

One great resource for being skillful in your dealings with this state of mind, emotions, and increasingly spirit is patience. We do not speak of the patience of one who endures. We do not speak of the patience of one who counts the seconds. We speak of the patience of a scientist fascinated with the growth of a flower, who sets himself to watch the flower every day from its bud until its bloom. And then that scientist continues watching the flower, day after day, so that he may know precisely how it decays, how each petal falls away, how the calyx and the sepal crumble inward and the stem gradually withers until it is brown and dead. And then that scientist continues watching the empty ground for an entire winter, every day watching and brooding over this miraculous flower, for he wants to know just how every bit of its miraculous life comes about.

Question from G: Q’uo, within this illusion, even with our most certain of hunches, I feel we are doing guesswork in the darkness. I may be fooling myself, but, based upon my own study, some part of me feels that I am currently knee-deep in that phase, point or portion in the development of mystical consciousness known as The Purgative Way. If this is so, is there anything that I could do to accelerate and successfully complete this stage of the journey so that I can more fully realize that which I desire? Q’uo began by saying the creation is dark to those who have come through the gates of birth on Earth to enjoy a lifetime within the valley of the shadow of death, and the veil between the consciousness of our mind and the universal consciousness of our deep mind is thick upon Earth, and free will has been given by this Logos to our people, so our experience is arranged so that it may have all shades of gray and black so that metaphysically speaking, to awaken the Light within us is a challenge we take upon our self in the dark. Q’uo went on to say the process which we have called The Purgative Way is natural to the Light, just as the Light is natural to the Dark Night of the Soul, and that process of spiritual evolution is a spiral which, at the same point in the spiral but higher, we enter the challenging Dark Night, and it is called the Dark Night of the Soul because both the light and the dark parts of this spiral are designed to prepare the spirit within us to enter the gateway to intelligent infinity, so Q’uo confirmed our assumption that those who feel that they are young upon the spiritual path go through the Dark Night of the Soul, but there are witnesses throughout history who have written about the fact that the night will come again and again as long as we are incarnate in third density, but this is not a punishment but a part of our desire to progress spiritually. Then Q’uo said one resource for being skillful in our dealings with this state of mind, emotions, and spirit is patience, but Q’uo was not speaking of the patience of one who endures, but they were speaking of the patience of a scientist fascinated with the growth of a flower, who sets himself to watch the flower every day from its bud until its bloom, and then that scientist continues watching the flower so that he may know how it decays, how each petal falls away, and the stem gradually withers until it is brown and dead, and then that scientist continues watching the empty ground for an entire winter, for he wants to know how every bit of its life comes about. On April 18, 2006, Q’uo described how the Dark Night of the Soul can manifest in our life:

In terms of the experience of discovering more about your soul stream’s history, it is not the activity of higher beings, precisely, that is involved. If it happens organically and spontaneously, it is the action of your higher self, which in concert with that portion of your consciousness that exists between incarnations is responding to the conditions of your being as you meet the present moment. There are times in your life when you become aware of an entirely new level of the self, and it is often at such times that your higher self is particularly active in responding to your needs because a great deal is happening at such times. These are usually times when you have been through a Dark Night of the Soul, and as you come to the dawning that lights up your life at the end of such a difficult period, many epiphanies and realizations may hit you like waves coming in from the ocean. It is at those times that spontaneous, new information about your larger self and its history may come to you. Otherwise, what you learn about your soul stream’s history is likely to be because of your focus, your will, and your desire.

And he is rewarded when the flower is pulled up through the soil by the weak March sun and is rained upon by the sweet rains of April and May, until once more its stem is green and strong, its sepals and calyx are firm and out-thrusting, and the bud begins to grow from its nest to burst into bloom once again. The scientist is not satisfied with one revolution of the cycle. He watches again and again, year upon year, lost in the wonder of every detail, drunk upon the beauty of something so rare and so freely given. This is the patience we recommend.

Another great resource when going through The Purgative Way is a lack of pity for the self. Do not move into that space where you are aware of being bothered and suffering. We do not know how to say this in words but there is glory in the furnace that tempers the soul. If you can find the courage and the fearlessness to thank the furnace for this discomfort, then the fire shall not burn you but shall be your friend, your brother, and your sister.

Another great resource for one who moves through darkness and pain is a sense of humor, or a wider viewpoint that sees the lightness of heavy situations. When a seeker can laugh at the peculiarities of his suffering and embrace them instead of expressing jobations and complaints, that seeker is tuning himself as a musician tunes his instrument or a singer vocalizes before a performance. Your mind is very plastic and subject to infinite confusion and self-deceit. You do not mean to deceive yourself. We understand that it is involuntary and unintended, but every assumption, every cultural truism, every authority, everything in fact that is not coming to you at this moment needs to fade away from the spiritual seeker. Certainly meditation, contemplation, and all of the rich array of mind tuning techniques can help you. But sometimes the best resource is a good laugh and a realization that not only are you an object of ridicule, silly, wrong-headed and erroneous, but that that is fine; that is funny; that is the human condition. Feel the judgment and the tension fade away. When you do realize at last the beauty of this completely rounded life you live spiritually, dark side, light side, dark side, light side, then every turn of the spiral helps you to rewire yourself. In some ways, this rewiring is useful in this incarnation. In other ways, the heart of its use is the moment when you have shifted from this earthly valley of the shadow of death through the gateway of intelligent infinity for one final time into larger life, at which time, these heart-felt, sincerely offered devotions of serving through the dark times with faith shall have created for you your next location in time and space.

Then Q’uo said, and the scientist is rewarded when the flower is pulled up through the soil by the March sun and is rained upon by the rains of April and May, until its stem is green and strong, and the bud begins to grow from its nest to burst into bloom once again, but the scientist is not satisfied with one revolution of the cycle, so he watches year after year, lost in the wonder of the beauty of something so rare and so freely given, and this is the patience Q’uo recommended. Q’uo went on to say another resource when going through The Purgative Way is a lack of pity for our self, but we should not move into that space where we are aware of suffering because there is glory in the furnace that tempers our soul, and if we can find the courage to thank the furnace for this discomfort, then the fire shall not burn us, but shall be our brother and our sister. Now Q’uo said another resource for us when we move through darkness and pain is a sense of humor that sees the lightness of heavy situations, so when we can laugh at the peculiarities of our suffering and embrace them instead of expressing complaints, we are tuning our self as a musician tunes his instrument before a performance, and our mind is plastic and subject to infinite confusion, but we do not mean to deceive our self. Q’uo continued by saying they understand that it is involuntary, but every assumption and everything that is not coming to us at this moment needs to fade away from us: meditation, contemplation, and the variety of mind tuning techniques can help us, but the best resource is a good laugh and a realization that not only are we an object of ridicule, silly, and erroneous, but that that is fine because that is the human condition, so we can feel the judgment fade away, and when we realize the beauty of this balanced life we live spiritually, dark side, light side, then every turn of the spiral helps us to rewire our self, and this rewiring is useful in this incarnation, and in other ways: ”the heart of its use is the moment when we have shifted from this earthly valley of the shadow of death through the gateway of intelligent infinity for one final time into larger life, at which time, these heart-felt, sincerely offered devotions of serving through the dark times with faith shall have created for us our next location in time and space.” On January 30, 2010, Q’uo described the gateway of intelligent infinity:

For others, bound in suffering, wracked by doubts, caught in the world of ten thousand things, there is an emptiness of self. The chalice is already ready to receive. And for such entities it is precious indeed to open the self in passive prayer. Some would call it mediation and indeed the Buddhists would call it vipassana meditation. In this allowing of the self to be nothing and to float as the candle flame floats above the candle, self is revealed just as the candle reveals itself in the flame. It is an indigo-ray use of the gateway of intelligent infinity to ask for the self to be revealed to the self, for the self to feel its own radiance. And that flame comes down into the passive tallow of self and kindles the flame of truth so that the self becomes a chalice, holding the flame of Love. And gently, sweetly, that flame melts away the suffering and the difficulty and frees the caught soul that it may fly free into the Love of the open heart, into the Love of the Logos.

For those who take this purgative way and allow it to shape them, it will certainly result in your graduation. And the fruit of your being shall be delicious to the Creator as you pour out to this source and ending all that you have felt and thought, everything at which you have laughed, and all of those experiences in which you sobbed and wept and despaired. Even your angers, your jealousies, your lust, your greed, and every vice has its information for the Creator. Allow yourself to rest in the knowledge that, although there are certainly better and less fortunate ways to serve the infinite Creator, as far as being polarized in service to others, even your worst mistake is a gift to the one Creator, adding to Its knowledge of who It is.

As this instrument would say, you cannot go wrong. All that you do is a service to the one infinite Creator, and it will be your gift to that Creator, not only in this moment but in the moment of your entry into a larger life, when that personality that you are is released from its stricture and falls away, as the husk falls away from the corn which is then ready to eat. You shall be ripe and you shall be gathered: not the husk, not the body, not the personality, not the details, but the feelings that were authentic, the services that were given with a whole heart, the intentions that you created and nurtured and polished. Whether you were able to fulfill them completely or whether they remained things of beauty to you for which you strove is unimportant metaphysically.

It is not the goal of the seeker who wishes to be skillful and effectual in his process to accelerate the Dark Night of the Soul any more than it is appropriate for a skillful seeker to attempt to lengthen summer breezes and the good times, the mountain-top experiences and those moments of joy that know no bounds. Rather, we would encourage you to allow yourself to be as even with your process as if all states of emotion were alike to you. Rejoice equally in the daylight and its bloom and the darkness and its time of maximum chaos, disintegration, and eventual fertility, for these things that are broken down within yourself become the fertilizer and soil which allow the seeds of new life and new growth to grow strong and healthy and reach for the sunlight when the day does dawn. And, my brother, the day always dawns.

Now Q’uo said for those who take this purgative way and allow it to shape them, it will result in our graduation, and the fruit of our being shall be delicious to the Creator as we pour out to this source and ending all that we have felt and thought, everything at which we have laughed, and all of those experiences in which we wept, and our angers, jealousies, and every vice has its information for the Creator, so we can allow our self to rest in the knowledge that, although there are better ways to serve the infinite Creator, as far as being polarized in service to others, even our worst mistake is a gift to the Creator, adding to Its knowledge of who It is. Q’uo went on to say, as Carla would say, we cannot go wrong, and all that we do is a service to the Creator, and it will be our gift to that Creator, not only in this moment but in the moment of our entry into a larger life, when that personality that we are is released from its stricture and falls away, so shall we be ripe, and we shall be gathered: not the body, not the personality, but the feelings that were authentic and the services that were given with a whole heart whether we were able to fulfill them completely or whether they remained things of beauty to us for which we strove is unimportant metaphysically. Then Q’uo said it is not the goal of the seeker who wishes to be skillful in our process to accelerate the Dark Night of the Soul any more than it is appropriate for us to attempt to lengthen the moments of joy that know no bounds, so Q’uo encouraged us to allow our self to be even with our process as if all states of emotion were alike to us, and rejoice equally in the daylight and its bloom and the darkness and its time of maximum chaos, for these things that are broken down within our self become the fertilizer and soil which allow the seeds of new life to grow strong and reach for the sunlight when the day does dawn, and the day always dawns. On August 7, 2007, Q’uo described the purpose of the Dark Night of the Soul:

The process which you have called The Purgative Way is intrinsic to the light, just as the light is intrinsic to the Dark Night of the Soul. Indeed, that process of spiritual evolution is a spiral; not simply a cycle but a spiral at which, at the same point in the spiral but higher, you enter the natural, intended, fruitful and challenging Dark Night. And well it is called the Dark Night of the Soul, for both the light and the dark parts of this spiral are designed to ready the spirit within to enter the gateway to intelligent infinity.

We therefore confirm your assumption that those who are new or feel that they are young upon the spiritual path do go through the Dark Night of the Soul. However, there are many witnesses throughout history who have written about the fact that the night will come again and again as long as you are incarnate in third density. This is not a function of punishment or judgment, but of your desire to progress spiritually.

Werealize that one of the things that is most challenging about The Purgative Way is the chaos and confusion that you experience sitting in the dark, hoping that your ways of dealing with spiritual pain are wise. However, it is helpful to remember that there is an instinctual side to your nature which will stand you in far better stead than that which you know. This instrument will give a talk in the days to come on the keys to unknowing. My brother, take those keys, stand on your two feet and know that you do not know anything in terms of spirituality. What you receive instead of knowing things is what the Greeks called gnosis. That is the knowing that comes from the heart, from its insight and its intuition and the whispers of the wind of spirit. As your tuning song said, listen to the winds of spirit. The ceaseless, restive, ever-moving energies of spirit shall nudge you in ways you know not, if you but ask—and ask every day and every hour. “Use me, spirit, I am yours, this day, this moment, I am yours.”

In the heart of darkness there lies a blessed comfort. You can always ask for the Creator to express Its Love, to give you a metaphysical hug. Ask and you shall be answered. We also would encourage you to seek that comfort that is not of this world nor of the mind nor of the senses, but that lies so deep within your heart that is the very nature of your being. Your exploration is inner and when you penetrate the very heart of darkness, it bursts into light, for the Creator is at the heart of all things.

Lastly we would recommend the resource of fearlessness. The Purgative Way is one way of saying that things are being purged from you. The human personality wonders, “How much more can I lose before I am no longer myself?” In all humility, my brother, let that self go. For you truly wish to change, to deepen, and to become an ever more fit vessel for the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator. The Dark Night of the Soul is house-cleaning time for the temple of your body and your mind. You are reforming the way that you think about yourself, the way that you see and view yourself. You are moving from the little “I” of ego to the I AM that is the one infinite Creator. We have said through this instrument many times that the essence of the faith is that all is well. And all shall be well. When you feel lost, try saying those words to yourself and see how the tuning effect of such reminders brings you to a state of remembrance of who you are and why you are here.

Q’uo went on to say they realize that one of the things that is challenging about The Purgative Way is the confusion that you experience sitting in the dark, hoping that your ways of dealing with spiritual pain are wise, but it is helpful to remember that there is an instinctual side to your nature which will stand you in better stead than that which you know, and Carla will give a talk in the future on the keys to unknowing, so take those keys, stand on your feet and know that you do not know anything in terms of spirituality because what you receive instead of knowing things is what the Greeks called gnosis, and that is the knowing that comes from your heart and the whispers of the wind of spirit, and the ever-moving energies of spirit shall nudge you in ways you know not, if you but ask every day and every hour: “Use me, spirit, I am yours, this day, this moment, I am yours.” Then Q’uo said in the heart of darkness there lies a blessed comfort, and we can always ask for the Creator to express Its Love, to give us a metaphysical hug if we but ask we shall be answered, and Q’uo also encouraged us to seek that comfort that is not of this world, nor of the mind, nor of the senses, but lies deep within our heart that is the nature of our being so that our exploration is inner, and when we penetrate the heart of darkness, it bursts into Light, for the Creator is at the heart of all things. Q’uo continued by saying they would recommend the resource of fearlessness because The Purgative Way is one way of saying that things are being purged from you, and the human personality wonders “How much more can I lose before I am no longer myself?” So Q’uo said in all humility, my brother, let that self go, for you wish to change and to become an more fit vessel for the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator so that the Dark Night of the Soul is house-cleaning time for the temple of your body and your mind, and you are reforming the way that you think about yourself, and you are moving from the little “I” of ego to the I AM that is the one infinite Creator, and we have said through Carla many times that the essence of the faith is that all is well, and all shall be well, but when you feel lost, try saying those words to yourself and see how the tuning effect of such reminders brings you to a state of remembrance of who you are and why you are here. On July 21, 1991, Q’uo elaborated on the nature of the I AM:

Thus, the importance that you give to that which you call holy is importance that you have placed there, and have desired to use as an avenue to a fuller apprehension of the one Creator. Each entity must needs find a path of what we will call faith, a structure for the next step upon the journey that will expand for the entity the opportunity to know and experience the one Creator, the I AM within in a fashion that is more filled with opportunity, shall we say, to more fully apprehend the one Creator. An entity may find that this faith moves into foreign lands, and that there will at some point need to be the refining of that faith or the structure through which the faith is focused in order that the entity may go higher, shall we say. Thus, it is the function of the mind and your biocomputer’s channeling of the greater line of the one Creator to form for the self the idea or possibility of the idea of the one Creator and a more complete apprehension. So that this journey does indeed continue for a great portion of what you call time.

We are those of the principle of Q’uo, and would ask if the one known as G has any questions to follow up with?

G: Yes, I often have massive, instantaneous, knee-jerk resistance to my girlfriend’s daughter, without seeming provocation, and at times to my girlfriend herself. I desire greatly to proactively feel love for them rather than react in unconsciously created and sustained resistance, yet no attempt to get to the source and the mechanism of this resistance has borne fruit. My question for you is: Would you be able to direct me to the portion of my psyche responsible for this experience and then would you offer me any counsel as to how I may understand and heal this handicap?

Weare those of the principle of Q’uo, and are aware of your query. As perhaps you may have surmised, there is much that we cannot say about something that is so centrally a part of your process at this time, for we cannot do the learning for you. To do so would not benefit either you or ourselves, for you would not truly learn to see through this catalyst and we would lose polarity by infringing upon your free will.

We can talk about the general principles involved in relationships. Some portions of relationships are based upon the difference between yourself and another person, such as the difference in age or the difference in sex. You are older than O. You are a different sex than the ones known as V and O. It is difficult to look straight into mirrors that are distorted. Mirrors that come across the earthly boundaries of that which you see as gender and age distort the image, as though you were in a fun house with its crazy mirrors and corridors. Other portions of reactions to people can be as shallow as a trick or quirk of the voice or the shallowness of the personality you are watching in certain areas.

But the deeper portions of responses to people often have to do with your being involved with them in other incarnations, in which relationships with them play a powerful part in this incarnational experience. Whether or not your karma with them is balanced or unbalanced, the more you become involved with entities that penetrate the outer shell of personality, the more those energies that have spoken through the ages in other incarnations to yourself begin to speak again, ever more resonantly with ever more good information, good catalyst, good grist for the mill to offer you.

And deepest of all, my brother, you are gazing at yourself. Those things which irritate or upset you or cause you to have a bad chemical reaction to another are those things which characterize a part of your shadow self. As always, the work that you truly do is upon yourself. When you are aggravated or have this bad chemistry, when you have the time, whether close to the event or later in remembrance, sit with that feeling and ask it for the wisdom that lies in its folds. You may need to be very patient, for the forces of darkness do not like the seeker who is patient with his pain and confusion, for they know that it is to those who are prepared to bide with themselves through thick and thin, believing in themselves and yet asking, “How can I learn? How can I be more when faced with daunting feelings?” that the light shall dawn ever quicker. And meanwhile your faith has made a flame that the darkness cannot put out.

G: Yes, I often have massive, instantaneous, knee-jerk resistance to my girlfriend’s daughter, without seeming provocation, and at times to my girlfriend herself. I desire greatly to proactively feel love for them rather than react in unconsciously created and sustained resistance, yet no attempt to get to the source and the mechanism of this resistance has borne fruit. My question for you is: Would you be able to direct me to the portion of my psyche responsible for this experience and then would you offer me any counsel as to how I may understand and heal this handicap? Q’uo said that as you may know there is much that we cannot say about something that is a part of your process at this time, for we cannot do the learning for you because that would not benefit you or ourselves, for you would not learn to see through this catalyst, and we would lose polarity by infringing upon your free will. Q’uo went on to say we can talk about the principles involved in relationships where portions of relationships are based upon the difference between you and another person, such as the difference in age or the difference in sex, and you are older than O, and you are a different sex than the ones known as V and O, so it is difficult to look straight into mirrors that are distorted as though you were in a fun house with its crazy mirrors and corridors, and other portions of reactions to people can be as shallow as a quirk of the voice or the shallowness of the personality you are watching in certain areas. Q’uo continued by saying that the deeper portions of responses to people have to do with your being involved with them in other incarnations, in which relationships with them play a part in this incarnation, so whether or not your karma with them is balanced or unbalanced, the more you become involved with entities that penetrate the outer shell of personality, the more those energies that have spoken through the ages in other incarnations to you begin to speak again, more resonantly with more good information, good catalyst, good grist for the mill to offer you. Now Q’uo said in the deepest sense you are gazing at yourself, and those things which cause you to have a bad chemical reaction to another are those things which characterize a part of your shadow self, and the work you do is upon yourself, so when you are aggravated and you have the time, sit with that feeling and ask it for the wisdom that lies in its folds, and you may need to be patient, for the forces of darkness do not like the seeker who is patient with his pain and confusion, for they know that it is to those who are prepared to bide with themselves through thick and thin, believing in themselves and yet asking, “How can I learn? How can I be more when faced with daunting feelings?” that the light shall dawn ever quicker, and your faith has made a flame that the darkness cannot put out. On March 10, 1996, Q’uo spoke of the nature of our shadow self:

We were suggesting that the seeker does not need to remove the dark side of the nature in order to progress. Rather, the seeker needs to come to an inner understanding of its particular workings, looking for ways to achieve such a discipline of the character and personality that the darker images are disciplined and allowed to move through appropriate channels. We are suggesting that once the dark nature of the will is grasped, the positively oriented seeker can then begin to see that shadow self as an asset rather than viewing it as an enemy.

The processes by which one becomes able to discipline this dark side are individua,l and each seeker shall wrestle with those dark angels as each continues to discover, accept, and discipline new aspects or newly perceived aspects of that dark genius. We are asking each seeker, then, to take into the heart the full spectrum of self and to love each and every aspect and yet to find ways to express only those things which are intended. We do not wish you to run away from what is one of the great strengths of the self.

We apologize that we cannot get close to, shall we say, earthly advice, but this is indeed an important, ongoing part of your spiritual seeking and thusly we leave you to it with our encouragement, faith and support. We are those of Q’uo. May we ask if there is another question, my brother?

G: For the seeker yearning to experience mystical unity, what role does the ability to concentrate for an extended period of time play? Is it critical? And what can I do to further develop this faculty?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query. My brother, you are already doing one exercise that promotes focus and that is your practice of watching your breath. That in itself is a focusing activity. The practice of the disciplines of the magical personality, as this instrument would call them, are very helpful to one who wishes mechanically to increase concentration abilities. The visualization, for instance, of one shape and color, can be useful. This is a technique of the so-called magical way. If you can hold the image, for instance, of a green circle or a blue rectangle or a yellow pyramid or a rose for fifteen seconds one day, and if you can repeat that for a week of days, then you may increase the time that you hold that visualization quite clearly in your mind’s eye as if it were just before you and commanding your attention. Eventually you will develop that faculty of the mind which is called focus.

It is indeed a useful and helpful practice, however you choose to do it, in that it disciplines the wayward attention. You are already aware of the amazing amount of distraction within the normal daily experience. You are perhaps aware also of the more subtle distractions that stem from the self and the self’s distortions. And you may not be aware of how those balancing dynamics of your Earth world—darkness and light—are ever at play within you. The darkness desires you to be dark, for it needs a heavy place to hide. The lightness invites you to soar, but it cannot lift your wings. Thusly, that focusing practice, however you wish to pursue it, is helpful and may bring you more and more into that state of recollection and remembrance of who you are and why you are here.

May we ask if there is a final query at this time, my brother? We are the principle of Q’uo.

G: I don’t have your traditional type of nightmares, exactly, but I do have three types of recurring dreams that occasionally haunt me and are, like nightmares, just plain terrifying. In one of the recurring themes, I am locked away in prison, my freedom and rights taken from me in what is a deeply, deeply horrible experience. Would you be able to help me unravel the symbolism to this dream so that I may understand what spiritual principles are being communicated to me about my situation within the incarnation?

We those of the principle of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. There are aspects of this dream about which we cannot offer comment, but in terms of spiritual principles, we may say that your opinion of your incarnation is not all good! And it is accurate, for are you not in a prison, waiting on the executioner’s block for the scythe of death to swish down? And meanwhile, are you not often uncomfortable, driven by the demands of the heavy chemical body and subject to countless irritations and distractions?

There is much more to this than that spiritual principle, but in general, dreams tell the dreamer what is on his deep mind, what is bothering him. They have to tell it in code. It cannot be straightforward. For truth is like a blinding light to one who is in darkness. They cannot open the door all the way, for you would go blind. Dreams crack the door and let in a little light, a little inkling.

We would suggest, my brother, that you begin a notebook, either on your computer or with a pad of paper and pen, and journal through an extended length of time about this one type of dream and, indeed, about the other two as well, building intelligence over a period of years, to find out the nuances and the intricacies. Dreams in a way are like a maze. When you reach the center, then the light dawns and you go, “Ah, okay, I see.” But until that point you are going up into and back from many blind alleys.

We are reluctant, my brothers, to leave such delightful company. Yet the energy of this instrument wanes and the energy of the group as well, and so we take our leave of this instrument and this group, leaving each, as always, in the love and the light, the peace and power of the One. We are the principle of Q’uo, and we leave you in love and light. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I ran some errands with my first stop to get a haircut from Bethany. My second stop was at Thieneman’s Nursery where I bought 64 Sun Patiens and some deer repellant. When I got home I planted half of the Sun Patiens in the Flower Fall Mound on the south side of the front yard.

This afternoon I went back outside and planted the other half of the Sun Patiens in the Flower Fall Mound. Then I watered them with fertilized water. It looks like I will have to buy another 64 or so Sun Patiens tomorrow because the first 64 have covered the Mound and the Fall areas, but the pool area is about the same size.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 17

The Power Of The Presence

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of unconditional Love.

As we scan the concerns that fill the minds of those present, we find this instrument suffering for a planet which has been damaged by its own kind. We find this concern, too, in all those whose minds we touch who are praying to the Spirit at this time.

Know that the spirit is powerful. There is a prayer this instrument says daily and because it is the creation of a truth applicable to this situation, we repeat it using this instrument’s mind, “Come Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in us the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and we shall be created and you shall renew the face of the Earth. O Thou Who by the Light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy Its consolation. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

Do not feel powerless! Seek and ask for the Spirit of living Love, the powerful consciousness of the Christ. That power is no power without each of you. So, pray, not to renew the face of the Earth upon your own but rather that the Spirit may come upon you and transfigure and transform you. For in that process alone shall the creation be made new, whole, lovely, and perfect.

We urge each to experience within itself the power of the presence of Love. Let it renew you. And then, by being yourselves and acting as you must, shall your sphere become once more a lovely, healthy dwelling place for consciousness.

 In love, healing and peace we leave you, 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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I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo comes from May 6, 2007:

The Bhagavad Gita and many other positive spiritual teachings speak of self-control as a beneficial and necessary element of the positive seeker’s path—self-control in the face of temptation and in directing the will for the purpose of spiritual pursuits versus worldly pursuits. Yet Ra offers an alternative understanding in negating control in favor of acceptance and overall balance. Is there a positive use of control? Does control play any useful role in the discipline of the personality? Can one control, for example, through acceptance, meaning that that which has become accepted is able to be controlled or directed?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. 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 our great privilege and blessing to be called to your circle of seeking and we are glad to share with you our thoughts on the positive uses of control. As always, we would preface our remarks with a request that each of you use your powers of discrimination, choosing those thoughts of ours that are helpful to you and leaving the rest behind. This will enable us to speak more freely and be less concerned with interfering with the process of your spiritual evolution. We would not wish to be a stumbling block in your way. We thank you for this consideration.

The word “control” has a sometimes negatively-oriented feeling behind it, as when one may say a person is too controlling or something of that nature, and yet it is clear that, from the beginning of the life of a human in third density, the learning which you undergo has a great deal to do with control. The infant must learn to control the movements of his mouth and the breath that comes through his voice box in such a way as to reproduce the language that he hears about him in his crib and in his cradle, so that he may ask for food, comfort, and relief from wet diapers by doing something besides crying. It is not too long before parents are asking their young children to control their bladder and their bowels so that they can come out of diapers and be free of the need for changing their diapers. One thing after another that the young child meets in his life becomes a matter of learning how to control various parts of his body. He learns carefully how to form letters with his hand and to do other skills that are done with the hands and that promote a more deft and agile use of the fingers.

The mind is asked at a very young age to begin to take in data and organize it into banks of information that can be used readily. The alphabet is learned; and the numbers are learned; then words are learned; and reading begins. And for the entire travel from childhood to adulthood, skills are taught that the child learns to take in and use. And all of these skills are learned by the student controlling and focusing his mind so that he may wrap that mind around these new thoughts and these new skills. It is not perhaps thought of as a matter of control and yet all of an adult’s preparation for life has to do with control, and we do not mean to suggest that there is a negative or a positive spin to this control. The culture in which you live is one in which these skills are considered quite necessary for survival and enjoyment of the finer things of life, such as indoor plumbing and the comfort and convenience of life as you are aware of and are used to living in.

Certainly, the idea of control can be very negative. The tendency of entities in third density to manipulate and control the circumstances around them can turn into a very dark way of handling life. And each of you has perhaps known those whose life is spent in plotting and scheming ways to control the outcome of events that are important to such people. Usually such control is over small things and yet the sum of one person controlling another over a period of time is a very strong negative polarization towards service to self, and it is definitely a service to self energy to think of or to contemplate the self as a person setting out to control circumstances that have to do with other people and indeed are not, in terms of positive polarization, available for such control. On the other hand, there are indeed very positive uses of control, and this instrument would call it self-control.

The group question for this session was: “The Bhagavad Gita and many other positive spiritual teachings speak of self-control as a beneficial and necessary element of the positive seeker’s path—self-control in the face of temptation and in directing the will for the purpose of spiritual pursuits versus worldly pursuits. Yet Ra offers an alternative understanding in negating control in favor of acceptance and overall balance. Is there a positive use of control? Does control play any useful role in the discipline of the personality? Can one control, for example, through acceptance, meaning that that which has become accepted is able to be controlled or directed?” Q’uo began by saying the word “control” has a negatively-oriented feeling behind it, as when we may say a person is too controlling, and yet it is clear that the learning which we undergo in third density has to do with control, so the infant must learn to control the movements of his mouth and the breath that comes through his voice box in such a way as to reproduce the language that he hears about him in his crib so that he may ask for food, comfort, and relief from wet diapers by doing something besides crying, and it is not long before parents are asking their children to control their bladder and their bowels so that they can come out of diapers and be free of the need for changing their diapers, and one thing after another that the child meets in his life becomes a matter of learning how to control various parts of his body, so he learns how to form letters with his hand and to do other skills that are done with the hands and that promote agile use of the fingers. Then Q’uo said the mind is asked at a young age to take in data and organize it into banks of information that can be used as the alphabet is learned; numbers are learned; words are learned; and reading begins, and for the travel from childhood to adulthood, skills are taught that the child learns to use, so all of these skills are learned by the student controlling his mind so that he may wrap his mind around these new thoughts and skills, but it is not thought of as control, and yet all of an adult’s preparation for life has to do with control, and Q’uo did not say that there is a negative or a positive spin to this control since the culture in which we live is one in which these skills are necessary for survival and enjoyment of the finer things of life, such as indoor plumbing and the comfort and convenience of life as we are aware of and are used to living in. Now Q’uo said the idea of control can be negative, and the tendency of entities in third density to control the circumstances around them can turn into a dark way of handling life, and each of us has known those whose life is spent in plotting ways to control the outcome of events that are important to them, and usually such control is over small things, yet the sum of one person controlling another over a period of time is negative polarization towards service to self, and it is a service to self energy to think of us as setting out to control circumstances that have to do with other people and not, in terms of positive polarization, available for such control, but on the other hand, there are positive uses of control, and Carla would call it self-control. On December 7, 2019, Q’uo spoke of how the use of control could be either positive or negative:

The use of any type of control is determined to be either a positive type of control or a negative type of control, according to the intention behind the use of control. If one intends and wishes to control certain words, or emotions, or actions of the self in order to keep from infringing upon the free will of another self, this intention is of a positive orientation. If one wishes to use control of intentions or expressions of intentions in order to gain from an other self that which is the other self’s—that is the power of the other self by dominating and controlling the other self—this is negative intention. Therefore, it is the intention, once again, which determines the nature of the experience.

There is a nuance in the term self-control that we wish to explore. For, as the one known as T1 said, there is a, “Which came first?” question here. There is a chicken and an egg. Is an entity controlling the self and therefore learning more about how to control the self? Or does the person wait for some wisdom as to precisely how to control the self? And in order to remove ourselves from this conundrum, we would like to take this idea back a bit and look at it from a wider and perhaps a more spacious point of view. The one known as G is quite correct in saying that, in the view of those of the Confederation who speak with you this day, the universe is a self-generating system whereby there is no need to control circumstances whatsoever in terms of your incarnation being fruitful for you have set up a system of redundant possibility/probability vortices so that if the incarnational lessons that you have chosen to ponder in your particular incarnation do not gel for you in one instance and you may have perhaps missed that catalyst, there will be another circumstance that will come your way very soon that will offer you the same kind of catalyst, the same kind of challenge, and the same kind of questions that you may ask yourself about, “Why is this happening to me and what should I do with it?”

You do not have to control your life in terms of knowing that you will be fed with spiritual food at all times. This is not a cause for concern. And this perhaps can rest your mind, for when you do not need to reach and grasp for the spirituality of your day or the cogency of the catalyst that is being presented to you, then you can relax and focus simply on paying attention to the present moment.Let us go further back than this, for we wish to set you on the stage of your incarnational experience, and we have not yet done so to our satisfaction. Who are you? My friends, you are the one infinite Creator. That is the heart of your reality. You are a spark of the infinite oneness of all creation. That spark is your consciousness which has been wrapped into flesh and bone so that you may experience life within this particular illusion.

Therefore, you are spiritual beings dwelling in a material and physical world. Everything that is at the center of your being calls out for the Creator and sees life from the point of view of spirit. Yet, you have been brought into a culture which encourages precisely the opposite bent of thought. Your culture encourages you to release thoughts of spirituality in favor of thoughts of functionality, economics, socialization, doing what is expected, and so forth. These two energies are a dynamic that are with each entity within third density to one extent or another for his entire incarnation. The minute that a spirit forgets the heart of his being, he may well be able to convince himself of a number of things. He may be able to convince himself that he may control others for their own good. He may be able to convince himself that those things which he believes are such good beliefs that other entities need to believe that way too, and so he may become one who bullies or coaxes entities into worshipping a certain way or believing in a certain system of dogma. All of these are subtlety but markedly negative or service to self in that they are using the power of the human spirit in order to change others.

Then Q’uo said there is a nuance in the term self-control that they wish to explore which is are we controlling our self and learning more about how to control our self, or do we wait for wisdom as to how to control our self? And in order to remove ourselves from this problem, they would like to take this idea and look at it from a wider point of view, so G is correct in saying that, in the view of those of the Confederation who speak with us this day, the universe is a self-generating system where there is no need to control circumstances in terms of our incarnation being fruitful, for we have set up a system of repeating  possibility/probability vortices so that if the incarnational lessons that we have chosen to ponder in our incarnation do not gel for us in one instance, and we may have missed that catalyst, there will be another circumstance that will come our way very soon that will offer us the same kind of catalyst and the same kind of questions that we may ask our self about: “Why is this happening to me, and what should I do with it?” Now Q’uo said we do not have to control our life in terms of knowing that we will be fed with spiritual food at all times, and this can rest our mind, for when we do not need to grasp for the spirituality of our day or the meaning of the catalyst that is being presented to us, then we can relax and focus on paying attention to the present moment, so Q’uo wanted to go further back than this, for they wish to set us on the stage of our incarnational experience, and they have not done this to their satisfaction, so they said that we are the one infinite Creator which is the heart of our reality, and we are a spark of the infinite oneness of all creation which is our consciousness that has been wrapped into flesh and bone so that we may experience life within this illusion. Q’uo went on to say we are spiritual beings dwelling in a physical world, and everything that is at the center of our being calls out for the Creator and sees life from the point of view of spirit, but we have been brought into a culture which encourages the opposite kind of thought because our culture encourages us to release thoughts of spirituality in favor of thoughts of doing what is expected so that these two energies are a dynamic that are with each of us within third density for our entire incarnation, and the minute that we forget the heart of  our being, we may be able to convince our self that we may control others for their own good, or that those things which we believe are such good beliefs that other entities need to believe that way too, and we may become one who coaxes entities into believing in a certain system of dogma, and all of these are subtlety service to self in that they are using the power of the human spirit in order to change others. On September 13, 2008, Q’uo described how a system of dogma does its work:

One way to defend the heart is through the dogma of a codified religion. One places one’s heart in the structure of a religion and as long as one’s heart stays true to the tenets of that particular system of dogma, one is safe. Another way that the heart can be defended is with anger and resentment, which builds concrete walls about the heart in order that it shall not be harmed again. Many years may go into the building of these walls. How can they be taken down? The world is a dangerous place.

Yet, an entity which is a part of the Godhead principle need be concerned only with controlling himself. The work of the spiritual entity is always upon the self. The seeking of a spiritually-oriented entity is always an inner seeking. It may well be that the processes of seeking bring the seeker into community with those who demonstrate unconditional Love, and that is a great gift. But a part of the Godhead principle in actuality needs nothing from the outside. There is no need to reach, there is no need to grasp. All that is needed is already lying within your heart of hearts. The Confederation talks about acceptance rather than control because, from our point of view, once an entity has come into a full acceptance or awareness of who he is and why he is here, that initial acceptance forms up into vectors. Each thought and opinion that occurs within the awareness of being a spiritual entity has a direction to it that is spiritual in nature.

As entities accept completely that they are a part of the Creator, they become aware that beneath the level of constant and unremitting human error, they are worthy. They are as worthy as a star, or a tree, or the wind that blows, or the grass that grows. They are worthy in a final and ultimate way. They have not found the heart of that worth. It takes many densities of experience to refine the self to the point where the self is transparent to the self and that worth of self is clearly seen by the self. But there are helps to you, my friends, in everyday life. For you see the worth of others and that is a strong help to you. Every time that you see an entity whom you feel is worthy, we ask you to remember that you are looking in the mirror when you look at any other soul. As you look into that entity’s eyes, you and that entity are both the Creator. That which you see as good in that other entity, you may stop and mark because you have just seen that particular kind of goodness in yourself. Were you not sensitive to that goodness, you would not have seen it in the other self.

So let your own experiences of the goodness of others about you reflect back to you the truth of yourself: you are infinitely worthy, you are a citizen of eternity. Your stay upon the Earth plane is a short one and you came to give yourself the gift of learning and worshipping and being a part of the movement that is taking place upon the planet at this time: to lift and transform the energy of planet Earth. And you are worthy to do this. Control helps you—or perhaps we would use the word discipline—discipline helps you to maintain the focus of who you are and why you are here. It is not that this discipline is a judging discipline or an attempt to whip yourself into shape. You are not here to judge; you are here to love. And so, the work of each and every seeker is primarily and fundamentally the work of being.

Now Q’uo said as an entity which is a part of the Godhead principle we need be concerned only with controlling our self since the work of the spiritual entity is always upon the self, and our seeking as a spiritually-oriented entity is always an inner seeking, and it may be that the processes of seeking bring us into community with those who demonstrate unconditional Love, and that is a great gift, but a part of the Godhead principle in actuality needs nothing from the outside because all that is needed is already lying within our heart of hearts, and the Confederation talks about acceptance rather than control because, from their point of view, once we have come into full acceptance of who we are and why we are here that initial acceptance, and each thought that occurs within our awareness of being a spiritual entity, has a direction to it that is spiritual in nature. Q’uo went on to say as we accept that we are a part of the Creator, we become aware that beneath the level of constant human error, we are worthy as a star, or a tree, or the wind that blows, and we are worthy in an ultimate way, but we have not found the heart of that worth since it takes many densities of experience to refine our self to the point where our self is transparent to our self, and that worth of our self is seen by our self, and there is help for us in our everyday life, for we see the worth of others, and that is a help to us because every time that we see an entity whom we feel is worthy, Q’uo asked us to remember that we are looking in the mirror when we look at them, and as we look into their eyes, we and that entity are both the Creator, and that which we see as good in them, we may notice because we have seen that kind of goodness in our self since if we were not sensitive to that goodness, we would not have seen it in the other self. Q’uo continued by saying let our experiences of the goodness of others about us reflect back to us the truth of our self as being infinitely worthy as a citizen of eternity, and our stay upon the Earth plane is a short one since we came to give our self the gift of learning and being a part of the movement that is taking place upon the planet at this time to transform the energy of Earth, and we are worthy to do this, and discipline helps us to maintain the focus of who we are and why we are here, but it is not that this discipline is a judging discipline because we are here to love, so the work of each and every seeker is primarily the work of being. On October 17, 1999, Q’uo spoke about our doing the work of being:

For if the self can allow infinite Love and Light to move through the self, then that self has the capacity to bless that Love and Light that flows through it and offer that that has been brought through to the Earth plane. Indeed, it is our feeling that this is the basic work of all spiritually awakened people, this essential beingness of self that does not distort the Love that flows through the instrument of selfhood. Beyond all the beautiful tunes that your instrument might play with the various distortion of the various energy centers there is the wonderful ability to do that essential work that is the work of being that allows Love and Light to flow into the Earth plane undistorted.

We find that this is a very difficult concept for your people to grasp. What is it to be? To breathe in and to breathe out? What is the worth of simply being? And yet the universe as a whole is one great, interactive being of which you are a focal point in a vast array of other sentient, intelligent points of awareness that are gathering experience for the infinite Creator that It may know more about Itself. This gift of being is always your most fundamental work as a spiritually-oriented seeker. For the doing is at the surface of things; it is the being that gives the doing depth, breadth, meaning and strength. Control is definitely necessary, for without self-control and discipline, the spiritual seeker may constantly find itself forgetting to keep the focus.

Letus talk a bit about that focus that we would encourage you to keep. Each of you around the circle this day has discussed feelings concerning one’s place in life and in some cases the incredible rapidity of time fleeing past almost too quickly to grasp. Yet there is within each of you a center. And there is great skill in finding ways to remind yourself to move back from the outskirts of truth and beauty in your life, always in towards the center again. Life will spin you out constantly. Catalyst will hit you—strong catalyst, illness, the loss of jobs, all of those difficulties that challenge entities who breathe in and breathe out and must find a way to keep a roof over their heads. And your job always is to see yourself spinning and gently, very gently, encourage your spirit to spiral inward again to the place of power that lies within, to the place of comfort that lies deeply within, to the one infinite Creator who waits patiently for you in your heart of hearts.

The more time that you put into resting in your beingness, the more you will become aware of who you truly are and how powerful a being you truly are. And when you sense that power, then of course you want to use that power rightly, and that calls for every discipline of the personality and makes such disciplines attractive to you. When you find the center of your power, that creative energy that made all that there is, then truly you wish to use it well, and to use it wisely, and to use it lovingly.

Q’uo continued by saying they find that the work of being is a difficult concept for our people to grasp, and the universe is one great being of which we are a focal point in a vast array of other intelligent points of awareness that are gathering experience for the infinite Creator that It may know more about Itself, and this gift of being is always our most fundamental work as a spiritually-oriented seeker because doing is at the surface of things, and it is the being that gives the doing depth and strength, but control is necessary, for without self-control we may find our self forgetting to keep the focus. Now Q’uo said they wanted to encourage us to keep that focus because each of us has discussed feelings concerning our place in life and the rapidity of time fleeing past too quickly to grasp, but there is within each of us a center, and there is skill in finding ways to remind our self to move back from the outskirts of truth in our life towards the center again since catalyst will hit us as illness or the loss of jobs, and our job is to see our self spinning, and then gently encouraging our spirit to spiral inward again to the place of power and comfort that lies within us, to the one infinite Creator who waits patiently for us in our heart of hearts. Q’uo went on to say the more time that we put into resting in our beingness, the more we will become aware of who we truly are and how powerful a being we truly are, and when we sense that power, then we want to use that power rightly, and that calls for the discipline of our personality, and when we find the center of our power, that creative energy that made all that there is, then we wish to use it well and to use it lovingly. On February 18, 1996, Q’uo spoke of the nature of that creative energy:

The energy which enters the feet and base of the spine is an intelligent kind of energy that is most likened to what you would call Love, that creative energy which enlivens all creation. It is the enlivener, the energizer, and is the daily gift of the Logos to all within its care. A kind of manna, shall we say, which each entity will use in an individualized fashion. This is a tool of the soul, as you have called it. The soul essence of each entity is that focus of consciousness which exists from time immemorial and moves into the evolutionary process as a portion of the one Creator. It utilizes the various densities and incarnations within each density to achieve certain levels of awareness and expressions of energy within them. Thus, the intelligent energy or prana of the Logos is that which propels the creation. The soul is that portion of consciousness which can use this universal energy for personal evolution.

And so, you turn to those disciplines that have served you before: meditation, prayer, contemplation, inspired reading, walks in nature, and all of those ways in which you can come back to the truth that truly does set you free. So, the question of acceptance or control, in a way, is a question of how you wish to look at who you are. Our approach to the awakening seeker is simply to ask that seeker to become aware of who and what he is. And to become aware of the fact that he is creating his own reality. When an entity has been on the spiritual path for a while, he may well begin to sense that there is one particular outer work that he has the cluster of skills to accomplish. And that may spark in him the desire to ask for guidance, and when an entity asks for guidance, that guidance is there instantly, there is no lag time. You may not be able to hear the voice of guidance, but the energy of that guidance and the gentle pressure of that vibration is with you from that point on.

This instrument opens her day by asking the one she calls Jesus the Christ, “What would you wish of me this day?” This is her way of centering and offering her day. And if that question seems to be answered by something that she did not expect, that is alright, that is acceptable. But it is always within the choice of the seeker as to how that seeker shall proceed. In a society which has a tendency towards loudness, meaninglessness, and chaos, it is perhaps well recommended that the spiritually-oriented seeker gaze within into the mystery that lies between every cell of your body, and gaze without, not at the creations of humankind, but at the creation of the Father. For there you see not control but a plan that is so vast that it is inconceivable and yet complete and perfect so that the organism of planet Earth as a whole and all of the biota upon it move in a dance of rhythm and harmony in which all needs are met.

We offer to this instrument the vision of the rolling tide. It does not seem to be controlled, but rather it rushes in abandonment towards the shore and then pulls out again towards the deeps of the ocean. Yet if you think about the tides and the moon, you begin to see that there is an order and a balance which keeps the moon in its orbit and the Earth in its orbit; which keeps the sunlight and the stars moving in their cycles. And this moon energy moves through everyone’s blood so that your blood wanes and flows just as do the tides. You are a part of something that is in exquisite balance. You are in touch with the spirit world and the highest energies and at the same time you are in touch with the Earth and its heaviest energies. You know of everything from angels and cherubim to the degradation of war, murder, torture, and the evil that entities can do to each other. And your gaze is that gaze which orders things in your world. So perhaps we would say that your most creative means of control is to create the world that you would like to see and live it. For you truly are a co-creator, and you truly can create the reality that you wish to see.

Q’uo went on to say we turn to those disciplines that have served us before: meditation, prayer, contemplation, walks in nature, and all of those ways in which we can come back to the truth that sets us free, so the question of acceptance or control is a question of how we wish to look at who we are, so Q’uo asked us to become aware of who and what we are, and to become aware that we are creating our reality, and when we have been on the spiritual path for a while, we may begin to sense that there is one outer work that we have the skills to accomplish, and that may inspire us to ask for guidance, and when we ask for guidance, that guidance is there instantly, but we may not be able to hear the voice of guidance, but the energy of that guidance is with us from that point on. Then Q’uo said Carla opens her day by asking Jesus the Christ, “What would you wish of me this day?” And this is her way of centering and offering her day, and if that question seems to be answered by something that she did not expect, that is acceptable, but it is always within the choice of the seeker as to how that seeker shall proceed since in a society which has a tendency towards meaninglessness and chaos, it is recommended that we gaze within into the mystery that lies between every cell of our body, and gaze without at the creation of the Father, for there we see–not control–a plan that is so vast that it is inconceivable and yet perfect so that planet Earth as a whole, and all of the plants and animals upon it, move in a dance of rhythm and harmony in which all needs are met. Now Q’uo said they offer Carla the vision of the rolling tide which does not seem to be controlled, but it rushes in abandonment towards the shore, and then pulls out again towards the deeps of the ocean, yet if we think about the tides and the moon we see that there is an order which keeps the moon in its orbit, and the Earth in its orbit, and which keeps the sunlight and the stars moving in their cycles, and this moon energy moves through everyone’s blood so that our blood flows just as do the tides because we are a part of something that is in balance, and we are in touch with the Spirit world and the highest energies, and at the same time we are in touch with the Earth and its heaviest energies, so we know of everything from angels and cherubim to the degradation of war and the evil that we can do to each other, and our gaze orders things in our world, so Q’uo said that our most creative means of control is to create the world that we would like to see and live in it, for we are a co-Creator, and we can create the reality that we wish to see. On July 3, 1989, Q’uo spoke of how we can become a co-Creator of our life:

However, at some point, each seeker will discover the beginning working of this process of evolution and will seek to accelerate this process in order that it might, in a conscious fashion, take part in the creation of the statue, shall we say, that is the self, the truer self, the ideal self, within certain boundaries or limitations, those limitations being set by your third-density illusion. Thus, the seeker seeks to become co-Creator of that which it is and that which it experiences and seeks to place the chisel in just the right location and seeks to strike it with just the right force.

May we ask if there is a follow-up on this query? We are those of Q’uo.

Jim: No follow-up, Q’uo.

Q’uo: Very well, my brother. Then we would ask if there is another query at this time?

T2: I’m feeling a very strong connection to you right now and I’m wondering if there is a way that I can carry this connection when I’m on my own because I’m not in Kentucky all the time, and I’m not sitting in this room all the time. I feel that there is a lot that I can gain to working to reach and touch you in a manner similar to what I feel right now.

Weare those of Q’uo, and believe we are aware of your query, my sister. There is indeed a way that you can take us with you. There is a way that all entities may take us to their hearts and that is simply to ask for our presence. We are not bound by time and space as you know them in this illusion. We are in the now as far as relating to your time and space, for we are metaphysical entities and time to us is unified and circular. Consequently, at any time that you ask mentally for us to interact with you, we shall immediately be there.

We shall not speak. We shall simply be with you, and you will feel the unconditional Love of our vibration. But there is more to it than that, my sister, as you well know. There is in the world of spirit an enormous amount that can never be said in words and while we are using this instrument to create words that hopefully will have some small use to you, we are at the same time doing a much larger job, and that is simply to communicate with you in silence—in the silence between the words and underlying all speech. We are sharing with you in that silence those concepts that cannot be brought into words and language without a tremendous amount of loss. As if you were trying to give someone a beautiful gift and it was this round ball of beautiful concept and yet, when you attempt to bring that concept into words, it is as if you have taken the string that has made that ball and pulled it out, so, in a linear fashion, you can see the thread that made up that ball. It is a long and tedious process compared to the wholeness of concept communication. And that is what we hope to offer those who call upon us any time.

Yet always, our first gift is that of loving and being loved, for we feel your love of us also. So, Love is reflected in love and the Creator’s concepts flow from metaphysical instruments such as we into your heart. We hope that you will enjoy our company for we assure you, my sister, we greatly enjoy yours and are privileged to be called to you at any time. And this goes for all who would call upon us or the entities of the Confederation in general. By all means, make use of us for we are here for only one reason and that is to interact with you at this time when you are trying to get your spiritual feet under you and to make the difference that you came here to make. And may we say, my sister and all, you cannot fail; you cannot err; because as long as you breathe in and breathe out and love, you are doing what you came to do and you are doing it very well.

T2: I’m feeling a very strong connection to you right now and I’m wondering if there is a way that I can carry this connection when I’m on my own because I’m not in Kentucky all the time, and I’m not sitting in this room all the time. I feel that there is a lot that I can gain in working to reach and touch you in a manner similar to what I feel right now. Q’uo began by saying  there is a way that you can take us with you and a way that all entities may take us to their hearts, and that is to ask for our presence because we are not bound by time and space as you know them in this illusion, so we are in the now as far as relating to your time and space, for we are metaphysical entities, and time to us is unified and circular, and at any time that you ask mentally for us to interact with you, we shall be there. Q’uo went on to say we shall not speak, but we shall be with you, and you will feel the unconditional Love of our vibration, but there is in the world of spirit that which can never be said in words, and while we are using Carla to create words that will have some use to you, we are at the same time doing a larger job, and that is to communicate with you in the silence between the words, and we are sharing with you those concepts that cannot be brought into words without a great loss, as if you were trying to give someone a gift, and it was this round ball of beautiful concepts, and when you attempt to bring those concepts into words, it is as if you have taken the string that has made that ball and pulled it out, so, in a linear fashion, you can see the thread that made up that ball, and it is a long process compared to the wholeness of concept communication, and that is what we hope to offer those who call upon us any time. Then Q’uo said our first gift is that of loving and being loved, for we feel your love of us also, so Love is reflected in love and the Creator’s concepts flow from metaphysical instruments such as we into your heart, and we hope that you will enjoy our company, for we assure you that we enjoy yours and are privileged to be called to you at any time, and this goes for all who would call upon us or the entities of the Confederation in general, so make use of us for we are here for only one reason, and that is to interact with you at this time when you are trying to get your spiritual feet under you and to make the difference that you came here to make, and may we say, my sister and all, you cannot fail because as long as you breathe in, and breathe out, and love, you are doing what you came to do, and you are doing it very well. On January 30, 1983, Hatonn said that we cannot fail on our spiritual journey:

Do not be afraid to choose, my friends. Do not fear that which is called the failure by many of your peoples, for there is in truth no such thing as failure. There may be instances wherein your choices shall not yield the results which you had hoped they would yield when you made the choices. Yet this is only a function of your imperfect understanding of what it is that will truly benefit your evolution in mind, body, and spirit. Rest within the assurance that you cannot fail as you choose, and choose, and continue to choose the path which you travel. You do not understand the complete overview, shall we say, of your journey, for this is not the density of understanding. You operate within a forgetting that increases the value, shall we say, of the choices that you make and the path that you travel in your total beingness.

Therefore, forget you the fear of failure. Choose and continue to choose fearlessly then, knowing that each choice has the opportunity to teach. And if you will listen with your inner being, discern with your mind, and join the two in meditation, you shall lead yourself through your own choices along that path which is the most efficacious for the growth that you so earnestly seek at this time.

May we ask if there is a follow-up to that query, my sister? We are those of Q’uo.

T2: The only thing I can say right now is thank you. Thank you.

We are those of Q’uo, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time? We are those of Q’uo.

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Carla channeling)

It would seem that we have exhausted those queries that entities wished to ask at this time, and that being so, we shall leave you as we found you, in the love and in the light, the peace and the power of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of the principle of Q’uo. We thank you once again for the pleasure of your company and the beauty of your sacred space that you have created by your interwoven auras. My friends, we wish you could see how beautiful you truly are. You lift our hearts, and we praise you for your courage. Again, we leave you in love and in light. We are those of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I mixed equal portions of sugar and water and then put them in a pot to heat on the stove so that they were blended evenly, and then I put them in three hummingbird feeders. Then I went outside and hung one on the back deck, one on a nail on the corner of the garage, and the other one on a low limb of the Pawpaw tree by the driveway. It is usually this time of year that hummingbirds first appear, and I am hopeful of seeing some feeding at my feeders in the near future.

This afternoon I ran some errands with my first stop at Absolutely Nails to make an appointment to get a haircut tomorrow. My second stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market to buy some food. My third stop was at Feeder’s Supply where I bought some birdseed and some AquaSafe for the fishpond. My last stop was at Thieneman’s Nursery were I bought 84 Sunpatiens which I hope to begin transplanting in the Flower Fall Mound on the south side the front yard.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 16

At One With Love

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

Become very quiet. This moment is the linchpin of your busy day. This is your moment of communion. This is your heavenly meal.

For in this silence, in this moment, as your heart opens its inner door, so may you become Christed, at one with Love. Thus, the roots of your spirit are fed, and you are given the strength to do that which it is for you to do this day.

Perhaps you will move very quickly this day. The spirit moves quickly with you. Remember as the day goes by to touch into that place of communion in the heart, and you will find that Love is always with you, as Jesus the Christ said, until the end of the age.

Root yourself in heaven, and give your fruit to the world of the Creator that many think is the world of humankind. Let the smile upon your face be a smile knowing of the untruth of a world ever without Love.

For Love is in the midst of you. Love has created you. Love sustains you. And Love will give you work to do. At the end of your silence, at the end of your listening, go gladly to that work and rejoice that you are alive to experience the Love in this day, with these challenges.

We leave you in love and peace, now and forever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from March 18, 2007:

Jim: The question today is from Carla, and it states: “Q’uo, I have been writing a book about Confederation principles. It is about how third density works. In discussing these principles, I have found it helpful to offer them as information helpful to playing the ‘Game of Life.’ It is a sacred game yet it is definitely a game. “The issue of self-worth and dignity has been much on my mind of late. In a way, one could say that in framing life as a game, I have taken away its dignity and taken it lightly. I do not mean to do so. I believe this game to be most worthy. Could you offer me any spiritual principles that may aid me in finding the best way to talk about the worthiness of the game board?”

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as Q’uo. 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, as always, a blessing and a privilege to be with this circle of seeking. We appreciate your calling us to be a part of your meditation, and we are happy to share our thoughts with you at this time. As always, we would request that each who hears these words uses his powers of discrimination to distinguish between those thoughts that are helpful and those that are not. We appreciate your consideration in this regard.

Your query this day is an interesting one. There is a certain amount of care which we shall need to take in responding because of the part of the puzzle that must be worked by the one asking the question. We do not wish to infringe upon the free will of the asker of the question, and we will refrain from doing so. However, there is, because of your asking about spiritual principles, much upon which we can comment. We shall do so in ways that do not infringe upon the free will of this instrument, who is the asker of the question. The concept of games is indeed normally associated with some form of amusement or entertainment. However, the entertainment and amusement value of a game is only part of its appeal to a player of a game. There is in humankind a tendency to wish to associate in groups. Once a group associates, it will spontaneously develop at first a rough and then, as time goes on, a more and more refined set of rules to govern the interactions of the members of that group.

Yourthird density is a relentlessly social density. There is literally no way an entity can avoid interacting with other entities of your species. Living upon the third density of planet Earth requires a society. There is an inevitable tendency within the mind of humankind towards creating games; that is, groups of people who are attempting to win something or to gain in some way and who are attempting to do so together. When this instrument chose the image of the game and extended it as a metaphor throughout the writing of the book, the fit was good because of the fact that, in terms of winning a common goal—that is, graduation from third density to fourth density positive—there is a process which follows a certain set of rules in which an entity can succeed in penetrating the game by means of learning, understanding and applying the rules of the game.

Therefore, from our point of view, using the image and the figure of the game is a good decision in terms of communicating, by means of familiar and comfortable structures, the massive structure of the Game of Life, as this instrument has termed it in her book. If one looks carefully at the great systems of thought that have attempted to describe the nature of life on planet Earth, the nature of humanity’s place in the cosmos or the nature of being itself, one may find in many different authors of many different systems of thought a structure emerging which defines the rules of the game which that particular philosophy set out to solve. There is a stigma attached to the word “game” because of its association with amusement and entertainment. And yet it is likely that each entity who reads these words will have systematically played games with himself as a means of coping and moving through life.

The question today is from Carla, and it states: “Q’uo, I have been writing a book about Confederation principles. It is about how third density works. In discussing these principles, I have found it helpful to offer them as information helpful to playing the ‘Game of Life.’ It is a sacred game, yet it is definitely a game. The issue of self-worth and dignity has been much on my mind of late. In a way, one could say that in framing life as a game, I have taken away its dignity and taken it lightly. I do not mean to do so. I believe this game to be most worthy. Could you offer me any spiritual principles that may aid me in finding the best way to talk about the worthiness of the game board?” Q’uo began by saying there is some care which we need to take in responding to your query because of the part of the puzzle that must be worked by Carla because we do not wish to infringe upon her free will, and we will refrain from doing so, but there is, because of her asking about spiritual principles, much upon which we can comment in ways that do not infringe upon her free will, and the concept of games is normally associated with some form of entertainment, but the entertainment value of a game is only part of its appeal to a player of a game since there is in humankind a tendency to wish to associate in groups, and once a group gathers, it will spontaneously develop a rough and then a more refined set of rules to govern the interactions of the members of that group. Q’uo went on to say our third density is a social density, and there is no way we can avoid interacting with other entities of our species since living upon the third density of Earth requires a society, so there is a tendency within the mind of humankind towards creating games where groups of people who are attempting to win something and who are attempting to do so together, so when Carla chose the image of the game and used it as a metaphor throughout the writing of the book, the fit was good because of the fact that in graduation from third density to fourth density positive there is a process which follows a certain set of rules in which we can succeed in penetrating the game by means of learning and applying the rules of the game. Then Q’uo said from our point of view, using the image of the game is a good decision in terms of communicating the structure of the Game of Life, as Carla has termed it in her book, and if we look at the systems of thought that have attempted to describe the nature of life on Earth, the nature of humanity’s place in the cosmos or the nature of being itself, we may find in many authors of different systems of thought a structure emerging which defines the rules of the game which that particular philosophy set out to solve, but there is a stigma attached to the word “game” because of its association with entertainment, and it is likely that each entity who reads these words will have played games with himself as a means of moving through life. On November 13, 2010, Q’uo described the Game of Life:

You are loved, you are needed, you are full of purpose, and you simply need to let go of any preconceived notions as to how that works and simply engage in life to the best of your ability, as a conscious seeker that understands the power of choice, the power of desire, the power of intention. The universe will begin to perceive you as joining the dance. You will begin to get synchronicities back. You will see repeating numbers. You will see your totem animal. You will see the signs that what you were thinking is important and that what you were thinking just now is especially important, so ponder it.

The universe will begin to help you. You will feel that feedback. And the more you lean into that, the more you will receive it, so that eventually, when someone says, “Well, why do you believe the way you do?” you have almost no ability to explain. Because you are an old, experienced hand at working with the Game of Life now. You understand about choices. You understand about love. You understand about the hall of mirrors in which all things speak to you—people, situations and things—and you are comfortable at last in this game, and enthusiastic to play it.

Forinstance, in school a student may decide that if a paper is ten pages long and is due in two weeks, the student will do a certain amount of work each day, fulfilling the game plan of being ready to write and then producing the paper on time. The strategy of how to get the paper written is a kind of game, and yet it is a quite serious game with a firm intention which has no aspect of entertainment or amusement in it. Rather, it is that which needs to be done in order to fulfill the requirements of the class. One can look at certain situations in life in the same way. For instance, to extend that particular situation, say that the student who is taking that class in college is also a parent and is attempting to work and go to school and take care of a child at the same time. In order to fulfill all of her duties, she will need to arrange her time carefully and if she is wise, this student, mother, and adult will create a game plan where there is a certain amount of time for this and a certain amount of time for that.

Using the figure of the game, the author enables the reader to slip into the story of what this game is about. We cannot estimate how entities will respond to the finished product that is streaming forth from the instrument’s cyber-pen. We cannot know precisely how spirit and she will interact. What we do know, in a sturdy and certain way, is that the worthiness of the game board will be expressed in the way the author and spirit present the material. Coming from a place of infinite respect and devotion to the infinite Creator, it is, in our humble opinion, extremely unlikely that whatever is written will fail in the end to inspire entities with the sense of the sacredness of the game being played.

Sometimes a creative entity can become too close to a project and can begin to question and doubt that which has gone into the creation of the project so far. We encourage the instrument to plow right into any doubts that come her way. And indeed, in general, when there is a second-guessing of a situation, when there is a wondering if something was the right thing to do, by all means give that concern its due. Give it time. Rest with that thought and see where it takes you when you are calm and serene in your mind and in your heart, so that whatever you discover from examining and reexamining an idea will not seem to be a negative thing but a positive thing, even if it causes changes.

We are not suggesting that this instrument should change anything. We are simply suggesting that if she is concerned, or indeed if any who create are concerned, that rather than quickly erasing and deleting and doing things over, there is a time allowed where the entity simply rests in the silence. Indeed, if there is one thing that is most helpful to any who attempts to create spiritually uplifting material, it is to embrace and use the silence. There is a tremendous amount of information that streams into each seeker’s mind and heart every moment. When the intention is set to hear that silent information, the result is instantaneous and enhanced guidance is immediately with the entity who is asking for that silent information. It does not necessarily result in an immediate and conscious realization of something specific that needs to be done. Rather, the nature of spiritual information and insight is that it balances and sets into perspective the events and situations that are being examined.

Now Q’uo said in school a student may decide that if a paper is ten pages long and is due in two weeks, the student will do a certain amount of work each day and then produce the paper on time, and the strategy of how to get the paper written is a serious game with an intention which has no aspect of entertainment in it, but it is that which needs to be done in order to fulfill the requirements of the class, so we can look at certain situations in life in the same way when the student who is taking that class in college is also a parent and is attempting to work, and go to school, and take care of a child at the same time, so in order to fulfill all of her duties, she will need to arrange her time carefully, and if she is wise she will create a game plan where there is a certain amount of time for this and a certain amount of time for that. Then Q’uo said using the idea of the game, the author enables the reader to slip into the story of what this game is about, but Q’uo cannot estimate how entities will respond to the book that is streaming forth from Carla’s cyber-pen or how spirit and she will interact, but what they do know is that the worthiness of the game board will be expressed in the way the author and spirit present the material because coming from a place of respect and devotion to the infinite Creator, it is, in their opinion, unlikely that whatever is written will fail in the end to inspire entities with the sense of the sacredness of the game being played. Q’uo continued by saying sometimes a creative entity can become too close to a project and can begin to doubt that which has gone into the creation of the project so far, so they encouraged Carla to deal with any doubts that come her way, and if there is wondering if something was the right thing to do, give that concern its due, and rest with that thought and see where it takes you when you are calm in your mind and in your heart, so that whatever you discover from reexamining an idea will not seem to be a negative thing but a positive thing, even if it causes changes. Q’uo went on to say we are not suggesting that Carla should change anything, but we are suggesting that if she is concerned, that rather than deleting and doing things over, there is time allowed where she rests in the silence because if there is one thing that is helpful to any who attempts to create spiritually uplifting material, it is to use the silence as there is a tremendous amount of information that streams into each seeker’s mind and heart every moment, so when the intention is set to hear that silent information, the result is enhanced guidance that is immediately with the entity who is asking for that silent information, and it does not necessarily result in a conscious realization of something specific that needs to be done, but the nature of spiritual information and insight is that it balances and sets into perspective the events and situations that are being examined. On April 22, 2007, Q’uo shared the value of seeking the silence:

We would like to ask all of you take a moment now and to become aware, in the silence that follows these words, of the beauty and the perfection of yourselves and of the fact that you are never alone. We ask you to rest in the silence and experience yourself.

We would also like you to open yourself to receiving information at the silent level. As the one known as Joshiah says, silent communication is by far more eloquent than words, for words are poor attempts to translate the mighty and living power of concept into the flat structures of language. We shall now pause. We are those known to you as Q’uo.

[Pause]

We thank you, my friends, for moving with us into this space of grace and sacredness. We of Q’uo are most grateful to be able to share with you on these silent levels. And truly there are many sources of positive information which are also glad to interact with you in the silence. It is, however, always necessary for you to ask for the presence of such entities in your meditations. This is to avoid any infringement upon your free will.

The making of the choice of polarity, either service to others or service to self, is indeed the central aspect of what this instrument has been calling in her book, “The Game of Life.” There is a common goal for all of humankind and that goal is to make The Choice. It is a simple concept, and indeed it is such a simple concept that it has escaped serious consideration except in those institutions which this instrument would call religious. Therefore, in our opinion, the use of this construction is a positive thing. We believe that the worth of that game, in the end, will speak for itself. For in the end, one sees a majestic, rainbow-colored structure of spiritual evolution that begins with this choice. Making this choice is the key to the spiritual development of each seeker for many, many lifetimes to come. And when this instrument chose to create this book, her desire was to get the information across in a simple manner. Consequently, we would encourage this instrument to persevere, without doubting the self, to strive for excellence and to tell the story truly and honestly. The story of love is worth the telling.

We would note before we leave the subject that although it is excellent for this instrument to write this book and for all who wish to serve to share their vision of helpful information, we feel that underlying all such efforts is one’s spirit. If it did not come through this instrument, it would come through another and another, for we do not speak any words that are unique to us except in the precise arrangement of the metaphysics of the information we offer. All of those concepts which are part of stating that the universe is unitary in nature and that, at this point in the development of humankind, it is time to make the choice of service to others or service to self, can be found in many different repositories of inspirational knowledge. Consequently, we suggest working through inspiration, rather than through any heavy feelings that there is an urgency or that time is short. These energies will not serve a spiritually oriented project, for they are the energies of fear. We would instead suggest, to all who wish to serve, serenity and acceptance of any given limitations in an absolute determination to see the project through to its natural end, in order that the baby that has been created may be birthed and shared with the world.

Then Q’uo said the making of the choice of polarity, either service to others or service to self, is the central aspect of what Carla has been calling in her book, “The Game of Life,” and there is a common goal for all of humankind, and that goal is to make The Choice, and it is a concept that has escaped consideration except in those institutions which Carla calls religious, so the use of this construction is a positive thing, and the worth of that game will speak for itself, for in the end making this choice is the key to the spiritual development of each seeker for many lifetimes to come, and when Carla chose to create this book, her desire was to get the information across in a simple manner, so we would encourage her to persevere, without doubting herself, and to tell the story truly and honestly because the story of love is worth the telling. Q’uo continued by saying we would say that although it is excellent for Carla to write this we feel that underlying the seeker’s efforts is one’s spirit, and if it did not come through Carla it would come through another, for we do not speak any words that are unique to us except in the precise arrangement of the metaphysics of the information we offer, and all of those concepts which are part of stating that the universe is unitary in nature and that it is time to make the choice of service to others or service to self can be found in many different sources of inspirational knowledge, so we suggest working through inspiration, rather than through any feelings that time is short because these energies will not serve a spiritually oriented project, for they are the energies of fear, and we would suggest, to all who wish to serve, acceptance of any limitations in a determination to see the project through to its natural end, in order that the baby that has been created may be birthed and shared with the world. On March 18, 1990, Q’uo spoke of the value of being able to accept limitations in our lives:

We speak directly to this particular instrument as well as in general to all, for this instrument has recently moved through the concepts of authority, limitation, and the making of decisions and it has discovered, and you will discover, the positive and the negative necessity of the acceptance of limitations being the beginning of the true choosing of that which is good to do for the self, and that which is kind to yield to for the self. It takes more patience than many have to wait upon inspiration, for the process of waiting is the process of forgiving the self for the limitation it has, and a beginning to believe that the change that is occurring is not a limitation, but a transformation, an alteration of the path of service intended by yourself and the Creator together before this incarnational experience was ever begun.

May we ask if there is another query at this time?

Jim: D asks: “I read a little of Walter Russell’s work, and he mentioned in his treatise on light that our universe expands and contracts in 14-billion-year cycles. Could Q’uo comment on this?”

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. May we say that it is good to touch into your wonderful energy. As to this time period suggested by Walter Russell, it is certainly accurate and is a portion of the cyclical energies that create the heartbeat of the one infinite Creator. We would also note that time is a slippery and plastic thing when it is being applied to spiritual time as opposed to physical time. The inadequacies of such measurements are due to that factor.

Is there another query at this time?

Jim: Just one more. A lady by the name of F was asking: “Why have I developed a sensitivity to electromagnetic fields? Is the sensitivity associated with spiritual growth or healing? Can it be used to assist others? Are there any spiritual principles involved which would help me contemplate this question?”

Weare those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my sister. That which is occurring to you, my sister, is a result of what we might call the thinning of the veil, as you have made the choice to awaken and to live life consciously if you can. When such a decision is made, and then when the decision is followed by a persistent series of ethical choices that bolster this decision to be alive, to live from the heart, and to espouse the values of unconditional Love, in time this creates an entirely different inner environment within that entity who was before comfortably asleep and is now wide awake and alert. Spiritual work is expressed in each seeker’s physical body in different ways. Some people experience electrical energy moving over their body. Some people experience similar sensations but rather than the sensations being electrical, they are those of being much larger than they actually are, as if, seated in the chair, their bulk became balloon-like and almost floated in the room.

There are as many reactions to increased awareness, and therefore increased energy, as there are people. Your response to the constant bombardment of third-density Earth with fourth-density waves of energy has caused you to have this particular reaction. There is no particular spiritual credit or debit to such sensations. They are a fairly mechanical part of your consciousness waking up and beginning to investigate who it is, who you are, what you are doing here, and so forth. We encourage you, my sister, to move right along with your investigation and not to be dismayed by the variations in your awareness of electromagnetic energies.

You will of course need to find out how to be comfortable with these sensations, but we would suggest encouraging cooperation in a fearless and joyful way with the symptoms when they occur. As to their being useful, this is something which we cannot discuss other than to say that it is a good question for you to ask yourself. It is a good avenue of inquiry to pursue in your personal process. We wish you and all of those who are awakening and feeling somewhat disquieting symptoms of this type the courage to move forward without fear. For these are momentary and light symptoms of an awakening heart and nervous system, shall we say. It is as though, when you awaken spiritually, your energy body gets a chance to stretch and breathe and bloom. So, you are in the process of helping your energy body to achieve a real maturity and many-petaled beauty. And we encourage you, and all who would seek, to serve and to learn.

F asked: “Why have I developed a sensitivity to electromagnetic fields? Is the sensitivity associated with spiritual growth or healing? Can it be used to assist others? Are there any spiritual principles involved which would help me contemplate this question?” Q’uo said that which is occurring to you is a result of the thinning of the veil, as you have made the choice to awaken and to live life consciously, and when the decision is followed by a series of ethical choices that strengthen this decision to live from the heart, and to express the values of unconditional Love, this creates a different inner environment within that entity who was asleep and is now awake, and spiritual work is expressed in the physical body in different ways, so some people experience electrical energy moving over their body, and some people experience similar sensations, but they feel larger than they are, and their bulk became balloon-like and floated in the room. Then Q’uo said there are as many reactions to increased awareness and increased energy as there are people, so the response to the bombardment of third-density Earth with fourth-density waves of energy has caused you to have this reaction, and there is no spiritual credit or debit to such sensations since they are a mechanical part of your consciousness waking up and beginning to investigate who you are and what you are doing here, and we encourage you to move with your investigation and not to be dismayed by the variations in your awareness of electromagnetic energies. Q’uo continued by saying you will need to find out how to be comfortable with these sensations, but we would suggest cooperation in a joyful way with the symptoms when they occur, and as to their being useful, this is something which we cannot discuss other than to say that it is a good avenue of inquiry to pursue in your personal process, and we wish you and all of those who are awakening and feeling symptoms of this type the courage to move forward without fear, for these are momentary and light symptoms of an awakening heart and nervous system, and it is as though, when you awaken spiritually, your energy body gets a chance to breathe and bloom, so you are in the process of helping your energy body to achieve a maturity and beauty, and we encourage you, and all who would seek, to serve and to learn. On May 25, 2019, Q’uo described how fourth-density vibrations can affect our energy body:

We would suggest that as you are in your meditative state and experiencing the expansive qualities of your own energy body moving in a greater and greater range of frequencies that are in excess of the normal range for yourself, that there is the, shall we say, interconnection between your energy body, and the vibratory patterns of the planetary sphere that are being expressed in the manner which we were describing in our previous answer to your query about the difficult harvest; for as you are expanding in your own ability to experience and appreciate the vastness of the spiritual searching that your energy body allows you to have, you are also experiencing some of those difficult vibrations that are everywhere present, and which impinge upon the unitive experience that is attempting to manifest itself through your meditative state.

Is there a final query at this time?

[Pause]

If there is no further query at this time, we will take our leave of this instrument and this group, leaving each in the love and the light, the power and the peace, of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I re-recorded the section on Patterns of Choice—The Initial Choice from Chapter Eight of 102. Then I went outside and planted Morning Glories in the center of the cross in the back yard, and then I placed netting around the pyramid made with 8 ft. plastic poles to keep the deer from eating the Morning Glories. Then I went to my mailbox at the end of the parking area in front of my home and planted Morning Glories in the two round containers on the side of the mailbox and covered them with netting. Then I went behind the garage and planted Morning Glories in the four 5 gal. buckets. Then I watered all of the Morning Glories.

This afternoon I re-recorded the section on Repetitions of Choice from Chapter Eight from 102 which completed the re-recording of 102. Then I went outside and dug up the Ruins Mound Garden in preparation for planting some annual flowers there in the next week or so.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 15

You Seek The Uncreated Things

I am of the consciousness of Love, and I greet you in the name of Jesus the Christ.

I am the Spirit, created before all worlds and uncreated, attaching creation to un-creation in the fullness of the Father.

Before your minds lie things created. And yet you seek the uncreated things, that which you call the mystery. You need seek no further than the depths and recesses of your being. Each soul is uncreated as well as created, potential as well as active, unstructured as well as infinite, full and whole, with a wholeness of that which is not created but merely is a gift.

For Love is that substance which not only is created but creates its own creation from itself. Never fear that you shall lack, in the Spirit of Love, to be able to offer Love in any amount if you but seek the uncreated strength and fullness of the spirit of Jesus Christ. Infinity lies within you and Light which seems inaccessible to the eyes is accessible in prayer.

We leave you in the peace of wholeness, now and ever.

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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from February 18, 2007:

The question this week has to do with the various religions that we have on planet Earth. They all seem to have a center of truth, but each religion also seems to have a number of adherents who interpret it their own way and who become fanatic in one way or another, trying make the religion into a dogma, to say this is the way and the only way. Is this a human trait? And how can we really know what is the true path for each of us? It seems like each of us has that spark of the Creator in us that recognizes truth, and we are more reminded of truth than informed of truth. Can Q’uo give us some general principles as to how look at the various religions and how to find what is “the way” for us?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings, my friends, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this day. Thank you for creating a circle of seeking. Thank you for inviting us to join that circle. Thank you for the excellent question concerning how each seeker may find his own way amidst the welter of seemingly disparate theories of who God is and what the nature of creation is. It is our privilege to share our thoughts with you on this interesting subject. As always, we would ask that each entity listen carefully for resonance, not only in the things we have to say but in listening to all opinion from whatever source. You are fully able to feel that resonance and that spark of interest and we would encourage you to wait for that resonance and that spark rather than taking everything that we have to say as being equally useful. We thank you for this discrimination on each of your parts. It allows us to speak our thoughts to you without being concerned that we will inadvertently infringe upon your free will or disturb your sacred process of evolution in mind, body and spirit.

Youask this day concerning how to wend your way amidst the amazing array of religious and philosophical opinion concerning the nature of the Godhead, the nature of creation, and the nature and purpose of human life. In former days we would not have been able to have such a simple beginning to a discourse upon this subject. The progress of your science has enabled us to have a fairly straightforward entry into the doorway of the nature of the created universe. Investigation has shown that which seems to be solid matter is actually made up largely of a plenum ¹ or a space in which there is no mass, very thinly populated by energy vortices. These energy vortices are the atoms and molecules that make up the cells of your body as well as the material of all other things that you can see, feel, touch, taste, and smell.

These energy fields cooperate together and nest within one another in various ways according to the nature of attraction and repulsion, forming the universe that you see. Scientific inquiry has proven that all parts of the universe communicate and are connected with all other parts of the universe, so that the universe is one thing. This is not given to you by priests or prophets but by your scientists, who have become the priests and prophets of your culture, if we may give it that name. What is the nature, then, of these vibratory patterns that arrange themselves hierarchically so as to create orders of magnitude, creating everything from the atoms and molecules within the cells of your body to the star systems within your galaxy? We of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator have identified the nature of these hierarchically unitive and harmonious energy fields as being that of Love.

The energy that created the stars is that of Love. The energy that created you is the energy of Love. That does not define Love, for if Love is all that there is, there is nothing to which to compare it. There’s nothing from which to contrast it. In its undistorted form it is forever a mystery, unable to be plumbed by centers of consciousness which are aware of themselves. The truth of the universe lies most profoundly in the unknowable reaches of the mystery of the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator. Yet the universe is unitive. And it is unitive in a certain way. It is unitive holographically. Any one spark of the infinite Creator contains the entire nature of the one infinite Creator. Every cell of your body sings the song of the one infinite Creator. The suns in their courses sing the song of the one infinite Creator. There is fullness to the universe that is intense, as if every particle and iota of the universe were stuffed to bursting with the Love and the Light of life. You experience life as you breathe in and breathe out. And you ask what this experience is, for you are aware of yourself. And certainly you have many, many voices in your ear, happy to explain precisely what life is and how to live that life in a good way.

The group question for this session was: “It seems like each of us has that spark of the Creator in us that recognizes truth, and we are more reminded of truth than informed of truth. Can Q’uo give us some general principles as to how look at the various religions and how to find what is “the way” for us?” Q’uo began by saying we ask this day concerning how to wend our way among the various religious and philosophical opinions concerning the nature of God, the nature of creation, and the purpose of human life, and in former days Q’uo would not have been able to have a simple beginning to a study upon this subject, but the progress of our science has enabled them to have a basic entry into the nature of the created universe so that investigation has shown that which seems to be solid matter is actually made up largely of space in which there is no mass and is populated by energy vortices which are the atoms and molecules that make up the cells of our body as well as the material of all other things that you can see, feel, touch, taste, and smell. Then Q’uo said these energy fields cooperate together and nest within one another in various ways according to the nature of attraction and repulsion, forming the universe that we see, and scientific inquiry has proven that all parts of the universe communicate and are connected with all other parts of the universe, so that the universe is one thing, but this is not given to us by prophets but by our scientists, who have become the prophets of our culture, so: “What is the nature, then, of these vibratory patterns that arrange themselves hierarchically so as to create orders of magnitude, creating everything from the atoms and molecules within the cells of your body to the star systems within your galaxy?” So Q’uo said we of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator have identified the nature of these hierarchically unitive and harmonious energy fields as being that of Love. Q’uo continued by saying the energy that created the stars is that of Love, and the energy that created us is the energy of Love, but that does not define Love, for if Love is all that there is, there is nothing to which to compare it or from which to contrast it so that in its undistorted form it is forever a mystery, and the truth of the universe lies in the unknowable reaches of the mystery of the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator, and yet the universe is unitive holographically, and any spark of the infinite Creator contains the entire nature of the infinite Creator, and every cell of our body sings the song of the one infinite Creator, and it is as if every particle of the universe were stuffed to bursting with the Love and the Light of life which we experience as we breathe in and breathe out, and we have many voices in our ear, happy to explain what life is and how to live that life in a good way. On February 14, 1993, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the infinite Creator:

The most comprehensive definition of life is this life is manifestation. To put this another way, life is movement. Because we do not feel that this basic a definition is helpful, we shall go further, but it is well to remember that all that is, is alive—that all was created by a thought which was the character and nature of the infinite Creator. This thought we call Love, for there is no appropriate designation. However, this Love is as terrible as it is filled with wonder, and loves as passionately destruction as it does creation, for the Love that is the nature of the Father, shall we say, is a Love that embraces the creation as a whole process, so that all phases of this movement are equally lovely.

Please understand, as you look back over some of your more difficult experiences with authority figures who have attempted to tell you what to believe, that every entity who seeks to serve the infinite Creator can fall into what the one known as T called “the trap” of teaching in such a way as to constrict the energies of those listening to his words. Let us look at that energy of the authority figure who wishes to teach well, in order to come into a more compassionate and charitable understanding of what drives such an entity. An entity who is moved and inspired by whatever agency, personality, or inspired writing becomes aware of himself in a special way. He becomes aware of how alive he is, and he thinks, “I must give this gift, this wonderful life I feel, to others! I must pass on this wonderful inspiration that is given to me!” There is generally no intention of doing anything other than the purest of good. However, the trap of dogma is always waiting for the teacher.

It is a wise teacher indeed who is able to differentiate between his personal experiences with the divine and that which is helpfully expressed concerning seeking the divine. In a world that wishes to codify, organize, and arrange life in an orderly manner, the mystical view, which is found at the heart of all religions and many philosophies as well, while greatly appealing, is found cumbersome and awkward to teach. When you’re speaking of something that is indescribable and ineffable, words fail. The human tendency, then, is to apply an organization to the mystery of the one Creator. And different religions have had different reasons to create different structures of belief, which have hardened into dogma. If the Creator is infinite Love and infinite Light, and if the creation is evolving continuously forever, then there is continuously more of truth than there was before. Consciousness is continuously expanding. The problem with any dogma, then, is that it cannot re-form itself to hold the new truth that is flowing forth at every moment from the creative principle.

As the seasons change, as the grass blooms and withers again and again, so the consciousness of humankind evolves and grows. You are a point of that consciousness. You have access in your very nature, in every cell of your body, in every thought that you think to the one infinite Creator in its undistorted form. Yet that truth lies deeply protected in you. It is protected from your casual thoughts. It is protected from the stormy seas of your daily, conscious experience. It is protected by its placement within your heart. The mind and all of its intellectual forces cannot storm the bastion of the open heart. Entities, then, seeking to share bits of their truth with others, become invested in this codified, formalized, organized structure of thoughts that add up to a way to seek the one infinite Creator. With the gift of hindsight, scholars have often pontificated as to where a certain religion went wrong or how a certain religion has everything right. Yet as soon as the seeking for the one infinite Creator becomes codified and organized beyond a certain point, it can be a delimiting influence rather than an expansive influence.

Then Q’uo said as they look back over some of our difficult experiences with authority figures who have attempted to tell us what to believe, to please understand that every entity who seeks to serve the infinite Creator can fall into “the trap” of teaching in such a way as to constrict the energies of those listening to his words, so Q’uo wanted to look at that energy of the authority figure who wishes to teach well in order to come into a more compassionate understanding of what drives such an entity because an entity who is moved and inspired by whatever personality or inspired writing becomes aware of himself in a special way, aware of how alive he is, and he thinks, “I must give this gift, this wonderful life I feel, to others! I must pass on this wonderful inspiration that is given to me!” And there is no intention of doing anything other than the purest of good, but the trap of dogma is always waiting for the teacher. Now Q’uo said it is a wise teacher who is able to differentiate between his personal experiences with the divine and that which is expressed in seeking the divine, and in a world that wishes to arrange life in an orderly manner, the mystical view, which is found at the heart of all religions and many philosophies as well, is found awkward to teach, so when you are speaking of something that is indescribable words fail, and the human tendency is to apply an organization to the mystery of the one Creator, and different religions had different reasons to create different structures of belief which have hardened into dogma, but if the Creator is infinite Love and Light, and if the creation is evolving forever, then there is always more truth than there was before since consciousness is continuously expanding, so the problem with any dogma is that it cannot re-form itself to hold the new truth that is flowing forth at every moment from the Creative principle. Q’uo went on to say as the seasons change the consciousness of humankind evolves and grows, and we are a part of that consciousness since we have access in every cell of our body and in every thought that we think about the one infinite Creator in Its undistorted form, yet that truth lies protected in us from our casual thoughts and by its placement within our heart, and the mind and all of its intellectual forces cannot take over our open heart so that when entities, seeking to share bits of their truth with others, become invested in this organized structure of thoughts that add up to a way to seek the one infinite Creator, scholars have often taught as to where a certain religion went wrong or how a certain religion has everything right, but as soon as the seeking for the one infinite Creator becomes organized beyond a certain point, it can be a limiting influence rather than an expansive influence. On January 2, 1994, Q’uo describe the nature of our open heart:

The open heart of the great Self which each self is is that center which is a unity. All of the portions of the Creator, shall we say rather misleadingly, seem to themselves to be in time and space each unique, each separate and each apart. Yet, in truth, the center of the constellations is the open heart. All measurement, all numbering, all ways of detailing and patterning the observed creation fall to dust before the open heart. Love is of a certain nature. The fullness, breadth, depth and height of the nature of Love is both revealed and concealed by its visibility and ready accessibility for each self contains this center without distortion within the open heart.

Many churches and many different religions decide to bypass the intellect and rest upon the opening of the heart. They engage in song after song that praises the one infinite Creator within the language and clothing of that particular religion. Their members are perhaps encouraged to pray out loud and to become ecstatic. And in the surging of the rhythmic cadences of the songs, in the prayers and the praise, the Love and Light of the one infinite Creator seem palpable. And therefore, the experience of those seeking the Creator in these ways has a certain amount of purity to it which is missing from those more intellectually organized religions where the mind is the tool used to probe at the meaning of life, of what it is to be a human being and what it is to serve the one infinite Creator. Interestingly enough, Love is the one great force that all entities know intimately, but which resists definition completely. And indeed, to attempt to use words to describe Love is to attempt to build a great edifice out of pebbles.

Love is all that there is. That one Thought is the creation. And you have a port on the ocean of that Thought in your heart of hearts. Therefore, you are as equipped as any entity in the universe to seek the one infinite Creator. You have primary access to the direct experience of the Creator. And indeed, it was for that purpose that you came into this illusion. You are gathering information. You are working with that information according to the biases of your personality and your desires. And as you gather your life experiences, each of you makes choices which open to you a way to move forward and to progress. And each of you has had this experience of awakening and coming to the realization that you are a truly powerful entity, able to question and able to seek. Once an entity has awakened and has begun to ask the deeper questions, a rhythm begins to occur between Creator and created. The asking and the answering becoming as entwined as a heartbeat, in and out, pulsing, pulsing, pulsing, so that as you ask, so you receive; as you ask, so you receive.

It is instantaneous and constant in your life. You have at each heartbeat, at each breath, the opportunity to ask and the opportunity to receive an answer. The sticking point here is that that answer comes within the mystery of silence. And it oozes up into your conscious experience almost as a surprise to you. You have learned by osmosis. You have soaked up the truth. And as you live out your life you discover what you are learning as it shows up in your thinking. And many are the epiphanies and “aha’s” of a spiritual life in which the seeker is content to let this teaching occur mostly in the silence of meditation, contemplation and the deep resting in whatever practices create for you personally a sacred chamber in which to tell the secrets of your heart to the loving ears of the one infinite Creator.

Now Q’uo said many religions bypass the intellect and rest upon the opening of the heart, and they engage in song after song that praises the one infinite Creator within the language of that religion, and their members are encouraged to pray out loud and to become ecstatic, so in the surging of the rhythmic cadences of the songs, in the prayers and the praise, the Love and Light of the one infinite Creator seem palpable, and the experience of those seeking the Creator in these ways has a certain purity to it which is missing from those more intellectually organized religions where the mind is the tool used to probe at the meaning of life and what it is to serve the one infinite Creator so that Love is the one great force that all entities know intimately, but to attempt to use words to describe Love is to attempt to build a great edifice out of pebbles. Q’uo went on to say Love is all that there is; that one Thought is the creation; and we have a port on the ocean of that Thought in our heart of hearts, so we have access to the experience of the Creator, and it was for that purpose that we came into this illusion, and as we gather our life experiences, each of us makes choices which open to us a way to progress so that each of us has had this experience of awakening and coming to the realization that we are a truly powerful entity, and once we have awakened and have begun to ask the deeper questions, a rhythm begins to occur between Creator and created, and the asking and the answering becoming as entwined as a heartbeat, so that as we ask, so we receive. Q’uo continued by saying it is instantaneous and constant in our life, and at each heartbeat, at each breath, we have the opportunity to ask and to receive an answer, but the sticking point is that that answer comes within the mystery of silence, and it oozes up into our conscious experience as a surprise to us because we have learned by soaking up the truth, and as we live out our life we discover what we are learning as it shows up in our thinking, and many are the epiphanies of a spiritual life in which we are content to let this teaching occur in the silence of meditation, contemplation, and the deep resting in whatever practices create for us a sacred chamber in which to tell the secrets of our heart to the loving ears of the one infinite Creator. On February 15, 2004, Q’uo spoke as to how we may experience epiphanies in our life:

Which is that direction which wants you as much as you wish it? It is a matter of asking and asking again, centering and asking, centering and asking, until the life process contains the centering and the asking, the centering and the asking far beyond even a habit and more into a way of breathing life in and breathing life out. Ask… rest… ask… rest… as a way of being, so that you are asking yourself to open to the sense of rightness, the sense of resonance that you may get through your body and any of your senses, within your heart and various energy centers, in those signs and wonders which mean something subjectively to you personally. When the asking has become a part of the in breath and the resting has become a part of the out breath and the time between breaths, then you have entered a state of mind, a way of being, that has the best possibility of bringing to you a richer load or harvest of information concerning the issue about which you are asking. Sometimes it is a very subtle thing and occurs over a period of time, while in other cases there are sudden and sharp epiphanies in which whole systems of the future are seen for the first time in wonderful delineation.

It is never known ahead of time what pattern shall emerge from the chaos of asking without expectation. Yet, when it comes, there is that sense of a converging pattern that will let you know that the pieces, as the one known as S said, seem to be coming together. Chaos seems to be melting into a certain quantum, a certain situation that has, to say it one way, the blessing of guidance; to say it another way, the resonance of a good pattern that fits within those parameters of your incarnation which you set up before birth. It is not that there is a fate laid out for you. The possibilities are always infinite. It is that you have created for yourself what this instrument would loosely call a mission, a personal plan of service and learning. And, when that mission is being materially addressed, with whatever success, there is a sense of being in the right place that is unmistakable

Youare consciousness. It is not something you possess. It is not a characteristic of you. Consciousness lives your life to the extent you can get the details of your personality out of the way. And yet the details of your personality are all valuable. Therefore, the perfectly natural desire of the intensely devoted student to cast aside the personality and devote the self entirely to the silence is, for most entities, a solution that shall not be satisfying. For most entities, each coloration and quirk of the personality is there for a reason. Each seeming challenge, difficulty, and sorrow that occurs in the life has been placed there not to make you stumble but to help you learn.

Entitieswho give themselves over to a religion and accept its dogma simplify their path in a certain way. And if they are able to dwell within that simplified structure of thought without falling into the trap of judgment of the self and other selves when they do not believe as do you, they are very likely to be able to use that religion as a way to the infinite Creator that works well. For each religion teaches the basic love of other people and the Love of the one infinite Creator. And if an entity loves the Creator and loves the neighbor as the self, however that is put, the path to graduation from third density is clear. The choices to serve others has been made. The work is good. More and more, however, as entities have matured after many, many incarnations within third density, entities find themselves unable to restrict themselves to the dogma and the canon law of a particular religion. And when entities find themselves unable to do this, then they are set on a new path, a path of their own choosing, a path which they will create themselves. Any entity can create within himself a way, a truth, and a life if he begins and ends with Love.

We would not for all the world criticize or undermine those who are in any religion or believe any philosophy. The paths to the one infinite Creator are as many as the self-conscious beings who seek that Creator. Your way will be unique to you, just as everyone else’s way is unique to them. It helps to see religion for the kind of powerful influence that it is. If you may see the forces of religion to include that of the world as well as that of the starry heavens, then you may see how quickly the energy of a new religion can become heavy and bogged down with dogma and politics. Look at the religion that this instrument understands the best, for it is her own: the Christian church. It began in the mysticism of the Essenes. The one known as Jesus the Christ was trained and trained in the Essene way as well as in the scholarship of the Jewish religion. This entity’s stories and parables were about simple things: being a peacemaker; understanding that he who loves the prisoner, the orphan, the widow, is loving Jesus the Christ; understanding that he who feeds the hungry is feeding Jesus the Christ.

Q’uo went on to say that we are consciousness, but it is not something we possess because consciousness lives our life to the extent we can get the details of our personality out of the way even though the details of our personality are valuable, so the natural desire of the devoted student to cast aside the personality and devote the self entirely to the silence is a solution that shall not be satisfying, for most of us each quirk of our personality is there for a reason, so each challenge that occurs in our life has been placed there to help us learn. Then Q’uo said those who give themselves over to a religion and accept its dogma simplify their path, and if they are able to dwell within that simplified structure of thought without falling into the trap of judgment of the self and other selves when they do not believe as they do, then they are able to use that religion as a way to the infinite Creator that works well, for each religion teaches the basic love of other people and the Love of the one infinite Creator, so if we love the Creator and the neighbor as the self, the path to graduation from third density is clear since the choices to serve others have been made, and the work is good, but as we have matured after many incarnations within third density, we find ourselves unable to restrict ourselves to the dogma of a particular religion, so when we find ourselves unable to do this, then we are set on a new path of our choosing, which we will create, and anyone can create within himself a path of truth and life if they begin and end with Love. Q’uo continued by saying they would not criticize those who are in any religion or believe any philosophy since the paths to the one infinite Creator are as many as the self-conscious beings who seek that Creator, and our way will be unique to us, just as everyone else’s way is unique to them, and it helps to see religion for the kind of powerful influence that it is, so we may see the forces of religion to include that of the world as well as that of the starry heavens, so then we may see how quickly the energy of a new religion can become bogged down with dogma and politics, so if we look at the religion that Carla understands the best, for it is her own–the Christian church–and it began in the mysticism  of Jesus the Christ who was trained in the Essene way as well as in the scholarship of the Jewish religion, so His stories and parables were about simple things: “being a peacemaker; understanding that he who loves the prisoner, the orphan, the widow, is loving Jesus the Christ; understanding that he who feeds the hungry is feeding Jesus the Christ.” On March 13, 1988, Q’uo spoke of the life of Jesus the Christ:

That which the one known as Jesus the Christ exemplified was above all else unconditional Love, a Love so great that It was willing to lay down the Earthly life that others might live eternally. Thus, the pattern was given in a manner which each will approach from a unique point of beginning. Many will find the journey seems to lead in lands far distant from that spoken of by the one known as Jesus the Christ, and yet as each through experience and time moves closer and closer in its seeking towards greater and more refined expressions of that which you call truth, each will find that it moves closer to the heart of that which the one known as Jesus the Christ exemplified, the unconditional Love and compassion that is the gateway through which each shall pass at some point within the evolutionary process.

Jesusasked entities to care for each other and to hold all things in common. There was not in any of his teaching instruction on making a church. Indeed, this entity had no home, and during his peripatetic  ministry, he walked on dusty trails with very little of worldly goods at all. In his name, and in his memory, humankind has created a monstrous, rich, arrogant, political organization with many beautiful buildings which reach to the heavens with their spires and their crosses. Yet within them there is no virtue, except in the hearts of those who still seek the infinite Creator and use those sacred spaces to do so. Look at any new idea and it is alive! It has a dynamic energy to it that excites people, and people want to capture that and pass that on to their children and their children’s children. And so, they make another building, another religion, another code to try to capture that which cannot be captured.

At the same time you must appreciate what religion has done for entities on planet Earth. It has given the intellect something to gnaw on. In many different ways it offers people a chance to meet the Creator. Whether you seek within the bounds of a religion or whether the path upon which you walk is one you have created yourself, your very nature demands that you will meet the Creator, again and again. Things will happen to you that are meaningful to you personally and that move your consciousness from one point to another. Whether you are an indigenous entity that has never read a book, an auto mechanic, a college professor, or the most rarified mystic meditating upon the roof of the world in Nepal or Tibet, you have an equal opportunity to meet the Creator upon the road of your everyday life. Appreciate religion for what it has offered to you and to all. In the mystery of the one infinite Creator there are no roads. There is no way to think upon the sacred. The only opportunity you have is to be the sacred, and therefore to know it from the inside out.

Within churches, and temples, and synagogues, and mosques the world over, you have entities and groups of entities who are dedicated to preserving a certain structure which has been helpful to many entities in their search for the infinite Creator. This instrument, for example, chose long ago, in her childhood, to live a life of faith within the Christian church as the path of her life. As she understands it—as she understood it then and as she understands it now—there was a particular virtue to dedicating her life to Christ. This entity was a devotee in a religion that does not usually have devotees, of that particular kind which this entity is. That is, she was not hungry to soak up the dogma, but rather hungry for the mystery that she felt bursting the bonds of dogma.

Q’uo continued by saying Jesus asked us to care for each other and to hold all things in common, but there was not in any of His teaching instructions on making a church, and He had no home, and during His ministry, He walked on dusty trails with very little of worldly goods, and in His memory humankind has created rich, arrogant, and political organizations with beautiful buildings which reach to the heavens with their spires and their crosses, yet within them there is no virtue, except in the hearts of those who still seek the infinite Creator and use those sacred spaces to do so, and if we look at any new idea it is alive, and it has an energy to it that excites people, and people want to capture that and pass it on to their children and their children’s children, and so they make another building, another religion, another code to try to capture that which cannot be captured. Then Q’uo said at the same time we must appreciate what religion has done for entities on planet Earth by giving the intellect something to think about, and in many ways it offers people a chance to meet the Creator, so whether we seek within the bounds of a religion or whether the path upon which we walk is one we have created our self, our nature demands that we will meet the Creator, again and again, and things will happen to us that are meaningful personally and that move our consciousness from one point to another, so whether we are an indigenous entity that has never read a book, an auto mechanic, or the most rarified mystic meditating upon the roof of the world in Nepal, we have an equal opportunity to meet the Creator upon the road of our everyday life, so we should appreciate religion for what it has offered all of us because in the mystery of the one infinite Creator there are no roads and no way to think upon the sacred, so the only opportunity we have is to be the sacred, and to know it from the inside out. Now Q’uo said within churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques we have groups of entities who are dedicated to preserving a certain structure which has been helpful to many entities in their search for the infinite Creator, and Carla chose in her childhood to live a life of faith within the Christian church as the path of her life, and as she understands it now there was a virtue to dedicating her life to Christ, and she was a devotee in a religion that does not usually have devotees that are not hungry to soak up dogma, but she was hungry for the mystery that she felt bursting the bonds of dogma. On June 24, 2005, Q’uo described the basic nature of dogma:

This instrument was very fortunate. For many people, the only way that they have found to approach their love of the one infinite Creator is to buy, as this instrument would say, hook, line, and sinker, the dogma of a particular sect of a particular religion. For those entities who wish to do this, we may say that it is a valid path to the one infinite Creator. We would point out, however, that it is trammeled and slowed by the dogma which it carries and by those entities which are excluded from the Love and the Light of their Creator, in their story of the Creator, by judgment.

When you see judgment, you know that you have, somehow, lost the way to a true understanding of unconditional Love. The one known as Jesus, this instrument’s Master, hung from the cross, unjustly judged, in the story of its Crucifixion. And, in that story, two thieves and murderers hung, one on each side. And one of those thieves said to the one known as Jesus the Christ, “I know I don’t deserve it, but, Lord, when you come to paradise, will you think of me?” And the one known as Jesus said, “This day you shall be with me in paradise.”

Does your Creator open Its arms and say, “Everybody in”? If so, my friends, you are on the right track. And if you run into an entity whose fear of not making that heavenly gate is such that it must cling to judgment, then bless that entity on its way and find ways to relate to that entity as a soul and not as a personality. Lift up beyond the details of its judgment of you and focus on your total acceptance of it. For it, too, is the Creator. It may have descended into fear. It may have chosen to judge others. And so that entity is creating an Old Testament Creation. But for you, it is a completely different Creation, and you get to judge.

Shall you open your heart in compassion or shall you close it because you can see something that might be amiss in another? You have the power! Forgive, and that entity is forgiven, that entity is lifted up. Choose your judgments well.

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Carla channeling)

Andshe understood that, in any sacred writing, there is a database of inspired thought which bursts the bonds of words when heard again and again in different circumstances of life. And so, this entity lives her “rule of life.” She continues to study the same database, the Holy Bible, which she has studied for her entire life. And yet she has rejected all dogma by conscious decision. Now, each entity can make this kind of choice for himself. And indeed, it is necessary to look carefully, and with the artist’s eye, at how to live a rule of life. We do recommend that each entity create a kind of rule of life for himself. What we cannot recommend is how that rule of life goes. You need to walk your own path, paying attention for that which the moment brings to you.

Some entities are drawn irresistibly to the Christian faith. Some entities are drawn just as irresistibly to the Buddhist faith. There is a path for just about every personality type. And yet all of these paths hold the barest skeleton of truth in its ineffable and mysterious form. All of those structures of thought that religions represent fail. None of them satisfies that thirst to know the truth. This instrument is informing us that we must stop this discussion at this point, so we would end with this thought: you are the possessor of truth, but you do not know that you are. However, the Creator is generous in arranging for you within third density an illusion in which nothing can be known, and yet in which you can come to know with a particularly resonant awareness what your path is or what your truth is. You cannot make it happen. What you can do is to set yourself up in an environment which is capable of holding gnosis, or knowing. Therefore, trust in your own senses, sensings, thoughts, and feelings. As you seek to awaken, to seek and to serve, listen and look for the resonances that tell you that you are on the path that is for you. Once you start looking for resonance, you will find that the creation is full of information for you. And the more that you practice listening, the more that you can hear of the voices that are speaking to you in every moment. We lift you up and honor you in our thoughts and in our hearts. For you have the courage to probe the darkness, knowing that there is nothing but Light. We wish you well on your seeking, and thank you for the opportunity to share these humble thoughts with you as you go upon your way.

Q’uo said Carla understood that, in any sacred writing, there is a database of inspired thought which bursts the bonds of words when heard again and again in different circumstances of life, and she lives her “rule of life” by continuing to study the Holy Bible, which she has studied for her entire life, and she has rejected all dogma by conscious decision, and each of us can make this kind of choice for our self, and it is necessary to look carefully with the artist’s eye at how to live a rule of life, and Q’uo recommended that each of us create a rule of life for our self, but what they cannot recommend is how that rule of life goes because we need to walk our own path, paying attention to that which the moment brings to us. Then Q’uo said some entities are drawn to the Christian faith, and some are drawn to the Buddhist faith, so there is a path for just about every personality type, but all of these paths hold the barest skeleton of truth in its mysterious form because all of those structures of thought that religions represent fail as none of them satisfies our thirst to know the truth, and we are the possessor of truth, but we do not know that we are, but the Creator is generous in arranging for us within third density an illusion in which nothing can be known, and yet in which we can come to know our path is, but we cannot make it happen. Q’uo completed their reply by saying what we can do is to set our self up in an environment which is capable of holding knowing, so we should trust in our thoughts and feelings, and as we seek to awaken and to serve, look for the resonances that tell us that we are on the path that is for us, and then we will find that the creation is full of information for us, and the more that we practice listening, the more that we can hear of the voices that are speaking to us in every moment, and: “ We lift you up and honor you in our thoughts and in our hearts. For you have the courage to probe the darkness, knowing that there is nothing but Light. We wish you well on your seeking, and thank you for the opportunity to share these humble thoughts with you as you go upon your way.” On April 17, 1983, Hatonn spoke of how there is nothing but Light:

As you sit in meditation, parts of that journey flash before you, colors and visions and the sensation of speed, and any experiences you have had to come to this moment of peace. This is the precious moment of all creation. This instant is the excellent instant, far excelling past or future, for here your heart lies, and your consciousness rests, and you can receive and give forth the breath of creation, Love and Light. In and out you are filled with nothing but Light, nothing but Love. How interesting that you arranged this illusion so that it would be impossible for you to go through your incarnation in this state without renouncing nature, the nature of your body, your mind, and your emotions. Do you trust yourself? If you do, then you must know that you had good reason to hide from yourself the perfection of this moment. There were some points that you wanted to learn better than you knew them before. There were some parts of the spectrum of your Light and your Love that you wished to emphasize and explore.

May we ask if there are other queries at this time? We are those of

Q’uo.

[No further queries.]

We are those of Q’uo, and find that we have exhausted the questions of this group at this time. This leaves us only to say what a pleasure and a privilege it has been to be with you this evening. Your beauty astounds us. Your love of the Creator encourages us. And to be a part of this circle of seeking is a great blessing to us. We leave this instrument and this group in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I re-recorded the section on Synchronicity, Watch the Magic of the Holistic System Unfold from Chapter Eight of 102. Then I ran some errands with my first stop at Big O Tires in Middletown to see if it would be OK for me to have AAA tow Stanley to their parking lot to be worked on at some point this week. So, when I got to my rental car, I called AAA and arranged for a tow truck to tow Stanley to Big O Tires. Then I stopped in at Paul’s Fruit Market to buy some food and some Morning Glory Seeds. It was about 15 minutes after I got home that the tow truck arrived, and it towed Stanley to Big O Tires and left it in their parking lot. I gave Big O Tires the keys to Stanley and then drove out to Enterprise Rental Cars to return the Mirage rental car. Before I went in I called for a taxi to take me back to Big O Tires because I had just gotten a call from Big O Tires telling me that the problem with Stanley was the battery that was installed in February. I waited over half an hour, but no taxi showed up, so I was lucky that Enterprise Rental had a fellow who drove their van to take a couple of fellows to their hotel, and they said he could take me back to pick up Stanley. After I paid for the new battery the Big O Tire employee told me that it was well known that AAA installs used batteries in cars that they have been called to replace batteries in.

This afternoon I went out to the center of the cross in the back yard and took down the old netting on the four 8-foot poles that made a pyramid that I planted Morning Glories on last year, and then I dug up the ground in preparation for planting the Morning Glory seeds that I bought this morning. Then I went to get a tool to finish the putting up of the poles in the pyramid, and I noticed the fishpond pump had come apart from the tube that leads to the fountain, and it was pumping water out of the fishpond. So, I used a razor blade to cut a line through the duct tape around the tube and then used pliers to pull the duct off the tubing. Then I put super glue in the end of the tube and stuck it in the pump opening and taped it all together with new duct tape, and then I filled the pond with enough water to keep the fountain from shooting the water out of the pond.  

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 14

May Your Spirit Speak

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ. I greet you in the full consciousness of Love and in Its Spirit.

As one person looks upon another, creature looks at creature, and Spirit looks at spirit. In the eyes of some the creature is awake and the spirit quite asleep.

In the eyes of others, the spirit has so far awakened that the creature needs no expression, for all has been sublimated to the transformation of spirit. In each glance, in each touch, and in each word with other entities, may your spirit speak mutely and creatively to those about you, and may you rejoice to find the lively Spirit when and where you will.

Indeed, the Spirit is in all. And it is well that all encouragement be given by you, that it may be awakened. To each creature which has the spirit underneath there are awakening and enlivening words and graceful gestures of love and compassion which can be made which do not preach in words but speak volumes to the spirit within others in a sense which goes far deeper than words. Thus, may your spirit speak, and thus may you aid in recreating and transforming all to Spirit.

We leave you in the lively, creative, and transformational peace of the Spirit of Christ.

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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from January 21, 2007:

We saw a movie last week where the hero gave his life to save a friend from a gang of bad guys but he killed a number of bad guys in the process. His intentions were pure to serve and save his friend but his actions were mixed. We would like to ask Q’uo how our polarity is affected when our intentions are good but our actions are mixed.

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as Q’uo. We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this day. Thank you for asking us to join your circle of seeking and to share our thoughts on the workings of intention, action, and polarity. Certainly today, my friends, you ask a rich question and we will attempt to mine this lode of questing as best as we can. As always, we would ask for you to be guardians of your own temple, to be the lions at the gate that do not accept information unless it resonates. If our thoughts resonate to you, then they are yours to work with. If they do not, my friends, please leave them aside. In this way you will safeguard your own free will and make sure that we do not have an undue influence upon your spiritual process. We thank you for this consideration as it allows us to rest in the knowledge that we are not infringing upon free will.

You ask this day concerning the motion picture which this instrument calls The Ninth Configuration and the issues which it raises. Many are the times, when violence is involved, that the intention is relatively pure, as was the anti-hero’s in The Ninth Configuration. Most entities involved in violence, whether personally or on behalf of a group such as a nation-state, are not habitually in a state of rage, anger, or other violent emotions. Most have responded to the need to defend that which they hold dear. In the end, many involved in violence on behalf of their nation-state die attempting to protect their loved ones at home and the safety of the home environment.

While there are those who delight in violence and look for opportunities to be cruel and destructive, by far the majority of entities upon your planet strive towards goodness, truth, and beauty and do not love violence or the dark emotions that surround the physical acting out of aggression against fellow human beings. Your entire planet has a population with ideals and intentions that are far purer and more positive than the actions which they undertake might lead one to believe. In this regard we would note that your culture, with its menu of television shows and motion pictures which demonstrate and even glorify violence, is not geared to aiding its population in the ways of spiritual seeking. Your young ones have violence shown to them in their toys, their programs, and movies, the stories of heroism and valor on the battleground and their video games, in which they are able to achieve a sense of invulnerability as they pretend to kill target after target after target, thereby predisposing their growing minds to the numbing affects of the acceptance of violence as a way of behavior.

And indeed, how many of you have seen violent acts? How many of you, my friends, have had parents who abused either you or those near to you? How many of you in your school days have experienced the bullying on the playground or the less obvious but equal violence of words, meanness, pettiness and rumor spread with delight by those who enjoy victimizing the outsider, the one who does not fit in? This adds up to an atmosphere or environment which is pervasively accepting of violence. We do not wish here to move into discussion of a nation’s right to make war in order to defend its principles. This is not the place for that discussion. We look at violence here from the standpoint of the soldier in the trenches and the person on the street, not the society or the governing institutions which help to create the environment which you find yourselves enjoying at this time.

Into this atmosphere and this environment you came, as the one known as William said, “trailing clouds of glory,” from a place of perfect love into the violence-strewn environment of Earth as you find it this day. The clouds of glory depart, the veil falls, and the young child begins to wend its way from absolute unawareness, unconsciousness, and ignorance towards consciousness, awareness and understanding. You are not your environment. Your heritage is not only Earthly. Your genealogy is not only of the blood of Earth. You are citizens of the starry heavens. You hold within you the truth you seek. Safely is it buried beneath the drifts of memory and habit that you have accumulated in this incarnation. Some of you have investigated yourselves enough to have become aware of who you are and why you are here. Some of you have scented that prey of understanding and awareness that you seek and you are after it like a dog on the scent of a fox.

The group question for this session was: “We would like to ask Q’uo how our polarity is affected when our intentions are good, but our actions are mixed.” Q’uo began by saying we ask this day concerning the motion picture which Carla calls The Ninth Configuration and the issues which it raises, and many are the times, when violence is involved, that the intention is pure, as was the anti-hero’s in The Ninth Configuration, but most entities involved in violence, whether personally or on behalf of a group are not habitually in a state of rage or other violent emotions since most have responded to the need to defend that which they hold dear, and in the end, many involved in violence on behalf of their nation-state die attempting to protect their loved ones at home and the safety of the home environment. Then Q’uo said while there are those who delight in violence and look for opportunities to be cruel and destructive the majority of entities upon our planet strive towards goodness, truth, and beauty and do not love the dark emotions that surround the physical acting out of aggression against fellow human beings, and our planet has a population with ideals that are purer and more positive than the actions which they undertake might lead us to believe, so in this regard Q’uo said that our culture, with television shows and motion pictures which glorify violence, is not geared to aiding its population in the ways of spiritual seeking, and our children have violence shown to them in their toys, movies, and their video games, in which they are able to achieve a sense of invulnerability as they pretend to kill target after target, thereby predisposing their minds to the numbing effects of the acceptance of violence as a way of behavior. Now Q’uo asked: “How many of us have seen violent acts? How many of us, my friends, have had parents who abused us or those near to us? How many of us in our school days have experienced the bullying on the playground or the less obvious but equal violence of words, meanness, pettiness, and rumor spread with delight by those who enjoy victimizing the outsider, the one who does not fit in?” So Q’uo said this adds up to an environment which is completely accepting of violence, and they did not wish to move into discussion of a nation’s right to make war in order to defend its principles since this is not the place for that discussion, and we look at violence here from the standpoint of the soldier in the trenches and the person on the street, not the society or the governing institutions which help to create the environment which we find our selves enjoying at this time. In 33.10-.11, Ra spoke of the principle of using violence to defend a friend in the movie The Ninth Configuration:

Questioner: I will ask you if you are familiar with the motion picture called The Ninth Configuration. Are you familiar with this?

I am Ra. We scan your mind complex and see this configuration called The Ninth Configuration.

Questioner: This motion picture brought out this point of which we have been talking. And the entity, the Colonel, had to make a decision at that point. I was just wondering, with respect to polarity, his polarization. He could have either knuckled under, you might say, to the negative forces, but he chose to defend his friend instead.

Is it possible for you to estimate which is more positively polarizing: to defend the positively oriented entity or to allow the suppression by the negatively oriented entities? Can you answer this even?

I am Ra. This question takes in the scope of fourth density as well as your own, and its answer may best be seen by the action of the entity called Jehoshua, which you call Jesus. This entity was to be defended by its friends. The entity reminded its friends to put away the sword. This entity then delivered itself to be put to the physical death.

The impulse to protect the loved other-self is one which persists through the fourth density, a density abounding in compassion. More than this we cannot and need not say.

We would encourage all of you to persevere in your seeking, taking each day as it comes and letting wisdom and understanding drip into your environment as the dew of heaven falls upon the grass, just as manna fell upon the grass for those who followed Moses. You are not your surroundings or the ideas of those around you. You are one who can take nourishment directly from spirit. You do have a plethora of what this instrument would call bad information. Some of you wonder if there is any possibility of an entity being a truly ethical human being, so compromised is each soul in his own estimation. However, you have sources of good information as well. And so we ask you to take heart. There are several ways to look at ethics. There is the Rhadamanthine way. It is severe and stark. In that system of judgment, which is completely earthly and not at all taking the characteristics of consciousness or infinity, a man who has murdered another is guilty.

In this Rhadamanthine system which informs your present system of courts, justice, checks and balances and so forth, there would be a representative from the victim stating that this man was guilty because he had committed murder. There would be another entity defending the rights of the man on trial saying that this man was acting in self-defense. In this system of justice, the twelve good men and true, as the jury in your legal system is often called, would weigh the sin of murder against the extenuating circumstances and call the entity either guilty or not guilty. In your Earth world, such questions must be settled one way or another, even if there is truth on both sides. And so, a judgment would have been made, the entity undoubtedly being imprisoned for his crime and perhaps himself being killed as part of the severe justice of this type of system.

There is a second way of valuing: intentions versus actions. The one known as Jim was speaking earlier of that segment within the sessions of this group with the one known as Ra where the Ra group stated that the one known as Jesus the Christ was only absolved of his childhood violence when he forgave the thief on the cross beside him and said to him, “This day shall you be with me in paradise.” At this level of looking at the workings of polarity, the one known as Jesus the Christ was in karmic debt from the point in his boyhood where he had done violence to another human being, however unintentionally. Because he had not forgiven himself for that action, he was karmically tied to that action and that entity because of his unwillingness to release himself from the burden of guilt. He was unwilling to forgive himself of his sin. And we use that word “sin” advisedly. That would be a topic upon which we could speak in and of itself! Perhaps you could substitute the word “error” in order to create a more neutrally emotional word for a lapse in judgment that results in unfortunate consequences.

When the one known as Jesus was faced with this self-confessed thief and murderer who asked him for forgiveness, Jesus the Christ not only forgave him but he realized with a flash of insight that pierced his very heart that he had the ability to forgive all others in the world but he was holding himself away from the redemptive power of the forgiveness that he himself came, in his own intention, to offer to the world. And so, finally, joyfully, thankfully, he released himself from his mistake. He forgave himself and he was free. Note here that we are not talking about the level in which some things are right and some things are wrong and the wrong things must be punished. That is the Rhadamanthine system of justice upon your planet. We are talking here about the world of karma where bonds are made between people when they interact in an unbalanced way and do not work out that imbalance. The workings of karma are only very partially outward.

Now Q’uo said they would encourage all of us to persevere in our seeking, taking each day as it comes and letting wisdom and understanding drip into our environment as the dew of heaven falls upon the grass because we are not our surroundings or the ideas of those around us, but we are one who can take nourishment directly from spirit since we have an abundance of what Carla would call bad information, so some of us wonder if there is any possibility of being an ethical human being, so compromised is each soul in our estimation, but we have sources of good information as well, and Q’uo asked us to take heart since there are several ways to look at ethics such as the severe system of judgment which is earthly and not taking in the characteristics of consciousness or infinity, so a man who has murdered another is guilty. Now Q’uo said in this severe system which informs our system of courts of checks and balances, there would be a representative from the victim stating that this man was guilty because he had committed murder, and there would be another entity defending the rights of the man on trial saying that this man was acting in self-defense, so in this system of justice, the twelve good men, as the jury in our legal system is called, would weigh the sin of murder against the extenuating circumstances and call the entity either guilty or not guilty, so in our Earth world such questions must be settled one way or another, even if there is truth on both sides, and a judgment would have been made, the entity being imprisoned for his crime and perhaps himself being killed as part of the severe justice of this type of system. Q’uo went on to say there is a second way of valuing: intentions versus actions, and Jim was speaking earlier of that segment within the sessions of this group with Ra where they stated that the Jesus the Christ was absolved of His childhood violence when He forgave the thief on the cross beside Him and said to him, “This day shall you be with me in paradise.” So at this level of looking at the workings of polarity, Jesus the Christ was in karmic debt from the point in His boyhood where He had unintentionally done violence to another human being, but because He had not forgiven Himself for that action, He was karmically tied to that action and that entity because of His unwillingness to release Himself from the burden of guilt, and Q’uo use that word “sin” advisedly because that would be a topic upon which they could speak in and of itself, so we could substitute the word “error” in order to create a more neutral word for a lapse in judgment that results in unfortunate consequences. Q’uo continued by saying when Jesus was faced with this self-confessed thief and murderer who asked Him for forgiveness, Jesus the Christ not only forgave him but He realized with a flash of insight that pierced His very heart that He had the ability to forgive all others in the world but he was holding Himself away from the redemptive power of the forgiveness that He came to offer to the world, and joyfully and thankfully, He released himself from His mistake and was free, and Q’uo said that they are not talking about the level in which some things are right and some things are wrong and the wrong things must be punished in the severe system of justice upon our planet, but they are talking about the world of karma where bonds are made between people when they interact in an unbalanced way and do not work out that imbalance so the workings of karma are partially outward. In 18.12, Ra explained how karma may be alleviated:

Questioner: You stated yesterday that forgiveness is the eradicator of karma. I am assuming that balanced forgiveness for the full eradication of karma would require forgiveness not only of other-selves but forgiveness of self. Am I correct?

Ra: I am Ra. You are correct. We will briefly expand upon this understanding in order to clarify.

Forgiveness of other-self is forgiveness of self. An understanding of this insists upon full forgiveness upon the conscious level of self and other-self, for they are one. A full forgiveness is thus impossible without the inclusion of self.In other words, the entity known as Jesus could go to the family of the entity whom he hurt in his childhood and ask them to forgive him. It would be hoped that they would find it in their hearts to do so. But the wheels of karma are stopped not by the forgiveness of another but by the forgiveness of the self by the self. There is a curious unwillingness in entities to let go of their guilt. What is past is past and what was wrong will never be right in the earthly sense. But it is fear that keeps the soul from standing in the light of ethical day and confessing that error, that darkness within, to the infinite Creator and asking forgiveness. That is an externalization of the process in which you ask yourself for forgiveness. It is helpful to have that outer machinery of the structure of the Creator above and you below so that you can lift your hands up in supplication to a forgiving and loving Father and ask for forgiveness. Yet, in truth, this process is internal and the Creator you ask for forgiveness dwells already in your heart of hearts.

Thusly, on this level of karma, the disposition of this anti-hero who had striven with all of his heart to be totally positive and yet had, in the end, acted out tremendous violence and done murder, would hinge upon whether he forgave himself as he died. He had condemned himself by refusing to allow anyone to know that he was hurt. He wished to die for that which he had done. Thusly he drew down judgment upon his own head in the Rhadamanthine fashion, in this instrument’s mind, at least. The film did not make it clear whether or not the anti-hero forgave himself. If he did not forgive himself, he remained tied through karmic bonds to those whom he hurt and killed. If he forgave himself, karmically speaking, he was no longer in karmic debt, for such debts are put “Paid” when forgiveness offers its redemptive value to the equation.

There is a third level upon one which may consider intention and action and how that affects polarity. And this is perhaps closer to the crux of your query than either of the other two levels we have discussed. This level of consideration is entirely metaphysical. At this level of consideration, one is not looking at the facts on the surface. “Who did what to whom?” is not a consideration here. For at this level, each entity is dwelling within its own completely whole and three-dimensional creation. It is no shadow world, this world that you are in, metaphysically. It is indeed an environment more real than the consensus reality of planet Earth in terms of your being a citizen of eternity. In the environment of consciousness and the heart, we are looking not at manifestation but at energy expenditures. We are looking at the vibration which an entity has. This vibratory complex is as your fingerprint or your DNA, on a metaphysical level. Let us explain this briefly.

Consciousness is, at base, precisely the same in all of you. And as you move into more and more maturity, spiritually speaking, you will begin to discover that consciousness is impersonal, carrying the nature and quality of the Creator Itself which is the Logos or unconditional Love. Each of you has this consciousness and works, either fitfully or steadily, with this consciousness in moments of insight, in dreaming, and so forth. That which you are doing at any particular moment may be affecting your vibration. You have the ability and the capacity to change your vibratory nature, to lift it up. Indeed, you will gradually change in vibration through the effects of life experience, whether or not you intend to progress. If you do intend to progress and take steps to focus in on your energy body, the expenditures of energy for which you are responsible, and the decisions which have ethical implications, you are accelerating the pace of your spiritual evolution.

Then Q’uo said Jesus could go to the family of the entity whom He hurt in His childhood and ask them to forgive Him, and it would be hoped that they would find it in their hearts to do so, but the wheels of karma are stopped, not by the forgiveness of another, but by the forgiveness of the self by the self, and there is an unwillingness in entities to let go of their guilt because it is fear that keeps us from standing in the light of day and confessing that error within to the infinite Creator and asking forgiveness which is an externalization of the process in which we ask our self for forgiveness, so it is helpful to have that outer structure of the Creator above and us below so that we can lift our hands up in supplication to a forgiving and loving Father and ask for forgiveness, yet in truth this process is internal, and the Creator we ask for forgiveness dwells already in our heart of hearts. Q’uo continued by saying on this level of karma, the disposition of this anti-hero [from The Ninth Configuration] who had tried with all of his heart to be positive and yet had committed murder would depend upon whether he forgave himself as he died, and he had condemned himself by refusing to allow anyone to know that he was hurt since wished to die for that which he had done, so he drew down judgment upon his head in a severe fashion, but the film did not make it clear if the anti-hero forgave himself because if he did not forgive himself, he remained tied through karmic bonds to those whom he hurt and killed, but if he forgave himself, he was no longer in karmic debt. Now Q’uo said there is a third level upon which one may consider intention and action and how that affects polarity, and this is closer to the heart of our query than either of the other two levels that have been discussed, and this level of consideration is entirely metaphysical, so at this level of consideration we are not looking at the facts on the surface of “Who did what to whom?” because that is not a consideration here, for at this level each of us is dwelling within our three-dimensional creation, and it is no shadow world metaphysically because it is an environment more real than the consensus reality of Earth in terms of our being a citizen of eternity, so in the environment of consciousness and the heart, we are looking not at manifestation but at energy expenditures, and this vibratory complex is like our DNA, on a metaphysical level. Q’uo continued by saying consciousness is the same in all of us, and as we move into more spiritual maturity we will begin to discover that consciousness is impersonal, carrying the nature of the Creator which is unconditional Love, and each of us has this consciousness, and we work with this consciousness in moments of insight and dreaming, so that which we are doing at any moment may be affecting our vibration since we have the ability to change our vibratory nature through the effects of our life experience, whether or not we intend to progress, but if we do intend to progress and take steps to focus in on our energy body, the expenditures of energy for which we are responsible, and the decisions which have ethical implications, we are accelerating the pace of our spiritual evolution. On September 10, 2010, Q’uo described the nature of our energy body:

The love and the light of the infinite Creator is moving through our energy body in inexhaustible supply at all times. We can’t run out. By stopping the flow of Love through us, by clutching and contracting around our woes and our problems—which we all have—what we can do is stop that flow into the heart, and then we can’t get our hearts open all the way. The fuel is Love. It’s right here. It is inexhaustible. We don’t have to hoard it. All we have to do is live in such a way that our energy bodies are clear so that we get that energy through us at all times.

The more ways that you can find to bring ethical considerations into your thinking, the more lucid your ability to evaluate situations will become. The more you ask for guidance in looking at ethical questions, the more accurate your web of perceptions can become. Yet in the end you are responsible only for doing your best. You cannot entirely corral or control your own vibrations. They are like your breathing or your heartbeat. You can consciously stop breathing for awhile, but unconsciousness will soon come, and you will begin breathing again. You can race your heart until it is beating as fast as two hundred times a minute by doing intense physical exercise but when you stop that exercise it will find again its own level.

However, if you hold your breath repeatedly you will eventually develop that system of lungs that will therefore be stronger because of your practice. And if you exercise regularly, running your heart up and letting it cool back down again, you’ll find that your heart is pumping more efficiently and is able to move the blood around your body with fewer beats of the pump of that heart per minute. So, you have some effect, as a physical person, upon how your body works. But you are cooperating with nature. You do not have the final decision as to whether your heart shall beat and your breath shall respire. It is the same kind of situation in your energy body. You can be attentive and watchful and look as the hunter for his prey for situations that can be considered for their ethical values. You can ask your highest and best self, your guidance system, to help you make ethical choices that lift you from where you were to a new level of acting out the thoughts that you understand to represent virtue.

You are able to walk your talk. And this exercise, too, strengthens and changes the energy body so that it more efficiently is able to allow the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator to flow through into the heart chakra, where lies the stunning mystery of the one infinite Creator. In this system of judging the dynamic between intention and manifestation, it is not precisely that intention is all. It is that intention is the only metaphysical portion of the equation. So, intention figures into the vibratory nature of yourself as a result of the action that you have done. In this system of evaluating the anti-hero’s situation, we would say that this entity was clearly vibrating in service to others at the time of his death and would guess that the screenwriter intended to portray an entity who was extremely service-to-others oriented by nature. So, dealing with this hypothetical and fictional anti-hero, we would say that, undoubtedly, as he was represented by the author and the actor that acted his part in the motion picture, this entity graduated in service-to-others polarity.

And indeed, again, it was not simply his intention that moves into that estimation by us but rather his entire being as it vibrated naturally beyond his control, expressing the truth of himself, including all of the mysteries and the secrets that he had not discovered yet about himself or had discovered and then buried. It is a relativistic ethic indeed that we offer you for consideration this day. Pure ethic, that Kantian search for the categorical imperative where, if something is right once, it is right always, cannot work either in Earth or in the starry heavens. Certainly, ideals themselves are pure. But ideals are called ideals because they are not earthly. They are the thoughts that lift us up and inspire us. They are those fields of purity that attract us and enchant us, but their nature is such that they are entities, living entities. Living, certainly, not as humans, but as the angels or fairies or gods and goddesses of myths. They are ideas and concepts. And in their own world they are living beings.

Q’uo went on to say the more ways that we can find to bring ethical considerations into our thinking, the more clear our ability to evaluate situations will become, and the more we ask for guidance in looking at ethical questions, the more accurate our web of perceptions can become, but in the end we are responsible only for doing our best because we cannot control our vibrations since they are like our breathing or our heartbeat where we can stop breathing for a while, but unconsciousness will come, and we will begin breathing again, and we can race our heart until it is beating two hundred times a minute by doing physical exercise, but when we stop that exercise it will find its own level. Now Q’uo said if we hold our breath repeatedly we will eventually develop lungs that will be stronger because of our practice, and if we exercise regularly, running our heart up and letting it cool back down again, we will find that our heart is pumping more efficiently with fewer beats of the pump of that heart per minute, so we have some effect upon how our body works, but we are cooperating with nature, and we do not have the final decision as to whether our heart shall beat and our breath shall respire which is the same kind of situation in our energy body, and we can be watchful and look as the hunter for his prey for situations that can be considered for their ethical values, and we can ask our higher self and our guidance system to help us make ethical choices that lift us from where we were to a new level of acting out the thoughts that we understand to represent virtue. Q’uo continued by saying we are able to walk our talk, and this exercise strengthens our energy body so that it is more able to allow the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator to flow through into the heart chakra, where lies the stunning mystery of the one infinite Creator, and in this system of judging the dynamic between intention and manifestation, it is not that intention is all, but it is that intention is the only metaphysical portion of the equation, so our intention figures into the vibratory nature of our self as a result of the action that we have done, so in this system of evaluating the anti-hero’s situation Q’uo said that this entity was vibrating in service to others at the time of his death and that the screenwriter intended to portray an entity who was service-to-others oriented by nature, so in dealing with this fictional anti-hero, they said that as he was represented by the author and the actor that acted his part in the motion picture, this entity graduated in service-to-others polarity. Then Q’uo said it was his being as it vibrated naturally beyond his control, expressing the truth of himself, including all of the mysteries that he had not discovered about himself or had discovered and then buried, and it is a relativistic ethic that they offered for our consideration this day because the Kantian search for the categorical imperative where, if something is right once it is right always, and it cannot work either in Earth or in the starry heavens, but the ideals are pure, and they are called ideals because they are not earthly, for they are the thoughts that inspire us, and they are those fields of purity that attract us, but their nature is such that they are living entities living not as humans, but as the angels or fairies of myths, and in their own world they are living beings. On April 17, 1983, Latwii spoke of the value of having ideals:

Indeed, when the situations which we have termed “catalyst” present themselves to the seeker, the seeker may look upon such catalyst with a polarity viewpoint, that is to say, one may look upon the situation and see people and events not in keeping with the desires of the seeker, and the seeker may wish to change those people and events and maintain faithfulness to the ideals of service to others. This is a great dilemma, for in truth, if one wishes to be pure in what you have called the positive polarity, there can be no wish to change another person or event, for each must be accepted as each is, for each is whole and perfect. Each is the one Creator. This is a great lesson, which takes much of what you call time to learn. Therefore, as a portion of remaining faithful to those positive ideals which each in this group upholds, then it might be recommended that the viewpoint include the possibility that no person or situation be asked to be other than it is, that each indeed be accepted, loved, forgiven, that the same be done with the self, and that then the self is taken by the seeker as the primary tool for upholding the ideals of service to others, and the self is transformed by acceptance of self and others so that love is given no matter what. In such a way does the positive polarity become purified and refined, that the beacon of love and light within the heart of self might shine more brightly.

You may dip into truth, dip into justice, dip into fairness, and so forth, to take on the energy of that pure idea. But as it moves into your energy body, it is colored by your presuppositions and biases, the distortions that you have made in this consciousness that is common to all. It is good, in terms of lifting your vibrations from day-to-day, to ponder and remember these wonderful ideals of truth, unconditional Love, beauty, hope, charity, justice, and fairness. It is good to invite them to be through you a beacon unto the world. But it is well to realize that in a very complex series of energy exchanges, the finished product of what you have done by praying is a minute but significant adjustment in the balances, the clarity, the amount of energy, and so forth in your energy body. And it is your energy body, specifically the read-out of the entire energy body that is seen within the seventh chakra or energy center, that determines your polarity at any given moment.

You cannot bank polarity. You cannot do so many good things and so many bad things and add up the difference. You are involved in an illusory progress through time. The one known as Thales  said, “You cannot step in the same river twice.” And we say to you that you cannot step in the same action or thought twice. It happens and you move on. It is gone forever. That chance that you had to think, to pray, and to act is gone forever. In its place is an equally precious present moment. And so, this continues throughout each heartbeat of your incarnation. You are always experiencing the final moment of your life and then discovering that you have outlived that moment. But it is well to act as if each moment were your final moment. For this points out the gravity and the substance of your ethical choices and how important it is to pay attention to them. For only by making these ethical choices, one upon another upon another, so that you get the habit of fielding the ethical implications of the present moment, can you maximize the use of your time.

[Side one of tape ends.]

When you go to graduation you shall not have a grade of 100% of service to others. However, the Creator seems to grade on a curve here. If you even have 51% of service to others, you are ready to graduate. Each time you consciously choose to serve others, you have moved above 51% and into positive polarization comfortably sufficient to graduate from planet Earth. The more habitual your realization of choices is and your determination to choose the highest road, the most compassionate and loving response, the more positively you will be able to affect the tuning of your energy body so that it vibrates more and more in service to others in terms of polarity. You shall never be able to untangle the good from the evil within humankind, my friends, because you, as a member of the human race, are both good and evil. You contain all the shades of virtue and vice within one global entity.

By a series of choices, you have found ways to be yourself to the outer world and to yourself. You have shut much of the shadow side of your nature away because it is unpleasant to see, and it is very difficult to bear. Unusual situations such as occurred in the case of this anti-hero in The Ninth Configuration create situations that take us all by surprise, as this fight took the anti-hero by surprise. We ask you, then, not to dwell in judgment of yourself or others. You cannot help being judgmental and we do not discourage the practice of judgment. We simply ask that you begin with the judgment that is inherent in your nature as a human being, but that you do not stop there. Move forward into the blessed light-strewn fields of the Creator and invite the sunshine of wisdom and unconditional Love as you find ways to spend your precious energy and your precious time within the school of planet Earth.

Q’uo continued by saying we may dip into truth, justice, and  fairness to take on the energy of that pure idea, but as it moves into our energy body it is colored by our biases that we have made with our consciousness that is common to all, and it is good, in terms of lifting our vibrations, to remember these ideals of truth, unconditional Love, and beauty, and it is good to invite them to shine through us as a beacon into the world, but it is well to realize that in a complex series of energy exchanges, the finished product of what we have done by praying is a tiny but significant adjustment in the balances and the amount of energy in our energy body because it is the read-out of the entire energy body that is seen within the seventh chakra that determines our polarity at any given moment. Q’uo went on to say we cannot do good things and bad things and add up the difference because we are involved in an illusory progress through time, and they said that we cannot step in the same action or thought twice since it happens, and we move on, and the chance that we had to think, to pray, and to act is gone forever, and in its place is an equally precious present moment, and this continues throughout each heartbeat of our incarnation, so we are always experiencing the final moment of our life and then discovering that we have outlived that moment, but it is well to act as if each moment were our final moment, for this points out the substance of our ethical choices and how important it is to pay attention to them, for only by making these ethical choices do we get the habit of feeling the ethical implications of the present moment, so can we maximize the use of our time. Then Q’uo said when we go to graduation we shall not have a grade of 100% of service to others,  but the Creator grades on a curve, so if we have 51% of service to others, we are ready to graduate, and each time we choose to serve others, we have moved above 51% and into positive polarization to graduate from Earth, and the more habitual our realization to choose the most loving response, the more positively we will be able to affect the tuning of our energy body so that it vibrates more in service to others in terms of polarity, but we shall never be able to untangle the good from the evil within humankind because we all are both good and evil, and we contain all the shades of virtue and vice within one global entity. Q’uo completed their reply by saying by a series of choices, we have found ways to be our self to the outer world and to our self, and we have shut much of the shadow side of our nature away because it exists, and it is difficult to bear, so unusual situations such as occurred with the anti-hero in The Ninth Configuration create situations that take us all by surprise, as this fight took the anti-hero by surprise, so Q’uo asked us not to dwell in judgment of our self or others, but we cannot help being judgmental, so they do not discourage the practice of judgment, but they ask that we begin with the judgment that is inherent in our nature as a human being, and that we do not stop there, but move forward into the light-strewn fields of the Creator, and invite the sunshine of wisdom and unconditional Love as we find ways to spend our energy and our time within the school of Earth. On April 27, 2006, Q’uo described the nature of the school of Earth:

If you look at the Earth world as a kind of school, this is the time of the final exam. It is a time when a lot of entities have completed their schoolwork, and they are ready to take that final test. It is a transition time for many – indeed, for many of those who have passed through the gates of death. It is a time of great celebration and rejoicing, for they have graduated from the school of Earth. Their next incarnation will most likely be on planet Earth in a fourth-density physical vehicle enjoying the new fourth-density Gaia, which is almost full… fully complete at this time.

This instrument is informing us that we need to move on. We must admit that we are sorry to leave this interesting question! And so often we are sorry to get off of our soapbox, tuck it under our arm, and trundle out of Hyde Park. May we ask if there are any follow-up queries or any other queries at this time?

R: Not from me, Q’uo.

[Pause]

We are those of Q’uo, and we find that we have exhausted the curiosity of those present in this circle of seeking for now. We reiterate that it is a blessing to us to be with you. You help us in our service to others at this time by asking for our humble opinions, and it opens our heart to be able to share thoughts with you. We share also a great love and affection that passes between each of you and us, and that, too, is a blessing to us for which we are most thankful. And the blessing of being with you and of seeing the beauty of your articulated energy is wonderful. We are amazed at the courage and the goodness within each of you. We leave this instrument and this group in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I ran some errands with my first stop being at Feeder’s Supply where I bought two bags of bird seed. Then I stopped at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some food for myself. My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I bought some non-food items and some Pepsi-Zero.

This afternoon I cleaned Benny’s apartment upstairs. I began by using the carpet sweeper to clean the hall carpet. Then I used the broom and dustpan to sweep up the kitty litter boxes in the room where Benny stays in the cat tower. Then I used the dust mop in all three rooms and the hall.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 10

Offering The Self

I am of the consciousness of Love, and I greet you in that love which is Jesus the Christ.

Gaze upon the qualities of Love divine. See the body broken, the life split and sacrificed. See that in the breaking and in the offering lie the secret of infinite Love. Each life may be offered up and thus broken, and from that break may come an infinity of gifts.

We do not suggest for one instant that all sacrifice is good. Rather, we suggest, for one who would love, that there is a blessing and sanctification in offering the self to be used, to be broken, to be opened, and to be shared that is most godly. “When He had given thanks,” it is written, “He took the bread and broke it and gave it to each of His disciples, saying, ‘Take. Eat. This is my body. Do this in remembrance of me.’” May your day and your life, day by day, be a process of thanksgiving, breaking, offering and remembering.

We leave you in the peace and love of Jesus the Christ, 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.

LI did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Q’uo quote today comes from December 10, 2006:

The question today has to do with discrimination. How or what is the root cause of the prejudice that various groups of people have against other groups, whether it be because of race, creed, color, national origin, religion, the place where they live? Whatever the reason, everywhere around the world there are groups of people that discriminate against other people because they are different. Q’uo, could you give us some idea about what really are the roots of this type of discrimination and disempowerment of other people by majority groups? And what can we do about it as individuals?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this day. May we say what a privilege and a pleasure it is to join your circle of seeking. We are most happy to share our humble thoughts with you on this subject of prejudice and its roots and what people can do when finding that situation in their environment. But first we would, as always, request of each who is aware of our words the careful and conscientious use of your discriminatory powers. You and you alone know what thoughts are helpful to you. If our thoughts are not helpful to you, please cast them aside and move on, for the thought that is helpful to you is right around the corner. If our thoughts are resonant to you, then you are welcome to them. We thank you for this consideration. It enables us to speak our mind clearly without fearing that we shall infringe upon your free will.

My friends, in speaking with you about prejudice and its roots, we speak with you about two main levels of thought. Those levels of thought are the dynamic between love and fear and the dynamic between unity consciousness and the consciousness of form. Before we move into those thoughts, however, we would talk just a bit about the traps of your Earth world and how they came about. When this creation was younger and worlds closer to what this instrument calls the central sun were maturing, the work done by a planetary population was a work done by a population of one kind or race or being. In the course of many graduations from many planets, there gradually began to build up populations from Earths such as yours which had finished their third density, the density of choice, and had not been able to graduate into the density of love. These population groups then needed to move to another third-density experience to take up once again the lessons of making the choice. This choice is a choice of polarity. It is a choice between choosing to love, include and accept, with compassion for all things and beings as part of one Creator, and the choice of seeing all entities as those who may be able to serve you. It is a choice of service to others or service to self.

It is a simple choice. It is not an intellectually staggering thing to determine when you are being kind, inclusive and compassionate, and when you are being unkind, un-inclusive, and non-compassionate. As simple as this choice is, it is not a choice that many of your peoples have found easy to penetrate with a stable determination to follow either the ways of service to others or service to self. Therefore, as the creation has matured and consciousness has spread throughout the infinite creation that you see in the starry night sky, planetary population after planetary population has found a portion or all of its tribe unable to graduate when the harvest of their third density came due. At first, the answer was simply to move through another time of harvest on the same planet. However, planets also have their periodicity. Each planet is different. But each planet has a limit to the amount of third density that is available. It is as if we were to say that there are a certain number of 30-watt bulbs for each planet and when that supply runs out, they must put in 40-watt bulbs. The light changes when a stronger bulb is put in. That stronger light will not support third-density life.

Consequently, the creation began to move planetary populations to a second-chance planet where they would mix with the native third-density population, and together those two tribes would seek to learn how to make the choice of service to others or service to self. This is the situation upon your planet. You have a very, very small population of native third-density Earth entities. Virtually all of your tribes are tribes who have come to this second-chance planet to have another try at the school of third-density life. Each sun or sub-Logos, as this instrument would say, has made choices in how the fundamental consciousness of the planetary population will express itself. We are not talking about the level of conscious choice, but rather the level of the archetypal mind and the roots of consciousness. For each planetary tribe, there is a unique flavor and quality to the archetypal and mythical aspects of that tribe. When coming to the second-chance planet of planet Earth, those populations carried the uniqueness of their archetypal minds, their roots of consciousness, with them.

The first question was: “Whatever the reason, everywhere around the world there are groups of people that discriminate against other people because they are different. Q’uo, could you give us some idea about what really are the roots of this type of discrimination and disempowerment of other people by majority groups? And what can we do about it as individuals?” Q’uo began by saying in speaking with us about prejudice and its roots, they would speak with us about two levels of thought which are the dynamic between love and fear and the dynamic between unity consciousness and the consciousness of form, but before they move into those thoughts they would talk about the traps of our Earth world and how they came about, so when this creation was younger and worlds closer to what Carla calls the central sun were maturing, the work done by a planetary population was work done by a population of one race, and after many graduations from many planets there were more  populations from Earths such as ours which had finished the third density of choice, and they had not been able to graduate into the density of love and needed to move to another third-density experience to take up again the lessons of making the choice of polarity that is a choice of service to others or service to self. Then Q’uo said it is a simple choice because it is not an intellectually difficult thing to determine when we are being compassionate, and when we are being angry, but this is not a choice that many of our people have found easy to make with determination to follow either the ways of service to others or service to self, so as the creation has matured and consciousness has spread throughout the infinite creation that we see in the night sky, many planetary populations have found a portion or all of their tribe unable to graduate when the harvest of their third density came due, so at first the answer was to move through another time of harvest on the same planet, but planets also have their cycles, and each planet is different regarding the limit to the amount of third density light that is available, and when that supply runs out the stronger light of fourth density will not support third-density life. Q’uo went on to say the creation began to move planetary populations to a second-chance planet where they would mix with the native third-density population, and together those two tribes would seek to learn how to make the choice of service to others or service to self which is the situation upon our planet because we have a small population of native third-density Earth entities, and nearly all of our tribes have come to this second-chance planet to have another try at the school of third-density life, and each sun has made choices in how the fundamental consciousness of the planetary population will express itself, but Q’uo was not talking about the level of conscious choice, but the level of the archetypal mind, for each planetary tribe there is a unique flavor and quality to the archetypal aspects of that tribe, and when coming to the second-chance planet of Earth, those populations carried the uniqueness of their archetypal minds with them. On July 31, 2007, Q’uo spoke of how the planetary tribe of Earth is working to aid the harvest into the fourth density:

As far as Planet Earth is concerned, Gaia itself is moving into fourth density and in fact is all but completely immersed in fourth-density vibrations at this time. The shift that has been such a cause of fear among your people is happening now. It has been happening for some time. It will continue to happen for some time yet to come. We cannot see the way ahead. We would not have predicted that you would be, as a planetary tribe, in such excellent shape as you appear to be at this time.

Masses of people all over the globe are awakening to the rightness of Love, unconditional and compassionate Love. The forces of life are engulfing with theirLlight the darkness that can never deny Light. And so darkness is scurrying into corners and attempting to put out the Light by creating an atmosphere of fear. Thusly, you are of great service to the planet and to yourself if you cultivate the habit of fearlessness. 

When you look at races upon your planet, those who look a certain way and are called Caucasian, those who look a certain way and are called Hispanic, those who look a certain way and are called Native Americans, and so forth, you are looking at entities that don’t simply look a bit different on the surface. They are different, at the roots of their consciousness, in ways that they can never consciously express except by art or music or some craft which escapes the bondage of words and the intellectual or analytical mind. Consequently, upon planet Earth at this time you have many tribes who are having their second chance at making the choice between love and service to others or that love which is turned into fear and service to self. We offer this thought as prelude to those principles of which we spoke because we do not wish simply to say that all are one, which is true enough. We also wish to celebrate the differences in myth, culture, and archetype which create ways in which each tribe has a unique perspective to add to the simmering stew of harmony and unity which may blend all the tribes of Earth into one while retaining each excellence of each planetary population.

Letus now look at the dynamic between love and fear. There is the surface tendency in many entities’ minds which seeks to call something right and something else wrong. Whence does this stem? It stems from the fear of an individual who is not at peace with himself. He is not secure within his own sense of self. Rather than being able to rest in that love which sees all things as one, he feels fear because of the differences between himself and others. This fear is natural. It is not to be condemned. It is to be seen as the first step of many. When you are an infant, your world is bound in fear. You are thrust forth from the unity and the peacefulness of the womb into the cold air which you have not yet learned to breathe. You are more than terrified. You are sure that you are going to die. Your first experience is likely to be terror. This is a difficult start to an incarnation, but it is part of the very nature of incarnation itself. It is built into the structure of the human experience.

Naturally, in most cases, the parents reassure and protect, cuddle, and rock the infant, and the baby becomes peaceful. But terror awaits at every door in every hour, for the baby is unable to care for itself. When it is hungry it must depend upon the kindness of others. When it is wet it must depend upon others giving it a new diaper and a bath. When it is in pain with colic or cutting teeth, it does not know why it is in pain. It knows only that it cannot get away from the suffering that it feels. Gradually, oh so gradually, the human leaves infanthood and enters childhood and the fear recedes somewhat. A child has learned to speak. It can ask why. It can defend itself with words to some extent. But the patterns of fear are deep. They are not evil. They are natural. Throughout the lifetime of an entity in third density, fear is around the corner, outside the door, under the bed, in the closet: the boogeyman. Yet the true location of this fear is in the experiences of being born and of being helpless.

Then Q’uo said when they look at races upon our planet, those who look a certain way are called Caucasian; those who look a certain way and are called Hispanic; those who look a certain way and are called Native Americans; and so forth, and we are looking at entities that don’t look a bit different on the surface since they are different at the roots of their consciousness in ways they can never express except by art or music which escapes the bondage of words and the analytical mind so that upon Earth at this time we have many tribes who are having their second chance at making the choice between service to others or service to self, so Q’uo offered this thought as prelude to those principles of which they spoke because they do not wish to say that all are one–which is true—but they also wish to celebrate the differences in culture and archetype which create ways in which each tribe has a unique perspective to add to the stew of harmony which may blend all the tribes of Earth into one while retaining the excellence of each planetary population. Q’uo went on to look at the dynamic between love and fear because there is the tendency in our minds which seeks to call something right and something else wrong, and it comes from our fear when we are not at peace with our self, and rather than being able to rest in that love which sees all things as one, we feel fear because of the differences between our self and others, but this fear is natural, and it is to be seen as the first step of many, so when we are an infant, our world is bound in fear, and we are thrust forth from the peacefulness of the womb into the cold air which we have not yet learned to breathe, and we are sure that we are going to die, so our first experience is likely to be terror, and this is a difficult start to an incarnation, but it is part of the very nature of incarnation itself, and it is built into the structure of our human experience. Q’uo continued by saying in most cases the parents reassure and rock the infant, and the baby becomes peaceful, but terror awaits at every door in every hour, for the baby is unable to care for itself, so when it is hungry it must depend upon the kindness of others, and when it is wet it must depend upon others giving it a new diaper and a bath, and when it is in pain with colic or cutting teeth, it does not know why it is in pain, so it knows that it cannot get away from the suffering that it feels, but gradually it leaves infanthood and enters childhood and the fear recedes somewhat, and the child has learned to speak, so it can ask why and can defend itself with words to some extent, but the patterns of fear are deep and natural so that throughout the lifetime of an entity in third density, fear is everywhere, yet the true location of this fear is in the experiences of being born and of being helpless. On February 12, 1995, Q’uo spoke of the nature of incarnation:

The nature of living is that it is fullest in the first instant of life and is steadily eroded until its end in death. It arises. It falls away. That is the nature of incarnation. Seen from this standpoint it may be clearer why suffering is the common lot. Each arises on the Earth scene full of a life and the nature of that life’s manifestation is that the coin of time, the treasure of attention, is spent and eventually the personality is completely bankrupt and out of time, out of treasure, out of lessons, and out of school. And the incarnation ends. Loss upon loss, limitation upon limitation until that final expulsion of breath and the ceasing of existence within third density.

The Creator does not need your suffering. The Creator wishes your experience, and if suffering is involved the Creator may gladly take that also, for that is your truth. It is accepted without judgment. It is loved. It is blessed. It is not desired. All that is desired is that the unique spark which is yourself do as it pleases to find out to the deepest level possible what that essence of self is. The journey of discovery lies within, and it is a long voyage.

What child has ever had all of its needs met? What growing teenager has ever been able to plumb the depths of its own passage? My friends, you arrive at adulthood battered by the experiences you have undergone. Some, indeed most, entities cover their pain with that thin veneer of civilization: the clever words, the appropriate actions, the right clothing. But within the deep mind of each entity lies many a doorway into fear. And fear has many friends. Fear can produce anger. It can produce unworthiness. It can produce guilt. It can produce many difficult and dark emotions and feelings. When we greet you in the Love and in the Light of the one Creator, we are greeting the heart of you and the heart of you is Love. We penetrate through the shell of conscious experience garnered by your personality and we see your souls. You are beautiful. You are beautiful beyond any words. You bloom in the air of faith. Your roots are fed with the rain of hope. And you stand up strong because you are. You cannot be denied in your essence. But these qualities of you are those that come through the surface disturbances of personality and prejudice and fear.

Wecan say that you are creatures made of Love, but in so many cases your experience does not feel like that. In so many cases you experience yourself not as the perfect flower that you are but as a weed, or at least as something to be groomed and done unto. So, in a way, finding yourself to be a creature of Love is an act of faith which has no proof of being the right choice. It is into this environment of entities living in their own private suffering and fear that the challenges and the lessons of third density are aimed and experienced. The Earth experience is a refinery. Again and again you receive catalyst that causes you to question who you are and why you are here. These questions and these feelings can pound and shake you until eventually you begin discovering that the process has uncovered some of the gem-like beauty of your deeper nature.

And so, for the first time, as you move through this refining fire of incarnation, you begin to have a sense, a genuine sense, of who you really are, and it does not sound so foreign and alien to say, “I am a child of Love. I am a being of Light. I am a creature of infinite power because I am part of the one infinite Creator.” What a journey it is from the beginning of life to that moment when you first awaken to the unitary nature of consciousness. What a joy it is when you first feel at one with another person. What an accomplishment it is, my friends, when you are able to move from feeling at one with another person to feeling at one with groups of people and finally with all of the people that make up the very variegated tribe of humankind.

Q’uo went on to say we arrive at adulthood battered by the experiences we have undergone as a child, and some entities cover their pain with that thin veneer of civilization: the clever words, the appropriate actions, the right clothing, but within the deep mind of each of us lies many a doorway into fear which has friends that can produce anger, unworthiness, and difficult emotions, so when they greet us in the Love and in the Light of the one Creator, they are greeting the heart of us which is Love, and they penetrate through the shell of conscious experience gathered by our personality, and they see our souls and: “We are beautiful. We are beautiful beyond any words. We bloom in the air of faith. Our roots are fed with the rain of hope. And we stand up strong because we are. We cannot be denied in our essence. But these qualities of ours are those that come through the surface disturbances of personality and prejudice and fear.” Then Q’uo said that we are made of Love, but in many cases we experience our self–not as the perfect flower that we are– but as a weed, so finding our self to be a creature of Love is an act of faith which has no proof of being the right choice, and it is into this environment of entities living in their private fear that the lessons of third density are experienced because the Earth experience is a refinery, so again and again we receive catalyst that causes us to question who we are and why we are here, and these questions can shake us until we begin discovering that the process has uncovered some of the gem-like beauty of our deeper nature. Q’uo continued by saying for the first time, as we move through this refining fire of incarnation, we begin to have a sense of who we really are, and it does not sound so alien to say: “I am a child of Love. I am a being of Light. I am a creature of infinite power because I am part of the one infinite Creator.” Then Q’uo said what a journey it is from the beginning of life to that moment when we first awaken to the unitary nature of consciousness, and what a joy it is when we first feel at one with another person, and what an accomplishment it is when we are able to move from feeling at one with another person, to feeling at one with groups of people, and finally with all of the people that make up the variety of the tribe of humankind. On May 20, 2007, Q’uo described the nature of consciousness:

Consciousness is the other mind which you have as a mind/body/spirit complex, as the one known as Ra calls a person on this Earth. Unlike the mind which is particularly and solely your own, you share the faculty of consciousness with all beings. We are not simply saying that you share consciousness with all other human beings. We are saying that you share consciousness with every iota within the infinite creation of the one Creator.

This is the second key. The nature of consciousness is not particular to you. Rather, because of your innate nature as a part of the godhead principle, your heart beats with the pulse of the one infinite Creator.

That which created all that there is is a certain vibration of consciousness that, for lack of a better term, we have called unconditional Love or Logos. That one, great, original Thought or Logos has created the starry heavens, the vast spaces within each molecule of your body, and you, a unique point of intersection that catches two worlds, that of the everyday, waking consciousness of your people, skating across the pond of life, and that of the one infinite Creator whose Thought is a Thought of unconditional Love.

At every turn, there will be that call to fear what is happening. And why is that, my friends? It is because there is a tendency towards inertia in the mind of humankind, whereas there is an implacable tendency towards progression in evolution in the energy of the planet itself. People tend to fight change and yet change is the essence of the incarnational experience. The body changes continuously, shedding its cells so that in seven years there is not one cell in the human body that was there seven years ago. The outer look of the human body changes, if not continuously, then rapidly, from infanthood, to toddler-hood to childhood, to teenage-hood, to young adulthood, to middle age, and then to those varieties of old age that entities wish not to label so as not to acknowledge. In the end, each entity is transformed from the womb through the bloom to the grave. Change is inevitable, and yet change seems to be feared. And if one is identifying oneself with one’s body, then there is every reason to have fear, for the death of the body is inevitable. Thusly, it is easy to make fear-based choices when confronted with change.

One way that things change for an entity is that they are placed in new contexts, meeting different kinds of people. If one has already made the choice for service to others, then one tends to see others as an opportunity to be of service. The well polarized entity sees all entities as opportunities to be of service. That entity which is polarized in a negative sense also has no prejudice because it sees all entities as equally useful in serving the self. It is to those who have not yet made the choice that prejudice seems a good choice to make. If “they” are correct and acceptable, then the way they are is the way things should be. When entities come into their environment and express differences, then the fear-filled entity is simply going to feel that those other selves need to conform to the way they think.

Q’uo continued by saying there will always be that call to fear what is happening, and it is because there is a tendency towards inertia in the mind of humankind, whereas there is a tendency towards progression in evolution in the energy of the planet, so we tend to fight change, yet change is the essence of our incarnational experience since the body changes continuously, shedding its cells so that in seven years there is not one cell in the human body that was there seven years ago, and the outer look of the human body changes from childhood, to young adulthood, to middle age, and then to old age that entities wish not to label so as not to acknowledge, but in the end, each of us is transformed from the womb, through the bloom, to the grave because change is inevitable, and yet change seems to be feared, so if we are identifying our self with our body, then there is every reason to have fear, for the death of the body is inevitable so that it is easy to make fear-based choices when confronted with change. Then Q’uo said one way that things change for us is when we are meeting different kinds of people, and if we have already made the choice for service to others, then we see others as an opportunity to be of service, but that entity which is polarized in a negative sense also has no prejudice because it sees all entities as equally useful in serving the self, so it is to those who have not made the choice that prejudice seems a good choice to make, and if they are correct, then the way they are is the way things should be, and when entities come into their environment and express differences, then the fear-filled entity is going to feel that those other selves need to conform to the way they think. On August 9, 2002, Q’uo described the nature of the death of the body:

There is not a point at which one may say, “Now I understand; now I am through with my seeking process; now I am a realized and blissful human being who has entirely awakened and who now is a creature of fourth density, not third density.” This is in fact never so. The learning within third density does not stop until the breath is removed from the body, and the consciousness moves on from the physical body to that which this instrument would call Etheria through the processes of the death of the body.

It is as though there were a certain amount of food that is on the table, and the food will continue to be brought to the table until the meal is over. When the meal of life is over, the Creator calls the soul out of incarnation and into the beginning of its next experience. Once this incarnative process has been accomplished, once the plan has been completed, the spirit moves on, freely, easily, indeed effortlessly.

Now let us look at the other leg of this two-legged entity of prejudice, that is, the dynamic between form and formlessness, or unity and diversity. It is entirely understandable that entities at all times and in all places should be seduced and swayed by the appearances of form. The five senses of which you are aware consciously have to do with form. You see form. You hear form. You touch, smell, and taste form. There’s nothing on the surface of things that would tell you that there is anything other than form in your universe. It is very helpful to call upon the knowledge that each has of the scientific nature of form. Each form which you may consider is almost entirely made of space. You as an entity are a collection of energy fields holding cells together in a certain configuration. Each cell is almost entirely space. Your body looks like the Milky Way to an entity that is able to look into the microscopic structure of your world. The chair upon which you sit is mostly space, but its energy field holds it together so that you do not fall through the chair or the floor. And so the illusion remains intact.

And yet who you are has nothing to do with your form. What you think as a soul has nothing to do with forms. Again, this is not obvious on the surface of things. It is no wonder that you begin your incarnation completely beguiled by form. “Am I pretty?” “Am I rich?” “Am I smart?” “Am I strong?” “Am I good?” “Am I powerful?” These questions are asked and answered on the level of the illusion and no wisdom comes from the questioning and the responses as long as the questions remain on the level of form. In form there is always relativity. If you are smart, someone is smarter. If you are rich, someone is richer, and so forth. In order to penetrate to the level of the school of third-density life where the lessons are truly learned, you must penetrate through form into consciousness.

Consciousness has its home in all of the spaces that we have mentioned. Consciousness interpenetrates every cell of your body and every cell of everyone else’s body. It penetrates the Earth itself, and the heavens and it are all one thing. You, as a spark of the infinite Creator, are a focusing spark, an observation point. You are a witness to the Love and the Light of the infinite Creator. You are here to bear witness, to experience, to collect those experiences as you would a bouquet of flowers, and then to offer that bouquet to the infinite Creator. When we see you, we do not see form. We see a different level of illusion which we would call vibration. We see your vibratory display as if it were the petals of a flower of infinite beauty unfurled for us to see. Every quirk, every imbalance that colors you in this or that way, we see not as mistakes or errors in thinking but as your own individual beauty. To us you cannot make a mistake. To the Creator you cannot make a mistake. For just as you are, exactly as you are experiencing, you are gathering up information to offer to the Creator.

Q’uo said let us look at the other leg of this entity of prejudice which is the dynamic between unity and diversity, and it is understandable that entities at all times and in all places should be seduced by the appearances of form since the five senses of which we are aware of have to do with form, and there is nothing on the surface of things that would tell us that there is anything other than form in our universe, so it is helpful to call upon the knowledge that we have of the scientific nature of form which is almost entirely made of space, and we are a collection of energy fields holding cells together in a certain configuration, and each cell is almost entirely space, so our body looks like the Milky Way to an entity that is able to look into the microscopic structure of our world, and the chair upon which we sit is mostly space, but its energy field holds it together so that we do not fall through the chair or the floor, and the illusion remains intact. Then Q’uo said who we are has nothing to do with our form, and what we think as a soul has nothing to do with forms, but this is not obvious on the surface of things, so it is no wonder that we begin our incarnation completely beguiled by form: “Am I pretty?” “Am I rich?” “Am I smart?” “Am I strong?” “Am I good?” “Am I powerful?” Q’uo said these questions are asked and answered on the level of the illusion, and no wisdom comes from the questioning and the responses as long as the questions remain on the level of form since in form there is always relativity so that if we are smart, someone is smarter, and if we are rich, someone is richer, so in order to penetrate to the level of the school of third-density life where the lessons are truly learned, we must penetrate through form into consciousness. Q’uo went on to say consciousness has its home in all of the spaces that we have mentioned, and it interpenetrates every cell of everyone’s body, the Earth itself, and the heavens and it are all one thing, so that as a spark of the infinite Creator, we are an observation point, and we are a witness to the Love and the Light of the infinite Creator because we are here to experience and to collect those experiences as we would a bouquet of flowers, and then to offer that bouquet to the infinite Creator, so when Q’uo sees us they do not see form, but they see a different level of illusion which  they would call vibration which they see as if it were the petals of a flower of infinite beauty unfurled for them to see, and every imbalance that colors us in this or that way, they see not as mistakes but as our individual beauty, so to them we cannot make a mistake, and to the Creator we cannot make a mistake, for just as we are experiencing we are gathering up information to offer to the Creator. On March 30, 1993, Q’uo spoke of the nature of our consciousness:

The phenomena which you experience at this time is to a great extent coming from that high subconscious level. There are some who consider that there dwells within this level of mind that higher self or guidance which can move from the subconscious up through the threshold of consciousness into the living day of conscious mind. This is a process to be encouraged. Further, there are levels of mind progressively more profound and progressively more spacious in terms of the amount of light which illuminates and fills consciousness. These levels are of the lower subconscious and contain that racial history which is the consciousness of the second-density physical vehicle which supports and carries your consciousness. There are inner guides within these darker and more obscure levels of consciousness. There in the deep portions of mind exist the mind of the archetypes, and, indeed, ultimately the ground of consciousness becomes that which is and that which is is the Creator Itself.

In terms of using the environment of planet Earth, of third density in general, however, it is well for you to gather these various descriptions of self and to form an intention to penetrate the more shallow levels of perception so that you may begin to stand upon the good Earth of who you are as a spirit.

[Side one of tape ends.]

(Carla channeling)

In terms of what you can do in the outer world to alleviate the forces of prejudice, the impact of information is great. This instrument was saying before this communication began, in the discussion around the circle of seeking, that she would like to learn Spanish and has planned on taking a course in Spanish because of the fact that there are more and more Spanish-speaking people with whom she comes in contact. When something is different, the way out of prejudice is to collect information and begin to understand the differences. And we do not leave this idea of differences to include simply racial differences, although certainly race and language seem to be barriers of otherness that stop many entities cold in fear.

We would suggest that there are many, many ways of experiencing fear when faced with differences. The dynamic between men and women, for instance, is often the occasion of fear and the acting out of that fear in cruelty of various kinds. Always, though, the inner workings of prejudice depend upon your continued seduction by fear and by form. When you choose to live in faith that all is well, and that you are where you need to be, then you may drop whatever fears that you may have and you then have the freedom and the space in your mind and heart to consider the needs of others around you. What are your gifts, my friends? How can you be a lighthouse to others? It is in first knowing who you are and gaining confidence in your own power as a person and then in turning to the infinite Creator, dropping to your knees, and saying, “Infinite Creator, how may I serve the greater good this day? Show me your ways. Teach me your ways.” Open your eyes after saying that prayer and behold a world made new, sparkling with opportunities to serve, to include, and to embrace. 

Now Q’uo said in terms of using the environment of third density Earth it is well for us to gather these descriptions of our self and to form an intention to penetrate the shallow levels of perception so that we may begin to stand upon the Earth of who we are as a spirit, and in terms of what we can do in the outer world to alleviate the forces of prejudice, the impact of information is great, and as Carla was saying before this communication began, she would like to learn Spanish and has planned on taking a course in Spanish because there are more and more Spanish-speaking people with whom she comes in contact because when something is different, the way out of prejudice is to collect information and begin to understand the differences, and Q’uo did not want this idea of differences to include only racial differences, although race and language seem to be barriers of otherness that stop many entities cold in fear. Then Q’uo said that they would suggest that there are many ways of experiencing fear when faced with differences since the dynamic between men and women is often the acting out of that fear in cruelty of various kinds, and the inner workings of prejudice depend upon our continued seduction by fear and by form, so when we choose to live in faith that all is well, and that we are where we need to be, then we may drop whatever fears that we may have, and then we have the freedom in our mind and heart to consider the needs of others around us so: “What are your gifts, my friends? How can you be a lighthouse to others?” Q’uo said it is in knowing who we are and gaining confidence in our own power as a person and then in turning to the infinite Creator, dropping to our knees, and saying: “Infinite Creator, how may I serve the greater good this day? Show me your ways. Teach me your ways.” So Q’uo said to open our eyes after saying that prayer and behold a world made new, sparkling with opportunities to serve, to include, and to embrace.  On December 14, 2019, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the greater good:

The intention, then, is that which drives the positively oriented entity in continuing its service in whatever manner it provides it, so that the greater good is realized for all about this entity, and the concerns then are always pointed towards enhancing the well-being of the One Infinite Creator at all times. This will find the seeker, then, having to decide for itself, what it feels is most appropriate in every experience, for there is nothing but the One Creator all about every entity everywhere at all times. Thus, it is a personal choice that must be made upon the basis of the recognition of the omnipresence of the One Creator within all things.

May we ask if there is a follow up to that question or another query at this time?

R: I have a question, Q’uo. As you were describing the different tribes that came to Earth as their second third-density planet, you said that these groups bring their own archetypes and consciousnesses from their first planet. How does that mesh with this planet having its own archetypes put into place by the Logos of our galaxy? Can you speak to that? I have a difficult time making it more clear than that.

Weare those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. When there is one archetypal system in place, it is a system of waterways in the deep mind which are calm and serene. Even the darkest of emotions runs along a channel that is simple. When entities from another planet enter into the archetypal energies of Earth, carrying with them the archetypal energies of another sub-Logos, another sun, it is as if there is the same basic waterway system. However, each sub-Logos has made differences here and there. They are small differences, but, all taken together, they add up to a rich array of rivulets, small streams and sometimes so many streams that there are swamps or morasses where dark emotions of different cultures have developed into less of a clear form and more of an amorphous or unembodied form.

This entire creation contains one basic blueprint of the archetypal mind of its people. It is up to each sub-Logos, however, to tinker with that design a bit so as to increase the variety of experiences available to the infinite Creator. So, when an entity on its first planet falls into the emotions of suffering or joy, those waterways move smoothly, and the myths are of a piece. When there is superimposed upon the basic plan of waterways, shall we say, that the archetypal mind represents in the roots of consciousness, the archetypal mind of another sub-Logos, you see the enriching and the somewhat interesting rapids and morasses that occur with the overlay of more than one sub-Logos.

It is as if when you sink into an expression of deep feeling, you as a second-chance Earth being have the capacity for more different kinds of emotion and each subtle difference in emotion is authentic. You have richer choices of ways to feel your authentic essence and the Creator has an enhanced opportunity to know Itself as these tides and rivers of archetypal emotion sweep over streambeds made uneven by the pebbles of different archetypal influences. It does not muddy the experience but rather enriches the experience of positive emotion. Because of the nature of darker emotions there is the tendency to find a muddying effect in emotions like anger and fear. Consequently, those working on the path of service to self have a real disadvantage at this time for they must, with exquisite care, find the true heart of those purified emotions. However, for those on the path of service to others, the differences are seen as articulations or waterfalls or linns or cascades. And as you watch the water flowing from these linns and catching the light, you may see the rainbows of different effects as they fall through you, and you become one with these purified rivers and streams of emotion.

R’s question was: “As you were describing the different tribes that came to Earth as their second third-density planet, you said that these groups bring their own archetypes and consciousnesses from their first planet. How does that mesh with this planet having its own archetypes put into place by the Logos of our galaxy? Can you speak to that? I have a difficult time making it more clear than that. Q’uo began by saying when there is one archetypal system in place, it is a system of waterways in the deep mind which are calm and serene, and even the darkest emotions run along a channel that is simple, and when entities from another planet enter into the archetypal energies of Earth, carrying with them the archetypal energies of another sub-Logos it is as if there is the same basic waterway system, but each sub-Logos has made small differences here and there, and they add up to many small streams so that there are swamps where dark emotions of different cultures have developed into less of a clear form and more of an unembodied form. Q’uo went on to say this creation contains one blueprint of the archetypal mind of its people, and it is up to each sub-Logos to tinker with that design to increase the variety of experiences available to the infinite Creator, so when an entity on its first planet falls into the emotions of suffering or joy, those waterways move smoothly, and the myths are of a piece, and when there is superimposed upon the plan of waterways that the archetypal mind of another sub-Logos represents in the roots of consciousness, you see the enriching and interesting rapids that occur with the overlay of more than one sub-Logos. Q’uo continued by saying when you sink into an expression of deep feeling, you as a second-chance Earth being have the capacity for different kinds of emotion, and each subtle difference in emotion is authentic so that you have richer choices of ways to feel your authentic essence, and the Creator has an enhanced opportunity to know Itself as these rivers of archetypal emotion sweep over streambeds made uneven by the pebbles of different archetypal influences, and it does not muddy the experience but enriches the experience of positive emotion, but because of the nature of darker emotions there is the tendency to find a muddying effect in emotions like anger and fear so that those working on the path of service to self have a disadvantage at this time for they must find the true heart of those purified emotions, but for those on the path of service to others, the differences are seen as waterfalls, and as you watch the water flowing from these linns and catching the light, you may see the rainbows of different effects as they fall through you, and you become one with these purified rivers and streams of emotion. On January 21, 2001, Q’uo spoke of the nature of streams of emotion:

For faith, a sense of humor, persistence, and compassion are certainly those qualities which are often sought but usually imperfectly found, and yet how blessed it is when the seeker can find a moment of utter patience, utter humor, utter acceptance, or utter love. And all of these streams of emotion flow through the channels of the deep mind in pure and undistorted vibrations, for they are part of what this instrument would call the default setting of the vibration of creation itself, the Logos of the one infinite Creator which is Love.

May we answer you further, my brother?

R: Thank you Q’uo. There are no more questions from the online circle members, so I will ask one. The last question I have is if there are entities who choose to continue their third-density experience on planet Earth because of the muddying and the possibilities it offers? Or is the assignment of the second-chance third-density planet something that the entity itself does not actively partake in?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. Your latter supposition is correct. The placement of a planetary population in a second third-density environment is made at a level where the guardians responsible for that entire planet make that choice of placement. The individual is moved as a part of the planetary tribe.

We find that this instrument’s energy wanes and so we would take our leave of this instrument and this group, thanking each for the incredible beauty of your vibrations. We are humble before you, you who have the veil covering your eyes, keeping you from the clear sight of the Creator. Yet you move forward, gracefully, courageously, and gallantly, never giving up, but always, as the ones known as T and R have both said, just giving it another try, starting over tomorrow morning. Day by day your beauty astounds us, your courage amazes us, and we cheer for you and love you. We are always here if you would ask us mentally to deepen your meditations. Again, we thank you for calling us to your circle. We are known to you as those of the principle of Q’uo. We leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I arranged the chairs in the living room for our public channeling meditation this afternoon. Then I turned the printer and house phone off so that no telephone calls would interrupt the meditation.

This afternoon we had a total of 16 seekers at our public channeling meditation. The round robin was a very beautiful sharing of open hearts as each seeker spoke of some portion of their recent spiritual journeys were most important to them. I shared more information about Carla’s life as a channel both conscious and trance, writer, singer, lover of music, counselor, and the love of my life. The some of the questions for Q’uo were about how to be empathic for someone who rejected this service, and the value of being a monk.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 12

The Healing Love Of Christ

I am the spirit of living Love. I greet you in the full consciousness of that love which is Christed.

The Light of your world comes only physically from the sun and shines in truth more greatly from the eyes of those who have the consciousness of Love than from any other source.

Worlds of darkness vanish before the morning Light, and the most obscene horror grows pitiful in the gentle rays of sunlight. So, too, let the light of your eyes rest on things seemingly good and seemingly evil, seeing the Christ in all and the good in each. Whatever sadness or horror there has been, let your eyes heal it. Let your heart know the healing has occurred. For within each is the power of the Spirit; within each, the healing Love of Christ.

We leave you in the peace of infinite Love. May you never grow weary of the Spirit of Love.

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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from November 19, 2006:

The question this week has to do with the conflict between what we project as a personality in our daily round of activities and our soul essence that moves with us through various incarnations and really has the basic plan for evolution in mind. Frequently, our personality seems to be at odds with this deeper self that knows what we need to do. When we are in catalyst situations in our daily round of activities and we’d like to punch somebody out, there’s this little voice that says, “That’s probably not a good idea.” We were wondering if Q’uo could give us some information on how we can deal with our personality. Because it is our personalities that we would use to deal with it. Do we need to refine our personalities? Do we need to get rid of our personalities? Do we need to balance our personalities? How can we most skillfully deal with what seems to be a conflict between the personality that wants to do certain things in this illusion and the deeper soul-self that really knows what we ought to be about and what we ought not to be about.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you this day. It is a delight to be called to your circle of seeking and we are most glad to share our humble thoughts with you concerning the dynamics between the personality and the soul or spiritual essence. As always, however, we would preface our remarks by the request that you not take them too seriously. We offer our opinions hoping that they will be of use to you. We cannot know what of our thoughts will prove useful to you, and what of our thoughts will not prove of any use at this time. We would ask of you to use your discrimination and carefully and consciously select those thoughts that you wish to follow up, using those thoughts as resources. We would ask that you forget all of those thoughts with which you have not specifically felt resonance. In this way we would have the opportunity to speak freely without being concerned that we shall in some way infringe upon your free will and the rhythm of your spiritual process. We thank you for this consideration.

Perhaps you have seen a type of mollusk that creates a shell that is called the chambered nautilus. The animal that creates this shell first creates one shell which is in the nature of a scoop or an amphitheater. As it lives and gains in time and experience it gradually creates a second, larger amphitheater for itself. As this sea creature matures and gains in age, it creates house after house after house, always spiraling into a larger area, always creating a vaster domain, always bringing the self into a more spacious point of view or range of view. The personality, as you have termed it, can be seen to be this kind of being. It must have a house. It must create and form and erect and maintain a façade of some kind. That is the nature of what you call the personality.

Now let us talk a bit about the personality. In its own way, your essence has a personality. There is a flavor to the vibrations that are uniquely your own. However, this flavoring of sweetness and spice is extraneous to the basic vibration of your being. In contrast to your personality on Planet Earth—that is, your earthly personality—your soul essence does not have that kind of personality. For the moment we are focusing on the personality because, as the one known as Jim said in his query, one must deal with this concept, this perception of a dynamic between the personality and the soul, with the personality itself as a conscious being, in a third-density physical vehicle, living a life on Planet Earth. The personality is that which gives voice even to the most deep and profound of spiritual truths. Indeed, that is why artists, prophets, priests, and other visionaries so often cry out in anguish. For they can feel and taste the truth, but to move it into words is more work than many can ever encompass. Therefore, one must work with the personality in order to aid the spiritual seeking of the self.

One cannot simply work within silence and allow that to be the spiritual practice. There needs to be a structure of thought that is able to hold and order the concerns of the lifetime. The house or chamber of the nautilus that you are born with is a small house. Its structures are simple. When you are a very small child you gain the concept of “me” and “mine” and the nurturer, and the one who is loved, and the one who loves you. These are very simple structures, but they are very meaningful. You barely begin to realize that there are other entities in the world until you are first told to share. That is perhaps the beginning of your career of one who grows on Planet Earth. For that concept of someone else to whom you are kind makes a shift and a change in consciousness that moves you to a larger house, to a larger point of view. Throughout your life then, cyclically, when you have prepared to move house, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally speaking, you shall find yourself in a more spacious palace and a more panoramic view shall be yours as well. Such houses are not built of nothing. In the case of the personality upon planet Earth, the move from a smaller to a larger house, a smaller to a larger point of view is costly. You pay the price in whatever suffering you do as you work on what you conceive of as your spiritual process. You also work upon it with every consciously received moment of thanksgiving and joy.

The group question for this session was: “How can we most skillfully deal with what seems to be a conflict between the personality that wants to do certain things in this illusion and the deeper soul-self that really knows what we ought to be about and what we ought not to be about.” Q’uo began by saying perhaps we have seen a type of mollusk that creates a shell that is called the chambered nautilus, and the animal that creates this shell first creates one shell which is in the nature of a scoop, and as it gains experience it creates a larger amphitheater for itself, so as this sea creature matures, it creates house after house, always spiraling into a larger area, always bringing the self into a more spacious point of view, and the personality can be seen to be this kind of being which must have a house, and it must create and maintain a façade of some kind, so that is the nature of what we call the personality. Then Q’uo said let us talk about the personality because in its own way, our essence has a personality, and there is a flavor to the vibrations that are uniquely our own, but this flavoring of sweetness and spice is unrelated to the basic vibration of our being so that in contrast to our personality on planet Earth our soul does not have that kind of personality, and for the moment Q’uo wanted to focus on the personality because, as Jim said in his query, we must deal with this dynamic between the personality and the soul, with the personality as a conscious being, in a third-density body, living a life on Earth so that the personality gives voice even to the most deep spiritual truths because that is why artists, prophets, priests, and other visionaries so often cry out in anguish, for they can feel and taste the truth, but to move it into words is more work than many can ever encompass, so we must work with the personality in order to aid the spiritual seeking of our self. Q’uo continued by saying its structures are simple since when we were a small child we gained the concept of “me” and “mine,” the nurturer, and the one who is loved, and the one who loves us, and these are simple structures, and they are meaningful, but we barely begin to realize that there are other entities in the world until we were first told to share, and that was the beginning of our career of one who grows on Earth, for that concept of someone else to whom we were kind makes a change in consciousness that moves us to a larger point of view so that through our life when we have prepared to move house, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally speaking, we shall find our self in a more panoramic view that shall be ours as well, but such houses are not built of nothing, so in the case of the personality upon Earth, the move from a smaller to a larger point of view is costly, and we pay the price in whatever suffering we do as we work on what we conceive of as our spiritual process, so we also work upon it with every consciously received moment of thanksgiving and joy. On May 7, 1989, Q’uo described how we can obtain a larger point of view:

The matter of redemption plays a vital role in this process, for as the hero begins to identify the self with a growing viewpoint of the self to include more of that which it views or has viewed as exterior to the self, there is the necessity for allowing the smaller viewpoint to fall away, which is another way of saying that as the hero continues upon this journey, it finds that that which has impeded its progress is its own definition of itself in various modes or manners of expression that have taken root within the perception of the self by the self within the incarnation.

Thus, as these limiting definitions are discarded, there is the need to forgive or to redeem the self which has held these limiting points of view, limiting only as the hero has felt the necessity to move beyond them. For each new point of view or definition of the self will serve the hero for a certain portion of its experience, until it is ready to move beyond this point of view as well. At that time, that point of view will become a hindrance to further progress until a larger point of view is found and the smaller point of view is discarded. This is a simplistic means of describing the process of redemption or redefining of the self.

This instrument has said to herself and others many times that if she can focus on giving thanksgiving and praise for what is happening, she finds there is less of the difficult work to do that seems to involve suffering, either mental, emotional, spiritual or physical. The pressure to grow is indelibly etched into your very essence. You are, by your very nature, a life form in the midst of an evolutionary process. You may dig in your heels and attempt to resist growing and you will slow the rate of growth, but you cannot stop growing. What entities can do, and often choose to do, being unaware of a spiritual dimension to their lives, is attempt to remain as deeply asleep as possible, softening the blows of life with pleasure, distraction, and sleep. We are not speaking to those who wish to sleep. Therefore, we sympathize with you! For you are awake. You cannot go back to sleep. You truly do wish to grow, and you truly are weary at times of the amount of suffering that seems to be involved.

Andthe catalyst, as the one known as C, as the one known as Carla, and as the one known as Jim all said, does not stop simply because you become aware that it is catalyst. You do the work of becoming grateful for the good catalyst and thankful for the good work to do. You can only manipulate your true feelings so far. This instrument was speaking earlier, for instance, of how she must remove from her consciousness all of the details of her present moment before she can come to that formless awareness of self that is the real self, the consciousness that is shared with the infinite Creator and with all the forces of love and light within her world. It is possible to become that emptied, open vessel, but it takes work. It takes a deliberate and ruthless willingness to release pain and, more than that, to release the resentment that grows up around having to feel the pain. We realize that we are talking to a wide range of entities. For some of you, the pain is emotional. For some of you the pain is physical. And for some the pain is spiritual. In all cases there is a mixture of each, but always there is an emphasis on one of those three.

Whatever the kind of suffering that you are experiencing, it has the same function within the growth processes of your soul. It is designed, as the one known as C said, to target specific issues which you came into this incarnation fairly determined to balance. You had to give up the memory of all this good planning, so the actual agenda of your life only comes to you little by little unless you are very lucky, and it strikes you all at once. If you receive a whole vision like that, almost nothing can stop you. But for most entities, the vision is acquired slowly and in stages. And there is a lot of self-doubt. There is the wondering if you are on the right track. Could you be doing something better? Could you be doing something else? Could you be more honest with yourself? And so forth and so on. These are questions that are good to ask, questions that are needful to ask, but questions that distract you from the process of letting faith be your keel and hope your rudder.

Then Q’uo said Carla has said many times that if she can focus on giving thanksgiving and praise for what is happening, she finds there is less difficult work to do that involves suffering, either mental, emotional, spiritual, or physical since the pressure to grow is etched into our being, and we are a life form in the midst of an evolutionary process, so we may dig in our heels and attempt to resist growing in order to slow the rate of growth, but we cannot stop growing so that what we can do, being unaware of a spiritual dimension to our lives, is attempt to remain as deeply asleep as possible, softening the blows of life with distraction and sleep, but Q’uo is not speaking to those who wish to sleep because they sympathized with us, for we are awake, and we cannot go back to sleep since we do wish to grow, and we are weary at times of the amount of suffering that seems to be involved. Q’uo went on to say the catalyst, as C, Carla, and Jim said, does not stop because we become aware that it is catalyst because we do the work of becoming grateful for the good catalyst and for the good work to do, but we can only manipulate our true feelings so far as Carla was speaking earlier of how she must remove from her consciousness the details of her present moment before she can come to that awareness of self that is the real self, the consciousness that is shared with the infinite Creator and with all the forces of love and light within her world, and it is possible to become that open vessel, but it takes work to release pain and, to release the resentment that grows up around having to feel the pain, and Q’uo realized that they are talking to a wide range of entities since for some of us the pain is emotional, or physical, or spiritual, and in all cases there is a mixture of each, but always there is an emphasis on one of those three. Q’uo continued by saying whatever the kind of suffering we are experiencing, it has the same function within the growth processes of our soul, and it is designed to target issues which we came into this incarnation determined to balance, so we had to give up the memory of this planning, and the actual agenda of our life comes to us little by little unless we are lucky, and it strikes us all at once, and if we receive a vision like that, nothing can stop us, but for most of us, the vision is acquired in stages, and there is a lot of self-doubt, and there is the wondering if we are on the right track, and these are questions that are good to ask, but they distract us from the process of letting faith be our keel and hope our rudder. On April 15, 1990, Q’uo spoke of the causes of self-doubt:

Many entities within the childhood experience are cut off from the feeling of self-love. This is perhaps the most common of those limitations which are chosen before the incarnation, in order that the entity may experience and exercise the lesson that one is not here to be loved but to love. One is not here to be pampered, but to console others. One is not here to be praised, but to support, cherish, and nurture those about one, seeing in them the infinite Creator. The inability to feel the worth of the self derives its strength, for the most part, from the childhood wherein the child is not accepted as it is, in which the child is not appreciated, feels itself not to be fully loved, feels itself to be criticized, feels itself to be unable to please those first witnesses and embodiments of the Creator, the parents.

As the parents cut the child off from the spontaneous giving and taking of love, so in the mature spiritual search the pilgrim shall find itself laden with a burden of self-doubt, and that even heavier burden of unidentified guilt, for in such a childhood one is given the feeling that one is somehow guilty, but of what, the child knows not. One is given the feeling that the child is unwanted, and there is no defense possible to that child, for in the young years of incarnation the child is too purely that spirit which incarnated into the world to have defenses against lack of self-perceived love, worth and righteousness.

You can only go so far with your chamber, given that we continue to use the image of the chambered nautilus. The most marvelously expansive palace with the widest point of view possible will give to you everything right up to the limit of the rational and the known. You will look upon physical things from this personality shell. You will see stars, but they will not live. You will hear the wind, but you will not hear it speaking to you. You are trapped, as a personality, in a world of thought and form. You cannot see that the forms and the thoughts are common to you all. You cannot see beyond the uniqueness of your body and its obviously physical separation from all other bodies. You cannot see the dance of your auras as they dance upon each other and form harmonics and combinations of woven color that are quite remarkable in their beauty. You cannot see all of the entities of Earth: the flowers, the trees, the animals, the water, all the elements with their characteristic vibrations and their characteristic auras, all merging and flowing in and out of each other in an endless harmony and a beautiful symphony. That is the limitation of that entity that you are when you use the word, “I.”

You moved into incarnation in this very limited physical vehicle with its very limited instincts and mentality because you as a soul had work to do. It may well help, when you are in the midst of suffering, to remember and validate for yourself the simple fact that you chose the work you are about now in the world. You wanted it very much. You wanted the opportunity badly. Not only did you want to help others, but you also wanted to work on your vibration. Some of you felt that you were overbalanced toward love and tended towards becoming martyrs rather than applying the wisdom that balances martyrdom and creates of it continued life and continued teaching and an expansion of possibilities.

Some of you came into this incarnation with the opinion that you had far too much wisdom and that it was keeping you from coming into the full openness of heart that you truly wished for yourself. From whichever dynamic you are approaching balance, you will be drawn to certain lessons. Those who wish to gain wisdom will be offered opportunities to use wisdom. Those of you who wish to become openhearted will find those themes of catalytic event occurring again and again that challenge you to open your heart at the expense of rationality and the perceived wisdom. Realize that when you do this work, your responsibility is to form an intention and to offer it up to the spirit within you. There is much that is hidden in mystery about your guidance. Do not attempt, then, to reason out these moments of suffering and learning. Certainly, apply the wisdom of analysis as you wish. But realize always that skillful work with the personality involves moving back into the silence, allowing the personality to fall away, becoming empty, as this instrument was talking about doing earlier, and receiving in that silence things that are and will remain a mystery but which will, nevertheless, create for you the possibilities of new structure, a larger home, a more capacious and compassionate personality.

Now Q’uo said we can only go so far with our chamber, given that they continued to use the image of the chambered nautilus, but the most expansive palace with the widest point of view possible will give us everything up to the limit of what is known, and there is the limitation of that entity that we are when we use the word, “I,” so when we look upon physical things from this personality shell we: “will see stars, but they will not live. We will hear the wind, but we will not hear it speaking to us. We cannot see that the forms and the thoughts are common to us all. We cannot see beyond the uniqueness of our body and its obviously physical separation from all other bodies. We cannot see all of the entities of Earth: the flowers, the trees, the animals, the water, all the elements with their characteristic vibrations and their characteristic auras, all merging and flowing in and out of each other in an endless harmony and a beautiful symphony.” Q’uo went on to say we moved into incarnation in this limited body with its limited instincts and mentality because we had work to do, so it may help, when we are suffering, to remember the fact that we chose the work we are doing in the world because we wanted the opportunity to help others, but we also wanted to work on our vibration, and some of us felt that we were overbalanced toward love and tended to become martyrs rather than applying the wisdom that balances martyrdom and creates our life of teaching and an expansion of possibilities. Q’uo continued by saying some of us came into this incarnation feeling that we had too much wisdom, and that it was keeping us from coming into the openness of heart that we wished for ourself, so from whichever dynamic we are approaching balance, we will be drawn to certain lessons, and those of us who wish to gain wisdom will be offered opportunities to use wisdom, and those of us who wish to become openhearted will find those catalytic events occurring again and again that challenge us to open our heart at the expense of wisdom, so when we do this work, our responsibility is to form an intention and to offer it up to the spirit within us because there is much that is hidden in mystery about our guidance, but we should not attempt to understand these moments of suffering and learning although we can apply the wisdom of analysis as we wish, but we must realize that skillful work with our personality involves moving back into the silence, allowing our personality to fall away, becoming empty, and receiving in that silence things that will remain a mystery but which will create for us the possibilities of a larger home and a more compassionate personality. On January 5, 1997, Q’uo spoke of how we can use our personality metaphysically to express our nature as the Creator:

The entity which seeks to discipline the personality, to become a metaphysical being, to exercise the way of the magician in attempting to arrive at changes in consciousness, these things are done primarily through those qualities which you have spoken of when you spoke of faith and love.

The entity which seeks to become a metaphysical being and to exercise the expression of its personality finds in the positive polarity that the ability to love comes forth from the primary faith that the entity has been able to nourish and to cause to grow within the self. All of these elements of the personality and the ingredients that make up the multifaceted being that each is find the necessity to give and receive love the primary building block and energy of all creation with each portion of the life experience. Thus, the entity who wishes to be a metaphysical personality stokes its internal furnace with faith, and the energy which is output is likened unto love, the means by which it is done, the many facets of the personality that has been disciplined and is available as a resource, that one may write the tone poem of life with an unique and distinctive flourish, that gives a glorification to the one Creator in that it is a means by which a metaphysical entity begins to express its nature as the Creator.

We would say, “No,” to the question would we suggest for you to lose the personality. You do not wish to lose the personality, although as various parts of it fall away naturally, it is a wonderfully freeing experience. Your personality is a perfectly good structure. You are, however, working to refine your personality. Now the word “refine” means to purify, and it calls up images of the fiery furnace and being reduced to your liquid components of this metal, that metal, and so forth, and the dross being drained off and the good part being made into some fine steel or creating something metallic. Yours is not that kind of refinery. If you will notice your physical vehicle, it is a chemical refinery. It takes in raw foods. It uses the good, and it excretes the waste. It may help you to think of your mental and emotional appetites in the same way. You’re going to be eating a lot of raw food when it comes to food as experience. It will hit you sometimes like a French au cuisine dinner, sometimes like an unfortunate trip to a greasy burger place, and sometimes somewhere in between.

Some of the experiences that you receive will be sweet to your tongue and delicious to process: your lover’s touch, the cry of your baby, those wonderful times when you see the beauty of the moment in the sunshine and shadow. Treasure and store up those moments of pure awareness. The kind of refinery you are as a soul is one who takes all that hits the self in the present moment and gazes at it with an eye to response. If you are too quick to respond, then you have quickly used up that opportunity. If the response is not complete or well thought out, or on the level you would have preferred if you thought about it further, then you have minimized the effectiveness of this particular catalyst.

Consequently, in terms of dealing with difficult catalyst, it is helpful that you become aware of your resistance to it. It is understandable for you to resist by instinct anything that will make you uncomfortable. Whether it is a physical discomfort because of a physical condition or an emotional discomfort because of a difficult relationship, the discomfort is there and the instinct of your physical vehicle with its intellect is to resist it. You wish either to change it or to eliminate it. The last thing you want to do is accept it, appreciate it, bless it, and use it. Yet for those who have the presence of mind to go through that process of separating the self from the immediacy of the catalyst and becoming that self that is aware of the catalyst and wishes to choose how to respond, such catalyst can begin to be seen as the gift that it truly is.

It is the work of a lifetime to learn not to resist seemingly difficult catalyst. Yet as each of you has at times discovered, when you release all resistance and embrace the situation your environment lightens as if dawn had just broken on a new day. You are able to say, “All right, I see this, and I welcome it. Help me learn how to receive this gift. Help me to have insight into its purpose in my life. Help me to look in the mirror of this discomfort and see the face of the infinite Creator.” We believe that this is a good stopping place for this particular topic and we would, at this time, ask if there are other queries that this group may have. We are those of Q’uo.

Q’uo went on to say “No,” to the question if we should lose our personality because we do not wish to lose our personality, although as various parts of it fall away it is a freeing experience as our personality is a good structure, but we are working to refine our personality, so now the word “refine” means to purify, and it calls up images of the fiery furnace and being reduced to our liquid components of this metal and the dross being drained off, and the good part being made into some fine steel, but ours is not that kind of refinery, and if we will notice our physical vehicle, it is a chemical refinery that takes in raw foods, uses the good, and excretes the waste, so it may help us to think of our mental and emotional appetites in the same way since we are going to be eating a lot of raw food when it comes to food as experience, and it will hit us sometimes like a French elegant dinner, sometimes like an unfortunate trip to a greasy burger place, and sometimes somewhere in between. Then Q’uo said some of the experiences that we receive will be sweet to our tongue : our lover’s touch, and those times when we see the beauty of the moment in the sunshine and shadow that we can treasure and store up in moments of pure awareness because this is the kind of refinery we are as a soul who takes our experience in the present moment and gazes at it with an eye to response, but if we are too quick to respond, then we have used up that opportunity, or if the response is not complete then we have minimized the effectiveness of this catalyst. Q’uo continued by saying in terms of dealing with difficult catalyst, it is helpful that we become aware of our resistance to it, and it is understandable for us to resist by instinct anything that will make us uncomfortable whether it is a physical discomfort or an emotional discomfort, the discomfort is there, and the instinct of our physical vehicle with its intellect is to resist it, so we wish to change it or to eliminate it, but the last thing we want to do is accept it and use it, but for those of us who have the presence of mind to go through that process of separating our self from the immediacy of the catalyst and becoming that self that is aware of the catalyst and wishes to choose how to respond, such catalyst can begin to be seen as the gift that it truly is. Now Q’uo completed their reply by saying it is the work of a lifetime to learn not to resist seemingly difficult catalyst, yet as each of us has discovered when we release all resistance and embrace the situation our environment lightens as if dawn had just broken on a new day, and we are able to say: “All right, I see this, and I welcome it. Help me learn how to receive this gift. Help me to have insight into its purpose in my life. Help me to look in the mirror of this discomfort and see the face of the infinite Creator.” On March 18, 2017, Q’uo spoke about our work of a lifetime:

The process that we described in the opening response to your primary question was how to utilize the catalyst of your experience, the catalyst of your world, the catalyst of your daily round of activities, in order to be able to eventually utilize the shuttle in such a fashion. This is the work of the adept; this is the work of a lifetime; this is the work that requires great dedication, concentration, repetition, and, shall we say, imagination, for that which stands before the doughty seeker of truth is a gauntlet of catalyst that shall test one’s ability to be able to find love where there seems to be no love at all; to find wisdom where there seems to be only ignorance; to find companionship where there seems to be only separation; to find unity where there is nothing but separation. This is the work of the magician; this is the work of the conscious mind; this is the work of the adept, my brother. This is what each of you is here to do; this is what each of you is doing quite well, in our estimation. We would recommend to each of you that you keep doing what you are doing.

We believe that this is a good stopping place for this particular topic and we would, at this time, ask if there are other queries that this group may have. We are those of Q’uo.

[No further queries.]

We are those of Q’uo. As we seem to have exhausted the questions in this group at this time, we shall thank you once again for calling us to your circle and for allowing us the privilege of sharing your vibrations. We leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I vacuumed the first floor of my home, and then I went outside and used the garden hose to put more water in the fishpond in order to lower the height of the fountain that had begun to splash water outside of the pond.

This afternoon I went outside and started up Venus, my large lawn mower, and went around to the street where the brick foundation to my mailbox had been accidentally run into by the friend of my neighbor as she was backing our of their driveway. I used the front of my mower to push the brick foundation back into its proper location.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 11

A Fine Pilgrimage

I am the spirit of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

I am the Comforter. Come, take my hand. Together we may walk through the land of experience. Together we may see the illumination of day and rejoice in the velvet darkness of night. Together the soul and its Comforter may make a fine pilgrimage of any road and any weather.

Seek the consolation and the comfort of the consciousness of Love. It lies waiting for the touch of your hand, the invitation of your heart. Perhaps you may want to travel for awhile, experiencing the feeling of aloneness and calling to feelings of helplessness and despair. These experiences, too, are most wonderful. Yet when the pitch of experience becomes too keen to bear alone, hold in remembrance that you are not without comfort at any time, in any place.

For the peace and the Love of Jesus the Christ are in the world in which you truly live. And in that kingdom of consciousness we leave you, now and always. 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.