I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from September 29, 2002:

Our question today has to do with the concept of balancing. We hear a great deal, from many different sources, that balance is important, that we should be looking for ways to balance our lives, and since each person lives a unique existence, we’re wondering if Q’uo could give some information on how we as individuals could determine what we need to do—each of us—to balance our lives. Is there a good general technique of meditation, of contemplation, or study that you would recommend for us to balance our lives so that the responses we make to people and to new situations are our highest and our best?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator in whose service we come to you this afternoon. We feel so privileged and so blessed to experience each of your beauties. Truly, each of you is a blessing to us as a gemstone, as a pearl, as that which is beautiful and unique and utterly essential to the wholeness of the universe. We honor you, and we thank you for the desires of your heart that have pulled you towards a seeking circle such as this one. We thank you, for our hope has been to share information of a metaphysical nature with those to whom it would be helpful.

As always, our story is fairly simple, but there are an infinite number of ways to discuss unity. We find that to be somewhat ironic but only due to the nature of language. We ask only one thing, as we share our opinions with you: we ask that you understand that we are seekers such as you, those who walk with you upon a path. We perhaps have had more experience. However, we have not had more experience in third density. In fact, we have not had as much, for our third-density experience was brief.

We consider each of you masters. We know that each of you has the capability of moving from this experience into the next classroom of experience at the cessation of this physical incarnation, and we hope by those things that we offer to provide resources for those of you who seek, as this instrument said earlier, to forge a path that allows light from higher densities into the Earth plane where it is desperately needed at this time.

Each of you is already doing this work by breathing in and breathing out. Whether you feel you are in balance or whether you feel that you are riding the crest of chaos! In fact, the very breath that you share, when shared with an open heart, is of fundamental assistance to the planetary sphere upon which you dwell at this time and to the population of that planet, which is one body, of which each of you is an essential part. Therefore, truly it is said that there are no mistakes, and we simply ask you to realize that, in that context, what we have to say is subjective truth. That concept of truth is a dangerous one for your peoples, and we encourage you to think of our ideas only insofar as they attract you, as they resonate to you, and as they help you to focus with those things with which you are working at this time. We ask you not to see us as authorities or to retain any thoughts of ours which do not seem resonant. With this freedom of will preserved on the part of each of you, then we can feel free to share our opinions with you for what they’re worth. And each of you will find different things about that which we say to keep and different things to allow to remain behind. We would encourage this, for, truly, your sense of personal discrimination is a tremendous, powerful, and valid resource for each of you. You will know that which is resonant to you. It will come to you as if you were remembering it after a long time of forgetting. It will not feel as new as it will feel familiar and positive. If you do not have this kind of chemical reaction, shall we say, to these thoughts, then leave them behind without a second thought, for the universe, the creation on all levels is full of messages. It does not matter if you miss a message, for another one will be there to take its place. The creation is incredibly, infinitely full of opportunity, and, the more it is realized that the creation is a plastic and even a fluid thing, the more possible it will be for each of you to mine the rich field of experience for the gems that it does contain.

You ask this day concerning balance. This is another concept which is relatively simple to comprehend but infinitely difficult either to delineate or to achieve. We may say a few things concerning balance this day, but by no means could we hope to exhaust the subject. Therefore, if there are remaining questions at the end of this session, we encourage each of you to remember and to bring up those questions that still remain. There will be time at the end of this meeting for questions, and as well it is quite possible to initiate a further question at another channeling if the topic is sufficiently interesting to the group.

Perhaps the first thing that we would discuss concerning the concept of balancing is the model upon which this is built. This instrument tunes according to a certain prayer which is the prayer of St. Francis. In its entirety, it is vibrated thusly: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is sadness, joy. Oh divine master, teach us to seek not so much to be loved as to love; to be understood as to understand; to be consoled as to console. For it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in giving that we receive; and it is in dying that we rise to eternal life.

This is an excellent tuning prayer for this particular instrument. However, we use it here to point out the model’s dialectical limitations. Balance is not precisely a balance between one side of self and the other side of self. There is not a line dividing half of your body into the positive aspect and the other half into the negative aspect. While tuning towards the light is a skillful resource with which to address a momentary calmness and stability of point of view, nevertheless, it is not that which constitutes a true model of what it is to become balanced. There is a flatness to the model that could be described by the X axis and the Y axis; those things to the right of the X axis are positive, those things to the left of the X axis negative, and so forth.

Take this model of the circle that this instrument has described and allow it to become a sphere, an energy field around things. This model would indicate that one was in balance—when? When is a circle in balance? To us, a circle is in balance at all times. The spherical aspect of it creates a situation in which there is no possibility of losing one’s balance, there is no possibility of falling. There is only the rolling, the being kicked by deity into different circumstances, and the ability to bounce.

So let us look at this model a little more closely. The thing that entities tend to do when they perceive that they are out of balance is to attempt to correct. This is true when an entity is within an automobile and the car goes into a skid. The less trained an entity is in moving out of a skid, the less likely an entity is to affect positively the direction of the car by those actions which are taken after the self-perceived slip is noticed. The more skillful the person in driving, the more experience that person has had, the quicker that entity will correct the path of the vehicle. The secret, of course, is refraining from attempting to steer the car while it is out of control.

This relates strongly to that saying from what this instrument calls the “AA Prayer,” which is: Grant me the courage to change what I can, the peace to leave alone what I cannot change and the wisdom to know the difference. When applied to bringing the physical vehicle, the emotional vehicle, the energy vehicle, the energy field as a whole, through a skid within the life experience, the first thing that needs to be addressed is the fear of being out of control. The actual situation within the physical experience is that there is no difference between the skid and the correction except the feeling that it gives to the entity internally. The situation in truth is that, at all times, metaphysically speaking, there is an element of being completely out of control. This is because the entire atmosphere and environment of your planetary sphere and its many supporting sub-densities or inner-densities, as this instrument calls them, are completely focused on creating an out-of-control experience that will be cyclically more and then cyclically less in control, allowing each entity who seeks that proper and timely cycle wherein lessons are addressed, are processed, and are either learned or not. The cycle moves around, and either the same situation occurs again for that particular entity on that particular theme, or the cycle spirals, because there is now another level that has opened because of prior learning. Consequently, metaphysically speaking, each of you is in the process of infinite change.

Change is uncomfortable by its very nature. It is confusing, and new patterns that are tossed into the life experience by a most humorous deity have a tremendous ability to appear to the untutored eye like pure and complete confusion and chaos. It is only after processing a good deal of new catalyst that a pattern may perhaps become clear, and it is by hindsight, then, that most of us see the true value and benefit of most of the lessons that we have been offered by our higher selves, chosen before this incarnation with great care and great love. The only difference between before incarnation and during incarnation is that, before incarnation, the reasons for these choices were perfectly clear. Within incarnation, all of the sense of the pattern as an integrated whole has to remain beneath a veil of confusion and illusion so that the fundamental nature of the lesson of this density may become slowly and subjectively clear to each in its own way.

The group question for this session was: “we’re wondering if Q’uo could give some information on how we as individuals could determine what we need to do—each of us—to balance our lives. Is there a good general technique of meditation, of contemplation, or study that you would recommend for us to balance our lives so that the responses we make to people and to new situations are our highest and our best?” Q’uo began their response by using the Prayer of St. Francis as an example of the prayer’s opposing forces creating limitations because balance is not a balance between one side of ourself and the other side of ourself since there is not a line dividing half of our body into the positive aspect and the other half into the negative aspect. They went on to say that tuning towards the light is a skillful resource with which to address a stability of our point of view, nevertheless, it is not that which constitutes a true model of what it is for us to become balanced since there: “is a flatness to the model that could be described by the X axis and the Y axis; those things to the right of the X axis are positive, those things to the left of the X axis negative, and so forth.” Q’uo continued by saying that the circle is in balance at all times, and there is no possibility of our losing our balance because there is only our rolling and symbolically being kicked by deity into different circumstances in our life experience. Then Q’uo said that when we are out of balance that it is normal for us to attempt to regain our balance, and then they used the analogy of it being a better idea to wait until the car we are driving–that has gone into a skid–has come out of the skid before trying to correct it. They said that, metaphysically speaking, the situation of our feeling that we are completely out of control comes from the environment of our planetary sphere’s sub-densities that are focused on creating an out-of-control experience that will cycle more in control and then less in control which will allow us to come to a point where our lessons are processed and we either learn them or we do not learn them, and as these cycles change each of us is in a process of infinite change. Q’uo said that change is uncomfortable, and when new patterns are tossed into our life experience they appear to our untutored eye like pure confusion and chaos, and it is only after we process a good deal of new catalyst that a pattern may become clear, and it is by hindsight that most of us see the true value the lessons that we have been offered by our higher selves which were chosen before this incarnation with great care and great love. On October 21, 1990, Q’uo described how change is uncomfortable:

Thus, in a dark time and in the shadow of death that you call life, you seek to forgive, and pardon, and love, and turn darkness into light wherever you see the way, and to serve, if not to please. You may all be judged because you do not please, but those who wish to serve often do not please, and if you are reviled for your love of the Creator, then you have done something right, and you are beginning to create the catalyst for fear among people that are already fearful, because they do not wish to change, because change is uncomfortable.

Pilgrims upon the path of seeking are always uncomfortable, always changing, always seeking. One cannot say to another, “Come with me on this journey, it will be all rose petals and ambrosia, there will be nothing but good times, for the Creator is love.” The best that you can say is, “Come suffer with me until we learn that there is no such thing as suffering, but only pain, and not my pain and not your pain. Come die with me, that we all may live. Come, let us empty ourselves of self, that we may be earthen vessels filled with treasure, dust in the presence of the Creator.”

This lesson, as we have said many times, revolves around concepts which have to do with a principle that is of the nature of a Thought or a Logos, and that principle cannot be described better within your language than by the word, Love. The Logos or Love is an energy that has created each of you, that has created each of us, that has created all planetary and stellar bodies, that has created a house for Itself. The Creator of this house is listening, is fascinated, and is hoping that each of you will attack the school year that is known as planet Earth with great appetite and enjoyment. It is seen before incarnation as a place where it would be impossible not to be merry. As the one known as F has said, “How can one not be in a good mood in a beautiful place like this?” And indeed, your mimosa bean pods hang down with a beautiful flair in the autumn sunlight and that particular quality of color within the light of autumn is most beautiful not only on your plane but also in the inner planes where we are at this time resting.

It is indescribably beautiful, and there is only one thing that mars the carnival atmosphere, and that is change: the reason that you came! For only in illusion is the perception of real change possible. It is not that there is not a different thought every moment for infinity, it is not that things do not change, for truly no two entities can breathe the same breath twice; no single entity can breathe the same breath more than once. The philosophical river that has for so long been talked about as not being able to be stepped in twice still runs, still changes, and still brings a fresh harvest every day of things that will place the entity in the position of feeling out of balance.

Where lies the love in this structure? Love within the structure lies in that which is not seen. It lies beyond the confusion, it lies beyond the circumstances, and it lies in becoming aware of the self as a unit that contains all that there is, in balance or out of balance. All the ingredients lie within, not neatly separated into those that are identifiable as positive and those identifiable as negative but thoroughly and completely mixed, and mixed yet again with the infinite layers of acculturation that each of you has experienced because of how each has heard what each has heard throughout the incarnation. There are many of those within this group whose early experiences within this sphere have been difficult to bear; whose growth as spirits has been distorted in various ways because of assumptions accepted as true, such as: “I am not worthy,” “I am not happy,” “I am not blessed,” “I am not lucky,” “I am not good enough.” We could go on, but basically it is that feeling of being not good enough, of being abandoned, of being stranded in an unsafe place, which charges one with the need to put up defenses.

Thisbrings us back to the idea of the circular, ball-shaped nature of self. Does a ball, does a sphere need defense? Indeed not. In fact, within the civil engineering trade, the building of bridges is only possible in some cases because of ball bearings that are placed at points of balance within the structure, because the circle can hold much, much more pressure and weight and more of a changing load than any other structure, anything with corners. This means that people can use the circular form to stabilize large structures, and, if the nature of the energy field is seen to be round and spherical, then it may perhaps more easily be seen that the way to become a balanced entity is not the dialectic of, “Oh, I see the dark. I must replace it with the light.” But as the one known as J said, “Oh, I see the dark. let me love it with my light. Let it all become one thing within the heart.” The heart that is within each of you is a haven that is already in balance. There is a pre-incarnational setting that you may be able to change somewhat through the course of an entire lifetime. You are hoping that you will be able to adjust the way you perceive information so that the information that you receive is less and less distorted. One of the goals of balancing is to decrease distortion, and, as this instrument has said earlier in this conversation, to become integrated, to become not only that entity who loves but that entity who is loved so that one begins to feel the fullness of self and the rightness of having all that there is within one entity. This part of balancing simply clears the field by removing as much distortion from the perceptions that are incoming as possible.

So let us move from the concept of sphericalness or not cringing from difficult experiences, to another facet of the balancing experience. That is the great importance of not only allowing oneself to fall, but allowing oneself in those moments of self-perceived chaos to move with the chaos. Indeed, to feel as if one is falling down and not coping but also to begin to allow the self to laugh about it, to take it lightly. We have said through this instrument many times that we encourage you to love that which is beyond yourself and take it very seriously, but we encourage you also to take yourself lightly. For those things which are the highest and the best within you are those things which simply need to be found within the self and allowed to express. They are already there. They are hiding behind things like defensiveness, fear, all of those reactions that are, as Buddhists would say, not particularly skillful. There is a great deal to be said for this point of view of skillfulness.

Then Q’uo said that the lesson of this density concerns concepts which have to do with a principle that cannot be described better than by the word Logos, or Love, which is an energy that has created each of us and all planetary and stellar bodies as a house for Itself, and the Creator of this house is hoping that each of us will approach the school year on planet Earth with great appetite and enjoyment since we see it before our incarnation as a place where it would be impossible not to be merry. Q’uo went on to say that there is only one thing that mars this beautiful carnival atmosphere, and that is change which is the reason that we came here, for only in the third-density illusion is real change possible. Q’uo continued by saying that there is Love within that which is not seen, beyond the confusion, and it lies in becoming aware of ourself that contains all that there is whether in balance or out of balance, and these ingredients lie within us but not neatly separated into those that are positive and negative but completely mixed into infinite layers of experience which each of us has heard throughout our incarnations that have given each of us the feeling of being not good enough, of being abandoned in an unsafe place which gives us the need to put up defenses. Now Q’uo said that our heart is already in balance, and there is a pre-incarnational setting that we may be able to change during our life by adjusting the way we perceive information that is less and less distorted, and one of the goals of balancing is to decrease distortion so that we become not only that entity who loves but that entity who is loved so that we begin to feel the fullness of ourself and the rightness of having all that there is within is, and this part of balancing simply clears our field by removing as much distortion from our incoming perceptions as possible. Q’uo said that it is important if we have the feeling that we are falling down and not coping well that we should allow ourself to laugh about it, to take ourself lightly, so Q’uo encouraged us to love that which is beyond ourself and take it very seriously, but they also said that those things which are the highest and the best within us are: “those things which simply need to be found within the self and allowed to express. They are already there. They are hiding behind things like defensiveness, fear, all of those reactions that are, as Buddhists would say, not particularly skillful. There is a great deal to be said for this point of view of skillfulness.” On November 20, 2005, Q’uo spoke of how we can decrease distortions within ourselves:

You yourself are a distortion of the one infinite Creator in that you have been given a locality. Yet within you lies absolute clarity on an unconscious basis or level. Can you accept the paradox of distortion and clarity indwelling, interpenetrating each other and blessing each other with the gifts that each has to offer the other?

It is always helpful in attempting to decrease distortion to rest in silence in the environment of your own private time, when you gaze inwardly at the depths of your being and outwardly at the depths of the day or the night sky. There seem to be greatly enhanced opportunities for that seeking self to become able to contact the gateway to intelligent infinity, to come into the present moment, and to rest at last in the peace of no time and no space.

Each moment that you are able to live there fills with you the Love and the Light of ten thousand years spent in the hurly burly of normal living. And yet it is very difficult, perhaps nearly impossible, to live day to day and moment to moment resting in the present moment. Distortion will call you forward. You will be pulled one way or another, and you will be lost to that clarity that you had when you were undisturbed.

However, it does not come into congruency with the thought that is behind the skill, which is that of Love there is nothing restrained about the Love of the infinite Creator, nor is there anything restrained about the power of those energies that move through each of you at all times. There is distortion in the incoming data that you receive with ear, with eye, from reading, from opinion, and so forth. It comes in roughly and raw, and some of it is true. and some of it is not. Some of it is of good report, and some of it is simply gossip. Some is true. Some is false. How shall you judge yourself? How shall you look at the momentary experiences of the day and say, “This was a good thought; this was a non-skillful thought”?

There are many ways to address the subject. The best way that we know to tell you is that the key is emotion. You are of the concept because you have a biological computer called a brain that you are here to think better, and indeed in many ways as a side-effect of spiritual improvement in the constitution, there is also an improvement in the thinking. However, the harvest of planet Earth is not a thought, not on the level of ideas. Rather, it is a pure emotion. It is a thought that is creative, that has to itself the nature of a principle that engenders more of itself or children of itself so that each of your thoughts, each of these moments during any day when something crystallizes for you emotionally and you have a specific reaction, whether it is a positive emotion seemingly or seemingly a negative one, offers…

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We must indeed state that we cannot describe that which it offers except to tell a story. This instrument was communicating earlier, by letter, with an entity who talked to her about “Lunchables,” if you are familiar with this product which contains cheese, meat, and crackers. She was thinking about the difference between perceiving something in one structure and perceiving it in a different structure, and she was eating these little crackers and cheese. She discovered that if she put the crackers, then the turkey, then the cheese upon each other in that order, they tasted one way. If she changed the order, she had a different experience, and yet they were the same ingredients. This entity said to this instrument, “How can it be that Lunchables would teach me a spiritual lesson?” And we say to you that this is the nature of balance. Everything has a message to those whose energies crystallize at the moment that the message is coming through. There will be a continuation of messages for each seeking spirit. There is no concern about whether or not you get them all; there will be another one in five minutes or half an hour. There is no waiting in terms of spiritual learning.

Indeed, all you must decide is how fast you can change; how much you can transform while still remaining stable, productive and all of those other attributes that are valued by yourself and the culture in which you live. It is only that limitation that keeps each entity from progressing very, very quickly. And indeed, we would advise against very quick advances and very quick changes. We would suggest to each of you that each find the way to remove toxic intensity from any day in which it occurs. In other words, quite often the reaction of one who has learned something and is excited about learning more is to do more and more meditation, more and more balancing exercises, more and more visualizations, and so forth, which simply creates a faster rate of change until the stable, everyday self is offered a crisis that expresses to that entity the nature of that entity’s limitations as far as being able to change beyond a certain rate of acceleration.

The thing to be aware of within the self is what this instrument would call burn-out, where there has been a massive application of principle, truth, and the various resources of the “spiritual supermarket,” as the one known as T has called it, and circuits are blown, and consequently there is that time where distance must be set between the self and the spiritual seeking. Those entities who are not capable of toning down their efforts with the ability to laugh at the self are those who are most vulnerable to spiritual exhaustion. For those who wish over a long period of time to make sustained and serious efforts in opening up the self to the realization of self, we encourage laughter; we encourage good friends supporting each other; we encourage each finding the ways that relaxation truly comes, that lightening-up really happens.

Then Q’uo said that the Love of the infinite Creator manifests in our senses in various ways that are true or false, and they wanted to know how we determined what was useful to us. Q’uo went on to say that the harvest of planet Earth is an emotion, so they suggested that we could determine what was useful to us by looking at what experiences crystallized for us, and we reacted to with our creative emotions because: “everything has a message to those whose energies crystallize at the moment that the message is coming through. There will be a continuation of messages for each seeking spirit. There is no concern about whether or not you get them all; there will be another one in five minutes or half an hour. There is no waiting in terms of spiritual learning.” Q’uo went on to say that we must decide how fast we can change and how much we can transform while remaining stable and productive because it is only limitation that keeps us from progressing very quickly, and they advised against very quick changes and suggested that we  find a way to remove toxic intensity from any day in which it occurs. Q’uo continued by saying that often when we have learned something, and are excited about learning more, then we engage in more meditation, more balancing exercises, and more visualizations which creates a faster rate of change until our stable, everyday self is offered a crisis that expresses to us the nature of our limitations as far as being able to change beyond a certain rate of acceleration. Now Q’uo said that we need to be aware of when we have reached a state of burn-out, where we have used a massive application of principle, truth, and various other resources, and our circuits are blown so that we need to put a distance between ourself and our spiritual seeking because if we are not capable of toning down our efforts with the ability to laugh at ourself we will become vulnerable to spiritual exhaustion, so Q’uo encouraged laughter and good friends supporting each other in finding the ways that relaxation truly comes, that lightening-up really happens. On July 7, 1991, Q’uo described the nature of spiritual exhaustion:

When emotions run high and spiritual exhaustion is deep, you may wish that you were not this vase, and you do not have to be the vase that you are. The flower is unchangeable, immutable and everlasting; and you are learning how to value that flower, not because it is you, not because it is something that you have called the Creator, not because of anything, but because that is all that there is. And in these choice-making lifetimes, you are shaping that gift to yourself that is the most beautiful receptacle for love that you may create.

Each hardship, each disappointment, each perceived difficulty is, in its own way, true. Vases crack, break, must be made again, must be scrapped and started over, must be retouched; but you are not working on love, you are working on how to honor love. Let this be your first tool when your emotional vase seems crazed and twisted and altogether out of round: know that you can throw that pot back into the wet, soft clay, take the slip cut, and re-cut and re-cut your pot anew. Line it as you will, paint it, enamel it, fire it, stud it with jewels, or be unassuming, knowing that love needs no decoration. But you are safe; these things are occurring to the vase, to the vehicle that carries the blossom of ineffable and perfect consciousness. Vases may bump together, and clang and crash and nestle in so many, many configurations. The blossom is always the blossom. Do not fear loss, for you have only clay to lose. You are the blossom. Rest, beautiful, beautiful blossom; rest.

It is not the same for all entities. One entity can relax perfectly well doing stitchery, another entity reading, another entity walking in the woods. Another entity may have the need to remain active at all times. Whatever the pattern, that pattern itself and the emotions that it calls up are those items of real interest. How am I perceiving this structure, this that presents itself to me, this gestalt? How can I juggle, and play, and dance with this and change the structure of the way I am thinking of the contents of this constructed situation that will improve my capacity to be comfortable while I am not in balance? These are excellent questions to ask of the self, because truly reality is a plastic illusion that is very penetrable by belief and perception. That which you perceive is that which is subjectively true. If the perception or the belief changes, the body itself will believe the perception rather than the actual circumstance. Therefore, if each of you happened to be hypnotized and then placed in a situation where there was physical discomfort and yet one was told that it was not occurring, the entity’s body would not feel pain. Conversely, if an entity is told that he is being touched by fire, in the absence of any fire on the physical, that entity’s body may well blister and burn. Belief becomes the reaction to the body.

This means that the belief that you have about what you are experiencing can create a wide range of actual occurrences, for the belief system triggers the response to the situation. The way that the so-called human experience works is not particularly objective. Indeed, it is extremely subjective. It is extremely permeable, and you have much more power over your universe than you know. So, another level in working with balancing is to see that you have the creative power to reconstruct, not the situation itself but how it is looked at, what point of view is used. What difference, may we ask, would there be between a drama or even a soap opera and a sitcom? What difference is there between melodrama and drawing room farce except the way that the entities respond to the undoubtedly somewhat mired situation that is required in order for a play of any kind to occur, whether it be a comedy, a drama or a tragedy? How can you create a sitcom, so that there are laughs and saving graces to the life experience that inevitably includes all of the crazy things that occur upon planet Earth, all the things that seem unfair, all the things that pull at one, all the things that create emotion?

For you see, each of you, balanced or unbalanced, is constantly sending a signal. Each receives the same signal; each receives the infinite Love and Light in infinite supply at all times moving from the roots of being, from the roots of the body, spiraling upwards through the self and out into the universe again. The magic here is involved in your nature and how you refract that upward-spiraling light in such a way as to create your own color, your own luminosity, your own way of offering Light back to the infinite Creator. So what you are really responsible for here is simply becoming more who you are, for who you are is a spiritual, energetic being, and it is something that is encased and often buried in that illusion which is flesh and those persuasive seductions that the physical world offers, seductions such as the need to feed the self, the need to create warmth for the self with inclement weather, the need to appear to be this or that way in regard to other people. All of the needs are for a seduction of the senses and a seduction of the emotion.

Itis as if each were at a magic carnival, and one could either spend time upon the rides going around and around, or one could bring one’s bounty to the carnival and have it judged to be “best chocolate cake” or “best tomato.” It is a choice of where to put the mind, where to put the energy, where to put the love. If you are loving, you are in balance. You can be upside down or sideways or flat on your back in the illusion, but, if your heart is open, we ask you to be utterly pleased and satisfied and to move on into the moment to mine some of the wonderful, spontaneously available breath and spirit and je ne sais quoi of that particular moment, that intersection of space/time and time/space in which this perfect moment became possible.

Each breath in and each breath out is so precious. We dwell in our present density in a much more expanded time frame relative to your own, and we see the preciousness of breathing in and breathing out for only seventy-five thousand years, and we see especially at this time the preciousness of breathing in and breathing out for perhaps the last of the series of incarnations within third density. It is truly a transformational and magical time. The subjective feeling of being out of balance is inevitable. The truth always lies in the knowledge that all is well, and all will be well. Where you put your energy is precisely where you should be putting your energy even if, in subjective terms, analytical terms, or in the opinion of others, it is incorrect. Know that you will always come about to a new tack when you feel it from within. Know that, until you feel it from within, it is better to continue to collect data, to absorb and to feel, and then to observe the feelings, to learn from those out-of-control, seemingly unbalanced emotions where the mind is, where the heart is, where the catalyst is, what the lessons are.

The lessons usually have to do with the giving and the receiving of love. As the one known as V has said, it is much easier to give than to receive. Many within this group are working with the ability to receive love, so there is never an assumption that this or that situation is helpful, and this other situation is not helpful. Know that many times this situation is the reverse of that which it seems to be.

Q’uo said that these are excellent questions to ask of ourself because reality is a plastic illusion that is subjectively true according to our belief and perception, and if our perception or the belief changes, our body will believe the perception rather than the actual circumstance, so if we were hypnotized and placed in a situation where we experienced physical discomfort, and we were told that it was not occurring, our body would not feel pain, and if we were told that we were being touched by fire, when there was no fire on our body that our body may well blister and burn. Q’uo went on to say that this means that the belief that we have about what we are experiencing can create a variety of actual occurrences since our belief system triggers the response to the situation because the way that the human experience works is extremely subjective and permeable so that we have more power over our universe than we can imagine, so on another level in working with balancing we have the creative power to reconstruct, not the situation itself, but how we look at it. Then Q’uo asked how we can create a sitcom so that: “there are laughs and saving graces to the life experience that inevitably includes all of the crazy things that occur upon planet Earth, all the things that seem unfair, all the things that pull at one, all the things that create emotion?” Q’uo continued by saying that each of us is constantly sending a signal, and each of us receives the same signal which is the infinite Love and Light moving from the roots of our being that spirals upwards through ourself and out into the universe, and the magic here is involved in our nature and how we refract that upward-spiraling light in such a way as to create our own color and our own way of offering Light back to the infinite Creator. Q’uo continued by saying that if we are loving, we are in balance, and we can be upside down or flat on our back in the illusion, but if our heart is open we should be satisfied and move into the moment to mine some of the wonderful breath and spirit and the “I don’t know” of that intersection of space/time and time/space in which this perfect moment became possible. Now Q’uo said that this is a transformational and magical time, and even though our feeling of being out of balance is inevitable, the truth always lies in the knowledge that all is well, and all will be well, and where we put our energy is precisely where we should be putting it even if, in the opinion of others, it is incorrect we should know that we will always come to a new way when we feel it from within, so we should know that, until we feel it from within, it is better to continue to collect data to learn from those out-of-control, seemingly unbalanced emotions where our mind is, where our heart is, where our catalyst is, and what our lessons are. Q’uo completed their response by saying that our lessons usually have to do with giving and receiving love, and it is much easier for us to give than to receive, so there is never an assumption that any situation is helpful, and many times a situation is the reverse of that which it seemed to be. On June 29, 1986, Q’uo spoke of one way that we can give and receive love:

Thus, one area which may be fruitfully investigated is the heart chakra or energy center as the entity sees itself in relation to the creation about it and more specifically as it sees itself giving and receiving love with the mate in the relationship which endures, shall we say. The relationship of mates, as you call them, is one which provides an entity with increased and intensified opportunities to learn and to teach, to give and to receive love. And when accomplished over a significant portion of what you would call time and experience with the dedication of each to the other to be of this service, the lessons and patterns of programs within each entity may be attempted in a manner which is far more efficient than the kind of relationships which are constantly in change and motion with little stability or dedication to service.

This morning I noticed that the fountain on the fishpond was shooting out of the pond, so I turned the fountain off, and then brought the garden hose out of the basement and filled the pond to the height that kept the fountain from shooting out of the pond. I will have to keep an eye on the fountain as it has had this problem in the past.

This afternoon I went outside and used my backpack blower and blew the crushed rock from my parking areas in front of my home back into the parking areas as the fellows who removed the snow from these areas last week scattered some of the stones into the street.

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

January 20

What Is Holy?

I am the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I greet you in the consciousness of Love.

The word “holy” is avoided by many who have felt that there is, indeed, a Spirit which enhances the experience of humankind. We, ourselves, are careful in our use of this adjective. For it is not a part of the inspiration which love offers that it be understood as holy.

For in and of itself, Love is not holy. For when all things are holy, then are none holy. Yet the holiness of the Spirit of Love resides in its sanctification of the ordinary in human experience. There is nothing that is not full of holiness. An instinct to Love is the Love of God. The principle of Love imbues every particle of what you call matter and thought in creation.

Yet there must be the will to call that sanctification forth from within the skeletal walls of earth and rust that are so often perceived as the beginning and end of corporeal things. Call forth the sanctification of life by your will, and allow your world to become holy. For as you see a holy world, you shall share that vision and that truth with all whom you meet, inspiring each to the calling forth of that same sanctification. From such beginnings are worlds recreated and transformed.

We leave you in the abiding peace of the consciousness of love, 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 September 1, 2002:

The question today has to do with the concept of gratitude. We are told by various sources that we should give praise and thanksgiving in all things whether they be what we think are good or we think are bad, and we would like Q’uo to give us some information today about why this is so effective; why giving praise and thanksgiving in all things seems to produce so much of what we call good or the feeling of being in the right place at the right time, of being in the flow. We appreciate anything Q’uo’s got to say about giving praise and thanksgiving.

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the infinite light of the one infinite Creator. It is in the Creator’s service that we find our joy and our employment, and we are extremely grateful to be called to your group by your desire for seeking. We thank each of you so much for the many things that had to be laid aside in order that you could join this circle at this time. It is a great blessing to us to be able to share our opinions with you on this subject of gratitude and thanksgiving. We ask only one thing of you and that is that you carefully employ your own sense of judgment and discrimination as to those things that we may offer, for they are our opinion. We are not an authority of any kind but rather your brothers and sisters. If you will allow us your ability to discriminate, then we feel that we will not infringe upon your free will by those things which we share. We would greatly appreciate that kindness. And we thank each of you for the beauty that you bring to us as we meditate with you and see the wonderful rainbows that each of you carry. It is a great blessing to us to share in these vibrations, to see that each of you, as the one known as H has said, is the master and at the same time joyfully encased in a shell of flesh and playing the part of the clown and the fool.

What is it to be thankful? What is it to give praise? To seek this, we must go a little deeper than zeroing in on that word of praise, or thanksgiving, or thanks, because the word, “gratitude” or the word, “thanks” does not in and of itself explain the power of the word or the concept that is behind that word. Indeed, in all spiritual realization, the awareness is bounding beyond the ability of words to describe the textures and the depth of the concepts that are moving through the seeking entity.

Let us pull back enough to gaze at each of you as stars or cosmic entities. Each of you, like a star, has an energy. Each of you is capable of radiation. Each of you is capable of being greatly affected by the radiation of other energy fields. It seems within the veil of flesh that each of you is some little pinpoint of consciousness gazing out at a common world; that is, a world held in common by yourself and all those who agree on consensus reality. Whereas in fact each of you is the Creator of your universe, and, as the one known as J has said, sometimes it becomes very clear that the universe lies within, that the reality lies within, that all that seems to be “out here”—as this instrument is pushing at the air in front of her body—that “out there” is that space that is around those fragile, delicate, human bodies that you experience at this time.

In actuality, this awareness is but a tiny portal upon the awareness which you carry deep within yourself. You carry it as a precious gem. You carry it in rich and fertile soil. You can, through meditation, find those gems of self and ask them to shine for you so that you may see their beauty. For you truly have not simply one but many of these gems within you, crystallized essences of beingness of various hues and energies that you have, through countless lifetimes, developed and in this particular lifetime have come into a specific and a beneficial balance or, shall we say, dynamic imbalance seeking towards balance asymptotically. This is your character: you are the crystal, the light, the energy that is the deeper aspect of life rather than being a specific shell, a specific weight, a specific appearance, and all these details that appear to be the most important part of consensus reality.

Thesebeings that you are vibrate to the highest truth of which the crystal of your being is allowed to become aware. If the highest truth which you allow yourself is the truth, for instance, of what this instrument would call right and wrong, then you are established to the extent of the truth of that concept in a vibratory nexus, and your spirit will rest within a comfort zone within those thoughts which identify and specify that which is wrong, that which is right, that which is good, and that which is bad. However, neither that which is right nor that which is wrong tends to create, within the energy of an entity, that emotion which partakes of what you have called thanksgiving, praise and gratitude. Rather, it holds one within the spell of this particular density, which is the spell of polarity. It is quite necessary for your environment while you are learning, that polarity be displayed in a marvelous amount of detail; that the details of the physical universe be actually infinite, so that one can lose oneself endlessly in the examination of the illusion. However, in truth, the energy which created all things, which binds all things together, which unifies, is an energy that is so far beyond words that it is ineffable, and yet perhaps one of the closest locutions to that emotion is gratitude.

We normally greet you in the Love and in the Light of the one infinite Creator. We do this in a fairly formalized way, because we are indicating to ourselves and to each of you what our vibratory energies are. The Logos which is the one infinite Creator’s original Thought is that which we call Love, and all that is manifested by the energy of this Thought, acted upon by free will, we call Light. Part of that Light is the energy of your body and the organs within your body, and the molecules within those organs, and the atoms within those molecules. Then, upon a completely other level, in the finer bodies, in the energy bodies, that energy is pure and more refined, and what each of you has come here to do is to refine that energy further. Whatever love that you came into this incarnation carrying is a part of the gifts of your previous incarnations which you harvested for this particular illusion. You hoped to add to that store and to further refine and purify your idea of what, who, whose, you are. For investigating essence takes one almost instantly beyond the words, and yet this word, gratitude, is so powerful, because it carries the vibrations of the Creator.

The group question for this session was: “why giving praise and thanksgiving in all things seems to produce so much of what we call good or the feeling of being in the right place at the right time, of being in the flow. We appreciate anything Q’uo’s got to say about giving praise and thanksgiving.” Q’uo began their reply by saying that words cannot truly define the concepts of praise or thanksgiving, so Q’uo wanted to give an overview of how each of us, like a star, has an energy that we are capable of radiating and also are capable of being affected by the radiation of other entity’s energy fields, and it seems within the veil of flesh that each of us is a small pinpoint of consciousness gazing out at a common world; that is, a world held in common by ourselves and all those who agree on the consensus reality. Q’uo went on by saying that we have not one but many of these gems of energy fields within us which are crystallized essences of our beingness of various hues and energies that we have developed through countless lifetimes, and in this lifetime we have come into a dynamic imbalance seeking towards balance asymptotically, and this is our character: we are the crystal energy that is the deeper aspect of our life rather than being a specific shell or a specific appearance and all the details that appear to be the most important part of consensus reality. Q’uo continued by saying that neither that which is right nor that which is wrong tends to create within our energy that emotion which partakes of what we have called praise and gratitude, but it holds us within the spell of third density, which is the spell of polarity, and it is necessary, while we are learning, that we display our polarity in detail; that the details of our physical universe be infinite; so that we can lose ourself endlessly in the experience of the illusion, but in truth the energy which created all things and which unifies is an energy that is so far beyond words that it is ineffable, and yet perhaps one of the closest descriptions of that emotion is gratitude. Now Q’uo said that: “The Logos which is the one infinite Creator’s original Thought is that which we call Love, and all that is manifested by the energy of this Thought, acted upon by free will, we call Light. Part of that Light is the energy of your body and the organs within your body, and the molecules within those organs, and the atoms within those molecules.” Then Q’uo said that upon another level, in our energy bodies, that energy is pure and more refined, and what each of us has come here to do is to refine that energy further so that whatever love that we have brought into this incarnation is a part of the gifts of our previous incarnations, and we hoped to add to these gifts and to further purify our idea of who we are and whose we are, for investigating our essence takes us instantly beyond the words, and yet this word, gratitude, is so powerful, because it carries the vibrations of the Creator. On September 5, 2010, Carla spoke of how we can work with our energy bodies:

To increase our polarity, we work with our energy bodies. We observe our feelings, thoughts, and impulsive actions and we balance those impulses and those actions day by day so that we are more and more cohesive. We become laser-light instead of incoherent light. And you do that at the end of every day, by asking yourself, “What triggered me?” and then allowing the remembering of that anger, that road rage, that jealously, or whatever, letting it just take you over and just express until it’s glorious, and then letting that die down and asking for its antithesis and then allowing that antithesis.

If it’s your impatience, you’re working with that. Then you ask for patience. You ask for its opposite. And you let that fill you and fill you and fill you until you really get it. And then you hold the two in mind and you ask to balance. You’re not trying to get rid of impatience, you’re trying to balance it.

It is the single most useful conscious exercise for those who would like to live in love at all times and keep their hearts open. Getting the heart open is pretty easy. Keeping the heart open is doggone difficult. So, you have to keep bringing yourself back up to your tuning, the required tuning, so that it really takes a kind of consciousness of yourself that isn’t critical of yourself, that accepts yourself but that sees when you’ve dipped down below where you’d want to be and then systematically brings you back. No judgment, but “Hey, this isn’t where I want to be.”

Gratitude is not what it seems; gratitude is not a thanksgiving for blessings received. At its best, it is a way of being so that one breathes in thanks and breathes out praise; breathes in that which is and breathes out, “Thank you,” not because of any outer detail but because it is the nature of consciousness to find an overwhelming, ever-overflowing cup of beauty and peace. And as one comes into even the shadow of this energy that lies within your hearts, there is an upliftment, and all of the energies that had seemed chaotic within the being begin to find a rhythm and pulse in harmony with the environment about you and the thoughts within you so that all of the finer bodies and the earthly body that is yours and the bodies that are wind, and rain, and planets all begin to harmonize and to vibrate and to speak to you. And when the universe is speaking to you, then there is always bliss, and joy, and peace, and praise, and infinite thanksgiving.

The trick of the illusion is to coax one into the seduction of believing that the dynamic dance between the dark and the light can be solved by choosing the light, or the dark, and turning the back upon the other choice. Certainly, a great deal of third-density existence, especially in the beginning of that process of learning that we call third density, has to do almost completely with sorting out that which you as a soul feel is positive and that which you as a soul feel is negative; that which is desirable; that which is not preferable. Sorting these dynamics out within the personality doesn’t take a great deal of experience for many people, for there are many things that seem fair until they have been utilized, and experience has been gained that indicate the failure of that beauty over time and experience.

These are the last days of this particular cycle, and each entity that dwells upon this planet at this time has basically chosen its polarity. Perhaps not in a way that activates the spiritual progress that can indeed be accelerated, but the experience of each has been rich, and decisions have been made concerning the choice of the light or the dark. What we ask you to think about, in the context of gratitude, is that land which lies beyond polarity, that unification that is very much of higher densities and very much of the fourth density which is at this time coming so close now to that vibration which is your so-called consensus reality that, more and more, there is a transparency that comes and goes for entities, so that suddenly those truths of fourth density and unconditional love are indeed opened to that entity, and that entity feels, understands, and sees, as if “real,” the perfection of all things and the beauty of the play of light and dark as the soul spins, evolves, balances and regularizes in that spiral towards oneness with the one infinite Creator.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is breathing in and breathing out with the awareness that this act is a gift. Each of you is like a cut flower. You have sprung from the soil of physicality; you have the life of a blossom; and your only responsibility is to blossom, to be, to share that which you are and take in that which all else is exchanging with each other’s energy fields, those dynamics which lie between the two of you. It is easy to give thanks when there are good times, but that is not the heart of thanksgiving. The heart of thanksgiving is to see in all things the gift of manifested experience. Oh, how precious that is! Oh, how dear!

We cannot convey to you our appreciation of the challenges that you face by being in a physical body and in third density, and yet we say to you that such an adventure calls to us simply because each of you is experiencing, within the illusion, the ten thousand colors and shapes and forms  that are what the Creator knows about itself so far. As each of you takes in the air and gives it back out to the universe, you are singing a song that no one else has ever sung, lifting to the heavens a beauty that has never before been seen. And the Creator knows more now than before, because you have been open and vulnerable to experience, and the world and all its experience has been opened and made vulnerable to you. This is the heart of thanksgiving—the knowing that every breath you take is significant, meaningful and helpful to the Creator, truly a gift given and a gift received.

Now Q’uo said that gratitude is not a thanksgiving for blessings received, rather it is a way of being so that we breathe in thanks and breathe out praise, not because of any outer detail but because it is the nature of our consciousness to find an ever-overflowing cup of beauty and peace, and as we come into the nature of this energy that lies within our hearts all of the chaotic energies within our being find a rhythm in harmony with the environment about us and the thoughts within us so that all of our finer bodies, our earthly body, and the wind, and rain, and planets all begin to harmonize and to speak to us, and when the universe is speaking to us, then there is always joy, praise, and infinite thanksgiving. Q’uo went on to say that the purpose of the illusion is to cause us to believe that the dance between the dark and the light can be solved by choosing the light or the dark and turning our back upon the other choice, which is what the beginning of the process of learning in the third density is about which is sorting out that which we feel is positive and that which we feel is negative, and this doesn’t take a great deal of effort for many of us, for there are many things that seem fair until we have utilized them, and we have gained experience that indicates the failure of beauty over time. Q’uo continued by saying that we have chosen our polarity in these last days of third density, and the experience of each of us has been rich, so Q’uo asked us to think about what–in the context of gratitude–was that land which lies beyond polarity, the unification that is of the higher densities and especially the fourth density which is at this time coming so close now to that within the vibration which is our so-called consensus reality that there is a transparency that comes and goes for us so that suddenly those truths of fourth density and unconditional love are indeed opened to us, and we understand the perfection of all things and the beauty of the play of light and dark as our soul evolves and balances that spiral towards oneness with the one infinite Creator. Then Q’uo said that gratitude is breathing in and breathing out with the awareness that this act is a gift, and our only responsibility is to be, to share that which we are and take in that which we are exchanging with each other’s energy fields–those dynamics which lie between the two of us–because it is easy for us to give thanks when there are good times, but the heart of thanksgiving is to see in all things the gift of manifested experience, and how precious that is! Q’uo completed their reply by saying that they appreciated the challenges that we face by being in a physical body in the third density, and that we are experiencing the ten thousand colors and shapes that are what the Creator knows about Itself so far, and:  “As each of you takes in the air and gives it back out to the universe, you are singing a song that no one else has ever sung, lifting to the heavens a beauty that has never before been seen. And the Creator knows more now than before, because you have been open and vulnerable to experience, and the world and all its experience has been opened and made vulnerable to you. This is the heart of thanksgiving—the knowing that every breath you take is significant, meaningful and helpful to the Creator, truly a gift given and a gift received.” On September 22, 2009, Q’uo spoke about the nature of gratitude:

Gratitude is indeed a spiritual principle, my brother. The energy of gratitude contains a world of wisdom and compassion. For one is gratified not only because of the good things, so called, not only the sunny days, but the rainy days, the stormy days, the tsunami. All weathers whatsoever, all, are occasions for gratitude. Therefore, this practice is of a very high order of excellence, and we commend you, my brother, for working with this principle in humility and in joy.

There is simplicity to the spiritual walk that baffles the intellectual mind. All that occurs is that which comes before the self in order that the self may practice responding with vibrations as close as humanly possible to the vibration of the one infinite Creator, which is unconditional Love. Consequently, the response of one that is vibrating at his highest and best shall always be Love.

Garnering to oneself the energies of thanksgiving and gratitude create for the self a tuning of the instrument that is his deepest nature, so that he may more and more be able to sound the melodies of spirit that flow through his wind instrument as he breathes, as he speaks, as he thinks, and as he acts. This attitude of thanksgiving and gratitude creates an ever-uplifting energy that brings the seeker more and more into the realms of truth, that truth which cannot be spoken but which can be felt.

We sense that there are other questions, and the one known as J has specifically said that she would like to question upon a different subject. Consequently, we would like to thank this instrument for its offering, and we would wish to transfer the contact at this time to the one known as Jim. We leave this instrument in love and in light. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time it is our privilege to offer ourselves in the attempt to speak to any further queries which those present may have for us. Is there another query at this time?

J: Yes, there is. Hello, Q’uo. I am the one known as J, and I just wanted to tell you that we have golden spiral Milky Way needles, and they’re made of gold, iridium, palladium, ruthium, and rhodium, and, as we understand it, all those metals work on different parts of the body. We use them as healing instruments, pulling out energy that isn’t necessary and bringing in light. We’re very excited, and we wanted to share that with you, and to get your opinion about our golden spiral needles. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we are aware of your query, my sister. We greet you and we are most happy to attempt to speak to this query. If you will remember that which those of Ra spoke concerning the upward spiraling line of light that is the path all creation takes, then these Milky Way needles may be seen to reflect in a small way this upward spiraling line of light in the healing modality, as you attempt to relieve various distortions and imbalances that the human body, mind, and emotions are wont to accumulate from time to time due to the participation in your daily round of activities. If you will also remember that there is a phase shift, shall we say, a change of energy that is possible when entities move in a certain direction. When placing energy into that direction which moves at 90° to that direction, traveling at speeds that are in your measurement great, in what are frequently called craft of the UFO nature, then it is possible to change dimensions or densities of light with this phase shift. If you combine this information with the upward spiraling line of light, you may see this spiraling line of light as being a continuous phase shift, so that there is available to each entity that is seeking the healing from these devices a kind of amplified energy that is able to, shall we say, untangle the knots that are within the mind/body/spirit complex of the entities within this illusion.

Another way of looking at these Milky Way needles is to see them as one would see the pyramid energies. The pyramid takes the ever-present energy of prana, the Love of the Logos, the intelligent energy which creates all things and focuses it in such-and-such a fashion, much as the drain in your bathtub focuses the water as it leaves through the drain. Thus, the pyramid and these Milky Way needles tend to focus this upward-spiraling line of light energy so that it is available in the healing modality.

Is there another query, my sister?

J: Not at this time. Thank you so much for sharing that with me.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: I’ve got one. I’ve noticed that two very bright lights have moved to town recently, my friend, V, and the one known as H, and, previous to that, I have very recently met others within this circle that seem to me to be very, very resonant with my own personality. I wondered if there was more than synchronicity involved? Are we of the same soul family? I just feel so much resonance with these people, and the energy change is so sudden. It’s just noticeable, and I wondered if you could comment on that.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. Without infringing upon the free will of any present, we may suggest that those present within this circle of seeking and many others as well have, before incarnational life began, made certain arrangements, promises, shall we say, that there would be the effort made at a certain time within the experience of the harvest to give the life’s energy and direction to aiding in this harvest. There is always the ability to share the load, shall we say, that those who are of service wish to partake in, for the joy of seeking, and seeing, and serving the Creator is multiplied manyfold when there are many harvesters, shall we say, working in the same fields. Thus, one may see those entities who have recently joined this circle of seeking and have relocated themselves to this particular geographical area as hearing the sound of the music, shall we say, the music that is the promise made before the incarnation now come to fruition.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: That’s beautiful! Do you have a thought about how we can work together, because I know H and I both, as group leaders, have real hopes of somehow acting to unite the planet in love and world friendship. Do you have any suggestions for how we might collaborate better together or what we may support and encourage in each other?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. Again, we wish not to infringe upon free will by suggesting that which has not been chosen already in your free will. However, we may suggest that each entity within this incarnation is able to be of most service by being most authentically who each entity is. Each has brought certain skills, desires, and talents to this incarnation, and each encourages the other most effectively by encouraging each to be, first of all, to be firmly rooted within the harmony, the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator, to be who each has determined before the incarnation each can most effectively be. For each of you is unique, though each of you is the one Creator, each of you has yet another way of shining forth that Love and Light as a faceted jewel. Thus, encourage each other in whatever direction feels most appropriate. Your hearts can tell you the direction; your meditations can show you your heart. Seek them together however you can, and Light and Love shall come from this joined seeking, Light and Love which can heal a wounded planet. We then would suggest that you do as you do seek, share and love together.

Is there another query, my sister?

Carla: No, thank you, Q’uo.

I am Q’uo, and again we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

R: Yes, I have one. My name is R. With all the earth changes that are happening, the dynamics that are happening with the people that are on this planet at this time, the rage that they’re feeling, what is your suggestion to help balance that out towards a smoother experience?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We are aware that there are those within this group and within many other groups as well who take time each day to meditate, and to pray, and to send love and healing energy to all who are in pain; to open their own hearts to the healing love and light of the one Creator; to send that energy to Mother Earth, Herself, for Her healing as she brings forth a new Earth into fourth density; to send that love and light to each entity upon the planet which feels pain, which feels weariness, which feels the sickness, and hate, and disappointment, and disease and all those other various ailments which can take the attention and turn the mind to darker thoughts and ways of sharing that do not open the heart but close it. We would suggest that, whenever it is possible, on a regular basis, that you take time to pray, to meditate, and to send love and light to all who need it.

Is there another query, my sister?

R: I don’t know that I have the words for it, it’s the astrological things that are going on… how amplified energies are. I’m having a time putting it into words.

Carla: How about “spiritual momentum”?

R: Yeah. There’s a lot going on in the positive, but the rage among the people is really amplified. Where’s that amplification coming from? Is it just for clarification? It seems like it’s more than that.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. As we mentioned previously, this is the time of harvest, the time of the change of cycles for not only each entity upon this planet but for the planet itself. For all move in the upward spiraling line of light as if in accordance with the hands of a clock striking the hour of change. The time grows short. There is much work yet to do. This planet has for many of your millennia suffered the difficulties of factions warring one against the other. This anger of war and bellicose action has seeped as heat into the crust of the planet, heat which must be released. Each entity, as well as the planet itself, is therefore asked in the spiritual sense to take a larger share of the ability to transmute this heat and anger. Those who have no firm foundation of spiritual seeking or outlet of sharing in a metaphysical manner take this extra share of energy and transfer it as anger. Thus, those who are aware of the change occurring upon the planetary and the cosmic level which reaches into each individual heart, do well to see in their meditations and their prayers hearts that begin to open, minds that begin to open, arms that begin to open, so that there is acceptance and love, compassion and forgiveness, in place of competition and anger, confusion and ignorance. Therefore, we recommend most heartily that the prayers and visualizations be added to your meditations in order to aid other entities in their attempt to open their hearts, which is the purpose for each entity here on the planet at this time. Some are more, shall we say, effective, more able to do this than others. Those who are able to open their hearts first then teach others by example and in their meditations.

Is there a further query, my sister?

R: No. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my sister, for your query. Is there another query at this time?

[No more queries.]

I am Q’uo. As the queries appear to have been satisfied for the nonce, we would take this opportunity to once again thank each for joining this circle of seeking this day. We are aware that each sacrifices much in order to make the time and space in the daily round of activities available for such a gathering. It is always a great joy to be asked to join you here, and we would remind each that in your own private meditations we would be happy to join you there as a conditioning vibration to help deepen your state of meditation. A simple request is all that is necessary, and we shall join you there.

At this time then we shall take our leave of this instrument and this group. We leave each in the love and in the ineffable light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I cleaned Benny’s apartment by using the carpet sweeper to clean the rug in the hallway. Then I swept up the kitty litter in the room which has two litter boxes. And then I used the dust mop to dust all three rooms and the hall. Then I got the dust mop wet and used it to clean some dirt off of the front porch and the steps.

This afternoon I filled my bird feeder with bird seed, and then I went over to my neighbor’s yard across the street and filled her two bird feeders with bird seed.

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

January 19

Your Relationship With Your God

I am of the Spirit of the Love of Jesus the Christ. I greet you in that full consciousness which is Love in living form.

Since before the beginnings of time you have been with your Creator. And until the very last tick of creation’s clock, you shall still be one with the Creator. This is the bedrock of your relationship with your God.

We are aware that your daily life does not often show evidence of this primal relationship. Yet if you may open your heart to the Spirit of Love, that Spirit, asked within, may use that invitation to awaken, engage and fire the active relationship of humankind to deity.

May you, in humility, seek not things but principles, the principles of truth, Love and peace. To ask the Spirit of Jesus the Christ to move within your heart this day is to ask that you be used to set on fire the world around you with the power of Love. Though this power is quiet and may be expressed by soft words and gentle smiles, the impact of the Spirit of Love is transformative.

And so, you may be a source of Love. In spite of all human frailty, you have only to ask. You have only to trust. You have only to be at peace with who you really are and why you really are here. May you as children of the One Father be about the family business of sharing Love with all that there is.

Peace to 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from August 9:

Question From T1: The question today is about pain and suffering, as I am experiencing pain in my nerves around the right side of my waist that leaves me sleepless and concerned about my future virility and health. Why do traumas such as pain and disease occur so often in the lives of spiritually sincere and seeking people? I know I’m a kind soul, so why would I or my higher self include pain in life? His Holiness the Dali Lama said the purpose of life is to be in happiness. I deeply agree with that. Some philosophy books taught us that pains would help us grow. I just don’t feel comfortable with such thinking. Should I just communicate with my higher self and say, “Just tell me what to do to make you and us happy? Spare me from such a thing.”

(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 name we serve with joy. We are most happy and grateful that we have been called to your circle of seeking this day. We thank you for allowing us to share our thoughts with you and to be of service in the one way in which we intended when we came to this sphere. We would ask that our words be heard with an open and listening mind and heart but that all of those ideas which do not resonate with the hearer or the reader be left behind. For we would not be a stumbling block before any but only those which are able to add to the resources which each seeker has in the awakening process.

This day you ask about the reason for, the value of, pain and suffering. Certainly, it goes against the values that are dear to the body and to the culture in which each lives to embrace suffering. The instinct of the third-density physical vehicle and the training and enculturation of childhood learning alike suggest the value of comfort, safety, and the unimpaired maintenance of the self and those whom the self feels are dependents of that self and worthy of being taken care of. It would in no way be a plan of the conscious mind to invite suffering of any kind, whether physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. Consequently, the question is most understandable, and indeed the conscious mind of the one known as T1 has not even once requested the painful difficulty that the one known as T1 is now experiencing within the physical body.

To begin to grasp why suffering exists, it is necessary to take a few steps back from the physicality and the immediacy of the experience of pain. So let us draw each with us as we retrain our focus upon, not pain itself, but the mechanism by which physical pain arises. The goal of third density is the awakening of the self to the true and ever-deeper identity of that self. This involves several key concepts concerning the self. One concept that is involved is the concept of change. The intent of the soul entering incarnation within the physical plane of your planet is to alter the condition of the vibratory rate and the vibratory strength of the self. That is, the self desires both to change in the way the self perceives the illusion and the power which the self can bring to bear upon that which is focused upon, in the processes of recognizing and dealing with catalyst. The natural tendency of the third-density entity, whether awakened or asleep, is to resist change, and yet the purpose of the incarnation is never achieved without embracing the process of change.

Another concept that is involved in effecting the purpose of third density is an increased accuracy in the perception of that dynamic known to your people as polarity. What is positive; what is negative? What is service to others; what is service to self? How does this creature that you experience as your self respond to perceived light and perceived darkness; to perceived positivity and perceived negativity? Very often, those entities which wandered to this planetary sphere from elsewhere are those who are working very hard in sixth density upon the precise balance between love and wisdom. This means that chances to experience polarity and respond to it are precious, because only by gathering the harvest of catalyst and allowing the winnowing of that catalyst by the processes of conscious and unconscious portions of the self can one begin to redefine and more accurately balance the forces of love and wisdom within the self.

These two concepts work together to create a situation in which each entity receives a series of catalytic happenings from self, from other selves, and from the creation about one. Each then is responsible for processing this catalyst, using the processed catalyst to incorporate and integrate new learning, so that catalyst is ripened into experience. Thusly, the self comes to know more about the self and about the dynamics of polarity within the self. Because the self has begun to observe the self making decisions, making choices, especially with regard to polarity, this shows up most often in those choices which this instrument would call ethical. Within the boundaries of the third-density human experience, the illusion is thick enough that the entire experience of incarnation has some of the attributes of a stage play, where the characters are sometimes roughly drawn, the staging sometimes shabby and the lines sometimes poorly written. Every so often, it becomes quite obvious to the self that that which seems to many to be a smooth and glossy-surfaced reality is actually a profoundly skewed illusion in which it is very difficult to see accurately, yet in which one is moved to respond skillfully or unskillfully.

This being said, we may look at that which the one known as T2 spoke of, in the conversation preceding this meditation, which was that the one known as the Dalai Lama spoke of being in joy, being in happiness, not necessarily the cause of any perceived catalyst but because the being itself was in that state. This is a challenging concept to one who assumes that, in order to be happy, one must be safe, comfortable, and secure. The one known as Elkins frequently said to this instrument, when he was alive in incarnation in this density, “Happiness is not an objective.” By this, that entity meant that the state of being happy had little to do with the state of one’s spiritual awakening. However, as the Dalai Lama is perceived by us to have used the word, happiness, there is more of the expression of an abiding and universal state of mind which is bliss or joy; not happiness that is the result of a comfortable life but happiness, joy or bliss that is the result of having found the center of the self, found the point of balance within the self and thusly found the peace of a certain degree of self-understanding so that the self is at peace with the self and is able to release all fear.

The group question today was: “Question From T1: The question today is about pain and suffering, as I am experiencing pain in my nerves around the right side of my waist that leaves me sleepless and concerned about my future virility and health. Why do traumas such as pain and disease occur so often in the lives of spiritually sincere and seeking people?” Q’uo began their reply by saying that it is not the nature of our conscious mind to invite any kind of pain whether it is mental, emotional, or physical, and it is the instinct of our third-density body and our enculturation of childhood learning to emphasize the value of comfort, safety, and the maintenance of our self and those that we feel are dependents and are worthy of being taken care of. Q’uo went on to say that the goal of the third density is to discover the nature of our being which is ever deeper, and one way we can do this is by going through change by recognizing the nature of the third-density illusion and how we deal with catalyst, and we tend to resist change because it is painful, but it is necessary for us to change in order to learn our lessons. Q’uo continued by saying that another way to see the purpose of the third density is to discover the purpose of polarity and our choosing to be of service to others or service to self, and many of us are wanderers from the sixth density where we attempt to balance love and wisdom, so only by using our catalyst through the processes of conscious and unconscious portions of ourself can we begin to redefine and balance the forces of love and wisdom within ourself. Then Q’uo said that the concepts of change and working with polarity create a situation in which we receive catalyst from ourself, from other selves, and from the creation about us, and each of us is responsible for processing this catalyst to learn our lessons that we store as experience so that we learn more about ourself and how polarity works within us because we have begun to observe ourself making choices of polarity that are ethical in nature. Now Q’uo said that when the Dalai Lama spoke of being in joy and in happiness that it was not caused by the use of catalyst but was the natural state of our being, and this was a difficult concept for one who believes that in order to be happy we must be safe, comfortable, and secure, but Don Elkins frequently said that “Happiness is not an objective,” and he meant that the state of being happy had little to do with the state of one’s spiritual awakening. Then Q’uo said that they felt what the Dalai Lama was speaking of was that: “in happiness, there is more of the expression of an abiding and universal state of mind which is bliss or joy; not happiness that is the result of a comfortable life but happiness, joy or bliss that is the result of having found the center of the self, found the point of balance within the self and thusly found the peace of a certain degree of self-understanding so that the self is at peace with the self and is able to release all fear.” On February 12, 1989, Q’uo described the nature of self-understanding:

If you wish to alter your perception of reality, it is well that thoughts be examined for associations and relationships that do not make logical sense. In the tracing of triggers for illogic lies much self-understanding, and, therefore, an increased ability to alter the basic program which chooses that which you will perceive. This work is best done, as always, in an atmosphere of meditation on a daily basis, and, perhaps, a period of reflection or meditation at the end of any given day, so that one may work with one’s own subjective material in one’s own way, be it serious, humorous or a mixture of the two. That, too, is a portion of programming which you may wish to change. We do recommend inserting as much humor into the biases of the personality as possible, for that light touch will hold you in good stead as you weave your way through the many, many ways of channeling the Love and Light of the one infinite Creator.

The one known as T1, in wondering why there must be pain and suffering, is absolutely accurate in feeling that it is not necessary to suffer and have pain. However, it is almost inevitable, for the simple reason that change is inevitable, and the process of change is uncomfortable to almost all entities. Now, as the one known as Ra has said, the energy of the self is first that of the mind. Catalyst comes first to the mind. The body is the secondary receiver of catalyst, and it receives that catalyst which the mind does not balance. Those who do achieve a state of bliss, joy, peace, realization or happiness in the sense the Dalai Lama used, achieve this state because they have been able to use the catalyst in such a way that the value of the catalyst is honored, the response of the self is known and honored, and those areas within which the self feels it needs more discipline are addressed.

The first receptor, then, is the mind, and when there is catalyst that moves into the mind and is not used by the mind, that catalyst moves into the physical vehicle and resides there as points of distortion, sometimes causing the symptoms which could be considered suffering or pain and sometimes hiding from the detection of the observer because of an efficiency of repression that buries the unused catalyst like a treasure beneath the earth of the body. Indeed, many are the entities who have mental difficulties because of an inability to recognize the truth of catalyst or inability to respond fully to the catalyst. However, this question has to do with physical pain, so we focus upon those catalytic experiences that are not used by the mind and are instead repressed and unexamined. These move into the portions of the body that represent some aspect of the particular catalyst that has been received.

For instance, within this instrument, the present catalyst has to do with an overload of items that must be handled: chores and duties that must be attended to, physical things that need to be done. Consequently, as this entity began to settle down and prepare for this meditation, it discovered that there was pain within the wrists and that it was substantial enough to require the work braces that this entity often wears. Why would this entity experience pain within the hands and arms at this particular time? Because there is too much to handle. It is not precisely on this instrument’s shoulders; it is moving through her hands, and her hands are carrying too many items.

It may be productive for the one known as T1 to examine the area of the body in which this distortion that is causing pain is taking place. The solar plexus energy center is the characteristic energy center that expresses this planet; it is the yellow-ray energy, and included in the yellow-ray energy are issues of society: the relationships with the birth family, with the marriage, and children, with the work, with the various groups, such as  nations, and sports teams and companies, with which the incarnated entity has to do. This is a way of beginning to enter into the process of unraveling the tangles of emotion and fear that have distorted the normal, open flow of energy through the energy bodies. There is tremendous subtlety to this subject, and we do not wish to suggest that there is a simplistic solution that would render one free from pain and suffering. Rather, we would suggest that there is great strength and power in realizing that the self is not bound by any detail of incarnation but rather is one who is here within incarnation to learn, to experience, to change.

Now, large changes within the physical incarnation do not show up as large changes within the context of the entire soul stream of an entity, that is, that entity which includes all incarnations, past and future, as well as the present incarnation in one great circle of soul being. The changes one is attempting to make are not that which they seem on the surface, but, rather, it is through a filtering system of experience that, very gradually, realization itself begins to alter the perceptions of the entity within incarnation so that catalyst may be more skillfully used, and thusly the perception of pain and suffering will respond to that skill and art of beholding that which seems to be and seeing within it that which is. It is an eternal winnowing of truth from fiction. And this is not easy when all of the details are steeped in illusion and human opinion. How many are the distortions which are fed to the entity with his mother’s milk? How many are those that are added through the processes of schooling, relating with others and, more and more, beginning to tell the self stories about the self that make us seem like this or that character upon that stage of incarnation that you were speaking of earlier?

Then Q’uo said that pain is inevitable because change is inevitable; and change is painful; and the catalyst for change comes first to our mind, and then it goes to our body if our mind does not use it so that those who achieve a state of bliss such as the Dalai Lama did have been able to use their catalyst in a way that values the catalyst, and their response is known and honored, and those areas within which the self feels it needs more discipline are addressed. Q’uo gave an example of this process and used Carla’s feeling that she had too many chores and duties that she needed to attend to that caused pain in her wrists before this meditation, so she put the braces on her wrists that symbolized that she had too much work for her to handle. Q’uo went on by suggesting that T1 look at his solar plexus area of pain as symbolic of relationships with various groups such as the birth family, the marriage family, and the workplace because this is a way that he could begin to enter into the process of unraveling the tangles of emotion and fear that have distorted his normal flow of energy through his energy bodies and help him to realize that he is not bound by any detail of his incarnation, but, rather, is one who is here within incarnation to learn, to experience, and to change. Q’uo continued by saying that the changes we are attempting to make are not that which they seem to be on the surface, but it is through a filtering of our experience that our realizations gradually begin to alter our perception so that we may use catalyst more skillfully, and then our perception of pain and suffering will respond to our ability to behold that which seems to be, and then being able to see within what seems to be that which is, and this process is an eternal winnowing of truth from fiction which is not easy when all of the details are steeped in illusion and human opinion. On September 17, 2016, Q’uo spoke of how we may use catalyst more skillfully:

Vital energy is so described as it is that energy or combination of energies within your mind, body, and spirit complexes which are useful for enhancing your life vitality, your ability to recognize catalyst, to use catalyst, to glean experience from catalyst, and to move further along your path of seeking the One Creator, and of serving that One Creator within all beings who you may meet in your daily round of activities. You named many sources of how one may increase vital energy as you discussed this query prior to this session’s beginning. We may say that in general the energies of the mind, the body, and the spirit, when combined in a useful fashion that is in a spiritually dedicated fashion, do enhance one’s ability to become able to perceive the world around one in a spiritual nature, in a spiritual way, so that one may grow from this perception and may offer the perception to others as a service to them as well.

Sometimes it is possible to have a sudden realization that cuts through all the layers of illusion and distortion, especially within the lives of those who experience an intensity of seeking, whether it be for a short time or for a long time, as any process of dedicating the life to self-study. The realization can come quickly; however, this is not usual. Usually, there is a step forward, a step back, two steps forward, one step back, and so forth, so that the net result is a very slow garnering of a wonderful harvest which is self-knowledge. As the self-knowledge increases in quantity and in quality, the self begins to discern patterns of distortion that do not serve to increase understanding within the entity. Once these types of unskillful reactions to catalyst are identified, it becomes possible to intervene in the process of distortion in order either to remove or at least to lessen the distortion that is being processed from catalyst into experience.

Manytimes, the reason for distortion is some opinion concerning the self that is negative. Sometimes the self interprets catalyst to mean that it has been abandoned; sometimes an entity may interpret catalyst in such a way that he feels that he is not good enough. Whatever the negative perception concerning the self, such perception robs the self of its own peace, talent, and magic. If an entity is not pleased with itself, if an entity does not feel that it is doing well, it is simply, by this attitude, hampered in the accurate determination of the nature of catalyst, because all negative perception tightens a net of fear about the soul, and within that net the soul within cannot breathe and cannot express itself with freedom and accuracy. It is only within an atmosphere of love that the self begins to be able to see the self clearly. This does not mean that it is possible for the self to be, specifically and generally, completely pleased with the behavior and the functioning of the self. The removal of fear from the self simply means that, when the self perceives the self to have failed, that failure is loved, honored, accepted and forgiven with the same facility and gladness with which the self is able to pat the self on the back for perceived excellences and virtues.

Moving back into the thought of polarity, it is important to love the negative portions of self, the shadow portions of self, as much as the sunny, daylight portions of consciousness that one is most desirous of sharing with the world. Blessed is the entity who is not only able to share positivity with the world but is also able to share the perceptions of his own negative nature with a calm and peaceful heart, with a forgiving and accepting heart. This does not mean that an entity embraces the darkness of self and becomes the murder, the rapist, the thief, the sloth, the prideful one, and the one who disrespects, or covets, or lives in envy and hate. It means that, when those emotions are encountered within the self as response to catalyst, that the self is able to gaze upon itself with an unblinking eye, not troubled by judgment but remaining within a peaceful and unconcerned heart. To be afraid of the shadow side of self is to invite the entrance into the life of increasing numbers of what this entity would call vampires or those who attack or greet psychically.

For there is the polarity of the light and the dark that is willing and ready to amplify the basic truth of that person as perceived by itself. Thusly, if that person is able to embrace its perceived failures, its perceived suffering, its perceived disharmony, there is no bias incurred towards punishing the self through the contractions of fear that one is not behaving well or not doing enough or not being supportive enough. It is very easy for an entity experiencing negative emotions to begin a spiral that moves ever downward, where there is self-judgment and self-despising, and then the outside consensus reality gradually offers an increasing number of mirrors that project the self to the self, showing images of fear-producing feelings. Thusly, the entity considers itself more and more of a failure; it becomes more and more willing to live in fear; and therefore it shuts itself off from those feelings of harmony, unity, and the open flow of catalyst and experience. And thusly suffering occurs.

However, there is just as much efficacy in the smallest improvement in releasing fear. As the entity perceives fear where before it did not, thusly it begins to perceive those key elements which provide the catalyst that increases fear. Once these imbedded points of entry for negative catalyst are located, it may be seen that these are like triggers towards contraction, self-protection and fear. Thusly, the process becomes more and more transparent to the seeking self, and the self begins to be able to disconnect the seemingly fear-producing catalyst from the actual process of turning catalyst into experience. It is a matter of identifying that point when an entity is entering into fear, and, as we said, this is a subtle and usually long-term process. It is an awakening that is most salubrious and certainly, usually, most dearly bought.

Now Q’uo said that sometimes it is possible to have a moment of self-realization after a period of intense seeking, but it is more normal for our seeking to take a step forward, a step back, and two steps forward for some period of time so that our gaining knowledge about ourself is a slow process that results in a bountiful harvest of self-knowledge. Then Q’uo said as our self-knowledge increases in quantity and in quality, we begin to discern patterns of distortion that do not increase our understanding, and once we identify these types of unskillful reactions to catalyst, it becomes possible for us to intervene in the process of distortion in order to either remove or to lessen the distortion that we are processing from catalyst into experience. Q’uo went on to say that when we have negative perceptions about ourself they rob us of our peace, talent, and magic, and this negative feeling about ourself will keep us from accurately seeing the nature of our catalyst because these negative perceptions tighten a net of fear around our soul that keeps our soul from expressing itself with freedom and accuracy. Q’uo continued by saying that it is only within an atmosphere of love that we begin to see ourself clearly, but this does not mean that it is possible for us to be completely pleased with our behavior because the removal of fear from ourself simply means that when we perceive that we have failed, that failure is loved and forgiven with the same joy which we are able to pat ourself on the back for perceived excellences and virtues. Then Q’uo said that we are blessed if we are able to share our positive nature with the world as well as our perceptions of our negative nature with a peaceful and forgiving heart, but this does not mean that we would embrace any darkness of ourself and become the murderer or the thief, but it means that when we encounter those dark emotions within ourself, as a response to catalyst, that we are able to gaze upon ourself without judgment and remain within our peaceful and unconcerned heart because to be afraid of our shadow side is to invite into our life vampires or those who attack us psychically. Q’uo said that there is the polarity of the light and the dark that is willing to amplify the way that we perceive ourself so that if we are able to embrace our failures there is no bias incurred towards punishing the ourself through the contractions of fear that we are not behaving well, or not doing enough, or not being supportive enough.  They went on to say that when we are experiencing negative emotions that it is easy for us to begin a spiral that moves ever downward where we judge ourselves, and then consensus reality gradually offers us an increasing number of mirrors that project images of fear-producing feelings to us so that we consider ourself more of a failure, and we become more willing to live in fear, shutting ourself off from those feelings of harmony, unity, and the open flow of catalyst and experience, and this is where our suffering comes from. Now Q’uo said that as we perceive fear where before we did not, we begin to see the key elements which provide the catalyst that increases fear for us, and once we locate these points of entry for our negative catalyst, we can see that these are triggers towards self-protection and fear, and we begin to disconnect the fear-producing catalyst from the actual process of turning catalyst into experience, and this is an awakening that is most helpful and certainly most dearly bought. On December 16, 1990, Q’uo described the nature of self-protection:

Consequently, there is strong programming toward self-protection, and much of that which is programmed to be noticed is that which has to do not only with physical needs for survival, such as the breathing the air, but more subtle needs which are discovered as the entity grows in years and experience. Usually there is much more programming concerning the behavior requested of those who wish to enjoy the privileges of being considered normal and aware of consensus reality.

Because so much of the program is concerned with behavior, the mind finds itself programmed in sometimes quite extensive defense mechanisms for slowing, stopping and being able to control uncomfortable environments. All of this programming was undoubtedly offered to each entity before it had an opportunity to consider whether or not it wished its programs to run thusly.

There are those things which enrich and deepen an entity’s ability to work with catalyst, and predictably we feel that this bliss begins with the silence. Entering into silence is an unnatural decision to the earth-bound entity. There is a tremendous amount of letting go implicit in the training of the self to enter into the silence and to release the contents of the intellectual mind. We heartily recommend this entering into the silence upon a daily basis, because it is a kind of training that is like the exercise of the body that strengthens the muscles. There are improper exercises that are too strenuous for the body, in that instead of building up the body, they break the body down. It is entirely possible to break the self down through an unwise and excessive use of silence. There are few entities who can work with silence all day, every day, for the change rate is dependent upon the amount of time spent in silence. Thusly, we suggest a moderate amount of meditation, producing a moderate rate of change in which the self is not drowned in mind, body, and spirit-altering catalyst but rather is able to keep the nose above the water of chaos that describes the nature of change in process.

A further refinement of the entering of the silence which is quite appropriate for the process of getting to know the self well is that which this entity calls the balancing meditation, which is recommended to be done at the end of the day, perhaps as one is seeking one’s rest, whereby the self moves through the day in imagination, remembering those feelings that were either negative or positive in any degree of intensity and substance. These are the points of catalyst; these are the points of entry into the self of those gifts of destiny and synchronicity which produce for the entity that unceasing flow of incoming catalyst that is designed by the self as it expresses its biases within the incarnative days and weeks and months of its living. It is an ongoing process, and it does not stop. 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. So the issue becomes how one wishes to sculpt and self-create the story that is playing out on the stage of incarnation. The one known as T1 at this point is experiencing catalyst that creates fear. How shall the one known as T1 respond? The answer to this lies within the learning processes of the spiritually-awakening and very sincere seeker. We would not solve this puzzle for the one known as T1, but we hope that the thoughts we have shared offer many points that will aid thinking about this situation. Remember that each is in truth Love itself. Love does not contract; Love does not fear; Love drives out fear. If the entity is at heart a being of Love, and if an entity is able to experience the self as a being of Love, this is a tremendously important step towards becoming more skillful in the process of experiencing the self as a person of power, peace, bliss, and magical effectiveness. That which is perceived as the truth will become the truth. Thusly, be extremely choosy about that which is accepted as the truth.

One can either protect itself, or one can move into a lack of fear, release protection, and embrace learning, with all that that suggests. This would seem to increase pain, and yet in effect it works effectively to reduce the pain of living. None within incarnation is ever alone in this jihad or spiritual struggle of self with self. It is tempting to sacrifice the self in various ways in order to reduce suffering. However, it is not skillful. Rather, seek to embrace that which is not understood, asking for understanding but not demanding it; not waiting for it in order to forgive and accept the self and to move on without fear into the daylight of each new morning. We are always glad to enter into the meditation of one who requests our presence in order that we may help to deepen the state of meditation, and there are many, many others within the inner planes that are glad to be of help if help is requested. Within this instrument’s spiritual belief system there are angels and archangels, and saints, a savior and names of the Creator that color this instrument’s ways of addressing the issues which it perceives. Within the mind and the heart of the one known as T1, there are also aspects and names of the Creator as perceived by the self, ways of thinking that have been developed by the self. And these are very personal and intimate and individualistic. Consequently, each entity’s path is different.

Each entity’s pain is unique to it. Not all entities suffer physical pain, but we assure the one known as T1 that all of those within incarnation are no strangers to negative catalyst or to the suffering that is the inevitable concomitant of life within third density. We ask you to look at this not as a punishment but as a fertilizer that enriches the soil of self and enables it to grow a better harvest of blossoms and fruit. We wish to each the utter beauty of the blossoming spirit that is increasingly aware of its creator-self and is increasingly willing to lay aside the fears and perceived limitations of the self in order to embrace the one original Thought that is the Creator and that is that Logos which is creative Love.

Q’uo said that there is a tremendous amount of letting go of the contents of our mind required in training of ourself to enter into the silence of meditation, and Q’uo recommended that we enter into the silence upon a daily basis because it is like the exercise of our body that strengthens our muscles, but they suggested: “a moderate amount of meditation, producing a moderate rate of change in which the self is not drowned in mind, body, and spirit-altering catalyst but rather is able to keep the nose above the water of chaos that describes the nature of change in process.” Q’uo also suggested that we use the balancing meditation at the end of our day where we review our day to remember our feelings that were either negative or positive as these are our times of experiencing our catalyst as the points of entry into ourself that reveal the gifts of our destiny and synchronicity which produce for us an unceasing flow of catalyst that we chose before our incarnation to express our biases within our incarnation, and  our learning within third density does not stop until our body dies and our consciousness moves on to Etheria. Q’uo continued by saying that once our incarnative process has been completed our spirit moves on effortlessly, so the issue becomes how we wish to create the story that is playing out on the stage of our incarnation, and if we are able to experience ourself as a being of Love, this is an important step in our becoming more skillful in the process of experiencing ourself as a person of power, peace, bliss, and magical effectiveness, and that which we perceive as the truth will become the truth, so we should be extremely choosy about that which we accepted as the truth. Q’uo went on by saying that we can move into a lack of fear and embrace learning, which would seem to increase our pain, and yet it works effectively to reduce our pain of living because we are not alone in our spiritual struggle with ourself.  Q’uo said that it is tempting to sacrifice ourself in various ways in order to reduce our suffering, but that is not skillful, so we should seek to embrace that which we don’t understand and ask for understanding without demanding it; not waiting for it in order to forgive and accept ourself; and to move on without fear into the daylight of each new morning. Then Q’uo said that they were glad to join us in meditation and that: “there are angels and archangels, and saints, a savior and names of the Creator that color this instrument’s ways of addressing the issues which it perceives. Within the mind and the heart of the one known as T1, there are also aspects and names of the Creator as perceived by the self, ways of thinking that have been developed by the self. And these are very personal and intimate and individualistic. Consequently, each entity’s path is different.” So Q’uo said that our pain is unique to us, and not all entities suffer physical pain, but that none of us within incarnation are strangers to negative catalyst or to the suffering that is the inevitable nature of our life within third density. Q’uo completed their reply by asking us to look at this not as a punishment but as a fertilizer that enriches the soil of ourself and enables us to grow a better harvest of blossoms and fruit, and they wished for each of us the utter beauty of our blossoming of our spirit as we are increasingly aware of our Creator-self and that we are willing to lay aside our fears and perceived limitations of ourself in order to embrace the one original Thought that is the Creator and that is that Logos which is creative Love. On November 21, 1982, Latwii spoke of the nature of the one original Thought:

Consider that what you seek is a portion of the one original Thought. That Thought is unity. That Thought of the one Creator has allowed each portion of Itself to travel through free will within the creation of the one original Thought. The journey takes many turns. Yet within each moment, Love exists. Within each moment, the Creator resides in full at all times. That this is not recognized does not diminish its truth. Such difficulties provide the stimulus for the inner seeking as the outer world begins to fade, for it becomes apparent to the seeker that Love may best be found within the heart of the being. Love then found there might be radiated, as a beacon shines light in the darkest portion of the night. Sorrow and suffering then motivate those feeling the suffering to seek more and more within, more and more in that portion of your illusion which love inhabits purely and always readily available.

We feel that this is sufficient for this question at this time and welcome further questions if more is desired upon this very interesting subject. For the present, we thank this instrument and those who are members of this sitting group, as well as the one known as T1, and we would leave this group embracing each and enveloping each in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo.

This morning I got the new chairs in the living room arranged in their proper positions for our public channeling meditation this afternoon.

This afternoon we had ten attendees from the surrounding states and one from Canada plus three instruments. Our round robin sharing of our spiritual paths that we begin our sessions with was particularly authentic and open-hearted and was a very inspiring way to begin our session. There were about ten questions on a wide range of topics, and Q’uo seemed quite honored to be able to address them. It was a real honor for me to be part of this channeling session this afternoon.

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

January 18

You Have Good Gifts

I am the Spirit of the full consciousness of Love in the vibration which comforts this instrument. I greet you in the Love of Jesus Christ.

The nature of the Comforter is both particular and personal. Yet it does not expend itself in the movement from the winds of opportunity to the heart of one who prays that the Holy Spirit may therein enter.

The same principle which enlivens your heart and engages your attention in a spiritually rewarding manner may also then be used by you to show forth the glory of God to others. There is no deadness in the Spirit, for all are alive in Jesus Christ.

Therefore, know that you have good gifts and are not going to find it necessary to act for your Lord without the help of the Holy Spirit. It was truly said that until the ending of the age Jesus would never leave His flock, for we are the principle of Jesus Christ and of the nature of Christ’s consciousness. Thusly you and we work together to shine the Light of peace and understanding upon a world which does not yet understand that all that exists is, alike, holy.

We wish you 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 July 4, 2002:

Question From V: The question today has two parts. Part 1: Given the tumultuous history between K and myself I’ve come to the belief that ours is a karmic relationship. Can you speak to the origin of this karma and if the karma will be satisfied during this incarnation? Part 2: Several years ago, I met with a spiritual entity who identified himself as Kega. Can you tell me if Kega is currently in a physical incarnate form and if there is a possibility of a relationship between Kega and me?

(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 are. We thank you for the great privilege of being asked to join your meditation and would be glad to speak with you concerning this question concerning a relationship and the one known as Kega, with the understanding that each present take those thoughts of ours which are resonant and meaningful and leave the rest behind. This allows us to share our opinions without being concerned that we will infringe upon the free will of those present. We are extremely appreciative of this opportunity to share our thoughts. For this is the service that we have chosen at this time, and it is greatly a blessing to us to be able to do the work which we came to do.

We gaze at the relationship between the one known as V and the one known as K, and can indeed confirm that the relationship has what could be called a karmic burden. However, it is our opinion that this is not the kind of karmic relationship which the one known as V suspects, but rather has a metaphysical, that is to say, a non-earth oriented origin and is not indeed a matter of previous incarnations upon this planet, having sown the seeds of imbalance that would produce adhering karma in that sense of the word “karma,” but rather is a relationship between, shall we say, one of the children of the Light and one of the children of the darkness. This instrument has had a relationship of that same nature with the one known as D, and this instrument also was unable to, shall we say, master the dynamics of the relationship from a human level and was able simply by sheer reason and intensity of focus to withdraw itself from energetic bonding with this entity after four years of marriage.

How to understand a relationship in which one mirrors to the other Light, the other mirrors darkness? It cannot be taken literally or in a linear manner because the energies involved are more subtle and more profound than those energies produced by an imbalance in a previous incarnation of an earthly nature. Rather, it is as though one of angelic energy were being pursued through various dimensions that only peripherally extend into the physical dimension by that which could be reasonably described as a negative entity of that which this instrument would call fifth-density origin. It is unlikely that such a thing would occur, for it is dangerous to those of the origin of fifth density to incarnate into the physical and especially dangerous to the entity who incarnates into the physical and then does not manage to contain or control that energy of Light that lives with angelic wings in bone, and blood, and body.

We can say that in terms of such karma as previous experiences between these two entities is concerned, there is now a balance and an end of adhering karma of the metaphysical nature. The one known as K is as the entity who is at some level aware that it has failed and yet at other levels much more concerned with the physical body, is unable to realize or process the information or the finality of this failure. Thusly, it is as the maddened bull or the unreasoning anger that possesses entities so that, as the entity known as K lives through its days it is as though the entity were in a dream where the actual personality remains asleep and the metaphysical portion of this entity acts out in a cycling and continuous loop of energy that it is at this time unaware of how to release. This is why the one known as V has not found forgiveness and compassion to be useful tools or resources to use in this relationship. For this entity is as the unreasoning and maddened beast which knows no human behavior but only its instinct and since these instincts are baffling from a linear standpoint and only understandable from, shall we say, a more historical standpoint, it is a situation which this entity has the possibility of resolving within itself but not the likelihood.

Typical of negatively-oriented entities, the one known as K thrives upon fear and pain. This instrument and the one known as V and the one known as Jim saw a movie entitled, “A Beautiful Mind” recently, and it is a useful example of how the mind can be cast loose of its moorings to the point that private and metaphysical portions of the personality become segregated from and antithetical to the waking personality and indeed the one known as K is as one who sleeps while, shall we say, a walk-in type of energy lives its life. This entity which overlays the human personality has never been a physical entity and its energies are quite intransigent in their inability to harmonize with the experience of inhabiting a physical body. Consequently, this entity is not vulnerable to the healing techniques that would normally be used to correct such a disintegration of personality. Nor would we be of the opinion that it would be helpful to address the situation within the one known as K in any way. For this is this entity’s walk, this is this entity’s choice. Perhaps there is a tiny portion of this entity that hopes for rescue. But it is not situated in such a way as to be accessible to any but the one known as K’s own will. It is a situation not penetrable by any other self including the one known as V.

Letus step back and gaze at the underlying energies involved in this interesting relationship. This instrument and the one known as V alike shy away from thinking as the self as angelic, or pure, or positive beyond anyone else, and we are perfectly in agreement that both of these entities are distinctly human, quirky and imperfect in the way that those among third density must be imperfect in order to have a very fruitful and helpful incarnation. However, each of these beings knows too that it carries that which is angelic, pure, and positive. It carries it not as a burden but as the breath, as the life, as the odor, and as the incense. It carries what this instrument would call the goddess, that female energy that makes safe places and whose hearts are full of compassion. This is not an aspect of femininity that is carried except by choice and most usually it is brought into the incarnation with love not for the purpose of helping the self, but for the purpose of being an instrument of the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator in the sense of essential beingness so that whether that energy is expressed in changing diapers, or in washing the dishes, or in teaching, or channeling, or singing, or other activities that would seem far more service-to-others oriented, the incarnational purpose of carrying this energy is satisfied.

Only the first of a two-part question was asked because of the tape prematurely ending: Question From V: The question today has two parts. Part 1: Given the tumultuous history between K and myself I’ve come to the belief that ours is a karmic relationship. Can you speak to the origin of this karma and if the karma will be satisfied during this incarnation? Q’uo began their response by saying that the relationship between V and K was of a karmic nature but was different than the usual adhering karma that V was thinking of since it did not occur upon this planet but had occurred elsewhere when V was a wanderer and had been visited by K who was a being of darkness. Q’uo continued by saying that the relationship between V and K was unusual in that it would appear that K was a negative entity that was pursuing V in order to control her Light which is dangerous for such a negative entity if it is unable to accomplish its mission of controlling V because his polarity would be lessened. Q’uo went on to say that the adhering karma of a metaphysical nature was over between V and K so that K is at some level aware that he has failed to control V, but is unable to realize the finality of this failure and is now possessed by unreasoning anger as he lives through his days is as if he were in a dream where his actual personality remains asleep, and the metaphysical portion of his being acts out in a cycling and continuous loop of energy that he is at this time unaware of how to release, and this is why the one known as V has not found forgiveness and compassion to be useful resources to use in this relationship. Then Q’uo said that K is asleep while a walk-in type of negative energy lives his life, and this negative entity which controls his personality has never been a physical entity, and its energies are quite unyielding in their inability to harmonize with the experience of inhabiting a physical body, so K is not vulnerable to the healing techniques that would normally be used to correct such a disintegration of personality, nor was Q’uo of the opinion that it would be helpful to address the situation within the one known as K in any way, for this is this situation was the entity’s walk and the entity’s choice. Q’uo said that Carla and V were quirky and imperfect human beings that it is necessary for everyone to be in the third density in order to have a helpful incarnation, but each of them also knows that she carries that which is angelic, pure, and positive–not as a burden–but as the breath of life, and they carry the female energy that makes places safe because their hearts are full of compassion. On March 12, 1989, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the female energy:

Firstly, we would like to remove one aspect from this commentary quickly, and that is the always challenging difference betwixt the male and the female entity. Although it could equally be said, for instance, that each mate is an accurate reflection of the subconscious of the other, yet still, to the female energy is given the freer access and the greater energy and power of intuition and the half-knowledge of that which is veiled which is called intuition or inspiration. And to the male is given the reaching for that inspiriting.

There is now activity that an entity cannot accomplish as a vehicle for expressing this angelic, pure Love. It is not affected by the cycles or apparent mood swings of the personality but is rather a gift that is firmly and safely hidden in the folds and recesses of the feminine heart. It is part of the very hopeful and energetically radiant attempt by an entire spiritual family of large numbers to balance an Earth that has great need of the fullness of Love that is wrapped up in the archetype of the feminine. This energy is using each of these as instruments, and we may say that each of these entities, the instrument and the one known as V, have conducted their incarnations with awareness of the gift they carry, respect and honor for that gift, and close attention to preserving the integrity of their positivity as instruments.

On the other hand, the one known as K has moved into the earth planes as a hunter. It has identified a source of Light, and it wishes to control and take on itself the power of that Light, and further it wishes this in a way that is also, in its way, a gift brought into incarnation but as a walk-in in nature, rather than as a part of the personality. In other words, in order for this energy to move into physical form it must be out of balance and wedged into and overcoming the personality of the carrying entity.

Itmay be helpful to the one known as V and indeed to this instrument, who was earlier expressing its distress at the one known as K’s behavior, to realize that this entity is not in the usual sense even aware of its behavior, but rather is as the instrument that is sadly out of tune. It is interesting that the one known as V mentioned that it was surprised that the one known as K still remained in this density. Indeed, we may say that this entity hangs by a thread, both to its sanity and to its physical incarnation. Yet we would not wish to express a complete lack of hope in that there is always the possibility of one shining moment of clarity in which the personality that lies within the one known as K, that is currently suppressed, is able to see that it carries a dark rider and chooses then to shake it off. Were this entity to perceive its true situation, that personality which is the one known as K would indeed ask for help and be the first to remove itself from its dark and overpowering angel.

Thusly the one known as V may pray that the one known as K have a moment of clarity at some point before the incarnation ends, thus becoming able to be vulnerable to healing, health, and life in the sense of the greater life within the physical. The one known as V is very much helped by the energies of beauty and harmony, and we agree with that which it was saying earlier concerning the need in the life for the providing to the self by self of the magical circumstance. The singing of the sacred songs has been for this entity a very helpful thing in the past and would indeed be that place wherein this entity could derive great refreshment on a daily basis. This instrument, for instance, always includes a hymn along with its meditation in the morning and we might suggest to the one known as V that the discipline of including the sacred breath is a good one that has good results for this entity as well. The silence itself is a very powerful experience for this entity, and there is perhaps the opportunity to arrange for the self the opportunity to experience that silence, either within the dwelling or in walking in nature in solitude, to enter into the silence and thus into the tabernacle of the heart. There the Creator waits, and there the weary soul may truly rest and find healing. This experience of the beauty of the creation of the Father is most helpful, and we would recommend the time in silence and the time spent in praise of the Creator by sacred songs on a daily basis.

In this instrument’s mind we find a concept that is very helpful. It does not understand this concept completely, but we will attempt to use it. It has read a work called The Flower of Life by Drunvalo Melchizadek, and this entity expresses a way of moving energy through the energy body. This involves moving the energy up into the yellow ray, and as it moves into the heart there is a 90-degree phase shift that needs to be taken in this entity known as Drunvalo’s system of understanding in order for the energy to move up through the heart and on out into the creation of the Father. Interpenetrated with this concept and helpful to understanding its essence is the advice of the entity this instrument calls Papa concerning retaining energy for the self before allowing the energy to move through the self and out into the world. In this entity’s zeal for blessing and sending forth the energy of its love it was reserving, according to the one known as Papa, nothing for itself and acting the role of martyr. Consequently, the image that begins to emerge here is that of the Light flowing through the entity into the heart and then back in a loop through the body making sure all parts of the body, mind and spirit are washed completely in the infinite Love and Light of…

[Tape ends.]

Then Q’uo said that at this time there was an activity going on in the expression of pure angelic Love that cannot be accomplished by individual entities and it: “is not affected by the cycles or apparent mood swings of the personality but is rather a gift that is firmly and safely hidden in the folds and recesses of the feminine heart. It is part of the very hopeful and energetically radiant attempt by an entire spiritual family of large numbers to balance an Earth that has great need of the fullness of Love that is wrapped up in the archetype of the feminine.” Q’uo continued by saying that the one known as K has incarnated on Earth as a hunter and has found V as a source of Light that wishes to control and take for itself the power of her Light, and it seeks to do this as a walk-in that is not a part of the personality of K and in order to move into physical form it must be out of balance and wedged into and overcoming the personality of K. Q’uo went on by saying that K is not aware of his behavior, but he is as the instrument that is sadly out of tune, and he is barely able to hold on to his sanity, but there is always the possibility of K experiencing one shining moment of clarity in which his true personality–that is currently suppressed–is able to see that he carries a dark rider and would choose to shake it off, and then K would ask for help and be the first one to remove himself from his dark and overpowering angel. Now Q’uo focused on V, and said that she would be helped by the energies of beauty and harmony and providing herself with the magical nature of silent meditation and to move into the tabernacle of her heart where the Creator waits, and this experience of the beauty of the creation of the Father would be most helpful for her, and Q’uo recommended time in silence and time spent in praise of the Creator by sacred songs on a daily basis. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that Carla had read a book called The Flower of Life by Drunvalo Melchizadek that spoke about how energy could be moved through her energy body which:  involves moving the energy up into the yellow ray, and as it moves into the heart there is a 90-degree phase shift that needs to be taken in this entity known as Drunvalo’s system of understanding in order for the energy to move up through the heart and on out into the creation of the Father. Interpenetrated with this concept and helpful to understanding its essence is the advice of the entity this instrument calls Papa concerning retaining energy for the self before allowing the energy to move through the self and out into the world. In this entity’s zeal for blessing and sending forth the energy of its love it was reserving, according to the one known as Papa, nothing for itself and acting the role of martyr. Consequently, the image that begins to emerge here is that of the Light flowing through the entity into the heart and then back in a loop through the body making sure all parts of the body, mind and spirit are washed completely in the infinite Love and Light of…” In 75.15, Ra spoke about the value of Carla’s tendency to become a martyr:

Questioner: The chink then, as I understand it, was originally created by the decision of Jesus to take the path of martyrdom? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is, in relation to this instrument, quite correct. It is aware of certain over-balances towards love, even to martyrdom but has not yet, to any significant degree, balanced these distortions. We do not imply that this course of unbridled compassion has any fault but affirm its perfection. It is an example of love which has served as beacon to many.

For those who seek further, the consequences of martyrdom must be considered, for in martyrdom lies the end of the opportunity, in the density of the martyr, to offer love and light. Each entity must seek its deepest path.

This morning I vacuumed the first floor of my home, and then I went outside and spread another load of rock salt on the areas of the driveway that still had ice on them.

This afternoon I drove to southern Indiana to visit my friend, Connie, who has been there for the last six years due to having two strokes in 2018. I finished reading the book The Things We Don’t Forget by Dianne Aprile, and then we talked for a while about how things are going in both of our lives. We completed our visit with our short meditation.

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

January 17

The Eyes, Ears And Heart

I am of the principle of the love of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the full consciousness of divine love.

You have heard many times of eyes which cannot see and of ears which do not hear. The principle of the love of Jesus the Christ moves in Spirit where it is called to open the eyes, open the ears, and unstop the heart. For the world seen without the Spirit of Love is a world of illusion and shadow.

With all of your heart, pray that the Spirit may come upon you this day, that you may gaze at the beggar and see Christ; that you may gaze at the woman in rags and see a woman in fair, clean cloth; that you may gaze at the starving child and see the most gentle and worthy of beings; that you may gaze upon your landscapes which have been so torn by war and see the peace that will swallow such degradation with Love; and that you may have the eyes of Christ and the ears of Christ.

Pray and open your heart to the Spirit of Love. We are the way out of illusion.

We leave you in that peace that the world of illusion can never know, 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 June 28, 2002:

Question from T1: “I have noticed that my human eyes are drawn by beautiful women, while I do not notice less attractive women in the same way. And I know that some beautiful women are cruel, while many unattractive women are beautiful in spirit. I feel that there is nothing wrong with appreciating physical beauty, but I cannot appreciate all women’s beauty, and furthermore I find myself fantasizing about beautiful women, even if they are spiritually mean. I find that I am failing to see all equally as the Creator. I’m quite concerned about this. Is this just me or an issue for men in general? I also wish to know about the karmic link between beauty and previous lives, as Edgar Cayce has mentioned in his trance sessions. What role or catalyst does beauty play in our soul evolution?”

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as Q’uo. Greetings, dear ones, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a great privilege and pleasure to join your meditation this evening and to be able to share our thoughts with you on the subject of beauty. We find it such a blessing to be able to do this, for this is the service that we have chosen to offer at this time, and you greatly aid us in allowing us to do what we came to your beautiful planetary sphere to share. We ask that, as always, you listen to that which we have to say with an open heart but reject without a second thought any concept or opinion that does not resonate within your heart, and your mind, and your emotions. For there is a very keen keel and rudder within each entity’s spirit that will express itself in sound opinion as to discriminating between that which is for you and that which is not. With this caveat in mind, we are then able to offer our opinions without being concerned that we are infringing upon your free will. And so, we thank you for your indulgence in this wise.

This instrument’s day has been filled with beauty, and so we find it a happy coincidence to start a conversation about beauty with the emotions and feelings of this instrument towards the beauty that she has been experiencing all about her. The beauty of the lilies, the mimosa, the wildflowers, and all of the blooms of this entity’s garden have enriched and enlivened this instrument’s emotions this day. The way the light glances off this instrument’s mate, his face, and shoulders, the planes of his jaw and throat, have pleased this instrument as it looks upon its mate. The beauty of kindness and service to others has very nearly swamped this instrument’s emotions; the beautiful gifts that it has received this day from those about her; the kind volunteering of the one known as T2, and the gift of just the right stone from the one known as C, and the gift of this instrument’s husband: hour upon hour of work, that it may pay the bills and keep this instrument safe, and warm, and comfortable. These things are almost too much for this instrument to express. There is a wonderful feeling of being so richly endowed with beauty that there is not enough expression in this instrument’s personality or character to do justice to the richness of the experience of the passing moments of this exquisite summer day.

It has well been said by philosophers that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What is beauty, indeed? And this is not an idle question. For there is a great deal of similarity between such questions or issues as beauty and the construction of the onion. If you will think about an onion that is cut in half, you will see that there is layer, upon layer, upon layer. All of those layers are onion, but each one is slightly different, and, used as an analogy to the human spirit, mind, and body, each layer is of a different constitution entirely. There are different geometries and different constructions of thought and logic upon each layer of the human energy system, and, indeed, one may move through each of the chakras or energy centers of this energy body system and gaze at this onion-like, layered effect. The definition of beauty and the issue of beauty, then, is not the shallow and simple thing that it might seem upon the surface, for each entity is working primarily with one or more of the energy centers, but usually with one primarily. And this colors the way that the layers of self appear to the self, and an entity working primarily through red ray will be seeing different things than an entity working primarily through orange ray or through yellow ray and so forth.

So, the question of what triggers the appreciation of beauty is a question that cannot be answered in a simple way. The one known as T1 asked the question from the standpoint of observing physical beauty, and so we shall first address the question from red ray, which is the root chakra and the seat of sexual desire and the desire to survive. Within this energy center, the definition of beauty is colored heavily by the reptilian and mammalian brains, which are instinctual and concerned with nurture and groups, respectively. Instinctually, the great ape is geared to reproduce as thickly as possible. This is a survival mechanism and is a very deep and dependably substantial part of both the constitution of men and of women within your species. The energies of the sexual triggers to beauty are different between men and women because the biological roles of men and women are different. The male of the species is geared towards procreating with as many women as possible who have the markers for fertility and ability to reproduce. This, as the one known as T1 surmised, is not simply the experience of this one entity but is an experience common to the male gender. Within the female, there is also a heavy coloration of biological bias when gazing at beauty through the filter or prism of red ray. The energy in this case has to do with the instinct of the woman to find attractive those qualities within the male of the species that would suggest that this entity would be a good provider, a virile person, and one who would remain faithful to and loyal to the family group over a long period of time. This biases the female of the species towards finding attractive even those males who may not be so physically attractive but yet have attractive personalities or qualities that would appeal to the instinct within the female that suggests to this entity that this particular male would be a good mate. Consequently, those who are male within the human species will predictably and steadily throughout the mature life of the individual revolve around the noticing and the appreciation of those females which seem to be of child-bearing age and of a healthy and attractive physical appearance. It is neither a positive nor a negative quality in terms of service to others and service to self. It is that which is in terms of the experience of the energy body of this particular physical vehicle and the way that it is set up to interact with the many other aspects of the energy system of the soul.

When gazed at through the energies of orange ray, beauty begins to take on more of a depth, both from males and from females. At this point, the energies of communication, personality characteristics, and like interests begin to add to or subtract from the beauty that is perceived by the physical eye. This energy of personal relationships and relationship with the self creates within the eye an esthetic that is primarily focused upon enjoying the self and feeling safe within the self and within the relationship with the other self. It becomes more and more subjective within the choice of any individual as to what the elements of beauty are. Within the red-ray approach to beauty, the culturally determined points of attractiveness will more or less evenly spread throughout the population so that many, many entities can agree that such and such an entity is beautiful and such and such another entity is not. However, within the dynamics of a personal relationship, the coloration of orange ray begins to spread out the choices that entities make so that there begins to be more of an appreciation for emotional beauty, spiritual beauty, mental beauty, and other types of beauty that are not easily seen within the physical skin.

Andthis is a point worth gazing at for a moment, for there is almost a feeling of being locked in a small room in terms of feeling nearly forced to notice physical beauty from the red-ray level. This is the quality of instinct that is so powerful within the human animal and so important to the survival of the physical mechanism in general. Were such instincts not native to the very bone and blood of the human species, the heart would forget to pound, the lungs would forget to breathe, and the body would forget to breed children. This would not be appropriate for the survival of the species. Consequently, there is almost an element of being hounded by one’s body, especially for those within the male gender. And we would suggest, for those who feel limited by this compulsion to notice physical beauty, that it is without polarity and without fault to experience momentary attraction and the tendency to fantasize concerning beautiful women. Indeed, this is to a certain extent true for those of the female gender as well. There is, shall we say, a very active sex life for almost everyone upon your planet whether or not the entities involved are having sexual intercourse or even relationships at the physical level. For, metaphysically speaking, that which one fantasizes, one is accomplishing; that which is thought becomes that which is true. This is part of what this instrument would call the background clutter of an incarnation. It is an aspect of having a physical body that is nearly inescapable and, as we said, is a benign and perfectly acceptable function of the soul within incarnation.

Beauty from the yellow-ray energy becomes a far more subtle and rich-textured thing, for within the yellow-ray energy lie family and the mated relationship, and it is within the safety and intimacy of such continuing and prolonged relationships that those who become spiritually mature are able greatly to broaden and enhance their concept of beauty. The qualities of a mate, a mother, a father, a child, or a sibling can be imperfect in the extreme, and yet, over a period of time and the blessing of shared history—we correct this instrument—with the blessing of ever-lengthening shared history, the entities within the family group or within the mated relationship become so over-drawn with the patina of loving and being loved, that even the homeliest entity becomes perfectly itself and therefore beautiful because it is that person. And finally, the leaden and heavy weight of physical opinion of beauty becomes that which can take off like the kite in the wind, soaring with the energy of the wind of Love.

The group question came from T1 and was: “I feel that there is nothing wrong with appreciating physical beauty, but I cannot appreciate all women’s beauty, and furthermore I find myself fantasizing about beautiful women, even if they are spiritually mean. I find that I am failing to see all equally as the Creator. I’m quite concerned about this. Is this just me or an issue for men in general? I also wish to know about the karmic link between beauty and previous lives, as Edgar Cayce has mentioned in his trance sessions. What role or catalyst does beauty play in our soul evolution?” Q’uo began their reply by saying that they would look at the concept of beauty from the standpoint of the red ray chakra of survival and sexual reproduction, and they said that the energies of the sexual natures of beauty are different for men than for women because the biological roles of men are geared towards procreating with as many women as possible who have the markers for fertility and ability to reproduce, and for women the feeling of beauty has to do with the instinct to find attractive those qualities within the male of the species that to be a good provider, strong, and faithful to the family over a long period of time, and neither the male nor the female description of beauty affects their polarization because: “It is that which is in terms of the experience of the energy body of this particular physical vehicle and the way that it is set up to interact with the many other aspects of the energy system of the soul.” Q’uo went on to say that when we look at beauty as seen from the red-ray chakra within the consensus reality there is a general agreement that an entity is beautiful or is not beautiful, but when seen from the orange-ray of personal relationships the orange ray spreads out the choices that entities can make so that there is more appreciation for emotional beauty, spiritual beauty, and other types of beauty that are not able to be seen within the eyes of the physical body. Then Q’uo said that from the red-ray level we feel almost forced to notice physical beauty because it is the instinct of our bodies to insure their survival, and if these instincts were not a part of our bones and blood our heart would forget to beat; our lungs would forget to breathe; and our bodies would forget to have children, so Q’uo said that with all of this in mind it is without polarity for the male or the female to feel forced to notice physical beauty from the red-ray level because this instinct is so powerful within the human animal and so important to the survival of the body in general. Now Q’uo said that beauty becomes a more subtle concept because within the yellow-ray energy are family and the mated relationship, and it is within the safety of such continuing and intimate relationships that those who become spiritually mature are able to broaden and enhance their concept of beauty. Then Q’uo said that: “the entities within the family group or within the mated relationship become so over-drawn with the patina of loving and being loved, that even the homeliest entity becomes perfectly itself and therefore beautiful because it is that person. And finally, the leaden and heavy weight of physical opinion of beauty becomes that which can take off like the kite in the wind, soaring with the energy of the wind of Love.” On November 22, 2008, Q’uo spoke of the true nature of beauty:

The concept of beauty is one which your philosophers have long debated, the great question being whether beauty is an absolute characteristic or whether beauty is subjective, relative and, as this instrument would say, “in the eye of the beholder.” This question remains valid in fourth density. And, indeed, as long as there is a center of awareness such as you or we, there shall be that open question. It seems as though beauty would be an absolute, and yet we, no less than you, find ourselves delighting in beauty as seen spontaneously in what this instrument would call the present moment in a way which would seem to deny the absolute nature of beauty and seat it in the eye of the beholder.

It may, however, be said that as an entity moves from third density to fourth density the eyes are opened to the true nature of unity and harmony so that the impact of beauty is everywhere rather than there being the possibility, as there is in third density, of being unable to see beauty.

We believe, although we cannot say for sure, that there is an absolute beauty; there is an absolute quality that can be called beauty. And we believe that that absolute quality of beauty lies in the mystery of the one infinite Creator. Just as Love is absolute and has created all that there is, just so is beauty a derivative characteristic of Love. Thusly, were you or we to see with the eyes of the Creator, all that you would see would be perfectly beautiful. It is the characteristic of being an individual spark of the Godhead principle that creates the colors and filters of perception which bring the absolute into the specific, the individual, and the unique.

When the heart is opened and beauty begins to be examined from the green-ray level, then it is that the entire question of beauty is transformed. For, at the heart level, the eyes of the soul are open, and all entities begin to be seen not as bodies but as beings. Within the heart, then, beauty is a function of one’s own heart. The tyranny of the outward eye is lifted at last, and the only limitation is with those who have not yet come into an awareness of their own beauty. If an entity cannot conceive of itself as worthwhile, or good enough, or beautiful in the sense of being a good person, then that poor opinion of the self will cast ugly shadows upon all of the outer world, and entity after entity will come up short within that poor heart that does not see its own sun, that does not see its shining glory. To us, gazing at each of you from the whole system of our bodies, minds, and spirits, we see your beauty as an ever-shifting kaleidoscope. Each of you has a beauty that is endlessly describable, and yet it is the harmony and the combination of energies involved in the spectrograph of self that are so fascinating about each entity. Each of you is a vibration that is actually a complex of vibration, upon vibration, upon vibration, endlessly colored by the subtleties of an incarnation full of choices and biases and flowing from moment to moment in a thousand different ways that each of you is most likely not aware of for the most part, yet, within the flowing and subtle regions of the energy body, the changes are constant, and there are no two moments within the life of an entity when that entity is vibrating precisely the same. And yet, as a whole, the energy signature of an entity remains fairly clear and unified throughout an incarnational experience, for each of you comes into incarnation with a tremendous amount of already prepared bias which has been chosen to bring in as a part of the, shall we say, structure of “givens” that form up the structure of an incarnational experience. There is not a person, no matter what his station, his state, or expression of morality, that is not beautiful. Each entity at the soul level is tremendously beautiful. Indeed, each entity—being the Creator—has a beauty beyond all imagining, for each is all that there is. Each contains the universe. And would not each, then, have all aspects of beauty and ugliness, the entire range of esthetics within the self, locked in many, many treasure troves within the personality, waiting to be opened by the right combination of circumstance and motivation?

This entity, throughout its life, has had a love affair with beauty in the sense that, as a metaphysically functioning entity, it has long preferred to look at life from the standpoint of beauty rather than from the standpoint of some outwardly determined truth or learned intellectual set of properties or ways of fulfilling the need to be attractive. This entity has long been attracted to the concept of creating a beautiful life. It is not particularly concerned with the beauty of its physical body, although it greatly delights in decorating itself and creating itself as being beautiful, but oftentimes we would say that this instrument judges itself for being too concerned with the esthetics of its actions. What this comes down to, in terms of action and function, is that this entity oftentimes will choose a very impractical and difficult ethical decision, because it is to this instrument a thing of beauty to choose in such and such a way. This has created in this entity’s life no end of interesting forks in the road, the path taken being the one that was less traveled. Is this entity correct or incorrect? This entity is itself. The question of beauty is truly a subjective one. However, we would say, as your poet, Keats, has said, that truth is beauty, and beauty is truth. That is all you know and all you need to know.

When it comes to evaluating beauty from the standpoint of the indigo ray, then it is that choices such as this instrument makes become the focus of what beauty is and how entities are seen. Indeed, looking at another being in the physical from the standpoint of indigo-ray beauty, it can easily be seen that the lines of the face, the attractiveness of the body as judged by cultural standards, the gracefulness of expression of communication and personality, begin to pale beside the sheer force of an entity’s soul character. For within the eyes of one who is seeing from the standpoint of doing work in consciousness, beauty lies almost entirely in the power and peace of an entity, in its ability to show you joy, and bliss, and true wisdom according to the place in the process of spiritual evolution that your particular indigo-ray energy center has found itself enjoying the dance of working within.

Indeed, it is so that such a bias as this entity has towards beauty has, through many incarnations, somewhat biased its soul evolution. Woe betide the entity whose soul evolution is stuck at the red-ray level, for it is as though one were never able to peel the onion, never able to get to the inner surfaces. However, we would say to the one known as T1 that it is extremely doubtful that this entity is much troubled by being stuck within red ray, but, rather, this entity is mistaking a certain type of experience with beauty for the whole gamut of the question of esthetics.

Whichenergy appeals most to each of those within this circle? That is an ever-shifting question, is it not? Certainly, if an entity finds itself obsessed with physical beauty, there is some balancing work to be done, for it is not acceptable in the sense of metaphysical work overly to be preferring any one situation over another. It is a toxic environment for spiritual growth to be obsessing concerning almost anything, for the great key to spiritual advancement is balance. Rather, we would suggest that the way to work with such a concept or issue as beauty is to move the self through the various experiences of beauty, observing and appreciating the qualities at each level or depth of the energy at each layer of the onion realizing that, as the consideration of beauty rises through the energy centers, the quality of the considerations and the thoughts of such an entity are improving all the while. The experience of beauty is pleasant from any of the layers for depth of truth within the experience. But, certainly, the more profoundly rewarding of the esthetics begin to come in with the richness of the higher energy centers. Yet, we would not for an instant remove that wonderful, primal gusto and brio involved in the physical appreciation and delight in beauty. Should a male not delight in the beauty of the female? Should the female not delight in the handsomeness of the male? Should one not appreciate the delicious taste of good food and good drink? Should one not rejoice in the beauty of song and dance and movement and the physical world and the feast that the eyes and the ears have? Should one not enjoy the touch of soft and firm and rough and smooth? Should one not, indeed, delight as much as an otter in the play of life? We see no harm or error in such delight in beauty and would only encourage each to open the eyes more and clear the senses more deeply to appreciate every passing beauty of the day. The one known as Jim was saying earlier that it wished to keep a positive attitude, because it so much changed the perception of the life by the self. The one known as T2 mentioned also that the most constant prayer was keeping a positive thought at all times. These, too, are ways of increasing the beauty in the life, of opening the windows of the soul to let the sunshine of Love and Light in.

Then Q’uo said at the heart level the eye of our soul is open, and we see others not as bodies but as beings so that beauty is a function of our heart, and then the tyranny of our physical eyes is lifted so that the only limitation is with those who have not yet come into an awareness of their own beauty. Q’uo went on to say that if we cannot see ourselves as beautiful in the sense of being a good person, then that poor opinion of ourself will cause us to feel unworthy because we cannot see our own sun in all of its shining glory, and they said that each of us is a complex variety of vibrations that are colored by the subtleties of our  incarnation that is full of choices that flow from moment to moment in a thousand ways that we are not aware of within the subtle regions of our energy body where the changes are constant, and there are no two moments within our life when we are vibrating precisely the same. Q’uo continued by saying that we have an energy signature that remains fairly clear and unified throughout our incarnational experience because at the soul level we are the Creator and contain the universe, so Q’uo asked would not each of us have all aspects of beauty and ugliness, the entire range of esthetics within the ourself, locked in many levels within our personality, waiting to be discovered  by the right combination of circumstance and motivation? Q’uo said that Carla would often choose a very difficult ethical decision, and this has created in her life endless interesting forks in the road of the path taken being the one that was less traveled, so the question of beauty was truly a subjective one for her, and as the poet Keats said “Truth is beauty, and beauty is truth, and that is all you know and all you need to know.” Then Q’uo said that when we look at another from the standpoint of indigo-ray beauty, it can easily be seen that the attractiveness of the body and the gracefulness of expression of communication and personality pale beside the beauty of an entity’s soul character, and from the standpoint of doing work in consciousness, beauty lies in the power and peace of an entity, in its ability to show us joy and bliss according to the place in the process of spiritual evolution that their particular indigo-ray energy center has found itself enjoying the dance of working within. Q’uo continued by saying that we create a toxic environment for our spiritual growth if we are obsessing about anything because the key to spiritual advancement is balance, so they suggested that the way that we can work with a concept such as beauty is to move ourself through various experiences of beauty and appreciate its qualities at each level and realize that as our observation of beauty rises through our energy centers, the quality of our thoughts are continuously improving, so the experience of beauty is most rewarding and comes with the richness of the higher energy centers and are ways of increasing the beauty in our life by opening the windows of our soul to let the sunshine of Love and Light in. On March 18, 1979, Latwii described how we may enhance our spiritual advancement:

The over-use of the intellect, the over-seriousness of your people, has held back more spiritual advancement than we can tell you among your people. You who are in the vast minority among the peoples of your planet, you who are the hope of your planet, you who care to know the truth—do not think that you can think your way to the truth. Know that you can only be the truth. You can only act the truth. You can only love, for that is the heart of the truth. You can only be the original Thought, for that is the heart of Love.

There is a Love that created you. In that Love is all Light and all joy. Joining it makes you as light as a butterfly. You have no gravity. You do not need to be serious. You do not need to heap blame, or guilt, for your past incorrectnesses upon yourself. Nor need you do it for others in any way, for others are only yourself, [inaudible] in your mind so that you may see yourself better.

Look each person in the face—look yourself in the face—and find Love. If you cannot find it, let it go. Wisdom was not ever won in a moment, until the moment comes. Peacefully await that moment. Do not think about that moment or strive toward that moment in your minds, for there is a deeper faculty in your heart, and it is called the will. And we urge you, instead, to employ that. Will to know the original Thought of the Creator. Seek and ye shall find.

We would not have any worship beauty. We would not have any worship anything that has a name or form or shape. We would suggest to each that, in order to remain balanced, it is well to examine strong feelings about beauty just as one would examine emotional feelings of any other kind. The assumption of preferences and biases is part of that which you came to this incarnation to refine. In order to refine one’s concept of beauty, one must first become able to be completely honest with the self concerning opinions of self and opinions of other self. This is not particularly easy to accomplish. The self must be more and more known to the self, more and more accepted and, finally, more and more loved. What is beauty? Gaze within your childhood with the eyes of a small child. Were you not gloriously beautiful? You were innocent of anything except wishing to exult in every experience of life and it is very telling that much of the experience of the young soul of an incarnation tends to be experienced as difficult so that, little by little, that beauty of innocence begins to be warped away and scratched away, and finally knocked into flinders by the seemingly poor opinion of one’s parents and authority figures; by the cruel taunts of other children; by the disappointment of the self by the self. All of these things begin to rob the growing soul of its ability impartially and lovingly to feel beautiful and to judge things as beautiful. Indeed, we would say that, for most entities coming into an awakening process, the ability to appreciate beauty has been stunted and warped. And so, there is much work to do within an incarnation to recover that innocence of eye and ear, that allows an entity to sense the beauty of the nature of each thing as it is, or what this instrument would call the ding an sicht. Appreciating the real heart and essence of each thing is the key to a balanced esthetic. And when the esthetic is balanced, and balanced for that incarnation, there is no adhering karma stemming from the decisions made within the incarnation.

We encourage, in this regard, the daily balancing of emotions. We have spoken of this often before and in this wise, we would find it particularly useful. Meditation in general is tremendously useful and inviting the silence is a way of saying inviting balance, inviting reality, inviting essence, inviting wisdom. But in a specialized meditation at the end of the day, it is very helpful to pull out all of the experiences of the day from the mental pockets in which you have quickly put them during the day and gaze at each of these emotional moments with a far more thoughtful and judicious eye. Not to judge the self, but to judge the color, the quality, the particular layer of the energy body that was seen through and, basically, to come into more and more of a familiarity with one’s own patterns and one’s own preferences.

As each preference is identified, then, the technique of balancing meditation is to allow that first feeling, that first bias to flood the emotional self, saturating the self with that precise feeling that was felt earlier in the day. Then, when that has been emphasized and over-emphasized to the satisfaction of the self, the technique involves lifting up from that extreme and allowing the other extreme, the diametrical opposite, to fall gently into and gradually replace the original emotion. And then one encourages that distortion until it, too, is extreme, so that one would see the beauty of a particular thing and one’s rush towards it and at the same time one would be able to see the diametrically opposed lack of beauty of a particular perception or opinion or impulse, so that one may see the self as a 360 degree sphere of being that includes all biases. Once one has begun to get the hang of such a technique, one becomes gradually more comfortable with one’s biases, whether or not they seem to be fair or just within themselves.

This instrument is informing us that we begin to speak too long and so we would close this very interesting question and our response to it by encouraging each to enter into the essence of the self in silence. Allow the silence to speak, for it, more than words, more than ideas, more than thoughts, have the pith and the heart of the truth. What is beauty? What is truth? Enter the silence, turn the key and enter your own heart and enter a universe of infinite discovery.

Now Q’uo said that they would not have us worship beauty, so they suggested to us that if we wished to remain balanced that we should examine our feelings about beauty just as we would examine emotional feelings of any other kind because the assumption of preferences is part of that which we came to this incarnation to refine, and in order to refine our concept of beauty we must be able to be honest with ourself concerning our opinions of ourself and of others, and this is not easy to accomplish because we must be more known to ourself, more accepted by ourself and,  more loved by ourself. Q’uo went on to say that the beauty of our childhood has been taken away from us by the difficulties of many interactions with others, and when we began to awaken, our ability to appreciate beauty had been warped, so we needed to work within our incarnation to recover our innocence of eye and ear that allows us to sense the beauty of the nature of each thing as it is or what this instrument would call a “thing in itself” that would allow us to appreciate the essence of each thing which is the key to a balanced esthetic for our incarnation so that there is no remaining karma from the decisions that we made within our incarnation. Then Q’uo suggested that we use meditation at the end of the day to examine those experiences that would allow us to become more familiar with our preferences, and as each experience/preference is identified, then, the technique of the balancing meditation is to allow that first experience to be relived and then magnified in a great degree, and then to imagine its opposite nature for just a moment. Then we would allow it to become as large as the first experience, and then we would accept ourselves for having both of these emotional experiences as a portion of our 360 degree being, or the Creator, that gives us the opportunity to know ourselves better each time that we balance our experiences of our day. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that: “we would close this very interesting question and our response to it by encouraging each to enter into the essence of the self in silence. Allow the silence to speak, for it, more than words, more than ideas, more than thoughts, have the pith and the heart of the truth. What is beauty? What is truth? Enter the silence, turn the key and enter your own heart and enter a universe of infinite discovery.” On February 11, 2001, Q’uo revealed the essence of ourself:

We would encourage each, no matter what the path followed, to focus upon those aspects of the faith that unify and harmonize, that bring the self to a deeper feeling of the immediacy and the essence of the self. For beyond all perceived religion lies the self within that is each of you, and that self is the essence of holiness. That self is the spark of the infinite Creator, and those thoughts that you think are but distortions of the one great original thought that is Love. No matter where you seek you dwell in precincts of Love.

We thank the one known as T1 for this question and we leave it and this group in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator. We rejoice and we leave you in love and light. We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai.

This morning I went outside and used my snow shovel to complete the shoveling of the icy snow that I put rock salt on yesterday. Then I used my backpack blower to blow the remaining ice and rock salt off of the sidewalk. Then I spread a bag of rock salt on the icy areas of the driveway, and I will let the salt do its work until I blow the salt and ice remains off of the driveway.

This afternoon I filled my neighbor’s bird feeders and then went in her house to spend some time with her to see how things are going with her son and her grandchildren that she spends weekends with in Mount Sterling now that her husband passed into larger life last February.

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

January 16

The Holy Ground Of Consciousness

I am the principle of Jesus the Christ which speaks to the world today. I am all those things that you think that I am, but most of all I am your own inner voice; your own inner comfort; your own inner peace.

Let us contemplate the holy ground of your consciousness.

Because of the troubles of daily life, the surface consciousness is littered with debris. The undercurrent of mind is littered with unspoken thoughts, unnamed fears, and unrecognized emotion.

Insofar as you may be able this day, return again and again, momentarily, to the holy ground upon which your consciousness, the very essence of your being, stands. It is no passing thing. It is, indeed, the representation of all that there is in creation.

Within you, abidingly and faithfully, that principle of Love which is the Creator is your essence and constitutes the bedrock upon which you, as a timeless being, shall stand for eternity.

Return again and again to the peace, the strength, the power, the wisdom, and the Love of Love Itself. And from that spot within you comes a balance that shines in your vision and heals in the world outside of your eyes and inside your heart.

We leave you, healed, in the peace and Love that abides within, 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 June 21, 2002:

This question is from T1, and his first question is concerning the possibility that Earth might be about to experience some major catastrophes in the next eight to ten months. He’s seen a number of prophesies that suggest that this could be so, and he feels that, well, if that is so, then he should be spending his time helping people to discover this and take part in the evolutionary process, and get out and be diligent and serious about his service, but, if it’s not true, if Earth is not in great danger, then he wonders should he continue to do what he likes in this life: playing games, seeing movies, going dancing in the pub. The second question is, he would like Q’uo’s comment on his current progress in soul development, and perhaps some general advice as to how to be more in harmony with the Law of One.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo. We greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. His service we are proud to call our own. We thank you so much for forming a circle of seeking at this time and welcoming our thoughts. We are most appreciative of this opportunity to share our thoughts with you and would ask only that, in listening to these thoughts, each be perfectly aware that we are your brothers and sisters, not authority figures whose opinion necessarily needs to be weighted with more importance than your own opinion, your own feeling of resonance with the material. Take what you will, and leave the rest behind. In this way, we are able to share our thoughts with you without being concerned that we will infringe upon your free will.

The questions that you ask this day concern the drama of the end of the age and the beginning of the new age, and the gentle, almost afterthought of a question concerning the general spiritual state of the one known as T1. And yet, in a way, these are one and the same question, for the spiritual state of the whole world and the spiritual state of each entity within the world are very, very closely linked. And the story that this planetary sphere shall tell to the archeologists of the distant future is a story that depends vitally and centrally on the true spiritual situation of each entity upon the planetary sphere that is interested in making a difference in the core vibration of the energy grid and the planetary population of third-density entities upon the planet Earth. It is overly dramatic to say that the fate of the world is in your hands, and yet, in a very real sense, this is so, in the same sense that it has always been so, in that the thoughts and perceptions of humankind have shaped the experience of humankind, and the thoughts of the fathers have often planted seeds that have been reaped by the sons and the grandsons and the generations to follow. So, there is a very, very real connection between the spiritual situation of each entity and the way the story plays out upon what this instrument has called the game board of free choice within third density, the land of Earth’s reign upon your spirit.

Let us for a few minutes focus upon the concerns of the one known as T1: that many sources have expressed in recent months the concern that there is a pivotal period in the beginning of 2003 beyond which humankind shall not be able to pass without a planetary catastrophe occurring. To address this concern head-on, we sort through this instrument’s recollections of a period of some decades of experience with such predictions. This instrument has long noticed that the predictions of urgent and critical time periods have never manifested at the predicted time period with the predicted effect upon planet Earth in the physical realm. We have said through this instrument before that it is not that these critical times do not occur but that they are a part of a metaphysical process having to do with the entities upon planet Earth. This metaphysical process has its shadows within the physical consensus reality of your shared outer world, but the depth and profundity of danger of a physical nature is in every case—as it turns out—greatly overestimated and inaccurate.

Continuing to gaze at this question, we would also note that there have been time periods in your recent past, that is in the ’70s and in the ’80s and in the ‘90s, when there was a concerted effort on the part of many groups to raise the consciousness of planet Earth. In all cases, what has occurred is that, as more and more entities awaken and join the ranks of those who do consciously work in spirit, in prayer, in meditation, even in worry for the well-being of the planetary entities and the well-being of the planet at this time, the tendency of the Earth itself to express in a manifested and physical manner these metaphysical processes has been alleviated and ameliorated so that, while there have been a continuing stream of smaller and non-global difficulties upon your Earth, with tornados and fires, with floods, hurricanes, and tsunamis, with earthquakes and terrible fire, none of these occurrences has triggered the predicted worldwide catastrophes.

The one known as A has pointed out to this instrument that the one known as Edgar Cayce predicted in 1998 that there would be a global shift, and we may say, since this period has come and gone, that it was entirely due to the awakening and the linking up of positive consciousness upon this planet that this prediction did not, in fact, manifest at that time. What the positive energy upon your planet, as it grows, has done is progressively put off that time period in which third density’s shadows shall cease to be present upon your Earth world. In other words, as entities have awakened and begun to offer their hearts, their minds, and their strengths in the service of the planet Earth and its peoples, this mass of positive consciousness has bought time: time to increase the harvest, time to make the most of these latter days of third density upon your planet. Indeed, we may say that at this point you are dwelling within fourth density. That which separates each of you within your third-density bodies from fourth density is nothing more than a state of mind, and this state of mind is far more vulnerable to or transparent to the biddings and the whisperings of fourth-density positive consciousness than ever before because of the fact that your Earth Mother is in the process of birthing this fourth density now. And, as we have said before through this instrument, within the next ten of your years, this process shall be complete. We are not suggesting that at that time, either, there will be global catastrophe. Indeed, this future is completely fluid; we would say more fluid than it was ten years ago, and more fluid by far than it was twenty years ago. Your people are awakening one by one, not from a level of authority down, as in the old days of your, shall we say, state religions but in a far more modern and democratic manner, shall we say, in that it is a grassroots movement of soul to soul, of memory to memory, of the open heart being so attractive and calling so strongly to entities that are hungering for that energy that they are pulled into and called into an awakening.

It has become more and more attractive once again within your Earth world simply to come down on the side of love, faith, and peace. The humble and the meek are beginning to gain the confidence of their experience with positivity and with negativity. The entities are so close now to that graduation time that the great struggle of choice of polarity is not as pernicious and as painful as it used to be for entities, because there is the underlying strength of many, many entities who are also attempting to open their hearts and to express the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator in their everyday lives.

The group questions for today were: “This question is from T1, and his first question is concerning the possibility that Earth might be about to experience some major catastrophes in the next eight to ten months. He’s seen a number of prophesies that suggest that this could be so, and he feels that, well, if that is so, then he should be spending his time helping people to discover this and take part in the evolutionary process, and get out and be diligent and serious about his service, but, if it’s not true, if Earth is not in great danger, then he wonders should he continue to do what he likes in this life: playing games, seeing movies, going dancing in the pub. The second question is, he would like Q’uo’s comment on his current progress in soul development, and perhaps some general advice as to how to be more in harmony with the Law of One.” Q’uo began their response by saying that the spiritual state of our world and the spiritual state of each of us within the world are very closely linked so that it could be said that the fate of the world is in our hands, and yet this is true in the way that it has always been true because there is a very real connection between the spiritual stories of each of us within the third-density illusion. Q’uo went on to say that when considering predictions of planetary catastrophes, they do not mean to say they do not occur, but: “they are a part of a metaphysical process having to do with the entities upon planet Earth. This metaphysical process has its shadows within the physical consensus reality of your shared outer world, but the depth and profundity of danger of a physical nature is in every case—as it turns out—greatly overestimated and inaccurate.” Then Q’uo said that in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s there were many people who were attempting to raise the consciousness of our planet, and as more entities awaken and join those who consciously work in spirit, in prayer, in meditation, and in worrying for the well-being of Earth and Her population at this time, the tendency of Earth to express these metaphysical processes in a physical manner has been reduced, so while there has been a stream of smaller difficulties upon our Earth like tornados, fires, floods, and hurricanes, none has triggered the predicted worldwide catastrophes. Q’uo continued by saying that in 1998, Edgar Cayce predicated that there would be a global shift on Earth which did not occur due to the awakening and the linking up of positive seekers so that this prediction did not manifest at that time, so the positive energy upon our planet has bought time: time to increase the harvest, time to make the most of these latter days of third density upon your planet. Q’uo said that now there were more spiritual seekers who were following the path of love, faith, and peace, and we are now close to graduation time so that the struggle to make the choice of polarity is not as painful as it used to be because there is the strength of many entities who are opening their hearts to express the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator in their everyday lives. On January 21, 1981, Latwii spoke of the value of the path of love as a choice for our polarity:

However, there is a bias that has been set in place within this density, which does, indeed, tend toward a suggestion that the Creator, being a Creator of Love, has created in the path of Love for others, a path which is more easily and joyfully taken than the path of service to self and control of others. Thus, each of you is, indeed, an individual, each of you is here for one basic purpose, that being to make a choice between one path and another, and then, that choice being made, to attempt throughout the remainder of the incarnation, with dogged and continuing persistence, to follow that choice and to make other choices which support and undergird the first choice of service to others.

As we said, this is completely a humble and individual movement where entities are being called by themselves into service as harvesters, and, as entities are awakened, then they become as those who awaken others; not because they have gone out and brow-beaten or convinced anyone by fact or data but because it is simply so attractive to awakening entities to experience unconditional love that such entities, once switched on like the lights that they are, call entities to them and help entities to remember why they took incarnation upon planet Earth at this time. For each has that hidden memory of a very good plan; a very good reason to come to planet Earth at this time, just precisely at this time. There is nothing sloppy about the inborn and flowing system of motivations and catalysts that has brought each of you to this present moment. As the one known as T2 has observed earlier this evening, there are many, many ways, but they all lead to the top, and this is precisely true.

The one known as T1 has a particular path that this entity will do well to cooperate with, to explore, to investigate with the kind of curiosity most often found in children and lost when entities become older. It is very well to encourage within the self this infinite curiosity as to why, and where, and how. This open attitude, this questioning mind, yields great benefit for those who persist in seeking. However, that which is within the mind can only serve an entity to a certain extent. It is the tendency of many who are awakening to their spiritual selves and feeling the distance between themselves and what one might call the world of normalcy, and conventional belief, and behavior to feel the safety of the philosophical stance wherein one has a very good, distant point of view and is basically an observer that is attempting to figure out the way that things work. This is opposed in our description to the entity who simply opens the heart and embraces the day and attacks whatever comes to him with great love and enjoyment. May we say that, for all of the benefits that wisdom does bring, it is the open heart itself and the passion with which the entity allows that heart to flow that bring the best results in terms of spiritual learning, because, you see, in preparing the self for graduation into the density of love and understanding, that which is most efficacious is the vividness of the entity’s experience within third density.

This entity was speaking earlier of its tendency towards being critical of the self when it discovers that it is, yet again, caught in the snares of its bookkeeping software which it seems to have difficulty in learning. The entity spoke of how it had distracted itself with various amusements so that it would not begin one of the many tapes within its head that would bring it from a point of joy to a point of self-critical aggravation and even despair. Such is the nature of the human realm of perceptions that a choice of whether or not to be triggered by the seemingly negative events of the day could be more powerful in creating a positive atmosphere around this instrument than the very serious question of whether or not this instrument was able to perform its duties in an accurate and professional manner. This entity chose to walk away from the problem and to celebrate those things which it enjoyed, knowing that it would eventually move back into that atmosphere of correcting errors and creating the necessary bookkeeping tidiness that a business demands. In a sense of “this world,” it is the books that are important; in the sense of fourth density, it is the heart remaining open, undefended, loved, forgiven, and accepted that is important. It is very deceptive to attempt to work in both worlds, and, as spiritual beings, we encourage each to consider what is important in this world and what is important in fourth density.

The one known as T1 was thinking concerning what it should do if there were, indeed, a very real possibility of planetary catastrophe. We have never denied the possibility of planetary catastrophe. We have simply been unable to determine whether the probability of a planetary catastrophe is high enough to speak about. We have not been able to determine this because each of you is powerful and has already made changes in the energy level of the fourth-density grid of planetary energies that is attempting to establish itself as the basis for fourth-density positive on this planet. As a race, the human race is more than adequate to maintain this delicate balance between harvest and a comfortable landing into the next density. Yes, there is great potential for difficulty. Look about the Earth at this time, and one sees many difficulties. Yet, is it not something to be encouraged by, that all of these difficulties have been cunningly placed in time and space so that there is not a cumulative effect but rather the ability after each catastrophe for the human populations concerned to help each other to come together and to survive for the most part?

One of the reasons that we encourage entities not to focus upon the negative possibilities involved in global times of shift into the next age is because that which one focuses upon becomes far more potentially possible. If entities all focus upon fear-based information, that will actually greatly help bring about the feared conditions. There is a very careful difference to be made within the mind concerning thinking about information sources such as those quoted to this instrument in preparing for this channeling session. Each of these sessions was couched in spiritual language by those channels of very good intention and positive hope of service who nevertheless were receiving questions of a fear-based nature and responding with the attempt to satisfy the request for specific information as to the schedule of these negative events. And may we say that we in no wise wish to address any specific questions concerning global catastrophe. We simply ask each to choose which thread of meaning and energy to follow: that thread and energy of fear which would guard and protect and make safe and deal with third-density concerns or that energy of unconditional love, faith, hope, and the desire to serve which translates into a prayerful and confident feeling that all is well, and that all will be well. Which energy feels like the one that each of you wishes to choose?

Then Q’uo said that this was a humble and individual movement where awakened seekers are calling themselves into service as harvesters and are awakening others–not because they wish to convince anyone by fact or data—but because it is simply so inspiring to awakening entities to experience unconditional love that once they begin to shine like the lights that they are, they help other seekers to remember why they incarnated upon planet Earth at this time, for each has that hidden memory of a very good reason to come to planet Earth at just precisely this time. Q’uo continued by saying that in traveling our spiritual path it is well to encourage infinite curiosity within ourself as to how and why our path evolves because our questioning mind can provide great benefits for us as seekers, but that which is within our mind can only serve us to a certain extent because it is the passion with which we allow our open heart to flow that brings the best results in terms of our spiritual learning because when we are preparing ourself for graduation into the density of love and understanding, that which is most helpful is the vividness of our experience within third density. Q’uo went on to use Carla’s  difficulty in using her bookkeeping process as an analogy of how it is important in the sense of “this world” to realize that it is the books that are important, but in the sense of fourth density, it is the heart remaining open, loved, and forgiven that is important, and it is very difficult to attempt to work in both worlds, so Q’uo said as spiritual beings we need to consider what is important in this world and what is important in fourth density. Now Q’uo said that there was the potential for planetary catastrophes at this time, but we should be encouraged that all of these difficulties have been periodically placed in time and space so that they don’t all occur at once which creates the ability after each catastrophe for the human populations involved to help each other to come together and to survive, for the most part. Q’uo said that if we think too much about fear-based possibilities we may actually help to bring them about, so they asked us to choose which thread of meaning and energy to follow: fear-based energy which would deal with third-density concerns, or that energy of unconditional love, faith, hope, and the desire to serve which translates into a prayerful and confident feeling that all is well, and that all will be well. On May 25, 2019, Q’uo spoke of the nature of planetary catastrophes:

The difficulty with the delivery of the new fourth-density planet and its population comes not from either the planet or the fourth-density potential population, but from those entities that are engaged in disharmonious and bellicosity of one nature or another, creations of disharmony, disease, confusion, and agitation. There is much division between the various cultures, entities within cultures, and entities within families, that there is the possibility of further enhancement of this disharmonious relationship, so that the warring factions of one group pitted against another could potentially cause difficulties of not only the mental, psychic, and physical nature, but of the potential for planetary catastrophes that are well-documented within the history of your planetary experience. For there have been thousands of years of the warring efforts of many peoples that has embedded the anger of separation within the crust of the planet, so that there is the need at this time to release this heat of anger in a controlled fashion, so that there is necessarily a finite amount of heat that is released at any one time, thus reducing the possibility of planetary annihilation.

And this is not simply true, as we said, on the global level. For you as a people are saving the Earth, but you as a mind, body, and spirit working as one unit to gather experience and enrich the quality of your soul have the self-same choice to make, because each of you faces an individual global catastrophe that is absolutely certain. Each of you faces the death of the physical body; perhaps not today, hopefully not tomorrow or next week or next year, but soon, and inevitably. Each mote of dust that has had life breathed into it by the infinite Creator shall cease breathing and shall once again become dust so that the qualities that bring forth from the subconscious mind to the conscious mind the concerns concerning global catastrophe are those same qualities of personality that bring forth those concerns about the health of the body, the safety of the body, the protection of the body, and the defense against that great enemy which is seen to be death. One can move without a quiver from the microcosm to the macrocosm here and see the same energies at work: fear and love, protection, and growth. Do you wish to protect yourself, maintain what you have, guard what is yours and so forth, or do you wish to release all fear, embrace all things in love and trust and believe in all things hoped for but yet unseen? It may help, when there are concerns within the mind about the world, to bring that concern back to the kingdom of the body, the mind, and the spirit of one entity, because each of you is in the microcosm the authentic Creator, the creation, the universe: Creator and created in an infinite Celtic knot that is different for each entity and yet in each entity retains the elegance of utter unity within the complexity of pattern.

The ones known as Jim and T2 were joking earlier concerning part of the query of the one known as T1 concerning dancing and making merry if all things were, indeed, all right, and there was not the need to concern himself with warning the world about the catastrophe that is at hand. They were saying, “No matter what happens, we should definitely be dancing,” and we would agree with this assessment. For is not the life itself the dance, and is not the secret to enjoying that life to remember that one is dancing; that there is music that is unheard, perhaps, by most? But that music is always playing; it is being played by the petunias and the impatiens; it is being played by the roses and the geraniums; it is being played by the songbirds in the trees, and the sky, and fire and water; it is being played by every mote that lives and breathes within the creation of the infinite One. This music is forever; it is infinite; and it is closer than the breath that you take. Each of you is living in a wonderful ocean of music, and rhythm, and dance, and everything in creation is moving in rhythm at a level beyond the capacity of the human mind to comprehend. Even your own bodies are a part of this wonderful rhythm unless the power of negative thought within the mind clamps down so much upon the body that it can no longer express that harmony that it truly does feel with every other living thing that shares its biological space.

Techniques for moving more and more into the Law of One in the way one lives are as simple as the techniques of learning to appreciate anything. It is a matter of becoming sensitized to that which one is attempting to appreciate. When one studies art, for instance, within your schools, one is taught to have taste and to appreciate the beauty of this or that style of expressing images. Each subject that one begins to look into has its standards of good taste in it. As one becomes more and more familiar with that particular part of the universe of learning, one develops taste and knows what is beautiful in that which is said, or written, or performed, or imaged, and just so it is in living the life of the open heart.

It is a matter of beginning to see that there is an art and a science to living what this instrument would call a mixed life; a life that is made up not only of third-density or fourth-density concerns but a grand and confused mixture of third and fourth-density concerns so that there is the skipping between the densities in everyday life; seeing the profundity of the tiniest chore; seeing the sacredness of the hardest and most humble work while at the same time seeing the vanity and the uselessness of all efforts whatsoever, because all of these efforts are within an illusion that is brief as a candle and will gutter out for lack of fuel at a certain time not too far in the future. There is a delight in the juxtaposition of beauty and meaninglessness that this instrument has often noted, and it is very helpful, perhaps, at this point to consider that all things may be turned and looked at upon the other side. And, indeed, what is needed at some points is the ability to see both sides and to come to a balance between them.

The one known as T1 has, as this instrument is well aware, devoted a tremendous amount of effort to translating other material that we of the Confederation have produced in the past into its native language so that more entities may grasp this material, and we thank this entity for its great service. It is tremendously helpful, we feel, that this kind of spiritually based information be available to those who would seek it. It is why we are here. We have remained with this group and with this instrument for many years, because we truly feel that there is efficacy in this ministry that we offer and that instruments such as this also offers. There is a very real purpose to sharing our opinion, and there is a very real purpose for the one known as T1, the one known as Jim, the one known as T2, and this instrument to express those things that each feels are appropriate to the situations that arise day-to-day. We would not discourage the one known as T1 from sharing information that it finds helpful. We would simply suggest to each that there are ways to share information in a positive sense, and there are ways to share information in a negative sense. If one approaches things from a positive sense, this will tend to build up the structure of fourth density; if things are approached in such a way that there is gloom and doom and the raising of fear in those who are being warned, this will not encourage fourth density.

Now Q’uo said that each of us faces the death of our body as it ceases breathing so that the qualities of global catastrophe that move from our subconscious mind to our conscious mind are the same qualities of our personality when we are concerned about the health of our body and its death, and we can move from the microcosm to the macrocosm and see the same energies of fear and love at work. So, Q’uo asked if we wish to protect ourself and guard what we have, or do we wish to release all fear, embrace all things in love and trust, and believe in all things hoped for but yet unseen? Q’uo continued by saying that whatever conditions exist within the world that we should be dancing with the wonderful ocean of music because everything in the creation is moving in rhythm at a level beyond the capacity of our human mind to comprehend, and this includes our own bodies which are a part of this wonderful rhythm unless the power of some negative thought within our mind clamps down so much upon our body that it can no longer express that harmony that it truly does feel with every other living thing that shares its biological space. Q’uo went on by saying that the way that we can move more into the way we live the Law of One is the same as learning to appreciate anything because: “As one becomes more and more familiar with that particular part of the universe of learning, one develops taste and knows what is beautiful in that which is said, or written, or performed, or imaged, and just so it is in living the life of the open heart.” Then Q’uo said that we live a mixed life between the third and fourth densities by seeing the sacred nature of any chore while at the same time seeing the vanity and the uselessness of all efforts because all of these efforts are within an illusion that is brief as a candle burning, so what we need is the ability to see both sides of the coin and to come to a balance between them. So Q’uo said that it was important for us to share spiritually oriented material with other seekers and: “there are ways to share information in a positive sense, and there are ways to share information in a negative sense. If one approaches things from a positive sense, this will tend to build up the structure of fourth density; if things are approached in such a way that there is gloom and doom and the raising of fear in those who are being warned, this will not encourage fourth density.” On October 15, 2000, Q’uo spoke of the value of seeing both sides of a situation:

The one known as S was talking about the need for balance to see both sides of a situation and yet to come to some decision that finds that which this instrument has often called the golden mean, the middle road that expresses both charity and wisdom and encapsulates the best of both. Oftentimes, this framework fails as this instrument was speaking earlier of with regards to herself. And we say, yes, often whether the reason for angst is cultural or personal, self-perceived failure will occur, and it is one more situation which is spiritual in nature which has a rhythm, and beauty, and a plan. The difficulty always is in retaining enough balance, faith, and common sense to remember the truths and the principles that inform not just the conscious mind but the life and the essence of the being.

The one known as Jesus said it very simply: when it was asked if the coin of the realm of its time which had the face of Caesar upon it truly belonged to Caesar, the one known as Jesus replied, “Render unto Caesar those things that are Caesar’s; render unto the Creator those things that are the Creator’s.” You may see Caesars strut upon a stage at this time expressing, no matter what nation from which they come, that sting of the dragon’s tail; that fear-based concern for protection, and safety, and the accumulation of resources. The life can be subsumed into the concern for the suffering of the planet Earth, and yet this will not help bring about an increase in the harvest or a softer landing into fourth density.

Consequently, we encourage the one known as T1 to dance, to play the games, and to realize that there are no mistakes. It is perfectly well to work to share the information that it finds important, but it is just as important to share it in a way that expresses the quality of the open and flowing heart that is grounded in trust and shaped to express that love which flows through the instrument of the human body, mind, and spirit in an infinite supply at all times. This is the heart of the mission shared by all those who are awakening upon planet Earth at this time. Each of you came here determined to make a difference. Each of you has those tools and resources that are needed. It is a matter of stepping forth in peace, in confidence, and in the sense that each is not alone.

And here we would encourage each more and more consciously to realize the strength of linking up with one’s spiritual family. It is as the anchor that truly does help those who were not particularly used to the exigencies of third density to feel more and more comfortable within the realms of your planetary sphere and the incarnation you are experiencing at this time. We are aware that each within this circle has serious difficulties in enjoying all aspects of planet Earth. There are memories, shall we say, of better times, of happier vibrations to rest in, and yet, once one begins to link in a comfortable and subconscious way with one’s spiritual family, one is able to recover a good bit of this sense of comfort, knowing that one truly is not alone on the level of intention and desire and group service. For this is a mission that can be done not by one but by a group. The one known as Jesus pointed out that, if an entity has perfect faith, it can move mountains, and that entity known to this group as Ra pointed out that, while it takes a pure entity to move a mountain, if a group attempts to move a mountain, each within the group may have an acceptable amount of distortion, and the mountain will still move. That is the power of the very deeply felt linking into one’s spiritual family. We leave this phrase very loose, because you have a very large family. And it is not simply one group that has come into this Earth to serve but, rather, you are experiencing a very complicated, interrelated bunch of groups from fourth density, from fifth density, and from sixth density, from the inner planes and from other planets that all have been attracted to the Earth sphere at this time because of the stunning clarity of its passage at this time from one heaven and Earth to the next.

As to what specifically may be done in the life of each present to come more and more into a way of living that reflects the Law of One, we would echo the words of the one known as T2 in the discussion that preceded this circle of seeking: to begin the day with that movement of the mind towards the silence that beckons is to enhance the energy with which one has—we correct this instrument—with which one is able to meet those catalysts of the day. It is as though the day were on wheels, and each day there was the beginning of the movement, and, then, as the day moves downhill, it gathers speed. Once the day has gathered speed, it is very difficult to rein that mind’s attitude back in and to move on the track of love and light throughout the day. And there is no one upon planet Earth who does this perfectly in any one day, yet that commitment day after day and week after week to spending time with the Creator before the day gets away is extremely helpful. Not everyone is able to do this, and, as we have always said, at any point during the day it is very helpful to tune, to meditate, to walk in nature, but in some way to invite the silence. We are full of words, we can only do so much, but, ah, the eloquence of that still, small voice that speaks in silence.

We commend that wonderful resource to each, and we commend the effort to bring oneself into a heart relationship with all that occurs so that you are aware of the aliveness, the vitality, the infinite worth of all with which you deal. All entities, all qualities, all ideas, all beings whatsoever, all creatures of rock and sky, anything that can be pointed at or thought of, has its own sacredness, honor and worth, and you are among those things which have those qualities. This is the kingdom which does not have Caesar’s face. “My kingdom is not of this world.” That is what the one known as Jesus stated firmly. And we would say to each, as a metaphysical being, your kingdom is not of this world. You are in the world, you are a blessing to the world, but you are not of it. You dance with your frail bodies, and you dance beautifully.

Q’uo said that we could be like Caesar and be focused on our fear-based concern for protection, safety, and accumulating resources so that our life would be overwhelmed by our concern for the suffering of the planet Earth, and yet this would not help bring about an increase in the harvest into the fourth density. Q’uo went on to say that we should share information that we find is important in a way that expresses the quality of our open and flowing heart which is grounded in trust and expresses the love which flows through our mind, body, and spirit in an infinite supply at all times because each of us came here to make a difference, and it is a matter of our stepping forth in peace, in confidence, and in the sense that we are not alone. Q’uo went on to say that it is important in this third density of difficulties that we join together with our spiritual family both on the conscious and the subconscious levels of our being in order to help each other realize the nature of their being and their purpose on Earth at this time of transition into the fourth density because together we can work miracles to help Earth and Her population to make this transition. Q’uo continued by saying that it would be very helpful for us to live the Law of One if we begin our days with a silent meditation so that we could spend time with the Creator that would allow us to meet our daily catalyst with love and light. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that: “all entities, all qualities, all ideas, all beings whatsoever, all creatures of rock and sky, anything that can be pointed at or thought of, has its own sacredness, honor and worth, and you are among those things which have those qualities, and your kingdom is not of this world. You are in the world, you are a blessing to the world, but you are not of it. You dance with your frail bodies, and you dance beautifully.” On October 17, 2009, Q’uo said that we are not of this world:

You see, my friends, you are both of this world and not of this world. You are in a physical body and your flesh and your bones attest to your being citizens of Planet Earth, made from the dust and expectant of returning to it at some point in the future. At the same time you are an infinite, eternal entity. You moved into life marrying your energy body with the physical body which you now enjoy. And when you drop this physical body at the end of your physical life you shall move onward into new experiences in your energy body once again. But for the span of this lifetime, you have twinned these two bodies, and they are inseparable, intertwined, and working together to create the experience of you as a person and as a soul. It is not just the physical body that reacts to those things that occur to you, it is also the energy body which is in a constant flux, opening and closing according to the ability of the self to feel safe and secure.

We thank the one known as T1 for this interesting question and would at this time leave this instrument in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It has been a great blessing and a joy to speak with you at this time. We thank the one known as Carla and would leave this group rejoicing in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are those known to you as Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai vasu borragus.

Today is the 44^th anniversary of the beginning of the Ra Contact, and as I was looking out of my bathroom window this morning, I saw a hawk perched in the Tulip Poplar tree between the fishpond and the pet cemetery. The hawk was always our totem animal during the Ra Contact, and it is still my totem animal that tells me that all is well.

This morning I took a bag of birdseed to my neighbor across the street and put it in her shed behind her home. While I was there, I filled both of her bird feeders with birdseed. When I got back home I spread some rock salt on the sidewalk leading from the front of my home to the driveway to see if it could melt the ice on the sidewalk.

This afternoon I ran some errands with my first stop being at Walmart where I bought some Choc-Zero chocolate candy. My second stop was at Kroger’s where I bought some Pepsi-Zero, some sealing tape, and some Vitamin B3. My third stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market where I bought some food for myself. My last stop was at the vet’s where I picked up some meds for Bosco.

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

January 16

The Holy Ground Of Consciousness

I am the principle of Jesus the Christ which speaks to the world today. I am all those things that you think that I am, but most of all I am your own inner voice; your own inner comfort; your own inner peace.

Let us contemplate the holy ground of your consciousness.

Because of the troubles of daily life, the surface consciousness is littered with debris. The undercurrent of mind is littered with unspoken thoughts, unnamed fears, and unrecognized emotion.

Insofar as you may be able this day, return again and again, momentarily, to the holy ground upon which your consciousness, the very essence of your being, stands. It is no passing thing. It is, indeed, the representation of all that there is in creation.

Within you, abidingly and faithfully, that principle of Love which is the Creator is your essence and constitutes the bedrock upon which you, as a timeless being, shall stand for eternity.

Return again and again to the peace, the strength, the power, the wisdom, and the Love of Love Itself. And from that spot within you comes a balance that shines in your vision and heals in the world outside of your eyes and inside your heart.

We leave you, healed, in the peace andLlove that abides within, 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 comes from June 14, 2002:

Questioner: I feel difficulty in just plain loving so much of the time. What blocks have I created to the love within me? Where or how am I preventing that infinite energy from reaching my heart? What can I do to love and accept my family more? Is there anything I can do to bring healing where it is needed in this family, my father especially? I seem to be very stuck in orange-ray concerns which keep my focus on myself. What can I do to finish my own processes enough that I might place that focus outwards and work to actually serving another?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you. We thank you for creating this opportunity for us to communicate with you through this instrument. It is indeed a great blessing to join your meditation, and we thank each who has laid aside the concerns of the day in order to form a circle of seeking. It is a great blessing to us to share the beauty of each of your vibrations and to be able to serve as we hoped to serve when we joined the inner planes of your planetary sphere. For being called upon to speak upon such subjects as love and its increase is that service which is that which we hoped to offer and so we offer a thankful expression of gratitude for this opportunity and are happy to share our humble thoughts with you, asking, as always, that each choose the thoughts from those that we offer that seem to have virtue and leave the rest behind without a second thought.

When we come to the subject of love, we find that there are as many ways to approach the subject as there are stars in your night sky and yet, the energy of each star has its center in the one great original Thought that created all that there is. The expression of discomfort and distress shared by the one known as G is an expression that is very common to those who dwell upon your planetary sphere at this time. It is an ironic truth that before awakening from the planetary dream the mind of an entity is effectively asleep in a metaphysical sense so that the discomforts of being conscious and fully aware of the situation around one are muted by the dream of consensus reality. Whereas upon awakening it becomes obvious that the consensus reality is, in fact, an illusion with a gaudy surface but very little actual content, and that which was before a comfortable sleep becomes an all too sensitized awareness of the seeming gap between that which truly is, in a metaphysical sense, and that which can be expressed by the life of the everyday chores, and duties, and honors of being in the human condition, shall we say, whereas once one was able not to question but simply to abide by those suggestions of that which is worthwhile and that which is not; that which is good and that which is bad. Upon awakening, there becomes the awareness of the state of pain, and difficulty in identifying one’s nature, one’s goals, one’s service, and one’s path ahead. The life stretches out before the gaze, full of days that are empty of true meaning and vital energy. Within this condition there is one hope, one call, and that hope and call is the call of Love. For Love calls not only within the being but surrounding and emanating from the being. There is the hope of multiplying, by the actions of the self, the Love that is available to the world without one, and the soul begins to wonder if it will ever find that seemingly secret path through all of the twists and changes of the winding road that seemed so straight, when one was asleep, but now opens out into an increasingly mazed and seemingly confused pattern of turns, and twists, and dead ends.

Many are the souls that sit upon a rock by the edge of this winding road alone, feeling dry as the desert, aching for company and yearning for true purpose. And this is the feeling of the desert within this dry time of awakening and getting one’s bearings. It often seems as though the road truly does go on forever with no relief from the smallness of detail in the daily landscape or the yearning of the heart for greater and more abundant surroundings. We come to this group this evening with a very simple message, and that message is that this experience of dryness, and aridity, and difficulty, and discomfort is as the shell or the husk of the self and the worlds that are full of vitality, crammed and stuffed with essence, with meaning, and bursting at the seams with opportunities to be of service to the self, to the Creator, and to the world about the self. Yet, how could eyes that are so open and so aware be missing that oasis of plenty and comfort in the midst of this vast desert of experience?

We would move back with each of you, backwards in time and in mind, to a point before birth, before the approach into this illusion that you call third density. Each of you had undergone a process of planning and prayerfully, thoughtfully choosing the relationships that would serve to bring forth the patterns of catalysts that were those patterns that would engage the self in very precise and intended ways, with certain key lessons that had to do with love, with learning how to love, with learning how to accept the love of others, and learning how to be of true service and how to accept the service of others towards you. Resting in that very supported environment of guidance and planning, gazing at the incarnation ahead, may we say that each of you felt fairly confident that you would not forget your purpose, your dreams, your goals, your hopes, and your desires for learning and for service within the incarnation to come. From that viewpoint beyond the veil of forgetting it truly looked as though it were going to be enjoyable and all too brief an experience. As this instrument has expressed it, each thought this is going to be fun. And then that point of view was lost in the rush of coming into third density fully, of beginning to breathe in and breathe out, of experiencing the limitations of the physical vehicle that must be fed, and clothed, and comforted with sleep and rest in order that it may survive, let alone be of service.

The group question for this session was: “I feel difficulty in just plain loving so much of the time. What blocks have I created to the love within me? Where or how am I preventing that infinite energy from reaching my heart? What can I do to love and accept my family more? Is there anything I can do to bring healing where it is needed in this family, my father especially? I seem to be very stuck in orange-ray concerns which keep my focus on myself. What can I do to finish my own processes enough that I might place that focus outwards and work to actually serving another?” Q’uo began their reply by saying that the topic of love has as many facets as there are people on Earth, but it is based in the one great original Thought of Love so that before we awaken from the dream of consensus reality our mind is asleep in the metaphysical sense, whereas upon our awakening it becomes obvious to us that consensus reality is an illusion with a flashy surface but with little actual content so that which we experienced before as a comfortable sleep becomes a very sensitized awareness of the gap between that which is true in the metaphysical sense and that which can be expressed by our everyday life of chores and duties of our being in the human condition. Q’uo went on to say that when we  awaken we become aware of being in pain and have difficulty in identifying our nature, goals, and service on our spiritual path, and within this condition we have a path to follow, and that is the call of Love that emanates from within our being and also all around us, and we begin to wonder if we will ever find that secret that seemed so clear when we were asleep because now it opens out into a confused pattern of turns, twists, and dead ends. Q’uo continued by saying that after we awaken we may sit beside this winding road alone and aching for company and wishing to know the purpose of our life, and this is the feeling of being in the desert in the time of our awakening and needing to get our bearings, and it seems that this road truly does go on forever with no relief from the smallest of detail in our daily life or the yearning of our heart for greater and more abundant surroundings. Then Q’uo said that they came to this group this evening with a very simple message, and that message was: “this experience of dryness, and aridity, and difficulty, and discomfort is as the shell or the husk of the self and the worlds that are full of vitality, crammed and stuffed with essence, with meaning, and bursting at the seams with opportunities to be of service to the self, to the Creator, and to the world about the self. Yet, how could eyes that are so open and so aware be missing that oasis of plenty and comfort in the midst of this vast desert of experience?” Now Q’uo said that before we incarnated into the third-density illusion we went through the process of choosing the relationships that would produce the catalyst that would help us learn the lessons of love: learning how to accept the love of others, and learning how to be of true service. Then Q’uo went on to say that as we rested in that environment of guidance and gazing at our incarnation ahead we felt confident that we would not forget our desires for learning and for service within our incarnation to come, and from that viewpoint beyond the veil of forgetting it looked as though we were going have an enjoyable and brief experience, but then that point of view was lost as we came into third density fully and began to experience the limitations of our bodies that need to be fed, clothed, and comforted with sleep and rest in order that we may survive and be of service. On October 28, 2023, Q’uo gave a description of how our pre-incarnative choices are made:

You, in truth, are a portion of the One Infinite Creator that has chosen to enter the third density illusion at this time with what you would call choices made previous to the incarnation that would allow you to move forward on your spiritual path. These pre-incarnative choices are ways that you may see yourself in a manner that seems less appropriate or desirable than you would consciously wish.

However, as you have chosen the manner of seeing yourself in that way, you can look outward at those about you and see how they move in their spiritual journeys and be more accepting of them, for you know that they are exercising their free will and expressing the nature of the Creator in their own being in a unique fashion. It is often easier for the spiritual seeker of truth to accept another’s nature or way of traveling the spiritual path than it is to accept one’s own beingness and journey of seeing the evolution of your mind, your body, and your spirit.

Eventually, as you see what we might call the mirroring effect from those about you, showing you how they move forward in what seems to you to be an acceptable fashion, then you may be able to make progress in your own work in consciousness that sees you as acceptable, that sees you as being as they, traveling a path of reunification with the One Infinite Creator through the various incarnations you have had in this life and in the incarnation that now is the culmination of your previous incarnations; to further drive home, shall we say, the feeling and the acceptance of yourself as being one which is whole and complete, healed of any misperceptions that may be a path to forgiveness of self and acceptance of self.

The one known as G wonders why the bulk of its thoughts and concerns at this time revolve about the self and about personal relationships. And yet, we would say that in each entity’s life experience there is a constant and never-ending need for the processes of investigation into the nature of the self, and those relationships about one that have been so carefully chosen before times. In each life experience, no matter what the expectation has been beforehand of how enjoyable this experience would be, the illusion itself creates a most efficient feeling of being completely overwhelmed by the ocean of experience. The waves mount upon one another, seemingly often without rhyme or reason, and when one is washed up upon a shore in this archipelago, that shore may well be created from confusion and unanswered questions. We can only suggest to each of you that this is precisely the position in which you desired to be before incarnation. Carefully, studiously and with great love and compassion for the self, each of you planned this descent into seeming madness and chaos. Not to punish yourself, but to give yourself the opportunity to be lost within the body, the mind, and the experience of being fully vulnerable, fully blinded, fully submerged in this puzzle which is never fully worked but which cycles around so that once the puzzle is worked one way, the pieces are tossed into the air and come down to form a new pattern, a new maze, a new puzzle, in order that the incarnational lesson may be viewed once again, and then once again, and then yet again. Again, not to punish but to provide a continuing classroom in which the self begins to know the self, begins to know the mind and the heart of the self, begins at last to refine the self in the sense of coming to a new balance in that winding road of Love and Light. For balance there needs to be, and it has been your judgment before incarnation that just these lessons and just these relationships would give a rich and varied diet to the soul of choices to make, of puzzles to solve, of keys that unlock chosen doors within.

There is concern within the one known as G that there is a selfishness within that is causing too much the concern of the mind and the heart to rest within those knotty problems of self, and yet we would say that this is precisely that concern which needs to be upon the mind of the individual who is young in years, and, indeed, in a cyclical manner, this process of discovering the heart of self recurs regularly throughout the incarnation. There is no sense ever of being finished. That is a vain and shallow hope, that has nothing to do with the soul within. There is not a curriculum which one may learn and then be finished. Rather, there is an opportunity, for as long as the incarnation lasts, to place oneself in what this instrument would call the refining fire, to allow the soul to be distilled again and again in the distillery of incarnation so that each time the cycle moves in a round of catalyst, experience, and learning, the soul is more known to itself, more available to the conscious mind, more open and unafraid, more vulnerable to joy and sorrow, and more comfortable in the midst of suffering as well as in the midst of happy times.

Within this cycle of experience at the very center of self lies that same original Thought of Love which shines out of the night sky from each star. Each soul within incarnation is also a star. Each drowning in the sea of confusion is also a master. And yet the goal is not to remember the masterhood as much as to begin to sense the lack of necessity for understanding. The goal of this sea of confusion is to drive the attention at last from trust in the logic, and the sense of the mind and the intellect, into the heart, to release at last the demand that the life experience make any certain kind of sense, and the creation of that energy of fearlessness that is able at last to say that, “I know that I do not understand and yet, I know that I live in a world that makes complete sense. I know that I do not understand the plan, and yet I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a plan. I know that I shall never understand what I am doing but I have come to know that I cannot make a mistake.” Then, at last, the soul within is free to take that which this instrument calls the leap of faith, where the meaning and the sense of life, in the metaphysical way of looking at it, begins only when that leap into midair is taken. The demands of sense and logical neatness are abandoned in favor of the full confidence in the support that comes in midair.

Then Q’uo said that in each of our life experiences there is a constant need for us to investigate the nature of our self and our relationships that we have carefully chosen before this incarnation, and no matter what our expectation was before this incarnation of how enjoyable these relationships would be, the third-density illusion creates our feeling of being completely overwhelmed by the ocean of these experiences so that the waves mount one upon another, seemingly without any reason, and when we are washed up upon a shore on this island, it may be that shore was created from our confusion and unanswered questions. Q’uo went on to say that this is the position in which we hoped to be in because, with great compassion for ourself, we carefully planned our descent into seeming chaos before our incarnation, not to punish ourself, but to give ourself the opportunity to be lost within our body and mind, and the experience of being fully submerged in this puzzle which we never fully work but which cycles around so that once we work the puzzle one way, the pieces are tossed into the air and come down to form a new puzzle in order that our incarnational lesson may be viewed again and again. Q’uo continued by saying that this puzzle provides us a continuing classroom in which we begin to know our mind and heart, and finally we begin to refine ourself in the sense of coming to a new balance on the winding road of Love and Light, for we need to have balance, and it has been our decision before this incarnation that these lessons and these relationships would provide us a rich and varied diet for our soul with choices to make and with keys that unlock the doors within us. Now Q’uo said that the  process of discovering the heart of ourself recurs regularly throughout our incarnation with no sense of our ever being finished, for as long as our incarnation lasts there is an opportunity to place ourself in the refining fire to allow our soul to be distilled again and again in the distillery of our incarnation so that each time the cycle moves in a round of catalyst, experience, and learning, we know our soul better because it is more available to our conscious mind, more open and unafraid, more vulnerable to joy and sorrow. Q’uo said that in this third-density illusion there is at the center of ourself the original Thought of Love that shines through us like a star while we are drowning in the sea of confusion, and our goal is to move our attention from the intellect of our mind into the love of our heart so that we can say: “I know that I do not understand and yet, I know that I live in a world that makes complete sense. I know that I do not understand the plan, and yet I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a plan. I know that I shall never understand what I am doing but I have come to know that I cannot make a mistake.”Q’uo said that then our soul is free to take the leap of faith where the meaning and the sense of our life–that we see in a spiritual way–begins when we take that leap into midair, and we abandon all logical sense in favor of the full confidence in the support that comes to us in midair. On October 21, 2001, Q’uo described how taking the leap of faith can work for us:

Thus, when we speak of the leap of faith we speak specifically of leaping into a void, putting oneself in a situation where there is no control. But, indeed, the straightest road from fear to love is faith, the ability to move beyond the tangle in the stream of energy, back to the Source, and it is done not by moving to anything but only from the position of fear. The classic paralyzing Buddhist description of fear is a seeker hanging onto a rapidly decaying branch of a tree, on the side of a cliff, with a tiger above and a tiger below, and a chasm beneath. And the answer to that image is to let go of the branch, wave bye-bye to the tigers and welcome the abyss. There is, in faith, that realization that in no way, shape, or form can we know in a linear sense that all is well, or that all will be well. And yet that is what we claim. That is what we believe, and on that we base our security and our confidence.

Perhaps each of you has seen the cartoons where the coyote dashes off into midair, chasing the roadrunner. Finally, the coyote looks down and realizes that he has run out of cliff, and once he realizes that he is running only on air he sinks like a stone and plows into the ground below. This is the human condition, yet when it becomes possible for the spirit within to cease looking down, each will find that midair is a very firm support. It is written in your holy works that the one known as Jesus was walking upon the water, in the darkness of night in the Sea of Galilee, and when those who were within a boat saw this entity walking upon the water, one of those within the boat started out to join his beloved teacher, and he, too, was walking upon the water until he realized what it was he was doing, and when the conscious mind took over the faith was lost, and the one known as Jesus had to reach out his hand, and when those hands met, the one known as Peter was once again able to navigate the water, and was able to get back safely into his boat.

The daily life is much like this small fishing boat. It is apparent to the conscious mind what is needed. A support is needed so that one does not drown, and, yet, to the soul within, it is perfectly possible to walk upon the water, or, indeed, to move into the water and breathe the water as if it were air. For the soul within is a citizen of eternity and is not limited by those things which seem to limit that human body, which each of you now experiences life from within. To the outer mind, all is this detail and that; to the spirit within, it is a unified experience. Water flowing into air, flowing into stone, flowing into fire. All things transmuting and changing, yet remaining harmonious and connected in a way that is rhythmic and musical. There is a harmony and a dance that is hidden within the folds of the everyday.

The one known as Jim presumes that he is taking large machinery to the cutting of grass and yet, in the metaphysical sense, this entity is merging his energetic being with those spirits of grass, and bush, and tree, and breeze, and dancing with them in such a way that the environment is redolent with the odor of his energy, and the energy of the grass, and the energy of the air, all combining to create a pattern of love and joy. The one known as G has experienced the large machinery of forklift and the bulky boxes and loads which are moved back and forth endlessly in that which is called the warehouse and yet, in reality this entity too dances, in a dance with wood, and dust, and air, and light, in such a way that the atmosphere is forever changed in a harmonious and loving and joyful fashion. For there are no boundaries within the metaphysical world, and that which seems most humble and most usual from the outside in is in fact simply one more way to love, one more way to share the self. So that there is no work that is better than other work, there is no service that is more appropriate than another service, but, rather, there is only that moment in which all that is needed is there, and all that needs you is available for you to touch and bless by your being.

Howdoes one find this being within? Certainly, there are periods of time in which it is appropriate for the entity to be almost consumed with concerns about the self. This entity was speaking earlier of the concept of critical mass, and it is as though within the awakening being, there comes a time of critical mass when that which has been must be laid aside, and that which is to come must be taken up, and it is just such a season that this entity, the one known as G, is experiencing at this time, and, indeed, each of those present happens also to be experiencing a point within the cycle of the experience of learning, where there is the letting go of the old and the embracing, reluctantly or enthusiastically, of that which seems very new. Such times are times when one must move within, more than seems perhaps appropriate to one who wishes to serve others and yet, perhaps we can give you the model of the light bulb in which that light gives light to others only because it is appropriately connected to the source of power, and develops that power in such a way that the filament of that lighting mechanism is activated. An entity is not designed simply to serve others. There is an inner loop of service which is entirely appropriate, which needs to be not only created but maintained so that the filament of self within is whole, and perfect, and free of blockage that it may glow with the Love and the Light of the infinite Creator. No matter how much energy is developed and given out from such a Light, the Light itself needs to retain enough power that it may continue to serve as a light. This loop, shall we say, of power within, is fed by a self that sees the value and acknowledges the worthwhileness of that self within. Can each see that it is perfectly appropriate to retain some energy for the self? This instrument has often spoken of being transparent to the energy…

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…and yet until that instrument is properly empowered it cannot be a lighthouse; it cannot fulfill those services it has intended and for which it took breath.

The Love that lies within is waiting at all times and in all places and conditions. There is never a time when this Love is not resting quietly, glowing incandescently within the heart of self. The Love of the Creator dwells within the heart, and it is the self in its concerns that often lead one away from connecting with the self in the search outward for sources of Light and guidance elsewhere, and so we would complete the beginning part of this message by suggesting that for each entity there is a most congenial way to enter into the self through the use of silence and the resting in trust. It is as simple as releasing the breath and the energy of striving so that there is deep breathing in and out, that is not stressful but rather greedy for that life-giving fuel of air that fuels body and spirit. It is possible to breathe in peace and to breathe out stress, to breathe in light and to breathe out weariness. The key always for this kind of inner work is silence. We would encourage the one known as G to take deep breaths of that infinite Love and Light which are always flowing from the Source of all things in infinite supply. There is the desire to love, and yet love is already present. There is the desire to serve, and yet by the beauty of being, each already serves.

Now Q’uo said that Jesus was walking on the water in the Sea of Galilee and: “when those who were within a boat saw this entity walking upon the water, one of those within the boat started out to join his beloved teacher, and he, too, was walking upon the water until he realized what it was he was doing, and when the conscious mind took over the faith was lost, and the one known as Jesus had to reach out his hand, and when those hands met, the one known as Peter was once again able to navigate the water, and was able to get back safely into his boat.” Then Q’uo said that this is our human condition, yet when it becomes possible for our spirit within to stop looking down, we will find that midair is a very firm support. Q’uo went on to say that our conscious mind feels that it needs this support to keep from drowning, yet to our soul it is possible for us to walk upon the water or to breathe the water as if it were air because our soul is a citizen of eternity and does not have the limits of our human body in which we experience our life. Q’uo continued by saying that as I had begun my lawn service work that I was merging my energetic being with the spirits of grass, bush, and tree, and I was dancing with them in a way that the environment was full of my energy, and the energy of the grass, and the energy of the air which created a pattern of love and joy, and G did the same thing working with his forklift. Then Q’uo said that: “there are no boundaries within the metaphysical world, and that which seems most humble and most usual from the outside in is in fact simply one more way to love, one more way to share the self. So that there is no work that is better than other work, there is no service that is more appropriate than another service, but, rather, there is only that moment in which all that is needed is there, and all that needs you is available for you to touch and bless by your being.” Now Q’uo said that in order to find this being within us we must become aware that a time of change will come when that which is old must be laid aside, and that transformation which is to come must be taken up, and it is just such a time of change that the one known as G was experiencing at this time, and that we are not created just to serve others because there is an inner loop of service for our self which is appropriate, which we need to create and maintain so that the nature of ourself within is free of blockage so that it may glow with the Love and the Light of the infinite Creator. Q’uo went on to say that no matter how much energy we have developed and given out from such a Light, the Light itself needs to retain enough power that we may continue to serve as a lighthouse because this loop of power within us is fed by our seeing the value of that self that is within us, and until we are properly empowered we cannot be a lighthouse or fulfill those services that we intended before we incarnated. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that the Love of the Creator always dwells within our heart, and it is the concerns of ourself that often lead us away from connecting with ourself in our search for sources of Light and guidance, so Q’uo suggested that for each of us there is a loving way to enter into ourself through the use of silent meditation to breathe in peace and to breathe out stress, to breathe in light and to breathe out weariness, and to: “take deep breaths of that infinite Love and Light which are always flowing from the Source of all things in infinite supply. There is the desire to love, and yet love is already present. There is the desire to serve, and yet by the beauty of being, each already serves.” On September 21, 1986, Hatonn spoke of the value of silent meditation in helping us to share the Love of the Creator:

We do suggest that you attempt to spend some minutes of your time each day in meditation. No matter what else you may do during the day, the silent meditation is the most efficient tool for seating within you the awareness of the Love of the Creator. When you dwell within that consciousness, you are no longer working under your power, a power which fails much like batteries fail and which must be replaced by your sleeping periods. No, meditation is much like finding the electrical cord for constant power. It may flow through you, then, and not from you, and you will be far more radiant and able to dwell in the consciousness of the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator.

We would at this time transfer this contact to the one known as Jim in order that the one known as G may ask any further questions that it wishes to ask at this time. We thank this instrument for its service and would leave this instrument in love and in light and transfer this contact at this time. We are those known to you as Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time, it is our privilege to offer ourselves in an attempt to speak to any further shorter queries which the one known as G may have for us. Is there another query at this time?

G: Yes, there is. For several years now I have been unbearably fatigued. Some days I can literally feel my vitality being sucked from me. I can’t find that life force and I’ve recently begun to suspect an infection called candidiasis. Can you tell me the cause of this fatigue or a measure that I can take to alleviate myself of this condition and ways that I can find that vital energy within?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We find that there is some information which we may share without infringement upon free will. However, there is the boundary of infringement which we must serve, for there is catalyst here that is of use in the spiritual growth of your being at this time.

The viewpoint of the self standing upon a prominent precipice and making the self ready to take a leap of faith into that which is your destiny is the basic situation with which you deal. There is the eagerness and the anticipation of the adventure that awaits, for it is that soul’s destiny which you have created before this incarnation as the pattern for the incarnation which you feel is now ready to unfurl before you, as the marker, the guidepost, the beginning of the great work. The dual feeling of anticipation and weariness is not so surprising when one considers the nature of spiritual paradox. Knowing beforehand that there is a great work to accomplish and yet seeing this work within the eyes of the work-a-day world, the illusion of this density, and translating the amount of work that lies ahead into the ordinary terms causes one to feel a great burden, a great weight upon the soul, and this expresses itself in various ways in the physical vehicle, in the emotional vehicle, in the mental vehicle, and to a lesser extent within the spiritual vehicle as well.

If you choose to see this configuration of energy within your being at this time as this or that disease, and determine that you shall treat the disease, even in a superficial sense, as well as other levels of interpretation and application of remedy, then it is well to do so and to use the various healing modalities available to you as means by which you shall clear a path for full energy flow through your vehicle.

Thus, this particular catalyst can be used at any or all of the levels previously mentioned to enhance the personal understanding of your need to make a choice, to take a leap, to begin a journey, and to be of service in every manner possible for you, and to learn that which is yours to learn, to give and to receive the love that you feel is within your being awaiting release. It is a choice which you may make upon various levels, and it is the key to beginning a great work for you.

Is there a further query, my brother?

G: Yes, I have had many recurring dreams of being in school, of missing homework, not showing up to class, missing deadlines… also dreams of playing in the school band that I was in and having difficulty playing basic songs. Can you give me any insight into what these dreams are trying to tell me? What am I missing?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We would again refer you to the beginning of our previous response in which we suggest that it was a matter of a point of view. This point of view in this instance being that opinion of yourself and how you feel that you have responded in your past to various opportunities and challenges that have been significant for you in your own growth in this illusion and within your own spiritual journey as well. It is a point of view which may be enhanced by seeing the self as the Creator, as a co-Creator of all that you experience in your incarnation.

Is there a further query, my brother?

G: Yes, by definition of being a spiritual outsider I am a wanderer. I was wondering if you can answer me whether my spirit is native to this planet or not?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother, and can respond in this case with the suggestion that you are of another planetary origin, of another density of origin, indeed, that which has been called a wanderer by those in this group, who has a mission to accomplish upon this planetary sphere, and who now seeks the nature and the heart of that mission.

Is there a further query, my brother?

G: Yes, I haven’t experienced a loving relationship with a female in quite some time now and was wondering if I am, I don’t know, meant to have one and where… is… she out there, is that person, if there is such a thing, out there for me? Will I experience something like that?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. Ahh, this one wants dessert before the main course. There is a great deal of work, my brother, that lies before you before, indeed, you find this friend upon your journey, for those of the nature of the wanderer are quite often solitary for a certain period of time, during which they find the heart of the journey, the road upon which they wish to travel. When the feet are firmly set upon this road then perhaps one day you shall notice another set walking closely beside you.

Is there another query, my brother?

G: Yes, if you need a description, I will give you description but I’m sure you can read my mind in a sense. What did I experience the night of June 11th at two a.m. in the morning?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We are not usually of the disposition to speak to that which has not been spoken, yet, clearly in this instance we can suggest that this was an indicator, an initiatory experience that will find further repetition and permutation within the life pattern in the days to come.

Is there another query, my brother?

G: Thank you for offering me all these chances to ask my questions. When I am able to meditate, when I’m not very tired, I feel as if I am on one side of my head or my energies somehow are distorted. I’m angled. I’m twisted. Can you offer me some sort of explanation as to what is happening? What this is?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. As your inner sensitivities become more sensitized to the experience of a metaphysical nature which is being born within you, these sensory perceptions of an inner nature will begin to be aware of the flow, or the blockage of the finer energies as they move through your chakra system. Indeed, as you feel that you feel you are distorted in one direction or another, this is a fairly accurate perception of how energies currently are configured within your metaphysical or time/space being. These energies are those with which you begin to work now as you seek the heart of your journey. The opportunity to balance them shall come to you in each daily round of activities as you are given the opportunity to express various levels of response to the catalyst that awakens these configurations. Thus, we recommend patience and persistence in working with that which is given to you each day.

Is there final query, my brother?

G: In my mother’s—if this isn’t too long to answer—on my mother’s side of my family there’s been a big family blow-out, and my mother doesn’t speak to her six brothers or sisters, and I’ve tried to find ways to mend fences and have not accomplished that. I know  . . .  I guess anything can be healed, and the possibilities are infinite, but do you see it being probable that healing can take place within that family, within that situation, and, if so, can I do anything?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. Indeed, there is always the possibility of healing, yet the desire to do so being absent in this case from many of those who are involved in the loss and seeking for love, there may yet need to be a time for the inner reflection, even upon the subconscious level, of some of these with whom you are closely aligned, and your part in this process may simply be to offer yourself as you are, to be spontaneous within the moment, guided by love and offering that which you feel, without dedication to any particular outcome. In other words, shining the light of your love as best you can and letting what comes of it be as it is. Perfect in it’s own balance, though mysterious in it’s manifestation.

At this time we would thank each present for making those sacrifices necessary to join this circle of seeking and for inviting our presence within your seeking this day. We are always most grateful to join you here, upon that dusty path which each pilgrim seeker of truth travels within the great density of choice that is yours at this time. We would remind each that we are but your brothers and sisters, who seek perhaps a bit further upon this same path, and who offer our opinions to you as those who have experienced what you now experience and who wish to be of service to you. Take those words and thoughts of ours which ring of truth, and leave all else behind which does not ring of that truth for you, for we would not be stumbling blocks upon your path. Realize that each step you take is perfectly planned, if not upon this level of experience, then upon that pre-incarnational level which anticipated the great range of experience that would be yours within this illusion, that you have within you each capability of meeting each catalyst with a successful processing and ability to blend those lessons to the great tapestry of your life experience. Know that others of an unseen nature walk with you to help, to guide, to teach. And finally, we would recommend that each give praise and thanksgiving to the one Creator each day for all experience, whether understood, confused or distraught. For all is a great opportunity to learn the heart of love.

We are known to you as those of Q’uo. At this time we shall take our leave of this instrument and this group. We leave you each in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I went over to my neighbor’s yard across the street and filled her two bird feeders with birdseed.

This afternoon I went outside and shoveled the snow off of the sidewalk in the front of the house to the driveway. Then I shoveled some of the snow out of the drainage ditch which the guys put there yesterday when they were clearing the snow from my two parking areas in front of my home and the driveway. Then I used a wet mop to remove some of the rock salt residue from the front porch and within the office and my bedroom.

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

January 15

The Perception Of Manyness

I am the spirit of Jesus Christ, the principle of the full consciousness of Love in the vibration which comforts this instrument.

In your minds you know that all things come from one Source and go to one Source. And yet in your hearts you who peer into the gloom of the shadows of the world’s day perceive often that many things come not from one Source but from many, and likewise that the fruits of action are scattered to the twelve directions, not moving once again into unity but shattering again and again into the chaos of unintended effect.

Yet we say to you that one of the great and overriding benefits of consciousness with which the consciousness of Love has been intermingled is a realization of the incorrectness of the perception of manyness, either of the source or of the final disposition of the energies which move within your notice and awareness.

Seek first to know the consciousness of Love when you wish, secondly, to know the nature of those things which occur to you which are played out in front of you and which depart from you. Only in that transformed consciousness shall your eyes see truly and your heart resound with the unity of Love.

Peace be with 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from May 19, 2002:

Our question today is sort of two-pronged. The first part has to do with the energies, the spiritual vibrations, of the evolution of the planet, its population, and each of us individually as well. Some people spoke of being able to feel these vibrations more intensively now, and we are wondering if you could describe these vibrations to us, their nature, and how we could work more harmoniously with them so that they are not so overwhelming. The second part of the question was: when you speak to groups like ours, could you give an indication of how it is you feel when you have been successful? What are the usual needs of the group and what are the services that you provide to meet those needs?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we are. We thank each of you for being part of this circle of seeking. It is a true blessing to us to be able to be called to your group and to share in your meditation and the beauty of your energies. It is a unique pleasure, different each time, as each of you has come to a different place in your seeking and in your process, and each shows us new colors and tones of colors each time that we meet. We also greet those who have not been to our group before. Each is most appreciated. The time that you have found for the seeking creates the opportunity for us to serve, and we are most thankful. We ask only that you listen to our words with discrimination, taking only that which seems good to you and leaving the rest behind. This enables us to share without being concerned that we will infringe upon your free will.

Your query this day is most interesting, covering as it does two seemingly disparate subjects: that of the energies that are transforming your planet and that of the way that we serve and the kind of results that we hope for. Let us begin by becoming more aware of the energy that each of you sits with, as if you were the center of an energy nexus, which, indeed, you are. Feel that feeling of being the self, the energies of essence, those energies that are so familiar and so near and at the same time perhaps often unthought-of, as though because they do not show, because they do not have substance within the physical world, they are left somewhat neglected. Relax all of those tensions that are confining or narrowing your energy stream and come into the full feeling of yourself. For each of you is a spark of the Creator. Through each of you the universe has its being. That consciousness which you carry is the heart of yourself and is infinitely precious.

Now we would ask you to become aware of the energy of others within this circle of seeking. Feel that entity upon your right and that entity upon your left. Begin to sense the link between each, the overriding unity of identity between you and those within the circle with you. Allow that sensation of shared aura to begin to rotate in a clockwise manner about the circle. What color is that light? It will be somewhat different for each as each views from a unique point of view. To some it may be white. To some it may be golden. To some it may be violet. Whatever your perception, for you it is an accurate and helpful one. It is your subconscious way of describing to yourself, for yourself, this sensed energy.

Now we would ask you to become aware, if you will, of our energy, as a kind of engirding support to your meditation. It is as if we are a carrier wave that enables your meditation to be somewhat more sturdy and more stable.

Now we would ask you to open up your senses and become aware of the energies of the earth under your feet, the sky, the air, the wind above this roof, the warmth of the sun, the motion of the planet, and the energies of the planet and stone, sea, and river, plants and animals. As your heart beats, so the rhythm of the earth itself is affected. As the tides turn, so the beating of your heart is affected. Each of you has ripples of effect upon each other. Each whom you meet ripples out and affects you by the wake of energy that each brings and shares.

This is the world of your energetic body. This is the world of an incredible variety of beings that live within the inner planes of your planet, many teachers and many healers, many wise entities, and certainly many beings of mischief and fun as well as those darker entities that would delight in feeding upon the darker emotions that you may offer: pain and fear, the suffering. It is a rich and challenging atmosphere, the atmosphere of this energetic being that you are. It makes the world of physical reality very simplistic and almost like a comic book. For the strokes are broad and not as subtle as the gentle and infinitely moving and flowing waves of the energy that you are.

At this time among your people and, as the one known as D says, for some time before this, the energy upon your planet has been transformed as the Earth mother of your planet itself moves inexorably to and through the process of giving birth to fourth density. The change within your planetary energy grid is remarkable. Indeed, there is a new grid which this particular instrument tends to call the Christ grid, but which may be seen in general to be a pattern of energy nexi which surround the planet like a net, we would say a net of Love, a net that is made of fourth-density Light. It is woven with golden strands offered by each of you and offered by many, many entities within the inner planes of your planet as well. There are many beings who have dedicated themselves at this time within the inner planes to the ceaseless task of offering thanks and praise as they move along these lines of energy, and connect one point to another with strand after strand of coherent Light which is that stream which is created when each of you prays, meditates, or opens the heart in any way.

This transformational Light is profoundly different from that light which you have been processing through your physical body and the finer bodies of your energy system in previous years. Its energy is of an entirely transformed nature, and may we say that this energy is oftentimes that which creates some discomfort for those who have become aware of it and who have begun to respond to it. In any change there is discomfort, even in the happiest of changes such as in the occasion of marriage or upon the occasion of birth, and in a way, there is both a birth and a marriage taking place at this time.

The first group question for this session was: “The first part has to do with the energies, the spiritual vibrations, of the evolution of the planet, its population, and each of us individually as well. Some people spoke of being able to feel these vibrations more intensively now, and we are wondering if you could describe these vibrations to us, their nature, and how we could work more harmoniously with them so that they are not so overwhelming.” Q’uo began their reply by saying that each of us is a nexus of energy which we can feel as the energies of our essence that are within us, but we seldom think of them because they don’t have a physical substance, so we should relax our tensions that are narrowing our energy stream because we are a portion of the Creator, and through each of us the universe has its being, and our consciousness is the heart of ourself and is infinitely precious. Then Q’uo asked us to feel the energies of the entities on our left and right so that we could feel the connection between us, and then they said that we should let our auras rotate clockwise and try to discover if they are white, golden, or violet as this is the way that our subconscious describes these energies. Then Q’uo said: “we would ask you to become aware, if you will, of our energy, as a kind of engirding support to your meditation. It is as if we are a carrier wave that enables your meditation to be somewhat more sturdy and more stable.” Now Q’uo asked us to open up our energies to the world around us and then realize that each of us has the effect of being ripples of energy by the kind of energy that we share with each other. Q’uo went on to say that this is the world of our energetic body that contains an incredible variety of beings that live within the inner planes of our planet: many teachers, healers, and darker entities that would delight in feeding upon the darker emotions that we may offer of pain and fear, all of which creates a rich and challenging atmosphere of the energetic being that we are, and it makes the world of physical reality very simplistic because the strokes are broad and not as subtle as the gentle and infinitely moving and flowing waves of the energy that we are. Q’uo continued by saying that the energy upon our planet has been transformed as our Mother Earth moves through the process of giving birth to the fourth density which has created a new grid of energy which Carla called the Christ grid. Then Q’uo said that this grid  may be seen to be a pattern of energy nexi which surrounds our planet like a net of Love that is made of fourth-density Light which is created by each of us as well as many entities within the inner planes who offer praise and thanksgiving as they connect strand after strand of Light which is that stream which is created when each of us prays, meditates, or opens our heart in any way. And then Q’uo said: “This transformational Light is profoundly different from that light which you have been processing through your physical body and the finer bodies of your energy system in previous years. Its energy is of an entirely transformed nature, and may we say that this energy is oftentimes that which creates some discomfort for those who have become aware of it and who have begun to respond to it. In any change there is discomfort, even in the happiest of changes such as in the occasion of marriage or upon the occasion of birth, and in a way, there is both a birth and a marriage taking place at this time.” On August 21, 2005, Q’uo spoke of this net of Love surrounding our planet:

There is no need to break structures in order to create new ones for the simple reason that you are not attempting to fix third-density planet Earth when you work upon the grid of fourth density. You are simply joining angelic forces that have already been weaving golden threads into a net of Love and Light about your planet at this time.

This instrument has often seen the angels with their golden threads blending more and more substance as they ply their needles to intensify and strengthen the web of Love. This is an image you are welcome to use. It is a true one. There are many ways to visualize turning your attention and your love to the cause of Gaia. You may visualize color, and many have seen a violet color as the best way to strengthen the web of Love. Others have seen golden Light itself as a means of focusing your own love and pointing your attention.

Whatever image or icon serves you, that is what we encourage you to use. For you are truly unique, an individual who is not built like any other entity in the universe. May we say that absolutely each and every one of you is essential in this work, for each of you is unique, and your contribution cannot be replicated. Trust that uniqueness, and do not try to copy someone else, but go with your own feelings, your own resonance, and your own heart in doing the work that you came to do.

The birth is that of the planet beneath your feet, and the marriage is that between the self and the fourth-density portion of yourself which you have brought within you into this incarnation to be activated by this Light at this time. It is a marriage of self with a higher aspect of self. And yet this new aspect of self is a stranger, a new portion of the self that has yet to be fully recognized. Under the influence of this Light, at the cellular level, your genetic structure is being offered the opportunity to become more organized. This instrument’s scientific knowledge is slim, but we find within her mind the concept of DNA, and we say that at this time, each of you is capable of creating new strands of DNA which allow a far more open door between the contents of the conscious mind and the treasures of the subconscious mind.

Many of you, perhaps, are experiencing various aspects of your subconscious at this time flowing far more freely into physical awareness. This can have very discomfiting effects at different times. It depends entirely upon the amount of attention that you are paying and the growing ability that each has to see through the circumstances of your daily life into its essence. Some of you have been speaking of experiencing various symptoms, and this is to be expected. This is a typical response to new vibrational levels and, indeed, it does create a sense of great intensity from time to time in most awakening entities.

Is this a blessing? We feel certainly that it is. We feel that it is a very helpful and powerful time for each of you. It is as though you are rediscovering an aspect of yourself that we would call mastership or priesthood. For within this new vibration, it is possible to sense yourself as a spiritual being entirely, a creature of spirit, a minister of Love and Light. Within this very exciting time among your people, our hope is to assist in opening the awareness of those who seek to do so. The one known as S was asking what sort of service we provide and what the results are. The service that we provide through this instrument is linear, and yet we find that when we speak these poor words of language through instruments such as this one, we are able to use the coloration and timbre of that instrument’s emotions and personality to enhance and to stain our very simple message of Love and Light with the colors of individual personality, incarnation, and point of view. We must blend with the energies of instruments such as this one. We find it a most interesting and creative way to work with those concepts that fit so poorly into the shape of human language and yet explode with meaning when allowed to rest in the space between the words.

In the next density you will be able to open that telepathic sense that eludes you most of the time within this density, and you will grasp the poverty of language compared to the richness of concept communication, for words are a filter to the wholeness of truth, straining out many things in order to say one. Perhaps our most fundamental service, as we perceive it, is in bringing to people, in groups such as this and as they ask individually, an experience of unconditional Love. We do come to you in Love. We come to you in radiant Light. We float upon the wings of utmost purity and meaning that we know. We hope to blend with each of you in such a way as to enhance your own sense of joy, and peace, and balance. We open our arms and embrace you. We love so much. Each of you is a master who has not yet become fully aware of that. This instrument was speaking earlier about how foolish she felt. We find that this is the human experience in cameo, that feeling of being inadequate to the moment, of being imperfect and one step behind. Of not being the one who has a clever word, but the one who stands in silence thinking seriously of something clever to say.

How true it is that each of you suffers within this illusion of life on Earth, each in a very unique and personal way. Not all entities experience the same thing, but each has its patterns of light and dark. Each has its travails and sorrows and its joys. Each has those shining moments and those moments of bleak despair. Our hope in this work is to enter into relationship with those who ask for communion and companionship in such a way that there is an enhanced sense of the reality and sturdiness of Love within your being, within your life experience, and in the very air around you. We would like to create for each a more substantial bubble of fourth density that you may walk within as you go about your business upon planet Earth.

Oftentimes we work on the individual level to join a meditation. When entities do not meditate or ask for us on the conscious level, but are calling for comfort upon the unconscious level, then it is that we work with dreams in order to create within the dream state that comfort and safety that oftentimes is missing in the life of those who wish to serve the Light. It is a peculiarity of the spiritual path that it at once brings all entities together and isolates each within its own process. We hope to be a healing influence for those who sense themselves as being isolated and stuck in lack of communication and lack of companionship.

For those who, like this instrument was saying earlier, are attempting to pray on the run we simply attempt to act as a carrier wave beneath the chores of everyday. Our advantage is that we are very used to working with the energy bodies. It is our version of a physical body. As beings of energy, in a far more conscious manner than each of you, we are somewhat more able to facilitate the blending of energies.

Then Q’uo said that the birth at this time is that of the planet beneath our feet, and the marriage is that between ourself and the fourth-density portion of ourself which we have brought with us into this incarnation to be activated by the Light at this time, and each of us is capable of creating new strands of DNA which allow a far more open door between the contents of our conscious mind and the treasures of our subconscious mind. Q’uo went on to say that as we become consciously aware of various aspects of our subconscious mind that we may experience difficulties that are typical for awakening entities, and Q’uo felt that this was a blessing because we are rediscovering an aspect of ourself that they called our becoming a priest, and within this new vibration it is possible for us to sense ourself as a spiritual being, a creature of spirit, and a minister of Love and Light. And then Q’uo spoke to the second question as to their service to this group that was linear in the use of the poor words of our language that they spoke through Carla, and which they infused with the coloration and quality of Carla’s emotions to enhance their simple message of Love and Light, and yet this caused an explosion of the meaning of the words when allowed to rest in the space between the words. Q’uo went on to say that in the fourth density we would enhance our ability to communicate by communicating concepts telepathically rather than using only words which are filters that reduce the full meaning of our communication. Then Q’uo said that their basic service to groups such as this one was to bring us an experience of unconditional Love and radiant Light, and they hoped to blend with each of us in such a way as to enhance our own sense of joy, peace, and balance, and they embraced us in love because each of us was a master who has not yet become fully aware of that.  Q’uo continued by saying that we all have our joys and sorrows in the third density, and it was their desire to enter into relationships with us when we ask for communication and companionship in a way that we can feel an enhanced sense of the reality and sturdiness of Love within our being and our life experience, and they wanted to create for each of us a more substantial bubble of fourth density that we may walk within as we go about our business upon planet Earth. Now Q’uo said that other services that they offered us was to join us in meditation or to give us dreams that would help us to feel comfort and safety because it is the nature of our being awakened spiritual seekers that we will feel isolated on our paths, and they wanted to be a healing influence for us by blending their energy bodies with our energy bodies. On November 21, 2005, Q’uo defined the nature and purpose of our energy bodies:

It will seem to be an increasingly logical response to the news of the day to experience fear. When these natural feelings of fear arise, we would ask you to remember that you are the Light of the world. Each of you, by your very nature, is a crystal that receives, transmits and transmutes energy. That energy is the infinite Love and Light of the one Creator, which streams in infinite supply from the heart of the planet itself into the energy bodies of each of you and out through the crowns of your head, where you function just as does a pyramid. The energy that you create, bless and give to the Creator by keeping your heart open and your love and faith strong winds itself into a golden net that surrounds the planet with Love.

Angels guard this work and join you in weaving this net of Love. This works by blending third-density energies with the fourth density that is birthing at this time. We thank each of you for creating within yourself the capacity for increased faith. We ask you to attempt, in each moment where fear might be a logical reaction, to move into your heart, and find that place of faith in which you know that whether you are in life or in death, the Creator is living through you, and you are the Creator or part of the creative principle within flesh. You are not an entity that shall be stopped by death in any way.

It is as though we come to encourage and support each of you and then call you forth, as the spirit and spiritual energies always do, to minister to each other. For in truth there is nothing that we do that you cannot do as well. It is a matter of experience on a conscious level versus inexperience on a conscious level. However, beneath the threshold of consciousness we are completely and utterly equal and that which you know within yourself is precisely as full and whole a knowledge as that which we hold and know.

Our results are, in the sense of feeling that we have been effective, enormously uneven, and we are quite content with this apparent variation in success. It is not a matter of filling a specific quota or creating a specific result. For us it is a matter of finding ways to communicate within your density that do enhance, but do not infringe upon, the identity, the wholeness, or the integrity of each of you. If we could give you a feeling of how we see you, it is as entities of enormous courage, sacrifice, and beauty. Each of you, in choosing to come into incarnation, did, indeed, take a chance in terms of the sacrifice of comfort. For within the spirit world, there is that lack of a veil between the self and the glory of all that is. Wordsworth once wrote in a poem that infants come into this world trailing clouds of glory. Glory is a much-underused word in that there truly is a glory to the present moment, there truly is a glory to the universe, and there truly is a glory to thank the Creator for. One has only to gaze into the creations of the Father to become aware in a deep and an intimate way what glory is there, the blooms of the iris and the coral bell, the shoots of the tree that are fully green. This burgeoning and swelling time of spring among your people is truly bursting with glory from every hedgerow and every roadside.

Yet, there is always that glory within, there is always that urge to seek for the Shangri-la, the place of perfect meditation, the place of great power that somehow will assist in bringing those powers to a place where they can be used. And we say to you that it is your divine self that contains the power that you seek. Certainly, one can feel the strength of places of power, and yet we suggest to you that as the planet itself evolves, those places of power move around. Also, as the fourth-density energy takes hold and becomes stronger, each of you will become more and more aware of yourselves as places of power, people of power.

How much you did give up when you gave up the knowledge of who you are, of the tremendous experience that has been your palette upon which you have drawn to create this particular lifetime! There is within each a watchtower. In this watchtower, there is a Light. When you turn on this Light you are as a lighthouse that beckons the weary sailor home from the sea, that warns of rocks and shoals so that the boats may come in and land safely.

We call you masters and then, perhaps, your question is, “What shall we do with this mastership?” And we say to you that you came here to be healers of one kind or another, but not in the old sense of the healing arts, such as doctors and nurses, for each has the capacity to heal in his own way, some of you by the things that you say, some of you by those whom you attend and take care of, some of you by the sharing of the energies, some in the more specific ways of healing nature, in the laying on of hands and body work.

The difficult thing to express to you is the healing nature of many things that do not appear, within your culture or your experience, to be those things that have a profoundly healing influence. Yet those that clean their house with a certain kind of love and blessing are creating a healing space and claiming that space as sacred. When one is scrubbing a toilet, one does not particularly think that one is healing, and yet you are creating an atmosphere for yourself of cleanliness and beauty, taking care of, loving, and nurturing your environment. This too is a healing, the cooking of food, the paying of bills, all of these very mundane things that this entity was speaking of earlier as her “Quick Books week.” All the ledgers and columns and figures are not abandoned to ugliness, but yet contain beauty also, contain sacredness also, when they are approached with love, when they are approached as honored and respected activities within the life, they too become lessons and create blessings. Most of all they come to invite you to a fuller life, to an expanding and enhanced life. And we hope to help in your stability as you open like a flower.

Now Q’uo said that they come here to our channeling circles to encourage and support us so that we can minister to each other, and they said that within the subconscious mind that we knew as much as they did, and they were looking for ways to communicate with us that would enhance our identity and integrity without infringing upon our free will because they saw us as beings of great courage and beauty, and they said that each of us sacrificed a great deal of comfort when we decided to come into incarnation. Q’uo went on to say that within the spirit world we don’t have a veil between our self and the glory of all that there is, and they said that glory is a word that is not often used when we realize that glory is in every present moment; that there is glory throughout the universe; and there is glory to thank the Creator for all of the blooms and greenery along every road and hillside. Q’uo continued by saying that it is our divine self that seeks places of power, and the perfect meditative state will bring us this power, and as we move into the fourth-density energy each of us will become aware of ourselves as places and people of power. Then Q’uo asked: “How much you did give up when you gave up the knowledge of who you are, of the tremendous experience that has been your palette upon which you have drawn to create this particular lifetime! There is within each a watchtower. In this watchtower, there is a Light. When you turn on this Light you are as a lighthouse that beckons the weary sailor home from the sea, that warns of rocks and shoals so that the boats may come in and land safely.” Then Q’uo said that we are masters who have incarnated to serve as healers but not in the normal way as doctors and nurses but each in our own way as what we say, who we take care of, or by the sharing of our energy by the laying on of hands. Q’uo completed their reply by saying that even our most mundane of actions will be healing such as: cleaning our house, paying the bills, cooking, or tending our gardens, and when we do them with love they become sacred, and when they are honored and respected activities within our life, they also become lessons and create blessings, but they also give us the opportunity to expand and enhance our life. On April 19, 2009, Q’uo spoke of how we all are a lighthouse:

For every gift that you have shall come into play, on one level or another, as you meet the challenges you have given yourself in order to refine the ore of your beingness, to uncover from the soil of self the gems within and humbly to hold them up to the Light that they may refract and make the most intense and true colors as they flash in the Light of the one infinite Creator so that you become not only a lighthouse to many, but a certain kind of lighthouse. For your colors shall color the infinite Light and Love of the one Creator. And those about you shall be bathed with infinitely beautiful Light, as the colors enhance the sunlight in a stained-glass window.

Therefore, in your beingness, be aware that you are allowing the Light to shine through you. You are holding up to that Light any gifts that you may perceive that you have and asking that the Light may shine through them, that your personality may be transparent to that Light so that there is no soil of self obstructing your gifts. This is your gift to the world as well as your gift to yourself. At the level of work in consciousness, the two are congruent. If you have created less distortion in your own balance, you have created less distortion in the planetary balance. If you have found ways to get out of your own way and become an instrument tuned to the wind of Spirit, you have tuned the planet to the wind of Spirit, and it shall sing a cleaner and clearer more beautiful song because of your work.

We would at this time transfer this contact to the one known as Jim. Ask any questions that remain within the group before we adjourn. We thank this instrument and leave it in love and light. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each in love and light through this instrument. It is our privilege at this time to ask if there are any further queries to which we may speak. Is there another query at this time?

S: Well, I’ll start out. I have one of major universal import. War Emblem won the Preakness and the Derby. Is he going to win the Belmont?,

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my brother. We have but a small idea as to the outcome of such events, for we do not move along those lines of investigation that would require that we invest a great deal of our energies in such endeavors. The kind of contacts that we are able to enjoy, given our origin outside of your planetary system, is that which we enjoy at the present moment, the mind-to-mind contact that has as its focus the nature of the spiritual journey and how it is accomplished through the daily round of activities. We are sure that there are sources more formidable than ours that may offer an opinion upon this topic.

Is there another query at this time?

S: No, not from me, I was just yanking your chain.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you my brother. Is there another query at this time?

T: Yes, I have a question. My son is going through quite an emotional ordeal with his job, and he is going to be a new father. I am trying to advise and help him, but there is only so much that each person can do. Each person has to push their own load. It all boils down to trying to advise someone about their spirituality, whether they name it as such or not. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can aid a person who is going through a pretty hard time?

I am Q’uo, and we must pause briefly so that this instrument be allowed to work the recording devices. We are Q’uo.

[Tape change.]

I am Q’uo, and am once again with this instrument. We apologize for the delay and appreciate your patience. It is the desire of many seekers such as yourself, my brother, to be of service to those who are in a kind of distress, as you might call it, needing that which they do not know, seeking in a general fashion that which specifically speaks to the spirit. As you seek to be of service to such entities, our only recommendation is to speak those words from your heart which are appropriate for the moment. Each moment is different, each entity is different. Thus, there is great room for individual expression in the sharing of that which you have to offer. As you are the same as they, your opinions may be weighed in an evenhanded manner, shall we say, there being no great reason why any entity should listen to or follow your advice. You are free to speak as you will. We have oftentimes recommended that it is well to put oneself in another’s place mentally before attempting to serve that entity, in order that you may achieve a certain amount of appreciation of what the entity whom you wish to aid experiences in its personal life. We would recommend this once more, as you seek to apprehend the qualities, the energies, and the opportunities that are making themselves available to such an entity in order that this entity may take the next step upon its own personal journey.

Is there a further query, my brother?

T: Yes, just a little follow up. There are lots of times that I feel that I know what to say to a person like that, my son or whoever. Sometimes I want to leap ahead and say this is something that he or she would want to hear. What I hear you saying is; speak from your heart; speak the truth, and if that person doesn’t like it, then that is probably catalyst for them to move ahead. Anyway, is that correct, just to speak the truth and whatever happens will happen?

I am Q’uo, and we agree with your estimation of the message that we were attempting to deliver. We find that you have spoken with eloquence and have spoken to the point.

Is there a further query, my brother?

T: No, not from me, thank you.

I am Q’uo, and again we thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: I just want to thank you, the vibrations were beautiful.

I am Q’uo, and we are most grateful to you as well, my sister, for each in this group has provided us with the vibrations of love and compassion which make it possible for us to blend our energies with those of your group. We are most appreciative of the effort that each entity has made in order to be here this day and to share those vibrations that are from the heart.

Is there another query at this time?

[No further queries.]

I am Q’uo, and it appears that we have exhausted the queries for the nonce. We shall again thank each for inviting our presence on this day in your circle of seeking and we shall at this time take our leave of this instrument and this group. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. We leave each in the love and the ineffable light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends.

This morning I ran some errands with my first stop being at Feeder’s Supply to buy some cat food for Bosco. My second stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market to buy some food for myself. My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store to pick up a prescription for myself and some non-food items.

This afternoon I struggled to get the totally full garbage can out to the street, to be picked up early tomorrow morning, because I had to drag it through some of the deep snow that we got last week.

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

January 13

Prepare A Way For Light

We are of the principle of divine Love and we greet you in the Love of Jesus the Christ.

My children, it may seem to you that the road ahead this day contains within it a situation which calls upon the very greatest that is within you. For there is within your life a personal situation which seems resistant to prayer and outside the realm of the Holy Spirit.

Yet we say to you in the name of Love that it is you who may make the difference this day for that person, for that situation. For when you behold a person in conflict and despair and lost from the Light and the peace of God, you behold someone who has within the mind the picture that is jarring and painted in such a way as to disturb.

Let the spirit fill your mind with a positive and beautiful picture for that person and for that situation. It is not a difficult thing to do, for it is not done within yourself but by calling upon the Spirit of Love to illuminate and lighten the darkness of confusion and human concern.

It is said, “Let your light shine.” Know you that it is necessary only to prepare a way for the Light of the perfect Love of Jesus the Christ to shine through you and all situations, all entities, may be bathed in that Love as you pray to be a channel for Love this day.

We leave you in the utter peace of the 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo channeling comes from May 16, 2002:

Q’uo, this is a question for T1. The question will be sort of broad and possibly double-based: “I’m interested in the best way to deal with the catalyst in my marriage and how I can be of service and love in that area as opposed to adding to the catalyst and direction for life in general. I feel there is a beating in me that I can touch and feel, and I seem to be doing something with the soul purpose sort of like what I was reading about in The Law of One, Book V, what you had mentioned about ‘silver flecks’; how everyone has their own knowing that they are on the right track. Well, sometimes mine, I guess, may be just a quickening pulse, shivering, you can call flecks at some times. The burning in my lower and upper chest, sometimes, throat. I’m of the mind that this is a ‘use it or lose it’ type of phenomenon, and I don’t want to lose it because I’m not focusing or listening in the right direction to what’s happening. Synchronicities happen all the time in my life, but I don’t know what they mean. I dream and record my dreams many times a week, but I have no idea how to interpret them even though I attempt to. Even trying just sort of confuses me, or they’re more complicated. I know this is a way for God to guide and direct me, anyway. I know there are two big, huge issues or maybe one in the same, basically, about my marriage and the catalyst there; how to learn from it; how to take advantage and learn from the synchronicities in dreams and moments in my life that are filled with soul and direct them into what I should be doing with my life or even spare a love time that I could have to be creative, write, sculpt, etc.” And, Q’uo, we’d also like to know how you feel about doing personal sessions like this. We’d be interested in your comment, maybe, this time.

(Carla channeling)

We are known to you as those of the principle of the Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator. It is a great privilege to be called to your group this evening, and we thank you very much for this opportunity to serve. We are glad to share our opinions with you upon the interesting subject of how to be a part of the good in someone’s life and not part of the difficulty and of how to use those bits of pieces of guidance that drift from the infinite world of the metaphysical and the unconscious up into and across the threshold of the conscious mind. As always, we ask only that you use discrimination in listening to and judging those things which we say. For we are not authorities but, rather, your brothers and sisters of sorrow. If something seems good to you, then by all means use it as a resource, but those things that do not seem good we ask that you lay aside and think no more about them. For, truly, each knows the resonance of truth within her own mind.

The one known as T1 has said that the two prongs of this double question are perhaps intertwined and perhaps more unified than double, and we would agree that in a way they are two sides of a mirror or two faces of a coin. For the same information is, perhaps, helpful in many ways in answering those questions. Let us start with that question concerning how to be a servant of the Light within a personal relationship such as a marriage. Our model or paradigm for responding to this query is a simple assumption but a sweeping one, and that is that all is one, that that entity which is a mate is the projection of the self into the face of another self; both entities being the Creator. The efficiency of this method of mirroring and projecting images upon the screens of each other’s field of energy is precisely the purpose for which many entities chose to make commitments and form relationships. The catalyst, indeed, is the prize, not the problem, of the relationship. For it is in working with the catalyst of the self as projected onto the other self that the entity comes face-to-face with the refining fire of realization that this, too, is a part of me. This is what enables people to look at, to accept, and to come to love what this instrument has sometimes called the shadow side, the darker side of self, that side which knows the good but enjoys that which is of the darkness. It is not possible to remove the shadow from the self, for each contains the seeds of all things; each is truly the holder of the universe within the self. And if the self is all things, then it also is in part a shadow self; a darker, richer-hued, and more difficult to comprehend part of the self.

It is easy for this vision and view of the self to generate fear, and, as the one known as T2 was saying earlier, in whatever guise this fear is, it is there that the catalyst will be rich upon the ground and ripe for the plucking. So, we would suggest that in a relationship it is, perhaps, not a skillful goal to wish not to perform the function of acting as catalyst for another, for this would suggest that catalyst is an unfortunate thing. And, indeed, we would suggest that that which is truly unfortunate is that which never changes, for it is not a part of the experience of rock, or air, or wind, or water, or plant, or animal to remain the same. There is a flow to the destiny of each entity that is as close as breathing, too close to reach for, for it is already part of the environment, the ambient atmosphere of the self. It can be sensed, although usually within the conscious, daily round of activities it cannot be seen or heard or touched. There is, as the one known as T1 has said, that quickening of the self that gives the intuitive, conscious mind a small affirmation that energy is moving, that magic is near, and that there is guidance and power in the very atmosphere about one. And, truly, these are what the one known as T1 called soul moments, and yet we would suggest that each moment is, to the one whose senses are fully unguarded and undefended, a soul moment. Each instant is a now that is infinite, and the possibilities of each present moment of now are stupendous.

We would suggest that in the outworking of dynamics between two entities there is a fine and movable line betwixt viewing catalyst as difficult and viewing catalyst as a rich and welcomed opportunity. That fine line has to do with safety and trust, and the question then becomes within relationships: “How does one become a place of emotional safety for another entity so that even within a disagreement, even within the tangles of personality and circumstance, there is a feeling of trust that enables each to feel comfortable in misbehaving and apologizing and discussing with utter honesty those things which lack between the two?”

The grit of life can easily be seen to be a thing that is unfortunate, and we would offer the image of the pearl, which is the result of the irritation of the sand within the shell of the shellfish known as the oyster. Without the refining fire, without that distillation of spiritual maturity that such seeming difficulties offer, that pearl, which is each of you, should never properly be polished into its complete and perfect beauty. We do not suggest that there is an easy way to do spiritual work, either by the self or within relationships. It is not even easy to deal with the self or with relationships following the rules of the physical world and what this instrument would call consensus reality. The advantage of dealing with such issues as a spiritual entity is that advantage which sees a wider and more fundamentally powerful point of view, a point of view which offers a more sturdy resource than the shifting values of your third-density world.

Thevalues of the density which calls each are very simple. If one looks within your holy works and reads those words which this instrument calls the Beatitudes, much can be learned of the way of Love. For those who are humble and poor in spirit, those who mourn, and those who are peacemakers, are those who are blessed; are those who have gifts in their hands and good work to do. This is what this instrument calls process: the moving into the tangled part of a relationship buoyed and lifted not by rules and regulations, and agreements, and those things of the linear world that keep the lawyers among you so busy. But, rather, we speak of a spiritual world that calls one to look for ways to offer the self, as a radiant sun offers sunshine upon the whole earth; not judging betwixt one person and another, one species of plant and another, one place and another but, rather, shining impartially and lovingly upon all.

When one allows the wings of faith to lift one, there is much love that begins to circulate around in that spaciousness that is made by living in faith. There is something about the leap into midair that strengthens that which was being sought: faith itself. There are times when it is very helpful by faith alone to realize the most fundamental truth of all relationships, which is love, unconditional, absolute love from one soul in its perfection to another in its perfection. All those things that seem imperfect are part of the illusion of personality and what this instrument would call ego. Beneath each difficulty that tangles two upon the soul level lies a unity, a oneness, a union, that is profoundly more the truth of the relationship than any structure of description that contains itself in words rather than in the open heart which knows that it loves, though it knows not, perhaps, how to respond to a certain situation or to a certain moment.

It is an interesting thing to look at what the self tells the self, for there are many times when the self that is not fully aware of the possibilities may find many faults within the self and within another. And it is well to be able to speak of these things, yet, beneath this level, there is the level in which the truth is love. Consequently, when the moment comes to have a response to catalyst, let that response be the response that answers the question, “Where is the love in this moment?” The goal between any part of the Creator and another self that is also part of the Creator, is to serve, to love, and to accept the love offerings of others. Often, these love offerings are clumsy, mis-expressed, even meaningless in a linear sense but only containing the non-logical meaning of emotion itself; emotion that is carried, perhaps, even from lifetime to lifetime, looking for a way to balance those energies that are unbalanced.

So, we suggest that each see a relationship as an opportunity to be in love with the Creator, to tend to an angel that is in your care, and to refrain from the judgment of behavior but rather find ways to express those positive aspects of love which come from the open, accepting and forgiving heart. We do not offer that which is easy to do as a suggestion, but we do offer that which is, shall we say, the higher path, the path that will tend to bring the relationship into its own balance, whatever that may be. For beneath the questions of this kind of love or that kind of love flows the current of friendship, companionship and that wonderful ease that comes to those who truly and unguardedly love.

The first group question for today was: “Q’uo, this is a question for T1. The question will be sort of broad and possibly double-based: “I’m interested in the best way to deal with the catalyst in my marriage and how I can be of service and love in that area as opposed to adding to the catalyst and direction for life in general.” Q’uo began their reply by saying that in the mated relationship in which we wish to be a servant of the Light that it is well to see our mate and ourself as the Creator who can use the mirror of each other’s being to see various features of ourself to process catalyst, and this is what enables us to look at, to accept, and to come to love our shadow side which knows the good but enjoys that which is of the darkness, and: “It is not possible to remove the shadow from the self, for each contains the seeds of all things; each is truly the holder of the universe within the self. And if the self is all things, then it also is in part a shadow self; a darker, richer-hued, and more difficult to comprehend part of the self.” Q’uo continued by saying that it is helpful to us to have the goal of using the catalyst in our mated relationship to realize our destiny which we can consciously sense in our daily round of activities as a quickening of ourself that gives our intuitive mind an affirmation that energy is moving, and there is guidance and power in the atmosphere within us that reveals that each moment is a soul moment which is infinite, and the possibilities of each present moment of now are stupendous. Q’uo went on by saying that we need to be able to determine how we can become safe places for each other in our mated relationships so that even when we have disagreements that there is a feeling of trust that helps us to feel comfortable and able to be honest and apologize for our misbehaviors. Then Q’uo said that there is no easy way to do spiritual work within our relationships whether in the consensus reality or as spiritual seekers, but the advantage of dealing with difficulties as spiritual seekers is that we can see a wider and more powerful point of view which gives us a sturdier resource than the shifting values of our third-density world. Q’uo said that we can learn the ways of Love in our relationships by moving into the difficult part of our relationships in a way where we look for how we can offer ourself like the radiant sun offers its sunshine upon the whole earth with no judgement upon any person but shining impartially and lovingly upon all. Now Q’uo said that there are times when it is helpful if we can live by faith alone in order to realize that the basic truth of our relationship is unconditional and absolute love from one perfect soul to another perfect soul, and beneath each difficulty in the relationship there is the unity that binds us both together in our relationship. Then Q’uo suggested that it is easy for us to see ourselves as failures in our relationships, but our goal is to see each other as a part of the Creator and to love and serve each other even if these love offerings are clumsy and non-logical, perhaps from previous lifetimes which are looking for a way to become balanced. So, Q’uo suggested: “that each see a relationship as an opportunity to be in love with the Creator, to tend to an angel that is in your care, and to refrain from the judgment of behavior but rather find ways to express those positive aspects of love which come from the open, accepting and forgiving heart. We do not offer that which is easy to do as a suggestion, but we do offer that which is, shall we say, the higher path, the path that will tend to bring the relationship into its own balance, whatever that may be. For beneath the questions of this kind of love or that kind of love flows the current of friendship, companionship and that wonderful ease that comes to those who truly and unguardedly love. On January 16, 2000, Q’uo said that we all are part of the Creator:

For each of you is a creation of unique characteristics, yet at the same time each of you is the Creator. And at the very core of each of your beings there is that pure and undistorted Love, that great original Thought from which all things were created, and which moves through all created things to the extent that the distortions within those created things allows for the uninterrupted flow of that Love.

Each of you, then, is a part of the Creator. Each of you inheres in the Creator, and at the same time each of you has chosen at this time to manifest in a personality shell and a physical body within the illusion that you now enjoy. The nature of this manifestation is such that there will be distortion. It is impossible not to have distortion, for distortion is the very nature of space and time. The yearning for absolute purity, absolute truth, and absolute Love is a yearning that was within you when you chose to move forth from what this instrument would call the Creator’s house. That Love has been with you as you have moved through many densities and many experiences, through many worlds, through many lifetimes, and it is that undistorted Love that draws you ever onwards towards the source and ending of all that is.

We would gaze now at the question concerning the use of synchronicities and dreams and the concern that there might be a bus that the one known as T1 is missing, because there is not very often at all that feeling of linear understanding and the feeling of controlling or being able to grasp that which is occurring within that flow of the unconscious into the conscious mind. And we would say to the one known as T1 that she is in her young years for working with this question and that this is, indeed, a very profound and central question within this particular incarnational experience and certainly looms large in that experience that is the life of any awakened soul.

The nature of the subconscious or unconscious mind, as it is known among your people, is that which is of a different order of magnitude than the conscious mind. Rather than having a tremendously complex machine, which is that which your brain is as a human being, your consciousness is one atom of an inorganic organism which is the infinite Creator, so that you are the sun within your own constellation of being and are the center of your world, and yet, at the same time, every other soul is also a sun. And so, those near to you are as the galaxy, and you dance as stars dance, rotating about each other and swimming in a sea of infinite possibilities. In the subconscious mind an infinite number of things may be happening at any moment that are coming into the unified soul-stream of the entity from various places within the circle of incarnations that is all of the incarnations that you have experienced and will experience within the entire octave of densities that makes up this particular creation. Consequently, that which makes it through the threshold from the infinite metaphysical unconscious into the relatively limited, structured, almost cartoon-like shapes of the conscious mind and its logical thought constructions, is, indeed, only the hint, and the whisper, and the nudge that suggests and creates feelings and emotions. Thusly, it is not well to bear down too hard upon attempting to understand how each message works.

The magic lies within the feelings that synchronicities, dreams, visions, coincidences, magical experiences, in general, create and rouse within the self. These emotions are precious, precious things and throughout the incarnation each is working to purify, beautify, and make more truthful those expressions of pure being that emotions are. So, in looking at synchronicity, in looking at the parts of dream, ask the self, “How do I feel? What color is this emotion? What part of myself does this seem to figure for?” If the synchronicity has to do with an animal, what does that animal make you feel like? What emotion has it roused? If it is a dream, the purpose of such as dreams is to speak to the self concerning the self. Consequently, each figure, each detail, each process within the dream is the self. There is no need to seek far for who these characters are, for they are all the self. It is as though each entered a world, within dreaming, where everything was a symbol that is used because it is the closest construction to create a precise shade of feeling that can be found by the ever-creative subconscious mind in its great desire to communicate its essence to the conscious self.

The sharing of gifts is a portion of the question that can be responded to best by taking the fruit of the statements that we have made concerning the expression of radiant love that flows through one, rather than from one, and the allowing of symbols to enter the life and to move the heart and the emotions, and then simply to realize that one is on a voyage of service and discovery. Sometimes one is about one’s lessons, sometimes one is concerned only about serving in a certain situation, and sometimes the opportunity comes to share that most precious thing of all, the essence of the self.

Now Q’uo spoke to the question concerning the use of synchronicities and dreams and the concern that there might be a message that the one known as T1 is missing, and they said that working with dreams and synchronicities are difficult to intellectually understand, but it was work that is important for an awakened seeker to be able to see the connection between the conscious and unconscious mind. Q’uo went on to say that our subconscious mind is of a greater order than our conscious mind, and that our consciousness is like one atom of the infinite Creator so that we are like the sun within our constellation of being, and at the same time every other soul is also a sun, and we dance as stars dance and swim in a sea of infinite possibilities. Q’uo continued by saying that in our subconscious mind an infinite number of things may be happening at any moment which are coming into our soul-stream from various places within our circle of incarnations that we have experienced and will experience within this octave of densities that makes up this particular creation. Then Q’uo said that information which makes it into our logical conscious mind from our infinite unconscious mind is merely a hint of that creates our emotions, so it is not a good idea to try to understand how the message of each dream or synchronicity works. Now Q’uo said that there is magic in the way that dreams and synchronicities create our emotions, and each figure, each detail, each process within the dream is ourself, and when we dream everything in our dream is a symbol that is created by our subconscious mind’s desire to communicate its essence to our conscious mind. Q’uo said that our sharing of gifts is possible by the radiant love that flows through us and allows the symbols of our dreams and synchronicities to enter our life and to move our heart and our emotions, and then we can realize that we are on a voyage of service and discovery of our lessons or about serving in a certain situation, or to share the essence of ourself. On December 8, 1985, Latwii spoke of the value of working with dreams:

I am Latwii, and my sister, we would suggest that for any who has such a desire as you have described, the utilization of the phenomenon of dreams is most helpful, for if it is known that during the time you call sleep that one may do work in consciousness, and if it is consciously sought, the dreams that one experiences can be utilized in order to enhance the waking process of learning and serving, for within the state of dreams one is able to receive information in a fashion which is unlike most forms of communication in that the communication may proceed through the subconscious mind and by certain configurations produced there reveal to the seeker those areas within the self which remain dark and mysterious and await the discovery and then shall become portions of a transformed being.

Within the dream state it is also possible to receive the aid of those which serve as guides and guardians for the incarnational self. These entities, as well as the subconscious mind, stand ready at all times, as you would call it, to lend assistance to the conscious seeker in direct proportion to the strength of the desire of the seeker to know. The assistance is usually given in a manner which the seeker is most familiar with, thus inspirations, and ideas, and hunches from time to time are experienced by one who seeks in a manner that does not consciously utilize the dreams. If these dreaming experiences are made available to the seeker through its own desire, communication can proceed from these sources in a much more, shall we say, rich and fulfilling manner.

Andthat is what we would share with you concerning the question of what one “should” do in order to express the joy of spirit and the pleasure of service to others. We would ask each, then, “What do you desire if you close your eyes and envision the peak of peace and contentment? What do you start to imagine?” In times of change, in times of awakening and transformation, often it is that the most meaningful ways of sharing gifts are not seen, because they are too common and too ordinary. However, the ministry of essence, as this instrument has called it, the priesthood of being who you are and allowing your truth to shine, is a most precious gift to give, and it is truly the deepest and the most central gift that each life does give to the world. For each came into the world to be the light of the world; each has the capacity to be the hands, the arms, the loving hearts, the loving mouths of the Creator that speak, that reach to hug, that curve to smile and stop to recognize and honor the divinity of each other self. This principle that is you is unique, and yet you carry crystal within you through which the Light may shine.

This energy does not need to come from you. All you need to be concerned with is allowing yourself to be ever more truly and deeply yourself and in that comfort of self to bless and welcome and open to the infinite energy of the one Creator as it flows through from the limitless white Light of the great original Logos. Once that energy has been begun, the energy itself, as it circulates, rotates, and spins, begins to bring naturally to the self those opportunities for outer service that one has planned aforetimes for the time when spirit within was mature enough to take it up.

We may suggest that there are many opportunities to heal, to be a healer, to be an agent of healing energy and that this healing has as many avenues as there are personalities. It is as though each of you were as the stained glass of a rich and beautiful design. All those colors within the window that is you are your very own; no one else has selected the way that you move energy through your energy body. And this means that you are creating a constant tapestry of color and music that is the personal signature of yourself, and this energy vortex, as it moves through the cosmic energy vortexes that are figured forth in the outer world by your planets and your stars, moves you along with the flow that you and your guidance created at the beginning of that web of energy that is called a given incarnation.

We would suggest that the silence and the intent are those two things which shall be most helpful as practice that creates habit, that creates a predisposition to an increase in the level of awakening. There are many ways to be silent, meditation being one, contemplation being one. Any form of silence within is to be welcomed and to be applauded, for that is an atmosphere which opens the self to the self; that is that attitude which allows the intent within to come clear, to speak lucidly within the self so that the self ceases asking and begins to know. The asking comes first, and then repetition and persistence carry one forward. It is not known when such a process will ripen and come into the conscious mind as a pattern that is seen and understood. But we ask that there be the continuing attempt to trust this process and to trust the self and its discriminatory powers. It may seem that much is not understood, and yet we have often said through this instrument that understanding is not something that any within third density may expect to achieve. Rather, what one may achieve in third density is an increasing purity of choice, and, once that choice is made to the full satisfaction of the self, that choice of radiance, of service to others, of unconditional love. Once the path of the open heart has been taken, then we would suggest trusting and embracing the light that you feel and moving as a dancer even when you stumble and fall. Let there be the light touch as well as light, and let the self be merry and have its laughter and its happy times.

We would at this time speak a bit more through this instrument, and then we would transfer to the one known as Jim. The one known as Jim asked concerning our feelings about working with this instrument on the behalf of the questioner who has made a donation to this instrument’s bank account. And we would say to you that our issue is always with the preparation and the tuning of the channel. It is not relevant to us whether or not your money, which is a kind of energy, has been given a spin. What is our concern is always the honesty, the integrity, the purity of effort made by a sincere and willing servant of the Light to speak those things which we offer. The only difficulty that we see is in the instrument’s own reservations concerning the appropriateness of such actions as the one known as N and she were laughing about earlier within this situation.

It is entirely appropriate to seek the truth, and when it is done with the sincere effort that this instrument and that this group offer, we are grateful and overjoyed to be of service by offering those humble thoughts we have to share. We would ask this group to realize that there is energy in all actions. There is as much energy in refusing to take money as there is in the energy of taking money. It is a different energy. Both energies could be positive or negative. Allow the energy to spin always clockwise, to move always towards the Light. Follow those magical principles which the one known as Jesus the Christ offered so simply. Each is here within the Earth plane as a messenger from the Creator. May your light shine forth; may you serve, and, truly, you cannot help but serve.

Then Q’uo said that in order to best express our joy and desire to be of service to others that we should just be who we are, and allow our light to shine because each of us came into the world to be the Light of the world, to be the heart of the Creator, and to recognize the divinity of being who we are because it is the greatest gift that we can give to the world. Q’uo went on by saying that if we continue to be who we are the limitless white Light of the original Logos will move through us, and it will bring those opportunities for our service that we have planned before our incarnations, and it will begin to come forth when our spirit becomes mature enough to take it up. Q’uo continued by saying that there are as many ways for us to become healers as there are colors in our rainbow personalities, and this means that we are creating a tapestry of color and music that is our personal signature, and our energy vortex moves through the cosmic energy vortexes in the outer world, and it moves us along with the flow that we and our guidance created at the beginning of our incarnation. Then Q’uo said that silence and our intentions will allow us to increase our level of awakening and open our self to our self and allow our intention to become clear so that we know how to move forward, and once we have taken the path of the open heart Q’uo suggested that we should trust and embrace the Light that we feel and move as a dancer even when we stumble and fall so that there may be the light touch as well as the Light, and we can let ourself be merry and have our laughter and our happy times. Q’uo said that the most important consideration as far as Carla’s preparation and tuning as a channel was–not whether money was involved–but the honesty, integrity, and purity of her intentions to be a sincere servant of the Light and to speak those concepts which Q’uo spoke through her. Q’uo completed their response by saying that there is energy in all actions that we may take and: “There is as much energy in refusing to take money as there is in the energy of taking money. It is a different energy. Both energies could be positive or negative. Allow the energy to spin always clockwise, to move always towards the Light. Follow those magical principles which the one known as Jesus the Christ offered so simply. Each is here within the Earth plane as a messenger from the Creator. May your light shine forth; may you serve, and, truly, you cannot help but serve.” On October 17, 2009, Q’uo said that we all are servants of the Light:

Therefore, we ask you who are in this process of getting to know yourself to trust the process. It is not always comfortable. You did not come here actually to be comfortable. You came here to improve the balance of your personality, to improve your sturdiness as a servant of the Light. Beyond all things you came here to serve the Light. And the way that you serve the Light in this classroom of Planet Earth is to allow the Light to flow through you. So, you may think of your life, if you will, as that of an instrumentalist who is tuning her instrument so that it can be played in sweet tune and beautiful harmony.

Now what, you may ask, is the tuning? My friends, because this is the creation of the Logos, whose name is unconditional Love, you are tuning to that Logos. You are tuning to be an instrument of Love. You are unique, as we have said before, and each person takes the Light as it flows through her and allows it to shine forth as through a stained-glass window. The colors of your windows are the colors of your emotions, your thoughts, your ideals, those things that you hold dear, those things that are most deeply you. And as you see yourself as an instrument and treat yourself with enormous respect and honor, you begin to feel that you are an instrument. As the one known as Francis [of Assisi] said, you are an instrument of His peace. You came to hold a space through which Light may flow through you and out into the world to lighten the consciousness of Planet Earth at this time. For it is a very intense time, a time of harvest, a time of transformation for your planet.

We would at this time transfer the contact to the one known as Jim in case there are any remaining queries within this group. We thank this instrument and leave her in love and in light. We are those known to you as Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each once again in love and in light through this instrument. We would offer ourselves briefly for any shorter queries which may be upon the minds of those present. Is there a query at this time?

Questioner: Yes, I have a question that concerns a great and grand friend of mine, my son, M. He at this moment is experiencing catalyst with his employment and also with his status of being about to become a new father, and he’s caught up in a thing, a situation, job-related, that is sorely testing his self-esteem, and I’ve tried to advise him as I can, but I guess I’d just like any comment that you may have. Now, I either myself can go about helping him, or he can help himself which, ultimately, is the same thing. Anything that you could comment on, I would appreciate it.

I am Q’uo, and we are aware of your query, my brother. When one wishes to reassure another who is worrying and fretting concerning an outcome that rests within the future, it is well to do as you have done, and that is to give your patient counsel that all will be well, for, indeed, there is a plan which each entity follows, whether it is known or not consciously. This plan has been created by each of you with assistance previous to the incarnation from those teachers and guides who are your fellow travelers, who themselves move in other realms yet walk closely with you here in this illusion as well. Though it may seem that there is difficulty, doubt, confusion, and a myriad of other emotions and possibilities, each foot is set upon firm ground to teach just that lesson the moment has to offer, and this lesson is appropriate to each entity. Though those times of difficulty may not be sought consciously by any seeker, yet they teach as well as any and, perhaps, better than most, especially if one is able to look consciously at each situation for the fruit that may be gained by partaking fully within that situation. You do not live lives that are truly chaotic, out of balance or off the beam, shall we say. It may feel that way to you for a while, yet this too teaches. Learn everywhere, everything, at all times! This is a possibility; this is actually what occurs for each. Most of what is learned remains between the worlds of the subconscious and the conscious mind. The conscious seeker seeks to make this a more conscious activity. Many blessings on this journey and for this effort. It is a valiant one and the outcome is well. Be assured the outcome is well.

Is there a further query, my brother?

Questioner: No, thank you very much.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, brother. Is there a final query for the evening?

Carla: Yes, I have a question concerning my vital energy and the frequency with which I can accept such channeling opportunities. My guess would be no oftener than once a week. Would that be something that you can confirm?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. As we assess your vitality as an instrument expressing the vocal channeling, we would suggest that there be no more than the one session that you have determined yourself in addition to any regular channeling that you partake in on your first and third Sundays of each month. Thus, most weeks would have but one; two each month would have two as possibilities. Do you understand, my sister?

Carla: Q’uo, I think I do. You’re saying that I can have one a week for private people and once every two weeks for the public channeling, and that will be adequate, and there’s no lower limit; it’s okay if I don’t do any and just do two a month. I should not do more than six a month. Is that correct?

I am Q’uo…

Carla: Or seven…

Q’uo: This is correct, my sister. We would agree with your former number, that being six.

Carla: Ah, but, Q’uo, four times a year, there are five Sundays in a month, so that was why I added seven, because four times a year I would have seven opportunities instead of six. [Laughing] Moving right along… Thank you very much. Thank you so much. I appreciate that.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you once again, my sister. We find that this session of working has exceeded the comfortable period of your time, thus, we shall take our leave of this instrument and this group, thanking each for asking for our presence and thanking also the one known as T1 for her heartfelt query. We hope that we have been of service.

We are those of Q’uo. We leave each now in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I discovered that the fountain on the fish pond was shooting out of the pond, so I turned it off and brought the garden hose out of the basement so I could get the level of the pond back to normal. Then I threw in some Aquasafe to neutralize the chlorine from the hose.

This afternoon Anna and I synchronized out computers and listened to Carla channel those of Ra from Session #61 where some of the topics included the natural functions and balancing of the body, the biorhythms, the purpose of the frontal lobes, and why the appurtenances had to be so carefully aligned for Carla’s benefit.

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

January 12

Lost In Love

I am the principle of Jesus the Christ that speaks to the world this day. I greet you in love, peace and joy; the full consciousness that is divine love.

Each of you has this same divine love, this same voice, this same inspiration, and this same consciousness. This principle that speaks through this instrument is the immanent Creator. And each may open the heart and limber the ears inwardly to listen to that consciousness which is the Father.

To seek inspiration from sources which you trust is a good and blessed activity. But each of you is a child of the Father. And to each of you the Holy Spirit may come. Indeed, that spirit is with you. It is your choice whether or not to pray to hear that principle of Jesus the Christ which is the essence of the consciousness of love.

Value this within yourself. Honor, treasure and use it. Then you may move through your day and through your life in a blessed and purposive path, a joy to others and a growing joy to the self, lost, at last, in the Father and in love.

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

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

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

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from May 5, 2002:

The question today has to do with putting the puzzle pieces together, remembering our being, our knowledge, our ancestry, our connection with each other and with the planet. We are hoping that Q’uo can give us some information on how this spiritual journey works for us. No matter how long we’ve been on the journey, no matter how newly we feel revitalized, we need to know how it is that we remember our mission. Are there stages to our remembering? Is there a process that we could accelerate or harmonize with in our daily round of activities? How do we keep that excitement that we all felt at the workshop last weekend alive in our daily round of activities?

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo. We greet you in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you today. We thank you for putting so many things aside in order to make the time to form this circle of seeking. It is a great blessing to us to be called to your group, and we thank you for the dedication that it takes to form such a circle as this. It is an especial blessing to us because this is the service that we have entered your planet’s energies in order to offer and it enables us to serve in speaking through instruments such as this one. So, we are most grateful to you for giving us this opportunity to share our thoughts. As always, we would ask of you that you use your discrimination in listening to our opinions, for we are not authorities, and we would not be a stumbling block before any. We would ask you to take those thoughts which seem helpful to you and leave the rest behind. This will enable us to speak freely within the limits of our own ethical feelings for the preservation of free will.

We thank you for the question concerning how to continue to remember more and more of the truths that create within the heart the peace that passes understanding and the joy of realizing who you are and why you are here. It is certainly a challenging thing to retain the freshness of the vigorous enthusiasm that accompanies initiations and transformation. There is that feeling of being lifted to a place that is infinitely more desirable than the seeming contents of consensual reality. The challenge always is to become able to express these feelings of bliss and joy throughout the moments and days and months and years. The expression of joy is a natural state. It has to do not with any portion of the physical body but rather the movement of the energetic body into a position of balanced openness so that the energies that are moving through are able to do so without what this instrument would call distortion. The set energy of the universe, that OM of which you were speaking earlier, is a vibration that is utterly joyful and blissful, much as those physical feelings that explode when there is the sexual orgasm. In the sense of higher consciousness this state exists as the steady state and when an entity reaches a certain balance within the energetic body and is able to open within that balance in utter trust, the result is that one comes into a state of consciousness which the one known as R was so eloquently describing.

We are aware that in the course of a lifetime there are many times when the intersection of circumstance and personality grants a window of opportunity for the opening of the gateway to intelligent infinity. It is a direct experience of the Creator. It is never to be predicted as to how this shall occur, under what circumstances it shall occur. There is no one combination of efforts or words or positions or rituals that can bring about this particular state of consciousness. It is almost as if one emerges into it from a fog, a fog that you did not see, a fog that you did not know you were in the midst of until suddenly the mist clears and the sun shines, and all is made perfectly, and quite perfect. This state is a true state. It is not the same as happiness which, as it comes, guarantees its own departure. This is a state that can be and has been by many allowed to remain through tragedy and times of personal difficulty. This is a state that cannot be destroyed. This is the temple within that no power of life or death can destroy. Yet the experience that many have is of coming into this temple and going out, coming out and going in, being in that state and then abruptly being abandoned on the shores of consensus reality.

The techniques of hard work and dedication have a certain justice and a right place within the efforts to find and to retain that state of consciousness which sees all beings as one. There is a certain degree of simple persistence which equals very hard work for most entities in keeping a practice that is daily. This instrument has oft spoken of a rule of life, for she has found it helpful in her own process of coming into her bliss and certainly we would recommend this simple, hard work and the perhaps rigid ethic of a daily practice that places before the eye in every day that lit candle at the altar within where time is spent in silence and in opening the heart to the tabernacling with the one infinite Creator that always awaits within the tabernacle. This tabernacle is your own heart, and it is a blessing indeed that so many entities upon your planetary sphere have at this time that practice of daily seeking through silence. More and more entities among your peoples are awakening and are feeling that need to move within to a place of worship, of ideals, of adoration, of dreaming that within your Western culture has become increasingly unavailable from the standpoint of those religious institutions that attempt to offer the feelings of the spiritual community.

Perhaps it is well to say at this time that the freshness of love is that which spiritual communities are most excellent at maintaining within the members of that community. We do not wish to criticize or to judge your churches, and temples, and holy places except to say that, more and more, those entities which are awakening have not found their home within the established buildings that hope to be spiritual communities by virtue of their name. What we find is that, as it has always been, the liveness and freshness of spiritual seeking is a matter of people and not institutions. The hope of creating an institution that will carry on the practice and make it available to people is in essence an anthropomorphism where the spiritual entity seeks to re-create the family as a permanent thing when in fact each family is always renewing itself as entities leave this plane and other entities are born into this plane within their family. Consequently, those who are moved to be pastors, and ministers, and priests may well have that open heart which creates a loving atmosphere and authors a place of safety for those who wish to seek together. It is possible to find this within the church, within any religious practice, but it is a matter of moving from group to group until one has found not only the way of worship that appeals but also the energy within the leader and also within those within that particular group that is comfortable, and supportive, and encouraging to you personally.

We find that in groups such as this one which gather in homes and are unofficial and spontaneous, the likelihood of fresh energy is higher because there is no reason to come to a group such as this one to express a social, or a political, or an economic kind of feeling or beingness, but rather, the only reason to come is that sense of a spiritual family that together may more efficiently and effectively seek than each by himself alone. We would say that this is extremely true and is a great help to remembering who one is, for there is within the earth plane at this time a tremendous number of people who have incarnated in large groups of people to serve together, and much of the joys of spiritual community are involved in re-linking with those entities with whom you have spent lifetimes in the past serving together and learning together. Each time that you reconnect and re-link with these beloved strangers that are very much a part of your energy of being, there is laid another golden strand of connection within the net of Love which surrounds the Earth and is glowing brighter with every day. We are rejoicing at this point to see the outburst of newly awakening people. There is a tremendous, shall we say, population explosion of those who are awakening at this time. It makes us feel most blessed to see entities taking hold of their being and knowing themselves and their power for the first time.

As each of you moves into this awareness of the open heart and desires more and more to live there and to express that Love within the Light, each effort to do so makes it easier to do so once again. And each persistent effort to remain open to that which this instrument would call the Holy Spirit creates an atmosphere in which others find it easier as well, so that each of you becomes that Light that is set upon the hill, that is not hidden any more beneath a bushel basket, that is not tucked away but that is glowing and burning for all to see, glowing not with the energy from the self but with the energy that moves through the self, so that this is not a tiring or effortful thing but, rather, an expression of the utmost peace.

The group question for this session was: “The question today has to do with putting the puzzle pieces together, remembering our being, our knowledge, our ancestry, our connection with each other and with the planet. We are hoping that Q’uo can give us some information on how this spiritual journey works for us.” Q’uo began their reply by saying that: “It is certainly a challenging thing to retain the freshness of the vigorous enthusiasm that accompanies initiations and transformation. There is that feeling of being lifted to a place that is infinitely more desirable than the seeming contents of consensual reality. The challenge always is to become able to express these feelings of bliss and joy throughout the moments and days and months and years. The expression of joy is a natural state. It has to do not with any portion of the physical body but rather the movement of the energetic body into a position of balanced openness so that the energies that are moving through are able to do so without what this instrument would call distortion.” Q’uo went on to say that there may be times during our life that there are opportunities for us to open the gate to intelligent infinity and have an experience of the Creator: a state that we can remain in through tragedy; a state that no power of life or death can destroy; and a state which we can go out of, and come back into, and then go back out of, and then be abandoned within consensus reality. Then Q’uo said that there are techniques that can help us to retain the conscious state of unity with the Creator such as spending time in meditation and opening our heart to tabernacling with the one infinite Creator that always awaits us within our heart, and Q’uo said that it is a blessing that so many seekers upon our planet practice daily meditation. Q’uo said that the enlivening quality of love is best found within spiritual communities where spiritual seekers can support each other rather than churches or holy places where the family is seen as the same for all time unless there is a pastor or priest that has an open heart and can minister to each person’s unique needs. Now Q’uo said that in spiritual groups such as this one that meet in homes and are spontaneous and supportive that the group energy is likely to be higher as this group is not involved in social, political, or economic feelings but the purpose is to join with seekers that can help each other on their spiritual journey because there is a great awakening of people to their spiritual path and each time that we connect with these awakened seekers there is laid another golden strand of connection within the net of Love which surrounds the Earth and is glowing brighter with every day. Q’uo went on to say that as each of us moves into our open heart, and we wish to live there and to express the Love within the Light, each attempt to do so makes it easier to do again, and each of us becomes that Light that is set upon the hill and is glowing with the energy that moves through ourself, and this is an expression of great peace. On November 9, 2019, Q’uo spoke of the value of spiritual groups:

There is for each entity a grouping of entities that has as its basis the first beginnings within the third-density illusion to form that which is seen as a spiritual grouping, that may have other tendencies or contact with other spiritual groups, so that there can be an intermingling of groupings over a period of time and incarnations, so that there is, for each entity within the group, and for each group, a continuing expanding experience that reaches further and further into the realms of the third-density illusion, so that there is the opportunity to use the talents and experiences of each entity and various groupings to enhance the experience of all.

Thus, there is a continuing blending of energies and entities and groupings so that these groupings and entities are able to express that which they see before the incarnation to be the necessity of the upcoming incarnation in order for progress to continue to be made in the evolutionary process of the evolution of mind, body and spirit. Thus, each entity, then, plays a role which changes with each incarnation and expands its influence so that there is more and more opportunity to blend the energies of all within the groups and of various groups that are tangentially related, each to the other.

This instrument has for some time had the feeling that she dwells within a very critical and interesting time, and we also have that bias towards that feeling that these are very precious and very powerful times within your planet’s cycle. The new heaven and the new earth of fourth density has been nearly completed now. Your Earth entity which may be called Terra or Gaia has come through most of her labor. She still labors and each of you may be very strong in helping her through these labor pains. The practice of moving into the creation of nature, the kingdom of the Father, as this instrument is wont to call it, is very helpful in stabilizing and deepening the energies of the balanced and open heart, for each flower, tree, and breeze that blows, each element that exists, exists within a complete awareness of the one infinite Creator. Rocks, fire, wind, grasses, and blooms do not have words, and they do not move in the way of being self-aware in choosing in each movement whether it is in or out of harmony. The creation of the Father has no knowledge of how to be disharmonious. All things, rather, are working towards the help of the energies of the Earth.

This natural energy has been distorted and compromised by those feelings of aggression, greed, and other heated emotional states which tend not towards peace but towards the unwise use of power, whether by money, by influence, or by various means which your civilizations have developed through the millennia of your history to collect the resources that seem to be fair and to attempt to create a safety that is forever specious because the vehicles which you have chosen for this incarnation are in no case free from the limitations of birth and death. Consequently, there is a great energy within your Earth sphere at this time which tends towards the breaking down of coherent energy and the invitation to chaos which is the result of the unwise use of power.

Eachof you has a tremendous ability to alter this picture, not because you can change it physically but because belief is the truth of perception. What you choose to accept as true has a very powerful effect upon that story that you tell yourself, and the story that you tell yourself is that which creates within you a safe place from which to love, to accept, and to embrace those that seem like you and those that seem distinctly unlike you, those that seem positive and those that seem drawn to a darker shadow world. Every difference that can be distinguished is helpful to that self that must conduct a life within third density. However, that ability to distinguish and discriminate betwixt souls does not serve the spiritual life. Certainly, it is well to use the intellect and the powers of analysis that were given as a portion of those resources with which you meet the world. And yet beyond the intellect and its limited ability to assess true situations or the truth of the self, there is that within you which does have a far more informed point of view. You may call it your higher self. You may call it guidance. In this instrument’s case she calls it the Holy Spirit, but however you personally find it useful and fruitful to characterize to yourself that guidance that comes from deep within you and which was yours before this incarnation and will be yours after this incarnation, this is that which you may depend upon. This is the foundation upon which the feet truly rest.

As each of you becomes more spiritually mature you will go through cycles of losing the balance and regaining it. This is a natural occurrence. There are very few entities who move through a life without going through these cycles or spiritual seasons of light and dark. Certainly, this instrument has had experience with the Dark Night of the Soul. We believe that each in this group has had significant suffering to bear. This is as it should be, for although it is a hard truth to understand, it is a simple truth that each of you chose a plan for incarnation, some have said a contract, and in this contract certain lessons were chosen to learn and to share in the learning of with those beloved entities with which you made agreements before this incarnation. As well, there were services that you hoped to offer.

Each of you has one central service in common, and that is the ministry of essence. The task of each that is primary is simply to be yourself. It always seems as though one must do something in order to be of service and yet as we have said many times through this instrument, it is in how you are within yourself that you serve in the greatest capacity since each of you is as the crystal that transmutes and sends forth the Light that is received from the infinite Creator. Each of you is an unique crystal, then, which can allow the Light to flow into the Earth plane in just such and such a way that is unique to you. And when your heart is open and the Light is flowing through you, and you feel transparent to that energy, then it is that the most beautiful Light of all colors, depending upon the personalities involved, is able to move into that grid that this instrument has sometimes called the Christ grid and which others have called the grid of unconditional Love or the Buddha. This grid is that web of Light, that pattern of Love, that is beginning to stabilize fourth density upon your planetary sphere. Each of you is doing tremendous work for those who shall come after you, sowing seeds of Light and seeds of Love whose blossoms you shall not see, for you shall move on. Yet those who come after you will be able to do as they do because of reaping the harvest that you now sow with each loving thought and each contact made in Love and in Light.

We may say that it is well to be aware that there are many who are uncomfortable with unconditional Love, as the one known as T has said. Do not be discouraged if it seems that your Light is not accepted by those about you. That which is upon the surface is an illusion. The energetic work that you do is as it is, and it is not necessary for any to be aware that you are doing this work. It is not necessary for people around you to respond or seem to accept you as you would hope to be responded to and accepted. It is only necessary that you do the work, that you keep your body, your mind, and your spirit in enough balance that energy may flow through and not be stuck in this or that place, or overstimulated so that there is a distortion because of that hectic energy of overstimulation. Realize that the spiritual path is one which extends throughout the incarnation, moment by moment, and unexciting chore by unexciting chore. There is no life which is nothing but the glitter and the sheen of holiday times and mountaintop moments. Realize too that by connecting with those around you who are of a like mind you are helping them, and you are allowing them to offer their Love offerings to you also.

Then Q’uo said that that these are very precious and very powerful times within our planet’s cycle because the new heaven and the new Earth of fourth density are nearly completed now, and Gaia has come through most of her labor, and each of us may be very strong in helping her through these labor pains, and if we can move into the creation of nature it would be helpful in deepening and stabilizing the energies of our balanced and open heart because the rocks, fire, wind, and grasses of the Father have no knowledge of how to be disharmonious, and they are working towards the helping of the Earth in its transition. Q’uo went on by saying the natural energy of Earth has been distorted by the feelings of aggression and other heated emotional states which tend towards war and the unwise use of power, so: “there is a great energy within your Earth sphere at this time which tends towards the breaking down of coherent energy and the invitation to chaos which is the result of the unwise use of power.” Q’uo continued by saying that we can alter this unwise use of power because what we choose to accept as true has a very powerful effect upon that story that we tell ourself, and it creates within us a safe place from which to love, to accept, and to embrace those that seem positive and those that seem negative, but then Q’uo said that the ability to discriminate between souls does not serve our spiritual life, and they recommended that we seek the guidance that comes from deep within us and which was ours before this incarnation and will be ours after this incarnation, and this is the foundation upon which our feet truly rest. Now Q’uo said that as each of us becomes more spiritually mature we will go through cycles of losing  and regaining our balance because there are very few entities who move through a life without going through these spiritual seasons of light and dark since each of us chose a plan for our incarnation, and in this contract we chose certain lessons that we wanted to learn with our spiritual family that we made agreements before this incarnation, and there were services that we hoped to offer. Q’uo said that each of us can be of our best service to others simply by being ourselves, and when our heart is open and Light is flowing through it, then the most beautiful Light of all colors is able to move into that grid that is called the grid of unconditional Love that is beginning to stabilize fourth density upon our planetary sphere, and each of us is sowing seeds of Love and Light that will be harvested by those who come after us. Q’uo suggested that we not be discouraged if some people don’t accept our Light  because it is only necessary that we do the work and that we keep our body, mind, and spirit in enough balance that energy may flow through us since our spiritual path continues throughout our incarnation, and when we connect with those of like mind we are helping them and allowing them to offer their Love offerings to us also.

But be steadfast in those situations which do not seem to be so full of love. Allow yourself to be the love that is brought to that meeting, to that moment, to that situation. And if, for some reason, you are flagging, and your emotions are tumbled, and you are weary, reach out and allow someone to give to you that which you have so often given to others. For there will be times of weariness for each soul within illusion. There will be times when circumstances come upon one which seem most difficult. And there are those stubborn traits which each of you carefully brought into this illusory incarnational experience for the express purpose of butting your head up against, of being confused by, of seeming to be flattened by, in order that you may stand in the refining fire of the spiritual distillery that Earth is and work upon these traits that you have chosen to balance within this lifetime.

It is easy to feel discouraged when the process takes you into your shadow side, and you find yourself dealing with blockages or over-activations or some other kind of imbalance that seems to vitiate and attenuate your ability to be a crystal that is steady in its opening to the Light and the Love of the one infinite Creator. Do not be discouraged when these times come upon you. Do not chide yourself because you are not in a state of bliss. Know that your memories of that time are perfect, that they are valid, that they are the truth of you, and know that in honoring that memory and in remembering those mountaintop times you allow yourself to rise once again to that mountaintop where all is well, and all people are one.

We would speak a little bit more along this subject before we open to questions simply in iterating the efficacy of meditation. The joy that lurks within the center of your being is invited by silence. It is a playful energy. It is full of Light and full of dance, and each of you was intended to be a dancer through this illusion. Each of you, upon the brink of incarnation, gazed at that which was to come and thought, “This will be so much fun. This will be so simple. How could I possibly forget any of the truths that I know simply by being born into this illusion? I will remember. I will remember.” And yet birth comes, and the air of Earth hits the face, and there is the necessity to breathe in order to live, and all of a sudden the environment has completely changed, and you are a helpless infant, dependent upon others for absolutely every need.

This creates a situation where the tiny child that is newborn has its first experience of vulnerability and a lack of emotional safety. Within your experiences as a child there are almost guaranteed to be repeated times where this feeling of panic and distress becomes almost overwhelming, as the environment seems not to be a safe one, not to be a secure one emotionally and spiritually. And the understanding of others about you seems to be lacking. The pressures and distortions of the birth family, the parents, and so forth, almost always create these biases within one which are carried upon the back like a burden until they are once again named, and greeted, and faced, and embraced, and loved, and forgiven, and placed within the heart to be healed and to be forever then part of the strength of the entity that has come through many waters and is as fresh, and young, and strong as in the days of greatest youth.

This is the permanent state of each entity which has no age and has no falling away from strength. And it is from this perspective that it is most helpful to gaze upon the world of ten thousand things. It is far more accessible, this world, in meditation, in silence, in contemplation, in walks within the natural world, in all ways in which you can remove yourself from the various, shall we say, pernicious thought structures of your civilization. Your song that you began this meditation with was about living on the outskirts of civilization. And we recommend that you think of yourself in this way, not physically. Physically it is helpful for entities to be everywhere, especially in the urban areas that are so crying out for positive energy, but rather in terms of being in this world but not of this world.

Thinking of oneself as an outsider is a way of preparing yourself to be a dweller upon the road to fourth density and not simply one who is stuck in third density. For the one known as R is correct in saying that heaven is here. Heaven is now. It is so each time one becomes aware of the self as a lit candle and encourages that light, that vulnerable, living Light that depends upon the oxygen of the open heart. Breathe that Love and Light in. Breathe that Love and Light forth through your being, for truly it comes in and it moves out, and the blessing that you give it creates infinite brightness within it.

Now Q’uo said that there will be times when all of us go through difficulties, and at those times we can give each other the love and support that is so important on our spiritual journeys in order that we may stand in the refining fire of the spiritual distillery that Earth is and work upon these traits that we have chosen to balance within this lifetime. Q’uo went on to say that when we find ourself dealing with an imbalance in our energy centers that stops our ability to be a crystal that is steady in its opening to the Light and the Love of the one infinite Creator, that we should not judge ourselves but  remember those times we allowed ourself to rise once again to that mountaintop where all is well, and all people are one. Q’uo continued by saying that meditation is the reconnecting with the heart of our being a dancer within the illusion, and before we incarnated, we could see how much fun it would be to live within the third density, but then we are born into the veil of forgetting and are a helpless child that must depend upon others for all of our needs. Then Q’uo said that this feeling of vulnerability causes us to feel distressed, and our environment feels emotionally and spiritually unsafe and feels like weights from our birth family that we carry on our backs until we are able to face them, love them, forgive them, and place them within our hearts to be healed so that they can become part of our strength as we have used these experiences and are once again as young and as strong as in our days of greatest youth. Q’uo said that it was this state of strength that helps us to move within the world of consensus reality by using meditation, contemplation, and walks in nature to remove ourself from the harmful thought structures of our civilization so that while we are in this world we are not of the world. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that if we can think of ourself as an outsider that this is the way of preparing ourself to travel the road to the fourth density and not stuck in the third density because Heaven is now and: “It is so each time one becomes aware of the self as a lit candle and encourages that light, that vulnerable, living Light that depends upon the oxygen of the open heart. Breathe that Love and Light in. Breathe that Love and Light forth through your being, for truly it comes in and it moves out, and the blessing that you give it creates infinite brightness within it.” On October 17, 2009, Q’uo described the nature of our being in this world but not of this world:

You see, my friends, you are both of this world and not of this world. You are in a physical body and your flesh, and your bones attest to your being citizens of Planet Earth, made from the dust and expectant of returning to it at some point in the future. At the same time you are an infinite, eternal entity. You moved into life marrying your energy body with the physical body which you now enjoy. And when you drop this physical body at the end of your physical life you shall move onward into new experiences in your energy body once again. But for the span of this lifetime, you have twinned these two bodies, and they are inseparable, intertwined and working together to create the experience of you as a person and as a soul. It is not just the physical body that reacts to those things that occur to you, it is also the energy body which is in a constant flux, opening and closing according to the ability of the self to feel safe and secure.

This instrument is instructing us that we have overstayed our time, and so we thank you for your question, and we transfer this contact to the one known as Jim so that more specific questions may be asked at this time. We thank this instrument, and we leave it in love and light. We are those of Q’uo.

(Jim channeling)

I am Q’uo, and greet each once again in love and in light through this instrument. At this time, it is our privilege to ask if there might be any shorter queries to which we might speak. Is there another query at this time?

J: My question today is about a blockage in the red ray, and I would appreciate a suggestion about how to clear this with grace and ease. Thank you very much.

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We would recommend in the meditative state, at the end of your day or during a portion of your day where you have time to relax and reflect, that you look at the blockage as it has been experienced in your daily round of activities. Within the meditative state then look at the experience which represents to you the blockage of the red-ray energy center. Re-live that experience, allowing it to fill your being, and then in a natural fashion allow that image to dissipate and allow its opposite to emerge into your consciousness so that you see it with the same intensity that you saw the blockage to begin with. Allow this image to continue for as long as feels comfortable. Then see both the blockage and its balance as means by which the Creator may know Itself through you, and accept yourself for having both as means for the Creator to know Itself in your being. Repeat this exercise upon a daily basis for as long as is necessary for the blockage to be resolved.

Is there a further query, my sister?

J: No. Thank you very much.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

S: Sometimes I wonder if my dog is in more pain than I am aware of, or if you could comment to me on the right course with him?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We examine this entity. And we can suggest that the pain which this entity feels is ameliorated to a great extent by the love which you give this entity and that any pain which this entity feels is worth the continued existence within the shower of your love. For this entity learns most by being loved and by being able to give love. In this manner then, this entity then is able to become, shall we say, inspirited, vested in a fashion which increases its consciousness and its ability to perceive the Love and the Light of the one Creator.

Is there a further query, my sister?

S: I understand. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

Carla: I was contemplating using a technique in counseling where I help the person focus by moving that person down into a fairly deep state of concentration which is the essence of hypnotism, and I was wondering whether it is recommended, as an ethical person, to help a person in this manner? And also, I was wondering if by my tuning I am able to assure the person’s safety throughout the experience?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. We are also aware of the potential for the infringement upon your free will as we attempt to comment upon a choice which you have not yet made of your own free will. We can suggest that the tool of that which you call hypnotism is indeed a powerful tool for some entities who are susceptible to entering the trance state in an easy fashion. Whether your tuning is able to provide a safe place is uncertain, for the susceptibility of each individual varies greatly. We suggest your continued meditation upon this topic and the consideration of other means of allowing a focus to be achieved.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No. Thank you. I will do just that.

I am Q’uo, and we again thank you, my sister. Is there another query at this time?

T: To follow up Carla’s question, if Carla engages in counseling someone but if this person also comes to her with an intention of receiving counseling is this not the choice of each person, and should we not allow each person to decide whether to enter into something like this that may have an effect in one way or another?

I am Q’uo, and we are aware of your query, my brother. Indeed, each entity which enters into the counseling relationship is doing so of its own free will. However, many entities are unaware of their susceptibility to such techniques as the use of hypnosis and would not be able to give a free will choice from this inability to assess its own susceptibility. Thus’ care must be taken. Is there another query, my brother?

T: No. I understand. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my brother. Is there another query at this time?

R: I have some medical problems, and I think it’s related to emotional blockages that I have. I have chosen to treat it with an alternative healing method. Is this a good method for me?

I am Q’uo, and am aware of your query, my sister. Again, we wish to be of service by responding to the query which has been offered to us, yet we fear that there may be some potential for our infringement upon your free will if we speak too clearly or if we advocate one means over another, for the seeking of healing from whatever means of healing, whether it is orthodox, alternative or any other kind of healing is a choice which is fundamental to the spiritual path of the seeker. For any medical problem, as you call it, is a reflection of catalyst for growth which has been offered the seeker and which the seeker has in some degree appreciated but in another degree been unable to penetrate, so that the lack of understanding of the catalyst then transfers itself to the physical or the spiritual realms in order that the attention might be gained upon another level of experience where it has been, shall we say, unappreciated upon the mental level where all catalyst begins its journey and transmutation with a seeker.

We may suggest that the course of action which you have chosen, being that which was chosen by your free will, is helpful in that regard, for you in your conscious and subconscious abilities have assessed your situation in such and such a fashion which then has resulted in your choice of alternative means of healing. We suggest that you continue in choosing that which feels most appropriate to you. There are many means of seeking healing. That which speaks to your inner voice, to your heart, then, is that which will, in most cases, be the most efficacious in bringing about a resolution of the medical situation, shall we say. We apologize for seeming to be unable to speak to this query more directly, but we hope that you will appreciate our desire to maintain your free will. Is there another query, my sister?

R: Can you give me any advice on my spiritual development?

I am Q’uo, and again we find ourselves up against the full stop of the infringement upon free will, for to give advice in such a general fashion would be to seem to judge, and we do not wish to be a judge of any entity or the path that any entity follows. We affirm each entity’s choices and can suggest again that the path which you follow in your spiritual seeking must needs be that which speaks to your heart rather than that which another suggests, whether that other be revered and honored and seeming to be possessed of greater knowledge or to be an ordinary entity upon your street. For there are as many paths to the one Creator as there are entities who seek that One within all and within the self. Follow, then, that which is in your heart. Follow that which speaks to your heart and be always willing to increase the intensity of your seeking, the intensity of your desire, and the meditation that we always recommend for every path, for every seeker, for meditation is the surest means that we know for any seeker in third density to approach the infinite Creator.

Is there another query, my sister?

R: No. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we would ask if there might be a final query at this time?

Carla: A question came to me as I was looking in the mirror. Sometimes I just look into my eyes in the mirror, and I am always struck by a quality that is more than me, and really I can see the citizen of eternity that is living within me. Is there something about the eyes that has this capacity to reveal the soul? And is there some way to encourage that?

I am Q’uo, and I am aware of your query, my sister. The optical apparatus which you have described as the eye is the primary means by which stimuli are appreciated by entities within your illusion, for most do not see with their hearts the great panorama of experience that is available to each within every moment of the incarnation. Yet this way of seeing is possible for those who have opened their inner eye. Thus, the ability to see is that which has been relegated to the physical optical apparatus, and the inner ability to see then must needs be translated, shall we say, so that when an entity begins to see with more than just the outer eye then there is the ability to apprehend more qualities of the self and of the life experience than are normally to be had with the physical eye. Thus, when one who seeks in a conscious fashion upon the spiritual journey takes the opportunity to look within a mirror, as have you, the perception begins to expand beyond the image first seen. There is the possibility of viewing other qualities, other resonances, shall we say, within the current incarnation, so that the experience of seeing within this fashion and with this feeling/tone becomes enlarged, and there is perceived more than the image in the mirror. This ability to enlarge the range and depth of vision then can be extrapolated so that previous incarnational characteristics may begin to flash before the outer and inner eye. Thus, one may begin to see other aspects of the self, not just from this incarnation but from those previous to this one which have significance to the current incarnation. Thus, the experience of looking within the mirror and concentrating upon the eyes may indeed begin to show more of the soul aspect of the entity. And this may also begin to trigger memories that are from other incarnational experiences but which play a role in the current incarnation.

Is there a further query, my sister?

Carla: No. Thank you.

I am Q’uo, and we thank you, my sister. And as we are aware that we have spoken overly long this particular session of seeking, we would close this session by thanking each once again for making those sacrifices which were necessary for each to join in this circle of seeking this day. We are always most honored to be invited to join you in your meditations. We cannot thank you enough for the heartfelt queries which each has offered to enhance the understanding of the spiritual journey. We assure each that you do not walk any portion of this spiritual journey alone, for each has those teachers and guides that are unseen to the physical eye but surely walk with you each step of your way. There are no mistakes upon your journey, my friends. There are many coincidences, and to the seeker which keeps the open eye, there is much that each journey’s experience can offer. And we thank you for your diligence, for your intensity of desire, and for the love in each heart that springs forth at these times and at many other times during your daily round of activities.

We are known to you as those of Q’uo. At this time, we shall take our leave of this instrument and this group. We leave each in the love and in the ineffable light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I vacuumed the first floor of my home.

This afternoon I went outside with my snow shovel and shoveled the snow away from the two small gardens along the parking area in front of my home so that the snow removal crew that I am hoping to get to remove all of the snow in the two parking areas and the driveway next week will prepare these areas for our attendees at our public channeling meditation to be able to park in. I uncovered the two small gardens along the parking area in front of my home to be sure that they could be seen and not damaged by the equipment that the snow removal crew will be using. Then I widened the area of the sidewalk in front of my house by shoveling to the full width of the sidewalk.

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

January 11

A Call To Action

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

This instrument asks me, “Am I ready? Am I tuned?” and we say, “No, my child. You are not ready, but you shall begin.”

And this is our call to those who live and hope to be pure, a call to action in knowledge that those who live are never ready. Those who are finally ready have no more acting to do.

Therefore, my children, be at peace with the actions which you undertake this day, seeking always to know the mind of Christ and to dwell in realms of peace.

And then so act that you may continue to be surrounded in the plenty and the bounty of peace in action. Those who are tranquil in activity are not necessarily wiser, yet they surely may act with more clarity. May you find that clarity. May you be, in action, at peace.

In this peace we leave you, 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.