wandering

2006-10-21T05:57:00.000Z

Session 454
Q: Are the mushrooms the placebo? Are the mushrooms really … I understand like when I ingest them, I instantly connect with my higher self. I feel like my thoughts are clear. I feel like the connection with everything, with nature and with the totality of myself. I feel that connection, and I know that I can feel that way without them. What is it that stops me from getting to that point?

ELIAS: Let me express to you, you are correct. You may be creating this same action without the engagement of this particular substance, and you may also be creating it with the engagement of the substance.I shall first of all address to you that within the engagement of ANY element that you identify as any particular substance within this dimension, most of what you shall experience is motivated and influenced by what you believe.

The actual innate quality which is expressed through the consciousness of the substance itself – which is its function intrinsic to itself in ALL of these different substances – is that it shall create a thickness of energy which shall be affecting of your perception. This is the ONLY action that is innately intrinsic to the substance itself.Beyond this, what occurs or what is created in conjunction with the ingesting of ANY type of substance upon your planet is directly influenced by the individual’s belief systems and their allowance of certain affectingnesses.

Therefore, some individuals may be incorporating substances and they may be experiencing what they term to be very negative elements and they place very strong judgments and belief systems upon these areas. Other individuals may allow themselves an opening to their awareness. It is very much an expression of the individual and what they shall allow within their individual experience. It is not the substance itself which is creating specific responses.Therefore, you hold the ability in the incorporation of any substance to be directing your experience within that.

This be the reason that I have expressed to many individuals that many of these substances may be incorporated within quite pleasurable experiences. It is merely your belief systems that dictate differently to you.I express to you that the incorporation of any of these actions is not right or wrong. It merely is a choice of experience. You hold the ability to be directing that experience, be it the incorporation of your term of mushrooms, or be it fermented incorporated elements in your alcohols, or your different incorporations of plants that you may be interactive with … even within your synthetic creations of what you in physical focus term to be your synthetic drugs.

You hold very strong belief systems that they shall be incorporating certain actions, certain responses within you that are beyond your control. They shall be affecting of you in certain manners that you view negatively.I express to you, this is all the dictates of your belief systems. You may incorporate any of these actions pleasurably and you may be manipulating your energy to be directed in whichever manner you are so choosing. Therefore, if you are choosing to incorporate ANY of these elements into your reality and [to be] incorporating them as a facilitating action to widen your awareness or open to your different elements of consciousness, you may be engaging that action, and quite efficiently and quite realistically.I hold no judgment upon any of these incorporations of what you choose to be engaging in your physical focus. YOU have all created all of this for YOUR incorporation.

2006-10-14T11:46:00.000Z

If it wasn't for blogs I wouldn't still have these photos!

2006-07-26T13:23:00.000Z

"I may express to each of you that even if you allow yourself to materialize an apple within your hand from nothing, the likelihood of your acceptance of that is quite thin. What you probably would generate would be to dematerialize it again and to attempt to materialize it again, and continue to question whether you actually accomplished this action and generate a skepticism of whether the apple is genuinely real or not, or whether you have merely imagined it. "

Elias

2006-07-10T06:22:00.000Z

Does one really have to fret

About enlightenment?

No matter what road I travel,

I'm going home.

Shinsho

2006-07-07T14:01:00.000Z

None of the prophesied destruction man so fears is a reality in time

Session 799 page 214

The Nature of the Psyche

Some see the end of the world coming as a greater disaster, or envision man finally ruining his planet. Others see periods of peace and advance - and each probability will happen somewhere.

Session 742 page 638

The Unknown Reality, Volume 2

"If you want to change the world for the better, then you are an idealist. If you want to change the world for the better, but you believe it cannot be changed one whit, then you are a pessimist, and your idealism will only haunt you. If you want to change the world for the better, but you believe that it will grow worse, despite everyone’s efforts, then you are a truly despondent, perhaps a misguided idealist. If you want to change the world for the better, and if you are determined to do so, no matter at what cost to yourself or others, no matter what the risk, and if you believe that those ends justify any means at your disposal, then you are a fanatic."

Session 850 page 215

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

"Your spirit joined itself with flesh, and in flesh, to experience a world of incredible richness, to help create a dimension of reality of colors and of form. Your spirit was born in flesh to enrich a marvelous area of sense awareness, to feel energy made into corporeal form. You are here to use, enjoy, and express yourself through the body. You are here to aid in the great expansion of consciousness, You are not here to cry about the miseries of the human condition, but to change them when you find them not to your liking through the joy, strength and vitality that is within you; to create the spirit as faithfully and beautifully as you can in flesh."

Session 615 page 26-27

The Nature of Personal Reality

"Remember, even false beliefs will seem to be justified in terms of physical data, since your experience in the outside world is the materialization of those beliefs. So you must work with the raw material of your ideas, even while your sense data may tell you that a given belief is obviously a truth. To change your experience or any portion of it, then, you must change your ideas. Since you have been forming your own reality all along, the results will follow naturally."

Session 615 page se29

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-07-07T06:40:00.000Z

"But remember, as you continue to practice trusting yourself and trusting your allowance of your preferences, and you genuinely allow yourself to experience that trust, what you shall reflect to yourself is the same, and you shall not be encountering the opposition. Even if you are encountering some opposition, you shall perceive it quite differently, and you shall not respond to it genuinely. For you shall automatically reconfigure the energy, which also is received by the other individual, which reconfigures their energy for they are also reflecting; and in their reflection, they are receiving YOUR energy expression, which is what influences them in their blueprint of you."

Elias

2006-07-07T06:13:00.000Z

"In this, I may say to you that you may choose what you want to be sharing and choose what you do not want to be sharing. You may be incorporating that expression of exposure and vulnerability, and not express to yourself that you have to be sharing every aspect of yourself or your experiences or your encounters with other individuals. But also, in another regard, do not limit yourself if you want to be sharing your experiences and your interactions. Do not restrict yourself, incorporating the basis that other individuals may misunderstand or that it shall be confusing to them. For those are their choices, and they may choose whether to receive and whether to participate or not. That should not be what dictates whether you allow yourself to express yourself. Now; if you are apprehensive and you are listening to yourself and you choose in any particular moment not to be sharing some of your interaction for you may be anticipating a responsiveness from other individuals which is uncomfortable to you, you may choose how you incorporate what you share with other individuals. Allow yourself the freedom to express what you want. If you are incorporating excitement and wish to be sharing your experience with other individuals, allow yourself to do so. But listen to yourself also, and if you are receptive to an energy which is uncomfortable to you, allow yourself to be responsive to that also, and not force yourself to be interactive in an uncomfortable manner."

Elias

2006-07-05T11:05:00.000Z

"We shall be discussing consciousness; stepping sideways in consciousness and holding objective awareness of areas of consciousness. And also, we shall be discussing responsibility within what you are creating in consciousness.
You are the most familiar with your objective waking state of consciousness, but there are other areas of consciousness that are only very slightly removed from your objective waking consciousness. These areas are quite easily accessed. In actuality, you access these areas more often than you realize. You merely do not notice what you are accessing. An extreme example of one area of stepping sideways while you are engaged in objective waking state would be a state of what you term to be daydreaming. This is a more extreme action of moving sideways within your objective waking state. You may move slightly less sideways, holding to your objective waking state, not allowing yourselves to drift so completely as within a state of daydreaming but also stepping slightly to the side of yourselves, and you may hold a greater understanding of your reality.
In this, being fully objectively aware, you may allow yourselves a slight movement to alter your perception just slightly, allowing yourself to move into a feeling or a thought or a physical feeling -- not emotion -- and examine this area. In this, what I am expressing to you may be likened to creating a landscape for a thought, or creating an inner landscape for an emotion, or creating an inner landscape for a physical feeling; being fully aware objectively, fully conscious as you term this to be, and noticing a thought or an emotion or a physical feeling, and in this, isolate the individual thought or feeling or emotion and create a landscape for this within you. In doing this, you may view other elements that are connected with this thought. You wish to look futurely; you wish to see into your future. You may, by examining your inner landscape. You hold an emotion. You may create a physical landscape from this emotion. You may create an entire scene stemming merely from one emotion. Allow yourself to move into the area of the emotion, examining it, and from this allowing yourself to visualize, springing initially, colors that you may identify with this emotion. Create these colors into a landscape. It may be a forest; it may be a lake; it may be a beach; it may be a field. It may be any landscape that you choose; and as you visualize this landscape and you move into examining this, knowing that this landscape is created by one emotion or one thought or one physical feeling, you may allow yourselves to interpret the elements of the landscape, which may also inform you of the direction that you are moving into, which shall be offering you information of what you are creating futurely.
An example: You hold a physical feeling; an ailment. In this, you may look to this ailment; the affected area of your physical body; (to Letty) your asthma. You may look to the actual organs which are affected. In this, you shrink yourself into yourself, create a tiny little you, and place it inside of you. Look to the physical form and create an inner landscape. We shall use a landscape of a tree-lined meadow. In this landscape, as you -- being this tiny little you -- move through the landscape, you may view each element within this landscape -- each flower, each blade of grass, each tree -- as an element of you and the physical ailment. As you move through this landscape, you may alter the landscape. You may rearrange the landscape. You may place your trees in different areas; and as you move objects within your landscape, you also alter actions within your intent within your physical form, for you are altering your action. You may also allow yourselves clues. As you view new flowers springing up within your landscape, you may also interpret this as new elements developing within the landscape that is your ailment. As you view certain elements disappearing within your landscape, you also may interpret this as elements and aspects of your ailment disappearing. As you choose to erase elements from your landscape, you may also offer to yourself the acknowledgment that you are beginning to actively uncreate the ailment.
You may use this process of slightly stepping sideways within consciousness, being fully awake, being fully objectively aware, with many different aspects of your focus. You may isolate a thought, and you may create the same landscape. You may isolate an emotion and you may create an inner landscape which shall allow you to view aspects of this thought or emotion, and you may view what you may anticipate futurely; for as you enter more elements into your landscape, you may also be assured that you are creating more aspects connected with this thought or emotion. As you are eliminating elements from your landscape, you may also assure yourself that you are letting go of certain elements of the thought or emotion that you are choosing to be eliminating. You may also engage this process with each other. You may step sideways with each other within the desire to be affecting or helpful with another individual. In this, you may create a little tiny you, and you may enter another individual and enter their landscape. (Commotion in the room) I am quite pleased! In entering into another individual's landscape, you are not creating their landscape, but you may view their landscape. In this, you may be helpful in expressing to the other individual what you view within their landscape, therefore offering them more information also; for they may be blocking part of their ability to reach their landscape, and therefore you may be helpful in this manner. You may also intersect with another aspect of yourself, another focus, and you may connect with their inner landscape.
Now we move into the area of responsibility. As you are affecting of your own inner landscapes, you hold the responsibility to yourselves and to all consciousness to be affecting beneficially. As you move into areas of affectingness with other individuals or other focuses, even of yourself, you hold more responsibility, for you are now affecting of another focus. Therefore, you hold the responsibility of the expression of essence. This is very important! It is important that you realize that you DO hold a responsibility within consciousness. I do not express to you that all of your existence is merely an experience with no responsibility! You experience for the experience; but you also hold tremendous responsibility to be expressing from essence. (Firmly) Expression of essence is not to be concerning yourself with all other individuals and their creation of reality, and creating judgment within you as to other individuals' creations of their reality. Your responsibility is to be accepting within yourself, and of all other individuals! I may not express this strongly enough. It is very important!
This, be remembering: Each action that you create, you also are affecting within consciousness. Each action that you take, you affect all of consciousness. Therefore, you may quite understand the responsibility that you hold within these actions.
I express to you though, it is much easier than you realize to be stepping sideways within consciousness and offering yourselves much more information than you presently do. It is quite easy to be creating of these inner landscapes, and be offering yourself and others much information."

Elias

2006-07-05T05:34:00.000Z

2006-07-05T05:31:00.000Z

(Session 850 ):

"There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That is indeed each person's mission (intently). You begin by working in that area of activity that is your own unique one, with your own life and activities. You begin in the corner of an office, or on the assembly line, or in the advertising agency, or in the kitchen. You begin where you are---When you fulfill your own abilities, when you express your personal idealism through acting it out to the best of your ability in your daily life, then you *are* changing the world for the better."

Seth

2006-07-02T19:28:00.000Z

"Generally speaking, once a Speaker always a Speaker, in your terms. In some incarnations, the abilities might be used so powerfully that all other aspects of the personality remained in the background. At other times, the capabilities might be timidly used. The Speakers possess an extraordinary vividness of feeling and thought projection. They can impress others with greater import through their communications. They can move from inner to outer reality with easy ability. They know instinctively how to use symbolism. They are highly creative on an unconscious level, constantly forming psychic frameworks beneath normal consciousness that can be used both by themselves and others in dream and trance states. They often appear to others in the dream condition, and they help dreamers in the manipulation of inner reality. They form images with which the dreamers can relate, images that can be used as bridges and then as gateways into kinds of consciousness more separated from your own. The _symbolism_ of the gods, the idea of the gods on Olympus, for example, the crossing-over point at the River Styx -- that kind of phenomenon was originated by the Speakers. The symbolisms and frameworks of religion, therefore, has to exist not only in the physical world, but also in the unconscious one. Outside of your own framework, houses as such or dwellings as such are not needed, and yet in trance encounters or dream encounters with other realities, such structures are frequently seen. They are transformations of data into terms that will be meaningful to you. After death, for example, an individual may continue to create there -- masses of individuals may -- until they realize that the frameworks are no longer necessary. The Speakers were not confined in their activities, therefore, to waking consciousness. In all periods of your time they went about their duties both in the waking and the sleep state. Much of the most pertinent information, in fact, was memorized by trainees during the dream condition, and passed on in the same manner. These unwritten manuscripts therefore were also illustrated, so to speak, by dream journeys or field trips into other kinds of reality. Such training still goes on. The particular psychic or story framework may vary. For example, conventional images of the Christian God and the saints may be utilized by the Speakers, with all of this highly vivid. The dreamer may find himself then in a magnificent harem, or instead in a brilliantly illuminated field or sky. Some Speakers confine their abilities to the dream state; and, waking, are largely unconscious of their own abilities or experience. Now it is meaningless to call such dreams or dream places hallucinations, for they are representations of definite "objective" realities that you cannot perceive as yet in their own guise. The Egyptian religion was largely based upon the work of the Speakers, and great care was given to their training. The outward manifestations given to the masses of the people became so distorted, however, that the original unity of the religion finally decayed."

Seth Speaks,

Session 569

2006-07-02T19:25:00.000Z

:The methods, the secret methods behind all of the religions, were meant to lead man into a realm of understanding that existed apart from the symbols and the stories, into inner realizations that would take him both within and without the physical world that he knew. There are many manuscripts still not discovered, from old monasteries particularly in Spain, that tell of underground groups within religious orders who kept these secrets alive when other monks were copying old Latin manuscripts. There were tribes who never learned to write in Africa and Australia who also knew these secrets, and men called `Speakers' who memorized them and spread them upward, even throughout northern portions of Europe, before the time of Christ. The world was far more ripe for Christianity than people suppose, because of these groups. The ideas were `buried' already throughout Europe. Many important concepts were lost, however. The emphasis was on practical methods of living – quite simply – rules that could be understood, but the reasons for them were forgotten. The Druids obtained some of their concepts from Speakers. So did theEgyptians. The Speakers predated the emergence of any religions thatyou know, and the religions of the Speakers arose spontaneously inmany scattered areas, then grew like wildfire from the heart ofAfrica and Australia. There was one separate group in an area wherethe Aztecs dwelled at a later date, though the land mass wassomewhat different then, and some of the lower cave dwellings attimes were under water.Various bands of the Speakers continued through the centuries.Because they were trained so well, the messages retained theirauthenticity. They believed, however, that it was wrong to set wordsinto written form, and so did not record them. They also usednatural earth symbols, but clearly understood the reasons for this.The Speakers, singly, existed in your Stone Age period, and wereleaders. Their abilities helped the cavemen survive. There waslittle physical communication, however, In those days between thevarious Speakers, and some were unaware of the existence of theothers.Their message was as `pure' and undistorted as possible. It was forthis reason however, through the centuries, that many who heard ittranslated it into parables and tales. Now, strong portions ofJewish scriptures carry traces of the message of these earlySpeakers, but even here, distortions have hidden the messages.Since consciousness forms matter, and not the other way around, thenthought exists before the brain and after it. A child can thinkcoherently before he learns vocabulary -- but he cannot impress thephysical universe in its terms. So this inner knowledge has alwaysbeen available, but is to become physically manifest -- literallymade flesh. The Speakers were the first to impress this innerknowledge upon the physical system, to make it physically known.Sometimes only one or two Speakers were alive in several centuries.Sometimes there were many. They looked around them and knew thatthe world sprang from their interior reality. They told others.They knew that the seemingly solid natural objects about them werecomposed of many minute consciousnesses.They realized that from their own creativity they formed ideas intomatter, and that the stuff of matter was itself conscious andalive. They were intimately familiar with the natural rapportexisting between themselves and their environment, therefore, andknew that they could alter their environment through their ownacts.("Was Ruburt, or Jane, ever a Speaker?")Ruburt was.("Were you?")I was indeed. There were two others that you know of. The onementioned in class material, and the other yourself.Now the Speakers themselves in the reincarnational process can also use or not use their abilities in any given life, or be aware of them. You must remember, as a postscript, that there have been millions of Speakers."

Seth Speaks,

Session 568

2006-07-02T15:28:00.000Z

2006-07-02T15:26:00.000Z

Session 1443:

"For, there are no right answers. There are merely choices and experiences, none of which are right or wrong. It is merely a matter of which beliefs you align with and how you intertwine your own expressions of duplicity, which is also not right or wrong. It merely is your opinion and how YOU view and how YOU align with, in association with your perception. "

Elias

2006-07-02T15:20:00.000Z

2006-07-02T15:19:00.000Z

Session 1444:

"In that, you express fertile ground for successfulness, for you are not forcing your energy and concerning yourself with it and generating expectations, but rather turning and reconfiguring your energy and generating a different perception, therefore allowing yourself to be more playful with it and generating a curiosity as to your abilities rather than a force."

Elias

2006-06-30T07:56:00.000Z

ELIAS: Yes, I am continuously interactive. But if you are aware of my energy objectively or not, it is present continuously and I am there. In this, there are several actions that are occurring in these experiences that you engage as you are engaging these transcriptions. You are connecting with my energy, and you are generating several actions simultaneously. You engage the transcription, and it is continuously changing, is it not?

BILL: Oh yes, that it is.

ELIAS: This action occurs for there are several movements that are occurring. One, each time you generate interacting with these transcriptions, you change it. You change the past. For what you read, what you have already read, you have changed the past reading to be a new reading. In that new reading, you offer yourself new information and you offer yourself new understandings. And this is magic!

2006-06-30T07:46:00.000Z

BILL: I’ve been wondering, for the sake of others too, if there are others doing something similar to your present enterprise with us, in other cultures, for instance in Asia or Africa, and what form those would take as far as... Well, they must have their own individual direction in moving those cultures in the action of the shift. Could you speak to that a little bit?

ELIAS: As to other individuals that may be channeling information within other cultures, yes, there are in actuality many other channeling expressions that are occurring now. There are many more that are expressed in the manner of channeling information from their own essence, which is no less valid in information; but it also is dependent upon the individual, how they choose to be incorporating the action and what their intent is and what their family is that they are belonging to, in whether the information shall incorporate distortion or not. I may express that there are what you would term to be very few individuals within this present time framework that are engaging an energy exchange with another essence and that are engaging that action in a manner that allows for the least distortion. But there are many different expressions that are occurring throughout your world presently in which individuals are offering themselves information concerning this shift in consciousness. They may not identify it in those terms, they may be incorporating different words, but they are incorporating the concept of a shift in reality.

Now; individuals present themselves with information in many, many different manners. Many individuals present themselves with information through familiar avenues, so to speak, through religious organizations or through different types of organizations that are associated with established, familiar beliefs; but it matters not, for metaphysics is beliefs also.

Therefore, it is merely a matter of the individual and what they draw themselves to, what information they prefer and also what the individual’s intents are and what are their most strongly expressed beliefs. Some individuals are choosing not to offer themselves much information concerning this shift in consciousness, but that may be in association with their intent and perhaps they are choosing to be exploring conflict.

BILL: Yes, that makes perfect sense. I look at all these cultures and I see different personalities exhibited by each culture, each individual lending their own personality to the expression of the whole. It’s quite a mosaic. I like the way you explain it. So those that are choosing the Shift will create some kind of a bridge belief system out of whatever they hold originally, some kind of bridge to the equivalent of how they relate to this shift. Is that clear, as I’m stating that?

ELIAS: Perhaps, or perhaps not. You all are moving with this shift, and I may express to you that individuals choosing not to be moving in conjunction with this shift or in agreement with it shall disengage and not participate within your physical reality, for it has been chosen by the collective, by all of you that are participating throughout your world. In this, some individuals may be choosing to be in agreement with the actual shift in consciousness, but not choosing to be moving in their physical directions with it and therefore generating trauma and conflict, but that is also their choice.

It is not that they are unaware of what is occurring, in your terms, around them. It is what they choose in how they shall move. Some individuals, in relation to their direction and their beliefs and their intents and their individual value fulfillment, may choose to be experiencing the conflict and the trauma.

Those of you that draw yourselves to this information and to interaction with myself have chosen to be moving in a direction of the least conflict and the least trauma, and therefore offering yourselves information to prevent that action, and also choosing to offer energy to the whole, so to speak, to ease the expression of trauma and conflict even in association with those individuals that choose it, that it may be lessened than it might have been.

2006-06-30T06:50:00.000Z

"The Speakers were the first to impress this inner knowledge upon the physical system, to make it physically known. Sometimes only one or two Speakers were alive in several centuries. Sometimes there were many. They looked around them and knew that the world sprang from their interior reality. They told others."

-Session 568. Seth Speaks

2006-06-26T08:25:00.000Z

2006-06-26T08:17:00.000Z

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

Oprah Winfrey

2006-06-26T08:14:00.000Z

2006-06-25T14:04:00.000Z

"You view intolerance, and you are intolerant of it. You view lack of acceptance, and you incorporate a lack of acceptance of that lack of acceptance, be it in another individual or within yourself. You view yourself to not be accepting of some expression that you have created, and you are not accepting that you are not accepting.
This is the point of what we have been discussing, to recognize when you are creating a judgment, and accept that you are creating a judgment. This is what you ask for in your methods. Where shall we begin? How shall we proceed? Begin in accepting what you do not accept!
In the moments that you express intolerance, tolerate your intolerance. In the moments that you are not accepting of yourself, recognize this, and accept that you are not being accepting of yourself. This is the practice. As you view intolerance in other individuals, tolerate that intolerance.
You have expressed in this forum questioning of what you are participating within in these mass events. You have expressed identification of bombing. You have expressed in this recognition of bombing your wish to be altering the bombing, creating it to stop.
This is not tolerance of intolerance. This is not acceptance of a lack of acceptance. This is matching. It is matching expressions – intolerance of intolerance, a lack of acceptance of the lack of acceptance.

You express it outwardly with each other.

You express it MORE with yourselves."

Elias

2006-06-25T14:02:00.000Z

2006-06-25T13:52:00.000Z

"A seahorse assures happy ventures and suggests the need for more self- indulgence."

Tea.co.uk

2006-06-25T08:47:00.000Z

2006-06-25T08:18:00.000Z

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.

That means nothing.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

Albert Einstein

2006-06-25T08:14:00.000Z

2006-06-25T08:13:00.000Z

"Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns,

so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."

Richard Feynman

2006-06-23T08:36:00.000Z

2006-06-23T08:34:00.000Z

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes.

It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."

Wade Boggs

2006-06-23T08:28:00.000Z

2006-06-23T08:27:00.000Z

"Sex is energy."

Beatrice Wood

2006-06-23T08:09:00.000Z

2006-06-23T08:08:00.000Z

"It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities."

Professor Dumbledore

from 'Harry Potter'

2006-06-23T07:49:00.000Z

2006-06-23T07:46:00.000Z

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T.S. Eliot

2006-06-23T07:40:00.000Z

Norfolk Broads

2006-06-23T07:35:00.000Z

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

2006-06-23T07:33:00.000Z

2006-06-23T07:31:00.000Z

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains,

at the huge waves of the seas,

at the long course of the rivers,

at the vast compass of the ocean,

at the circular motion of the stars,

and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

St. Augustine

2006-06-23T06:59:00.000Z

2006-06-23T06:23:00.000Z

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet

and the winds long to play with your hair."

Kahlil Gibran

2006-06-23T06:16:00.000Z

2006-06-23T06:12:00.000Z

"If we are not happy and joyous at this season,

for what other season shall we wait

and for what other time shall we look?"

Abdul-Bahai

2006-06-23T06:08:00.000Z

2006-06-23T06:06:00.000Z

"Some men see things as they are and ask why.

Others dream things that never were and ask why not."

George Bernard Shaw

2006-06-23T05:58:00.000Z

2006-06-23T05:56:00.000Z

“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams...”

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

2006-06-22T06:20:00.000Z

"Generate a game and reward yourself. ... For in this, you also affect your perception, for you begin to recognize the humor in what you are doing."

Elias

2006-06-22T06:17:00.000Z

2006-06-19T18:51:00.000Z

"This information and this type of movement is, as I have expressed many times, so very unfamiliar that you each generate an intellectual understanding of what is being presented but the actual application of that understanding is much more challenging. That is accomplished in a genuine assimilation in which you know, not merely think. "

Elias

2006-06-19T16:49:00.000Z

2006-06-19T16:47:00.000Z

"Let me express to you, although I express to you all that all of your interactions are a reflection of yourself, that is not to say that they are a mirror. A reflection may be presented in many different manners and to accomplish many different expressions, many different identifications. At times you present experiences to yourself that reflect how you have generated a movement and how you have accomplished. Not necessarily to reflect a discounting of yourself, but to allow you to view within yourself what you have accomplished in what you have moved into, and therefore validate yourself."

Elias

2006-06-19T08:53:00.000Z

hail in june

2006-06-19T08:52:00.000Z

"Wait...you don't have to get your INNER BEING'S attention! You already have your Inner Being's attention! What you are wanting is that YOU have a conscious realization of it. This is the letting it in that we are talking about. If you feel unsure, not quite there...you are not allowing the connection. You should just relax and open to it. You are much more connected more than you realize that you are. It’s your doubt that keeps it from your awareness."~

Abraham-Hicks

2006-06-18T21:40:00.000Z

Vejer

2006-06-18T21:20:00.000Z

"Imagine where your breath goes when it leaves your body

The greater your 'period' of reflection, the greater the amount of time that seems to pass between events. You seem to think that there is an expanse of time between reincarnational existences, that one follows the other as one moment seems to follow another. Because you perceive a reality of cause and effect, you hypothesize a reality in which one life affects the next one. With your theories of guilt and punishment you often imagine that you are hampered in this existence by guilts collected in the last life - or worse, accumulated through the centuries. These multiple existences, however, are simultaneous and open ended. In your terms the conscious mind is growing toward a realization of the part it has toplay in such multidimensional reality. It is enough that you understand your part in this existence. When you fully comprehend that you form what you think of as your current reality, all else will fall into place. Your beliefs, thoughts and feelings are instantly materialized physically. Their earthly reality occurs simultaneously with their inception, but in the world of time, lapses between appear to occur. So I say one causes the other, and I use those terms to help you understand, but all are at once. So are your multiple lives occurring as the immediate realization of your being in the natural extension of its many-faceted abilities. 'At once' does not imply a finished state of perfection nor a cosmic situationin which all things have been done, for all things are still happening. You are still happening - but both present and future selves; and your past self is still undergoing what you think is done. Moreover, it is experiencing events that you do not recall, that your linear-attuned consciousness cannot perceive on that level. Your body has within it the miraculous strength and creative energy with which, in your terms, it was born. You most probably take this to mean that I am implying the possibility of an unending state of youth. While youth can be physically 'prolonged' far beyond its present duration, that is not what I am saying. Physically, your body must follow the nature into which you were born, and in that context the cycle of youth and age is highly important. In some ways, the rhythm of birth and death is like a breath taken and exhaled. Feel your own breath as it comes and goes. You are not it, yet it comes into you and leaves you, and without its continuous flow you could not physically exist. just so your lives go in and out of you - you and yet not you. And a portion of you, while letting them all go, remembers them and knows their journey. Imagine where your breath goes when it leaves your body, how it escapes through an open window perhaps and becomes a part of the space outside, where you would never recognize it - and when it has left you it is no longer a part of what you are, for you are already different. So the lives you have lived are not you, while they are of you. Close your eyes. Think of your breaths as lives, and you the entity through which they have passed and are passing. Then you will feel your state of grace, and all artificial guilts will be meaningless. None of this negates the supreme and utter integrity of your individuality, for you are as well the individual entity through whom the lives flow, and the unique lives that are expressed through you. No one atom of air is like another. Each in its own way is aware and capable of entering into greater transformations and organizations, filled with infinite potential. As your breath leaves you and becomes part of the world, free, so do your lives leave you and continue to exist in your terms. You cannot confine a personality that you 'were' to a particular century that is finished and deny it other fulfillments, for even now it exists and has fresh experience. As your moment of reflection gave birth to consciousness as you think of it - for both really came together - so then can another phenomenon and kind of reflection give birth to at least some dim conscious awareness of the vast dimensions of your own reality. The animal moves, say, through a forest. You move through psychic, psychological and mental areas in the same way. Through his senses the animal gets messages from distant areas that he cannot directly perceive, and of which he is largely unaware. And so do you.

Session 636, Page 154, NOPR

Seth

2006-06-18T21:03:00.000Z

2006-06-18T21:01:00.000Z

"Seriousness is a viewing and a generation of perception that is analytical with little point — not an analyticalness in genuine discovery, but an analyticalness which does not actually, in your terms, lead to actual answer."

Elias

2006-06-18T20:55:00.000Z

2006-06-18T20:44:00.000Z

"Now; I shall rock your boats once again and express to you, you identify within your beliefs a distinction between anger and frustration. You view anger and frustration to be different and separate expressions. I express to you, they are aspects of the same emotion.Anger is in actuality a beneficial and useful emotion in the manner that you have chosen to be expressing it, in association with your beliefs and its coupling with duplicity. For each time you are experiencing your definition of anger, you are allowing yourself to be projecting an obvious, objective expression of your lack of acceptance, which also offers you the opportunity to be identifying and to be altering that expression.In this, allow yourself objectively the recognition that anger and frustration are the same emotion. Therefore, you may be expressing anger without judgment. It may be expressed as an objective motivational expression, which in actuality is its design."

Elias

2006-06-18T20:37:00.000Z

2006-06-18T20:35:00.000Z

"Your attention is you. It is your awareness. It is the combined expression of your subjective and your objective awarenesses, those expressions of you that create you as you."

Elias

2006-06-18T20:24:00.000Z

2006-06-18T19:47:00.000Z

"I continue to be encouraging of you to be incorporating MORE playfulness."

Elias

2006-06-18T19:26:00.000Z

Chefchaoen

2006-06-18T19:24:00.000Z

".....color of blue. The essence family... Sumari. The Sumari are playful. They are creative. They are spiritual. They are your artists. They are not teachers of art; they are doers. The Sumari are doers of everything! They incorporate action. They materialize what the Sumafi and the Gramada initiate. This essence family incorporates great creativity.
I have spoken to you of the initiators, these being the driving forces behind the actualizers. Therefore, the initiators within the arts would be the manifest individuals who promote the individual artists. These of the Sumari are the artists. They do incorporate the spotlight. They enjoy being within the forefront of all action. They are not introverted or shy individuals! They are quite extroverted. They also are quite independent. They do not align themselves with groups. They do not align themselves with societies or governments or religions. They are your rebellious group. They are the individuals that butt against everything! They are your salmon swimming upstream! They do not conform. You will find, in movements of cultures, individuals who are refusing to conform to the norm. These individuals belong to the Sumari.
Within your culture, within this country of yours, you have been exposed to a movement of the Sumari before you physically, within your time of great change, within this century; your young individuals, your students who revolted, who refused to conform; your "flower children". These were Sumari. They are great expressers of love and freedom. They choose not to align themselves within groups, for they feel that this is constricting of their individuality and creativity. They are tremendous expressers of individuality. They are your triumphers for the individual. They are focused upon the development, within all creativity, of each individual. They stress spirituality, but only within the individual, not within a religious focus.
They are connectors. They connect essence to focus. They are also temporary. They are your physical "pop-ins" of cultures. They do not establish cultures to be lasting. They "pop-in" to established cultures, they encourage individual thought and creativity and spirituality, and they "pop-out"! They initiate thought. They initiate remembering of connections. You will not find Sumari in long-lasting cultural situations. They will appear temporarily to be "stirring your pot," so to speak, and then they will, as suddenly as it may seem that they appeared, they will disappear. "

Elias

2006-06-18T19:10:00.000Z

2006-06-18T19:04:00.000Z

"Your color of green; this will be represented of the family of Ilda. These individuals are very likable. They are extremely verbal. They are communicators. Their focus is exchange. They are travelers. They may be manifest as merchants, as gypsies, as seamen; any individuals that travel and exchange ideas of cultures. They are the "mixers". Without these individuals your civilizations, your cultures, would become stagnant. They also incorporate, within physical manifestation, as slaves, as pirates. They are quite colorful individuals! They exchange ideas from one culture to another. They bring infiltration of religion, of trade, to all areas within your world. Some, in other times periods of your history, were great jesters of courts, having access to diplomats and kings, and exchanging ideas and concepts between these of high rank and peasantry. I personally hold quite affection for this family. (Smiling) "

Elias

2006-06-18T18:57:00.000Z

2006-06-18T16:45:00.000Z

"Now; let me express to you an identification of allowing yourself to receive the message of an emotion. For you may be allowing yourself to receive the message without turning your attention to thought, and therefore you may receive the communication and not necessarily incorporate a thought or a translation of that communication in thought. The manner in which you shall allow yourself the objective knowing that you have received the message or the communication is that you shall discontinue the emotion, but not merely discontinue the emotion and the signal, but you shall also generate a sense within yourself of acceptance, or you may translate that into a momentary expression of calm."

Elias

2006-06-18T16:43:00.000Z

2006-06-18T13:27:00.000Z

"I am a tremendous advocate of relaxing! "

Elias

2006-06-17T10:22:00.000Z

SofOmar Ethiopia

2006-06-17T10:14:00.000Z

" I may express to you, many times future focuses allow themselves movement in conjunction with focuses within this time framework or other time frameworks associated with the accomplishment of this shift in consciousness, and many times may allow themselves to be viewed and interact in dream state or within visualizations in relation to you and other individuals in this time framework. For individuals within the time framework of the movement of this shift are widening their awareness, and therefore allowing themselves an openness to be aware of other aspects of themselves as essence. Therefore, in that openness there is a recognition of what you term to be future focuses which are manifest subsequent to the accomplishment of this shift in consciousness. Therefore, their objective knowing of essence is clearer, and they recognize all of the other focuses that are incorporated as the essence and do not express the separation that many other focuses do. In this time framework you continue to express some separation in your objective awareness, but in opening your awareness you also create an avenue in which you are allowing that type of introduction, so to speak, of more of yourself. For, one focus is not greater than another focus. You are all focuses of attention, but you are all also one essence. In like manner to your physical manifestation presently, as I have expressed previously, you incorporate one physical body manifestation, but in that one physical manifestation you move your attention in many, many, many directions. Each attention, each direction of attention, is you, but it may be focused upon very different expressions or actions. You may focus your attention intensely upon your finger, and in that intense attention of your finger your attention may not notice all of the other functionings of your physical body. You may not incorporate an objective awareness of all of the rest of your physical body, even your physical eyes that are perceiving your finger, for your attention is singularly directed. This is not to say that your finger is separated from the entirety of your body consciousness or that all of you is not present in your finger, for it is, but it is a matter of attention. You as essence direct attention in many, many areas of consciousness. Presently your attention is focused in this physical manifestation. Simultaneously you incorporate many other attentions which are all you and are all present now and in this physical environment, so to speak. You merely do not visually view them, for this attention is directed singularly in this one manifestation. I may also express to you that you quite easily, in relaxing your attention, may view any other focus of attention, any other manifestation, but in the design of this physical dimension you shall configure that energy in a manner in which the other attention actually appears to you to be the embodiment of another individual. This allows you the comfort of the solidity of your own individual identity as an attention and offers you less confusion if you are actually viewing and interacting with a manifestation that is familiar, another individual. Therefore, for the most part, individuals view other manifestations as appearing different from themselves. They may be different nationalities; they may appear with physical features that are different from their own. This offers you a comfort in viewing another aspect of yourself but not incorporating a fear or threat to your individual identity, for the concept of incorporating countless aspects of yourself as essence is quite unfamiliar within your physical understanding. This also, in a manner of speaking, is the process of this shift in consciousness: to widen your awareness to allow you objectively to incorporate a recognition, an understanding and a knowing that this is all you, that you are greater than this one singular attention; but that one attention is not diminished in the recognition of the entirety of essence. One attention is no less significant than all of the attentions or what you view to be the entirety of essence. Just as if you are projecting your attention to a chair, the attention itself is no less significant than if you move that attention to a lamp. The attention is the same. It is merely moved from one area or one manifestation to another. You are incredibly creative expressions as essence, for you may incorporate this wondrous action of focusing your attention so very singularly that you may view yourself as one attention to be the embodiment of a magnificent manifestation and be uninterrupted by any other attention. But you also incorporate a wondrous ability to be incorporating all of the attentions and not threaten any of them."

Elias

2006-06-14T08:17:00.000Z

2006-06-14T08:06:00.000Z

" You have created more of an intensity of movement — objectively and subjectively — within your previous 100 years than you have throughout ALL of your time frameworks throughout your history. .... and you continue to accelerate. I may express to you also... that all of you collectively are in actuality accelerating your movement, AND your movement of time. In this, you create this action by individually accelerating your own energy. As each of you creates an expression of excitement within you, you also accelerate the speed of your energy and its expression, and as you create this type of action en masse, you also accelerate the movement of consciousness in the accomplishment of this shift, and this is evidence, objectively AND subjectively. ..... You are allowing yourselves to become more aware objectively of perception, and you are allowing yourselves more of an identification and definition of perception as the instrument that creates your reality, acknowledging that this instrument holds the power to be manipulating ANY configuration of energy within consciousness, of which time is a configuration. In this, you do not “imagine” that you are experiencing differences in the flow of your linear time framework — you are in actuality creating alterations of your perceptions, which IS creating alterations of time. You shall also be objectively noticing, now and futurely, more and more, that as you express that you are experiencing an acceleration of time, many, many, many, many other individuals are in agreement with you, and are experiencing this same type of movement. You are experiencing this same type of movement en masse, for you are in actuality creating it. ...... You are, as I have stated previously, redefining all of your reality, and as you redefine it, you create your reality differently. This incorporates ALL aspects of your reality. The most affecting expression of the redefinition of your reality is the incorporation of the objective realization and knowing that there are no absolutes, which allows for the expression of elasticity. It allows you to manipulate energy and create a flexibility in ALL of the designs of your reality. Those aspects of your reality that have appeared to you previously to be absolutes and immobile in their definition are now being allowed, within the perceptions of individuals and en masse, to be defined as NOT absolutes, which offers you a genuine recognition of your power, of your ability, and of your participation in the actual creation of ALL of your reality. You are moving from the identification of yourselves as observers of a physically created universe to participating active creators of that physical universe, and subsequently, you shall be moving into the definition and identification of being the CREATIONS.....and this shall be the expression of the lack of separation — the recognition that the objective appearance of physical matter, as holding solidity and displaying separateness, is merely an illusion, and that this illusion may be penetrated in the knowing that all of the objects that you view within your reality, within your universe, are not in actuality separated from you, for they ARE you. .... Now; I may express to you also, you are moving in increments, but you are moving quite rapidly in these increments of objective understanding. In this, allow yourselves the recognition of the separation that you create even within yourselves concerning other aspects of yourselves that you identify as other focuses. You may objectively express to yourselves, to each other, even to me, that other focuses of you or of your essence are you. But in actuality, you view them as a separate individual, a separate entity which occupies a separate time framework and space arrangement. .... They are simultaneous. They are all present within this now and within the very space arrangement that you find yourself, for where you are, they are also, for they are you! "

Elias

2006-06-14T07:57:00.000Z

2006-06-14T07:19:00.000Z

"For in this time framework, in similarity to other time frameworks in association with these energy surges, you may incorporate that energy in generating tremendous ease or you may incorporate that energy in generating tremendous conflict."

Elias

2006-06-14T06:58:00.000Z

2006-06-14T06:56:00.000Z

"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

T. S. Elliot

2006-06-14T06:52:00.000Z

2006-06-12T22:18:00.000Z

"... when an individual is prejudicially preoccupied and predisposed towards a specific set of parameters and concerns himself or herself with little more than the comings and goings of strictly physical events and circumstances and conditions, then they will not be predisposed to notice other types of events that flow in and out of even their most intimate moments simply because they are overly fixated on the official line of consciousness whilst for all intents and purposes, that official line of consciousness has more holes in it than Swiss cheese."

Kris

2006-06-09T12:47:00.000Z

"For in the offering to yourself of appreciation, not discounting and not judgment, but genuine appreciation of all that you have created in your experiences within this focus, you also automatically offer yourself a genuine understanding and appreciation and compassion of your fellow travelers within this physical dimension; and as you create THAT recognition, you drop the veils of separation, and you create a genuine expression of acceptance, and this is a wondrous offering of freedom."

Elias Session 811

2006-06-02T19:26:00.000Z

2006-05-31T11:37:00.000Z

2006-05-31T11:25:00.000Z

"The barriers are yours. The barriers are camouflage. It is ridiculous to develop camouflage vehicles to deal with camouflage space, when all that is necessary is that you realize that camouflage is camouflage."

Seth

2006-05-31T11:22:00.000Z

2006-05-31T11:21:00.000Z

"... each portion of energy is endowed with an inbuilt reach of creativity that seeks to fulfill its own potentials in all possible variations - and in such a way that such a development also furthers the creative potentials of each other portion of reality."

“It is important for the race of men now to begin to use and experiment with the inner senses, since for the potentialities of humanity to be fully realized, new concepts must arise which cannot arise in the limited scope he now permits himself.”

Jane Roberts

2006-05-31T11:14:00.000Z

2006-05-29T19:04:00.000Z

" With greater practice, the contents of your own mind will become readily available. You will see your thoughts as clearly as your inner organs. In this case you may perceive them symbolically through symbols you will recognize, seeing jumbled thoughts for example as weeds, which you can simply discard. You can request that the thought content of your mind be translated into an intense image, symbolically representing individual thoughts and the overall mental landscape, then take out what you do not like and replace it with more positive images. This does not mean that your inner landscape must always be completely sunny, but it does mean it should be balanced. A dark and largely brooding inner atmosphere should alert you, so that you begin immediately to change it. None of these accomplishments are beyond my readers, though anyone may find any one given feat more difficult than another. You must also realize that I am speaking in practical terms. You can correct a physical condition for example, in the manner just given. If so, by examining the inner landscape of thoughts, you would find the source here that initially brought about the physical ailment."

Seth

2006-05-29T18:31:00.000Z

"IT IS IMPERATIVE, FOR ANY PEACE OF MIND, THAT YOU BELLIEVE IN THAT EXISTENCE OF MAN'S INNATE GOOD INTENT.

To identify man with his poorest works is to purposefully seek out the mars, the mistakes, of a fine artist, and then to condemn him. To do this is to condemn yourselves personally."

Seth

Nature of the Psyche

2006-05-28T08:46:00.000Z

2006-05-28T08:45:00.000Z

"If you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment; then you weaken your position and you weaken the position of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers! The tragedies of the newspapers are symbols. Those symbols represent "real" tragedies, but those tragedies do not exist in your moment unless you are participating in them. Those who are involved in such tragedies feel a sense of hopeless and a loss of power in the present - and you do not help them by taking on the guise of hopelessness!"

Seth, Conversations With Seth By Sue Watkins

2006-05-27T18:50:00.000Z

2006-05-27T18:49:00.000Z

"It is merely a choice for experience. It is an indulgence of physical senses, and be this not one of your reasons for your creation within physical focus, to be experiencing physically? Why shall you not experience physically if you are physically focused? If you are not choosing to be physically experiencing, you need not enter physical focus. You may be experiencing non-physically."

Elias

2006-05-23T05:53:00.000Z

"For the most part, as individuals allow themselves to genuinely notice — even within one day, but perhaps more beneficially incorporating several days — if they are noticing how often they discount themselves or how often they generate an association with lacking or how often they generate an expression of fear, merely the noticing of how many times you incorporate these repeated actions becomes somewhat humorous, and your attention shifts."

Elias

2006-05-22T06:20:00.000Z

Sumari Come Home

"The season had slipped into November's drear that Tuesday, the 23rd; about a dozen people had showed up, and we were laughing and talking as usual. The heat was banging up through the apartment's old steam radiators; a chill wet wind was rattling the windows. Jane talked about her father, Delmer, and his wild, brawling life. Arnold briefly mentioned his father's passing. Gert Barber told some more anecdotes about life in a convent. Vanessa, who attended class at that time with her sister Valerie, passed out copies of a local college newspaper, in which she'd published an article on Jane and ESP. Class seemed quiet enough—in fact, a couple of people said they were feeling downright sleepy. I had the vague impression that Jane's attention was focused elsewhere, but attributed it to her father's death. Part of me wondered, in dismay, if we'd end up exploring the ramifications of grief that night—something that in those days would have made me extremely embarrassed.
At 9:30, Jane called a break. Several of us got in line for the john or wandered into the little kitchen to yak. Bette Zahorian sat in her chair, looking glum. I smiled at her, but at that precise moment, my inner antennae perked up. Something was going on, something was whispering right beneath the familiar motions we were going through; right beneath the words and sentences and in the curve of our elbows and knees and lips. Objects in the room were suddenly bright and clear; as I looked, it seemed that each thing's color became more brilliant, more itself, more—real. Super-real. I watched Jane as she came back from the rooms across the hallway and sat down in her rocking chair. She was facing the bay windows from the other side of the big, barnlike room, made so cozy by the philodendron-tangled room divider that housed books, sculptures, pretty rocks, and a large black ashtray appropriately labeled, "BUTTS."
Jane adjusted her glasses and sat quietly, tapping the chair arm with her long fingernails (painted blue this evening)—a familiar gesture. "Break's over!" she called. Immediately, Gert and Sheila began to repeat for us their break conversation on "separate" or trance personalities. The conversation didn't get through to me somehow, but by then my own attention was elsewhere.
"I think there's a damn crowd of people in this room tonight," Bette stated; at nearly the same time, Jane said, "Wait a minute," in a soft voice. We waited. "I'm getting this hole-ripped-in-the-universe thing again," Jane said at last, referring to an expansion-of-consciousness experience she'd recently had during her Wednesday Creative Writing class. "I'm getting..." she paused, lowered her eyes, lightly tapped her fingers against her lips. "Oh, it's...well, it's like, it's... there's this hole ripped in the universe outside those windows, and it's like...like this group of people seem to be...uh, well, coming in, around the room...."
Jane's voice was quick and light, almost apologetic. Her eyes were wide and dark, as they are during Seth trances—but this was no Seth trance, by any means. You could see that she was really getting something—it was as though her small corporeal self were traveling faster than light, whirling through the fabric of space and out the other side, right there before our eyes. I thought of my peculiar impression of the "speed" of the Seth sessions, but something else was going on here; some event was really piling up. "I think—it's like their teacher, or whatever...is standing by the table in front of the windows..."Jane trailed off, caught up in it. We all sat still, waiting. I was on the floor in front of Jane's rocker. All the lights were on.
Abruptly, Jane Said, "Sue, hand me a pencil and paper, please." I grabbed some notebook sheets and a pen from Gert and gave them to Jane, who immediately started writing. "Well," she said after a moment, " I got this—uh, these words, from this group or whatever, I'm hearing this babble of stuff, uh, not English, and I think I'm supposed to say them, or something, Sue, and what the hell, and so I wrote them down, and they're—" her voice was suddenly loud and full—"and they're like this: SUMARI—ISPANIA—WENA NEFARIE—" each word was louder than the last, and Jane threw the paper to the floor, arched back in her chair, filled her lungs with a huge, ecstatic gasp, and literally screamed "DENA, DENA NEFARI, LONA LONA LONA, SU-U-U-U-U-MAR-R-R-R-I-I-I-I-I!!!"
The words wailed off the ceiling and echoed up and down the hallway outside. The hairs on my neck rose right up and tingled; tears stung my eyes, a sharp, white-hot thrill echoing through me just as that wail was ringing through the walls of the stately old three-story house. I was shocked and appalled and utterly transformed. And still today, writing this chapter or reading Jane's recollections, the memory of that chant brings an electric rush surging through me, tingling again in the roots of my scalp and the layers of my skin.
Jane was still arched in her chair, her eyes moving rapidly behind her closed lids. "Jane?" Sally Benson said, reaching over to touch her arm. "Jane, are you—"
At Sally's touch, Jane opened her eyes and sat forward, smiling around at each one of us. "It is with this always we begin, and we begin our classes," a soft, warm voice whispered. "It is with this chant always that we begin our endeavors in our space. It is not your own, and only a translation, for we do not use verbal communication. It is always with a facsimile of what we have heard that we begin our work, and in many guises and in many ways you are acquainted with our activities."
Jane's eyes were wide open, almost unblinking; the voice liquid and soft, like a spring night. I could sense, as Jane spoke these words, a great confusion of voices, or of people, buzzing somewhere just around the corner of my sight and hearing. To me, the room was packed; crowded beyond its physical capacity to hold us all—and indeed, reading this session over eight years later, I was surprised to recall that there were actually only thirteen of us there.
The warm voice went on: "We have always been here in your terms as you have always been in other places and other times, and there is a great familiarity and wonder on our part that you are still involved in these endeavors which were begun in your terms so many centuries ago, and in ways that you cannot now presently comprehend." Jane's later description for her feelings in trance was that "an astonishing graciousness" seemed to fill her. "Gracious" is certainly the attitude this voice fulfilled—as though we were all dear, precious, and living memories of a time and place nearly lost in the clouds of myth—almost as we might remember childhood stories about our ancestors.
"There are cities that we have built that you have helped build in other areas in your time," the voice said. "We have been here many times, and you have been where we are." Jane's eyes looked all around the room again, and suddenly she lifted up her head and wailed again, "Su-u-u-mar-r-r-r-i-i-i!"
With that, Jane began speaking in a deeper, ponderous voice. "And I am Sumari in another guise," it said. "And all of you have your guises and your masks that you wear and have worn. I am Sumari in another guise. And all of these guises are myself, and all of your guises are yourselves. And as I dwell in many realities, so dwell you in many realities."
My eyes were focused on Jane's face, but as this voice spoke of many realities, I became aware of two things simultaneously: a strong subjective feeling that I was vastly, incredibly ancient, and looking back fondly on a scene that centuries ago had turned to dust and bones; and secondly, that standing behind Jane's chair was a three-dimensional, quite solid golden figure, its head nearly reaching the ceiling. This figure stayed put even as I stared at it in mild surprise, though there were no details within its bulk. It was at this point, Jane later said, that she felt the personality characteristics of an old man and young boy at once—"an ancient boy," she says in Adventures—the ancient and the new, combined.
Again, the room seemed full, spinning with motion and light and sound at the periphery of perception. The gold-yellow figure faded, but in its place I kept getting strong mental images of tiers and tiers of dwellings, or of city-structures—waiting, it seemed to me, in a kind of "hold" position on the other side of space, building up enough energy to "burst" through.
Later, when class compared notes, we found that all of us had experienced some kind of altered focus of attention, including "visions" of groups of figures standing around the room. Rob, as it turned out (as Jane describes in Adventures), had also seen a vision—his of bright, jagged light, appearing as he sat typing in the apartment kitchen across the hallway, consciously unaware of what was going on in class.
"We are all Sumari...and you are all Sumari, and never forget that you are all Sumari, and have always been Sumari," the second, deeper voice was saying.
"Are there other family names?" Gert asked.
"It is the name of your family," the voice repeated. "It has always been the name of your family."
When the voice was finished speaking, it took Jane many long minutes to come out of trance—in itself unusual for her. By then it was past 11 o'clock, and time for class to end. We trailed out of the room, saying good-night to Jane, who stayed seated, answering us only vaguely, her attention still drawn in other directions.
The night was fiercely cold and damp. As I started down the street, I seemed to be stepping out of a session of dream-talk. "What was that all about?" I said to Vanessa and Valerie, who were getting in their car. I felt uncomfortable—yet triumphant, in some mysterious way. But this had been Jane's doing, of course; a new turn in Jane's development. Still, the next night, when I volunteered to record and type up the regular Seth session so Rob would be free to ask questions, Seth went on at great length about Sumari—not only as an important turn in Jane's abilities, but as a psychic alliance, or "family of consciousness" that existed "in all levels of activity... who come together for certain reasons, varying reasons; whose individual inclinations are somewhat the same...you may think of the guilds in the Middle Ages, for example," Seth told Rob. "It is a membership of choice, in other words; of attraction and respect, and usually this is bound by like purposes and endeavor. These are true families....
"Their main activities take place in other levels of consciousness. You are on missions, in certain terms. You do attend meetings, when you are in the sleep state [and] between lives. You work through many layers of reality at the same time. Now, these are the people, for example...the strangers that you see in your dreams. You are affecting each other's realities."
Seth went on to describe the Sumari "family" and its "strong psychic alliance and . . . the agility with which they can manipulate between systems, consciously, with purpose, and with some exuberance. They are given much more, for example, to ideas than to the various camouflage realities within systems.... Many groups, you see, deal exclusively with the camouflage reality between systems, with building it up, with its maintenance. [The Sumari] initiate the birth of systems. They constantly carry communications between systems, and they deal with the initiation and communication of ideas...
"The time, simply, was right for the [Sumari] information to come through," Seth said. "Two members [of class] had lost members of their own family. They were ready, therefore, to learn of their greater family...and you can be involved in this work only so long, you see, before you become acquainted with your true associates...You are being recognized, in your terms, as your present personalities, by your guild again. You are now ready to take up conscious membership. It is a way to acquaint your conscious self with your real and deep alliances." Seth added that while all those in class the night before were of this Sumari clan, as were others who came to Jane's class, there were other "families" of consciousness allied in their own particular endeavors.
After this first appearance, Jane's Sumari trances changed rapidly from week to week. In the following class, Jane explained some of Seth's information on the Sumari "family." "Seth made some crack about my 'dislike of brotherhoods, alive or dead,' " Jane laughed. "He said the Sumari were temperamentally suited to creative work but 'didn't like to hang around to mow the grass,' which is, I guess, a pretty good description."
Then, easily and smoothly, Jane slipped into trance, and the Sumari personality was there, wide-eyed and smiling, a certain softness about her face not lent to her by Seth's presence. This time, though, the words she used were not in English. At first, I thought she was speaking in French or Latin—or some version of the two mixed together. But it wasn't any language as we knew languages; it was language-like sound, rolling from Jane's lips with an odd eloquence, accompanied by lovely, graceful gestures.
"This soft, almost-inaudible voice of last week's personality came through Jane, talking seriously, pleadingly, and lovingly with Sue, Sally, and Florence in an altogether strange tongue," Faith Briggs recalls of that night. "At one time Jane absolutely conked the back of her neck on the straight-backed chair she was in, so Gert put a soft pillow behind her head....
"Jane went through all kinds of impersonations," Faith says, "like matching up characteristics of the present group of Sally and Florence with their age-old counterparts, singing lullaby-type songs, changing expression and tone and manner of voice, and ending up with this Su-u-u-mar-i-i-i! in a long drawn-out call. At one point I had goose bumps all over. Jane was trying so hard, in trance, to get the group [in front of her] to repeat and understand the words she was using. Like 'Old Home' week!"
The Sumari trance-person spoke to each one of us in this non-language. I tried for a few minutes to translate it word for word (a technique that doesn't work no matter what the language is); then I just relaxed and listened to the sound as you might listen to music. Sumari-Jane then gestured to me, pointed up the street in the direction of my apartment, and pantomimed a mother rocking her baby to sleep, all the while speaking in those tender, velvety word-sounds. It was sweet and obviously appropriate, but I found that I was simply not very comfortable with what was going on—its emotional expression was just too overt for me. And then, quite without warning, Sumari-Jane broke into song!
I'd heard Jane sing in her "own" voice, and I can vouch for the fact that she can't carry a tune very well at all. Although she loves all forms of music from rock to classical, she has no musical training (except Catholic school choir). But the Sumari songs combined many incredible facets of ability, including a vocal sophistication and range normally beyond her. "Jane, who had no knowledge or training as a singer, did what trained vocalists do," acknowledge Warren and Camille Atkinson, who are both musicians and music teachers.
Flowing from Jane with ease and joy, the Sumari songs were often interspersed with spoken Sumari, and displayed a psychological acuity as deft as Seth's—but without words. Her Sumari was like songs of the psyche; they captured an individual's inner "sound" and its relationship within the class. She might, for instance, sing in Sumari to two or three of us, using gestures, musical tones and rhythms, and a variety of voice ranges from a high soprano to a growling tenor, to express our own levels of interaction....

...I do think that the Sumari dramas were meant to lead us, through our emotions, into a knowing of our identities. The fact that Sumari-Jane spoke in music and non-language meant that you, the listener, had to feel an interpretation ("I cried and cried when I first heard Sumari," says Camille Atkinson) or tune out the whole event—which some members did, not liking the Sumari phenomenon at all ("Sumari was just so much noise to me," Harold Wiles recalls). I was caught somewhere in the middle of these reactions; yet beyond their psychological import, the Sumari songs and poetry were, simply, superb works of art. Warren transposed the Sumari "Song of Creation" and played it for us on his cello one week—surprising nobody more than Jane at the work's sophisticated beauty.
In Jane and Rob's private sessions, Seth gave extensive information on the nature of the language behind physical systems, and how Sumari was supposed to be leading us, through the quality of sound, away from the accepted structure of words and into the basic, multidimensional expression of being. "As I have often said, language is used as often to distort as it is to clearly communicate." Seth told Rob soon after the Sumari had appeared. "There is a structure within the Sumari language, but it is not one based upon logic. Some of its effectiveness has to do with the synchronization of its rhythms with bodily rhythm. The sounds themselves activate portions of the brain not ordinarily used in any conscious manner. It is a disciplined language in that spontaneity has a far greater degree of order than any of you recognize.
"The word Shambaline [for example], connotes the changing faces that the inner self adopts through its various experiences," Seth told Rob. "Now, this is a word that hints of relationships for which you have no word. Shambalina Garapharti [means] the changing faces of the soul smile and laugh at each other. Now all of that is in one phrase.
"By saying the words and opening your perception, the meaning becomes clear in a way that cannot be stated in verbal terms, using your recognizable but rigid language pattern; so we will be dealing then with the concepts as well as feelings, but seeking them through the use of a new method, and sometimes translating them back and forth for practice." And class being the testing ground that it was, Seth's explanations of Sumari were "tried out" in the strangest ways—beginning with the "Sumari Circle."
Seth had been speaking at length to us that December Tuesday about the inner doors that Sumari could open. "Each of you receives revelations every moment of your lives," he was saying. "Your life is a revelation. We are trying to lead you gently so that you will accept the revelations of your peers. Within you are answers and questions. The questions are to lead you to your own answers, and the answers will not be the same.
"The revelations have come through the centuries; the revelations are the centuries. The centuries are transparent. You can look through this history that you know. The selves that sit there know other selves. There are revelations within you that do not need words; they need to rise up like new planets into your consciousness, and you need to greet them gently and not give them labels or names.
"So we are leading you away from labels or names, and for awhile you may feel confused or lonely, for you only feel safe when you can name an experience; and you want to know, What is it? What is its name? Is the [Sumari] language a truth? Did it exist in the past—what is it?
"We want you to do away with the normal punctuation of your experience, for you put periods and question marks and dashes where they do not belong...the words are stepping-stones to lead you into other areas of experience. Within the word is a wordless knowledge. Now you need the sounds to remind you.
"In time—in your time—you will dispense with even the sounds. You will be walking backward, in your terms, into the heart of perception; therefore you will leave behind many of the truths that are now familiar to you, the words that you take for granted. For when you consider an experience, you apply words to it much more than feeling: does this word apply, or does that word apply, or what is it?—and without its label, dare I experience this unknown?"

Conversations With Seth
Copyrighted 1980 and 1997 by Susan M. Watkins.

2006-05-20T11:57:00.000Z

"Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness."

James Thurber