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Session #100 – July 10, 1987
Gloria’s Circle
Present: Betty Welty, Ida Nevala, Jean Chisholm, Jeneeka, LaMar and RetaMae
Bell, Myra Perala, Owen and Maxine Cramer, Peggy Muldoon, Sidney
Smither, Shira Subotnick, and Norita Finey.
LaMar led the AUM and beginning invocation. There was a short discussion about aspects of
Purposes needing clarification. Jenika led the opening meditation, and LaMar led us in sending
love to each member of the circle.
Sheariam: Good evening students and friends. (Responses and singing of names three
times.) Needs practice! Let us proceed with the commentary on the Wheel of Karma. You
struggle with words as always. What does “Purpose” mean?
Maxine: To serve an end.
Others: Direction. Doing something with reason. The reason why we do something. Goal.
Jean: Not being mechanical. Doing it with knowledge.
Sheariam: There is the essence we seek. Purpose as a step on the Karmic Wheel is that
thoughtful purposing, that intent to act by virtue of reason, awareness. When we speak of
Instinctual Purposing, we speak to that illogical, non-thinking… It seems no matter what
word we choose, we serve to confuse… your word ”reason” without the intellectual support
system, which might be called a motivator, a mobilizer, perhaps. These are those
Instinctual Purposes given. The Instinctual Purposes mobilize you to act in accordance
with what you already know, with what will provide the most beneficial outcome at a non-
thinking level… (Carefully selecting words)… at what we previously called “information
processing”. This is a continual activity, a constant, if there can be such.
There are many, many levels of accomplishment ahead before you can no longer
rely upon the Instinctual Level of activity to support your growth, your accomplishment,
your goals, your objectives. So do not think that you are going to manage to get out of or
away from the Instinctual Level. Matter needs Instinct. So long as you inhabit a material
body, you will deal with Instinct. You know by now surely that Desire, Emotional and Vital
Bodies are material. So you can then see there is far to go before you get away from
Instinct.
But as you move from Instinct to Purpose as a state of awareness on the Karmic
Wheel, you become more complexified. This movement from Instinct to Purpose is
geometrical. It is not direct. We suggest to you that as you pursue your understanding of
the Four Instinctual Purposes that you attempt to intellectualize them, because they are
subjective, because they are not Purposes chosen rationally. To get beyond them takes the
intellectual path.
Purpose, karmically speaking, represents many levels or avenues of activity. There
is firstly the Soul Purpose, to which all else pertains. But of that Soul Purpose, the Ego is
commissioned to actualize certain things in order for the Soul to accomplish this Intention.
So an Ego Purpose would be smaller in scope and part of the Soul Purpose. Then the
projections of the Ego share in that smaller scope through yet even a smaller area.
So as we bring this information down to you as Personalities on this planet, the
scope or arena of your Purposes is quite small indeed. It is highly individualized, and, in
fact, the personality will only deal with one aspect or facet of a major Purpose. But all the
time, in its complexity, it will find the Instinctual Level Purposes at the foundation of its
living activity.
At the current state of Evolution of the Race of Humanity, it is unlikely that any one
personality will ever discover the greater Purpose from which it has sprung. But as
personalities, you can look to your own contribution. You can move beyond Instinctual
Activity. You can choose what you will do. You can choose when you shall do it, and the
design of how you do it is up to you. If this were not true, we would not be here.
It is only through each individual personality making its contribution that the Ego
succeeds, that the Soul succeeds, that Spirit succeeds, that God succeeds. You may think
that thirst for knowledge which keeps you coming to this circle, which causes you to
ponder, to ask questions, may not be significant value to very many, and yet, if you did not,
the overall evolutionary thrust would be slowed by that minute lack.
Your thirst to know, to understand yourself, to find that minuscule portion of
Purposes, is a cog in the Wheel of the Universe. What happens in your mechanical world
when a cog becomes damaged or lost or broken? How well does the overall machinery
work? (It stops.) Would you have the Universe stop? (No.) You could do it, you know.
Shira: How is it possible for this to happen? How can we do it when we realize also
we’ve been told by you that the Universe is -- planets are created and destroyed every second. It
just seems impossible that we could do it in that sense.
Sheariam:You overlook the capacity of that which created you to recreate. As we gave
long ago, you are and you are not so quickly that it is beyond your perception. That
blinking of a light bulb that appears to you to be a steady glow is incredibly slow in
comparison to your being and none-being. Your Universe is and is not in the same way.
And in every “is-ness”, it is anew. In every “is-not-ness”, it is changed.
Given that you are now moving out of Instinct toward Purpose as a species, you are
developing that power of Mind which can indeed slow or speed up real Time. We have not
yet discussed with you the nature of Time, Space and Motion. This we shall do when the
time is correct to do so. But for now we attempt to give you the tools with which you
further your own evolution, and thus further the evolution of your Universe, not just your
Species, not just our planet, not just the condition you call earth life, but all your Universe
which has brought you into being.
Now before we move on to discuss “Will”, we would be happy to answer any
questions you may have about Purpose.
Shira: You said the species is doomed. In one case we’ve been told that the species is
not going to continue, that the planet is not going to continue. (We did not say that.) I heard you
say that the planet was not going to continue. (You did not hear us say that.) Then the planet is
going to continue? But the species is not going to continue? (Not as it is now.) I’m quite baffled.
The species is not going to continue as it is now, and the planet is going to continue, but it cannot
continue as it is now, because without this species upon it, it will have a completely different
destiny. And if this species is not going to continue as it is now, it will either have to have a
complete ending and a new beginning, as it’s been said before has happened many times, which
makes me wonder how the Purpose of this species is going to affect the Purpose of whatever
species is being or whatever life form is going to be the inhabitants of this planet. Now is this
Purpose going to affect that Purpose, if this species has already doomed itself?
Sheariam: Would your earth and your species be what it is now had the dinosaur never
roamed the planet? (No.) Then how can you doubt that the existence of your species will
have affect on whatever species is developed on this planet, or any other earth planet? The
Wheel of Karma is not peculiar to this planet earth. It is peculiar to any planet earth where
similar life has evolved.
Jean: When you say “the species will not continue as it is now”, are you implying that
the new species will arise out of this species? (Yes. How can you speak to the intrinsic
Consciousness as having value? The awareness, the relationship between Volition and
Consciousness will be different, but only so different as you have made possible.)
Shira: Are you saying then that the incarnation of this species can continue on in the
next species? (Certainly. As the dinosaur now lives in you.) No wonder I’m so heavy.
(Laughter.) I thought that when a species passed on or ceased to exist that some of them
continued on and some of them were kept in the astral plane. (True.) It never occurred to me
that the dinosaur would continue its growth in a human form. (Why not?) It just doesn’t seem to
hold true with other things that we’ve been studying. For me, I know we’ve had other
Consciousnesses, but it’s such a quick jump from dinosaur to human being. There were human
beings on the planet when there were dinosaurs, weren’t there? (A human species you would
not recognize as man.) But a human species. (Yes. And the species to follow this one will be
human.)
Myra: Would it be recognizable as human? You have already been told of the change
in body.) (Mention of air body.)
Betty: We were told that it would change within ten years, not much the exterior, if I
recall it. The way the workings of the interior of the body would be changing. Is that true, or is
that a misconception? (We did not tell you that. We do not predict in terms of time except
that which is already in motion.)
Sidney: I understand that there are parts of our bodies that at some point were probably
parts of bodies of the dinosaur and therefore inherently contain Consciousness of the dinosaur. Is
that what you are referring to? (Yes.)
RetaMae: And this is all accumulative through the process of time as we know it. (Of
course. There is no Consciousness that was lost. Because a species ceases to exist in your
terms, does not mean that it ceases to exist.)
Shira: So it’s a regrouping of rods, then. The rods just regroup into a new species. (That
is an excellent way to state it. Now some species are extinct because of interference, because
of improper appropriation, because certain requirements for their vehicle are no longer
met. These rest in the “astral” and await that time in the planet’s renewing when their
vehicles may again be revived, when conditions are such that they can again move to fulfill
the Intention of the Soul which initiated them.)
Owen: While these species are in the “astral” awaiting the proper conditions for their
return to physical, their experiences and thoughts are in the Mental Realm? (They are more or
less in your terms “on hold”. There is very little possibility for a change in the relationship
between Volition and Consciousness so long as there is entrapment in the “astral realm”,
for whatever reason that may have occurred.)
I was wondering if their experience was available to us through the Mental Realm. (Oh,
indeed, yes.)
Jenika: Will all those that are trapped in the astral realm eventually have the chance to
evolve and go to higher realms. (Oh, yes. The Realm of Spirit will see to that.)
Peggy: Would our bodies be more like what these UFO bodies have? Would they be
somewhat on that order? They are a higher consciousness, but… (That is too generalized for
me to answer. You speak of extra-terrestrials as coming from one single source. That is not
so. Do not be deceived that all such visitation is by Consciousness in advance of yours.
Technological advance does not guarantee Consciousness advance, does not mean greater
relationships between Volition and Consciousness.)
Owen: Are there some that are quite advanced in respect to the relationship between
Volition and Consciousness that do visit us? (Yes.)
Shira: There is a movie that I saw last night. It is entitled “The Man Who Faced
Southeast”. It’s about an extra-terrestrial being who comes to this planet and says that he is from
another planet. They do not have feelings as we have, yet when they see a need to do something,
they do it, which we term to be feeling, but they don’t call that feeling. They think it’s just doing
what needs to be done, caring for one another, etc.
First of all, has this been brought to our consciousness? It’s a Spanish film. Has it been
brought to our consciousness in relation to the starseed programming? I was just wondering,
because it kind of brought back the memories of the programming of the starseed we were
discussing a few weeks ago. (The lack of emotion in contrast to the emotionality experienced
on this planet is a distinct comparison, but it is not connected with the starseed crystal
implantation.)
Sidney: You spoke about the step of Instinct to Purpose as being geometric, as opposed to
linear, and I might of missed the explanation of that. Did I miss it, or could you elaborate that
further?
Sheariam: A geometric growth requires that multi-dimensional systems must be
developed in order to support the activity required of the higher level of awareness. At the
Instinctual Level, you might draw the analogy of a single cell. At the Purpose level, it’s a
very complex organism of many such cells which have grown to each other, rather than
growing from itself. In other words, to move form Instinct to Purpose, or indeed from any
step on the Karmic Wheel to the next one, requires that acquisition of ideas and capabilities
from the Mental Body. It cannot be done out of the resources of the individual three bodies.
It is difficult for me to find the proper words to explain such a mysterious process.
A fertilized cell has within it all of the knowledge, consciousness, everything it needs
to become what it is designed to become. In order to become something greater than that
initial plan, something must be added from some other source, so it is, as awareness moves
from Instinct to Purpose. At Instinct Level, the design is there for life to be lived in a
certain way in accordance with certain conditions. So it will remain until there is
Inspiration, until there is that brought in from the Mental Body to add to it.
Jean:The thought came to me that my thinking was “mutation causes the new
adaptation”. Now this seems to me that the inspiration causes the mutation. (Yes. That is how
Environment is built and Knowledge is gained.
Shira: How can you become more in tune with the Soul Intention or Soul Purpose? I’m
every day more concerned with fulfilling our highest potential, but that’s really not the Purpose.
Now you’re saying the Purpose is the Soul’s Intention or the ‘Soul’s Purpose. How can we
become in tune with that? (By becoming in tune with you as a personality and your little
“Purposes”. This is why we are attempting to teach you about the Wheel of Karma. One of
the failings of your great metaphysical movement is the stylization of impossible ideals that
have no grounding in everyday functional life. We insist: You must come down to earth and
deal with yourselves as earthbound human beings before you can fly among the stars. (Stated
very emphatically.)
Myra: You mentioned earlier about the need to intellectualize to go from one step to
another. (Yes.) And you said that is true of each step on the Wheel, intellectualize before you go
to the next one?
Sheariam: No. In the early steps there was no intellectualizing because there was no
intellect. Intelligence, yes, an inner knowing, a knowing that life must be, that life must be
expressed. Thus, that inner thrust demanded a vehicle be developed for that expression. In
the expression, the Environment is built. In the interaction between the expression and the
Environment, Knowledge is gained. This is by virtue of the initial relationship between
Volition and Consciousness. But as you move above that level, as Evolution begins,
Awareness is born. With awareness, one reaches into the abundance that is provided, now
endowed. It is that reach, that expansion, which requires Intellect.
The intelligence gained through such reach then must be applied. It is in the
application that you move toward Purpose. It takes intellectualization to apply something
newly gained. It takes intellectualization to reach for expansion. Geometric growth occurs
without purposeful action by virtue of an overall design, but at the individual level it is
incredibly slow. It is because you thirst for knowledge, you thirst to actualize your
potential, that you intellectually place yourself where that can happen.
People who are still functioning at solely the Instinctual Level are not found in
places such as this. As we begin to examine Motivation, and you look back at our discussion
of Purpose, it will become clear. You look back now at what you did not understand when
Silverthistle first came to you. But now you understand. You are grasping those principles.
They have meaning for you. You are able now to apply them. Much is understood in
retrospect that cannot be anticipated.
(Group is silent.) We have left you all dumb.
Maxine: I thought it was important that you said we thirst for knowledge and then place
ourselves so that we may receive it.
Myra: Also that it takes action to activate our knowledge, because, really, knowledge
that is inactive is almost worse than none, isn’t it, or is it? (While nothing is wasted, one who
harbors knowledge and does not apply it, in a very subtle way, denies the use of that
knowledge to someone else. It is a mystery we cannot explain to you at this time. You will
understand in retrospect long after we have spoken of thought.)
Owen: It seems as though we are operating on a very broad spectrum. At one end we
must come down to the little “purposes” of our daily actions. At the other end we are
intellectualizing and attempting to gain inspiration from the Mental Body. I guess we are
operating all in between at the same time. Apparently, we need to understand this broad
spectrum of operation to achieve the most efficient development. (That is quite true.) I was
thinking initially that this was a little bit of working at cross purposes, but then, if we’re working
on the full spectrum at once, I understand. (In order for us to bring the teachings, we must
keep them in small, highly focalized increments. If you cannot understand the single word,
“Purpose”, how would we, in one encounter, encompass all that you must know? We are
happy that you appreciate our dilemma.)
Jean: I find myself impatient to get on to the next part now. How do we get from
Purpose to Will? (How did you get from Instinct to Purpose? (Laughter.) Seriously, how did
you get there?) Intellectualize. (Yes. Let us consider, what is Will?)
Maxine: That which you wish yourself to be or for others to do, that which you wish to
accomplish. (You say Will is “wish”. Very well.)
Jenika:Is it Purpose put into action, because you have a purpose and then you do what
you can to do it? (How very well you said that.)Well, my guide is William, remember?
(Laughter.)
Maxine: Put purpose into action.
Shira: For potential, to open up new insights to Purpose, for action, for potential, and it
continues in that way, and that we go from one insight to Will. Is that what you’re saying? (That
is one pathway.)
Myra: Would it have anything to do with decision? (How can you ask?)
Jean: It seems to me it involves choice and direction. (Indeed, yes. Now with all of
that, let us go back to Instinct, the four basic Purposes. Why do you wish? Why do you put
Purpose into action? Why do you seek direction?) Because you want to get someplace. You
have a goal. You have a desire, a motivation to fulfill. (In terms of Instinct, what are four
Purposes of Instinct?) (Group: Survival, Security, Comfort, Luxury.)
Jean: And you want to fulfill some of those to get to a higher level.
Myra: You need to fill them all. (All of them, always. You do not ever abandon those.
Did I not say earlier, so long as you dwell in any realm of matter, you must deal with those
four Purposes at the Instinctual Level? No matter how elite you may become, how you
may function at the level of Thought, you still will function from the base of the Instinctual
Level. Why do you seek direction?
Shira: To will an outcome that you feel will place you in a position of higher
understanding. (And how is that served by Purposes at the Instinctual Level?)
Jean: You build a chair because the rock was too hard to sit on. You want a little
comfort. (Delightful! But why do you sit. Why do you not stand? (Comments: For comfort.
For luxury. Because your legs bend and you find more comfort in sitting. You’re built that way.
You need the rest to survive. (Why are you built that way?)
Shira: It was the intent of the Maker. I mean whoever designed this species to fulfill the
potential of the species as well. (The species designed its own body. Why are fish not sitting
in chairs?) (Comment: Because they float. In their environment they are in equilibrium with the
water, so there is no need for them to sit to rest.) (Certainly. And so you must find that
equilibrium with your Environment which you have created.)
Jean: It seems to me that now we’ve begun to move faster. Owen designed a Wheel of
Karma. (A wall chart) It seems that when you get to the top that this begins to move faster now
and be more understandable. (Because it is where you are.)
Myra: Are there going to be four steps of Purpose on the way to Will? (Are there?) You
said there were four Purposes of Instinct on the way to Purpose. (If you grow geometrically.)
Sixteen of them? (What is it within you that you feel when you exercise will? Dominance.
Jean: Pleasure.
Peggy: Protection.
Jenika: Control.
Jean: Anxiety.
Betty: Choice put into action.
Owen: Inspiration to do something.
Jenika: Certain discomfort with what’s there or you wouldn’t have willed it in the first
place.
Shira: You exercise will when you do your invoking, and you will to relinquish yourself
to the Universe so that abundance is yours. You will to relinquish, to let go rather than to
dominate. In letting go, relinquishing, then you become dominating. You do dominate your
environment or your universe. It seems to me Will is used in many ways. (What is the feeling?)
Control, individual control. Centeredness.
Others: Confidence. Commitment. Decision. Determination. Understanding that other
possibilities exist. (Looking at potential.)
Jenika: There has to be knowledge there, because if there weren’t knowledge, you
wouldn’t be motivated to move. (Do you feel knowledge?)
Jean: Yes, I think that I do. (Or do you feel that you have knowledge.) Unrest. A
stirring. (A stirring! Now we approach.)
Myra: A need. (A need for what?) Maybe it’s a yearning, a desire to change something.
(That is beyond Will.)
Jean: There is a burst of energy, a stirring with a burst of energy. (Good.) That energy
has to be there or nothing can happen. (Let us say “thrust”. Remember what Silverthistle has
taught about energy. Is there not a dynamic connected with Will?) Yes. (What is that
dynamic?) It’s a thrust… Change.
Maxine: It’s an ability you can use to change.
Shira: It seems to me Knowledge comes in many ways. (True.) Oftentimes my
knowledge is coming from my source group. (True.) It’s like this thrust or this energy could be
coming internally or externally, and that the conscious is all-important to be able to receive this
energy. The thrust has to be able to absorb or expel from one’s self in order to bring that Will
into being.
Sheariam: Now as we speak of Will on the Karmic Wheel, we do not speak of Divine
Will.
Shira: But Divine Will doesn’t come from your source group really, does it? (No. But
you do not exercise source group will. You can only exercise your own will.)
Myra:So this is will of a personality, then? (Yes.)
Jenika: There is a certain amount of risk-taking also. When you Will something, things
change, and you have to be ready to take care of the changes that are coming. Some of the
factors are unknown. For instance, how will this affect other people? When you put your Will
out there, they may not be happy with you, and then you have something else to deal with. So
there is a certain amount of risk-taking with this process also. (Consideration of consequences
has no bearing upon Will.)
Shira: But Challenge has. (Yes.) It seems this species of human being is motivated
highly by challenge. (Indeed, yes. And we shall approach that.)
Owen: You said, “What is the dynamic?” The dynamic would be the action factor. (Yes.)
The determination to do? (Yes.) Something along that line. (Yes. You suffer from lack of
language.)
Shira: You spoke before about “wants” being important. Your “wants” would have to be
hand-in-hand just about with willing, because you have to want something to will it. (We are not
yet there on the Wheel of Karma. Will came before Wants.)
RetaMae: I appreciate all this dissertation because it is causing me to really think. I guess it
is what I needed right now, a stirring up.
Sheariam: It would be impossible for us to give you a dissertation that could clearly
define and give you knowledge of the step of the Wheel we are calling Will. By question we
are attempting to draw from out of you that understanding. As we encourage you to make
that “reach”, much of what you will learn from us in the future will require that reach,
because we are getting now into matters that are beyond where you are in your evolution.
Now that is not to say that you do not have motivation, or that you do not enjoy
Thought, etc. But you do so at such a primal level that until you grasp this of which you
are, you cannot then grasp that which you are to be. If we say to you that you shall live
again in “air bodies”, can you grasp that?
Myra: In my imagination. I think it would be neat. I could fly. I think it is fun to fly.
(You can fly now.) I know. I do it.
Shira: This “air body”. Is this an energy body or something else? (Energy is that
Quantum of Life, whether it be a Matter Body, a Water Body, an Air Body, or Fire Body.
Energy is energy.) Are you saying then that Will is determined then actually from survival?
(Among other things.) I mean even more than among other things. I mean it seems to me at this
point if “wants” and “needs” all came after that, it seems to me that the only other step to
understand Will would be survival, which is the most basic of understanding of the human
species or any other species for that matter. You keep saying “among other things”, but it seems
all the other things stem from survival, and how you want to survive, how you will to survive.
Luxury, comfort, etc. (You have much study to do.)
Jean: I’m still back on dynamics, and I’m wondering if these other words are dynamics.
I’ve come up with “choice”, “selection”, “relinquishment”, and “appropriation”. But those would
all be a part of Will. (Appropriation! Took you a while.) And it also takes relinquishment,
because when you will, you have won’t. It takes a choice, and that makes a selection, and
selection means appropriation and relinquishment.
Myra: It sounds like all the Principles would fit there.
There has to be Ideation ahead of time, because there has to be some kind of idea of what you
want. I think the whole thing goes right in there. (My, my, my! Isn’t it astonishing that the
laws still apply!) (Laughter.)
Owen: Sheariam, do they apply with Will any more than with Purposes? (No. But in
your thinking, you are now not processing information. You are reaching. You are
beginning to grasp this and grasp that and put it together. Then what happens? Something
new is created, a new understanding, an elevation of spirit. Do you not feel excited?)
Myra: Is there a relationship between the Purposes of the Wheel of Karma and the
Purpose as the Principle for the Law of Relinquishment? (Yes, there is a difference. We could
not find another word in your language to serve both.) But it is wonderful to see how these
are fitting together.
Sheariam: Life, All-That-Is is one great mosaic. This is the point. We reiterate that not
one single thought, action, personality, anything is insignificant. Everything has its part, its
contribution to make to that mosaic. Without that minutest part, the mosaic is incomplete.
It is not the same. We tell you how important you are. Still it is difficult for you to
acknowledge your own importance. Even acknowledging it intellectually, you have not
begun to feel it. This is the feeling. This is the Attribute Feeling to be developed into the
Law of Dominance. You can believe. You can even know what you must learn to feel it.
Shira: First you must will. You must choose to will, to feel it, to try it in order to feel it. I
mean the Will has to be there before that. You have to have the understanding, the information
given to you, but you have to still Will to bring it into being so you can feel it. (That is so.)
Myra: And it relates to your desire. How much you desire it reflects that will, which, I
think relates to our Desire Body. (Yes.)
Jean: When we’re speaking of Will here, are we speaking of the entire spectrum of
Will, not just human Will. (Yes.) The entire spectrum. (The spectrum of Will applicable to
this planet earth for you.) Not just human. (Not just human, because of your Human
Quality, you do not fully comprehend how these same things apply to other life forms on
your planet. A plant must exercise Will. Animal must exercise Will, even your rock.)
When you said a plant must exercise Will, I thought of beans planted under a rock that
will push the rock up and climb out into the sun. (And science explains that activity in terms
of mechanisms, completely failing to recognize the Rod of Life, the Dynamic of Will. It is
instinctive for the plant to seek sunlight, but it takes Will to move aside the obstacles in its
path. So it is with you. At the Instinctual Level, you know you must survive. You know you
must be comfortable. You know that you must experience luxury. You know that you must
be secure. Because, what are the alternatives?)
And that bring up another question.
Myra: Wait! What are the alternatives?
Jean: No, it’s tied in with the alternatives. That different people have a different Quality
of Will. Now, is that developed or is that in the original part, and then that would tie in to the
alternatives. Part of what I am saying is that they have, say a God-given or source-given quantity
or potential for Will. Then it would make a difference in the alternatives. (The ratio of Volition
to Consciousness is that of which you speak. Volition is the capacity to act. It is not the
Will.)
Now is that at the time of creation of the organism? Does that vary in amount in the same
thing? Take two humans. Does that vary in amount that they start out with? (Yes. Volition’s
ratio to Consciousness is variable in each organism. The Will of which we speak karmically
is an evolutionary product.)
Myra: That’s the personality’s Will? (Yes.) So when you are re-born into the world, you
bring with you a different amount of Will? (No. You may have a different potential for
exercising Will.)
Jean: Then the question behind all that is, “How much choice is there, and how much is
pre-ordained?” (There is only that pre-ordination that an entity has accumulated for itself.)
So, an entity that has a small accumulation has the alternative to get more or to give up. (Yes.)
Myra: So how does that relate to the alternative in the four steps for Purposes. I don’t see
how that relates. (What is your alternative to Survival?) Non-survival and death.)
Shira: Another existence. (What is your alternative to Security?) Insecurity. But
perhaps that insecurity might bring about another understanding which will put you in another
place. (Exactly.) There are lessons to be learned at every step. Whatever your choice is gives
you another lesson, and you obviously have to learn from that. Whether it is positive or negative
is up to you how you take it. You have the choice.
Myra:Didn’t you say that Survival is in the long run to eternal life? (It is that intent to
endure.) So is there any way we can have an alternative to Survival? (As a personality, yes.)
By our choices. (Yes.)
Shira: Can we get back to what Jean was saying? She was saying something about the
amount of the Quantity of Intention. And you said it differs within each individual. (The “ratio”
between Volition and Consciousness.) But it can be increased then. It makes no difference how
much you come in with, then, you can still increase it with your individual Volition.
Sheariam: You Quantify your Quality. Will plays a great part in your quantification
efforts. It is not enough to merely have a Purpose. What is having a Purpose if there is not
Will exercised? Nothing.
Now between your departure now, and our coming together again, turn your minds
to what you think motivates you. We asked you to examine your Purposes. If you have not
done so, you will have trouble with this assignment. Examine the meaning of “motivation”.
What does that mean? And we will discuss that next time.
Now, if there are no further questions to be addressed, we will draw to a close with a
meditation.
Settle your bodies, and for the moment allow our recent conversation to drop from your
awareness. We will lead you in a meditation to clarify your channels of understanding.
Allow your bodies to relax. Let your brains relax. Begin to become aware of the
surrounding light of your own subtle bodies. You are nested and you are interchanging.
Through these fields flows a life-giving power. That flow localizes itself above your head
and gently beams its power in through your crown chakra. It flows gently throughout the
tissues within the skull. Where it flows, it opens blockages, it sensitizes the nerve ends. In
this sensitization there is an acuity which enables you to see, to grasp, to touch, the intrinsic
meaning that lies behind these things which puzzle you.
The gentle flow of power heals as it passes. It flows down your spine, and spreads
throughout your body, along the bundles of nerve tissue, the bundles of muscle tissue, the
growth of bone that supports the soft tissue. Wherever this power flows, it opens the
channels of communication.
As you feel this power moving throughout your body, your body becomes light-
filled. You may even feel incandescent, which, in fact, you always are. This gentle flow of
power increases the voltage of your own personal light. In that lightedness, understanding
is yours for the appropriating.
Let that light flow through you. Let it circulate round and round through you,
lighting dark corners, bringing clarification, uplifting your heart, inspiring your
imagination, causing you to want to reach beyond yourself.
So inspiration is born. The matter of your life, of your body, of all of you is
stimulated. You know that you can, and think you can do. You can understand clarity not
before experienced.
Now, see that infilling light as golden. Let it flow out your extremities. Let it
continue to come in through the crown. Let it circulate between you as individuals. The
circle begins to glow a beautiful golden halo. Into that beautiful golden glow you place your
wishes, your aspirations, your desires for yourself and for your planetary home. Your
wishes for peace, for prosperity, for balance, harmony and equality.
Then into this loving, healing, golden glow, you may invite those about whom you
have concerns. (Many names softly spoken.) As the consciousness of your invited guests
arrive, the golden glow gives them also the healing of clarification, the power to grasp, the
understanding that enables them to put their own lives in order.
Now the people of the temple join you, surround you with their love, and help you,
as with the power of your minds you disperse the golden glow throughout your planet that
all may receive the benefit of clarification who seek it.
And with blessings, release your loved ones to return to themselves. Bless each other
in the circle. With our love and blessings we leave you now until we meet again. Go in great
joy and peace.
Closed with singing “Let there be joy on earth.”
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