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Session #101.5 – May 6, 1988 Silverthistle Healing Seminar at Collins Retreat
Silverthistle visited the retreat Friday evening, Saturday morning and twice on Sunday. There were twenty-three attendees.
(Friday Evening)
Silverthistle: Greetings, beloved ones. My channel and I have worked in other manners for so long, but I was determined to speak to you. It is time for the work to go forward. I’ve reached you again, those with whom I spoke last. It is with pleasure that I come. It is time, and time far gone, that you work in higher levels of consciousness and effort. Too long have you remained ignorant of who you are. You are few, it is true, but to chase the shadows takes only one light, no matter how dim. You must shine your beacons if you are to make your contribution to your kind, to your home and to the futures of those whom you love. It is not sufficient that you lead a good life. It is not sufficient that you be content. It is important that you be radiant, that you radiate the truth of what you are. You are truthful beings, are you not? Of course, you are. Do you know the truth of your being? Do you?
Myra: Sometimes I know, but sometimes I feel like I miss the mark.
Silverthistle: Yes, and we all miss the mark, time and time again, until we reach perfection, but that does not prevent radiation of your truth. How can you radiate your truth if you do not know it? You must seek it, and if you were not seekers, you would not be here. You are seekers. Some of you may recall the trip you took with me into the temple. Do you recall? (Yes.) It is my intention to take you again by the hand to explore new territories, areas of consciousness as yet hidden from you. It is no longer satisfactory that you merely seek that which brings you discomfort and disease. That is the beginning. That is where one starts: with the examination of the light, the hazards, the obstacles, the “I can’ts”. It is for you to find the “I won’ts” and “I wills”. That takes higher consciousness. That requires more Volition. That requires the utilization of all of your Quantity. Then you add more Quantity. There is no limit to what you can achieve. There is no goal impossible for you to reach. There is no star too far that you cannot visit it. You are not confined to this small surface. You do not even live the greater part of your life on this little surface. The greater part of your life encompasses vistas you have not yet imagined. I wish to sponsor that exploration within you, for it will be the explorers that take your species into the future, a future that is now possible, that a whisper of time ago was all but lost. You have many, many, many who join you, unknowing to be sure, but that is of no consequence. You do many things unknowingly, but still it gets done. That is what is important: that they be done. When you give a moment of thought to a future of peace, of honor, of equity, you have banked enormous wealth for your species. Yet to you, it is nothing but a moment. Even in moments of distress, you will say, “I wish”, “I wish things were different”. “I wish things were better.” “I wish, I wish.” In that thought you have created something. You have created that for which you have wished. But failing to know that, you do not further its growth. You create so much, idly, without forethought. Your least thought establishes something. This you must come to realize to embed that knowledge within your awareness: that a wish does not remain a mere wispy thought, but is built upon, is brought to fruition, in the way that you would have it, not for someone else, but for yourself. How would you have your future? If you could chronologically extend your life 100 years of earth time, what would you have? Have you ever thought that you do create what you will have 100 years from now? Do you realize that what you have now was created by thought in a forgotten past? It is not just yesterday. It is not just tomorrow. It is all the yesterdays, and all of the tomorrows, that you are living today. Let today be that Radiant Life. Let it be that joyous hymn. Above all, let it be, not make it be. Let it be. Call it forth. Create knowingly, and be willing to be recreated in a more joyful whole mold. That is my message to you.
(Saturday morning)
Silverthistle: As I promised, I am here to dialogue with you, to discuss your private concerns, your individual needs. But let us confine our discussion to the topic at hand, that being those physical discomforts and diseases which are the manifestation of other causes. You may ask questions, being courteous to each other.
Betty: Silverthistle, will you please expand on what you said last night about not seeking these physical diseases and discomforts.
Silverthistle: There is great power inherent in physical disability. When your power seems to be waning or diminishing in some particular area, it is a natural avenue for the human in earthly condition to seek a condition that will enhance the power. Under the Law of Dominance, this often is found in the manifestation of some discomfort or disease. As you focus your attention upon those manifestations, which you believe you are merely coping with, you come to understand that the cause is not what you wish to believe it to be. It is not easy to admit to one’s self that your discomfort is a manipulation of your environment, but it takes that admission to develop the Volition to evolve a more positive manifestation. The most positive manifestation is joyous beingness. In a state of joyous beingness, one has no need for disease or disabilities.
Sue: Silverthistle, I’ve had a long-term middle back pain. Then in the last year, my elbow is sore to the point where my arm is sore, and I don’t have the strength in my arm, my right arm. I would like to know where all this is coming from. What is behind it?
Silverthistle: The body manifests in its parts in correlation to the cause. As you use your back to stand upright, therein lies pain. You must examine your motives, your circumstances, your choices, as to what there is that you feel you cannot stand up to, to face, or confront. Tendonitis is a physical manifestation of a lack of ability to make right connections and bring those right connections into proper function. So character must be analyzed to see what parts of character are not cooperating with each other in order to accomplish the goals desired.
Michael: Last time you were here I had some back pain I asked you about, and you said I was trying to shoulder too many responsibilities. You recommended that I quit my job. I haven’t been working for four or five months and these pains are considerably better. They are not my main concern at the moment. Now I have this tremendous anxiety, and kind of depression. It centers around: before I was doing the wrong thing to fulfill myself. Now, I feel like I’m in the wrong place. I live in the wrong place, so I drive around looking for places where I feel more comfortable, but I can’t figure it out. I have all this opportunity, and choice, and so forth, and I have this anxiety focused around place.
Silverthistle:Geographical place is immaterial. It is important that you find your place within yourself, that focus which best allows you to express your power in a way that benefits others. You have a very strong drive to help, to help people, to help the earth. But most of all, you must first help yourself. This does not require a latitude and longitude. It requires expansion of self-understanding, of self-meaning, of self-purpose, and a definition for one’s self of the contribution you desire to make. Then, you find the vehicle which allows you to make that contribution. Your anxiety stems from having no direction, or not having found that means of expressing that creativity which constantly wells within you.
Michael: Wouldn’t a particular place, like being in the woods, for example, and away from people, help to foster, or getting out of my current mish-mash of relationships, help foster…. I don’t know what I want. I don’t know what my direction is.
Silverthistle: One only finds oneself in solitude, and acknowledging that you need to reserve your space in isolation is a positive step in self-understanding. You tend to seek answers from outside of yourself, whereas the answers you seek lie within your own memory. A retreat which permits you to withdraw from human input would be an excellent beginning step of self-discovery for you. Michael For example into nature or another country? (Again, you seek to escape into a culture. You need to first withdraw from culture.) Going to nature?
Silverthistle: This is one avenue. As you seek to escape into rather than out of, you continue to find that input which covers the truth and reality. You must disrobe the trappings of civilization and get in touch with basic essential reality of power. Sometimes for the human condition, this requires survival circumstances. Only through the loss or dismemberment of acquisitions does one find that bare reality from which consciousness cannot be divorced. Maria: Silverthistle, may I make a request? Can you give me a clue as to what is causing the disease in my left shoulder? What am I doing wrong, or not doing?
Silverthistle: You must question yourself as to what undertaking is the focus of your attention which denies you the opportunity to combine subjectivity with objectivity. One can become unbalanced, that is to say, disorganized in one’s energy systems pattern when one attacks an endeavor from one sole stance rather than a well-rounded program.
Betty: Could you please enlarge on what you mean by “one sole stance”?
Silverthistle:Human nature has the capacity to become enamored of a particular avenue. This may be an avenue of total control, total intuitive approach, or total worldly approach, or total freedom approach. Whereas to live in this earthly condition, one must combine the aspect of earth substance with the aspect of intuition, combining that which is known within, with that which is known without, and find that roundedness, wholeness, rather than approaching from one direction only.
Jean: When at the last session you told me that I had to work on relinquishment, at that time it had one meaning for me. Now, it has a very different meaning, and during the time I’ve had a great many experiences, many of them physical and some emotional. And I feel now that I have much more energy than I had at that time. I have several questions: One of the relinquishments I’ve come to recently is to give up milk, and other things, too, but I really like milk. I do have a lot more energy, and I wondered if it is necessary to give up milk, or if it’s other things that have been happening. Also I feel that the focus of my life purpose has come into focus much more, and I think that is the healing. Can you bring me up to date on the meaning of what’s happening? It seems that there’s a much more coming together of the physical and the spiritual and more understanding, but I still am seeking.
Silverthistle: In your relinquishment you have relinquished biases, prejudices, opinions, beliefs. This is a required step for change. So long as one persists in a particular mode of thought, then other possibilities are denied. You have opened avenues of possibility, which now permit you to evolve some potentials which had remained repressed throughout your lifetime. It would behoove you to give up all animal products. You would find that the benefits derived would far outweigh the benefits of the enjoyment of the products then relinquished.
Joni: Is that a specific to Jean, or is that….?
Silverthistle: Indeed, yes. (It is specific to Jean.) This particular earth system which you now inhabit, suffers greatly from many accumulations of ingestion of animal products at a time when the animal products were not proper for human consumption. And now from your far-memory the body responds.
Vivian: Silverthistle, I have a question on my present progress in learnings and dealings and awareness… Am I on the right track? Should I continue as is? Or should I make some changes in my approach?
Silverthistle: You also are being constrained by certain belief systems and biases which are not in and of themselves hurtful to you, but in the banishment of these barriers you can then ferment and promote the blossoming creativity.
Katherine: I have a question: I have two daughters. Each of them has two tumors. Those of one daughter have been diagnosed as cancer. The others have not been analyzed. The fact that I’m here on Mother’s Day weekend may show a certain kind of loving detachment.
Silverthistle:Cancer as a human disease is a physical manifestation of the utter belief that one no longer has control. In order to conquer cancer, one must become acutely aware of the power one can exercise over one’s own destiny. Cancer is a manifestation of a giving up, of a defeat attitude. Anything that you can do to assist a cancer-afflicted individual to change the attitude, assists that individual to conquer the disease. There is no such thing as an irreversible process.
Katherine: The one who has been diagnosed is following medical procedures, but is also exploring spiritual help.
Silverthistle:A visualization technique which is most efficacious is that of transporting cellular tissue. In the case of a tumor, visualizing the tumor as made up of blocks, such as children’s building blocks in miniature. Visualize taking those blocks apart, changing that structure. Re-arranging the blocks permits that imagery to travel to the cellular consciousness of the cells making up the tumor and gives them the opportunity to change their direction. So long as one treats one’s disease with the concept of “I shall get rid of this”, so long will the cells resist being gotten rid of. One might as well get rid of one’s children. For one has given birth to these cells, which are doing something one considers undesirable. If you would have the maligned become benign, then retrain them. Visualization is one of your most powerful tools for this to occur.
Katherine: What’s the best way for me to help as a mother?
Silverthistle: Bless. You cannot do it for your daughters. You bless, and you bless again. You visualize your daughter’s opportunities opening to her for her to take action. If she invites your advice and help, sit and visualize with her, but do nothing to her.
Jon Paul: At last year’s healing retreat, I asked about certain attitudes that I needed to relinquish and you said that I need to (words not clear on the tape). I’ve gone through quite a process of change this last year, and I wondered if you would relate that to how it affects my physical body, relinquishing, and could I get an update on what I’m working with? Any ideas?
Silverthistle: As you relinquish those attitudes of, let us say, crime and punishment, you permit the digestive system to operate more efficiently. So long as your attitude is one that you are falling short of fulfilling goals established for you by another, so long will you suffer internal complaints. Examine your goals. Examine what it is that you wish to contribute to mankind as a whole. Then examine how much of your bias comes from those around you which you empower by acceptance.
Jon Paul: In other words, be open to viewing new possibilities, and growing into those possibilities. (Yes. Be unafraid.) Would this also refer to geographics? I know you spoke earlier about geographic change not making a difference, but it could. (For our friend, it does not answer his question. For another, it could.) I have a desire to learn Spanish, and I’m not sure how that fits in, other than the fact that I’m working more with Spanish-speaking people. Could you say anything to that? (You are reaching back to touch that life that is now being lived as another part of the being that you are. Later, I shall attempt to guide you, and all of you, to acquaintanceship with that most near life form that has a bearing upon what you are and how well you are what you are.)
Jenika: I was at the last healing retreat with you, and I was able to use your advice. Thank you. I have some more problems that I haven’t been successful in dealing with. They are all on the left side of my body, as all the injuries I’ve ever had have been. I’m curious about that. It’s my left arch, my left knee, my left ear and my left neck and shoulder. I’m most concerned about my ear and the arch in my foot. I’m also concerned about my knee. But I’m most concerned about my ear. If you could address that, too, Why it’s always one side of my body. If you could speak to me about what I want, and what my blockages are, I’d appreciate it.
Silverthistle: Fear. So long as those blockages exist, you have excuse for not taking the risk that another part of you dictates. You count the cost and the price seems too high. Until you are willing to accept what the price appears to be, you will never know what the real price is. Then you find that it is not a cost at all, but is, in truth, a prize. (I’ll have to think about that. Thank you.)
Edith: I, too, am concerned about an apparent continuing loss of hearing. Would you care to help me determine what the cause is and what I can do about it?
Silverthistle: In general, loss of hearing is a choice not to listen. For you, specifically, you choose most often not to listen to your inner dictates and by developing a physical disability called hearing loss, you have an excuse not to listen.
Steve:(Question about insomnia and allergy.)
Silverthistle: You continually keep your nervous system stimulated. You have not taught yourself the benefit of true thought as opposed to thinking. When you begin to control that thinking process which seems like a train headed at full speed down the track, when you can bring that to a halt, and give yourself time to look around the landscape and be at peace, then the opportunity for true creative thought can be enjoyed, and taken advantage of. This will be the peace which will allow you to sleep, and in turn will assist in the reorganization of your imbalance.
Betty: I need some help with the physical body. I seem to be exchanging one physical problem for another, and I can’t find solutions. I need help to release the need for this discomfort. I feel that if I could get in touch with the thought patterns and the mental processes of what goes on, I might make some progress. Could you please give me some help as to what is happening in my body.
Silverthistle: You choose obligations and responsibilities and then compulsively drive yourself to fulfill them. You find it difficult to withdraw and detach and allow others to make mistakes, because you count the cause as your own. When you cease to expect perfection of yourself, knowing that the ideal can exist without being fully manifest, you will give yourself the latitude that will not require blockages. As you block off one portion, you empower, you think, another portion. Whereas, in fact, you inhibit the full expression. Do you understand? (Not completely.) Some of the responsibilities that you choose, involve what you see as the responsibility of others also being yours. If that other fails to fulfill the responsibility, then you compulsively must fulfill the responsibility, since you have adopted it as your own. You are unwilling to allow the worst to happen. Sometimes, in order to release blockages, one must let the worst happen to find out that it really is unimportant. You see, it is a system of values. This is true of all of you. You establish certain values, criteria of accomplishment by which you can judge yourselves. Relax. Ask yourselves, “Is it necessary that I judge myself? Are my values truly of value? Are my priorities real? Is this indeed more important than that? Do I need to do what makes me feel inadequate? Why do I feel inadequate? To whom do I answer if my performance falls short of my ideal?” Does that help? (It helps. Have I put myself in a no-win situation with my job?) At times. Not entirely. There is never an irreversible. Do not forget that. This is not a realm of absolutes. You are in process, and where there are processes, there can always be change, positive.
Betty: May I ask one more question? Would the thing to do, be to visualize ideals and go toward that, as far as the balance of life would be concerned? (If you do not add compulsiveness. You may be impulsive. You must not be compulsive.)
Mary: Silverthistle, this is Mary. My knees will not hold me in a bent position. Therefore, I can not go up and down stairs as a normal person does. My knees have to be straight. I don’t think it is arthritis, because I can bend the knee. It’s not stiff. It just will not hold the weight.
Silverthistle: Because the tendons which allow the knee to sustain weight in a bent condition have been stretched too often and have lost their elasticity. Therefore, in addition to the physical therapeutics which would be applied, in consciousness, you must develop elasticity, which, then permits the tendons to return to proper length and strength. (Are you saying that I am too rigid in my thinking?) You tend to stretch and then not return. Elasticity.
Jean: Can you tell a visualization that would help to overcome a loss of bladder control following a prostate cancer treatment? (You understand that sphincter muscles, like any muscle, require exercise to maintain tone?) What if the nerve has been cut? (Nerve can be re-grown. There is no irreversible. Please believe.Any tissue in your body can be re-grown if you choose. Visualizing a sphincter muscle opening and closing at will retains the cellular consciousness and re-grows the neurons which carry the message.)
Joni: This is the first time I’ve had a chance to meet you. I want to thank the teachers for the wonderful life reading I received. It was so special. I have a couple of questions regarding that: On a physical level I’ve had ongoing issues with my bladder, and I would appreciate any guidance in dealing with that. Also I’ve started to work in chlorinated water again and find it very unpleasant to me, both for my skin and my head with congestion. Can you offer me some suggestions on what is happening and how to deal with it?
Silverthistle: Oxygen neutralizes chlorine under certain circumstances. Before exposing yourself to the chlorinated water, do some deep breathing and increase the oxygenation of your blood stream so then your body can handle the chlorine. This is the physical thing which you can do. At another level you can, through visualization and affirmation, train your brain to perform those functions which do not allow the chlorine to have cellular effect. The channel must be relinquished. I will rejoin you later. (Thank you’s, etc.)
Sunday morning:
Silverthistle: Let us not waste ourselves idly. Let us proceed with that for which we came. You have dealt with the physical organism in discussion and some experimentation. You have considered levels or conditions of consciousness. Let us now address those other realities in which you exist, in which you have meaning, function and creativity. Close your eyes. Withdraw your focus of attention from who you think you are at this moment. With your capacity for imaginative visualization, imagine turning about within your physical organism, so that you see out your back. At first, it may seem to be blank or dark, obstructed. Be at peace. Arrive at a condition of comfort in this disoriented relationship with your physical organism. Now begin to allow the focus of your attention to unfold, gently and slowly, moving out from the back of the physical organism, following those pathways of circulation of your force, so that you are moved upwardly on these pathways of force. You are leaving your physical organism in its cellular awareness, seated in your chair in this room. This rising is an unfoldment. Begin to feel the freedom outside that physical organism. As you become accustomed to this unusual freedom, you will become aware of other intellects and personalities in your vicinity. There is nothing to fear. You are not only guided, but you are protected. It is safe to look around you, to see whomever is there for you to see. You will not learn anything that you are not supposed to know at this time in your development. As you witness the presence of people, you also begin to witness their environment, the products which they have created in order to do their developmental process. You cannot interfere, but you can witness. You can become aware of that dimension and the people therein, among whom you find those who are heart-linked with you, and you are welcomed. Among those presences, seek one who welcomes and invites you to move together. There are those of you who find yourselves on a tropical beach, because that is where a part of you is now living in a child-like culture, natural, happy, in tune with nature’s forces, non-oppressed by civilization’s requirements. Now, to those of you who find themselves on the sere plains of an alien planet, do not dismay. You are merely experiencing the environment of another part of your beingness. Those among you who are experiencing an existence deep beneath the surface of the ocean, know that in other times you trod upon that land when it was not below the surface of the ocean. Because life makes a lasting imprint upon the matrix of the universe, there is there those mementos of mental creation that you can touch, recall, that re-vivify your memory of when you lived there and the conditions under which that life was lived. Those among you who find yourselves deep within the bowels of the mountain, know that that, too, is also one of your experiences which now is important in your development. The life lived within the shelter of those mountains may have been harsh, but at that time, you did not know it was harsh. It only appears harsh in comparison to what you now know. To those of you who are still on your travels into far, far distant areas of your galaxies, be patient. For there is a home to which you travel, where you shall find that heart-link, that other self of you to which we shall speak after a while. To those of you who travel into the past of your now time, to another culture, another way of life, meet there that spiritual ancestor who is you in another condition with other skills, with other loves, with other concerns. In all of these varying experiences, as you find these heart-mates, there will also be other personalities that have links with people in the environment of the personality which you have left momentarily. So be observant. Feel the texture of that world in which you now visit. Be aware of the nature of the creativity being there exercised. Be aware of the products of that culture or civilization, or time, or nature. Communicate. Ask questions and listen for the answers. Now, know that at any time you so desire, you may explore these other regions in which you are existent, safely. Take the rewards of the knowledge that you gain and when you are ready, begin to come back, approaching this physical organism, entering as you left. Gently. Gently. And when you are once again safely inside this physical organism, face about and re-orient yourself to the head, the arms, the legs and the torso. Become again comfortable within the body. Bring your awareness back to this room. When everyone is again present and comfortable, we shall discuss your experience.
Karlene: Silverthistle, this is Karlene. Thank you for taking me to the South Sea Island or wherever it was with all the flowers and beauty and vegetation. I felt so comfortable there. (And whom did you meet?) Maybe I’m not ready to meet anyone yet. I didn’t meet anyone.
Silverthistle: That is well. You may return when you wish, for there is one there who is you. It is important that you make acquaintanceship with the part of yourself that lives there as an independent personality. That natural life gives some substance to this life, which in some respects is not natural to your beingness, but is artificially contrived to accommodate the requirements of the civilization in which you live.
Katherine: I invited to come with me an old someone from my childhood, a man whose name is Walter, who was kind of a father figure. I felt he was there as sort of a medicine man, and was my father. (Did you get in touch with that part of the now personality that has that secret knowledge learned from the shaman?) I felt that I was a small child. (Indeed.) I was just taking for granted all of the part of his healing. I just took it for granted. I wasn’t exploring the mysteries. (But you can, and you can use the knowledge of those mysteries to assist your now daughters. Be at peace.)
Jon Paul: I was taken to the coast of Eastern Mexico. I met a regional healing shaman there who gave me information on simplifying my life and what to keep. I am going through a lot of change right now, a lot of jettison. Also Ted, the healer, gave me information, but it took me to an understanding of why I was in that part of the world, and what you talked about yesterday.
Silverthistle: Yes. This is, indeed, not only another facet of your beingness, but that personality is now a member of your source group and thus has more direct contact with you. So you do not need my guidance to make that contact. It is there and available to you at all times, and it is through that urging that you have developed the interest in another language.
Jon Paul: Can I best use this in another culture or is it primarily to be used in this culture? (It is to be used in this culture with that guidance. You best do it by doing it. You begin by beginning.)
Jenika: I went to another earth and met this very happy, healthy, young, independent person named Anna, who was about twenty. She lived in the forest. She wore bright red clothes, and she was very pretty. She bartered everything and fed herself and pretty much stayed away. I asked her, “How would you like to have a regular job?” She said that would make her sick. She lived very happily in the forest. (That is you. That is a now you in another reality. It is that connection with youthfulness that keeps you from being an old person before your time in the chronology of your earth existence.) Does this have something to do with why I’ve been drawn to camping the last year or two in the forest? (To renew youthfulness.) Would this help in healing me? (Indeed, yes.)
Sue: I was taken to a very barren place. It appeared there was a group of people there standing all around me. One in particular came up and held my hand. This person was a man who had the feeling of someone that I have known in the recent past who was very helpful to me. Then I was looking around and saying there’s nothing here. It is so barren. This person took me by the hand and led me into what was his home, which was kind of like an underground home. In there it was very beautiful and warm and very wonderful. (That, too, is another self of you, but it is a life independent of you. Through that association, you can be more clearly certain of the bare necessities, so that you can ascertain that which is window dressing and that which is necessary to your developmental fulfillment.) Is my living simply in the country connected with that? (Indeed.) And is that something I should stay with? (In that the externals are to remain simple and plain, but take the lesson from the other self that one beautifies the interior for one’s personal enjoyment, not for the enjoyment or impression of another.)
Michael: I was taken to an Indian campfire. I’m not sure where it was. It was near water. I could have been at a river near the coast of Chile. There was one brave who seemed to acknowledge me. He looked a little like you. There was a translucent stone. I’m not sure what it was. Something used in healing. I had the feeling I was just copying what I’ve read places. I was then given the vision of white people. There was no brown. There was a young woman there who I really didn’t say anything to. Then I was brought back to the campfire, and these people knew each other. So I asked the brave about the vision-quest, because I’m still not sure of the details of these things. Do you fast? How long is it? How far away do you go? He said, “Hold the feeling you have right now and extend it, and do whatever is necessary to absorb that feeling. (Excellent advice. You had somewhat of a combined experience where you met that which is a part of you now existent in another reality with the experience and wisdom gained through the developmental processes of that reality, along with those members, the white people of the mist, who are part of the source group of both of you. It is for you to go with the feeling and not give credence to self- doubt. Love yourself. You need that.)
Myra: I had a wonderful trip. When I went out the back of my head, it was not dark. It was very beautiful, bright green. I began to soar, and I met a member of my source group named Iklebaar, who soared with me. We began to rise and went into space. We kept soaring and soaring and when you described the different places people might be, I was still soaring with Iklebaar. Finally, I said, “Where are we going, Iklebaar?” Instantly we were in the Pleiades, and we were in a most amazing place where there were trees like I’ve never seen before. The trunk went up, but the branches kept growing straight up and out like a funnel. The colors were indescribable. Then I landed beside a river where there was lady in a beautiful garden of Eden kind of place. It wasn’t a cottage, and it wasn’t a hut. It was like a room that was made out of branches that the bark had been peeled off of. She had prepared a beautiful living room outside. It was wonderful. I think I saw a microwave there, and I couldn’t believe I saw a microwave. But she was very happy. Then I looked down and there was a village of people there. Then you told us to come back, and I didn’t want to. (I do not believe a comment that I could render would add to your experience. You know how to get there. You should go back, become familiar, and gain through the knowledge that is there for you. You also lived there.) That’s why I yearn for that. Thank you.
Joni: When I left my body, I invited my guides to go with me, and we went up above the earth and re-connected with part of me that I sense was part of the founding of this planet. There was also a being of light who was charged with the obligation of protecting the planet. When I first met this being, there was a great deal of distress. This was a few months ago when I felt a great deal of distress at there not being enough of us to protect the planet, and things being out of control. When I met the being today, and all the other beings of light out there, we had a wonderful meeting. There were more of us, and there was more energy to protect the planet. There was great joy, and it was just very special, very overpowering. (Quite true. Again it needs no explanation from me.)
Steven: The feelings that I got seemed authentic, but the imagery does not, so much. I met a being, and I’m not sure if I got the name correct or not. “Jelrad” is what seemed to come through, but basically, the message was what was important. I asked him what he was doing that I might teach. And he said “Learn what’s in yourself, your inner vista, before you start teaching.” And that sounds like real good advice. (Indeed so. This is a member of your source group to whom you can apply for assistance to enhance that knowledge of self that is wisdom.)
Vivian: I found myself at the beautiful beach on the island with trees and such. I was hoping to meet one or two or both individuals there, but it was all just darkness, and I saw no one. (You are not ready yet to withstand the power of the individuals who await you there. Go back often in acceptance and certainty of the self confidence of integration, and soon you will meet those powerful entities who await you in your source group, who are there to advise and to encourage and to assist you.)
Betty: I would like some clarification. On the ascension I met a being that I called “Red”, who accompanied me. When we were talking about a location, it seemed that I was next to a body of water. I walked out on a log. A child was there, a little girl. I asked who she was, and she gave me the impression that she was my daughter. I looked around and couldn’t distinguish anything fully. It seemed that there might be other people there. I could not distinguish. Also, I came in contact with what I believe is an Indian life that I have somehow re-connected with. It dealt with problems of war and peace and gloom with that situation, and so forth. Occasionally, I looked back to my friend “Red” for security, and he nodded that everything was OK. But I did not understand. (Because the experience is incomplete. Go again until you understand that meaning of those lifetimes which you are to use in this lifetime.) Are both of those past lifetimes? (Yes. And daughter is daughter.) Is “Red” part of my source group? (Yes.) Is that an all right name? (Certainly. Nothing wrong, since there is great energy.) I felt just as we were coming back that I was looking down into the depths of the earth or something. I have had fear of caves. Was there any significance to that? (A cave- dweller who perished in a cave-in.) Once I seemed to have had the image of also being crushed in what felt like a pyramid setting in some ornate chair. Is that another lifetime? (Yes.) I have not gotten in touch with another life being until now? No. You are still dealing with reincarnational material, and that is proper.)
Silverthistle: Let us then draw to a close and give the channel a relief.
Later:
Silverthistle: I rejoin you. We have some unfinished business. Then we shall part, each to go his own way, to carry within oneself those bits of love and perhaps wisdom to help you grow, to draw nearer to the places in which I dwell, so that in time we shall share more intimately. For now, I shall address a few more questions before I bid you farewell.
Marlayna: This week end has been my first week end with channeling, and I’ve had a question on my mind. Lately I’ve had very many feelings of sadness, despair and restlessness. Last summer I had ankle injuries and throughout the summer, I kept re- injuring my ankle. Lately, just injured my knee. Also, sometimes I have gastrointestinal disorders and I wonder if and how it’s all related.
Silverthistle: You have reached that point in this chronological span of experience when it is time for you to grow into contentment and find those stimulants to intrigue the imagination which lie in the realm of consciousness, rather than in the realm of earthly geographical places. Your body manifests those disabilities which indicate to you to become more stable, to remain in place, to find your place and fill it. Until you do so, you will continue with your digestive disturbances, for you are not ingesting life experience in such a manner as to be properly assimilated, to be enjoyed in comfort and pleasure.
Marlayna: Does that mean in the present living situation and job situation should become more stable? Is that what I should stabilize? (It is for you to find that within this situation which is joyful, and then expand upon that activity which gives you joy. Thus it will bring joy to others and recompense to you.) I guess I have a lot of resistance. Is there something in my life I can expand upon besides this job to get joy from? (It is time for you to be creative, to use that wonderful imagination, to put into expression, into manifestation, the experiences that you have gathered as a rolling stone.)
Joni: Please help me understand why I manifested such an unpleasant headache last night. (You had permitted your physical energies to become overextended. You had allowed your circulation to become impeded. In so doing, the brain tissues suffered lack of oxygen. The tissues of your body lacked oxygen.)
Sue: I need some guidance from you on the dilemma that I seem to be in as far as not being able to decide where I should live and what job direction or career direction I should take. (Less confusion than fear. You have great fear that you will not be adequate to the job which you envision. You need have no fear, for there is much help from our state, from our condition. There are those who urge you. If this were not so, you would not be as confused.) Is the direction you are talking about that of working with businesses on day care? (There is great need. It is at this time that only what you call big business can put into effect that which your social structure has created as a need.) Will my living out in the country in the lifestyle I’ve chosen in the last year get in the way of that, or be a help, positive or negative? (It will assist for it will enable you to enjoy simplicity in which you can have quietude to consider the major consequences, difficulties, which will require resolution. It will provide that isolation which enables you to be objective, to detach, to avoid being caught in the net, which those with whom you must deal will attempt to ensnare you. The undertaking is great. The responsibility is great, but you are not unequal to it. You must have that detachment that will keep you from being manipulated by those who would serve personal ends and see such as opportunity in your projected efforts.) Will I need, in the meantime, to do some other job to survive, or will I not need to do that? Will I need to go back to the Child Development Specialist job to survive while I’m doing the other job? (It is for you to incorporate all of your expertise. Focus highly. Put it all to work. You need to implement activity in small increments, and work toward the goal, rather than seek to immediately establish a large enterprise.) That means I have to do some other work in the meantime. (Not other, but work directly related to the accomplishment of your projected goals.) Can I ask if that’s Child Development Specialist? (You have established a bias, which says this is this, and that is that, and never the twain shall meet, when you need to put the walls down. Let things flow together. Do not categorize. Do not label. Do not separate. Do not analyze.)
Jon Paul: This summer I had a reading from Gloria Ruth channeled from the source group and the information was that I would go away for a time from the farm. It would be of sufficient duration that those who depend upon me as go-between would have to work out their own situations. Does this relate in some way to my healing work and my traveling to another country for a time to serve as an apprentice, or can I best look upon this as a possibility for what you told me today in relation to an alternate or parallel self? (You will be faced with a choice. Usually, it is not…. I do not wish to predicate your actions, but given the circumstances which you have already set in motion, yes, you shall journey to another culture, to another place, where you will learn much, but the choice must be yours as to time that this shall occur.) I understand that. Thank you, Silverthistle.
Jnana: I have been working to get in touch with my source group, and I wonder if the name “Ezram Nairobi” has any significance? I received it in a dream. (Let us, at this moment, do a small mental exercise for you: Close your eyes and reduce your focus to a center point in the middle of your back. Allow yourself to extrude through that focalized point and materialize in deepest, darkest Africa, at a century ago. You find yourself in a tiny, primitive village. Walk between the huts to the fire at the end of the village. There you will find a being whom you will know. We will leave you to pursue that, and you shall return to this awareness when you are ready. You shall bring your answer with you.)
Jenika: I asked you a question last night about the illnesses on the left side of my body, and you said it was because of fear. Is there any area that I should particularly focus on to take these risks in, or were you referring to general risks in my life, in my everyday general life. (It is one thing to take oneself to the mountain top and be alone on a temporary basis. It is another to contemplate being alone in open-ended time. That for you is a great risk. Until you are willing to attempt such a condition you will not find the riches that await you.) Are you referring to my spiritual development? (That, too.) And my work? (That, too.) That sounds like everything. (Laughter.) (That, too.) Can you give me any indication of where might be a good area for me to look – into something for my next career, or for something to make money? (You have already established that, but you consider it a hobby.) Wine? (Indeed.) All right. My last question: Can you tell me why all my injuries are on the left side of my body? (Because you resist full participation in the intuitive life.)
Steven: You mentioned that a lot of my physical health problems were due to over-stimulation of the nervous system through an overactive thinking process. Is there any practical thing I can do to help still that thinking process, and tell it that it’s all right. It doesn’t need to overrun on all these things? (You need to develop your sensory systems. You do not give yourself the opportunity to hedonistically enjoy sensual pleasure. You need more voluptuousness in your life.)
Michael: Silverthistle, a year ago I mentioned this pain I have in my right side. I talked to you about it yesterday. I still have that. Is that connected with my general anxiety? Is that part of responsibilities that haven’t lifted, or what is that? (You have traveled part way along your journey. You have not completed it. You have not grown into the conditions which you have now created, but which are appropriate to you.) You mentioned a period of solitude for me. Could you give me some idea of the duration of that? Is that a temporary thing? (Duration requires consciousness. Consciousness dictates duration. It can be the enlightenment of a moment in your time, or you may choose to make it a tedious journey of years.)
Maria: Silverthistle, would you be so kind as to make any suggestions as to what I should be doing this summer? My projected trip? (You ask me to render judgment on something which should be your choice.)
Myra: For the last three or four months, I have had a lump beneath my ear. It feels like it’s getting a little bigger. It isn’t painful, but it is there. I’m wondering if I should be greatly concerned about it, or if I can make it go away. (Of course, you can make it go away.) Oh, thanks. I knew I could, but the suggestion was made that… (Visualization of reduction, application of breath healing, application of tonal healing which you can apply yourself by putting your own voice on one of these wonderful tapes and playing it back to yourself.) Play toning back? Is that what you mean? Put the toning on the tape? (And then play it back to treat that area.)
Jon Paul: Silverthistle, is that the same suggestion you’d give me for a problem I have with my leg which the doctor has said was lymphatic matter within the tissue? What is the cause of that? What do I need to look at there? (It is solidification of substance which should be fluid. (Can I handle it through visualization the same way? (A treatment of the subtle body. Liquefy the subtle body. (Turning to Myra) You, too. The lump shall go away.
Myra: It’s a liquid that turns solid. Is that what you said? (Yes.)
Michael: My mother was told she had a tumor in her kidney, probably malignant. She will have to be operated on immediately. The pain suddenly went away. Can you give me an idea of what that’s about for her and what she can do? (We cannot interfere in another’s choice. You cannot do anything.)
Betty: I, too, am feeling a lump on my forehead. You said liquefy the subtle body? I do not understand that. Could you enlarge upon that? (In a short time to come, there shall be a second training session for our healers. At that time, they are to be taught how to deal with the head and feet. )
Owen: I have a lump below the ganglion on the wrist. Is that the same treatment? (It is a different-natured lump. It is stemming from a loss of elasticity which you can correct through flexibility. But subtle body treatment will facilitate its removal.)
Jean: You said that I should give up all animal products. I want to follow your suggestion, but at this time, it seems that it is almost more than I can do. Do you have a suggestion as to how I can follow your suggestion and still…? (Begin with the heaviest animal products: the meat flesh. Reduce to marine life, poultry. Then reduce to fish. Avoiding shellfish. Eventually, reduce the quantity of the fish, maintaining eggs, cheese. Increase grains, fiber vegetables until eventually, the cellulose in the fiber vegetables serves to fill the consciousness of the cells that think they need the cellulose of the meat tissue.)
Jenika: And what about milk? (Avoid. Treated milk, such as cheese and cultured milk are less harmful than liquid milk.)
Betty: What does milk do to the system? Is it a general thing like having to do with problems with how it’s pasteurized or homogenized? (It increases the viscosity of lymph.)
Joni: What is going on with my bladder? (You are in the process of trying to release certain things in your life. Your sphincter muscles also believe they need to be relaxed. So the nerves receive incorrect messages. Talk to your bladder. Tell it what you expect of it and what you likely can expect of it, and it will cooperate.) Wonderful! I’m told that having my psychic energies in use is draining on protein and one of my chief concerns is in protein matters. Can you give me suggestions for implementing ways of alleviating that issue? (Increase intake of grains which can be tolerated and the lentil family products.) To what percentage in the diet? (At least 35 percent.)
Sue: Can you give me an idea as to why I have such a hard time being comfortable being alone, single, and possibly some comments about what I’ve learned or what I still have to learn from the person whose property I live on, and that relationship? (Your fear of being alone is based on your sense of inadequacy, a programming from past lives and early this life that said you are inadequate, that says, you are not up to the challenge, whereas, in fact, you are greatly more capable than you allow yourself to be. The other person is a catalyst from whom you should be able to learn this to be true, and to capitalize upon the most excellent aspects which you have at your command.) But is that process about over? Because that person is going to be leaving. Is that person going to leave? (If the process is not over, then there will be another to take that position.)
Jon Paul: My father recently passed on and I wonder what is my father’s condition, and how may I help him in his journey, or is it a question of looking at my own internal healing in reference to my father? (Heal yourself. Your father is resting.) Is there anything else in our family, in relation to my mother? (As you heal your internal self, you radiate that blessing which will give her the strength that she now requires as support. It does not require your physical presence. You can render this from a distance when the times comes that it must be so.)
Vivian: I’d like to know what’s the ache I experience in my back. It’s just below the shoulders, and it comes and goes all the time. What is causing it, and what can I do for it? (That is a signal to you that you are over-committed, that you have obligated yourself to perform longer or more than your body is ready to provide the vehicle for. When that ache begins, you must then eliminate some obligations, some commitment, either by postponement or by cancellation.)
Jenika: I’ve been told by my acupuncturist that I have a growth in my ear. I’m seeing a specialist tomorrow. What would be the best method of treatment for that? (I advise that I cannot advise you at this time.)
Marlayna: My life reading says that in my spiritual development the channel and this circle or temple could be very important to my development. Earlier you said that if I found my place or my outlet, I would find joy. Could that be found within the temple group? (Yes.)
Steven: I’ve been told through Gloria that I have a book to be published, and I’m very much at a loss as to the exact content of that. Could you give me some suggestion? (We cannot write your book. It must be an expression of yourself.)
Betty: Last night, you spoke as to letting disasters happen. I am facing some real changes, and what I feel are opportunities and challenges coming up in my life very shortly: the job situation and mother coming back. Could you give me any more insights as to what my lessons are? How might I best handle them? (Centeredness, that state of consciousness which does not permit you to be thrown out of balance by any attitudinal expression of either mother, employer or employee. As you remain centered, you are able to be objective and see the points of fear from which these others come.) I have a continual concern over where I’m filling my space, and not taking dominance over the others. I do not wish to take dominance over others where it’s not my responsibility. Can you give me any insights on how to know when I’m filling my space, fulfilling my obligations and not overstepping into somebody else’s? (It depends upon the relationship. As occupation demands that you supervise all activity of your employees, while they serve under your supervision, they become your responsibility. It is then that it is required of you to exercise that dominance to which you have committed, and for which you are paid. When relating to an equal, then you must allow more freedom as to what requirements you place upon those attitudes or fulfillment of obligation. As to mother, do not expect that she will meet any requirements which you would wish to place upon her. That is the challenge that she offers you.) Is there any danger or any neglecting my duty as a daughter, or what I see as my responsibility as a daughter, when I declare my freedom from her? (Not at all.) Will I get signals if I abdicate responsibilities? (Yes.)
Karl: At the last retreat you advised me to see a skillful practitioner to relieve the numbness in my feet. Well, that’s what I did for almost a year now, and some of the numbness went away, but not all of it. Would you advise me to seek a different practitioner? (Yes. There are two practitioners whom I am training who are present. Why do you not ask one of them?)
Joni: We would be very happy to have you if you feel that you can come. (I am there.)
Sue: Silverthistle, my life reading says that I should study psychology and then be a teacher of people as far as the inner journey. How does that fit in with this day care big business? (You will be dealing with children who are incarnating into families which place such pressures upon them that they withdraw and need special attention. Only through understanding the way the mind works and the way that it is expressed through behavior patterns can you fully do the job of which you are capable.)
Betty: I continually question if I’m in the right job doing the right thing at this time. Have you any insights on that, considering all the difficulties I seem to run into? (There are no rights and wrongs. You have chosen to be where you are. You can choose to not be there. Choosing not to be there, you shall choose to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, there will be challenges.)
Owen: I seem to be running into some difficulties at home determining where my responsibilities are with relation to Maxine, my wife, and where her responsibilities are. There’s much resistance and probably rightfully so, if I, according to her, “impose” my desires upon her. I’m wondering if you could say anything that could clear this up a little bit for me. (Much of the sponsorship of the challenge which you are meeting comes from disconnection with reality. It is for you to preserve your individuality intact, or you will not be able to provide the care this disconnection shall require. That does not mean that all your desires or your wants or your activities become subject to the requirements of that care. It is for you to provide the care, and sometimes not with your own hands, but through your administration.)
Jon Paul: You had told me to begin at the beginning in relation to getting in touch with this other lifetime. I have many interests in magic, nature, herbs, healing. Is it a combination of all these things that will be unique to assist me as a healer or a teacher combining these things? (There can be no separation between the two. A teacher is a healer. A healer is a teacher.)
Sue: I know I have to study the temple teachings. Is there any other formal study that I should be undertaking? (Many, many, many opportunities are available. It is a matter of choice.) Will art play a big role? (Hopefully. Your choice.)
Silverthistle: We must now come to a close. It has been many hours in your time. I would stay with you eternally, but the channel is tiring. Let me express to you my love, my encouragement, and my blessings in your efforts. Know that when you do not confront me directly, I still am with you. Go in peace and blessedness. And so it is done.
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