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Thursday Session #1 - January 19, 1984
Gloria’s Circle
PRESENT: Karl Lofquist, Kristine Curry, Dorothy J. Lee, Jill Kniser, Kali Furlong, Susan
Pressman, Tony Richardson, Trance Medium - Gloria Rivers.
GLORIA: Is everyone comfortable with the light? Okay. This is going to be a little
different for me. Under usual circumstances we have sung while I have been working on
altering my state of consciousness. I don't know whether you are prepared to sing or not, so not
to put any pressure on you, I have decided that tonight we are going to try it without, just to see
if it will work.
What can you people do to unite your minds? Dorothy, do you have any
suggestions? Say some Om's .. or what? ... You see, my trance depends on your concentration.
We've discovered that as soon as people become bored, disinterested, or their attention wanders
to whatever someone else in the group is doing, the trance weakens, and sometimes the
communicators are not able to continue, and so we have had a complete disruption. That is one
reason, too, why we have only one recorder, so there is not a lot of clicking and changing tapes,
etc.
[The tape became somewhat garbled here. Dorothy suggested that to unite the minds of the
group, everyone could concentrate on a rose, a red rose, as it opened.]
GLORIA: ...don't hesitate during the session to talk to whomever is communicating. The
more dialogue, the more interchange you can get, the more information you are going to get.
Otherwise, you are going to get a lecture, a presentation of something. If you have a question,
for goodness sake, jump in. Don't let silence ...
QUESTION: What kind of questions should we ask?
GLORIA: Anything you want to ask. The thing is, treat the communicator like a person. I
realize it is kind of strange at first, but the more you act and interact with the communicator, the
more information, the more energy, the more vitality is going to be built up. And don't hesitate
to challenge something. Just sitting there passively and accepting everything that comes through
is okay, but it's not necessary.
QUESTION: Are these entities ... were they people at one time?
GLORIA: Sheariam has never told us whether she was ever incarnate or not. Silverthistle
has. He's told us a little bit about himself. The others that are, what you might say, on the
teaching staff of the Temple have never told us. I don't know that anyone has ever asked them
either.
[Laughter.]
Everyone seemed to be quite curious about Silverthistle but not so much
about the others. That seems rather odd, but it seems Silverthistle is closer to what we know as
this plane, but they really keep insisting on not thinking in terms of plane, but of spheres, rather
than planes, which is really interesting when they get to describing ...
QUESTION: Does your voice change?
GLORIA: Other people say so, but on the tape it sounds to me like me; I hear the timber of
my voice, and I recognize it, but the other groups say there is quite a bit of difference in the
voices. And we were told right in the beginning that the voice the sitters hear is a combination of
their voice and mine because, as Silverthistle put it, something about the wind had to come
through my throat, or something like that. One of the distinctive differences is delivery ..
phraseology ... language ... and intellectual level of difference, too.
QUESTION: How do you get into trance?
GLORIA: I took nursing back in the 50's, and at that time hypnotherapy was beginning to be
introduced into the mental hospitals (I was training for psychiatric nursing), and the
superintendent of our hospital decided that he wanted to take a select number of trainees and
train them as hypnotherapists. And I was one of the fortunate ones chosen.
The first thing we had to learn was how to be hypnotized ourselves so we
could understand what the state of mind and consciousness is that constitutes hypnosis, so that
we could recognize it then as we worked with other people. Then, having learned how to be
hypnotized, we were trained in self-hypnosis because some of the healing comes through a
person being able to self-hypnotize.
So, with that as a background, when I discovered mediumship -- I've
always been aware of occupants of, what you might say, another realm, or another dimension,
but I didn't know they spoke through physical people. That was a surprise to me.
But when I discovered this phenomenon, fortunately for me, I was
introduced through the Stewart Edward White works (if you are familiar with those writings) and
that's such a safe and sane body of writings. It doesn't get really far out and weird, so I felt safe
in trying that. And I tried that method, and it worked. I found that sitting in spiritualist circles
didn't work for me. Whether it was because I didn't believe in it or what, it just didn't happen.
I've never run into any problems, either.
In the early days, the latter 60's and early 70's, we had some strange
experiences. But as my mediumship has grown, it has become more and more teaching effort,
really thoughtful ideas and instructions. But that's how it happens -- self-hypnosis. And I have
learned to do it not just for this purpose, but for other reasons. That goes into some of the other
classes.
I didn't mean to get into a long dissertation on that. Anybody else got any
questions? Okay. I will try to do this quickly. I can't make any guarantees.
QUESTION: Should we have our eyes closed?
GLORIA: Not necessarily. Try to be as natural as possible. Start concentrating on the rose.
You might even see the rose there where the candle is.
[Period of silence.]
VOICE: Good evening, friends. It is my pleasure to serve you this evening.
[Silence.]
Have you no response to me?
[Chorus of "Good evenings."]
Thank you. Perhaps you have some questions of me, although I do have a
message for you.
QUESTION: What is your name?
VOICE: My name is Sheariam. It is I who teach through the instrument now for
this time.
QUESTION: Thank you for coming.
SHEARIAM: It is always our pleasure, for that is our purpose. In the coming years of
your Earth experience there are so many changes.
QUESTION: What kind of changes?
SHEARIAM: Contrary to some thought, your planet cannot be destroyed, but that does
not mean that life upon it cannot destroy itself. And there is shortly to be major changes,
climactic, geological changes. When this happens to a planet, life upon the planet is returned to
a very primitive state. Thus it behooves mankind to develop its consciousness to such a level
that what might be the most primitive still is of some degree of development.
QUESTION: What can we do to prepare ourselves for the changes?
VOICE: Exactly what you are doing as you sit here in this group. You are striving
to know that which will help you. It is a matter of attitude and understanding. You see, most of
mankind at this level of development current upon the planet understands reality in terms of
himself, as he sees himself in a physical body which exists for only a short time.
However, in fact, man has attained a level of understanding so that he now
functions partially in our realm as well as in the earth-physical realm. For the purposes of
understanding, we refer to your physical existence as earth-physical, though we are also physical.
Because of the limitations of language, we refer to our existence as being spirit-physical.
QUESTION: Could you describe your realm that you live in?
SHEARIAM:It is a mental realm. There are times that you function in our realm.
When you quiet the body processes and go into a state of consciousness in which you have
awareness of non-physical life, you are then functioning in a portion of our realm.
We have a condition here similar to time and space in your realm, but it is
not as limiting to us as time and space are limiting to you. You have the freedom to transcend
time and space through altering your consciousness. We transcend our time and space in the
same manner. Our time would be more like your understanding of process rather than clock
time. We have duration.
We also have space, but it is different from the three-dimensional space
which you understand and with which your body exists. We have the capacity to create form at
will. You also have that capacity, but your method must differ from ours. It takes you longer,
for instance, to grow a body, whereas we clothe ourselves in changing bodies as our mental
condition changes.
It is impractical to attempt to explain in any detail the conditions of our
existence, but you experience closely some of our existence in your dream state when your
connection with the physical body becomes more tenuous than in the waking state. Even as time
and space may become distorted in the dream state compared with waking state, so is our
consciousness of time and space a reality. Do you understand?
QUESTION: Somewhat.
SHEARIAM: The important thing for you to understand is that there is only one reality.
There are many, many facets of reality. There are many, many states of being in reality. In your
physical sphere, reality manifests itself in many different states of being. For instance, you have
a plant kingdom. Among that kingdom reside many, many variants of that state of being. For
instance, you have the state of tree-ness, or the state of flower-ness, or the state of leaf-ness.
Those are only facets of the state of plant-beingness.
And so it is in all realms of your physical sphere. And when the one
reality manifests itself into one of these states of being in one of the sub-facets of the state, it
cannot be changed; for instance, a tree cannot become a daisy. Thus, when the one reality
manifests itself as a human being, that individual cannot become a plant, or an animal, or
anything other than human. But the human state of being in the Earth realm has the advantage of
self consciousness.
Both the creationists and the evolutionists have truth, but only a portion of
the truth. All things were created simultaneously. What might be said to be the beginning,
everything existed, exists now, in potential, but process allows for differentiation. In another
class these things are being discussed in greater detail, thus I will not cover the same information
given elsewhere. That is available for you to study. However, if you are to study with me in this
fashion, it is important that you know certain basic principles.
You have certain qualifications as an individualized particle of the one
reality. In that period of time of existence in the earth-physical realm, you have not only the
opportunity, but the obligation, to quantify that quality. As you actualize all of your own
potential, you move to actualize the potential of the state of beingness known as mankind or
human-ness. Thus it is that people come to feel each has a mission or goal to accomplish, and in
the accomplishment of these goals you are moving toward the elevation of the state of beingness
which you represent.
Your advances in technology which enable you to destroy yourselves can
be turned around so that they amount to an elevation of consciousness that can survive the
consequences of the act.
You asked what you could do toward changing what may seem at this
time to be the outcome of current action. Among the attributes of the human state of beingness
is the attribute of willful thought. You have the capacity to control your thoughts, to direct your
thoughts, into any pathway. It is a matter of personal will and choice. Thus each individual who
chooses to direct his thoughts into the pathway of elevating consciousness alleviates the ultimate
consequences to the total state of beingness. Do you understand?
QUESTION: Mostly. I understand.
[Other sounds of some agreement.]
SHEARIAM: These things will become clearer to you as the lessons progress. If you
should decide to continue to meet with us, we would then present to you a body of information
as is being given to other such circles that enables you to heal your body, to heal your living
conditions, to further the consciousness elevation which will be necessary in this time to come.
QUESTION: Is everybody on your plane of existence there to teach?
[Tape ran out.]
SHEARIAM: ... to guide you, to protect you, and to teach you. There are also beings in
other spheres which you might call higher spheres, who take it as their personal responsibility to
also guide and teach and watch over you. As your lessons progress, you will be given
instructions on how to make contact with these beings who have your sole interest at heart. In
other classes we have already given exercises that have resulted in many of our students making
direct contact with their own guides, who now are giving them the personalized instruction
necessary. Thus it is not necessary to use your time, your group time, for personal concerns,
although at times, when it is necessary or pertinent, such information is given.
QUESTION: Thank you.
[Silence.]
SHEARIAM: Do not waste your time. It is precious. If you have questions, let us try to
answer them for you.
QUESTION: It sounds like you have male and female in that sphere, and I wonder ...
SHEARIAM: That is quite true. Our sphere is very nearly like yours. We have limited
life. We are of both sexes, although there are beings from other realms which visit our realm
who are androgynous. We have sex. We give birth. We do eat. We study. We have recreation.
We have rest. We have illness. We have very many of the same things you have in the physical.
QUESTION: What is the purpose of being there, and why do people go to the sphere you are
in?
SHEARIAM: It is the next station. It is the next experience from that of earth-physical
before you can move on to finer spheres. One might say it is a sphere of refinement, as one
would refine dross material. In your sphere on your planet, you have industrial processes which
extract minerals from your Earth. In our sphere there is a similar refinement process having to
do with character.
QUESTION: How do you know you are supposed to be a teacher? Is there someone there who
tells you you are supposed to be a teacher?
SHEARIAM:Yes, we have organization. We have responsibility. We have a hierarchy
of power, but that power is granted by understanding, not by dominance or force.
QUESTION: When somebody makes the transition from this sphere to your sphere, do they
maintain their own self-consciousness, or memory, or identity, or individuality?
SHEARIAM: It depends upon the condition of consciousness achieved in the life span
on the planet Earth. As I said before, a certain quality is born as human-ness, and then it is that
individuation of the one reality, who must quantify that quality -- that is gain knowledge of one's
self. The self is nearly immortal in your terms. The self is limited, but its existence would be
nearly eternal in your understanding of time. But the transition does nothing but leave behind
the physical body. All else comes into our sphere and must be dealt with.
QUESTION: Do every one of us on entering transition enter your sphere?
SHEARIAM: It is like a way-station. Everyone passes this way.
QUESTION: If someone has been severely handicapped, mental illness, or by drug use, and
they make the transition, are you equipped to help this individual so he can make progress at this
level?
SHEARIAM: There are here what you might term "receivers." There are ... "receiving
stations" is probably the best description I can give you in your language. There is an evaluation
made, a judgment rendered, and then the individual is... deposited with those who can best help
at that time, depending upon the condition of their mind and emotions and consciousness.
Some reach us in full consciousness, in full awareness, in full expectation
of going on to better things, and those are given duties, are sent to school, and such as that.
When a handicapped mind or emotional body arrives, there are domains which would resemble
your hospitals into which these individuals are put, and healing is instituted. Many wash up on
our shores unaware that they are no longer of the earth-physical sphere. There are special
domains where these people are allowed to reside until they can be awakened to their true
condition, but healing is always instituted immediately so that awareness of this sphere allows
existence in this sphere so that one can move onward with the self-mission. Sometimes that
constitutes immediate return to earth-physical. Sometimes it means long-term residence in our
sphere. Sometimes there is immediate transition from our sphere to others.
QUESTION: Is this the lowest? Is it a hierarchical arrangement, and is Earth the lowest, is
there some under us, or...
SHEARIAM: Yes, there is consciousness, a variant manifestation of the one reality,
which might be considered below earth-physical. But it would be more difficult for you to
comprehend that than for you to comprehend spirit-physical.
QUESTION: You said earlier that you had bodies, so I wonder when we make that transition to
your sphere, do we maintain our same body, or our same physical entity that we have now, since
we are still locked into that same consciousness?
SHEARIAM: For a while you may wear a body that in almost identical details resembles
the physical shell you have left behind. That does not last long, however, for we have means of
education by which one is taught to relinquish that.
QUESTION: For what? When you relinquish that, what do you take on?
SHEARIAM: You have many bodies even now. The body that sits in that chair is only
the dense body that you wear. You also have numerous other bodies, mental body, emotional
body. Until we lay the groundwork it is difficult for me to describe to you all the bodies that you
wear. But you may think of yourself in terms of the lowly onion where there are layers around a
central core, the central core representing the essential self, the you to which I speak.
The sense of self connected with your body is only that which will extend
from the birth of this body until you leave it behind, and then, as you come into this realm, if you
have developed that awareness, you will be aware of utilizing the subtler bodies, which at this
time you seldom use.
QUESTION: Do we choose to come to the Earth existence more than once? Is it our choice
that we come here? Or do we come more than once, I guess that's what I'm asking.
SHEARIAM: Yes, if you are asking about reincarnation, that is a fact of your earth-
physical life. In effect, it is a fact in many other spheres also. You may visit, or live in, or reside
in various spheres at different times, and again and again. The matter of choice depends upon
the elevation of your consciousness and the depth of your awareness.
For instance, I am here by my choice upon application to the proper authorities; I
have been given the privilege of being a teacher through the medium as we now discuss with
each other. There are other ways in which people in my sphere teach. Not all of us are teachers.
As I said before, there are many, many realms of experience here.
Sometimes there is not the choice. For instance, someone in earth-
physical who has lived a life greatly damaging his subtle bodies through drugs, through mis-use
of power, through negative emotion and various other ways, may come to us and be remanded to
the earth-physical until such time as that individual quantifies that quality.
QUESTION: Can you describe what you mean by quantifying quality?
SHEARIAM: An infant is born, a physical body is created by the union of two physical
bodies. The appropriate hierarchy will make the connection between that physical body and the
self, the subtle bodies, which will command the span of life in the earth-physical of that newborn
child.
QUESTION: That sounds very complicated.
SHEARIAM: It is complicated. The genetic system of the physical body must be the
right vehicle for the in-dwelling Self. The indwelling Self has made, I will say, a contract for the
sake of this discussion, a contract may have been established by choice or by command of higher
authority. But there are certain ingredients present through the genetic qualification of the
physical vehicle and through what might be called the subtle genetic qualification present in the
subtle bodies which come from past lifetimes or physical lifetimes in other spheres of
experience.
Together this represents the ingredients of a recipe, if you will. Now,
these ingredients can be put together in such a way that the final result is flattened out, is soggy,
is undesirable, or these ingredients can be combined in such a way that the end result is light,
aware, informed. It is difficult to describe non-physical things with physical language.
QUESTION: Is the end result part of the contract?
SHEARIAM: Yes.
QUESTION: And part of the ... what was the word she used? Yes, quantifying the quality. Is
that essentially the goal -- to make this recipe turn out light, and so on, as you describe?
SHEARIAM: Yes. The belief system, or the belief that is held by many in the earth-
physical, that this sphere is a sphere in which one is to learn something is quite true; however,
the belief is limiting because learning occurs in all spheres of experience. But learn one must,
and this is part of the quantitative process.
You cannot change your quality. If you are human, you cannot be a tree.
This seems to be such an obvious fact that it would be ludicrous to mention, but it is stated for
you to understand what we mean by quality. Now, a tree becomes a tree through a process. It
must fight its way through the rocky ground. It must fight for its moisture; it must seek its
nutrients; it must reach its head and arms toward the sky for sunlight and various gases for
nutrients.
The quality of human-ness must do the same thing, and each individual
must do it with the equipment brought into this particular span. Some do a very good job.
Others falter and lose their way.Some fail to try.Thus you have what you call karma.He who
tries the least obligates himself the heaviest.
QUESTION: How does this karma reflect in this person's life, or lives?
SHEARIAM: Force tends to meet like force. If an individual exercises violence,
violence he will meet. If the individual exercises gentleness, gentleness he will meet. Thus it is
in your Bible you are admonished to turn your cheek, to be meek; many of the injunctions teach
the same principle, but the principle has been lost through the misinterpretations, the
mistranslations from one language to another.
QUESTION: How accurate is our Bible in the state it's in now.
SHEARIAM: Poorly translated. Even the latest translations are misled because of
centuries of thought establishing premises which the translators failed to question.
QUESTION: Are there some versions that are closer to truth than others?
SHEARIAM: At this time I would say "no." The secrets of the Bible can be elucidated
from any translation, if given proper attention.
QUESTION: Are there other beings that live on the Earth like fairies and elves and things like
that?
SHEARIAM: Yes. You will recall I suggested early in this discussion that there is some
overlap between earth-physical and spirit-physical. There are conditions which permit certain
kinds of energy to move between the two spheres, and thus you have the phenomenon of UFOs,
for instance, where an object is physical at one moment and non-physical the next and thus
unseen. And it is thus interpreted that the vehicle moves at speed beyond light, and this is not
the case.
QUESTION: Why don't beings from your plane manifest more on this plane, just for people to
be aware? Why do you separate so much?
SHEARIAM: It is by virtue of the laws of establishment of the universe. We do as much
as we can. You must understand that attitude, consciousness, activity of the human state of
beingness in the earth-physical prohibits much of our assistance. When you are told to ask and
you shall receive, you are not then also advised that before you can receive, you must ask.
QUESTION: Are the guides that each individual has, are they on your plane?
SHEARIAM: Yes.
QUESTION: And what is their purpose?
SHEARIAM: Exactly that. As I told you earlier, each individual has his band, some of
whom are assigned, some of whom are there by choice, but you are not alone.
QUESTION: Have we known some of these guides in previous lives? Have we had personal
relationships with them?
SHEARIAM: Some of them, yes.
QUESTION: Would you care to dwell more on the subject of UFOs?
SHEARIAM: In what manner?
[The channel began coughing.]
QUESTION: As to the validity and where they come from?
SHEARIAM: I'm afraid that would take too much discussion to give any satisfactory
answer.
QUESTION: I was afraid that would be the answer. Thank you anyway.
[Laughter.]
SHEARIAM: It would seem that the instrument is having some difficulty. It would
perhaps be well if we draw this to a conclusion.
[Coughing.]
... is there anything else that is imperative to cover?
QUESTION: We appreciate your coming and sharing with us.
SHEARIAM: Thank you. It has been my privilege. I look forward to being with you
again.
QUESTION: A very nice session.
SHEARIAM: And now I will bless you all and bid you a good night.
[Responding "good nights."]
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