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Session #44 – February 16, 1985 Gloria’s Circle
Present: Peggy Muldoon, Bonnie Wisz, Jean Chisholm, Ida Nevala, Myra Perala, Richard and Mary White, Owen and Maxine Cramer
Silverthistle: Good evening. Blessings to all. We thank you for the pillow for the head. (Gloria’s head had leaned to the side and back, and she looked uncomfortable so a pillow was supplied.) I have missed that. I came not to deliver a story this night but rather merely to greet you. It would seem that energies are such that my efforts in the stories must be postponed for a while. (Speaking slowly and with considerable effort.) But I do not forget you. My love and thoughts are with you often.
Owen: Does this mean that there is the possibility of a direct automatic writing with Gloria on her typewriter taking the stories from you? Is that out for the time being also?
Silverthistle: It is not “out” as you say. It shall depend upon the channel’s energy. But that same energy as well as those that must go into making the information available to all must be considered. The council now feels that most effort must be directed to the teachings of Judith and Sheariam. Time grows short for the work that must be done, and our best efforts to help you cooperate with your time is to be more focused.
Richard: Why do you say, “time grows short”? Is this our time or your time? (Your time.) Why is this? Won’t we continue with our circle? (For a while, yes.) What is the limiting factor, then? Are you at liberty to tell us this? (Best put, perhaps would be world events, for that is what it will seem to you.)
Mary: Will it seem disastrous to us? (To some.) Owen: Could you give some closer estimate on how “short”? (I am not at liberty, as that depends upon consciousness, as Sheariam has been trying to teach.) Maxine: Does this depend upon our consciousness or on the world’s consciousness? (The world consciousness is comprised of all consciousnesses which go to make it up.) Mary: Are there any instructions that you could give us beyond studying the material that has been given us so far? (This was my intent with my stories, but it is not possible under developing circumstances.)
Owen: Does this put our plans for an open meeting on March 30th in a different light, or may we continue with that? (You may continue with that.) Bonnie: Is there any program specifically set up for that evening yet, like a theme? (It would be best to ask Sheariam that. I must not linger, so I bid you go with my love. Good night.) (Many “thank you’s” and expressions of gratitude for the teaching.)
Owen: We have greatly appreciated your efforts in teaching us and all of the wonderful material you have left us to work with. We’ll look forward to getting more and hope that the time comes when that will be possible.
(Some comments as to “I hate to see him leave.”, and “Do you feel a real sadness?”, etc.)
Sheariam: Good evening students and friends. (Myra: You look healthier than Silverthistle.) Thank you, I think. (Laugher) You are doing much better are you not? (Maxine: Yes, I am.) And are you then ready for your lesson upon the Spirit Realm?
Owen: We were reviewing the meditations involving pyramids, as you’re probably aware. There were several with the three-sided pyramid and one, at least, with a four-sided pyramid. There seemed to be a difference in the types of energies we’re subjected to in the different kinds of pyramids. Some had assumed four-sided and some three-sided pyramids for the white pyramid that we went into along the pathway. Can you clarify the energy differences between the three and four-sided pyramids?
Sheariam: Yes. The three-sided pyramid is creative and balancing. The four- sided pyramid is stabilizing and foundational. (And those along the road in the desert, then?) Can be either, depending upon the need of the meditator. Do experiment. In your meditation this night we will take you a little farther. But each must progress according to his need and his understanding. It should be pointed out to you, that having the meditation as you did prior to this session has made it much easier for me to come through. It has greatly facilitated the synchronizing of our energies.
Myra: Should we start that way each time? (We would be most appreciative.) Bonnie: It didn’t seem to help Silverthistle, though. (He is out of practice with this channel. These two have been working together in another manner.) Have they started the book together? (In consciousness.)
Sheariam: We have spoken of the process which occurs in the Realm of Spirit to deliver you into the condition in which you find yourselves now. The blueprints are blueprints of consciousness. They give rise to the basic ingredients of your world. The idea behind a star or a planet or any other phenomenon is no longer merely a simple idea. As the idea moves toward manifestation, it becomes complexified. Discernible partitions are necessary. And so in the Realm of Spirit all the patterns for all of the galaxies, for everything that you can imagine, and much that you cannot imagine, become formulated. We have used the word “blueprint” where “formula” is a word that would also serve. As the sedimentary process occurs, certain relationships are formed between these varying units of complexification. It is not in the Realm of Spirit that a grain of sand is formed, but the pattern of the entity which will require sand as one of its particles. The entity is formulated. That entity can be a race of people, a species of living organism. It can be anything. These conceptualizations then move into the Realm of Mind where the form is given a specific mold or shape. It is in the Realm of Mind that choices begin to be made. In the Realm of Spirit the chaos, which is the word used in your holy scripture to describe this state of being, exists. And out of that seemingly chaotic disorganization, organization begins to appear. In the beginning, Silverthistle gave you the words “earth-physical” and described himself as being “spirit-physical”. This was done advisedly so, for as I gave, we are still connected more or less directly with the Realm of Spirit. A more apt terminology for you would have been to call you “mind-physical”. You are more or less directly connected with the Realm of Mind. Earth-physical is apt in that portions of your existence and knowledge are purely earth-physical. They will not, as they exist in earth, return to higher realms. But as they become transmuted through growth and development of consciousness, the basic units of which they are comprised shall return to the higher realms, even as we, who are spirit-physical call you forth from your earthly home, coax you to look to wider horizons, to set higher, more aspiring goals. So, do you perform this function for the lower realms of earthly life forms. As you appreciate the beauty in a grain of sand, you call forth that dormant consciousness. If you will recall, I gave you that the function of consciousness is to expand.
Myra: I guess I didn’t understand much of anything you gave us. (We do not expect instant comprehension. This is, again, a contributing factor to the shortening of your lessons. To give some space to the ones who must provide you with the materials to study, and also to reduce the amount of information to be encompassed at any given time.)
Owen: You mentioned” elements of earth”. Is this fire, water, air and the elements of the periodic table? (In this reference, the elements of the periodic table, which is far from complete, you understand.) Myra: There are more than 114 elements? Richard: There were 92 when I went to school.
Myra: You are trying to explain to us tonight that in the Realm of Spirit that the blueprint, the process of going from the idea into manifestation as the process is changing from the archetype down into a concrete object. Is that what you’re trying to say? (That is the process which is begun in the Realm of Spirit.) It’s an idea in the Realm of Spirit, and it becomes more complicated as the idea develops into a concrete form? (It enters the Realm of Spirit as “idea”. It leaves the Realm of Spirit as a formulated concept.) And it comes to the Realm of Spirit from the Realm of Universe in the form of ‘idea”? (The analogy to which this channel is sympathetic is the idea “to sit”. That idea would leave the Realm of Spirit as the formula “chair”.)
Myra: What did you say about choices? In the Realm of Spirit choices begin? (The option for choice to be made begins in the Realm of Spirit. But no choice can be made until the Realm of Mind, when the decision must be made as to what shape, texture, design, the chair will ultimately demonstrate.)
Richard:That takes place in the Realm of Mind? Remember that I told you that noetic man is formulated in the Realm of Spirit. But man takes many forms in the Realm of Mind. You represent only one distant manifestation of that formula.) Myra: And man takes form in the Realm of Mind? (Yes.) But noetic man is formed in the Realm of Spirit? (Yes.)
Myra: What did you say about the fall of man from grace? (That does not occur until the Realm of Mind, when choice can be made.) I’m trying to digest this idea of the process in the Realm of Spirit. That’s the process of changing from an idea to a more concrete form. Richard: An idea into a plan or blueprint. (It is a settling out, a sedimentary process.) Owen: Would that be similar to a crystallizing process, such as sugar crystals forming from a solution of sugar? (The action takes place in the Realm of Spirit, but the manifestation is witnessed in the realm of Mind. We speak of these realms as being separate, when indeed they are not.)
Bonnie: Something like our subtle bodies? (Yes.) Myra: So the Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Mind are very much overlapped, right? (As are all. But it is in the Realm of Spirit that this separateness begins to appear. In the other realms everything is like an emulsion. It is homogenous and also homogeneous.) Jean: I begin to get a picture like in destructive distillation. (But in destructive distillation you are in some way causing something to disappear from, leaving a solid. As I tried to explain before, that sediment leaves the solution, but that solution does not go away. It does not change form. The process of destructive distillation occurs in lower realms, and we will discuss that later.)
Myra: But in the realms above the Realm of Spirit, everything is homogeneous. In the Realm of Spirit, the sediment begins to settle out, and the idea begins to become more concrete as it’s formulated into a more specific criterion. (Now everything in all realms is homogeneous. You are as your father. You are as that which created you. Moral issues begin in the Realm of Mind.) That’s where choices are made. (Yes.)
Owen: That’s where religions are born?
Jean: Do moral issues exist before the Realm of Mind? (As all exists.) The polarity of right and wrong would exist in the Universe, wouldn’t it? Myra: But the manifestation of it would appear in the Realm of Mind. (In the idea of noetic man, like the intrinsic proponents of freedom of choice, where there is freedom of choice, there then are moral issues.) Richard: One begets the other. (Yes. So long as all is intermingled in all its parts, there is no choice.) It’s still homogeneous. (Homogenous, since you chose to make that distinction.)
Jean: I picture a round ball. There is no choice. But the minute it decides to flatten out, it has top and bottom. So then it has to decide whether to be heads up or tails up. (That is an excellent similar.) Richard: It works from a sphere to a coin. Myra: But that gives the round ball mind, doesn’t it? Richard: You’re stretching the analogy now, I think.
Sheariam: But it does have mind. So does a grain of sand. Do not lose sight of the fact that whatever separates itself from another part of itself in the Realm of Spirit, takes with it the total Nine Components. Relationships change. The relationships between the Components change. But they all remain present.
Myra: You said “whatever separates itself out from…? (From itself, as everything is homogenous. All parts are present equally everywhere.) That’s hard for our logical minds. (But this again is the repetition of the cycle. As The Absolute separated Itself from Itself to establish the Cosmos, the Divine, there must be separation of Self from Self in order to objectify.)
Jean: I get a picture now of a whole mess of letters spilled together in The Absolute. Then as you begin to sort them out, you get more and more meaning. Finally you get to being able to communicate. Myra: Would you help me to grasp what you said a minute ago? Whatever separates itself from itself… the Nine Components are there. But they’re in a more highly organized fashion as it becomes more manifest in the Realm of Mind?
Sheariam: No. In the Divine Dew Drop, the Nine Components share and share alike equally. There is little distinction to be made between them in force or power. But as complexification occurs, each particularate that is separated from the whole takes with it the Nine Components in each of its units. But the relationships of force or power become changed, so that Consciousness may have more power than Volition, or the reverse, or there may be more Quantity than Quality. Or there may be more Life than Perceiving Mind, etc. (Myra: So, the relationships will change but they’re all equally there.) Yes. And as the relationships between the Components change, so does the power or force or importance of the unit comprised by those Components. As these relationships change, one part may have more influence over other parts, even as is manifest in your society where one individual has more social presence or political influence or financial power. And yet these individuals comprise a group. They are part of a whole which is part of another whole, which is part of another whole, which is part of another whole. But each of those wholes has certain powers of influence.
Jean: Now I get the picture of a big glob of clay. And you take out some and part of it you make into a flat dish. Another you make into a sieve. Another you make into a long rope, etc. And each thing has the same Components, but you put more air in one. You have put more density in another, and you end up with different things. (Very different functions. Very good.) Myra: So the idea of the different functions started in the Realm of spirit, and the process of making those different shapes became the manifestation in the Realm of Mind.
Sheariam: Very good. Do you then have enough to work on? (Some comments “yes” and “no”.) We will then proceed at the next meeting with the Realm of Mind. We are gratified with the progress we are making. It would be of great assistance to you if you comprehended the whole series (of realms) in relationship to each other.
Myra: Could I ask you, please, as a teacher, I have to set my goals as to what I’m aiming for. Could you give us a picture of generally what is the goal? What you want us to understand about these different realms? (May I ask you, why do you read your bible?) For satisfaction, understanding, inspiration. (Understanding of what?) Of what God has in mind for us.
Sheariam: Now you have answered your own question. As we have said before, as man understands himself, so he will move upward. You are as said last time, in revolution, not just evolution. Part of our growth and development is to call you forth even as I said earlier. Those who inspired the early writing were serving mankind in the same capacity that we attempt to serve you now. Your early writings have become distorted, so manipulated and exploited, that you have lost some of the greater benefits to be derived. We try now to bring some clarity in the hope that this growth of human consciousness shall not be sacrificed on the altar of stupidity. Each time a civilization dies and must be then regenerated, there is what is referred to in your bible as a “backsliding”. There is some growth lost. The continuity is interrupted. We are working with all of our beingness to save civilization as it exists now on the planet earth. And though it may seem an aggrandizement to you, the work you do in this small room makes for untold resistances to the progress of the powers of destruction. You go beyond the distance. You actually set up fields of opposition. We cannot do it for you. Contrary to some of the beliefs extant in your world today, it is not from our realm that your civilization will be saved, but from yours. (Myra: You make I sound urgent.) It is urgent. You will not destroy the planet. You cannot destroy Life, but you can lose the growth of your civilization. Not all. No gain is ever entirely cancelled. If it is necessary to regenerate man on the face of this earth, the next Adam and Eve, if you will, will know more than the last pair. I am speaking allegorically.
Maxine: Is life too easy for man on earth at this time? Do they have so much that they don’t seek and try to understand? Is that part of the problem of what’s happening now? (That is not a problem of modern day. That is a constant in human consciousness.) Then man needs to seek and work for himself rather than have it given to him. He grows by seeking. (You grow by overcoming resistance.)
Jean: As a plant grows, it grows to its, or wants to grow to its, highest potential. Corn grows as tall as it can. It doesn’t want to be stunted. You say you are helping us, and we are striving. What is that force that makes the striving? What is that force that makes the plant grow to its highest? (The formula developed in the Realm of Spirit.)
Richard: `The question in my mind is “What is the Divine Plan for us here in this physical realm?” Are we following the plan, or are we going wrong? Is this the normal way for us to learn? (The plan is not absolute. As you create your life, you also create the plan.)
Jean: You mean there are no answers in the back of the book? (That is correct.)
Richard: It seems like such a waste for us to have to go from the beginning almost every time, and then to almost completely destroy everything and have to start out again. (But nothing is ever truly lost, although civilization may come to an end on this planet, and man must start again in some primitive state, the growth he has experienced or accomplished is manifest in other realms, and is not lost in those realms simply because it may be lost in this manifestation.) Jean: What keeps it going? (Spirit.) Richard: Indwelling spirit. Since we are spirit, we do keep going. (Do not forget the Divine Fire.) Peggy: We are a part of the almighty I Am. Richard: But are we learning as fast with all of the backsliding as we could learn if we didn’t backslide? That is the point. (No. You are not as efficient as you could be. You are not as efficient as other worlds. But there are other worlds that are not as efficient as you.) (Laughter.) My question is, using the grade-school analogy, grades 1, 2, 3, and 4, that we use in our educational system, we could say we are like a group of fourth graders, and some other realm might be sixth graders, etc. (But within that group of fourth graders, you have some who are at the upper end of achievement and some who are at the lower end of achievement. This is part of the blueprint established in the Realm of Spirit. Conditions which you seem to think are correctable may be part of the formula.)
Jean: There seems to be so much that is sad and suffering. Could there be a world without sadness and suffering, or do you have to have sadness and suffering in order to know how good it feels not to have it and to feel joy? Does there have to be the contrast? (In this particular manifestation of this particular formula, it must be.) Richard: In order to learn, this is part of our learning process. Without that we don’t learn. We have to burn our finger on the stove in order to find out that the stove can burn and is hot.
Myra: But how do you explain the cancer in little children, like that little three- year-old whose eyes had to be removed because she had this rare kind of cancer. Where does that come in? (Because she has in another existence created that for herself.) Richard: Cause and effect. Myra: And her parents have a great deal of potential change for them as they go through this agony. Is that it? Peggy: They were part of her previous life too. (Not necessarily, but of circumstances.) Mary: Would that be true of all the people in Ethiopia? (Those people chose to be born at this time in that circumstance, because those circumstances deliver to them those resistances which they must overcome by which growth occurs.) Then they can grow in that circumstance? (Most assuredly so.) Richard: Some more, some less, depending on their choices in their response.
Myra: And these individuals who went through the holocaust in Cambodia -- horrible, horrible nightmares they’re experiencing today with high school students in Portland who’ve had experiences you could not believe. Some are mentally ill because of it. Here’s an opportunity for them to grow or not grow depending on how they respond to it. Is that correct? (That is correct.)
Owen: Where does this place the efforts to help these people such as sending medical aid and food, etc. to these folks who have chosen to incarnate in that specific circumstance? Is this misplaced effort to help? (Again, we approach the moral issues which are established by choices in the Realm of Mind.) Maxine: Help your fellow man. Richard: It helps us to help others. Myra: When we care about someone else that is suffering, then we grow too. Richard: It’s an opportunity for us. Do you agree? (Yes and no. We cannot solve all of these quandaries for you. We would then be doing the very thing that we preach against.) Interference. (Precisely.)
Myra: You mean you would be interfering with our right to grow because we struggle through it? (Exactly. We are striving to give you the basic laws and an understanding of them so that you can discover for yourselves the requirements, and then move towards fulfilling those requirements.) Richard: Just giving us the rules of the game. (Well put.)
Jean: I ask again, what motivates the striving? (The eternality of life, that connection you have through the Nine Components. You cannot do anything to destroy any of those components, because in doing so you would be destroying The Absolute, which is not possible.) Myra: Are you referring ultimately that there is no way these Nine Components can be destroyed, but we individuals are murdered, or destruction of endangered species that are being annihilated, and the plants and the forests that are being destroyed in our world, the Nine Components are being destroyed within those individual things that die, aren’t they? (No. You are seeing the end of the physical manifestation of an intention. But the intention goes on, and it manifests in some other form. As when murder is committed, all that ceases is the functioning of the physical shell.)
Owen: You mentioned that the work that we do here offers resistance to the powers of destruction. Could you elaborate on “powers of destruction”? (There are those in this earthly manifestation whose lust for power knows no bounds, who will sacrifice any ethic, any possession, any consideration, to satisfy that lust, losing sight of the fact that when all the Indians are gone, there is nothing for a chief to do.)
Bonnie: We had a question about our fifth Saturday. Will there be a particular theme or subject matter that will be covered that you have planned? (I have certain plans, but at this time, they are dependent upon those who will be there.) Myra: Would you recommend that we limit the number of people who come? (Only logistically.) And what about the individuals we invite. Do you have a particular kind of mind set that you’re looking for especially, or just basic interest on their part? (Sincerity. We have clearly stated our goals. You have the good sense to accommodate us in that respect. We trust you.)
Sheariam: So now when you are ready, settle your bodies comfortably. Breathe deeply and relax. In the first part of our meditation, I ask you to join me on that infinite road which we walked together towards the pyramids. But tarry a while with me on the road. Do not rush to the pyramid. As you move along the road, look to your right, look to your left. Let your eyes search out a glimpse of brilliance. For somewhere beside that road lies a precious gem which is for you and you alone. You will be given instructions later how to use that gem. We will give you a few moments of silence now, to look, to find, and to claim. When you have found your gem, hold it gently in your hand. Examine it closely with your eyes. Feel its weight. Enjoy its brilliance. And try to become aware of the subtle vibrational emissions from the stone. Now those of you who have your stones, find a convenient place within your clothing to put them away. Those who have not found their stones, continue with this part of the meditation on your own until you do. Work with your stones a few minutes each day, becoming acquainted with them, learning to synchronize your energies with those emitted by the stone. And when next we meet, you will be given further instruction. Now when you have your stones carefully put away, return your consciousness to this room, to your current bodily status, and become aware of the widening pool of energy that is being created in the center of this circle by the healers from the temple. These healing energies are warm, soothing, and comforting. And as more and more is poured into the pool, it begins to lap gently at your toes, and then rises warmly and soothingly to your ankles. The healing energies move on up through your body from the pool through your feet. And as your body is permeated with these healing energies, you become more relaxed, more-gentle with yourself. As your physical body becomes more comfortably relaxed, so your mental body relaxes, too. And the emotional body relaxes as well. Then the desire body becomes involved with the need for purity and strength and wholeness. Whatever is needed to create this wholeness within the body is drawn by the desire body out of the pool of healing energy. It is drawn out of the pool and into your body, and you are healed. You are healed physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Because you cannot be whole without being joyous as well, you know that you must share this joyousness and the opportunity for healing. So, you call to those consciousnesses of your loved ones to join you here. (Names softly spoken.) As those who have been called choose to come, the healers move behind you. You may feel their presence as they bless you with their touch, even as you are being joined by powers from other realms. Listen closely. Perhaps you will hear some of the music. Such a blessing of light is being poured upon you. Now, like the sunlight, this healing blessing is being spread around the world. Such a joyous occasion this has become, as this night’s meeting has coincided with another. You are part of something greater than you know. I did not expect this, but the blessing is most welcome. Release your loved ones now to themselves. Know that you remain part of this great effort that goes forward. Feel the uplifting. Do not be surprised if you have dream visitors tonight. I must go now, but I leave you with my blessing and my love. Go in peace.
Closed with “Let there be peace on earth.”
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