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Session #67 – February 1, 1986
Gloria’s Circle
Present: Ida Nevala, Bonnie Wisz, Myra Perala, Sidney Smither, Peggy Muldoon,
Mary White, Owen and Maxine Cramer
A study session on the previous two circles was conducted by Maxine prior to this circle.
Mary led the meditation, and meeting began with usual singing. The group was urged to
arrive before seven o’clock so that the study time (on first Saturdays) might begin at
seven. Eileen is home from the hospital recovering from a broken leg.
Judith: Good even my precious ones. Thank you for your song. (Each member
spoke his name.) We will continue with our study this evening. We listened with
gratification to the study that has just gone forward. We appreciate your striving to
understand. We know how difficult it is, especially difficult because of the limitation
of your language. We try to find those words which best express to you what we
wish to convey, and always they seem small and inadequate.
The part of what you are and what you are about is to extend your capacity
to comprehend, to understand, to seek answers. You are mental beings in a physical
expression, and so it is proper that you seek to understand the farthest reach of
meaning to be found in the smallest of your words.
Now, time grows short for this teaching to be accomplished. Thus it is
necessary that we push forward. I must again resort to delivering mere outlines
which then can be followed by another teacher to flesh out, to help you extend your
comprehension.
And so we move forward then into the Realm of Soul to the understanding of
what “Soul” entails. Now, as the seed stars are created and thrust out from the
center of the Adam Kadmon, there are also certain other forms thrust out, also to be
free within the limits of your physical expression. You are conscious of electrical
current, but you do not as yet fully comprehend what you call “electricity”. You can
measure and experience magnetic fields. You can measure and experience forces of
various kinds. But your science has not yet isolated for you that subtlety which we
must call “charge”, that burden of action imbued in the minutest physical particle.
As ERTs gather together, similarly to that experience of yours in the physical
when two bodies rub together or come together under some pressure or force, there
arises a tension which then can only discharge its force into a body of lesser
potential. As the seed stars are cast outward, they come in contact with each other.
In some instances, they merely pass through. In other instances they bounce off of
each other. In still other instances they join as in a mating. As these seed stars form
clusters, galaxies are formed. Later, they gather to give you light, as suns in your
physical experience.
While these seed stars are bounding through the now determined space, they
also come in contact with some of the other creations such as your nucleic acids,
those upon which your science knows life to be built. There are many such
formulated substances at large in what you call space.
You are aware of varying kinds of star bodies which are accumulations,
aggregations, of star seed. As seed stars bump into each other, this “charge” is born,
and when enough of this charge is generated, a sun comes into being. The sun has
the life-giving heat and radiating capacity to draw to it certain other bodies which
are free in space.
Now in the Realm of Soul the shape of things to come is established. Not all
suns are alike, and not all suns have the same potential or capacity. It is in the
Realm of Soul that tenure and endurance is established: terms of being. Some terms
are in your understanding, purpose, such as giving joy, such as being constructive.
Others may be the reverse, that of sadness, or of destruction.
Endurance means termination. While there has been limitation of a sort, it
has not been that limitation which you comprehend, that condition in which a
formulated thing will perform according to a certain Intention or only a certain
length of time, and then, again, perform the same action, but from a slightly
different perspective.
Now you are told in your bible, a Garden of Eden is established. And we have
told you that the Garden of Eden thereof spoken is the Realm of Mind. In your bible
you are also told that a river comes forth to water that Garden of Eden. That river
which waters the Garden of Eden is the River of Life Force bestowed upon this
developing manifestation by the Realm of Spirit. It is that Divine Rod of which
Silverthistle teaches and which we have mentioned before. It is that river that
waters the soul that comes from the Realm of Spirit, through the Realm of Mind,
into the Realm of Soul, and is then carried forward by all of the creations of Soul.
Now in the Garden of Eden there are established many forms. All of the
forms of your planet as well as the forms of other planets and the life thereon, not
merely earth’s, but all planets. Life imbues everywhere. Your existence as physical
humans is only one very small manifestation of Life. But, as we have told you, it is a
Quality of Life, and on planets can be found many different forms or Qualities of
Life.
Your bible tells you that out of the Garden of Eden flow four branches of
that main river. This is an allegorical statement that covers a multitude of meaning.
In one interpretation, it is representative of the four kingdoms now inhabiting this
planet, those being mineral, plant, animal and human. But those four branches of
that main River of Life also represent the Divine endowment that all manifestations
have the evolutionary potential to return to the Divine State. That evolutionary
condition is dependent upon Repeated Process – in your terminology
“reincarnation”. But given that time has been established, that duration has been
established, each segment of Process has a beginning and has an end, as you know
that your lifetime begins and ends.
Another branch of this Divine River is that of Creativity. Now it is true that
you inherit creativity from the Divine Fathers and Mothers, the Ben Elohim. That
branch is a guarantee that creativity cannot be destroyed.
A third branch is a branch which you may not easily understand, but it
guarantees pleasure. Life is meant to be lived voluptuously. Remember that you are
created to work out the ramifications of the Law of Dominance, and the working out
of that law through the Principle of Appropriation brings you to the establishment
of the Attribute, Feeling and Desire.
The fourth branch guarantees that nothing in creation shall ever be cut off
from the Realm of Mind. That is the Branch of Thought. Everything “thinks.”
Now as the suns move through their duration, some are…. We must use your
words of “self generating” for you to understand. Thus they continue to develop
greater and greater radiation of heat or whatever it is that they are to generate,
until eventually their duration time expires and they burn themselves up. In one
way or another they extinguish themselves. And the rudimentary parts, the seed
part, are recycled. This is the evolutionary branch that guarantees repetition and
the potential of return to the Divine condition.
Other suns use up their quantum of energy, and as they cool they become
planets. In the period of time in which you now live, a solar system, as you know it,
as the one in which you now live, is comprised of a young sun about which other
cool suns are moving. Your planet earth has left only one of its planets that existed
around it when it was a sun, and you call that planet a moon. As your scientists are
discovering, farther away from your young suns are planets with many moons.
These are suns that are cooling and their planets have become cold, have changed
their form. Do you follow?
So you are living upon a cooled sun which was once a seed star. Everything
that you can perceive in the farthest galaxy is comprised of the same stuff as your
own environment, but in different proportions according to the proportions of
Volition to Consciousness as it derives from the Realm of Soul.
Thus everything is ensouled. Not everything evolves from the same soul. As
Mind devises ways and means by which the Law of Dominance is to be worked out,
it gives rise to a soul. It endows a soul with certain properties, certain duration,
certain powers, certain command over certain manifestations. It is given a job to do.
In that doing of its job, it may produce suns. It may produce planets, and it may
produce life, either on those planets or in space. It also gives a distinctive part of
itself to that which it creates, or in other words, ensouls its creations. Thus suns,
planets, moons have all properties, and forms existent in space are ensouled. All
have a purpose and a job to do.
Now perhaps you can understand why it is erroneous for you to say that you
have a soul. You have an identity which is ensouled. In the accomplishment of the
Soul’s Purpose, one of the things it creates with which you struggle is “ego”, that
specialized individuation of thought which will serve to manifest some particular
portion of its particular Soul’s Purpose. To that end, the Soul adds its instructions
to the developing manifestation. All of which are carried along this Divine Rod,
which is pictured for you as a River of Life.
It is to this central core of your being that you can apply for instruction and
direction when you think you have lost your way. But it is also through this Rod that
your creator can prevent you from defeating its Purpose.
Now I believe I have given you as much as you can possibly take with you at
this time. Next time we will discuss the peopling of the Garden of Eden. We will talk
of Ego and the Fall from Grace.
Owen: In the first of your instruction tonight, you mentioned that seed stars are
thrust out from the center of the “Adam”. When you speak of “Adam”, is that “Adam
Kadmon”? (Yes. Think of Adam as being a vehicle of expression with characteristics
of that which created it, in this instance, the Ben Elohim. So Adam, for you, has the
characteristics of the Ben Elohim. The River of Life and its four branches guarantee
that all manifestation on down to the lowliest mineral will also have those same
characteristics.
I do yearn for you my children. (Judith seems to know the listeners’ dilemma as
they struggle to understand.)
Myra: You said that all of the manifestations that we could know will have the
characteristics of the Ben Elohim? (Yes.)
Owen: Everything that exists has the four branches of the River. This means that
everything experiences reincarnation? (Yes.) This applies to the mineral kingdom? (Yes.)
I have trouble stretching reincarnation to the mineral kingdom somehow. It is difficult to
contemplate what is an individual in the mineral kingdom. For example, if there is a mass
of lava emitted by a volcano that would cover miles and miles of homogenous mixture of
rock, how does reincarnation and Thought apply to something like that? (As we discuss
the development of your planet as a habitation, as we discuss Mu and Lemuria, this
will become more apparent to you.)
Jean: As minerals evolve, does this mean that, say calcium becomes part of a
plant, and then as we eat that plant, the calcium becomes our bones. Is that the way?
(That is not reincarnation.) Then how does a mineral reincarnate? (We must table that
until we discuss the development of your planet. The process which you describe is
evolutionary.)
Owen: The branches of the River represent the four separate aspects of what we
can also visualize as this Golden Rod? (Yes. Excellent thinking.) It is the same thing?
(Yes, this is the reach we hope for.) Is it more correct structurally, if you can think of
this as having structure, to think of it as the Rod that Silverthistle has given us at the
healing retreat? (Yes.)
Myra: So this Rod brings the four Rivers that symbolize the Rod, but this is the
vehicle through which Evolution and Creativity and Thought and Pleasure are brought
into all four kingdoms of the earth plane? (Yes.) The mineral, plant and human kingdom.
You think of the human kingdom as being different from the animal kingdom? (It is.)
Owen: And this Rod, the energy that comes through the Rod, originates in the
Realm of Divine? (Yes.) The Divine Rod.
Myra: You said that all manifestations have the potential to return to the Divine
state. Is this what reincarnation is? (No. Evolution is.) Then could you please discuss the
difference between evolution and reincarnation? Evolution is a steady progress back to
the beginning. Reincarnation is a repetition of some condition or Thought until it
has accomplished its Purpose.)
Jean: Can you give us an example of accomplishing its Purpose? (I would that
question be answered as we discuss the evolution of your planet.)
Myra: So when we are talking about evolution, we’re not working toward the
Purpose of whatever manifestation we’re talking about. Like we’re talking about going
back to the Divine state? (But you cannot return to the Divine state until the Intention
of your manifestation has been fulfilled, which is the working out of the Law of
Dominance.)
Sidney:It sounds to me as if there is a very close correlation between reincarnation
and karma, that reincarnation occurs to fulfill the Purpose as defined by Mind. And my
concept of karma is not so much that we repeat actions that were deleterious to other
people, as I think a lot of metaphysicians believe today, but more or less that the thoughts
we think on this plane, that are not completed as to cycle, are those things that determine
our future karmic lifetimes or events in future lifetimes. (That is an excellent
explanation.)
Peggy: You speak of all these different planets. Is the life there of a higher
consciousness? (Neither higher nor lower, merely different in condition, as
explained, that takes different forms, but all have Purpose, all have Reason, all have
Consequence.) I have heard that some of these planets have people here on our planet.
(Oh, you have been in many planetary lives. All.) What I mean is, are they coming
here to experience our sort of living? (As you go to theirs, but when they are here they
are human. They are no different than you.)
Myra: So maybe we’re also from another planet? (You have been.) Why do we
not know it? (Because the Ego does not always reveal all it knows to its
manifestations.)
Bonnie: Do we visit them in our dreams? (Yes. And in your fantasies, and in
your meditations.)
Jean: Does each manifestation have its own Purpose, which would mean many
Purposes, or is there the same Purpose for all manifestations? (Yes and yes. There is a
common goal, which is to work out the Law of Dominance. But in the
accomplishment of that goal, there are many what you would say, “sub” goals.
There are temporary goals. There are temporary or short-term aims. But all are a
part of the overall Intent.) I get a picture here of maybe the overall Intent is, say,
present a picture. And one person might do it with crayons; another person might do it
with paints; another person might do it with various materials. Am I getting close to
understanding it? (Yes. If you carry your analogy to the fact that the ones with the
crayons may have the Purpose to stay within the lines, and the one with the paints
may have the Purpose to create a magnificent canvas.)
Owen: You mentioned that the planets and the moons are what had been stars. Is
there another process that forms some of the smaller moons that have been pictured as
being not symmetrical? They look more like chunks that have been broken. I would
assume that this same type of thing is also to be found in the asteroid belt? (Yes. Some
planets break apart into pieces. When the duration of an Intent is accomplished to a
certain degree, the whole which has been working upon that Intention might be
separated among its parts, and those parts distributed differently. But even then
there is an Intention being served.)
When the parts are distributed differently, is this a change of Intention, then? (A
change in mode of accomplishing the original Intention. You may have a heart
which has the Intention of beating in such a manner as to circulate the blood fluids
through your body. Something may happen to your body and that heart may be
implanted in another body. Its Intention is still to perform the same task, but now it
must perform the same task with a different substance, which is alike. As your body
fails, and you pass your heart to another, you may pass your eyes to still another,
and other parts to still others. The Intent remains the same. But the function is
different, is applied in another Number, in another Sound.)
Myra: You mean because they are in a different body? (Yes. That one which
inherits the heart may be a carpenter, whereas the heart may have come out of a
jewel cutter.)
Peggy: Is this why they say the body rejects the heart or other organ? (The body
will reject anything which does not coincide with its Consciousness. Now
Consciousness can be changed by the application of this “charge” which I earlier
tried to describe to you which establishes fields, polarities.)
Owen: Is that a physical change then? (Yes, in some instances it is.)
Peggy: Then the doctors that transplant these different parts have to coincide with
the patients who receive. (They do the best they can with the knowledge they now
have.)
Jean: They have tried to use chemicals to prevent rejection. Could this be done
with the mind? (Certainly. One of the branches of Life is Thought”.
Maxine: Would that have to be the thought of the person who was receiving this or
would that have to be the thought of the donor that was projecting this new part? (It must
be the thought of all concerned, including the thought of the organ and the tissues
which make up the organ, and the tissues which flow through the organ, and the
space in which the organ shall rest. Remember I told you earlier that Thought
imbues to all things.)
Owen: The Consciousness is somewhat, at least, influence by, if not controlled
by, the subtle bodies of the individual, is it not? (Nod) So that when an organ would be
transplanted from one individual to another, it would come into the influences of the new
subtle bodies. (But forget not the organ also has a set of subtle bodies which contain
memory of previous experience.)
Myra: So then do the memories get mixed up? (Yes.) And that causes problems?
(It can.)
Sidney: Intermingled might be a better word than mixed up.
Myra: Are you suggesting that perhaps the breakthrough of modern science may
be yet another way that modern man is harming our planet? (Until mankind
understands the existence of the subtle bodies and the Components of the Divine
Germ Cell, he is going to continue to place himself in jeopardy.)
Maxine: Then it would seem to me that if somebody had a poor heart, and couldn’t
use it, that it would be just as well that person leave this earth rather than take somebody
else’s heart and continue on. (The organ is very often influenced by the body
consciousness into which it is put. Very often the rejection is of the organ as much as
of the body.)
Myra: In other words, he probably won’t get too much good out of the second
one either. (If the organ desires not to stay.)
Bonnie: I have been working a lot on affirmations lately. So I have a happy heart. I
would think that would be a very good affirmation. (Wonderful, wonderful. Remember
that one of the branches of the River of Life is to live voluptuously. There is treasure
in pleasure.)
Sidney: We have been talking with Gloria about the Sixth Root Race, and it’s
based upon the psychosome that spoke to us some months ago. From what she has told
us, it is my understanding that this future upcoming race, assuming the planet survives,
will be of a different physical makeup from this current fifth race. And that leads me to
speculate on our moon which was once a planet being fed by the heat of this earth which
was a sun. As that ex-planet, now called the moon, has changed, have the inhabitants of
that planet changed? And is it inhabited by beings that we cannot perceive in any
physical sense that we currently have access to? (Yes, yes and yes.)
Myra: To continue that question then, the entities (would that be the proper word
for the moon) would not have been visible to the astronauts? (Under what you would
call normal circumstances, no. Your physical people from this earth would not be
able to have direct confrontation with moon people. But do not forget that all
manifestation is imbued with Thought and with Creativity, and that there are
certain intuitive powers evolved in man which enable him under certain conditions
to perceive conditions of manifestation unlike his own. The people who dwell on
moons and planets are still physical. Do not forget that.)
Peggy: With the same kind of a body as we have? (No. Physical does not mean
earthly. I am also as physical as you. We are “spirit-physical”. You are mental-
physical”.)
Owen: Your body is approximately the same shape as ours? (Our body can be
any shape we wish.)
Sidney: Is there such a thing then as “universe-physical” or “divine-physical”?
(No. As we move up, we will remain physical even as we enter functionally the
Realm of Universe, but diminishingly so.)
Peggy: These seven bodies that were blown to bits, how does that affect their
future lives, because they were all blown to bits. (Only their physical bodies.) But we
were told some time ago that if we have our bodies cremated, then this stops memory.
(You misunderstand. All living experience continues forward in the subtle bodies no
matter what transpires with the physical shell, except that as you determine
disposition of this physical shell which you possess and inhabit, you may set out
certain reincarnational requirements for yourself. But the sudden demise of a
physical body does not destroy the subtle bodies. It is true, under the conditions
such as explosion which is sudden and unexpected, there is a period of duration in
which the subtle bodies are somewhat disorganized or deranged, confused, but
certainly not destroyed. Those seven still live.)
Owen: We’d like to ask some more questions about that event. But before that, I
wonder if you have a different, maybe a bit more far-reaching definition of “physical”
than we normally use. We think of physical as something that we in the physical can
measure, having breadth, height. (Anything which can be numbered is physical.
Anything which has function, in your terms, is physical. It may be “ego-physical”. It
may be “soul-physical”. It may be “mental-physical” as you are, or “spirit-physical”
as we are, or ultimately, “universal-physical”.)
Peggy: What’s the difference between “physical” and “universal”? (What is the
difference between sense of “Self” and sense of “God”?)
Mary: I’d like to go back to the populace on other planets, or on the moon. In
using our other senses to know that something is going on there, were any of our
astronauts aware through another sense other than their eyes in perceiving that there was
life there? (All of them. Only some who wished to continue their government career
did not make the statement.)
Jean:I’d like to go back to my understanding of an earlier statement. Ego is the
specialized individual shape of that portion of particular Soul Purpose. So Ego has part of
the Soul Purpose. How can the Ego become aware of the Soul purpose? (Through
thought. Through intuition.)
Maxine: On that same question, we can do that through thought or intuition, but
then to actually know that what we’re thinking or intuiting is right. (As you develop
Feeling and Desire, you know what is right and what is not right. Your language
tells you that you “develop a feel” for things, does it not?)
Peggy: It’s a feeling that we go by then? (You confuse feeling with emotion.
They are not the same. Emotion may express a feeling that you have, but a feeling
does not necessarily carry Emotion.)
Maxine: You can feel hot and cold. (Yes.)
Sidney: As we are beginning to narrow down the concept of feeling, also Gloria at
the healing intensive we had last week end said that Desire technically speaking in the
etymological sense, means “of the Lord”. So then, as one develops feelings and desires,
one expands one’s ability to feel truth and perhaps know truth from higher sources. Am I
on the right track? (That is exactly the correct road.)
Jean: I can see other parts of this, but is it correct to think that if it gives a real
sense of high or a real pleasure, that could be the Soul Purpose? I mean that when the
Soul Purpose is being fulfilled, is there a sense of pleasure or satisfaction? (Of course.)
Would it involve the creativity? Would it have to involve all four of the rivers? (The four
branches are one river.) All right. Would it involve all four branches? (Think about it.)
It seems to me it would. (It could not do other.) So that could be one test that it is the
Soul’s Purpose and not something else? (It could be a partial test. Do not confuse
pleasure with peak experience.)
I think in my mind, I was thinking that pleasure can be a quiet good feeling.
(Pleasure will have duration. Peak experience must be repeated to be experienced.)
That’s what was giving me pause, because I really meant pleasure, the duration kind of
thing, not the peak experience.
Sidney: Would your use of the word “pleasure” be somewhat synonymous with
the New Testament’s use of the word “joy”? (Somewhat, but not entirely.)
Jean: And yet the peak experience when I climbed that pyramid, that was a peak
experience. (But it was the pleasure which had the duration.) So if it has duration, it
can also be a peak experience? (Pleasure can be derived from a peak experience.)
Owen: We’d like to ask some questions about the explosion of the space shuttle. I
was wondering if there were physical and possibly other reasons and influences that
resulted in the explosion. Is there something unusual behind this? They seemed to have
great difficulty trying to figure out what happened. (Yes, of course there was a physical
process which resulted in the explosion. There are also motives and behind-the-
scenes activities which brought that process into actuality. We are not at liberty to
divulge certain things, and it is not our purpose to deal with those natures. We are
here to teach, not to prophesy, not to explain human weakness except as it applies to
you directly or to the human race as a whole. The little intrigues which go forward
affect only some of the population of the planet. However, it is true that this incident
is going to affect people around your globe in many, many ways. For one thing,
mankind is like a precocious child and is running into the street not understanding
nor comprehending the vehicles that use that street. Thus it is that intervention
must be made, as a parent or other adult forces the child back into its own territory.
That is all we choose to say at this time.)
Owen: Another aspect of this has been the tremendous outpouring of grief by
millions of people who witnessed the incident and have witnessed the various memorial
services. I think we have been told that when one leaves the physical life that the grief of
those who remain can be a tremendous burden and handicap. I was wondering what grief
expressed by so many folks…. Two questions: what affect does this have on those seven
individuals, and second, what would be the most appropriate way to acknowledge their
departure that would be satisfying to those who remain as well as constructive to those
who depart?
Judith: First of all, the grief is not helping the seven to bring their subtle
bodies back into alignment, so they can move on to what they have to do. Secondly,
until our teaching reaches the heart of the many to understand what has happened
to those individuals, there is little that you can do except within yourself to speak to
the seven and encourage them to look for their light rather than shedding tears with
those who sorrow as being left behind. It is good to express love for those who go on,
but it is not good to hold them back by feeling that loss. When you can begin to
understand that no one goes away…. They are here. They are alive. They are with
those who suffer and grieve and think they are not.
Maxine: Then what I’m hearing you say, it would be best always when somebody
departs this earthly life, to encourage them to look for their light. (Yes.)
Owen: And send them love. (But you do not have to send it anywhere. They
are here, as I am here.)
Jean: Since I have been in this circle I have a very different feeling as people
have died. I have not been able to grieve. I have felt so much that they are still alive. I felt
almost that it was a lack in myself. I’m sorry that they are not here, but I can’t feel the
terrible loss. (And isn’t that marvelous growth?)
Maxine: It would be just like you invited somebody to dinner, and for some reason
they couldn’t come to dinner that night. You would be sorry they weren’t there for
dinner, but you would still consider them alive.
Owen: There is something about grief that to me is very troublesome. I envy Jean
in being able not to feel it. But I find that it is very contagious, and if I see someone
grieving or crying, even though I think I know better, I guess I pick up, not just the
thought, because it’s just seeing it seems to affect me. (Grief is based on fear. Fear is
contagious whether seeing or not.)
Peggy: I’ve always felt that when a person departs this plane, it’s like a
graduation. (That is a good way to look at it.) You don’t want to hold them back.
Judith: It is an advent into a freer state of being. Let us draw our study to a
close with a meditation.
Settle your bodies. Prepare your minds. We are going to have a very special
healing meditation. I am going to ask you to the very best of your ability to imagine
that you are bodiless, and thus able to move freely through the atmosphere of your
planet.
Imagine yourselves rising from your body, leaving that physical form seated
where it is. As you depart from that shell, you experience a great expansion as
though the bodies that you are have been confined within a very small area. Get
used to the feeling of freedom, of expansion, and know that Thought is your
propellant, that you can think yourself anywhere that you wish to be. Play with that
for a moment or two.
And now I ask you to gather round me, and together we shall visit our absent
member, Eileen. Approach quietly, softly, gently, each in a circle around her. Join
your hands as you do in your circle with Eileen in your midst, and pass energy from
hand to hand and as you do. As the energy passes from one hand to the next and
around your circle, it gains momentum and force. And now you will release your
hands and turn them palms forward toward Eileen, releasing the energy that has
passed through the circle into her subtle bodies for her use. She has asked you to
help, and now you are helping.
Now see around Eileen her subtle bodies as a puffy mist, and with your
hands smooth its ragged edges. Pat her. Stroke her. Stroke those subtle bodies as
you would the arm of a beloved, soothingly, lovingly, healingly. Now together say “I
love you, Eileen”. (Done.)
Now softly, gently, move away from Eileen with me, and we shall go to that
spot in your atmosphere above your state of Florida where that gigantic explosion
took place, and we will again join hands in a circle. And we will dance. We will skip.
We will sing. We will bring joy to that area. As you do this, the energies of the area
become enlivened, and the traumatic shock which it has suffered is reduced. The
parts of the subtle bodies of the seven which are ragged and torn are encouraged to
join the other parts, to draw themselves back together.
In your dancing and your singing and your joy is great healing for them. It
helps to offset all the thought waves of grief and longing and tragedy. For they not
only suffer from their sudden demise, but they suffer disappointment. Their goals
and their accomplishment of them have been interrupted. And from your joyous
singing and dancing energy they can draw support and healing, and get their
thoughts back together so they can know what they must now do.
And now like children for whom the recess bell has rung, you must wave
goodbye, wish them well, tell them that you love them. Say out loud, “I love all of
you”. (Done.) Now bring that joyous energy back to this room. Continue the mood
of singing and dancing and joy, and invite those about whom you have concern to
come into your circle. Now, even as you continue to extend your invitation, join your
hands in your imagination, dance and sing and be joyful in your circle, and dance
around the loved ones who come.
Welcome those who come. Let them move into the center of your circle under
your arms as children joining your play. Now you are joined by the healers and
members of the temple, and we all dance and sing and are joyful with you. There is
great healing here for all who have come, and for you, and for us. We bless you, and
we thank you. Now together say “I love”. (Done.) Again. (“I love.”) And again. (“I
love.”)
Now it is time to return your consciousness to the confines of your body.
Release your friends and playmates. Let them take with them the joy and the
healing. Keep to yourselves the joy and the healing as well, that you can treasure it
in the days to come. We take with us the joy you have given us, and we bless and
thank you for it. You may close your meditation with your favorite song, and ours,
and I bid you good night. (Many expressions of thanks and blessings.)
Closed singing “Let there be peace on earth.”
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