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Session #78 – August 21, 1986
Gloria’s Circle

Present: Richard and Mary White, LaMar and RetaMae Bell, Owen and Maxine
Cramer, Bonnie Wisz, Ida Nevala, Peggy Muldoon, Betty Welty, Clista
McPherson, Sidney Smither, Eileen Horton.

Prior to the session, a pot luck supper was followed by a review of Sessions on Soul
Intentions (#73), Ego Boundaries (#74), and the nine States of Mentation (#77) led by
Owen. Richard guided the opening meditation.

Sheariam: Good evening students and friends. And so we come once more to this
stern task, to comprehend these deep truths we bring. We know it is not an easy
task for you. We are greatly gratified at your study. As we move forward in the
study of the Realm of Self, what now seems such a puzzle will not seem so obscure.
There is hope. (Laughter.) Now, as you may recall when last we met, I gave you an
assignment. Who would share?

Bonnie: I meditated on being a rock. First of all, I noticed that I didn’t feel pain if I
was kicked or thrown or something, but I certainly absorbed all the thoughts, feelings and
emotions that were around me. And I had a deep sense of appreciation when I was
appreciated, or given affection. (A very important essence. One of your puzzlements
in this night’s discussion was the limitation of suffering and pain. With limited
Volition, what Purpose could be served by a rock experiencing pain when it has not
the Volition to transcend that pain? Very productive.) It was a very nice meditation. I
enjoyed it. (Thank you.)

Eileen: I just used my imagination, and I started meditating on a rock, more or less
like Bonnie. I tried to feel like I was a rock. My interpretation was: I feel relaxed and
sure of my identity. Sometimes I am buffeted about, and parts of me are weathered to a
smoothness that I accept calmly. Usually I rest peacefully. Sometimes I am cold, covered
with snow, wet with rain, or chilled by wintry wind, but I remain calm. Sometimes I am
warmly caressed by gentle breezes and kissed by the sun, even baked by hot summer
sunshine, but always I remain calm. Serene in my stability and knowingness of my
function to be in what is my universe, and I am a part of all that is. (Excellent. The
lesson of the rock: to be, to be itself, to be true to its own nature. As your lessons go
forward, one of the highest hopes of ours will be served as you each discover that
nature of yourself to which you must be true if you are to successfully move out of
the Realm of Self. It is to this end that we give you these diagrams of Intention and
Purpose…. Do we have another?)

Owen: I am a rock. In my massive state, I serve to support the crust of the earth.
In portions, I serve as parts of structures for man, as in building stone. Besides my ERTs,
atoms and molecules which are all individually alive, I am composed of several distinct
minerals each of which has its own physical properties, like a human with various kinds
of tissues. My particles may become components of another rock.
I am aware. I have Consciousness. I take on something of the events that involve
me or occur around me. As a specific kind of rock, I have a unique appearance and
physical characteristics. As I age, my characteristics may change under the effects of
erosion, heat, pressure, dissolution, and deposition. Eventually I may decompose. I am
part of the earth’s mineral chain, something akin to the plant and animal food chain. My
parts recycle. They may become sedimentary rock in several cycles, and eventually may
be subducted below the crust of the earth to become melted and mixed, eventually to
emerge as volcanic rock.
I have soul. I am watched over by a nature spirit. My Soul Intention is to provide
a support system. I am Conscious. I have little Volition. I accept whatever happens to me
without judgment, without fear.

Sheariam: Another excellent point made. In your prior discussion, the question
arose as to what Purpose is served by our lessons to you if all may come to an end,
which, of course, it will not. In your meditation, you brought out the fact that all
experience impresses the matrix of the Realm, that the very essential essence of the
rock retains the memory of all its experience, even though it may be changed into
another form, have another experience, or serve another Purpose.
As you human selves experience your lives, you make an impression upon the
matrix of the Realm of Self which is not to be lost. Some 25,000 years ago an
individual witnessed the changes in the sky above and recorded what was observed
upon reindeer horns. That record is today still preserved. That record is the record
of the changing phases of the moon. What you do here has also a physical
manifestation which will be preserved. We do not come in vain, as we have said
before. All that you do is as blessed as all that you are… Have we another?

Sidney: I visualized a rock, and as I watched that rock, very instantaneously from
the very core of it, there was a pulsating energy and light that emanated from the rock
that was red-orange-gold. It seemed to be almost in an “x” or a cross shape. I was very
impressed by that. It continued to pulsate. What it means, I don’t know. (Symbolically,
this is that realm of resistance. There are polar opposites which function at cross
purposes with each other, and only human Consciousness can reconcile these
differences into complementation. Even the rock has that Rod of Life, that eternal
Divine Fire, at the core of its existence. Very good. Thank you.

Peggy: I wasn’t here last week, but I was out in my yard watering as I came home
from work. I was standing there by the tree. It’s funny, you with the rock. I was doing the
same thing with this tree. It was like something was talking to me from the tree, telling
me all of the uses that come from the tree, all the things that we do, and how it spreads its
seeds and how it is replenished. It was like there was a communication between the two
of us. (The deva spoke to you.) It was like a “oneness”.

Mary: As I read the transcript today, it was a visualization. It was like I went
from Mt. Rushmore, which was huge, to a beautiful rock in a cold mountain stream. I
seemed to get the feeling of the strength and the endurance and the peace that are in the
rock. It was that strength and that endurance that seemed so very strong. It seemed to say,
“This is what you need to know: strength and endurance.”

Sheariam: Very good. That delivers us to the threshold of our lesson for this
night.
As you were given there are twelve Intentions. But of each Intention there
are Nine States of Beingness. These are:

Active Organized Aware
Devoted Enduring Responsive
Sincere Patient Powerful

As always, we give the positive. You know that there is the polarity. We do not need
to give you the opposites. As intelligent beings you can figure those out for
yourselves.
In your prior discussion the question arose about the relationship between
Soul and Intention. As Judith gave, each Soul has a single Intention. Those words
given as Intentions relate to your own circumstances in a particularly semantic
definition, but you must expand your understanding of those words.
For instance, “Individuation”. You recognize yourselves as individuals even
when you are members of a group, a partner in a marriage or business. Always you
remain separate, and individual. The Intention of Individuation is to expand far
beyond that separateness, and while you, as an individual personality, may
experience all of those things which you might label with the same words as those
used as Intentions, your experience is not the same as the experience itself.
As you move forward in your lessons, this will become clearer. As always,
you are attempting to understand a large concept with little data. Review, if you
will, some of your earlier lessons, and recall your confusion, and your doubt, and
your puzzlement. Then understand how those confusions have cleared somewhat as
you have gained further knowledge. I do not believe that any of you at this point in
time still equate the Two Minds of the Divine Germ Cell with your puny thought
processes. Yet we must use your words for you to understand. So, exercise some of
those States of Soul Beingness: Patience, Endurance.
You feel threatened by some of the prophecies, and yet you have been
assured that your destiny is your destiny. The shape of your fate is in your own
hands. Your destiny is directed by the group into which you chose to be born this
time. That cannot be changed now. But do not live in fear or in apprehension or in
anticipation of what is to come. Live in the fullness of now. Meditate upon joy. Fill
your lives with joy, and thus fill the world with joy and alleviate suffering thereby.
Now, as you have been given by Silverthistle, there is that Divine Rod
inherent in all things, without which Life cannot manifest in your condition. We will
next discuss the Nine states of Ego, at which time these lessons will have a more
personal connection with you as individuals. Following that, we will get into the
basics of Self, of Evolution, of Planetary Function, and many of the questions that
we have tabled in the past can then be answered. You will find greater
understanding for having the benefit of the information thus far given, and you will
understand why your questions could not be answered earlier.
Now as you did in the last lesson, between now and the time we meet again,
choose an Intention, and meditate upon it in terms of the Nine States of Being. Be
prepared to share your meditation as you did this night, for each of you, as already
demonstrated, will bring forward a unique principle that the other has not.
Now it has been some time since we talked to you of your personal stones. We
have been neglectful of your personal development in the rush to get this far along
in your lessons, for as we have told you before, many changes are occurring. We
have certain goals which we are attempting to achieve, and your time bears greatly
upon this accomplishment. Let us speak together of your stones, and we will close
tonight with a meditation using those stones. Have you been working with your
stones?

Bonnie: I have a question that has a relationship to stones. My favorite crystal, my
amethyst crystal, either was lost or it went away, and I miss it. I want it back. I was just
wondering if you could help me with that. (It has gone to be replaced by a more
appropriate crystal.)

RetaMae: I have a diamond, and I don’t do a lot of heavy meditation with my
diamond, but I do seek it. It brings a great peace and comfort when I do this. It’s just an
instant spontaneous thing. I can be working, etc. It just seems to glow and radiate with
the gold life force for me. At the time when I come close to it, it surrounds me with this
life force, and I am rejuvenated and re-energized, so to speak. I am amazed at what has
happened when I do this. (Now, you would benefit greatly if you would focus that
radiation into your afflicted hand.) (RetaMae’s hand was bandaged with an infection.)
Thank you. I was doing that this afternoon.

Ida: I never did find a stone, although I looked for it. So I put my hand on my
forehead and started meditating and thinking that my stone is the stone I have in my hand
and on my forehead. All at once there was a quite large stone that came on with fire
shooting out of it. So I thought of my stone with fire in it. Is there a meaning to that?
(You need more warmth in your life.) What kind of warmth? (Love and affection.) I
thought I have loving friends all around me. (That you do, but you can always use
more. Allow that fire to bring that sense of Divine Love, Celestial Love. Feel that
you are beloved of the angels, moved of Spirit.) I am living in an apartment house, and
I haven’t made any friends there because I just don’t tune in with them. All I hear is pills
and illnesses and stuff like that. So I haven’t gotten any friends there. I’m alone. (You
are alone only in the sense of the physical realm. That fire brings to you lots of
company from the ephemeral realm.) What stone would it be? The opal that would
send fire when I had it on my forehead? (Yes.) That would be my stone? (Yes.)

Sidney: Did you mean ethereal or ephemeral? (Ephemeral.) That means only
short lived. (It is not.) How did you mean it? (Physical beings without gross bodies,
which are short lived, in terms of All…. No questions?) Yes, I have a question, but I
wanted to allow people a chance to respond to the stone. (Let us stay with the stone.)

Betty: I feel that probably the main stone is the amethyst which appears in different sizes
and colors on different times. But I notice that each time I go for a walk I pick up pockets
full of agates, even though I say I’m not going to. I have them all around me, and I tend
to carry them in my pockets. Could you give me some information and any insights on
this? (It is an attempt to ground yourself.) Then it’s a good thing to just go ahead and
keep it that way? (So long as you need them, yes.)
There are other times when I have the crystals, the amethyst around me, and then
if I have the feeling that they need to go out on the porch in the sunshine or the rain, I
take them out there, and then I bring them back. Is this a valid feeling that I’m working
with? (The feeling that they need to be outside is, in fact, a need that they clean up
your environment.)
Now, explain that again: that they clean my environment? (Yes.) Then I bring
them back in and they do that, and I take them out and they clean up. Is that what
happens? (As they sit around you inside your habitation, they absorb the poisons and
the toxins in the air. These are of an emotional nature, of a thought nature, as well
as physical nature. Your feeling that they need fresh air and rain is that they need to
be taken out in order to clean up the atmosphere. As you would remove a filter from
any system of circulation and clean it out. (That explains a great deal. I feel that
physically the body and the emotions I’ve been going through a lot. Have the stones
helped to clear up that, and am I creating more than cleaning out? Is it a good process that
I’m going through, or am I regressing? (It is a good process. Remember that one
always creates more chaos in an effort to establish order. Old structure must break
down for new structure to be built.) Thank you. That’s very helpful because I’m
creating enough chaos.

Maxine: You suggested that I should wear the amethyst necklace that belonged to
my mother, and I did wear it the other day. I must say that I didn’t have any feeling at the
time. At the time I couldn’t understand why, and I still didn’t understand why until what
you said this evening: because they absorb toxins. So the reason I should wear this is
probably to clear my thoughts about my mother. (And then allow the stones a chance to
be cleansed.) By taking them outside? (Or in some kind of fluid) Is water… in water…
is that it? (Yes.)

Betty: I put mine in the dishwasher. Is that all right or is that hard on them?
(Organically, it might remove some cells, reducing volume but not power.) They
seem happier and sparklier when I get done with it.

Eileen: If you washed your stone in a detergent, would that affect it adversely?
(Sometimes.)
Maxine: When you say “sometimes”, do you mean that some stones, or sometimes
it can affect a particular stone adversely? (Both.) So I would assume it would be better
not to put them in detergent. (Depending upon what kind of pollution you are
attempting to remove.)

Betty: Could you expand on that a little bit? (Should you pick up a rock from
your yard, you might well wash it in detergent. It would not serve a finely cut
precious jewel to be washed in detergent, but there are times when such might be
necessary in order to clean up the toxins it had absorbed.)

Sidney: About five days ago, or so, I put an amethyst beneath my bed where I
sleep with its point essentially pointing straight up through the mattress, and I
programmed it before that to basically prepare me for any possible radiation or to deal
with the adverse effects of radiation and so on as you essentially taught us. I also notice
that sometimes I might sleep a long time, but I felt less rested in the mornings, perhaps
less so today than the first four days. I wondered, first of all, have I programmed it
correctly; secondly, is it good to continue what I have been doing; and thirdly, do you
have any other advice for me? (The stone should not be under the bed, for that is too
much power directed too highly focused. Programming seems to be sufficient, but
do not sleep with the stone more than once a week in the same room.)

Maxine: In that respect, I have my amethyst necklace in the dresser drawer close to where
I sleep. Would that be the same? (No. It is not programmed the same.)
Bonnie: Is that general advice or just for Sidney? (Specifically for that person.)

Sidney: Lately I have been wearing my crystal most of the time, and I haven’t been
wearing my diamond or diamonds very frequently, basically responding to another
suggestion of yours that the two shouldn’t be worn together. Is it best to wear them each
50% of the time, or is there purpose? What is your advice on that? (For you, the
diamond is less functional than the amethyst. Wear the diamond for decoration, but
wear the amethyst for protection. It does not need to be worn constantly to be
effective. Like medication, a certain level of potency is built up within the body that
must be maintained, but does not require constant wearing of the crystal. Do not
forget that color also is effective. The crystal is powerful, but color is also.)
Maxine: What is the effect of the amethyst color? (Protection against radiation
poisoning.)

RetaMae: I have the diamond which I feel very comfortable with. Is there another
stone besides the amethyst that I should also be working with that would be effective for
me? (Since the diamond is your stone, it is most effective for you, but the amethyst is
also, since you are a member of the human psyche.)

Eileen: When I meditate I see colors, and it’s usually the same colors: blues and
greens. Very seldom do I see any other except maybe a golden hue. I haven’t been able to
pick up any stone that should be mine. I’m wondering if the colors that I see should be
duplicated in a stone or should I wear these colors, or do they have any particular
significance? (They are healing colors. That is something that you have been in need
of, for the past five years especially. So long as you need that healing, that is what
your source group will deliver to you. Wear those colors, and gems of those colors
would also be beneficial for you.) Zircon? Emerald? (Yes.)

Owen: I was advised in a life reading to wear a ruby in a ring, but when you first
gave us the meditation to pick up a gem stone, I picked up a many-faceted spherical
quartz gem. Is there any conflict, or do these two serve different purposes, and if so, what
are they? (There is no conflict so long as they are used judiciously. Each does serve a
different purpose. The ruby is to stimulate that in your memory bank to be brought
forward into this lifetime. The other is that healing implement which your source
group intends you to use for yourself and for others.)

LaMar: As we’ve been discussing these this evening, I’ve suddenly had some
questions. The birthstone that I have been wearing on my right hand for quite a long time
seems to be bothering me. I thought possibly because it seemed to have gotten small. I
have taken it off two or three times, and put it back, and finally took it clear off and
haven’t been wearing it. I’m wondering if there is some reason that I didn’t grasp why I
disposed of that ring. (The ring, rather than protecting you, was drawing to you
toxins from the atmosphere. Your own source group led you to take it off.) I just had
that suspicion this evening as I was sitting here. Thank you.

Betty: The amethyst, you said, was protective from radiation. Does that also
protect on other levels such as psychic and mental? (Of course.)

Richard: I’m a little apprehensive about the x-rays that I’m going to be taking next
Wednesday of my back because of the radiation component especially in view of my
blood problem. I’m wondering if I should consider the use of the amethyst. Would that
help any? (By all means.) At what point? Just hold it? Yes. You can hold it in the palm
of your left hand.)

Owen: We’ve heard mention programming the crystal. What would be the proper
procedure to program a crystal, say as in Richard’s case for a specific x-ray? (We would
hesitate to give that kind of instruction, for it could be misunderstood and misused.
You are better not knowing.) But it is desirable that we program our crystals, and I was
wondering what more you can say about the general technique of programming a crystal.
(That is what we will not give you. It is sufficient for Richard to take the amethyst
crystal with the intention of it protecting him. The source group will do the
programming.)

Betty: Are the techniques taught by Marcelle Vogel and Warren Clausner and
Ann Chenolin (spelling?) valid, good techniques, or should we be even cautious using the
techniques they teach? (Caution.)
Sidney: Is this because the latter Atlantean culture used crystals for destruction?
(Yes. And you have those memories in your genes.)

LaMar: The obvious question that I should have asked just caught up with me.
Having disposed of the ring that was attracting toxins to me, is there another stone I
should be wearing, and if so, what? (At this point in time, anything in the blue
spectrum that has an opacity to it.)

Betty: Let’s get back to this programming a little bit. Would we be better not to
program them at all, just put them out to be cleansed and then use them? (Ask your
source to do the programming. Safest method.) Is there a particular stone that would
be helpful for me right now, that I could afford? (Rose quartz, of which you already
have many, would do much to clarify the environment.)

Mary: Sheariam, I’ve been searching for a black opal to wear. So far I have not
found one, but I think I have a lead on one. Would that be a good thing for me to wear?
(Yes.)

Owen: Is the energy of the crystal an inherent quality of the crystal itself? (Yes.)
Then the programming is just the direction to which that energy is directed. (That is why
it is dangerous unless you know what you are doing, for you are fooling around with
forces of which you do not understand the entire parameters.) Is there a relation
between the size of the crystal and the energy, or the perfect form? (Not a direct
geometric ratio.) We wouldn’t be able to determine whether we had a powerful crystal
or not just by looking at its physical properties? (Intuitively, yes.)

Maxine: Do we intuitively wear certain rings that we have? I have certain others
that I wear at times, but I don’t wear all the time. (Yes.) So when the time is right to wear
it, I will? (Usually, if vanity does not intercede.)

Peggy: Diamonds are one of my stones. Then at the time that you told us to
picture it, I got a blue stone, but I don’t know the name of it. Also, when I get around
diamonds, or I go by a window where I see diamonds, why do I get such an uplift?
(Because of the Aries portion of your nature.) This blue stone had so much life to it,
and it was such a pretty one, but I don’t know the name of it. How is the best way to find
a name for it? Go to a jewelry store? (That is one avenue.)

Eileen: I’m just the opposite. I never have had much interest in good jewelry. I
like to look at them. I always enjoy looking in a jewelry store window, but wearing rings
with nice stones or wearing a locket or this sort of thing… I wonder what is the matter
with me, because I would always rather have a dishwasher or something real practical
than a nice piece of jewelry. Is this something I should develop? More of an interest in
jewels? (No. There is nothing wrong with you. There are some people who are better
off not wearing jewelry. The metals into which the stones are set is often
antipathetic to the organic system.)

Richard: Are we talking about my situation, too? (Yes.) So I should use this
amethyst only during the x-ray picture taking, and then not be concerned about it after
that? (From time to time, you should replenish your protection.) That’s just by
meditating with it in the palm of my hand? (Yes.) Then set it aside? (Yes.) Thank you
very much. That has relieved my mind considerably. (The therapy which you are
undertaking makes your physical organism too vulnerable to the power of the
crystal for you to have it on your person for any length of time, or to have it too
close to you for extended periods.) That’s why I haven’t been interested.

Bonnie: I was wondering if my amethyst leaving has anything to do with my move.
(Of course.) Is that where my new amethyst will be waiting for me? (There is
something of which I must not speak… Shall we then settle ourselves for a
meditation?)
Relax your bodies. Visualize in the center of your midst a three-legged stand
upon which sits a totally transparent piece of crystal in the shape of a sphere.
Within that sphere are no impurities. It is of such purity that light passes through
without refraction.
Now at the center of the sphere, observe a tiny glow, like an incandescence.
See that tiny glow grow in volume and in power until the crystal sphere lights up
and glows like a sun: pure white light; no refraction.
Now, those of you who have stones, hold them in the light glowing from that
crystal, and allow them to be charged. The light is so pure, there can be no
negativity left in your stone when charged.
Now put your stones safely away, and continue to contemplate the glowing
sphere. Feel that pure radiation, bathing you inside and out, purifying your
emotional body, purifying your mental body, until you, too, radiate that same pure
radiance.
Now into this magnificent radiance invite those for whom you have concern,
and let us again also invite Ann Hart and her daughters. As you continue to invite
your loved ones, and they continue to join you, continue also to contemplate the
radiating light, for as you focus your attention upon it, it expands. It grows and
grows outward until the atmosphere of your planet is purified with its pure light.
Then it moves beyond the physical into the astral realm to bless those who look for
the Corridor of Transition. It goes on to neutralize those forces which wreak havoc
upon your planet. It moves through the bodies of creativity, through the Realms of
Soul and Mind, until Spirit is once again fed with its own light. In that connection,
you are blessed. You are protected. You are guided. All of your source groups, all of
us in the temple, join in this effort of purification.
Now gently return the focus of your attention to the here and now. Clasp
within yourselves that blessedness and healing. Release your loved ones to return to
themselves. I give you my blessing, and I bid you go in peace. May your lives be
filled with joy.

The meeting closed with “Let there be peace on earth.” During refreshments and visiting
after circle, Bonnie announced she would be moving to Detroit, Mich. Early in July to be
closer to her family. While this news was not joyfully received by other members of the
circle, we all desire the best for Bonnie and send our blessings of joy with her. We have
all benefited from her membership in the circle, and we love her dearly. She will be
missed.

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