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Session #80 – July 19, 1986 Gloria’s Circle
Present: Sidney Smither, Betty Welty, Ida Nevala, Myra Perala, Peggy Muldoon, Jean Chisholm, Mary White, LaMar and RetaMae Bell, Owen and Maxine Cramer.
Preceding the circle, members enjoyed a potluck dinner followed by a discussion of Sheariam’s recent assignment with display charts created by Owen Cramer.
Sheariam: Good evening students and friends. I came this night with a carefully prepared presentation. In listening to your study now, you have opened so many doors, it is my wonder as to where to begin. Let us first speak of your work. You have been attempting the assignment. Shall we discuss that?
Owen: Among other things, I was a little bit unsure of the three places where the River of Life branched and the designation of the third set of branches. I had them down as Human, Animal, Plant and Mineral, but I wasn’t convinced that was the separate set of branches you had intended. (Those are the branches for this planet earth.) Then we do have all the branches that you intended? (Yes.) I presume that you inspected my attempts to diagram the River as it relates to the various realms, etc. I hope I didn’t get it upside down this time. Are there specific comments that you would make as to the organization that I have here?
Sheariam: First of all, you are attempting to make a two dimensional demonstration of a five dimensional reality. Impossible from where you sit. In this division of the rivers, if you will, think on those rivers which water your land body on the planet. There will be that fountainhead, that spring, from which the main body of water flows. But as that body of water arrives at certain earthly configurations, it will divide itself into branches, each branch watering a particular area of land. But ultimately, all of those branches deliver their cargo again into the one ocean. Some of the water is absorbed into the ground during its passage. Some of the water is absorbed into the atmosphere. The river never loses its identity. The water which flows in one branch also flows in the other branches, ultimately rejoining to again go back to the fountainhead. So it is with the river of Life. It may divide and divide and divide, only to come together again. But as the water in each branch of your rivers is the same water that flows in all the other branches, so it is the same Life which flows in all branches. Each branch has a particular service to render, but all deliver back to the one whole to repeat the cycle. So in actuality, it is only an apparent division. Does that help you to understand?
Owen: Yes, it does. And the branching, I think you suggested that the river then consolidates and goes back to its state of origin, whereas I visualized that it would come back together and continue down through the next realm. (It does, even as your land rivers may divide and divide and divide.) I was thinking of the divisions possibly as enhancements of the River, and each time it divided there was an enhancement of the quality as it proceeded through the realms. Is that correct? (To some extent. It is impossible to draw an analogy from the limited view of your earth existence to describe what the reality is.)
Myra: In our discussion tonight we were talking about the twelve Intentions. In one place someone quoted the idea that the Intentions related somehow to the twelve branches of the River. Do we understand that? (No.) There’s not a connection? (Of course, there is a connection, but you cannot assign an Intention to the branch of a river.)
Owen: Do you see other areas where our comprehension is really off in the wrong direction? (You are doing quite well, given your limited information. You did have other questions?) Myra: Yes. I wrote down some questions that people asked, but I don’t get Jean’s first question. Jean: I understand that each Soul has but one Intention. Now, does that Soul have to fulfill all of the Intentions before it returns to The Absolute? (No. Remember that you failed to answer my question last by omitting Repeated Process, that very reincarnational process about which you had so many questions when this class began. Perhaps it would help to clarify if we termed a Soul as “Oversoul”, which gives birth to lesser Souls. The Oversoul will have only one Intention to fulfill. That is its sole purpose, its only reason for being. When that Intention has been fulfilled, all that that Oversoul has accomplished is then returned to the Realm of Mind, and the Soul, as an identifiable entity no longer exists.) Myra: That would include all the lesser souls that go with the Oversoul? (And all of the Egos and all of the Personalities.)
Owen: Is there any aspect of the hierarchy that must experience all of the Intentions? (Cosmos. Primal Order.)
Myra: When we were thinking about the Oversoul sort of being an umbrella for all the lesser souls that are working on the same Intention, does each of the lesser souls have to achieve all the aspects of the Intention, or do they all go together and sort of make a mosaic of the Intention? (Each lesser soul produced will have what you might call a “mission” which will go to fulfill the overall Intention. This proceeds downward, if you will. As you consider the Intentions, you must expand your understanding, for we have had to incorporate much meaning into a single word. There are many levels between Oversoul and Self. As we continue to discuss the involutionary spiral which then becomes the evolutionary spiral, more of this will come clear. But even now, we have given you that which answers questions asked a long time ago.)
Owen: Along that same line, we were wondering if each personality Self is uniquely and completely dedicated to one Intention, or do we have a primary Intention and also have subordinate Intentions that we just automatically also work on? (If you will recall, very early in your lessons, you were told that no particle is isolated from the whole, that within each lies all, as the cells of your body, for instance. The minutest particle of your body contains the pattern for all of you. So it is with each Personality, with each Ego, with each Soul, with each Oversoul. Each division contains the whole – different emphasis, as we spoke in the Realm of Spirit, the arrangement of the formulae. As you were given by Judith in her dissertations on the Divine Germ Cell, all component parts are ever-present but in varying relationships.)
Owen: Another question that I’d raised earlier, one of the teachers had mentioned sometime earlier that in “toning: there was a lot more involved than they cared to go into at that time. We have been singing our invocation, and I was wondering if you had any suggestions or comments. Are we doing this appropriately, or what should we do to do it better? (We have approved or you would have heard from us.) (Laughter.) So harmonizing and singing is a suitable way in contrast to “toning” as we raise each tone? (Yes. You see, the vibrational frequency in toning has to do with change of consciousness even as it does with singing. However, lowering a tone simply extends that vibration, thus bringing calming and turning the attention inward. So there are times when toning can go down, as you say, as well as up.)
Owen: There is one question that Bonnie had desired to have asked, and that is that in her meditation on Intention and the States of Being, she, in the meditation, picked up the Intention of Unity. She felt that that’s what it was, but she wasn’t sure under what Intention that should actually be placed. (As that fragment, as was mentioned earlier, comes to the closure of its duties, it dissolves back into the united whole, whatever that whole is that gave it birth, as the Personality dissolves back into union with the Ego, and the Ego dissolves back into union with its Soul, etc.)
Myra: I have a question about the Intentions, too, Sheariam. As I studied the list of twelve concepts, I had attempted to see if there is a pattern of development, or a gradation, or a hierarchy of some sort, and I couldn’t see one. (There is none.) In other words, individuation wouldn’t necessarily be the lowest Intention. (No.) I have had a very difficult time trying to figure out what my Soul’s Intention is, as I studied this list. I still haven’t figured out. (Give yourself some time. As we go forward with the lessons into the actual life forms of this planet earth, the Intentions will become clearer. One item I would point out to you is that “Pleasure” is not a totally suitable synonym for “Voluptuousness”. In voluptuousness also lies hope, and that capacity of yearning for more.)
Sheariam: And that brings us then to the lesson. As your star cools and reaches a gaseous state, so do the Fire Bodies cool and become gaseous, and then into the liquid state, and finally into the solid state. This all occurs in conformation with Sound. The primary Sound for your planet earth is that of the “M” which you cannot say without a prior sound. But the pure “MMM” sound is the sound vibration which brought together those particles essential to the formation of the planet which you now inhabit, and which gave rise to your bodies. As that “MMM” sound continued to work and divided itself into the “N”, the oscillation, there was not only the creation of the new entity, but the division of the new entity’s parts. And so the Soul for this entity puts forth lesser souls, each to fulfill Intention, given those four branches, and the second four branches, and the third four branches, each coming into manifestation as the planet cooled. This, of course, has taken eons of time far beyond your conceptualization, even as the rise of what you call “life” upon your planet has taken eons of time beyond your conceptualization. Let us, for a moment, speak of the component parts of the Divine Germ Cell. The understanding of these is imperative to your comprehension of Life as you know it. The Consciousness spoken therein is what you have as a capacity for awareness and the bringing together of what that awareness encompasses. It is upon this that Volition can work. Now in the formation of your planet-star, it was necessary for the Opposing Forces to work out between them some arrangement whereby there was equality, which was one of the early steps in working out the Law of Dominance. Out of the Branch of Life called “Thought”, the Two Minds could entertain this concept of equality in order for the Two Forces to work in cooperation with each other. As this occurred, the Soul also gave birth to souls whose duty was to manifest in varying Quality. Now Voluptuousness allows Quantity to affect Quality. In this process, eons of involution finally produced rock, if you will, spherical in nature, which through its process of involution, became part of the solar system of which you are now aware. In the joining of this body to this system, souls arranged for the interaction of the forces between the planets and your sun to permit Quality to manifest by division within and upon your planet. In the liquid state, days were much longer than you now know them to be, as were your years. Because of the gift of Voluptuousness and the Intention of Individualization, that yearning brought together certain particles so that certain Qualities could be formed. As these Qualities formed, that yearning, that irrepressible hope demanded further development of the planet. The physical nature complied by allowing portions of the planet to cool to that point at which they could become solid. Even now your planet has not become totally solid. In eons to come, it shall, and the waters will dry up on the face, and life will be of a different consistency than now it is. But it is now in which you live. Thus it is your condition which you must understand. As this process went forward, it was necessary, due to mental and emotional considerations – this yearning, the hoping – that certain environmental conditions must be created. Thus Vital Body was established. This Vital Body, in effect, is that screen which prevents you from actually existing outside the Realm of Self. What you know of as the Corridor of Transition is that window through which the Vital Body and the lesser bodies, except for the material body, may pass into the Realm of what you call “astral”. In the Involutionary Spiral there was no need for this exit window, for all was coming in. As Life Form, what you now call “life form”, became a planetary inhabitant, it became necessary for those forms to use their creativity and produce different forms. Through Voluptuousness, the Desire Body was given substance. What is known as the “Astral Realm” began as an armature, a design, a foundation, for Quality to evolve upon. As the first life forms filled the liquids of the planet, mental and emotional needs demanded new habitation. Out of Creativity, Manifestation occurs through the power of Division. So land appears through eons of evolution. You have the division between water and land as an evolutionary step, the first step in evolution giving a new habitat. In the same way, skeletal structures grew out of Voluptuousness. Now, Voluptuousness means that this is a sensory existence. All things in planet earth “feel”. You relate feeling to a nervous system. That is due to lack of understanding. Rocks feel; water feels, not in the way that you do, but nevertheless, feels. This adds to the Divine Germ Cell Consciousness. When Consciousness gains sufficient force, Tension, it must then create another media for expression which permits greater use of Volition. This is the process which lies behind the physical evolution of your body. This should be sufficient for this night. Your assignment is to meditate upon the most primitive organism you can comprehend, and feel your way into what motivated that organism to create for itself a new habitat. For you are even now in that same process in order to create that habitat into which Netsok can project Itself….. Question?
Owen: Is there another word or word description that can convey some of the concept and detail of “tension”? (The nearest we can describe to you is that tension built up by electrical charge. That is the nearest thing in your particular world experience. It could be likened to that tension which builds within you when you want to say something, and circumstances prevent, until you can no longer contain it.)
Myra: I was studying our assignment. I want to check to see if I really understand what you asked us to do. You said to meditate on the most primitive organism we can comprehend. I suppose this would be like a one-celled animal? (Yes.) And then try to figure out what motivated that little creature to create a new habitat in which it could live? (Yes.) And you want us to do that in order for us to decide how we might try to make the habitat for Netsok and others like It? (It will help you get in touch with that part of your Quality. All life has that urge in this realm.) The urge to build a new and better environment? (But under the Law of Dominance, sometimes that takes the form of appropriating that which another has built. It is for mankind to discover that he creates the new habitat. He does not wait to take another’s.) As I look at the activities of mankind in our earth today, and I see the forests being denuded and changing the habitat of the earth, actually, it’s really by destruction that they’re changing it. (Destruction in your eyes.) Could it be that this is part of the plan to improve or to develop the new habitat? (It is part of the process. Trees grew because they were needed.)
Maxine: You might take down the trees in order to grow plants that you would eat.
Myra: But it kills a lot of organisms.
Maxine: But many people have done that in the past, too. They cut down the forest so that they can grow a garden.
LaMar: I wonder if they have ever taken up any asphalt so that they could grow a garden.
Betty: The assignment has already opened my eyesight to something. I had assumed that the one-celled animals were probably content to just be. This is a whole nother thought. My meditation on the rock happened to be on an agate. What I found with the agate, you could just be. There were no expectations. But this changes it. All have the desire to change and be. It’s not just humans. (That is correct.) And changing our habitats starts with changing the within. Is that right? (Yes.)
Jean: (During a tape change Jean spoke of her meditation as a rock. As a rock, she was rough and grey on the outside and was surrounded by light which changed) into mostly purple. I went into the geode, and I went through the different layers, and I came out a very nice amethyst crystal, quite big. Around me were other little amethyst crystals, but I was the big one. Then I went out of that and into the center of the geode and into nothingness. Then a blue jay call just brought me back. Then some little birds twittered as if to say “OK”, and I was again in the purple. Then my mind began to function, and so I was a presence and a mind, a thinking mind at the same time. Then the meditation went on involving the problem that was facing me, giving me the migraine. Then I went on, but I won’t repeat all that. It was a terrific experience. When I finally came out, my migraine was gone, and I felt very well. Then when I faced the problem, which was having a guest that I interacted ordinarily not to well with, she noticed a real change in me in my response to her. It was a really terrific feeling of being an entity that wasn’t connected with my human entity. It was kind of a disembodied entity. Yet it kept its identity. Can you comment on that?
Sheariam: In your meditation you have condensed into a few moments the process of involution as though the grey exterior of the geode is that first body, and each layer inside, another body created. Until here you are as a human being at the center of these layers of bodies with your individuality, with your capacity to think and to feel and to be independent, to exercise will. That is an excellent meditation to emphasize for one’s self, individuality, yet one with All. Jean: Thank you. It seemed to me that this meditation didn’t come from me. It came like a gift to me. (Your own Source Group. All of you could benefit from giving your Source Group the opportunity to gift you. When you go into meditation, you generally do so thinking, “I will meditate”, when you should be thinking “Let us meditate.” Invite your Source Groups to share, not merely to witness.) I did call on the archangels, and I also held my crystal, at least part of the time. Then I just became. (That is a real meditation.)
LaMar: Going back to this changing the habitat, does this changing the habitat have to do with the upcoming earth changes. (Yes.) Apparently there are going to be a lot of habitats change quite rapidly. (This is out of the need for change, not merely the human branch but all branches.) Myra: When you say “all”, you mean like the plant, animal, and mineral? (Yes.) Peggy: Is this change coming on suddenly? (It depends upon the individual point of view. If you pay attention to cycles, there have been signs for many years.) Myra: Earthquakes, volcanoes. (Human history. Do not forget Repeated Process. What has happened in the past repeats, at a different level of experience, with a different outcome – Principle of Differentiation.
Jean: We saw a tape of Ramtha the other night that said a great drought is coming and advised drilling wells. My thought was “what good are wells because with a drought, the water table drops.” (Correct.) And one would just have some dry holes in the ground. (Your best option is to desalinate ocean water.) Myra: By distillation? (There are many methods.) How about the suggestion that we have two year’s supply of food stashed away. What do you think of that? (As we have given previously, what you have stored opens you to invasion and violation. If you have faith, your needs will be met.) Jean: My thought as I went away from that was more to prepare myself emotionally and intellectually, and be less concerned about the material. (That is the advancement mankind is intended to make. So long as you concern yourselves with matter, then matter will be your matter. When you move into the consciousness of all that you are, then matter will be no matter.)
Peggy: It’s like saying “move up to higher ground in consciousness”. (Yes. We only mentioned briefly the astral realm, but there are those here in this room who have entered that realm at the point of pain, at the point of death, at the point of shock, and you are here to witness it. Do not be afraid. Fear is your greatest enemy.)
Betty: Is it possible for us or part of us in this room to bring ourselves to the point where we can actually materialize things? I read about some humans that are alive that can actualize, like a loaf of bread. (Any of you can, but you live too much in fear.) Myra: We sure materialized a great dinner tonight. Jean: The thought that has been coming to my mind is “those who learn to live on breath alone”. And I keep wondering if there is a possibility that we can develop that consciousness that we would be able to do that. (You can. And when enough do, Netsok will incarnate.) Betty: Can we start that process now? Could you give us some hints on how we could start thinking? (Know that all the nutrients you need to exist can enter through the crown chakra. You can assist your consciousness to encompass this through visualization, through positive affirmation, through meditation. But you must gain dominion over yourselves.) Jean: That’s one thing I experienced after that meditation. I gained dominion over the rest of the evening, and I didn’t dominate. I just filled the space with the Cosmic Connection newsletter, and had her read that and other positive things which I gave her, and gave her too much to keep her mind on so that she couldn’t do the negative things. (That is Appropriation, you see.) Then the whole thing was a nice feeling, and I felt that I didn’t get hooked as I have been hooked before into the negativity. (Lesson learned.) Myra: What did you learn? Jean: To take charge, dominate. But I didn’t dominate in the sense of dominating her. I filled the space and offered it.
Betty: Now can we assume that since you’ve had this experience and practiced it, that you will face another challenge to do the same thing which gives you an opportunity to recall what you had? Jean: I assume that will happen. Myra: An affirmation would help, that I learn to do this as a habit, to dominate and make my universe what I want it.
Peggy: Is this the kind of meditation to use a crystal? She said she held a crystal in her hand. (That is good for her. The crystal helped her.) But it wouldn’t help someone else in the same way? (Not necessarily.)
RetaMae: Your presence was very much at our place the other night, and I wanted to thank you. I know that you and many of the people from the temple have been very close to me lately. I appreciate it. I want to thank you. It has been a great help. (Blessings to you.)
Mary: I, too, want to thank you for being with me when I’ve been doing my meditating and rebirthing, and guiding me to start working with healing. What you talked about a little while back really tied some things together for me – about the crown chakra and about not needing food. When I was taking the Reiki healing classes, I really didn’t feel hungry, and if I did, I only wanted fresh fruit. It was as if I really didn’t have a real need for food. (No, you did not.) And at that time I felt that I was a clear channel for healing, and that healing was coming in through me. I was trying to prepare myself to be a channel. It just answered why that worked. I really appreciate your help and guidance and being with me. (We love you.) Thank you.
Jean: Since the last time when you spoke of joy, I have felt a great deal more joy and pleasure, and have been aware when I wasn’t feeling it, to decide to feel it. I thank you for that. (Very good.)
Myra: Since your presence was felt at the tape (showing) at the Bell’s the other night, I was wondering if you would give us your response to what Ramtha told us. (I am not permitted to comment.)
Owen: We are contemplating publication of several books primarily of temple teachings in the next month or so. To me it seems appropriate to mention what we know about the teachers, yourself, and Judith, etc. We have some biographical information about Silverthistle. I think at an earlier time it was said that when we needed this information, there would be a biographical of each of our teachers as appropriate. Could this be forthcoming? (Yes.)
Betty: You also heard of our plan to have a weekend here starting the end of August (later moved to the 15th). Could you comment on that or give any insights or suggestions? (We will be there.) (Laughter). RetaMae: Sheariam, you get around a lot – all places at the same time? (Parts of me.)
Jean: There are some other people who are wanting to join this group. Do you have anything more to say about changes and about the people who are going to come in? (Yes, the changes are still shaping. New people will be joining you. Some of you will be going about your own affairs. Each candidate must be accepted by you and must be prepared intellectually in order to benefit from participation.)
RetaMae: I’m going back to something of the (Ramtha) tapes played the other night at our place. I have found in watching those and listening to those, it has brought a new insight into all of your teachings, and gives me a much deeper meaning, purpose, and intention for everything that you from the temple have given us, from Silverthistle right up through the present – things that I thought I knew have really come into whole focus, and you’ve really been a great benefit to me. (Good.)
Sheariam: Shall we then settle ourselves for a meditation? Relax your bodies. Focus your minds upon yourselves. Visualize yourself alone, standing at the foot of a mountain. The valley lies behind you. The ascent of the mountain lies before. You have lived in the valley for a long time. You have experienced its joys, its support, its life nutrients. Consider for a moment what that valley means to you. All the time that you have lived in that valley, the mountain has stood there. You have looked at it in all of its varying garments. And always at the top lay a mystery. As you stand at the foot of that mountain, consider within yourself whether you would climb the mountain to investigate the mystery. Think about what it will cost in terms of effort and time and preparation, and what you will leave behind. Now with the power of thought, know that these considerations are not material. You can ascend to the peak of that mountain and rest in the bosom of that mystery without any of the concerns that you anticipated. Settle your body at the base of that mountain, and go in your mind to the peak. Enter that mystery. Enjoy the experience. Touch what there is to be touched. Hear what there is to be heard. Feel what there is to be felt. Experience and enjoy. Now, as soon as you can, return to your body at the foot of the mountain. Return to your place in the valley, to those whom you love. Speak to them of the experience. Tell them what you found at the top of the mountain. Now, because thought can move quickly, invite your friends, your family, your loved ones to return to the mountain with you. There at the foot of the mountain stands a being, wise in the wisdom of the ages, loving with the pulse beat of the Divine Heart. From this being radiates purity, cleanliness, wholeness. You and all with you can bask in that healing. Just relax in that presence. Allow the glory of the light to make you whole. If you listen closely, you will hear the celestial music. Let the beauty of the experience be poignant, all embracing. Now, return to your daily consciousness in this room, but take with you that blessing, and know that any time you may again approach the mountain. You may investigate the mystery, and if you go for healing, the being of the mountain will greet you with love and compassion and healing. Now I give you my blessing and bid you go in great joy and peace. Good night.
Closed with singing “Let there be joy on earth.”
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