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Session #81 – August 2, 1986
Gloria’s Circle
Present: Betty Welty, Clista McPherson, Ida Nevala, Jean Chisholm, LaMar and
RetaMae Bell, Mary White, Owen and Maxine Cramer, Peggy Muldoon,
and Sidney Smither
Due to hot weather (97 degrees) the circle met at the Bell’s. A discussion of plans for the
August 15-17 retreat and the airing of questions preceded the session.
Sheariam: Good evening students and friends. Let us go around the circle
placing our names in to empower us. (Done.) Thank you. We almost did not make
the connection. Our channel went to sleep.
As we listened to your discussion, we realized that some questions must be
answered before we can properly bring to your intelligent understanding that which
we have in store for you. So let us then spend our period tonight in dialogue.
Perhaps we can clear some of your confusion.
Owen: We did discuss various aspects of Life and the energy connected with
Life. I had wondered about the three uses of the word “Life”: The River of Life, Life
Principle, and the Life Component of the Nine Components. Maybe there are other uses
of that term. I would appreciate having those separated.
Sheariam: Again you struggle with language. As the word “light”, for instance.
You use the word “light” to represent that by which you can see. You use the word
“light” to represent that which you understand. You use the word “light” as a
weight measure, and many other ways the same word is used. So it is with the word
“life”. And yet you have no other word to describe that which we wish to convey
unless we use twenty words in place of one, which then only leads to your confusion.
The more words we give you, the less you understand. Therefore, we try to choose
one word which best describes that concept which we wish to convey.
Life in the Components of the Divine Germ Cell is something which you
cannot fully comprehend, as you cannot fully comprehend Mind or Force or
Consciousness, or any of the other Components. But, to your best understanding, it
is that desire within you so deeply seated that you will defend it with your utmost,
that desire “to be” that goes beyond existence. It is important to you to not merely
exist. There is that within you that not only wants to “be”, but wants to be ever
greater, more encompassing.
The River of Life is a phrase used in an attempt to explain the flow from The
Absolute, through the Realms, which carries that “urge-to-be”, which stems from
The Absolute, Itself. And in speaking of the branches, these are forms that “urge-to-
be” takes for expression in those realms, both in manifestation and in conception.
You have been told that the River of Life branches into twelve: four
branches, three times. This is merely an artificial or arbitrary manner used to
convey a certain conceptualization. We constantly urge you to use your capacity for
abstract thinking, not merely your logical, comparable mind. If you limit your
thinking to those actualities experienced in your manifestation as a personality, you
will miss the greater meaning of that which we attempt to give you. Much of what
we give will be understood through intuition, through feeling, through absorption,
rather than through intellectual dissection.
That River of Life is, if you must put it into terms of your earthly
manifestation, so great as to encompass all of the physical universe. It is not some
little trickle from some lighted star. It is the great rushing gush of Life Force. But in
order to produce this small manifestation on this little planet earth, the great
rushing force was diminished through division so that indeed, you do not participate
in its totality, but only in its parts and parts of its parts.
To answer a previous question, the four realms of Human, Plant, Animal,
and Mineral are manifest in the Realm of Self, the division taking place in the
Realm of Ego at the behest of the Realm of Soul as part of Soul’s plan to fulfill
Intention. Does that help you? That is the component in the divine germ cell and
exists in all that you can possibly know.
Owen: What about the Life Principle? (It is not a physical actuality inasmuch
as it cannot be touched. It is a concept. There is that basic idea of what one of your
occult authors called the “obstructed universe”. The Life Principle is merely a
phrase used to express the concept that all existent in your “obstructed universe” is
as alive as anything in any universe.
After such a lively discussion, now we have silence?... This is your
opportunity.
Jean: I would like you to check my understanding. I think I understand that
when a person becomes, a certain quantum of energy is given to that person, and that
never diminishes but is returned to The Absolute as the person returns to The Absolute.
And that the Archangels (when invoked) cannot increase that amount of energy.
I am not completely clear about how a person can increase that. My understanding
is that he cannot increase that, but he can use what he has more efficiently if he learns
how to do it, and doesn’t block it. And when a person is completely in tune with The
Absolute, then that person can channel energy from The Absolute to another person, but
that does not affect his own quantum of energy.
Sheariam: In principle you re correct. However, as you have been given
before, your particular manifestation stems from the Realm of Spirit, and this
energy of which you speak, this power force, whatever you wish to name it, comes to
you from the Realm of Spirit. The Absolute is, of course, the source of all that is, but
the thing which you channel, does not descend directly from The Absolute. You
could not withstand it. There are those realms between Spirit and Absolute which,
in effect, step down the power.
You spoke earlier in terms of electrical wattage and voltage, etc. A bolt of
lightning from your atmosphere would be as a single candle flame in a great hall lit
with many, many large wattage globes, in comparing that which you channel with
that which comes from The Absolute. Each realm steps down this voltage as division
occurs. That does not deny that you have access to much more than you
appropriate.
Jean: How do you make access to this “more” that you do not use? (Through
Consciousness.)
Sidney: Let me see if I understand this, in terms of what we read from the eighth
Thursday night transcript. It said that what is channeled is “universal energy”, and it
would seem that it would come from the Universe. (It does.) OK. Are you saying that it
comes from the Realm of Spirit, or the Realm of Spirit is the catalyst? (To you, to earth
manifestation, the kind, the quality of that power or energy is developed in the
Realm of Spirit. It is part of the Universal Energy system. There are many realms of
which you have no knowledge, no concept, nor the capacity to conceive. Some of
that Universal Energy, in the Realm of Spirit, is apportioned to these other
manifestations which would make no reality for you at all. Not all of the Realm of
Spirit has become manifest through Soul and Ego and Self, only a portion thereof.
What has become “human” in this manifestation has different forms in other
manifestations.)
Jean: You say it has different forms in other manifestations. Are you referring to
other manifestations that are not in our universe? (In your universe, but not in your
Realm of Self. There are other forms of beingness which have Consciousness, have
intellect, have feeling. They are not in your shape.)
Myra: Would that be like devas? (No. You see there is nothing of you to give
you any concept. Whatever you can conceive belongs in your Realm of Self.)
Sidney: Are they also in a Realm of Self? (Yes.)
Jean: But not our Realm of Self. (Yes.) So it is as if, here am I in my Realm of
Self, and everything that I can conceive in our Universe, Jupiter and Pluto and so on, all
this, it isn’t here, It’s someplace else? (No. That is part of your Realm of Self. Your
Realm of Self.) And these other manifestations are in another place? (Yes.)
Sidney: Are other beings that exist on these other planets of our solar system and
in all the galaxies that are part of our Realm of Self, in other words, our Universe, are
they what would be called “human beings”? (Some. Not necessarily with bodies
comprised of the same mineral and water content, etc.)
Jean: Do we have any communications with these other expressions? (Those
which occupy your Realm of Self. Some do.)
Maxine: So when you hear about something that came out of the sky, and some
being is known to somebody, and we hear abut this visitation that has occurred to them,
would that be something from out of our Realm? (Still your Realm of Self. Realm of
Self extends far beyond your planetary existence.)
Peggy:How is the best way to build a higher consciousness? (Attitude.)
Betty: Going back to the Realm of Self, is it possible that two Realms of Self can
exist in the same plane, like here in the earth plane, us having only our knowledge and
awareness of our Realm of Self? (Yes. As far as space is concerned, many realms of
Self, of Ego, of Soul may occupy the same “space”, but not the same reality.)
Myra: So our consciousness would not be open to that. (That is true. It would
not.)
RetaMae: We’re hearing a lot about the New Age and this type of thing, and with
our teachings from you, is this part of us in this reality, and the ones you’re talking about
from another era. Are these going to combine in this New Age?(No. The New Age of
which we speak is the New Age of this Realm of Self.) This one here. (Yes.) And it is
limited to this Realm of Self? (Yes.)
Betty: You have spoken of the urgency. This has been brought up before. We
have heard the urgency in other places, too. I find that I have made some assumptions
along the way. I made the assumption that the urgency was that there were going to be
such mass earth changes that it would throw our human condition into such turmoil that
that would be the difference. Is that the difference, or is there a difference coming from
your realm making the difference of the channeling... Some clarification. Is there a time,
in our period of years. Is the time growing short when a great tumultuous happening is
going to come, or is this going to be a slowly evolving kind of thing?
Sheariam: It will be evolutionary, but it is as though the wave of evolution is
growing shorter rather than having long waves. It’s as though the sound wave when
graphed may have long loops as the sound maintains a tone. But as that tone
vibrates faster and rises, the graph would have loops closer together. Do you
understand that? (Yes.) All right. Let us say that evolution is a tonal quality which,
rather than going in long slow loops, is now speeding up so that the loops are taller
and closer together. (Like the graphs you make of earth tremors.) A good analogy.
The geological changes of which we speak are not such that your planet is
going to split asunder and be no more, or that all the masses of population are going
to be destroyed in one swipe, as mentioned perhaps in the flood of your bible.
Rather, large masses of people will be affected at different areas upon the face of
your globe. You have had major famine in various places upon your globe. You
have had major eruptions which have cost lives and resources, in your terms. These
kinds of occurrences are going to become more in quantity and more rapid in
sequence as evolution speeds up for a period.
Evolution does not occur at a steady rate. It will hurry at one time and take
eons at another. You have simply chosen to incarnate on this planet at a time when
its evolution is speeding up. Our urgency is that this evolution be directed in a
particular manner, that Consciousness will be enhanced rather than diminished.
Does that help you?
LaMar: It seems that these so-called earth changes that people tend to fear are
actually in reality going to be for the good of the earth as well as for the human beings
that are living here on it. Last time, I think it was, you made mention of learning to take
salt from sea water, and it has brought some questions and discussion as to whether that
means that the ocean is going to be coming inland or where we live, or possibly, as
Abrahamsen saw it, coming over this area. Would it be too much to ask where we stand
on that? If the ocean is going to be in our back yard, are we going to be swimming in it?
Sheariam: Some areas of the plate which supports your continent and your
United States are going to be eroded at the edges. There is going to be some
slippage, more significant than has occurred in several hundred years. There is a
good possibility that from southern Oregon to Mexico, there will be a significant
portion eventually underwater. Some of this will occur quite rapidly, some of it not
so rapidly. What you call the Gulf of Mexico is going to move northward, and there
will be a significant amount of ocean through the central portion of your United
States. This is not going to occur in two years, but you will see significant geological
activity moving in that direction.
Sidney: I want clarification of your use of the word “loop”. Are you essentially
meaning undulation? (Yes. I believe sine wave is a term used by your scientific
community.)
On the “M” sound you talked about last week, you said that “the primary sound
for your planet earth is that of the “M”, which you cannot say without a prior sound”. My
question is: “Is this primary sound that of “emm”? (Yes.) Or is it that of “mmm”
(Mmmm.) So it is both the “e” and the “m” sounds combined? (But in the origination,
it was the “M”, before manifestation.) Was it a hum? (Yes.) With an “h” sound
preceding it. Or was it an “mmm” sound, a sustained humming sound? (A sustained
“MMM” sound, a drone, if you will.
Peggy: Is this change going to extend into next year, 1987, as well? (As I said,
these major changes will not all occur within the next two years. But even now you
are beginning to see some things happening.)
Betty: You spoke of some of them being rapidly or more rapidly, etc. rapid being
in terms of hundreds of years or within a decade? (Within months, in some instances.)
Owen: This raises the question: Maxine and I are anticipating going to San Diego
on the 13th to the 15th of September, to celebrate my aunts hundredth birthday. And they
are certainly in a vulnerable area. Will that part of California hold together long enough
for our trip? (I think you should have a very enjoyable trip.)
Betty: I have heard that some will no longer be channeling in the future after a
period of a few years. Is this just in particular circumstances? Will the temple teachers be
available? (The temple teachers will be available as long as there are students who
want to learn. A channel will be found one way or another.)
Myra: That makes me think of our dear Bonnie, who has moved to Detroit. If she
were of a mind, could she find a temple connection there in Detroit? (She will be cared
for.) But that doesn’t necessarily mean that she will find a circle similar to this. That’s
what I meant. (Her consciousness will direct her feet.)
Jean: When you talk about the urgency, I think you’ve answered this, but I
guess I need to hear it again. My question is: “What can we do? I’m thinking particularly
about spreading the teaching and reaching the younger, the children,. What can you say
about what we do? (You are not to evangelize. You are to live what you believe.
Manifest your understanding. When you have something to offer, that radiant
energy will magnetize to you those to whom you can give your message.) And so,
you’re saying, “Brighten up the corner where we are.” And that’s all each one of us can
be expected to do, but it seems so little. (But it is so much. Our friend asked how
consciousness can be changed, and I answered, “attitude”. As you manifest your
attitudes, you demonstrate the value of what you know, and others want to know
what you know that makes your life so valuable.)
Myra: So our witnessing is our life. (Yes.)
Peggy: Would putting everybody in God’s care of God’s hands, knowing that this
is where they are supposed to be, like we are told in some instances to know that you are
in your rightful place and put everybody in their rightful place by putting them into the
hands of God. (That is all you can do.)
Owen: Is this something that we can do, or are they already in their rightful
place? (Exactly. But your attitude that they are in their rightful place makes a
difference. This is the teaching given by Silverthistle.) We assume that each individual
is doing what he is supposed to do, and it’s not our job to try to change it. (That is
exactly correct. You can only change yourself.)
Sidney: I always experience a feeling of dilemma when I hear that. I believe that
philosophy, and yet when it comes to raising children, sometimes it is very difficult to
live. And I’m not convinced that I should necessarily live that way in raising a child. So
I’d ask for a little clarification in terms of child upbringing.
Sheariam: That question has been presented before, but it bears answering
again. When an adult creates a fetus, that adult also creates the responsibility for
the protection and nurturing of that body and the indwelling spirit, until such time
as that developing individuality has the capacity to exercise self preservation, for
one thing.
Remember, also, that the indwelling spirit has selected the parent for what
the parent is and believes, and can provide, not only materialistically, but
spiritually, intellectually, and emotionally. You are responsible for your children,
and it is up to you to convey to them to the best of your ability what you are. That is
why you must be all you can be.
Sidney: Yes, I believe that, too, and I believe that conveyance is important, but
somehow the term “discipline” in the way we use it, which is not necessarily from its root
meaning, to teach, comes to mind. Then I think of having someone do something my
way, which perhaps leads into the area of the previous question, where you can’t judge
other people and probably have them think what we think. For me there is a thin line
there that I haven’t been able to resolve yet.
Sheariam:If you are manifesting what you are, you are also manifesting those
restraints, self control, and self mastery which you want your child to be able to do
for itself. And those are those things which that child chose you as a parent for.
Therefore, discipline of a child is appropriate. A parent, an adult, does not have the
right to attack physically the person of a child. If a child is treated reasonably, that
does not mean that a child cannot be confined to a stipulated activity, or other such
restraints imposed.
This extends also to attacking the mental and emotional welfare of the child.
An adult does not have the right to use the child as a whipping post. You have the
responsibility of conveying to that child the child’s responsibility of being all it can
be as it grows, and to encourage that child to fulfill its potential. This is done by
offering opportunity, by imposing responsibility, by demonstrating expectancy and
expecting response from the child. To do otherwise is forsaking your responsibility
as a parent. But you must not expect more of a child than the child is able to
produce. Nor should one abuse a child for not living up to parental expectations.
One must love one’s child because the child is, not for what it can be or what it can
do or what it can express. Does that help you? (Very much, thank you.)
Peggy: I’m having problems when I try to go to meditate. I’m way up in the sky,
just like floating. And to bring myself down to where I want to work on different things, I
can’t seem to bring myself down. I keep floating around, and I’m looking at trees and
bodies of water and stuff. How do I change that? (Why don’t you enjoy it?) I am, but
there are things I want to get answers to. (Perhaps you are demanding the wrong
things at the wrong time.)
Maxine: Is it that maybe we expect our meditations to get answers to things that
we, ourselves, must use our own minds for and not look to somebody else to answer?
(That is often true. Often you are given the Attributes, the Component parts, the
necessary information to resolve a problem, but you fail to put them together, and
putting them together is your responsibility.)
Betty: Can we keep asking for guidance and understanding until we get it? (Yes.)
I felt I had two very significant dreams last week, and I couldn’t put them quite together
to figure out what the message was. So it’s perfectly appropriate to just keep asking,
then? (For further guidance, and when you arrive at a tentative solution, ask for
verification.)
Peggy: Here’s another thing. I haven’t been able to remember my dreams. They
tell us that everybody dreams, but I haven’t been able to remember any of mine. Am I
putting up a block? (You worry too much. You fret.) Oh. Thank you. How do I get over
that? (Laughter and comment: You stop.)
Betty: Going back to the discipline of the child, we are saying “let the child be,
love the child because of what it is, not because of what it accomplishes.” I have been
contemplating on the assignment of changing the environment and the urge. My personal
life always feel like urgency, urgency, urgency, at all times. I think I’ve been hoping that
at some place or time there would not be that urgency. But I think perhaps that this has
been touched on here. The urgency is within the person themselves, and they make the
bed they lie on. (Yes.) And essentially your guides and on up the realms accept us as we
are? (Yes.)
Maxine: So actually, if you would ask your guide. If you feel that maybe there is
something wrong, you can ask your guide, and they will tell you. (Again, the answer is
not given in full. You receive only guidance, not solutions entirely.)
Peggy: They used to tell us, what we think today, we experience tomorrow. (Most
often that is true.)
Myra: That’s where attitude comes in.
RetaMae: May I change the subject a moment? LaMar and I drove out to the beach
today, and it was just beautiful out there. There had been fog, but the ocean was very
aqua color rather than a greenish emerald. I noticed that very much so, today. Was it
some of the earth changes that are taking place that are affecting this? (It was merely the
atmospheric conditions.) Because it was very aqua, very definitely a bluish color. (But
do you remember that no change occurs in your globe that there is not
corresponding change in the atmosphere? And sometimes the change occurs in the
atmosphere first.)
Clista: Is that why the animals sense earthquakes and things before they happen?
(An earthquake never happens suddenly. There is always a, what you might call,
premonition. There are minute tremors, so minute as to be immeasurable and
unknown insofar as mechanical devices are concerned. But in the subtle bodies of
the animal, plant, and mineral kingdoms, the tremors are felt as the earthquake
itself. Human beings have this capacity, too, but seldom used.)
Maxine: Would that be what your intuition tells you that something is happening?
(You may feel distinctly uncomfortable, irritable, without any rational reason,
fearful, even panic-stricken.)
Myra: So if this happens inexplicably, we might suspect something like that is
going on? (Yes.) That happened to me on Saturday. I suddenly blew up at my husband. I
didn’t know why. I was astounded at myself.
Jean: I liked what you said about the urge to live and this wanting to – just this
great urge. But what happens when the person loses his urge and wants to die, wants to
give up? (That life urge is not lost. The awareness becomes disconnected. The
consciousness attaches to materiality, becomes so absorbed in what the material
realm is offering that the connection, the awareness of the connection, is lost. Then
the yearning turns so that the desire for withdrawal, which sometimes manifests as
suicide, is that very urge to be, drawing the awareness back into the finer realms.)
Jean: Immediately, that gives a different aspect on suicide. (Yes. Society as you
have developed it today, due to church teachings, has evolved a totally unrealistic
attitude toward suicide, and death in its reality as well.)
That brings up another thought that I’ve heard about, that in some of the native
people, when they feel they have lived their life, they can decide that now they are going
to die, and they do die, sometimes, they say, turning their face to the wall. So that then is
a conscious withdrawal. I mean, is that then a conscious lifting of their awareness to
another area? (Yes. You all, in fact, do that, but you do it unconsciously for the most
part.) That puts an entirely different aspect on suicide. I mean, there are two different
things I’m talking about there, but that’s a brand new attitude.
Betty: Can you give us some more information on suicide, from even the vast
numbers of teenagers up through the middle ages, and on. Can you give us more
information on it? (One of the prevalent motivations for the rate of teenage suicide in
your society today is that urge for renewal of race consciousness, re-awakening of
the awareness of the reality of the non-physical realms.)
Jean: Does that also apply to the people who are doing slow suicide, killing
themselves by what they are doing, maybe like drinking or using drugs, or driving a car
recklessly? (Yes. It’s a suicide consciousness within the race consciousness.)
Myra: We hear or read stories about people who have committed suicide, and it
seems from what I’ve read, they have a hard time. (Some do. Not all. It depends upon
the evolution of the entity, not the personality.)
LaMar: Then, as we have been told, a person who committed suicide is going to
have to come back and take that life over again because they ended it before it should
have been ended. (Not necessarily so. That life may have served its purpose whatever
span of time it encompassed.) They are, in reality, just ending that life like all of us do,
except they are doing it in a more dramatic manner. (Or sooner than the belief system
allows.)
Sidney: To what degree do people, before they incarnate, make the decision to
suicide? (That is difficult to answer in that the decision-making process is such a
complex matter. In some lives, some spans of personality, existence is pre-
determined or pre-destined to end as suicide, sometimes because the family into
which the incarnation is entered, needs that experience. Do not get into that trap of
thinking of the life as an individual entity that does not affect the lives around it.)
LaMar: When it appears that an entity is ready to cross over, and yet they put life
support systems and works on them and hold that body here, then they are actually going
against nature, going against – I don’t know the exact word to put in there. (Your
churches have taught you to venerate this physical shell which you inhabit. This
physical shell which you inhabit is no more important than the daisy that grows
beside the road. When a daisy wilts in the sun, dies for lack of water, do you then
rush to save it? Venerate that which is within, not that which is without. There is no
value to this shell. When the Ego withdraws the Personality, if the personality
cannot express, it can make little contribution.)
RetaMae: At that time, when the personality cannot express, that is when we are to
let go and let be? (Yes.)
Sidney: That could be interpreted by some to support concepts of genocide.
Betty: I was going to ask, how does Alzheimer’s disease and some of the other
dementias… Is that still an expression of the personality at that stage? (Yes.) This is
something they need to experience? (Yes.) Or the family around them needed the
experience. (That is part of the fetal provisions as a vehicle for the indwelling entity.
So long as there is spontaneous, autonomous expression, no matter how aberrational
or how deformed or how inappropriate to your way of thinking or expectation, that
is still a viable personality experience. But when the shell becomes immobilized
because the indwelling entity has withdrawn, the shell should be allowed to
disintegrate.)
Mary: I don’t know whether this is part of this thing or not, but the baby that was
born this week to the brain-dead mother. I did not have good feelings about that. I wonder
if you could say something abut that. (That child had a destiny to fulfill, and thus
chose a time in which to be born where there was technology which would permit
such a thing to occur. You see, there is in that instance, a personality expression as
soon as a fetus achieves sexual dimension and has some autonomy. Even within the
womb, it becomes a personality expression. Now, had the medical community
continued to support the life of the mother after the birth of the baby, that would
have been a serious error in judgment.)
Betty: You were saying, the personality expresses even in the womb, but now the
entity does not always come within the shell. (Not always, but there is a personality
expression present. There is an entity in charge.) I see, even though the one that is
committed may not even be there yet.
Myra: That brings me to the thought that I was reading today about the woman
who was the surrogate mother who did not want to give up the baby after it was born.
And the father and the other mother paid for the hospital bill, and now they’re angry at
the surrogate mother. Boy! What a problem. What do you think about that? (The
problem stems from the focus in materiality.) I understand that a judge is going to give
a decision in who is going to get the child. (Bless the judge.)
Betty: We read about societies where their children are born, and if the parents
die, the children are taken care of as if they are their own. I think the Eskimo society is
one of them. Is this the way society is to evolve? (Certain cultures allow for this.
Certain cultures are based upon this. Do not judge all of human existence in terms
of your western belief systems. That is limited thinking.)
My thinking was going along with the thought that this is the way it should be.
I’m giving it “should” here. But are we not necessarily to adopt that thinking? Which
brings back another question from life readings. Are we to adapt and accept our culture?
And if we do, how does evolution or a change or improvement in the culture come about?
(Adaptation and acceptance are two separate things. You adapt to that which you
cannot change, and you change that which you can, and you pray for the wisdom to
know the difference.) (Remark: And the courage.)
Mary: Sheariam, as you are aware, our Richard is not with us. He’s having some
problems. I was wondering you have any words of wisdom for him. (He, too, frets too
much. He worries too much. He is unwilling to relinquish certain things which only
he is aware of, and I cannot reveal. You can best serve him by assisting him to relax,
and to be at ease in his mind and heart.)
Myra; I would like to refer to last week’s assignment that you gave us where you
asked us to meditate on the simplest creature. Where you said the organism creates for
itself a new habitat, I was talking about this with my husband and he says “but everybody
knows that the habitat affects the organism”. In fact, in science we talked about the
adaptation of animals to whatever condition exists. I thought about that, and then,
knowing too that you taught us that we create our own universe, I was wondering how
much the individual animal affects the universe and how much the universe affects the
animal. (You are classifying all creatures at one level of expertise. There will be those
who create, and those who adapt to what has been created.)
So, for instance, the speckled lizard in the shade is indeed adapting to its
environment then. (Yes. But what created the shade? How did that lizard get into the
shade, if it did not create legs to crawl upon? How did the amoeba crawl up out of
its slime? How did a reptile grow feathers?) Those are the adaptations, aren’t they?
Myra: I’m with Betty. I‘m having quite an interesting time struggling with my
own attitudes, perhaps or consciousness, to get where I can find the one-celled animal in
an environment, or to provide the environment for the creature. (Keep working on it.)
Maxine: In that experiment, I saw this one-celled animal as wanting comfort and its
own territory. (You arrived at a significant secret: territory.) Because to me, everyone
wants their own territory to maneuver in, to do as they see is right.) Dominance,
Appropriation, Feeling, Desire. Use these as clues in your meditation.)
RetaMae I did this on the one cell. I did it at several different times, and I came up
with the same thing. It became, not a one-celled creature, but it came into this light force,
light that you know I associate with a lot. It just accelerated up, up, and it had no need for
a specific environment. (So you covered eons and eons of evolution.) Yes. I was a little
bit concerned because each time, this is what I came up with. (That is where life, as you
know it, is headed.) Going back to the New Age. This is what…. (Going somewhat
beyond.) Well, it made me start thinking of where I was. (That is our intent.) OK. I feel
better. Thank you.
Jean: I did that meditation several times, and the first time I told you about
going from the amoeba to the paramecium with the cilia. And then the next time, I got
into the paramecium and was overcome by the wonder of all the organelles in the
paramecium. And then I ended up with a great feeling of wonder and joy and
appreciation for the teaching you’re bringing, and the fun of thinking and meditating. I
don’t know whether it was a meditation or a thinking. It was kind of a combination of the
two. But it was a very wonderful, delightful experience, and I felt a great deal of gratitude
and felt I was very lucky to be able to participate in this.
Betty: I was sort of like Jean. I don’t know whether it was sort of contemplation
in between. But what came through to me was even the one-celled animal is a hologram
for the universe. (Yes. Another secret.) I just let it be because I couldn’t handle it. It’s
incredible. (How you all are growing.)
Jean: And I had a lot of fun with the paramecium, too, because it had six sexes,
and I don’t know how I got that. (Laughter.) (Some words lost in the hilarity) and I
thought,, “what was the urge?”, because only the paramecium can tell whether it’s an A
or a B, and the scientist can’t tell. It’s a one-celled animal, but it has six sexes, and it only
mates at six o’clock in the morning.
Betty: I would like to go back to this dementia a little bit and ask questions. I
have read someplace that the elderly, or others, may go into this dementia because they
are not ready to handle a transition, and they’re practicing between realms, or practicing
the transition. Is there any truth to this? (Isn’t that a beautiful fairy tale. This belief
stems from early psychology which believed that insanity or dementia was a
withdrawal from reality due to lack of skills in coping. This has since been
disproven by the very community which established the theory.)
Give us some more of this information, because I’m still back in the old stuff.
(Most of what you deem insanity or dementia are states of altered consciousness due
to altered chemical balances within the brain. It is not the mind. It is the tool the
mind must use.)
Betty: OK. This brings another question. Have you completed what you wanted
to say on that? (Yes.) OK. This raises another question about diet and what we eat, etc.
Some have said that we can reach consciousness that we can eat anything. (True.) I agree
with this, but it seems to me that I have a great deal of difficulty when I eat certain things.
Is it for us just to listen to our own bodies? (Yes.) Is it easier to make the transition away
from food, like we were talking about the last session, if we go more and more natural
and more simple? (It does not matter. What matters is attitude.) Attitude. All we need
to know is how to change the attitude.
Maxine: Are you talking about the individual that’s going, or the people around it?
I can see that maybe you’re having some problem of the attitude of people around an
individual that has this attitude whether they want to go or not. Do you understand what
I’m saying? (But your attitude is yours and not dependent upon those around you
unless you so establish that attitude. If you adopt that cast of thinking represented
by those around you, then that becomes your attitude. You do not have to think as
do those around you. You are responsible to and for yourself.)
Betty: I thought that was a marvelous idea. I’ve long thought that. You wouldn’t
have to wash dishes. You wouldn’t have to do a lot of things. But I found myself eating
more junk food this week and feeling worse as a result of it. (That is your guilty
conscience as a result of programming. You change your attitude toward junk food,
it will no longer be junk food,and your body will not treat it as junk food.) That’s a
promise? (That is a fact.) The attitude then is an attitude you’re speaking of that must go
a lot deeper than I’m thinking about attitude. (Yes.) It goes down into the very being of
the cells. (Into the belief systems which your cells incorporate the program for it.)
Myra: Your conscious mind tries to program each of your cells, a new change of
venue for yourselves to incorporate. I guess my question is, how long does it take to get
your cells to adopt your new attitude? (How long does it take to make that attitude an
established part of consciousness?) Does that depend on desire? (Yes.) This is the Law
of Dominance, then. (Yes.) And invoking Michael would be a great spur for that,
wouldn’t it? (Yes.) I’ve found that invoking Michael daily, even several times a day, has
been an enormous help to me. It’s been a wonderful help for me.
Peggy: We’ve been taught that God is all there is. Now, if God is all there is, how
can there be only one power? How can we put power into food that we claim makes us
fat? (As I have been trying to convey to you, All-That-Is has divided Itself so that
while you are a precise replica, you are not All-That-Is.) But how can there be two
powers? (There is not two powers. There is only use of part of the power, part of the
time. When you breathe in, you take in a lung full of air. You cannot breathe all the
air there is in one breath. That does not say that the air you breathe is not part of all
the air there is.) I’ve have to let this sink in. Thank you. (If you will think, when you
think that God is all there is, then All-That-Is is Divine. But not All-That-Is is all
there is all of the time.)
Maxine: From what we were speaking of previously, I must assume that my
fall, my accident, my inability to walk, because I was once able to, is something that I
have programmed myself for, some desire that maybe I don’t understand? (Yes. It began
much before this life.) So this is to fulfill something that is to be fulfilled? (Yes.) And
there isn’t anything that I can do about it by changing my attitude then? (Oh, yes, there
is.) Then I can change my attitude. That isn’t something that has been programmed ahead
of time. (No.) And I can find out what this attitude is that I need to change through
meditation? Is that one of the ways I can find out? (Yes.) Are there other ways I can do it
besides meditation? (Dreams.) If I ask myself some questions before I go to sleep to help
bring forward the reason? (If you would change the way you think about your
physical body. Instead of thinking of it as being less than you want it to be, if you
always think about it as being perfect, it will strive to fulfill your expectations even
though moment by moment you must cope with it as it stands at that moment.
Expect your body to be come perfect in the same way that you expect a cut to heal,
and the body will become perfect.)
Myra: As you do this, you still need to give it the rest and the exercise and the
nourishment. (You must cope with it as it stands at that moment, but expect.)
Maxine: What you expect in the future? What you expect as the outcome of this
exercise? (If you expect a cut to heal in a week, it will take a week. If you expect it to
heal the next day, it will. Try it.)
LaMar: I agree so thoroughly with what you just said. I would like, though, to go
back to this business of junk food. I grow a garden out there so that we can eat food
which we have been led to believe, and I always felt was true, that nourishing that food
and growing it gave us more nourishment than if we would just let that go to weeds and
eat junk food. We do not spray. We do not use the chemicals that would go into that food
and into our bodies. Now as I understood it, junk food can be tolerated by the body very
well. Forgive me, but I am a bit confused. (Attitude.)
Myra: You’re saying that our attitudes make us fat and not the food we eat?
(Yes.)
LaMar: Well, this brings me back to the things we were told about the food that
we raise ourselves as more nourishing to us. (Because it returns to you the love you
give that food.) But in reality the body would have worked just as well if we had eaten
junk food and forgotten to plant that. (If you had the right attitude. But attitude relies
upon your belief.)
Betty: Could you define attitude a little bit more and talk about it a little bit
more?
LaMar: Yes, especially since my attitude came about according to what we were
told. (By whom?) By you, for one. (Did I tell you to plant radishes?) At one time
Bonnie asked a question and brought my name into it about raising a garden. And the
answer was that was the very best. (For you, it is.)
Betty: I would like some more information about attitude, because when I started
taking herbs, I wasn’t a total believer, but I can feel the body changes. (Do not discount
race consciousness. You tend to go back to that individuality which does not relate
to its environment. You limit yourselves.)
Maxine: There is a race consciousness? (That believes in raising food from the
earth to eat. And it has a great deal to do with your national roots. This is a farming
nation which has become industrialized. Industrialization has brought junk food.
Technology will take you beyond junk food. As that race consciousness evolves, so
your belief systems and attitudes will change. If you are a farmer at heart, then that
food which you grow will bless your body the most. That does not deny the
possibility that by changing your belief system and your attitudes that you could eat
the junk food without ill results.)
LaMar: When I went to the Philippines, I noticed that many of the so-called
healers over there, who were helping people to become well, were smoking one strong
cigarette after another. Were they able to do this without apparent destruction to their
bodies simply by their attitude towards it? (Yes, some. But some would suffer, as any
lung tissue in the majority.)
Well, my reasoning has been that the body was a shell that we live in here, had
been created to breathe oxygen, and if we were going to put carbon monoxide and
cigarette smoke into it in the place of oxygen, that it’s going to not have a favorable
reaction. (The body will either adapt or die.)
Betty: But it is possible that we can change our attitude and therefore our karma
and our whole body makeup, etc. (Yes.) But we have to change the attitude clear down
to the cellular level. (Yes.) I would guess that ain’t easy. (Quite.) What we do to our
bodies with our mental attitudes that are poisonous. What is the difference between the
mental attitude and the physical eating to the food? We’re poisoning our bodies that way.
(If you believe it is poison.) I retract that statement, but I was using that as an example.
Sheriam: Let us draw to a conclusion. Settle your bodies. Relax your
minds. Open your hearts. Be still.
Continuing with your previous meditation, focus once more upon that I AM
center. Then feel that center filling up all of the physical body. Feel it expanding
beyond the limitations of the physical body. Feel it reaching out into the subtle
bodies, filling up your immediate space, overlapping with your neighbor, growing
and growing, until all are one – one great I AM.
Now even in that unity of I-Am-ness, you still retain your sense of
individuality, and yet you are one. You are united in common purpose: to learn, to
become, to be. And as that united aspiration gains in power, you feel lifted. As you
rise in consciousness, joy enters your heart. Let that joy swell your beingness, like
the swelling sounds of the celestial choir.
You know that even though you retain your individuality in this personality,
there is that force which goes forward from this group to create an environment
which affects the other environments created around you. So you join in a oneness
with mankind as a whole. In that union, your awareness wakens other awarenesses.
Your rising consciousnesses encourage others to rise in consciousness. In
your joy, in your sense of oneness, you feel an overwhelming love for your planet
and all that lives in and on and above your planet. As you spread joy and love in this
way, you assist race consciousness to move forward in its evolutionary spiral toward
the desired goal.
As you lift your hearts in this joy and loving service, the blessing is poured
down upon you from the realms above, in terms of blessing your health, your
prosperity, your relationships. All that you are and can be receives this blessing.
Now in this act of service of calling this blessing into the consciousness of
mankind, invite those loved ones of concern to join you. (Many names softly
whispered.) As your loved ones receive your invitation and respond, so do the
temple teachers join you. The healers come. The stimulation of their presence
expands the consciousness beyond the limits of your atmosphere. So your blessing
goes not only to your planet, but to all of that of which it is a part.
You receive healing individually. Your loved ones receive healing and
blessing. All of mankind is served.
Now, as you bring your awareness back to your personality and release your
loved ones to return to their personalities, carry with you that sense of expansion
and blessing of joy and love. Let it radiate through your life, from your
countenance, as you carry forth your activity in the coming time in which we will be
parted. Know that at any time, in thought, you can again reunite yourself with this
body, for you are one, though you go your separate ways.
And so I bless you. I bid you go in joy and peace and oneness. And so I leave
you.
Closed with “Let there be joy on earth.”
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