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Session #84 – September 20, 1986
Gloria’s Circle
Present: Betty Welty, Eileen Horton, Ida Nevala, Jean Chisholm, LaMar and
RetaMae Bell, Richard and Mary White, Owen and Maxine Cramer, Myra
Perala, Peggy Muldoon, and Sidney Smither
Following a potluck dinner, the study period was led by Jean in review of the Archangel
Gabriel and the Law of I Will.
Sheariam: Good evening students and friends. We listened with great interest to
your studies. We are pleased with you, and we are pleased with the progress being
made. We have nearly reached a concluding point in our presentation, so that your
studies may soon take a more personal turn for you. We would tonight speak upon
that action in your Realm of Self which has resulted in the beings that you are, in
the forms that you wear, with the activities that you now engage in.
One of your points in your study is pertinent to this discussion in that we
have told you many times that you only affect yourselves in certain ways, and may
only affect others in certain ways. And yet, as has been cited, there are those beings
among you who seem to be able to perform outside of these requirements, especially
in the field of healing. If you had studied with attention our last discourse about the
involutionary spiral becoming an evolutionary spiral, and the development of the
subtle bodies, you would be able to answer your own question.
For we gave that you are all products of a Mental Body and a Creative Body
which you all share in common with all life upon your planet and within your
planet, and what might be termed, the planet itself. It is only from the Physical into
the Desire and Emotional and Vital Bodies that you are in any way separate. But it
is within these bodies that you ail. But it is through the Mental and Creative Bodies,
which you share, that you can assist another earthly cohabitant who is ailing, and
this is done through the Mental and Creative Bodies. As we gave, each individual
living organism prepares its own space, creates its own environment. Thus each of
you can only affect the other on any permanent basis through the Mental and
Creative Bodies which you share.
As your brother Silverthistle has given you, you exchange some modicum of
your subtle bodies, but not retain them permanently. You borrow some vitality
perhaps. You may borrow some emotion. You may borrow some force of desire. In
your current technology, you even borrow certain physical forms. But these are only
temporary loans, for the physical organism has a limited span. Your transplants
only last so long as the physical organism lasts, and sometimes not that long.
This is the point where you are told, you are not to decide by idea or concept
what another may need, either by way of healing or prosperity or any other such.
You cannot create for another, one may only create for one’s self. In the thought of
what another may need, you stand in the way. In other words, you block that
individual’s opportunity, his access, if you will. For as we have given, thought is
real. Thought is substantive. If your thought is that another must have a particular
condition, you may be building a fence in the Mental Body which the other must
then find a way through, over, or around, which they may not be in any condition to
do.
Now, as you have been told, you can extend your Vital Body around your
globe. You can surround another with your Vital Body, but keep in mind, when you
do that you, in effect, fence that individual into your desire for that individual,
which may not be his desire or properly, his reward.
Questions? (Sheariam seemed to be putting greater effort into very careful
enunciation.)
Myra: When you told us that in the past, I didn’t understand it, but today I did.
(So you have grown.)
Owen: A question came to my mind. What is this saying about these many, many
organizations that are set up solely for the purpose of broad-scale helping of others,
helping alleviate specific diseases, helping alleviate starvation in some particular place,
and so on. Is this then working at cross purposes to what you have just told us?
(Certainly so. By promoting the very ailment or lack, they perpetuate their own
existence.)
That’s kind of a blanket judgment on all these organizations. Are there
exceptions? (Of course.) Could you give an example of an exception just to give us a
guide post? (Within your culture probably one of the most helpful organizations as
such is your Salvation Army. It has the least adverse affect on the overall picture.
Your highly organized charities are highly disorganized help.)
Maxine: You mentioned charities, but there is such a thing as “The Right to Work”
which is one organization that often requests money. (Yes, and there are those who
perform behind the façade of “Right to Life” and “Right to” this and “Right to”
that, and “Right to” many things. Remember, you are in a condition which is
intended to work out the ramifications of the Law of Dominance, and these
organizations exercise dominance.)
Myra: How about the compassionate friend organizations who try to help
families who have lost a child. Would that kind of an organization be helpful to give
loving support to somebody who is suffering? (But that “loving support” is based upon
the belief system which locks out certain other alternatives.) For example? (Very
often the support groups operate to continue grief and sorrow, and dwell upon loss,
rather than promoting the joy which will be the ultimate desired end of this earthly
experience. Remember that we have said that voice (sound) is substantively creative.
You may have a support group which allows what you call “venting”. With
every word spoken of vengefulness, of sorrow, of hatred, of punitive action, those
things are given at least a transitory life. Compassion is most effectively expressed
when the action taken, whether by voice or by deed, is to bring joy not sympathy.)
Thank you. Hearing your answer makes me realize you’ve already told us that
many times.
Sheariam: To all practical purposes, we have already given all you would ever
need to know to successfully accomplish that which you came to do. That is why I
prefaced my words tonight, saying that we have reached a turning point. It is now
for you to learn how to live where you are. We could spend much time discussing
the evolutionary process which brought you to where you are at this moment. Since
we have given the essentialness of that process, we feel your time and our energies
and effort can better be spent on what you know of yourselves now. Thus we will be
answering many of those questions which in the past have been tabled.
Betty: Could we go back a little bit to the organizations? For instance, the “Right
to Life”. Could you give us some insight on what the best reaction might be? I work with
the letters that go through with “The Right to Life” on them, and immediately I feel
negative about it, and I try to overwhelm that. Would it be best just to bless and release
them? (The very best. Remember, while they may be adversely affecting a situation
or condition to which they have directed themselves, they nevertheless serve a
purpose in the overall scheme of the Law of Dominance. So bless that so it serves the
higher purpose than they know themselves.)
Myra: The practice of blessing is something that is a wonderful goal. I’ve
attempted to learn to do that, especially when I find myself being distressed about
something. I try to release it after a blessing, and yet it is something that I keep forgetting
to do. It’s a habit I haven’t developed as well as I would like. (It is an essential
attitude.)
Maxine: Would it be all right to bless that which you don’t understand? (Most
certainly. When you invoke Gabriel, and you affirm “I will Divine Will”, you are, in
effect, saying, in this particular instance, that piece of literature, the thought it
represents, the idea behind it, will serve the Divine Will and not the will of the self
originator.)
Owen: When you say particular piece of literature”? (As given in this instance.)
Betty: Like the “Right to Life” literature? (Yes.)
Myra: You can’t bless it while you junk it in the garbage can, can you? (Why
not?)
Betty: What you said here opened up something that I can’t even get a hold of
enough to ask a question about it. (Isn’t that exciting!) (Laughter.) Except when Owen
puts it all down on paper that we said all these things. I have always thought that the
invocation of Gabriel, “I will Divine Will” is a very personal thing. I’m getting a glimpse
that we can even add the Divine Will to something that another Self started out with. (As
you are all one in the Mental and Creative Bodies, what others create through the
Mental and Creative Bodies, so have you.)
Myra: So through the Mental and Creative Bodies we could have a great deal of
influence on politics. (Of course. Without stirring from your own sitting room.)
Peggy: I have a personal problem I’m having quite a time with. I’ve had three
sales on my mobile home, but the owner of the mobile home court has turned them down
for the same reason that they already live in the court. Now, how can I use this with that?
(You trust so little and fret so much. If you would “Divine Will”.) Yes, I’ve done this,
or I thought I had. (Evidently not.) But she’s got me where I don’t know how to handle it
any more. (Perhaps you should not be handling it.) The owner just keeps turning them
down.
Myra: She just won’t accept buyers?
Peggy: That’s it. They’ve got money, they’ve got everything that’s in there, that
they already have in the court. They are cash sales. It’s hard to take when you get three of
them right in a row.
Betty: So, if Peggy would like, Peggy could verbalize, “I bless and release this
situation to Divine Will”? (Yes. And affirm that “my success is joy”.) Whatever
happens.
Myra: Release to the Universe.
Maxine: Maybe it’s up to you to realize that the success is joy. Maybe that’s the
last. That’s hard to do, but then that means you have to let go.
Betty: We were discussing tonight a little bit about will and manifesting. Could
you give us more insight on this so we can work on it and think some more?
Sheariam:The paradox of your Realm of Self is that you are subject to
determinative conditions externally, and yet are an intellect, an emotional being,
that has freedom within. How you establish the relationship between these two
paradoxical conditions will establish the results you receive from your efforts.
If you use your internal freedom to attempt domination over the external
determinations, you may find that your freedom is greatly restricted. When you
begin to operate from that internal freedom with an attitude which permits your
adding mental force to the situation, the force of the mental form can affect the
apparent external determination, as in the case of the sale of the home. There
appears to be, and advisedly I use the term “appears to be”, external determinations
preventing the sale of this home, when, in fact, it may well be that the internal
freedom to add to the situation is not being exercised to its fullest extent.
You will find, in your Realm of Self, in that evolutionary condition in which
you now find yourselves, that very often at the very moment you accept a condition
as it is, that condition changes. You have the capacity to adapt, and in the exercise of
that capacity to adapt, through channels of intuition, you call in to assist you powers
of which you are unaware, which immediately affects the situation to your
advantage.
Often a situation which seems to be externally determined is, in that
appearance to you, to test your personal integrity, your sense of Self, your sense of
self worth, your awareness of those resources to which you have access but which
you seldom use. It is easy to say. Not always easy to do. Success comes from
simplification, not from complexification. The more one frets and worries, the more
complex a situation appears. The more one accepts apparent conditions and says,” I
will do the best I can with my freedom of thought”, the sooner those external
determinations change.
Betty: That was a whole lot. It will take a long time to digest that. The question
comes to me now, where do affirmations, where do visualizations, fit into this whole
picture? (They empower the thought form.) Yet, are they on the verge of resisting what
is happening rather than accepting it? (They can be.) I need some more help on
clarification. (An affirmation is not necessarily appropriate to the circumstances
merely because it is an affirmation. Thus, we teach you to call upon the archangels
as your need is known before you know it.)
LaMar:This goes back to not specifying what your need is. Simply call upon the
archangels and let the need be taken care of. (Correct.)
Maxine: And that is because sometimes the need that we have is not what we see.
(True.)
Betty: But the answer we get would not necessarily be what we want either.
(That is usual.) (Laughter.) And there is where we need to get back to, accepting the
situation and taking it a day at a time. (Comments: With joy. Go with the flow.)
(You have been told that you are miracles, and yet you take not joy in that
knowledge.) Sometimes it’s hard to see the miracle. (Perhaps it is a miracle that you
have survived to see the next day.)
Betty: I get the feeling that we were told civil disobedience was not right, and
I’m beginning to get the feeling that we helped create a lot of the situation we’re in, so
therefore, it is up to us to accept and experience it and work it out. (But not totally
without the knowledge that you can add your own creativeness and thus affect
change.)
I think that was my question. How can we add that? In other words, if we feel
now that the role of women or a minority is unfair? (One thing that is most often
overlooked as a viable opportunity for effectiveness is hope and optimism.)
Sometimes when we complain and fight and quibble over the use of words, does that
sometimes add to the situation? (Adversely, yes.)
Maxine: But it also seems to me that it doesn’t help to just sit and do nothing and
feel optimistic, does it? (I described those attitudes as additives, not as sole activities.)
What you’re saying is that attitude is most important.
Betty: Altitude of attitude.
Sheariam: Rather than complaining about the activities of one who seems to be
at cross purposes with you, you could change the situation by blessing that person,
and entertaining hope and optimism. Most often you curse the darkness rather than
lighting a candle.)
Maxine: So, what I hear you saying is that the things you feel are stumbling blocks,
one should bless and accept the learning that is coming with it. (You accept their
presence. You bless them for whatever purpose they are to serve. You do not
necessarily accept that they are going to be permanently inhibiting to you. You
always have the option to take the rock out of the path. Sometimes the rock is larger
than you. Then you are able to use certain technologies. You may take a hammer
and break it into little pieces.) I suppose you could use it as a building stone. (Good
point.)
Myra: Or a step up higher. (You see, hope and optimism changes the stance
and perspective.)
Richard: Sheariam, I’ve been wondering why it was, all the time I was trying to
bring the recent issue of The Cosmic Connection into being, that I was constantly
frustrated with physical ailments to the point where I wondered whether it was really
worth it from a personal standpoint to go ahead and bring that issue into final form. I did
persist, and it did come into being, but my feeling now is that I wonder if it was worth it,
and whether I want to consider working on the next issue or not, in spite of its value to
the group and humanity. I wondered if you would comment. (Your pain stemmed from
one commitment. Your effort stemmed from another. The two are not necessarily
directly connected. Your choice is your choice in the matter.) Thank you.
Maxine: In other words, you’re saying that two things happened at the same time,
and you’re putting the two together when they’re not necessarily supposed to be together.
Is that it? (They were certainly together in his consciousness, but that same
consciousness made both commitments. All of you experience the same thing. You
may obligate yourself at one moment to one thing, and to another at another time,
not realizing that the two may become matters of imperative attention
simultaneously. As you live your lives fully and enjoy, filling up your space, then
your commitments have less opportunity to collide.) In other words, what you’re
saying is that we must see our life as joy. If we see our life as joy, then we’re not going to
have these collisions. (True.)
Richard: Thank you. That helps. (Bless you, and we are gratified by your effort.)
Owen: On a different matter, I wanted to ask about something that has occurred
several times in the open meetings. A question has been asked by a member of the
audience who is not a member of the group and has been attracted by general interest in
what we offer. The answer is “That this has been given before, go back and look at the
readings.” It seems to be kind of an abrupt turnoff to the person. It would seem also that
recognizing that this person is interested and is maybe a one-time or two-time visitor and
not familiar with what has been given before, wouldn’t it have been appropriate to review
a little bit, which most of us could benefit from at the same time? (My only possible
answer to you is that you are talking personalities, when perhaps you do not know
all of the ramifications of the interchange.)
Myra: Well, the answers still seem to be the wrong answers to me. It would tell
the person to read the readings when they have not ever been exposed to them. (Is there
any reason why they could not expose themselves to them?)
Maxine: Well, I think that in this particular case, this person had traveled, had been
visiting from a distance, had come several thousand miles, so the readings hadn’t been
available to them before.
Myra: Or maybe what we are being told to do is to prepare these readings for
wider readership. (You must also consider the personality asking the question is
sometimes attempting to appear more knowledgeable through asking the question
rather than truly desiring an answer.)
Betty: When I read the transcript, I felt that it was, at the time I felt, “wait a
minute”. But I felt that it was perfectly appropriate an answer at the time.
Myra: I wondered about that. Should we perhaps promote the sale of the
transcriptions in a more active manner, rather than just through the people who are
acquaintances to those of us in the circle? (That is something we cannot decide for you.
We have encouraged you as much as it is possible for us to do in your efforts at
publication. We cannot decide for you how you are going to accomplish these things
in your condition.)
Owen: You have said that “We don’t give you anything that is to be censored.”
(That is true.) Then it is just up to us whether we want to take on the sale of the
transcripts directly, like sell subscriptions to the transcripts as well as selling
compilations of the information on the subject classification.(That is true.) It is a matter
of how much we can do.) (This is a problem for you, since you are in the same
position in that respect as our friend in his effort.)
Betty: Or just have them available in the form.
Peggy: When they ask that kind of a question, if we’d had them available, we
could have said, “Here they are. You can read about it.” (If that individual were truly
interested in the receiving of the answer to his question, he would have sought that
resource.)
Betty: It was my understanding later that he wanted to compare that with the
answer that he had received from Lazarus and from someone else. (Again, a personality
matter.)
Another question that would be of interest and might be helpful: Gloria has been
experiencing some moments of nausea. Her comment was that she was even waking up at
night nauseated. (Yes. We are having to deal with that now. This is an inner ear
disturbance due to earth changes, and is not peculiar solely to this organism.) In
other words, a number of people are experiencing it now? (And animals and plants.)
That indicates that something major is happening now? (It is imminent. The external
manifestation is imminent, although there is presently physical manifestation.)
Owen: Could you say anything more about that? Is that locally, or is it general?
(It’s primarily localized to the northwest. We cannot reveal, as it would change the
consciousnesses and the responses.)
Richard: As Editor of this Cosmic Connection, our purpose in bringing this
document about was to try to get as much of this information as we could to the general
public, to make it available in an easy way, and do it easily and do it quickly, rather than
waiting for publication of a more lengthy textbook kind of thing. I was wondering if you
would have any comment as to whether we are going about this in the right way, or if
there is some improvement we could make, or if it should be longer or more quotes from
the sessions, or anything of that type. (For the stated goal, your document is more than
adequate. Your efforts at dissemination are less than adequate-- what you might call
circulation or distribution.)
Myra: We need a publicity committee and a distribution. (You need more
cohesive effort and more general participation.)
Betty: Sheariam, I have felt the need and am making the request tonight or
another night. I would like to have an assignment, a meditation kind of assignment as
were given back in the earlier sessions, if we might, something to work on. (You have
been given assignments, and you may bring your results at any meeting. We give the
assignments. We do not monitor you to see that you perform them.)
Myra: So if we haven’t gotten a chance to report on our assignments, we can do
it an any time later? (At any time… How many of you are currently working with
your stones, for instance?) I’m wearing my amethyst. (But are you working with
them?) I’m not sure that I know how to work with them. I tried very hard. (You have
been given exercises.) Then I’m going to have to review. I don’t remember. Was it to
meditate with them? Is that what you mean? (Among other things, yes.)
Betty: Then we can simply go back and get these meditation assignments and
work with them? (Yes.) I have one I would like help with in the future. I think it’s too
late. (Yes. We do not give additional assignments since you have not fulfilled those
already given. We are not your conscience. We are only your teachers.)
We were talking with Gloria, and we were talking about the possibility of those
who are starting to study, and all this is new to them, and they haven’t had a chance to do
these meditations, if it might be possible to meet and get some information on what they
came up with in their meditations. Do you think that might be possible at a time other
than regular sessions? (We will take that under advisement.)
Myra: Last Wednesday night I started the first study group at my house, and
there were three people who came that are very eager to know more about what we’re
doing. I told them about a lot of the things that we’ve done, and they decided that they
wanted to begin by reading the “Eight Keys”, which we did. I got a great deal out of it,
and I’m sure that they did also. Then we decided to go into the “Coming of Judith”, but I
keep thinking, that might be a bit too hard. All three of them are new to the idea. What do
you think? Would it be better to start in reading in the beginning, or should we go to the
“Coming of Judith?” (There were two other circles in which I participated, where the
information was less intense, more generalized, which would be acceptable
beginning points.)
Betty: I would like to express my appreciation in going back and reading those,
what was given in the early sessions, which we did not realize fully.
Myra: You’re referring to the Tuesday and Thursday night circles? (Yes.)
LaMar: It would seem to me that the material should be given in somewhat the
same order that it was given to us. There must have been a reason for its having been
given in that sequence. (The Laws and the Hierarchy: this is true. But as our friend
suggested, these people are not well informed enough to become that involved in
something that esoteric. The other groups were more in line with the level of
understanding of these candidates.)
Sheariam: We are experiencing some discomfort within the organism, so let us
draw this session to a close with a short meditation.
Clear you minds and relax your bodies. Do not be concerned with generating
any energy. Be concerned with clarity and relaxation. Open within yourselves a
channel. Visualize a tube, if you will, from the crown of your head down through
your neck and your spinal column. Just allow that tube to be open and receptive.
Then together in unison, affirm: “I Am” three times. (Done.) As you make
that affirmation, you have set up a field of receptivity to the Divine influx, and from
the Realm of Mind you call forth direction which delivers itself through the Mental
Body, which you all share, and through the Creative Body, which you all share,
entering into your own individualized Vital Bodies, through your Emotional Bodies
and your Desire Bodies, to fill that open tube with Divine substance. Each will have
an individualized response to the reception of this. Let that substance fill that
channel.
Then feel that livingness move out through the nervous system into all parts
of your body. The power flows through your physical organism, permeates all of
your Desire organism, all of your Emotional organism, so that your desires come
into alignment with your Purpose. Your emotions become calm. Then it flows into
your Vital Body giving you strength and courage and capability.
Now allow that channel to close at the crown locking within you all of this
empowerment, so you shall go forth from this place with greater joy, aptitude, and
accomplishment. During the coming time of separation, when those rocks appear in
your pathway, think of this meditation. Feel that alignment and empowerment.
Experience the joy which leaps within your breast. See that impediment disappear
before you.
And so you are blessed. I bid you, beloved, go in peace. And great joy unto
you. And so it is done.
Closed with “Let there be joy on earth.”
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