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Session #91 – February 7, 1987
Gloria’s Circle
Present: Ida Nevala, Jean Chisholm, Jeneeka, LaMar Bell, Owen and Maxine
Cramer, Myra Perala, Peggy Muldoon, Richard White, Sidney Smither
and Shira Subotnick
Preceding the session we reviewed recent sessions on Karma, and Richard led a brief
meditation.
Sheariam: Good evening students and friends.
Owen: We’ll give our simultaneously sung greeting. (Let us hear the harmony).
(Three tries singing our names.) Good. Harmony is in the heart, not always in the
vocal chords. (Laughter.) But the sound of your voice empowers the environment.
Hark back to the lessons on sound. Those were not given in vain.
And now we teach you about your Wheel of Karma and the creation of your
own Environment. Speak your names often. That is a demand “to be”. Wear your
names proudly. The sound of them speaks what “you are”. If you have not yet
examined your names for the sounds which they bear, we suggest that you do so. It
is important that your consciousness incorporate that knowledge.
We listened with interest to your conversation this evening, and your study.
We heard your confusion. We accept your alert, dear friend (Sidney had addressed
Sheariam with the prospect for questions on earlier readings.). We have admonished
many times to study. Judith has told you to study. Silverthistle has told you to study,
and now, to our great gratifications, you are studying! Nothing have we given you
that does not bear upon your lives. As you go back to words spoken early, some of
them meaningless words, there was confusion, because of the confusion in your
minds.
Again may I remind you to study with your hearts. Yes, you must use your
powers of intellect, but not to the destruction of the essential meaning of that which
has been given. Do not attempt to build those boxes of thought which limit here and
obstruct there and prevent your opportunity to grow through our teaching. If a
word is mis-spoken, if in some way through human error there appears to be a
confusion, accept that it is mis-spoken, mis-heard, not understood at that moment.
There is no confusion which cannot be cleared up.
We have striven to make our teachings as simplistic as we can for the
complexity of our subject, but none of our teachings can be of any value to you
unless you take them into your heart and consciousness, not merely into your
thinking apparatus. We do not say to be gullibly accepting. Challenge what you
hear. Test, always test, examine, but be of open mind and heart. Surely by this time,
we have gained your trust. Surely by now you know we do not lie. We do not
command. We only attempt to instruct. We may challenge you, for as you rise to a
challenge, you grow. You do not live in that Desire Body repetitively going
backward to that which was more comfortable. That leads to stagnation.
Did you follow through on our suggestion to examine your thinking
processes? Did you? (Several Yes’s.) And what did you discover?
Jenika: That a lot of what I think about is not that productive. I could think more
positively in other terms. (Good.)
Owen: I found that most of my thinking was involved in just the busy work of
doing the routine things. Except in brief times of attempting to meditate, my thinking was
almost entirely occupied with just routine problems. “What am I going to do next?”
“What has to be done?”
Jean: I’m exhilarated and excited and enlivened when I’m thinking and trying to
solve problems and resolve differences, and run into conflict, particularly if the thinking
involves interchange with another person who has a different view point.
Sheariam: How many of you gave a few moments to contemplation of an
abstraction?
Myra: We are trying to look at our thinking processes. It seems to me that is kind
of an abstraction in itself, analyzing it and recognizing the difference between real
thinking and thinking process. (Indeed, it is.) I found that your discussion about that last
time was really eye-opening to me. (And so you accepted our challenge.) I tried to. I
also discovered that since I’ve been taking these painting classes that while I was doing
the experience of playing with my paints and brushes, etc., I was feeling the most
marvelous joy. I guess that’s kind of an abstract thing, to play with paints and put it on
paper. That’s creative, and it was really fun. I watched myself doing it and discovered the
deep joy I felt. I guess I experienced it even more because I watched myself doing it.
(Excellently done.)
Jean: I don’t know if this fits exactly here, but I think it does. I went to a
basketball game, and invoked when the team was behind. The team immediately began to
win, and I thought, “We cannot invoke for someone else.” And yet I thought, “How does
this happen that this does?” Then I played with the thought on the three baskets. I
invoked for the first and didn’t for the second, or visa versa. When I invoked it went in,
and when I didn’t invoke, it didn’t. I didn’t know whether it was an accident or whether it
really happened. So I did quite a bit of thinking and testing the thinking, and came up
with problems I couldn’t answer.
Sheariam: When you can find a question on an abstraction to which you are
drawn to find the answer, that should, in itself, be an indication to any of you that
you are moving from instinctual, regressive mental processes into Creative Thought.
It is not easy.
And so we return to that point on the Karmic Wheel where we left off last. In
that instinctual regressive mental process, did you realize the regressiveness of these
daily thought patterns?
Myra; No, not before you brought it to our attention.
Shira: I made a very deliberate attempt since our last meeting to put my life in
the hands of Divine will. A deliberate attempt, and to invoke often, and to meditate often,
and also to make a complete attempt to let life flow through me and not be caught up in
it, but try to have things flow directly through me at all times. It’s been terrific.
Everything wonderful has been happening. I’m learning more rapidly and retaining much
more. My art is flowing greatly, and my singing – everything. Life has been great.
Wonderful things are happening. (This is our desire for you, for all of you, that your
lives become more open, enlarged, more gratifying, more productive, more
purposeful, and more successful in achieving those purposes.)
Jean: I’m experiencing the same thing to a large extent. Example: My husband
said, “Do you want anything at the Safeway?” And I said, “No, not really.” I went in and
purchased a lot of vegetables that seemed to almost grab me, and I thought, “Why am I
doing this?” But I didn’t argue with it. The next night I used it for unexpected company.
It wasn’t completely unexpected as I had the thought of having them, but the culmination
of it was unexpected, and it just seemed to all fall in place, and all I was was the cook.
(You will find, as you use these principles of living in which we instruct you, that the
timing of your life events will be more synchronous. Life will flow more smoothly.
Peggy: Sheariam, I’ve found that by putting myself in the hands of God and know
that everything happens as it’s supposed to, I don’t worry or think about life or my
problems or anything like I used to. (And is not your health the better for it?) Yes. I
have one problem, now though, that I just found out about yesterday. I have found out
that I have (some unnamed medical condition.) (It doesn’t matter. What is important is
the manner in which you think of this, and the attitude in which you deal with it.)
I’m just letting it go into God’s hands.
Sheariam: Now as you move out of that regressive, instinctual thought pattern,
you become more aware of what you really want your life to provide for you, and
Purposes arise. At that instinctual thinking level, meaning is difficult to grasp. You,
in your colloquialisms, speak of “rat race”, of “squirrels in cages”, or “tread mills”,
and to what end do you allow your lives to become so patterned when you could, as
you say, “have it all”? In the Evolution of Life upon this planet, Purposes developed
which led to the Specialization. In that which is taught by evolutionists, it would
seem that all life progress is accidental. This you must know is not so. Accident is
not Truth. Purpose is Truth.
You have a word “Reason”. Can you define that word?
Maxine: Can reason stem from a cause? (And what would that cause be?)
Myra: Divine Will.
Shira: How about reason being sun, as in enlightening, or the light? And the “re”
is to bring about again, so as to be re-enlightened: to reason. (Very good abstraction,
young lady.)
Jean: I thought of it another way, but on the physical plane: a physical event and
a physical result. The reason is the connection between the event and the result. (Correct.
In retrospect, one would observe that. But in looking forward, why does the human
heart wish to climb the highest mountain?) Because it is there? (Is that a good
reason?)
Myra: It’s for the inspiration, the feeling of joy on accomplishment.
Sheariam: Is it not a personally selected challenge? (Yes.) There are, in every life,
such mountain tops that challenge. This is that rung of the Karmic Wheel, that part
of the Divine design. It is a component element of Life Itself. It is that indescribable
thrust that brought Matter to life. The first step pertains to all of the steps. It
pertains to everything. That No-Thing which became Some-Thing in this condition
under this law now becomes Every-Thing. Can you contemplate such?
Myra: I don’t understand that. Did you say the No-Thing that becomes Some-
Thing is related to the personally selected challenge in life? (Yes, among other things.)
Shira: Sure. It’s like the Wheel of Karma that we were just speaking about.
Desire becomes Instinct which gives Purpose and Will or Motivation is the identity of the
wants for thought specialization. All that involvement, one leads to the other. Individual
challenge is the Wheel of Karma, or a small part of the Wheel of Karma. (Specialization
is the mountain top. It is that ultimate challenge, and as each of you find your
mountain top and meet those challenges, you forward Specialization of Species. You
Quantify your Quality.)
LaMar: There is within all of us that desire, or drive, to reach the mountain top,
excepting that we each of us have a different mountain top, I presume depending upon, at
least partially, the reason we came back into this life.
Sheariam:Because primarily you Purposed to become Human and Self-Aware.
“Way back when”, as you say, in the course of Evolution, that which preceded you
was a Specialization of its own, but reaching forward into the future, identified
those Wants which are Human. Establishing that Emotional Body enables such
Specialization to take place. You did not arise from monkeys. Monkeys are a
Specialization.
Each form which Life takes is a Specialization, a Specialization which has
resulted from Purpose, Motivation, Will, and the Creative Thought which brings it
into being. You participate in Creative Thought when you reach for your future.
When you do not permit yourselves to do so, your lives become encompassed by
those repetitive, routine, stagnating thinking processes. Rely upon them for survival
only. Predicate your future and then reach for it. Demand your abundance.
(Remarks from the group: That’s very inspiring, Sheariam. It sure is. It works.) So we
hope to be.)
Myra: That’s why Ida and I decided to go ride on a boat and go look at the
whales. We created our environment today. It was fun.
LaMar: One question that keeps coming to my mind as you were speaking there,
going back to this mountain top business. If we come back life after life, I’m assuming
that the mountain top changes, that we don’t just pursue the same direction each time we
come. (Only if you permit the Desire Body to govern your lives. If you do not learn
to discriminate between what you “need” and what you “want”.)
Jean: I have a thought. I don’t know exactly how to formulate it. Going back to
where you were talking about this thrust to meet the challenge. I go along with that. I
know that, and yet I have experienced, and I have seen other people experience, a loss of
that thrust. (The spark does dim in the breast of many.) And as I thought about it, I
thought, as I go over a body with a pendulum I find that there is a blockage. Then as I
work, the blockage flows, and they feel better. I don’t know exactly what has happened.
My question is: “When the spark has dimmed, I suppose it would be a depression in the
person?” (Not always.)
My question is, then, how do you get it going again? Does the person have to do it
for himself, or can someone help it from the outside? Can you talk more about what to do
when that thrust dims?
Maxine: Would that be called “inspiration”, how you could inspire that person to
think of a new thrust? (Until we have accomplished our instruction on the Karmic
Wheel, you will not be able to understand Reincarnation, nor how you can do what
you have just requested instruction upon.)
Myra: I’m curious how you answered LaMar’s question, that until you can
separate your “needs” from your “wants”, you will be stuck coming back to the same
mountain top. Is that what you meant? (The same challenge, yes.) So when you can
separate your “needs” from your “wants” and you start working on your “wants” rather
than your “needs”, you can raise your mountain top that you’re working on then. (Yes.)
So it’s better to work on your “wants” after we have settled the “need” part and gotten
that out of the way. (Until you learn that all Abundance is yours, you will be captured
in your “needs”.)
Jenika: Really, it seems that our “needs” should take very little of our time. (They
should, indeed, take very little of your time, and less of your attention.)
Myra: So that we can raise our consciousness in working on satisfying our
ultimate desires. That’s what’s going to change the future of the earth, isn’t it?
Sheariam: As Silverthistle taught you, your basic desires, those undeniable drives
of which I spoke previously, are to be raised to the highest level of functioning. That
can only be done through self-awareness and purposeful, willful action, thoughtful,
purposeful Specialization. You must ultimately reach that level of Consciousness
which aspires only to the raising of the Human to its highest level of potential
function.
As long as you wallow in self-indulgence, as long as you view your life with
that attitude of “What can I get?”, you will remain on the Karmic Wheel, unable to
progress up the Karmic Spiral. Until you arrive at that level of conscious self-
awareness, that with your own Volition you can Relinquish what you call life, itself,
willingly, freely, without regret or backward glance, you will remain within this
karmic cycling. When you can give, when you are willing to give, your life to the
Divine Plan without reservation, then you will achieve that Mastery which releases
you from the obligation of Human Specialization.
So I ask you, now that you have begun to look at your thinking processes,
that you begin also to look at the Purposes for which these thinking processes take
place. Are you pursuing the fulfillment of “need”, or are you clearly identifying
“want”. If you are identifying “want”, are they “wants” which will ultimately take
you to your mountain top? Earlier we said to you, “Speak your name aloud.” We
suggest that when you enter that time of meditation, in addition to the breathing
and relaxation exercises, you chant your name, clearly, distinctly, three times. Allow
your consciousness to respond to that sound. We will be delighted to welcome your
reports.
Peggy: Sheariam, does the sound have anything to do with the way we speak our
names? (We have given lessons on sound. Examine the meaning of the sounds which
make up your names. Your names are a mantra and should be used as such. Do not
waste your power. Use it wisely.)
Myra: I wonder whether we say the name aloud or in our minds or whisper it is
important? Is the manner we say it in our meditation important? (It is important. We
suggest that you experiment. Be creative.)
Shira: Sheariam, is it possible for us in this state to actually understand the full
potential, or our full potential, in that mountain top. For myself, I started to think about it,
to fulfill my highest potential. But do I really understand the magnitude of my highest
potential. (No, but you do not need to.) So if I put it in the hands of Divine Will, Divine
Will knows it far better than I, and will lead me in that direction. (Correct. Willingness
is the essential.)
So in essence, we limit ourselves if we feel that there is a mountain top, and that
is the mountain top we are going for, because we can’t realize the magnitude of our full
potential. (Indeed, you do.)
Shira: So by putting it in the hands of Divine Will, there is no limit. The limit is
endless. (Correct.)
Sheariam: Have we clarified anything for you?
Jean: Momentarily, and also mystified again. Going back to “needs” and
“wants”. I think what you said afterwards changed my thinking some, but I need a little
more clarification. It seems to me that our moral teaching has been to tend to our “needs”
and ignore our “wants”. (Correct.) And we are selfish if we go to our “wants”. Then you
said something about making our “wants” higher. I haven’t had time to think that
through, but you do understand where my dilemma is? (Yes. I suggest you spend some
contemplative time on your own dilemma.) But that does need to get rid of that moral
teaching and find joy in fulfilling the “wants”. (Even as you must forego that same
teaching which says, “It is rude to demand”. It is the same category, isn’t it? I mean
the same feeling. That’s hard.
Sheariam: Be also aware that we are not teaching anarchy. I did stipulate that
you must examine the “wants” for their propriety. Are they such that you are
appropriating that which will take all of your species to the mountain top? We
never, ever suggest that what you do be not contributive to the major good of all.
Myra: If we really look at our “wants”, it seems like our “wants” would have to
include the benefit of all, the benefit of the planet. (If you are to fulfill what you might
call the Karmic Mission of Human Kind.)
Jean: There was a lesson in back where it said it should circulate. So the “want”
is a hoarding just for the person. That needs to be re-examined.
Maxine: I had a thought here as we were going through, and I was thinking about
what I was going to do with my time. I have a great accumulation that needs to be cleared
out around my house. I have at the present several little bags, one for each daughter-in-
law. I was thinking, but maybe I’m not doing justice to that daughter-in-law to give her
an accumulation. So I thought that I could say to her, “I give this to you, and if you do
not wish it, you may return it to me or give it to somebody else.” (That would be
proper.)
Jenika: Sheariam, it is very hard for me to clean house and get rid of things that
I’ve accumulated, because if I threw something away, or give it to Goodwill, part of the
memories are going. I want to hold on to the memories, so I hold on to all these books
and papers and things. (The memory cells are in the Memory Body. The mental Body
is the home of memory, not in a material accoutrement.)
Jean: I find that my memory cells are kind of weak sometimes, and when I see
the material, they are stimulated again. I have forgotten and then I have the material, and
I relive that moment. (Again, repetitive regressive thinking.)
Myra: Is it necessary to go back and re-live that moment?
Richard: Look to the future.
Myra: If we’re going to change the future of our planet, we’ve got to quit doing
that, don’t we?
Jean: But sometimes when you go back, you see something new.
Myra: Come on Jean. (Laughter.)
Owen: Well, we’ve been going back and reading the lessons, for example. We see
something new every time we read them. So it is a matter of selectivity. (But you do not
keep those lessons out of sentimentality, but because they are still to be used and
shared.)
Myra: Like you have a child’s shoe that you’ve had for 44 years. That’s really….
LaMar: The lessons are part of the present. What you were talking about before
was going back and dragging the past up into the present and re-living it.
Myra: That’s where it’s bad. That’s not only not helpful, it’s repetitive thinking,
damaging.
Sheariam: Speaking of past lessons, I believe we were on alert?
Sidney: Thank you Sheariam. I am Sidney, and I have a few questions from past
lessons that I’d like some clarification, or additional comment, or perhaps something that
Silverthistle might not have addressed in his early lessons. (I cannot speak for
Silverthistle.) I understand that, but your knowledge may be great in the same area. For
example, the question was asked in Session #2, the first recorded session, that he didn’t
answer. I’d like to re-ask it: Do you have musical instruments on that side of the veil?
(We have at various times told you that we have everything that you have whenever
we want to have it.)
Sidney: On Page Five of that same session, Silverthistle indicates that there still
exists on the physical earth a few initiation temples similar to the one he attended when
he was in South America many centuries ago. First of all, what is taught in those
organizations that still exist on earth? Secondly, are those the brotherhood of mystery
schools that we hear about occasionally and for the interest of ourselves and potential
other individuals associated with us, how does one become a known candidate for the
physical initiatory temples? (Such temples are on the decline. Yes, there are still some
existent. As for candidacy, your old proverb, if you will, “It is not what you know,
but who you know”. You must be recommended to those temples by another. Those
of you who are here are here because you are ready for the teachings, but you are
not on the list of recommendations. As to what is taught: the same things that we
teach you here are taught there, depending upon the advancement of the intellectual
understanding and capacity of the novitiate.)
LaMar: Would the White brotherhood be an example of those temples? (They are
a non-visible echelon of such teaching cadres.)
Sidney: In that same reading, Silverthistle implied that human beings are like cells
of the greater Soul Body, something we’ve all come to believe, but my question goes
further. Does that then mean that the earth is like an organ of that Soul body, or does it
rather mean that a group of humans, both incarnate and discarnate make up an organ of
that Soul Body? (You are equating a Soul Body with a human body.) In a sense I was
using that analogy, yes. (It is difficult to describe to one of you, any of you who are in
matter, the composition of a non-material body. Organs, as you think of them, as
heart and spleen, etc., cease to exist beyond the Astral Realm. Bodies, as you know
them, are of different composition in other conditions, or other planetary life, if you
will. So I cannot answer your question in the specifics that you ask. As for that
cellular composition, we will be discussing that in greater detail in the not-too-far
distant future.)
Sidney: Thank you. If Silverthistle, and others such as yourself, can sense the
answers to our personal questions in our vibrations of that question, as he did three times
at the end of Session #3, how may we, ourselves, begin to read or sense our own
vibrations for the answers to our own questions? (By studying that which we instruct
you.)
Maxine: As Myra said, is meditation one of those ways then? It is a mode of
investigation.)
Sidney: Then that type of answer exists in our vibrations, and what type of answers
could we not find in our vibrations? (That which is already predicated can be found.)
Sidney: I’d like to get some examples of what Silverthistle means by “negative
aspects”, when he says “when you allow your consciousness to play around in the
negative aspects, you are entering places and experiences to which you do not belong.
And the consciousnesses of those kinds of experiences must die in order to be reborn at a
higher level of experience, and that is Karma.” What are those negative aspects you are
referring to? (We have not yet completed our instruction on the Wheel of Karma,
and thus you are not yet founded in the information which would permit a
successful answer.)
Myra: It’s interesting that was in Session #4, and we’re now at #90, and we’re
now….
Maxine: But it’s interesting. I was just reviewing that this week, and that was one
of the very questions that I had in mind. I think I even wrote it down here. (We would
suggest that there are certain Activities which humans seem to delight in, which lead
them along pathways dangerous to their well-being as well as the well-being of those
who also participate. We have not yet discussed in any detail the Astral Realm. That
is coming. But when you become involved with various kinds of psychic activities,
you are then exposing yourselves to certain harmful elements which exist in the
Astral Realm. As Silverthistle gave you, the “Astral Realm” is a misnomer, and as
we complete our lessons on the Karmic Wheel, these things will become more-clear
to you. You do function in that “realm”. It is not “realm” as our lessons have given
you, the “Realms of Being”, but it is a condition of existence peculiar to the current
life forms on this planet.)
Sidney: In #4 Silverthistle said that those in his condition have voice and other
sensoria, and he later in that session described voice as a wave such as a radio wave, but
the tape ended just as he was going to say further things about it. Describe those sensoria
to us, how they function, and how perception of one individual of that realm to another is
accomplished. (Again, I must ask your indulgence to the end of the Karmic Wheel
instruction, when we will be going into those precise matters.)
Sidney: Silverthistle spoke about a level that is parallel to his condition. Describe
that level to us and how it differs from his condition, and also describe to us any level
that parallels our own level and its differences to the condition in which we find
ourselves. (Can you tell me what comprises a ghost?) I would say subtle bodies. (You
are close. But the difficulties in answering your questions are the same difficulties
you encounter when trying to describe to me what a ghost is, for you do not even
know the words necessary to be used. So, should I speak those words to you, you
could not understand?) That makes sense. Will we be able to understand them in the
future? (We certainly are working on that direction.) (Laughter.)
Sidney: In the second Beatitude, Silverthistle speaks of the “Divine Comforter”.
What specifically is the “Divine Comforter” and how does it differ from aspects that
Christian theology has relegated to its figurehead? (Have you a few months to spend on
this?) Well, you don’t have to be totally specific. (Laughter.) (How else can we
answer?) Well, I guess the very adjective would lead me to believe the “Divine
Comforter” comes from the Realm of the Divine. So I guess some sort of comment along
those lines would be appreciated.
Sheariam: In our instruction, we have spoken of the Involutionary Spiral. We
have now managed to reach that level of the Karmic Wheel which, for you, might be
said to be the bottom rung, and (we have) given you that turning point to the
Evolutionary Spiral. We have also told you about your participation in creating
those realms above you. Until we can complete the lessons on the Karmic Wheel, it
will be in vain for us to attempt to describe that other side of those realms, the
Evolutionary side of those realms that we have discussed as Involutionary. As we
move along that pathway of study, these questions will be more easily answered.
Let us terminate for tonight. The channel wearies. Settle yourselves for a
meditation, if you will.
Find that center of your being that sphere of calm, that sense of centeredness.
Be at ease, comfortable. Allow your mental processes to slow. Dismiss the questions.
They will return. For this moment, enter wholly into your meditative activity. Find
the center which is always there. Become familiar with that center. It is in the
abandonment of that centeredness that you find life going off at all tangents. Find
that center. Be secure there.
From that center, allow the focus of your attention to move to your
extremities. What purpose those extremities? How do they serve your will? Are they
good servants? And do you honor them for the service they give you? Do you love
them?
If you would have them serve you well, you must demand their loyalty by
loving them. As you contemplate this, the temple healers come. Allow them to gently
massage your hands, your feet. Let that point of centeredness expand until its
perimeters exceed your body shape.
With the ministrations of the temple healers and that expanding
centeredness, you feel revitalized, empowered. You know that any challenge in your
life can be met successfully.
Allow now also your Source Group members to draw close to you,
supportively, lovingly, and know that in a certain way, you are an extremity for
them. They love you, and you serve that purpose which you have in common, even
as your extremities serve the purposes they have in common with the rest of your
body.
Now from that safe, secure center, allow your thoughts to go out beyond this
room, beyond the city, indeed around your globe, carrying thoughts of this security
at the center of which lies peace, good will, and love. As the temple blesses you in
your life efforts, so bless the temple teachers and the healers and your Source
Group. Maintain that center of peace and tranquility as you go forth about your
own affairs. I give you my blessing, and bid you, beloveds, go in peace and great joy.
Closed with “Let there be joy on earth.”
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