Hello everyone. The 2016.09.17 Q'uo Channeling has been published.
In this channeling Q'uo seems to describe the unmanifest future self "that you are in the process of becoming" as a soft body of shoots, protected by the manifest conceptualization of selfhood which envelops that fragile form.
I have a few ideas about this imagery, but I am unsure. I'm not certain whether the soft body of shoots and its envelope is intended to parallel or even represent the personality shell and the magical personality in an allegorical sense. There appears to be a close parallel, however the magical personality does not seem to me to be that which can be truly dashed upon the rocks of the shore by the shipwreck of harsh catalyst, which is however true of this so-called body of shoots. I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on this imagery of the tender body of shoots enveloped by the protective membrane of selfhood.
In this channeling Q'uo seems to describe the unmanifest future self "that you are in the process of becoming" as a soft body of shoots, protected by the manifest conceptualization of selfhood which envelops that fragile form.
Quote:Now, the growth that you are familiar with are those productions of selfhood that, from a small child onward, you have learned to create. The net result being a sense of self, a sense of who you are that you are able to make be a sustainable vehicle for your mode of interacting with the world, your way of relating to others, and your pursuit of further spiritual development within this, what we might call, “envelope of being.”
Quote:Now, it is important to have an envelope of being, for the self that you are in the process of becoming has to it many tender shoots, many vulnerable appendages, and these can be easily damaged. These can be easily torn asunder by the harsh winds of catalyst. So it is well to keep in mind that you live within an envelope of your own creation, and that this envelope serves as a kind of membrane, if you will, that allows the outside to come in and the inside to express itself by moving without:[...]
Quote:Third density is an extremely intense experience, and over and over again you will find that the self that you have built to serve as the envelope for your spiritual endeavors will have to be forsaken, will have to shatter on the shoals of very hard weather, and will, in the end, be forced into new and completely unanticipated shapes, so that the self that you emerge from this life experience as will quite likely be of a seemingly very different sort than the self that you thought yourself to be in your younger years.
I have a few ideas about this imagery, but I am unsure. I'm not certain whether the soft body of shoots and its envelope is intended to parallel or even represent the personality shell and the magical personality in an allegorical sense. There appears to be a close parallel, however the magical personality does not seem to me to be that which can be truly dashed upon the rocks of the shore by the shipwreck of harsh catalyst, which is however true of this so-called body of shoots. I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on this imagery of the tender body of shoots enveloped by the protective membrane of selfhood.