I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Six and the section on chanting/singing/intoning:
Chanting/Singing/Intoning
In the daylight consciousness there is that which occurs, springing from the fountains within, and there is that which is intended, springing from one’s feelings about what life is, what service is, what dedication to learning is for oneself. This instrument would call this element tuning. The experience of waking life is a dance in which the music must be heard before one can react to it. It is a spontaneous dance. Yet if one has set one’s intention for the day, one is entering the dance from a vibratory level which has been chosen by the seeker.
As you continue through the conscious period of your diurnal cycle, you may, if you choose, restore lost tuning by whatever means is effective for you. There are very brief means of restoring tuning, such as naming the name of that which represents love to you or calling upon love itself. There are more extended forays into restoring one’s desired tuning and moving back into remembrance of one’s intention, such as meditation, prayer, the intoning of chants, working with nature itself, its totems, its beauty and its energy, working with inspired works, and remembering certain key phrases that restore tuning because of the beauty which may be known to you.
There are an infinite number of ways to work with your basic tuning during your day. They all require from you setting your intention, and without judging or being disturbed by a movement from the desired tuning, working to come into a state of remembrance and the restoration of the tuning. Q’uo, March 6, 2010
In the night time we enter sleep and move into our subconscious minds where we can experience a deeper reflection of our being in dreams which can put us in contact with our guides and higher selves. We can become inspired to see ourselves in a larger, symbolic framework as a portion of a larger Self that can speak to us in thoughts too deep for words. As we awaken from our state of sleep and dreams we re-enter our conscious mind which has been inspired by these dreams and messages which we may or may not remember. Either way, these dreams and messages bubble up into our conscious minds as inspirational feelings that give us a feeling of being revitalized and ready to move through another day as Players on the Enhanced Gameboard of Life.
In our conscious waking lives chanting, singing, and intoning are some tools which we can use to set the tone or what you could call the tuning of our day to be conscious seekers of truth. They are good ways of focusing our conscious minds on inspiring thoughts or images as we prepare for the day to come. I like to begin my day with prayers and the singing of “alleluia” (which simply means Praise the Lord) a number of times in a row. As we live our spiritual journey on a daily basis it is helpful to set our intentions and tuning for the day by consulting our deeper consciousness once again in meditation, prayer, or contemplation. This gives us what Carla called a rule of life or the foundation for our day which is built upon remembering our basic desires to open our hearts in love to those whom we will meet each day and moving through our daily round of activities remembering all the while that we are spiritual beings living in the creation of the One. What we experience in the sleep state can augment what we seek in the conscious state.
However, each of us could have challenges to meet as catalyst may present itself at some point during the day, and we may also lose our tuning as we deal with it. It is at such times that we may wish to take a few moments to ourselves to once again use our tools for re-establishing our tuning: calling upon the love that is in every moment, chants of an inspirational nature, reading inspired writings, singing, intoning, meditation, contemplation, and prayer. Everyone has their own way of moving back into their hearts and restoring the feeling that it is important to accept ourselves as we are at any time and then setting our intentions to see the Creator in everyone that we meet, including in ourselves. Here Q’uo gives us some basic information about how singing can help us to be more powerful and sacred as we call upon different helpful portions of the one infinite Creator:
What we generally do with this instrument when talking about light and the use of sacred sound is to call upon this instrument’s experience as a singer.
We will say, this being understood, that sound is song. Any song an entity makes has a certain vibratory signature. However, each has perhaps experienced the difference between singing a popular song and singing a sacred song when you are attempting to worship.
When you are using sacred words and sacred language, and when you produce the sound consciously, aware of the sacredness of that sound, the voice brings to life underlying time/space-oriented or non-local energies that alert certain areas of vibration throughout the infinite universe of the one Creator. You can look at these simply as vibrations or you can look at them as Cherubim, Seraphim, and all of the other designations of unseen but very powerful and very real entities which are involved in the worship of the one infinite Creator.
These energies have been built up since the beginning of the energy of this octave of creation, with thousands and thousand of lifetimes and thousands and thousands of repetitions of various sounds.
Certain sounds are therefore more sacred than others. The Lord’s Prayer is a good example of this type of constantly repeated set of words.
It is interesting to note that perhaps the most deeply felt prayers, by those who have worshipped in the past in your Roman Catholic churches, have been those words that they did not understand but that they knew to be holy, the vibration of those Latin words by priests who did not even understand what they were saying, nevertheless, by their sheer repetition in the ears of the faithful, generation after generation, [they] became magical, and the use of them was powerful.
When an entity uses language consciously, he becomes a priest. And indeed, we say to you: everything that you say may be seen to be sacred or deliberately chosen not to be sacred, because the default setting of speech of any kind of utterance is that it is sacred. Yet that beginning nature of sound itself, when involved with the human breath, is not used by most entities in most applications. Most people are not aware that, when they open their mouth and speak, they are people of power, and so they do not concern themselves precisely with what they say. And they may throw away many, many words which mean very little, simply having a good time communicating small facts and enjoying life. Q’uo, March 25, 2007.
In the following quote Q’uo suggests that chanting is one way to break through the rigidity of thought that binds us to distracting behavior so that we can return to our heart of hearts and our higher spiritual paths:
We are attempting to help you lift away from the prisons that you create when you lean on form to the exclusion of observing the contents that that form is holding. In so many ways, you are seduced time and again by the more subtle forms of non-physical formation, ritual and habit.
How to lift entities away from that? In many cultures, instead of entering silence the practice of mystics is to enter rhythm by chanting, whirling and dancing. Repetitive movements, repetitive sounds, repetitive tones are things that will batter and finally break the habit of thought. Whether you are drawn to entering the formless by simply sitting down and stopping talking, by designing a particular kind of silence, or by entering into the chanting or other ritual which takes one out of oneself by out-talking the talker, is completely a matter of your own discernment. But the job that you face when you attempt to disconnect yourself from form is to get past the lions at the gate of your temple, that is, your heart. Those guardians do not want you inside if you are still of the world. They do not want you inside your precious heart still grumbling, worried, bargaining, rationalizing, justifying or worried about being right. Q’uo, November 14, 2004
I noticed yesterday that the fountain in the fish pond was much lower than it should have been, so this morning I went outside and took the lid off the schemer box and cleaned the filter inside of it and also cleaned the basket around the pump. After I got everything put back together and plugged the pump in the fountain shot up to its normal height.
This afternoon I went into the front yard where there is a good deal of moss that I was able to harvest and plant in my Moss Garden. So between yesterday and today I have gathered and planted about thirty square feet of moss. I think that about another thirty square feet may finish the job.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
February 22
Love Is Ever Available
I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the consciousness of full love.
This day lies before you as the landscape spreads out before one who gazes from the tower of detachment. Gaze well at this portion of your existence and plumb the depths of its resonance, for the spirit is always and everywhere available to each thirsting spirit.
Once one descends from the point of view of early morning observation into the busy noontime hubbub, one may well have forgotten the beauty and resonance one saw from on high. Let not the descent into the valley of experience rob you of the gift of conscious sight.
The spirit is there to help you. We ask you to seek that comfort and guidance within each situation at all times, for love is ever available to serve the needs of those who wish to be servants of love Itself.
We leave you in that blessed, healing love which is the love of Jesus the Christ. Peace be with you now and ever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
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