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 journaling:
Journaling
Once we are able to record dreams that have messages for us that give us clues to the energy blockages in our brains or life patterns, we need to use the tool of keeping a journal of these dreams. In our journals we can begin to interpret the meaning of each dream and how these dream messages may be related to early childhood programming by adults such as family, teachers, neighbors, and friends. These people were authority figures that exercised some kind of power of enculturation over us that may not have been of a positive nature. In fact, what our dreams are likely to tell us is how this programming was actually part of the cause of the energy in our brains being unable to circuit forward into our frontal lobes because it was, in its very basic essence, anti-life or controlling. We were being programmed with negative concepts by basically good people who were just repeating the process of enculturation that they had learned when they were young. However, I think it is important to remember that such programming may well be part of our own pre-incarnative choices and not just the imposition of the will of others upon us.
Examples that I previously shared were being told that we were not good enough, smart enough, or strong enough emotionally to be successful. Another common and powerful anti-life programming is being told that we should avoid any kind of sexual experience because sex was dirty or hurtful. In general most of us were conditioned as children to do what we were told by grownups whether we were given a reason for obeying or not. Frequently, in these kinds of programmings, we were not treated as worthy human beings who had a right to take part in the decision-making process that directly affected our well being. Again, this type of programming may lay the groundwork for our spiritual paths to develop later in life. As Ra frequently said: “There are no mistakes.”
The journaling process is very helpful in carrying on a conversation with our memories of such programming. We will often get hints that come from our subconscious minds that occur much like automatic writing while we are immersed in thoughts, memories, and emotional responses to the messages in our dreams. In this quote Q’uo gives the process for journaling as part of working with dreams:
In terms of the mechanics of working with dreams, we would encourage the habit of keeping a small flashlight of some kind, a pad of paper, and a writing instrument at hand before going to bed. If one does awaken during the night with the memory of a dream, one is able, without waking oneself up totally, to turn on this small and non-intrusive light that gives one the opportunity to write down one’s memories.
It is not necessary at the time of writing those memories down to work with them. It is enough simply to record the thoughts and then to turn off the flashlight, put down the paper and pen, and go back to sleep. It is, however, helpful at some point during the next waking period to go back over these hastily jotted notes, perhaps typing them into a more lasting record and journaling about them in any way that you find yourself wishing to do.
It is perfectly acceptable to use the rational, intellectual mind with its analytical capabilities. It is equally acceptable, and to be encouraged, to help the mind to run off of the logical tracks on which it so often stays due to old habit, and to invite the quirky combinations of thoughts and the insights that come at one from sideways when one allows what this instrument calls the “mind sagging in the middle,” so that points that seemingly are far distant from each other are suddenly brought close and new connections are made. We speak specifically of that seeming dichotomy between the so-called left brain and right brain.
Allow the dreaming process to create opportunities for you to link those two ways of thinking as you contemplate your dreams with insight as well as logic. Encourage your mind to become more and more integrated with itself and able to move with more and more facility between that logic of space/time and that insight of metaphysical space or time/space. You are a dweller in two worlds and the dreaming process helps you to investigate that second world, which is not easily available to be seen in the haunts of humankind. Q’uo, September 4, 2005.
Oftentimes, while journaling on specific dream messages, I was also able to recall a specific memory that had a long-term negative impact. This is one example. When I was in the fourth grade my mom caught me with a magazine that had a picture in it of a woman who was naked from the waist up. She took the magazine from me and told me that I should not be looking at such pictures because they were naughty. She told me that if I had any questions about sex that I should ask her. But I didn’t know what to ask. No one had ever discussed sex with me. I had nothing to go on. And this eventually gave me work to do to remove this blockage in my consciousness much of which is described in some detail by what Q’uo says about sexuality in this quote:
We may encourage each to feel within the self the full range of male to female qualities as they arise within, for all aspects of polarity teach. However, it is especially helpful to move in mind to the extreme that is the antithesis of the self, and so attempt to furnish the mind and the spirit with a more and more universal perspective. This perspective is certainly reached partially by swinging between male and female. However, in each case where an entity is more markedly in the cultural stereotype of its sex, therein lies the opportunity to increase one’s depth of compassion by moving firmly and regularly into the opposite perspective.
Note within the mind’s conversations as well as conversations with others, instances wherein generalities are made stating that women are such-and-such or men are such-and-such. It will be seen quickly that the generalizations cover, but do not obliterate, uneasiness and even fear of some aspect of the otherness of the other sexual gender. In terms of the red ray, marked polarity is greatly beneficial betwixt the two biological sexes. In terms of orange and yellow-ray relationship potential, it is as helpful to be devoted to considering the antithetical point of view as it is to be an advocate for one’s own gender. Q’uo, May 23, 1993.
However, I do realize that it was very likely beyond the ability of my mom or dad—or most people for that matter—to be able to consider the nuances of how the sexuality of male and female is most harmoniously expressed and how this might be taught to children. There are so many different ways of expressing sexual identity as evidenced by the current repression of LGBTHQ people. This type of sexual repression is a definite sign that we all need to engage in communication and acceptance as to who we and others are as unique human beings and remove the discrimination against those who are in the minority of sexual identities.
Today we are getting almost constant rain, but I noticed a period of light rain and decided to try to get the pansies that I bought yesterday transplanted into the two flower pots on the front porch. I was able to get one pot full of pansies, but I had to stop as the rain picked up in intensity again. High winds were also forecast for today, and they waited until the rain was done in the late afternoon to come. I can see a lot of limbs down outside, and picking them up will be my job for tomorrow.
So, I was able to get the first floor of my home vacuumed. I have also been able to reply to a large number of emails that I have received today from various friends around the country.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
March 3
Toward Wholeness Of Perception
I am the spirit of the living Christ, the full consciousness of love. I greet you in love. I greet you, as I greeted you yesterday and as I shall greet each seeker always, in wholeness and in the entirety of peace.
For though the effect of the sweet peace of the Holy Spirit is often galvanizing, the catalyst itself is that end to which all seekers pray. For that which transforms is that which holds a higher truth and a higher reality; that which is, in an entire sense, more nearly whole.
Therefore, as the mind of the seeker becomes more and more able to hear the voice of the spirit, the fundamental perception of the seeker shall progressively become more nearly whole.
We leave you in the fullness of peace and love, now and forever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
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