I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from January 5, 1997:
The question for this afternoon has to do with discipline in the sense of the disciplines of the personality that Ra spoke of in the Law of One information. We would like Q’uo to give us a little better idea as to what this discipline of the personality amounts to and how it is arrived at and the attitude one has when one exercises it as opposed to, say, our normal idea of discipline which is an idea of doing something rather out of the sense of duty or being ordered to do so or because you think it’s right, then it doesn’t have a very pleasant connotation about it, and we would like to have Q’uo talk to us about disciplines of the personality.
(Carla channeling)
We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo, and we greet you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. It is, as always, a privilege and pleasure to be asked to share our humble thoughts with you, and we are honored to do that, asking only that discrimination be used by each to pick up those things which appeal to you and to leave undesired thoughts behind.
You ask this day concerning the disciplines of the personality. May we say that this is a large subject. The question entails gazing at the stuff of which humanhood is made, for it is within the human situation that the discipline of the personalities becomes challenging. When one is between incarnations, or when one is within densities where the truth is not veiled, the disciplines of personality are a much more straightforward challenge because there is that simple measuring stick of the vibration of the one infinite Creator against which to view the considerable material of that personality which is your unique gift to the Creator and to the creation.
It may be more difficult to achieve meaningful progress when the truth is not veiled, but it is more difficult within the third-density strictures to perceive the directions in which one is well-advised to proceed, and it is just for the sharpening of this challenge that the veiling of third density was chosen by the sub-logos responsible for the structure of your particular physical universe. Each of you is, shall we say, a new and improved product, since much has occurred in creations before yours which has suggested to the newer sub-logoi that this veiling take place. What is the personality? This question, this concern has generated millions of words among your peoples. Always it seems that your culture is fond of the list-making, that the personality is number one this, and number two that, and so on. The shape of the truth, however, is athwart of the list-making tendency of your peoples.
It is easier, shall we say, at least for this instrument to conceive of the personality and the structure of the mind that fuels this personality as an instrument of musical kind. An instrument is that which is to be played upon; an instrument can produce many tones within the limits of that instrument’s nature. This instrument is familiar with musical instruments such as the piano and the recorder, which is a kind of flute, and, in each of these instruments, the way the instrument has approached it, the nature of the particular touch of the fingers is quite substantially important, for it is the production of lucid, pure tone that the player of the instrument is attempting to achieve.
You may look upon the structure of your mind, emotions, mentality, and spirituality as an instrument, that each is a different kind of instrument. Some personalities are those which must be struck, such as the piano or the drums. Others are entities who have various strings of character and nature that individually can be tuned, and then plucked, or vibrated in such a way as to produce tone by friction. Other instruments require energy, the pressure of breath forced into a shape and then air opened and denied in order to produce various notes. Each spark of the one infinite Creator that is each of you is an unique instrument with the ability within its potential to produce pure, clear, beautiful tones.
Thus, one may perhaps see that the first concern of one approaching the self and wishing to do work in consciousness is to investigate the nature of one’s own instrument. Because of the veil, this is excruciatingly difficult without help, for it is hard for a person to see its own character. One may most accurately see into one’s own personality by reflection. It is no mistake or coincidence that your third-density experience is determinedly social, for it is in the interactions of personalities with each other that the truth is projected to each from the other.
When you relate to a sub-logos such as yourself, those things that you like in the other are likely to be those things which you like within yourself, and vice versa, those things which offend you in someone else reveals to you those considerations and issues which are far from settled within your own self. Moving deeper into this heart of consideration of personality, one may attempt most successfully with other entities’ help to penetrate the outer forms of personality and to move into that subterranean spring of personality from which you are as a fountain bubbling up into manifestation.
The personality that you are, may we say, is an artifact of distortions that have been created by the choices that you have made in pulling from the archetypical and racial mind those elements which you have decided to work upon within your incarnation. Although each entity is unique, then, each is standing from material that is very deep within the unconscious mind that links all sub-logoi with the identity of the Logos. The Logos in potentiation cannot be said to have personality. By the action of free will, the potentiated Logos becomes that intelligent energy in which the seeds of personality are sewn. Each of you springs from one soil. More than this, each of you springs from one kind of seed.
The group question for this session was: “The question for this afternoon has to do with discipline in the sense of the disciplines of the personality that Ra spoke of in the Law of One information.” Q’uo began their reply by saying that disciplines of the personality refer to looking at the material out of which humankind is made, and it is a challenge to determine within the third density to choose the direction in which to proceed on the spiritual path because the sub-Logos has utilized the veil of forgetting as the structure of our physical universe. Q’uo went on to say that it is the structure of our mind that fuels our personality and forms a kind of instrument that can be played analogous to plucking a string, beating a drum, or blowing a horn, and it is necessary that one who wishes to do work in consciousness to determine the nature of its instrument. Then Q’uo said that this is difficult to determine because of the veil of forgetting, but one way this can be done is by seeing one’s reflection in their interactions with others, so when you see something you like in another you are seeing that same quality that you like in yourself, and when you see a quality in another person that you dislike you are seeing that quality in yourself that you also dislike, so it is in the interactions of personalities with each other that the truth is projected to each from the others. They went on to say that the choices that we have made have created our personalities which have drawn information from the archetypical and racial minds about the lessons that we have chosen to learn, and deep within our unconscious mind we are linked with the Logos, and each of us springs from the seed of Love. On September 4, 2010, at our Homecoming Gathering, Carla spoke of how our personalities were linked with the Love and Light of the Creator:
I love to think about stained glass windows in this regard. Stained glass windows in a church all distort the light. You don’t see the sunlight coming through; you see red light and blue light and all kinds of light. But isn’t it beautiful? And I think real light stains glass windows.
If we can get transparent enough to let the Light shine through us, we will color that Light with our personalities, our egos, our characters, our thinking—but what a beautiful, beautiful Light. I love to think of all of us in this circle just beaming the Love and the Light of the infinite Creator through our eyes and just together making this beautiful bouquet of colors that all express the Love and the Light of the One.
Through the circles and cycles of life after life and density upon density, through the processes of seemingly slow-moving time, you have created the distortions that identify you as unique. So, part of the goal of one who wishes to play that instrument of personality is to move through each distortion to find the parent stem that all share; then, when one has more of a feeling of those things which are congruent from person to person, one may then move back up the trunk of consciousness into those branches of conscious thought that ramify into the personality that you express at a present moment such as this one.
Were each personality not to have come from one source, it would be an entirely different thing to learn the disciplines of this particular instrument that you possess, that you have created up to this point in your cycles of manifestation. But you can stand upon firm ground in receiving information from any other human source, because each is most assuredly and truly a distortion conglomerate whose roots are identical to your own. This is why so much can be learned in the interaction of person to person. Moving deep enough, one treads common ground with all entities. It is equally important to grasp the common ground and to grasp the peculiarities and specialties of your particular instrument.
Now, when you have more or less begun to identify the tones that your instrument can produce—and this is the work of many lifetimes—you can move forward. These tones are emotions, so-called by your culture. The music that personality plays is a music made of pure emotions when the discipline of the personality is somewhat advanced. However, as in any entity attempting to learn to play an instrument, the sounds produced by one who has not practiced can be discordant and unpleasant to the ear, and, in most cases among your peoples, those who have not yet learned discipline produce many unpleasant tones. There is the feeling of one sitting down at, say, a piano but knowing not where the keys are or how to make harmony, and, unless certain keys, certain key information, that is, is made available, the piano continues to be a large physical object which produces nothing that is pretty. When one sets oneself to learning to play the piano, one practices each piece to find the harmonics of that particular key. Then, and only then, can one begin to make music.
So, as you have emotions, as you experience emotions, what you are first attempting to do is find that purity that lies within the distorted feeling that you have concerning this emotion. For the most part, emotions come upon one in a way that is blind, and one spontaneously discovers oneself vibrating on a certain note or a certain kind of emotion. The usual non-practicing person assumes that, however this emotion has hit, however this emotion has felt, it is instantaneously the true tone. It is the concern of those who wish to work in consciousness to hear that tone in all of its distortions and to treat it with that reverence which finds the center, shall we say, the good of that emotion, the true heart of that emotion. Once one has begun to grasp the notes, one can begin to allow the discordant distortions to fade from that particular tone or emotion.
This is the work, as we have said, of lifetimes. It is slow work. However, we think that each of you as seekers will find this work enjoyable. It is not an intellectual process but rather a sensing or feeling or intuitive process to find the heart of emotion, and we would simply suggest that each of you, as it feels right to do so, begin to sense into the emotions that spontaneously arise, loving, supporting and respecting them as they come to you and, at the same time, allowing the heart within to search for the heart within that particular emotion, for the purification of emotion is very central to the process of working with your consciousness to achieve the discipline of the personality. Your personality, your character or nature, is a group of manifestations stemming from the vibratory complex that is you. What you are attempting to do, then, is express your true nature, become more yourself. You’re searching for the truth of your being. You’re not attempting to end distortion within yourself, you are attempting to see and play with the beauty of each of your feelings or senses.
So, we have given you two steps. First, beginning to name your own personality, trait-by-trait and nature-by-nature. This done, you are attempting then to practice the self, practice the being of the self, play with the self as it experiences incoming sensory data, begin to play the scales of the instrument. One thing there is that the musician must have, and that third thing is music, and each of you is seeking that music, is certain that there is music written for your instrument. Each of you hungers and thirsts for this music to be laid before you, and this music is the path that you choose to take and the choices that you make in hewing to the chosen path. The musical pieces that you play with the instrument of self have a significance and a depth that comes from that free will that blows the spirit hither and yon. There is no end to the music of the spheres, and there is no end to the music that you can play once you have learned your instrument.
Then Q’uo said that through many cycles of lives and densities we have created our personalities in our unconscious minds which make us unique, so the way for us to exercise our unique personality is to exercise the distortions that we share with all others and then move back up into the conscious mind to reveal the personality that we express in each moment of our lives. Q’uo went on to say that our personalities all come from a common source, so we can learn a great deal from interactions with others, and it is important to see what we have in common with others and what makes us unique. Then Q’uo said that what makes us unique is the music that we make with the pure emotions that we have when we have disciplined our personality, but if we have not used the disciplines of the personality for long we are likely to make a music that is out of tune which will require a great deal of practice to find the purity of the emotions that we experience, and then we can begin to allow the discordant distortions to fade from that particular tone or emotion. They went on to say that this is the work of many lifetimes of using our intuition and our heart to find the heart of our emotions as each emotion rises within us, and it is the purifying of our emotions that is the discipline of our personality that is the searching for our true nature to play the music of each of our feelings. Q’uo completed their thoughts by saying that we need to be able to name the nature of our personality, practice being our self, and then to choose the spiritual path of service to others as there is no end to the music that we can play and the service that we can offer once we have learned how to play our instrument. On November 13, 2008, Q’uo described how the discipline of the personality is the heart of the spiritual path of service to others:
The key to creating of the life a sacred journey is the attitude with which this journey is taken. We would suggest that the invocation of gratitude and thankfulness is a great key in bringing one’s day-to-day life into focus. For no matter whether that which faces one in any particular instance would be thought of by the world as a blessing or as a challenge, yet still, in essence, that which lies before you is the perfect gift for this moment, containing your service and your learning.
There is a tendency to forget to invoke this gratitude when that which lies before one does not seem to be a blessing. And yet, we would suggest that there is wisdom in waiting those few seconds before you undertake a challenging duty in order that you may open your heart and mind to the realization of the full measure of your gratitude for the opportunity to be alive in the creation of the Father and to face this moment.
In just this way does the discipline of the personality begin. It does not begin with meditation, although meditation is vital to a spiritual practice. Rather, it begins on the very surface of things, in the very smallest of chores and duties. It begins with the realization of the tremendous fortune that you have in coming to this moment just where you are, with just the people with whom you are and facing just exactly the blessings and challenges that you now face.
There is an ecstasy which comes when the spirit is ready to be honed in its focus and dull care flies away; when the spirit gathers its feet under it and surges into a full and vertical existence within. The whole energy body begins to sing when this begins to happen. And where before there was a flat and pleasant landscape of things to do and people to see, now you are at the cutting edge of the present moment, and anything is possible.
With this attitude, when one then moves into meditation and other rituals designed to deepen the spiritual practice, there is a lack of effort and a lack of complexity to the path. For that within you which moves into the meditation is, by your focus on the present moment, already in a premeditative state of focus.
We would at this time transfer the contact to the instrument known as Jim. We leave this instrument in love and in light. We are those of Q’uo.
This morning Austin brought over his cat Sassy for me to take care of while he, Trish, and Gary are attending the Law of One Gathering in Prague. Trish also brought her and Gary’s cat Squash over while they are in Prague.
This afternoon I ran some errands with my first stop at Feeder’s Supply to buy some cat food for Benny and Bosco and some fish food. Then I stopped by Paul’s Fruit Market to buy some food for myself. My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store to buy some Tylenol and treats for the cats.
September 23
It Is Your Dance
I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of divine Love.
Let your spirits rise! Let your laughter sound forth! For there is a great victory in realizing that, truly, you are improvising upon the stage that is so seriously called life. You are an artist, a comedian, a tragedian, a philosopher, and a fool. You are any part you wish to play. It is your improvisation; it is your dance; it is your day and your life.
Take nothing to be troublesome, but gaze at it as though it were in a play. How shall you amuse yourself, beautify that which is not beautiful, or glorify that which is mundane in the situation you see?
To you come the improvisational opportunities to change the atmosphere, the tone, and the very plot of your improvisational life.
Because that play is so dear to you, you hold it too close and see it not well. Back away in love, in total engagement, with the attempt to be the best, the finest, and, hopefully my friends, the one with deep, strong humor. To see life too seriously is to miss the comedy and the merriment, to feel that joy may not be appropriate although it always is. And as you have this point of view, so shall you radiate it, for it is the point of view of the living Christ: total compassion, total unity, and merry, merry laughter.
See the comedy on your stage and make it graceful, dancing through it with the skill of those born of Light and Love.
We leave you in the peace of Jesus the Christ, both now and ever. 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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