2025-05-06

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from December 27, 2008:

The question this week, Q’uo, has to do with whether or not it is possible to learn from somebody else’s experience and wisdom through listening, or if real learning only takes place through experiencing what it is you are learning for yourself. Could you speak to this topic, please?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings, my friends, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you this evening. We thank you for the privilege of being called to your circle of seeking, and we are delighted to join your session of working and to speak with you concerning the nature of learning and spiritual learning in particular. However, as always, we would request that each of you, in listening to or reading these words, retain to yourself the ability to discern and discriminate between those thoughts of ours that are helpful to you at that time and resonate to you, and those thoughts that do not hit the mark. We ask that you take what is good and leave the rest behind. If you will do that, we will then feel comfortable in sharing our opinions with you. We thank you for this consideration.

We gaze upon your query as to whether it is possible to learn from another’s wisdom or whether it is only possible to learn from direct experience, and we find, as we often do in responding to your queries, that we shall need to create some context for that question. You are souls within incarnation and consequently you have the mind with which you were born, the intellect, the logical, calculating decision-making instrument that is excellent and useful. You also have consciousness. You may think of consciousness as the mind of the heart. We shall, therefore, discuss these two faculties of your mind, the mind that is the intellect and the mind of the heart, in a way that distinguishes what kind of learning is possible for each.

Your intellect is very characteristic of your individuality. As you move through your incarnation you shall occasionally find those whose minds work like yours, whose logic circuitry is compatible with your own. There is great blessing in that kind of intellectual companionship. Each mind is unique. To one young child coming upon the concept of numbers for the first time, the concept would remain flat and uninteresting. Therefore, when a teacher came to teach such an entity how to add, such a child would need physically to grasp two apples and to place two more apples beside them and then count, one, two, three, four. And only in that wise would such a child comprehend the fact of the possibility of addition and subtraction, multiplication and division.

The group question for this session was: “The question this week, Q’uo, has to do with whether or not it is possible to learn from somebody else’s experience and wisdom through listening, or if real learning only takes place through experiencing what it is you are learning for yourself. Could you speak to this topic, please?” Q’uo began by gazing upon our query as to whether it is possible to learn from another’s wisdom, or whether it is only possible to learn from direct experience, and they found that they shall need to create some context for that question because we are souls within incarnation, and we have the mind with which we were born  with our intellect, the logical decision-making instrument that is excellent and useful, and we also have consciousness which we may think of as the mind of our heart, so Q’uo wanted to discuss these two faculties of our mind: our mind that is the intellect, and our mind of the heart, in a way that reveals what kind of learning is possible for each. Then Q’uo said our intellect is characteristic of our individuality, an as we move through our incarnation we shall find those whose minds work like ours, whose logic circuitry is compatible with our own, so there is blessing in that kind of intellectual companionship because each mind is unique, and to a young child coming upon the concept of numbers for the first time, the concept would remain uninteresting, so when a teacher came to teach such an entity how to add, such a child would need to grasp two apples, and to place two more apples beside them, and then count, one, two, three, four, and only in that way would such a child comprehend the fact of addition and subtraction, multiplication, and division. On February 18, 2007, Q’uo spoke of how we can learn from direct experience:

Interestingly enough, Love is the one great force that all entities know intimately, but which resists definition completely. And indeed, to attempt to use words to describe Love is to attempt to build a great edifice out of pebbles. Love is all that there is. That one Thought is the creation. And you have a port on the ocean of that Thought in your heart of hearts. Therefore, you are as equipped as any entity in the universe to seek the one infinite Creator. You have primary access to the direct experience of the Creator. And indeed, it was for that purpose that you came into this illusion. You are gathering information. You are working with that information according to the biases of your personality and your desires. And as you gather your life experiences, each of you makes choices which open to you a way to move forward and to progress.

To another child, perhaps one with exactly the same intelligence quotient, the first brush with the concept of numbers would be enough for the numbers to come alive and to have presence and shape. There would then be the opening of the vast portion of the mind that is not necessarily logical but contains many more ways of looking at things so that two and two would have the shape of four and four divided by two would have the shape of two. There would not be the reaching and the struggle for comprehension. It would seem to that particular child to be obvious. In the same way, one child, shown the concept of letters making words, would have no feeling for the exercise and would struggle to sound out words and to read. Another child, whose mind was shaped differently, when introduced to the concept of letters making words, would hungrily drink in every piece of information, because the thirst for words, the appreciation for the texture and shape of words, is part of that particular child’s mind’s shape.

Dealing only with the intellect, then, we would answer your query by saying that an intellectual appreciation amounting to knowledge is quite possible to assimilate. However, the content of such assimilation will be different for each soul in incarnation. Not everyone came into life with the same set of characteristics. Each soul in incarnation packs its bag of characteristics, gifts, biases, distortions, challenges, and relationships. Each chooses sometimes profoundly different arrays of these items. This is so because there is the carefully conceived and patiently developed plan for incarnation which each soul has created in cooperation with his higher self before the incarnation begins. There are incarnational themes for learning, there are those clusters of gifts that would suggest to each soul the direction and likely shape of his outer gifts to offer in service to others, and so forth.

Then Q’uo said to another child, perhaps one with exactly the same intelligence quotient, the first brush with the concept of numbers would be enough for the numbers to come alive and to have presence and shape, and there would be the opening of the portion of the mind that is not necessarily logical but contains many more ways of looking at things so that two and two would have the shape of four, and four divided by two would have the shape of two, and there would not be the struggle for comprehension, so it would seem to that child to be obvious, and in the same way, one child, shown the concept of letters making words, would have no feeling for the exercise and would struggle to sound out words and to read, but another child, whose mind was shaped differently, when introduced to the concept of letters making words, would hungrily drink in every piece of information because the appreciation for the texture of words, is part of that child’s mind’s shape. Q’uo went on to say dealing only with the intellect, they would answer our query by saying that intellectual knowledge is possible to assimilate, but the content of such knowledge will be different for each of us because not everyone came into life with the same set of characteristics, so each of us packs our bag of gifts, challenges, and relationships, and each chooses a different range of these items because there is the carefully conceived plan for incarnation which each of us has created in cooperation with our higher self before our incarnation begins, so there are incarnational themes for learning, and there are gifts that would suggest to each of us the direction and shape of our outer gifts to offer in service to others. On September 5, 2010, Carla spoke at Homecoming and described how each of us has a plan for our incarnation:

So, the point that the Ra group was making here was that we start out in third density with automatic reincarnational experiences, see, and we finally wake up at some point in our journey through various incarnations and we go, “Oh, I can progress, I can learn, I can make this choice.” And once we get that then we’re in the wonderful position of being senior in vibration, so that we aren’t just automatically incarnated. We get to come in with a plan we’ve made ourselves—and every single one of us in this circle, and I’m sure those who are listening on the radio, are those who are senior enough in vibration to have made your own plan for incarnation.

Now what does that say to you? That says to you that you can trust yourself. And you need to trust yourself. You made this plan. You gave yourself this limitation, this suffering, this difficult relationship with Mom or Dad or husband, or wife, or lover, or friend, or employer. You may not have planned this particular instance of difficulty but you planned relationships which had a very high probability of giving you this very problem.

Consequently, depending on one’s cluster of gifts, one soul shall be able to understand and use the knowledge learned about the self, the society, the world around that soul, the workings of the natural world, the principles of physics upon which things work, and so forth, all very valid avenues of awareness and the accumulation of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge. Yet, for the entity who is serenely able to enter into and be excited about numbers does not necessarily mean that the same entity shall be able to light up with the excitement of ideas having to do with philosophy. And to a philosopher, the ability to draw, to sing, or to compose poetry may be utterly lacking. So there is no universal way to ensure that each child will develop his intellect in the same way, given the same stimuli. The intellect will grow, and learn, and absorb according to the clusters of gifts with which that soul chose to come into incarnation.

Therefore, intellects are unique and different from each other, yet equal in that each intellect is the whole of the universe available to that soul in incarnation at the level of the intellect. You’ll notice that we have not discussed spiritual learning in talking of the intellect. It is possible for an intellectual mind to play with the ideas that are involved in spiritual evolution. However, it is not possible for the intellect to take hold of those ideas and live them, because the advantages of doing so are obvious to the intellect, but the ability to live the good ideas is lacking within the intellect. We have said often to this group that the longest journey a spiritual seeker makes is the few inches from the mind to the heart. And in order to take hold upon the spiritual ideas that are offered by teacher, mentor, author, or personality in the media, the mind of the heart must be engaged.

Now Q’uo said depending on our gifts, we shall be able to understand and use the knowledge we learned about ourself, the principles of physics upon which things work, and the ability to use that knowledge, yet for the entity who is able to be excited about numbers does not necessarily mean that the same entity shall be able to light up with the excitement of ideas having to do with philosophy, and to a philosopher, the ability to draw, to sing, or to compose poetry may be utterly lacking, so there is no universal way to ensure that each child will develop its intellect in the same way, but the intellect will grow and learn according to the clusters of gifts with which that soul chose to come into incarnation. Q’uo went on to say that our intellects are different from each other, yet equal in that each is the whole universe available to a soul in incarnation at the level of the intellect, but Q’uo had not discussed spiritual learning in talking of the intellect, and it is possible for our intellectual mind to play with ideas that are involved in spiritual evolution, but it is not possible for our intellect to live them even though the advantages of doing so are obvious to our intellect, so the ability to live the good ideas is lacking within our intellect, and the longest journey a spiritual seeker makes is the few inches from our mind to our heart, so in order to take hold upon the spiritual ideas that are offered by teacher or personality in the media, our mind of our heart must be engaged. On February 3, 1991, Hatonn said that our life journey is one from the head to the heart:

That which you may view is inevitably not that which it seems, for the entire nature of your experience is one of learning in a special classroom which was created specifically to confuse and baffle the intellectual mind, and thereby force the consciousness of humankind, because of the desperate hunger that it has for spiritual grace, to move from the mind to the heart, from intellectualization to love, and the wisdom of love. That is your situation.

Many people believe that they are working with their hearts. However, it is not always the case that the heart will open and begin to speak. There is a dynamic between intellect and heart. Some souls within incarnation have a good deal of difficulty relinquishing the insistence upon making sense in logical terms at all times. The heart’s mind, however, is consciousness. There is only one consciousness, and all entities hold that consciousness in common. What varies is each individual’s ability to enter into consciousness and to allow consciousness to replace the intellect. We do not suggest that it is a good idea to let consciousness live the life to the exclusion of the use of the intellect. The power of analysis is helpful. The ability of the eye, and the ear, and the senses to coordinate and bring one through motion and driving and all the physical things of life is valuable. You are not simply a soul in incarnation. You are a body in incarnation, and a mind in incarnation. And all those factors twine together to create the experience of an incarnation.

However, in terms of spiritual evolution, that is done almost completely within consciousness. The soul who has chosen to be brought up in a family which practices a spiritual life, not simply that spiritual act of going to church, or to synagogue, or temple, but the spirituality of everyday, will have the best opportunity as a young person to live in consciousness as well as in the mind. When a child sees mother and father in prayer, in meditation, or volunteering to feed the homeless at the downtown mission, or building a house with other loving entities so that a homeless family can be sheltered, it will have the experience of living in consciousness because he is imitating the behavior of his parents. There is a great emptiness in those children that are brought up without reference to things of the spirit on a daily basis.

Q’uo went on to say many people believe that they are working with their hearts, but it is not always the case that our heart will open and begin to speak, and there is a dynamic between intellect and heart, and some souls have difficulty relinquishing the desire to make sense in logical terms at all times, but our heart’s mind is consciousness, and there is only one consciousness, and we all hold that consciousness in common, so what varies is each individual’s ability to enter into consciousness and to allow consciousness to replace the intellect, and Q’uo does not suggest that it is a good idea to let our consciousness live our life to the exclusion of our use of our intellect, yet the power of analysis is helpful, and the ability of our senses to bring us all the physical things of life is valuable because we are not a soul in incarnation, but we are a body and a mind in incarnation, and all those factors twine together to create our experience of an incarnation. Then Q’uo said in terms of spiritual evolution, that is done almost completely within our consciousness, and the soul who has chosen to be brought up in a family which practices a spiritual life will have the best opportunity to live in consciousness as well as in the mind, and: “when a child sees mother and father in prayer, in meditation, or volunteering to feed the homeless at the downtown mission, or building a house with other loving entities so that a homeless family can be sheltered, it will have the experience of living in consciousness because they are imitating the behavior of their parents. There is a great emptiness in those children that are brought up without reference to things of the spirit on a daily basis.” On February 24, 2002, Q’uo spoke of the things of the spirit that are in our life:

For all of the things that are in your life are placeholders for things of the spirit. All things are alive. All things are ready to tell you their story, so you have a much more complex interesting, intricate, vibrant universe than the intellect perhaps can perceive. There are upwelling energies from the archetypal level that are simply waiting for the opportunity to work their magic within the fragile structure of human incarnation. There are wonderful, powerful spiritual energies that are just waiting for channels through which they may run, be blessed, and come into the power and ownership of the Earth in general.

Another great teacher of consciousness is solitude in nature. Nature is a great teacher and a great opener of the heart. There is no need to sort and classify that which is experienced in nature. There is no need to speak of the characteristics and the Latinate names of a certain butterfly or a certain tree. There is the taking in of the spiritual food of the experience of earth, wind, fire, and water. There is the companionship of tree and toad, rabbit and fox. And all of those companions open up and develop consciousness. If a soul within incarnation has not had those early advantages, then as they awaken, they shall need to find, within the pages of books, or in the wisdom of a beloved teacher or mentor, or in some such resource, the door into the opening of consciousness. When a mentor is strong enough in faith, and the student of that mentor develops sufficient devotion and trust in that mentor, he is able in that mentor’s presence to open his consciousness in the same way as his teacher.

Those who follow the Buddha, Jesus the Christ, Zoroaster, Allah, and his prophet Mohammed—may his name be blessed—have an infinite advantage in that they can take a shortcut to a state of mind, that state of mind being consciousness, in which faith becomes natural. The key to being able to absorb wisdom without the necessity of rough-and-tumble experience is that faith that is developed, not at first perhaps in the Creator or the creation or in the right outworking of a perfect plan, but faith in the teacher, the mentor, the guru. Because the guru lives in faith and expresses and acts by reason of faith, and the guru has become transparent to the faith that runs through him, so too the student, in trusting the teacher and entering into the teacher’s universe, becomes equally able to call upon the faculty of faith, for his consciousness has become congruent with the consciousness of his teacher.

Q’uo continued by saying another great teacher of consciousness is solitude in nature as nature is a great opener of our heart, so there is no need to classify that which we experience in nature, and there is no need to speak of the characteristics and the names of animals or plants because there is the taking in of spiritual food in the experience of earth, wind, fire, and water, and there is the companionship of tree, toad, and rabbit, and all of those companions develop consciousness, so if we have not had these early advantages, then as we awaken, we shall need to find our door into the opening of our consciousness within the pages of books, or in the wisdom of a mentor, and when a mentor is strong enough in faith, and we develop devotion and trust in that mentor, we are able in that mentor’s presence to open our consciousness in the same way as our teacher. Now Q’uo said those who follow the Buddha, Jesus the Christ, Zoroaster, Allah, and his prophet Mohammed—may their names be blessed—have an advantage in that we can take a shortcut to that state of mind being our consciousness in which faith becomes natural, and the key to being able to absorb wisdom without the necessity of rough-and-tumble experience is that faith that is developed in the mentor because the mentor lives in faith and acts by reason of faith, and the mentor has become transparent to the faith that runs through them, so too the student, in trusting the mentor and entering into the mentor’s universe, becomes equally able to call upon the faculty of faith, for our consciousness has become congruent with the consciousness of our mentor. On September 9, 2003, Q’uo described the way that the faculty of faith works in our lives:

We find that the discussion prior to us joining this circle plays a key role in understanding, for it is the faculty of faith that allows one to understand that, though some circumstances may not play out as one has desired, that there is still a divinity within them. And that each moment is designed with a divine precision to allow each entity to experience that which the entity needs in order to use this experience as catalyst for growth and reflect upon the experience so that one may see the working of the Creator, and further the working of the self as the Creator within that experience.

It can be in analyzing these experiences, where the desire has failed to manifest, that one may glimpse at the deeper part of the self, those unconscious mechanisms that may have played into the creation of this experience. And one may learn more of themselves by experiencing something that they feel they did not desire. But once the experience has passed, and one has utilized it for one’s spiritual growth, you may look back and finally understand and realize that it was the experience that you needed. And because of that, it was the experience that—though you did not realize it in your attempt to manifest a different experience—was ultimately what you desired. And this ultimate desire is what you carried with you into this incarnation but have forgotten. And it is through these experiences that you may have an opportunity to remember that greater desire and have an opportunity to cultivate the faith and the Love that will ultimately guide you home to the Creator.

Inhigher densities than this one, there is always this energy between student and teacher, teacher and student, each relationship making a dynamic whole, and such teaching then is sufficient and wisdom’s ways are learned along with deep compassion and unconditional Love at the energetic level. However, my friends, you at this time experience third density. And because of the fact that it is not at all obvious that there is, in addition to the intellect, the faculty of consciousness, many entities shall have to awaken because of things that occur in their lives that constitute great challenges and cause them trauma. This is necessary because, unless the young heart has been softened by exposure to consciousness, the intellect forms a hard husk around consciousness, and in order for the consciousness within to awaken, that hard husk must be broken, and that is only done through trauma and suffering.

For many, it is at the end of great trauma that the light dawns, the heart opens, and the learning in a spiritual sense of the incarnation can begin. Just as the shell of wheat must be threshed so that the sweet kernel within can be harvested, so the recalcitrant intellect must be battered by deep emotion, pain, and suffering, each experience, of course, unique to the person, in order that the consciousness within may finally be appreciated and encouraged by the self to flourish and thrive. Where does faith come from, my friends? It is illogical to believe that all is well when it is quite obvious to the intellect that there are imperfections everywhere. Yet, no matter how clever the intellect is, its fruits tend to incline toward cynicism and doubt, negativity and fear, whereas the qualities of consciousness are the qualities of the one infinite Creator, whose essence and being is unconditional Love.

Q’uo said in higher densities there is this energy between student and teacher, teacher and student, each relationship making a whole, and such teaching is sufficient, and wisdom’s ways are learned along with unconditional Love at the energetic level, but at this time we experience third density, and because of the fact that it is not obvious that there is, in addition to our intellect, the faculty of consciousness, many of us shall have to awaken because of things that occur in our lives that constitute challenges and cause us trauma, but this is necessary because unless our heart has been softened by exposure to consciousness, our intellect forms a shell around our consciousness, and in order for our consciousness to awaken, that shell must be broken, and that is only done through trauma and suffering. Q’uo went on to say it is at the end of great trauma that the light dawns, our heart opens, and the learning in a spiritual sense begins, and just as the shell of wheat must be threshed so that the kernel within can be harvested, so our rebellious intellect must be battered by deep emotion and suffering, and this experience is unique to us in order that our consciousness within may be appreciated and encouraged by us to thrive, so Q’uo asked where does faith come from because it is illogical to believe that all is well when it is obvious to our intellect that there are imperfections everywhere, yet no matter how clever our intellect is, its fruits tend to toward doubt and fear, whereas the qualities of consciousness are the qualities of the one infinite Creator, whose essence is unconditional Love. On September 18, 2022, Q’uo spoke of the qualities of the one infinite Creator:

Moving to the concept of wisdom, and how it may balance with love: the wisdom that is within your mind complex is that accumulation of lessons on your spiritual journey, which have fueled your journey in another way. It has refined that Love that is the heart of your being, the heart of the creation, until it is able to move into the realm where decisions can be made, as to the next step to take on the spiritual journey. These steps that you take are informed by Love and by Light and in a balanced manner, so that the power of the combination of Love and Light may be able to manifest in your own life journey as the ability to make the choices of service to others, that are the fundamental nature of your journey. This choice is that which moves you as a pendulum, moves the air, indicates the direction, the choice, the movement in consciousness that is the path of the conscious seeker of truth.

This type of power is a kind of fuel for the spirit, which is the heart of your being of a mind/body/spirit complex. This spiritual nature connects you with all of the qualities of the One Infinite Creator that have made the entire creation so that you are a portion of that cosmic mind, that infinite intelligence, that has decided to know Itself in a manner which is possible through all of the choices that you make in all life experience, as you move consciously along your spiritual path into the realms of service to others. Realms that are more and more varied, more intense, and more pure, as you continue your journey of seeking and serving the One that is in all.

This is your journey. This is your joy. This is your destiny. You are all a portion of the One Infinite Creator, and this is what you are here to do: to be of service to the One that you see in each entity around you, in each portion of the creation around you. For the entire creation is alive, and the Creator breathes Its breath of life in all places. So, look you there within and without to find that which is your goal in life, to serve that One who is in all.

Dwelling in consciousness, the entire experience of being a self in incarnation is transformed. The “I” of the intellect, with its choices and its chances and its cleverness, becomes the “I” of the heart, the “I” of Christ Consciousness, or the consciousness of Love. And part of that very consciousness is faith. Move, therefore, my friends into the precincts of faith when you are faced with the need to learn a spiritually oriented lesson, for usually such lessons come to you in darkness and in difficulty. There is the temptation at those times to move back into the relative safety of the intellect, where there is no paradox or mystery, but only a linear progression of things learned, and things understood.

But if there is the wish to progress spiritually, cling to the consciousness that offers you the faculty of faith. For if you know that all is well, and that the divine plan for your incarnation is working perfectly, you can then take even the harshest circumstance, and ask it for the gifts that it brings. You can cooperate with the shape of it, moving into it and towards it rather than away from it or around it. And in that cooperation, transformation occurs, and the dark night of the soul yields to a glorious dawn, the sunrise of new peace, new power, new surety. And if you are one who wishes to offer the gifts of consciousness to others, it depends not on the speeches. Rather, live that which you wish to teach and in your inarticulate being, bursting with love, there is that which shall speak to those whom you wish to aid. Do not be seduced by the cleverness of the intellect, because you shall never talk someone into the Kingdom of Heaven. Be consciousness; share consciousness; let silence grow with your relationship as it will. And trust that that which is within you, which is moving through you from the Creator, shall touch and teach in ways that are too deep for words but are ever so much more powerful.

Q’uo went on by saying dwelling in consciousness, the experience of being our self in incarnation is transformed, so the “I” of our intellect, with its choices becomes the “I” of Christ Consciousness, or the consciousness of Love, and part of that consciousness is faith, so we should move into the essence of faith when we are faced with the need to learn a spiritually oriented lesson, for usually such lessons come to us in difficulty, and there is temptation at those times to move back into the safety of our intellect, where there is no mystery, but only a linear progression of things learned. Q’uo completed their reply by saying if we wish to progress spiritually, we must cling to the consciousness that offers us faith, for if we know that all is well, we can take even the harshest circumstance, ask it for the gifts that it brings, and we can cooperate with the shape of it, and in that cooperation transformation occurs, so the dark night of the soul yields to a glorious dawn, and if we are one who wishes to offer the gifts of consciousness to others, it depends on our living that which we wish to teach, and in our inarticulate being, bursting with Love, there is that which shall speak to those whom we wish to aid, but we should not be seduced by the cleverness of our intellect, because we shall never talk someone into the Kingdom of Heaven, so we should be consciousness and share it, and trust that which is moving through us from the Creator, and it shall teach in ways that are too deep for words but are much more powerful. On June 19, 1993, Q’uo expressed the value of using meditation to experience thoughts that are too deep for words:

However, there is one form of solitary practice which deserves notice above all else, and that is the solitude within in which one turns to the holy of holies within the self. In meditation, a link is sought in spiritual solitude. Through that solitude the seeking soul stretches out its purified desire, and the silence answers in thought too poignant, too profound, too deep for words. Treasure those moments with the infinite One, and know that each moment wherein the Creator has been sought is lightening the consciousness of your people and doing needed work in establishing the generation of an ever fuller light upon your sphere.

We thank the ones known as Jim and J for this query and would ask if there is a follow-up to this query at this time. We are those of Q’uo.

Jim: Not for me, Q’uo.

We are those of Q’uo, and would ask if there is another query at this time. We are those of Q’uo.

[No further queries.]

We are those of Q’uo. The resounding silence within this circle of seeking indicates that we have exhausted the queries available to us for discussion at this time. We confess that we regret that there is no more opportunity to converse with each of you, for it is a privilege and a pleasure for us to interact with you. We thank you again for the opportunity to share our humble thoughts with you. At this time we would leave this instrument and this group in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai vasu borragus.

This morning I ran some errands with my first stop being at Thieneman’s nursery to buy a flat of Dahlias, a flat of Lantana, Bidens, and Lobelia that are sun lovers that I will plant in my Ruins Mound. My second stop was at Feeder’s Supply where I bought some bird seed and some fish food. My third stop was at Anderson’s Supply where I dropped off my chainsaw to be sharpened. My last stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I bought a case of bottled water and dropped off a prescription to be filled.

This afternoon I transplanted the Dahlias, Bidens, Lobelia, and Lantana into my Ruins Mound. Then I watered them with fertilized water and sprayed them with deer repellant. Now the Ruins Mound is completed.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

May 6

Joy Upon Joy

I am the spirit of Jesus the Christ, and I greet you in the full consciousness of Love.

This is the Spirit’s word for you today: come down from your cross, my children and nourish your faith upon the common ground of ordinary life.

There is the concept of suffering. There is the suffering of the past, of the present and of the future. Yet, the spirit of the living God is with you. You need not suffer, but open to faith and hope.

The Spirit of Jesus the Christ is one of comfort, consolation, and strengthening. There is no damage that cannot be mended by faith; a faith that brings about the climate of forgiveness; a faith that brings about the healing of all that is broken; a faith in which fears for the future may not live. For fear is a hothouse flower and when exposed to the Love of a living Christ it must perish as a weed before the burning sun.

In this Light, may you be impregnated with faith upon faith, joy upon joy. To prepare your ground for faith this day, ask in sincerity and truth that it may be so. Ask with all your heart and it shall be so.

We leave you in the blessed peace and Love of Jesus the Christ, 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.