The Camelot Journal

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Three and the concept of quieting the body:

Quieting the body

“When an entity is beginning to alter his lifestyle to include work with the silence and the attempt to become aware in each passing moment of that moment in its infinity of possibilities, the body, the mind, and the emotions all object.

It was comfortable being spiritually asleep. Now the self is asking the body to sit and do nothing for periods of time in meditation. The body reacts, sometimes violently. There may be feelings of nausea, headaches, rushes of tingling in the body or a feeling that the body is swelling. The body is restless and does not understand what it is being asked to do. It is not looking at anything. It is not doing anything. What’s going on?

So, at the very beginning of a practice of meditation, one has to deal with the body itself. Eventually the body will become comfortable sitting quietly in meditation for periods of time. Indeed, the body may eventually come to depend on the rest of these quiet moments and this communion with the divine.” Q’uo, October 8, 2006

If you are relatively new to the practice of meditation on a regular basis you may need to be patient with your body as well as your mind because the physical and mental inactivity of meditation is a skill that needs to be practiced for a while before one becomes proficient at it. It might be a good idea to limit your first attempts at meditation to five minutes once a day. Use whatever part of the day works best for you from early morning, to mid-day, or even just before bed. In the beginning, just watch your thoughts and let them go. Maybe you could focus your on your breath and feel it come and go, as you inhale and exhale.

As time goes on and you feel more comfortable as you meditate, you can increase your meditation to ten minutes and see how that works for you. Again, watch your thoughts come and go and see if, after a while, the thoughts begin to fall away so that you feel more peaceful and refreshed after your meditations. At some point you may want to add a second meditation so that, perhaps, you begin and end your day with a short meditation.

As you continue to expand your meditative practice in length of time and periods of practice during the day, you may actually find that your mind and body begin to crave these periods of communing in the silence. The whole idea of meditation is this communing with what you might call infinity, peace, love, or the one Creator. This is the way all seekers of truth throughout the ages have used to move closer and closer to listening to the communication with the Creator in a manner that is most often too deep for words. It is as if our soul natures are becoming surrounded and imbued with the essences of love, peace, purpose, and direction. At some point you may feel that meditation is food for your soul and the foundation of your day. L/Leema had some inspiring words to say about the fruits of the continuing meditative practice:

I am L/Leema, and, my sister, we are most grateful to you for reminding not only this group but our own humble selves of the great necessity and benefit of meditation, for as you move within your illusion and as we move within ours and as any entity would move within any illusion, the fruit of such movement can only nourish the heart of one’s being when one has drunk of it deeply to the core of one’s being through the process of meditation. That which the conscious mind has placed within its own boundaries of understanding has value to an entity in the metaphysical or spiritual sense only insofar as the meditative state has incorporated this small understanding into the heart of one’s being. Otherwise, one is as the—we find you call it—duck that sheds the water from its back.

Without the meditation, the various concepts and ideas with which one comes in association in the conscious seeking, there are no roots formed and no lasting connections to such concepts, and the entity then must reacquaint itself with that which is consciously sought in order to provide the opportunity once again for meditation to do its work. Meditation is as the watering of the plant which has been set in fertile ground. The plant must be good, it must be strong, it must be consciously formed and analyzed, it must be placed within the fertile ground, the intuition must then serve as the analog to the fertile ground and connect through meditation the concept with the inner being or heart of one’s being. This is the watering and the nourishing of the plant that was consciously formed. Thus, in meditation one is as the gardener, plucking those weeds and leaving the flowers and the fruit that shall form the harvest. L/Leema, May 19, 1985.

I like to combine my first meditation of the day with what Carla and I called our Morning Offering. I begin with a couple of prayers, one of which is the Prayer of St. Francis, and then some singing before the meditation begins. At the end of the meditation I read from the Bible, one other book of inspiration and then the Law of One. I finish with more singing and two more prayers. Carla like to call this her “rule of life,” or the framework within which her life was lived.

This morning I went to the Baptist Immediate Care Center in Middletown to see what was causing the pain in my left foot that began out of the blue yesterday afternoon while I was taking my speed walk. I was afraid that it might have been a bone fracture, but it turned out to be a neuroma, or inflammation of the nerve in my foot. So I will need to give my foot a rest for a week or so and occasionally roll a frozen bottle of water under my foot. No more speed walks or dancing until that nerve is back in good working order.

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

January 23

Glad Tidings

Greetings in the consciousness of love. I am the Holy Spirit of Jesus the Christ, the bringer of glad tidings to all who have ears to hear.

My children, rejoice! For the glad tidings which we of the principle of love bear is that there is love in all things. It is a matter of recognition, not creation; reflection, not origination. For love was brought into the world as the world, the world itself being part of the consciousness of love.

There is no thing outside of the consciousness of love, only time’s confused and crazed reflections through the cracked glass of imperfect reflection. Whatever lies in front of you this day is filled with joy and replete with peace. And were you to be able to go forward in time you would see, with no need for faith, that all things have indeed occurred so that your joy may be whole.

Thus if you sorrow this day, by faith you may rejoice in your sorrow. There is no greater peace than the recognition of the consciousness of love in every perfected part of the present day.

Love wishes love peace, now and evermore. 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Three and the section on The Mind, Food for Thought:

Carla’s goal for this chapter: This Chapter focuses on working through the day in a way which creates a conscious practice of tuned interaction and sacred interchange.

Chapter Three: The Mind, Food for Thought

Quieting the mind

“Thus, the consciousness that is your identity and nature is some distortion, one representation of that one great original Thought of Love which created all that there is. When the conscious mind of man is used without the aid of the deeper mind, very little of the consciousness of Love can be channeled through you from consciousness to manifestation. The person who lives in mind and not in heart lives a dry and arid life, unrelieved by the beauty of love or the joy of passion, for, indeed, it is those with a passion and joy for knowing the truth, for celebrating friendship, and for seeking love, that creates the full potential of consciousness for each of you.

When you move from the conscious mind into the deep mind, you are moving from busyness and noise, distraction and sleep to a cool, clear pool of light, silent, profound and infinite. Infinity cannot be comprehended by the rational mind, for the mind calculates only the calculable, leaving mystery uncalculated. The deep mind is at home and comfortable in the endless sea of infinity, for [in] infinity it has its home, just as you have your home in infinity.” Q’uo, October 22, 1986.

Our analytical minds are very useful as we make our way through our daily round of activities in the outer world. They provide us a means by which we can plan our day, interact with others, evaluate our use of time and energy, consider how to solve periodic puzzles that pop up, and, in general, live our lives in a conscious fashion according to our own system of beliefs. However, as efficient as our conscious minds are at making these choices, if we are unable to engage the consciousness of the love in our hearts, we will only be experiencing the surface of life. If we can engage our hearts we will be swimming in the deeps of the ocean of our being where the life-giving currents of love carry us from the sustaining feelings of the meaning of friendship, the nature of the truths we seek, and our unlimited potential for growth as Q’uo described in this quote:

 It may seem a paradox that in order to manifest the glory and the joy which one has found in the darkness of inner silence, one must then give up all human opinion concerning situations, behaviors, activities and personalities to whom you wish to be serving. Yet it is surely true, and the full light of day dawns as the seeker sincerely and completely yields itself to grace, if we may use that term. Some call it quested consciousness, others call it right karma or destiny, but all of these words have connotations that suggest the lack of freedom of will and this we do not wish to suggest. You are perfectly free, each of you seekers, at all times to make each choice in each moment in each way that you wish. Yet to polarize involves manifested service.

We wish to convey also that we are not suggesting that there is a force completely outside of the seeker to whom one must yield control. The Creator is far closer than this—indeed the daylight is within the heart of the darkness. The difficulty is that words cause paradox and the deeper the understanding, the more plentiful the paradoxes.

Therefore, to sum. The seeker must begin seeking in darkness, and yet when the seeker comes from his sanctified ground and wishes to give glory back to the Creator which appears to the seeker in the guise of other entities, then it is that the seeker yields his conscious will, yields it utterly and completely to a higher knowledge, a higher wisdom, a higher compassion, and a higher intuition. One who has yielded and is moving in rhythm with the deep winds that play about the innermost self becomes touched with radiance, a radiance that is completely positive, a radiance that is the analog of your sun body, and in the radiance lies manifested service. Q’uo, January 12, 1986

Here, in the deeper mind of love, we can explore the great mysteries and infinity of our being which, the deeper we go, is actually more and more the presence of the One. Our quiet minds actually become receivers and reflections of the Consciousness of Love, the one Creator. Q’uo speaks to finding the Creator within:

You see, because your experience is so vivid, entities who seek often feel that it is in a dramatic burst of light that so-called illumination shall occur. However, we believe that that which you are seeking is not within phenomena, not within feeling, and not within thought, but is rather that which one of your holy works has called the still, small voice, the silence that speaks within. To ponder out the parts and parcels of that which you see, measure, test and study is an hopeless task. Illumination will come, sometimes, indeed, with great light and radiance, sometimes with a turn of the heart that changes its bias forever in one way or another, sometimes in a very gradual process, unseen by the self, which creates the same change in bias.

Each entity’s path is unique, just as each entity is unique. If you think in terms of crystals, each one of you is, indeed, a priceless gem in an uncut form, and as you seek, the facets begin to appear and the jewel begins to show an outward and manifested beauty rather than keeping the beauty hidden beneath roughness and dullness.

Within this illusion, we encourage you above all things to seek the face of the Creator without analysis and without intuition, but with hope and faith of passion. Trust that this process is harmonious and efficacious, and that by your meditations you are able in the focusing of your desire and the calling of that to you which is the mystery, that you may more and more offer all unknowing and without conscious thought the light upon the hill that shines that all may see the Creator within. Q’uo, February 14, 1988.

This afternoon I went outside and picked up the up the tree limbs that have blown down since the 40 mph winds that we had a couple of days ago. While I was outside I noticed that the rain and snow mix that we got this morning had made the dirt we dug out for the new sump pump pipe very muddy. I think we will have to let it dry out before we cover the new pipe with it.

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

January 22

Useful Challenges

I am of the principle of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the full consciousness of love divine.

Sometimes we have not the will to go on. Sometimes the consciousness within the body gazes upon the morning with rejection of all that it portends.

These times of discouragement are important. These times of difficulty are to be observed with great compassion and self-forgiveness, for it is within the framework of trouble and sorrow that much of your spiritual work is done.

Therefore, do not chide yourself for your discouragement but rather, praise and thank the blessed Father that in the mysterious way of grace, such dark days may be seen to cause the greatest inner illumination.

Thus, to the discouraged we would say, “Take heart and know that trouble and difficulty are but useful challenges to a servant of the consciousness of love.”

In that love and that peace may you go forward this day and forevermore. 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Two and the section on the body/mind connection and catalyst:

The body/mind connection and catalyst

“81.14 Questioner: And finally, the fourteenth, the Way of the Body, is called the Alchemist because there is an infinity of time for the various bodies to operate within to learn the lessons necessary for evolution. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is less than completely correct as the Great Way of the Body must be seen, as are all the archetypes of the body, to be a mirror image of the thrust of the activity of the mind.

The body is the creature of the mind and is the instrument of manifestation for the fruits of mind and spirit. Therefore, you may see the body as providing the athanor through which the alchemist manifests gold.”

Don asked Ra if the fact that we inhabit numerous bodies throughout our many incarnations within the third-density illusion would be the reason that in the Major Arcana of the tarot the Way of the Body is called the Alchemist. Alchemy is the ancient science that described transformations of one substance into another. So, Don wanted to know if our bodies aided us in transforming into higher states of awareness as we attempt to learn pre-incarnative lessons from incarnation to incarnation. Another way of looking at such a transformation would be the concept of our polarizing more and more positively in service to others until we are finally able to be graduated into the fourth density of love and understanding.

Ra gave Don credit for being mostly correct but then elaborated on Don’s assumption by saying that our body is a “creature of the mind”and is an instrument for the “manifestation of the fruits of mind and spirit”. What Ra is saying is that the mind cannot know itself within the third density without utilizing the body to speak its thoughts. Without the body the mind cannot move around within the third density and interact with other selves through the use of the body’s arms and legs as Ra said in 97.10:

Questioner: Thank you. Card Number Five, the Significator of the Mind, indicates, firstly, as I see it, simply a male within a rectangularly structured form. This suggests to me that the Significator of the Mind in third density is well-bounded within the illusion, as is also suggested by the fact that the base of the male is a rectangular form showing no ability for movement. Would Ra comment on that?

Ra: I am Ra. O student, you have grasped the barest essence of the nature of the Significator’s complete envelopment within the rectangle. Consider for the self, O student, whether your thoughts can walk. The abilities of the most finely honed mentality shall not be known without the use of the physical vehicle which you call the body. Through the mouth the mind may speak. Through the limbs the mind may effect action.

Because the body provides the mind with these abilities, the body promotes all the growth that is possible for the mind to make within all the bodies that we inhabit within our third-density incarnations. Therefore, Ra called the body the “athanor through which the alchemist manifests gold.” An athanor, by the way, is a furnace which alchemists used to maintain a steady heat. The steady heat in this case refers to how the body allows the mind to evolve in its evolution by processing the catalyst that the body makes available to the mind. In this quote Q’uo gave an overview of the catalyst of the body:

Fox: In a recent channeling practice circle session, those of Q’uo spoke to a question about the value of bodily catalyst and how to utilize it in our spiritual journey. I was hoping you might offer insight into bodily catalyst of those of us who are aging, especially if you could help us understand if there’s a difference between the bodily catalyst due to unprocessed mental catalyst, and also that which was preprogramed before this incarnation, and that bodily catalyst that comes from an aging body, and if you can process all three of those kinds in the same way.

I am Q’uo and am aware of your query, my sister. The catalyst of the body is that which is usually experienced when the mental faculties of the mind/body/spirit complex have not appropriately apprehended the nature of catalyst that has come before it. When this occurs, then there is oftentimes the giving over of the catalyst of the mind to that of the body in some form of physical maladjustment, shall we say, or dis-ease. This is in order that the mental faculties may then have a second opportunity to look upon this catalyst that was first omitted, and see there where there is information to be gained. This type of experience is quite common among most of the population of your planet that suffer the physical ailments that continue to repeat themselves and attempt to bring to light that which has remained in shadows for the mind.

However, as you also have mentioned, there is that catalyst which is simply the product of the physical vehicle’s aging process that shows to the mind/body/spirit complex that there is an ending approaching that will be able to offer to one, the release from the body vehicle, so that there might be a transition into the higher levels of the creation, the spiritual levels where the veil is removed and the purpose of all experience is revealed. That this might occur in the aging process—the ability of the body being lessened in its vitality, in its appearance, and in its overall functioning then—is a reminder, shall we say, to the mind complex that the purpose of the incarnation is to look beyond the nature of the physical experience and see the metaphysical experience revealed as symbolically in one fashion or another.

The type of aging which this partakes in, is that which is of a symbolic nature. The degradation of various portions of the body, then, become reminders that there is a greater purpose for the expression of the body, the mind and the spirit. There is, however, the overall quality of vitality in the body complex which supersedes or goes beyond the normal expression of bodily functions so that one may look at the body that is failing in one fashion or another as being a symbol of the mental process that can make associations between the type of failure of the body complex with other mental or spiritual qualities that might give the mind complex an indication of the next level of experience that it will be moving into in order to fulfill the preincarnative choices that have been made by the entity. Q’uo, October 26, 2019.

In the overall sense of how this all works, it is as though our minds are riding a noble steed throughout all of our incarnations on Earth, and we are growing in the spiritual sense because we can transform our catalyst into the gold of opening our hearts in unconditional love to all. We become transformed into Players on the Enhanced Game Board of life.

This afternoon I went over to southern Indiana to visit Connie, a dear friend of Carla’s and mine, who has been in a care home for over three years now due to two strokes she suffered in the summer of 2019. I took along a little cake and ice cream that we shared, and then I read to her from A Wanderer’s Handbook. I always feel so sorry for Connie because she will probably be in this care home for the rest of her life as the right side of her body is paralyzed, but I am sure that she, like everyone else, has pre-incarnatively programmed this experience as a means of learning to open her heart in unconditional love. One just has to have faith that all is well and that all will be well.

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

January 21

For Those Who Trust

I am the spirit of Jesus the Christ, the gift and manifestation of the Son of Man, the servant of all. I greet you in the full consciousness of love.

If you ask the outer world what conditions are pleasant for growth you may, perhaps, not find the conditions which appear before you this day. Much may seem out of place, disquieting and disturbing. The peace of the spirit of love is that peace which trusts that the consciousness of love abides in each and every situation and that, in the outworking of time, the justice of the sweep of the world’s actions may eventually be seen. From day to day, however, without the benefit of hindsight, the spirit of God lies in wait for those who trust.

May you trust the superior and final nature of love, both this day 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Two and the section on doctors and disease:

Doctors and disease

“64.15 Questioner: Thank you. Ra mentioned the ones Stuart and Douglas in a recent session. These are members of what we call our medical profession. What is the value, overall value, shall I say, of modern medical techniques in alleviating bodily distortions with respect to the purpose for these distortions and what we might call karma and other effects?

Ra: I am Ra. This query is convoluted. However, we shall make some observations in lieu of attempting one coherent answer, for that which is allopathic among your healing practices is somewhat two-sided.

Firstly, you must see the possibility/probability that each and every allopathic healer is, in fact, an healer. Within your cultural nexus this training is considered the appropriate means of perfecting the healing ability.

In the most basic sense, any allopathic healer may be seen to, perhaps, be one whose desire is service to others in alleviation of bodily-complex and mental/emotional-complex distortions so that the entity to be healed may experience further catalyst over a longer period of what you call the life. This is a great service to others, when appropriate, due to the accumulation of distortions toward wisdom and love which can be created through the use of the space/time continuum of your illusion.

In observing the allopathic concept of the body complex as the machine, we may note the symptomology of a societal complex seemingly dedicated to the most intransigent desire for the distortions of distraction, anonymity, and sleep. This is the result, rather than the cause, of societal thinking upon your plane.

In turn this mechanical concept of the body complex has created the continuing proliferation of distortions towards what you would call ill-health due to the strong chemicals used to control, and hide, bodily distortions. There is a realization among many of your peoples that there are more efficacious systems of healing, not excluding the allopathic, but also including the many other avenues of healing.”

In this question Don asked Ra about the allopathic doctors in our medical community and how their efforts at promoting healing in their patients affects the pre-incarnative purposes, or karma, that might be manifesting as one kind of disease or another. Ra suggested that Don’s question was convoluted and did not lend itself to a single coherent answer, so Ra chose to make a few observations that began with the statement that “that which is allopathic among your healing practices is somewhat two-sided.”

The first side of our modern medical practices that Ra explored was the more helpful side that recognized that allopathic doctors are truly healers. For the most part, if a person in our modern times wishes to be of service to others by providing healing opportunities, going to medical school and learning about physical anatomy, the variety of diseases associated with each part of the physical anatomy, and the treatment of diseases and deformities via the great variety of medicines, or drugs, and also the surgical procedures that are available for healing is the way to become a healer.

Ra recognized and respected the desire of our medical doctors to provide healing opportunities for the minds and for the bodys of their patients. This type of healing would likely offer to the patient a longer period of time within its incarnation to complete its pre-incarnative lessons. Ra said that this was truly a great service “when appropriate”. I am assuming that such attempts at healing would not be appropriate when they would interfere with the pre-incarnative programming that might be using a certain distortion of mind or body as a means of learning certain lessons that would aid in the polarization process. Ra actually made that observation in this quote:

We might note further that when the one wishing to be healed, though sincere, remains unhealed, as you call this distortion, you may consider pre-incarnative choices; and your more helpful aid to such an entity may be the suggestion that it meditate upon the affirmative uses of whatever limitations it might experience. We would also note that in these cases the indigo-ray workings are often of aid. Ra, 73.19

However, when the healing efforts of a doctor are appropriate, Ra suggested that extending the life span of the patient is an effective way of giving the patient more time to utilize the catalyst of our third-density illusion and to realize more love and wisdom as fuel for our positive polarity.

Then Ra spoke to the other side of our allopathic type of medicine that is not so helpful in the healing process. The view that our medical community has taken in modern times of the human body being like a machine that functions the same for everyone, and which should respond to medications and other medical procedures the same every time, ignores the uniqueness of every person. Such thinking in our culture results in an “intransigent desire for the distortions of distraction, anonymity, and sleep.”I believe that the reason that this is so is because such a limited view of the body as a machine ignores the work that would be necessary to determine the uniqueness of every person. We are unique in how each of us might respond in a variety of ways to the causes of disease. And we are also unique when it comes to determining the unique treatment necessary to have any hope of truly healing a disease.

Ra completed their answer to Don’s question by saying that the “mechanical concept of the body complex”, combined with the use of strong chemicals, which we call medicines, to treat diseases, really didn’t have the capacity to heal the diseases. What happened instead was that only the symptoms of the disease were affected by being controlled and hidden. The actual disease remained active and free to manifest another way of expressing itself. Then Ra made a very interesting statement that could aid the healing process when they said: “We would also note that in these cases the indigo-ray workings are often of aid.” I believe that Ra was referring to our imaging ourselves as being healed at a place deep within our being as they noted in this quote:

One of the primal distortions of the Law of One is that of healing. Healing occurs when a mind/body/spirit complex realizes, deep within itself, the Law of One; that is, that there is no disharmony, no imperfection; that all is complete and whole and perfect. Thus, the intelligent infinity within this mind/body/spirit complex re-forms the illusion of body, mind, or spirit to a form congruent with the Law of One. The healer acts as energizer or catalyst for this completely individual process. (4.20)

I am guessing that this process is a portion of what might be the equivalent of white ceremonial magic which has the ability to create changes in consciousness at will. In this case I believe that we would be contacting our higher self in its form as our magical personality in order to be able to see ourselves as “complete and whole and perfect.” This movement to a place that is “deep within” would be accomplished by utilizing meditation and visualization and then generating the faith and will from within our being as the means of accomplishing such a healing as Ra described.

In 54.8 Ra had a beautiful and succinct description of our mind/body/spirit complex:

The mind/body/spirit complex is not a machine. It is rather what you might call a tone poem.

To me this quote suggests that our bodies are not only living creatures, but they express their sense of life in an unique and flowing rhythm that cycles through levels of experience between love, wisdom, and the blending of the two in an endless progression. It is almost as if our bodies have a mind of their own that can respond intelligently to the needs of the mind itself. In 84.17, Ra alluded to this possibility:

The energies transferred during the sexual activity are not, properly speaking, of space/time. There is a great component of what you may call metaphysical energy transferred. Indeed, the body complex as a whole is greatly misunderstood due to the post-veiling assumption that the physical manifestation called the body is subject only to physical stimuli. This is emphatically not so.

So, if our bodies are not “subject only to physical stimuli”, then the metaphysical energy that is transferred during sexual activity—which can only occur when the green-ray energy center is activated—would mean that at least the love energies of the heart chakra were being experienced. If higher energy centers were activated, then the light of the throat chakra could be experienced. And if the indigo chakra was also activated, then it could be possible that contact with intelligent energy would be experienced, and the body could then be part of a communication with the spirit. When the spirit is activated as a shuttle it provides communication with intelligent infinity, or the one Creator. Now that is the body functioning as a tone poem of significant potency and is the work of the Player on the Enhanced Gameboard of life!

This morning I continued my digging on the trenches that will house the additional 4 inch PVC pipe, one of which will be connected to the present two smaller sump pumps, and the other will be connected to the very large, 90 gal. per minute, sump pump, or so I thought. I was joined in the afternoon by two fellows from New Circle Mechanical who informed me that the 4 inch drain pipe for the large sump pump would need to be in another location by itself, so my digging this morning was a waste of time. Plus the direction that was needed to go for the larger sump pump’s drain pipe was close to a Tulip Poplar tree which meant some of its roots needed to be cut, and I felt bad about that. One of the fellows said that putting honey on the cut roots would help them to regrow faster, so I gave them a jar of honey in hopes that this might be true.

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

January 20

What Is Holy?

I am the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I greet you in the consciousness of love.

The word “holy” is avoided by many who have felt that there is, indeed, a spirit which enhances the experience of humankind. We, ourselves, are careful in our use of this adjective. For it is not a part of the inspiration which love offers that it be understood as holy.

For in and of itself, love is not holy. For when all things are holy, then are none holy. Yet the holiness of the spirit of love resides in its sanctification of the ordinary in human experience. There is nothing that is not full of holiness. An instinct to love is the love of God. The principle of love imbues every particle of what you call matter and thought in creation.

Yet there must be the will to call that sanctification forth from within the skeletal walls of earth and rust that are so often perceived as the beginning and end of corporeal things. Call forth the sanctification of life by your will and allow your world to become holy. For as you see a holy world, so you shall share that vision and that truth with all whom you meet, inspiring each to the calling forth of that same sanctification. From such beginnings are worlds recreated and transformed.

We leave you in the abiding peace of the consciousness of love, 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter Two and the section on the body: nutrition and fitness:

The Body: Nutrition and Fitness

Nutrition

The way of your density is the way of bodies that are created as chemical distilleries which take in raw materials and process them chemically in order to break them down, to use the nutriments that the body needs and then to excrete that which is left over. It is certainly an excellent idea to spiritualize the process of eating, giving it respect and honor and giving to those nuts and berries, vegetables, dairy products and meats that are eaten thanks and praise for the gift of their consciousness. Q’uo, January 20, 2009

Q’uo approached the concept of nutrition from both the practical standpoint and from the standpoint of the spiritual appreciation of all foods that we consume. In the practical sense Q’uo said that our bodies chemically process whatever foods that we eat so that the body may receive the nutrients that fuel the body’s constant movement. Then, using the very basic wisdom of the body in its functioning, the body is able to divest itself of the portion of the foods that were consumed that remain after the body has selected the useable ingredients.

From the spiritual standpoint, Q’uo recommended that it is not only well to give thanks to the Creator for the food that we are about to eat, but it is well to thank the food itself for giving its life to enhance our lives. Q’uo also left it up to us to make any decisions as to whether we could eat animal products, or be vegetarians or vegans. That makes sense because all forms of plant and animal life has a consciousness although it seems that animal consciousness is higher than that of plants. For myself, I decided some years ago to be a vegetarian because I cannot consume any creature that could be able to give and receive love. This is a decision that each person will need to make for themselves. In 18.4, Ra covered the bases from practical to spiritual in their suggestion for the types of food Carla should eat:

Questioner: Are there any foods that are helpful or harmful that the instrument might eat?

Ra: I am Ra. This instrument has body complex distortion towards ill health in the distortion direction corrected best by ingestion of the foodstuffs of your grains and your vegetables, as you call them. However, this is extremely unimportant when regarded as an aid with equality to other aids such as attitude which this instrument has in abundance. It, however, aids the vital energies of this instrument, with less distortion towards ill health, to ingest foodstuffs in the above manner with occasional ingestion of what you call your meats, due to the instrument’s need to lessen the distortion towards low vital energy.

Fitness and exercise

Here Q’uo gives some general principles regarding how we can exercise our bodies:

However, if you hold your breath repeatedly you will eventually develop that system of lungs that will therefore be stronger because of your practice. And if you exercise regularly, running your heart up and letting it cool back down again, you’ll find that your heart is pumping more efficiently and is able to move the blood around your body with fewer beats of the pump of that heart per minute. So you have some effect, as a physical person, upon how your body works. But you are cooperating with nature. You do not have the final decision as to whether your heart shall beat and your breath shall respire. Q’uo, January 21, 2007

We are constantly exercising our bodies, to some degree at least, when we simply move through our daily round of activities. However, in order to give our bodies a chance to continue to function efficiently as years go by it is a wise choice to choose some form of exercise that will take our bodies, and especially our hearts, beyond their normal range of motion and exertion. The possible forms of exercise could include jogging, weight-lifting, any aerobic exercise such as jazzercise, riding a bicycle, swimming, sit-ups/push-ups/chin-ups, isometric exercises, or trying to keep up with a small child who has that endless source of the energy of youth! Taking yourself beyond your normal limits in any type of exercise will ensure that you will be able to continue with your normal physical abilities longer into your advancing years. In 53.1, Ra recommended the program of physical exercise that would work best for Carla:

Questioner: I would first like to know the instrument’s condition and ask two questions for her. She would like to know if she can do one exercise of one hour a day, and is the pain she feels prior to a session due to an Orion attack?

Ra: I am Ra. The instrument’s condition is as previously stated. In answer to the question of exercise, now that the intensive period is over, this instrument may, if it chooses, exercise one period rather than two. In scanning this instrument’s physical complex distortions we find the current period of exercise at the limit of this instrument’s strength. This is well in the long run due to a cumulative building up of the vital energies. In the short run it is wearying to this entity. Thus we suggest the entity be aware of our previous admonitions regarding other aids to appropriate bodily distortions. In answer to the second query we may say that the physical complex difficulties prior to contact with our social memory complex are due to the action of the subconscious will of the instrument. This will is extremely strong and requires the mind/body/spirit complex to reserve all available physical and vital energies for the contact. Thus the discomforts are experienced due to the dramatic distortion towards physical weakness while this energy is diverted. The entity is, it may be noted, also under psychic attack, and this intensifies pre-existing conditions and is responsible for the cramping and the dizziness as well as mind complex distortions.

Besides taking my speed walks six days a week and doing my modest weight-lifting, I also have a stretching program that lasts about a quarter of an hour. I have noticed that as I have gotten older that my ligaments and tendons seem to get tighter which reduces my flexibility, but I am sure that stretching keeps me as limber as I can be. In the late evening I enjoy dancing to a couple of songs before I have my last meditation of the day. The dancing is helpful in activating the balancing mechanism in my brain, exercising my body, and insuring that I don’t go to sleep during that last meditation. I have also read that dancing helps to improve one’s mood and get rid of unwanted thought patterns. My style of dancing is improvisational, and I must say that it really does feel good to move in an ever-changing speed, step, and style with my arms, legs, and body. I also have another form of exercise, and that is deep breathing as a portion of my meditation technique. In this quote Q’uo gives the value of this type of exercise:

You do not have to be amongst the trees and the grasses to get the energy of the earth to strengthen you, but you must be able to, by your will, assert that relationship and send out that attraction of desire. It is not wise to attempt to be too serious. It is wise to be the fool and be foolish regularly. For there is truth not just in the earnest and serious things of metaphysics, there is also much truth in the playful, in the energetic fun.

Therefore, we ask each please to attempt to open the self to lightness, merriment, fun, relaxation and the deep breathing that expands the mind, the soul, and the point of view. Hurry not. Cease rushing. Spend more time being. These things we encourage this circle, for the circle is very serious [humorously].

Balance in all things, my dear ones. We thank each for this delightful opportunity and would, at this time, transfer the contact to the one known as Jim. We are those of Q’uo. March 13, 1994.

This morning I went outside and began to dig up the old pipes that are connected to the two small sump pumps in the basement with the idea of getting ready for larger pipes to be installed for the new large sump pump. However, I discovered that there were not two inch and a half pipes in the ground as I thought there were, but there was one inch and a half pipe for about eight feet and then a four inch pipe went the rest of the way down to the drain. I though that the four-inch pipe might be all we need to handle the larger sump pump. However, the technician said that we will also need to add another three-inch pipe to be sure that the new very large sump pump, as it combines its power with the two smaller sump pumps that are now there, will need both the pipes for maximum performance.

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

January 19

Your Relationship With Your God

I am of the spirit of the love of Jesus the Christ. I greet you in that full consciousness which is love in living form.

Since before the beginnings of time you have been with your Creator. And until the very last tick of creation’s clock, you shall still be one with the Creator. This is the bedrock of your relationship with your God.

We are aware that your daily life does not often show evidence of this primal relationship. Yet if you may open your heart to the spirit of love, that spirit, asked within, may use that invitation to awaken, engage and fire the active relationship of humankind to deity.

May you, in humility, seek not things but principles, the principles of truth, love and peace. To ask the spirit of Jesus the Christ to move within your heart this day is to ask that you be used to set on fire the world around you with the power of love. Though this power is quiet and may be expressed by soft words and gentle smiles, the impact of the spirit of love is transformative.

And so you may be a source of love. In spite of all human frailty, you have only to ask. You have only to trust. You have only to be at peace with who you really are and why you really are here. May you as children of the One Father be about the family business of sharing love with all that there is.

Peace to you, 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The 103 quote today comes from Chapter Two and the section on seeing all as the Creator:

Seeing all as the Creator

For in service to another, inevitably you are serving yourself. For as many philosophies upon your planet have stated, the universe and all that is in it are one being, and no more, with each being and each particle within it being exactly that: one particle within a whole, all united within consciousness and spirit. And through this unification comes about the undeniable fact that service to one is service to all, and to oneself. You, my friends, are the Creator and the gods which are spoken of in the scriptures, as is everyone and everything within this universe. Accept separations within your consciousness, and they shall exist temporarily for you. But deny them, my friends, and the ones which you have been accepting for so long shall begin to fade from your awareness. And you shall begin to awaken to the true concept of oneness. And you shall begin to know the truth: that there are no separations. Hatonn, December 7, 1975

Carla channeled this quote from Hatonn five years before the Ra contact began, and yet it stated as well as ever has been stated how all of us are one. As Ra said in their first contact with us they were bringing us a slightly different slant upon a message which is “always and ever the same.” Some people call it the “perennial philosophy” that has been espoused throughout the history of the mystical experience on Earth and which Q’uo describes eloquently and in detail in this quote:

We have only one truth to offer, one thought. All the rest is embellishment and various ways of discussing that thought and its implications. This thought is that which is a Logos, a Thought so creative and so primary that it forms that which is both Creator and created. That one great original Thought is Love. Within the system of organized religion that you call Christianity there are the words, “In the beginning was the Word.” This is the Word of which we speak. That word that created all was and is and shall be love, yet love as you understand it is most pale and weak compared to that vital love which both creates and destroys.

Within this love are all things visible and invisible. Each consciousness listening to these words is a complex which is love and which manifests in various forms of love. Many are the distortions of that love, yet the energy within them, no matter how great the distortion, is that of love. Often in the attempts to progress either emotionally, mentally, physically or spiritually various things are attempted, tested and tried to see whether they be resources or be found wanting. And so as the seeking soul moves through the moment by moment living out of that love which is all that there is, many structures are tried within which the experience of living makes more sense.

The query this evening concerns one such structure. Within this structure which is not original to us but [is] an amiable portion of the perennial philosophy [that] that which meets the physical senses is to be seen as the reflection of self, your medical doctors consider that various people are seen by the self to be, as the one known as Jim said in his query, projecting onto others that which is actually within. This can be taken too far quite handily, and we would suggest a tempering of the ease with which generalities are made, for indeed all possible actions, motives and ideas whatsoever are a portion of each consciousness which hears these words. All things are one. The self seems to be separate and seems to have a certain personality. This is largely an illusion, the illusion having been created so that the consciousnesses within it could do work and thereby progress spiritually. Within this illusion other entities shall almost always seem to be other, for it is only within the intimacy of intense catalyst, the love-making or the shared creative experience or the laughter that ends in tears, that hearts become so close as to perceive their actual unity, one with the other. Q’uo, December 11, 1994.

In short, we all have the Creator within us, and no matter where we go or what we do, we are the Creator knowing Itself, seeking Itself, and serving Itself. All of the illusions of separation that exist in this third-density are the Creator. They are other versions of ourselves as we all partake in that grand procession through the octave of densities back into total union with the one infinite Creator. What a grand and glorious dance it is as Q’uo described:

There are many, many entities that move upon this great journey of seeking, that move as in a dance, in a harmony that is unseen by those who do not look, and yet they dance to the tune, to the beat of the heart of the one infinite Creator. Yes, all dance and move in rhythmic patterns. The balance in all of the creation is one and is perfect. That which each does as his or her own contribution to this great dance and journey of seeking is that which has been planned aforetimes, shall we say. There is a pattern to movement, a pattern to thought, a pattern to seeking, a pattern to suffering, a pattern to all that is. Q’uo, October 17, 1999.

This afternoon I went outside and began work on the huge sycamore tree in the back yard that my sump pump technician recommended on the hollowed out portion of the tree that begins on the ground. It is big enough to be able to get inside it, and it looks like either termites or ants have been responsible for creating this great gap in the base of the tree that threatens to bring the tree down at some point in the future. A few years ago I had a tree service put two cables on the three main trunks to keep the tree from falling. The technician recommended scraping away all of the heart rot material possible and I got about five 5-gallon buckets full of this dead material. Then I used the sprayer on the garden hose to spray any remaining dust pieces out of the hole. I have ordered some insecticide to use in the next couple of days and some undercoating sealing to paint over the inside of the cavity so no further deterioration occurs.

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

January 18

You Have Good Gifts

I am the spirit of the full consciousness of love in the vibration which comforts this instrument. I greet you in the love of Jesus Christ.

The nature of the Comforter is both particular and personal. Yet it does not expend itself in the movement from the winds of opportunity to the heart of one who prays that the Holy Spirit may therein enter.

The same principle which enlivens your heart and engages your attention in a spiritually rewarding manner may also then be used by you to show forth the glory of God to others. There is no deadness in the spirit, for all are alive in Jesus Christ.

Therefore, know that you have good gifts and are not going to find it necessary to act for your Lord without the help of the Holy Spirit. It was truly said that until the ending of the age Jesus would never leave His flock, for we are the principle of Jesus Christ and of the nature of Christ’s consciousness. Thusly you and we work together to shine the light of peace and understanding upon a world which does not yet understand that all that exists is, alike, holy.

We wish you peace, now and always. 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The quote from 103 today comes from Chapter Two and the section on opening the heart in unconditional love:

Opening the heart in unconditional love

“So the first thing that we would suggest to those who wish to open the heart and to live in the open heart is to refrain from attempting to give the self a spiritual grade. Avoid thoughts of how you are doing. They will come regardless of whether you encourage them or not, but it is your choice if you are wise to allow those thoughts to come and go, for within the illusion that you have worked so hard to enter it is almost impossible to be aware of how one is actually serving. One must simply serve in faith and allow that faith to be sufficient.” Q’uo, January 19, 1997

Carla used to say that you can’t take your own spiritual temperature. What she meant is that there is no way that you can know how you are doing on your journey of seeking the truth since this is not the density of understanding, as Ra often said. But it is hard not to judge ourselves from time to time—especially when we have experiences that feel disharmonious. We know we want to grow spiritually, so we create some kind of a framework of acceptable and unacceptable thoughts and behaviors. So as we attempt to see how we are all things and that the Creator is within us, there is another step along the way that can aid us in realizing the Creator within us, and that is opening our hearts in unconditional love for ourselves and for everyone else. This isn’t necessarily an easy thing to do. It took me most of my life to accomplish it. In this quote Ra spoke to my situation:

59.3 Questioner: I have a question from Jim that states: “I think I have penetrated the mystery of my lifelong anger at making mistakes. I think I have always been aware subconsciously of my abilities to master new learnings, but my desire to successfully complete my mission on Earth has been energized by the Orion group into irrational and destructive anger when I fail. Could you comment on this observation?”

Ra: I am Ra. We would suggest that as this entity is aware of its position as a wanderer, it may also consider what pre-incarnative decisions it undertook to make regarding the personal, or self-oriented, portion of the choosing to be here at this particular time/space. This entity is aware, as stated, that it has great potential, but potential for what? This is the pre-incarnative question.

The work of sixth density is to unify wisdom and compassion. This entity abounds in wisdom. The compassion it is desirous of balancing has, as its antithesis, lack of compassion. In the more conscious being this expresses or manifests itself as lack of compassion for self. We feel this is the sum of suggested concepts for thought which we may offer at this time without infringement.

The way I pre-incarnatively learned compassion for myself was to do what Dr. Michael Newton described in his book, The Journey of the Soul, as “opposites programming.” I programmed lack of compassion, or anger, at myself when I made mistakes. The first reflection of this programming came when I was in the fourth grade and couldn’t hit a baseball with a baseball bat when I threw the ball into the air. So I threw the bat through the bathroom window. Throughout my life when I made mistakes like sawing a line crookedly, or bending a nail that I was driving into wood, was to break whatever tool I was using.

This process continued until I was 68 years old. On the evening of August 3, 2015, I was working on my computer just before going to bed. The power cord came out of the computer three times. The third time I got angry and whacked the back of the monitor with the power cord and broke the monitor. As I crawled into bed I was feeling very depressed and thought to myself, “What if I could accept myself right now, as I am in the pit of despair, after breaking another valuable tool?” Immediately my heart started beating rapidly, and my eyes were filled with tears. Finally, I knew that I had accepted myself, and from then on I had no anger at myself when I made mistakes, and loving other people seemed ever so much easier. It really is true that in order to really love others, you must first love yourself. And some of these kinds of lessons may take most of your life to learn.

So now, if we can digest this mind-expanding concept that we really are everything that there is in the universe, that we are truly the Creator, then we must also be perfect in our seeming imperfections. And so is everyone else. We all are the one Creator living a multitude of lives to help the Creator know Itself better, with more purity and variety. Q’uo gives some sound advice on how we may do that:

If the self cannot, or struggles, to connect with the other-selves around it due to previous incarnational experience, then it is also not fully loving the self. The purest expression of the self is that of love, is that of an open heart, first and foremost, to the self, for the self.

So, my dear seeker, these difficulties in relating in group situations or to other selves, these fears of rejection and perhaps being alone, and these actions that attempt to manipulate or control, are not aspects to shame yourself for. Judgment of self does not leave a clear path to love. No, instead, forgiving the self, being gentle with the self, treating the self like the pure and beautiful reflection of the Creator, that is the way to experiencing all that you wish to experience, to finding that comfort, to finding that peace, be that in the self and also with other selves. Q’uo, March 9, 2022

This morning I took Boscoe to the vet to get his blood sugars tested and his claws trimmed. The test results should be back by tomorrow afternoon. He has gained a full pound since last August, and that is good news.

This afternoon I went around the yard and picked up small tree limbs that were blown down in recent rain and wind. While I was walking behind my car, which was parked in the garage, I noticed that its tail lights and head lights were on, and I couldn’t get them to go off. I called the service department of Bachman Subaru and left them a message as to what I should do, and when they called back they let me know that there was a little switch just behind the steering wheel that I must have switched on when I dusted the dash board this morning. I love simple solutions!

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

January 17

The Eyes, Ears And Heart

I am of the principle of the love of Jesus the Christ and I greet you in the full consciousness of divine love.

You have heard many times of eyes which cannot see and of ears which do not hear. The principle of the love of Jesus the Christ moves in spirit where it is called to open the eyes, open the ears, and unstop the heart. For the world seen without the spirit of love is a world of illusion and shadow.

With all of your heart, pray that the spirit may come upon you this day, that you may gaze at the beggar and see Christ; that you may gaze at the woman in rags and see a woman in fair, clean cloth; that you may gaze at the starving child and see the most gentle and worthy of beings; that you may gaze upon your landscapes which have been so torn by war and see the peace that will swallow such degradation with love; and that you may have the eyes of Christ and the ears of Christ.

Pray and open your heart to the spirit of love. We are the way out of illusion.

We leave you in that peace that the world of illusion can never know, 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The 103 quote today comes from Chapter Two and the section on love includes loving yourself:

Carla’s goals for this chapter: I discuss wellness as one of the things we do to tune ourselves for work in consciousness. I open up the question of what wellness is and talk about mind, body and spirit as aspects of physical wellness.

Chapter Two:

Love includes loving yourself

You need to fall in love with yourselves as wonderful and foolish and silly and evil-minded and mean and every other quality that you know of. And you need to bring all of those dark and light qualities into your heart, not to judge, but to love. For as you come to know yourself more and more, you will find the truth running deep and true under the folly of personality and opinion and that truth is that you carry the Creator’s consciousness within you and by using your will and setting your intention you may be a place where light dwells and oh, what a saving grace it is to others when they see you shine, unconcerned that you are imperfect, knowing that whatever you are, you are the Creator. Q’uo, November 2, 2010

As Q’uo suggested, our spiritual journeys are a process of many lifetimes in which we come to know more and more aspects of who we are. We are like a faceted jewel that allows the light of the Creator to shine through us and reveal the many light and dark qualities that make us a 360-degree being. As we use the balancing process to continue to see and accept these universal qualities we come to know and accept ourselves for each of an infinite set of polar opposite roles that we play upon the stage of life. However, before our conscious spiritual journeys began we attempted to choose only what we called positive qualities to reflect in our behaviors because that is what we were taught to do as children on the flat game board of life. From that point of view we cannot see beyond the veil to discover that there is so much more to our lives than trying to be “good” and “successful” and “happy” and “acceptable”. However, as we began to become conscious seekers of truth it became apparent to us that the rest of our family and friends who were also trying to be good, happy, successful, and acceptable didn’t really seem to be fulfilled with this attempt. Something was missing, and even though little comment was ever made about this inner dissatisfaction there was still this feeling that would surface from time to time indicating that all was not well. Oxal spoke to this point when they said:

When you find your self dissatisfied, know that the source is your self. Without condemning the self, clear the mind, step away from the illusion of time and limitations, and do your work, not to seek satisfaction but to understand the stimulus, asking yourself the question: What do you seek? Patiently, humbly, quietly, dwell in this question, accepting your dissatisfaction. The combination you will find most fruitful. As always, we of Oxal join our brothers in recommending that this and all spiritual exercises be accompanied by meditation. Oxal, April 26, 1981.

But as we become Players on the Enhanced Game Board of life we discover that the Creator in all of its power and variety lives within us and is, indeed, the very fabric of our being. And the Creator is all things: the villain, the hero, the servant, the master, the lover, the deceiver, the builder, the destroyer, the critic, the comforter and so on and on and on infinitely. There is no quality that can be named that we are not as Q’uo alluded to here:

The idea of forgiving the self is not to find a strand here and a strand there and a strand in the third place of perceived unforgiven self and pluck those out. It is to embrace such perceived moments with the hope of opening the self to the unity of that imperfection with the perfection it balances, so that you may see that you are not a “good” being and attempting to destroy the “bad” being that may exist beneath the floor of the “good” being. Rather, you are attempting to become a full, circular and robust self that knows its shadow side, knows its virtues and knows that neither is the true tale of the self but only the process that is occurring to allow the self to move ever deeper into that self, that interior road to the center of self that lightens as it goes until, in the very center of self, in the heart of self, in the tabernacle of the Creator within the self, there is a stunning, flooding white light that melts every consideration and allows one to rest in adoration and faith. Q’uo, September 17, 2003.

This afternoon I had two technicians from New Circle Mechanical come out and begin the process of redoing my system of draining water to keep it out of the basement by preparing to install a much larger sump pump that can easily do the job. There will also be the need to install larger pipes to connect this larger sump pump to my drain that is about 50 feet from the house. Having two more water in the basement episodes this year was the reason for this decision.

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

January 16

The Holy Ground Of Consciousness

I am the principle of Jesus the Christ which speaks to the world today. I am all those things that you think that I am, but most of all I am your own inner voice; your own inner comfort; your own inner peace.

Let us contemplate the holy ground of your consciousness.

Because of the troubles of daily life, the surface consciousness is littered with debris. The undercurrent of mind is littered with unspoken thoughts, unnamed fears, and unrecognized emotion.

Insofar as you may be able this day, return again and again, momentarily, to the holy ground upon which your consciousness, the very essence of your being, stands. It is no passing thing. It is, indeed, the representation of all that there is in creation.

Within you, abidingly and faithfully, that principle of love which is the Creator is your essence and constitutes the bedrock upon which you, as a timeless being, shall stand for eternity.

Return again and again to the peace, the strength, the power, the wisdom, and the love of love Itself. And from that spot within you comes a balance that shines in your vision and heals in the world outside of your eyes and inside your heart.

We leave you, healed, in the peace and love that abides within, 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 103 quote comes from Chapter One and the concept of psychic self-defense:

Psychic self-defense

Another form of communication which the Player on the Enhanced Gameboard of Life may experience is one of what could be called of a negative nature, at least in its source of origination.

We suggest that there can be no psychic greeting component without your free will choice in an area which lies within your course of study, shall we say. There may be no obstacles placed in your path by those who are of the loyal opposition, as we have described it, but those entities may magnify those experiences which you utilize, though we must at this time suggest that this phenomenon is far more unusual than most entities would imagine, for most of the entities within your illusion find themselves moving between the choice of service to others and service to self, and have not moved far enough in either directions to attract the attention of those who would choose to manipulate that movement. Q’uo, April 30, 1989

Psychic greetings, or psychic attacks, are not likely to happen to most conscious seekers of truth until they have polarized strongly in service to others and are offering information and inspiration that can help others to create similar changes in their consciousness. The closer that Players stand to the light and love of the one Creator the more likely they are to attract the attention of negatively-oriented entities who would like to take the power of that light for themselves, or failing that, to put the light out as Ra suggested in 80.6, regarding our friend of negative polarity who was our constant companion and the source of many psychic greetings:

Questioner: What would our fifth-density visitor hope to gain for himself if he were to be successful in terminating this contact?

Ra: I am Ra. As we have previously stated, the entity hopes to gain a portion of that light; that is, the mind/body/spirit complex of the instrument. Barring this, the entity intends to put out the light.

Paradoxically, the best psychic self-defense is not to defend against such attacks, not to fight back in any way whatsoever. Fighting back is the way of negativity and will actually prolong the psychic attack. This is because negative entities are adept at fighting, and positive entities lose polarity by seeing a separation between themselves and the negative entities that justifies fighting back. In truth, we are all one being, the one Creator. Jesus said, “Resist not evil.” And Ra elaborated on this technique of psychic self-defense:

Questioner: Each of us gets the signals and dreams. I have been aware of clairaudient communication at least once in waking up. Can you suggest a method whereby we might, shall I say, nullify the effect of the influence that we don’t want from a negative source?

Ra: I am Ra. There are various methods. We shall offer the most available or simple. To share the difficult contact with the other-selves associated with this working and to meditate in love for these senders of images and light for self and other-selves is the most available means of nullifying the effects of such occurrences. To downgrade these experiences by the use of intellect or the disciplines of will is to invite the prolonging of the effects. Far better, then, to share in trust such experiences and join hearts and souls in love and light with compassion for the sender and armor for the self. Ra, 44.10

Then Q’uo was able to give a larger perspective as to how psychic greetings or attacks are experienced:

The question that you ask this day concerning what psychic greeting is is a query that is, in a way, quite difficult to answer because the parameters of psychic greetings are, as several in the group have noted, subjective and varied. The essence of a psychic greeting is the intentionality of the greeter. Thusly, not all experienced resistance or experienced catalyst is of a psychic greeting nature. For the term to be properly used, the greeting needs to be one that is coming from a presence, whether it is an individual or a group entity. Further, this greeting has as its focus an encroachment into the energetic body rather than the physical body, in terms of its origin. So, one way of looking at psychic greeting would be a somewhat narrow and carefully delineated way in which psychic greetings are only those greetings which have been sent by an entity, most usually of the inner planes, with the intention of disrupting the process of spiritual evolution and causing an entity to stop its forward progress and to become lost in the side roads of inner questioning and suffering. Q’uo, December 12, 2004.

So in the forty years since the Ra contact the best way that I have found to deal with psychic greetings is in meditation. In that state I visualize the nature of the attack and see how some thought or deed of my own, that was inharmonious, was intensified by a negative being. Then I see this being as my brother or sister, in truth, and send them heartfelt love and light. I send that same love and light to the manifestation of the greeting. Then I send love and light to myself and surround myself in an armor of love and light. As Ra said, Love is the great protector. (63.5)

Today is the 42^nd anniversary of the beginning of the Ra contact. It almost feels like it was another incarnation ago, but I look back at that time with great appreciation for having been able to be part of the group that brought through those of Ra through to share their philosophy of the Law of One with planet Earth. Don, Carla, and I looked at each session of Ra as a means to provide a more effective and inspired spiritual path for anyone who wants to make The Choice of polarity, open the heart in unconditional love, and graduate into the fourth density of love and understanding.

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

January 15

The Perception Of Manyness

I am the spirit of Jesus Christ, the principle of the full consciousness of love in the vibration which comforts this instrument.

In your minds you know that all things come from one source and go to one source. And yet in your hearts you who peer into the gloom of the shadows of the world’s day perceive often that many things come not from one source but from many, and likewise that the fruits of action are scattered to the twelve directions, not moving once again into unity but shattering again and again into the chaos of unintended effect.

Yet we say to you that one of the great and overriding benefits of consciousness with which the consciousness of love has been intermingled is a realization of the incorrectness of the perception of manyness, either of the source or of the final disposition of the energies which move within your notice and awareness.

Seek first to know the consciousness of love when you wish, secondly, to know the nature of those things which occur to you which are played out in front of you and which depart from you. Only in that transformed consciousness shall your eyes see truly and your heart resound with the unity of love.

Peace be with you, now and always. 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the quote from 103 comes from Chapter One and the section on how to listen:

How to listen

Communication is the word that describes the goal of coming into union with another person through the use of words. In such a sharing of our thoughts and feelings with another person we are seeking to give and receive helpful information about ourselves and an other self. In order for such communication to work there needs to be an alternation of speaking and listening. I am of the opinion that the more difficult half of this coming into union is the listening. The talking is the easy part. More often than not a person is more interested in being heard than in hearing. This usually manifests in the one listening not really listening when the other person is talking as much as they are fashioning a response to what the other person is saying as they are saying it. In a hustle and bustle world this is often utilized as the quickest means of getting the conversation completed so that one more item on the to-do list can be checked off as the next one is undertaken. Actually taking the time to let the spoken words sink in before responding might even be considered a little weird in our fast-paced modern world. Carla had some perceptive insights into the art of listening:

What comes through in correspondence or talking may or may not be a linear, straight-forward thing with a shallow bottom and clear meaning. Far more likely is a multi-layered piece of communication in which some questions and issues may be expressed while others remain unspoken and perhaps even unknown to the speaker. This is also the nature of the listening self, and each and every distortion and insecurity can baffle clear listening. How we hear people begins in a welter of our own unadmitted biases and progresses through patience, persistence and sheer learning experience and the ensuing humility. Carla L. Rueckert, A Wanderer’s Handbook, pg. 450

This very mindful process of engaging in communication with the emphasis on listening, as the avenue to greater clarity in communication, elevates a conversation to a spiritual practice. That is certainly antithetical to the practical demands of our modern culture, but I believe that it is possible that in our most important one-on-one communications it would be well worth the effort to utilize the listening ear more in order to enhance our coming into union with our much-valued other selves. Once again I would like share a beautiful quote from Carla on the value of listening:

The spiritually oriented listener, then, is listening in eternity, with the consciousness of the widest viewpoint, which is infinity, and yet she is also focusing on this one soul, this one thought process, this one area of concern and learning. It is a practice to delight the heart that yearns always to be better, to serve in a higher way, to become more pure, to honor the divinity in people more deeply. It is a nurturing method that is intangible, yet most keenly felt by the speaker. There is nothing like the feeling of finally being fully heard, or even heard at all. As with the exercise of all gifts, the listener becomes the learner of much. Beyond any understanding of the problems heard about, there is the process of resting more and more in the wordless clarity of silence to bring our minds and hearts to a more profound awareness of the self as a spiritual being. This is the greatest gift of silence: it gives us ourselves as it gives the speaker himself. Carla L. Rueckert, A Wanderer’s Handbook, pg. 452

In this quote Q’uo gives us the thought that our listening to others might be more spiritually advanced as a means of enhancing communication rather than attempting to be heard.

Earlier conversation before this channeled communication talked about the way people do not listen to each other but rather each have things they wish to say to the other, and this is, of course, a very prominent way in which clear communication is sabotaged. If you become aware of a situation in which your words are not being heard, then it is that you may ask yourself whether you wish to be heard or whether you wish to allow the other self to express that which that self wishes to express and assume a role of simply listening. In many instances the appropriate response we would say, metaphysically speaking, is simply to abandon the desire to be heard and become a sounding board that can hear what an other self is attempting to say. This yielding up of the inner agenda and the thing to say is a mark of spiritual maturity. It is an action very difficult to complete, for there is within each self a deep well of desire to be heard, to be heard by the self, and to be heard by those other selves which have meaning for the self. And yet many times the straightest and shortest distance to clear communication is to become silent, to release the desire to be heard and to accept, temporarily, a role of purely listening. Q’uo, December 5, 1999.

This morning I spent most of my time getting the house ready for our pubic channeling session that will begin at 1 pm this afternoon. I got all of the chairs set up in the living room for 15 people, and I got chairs five chairs ready in my bedroom where our channels will tune before beginning to channel. I also threw out all of the trash bags of kitty litter and uneaten food so their odors would not be present. Then I took a speed walk, got a bath, posted this Camelot Journal entry early, and had lunch.

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

January 14

Sleep’s Communion With Spirit

I am of the principle of divine love. I greet you in the full consciousness of that love which is the love of Jesus the Christ.

Once more the day’s star shines and the activities of a busy round begin. And each soul, vertical, dressed, equipped for the day, moves into the rhythms of that vertical activity which is called living the life.

May we suggest that it is most helpful to realize that that which has been yours during your sleep, during your period of horizontal relaxation, is most valuable. For upon your bed you do not strive. You do not struggle. You do not mourn or praise. But as one who dives into deep water, you are covered with the blessings which sleep brings. For sleep opens the door to the spirit’s communion with that spirit which we are.

Allow the vertical part of your life to carry the horizontal member which lies within the heart and mind. Allow the consciousness of peace and comfort to interpenetrate each activity. For those peaceful lessons learned upon the nightly bed may so inform the day that your life finds more and more value in its happenings.

You see, your life is only yours insofar as you perceive it, and it is your powers of perception that are clarified and strengthened by obtaining the peaceful spaciousness of water whilst bounding actively upon the currents of the air.

Might this combination of action and rest offer you enhanced realization of peace, 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.