The Camelot Journal

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from November 12, 2006:

Question from M: Ever since 9/11, I’ve been concerned that this planet may be heading towards a catastrophic war. I feel a sense of failure, helplessness, and hopelessness. I feel myself heading towards complete despair. I’m beginning to question whether all is well with the birthing of fourth-density Earth. Has the planetary experiment gone awry? If so, what spiritual principles are involved in transmuting despair into hope and doubt into encouragement?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this day. Thank you for calling us to your circle of seeking. It is a great privilege to share in your meditation. As always, we would ask your kind consideration in being very careful what thoughts of ours you use as you move through thinking about your spiritual process. Please disregard any thought that we offer that is not immediately helpful to you. We would not wish to be a stumbling block before you. We thank you for that consideration, for it allows us to speak freely without being concerned that we might infringe upon your free will. We are emphatically not authority figures but rather travelers with you upon a certain kind of path that goes on forever.

This day you have asked about feelings that you have about the society and culture in which you live and about the government which rules your particular part of the world. You express feelings of deep concern, despair, and hopelessness. You express a feeling that you are not able to help the situation by anything that you can do. And you ask what the spiritual principles are in dealing with these thoughts and in looking for ways to transform the inner landscape of your thoughts. My sister, we thank you for this query. Our response must be somewhat indirect as we cannot make a frontal approach to your query. We are those who come on a vibration of unconditional Love. Our contact, and our type of contact in general, does not have the facility with detailed, earthly information of a practical nature that, say, an inner-planes entity might have. It is not our place to interfere with the governance or the affairs in general of planet Earth.

For good information on how to affect your government, your politics, your economics, or your society in general by practical and worldly means, we would strongly suggest that you inquire from other sources than we. We are a carefully tuned contact that focuses upon spiritual principles. From that level, my sister, we may answer you, but it is perhaps an answer other than you would have wished. And for that we can only say that our ability to speak through this instrument is based upon her preserving a certain tuning. Were she to slip out of this tuning range, we would be unable to continue offering her information. However, she might be able to continue receiving information from an entity of a negative nature that was able to ape or imitate the vibration of those of the Q’uo group.

We say these things to you so that you will understand if we do not roll up our sleeves and dig into the cleaning up of planet Earth. Indeed, my sister, we do not see that picture. Let us talk a bit about what we do see upon your planet at this time. Firstly, you were concerned that there may be a conflagration caused by humans setting off bombs in a nuclear holocaust that would strip the planet of its atmosphere or, were it not so horrendous a conflagration, would simply cloud the atmosphere so that life upon planet Earth would become extinct from its inability to function in the new environment. There are many peoples upon your planet who have access to such bombs and weapons of mass destruction and there are more who have the capacity to acquire them if they see the need. Therefore, my sister, your concern is valid. What shall you do then with that concern?

Question from M: “Ever since 9/11, I’ve been concerned that this planet may be heading towards a catastrophic war. I feel a sense of failure, helplessness, and hopelessness. I feel myself heading towards complete despair. I’m beginning to question whether all is well with the birthing of fourth-density Earth. Has the planetary experiment gone awry? If so, what spiritual principles are involved in transmuting despair into hope and doubt into encouragement?” Q’uo began by saying that we have asked about feelings that we have about the culture in which we live and about the government which rules our part of the world, and we express feelings of concern, and hopelessness, and we express a feeling that we are not able to help the situation by anything that we can do, so we ask what the spiritual principles are in dealing with these thoughts, so Q’uo said they cannot take a direct approach to our query because they are those who come on a vibration of unconditional Love, and their type of contact does not deal with information of a practical nature since it is not their place to interfere with the governments of Earth. Q’uo went on to say for information on how to affect our government, our economics, or our society by practical means, Q’uo suggested that we inquire from other sources because they are a tuned contact that focuses upon spiritual principles, and from that level they may answer us, but it is an answer other than we would have wished, and for that they can only say that their ability to speak through Carla is based upon her preserving a certain tuning, and if she to slipped out of this tuning  Q’uo said they would be unable to continue offering her information, but she might be able to continue receiving information from an entity of a negative nature that was able to imitate their vibration. Then Q’uo said these things to us so that we will understand if they do not roll up their sleeves and dig into the cleaning up of planet Earth because they do not see that picture, and what they do see upon our planet was our concern that there may be a war caused by countries setting off bombs in a nuclear holocaust that would strip the planet of its atmosphere, or it would cloud the atmosphere so that life upon Earth would die from its inability to function in the new environment, and there are many countries upon our planet who have access to weapons of mass destruction, and our concern is valid, so what shall we do with that concern? On January 1, 2006, Q’uo spoke about how we can deal with the possible use of weapons of mass destruction:

In terms of your living out your natural life, there is no physical catastrophe that is necessary in order to express the changes that the planet is going through. Humankind is another story in terms of the possibility of planetary disaster. The planet itself does not need to extinguish itself in order for fourth density to emerge. However, there is a troubling tendency within humankind to use violence and the expressions of violence of which your people are capable at this time. The only reason for fear that we would see in the picture that we look at at this time is that tendency among your people to feel that it is possible to create a better situation than the one that is currently had by destroying people, buildings, and the environments with your weapons of mass destruction. Enough of those weapons of mass destruction going off at one time could indeed remove life from the planet entirely.

We are without concern as to whether this happens because of our being unable to do anything about it. We hope that each of you can take into your prayer life, your meditations, and your interactions with others the awareness of that shadow side which lies within the heart and the makeup of each human being on planet Earth. Where in your energy do you see the desire to destroy rather than communicate, to blow something up rather than take the long and sometimes messy route of discussion and heartfelt reaction that results in creating light where there was darkness, love where there was bitterness, and so forth?

Thisinstrument recently read an article which described an Hawaiian healing technique called oponopono. In this healing technique, the healer never touches the patient and may not even see the patient. He may simply be told about the patient. This healing technique is intended to be used in healing mental illness, emotional distress, and the criminal mentality. The healer receives all the information concerning the patient. He then looks within to discover that condition within himself. When he has found that condition within himself, he sets about healing that condition within himself. When he has healed himself, quite often the prisoner or mental patient is found to require no more medication or to have been healed of criminal tendencies. The spiritual principle that is behind this healing technique is the very basic principle of unity. All things are one. It is interesting that we see all of you, individually and collectively, as enormously greater in substance than any other details of your Earthly environment whereas you see yourself as the smallest portion of an environment that towers above you, beneath you, and on all sides of you, making you insignificant, helpless, hopeless and full of despair.

Wewould encourage those who wish to make a difference on planet Earth to gaze at the planetary dysfunction and then to internalize that gaze and find the dysfunction within. It is not difficult for most humans to do. Both the one known as J and the one known as T were talking (during the round-robin discussion that typically precedes a Sunday Meditation) about how easy it is to move from a mental and emotional attitude of unconditional Love to an attitude of irritation and hostility when the catalyst of an unhappy and abrasive person breaks into the peaceful world of home and family.

What dysfunction is there in the world this day that might lead to the self-destructive and utterly irrational decision to set off nuclear bombs? What is that distortion but the belief that there is separation between people? How often, my sister, do you think that you will be able to work on healing that sense of separation between yourself and others that you see in the world’s dysfunction? We ask you to realize that we are speaking on the level of a causality that is far beyond the causality of worldly things. We are not saying that if you heal your sense of separation today, the world will change tomorrow. We are saying that when individuals who belong to the tribe of humankind choose one, upon another, upon another, to serve the Love and the Light and to refrain from fear, that attitude will spread. That emotional safety net will begin to spread out. And the more people that are doing this kind of work within themselves, the more the environment will shift on the inner planes in such a way that those who come after you will be able to do this work in consciousness more and more easily.

Then Q’uo said Carla recently read an article which described an Hawaiian healing technique called oponopono, and in this healing technique, the healer may not see the patient, and this healing technique is intended to be used in healing mental illness, emotional distress, and the criminal mentality, so the healer receives all the information concerning the patient, then he looks within to discover that condition within himself, and when he has found that condition within himself, and when he has healed himself, the prisoner or mental patient is found to have been healed of criminal tendencies so that the spiritual principle that is behind this healing technique is the principle that all things are one, and it is interesting that Q’uo sees all of us, individually and collectively, as greater in substance than any other details of our Earthly environment whereas we see our self as the smallest portion of an environment that surrounds us on all sides making us insignificant and full of despair. Q’uo went on to say that they would encourage those who wish to make a difference on planet Earth to gaze at the planetary dysfunction and then to internalize that gaze and find the dysfunction within, which is not difficult for most of us to do, and J and T were talking about how easy it is to move from a mental and emotional attitude of unconditional Love to an attitude of irritation when the catalyst of an abrasive person breaks into the peaceful world of home and family. Then Q’uo asked what dysfunction is there in the world this day that might lead to the irrational decision to set off nuclear bombs but the belief that there is separation between people, and how often do we think that we will be able to work on healing that sense of separation between our self and others that we see in the world’s dysfunction? So Q’uo asked us to realize that they are speaking on the level of a cause that is beyond the cause of worldly things because they are not saying that if we heal our sense of separation today, the world will change tomorrow, but they are saying that when individuals who belong to the tribe of humankind choose to serve the Love and the Light and to refrain from fear, that attitude will spread, and the more people that are doing this kind of work within themselves, the more the environment will shift on the inner planes in such a way that those who come after us will be able to do this work in consciousness more easily. On July 11, 1993, Hatonn described the sense of separation that could lead to warlike behavior:

The sense of loss bespeaks a separation. It is a separation, in the case of one who has died, that is easily understood, for one is no longer able to communicate in those old familiar ways with the beloved one. At a deeper level, however, the sense of separation registers as a kind of disharmony with all that is. One perhaps feels torn out of the sense that one may have had of being rooted in, or belonging to, an environment that is nurturing and welcoming, staring now at a hostile and unforgiving land. The separation then cuts quite deep.

It is understandable that entities gazing upon the world scene would feel helpless, hopeless, and despairing. Certainly, my sister, we, too, see the broken bodies of the children and other innocents carelessly killed by those who do not see that they and their brothers are one. We do not intend to downplay or shrug off the suffering of the world. At the same time, we do see from a point of view which encompasses a larger pattern than you can see from within incarnation. The fourth density is being born normally and in a healthy way. The efforts of many groups, including this one through whom we speak this day, have spoken of Light and Love and the word has been passed, more than perhaps you might realize, at the grass-roots level, at the level of indigenous peoples; and at the level in civilized worlds of the first fumblings and reachings for something that has substance. We see the world waking up to Love. We see it beginning to identify the hunger that it has. We see it beginning to respond, Love being reflected in Love. There is great hope at that grass-roots level, below the radar of politics and empire.

We cannot tell you not to be concerned about politics, society, economics, and culture. Depending upon your own judgment and your own free will, we encourage you and all entities to follow your heart, to define those gifts that you might feel to share with your society and your culture that might make it better. This is your free will and your good work to do if you wish it. What we are here to speak with you concerning is something far simpler and at the same time something far greater. We come to tell you a story about Love: Love unconditional, Love unlimited, Love that creates and destroys. It is a simple concept: this one great original Thought of unconditional Love creating the universe in order to know more about Itself. If you can look at your experience in the context of the Creator’s desire to gather experience and information about Itself, then you will see that the Creator is perfectly happy with you whatever you are doing and especially delighted with you when you are attempting to know yourself at an ever deeper level.

If a third-density experience ends not with a bang but with a whimper by humanity polluting its air and its water until it can no longer find a way to live, this will not overly trouble the Creator, for the Creator is gathering the information about the entire range of experience that is had by this population or tribe of humanity on the third planet from your sun. Indeed, if you were to destroy your planet, as has been done elsewhere in this solar system, on Mars, for instance, the Creator would still feel that it had received good information from you. Consequently, to the Creator you basically can do no wrong as long as you are authentically acting and gaining experience.

Now Q’uo said it is understandable that entities gazing upon the world scene would feel helpless and despairing because we see the broken bodies of children and other innocents carelessly killed by those who do not see that they and their brothers are one, but we do see from a larger point of view than we can see from within incarnation that the fourth density is being born in a healthy way because the efforts of many groups, such as this one, have spoken of Light and Love, and the word has been passed at the grass-roots level, at the level of indigenous peoples, and at the level in civilized worlds of the first reaching for something that has substance, and they see the world waking up to Love, and there is great hope at that grass-roots level, below the radar of politics and empire. Then Q’uo said they cannot tell us not to be concerned about politics, and economics, and depending upon our free will, they encouraged us and all entities to follow our heart to offer those gifts that we might feel to share with our culture that might make it better, and they are here to speak with us concerning something simpler and far greater because they come to tell us a story about Love unconditional, Love unlimited, Love that creates and destroys, and it is a simple concept of the one great original Thought of unconditional Love creating the universe in order to know more about Itself, so if we can look at our experience in the context of the Creator’s desire to gather information about Itself, then we will see that the Creator is happy with us whatever we are doing and especially delighted with us when we are attempting to know our self at a deeper level. Q’uo continued by saying if a third-density experience ends not with a bang but with a whimper by humanity polluting its air and its water until it can no longer find a way to live, this will not trouble the Creator, for the Creator is gathering the information about the range of experience that is had by this population on the third planet from our sun, and if we were to destroy our planet as did those of Mars, the Creator would feel that It had received good information from us, so to the Creator we can do no wrong as long as we are authentically gaining experience. On June 22, 1993, Q’uo described the nature of the one great original Thought of Love that created the universe:

The Creator created a great original Expression or Thought. This we have called the Logos or Love. This principle, this Love, created all that there is by the quantizing articulation of Light. Yet all that is created is of the nature of its parent source, which is Love. The reason for offering love, appreciation, a blessing and thanksgiving to the infinite One is that the entity within incarnation is attempting to form its vibratory frequency more and more like that of the vibrational frequency of the one great original Thought, which is Love. The closer the seeker comes to matching that vibratory frequency, the more that entity will be perceived as offering praise and thanksgiving. This is true far beneath any articulation of words or even what you consider thoughts. Rather, it is in the nature of the way creation is built. That is, original Thought expresses in Love, thanks, blessing, praise and rejoicing. Thusly, it is not a Creator hungry for praise and thanks that requires homage of its worshippers, but rather it is Love, it is reflected in Love, and in that infinite reflection lies truth.

Now, to your own consciousness and conscience, you have much more accountability. For you sent yourself forth into incarnation with a plan. And there is a part of you that is hoping day by day, as you go through your entire life, that you are on track with your mission, your plan, and your purpose. There are those who attempt to nail down the nature of that plan. Yet you as a spirit did not plan specific activities. You planned opportunities and relationships. Those are the keys. When you are tempted to feel helpless, hopeless, and despairing, we would encourage you to remember that you do not need to relate to some idea of the Creator and please the Creator. Neither do you need to relate to the world and in some way please the world. In terms of your spiritual work, you have only yourself to please. When you see before you your own statement, “I feel helpless; I feel hopeless; I feel despair,” how do you think your highest and best self would respond to that complaint? You see, my sister, the answers lie within you already. By merely encouraging your own process a bit, we believe you may see the answers flowing into place before you.

You are not helpless. You are a person of infinite power. You are not hopeless, unless you choose to take that pose and stand as a statue, ignoring the movements of life. You may well be despairing because you have allowed yourself to identify the illusion as the realest portion of your life. In actuality, in terms of spiritual evolution, that which occurs outside of your mind is food for the mill. The pay dirt of spiritual seeking lies not in circumstances but in how you choose to respond to them. There are always reasons to despair. There are always reasons to be intimidated. That which this instrument calls the loyal opposition would be delighted to see entities give up those faculties of hope and faith that make people unreasonably optimistic.

We, on the other hand, would encourage you to see that if you choose to stand knowing who you are, your feet planted upon the soil of your life and your experience and your arms stretched in praise and thanksgiving to the Creator of all things, you are a person of great power. If you so choose to adopt and embrace faith, no suffering can break you, for you choose the truth, and all else is illusion. If you choose hope, those wings shall fly you where you need to go. For each entity, morale and attitude are a matter of choice. There is no limitation which can keep an entity from grooming and settling his own mind and his own heart along the lines of peace, and joy, and thankfulness if he so desires to seek those levels of being within himself. And, my sister, as each entity does these things, so the world will change.

Q’uo went on to say we have more accountability to our own consciousness, for we sent our self forth into incarnation with a plan, and we are hoping that we are on track with our mission, so there are those who attempt to nail down the nature of that plan, but as a spirit we did not plan specific activities because we planned opportunities and relationships, and when we are tempted to feel hopeless Q’uo encouraged us to remember that we do not need to relate to some idea of the Creator and please the Creator, nor do we need to please the world because in terms of our spiritual work, we have only our self to please, and when we see our statement, “I feel helpless; I feel hopeless; I feel despair,” how do we think our highest self would respond to that complaint? So Q’uo said the answers lie within us already, and by encouraging our own process they believed we may see the answers flowing into place before us. Now Q’uo said we are not helpless because we are a person of infinite power, and we are not hopeless, unless we choose to stand as a statue, ignoring the movements of life, so we may be despairing because we have allowed our self to identify the illusion as the real portion of our life when, in terms of spiritual evolution, that which occurs outside of our mind is food for the mill, and the value of spiritual seeking lies not in circumstances but in how we choose to respond to them, and there are always reasons to despair, for that which Carla calls the loyal opposition would be delighted to see us give up hope and faith that make us optimistic. Q’uo continued by saying they would encourage us to see that if we choose to stand knowing who we are, our feet planted upon the soil of our life and our arms stretched out in praise and thanksgiving to the Creator of all things, we are a person of great power, and if we choose to embrace faith, no suffering can break us, for we choose the truth, and if we choose hope, those wings shall fly us where we need to go, for each of us attitude is matter of choice, and there is no limitation which can keep us from settling our mind and heart along the lines of joy and thankfulness if we desire to seek those levels of being within our self, and as we do these things, so the world will change. On January 28, 1981, Latwii suggested ways that we can contact deeper level of our being:

First of all, may we say that meditation is the most accessible way for most of the people of your planet to obtain contact with their inner being, their higher self, and the many guides which wait upon the seeking of the seeker. That it is the best way cannot be said for certain for many ways there are for those known as the [inaudible] to make such contact. But many steps of preparation are necessary for the utilization of these other techniques. So, we feel we might be most accurate in our response by suggesting that meditation is the most accessible means at this time for obtaining a contact with your deeper, or shall we say, higher levels of being including your higher self.

May we ask if there is another query at this time?

M: We see a lot of lies and corruption in government in these times. What spiritual principles are involved in holding a vision of peace in the face of rampant corruption?

We are those of the Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my sister. There is a saying among your people, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This tends to be a true statement. You may see power in one of two ways. You may see power as coming from the outside in or you may see power coming from the inside out. The power that comes from the outside in is the power of government and authority, the usual suspects in your world. There are many ways in which people can be persecuted by authority figures. You have seen evidence of many of these kinds of persecution. You recoil before the stink of empire. It is understandable that you would see this power as being very vast and hanging over you somehow. This is the way of things upon the level of consensus reality.

We are witnesses to another kind of power. It is not the power that changes governments or topples armies. It is not a power that has weaponry or clever disguises or plans and protocols. The power that comes from the inside out is the power, firstly, of knowing who you are and, secondly, of emptying out the content of who you are to the extent that you are able to follow the changing currents and eddies of the present moment. We would encourage you to see yourself as a lighthouse. The lighthouse lights its lamp and keeps its windows transparent. It gives to that lamp the power to turn in endless circles, so that those coming in from the open water may see the rocks and avoid them and come to a safe harbor. A spiritual lighthouse has its own kind of Light and when you become aware of the power of your beingness, you may, if you wish, consciously become that kind of lighthouse that radiates Love and Light into the spiritual space around you.

All the speaking that you might do is not one-thousandth as powerful as the focus of your very nature when it is focused upon unconditional Love. Let your answer to fear be an openhearted, sunny, carefree, joyous, confident feeling of Love and rightness. Develop that environment within yourself: lightening up, looking for the laughter, looking for the fun. And although the world may seem to wag on as before, no better and no worse, do not be deceived. What you do within the precincts of your own sacred heart and mind affects your world. Please know, my sister, that people by the millions are asking these questions, coming to this same kind of conclusion and taking up the power that is theirs by spiritual birthright.

M: “We see a lot of lies and corruption in government in these times. What spiritual principles are involved in holding a vision of peace in the face of rampant corruption?” Q’uo began by saying we are aware of your query, and there is a saying among your people, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” and this tends to be a true statement, so we may see power in one of two ways: we may see power as coming from the outside in, or we may see power coming from the inside out, and the power that comes from the outside in is the power of government, and there are many ways in which people can be persecuted by authority figures, so we have seen these kinds of persecution which cause us to recoil before the stink of empire, and it is understandable that we would see this power as being vast and hanging over us since this is the way of things upon the level of consensus reality. Q’uo went on to say they are witnesses to another kind of power, but it is not the power that changes governments, or topples armies, or a power that has clever disguises, but it is the power that comes from the inside out and is the power of knowing who we are and, secondly, of emptying out the content of who we are so that we are able to follow the changing currents of the present moment, so Q’uo encouraged us to see our self as a lighthouse that lights its lamp and keeps its windows transparent, and we give to that lamp the power to turn in endless circles, so that those coming in from the open water may see the rocks and avoid them and come to a safe harbor because a spiritual lighthouse has its own kind of Light, and when we become aware of the power of our beingness, we may consciously become that kind of lighthouse that radiates Love and Light into the spiritual space around us. Q’uo continued by saying all the speaking that we might do is not as powerful as the focus of our nature when it is focused upon unconditional Love, so let our answer to fear be an openhearted feeling of Love and rightness, and develop that environment within ourself of looking for the laughter, and although the world may seem to wag on as before, no better and no worse, we should not be deceived because what we do within the precincts of our sacred heart affects our world, and people by the millions are asking these questions, coming to this same kind of conclusion, and taking up the power that is theirs by spiritual birthright. On May 20, 2005, Q’uo spoke of what it is like when we become a lighthouse:

You are as the lighthouse and you shine over stormy waters, giving your love and your light that is as a beacon. Your fidelity to unconditional Love, by its very nature, is able to create awareness within entities which may be being tempted to join what you would call the darker side of the left-hand path of service to self in such a way that such entities cannot deny the truth of that light which they see before them.

May we ask if there is another query at this time? We are those of Q’uo.

M: I am concerned that people on planet Earth do not have good information and that their ignorance could jeopardize the entire planet. Ra said of those unawakened beings in their third-density experience that, “To those who wish to sleep we could only offer those comforts designed for the sleeping.” What if Earth’s sleepers endangered the entire planet by creating the conditions which could precipitate nuclear war by failing to counteract the control that the service-to-self leadership exercises on such a wide and pervasive scale?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my sister. We have no pat answer for you in this wise except to assure you that there are avenues of information available globally to those civilized entities who are equipped with electricity and computers. The amount of information available to those who have access to your internet is astronomical. The information is available for those who seek it. The Earth is not being threatened by those who do not seek. The patterns which present themselves to your eyes at this time are strong patterns that have repeated within your history quite a few times. They are patterns of empire: the gathering of resources, the subjugation of peoples, and the turn of the wheel, so that the conqueror becomes the conquered, and another world balance of power is set up. This wheel has turned before. It shall turn again. We would suggest, my sister, that knowledge is not the problem. Indeed, there is only a problem within the illusion. It is difficult to communicate in words how helpful it is to release worry and concern. These energies are energies of exhausting power. They rob you of your natural optimism and confidence.

It may seem that we are suggesting that you turn your back on the facts and dwell in an ivory tower. We do not intend to suggest this. We intend rather to suggest that you love the world and accept it as it is.  Once you have chosen that fundamental attitude of loving the world no matter what, then it is not going to unbalance you to investigate as much as you wish into the structures of politics, economics, social living, culture, and the formation of myth. Learn all that you can. Absorb and consider and mull over information as long as you wish, as long as you are able to do this within the context of loving that which you understand ever better. Understanding is a positive thing. When you gather information so that you can find more things about which to worry, then you have begun to take the world too seriously.

May we ask if there is another query at this time?

M: I want to alert people to the information they don’t have, but I am concerned about preserving their free will. What spiritual principles are involved in desiring to share information which may open their eyes to the reality of the planetary game without a prior request to do so?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my sister. The spiritual principle involved in communication of ideas is what this instrument would call the Johnny Appleseed Principle. All thoughts that you feel are helpful and useful for others remain so only in your own mind, just as other people may tell you all manner of things which you do not find relevant or interesting. So, you may talk until you are, as this instrument would say, blue in the face without ever making sense to anyone else or doing them any good. Spiritual information is sensitive to context and environment. You cannot simply take the world by the throat and say, “Listen to me. I have information that is helpful.” Those who force information on others are acting in a way that they feel is helpful, yet, in effect, it is service to self, for they are teaching what they believe is good for you without regard to what you think about it or how you react to it.

The Johnny Appleseed Principle is one of dropping seeds. This instrument, for instance, and the research group with which she is associated, maintains a website with thousands of transcripts and speeches that this instrument has created through her work throughout several decades. It lies there, waiting to be found by those who have a spiritual impulse. Many, many other beautiful and inspiring sources of information also lie waiting. There is no shortage of information. We ask you to rest your concern and internalize that desire to help so that you see the very living of your life as an emblem and a symbol of the living of the life of the world. Consciousness is not yours alone. You share the innermost identity of yourself with all that there is.

Walk, my sister, out of the small rooms and dim hallways of fear and come out into the outdoors of wind and water and fire and earth. Come from the local to the infinite. Come from the world of detail to the world of the four directions, the elements, and the powers. Come to the great cross of life: the vertical reach to the infinite; the horizontal reach within incarnation to loving and being loved. And know that it is in the little things that you shall create a new heaven and a new Earth. May you do each little thing as if it were a great honor and privilege! May you shine as the lighthouse you are!

M: I want to alert people to the information they don’t have, but I am concerned about preserving their free will. What spiritual principles are involved in desiring to share information which may open their eyes to the reality of the planetary game without a prior request to do so? Q’uo said that the spiritual principle involved in communication of ideas is what Carla would call the Johnny Appleseed Principle, so that all thoughts that we feel are helpful for others remain so only in our mind, just as other people may tell us many things which we do not find or interesting, so we may talk until we are blue in the face without making sense to anyone or doing them any good, and spiritual information is sensitive to context, and we cannot take the world by the throat and say, “Listen to me. I have information that is helpful.” Because those who force information on others are acting in a way that they feel is helpful, yet it is service to self, for they are teaching what they believe is good for us without regard to what we think about it or how we react to it. Then Q’uo said the Johnny Appleseed Principle is one of dropping seeds, and Carla, and the research group with which she is associated, maintains a website with thousands of transcripts and speeches that she has created through her work over several decades, and it lies there waiting to be found by those who have a spiritual impulse, and many other inspiring sources of information also lie waiting as there is no shortage of information, so Q’uo asked us to rest our concern and internalize that desire to help so that we see the living of our life as a symbol of the living of the life of the world because consciousness is not ours alone, and we share the innermost identity of our self with all that there is. Now Q’uo said walk out of the small rooms and dim hallways of fear, and come out into the outdoors of wind, and water, and fire, and earth, and come from the local to the infinite, from the world of detail to the world of the four directions, the elements, and the powers, and come to the great cross of life: “the vertical reach to the infinite; the horizontal reach within incarnation to loving and being loved. And know that it is in the little things that you shall create a new Heaven and a new Earth. May you do each little thing as if it were a great honor and privilege! May you shine as the lighthouse you are!” On January 20, 2006, Q’uo spoke of a new heaven and a new Earth:

There are indeed cycles upon your sphere, within your solar system, and within your galaxy that are impinging upon your Earth at this time. It is an amazing time of the collection of the old and its eventual disposal and the dawning of a new Heaven and a new Earth. It is, indeed, that time that has been predicted and discussed for many of your centuries and even millennia. It has been a part of the indigenous culture of several of your religious and cultural systems.

Depending upon the source who is studying these systems, they are classified as either religious or mythical. However, the basic concept, of there being cycles of time that cover thousands of your years and that have to do with the perception of the stars and their courses, is a part of the very fabric of all of the cultures of your planet. There are very few of your people that do not have, in one way or another, the stories of large portions of time within which entities proceed until they come to the end of the perceived time of things being as they are. There is at that time a sea change. One tide goes out and another comes in. And there is a new way of experiencing time and space, as we have discussed with this particular group.

May we ask if there is another query at this time?

Jim: Not from here.

Q’uo: If there is no further query, then we shall leave this group and this instrument in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I went upstairs and re-recorded the section on When We Go Too Far From Normalcy in a System it Acts Oddly from Chapter Seven of 102. Then I went outside and pumped half of the water out of the fish pond, and while it was pumping out I cleaned the filters for the fountain in the fish pond and then I used a squeegee and some Windex to clean the outside of the windows in the living room which are under the bird feeder. Then I filled the pond with fresh water and put in some AquaSafe to neutralize the chlorine in the water.

This afternoon I drove down to Walgreen’s and bought some Super Glue, Kleenex, Hair Thickener, and some Glucosamine Condroiten.

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

April 10

Offering The Self

I am of the consciousness of Love, and I greet you in that Love which is Jesus the Christ.

Gaze upon the qualities of Love divine. See the body broken, the life split and sacrificed. See that in the breaking and in the offering lie the secret of infinite Love. Each life may be offered up and thus broken, and from that break may come an infinity of gifts.

We do not suggest for one instant that all sacrifice is good. Rather, we suggest, for one who would love, that there is a blessing and sanctification in offering the self to be used, to be broken, to be opened, and to be shared that is most Godly. “When He had given thanks,” it is written, “He took the bread and broke it and gave it to each of His disciples, saying, ‘Take. Eat. This is my body. Do this in remembrance of me.’” May your day and your life, day by day, be a process of thanksgiving, breaking, offering and remembering.

We leave you in the 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The Q’uo quote today is from October 1, 2001:

The first question today is from J: “Exactly what is the central sun of our galaxy around which all the stars revolve? P considers it to be a super-dense mass equivalent to thousands of our suns. It is constantly emitting powerful, omnidirectional rays, punctuated by periodic mega-bursts that flow out to all parts of the galaxy. “He feels that these travel just below the speed of light. Do any emissions, these so-called trigger points, travel at the speed of thought, in other words, instantaneously? “I’ve considered that the central sun was another name for a black hole. Are they or are they not the same thing? Can these be compared and discussed as to the role that each plays in creation and the evolution of consciousness? I want to know what the central sun is. Does it have anything to do with black holes? And what is the effect of the central sun and of black holes upon the evolution of consciousness?”

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this day. It is a great privilege and pleasure to be a part of your circle of seeking. The beauty of your vibrations is stunning and the combinations of energies, as your auras blend in your sacred circle, is a wonderful bouquet of sight, and texture, and tone. It is indeed a privilege to be called to this circle and we thank you.

It will aid us greatly in offering our opinions if each of you would take responsibility for discriminating between those thoughts which we offer that seem helpful to you and those thoughts which we offer which do not seem helpful to you. Please take those that seem helpful and leave the rest behind. If you will use this discrimination then we shall be much more comfortable with the concept of sharing our thoughts with you. Our concern is to preserve your free will. We are not those of your planetary influence. We do not have the right to infringe upon your free will as would, say, a family member or a close friend. It is important for our own preservation of polarity that we be very sure that we remain those who share opinions and not become those who cross that line into telling people what to do. This we would not wish to come close to doing, and we thank you for this consideration in this regard.

We thank the one known as J for this query. We must proceed with exquisite care in our response. There are several reasons for this need for care. We will enumerate them. Firstly, as this instrument said to the one known as Jim before the session, the request that is specifically placed before us for information is not a request for spiritual principles but rather a request for information on how things work in the physical illusion. This constitutes, in the normal run of questions, a question that we are unable to answer. The substantive difficulty here is that this represents an active phase of a seeking entity’s learning process at this time. Rather than asking for spiritual principles which would be helpful in approaching this question, the query was simply to explain the situation as regards the central sun and to compare and contrast this central sun or the idea of this central sun with the idea or concept of black holes. That is our first problem with this query as it was asked.

Oursecond and equally substantive challenge in responding to this query is that the instrument which we use at this time has virtually no scientific background and therefore we would be completely unable to fulfill the parameters of your query, my brother, in that we cannot say anything exact through this instrument having to do with scientific questions. The concepts and the vocabulary for such exactitude are missing in this instrument’s make up. Therefore, our response shall be inexact and shall contain that flow of information which we are able to offer which we feel may be of use to you, my brother.

The concept of a central sun is one which many sources, including us, have used in discussing the energies that pour from the center of a galaxy or the creation itself. It is a challenge to discuss this concept of the central sun because of the relationship of the space/time or physical world, which is that which houses your consensus reality, and the metaphysical universe or time/space which houses your consciousness, infinity, eternity and the great mystery of non-locality. In the space/time universe, there are layers of physical laws which, to some extent, work in order to create information which is helpful in making the gadgets that your civilization enjoys. In a time/space universe, the work done is unseen. The values are not local and one is freed from the relativity of space/time. Nevertheless, as the creation presents itself to the physical eye, especially that physical eye that is enhanced by those instruments that enable you to see farther and to see closer, there are an increasing number of ways in which scientific eyes have been able to see things that they cannot explain. In some part, this is eternally the situation in any expanding universe of knowledge. That which is not yet known is that which has perhaps not even been imagined. Or, if it has been imagined or dreamt, there may be no way to measure or test the concepts and structures involved in the theories that are created to explain observations that have been made.

J asked: “I want to know what the central sun is. Does it have anything to do with black holes? And what is the effect of the central sun and of black holes upon the evolution of consciousness?” Q’uo began by saying they must proceed with care in their response, and there are several reasons for this need for care, and as Carla said to Jim before the session, the request that is placed before them is not a request for spiritual principles but a request for information on how things work in the physical illusion, and this is a question that they are unable to answer because the difficulty here is that this represents part of a seeking entity’s learning process at this time, and rather than asking for spiritual principles which would be helpful in approaching this question, the query was simply to explain the situation as regards the central sun and to compare the idea of this central sun with the idea of black holes, and that is Q’uo’s first problem with this query as it was asked. Then Q’uo said their second challenge in responding to this query is that Carla has no scientific background, and they would be unable to fulfill the requirements of our query in that they cannot say anything exact through Carla having to do with scientific questions, so their response shall be inexact and shall contain that flow of information which they are able to offer which they feel may be of use. Q’uo went on to say the concept of a central sun is one which many sources have used in discussing the energies that pour from the center of the creation itself, and it is a challenge to discuss this concept of the central sun because of the relationship of the space/time, which is that which houses our consensus reality, and the time/space universe which houses our consciousness, infinity, and the mystery of non-locality, so in the space/time universe there are layers of physical laws which work to create information which is helpful in making the gadgets that our civilization enjoys, and in a time/space universe, the work done is unseen so that the values are not local, and one is freed from the relativity of space/time, but as the creation presents itself to the physical eye, especially that physical eye that is enhanced by those instruments that enable us to see farther and to see closer, there are a number of ways in which scientific eyes have been able to see things that they cannot explain, and in some part, this is eternally the situation in any expanding universe of knowledge because that which is not yet known is that which has perhaps not even been imagined, or if it has been imagined there may be no way to test the concepts involved in the theories that are created to explain observations that have been made. On August 12, 2007, Q’uo described the nature of the time/space universe:

In the world of spirit, in the time/space universe, you are the citizens of eternity, even while within the world of space/time and incarnation. That which you create is powerful. And as you understand that, you can link up with those who are of like mind. Even at great distances you can continue to create light.

This instrument was speaking earlier in this weekend of being instruments, receivers, and emitters of vibration. And so, you are in the unseen realms. And we encourage you to think of yourselves as lighthouses. It is said in your holy work, “Do not hide your light under a bushel but place it on a lamp stand where all may see it.”

Inthe case of the concepts of the great central sun and the black hole, you are looking at a phenomenon that is partially within the world of space/time and partially within the world of time/space. This may be seen to be logical in the same way that a circle is round. The circle is round. Therefore, it has no beginning and no end, except that it does! Each creation of the Father has a beginning and an ending. However, because of the fact that the beginning and the ending are firmly in the precincts of time/space, what you are gazing at as you gaze at the central sun and at the black hole are the alpha and the omega of an unending circle. There is within this instrument’s mind the concept of the Big Bang that supposedly began the creation. Through this instrument in the past we have spoken several times of the beating of the great heart as a model to use when thinking of the creation. Certainly, when the heart beats, there is that moment when the pumping action of the heart occurs, and blood is moved forward, not only through the heart but through every vein and artery in the body. And each heartbeat is, in a way, a new world, a new situation for the circulatory system of that body.

The great central sun, which is gaining a great deal of attention within your scientific world as instrumentation becomes more sophisticated and more details and facts are able to be gathered by your scientists, is that portion or phase of the Big Bang that exists after the heart has first pumped; that is to say, after the Creator has decided to found and furnish a creation so that It may know Itself. The so-called black hole, similarly, is that shadow of a time/space event that exists in space/time which marks the progress to and the point from which there is no exit from the return to the one infinite Creator. This arrangement of energy expenditures is a part of the structure within which all of those parts of the Creator which you represent may move through the dance of the densities, seeking the truth, learning what it is to be, to be aware, to be aware of the self, to be aware of love, to be aware of wisdom, and to be aware of unity. To attempt to understand the Creator by understanding the Creator’s house is, in our humble opinion, an indirect attempt.

Before we leave this particular query we would simply say that there are points of energy throughout the creation which are created by thought when a galaxy, a sun system, or a planet such as yours is at a particular stage of evolution. Some situations or cruxes within the evolution of an entity, a planet, a sun, or a galaxy, call for the availability of certain kinds of information and you may, in some cases, see these pulses as being filled with information.

Then Q’uo said in the case of the concepts of the great central sun and the black hole, we are looking at a phenomenon that is partially within the world of space/time and partially within the world of time/space, and this may be logical in the same way that a circle is round, so it has no beginning and no end, except that each creation of the Father has a beginning and an ending, but because the beginning and the ending are in the area of time/space, what we are gazing at as we gaze at the central sun and at the black hole are the alpha and the omega of an unending circle, and there is within Carla’s mind the concept of the Big Bang that began the creation, and through her in the past Q’uo has spoken of the beating of the great heart as a model to use when thinking of the creation so that when the heart beats, there is that moment when the pumping of the heart occurs, and blood is moved forward, not only through the heart but through every vein and artery in the body, and each heartbeat is a new situation for the circulatory system of that body. Q’uo went on to say the great central sun, which is gaining attention within our scientific world as instrumentation becomes more sophisticated and more facts are gathered by our scientists, is that phase of the Big Bang that exists after the Creator has decided to found a creation so that It may know Itself, and the black hole is that shadow of a time/space event that exists in space/time which marks the progress to and the point from which there is no exit from the return to the one infinite Creator, and this arrangement of energy expenditures is a part of the structure within which all of those parts of the Creator which we represent may move through the dance of the densities: “seeking the truth, learning what it is to be, to be aware, to be aware of the self, to be aware of love, to be aware of wisdom, and to be aware of unity. To attempt to understand the Creator by understanding the Creator’s house is, in our humble opinion, an indirect attempt.” Q’uo continued by saying before they leave this query they would say that there are points of energy throughout the creation which are created by thought when a galaxy, a sun system, or a planet such as ours is at a particular stage of evolution, and some situations within the evolution of an entity, a planet, a sun, or a galaxy, call for the availability of certain kinds of information, and we may see these pulses as being filled with information. On January 16, 2000, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the Creator’s house:

The yearning for absolute purity, absolute truth, and absolute Love is a yearning that was within you when you chose to move forth from what this instrument would call the Creator’s house. That Love has been with you as you have moved through many densities and many experiences, through many worlds, through many lifetimes, and it is that undistorted Love that draws you ever onwards towards the source and ending of all that is.

So you may consider yourself as a distorted version of the Creator, each of you distorted in unique and fascinating ways, each of you having chosen the gifts that you would bring into manifestation with your personality shell, the limitations that you would set for yourself so that you may learn, the relationships that you chose specifically for their friction, for their catalyst, that you might experience that process of distillation wherein all of those things that move before the eye of mind bloom, stutter, and fail. There are many tools that each of you has available in this journey that you take together and, yet, always alone.

May we ask at this time if there is a further query?

Jim: J2 asks if you could tell us what crop circles are. Why does no one seem to see them being made? Is there a spiritual principle behind crop circles?

Weare those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. The phenomenon of crop circle is just as the great central sun and the black hole phenomena: a phenomenon that has its roots in the world of time/space rather than space/time. The energies of evolution move from thought. There are planetary entities, which we have before called social memory complexes, whose mode of service it is to create points of coherent mystery. The same energies are involved when an entity or a group of entities creates a notation such as the Celtic runes. Such a notational system blends the mysterious and unknowable with everyday shapes, designs and images. A rune may be a series of simple lines. It may be associated with a certain kind of tree. It may be intended to indicate a magical energy of such and such a vibration.

When a system of such notation is worked out, it creates a kind of language. Your alphabet is such a notational system. The modern way of writing down music is such a notational system. And crop circles are a rudimentary notational system that is being created, not by a person but by an entire planetary group of entities who attempt to serve as those who alert the people of your planet to the fact that there is more of a mysterious and unknown quality to existence than could be surmised by an examination of the physical world. UFOs or unidentified flying objects, themselves, in some cases, are the result of the precise same energy. However, in the case of the unidentified flying object, when it is in fact an image rather than a flying object, it has been created by thought; that is, the deeper thoughts of an entire planet full of entities.

Interestingly enough, when a certain amount of the awareness of a planetary group of people such as yourselves reaches a critical mass of consciousness, the people themselves, from their deep unconscious minds, begin to collaborate without knowing in their conscious minds that they are doing so. The result of these collaborations is a tear or a break in the continuity of the illusion of consensus reality. And in that hiatus, images may appear that bring forward into outer expression the hopes, the dreams, and the fears of an entire culture or population of a planet. Crop circles, for the most part, are created not by planetary consciousness but by the consciousness of planetary groups from elsewhere who wish to help the people of Earth to wake up at this time from the sleep of consensus reality.

J2 asks if you could tell us what crop circles are. Why does no one seem to see them being made? Is there a spiritual principle behind crop circles? Q’uo began by saying the phenomenon of crop circles is just as the great central sun and the black hole phenomena: a phenomenon of the world of time/space rather than space/time because the energies of evolution move from thought so that there are social memory complexes whose type of service it is to create points of mystery, and the same energies are involved when we or a group of entities create a symbol such as the Celtic stones, and such a symbolic system blends the mysterious with everyday shapes and images, and a rune may be a series of simple lines, a certain kind of tree, or it may indicate a magical energy of such a vibration. Q’uo went on to say when a system of such notation is worked out, it creates a kind of language, and our alphabet is such a system, and crop circles are a simple notational system that is being created by planetary group of entities who attempt to serve as those who alert the people of our planet to the fact that there is more of a mysterious quality to our existence than could be surmised by an examination of the physical world, and UFOs are the result of the same energy, but in the case of the UFO when it is in fact an image rather than a flying object, it has been created by thought; that is, the deeper thoughts of an entire planet full of entities. Now Q’uo said when a certain amount of the awareness of a planetary group of people such as ourselves reaches a critical mass of consciousness, we begin to collaborate with each other from our unconscious minds without our consciously knowing that we are doing so, and the result of these collaborations is a break in the continuity of the illusion of consensus reality, and then images may appear that bring into outer expression the hopes, the dreams, and the fears of the population of a planet, but crop circles are created by the consciousness of planetary groups from elsewhere who wish to help the people of Earth to wake up at this time from the sleep of consensus reality. On March 28, 1982, Latwii described how communication can happen between our conscious and unconscious minds:

The ability of each entity to function within the state commonly called the hypnogogic state is well known and widespread while the entity sleeps. To manifest this condition in what seems to be a waking state to those present and witnessing the action is not so common but does occur on occasions for entities who have prepared their minds, shall we say, in a certain manner which meditation does allow. This is to say, there is an opening, or a channel made between the conscious and unconscious minds, a piercing, shall we say, of the veil which divides these two portions of your mind complex. This, then, allows the communication between the two portions of your mind to flow more easily without the restrictions common to those of your peoples who have yet to seek the mysteries and their solutions.

May we ask if there is another query at this time, my brother?

Jim: I and P sent in this question: “In July of this year, the British Study Group took part in a sweat lodge ceremony in Forest Row, England. The ceremony included the gathering of natural materials from the immediate environment, the building of the structure, a statement of intention, and several hours of silence and contemplation prior to entering the lodge.

“Into the lodge was placed hot rocks. Water was poured onto them, creating a great deal of steam. In this uncomfortable environment, each member took turns to express gratitude, ask a question, sing with the leader, and enjoy silence during a series of rounds of indeterminable length.

“We found this to be a powerful experience which felt like a death of sorts and a rebirth into which our group merged together on some level. The man leading the ceremony commented that it was one of the ‘hottest’ lodges he had ever taken part in. A lot of energy had been released by the group.

“Would Q’uo please comment on the metaphysical implications of the sweat lodge and what energies were put into motion? Was there any unseen help? Did our ceremony have any effect on the lodge and the land around it?”

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. As we respond to this query, we would ask the one known as Jim to re-ask any parts of the query that we have not covered at the time that we finish that which we have to say. We would appreciate this aid, my brother.

When entities are conscious, awake, and aware of their true nature, and they wish to create a change in consciousness—their consciousness and the group consciousness—they have various ways to create a ritual that will embody their desires for transformation. One line of movement of energy in this regard is known as the tradition of western ceremonial white magic. It creates a structure for transformation that is essentially mental, and it intends to connect to the emotional and heart-centered part of the seeking souls that use rituals of white magic by the use of profoundly moving, poignant icons or images, thus making this an essentially mental path to open the heart. It is extremely effective for a certain type of personality.

For many other types of personalities, it is inappropriate. The way a sweat lodge is created moves much more from the heart than from the mind, and consequently it is much more accessible as an instrument of transformation than is the creation of a magical ritual. Instead of occult patterns, the circle builds the sweat lodge. They are not drawing symbols in the air. They are using stones, wood, and fabric and creating a building for their transformation. The choice of the heat is an excellent choice for moving seekers out of consensus reality. How does one move the mind from consensus reality? One changes the parameters so that an entity is no longer comfortable. It is the same kind of technique that is used in a fast. Instead of giving up food and thereby becoming uncomfortable, the seeker of a sweat lodge places itself in excessive heat and thereby becomes uncomfortable.

Now, the discomfort by itself would be meaningless. But the mind sets an intention and thereby creates a pattern that is metaphysical in nature and gives meaning to the discomfort. What the circle is doing as it enters a sweat lodge is telling its deeper self that it is ready and willing not only to seek the truth but to accept and act on the truth. The truth is generally not something that can be expressed in language. The truth that is sought in a sweat lodge, in a magical ceremony, or in any seeking to find the truth of the self, is a truth without words. The truth of the deeper self has no words. It is an essence. It is.

“Would Q’uo please comment on the metaphysical implications of the sweat lodge and what energies were put into motion? Was there any unseen help? Did our ceremony have any effect on the lodge and the land around it?” Q’uo began by saying when we are conscious and aware of our true nature, and we wish to create a change in consciousness and our group consciousness, there are ways to create a ritual that will contain our desires for transformation, and one way to create movement of energy in this way is known as the tradition of western ceremonial white magic because it creates a structure for transformation that is essentially mental, and it intends to connect to the heart-centered part of the seeking souls that use rituals of white magic by the use of poignant images making a mental path to open the heart, and it is effective for a certain type of personality. Then Q’uo said for other types of personalities, that is inappropriate, and the way a sweat lodge works moves more from the heart than from the mind, and it is more accessible as an instrument of transformation than is the creation of a magical ritual, so instead of drawing symbols in the air the circle builds the sweat lodge, and they are using stones, wood, and fabric and creating a building for their transformation, and the choice of heat is a good choice for moving seekers out of consensus reality by changing the parameters so that we are no longer comfortable, and it is the same kind of technique that is used in a fast so that instead of giving up food and becoming uncomfortable, the seeker of a sweat lodge places itself in excessive heat and thereby becomes uncomfortable. Now Q’uo said that the discomfort by itself would be meaningless, but when our mind sets an intention and creates a pattern that is metaphysical in nature, it gives meaning to the discomfort by what a group is doing as it enters a sweat lodge and telling their deeper self that they are willing not only to seek the truth but to accept and act on the truth, and the truth is not something that can be expressed in language because the truth that is sought in a sweat lodge, in a magical ceremony, or in any seeking to find the truth of our self, is a truth without words, and it simply is. On February 25, 2023, Q’uo described the nature of our deeper self:

So, it is more likely that these qualities of medical difficulties would yield to the inner realization that the true nature of any being suffering medical difficulties is whole and perfect, that there is no true medical emergency, there is only the experience of what you may call the surface reality of your illusion which sees various states of being as separate instead of being unified with your deeper self, your higher self with the one creator within.

This is a more appropriate and effective technique for resolving such situations that you would describe as medically induced. For each of you is the One Creator. Each of you has contact with your higher self. Each of you has a pathway to the realization of your own perfection, and it is buried deep within the heart of your being where the seeking for it may be accomplished when it is recognized.

That this is the nature of your being. You look beyond the seeming separation. You look beyond illusion. You look beyond the veil of forgetting. You pierce the obstructive and obfuscating qualities of the illusion around you and within your mental complex, and move thereby into your spirit, and look there to find the true nature of your being.

The structure of this particular illusion that you call life in third density is a structure that is designed with many secret places. They are tucked into the folds and the pleats of your everyday. These folds are bursting with truth and many are the entities who have come upon these little pockets of truth and realization in the midst of the most mundane and everyday chores. Usually, however, the seeking soul must alert itself as to how serious it really is about accelerating the pace of its own spiritual evolution. And that is the basic function of a sweat lodge. Indeed it is very true, my brother, that there is a death and a rebirth involved when this ritual is done correctly. There is that giving of the self to the heat, knowing that the heat will destroy and burn away all the dross and the chaff of the being, leaving only the shining, glowing, glorious essence of unconditional love. That is the truth of your nature.

The problem of everyday life is that it so blocks your senses with detail that you cannot find your way to the truth of your being. It is well, in whatever way seems good to you, to form these intentions to grow and then to create a structure that will manifest that intention and alert your deeper nature to your seriousness. Any time that a group of people create an event that is metaphysical in nature and focused upon the Creator, that event does indeed have an impact upon the environment around it. To the creation—to the trees, the wind, the Earth itself, and the sunlight—all is one. You are dancing with them. There is no sense of separation. So naturally, when a group event occurs that has a profound effect, such as yours did within the group of which you are a part, that process of energy sharing and energy expenditure was taken out and made part of the dance of the land, the sky, the elements, and the flora and the fauna of Gaia in that local area in which you offered your ritual.

Then Q’uo said the structure of this illusion that we call life in third density is a structure that is designed with secret places that are tucked into the folds our everyday life, and these folds are bursting with truth, and many are the entities who have come upon these pockets of truth in the midst of the everyday chores, so the seeking soul must determine how serious it is about accelerating the pace of its spiritual evolution, and that is the function of a sweat lodge, so it is true that there is a death and a rebirth involved when this ritual is done correctly, and there is that giving of the self to the heat, knowing that the heat will burn away all the dross in our being, leaving only the glorious essence of unconditional Love, and that is the truth of our nature. Then Q’uo said the problem of everyday life is that it blocks our senses with details, and we cannot find our way to the truth of our being, so it is well to form intentions to grow and then to create a structure that will manifest that intention and alert our deeper nature to our desire, and any time that a group of people creates an event that is metaphysical in nature and focused upon the Creator, that event has an impact on the environment around it, so that we are dancing with the trees, the wind, and the Earth, and there is no sense of separation, so when a group event occurs that has a profound effect, such as ours did within the group of which we are a part, that process of energy expenditure was taken out and made part of the dance of the land, the sky, the elements, and the flora and the fauna of Gaia in that area in which we offered our ritual. On January 12, 2008, Q’uo described the value of the sweat lodge:

The great vigor available to the shaman comes from that entirely organic and spontaneous delight which one who has been dead takes in life, after experiencing the deprivation of the dark night of the soul. Whether by the vision quest or by the steam and the heat of a sweat lodge, or by any of those transformative experiences that can be found throughout the various cultures of your planet, there is the completely novel experience of new life, new growth, new hope, and new beingness.

With each transformation there is more of an appreciation for the gift of awareness and an ever more transparent ability to allow things to move through one. One becomes a radiant being, not because one has more light within the self, but because one is more able to allow light to move through the energy body and out into the world. It is not that one becomes a more powerful ego, but that one has allowed to drop away from the self many things which were either blocking or dimming the light which moves through each entity within creation.

We are those of Q’uo, and would ask the one known as Jim if there are parts of this query to which we did not respond at this time?

Jim: Was there any unseen help that was present during the ceremony?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query. My brother, there is always unseen help, and that is not simply when there is a sweat lodge. There is unseen help in every breath you take. It is said in your holy works that the Creator knows when a sparrow falls. This is true; this is abundantly true. For the Creator is everything that there is. It is a system of reportage that is unparalleled. If the Creator is in all parts of the creation, how shall It not know all of the rhythms and rightnesses of the patterns of the dance of creation? As to what types of unseen help that you have there, we would ask you to consider all of the various kinds of help which are available in creation. There are the forces of nature that were contacted and alerted by the ceremony of the sweat lodge. Many of those energies you call devic were dancing with you at that time.

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There are those energies of the primeval land as it existed at the beginning of its time and those entities who lived upon that land when the land was new and of whom you and your kind are descendants. They were as elder brothers, standing like trees about you, a forest of witnesses. There was the guidance system of each of those present. And there was the higher self of the group as it is beginning to form, that higher self that is formed of the higher selves of all in the group. And yet in that gathering of higher selves, another entity is born that is a resource for the entire group, and, indeed, much more than the sum of the parts.

And because there are those in the group who come from elsewhere, there is the family connection to the social memory complex from that culture which was left in order that the wanderer might come to Earth and serve as a lightbringer at this time. So, my brother, there was a host of witnesses and there always will be, not only for positive things but for negative things and all things in between. Whatever you do in the manifested world attracts the attention of those unseen energies that are complementary to or attracted by that vibration which you are exuding at the moment.

The last part of the question was: “Was there any unseen help that was present during the ceremony?” Then Q’uo said there is always unseen help in every breath we take, and it is said in our holy works that the Creator knows when a sparrow falls, for the Creator is in all parts of the creation, so It shall know all of the rhythms of the dance of creation, and as to what types of unseen help that we have there, Q’uo asked us to consider all of the kinds of help which are available in creation such as the forces of nature that were contacted by the ceremony of the sweat lodge, and many of those energies we call devic were dancing with us at that time. Then Q’uo said there are those energies of the primeval land as it existed at the beginning of its time and those entities who lived upon that land when the land was new and of whom we and our kind are descendants, and they were as elder brothers, standing like trees about us, a forest of witnesses, and there was the guidance system of each of us present, and there was the higher self that is formed of the higher selves of all in the group, so in that gathering of higher selves, another entity is born that is a resource for the entire group, and, indeed, much more than the sum of the parts. Q’uo continued by saying because there are those in our group who come from elsewhere, there is the family connection to the social memory complex from that culture which was left in order that the wanderer might come to Earth and serve as a light bringer at this time, so there was a host of witnesses, and there always will be, not only for positive beings but for negative beings and all things in between because whatever we do in the manifested world attracts the attention of unseen energies that are attracted by that vibration which we are exuding at the moment. On March 19, 2011, Q’uo spoke of unseen energies and how to deal with them:

For those who work with unseen energies in order to serve the Creator by collaborating with those energies to create material that may be of use to those seeking spiritually, the challenge is always how to ride the waves of energy that are coalescing and dispersing around a particular instant in time and a particular person who is acting as channel in order to maintain a stable environment for reception in translation of concepts.

The entity who has worked to tune itself as a channel, that is, as an instrument for producing thoughts that may be helpful, has certain work that he or she may do in order to maximize stability and accuracy. Instruments may work to tune themselves to be sure that their energy bodies are open and functioning well for doing the work and they are able to challenge the spirits who wish to speak through them in order to ascertain whether or not to accept contact.

May we ask if there is a final query at this time?

Jim: What effect did the ceremony have upon the land on which the lodge was built?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. We addressed this partially, previously, when we stated that whenever entities create a change in their consciousness, it also creates a corresponding change in the environment around them. Let us simply say that, as you were recreated, so the Earth around you was recreated as well and received the blessing that you received of new life, new hope, and new awareness.

We find that this instrument’s energy wanes and so we would take our leave of this instrument and this group, thanking you once again for the privilege of this conversation and the beauty of your beings. We leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as those of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I re-recorded the section on Feelings and Intuition: Like Artists from Chapter Two of 102. Then I went outside and filled the fishpond with just enough more water to keep the fountain from splashing onto the walkway around the pond. While the pond was filling I used a hoe to weed the Peony Garden next to the fishpond.

This afternoon I re-recorded the section on The Discrete Nature of Choices from Chapter Two of 102. Then I went across the street to my neighbor’s back yard and used my hedgeclippers to trim the old, dying leaves from the Lenten Roses. Then I filled her birdfeeders with birdseed and sprinkled some on the ground for the squirrels and deer.

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

April 9

The Moment’s Inspiration

I am the Spirit, the breath, of the consciousness of pure Love and I radiate the name of Jesus the Christ and greet you in Its fullness and glory.

When things done by others seem to have been done so beautifully and well, it may seem to the one who beholds that there is no need for fresh inspiration, for that which is and can be held in the hand is already enough.

For Spirit, that which is in the past is never enough. For the Spirit lives in the moment. Thus, it is to the moment that the mind is to be made open, that the freshness and the glory of the creation may astound and stun the senses and the intellect anew each moment.

There is a peace in the resting in beauty that is full of the lively excellence of the word, “Love.” May all that you conceive and manifest be filled with the present gift of Love, for there is no need to rely upon the past for the moment’s inspiration. Turn only within and seek peace and Love.

We leave you in peace, now and forever.

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 Q’uo quote comes from May 22, 2006:

(Question chosen by PLW poll) I noticed sort of solar flares for a moment or two after they happen. I will be interrupted by a tingling sensation of the nerve endings over a large part of my body. Mentally, I often notice a type of rift in consciousness, where a moment in time seems to expand dramatically, stretching five minutes into two or three hours. It feels tangible. The problem is not the flares, but the geomagnetic storms a couple of days later. Is there any way to combat the physical fatigue and mental stimulation and sleeplessness problems associated with it? It disrupts my life dramatically.

(Carla channeling)

We are those of the principle known to you as Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the One Infinite Creator, in whose service we come to you and your people. Thank you for the beauty of your vibrations, and for calling us to your circle of seeking. It is a privilege to be so called, and a pleasure to share our humble opinions with you. However, as always, in order to allow us to feel free to share those opinions, we would ask that you guard the gates of your perceptions carefully. Do not accept our words or anyone’s as true, but rather look for the resonance that attracts you to certain thoughts and not to others, and work with those thoughts that are resonant to you. We greatly appreciate your helping us in this way, for it does allow us to feel comfortable about speaking with you. We would not wish to trample upon your will or to take over your process or spiritual evolution inadvertently.

Youask us this day concerning the solar flares and the geomagnetic storms that follow such flares, and how you can deal most skillfully with the effects that such things have on the sensitive individual. Naturally, these effects are planet-wide and can be assumed to have an effect on each and every person in the tribe of humankind. However, there are dramatic differences between people in terms of how they perceive and structure those perceptions. Consequently, not all people experience the acute symptomology connected with these flares, such as the questioner has described herself feeling. However, we do confirm that there is every possibility that sensitive entities will indeed have the reactions and the responses that you have been having.

You have asked us how to cope with and how to deal with these experiences of sleeplessness and distraction. And so, we would talk a bit about energy and how that works. All entities that are self-conscious beings – that is all of the tribe of humankind – possess energy systems that have integrity. And within that integrity the mind, body, and spirit of an individual are knitted together as three flaps of a rope, making a very strong, very sturdy, and yet very sensitive instrument through which to view the experiences of an incarnation, and to use those experiences to glean a harvest of beauty, joy, sorrow, suffering, service, learning, and enhanced feelings of balance and understanding. This energy is uniquely yours. It is no one else’s. Only you, of all of the bits of the Creator in the universe, have your signal, your strength, your power, your balance, and your web of perception. You are so special. Each and every being upon the planet is just as special, just as unique, and just as necessary a part of the intricate weaving together of a plan of the Creator.

The planet herself has an energy system, which is in the midst of a tremendous ending and beginning, shall we say. For the energies of third density, as this instrument was saying before this contact began, are so heavily interpenetrated now with fourth-density energy, that the vibrations of love are having a powerful unseen effect on all entities in their inner energy systems, or what this instrument would call the chakra system. Because of the fact that fourth-density energy contains truth without reserve, the effect upon third-density entities is a marked increase in those entities receiving into their conscious awareness material with which they do not wish to be in. This energy of truth sometimes does not feel like unconditional Love. Indeed, in third density, unconditional Love cannot be seen to contain that truth; rather, it contains the creative structures of those yearning for truth. The yearning is very helpful to entities who wish to cooperate with the interpenetrating energy of fourth density.

The PLW question for this session was: “The problem is not the flares, but the geomagnetic storms a couple of days later. Is there any way to combat the physical fatigue and mental stimulation and sleeplessness problems associated with it? It disrupts my life dramatically.”  Q’uo began by saying we asked them concerning the solar flares and the geomagnetic storms that follow such flares, and how we can deal with the effects that such things have on the sensitive individual, and these effects are planet-wide and have an effect on every person in the tribe of humankind, but there are differences between people in terms of how we perceive and structure those perceptions, so not all people experience the acute symptomology connected with these flares, but Q’uo confirmed that sensitive entities will have the reactions that we have been having. Then Q’uo said we asked them how to deal with these experiences of sleeplessness and distraction, and they said they would talk about energy and how that works because all entities that are self-conscious beings-–that is all of the tribe of humankind–possess energy systems that have integrity, and within that integrity our mind, body, and spirit are knitted together as three strands of a rope, making a strong and sensitive instrument through which to view the experiences of an incarnation, and to use those experiences to glean a harvest of joy, sorrow, service, and feelings of balance and understanding, and this energy is ours, and of all of the bits of the Creator in the universe only we have our power, our balance, and our web of perception, and every being upon the planet is just as unique and as necessary a part of the intricate weaving together of a plan of the Creator. Now Q’uo said the planet herself has an energy system, which is in the midst of an ending and beginning, for the energies of third density, as Carla was saying before this contact began, are so interpenetrated now with fourth-density energy, that the vibrations of Love are having a powerful unseen effect on our chakra system, and because the fourth-density energy contains truth without reserve, the effect upon us is an increase in receiving into our conscious awareness material with which we do not wish to be in so that this energy of truth sometimes does not feel like unconditional Love, and in third density, unconditional Love cannot be seen to contain that truth since it contains the creative structures of those yearning for truth, and the yearning is helpful to us when we wish to cooperate with the interpenetrating energy of fourth density. On March 2, 2003, Q’uo described the nature of fourth density energy:

The information coming into your very body, into the energy system of the body at this time is information that is Light, that is the limitless Light of the one infinite Creator, carrying with it overlays of the increasing fourth-density energy which is, as this instrument said in the discussion prior to this “cosmic sermonette,” bringing things to the surface that were hidden and making the rough places plane.

The energies of fourth density are those energies which look at distortion with full awareness of the beauty of each distortion and awareness also of those harmonics and harmonies of undertone and overtone that create avenues of progression in which the biases, which may seem less than harmonized, may blossom and open in the sunlight of compassion until a fuller view is seen, a larger area constituting a point of view in which not only can a distortion be seen but also the surrounding energy that creates the distortion and that place which seems to be blocked.

Whenyou know why you are being faced with that about yourself which you particularly did not wish to deal with, then it becomes easier to accept the fact that it is now time to deal with that issue and simply get on with doing that. How you do that is certainly up to you. We do not have advice for you on the techniques of coming to terms with what is in your picture right now. We can only say to you that the way of energy is to attract to the self that which is needed for spiritual growth. You have entered and have been experiencing for some time a profoundly effective growth environment. This time of dusk and dawn on Planet Earth is a tremendous growth environment – a hotbed, if you will – where the soil is just right, the seeds in your heart are planted, and everything is laid on for growth. However, in growth there is always surrender. Surrender of those things which no longer serve you. Surrender to change and transformation.

What we would encourage in each is the awareness that it is possible to cooperate, even with seemingly harsh energy. Understanding the nature of the metaphysical component of the solar flares is helpful in being able to better deal with the effects of them upon your system. The core of the solar flares is not connected intimately with you, as a person or as a tribe of humankind, as a group. It has more to do with the turn of the clock from planetary third density upon Planet Earth to planetary fourth density. The time of choice is coming to an end on Planet Earth, and the time of the density of love and understanding is dawning.

There have been difficulties within Planet Earth which have been caused, metaphysically speaking, by the tremendous amount of heat which the unhappy and restless spirits of those who have lived upon your planet have offered to the planet as the harvest of their incarnation. The planetary tendency towards repetition of cycles of wars, aggressions, and entities being consciously and purposefully unloving to each other, have created an environment within the inner planes of Planet Earth which has more of a direct connection with the solar flares. The imbalance is expressing both from Earth to sun and from the galaxy as a whole down into the sun’s sphere and then down into the Earth’s sphere. There is a feedback that is bleeding or venting energies in such a way that the planet and the solar system remain more in balance and is more stable. The necessary concomitant effect of this, however, is certainly difficult, not only for the planet, but for its population of souls.

Cooperation with what these energies bring up is very helpful, we believe, in terms of skillfully dealing with these experiences. If there is sleeplessness, allow it and use it. Take the time of sleeplessness, and turn it into a sacred time. Do not attempt to move into a normal schedule, but rather accept that there are feast days and days of penitence that are not on the Christian calendar or any calendar. They come up for you, because of your awareness, as immediate insight of the changes that are taking place on the planet and in the entire sun system of which Planet Earth is a part. Indeed, some of these energies that are creating solar flares are galaxy-wide and even further than that, coming from the Central Sun, which is helping to balance the entire system of the infinite creation. Therefore, it is helpful in terms of normalizing the unusual to embrace it and to explore it creatively for its harvest. It is not necessarily a negative thing to have one’s awareness taken. We believe that we may, without infringing upon your free will, share with you the perception that we have. That this rift in the moment of which you speak is very hopeful, helpful, and useful to you. You are being pulled by this blend of energies that is coming into your system very close to the gateway to intelligent infinity. It is almost the same kind of energy that you would experience in a psychic UFO encounter, where you have the perception of losing time.

Then Q’uo said when we know why we are being faced with that about our self which we did not wish to deal with, then it becomes easier to accept the fact that it is now time to deal with that issue, and how we do that is up to us, but Q’uo did not have advice for us on how to deal with what is in our picture right now, so they could only say that the way of energy is to attract to the self that which is needed for spiritual growth, and we have been experiencing an effective growth environment because this time of dusk and dawn on Earth is a tremendous growth environment where the soil is just right; the seeds in our heart are planted; and everything is laid on for growth, but in growth there is always surrender of those things which no longer serve us and surrender to transformation. Q’uo continued by saying what they would encourage in each of us is the awareness that it is possible to cooperate with harsh energy, and understanding the metaphysical nature of solar flares is helpful in being able to deal with the effects of them upon our system so that the core of solar flares is not closely connected with us as a person or as a group, but it has to do with the turn of the clock from third density upon Earth to fourth density, so the time of choice is coming to an end on Earth, and the time of the density of love and understanding is dawning. Q’uo went on to say there have been difficulties within Earth which have been caused, metaphysically speaking, by the amount of heat which the unhappy spirits of those who have lived upon our planet have offered to the planet as the harvest of their incarnation, and their  tendency towards repetition of cycles of wars and entities being consciously unloving to each other have created an environment within the inner planes of Earth which has a connection with solar flares so that the imbalance is expressing both from Earth to sun and from the galaxy down into the sun’s sphere and then down into the Earth’s sphere, and there is a feedback that is venting energies in such a way that the planet and the solar system remain more in balance and are more stable, but the side effect of this is difficult, not only for the planet, but for its population of souls. Now Q’uo said that our cooperation with what these energies bring up is helpful in dealing with these experiences, so if there is sleeplessness we can turn it into a sacred time and accept that there are feast days and days of penitence that are not on any calendar, and they come up for us because of our awareness of the changes that are taking place on the planet and in the sun system of which Earth is a part, and some of these energies that are creating solar flares are galaxy-wide and coming from the Central Sun, which is helping to balance the entire system of the infinite creation, so Q’uo wanted to share with us the perception that this rift in the moment of which we speak is useful to us because we are being pulled by this blend of energies that is coming into our system close to the gateway to intelligent infinity, and it is the same kind of energy that we would experience in a UFO encounter where we have the perception of losing time. On November 24, 2007, Q’uo gave a general outline as to how we can open the gateway to intelligent infinity:

You are marvelous creatures. Each of you is incredibly complex and at the same time utterly simple. Your energy bodies are those unseen parts of you that have molded your physical body. And the energy body is the essence of you as a person or, as those of Ra call it, as a mind/body/spirit complex. The seven chakras of the energy body are all-important to the functioning of your physical body as well as your finer bodies.

The gateway to intelligent infinity is at the very top of those chakras, involving the indigo and violet-ray chakras. Springing from the open heart, the seeker may open the gateway to intelligent infinity by moving into the violet ray, through the indigo ray, with the desire and will focusing in firm intention and asking that work may be done in consciousness.

So, you open the gateway to intelligent infinity, the door to those specific inspirations which are desired, as opposed to the general and ever-flowing inspiration of the open heart which abides in love itself, love complete, and love untouched by any other energy. With the gateway open you become able to work with more specific types of guidance that, though specific, are in general unheard and pouring into the heart itself in concept and essence rather than in thought and in words.

The nurturing and care of the energy body is very important to those who wish to use the gateway to intelligent infinity in their seeking. Indeed, entities who are blocked in the lower three chakras are not able to sustain a full flow of the infinite Creator’s energy that comes from the bottom of the chakra system upwards and moves through the chakras exiting at the crown of the head.

The first requirement for working with the gateway to intelligent infinity is that the heart be open. Consequently, although many seekers do not wish to continue to work intensively with the lower three chakras, it is our opinion that it is essential to continue to work with those three chakras, giving them all of the honor and respect that you give the higher chakras.

Using words and this instrument’s awareness of how things are, we cannot give you an accurate representation of the full dimensions of this experience that you are having. But we can say to you that it is wholesome and a helpful part of the learning experience that you created for yourself when you came to Planet Earth. You are not one who must do anything with these perceptions or this energy. Rather, your mission here, as one who is much more aware than most of what is going on with the planet, the sun, and the whole system, is to enter in as a loving minister of light to what may seem to be terribly impersonal energy. They are not impersonal; they simply are not human. The essences involved are extremely loving and are looking with care, wisdom, and compassion at the entire system of this local part of the infinite universe, and creating what balance they can from moment to moment, from sun to planet to souls.

Your part in this is to embrace that which seems to be such a dramatically difficult thing. To accept those of times when you are aware as times when your true heart needs to be found. Let that sleepless time be a time of grounding, centering, and focusing, so that you become that which is stable, that which is crystalline, and that which is capable of receiving, transmuting, and passing on, with your blessings and your love, that one great Original Thought, which is pouring through you at all times in infinite supply. Let yourself be the lighthouse that is not dismayed when the waves crash upon the shore, but serenely shines in sure faith, in peaceful mind and a faithful heart, so that others who are concerned and distraught may catch some of that light, and be oriented and steadied by the energy that you do not need to express, but only to radiate.

We would also encourage you, and all who feel in any way concerned or disturbed by the world which you see, to ask for help. We cannot say often enough that the nature of metaphysical seeking is such that it is necessary to ask for help in order to receive it. Positively oriented guides will not insist upon being heard; rather, it awaits the asking. Remember to ask. Remember to ask not once and not simply when there is a need; but rather, create for yourself a very stable daily time where you can depend upon having a few moments in the silence in which the Creator speaks. Your guidance is hoping for you to create that time. When you have a sense of that rift in time, know that because of the work you have done and the spiritual maturity that you have gained, your higher chakras are functioning very well. And you have the capacity at those times to do great work in consciousness, not only for yourself, but for the entire planet. It is a simple act to dedicate that which is in your full and loving heart to the Creator and to the planet of which you are a part. Truly, that light which you dedicate from your heart pours out into a hungry world. The world is starving for love and light, and all entities are capable of being lighthouses. Be light to each other. Be love to each other. The times are inconvenient because they are profoundly transformational. You came not to enjoy the inconveniences but to serve and to learn. These are times to walk with focus and faith.

Now Q’uo said using words and Carla’s awareness of how things are, they cannot give us an accurate representation of the  nature of this experience that we are having, but they said that it is a helpful part of the learning experience that we created for our self when we came to Earth, but we don’t have to do anything with this energy because our mission here, as one who is more aware than most of what is going on with the planet, the sun, and the whole system, is to enter in as a loving minister of Light to what may seem to be an impersonal energy, but they are not impersonal; they are not human, and the essences involved are loving and are looking with wisdom and compassion at the system of this local part of the infinite universe, and creating what balance they can from moment to moment, from sun to planet, to souls. Q’uo continued by saying our part in this is to embrace that which seems to be a difficult thing, and to accept those of times when our heart needs to be found, and let sleepless times be times of grounding and focusing, so that we become that which is stable, and passing on, with our blessings and our love, that one great Original Thought, which is pouring through us at all times in infinite supply, and let our self be the lighthouse that is not dismayed when the waves crash upon the shore: “but serenely shines in sure faith, in peaceful mind and a faithful heart, so that others who are concerned and distraught may catch some of that light, and be oriented and steadied by the energy that we do not need to express, but only to radiate.” Then Q’uo encouraged us, when we are disturbed by the world which we see, to ask for help because they cannot say often enough that the nature of metaphysical seeking is such that it is necessary to ask for help in order to receive it because positively oriented guides will not insist upon being heard, but will await our asking, as we need to remember to create for our self a stable daily time where we can have a few moments in the silence in which the Creator speaks because our guidance is hoping for us to create that time, and when we have a sense of that time to know that, because of the spiritual maturity that we have gained, our higher chakras are functioning well, and we have the capacity at those times to do work in consciousness, not only for our self, but for the planet, so it is a simple act to dedicate that which is in our loving heart to the Creator and to the planet because that light which we dedicate from our heart pours out into a hungry world that is starving for love and light, and all entities are capable of being lighthouses, so: ”Be light to each other. Be love to each other. The times are inconvenient because they are profoundly transformational. You came not to enjoy the inconveniences but to serve and to learn. These are times to walk with focus and faith.” On February 4, 1990, Q’uo spoke to how we are all here to serve and to learn:

However, if it is recognized by the entity that its opportunity to serve and to learn are with it always, and that any future opportunities that shall be added unto it are additional to that which is, then the life pattern can be seen as that of abundance, for that indeed is true for each. There is but one Creator in many faces. Each face one encounters is the same Creator. All faces need service. All may instruct. All may receive. Thus, there is nothing but opportunity to learn and to serve. The attitude of the entity in its breadth or in its narrowness determines the abundance of opportunity for that entity.

We would at this time ask if there are follow up queries or any other queries that we may answer before we leave this instrument. We are those of Q’uo.

[Thirty-second pause]

Q’uo: We seem to have exhausted the questions for the day, and we thank you once again for the pleasure and privilege of your company. We leave you in the love and in the light of the One Infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai.

This morning I re-recorded the section on Creating a New Paradigm in Chapter Seven of 102. Then I went outside and used my trimmer to weed all the areas in the back yard that had any weeds.

This afternoon I ran a couple of errands with my first stop being at Paul’s Fruit Market to buy some food. My second stop was at Walgreen’s Drug Store where I bought some Pepsi-Zero and some Duct Tape. When I got home I used my trimmer to weed any weeds in the side yard and then the front yard.

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

April 8

Easter Is Yours

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

All the seasons of the outer and inner year are valid. Yet too often we find that you have the fondness for Lent, the interior atmosphere of negation, deprivation, searching and dark wondering. Yet the Easter mentality is yours as well. And we would not wish to leave you without that comfort.

Experience the imprisonment of your captive heart, caught in a net of shadow and wondering. And, at this moment and for this day, release it, insofar as you feel comfort in doing so, into the glad light of Easter. Allow your spirits to rise and life to be resurrected within you. For you have not followed Jesus the Christ only through the suffering portion of life’s great passion. You have gone on with Him and walked the path of eternity. Easter is yours.

We leave you in the great joy and peace 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from April 27, 2006:

Q’uo: If you look at the earth world as a kind of school, this is the time of the final exam. It is a time when a lot of entities have completed their schoolwork, and they are ready to take that final test. It is a transition time for many – indeed, for many of those who have passed through the gates of death. It is a time of great celebration and rejoicing, for they have graduated from the school of Earth. Their next incarnation will most likely be on planet Earth in a fourth-density physical vehicle enjoying the new fourth-density Gaia, which is almost fully complete at this time.

(Carla channeling)

We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the One Infinite Creator. It is a great privilege and pleasure to be with this circle of seeking. We thank you for calling us to share our humble thoughts with you. We are delighted to do so. But, as always, we would ask for each of you to be very careful about what you take in of those things that we offer. Wait for those thoughts of ours that resonate to you, and use those thoughts, leaving the rest behind. We would greatly appreciate your using your powers of discrimination and listening to these thoughts and, indeed, any thoughts that come to you. For outer authorities do not hold when it comes to spiritual seeking. The only authority for a seeking soul is that soul itself. You will know what thoughts are for you and what thoughts are better left behind. We thank you for this consideration, as it will enable us to share our thoughts freely without being concerned with infringing upon your free will or the sacred process of your evolution.

Yourquery has to do with the entities who have passed through the gateway of death into larger life in the last few months. We realize that you are not asking about physical causes. There is a certain amount of cyclic rhythm which accounts for a certain percentage of the entities dying in the winter days and in the early days of spring, before the light has waxed to its midpoint. The days of darkness, your time of winter, is traditionally a good time for entities to exit your earth world having completed their incarnations. There is something about the lack of light that encourages the soul who is ripe to harvest itself through the gates of death.

However, we feel that your query has to do as well with metaphysical comments which we might make upon this subject. And so, we will go a bit deeper with you and take a look with you at the way your earth world is situated at this time. As you know, it lies upon the very brink of the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the end of the Age of Pisces, which has now passed as of 2012. This is also a time in your counting where other systems, such as the Mayan system of calendrics, posit an enormous birth – the end of the old age and the birth of the new. Although the two systems are extremely different, the information as to this shift of the ages is congruent between not only these two systems, but also other systems of mythology and philosophy, as well. In this transiting time, it is a natural time of harvest for your earth world, which we call a third-density planet. The business of third density is to make a choice. The choice has to do with how to love. Entities have incarnated many times in the last three minor cycles of the Age of Pisces, and before that were two other ages, culminating in the harvest at the end of this major cycle of somewhat over 75,000 of your years.

If you look at the earth world as a kind of school, this is the time of the final exam. It is a time when a lot of entities have completed their schoolwork, and they are ready to take that final test. It is a transition time for many – indeed, for many of those who have passed through the gates of death. It is a time of great celebration and rejoicing, for they have graduated from the school of Earth. Their next incarnation will most likely be on planet Earth in a fourth-density physical vehicle enjoying the new fourth-density Gaia, which is almost full… fully complete at this time. These fourth-density energies are heavily interpenetrating third-density Earth as you know it at this time. The fourth-density energy is unseen, yet its effects are felt by those with a sensitivity to finer and subtler energies that enables them to pick up on these new vibrations. The result or effect of this interpenetration of third- and fourth-density energies is to point out and make very clear the delineation between the different ways of loving. There are three ways of loving. Two ways lead to graduation, one way does not.

The group question for this session was: “Tell us about the entities who have passed through the gateway of death into larger life in the last few months.” Q’uo began by saying your query has to do with entities who have passed through the gateway of death into larger life in the last few months, and we realize that you are not asking about physical causes, so there is a cyclical rhythm which accounts for some of the entities dying in the winter days and in the early days of spring, before the light has attained its midpoint so that the days of winter are traditionally a time for entities to exit your Earth, having completed their incarnations, because there is something about the lack of light that encourages the soul who is ripe to harvest itself through the gates of death. Q’uo went on to say your query has to do with metaphysical comments which we might make upon this subject, so we will take a look with you at the way your earth world is situated at this time because it lies upon the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the end of the Age of Pisces, which will have passed as of 2012, and this is also a time in your counting where other systems, such as the Mayan system of calendrics, posit an enormous birth – the end of the old age and the birth of the new, and even though the two systems are different, the information as to this shift of the ages is congruent between not only these two systems, but also other systems of mythology, as well because in this transiting time it is a time of harvest for your Earth which we call a third-density planet, and the nature of third density is to make a choice of how to love, and entities have incarnated many times in the last three minor cycles of the Age of Pisces, and before that were two other ages, culminating in the harvest at the end of this major cycle of somewhat over 75,000 of your years. Q’uo continued by saying if you look at the earth world as a school it is a time when a lot of entities have completed their schoolwork, and they are ready to take that final test, and for many of those who have passed through the gates of death it is a time of celebration, for they have graduated from the school of Earth, and their next incarnation will likely be on Earth in a fourth-density body enjoying the new fourth-density Gaia which is fully complete at this time, and these fourth-density energies are interpenetrating third-density Earth, and the fourth-density energy is unseen, but its effects are felt by those with a sensitivity to subtler energies that enable them to pick up on these new vibrations so that the effect of this interpenetration of third- and fourth-density energies is to make clear the delineation between the different ways of loving, and there are three ways of loving with two ways that lead to graduation, and one way does not. On November 13, 2010, Q’uo describes the nature of fourth-density energies:

Third density light is waning. You are experiencing not only the sunset but shall we say, the gloaming—the indigo twilight-time of third density light. And as it sets, fourth-density light dawns. And it is those fourth-density energies that create the feeling of the clarity of the catalyst that you are experiencing now. It may not seem that it is a great advantage to be so aware of catalyst, and so able to see through it, and yet you may count it as a great resource. For it enables you to know that you are not fooling yourself. You are not dreaming. You are on task and on your job, whether it feels as if you are or not.

Indeed, my friends, you cannot help but be about your business because you have carefully set your life up so that the issues which you felt would help you to balance the energies of love, wisdom, and power would be with you throughout the incarnation.

The first way to love that leads to graduation is loving the Creator and loving other people as much as you love yourself. This way of loving is called service-to-others polarity. You will recognize such people by their tendency towards offering themselves in service to other people. They tend to be radiant beings whose thoughts are for the comfort and the safety of those about them.

Thesecond way of loving that leads to graduation is the service-to-self polarity. In this way of loving, the object of love is the self. It is as valid a path as the service-to-others polarity and is as effective at bringing one forward in the evolutionary path, spiritually speaking. It is not, to those of service-to-others polarity, an attractive path. Indeed, it is very difficult to graduate from the earth world in this polarity. Even the one known as Hitler was not evil enough to attain graduation on the service-to-self path because the one known as Hitler believed that he was being of service to his country and his race. Therefore, his energies had a positive cast to them, which kept him from graduating along the lines of service-to-self. This entity, therefore, had to undergo quite a bit of healing after he passed through the gates to larger life, for he was very deeply confused.

The third path is a path which does not lead to graduation. It is the path of indifference. It is the path of those who do not try particularly to be of service to others or to be of service to self. They do not either attempt to radiate or to control others, and so attract a circle of those who would serve them. Were we to encourage each of you to focus on one thought, in that which we have to offer this day, would be that thought of encouraging each of you to make that choice of how to love. You have great power as entities. We encourage you to use that power and to become magical as you polarize. We believe that those to whom we speak are those who wish to polarize along the lines of service to others. Such was the polarity of the one known as Jesus, the one known as Martin, the one known as Abraham, and the one known as Mother Teresa. Follow in the footsteps of those whose love radiated, and you cannot go wrong, my friends.

Then Q’uo said the first way to love that leads to graduation is loving the Creator and loving other people as much as we love our self, and this way of loving is called service-to-others polarity, and we will recognize such people by their tendency towards offering themselves in service to other people so that they tend to be radiant beings whose thoughts are for the comfort of those about them. Q’uo went on to say the second way of loving that leads to graduation is the service-to-self polarity, and in this way of loving, the object of love is our self, and it is as valid a path as the service-to-others polarity and is as effective at bringing us forward in the evolutionary path, but it is not, to those of service-to-others polarity, an attractive path because it is difficult to graduate from the Earth world in this polarity, and even Hitler was not evil enough to attain graduation on the service-to-self path because Hitler believed that he was being of service to his country and his race, so his energies had a positive cast to them, which kept him from graduating along the lines of service-to-self, so he had to undergo healing after he passed through the gates to larger life, for he was deeply confused. Q’uo continued by saying the third path is a path which does not lead to graduation since it is the path of indifference, and it is the path of those of us who do not try to be of service to others or to be of service to self, and Q’uo said if they were to encourage each of us to focus on one thought it would be that thought of encouraging each of us to make that choice of how to love because we have great power as entities, and they encouraged us to use that power and to become magical as we polarize, and they believed that those to whom they speak are those who wish to polarize along the lines of service to others, for such was the polarity of Jesus, Martin, Abraham, and Mother Teresa, so follow in the footsteps of those whose love radiated, and we cannot go wrong. In 35.8, Ra spoke of Abraham Lincoln:

The one known as Abraham had an extreme difficulty in many ways and, due to physical, mental, and spiritual pain, was weary of life but without the orientation to self-destruction. In your time, 1853, this entity was contacted in sleep by a fourth-density being. This being was concerned with the battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness which have been waged in fourth density for many of your years.

This entity accepted the honor/duty of completing the one known as Abraham’s karmic patterns, and the one known as Abraham discovered that this entity would attempt those things which the one known as Abraham desired to do but felt it could not. Thus the exchange was made.

The entity, Abraham, was taken to a plane of suspension until the cessation of its physical vehicle, much as though we of Ra would arrange with this instrument to remain in the vehicle, come out of the trance state, and function as this instrument, leaving this instrument’s mind and spirit complex in its suspended state.

The planetary energies at this time were at what seemed to this entity to be at a critical point, for that which you know as freedom had gained in acceptance as a possibility among many peoples. This entity saw the work done by those beginning the democratic concept of freedom, as you call it, in danger of being abridged, or abrogated, by the rising belief and use of the principle of the enslavement of entities. This is a negative concept of a fairly serious nature in your density. This entity, therefore, went forward into what it saw as the battle for the light, for healing of a rupture in the concept of freedom.

This entity did not gain or lose karma by these activities due to its detachment from any outcome. Its attitude throughout was one of service to others, more especially to the downtrodden or enslaved. The polarity of the individual was somewhat, but not severely, lessened by the cumulative feelings and thought-forms which were created due to large numbers of entities leaving the physical plane due to trauma of battle.

Theenergies of the interpenetration of third and fourth density have created an ever increasing, completely subliminal, and unconscious energy, which encourages those who have finished their work on Planet Earth to make the choice to move on. Third-density energy is beginning to wane on your planet, and it is only natural that the harvest has begun. Many of those who have died have walked the steps of light and found themselves harvested into fourth density. This is wonderful news for them. They shall, in their next incarnation, be able to choose from a much wider list of options as to how they want to serve the One Infinite Creator and their fellow beings. The light of fourth density is much richer in information. The veil of forgetting, which has kept third density entities unaware of their soul stream’s history, is lifted in fourth density. And entities have reconnected with their soul stream, as well. The lack of the veil enables all entities to know the thoughts about other entities.

To the third-density mind, this would be terrifying or perhaps simply highly inconvenient. However, to the fourth-density point of view, it is well understood that all entities have both the light and the dark in their makeup. So, it does not dismay entities of fourth density to see the range of thoughts of those about them. Therefore, entities may be just as they are, without any artifice or pretense of any kind. It is a much more comfortable, light-filled, and pleasant environment than third density. We therefore encourage those who have lost beloved friends and family members at this time to rejoice. Truly, the news is good. Those who have gone on are starting a brand-new adventure.

Each of you, as you come to the end of your lessons here on Planet Earth, may look forward to the same light-filled experience of walking through the gates of death, along the path of light, and into graduation into fourth density. For those of you who do not feel that they have in any way made the grade, we wish to encourage you as well to take heart. For as we understand the process that one goes through at death, there is no downside to the experience. If you walk the path of light and where you stop is still in third density, you will simply reincarnate for another cycle of learning on another third-density planet. It will not be Earth, as Earth’s third-density energy is just about to be extinguished. It may be a few more 100 years before it wanes to the point of extinction, but that is very short time in terms of the cosmology of your galactic spiral. What we are saying will not affect your lifetime – it will affect what happens to you when you make the transition through the gates of death. We encourage you to lose all fear of this process. However, between now and the time of your death, you have a precious span of moments, days, and years, in which you can refine upon your initial choice of how to love. Think of yourself as an instrument and allow love to play you. Let your tune be sweet and clear.

Now Q’uo said the energies of the interpenetration of third and fourth density have created an  increasing unconscious energy, which encourages those  of us who have finished our work on Earth to make the choice to move on, and third-density energy is beginning to wane on our planet, so it is natural that the harvest has begun, and many of those who have died have walked the steps of Light and found themselves harvested into fourth density so that they shall be able to choose from a wider list of options as to how they want to serve the One Infinite Creator and their fellow beings since the Light of fourth density is richer in information, and the veil of forgetting, which has kept third density entities unaware of their soul stream’s history, is lifted in fourth density, and entities have reconnected with their soul stream because the lack of the veil enables all entities to know the thoughts about other entities. Q’uo went on to say to our third-density mind this would be inconvenient, but to the fourth-density point of view, it is understood that all of us have both the light and the dark in our makeup, so it does not discourage entities of fourth density to see the range of thoughts of those about them, and entities may be just as they are, without pretense of any kind because it is a more light-filled environment than third density, so Q’uo encouraged those who have lost friends and family to rejoice because the news is good, and those who have gone on are starting a brand-new adventure. Q’uo continued by saying each of us, as we come to the end of our lessons on Earth, may look forward to the same light-filled experience of walking through the gates of death, along the path of Light, and into graduation into fourth density, but for those of us who do not feel that we have made the grade, Q’uo encouraged us to take heart, for as they understand the process that we go through at death, there is no downside to the experience because if we walk the path of Light and where we stop is still in third density, we will reincarnate for another cycle of learning on another third-density planet, and they encouraged us to lose all fear of this process because between now and the time of our death, we have a precious span of time in which we can refine our initial choice of how to love, so we can think of our self as an instrument and allow Love to play us and let our tune be sweet and clear. On November 19, 2000, Q’uo described the path of light:

However, the mechanism for moving from third density to densities which are more fully packed with Light is what this instrument has called the steps of Light. This is not quite an accurate description, but it is as close as this instrument can come to expressing what we offer her. What we offer her is a vision of a walkway, a broad and beautiful path of Light.

The Light along this path is most fastidiously guarded by entities which are extremely close to the one great original Thought, yet which still have some individuality. These are what we would call seventh-density entities. They make absolutely sure that the boundaries between the densities of third and fourth of Light are precisely accurate and that higher densities as well along this path are fastidiously accurately observed. The consciousness, then, without seeing any boundaries or partitions in this Light, is asked to walk along the path of Light. When the entity gets to the place where the Light is too much to bear, then that entity stops. The fullest amount of Light that that entity can enjoy and work with defines the next density of that entity’s experience. If it is third density, that entity will continue in third density. If it is fourth density, that entity will move into the inner planes of a fourth-density planet and prepare to start a cycle of fourth-density experience there. If the entity stops in fifth or sixth density, then that has become the native density of that entity, for that is the place that that entity can enjoy the experience of incarnation the most and can get the most out of it.

Is there a follow up query at this time? We are those of Q’uo.

A: The separation [inaudible].

We are those of Q’uo and are aware of your query, my brother. It is impossible for us to predict with any certainty, what shall occur in your future. The energies that are vibrating in your Earth World at this time are muddied and unclear. There is, not unexpectedly, a certain amount of energy coming from those who are negatively polarized and who realize that their time is gone. They have nothing more to conquer. They have no way to control more than they have already controlled, except to repeat patterns of ancient misconduct and to literally blow up their world. Those who were in positions of power on what you call Mars, Maldek, and Atlantis have once again surfaced and attempted to complete that pattern of destruction. For the most part, they are acting out of old instinct, repeating patterns of empire and destruction that have not served them in the past and do not serve them now, yet they persist.

Workingagainst this energy is a tremendous awakening and outpouring of those who are polarized service-to-others. Again, in many cases, these energies are instinctual and unconscious. But the fruits of incarnation after incarnation of loving, and serving, and being faithful are coming home to roost. And my friends, we cannot tell you how beautiful is the sight of so many awakening souls that are blooming very quickly and acquiring a great deal of polarity as they strive with all of their hearts to love and serve the One Infinite Creator as best as they know how. Intention is everything.

The energies apart from the energies of war and destruction that might bring more and more souls to the point of deciding to create an exit strategy by means of cancer, AIDS, or other diseases of your planet, which reliably tend to remove the physical body from its life, are available to those who, in terms of their subconscious, metaphysically oriented natures, feel that they are ripe and ready to be plucked from the Earth in the harvest of graduation. Since it is an unconscious process, and since it depends upon those entities finishing their work, we cannot say for sure that there will be an increase. But it is likely in terms of the probability/possibility vortices that we see at this time, that there will be an ever-increasing number of those whose work upon Planet Earth is finished, whose lessons have been learned, whose missions have been completed, and whose service has been offered with a glad and full heart, with gratitude, with joy, and with Thanksgiving. Consequently, trust when a death occurs among those near to you that this is very likely cause for rejoicing, for your friend or loved one has moved through the gates into a new heaven and a new Earth, a new set of lessons to learn, and a new way to explore being of service to the One Infinite Creator.

The question was inaudible. Q’uo said that it is impossible for them to predict what shall occur in our future because the energies that are vibrating in our Earth at this time are unclear, and there is energy coming from those who are negatively polarized and who realize that their time is gone since they have nothing more to conquer, and they have no way to control more than they have already controlled, except to repeat patterns of ancient misconduct and to blow up their world as those who were in positions of power on what we call Mars, Maldek, and Atlantis have once again surfaced and are repeating patterns of empire and destruction that have not served them in the past and do not serve them now, yet they persist. Now Q’uo said working against this energy is an awakening and outpouring of those of us who are polarized service-to-others, and in many cases these energies are unconscious, but the fruits of incarnation after incarnation of loving and serving are coming home to roost, and Q’uo said they could not tell us how beautiful is the sight of so many awakening souls that are acquiring a great deal of polarity as we strive with all of our hearts to love and serve the One Infinite Creator as best as we know how because intention is everything. Q’uo went on to say the energies apart from the energies of war and destruction that might bring more souls to the point of deciding to create an exit strategy by means of cancer, AIDS, or other diseases of our planet are available to those of us who, in terms of our subconscious natures, feel that we are ready to be plucked from the Earth in the graduation of souls since it is an unconscious process, and since it depends upon us finishing our work, and Q’uo cannot say for sure that there will be an increase, but it is likely in terms of the probability/possibility vortices that they see at this time, that there will be an ever-increasing number of those whose lessons have been learned and whose service has been offered with a glad and full heart, with joy and thanksgiving, so we can trust when a death occurs among those near to us that this is a cause for rejoicing, for our friend or loved one has moved through the gates into a new heaven and a new Earth, a new set of lessons to learn, and a new way to explore being of service to the One Infinite Creator. On April 17, 2005, Q’uo described the energies of the new heaven and the new Earth:

Some of the energy is what this instrument would call the highest and best, and it enlivens and energizes you. Others of the waves of energy are those which are shrinking from the Light and the Love of the one infinite Creator, energies that are fleeing from the lucidity and the clarity of these times that are among you now. The new heaven and the new earth lives upon the planet Earth. It is being born, more and more. And so, there are retroactive energies that are shrinking away from this clearer and brighter Light, shall we say, not very accurately.

When these waves of energy hit you, it will feel to you as if all things are resisting and are failing. We ask you to know that this is baffled and confused energy that does not tell you the truth, for you are succeeding. You are thriving. You are growing. And in that growth, things must fall away so that new things can emerge. We can only say to you: let it flow through you; let it fall away as it will; cling not and do not reach; but be. And allow the energies that are yours to come to you. Your desire is honed; your focus is becoming more and more clear. Trust yourself. Trust the system of guidance that surrounds you. Trust the Earth beneath your feet which is learning little by little to trust you. You are becoming creatures of Love involved in a loving environment, and from the earth to the sky, from the East to the West, and the North to the South, your planet is coming alive with Love. Can you hear it in the politics of the day? Only if you listen carefully and with selective ears.

May we answer you further, my brother?

A:L You kind of answered it, but I’ll re-ask the question: For those of us who like to serve [inaudible].

We are those of Q’uo and are aware of your query, my brother. There is no special way to be of service at this time to those who may be thinking of going on in terms of their subconscious mechanisms of judging. Be yourself, my brother. Love the light. Open your heart and keep it open. And respond to what people say and how people feel. Not relating to them by means of your belief system, but only by loving them and supporting them just as they are. This is always the heart of service-to-others. It is not for clever people to be of service to others, but for those whose hearts are full of the love and the light of the One Creator.

May we answer you further, my brother?

A: No. Thank you.

Q’uo: And we thank you. Is there another query in this group before we leave this instrument?

[Thirty-second pause]

We are those of Q’uo. And as there are no more sounds coming through this instrument’s ears, we assume that we have exhausted your questions for this particular session. We are always with you, if you would wish us to be. You have but to request us mentally by mentally vibrating our name, and we shall be with you to share in your meditation, to strengthen that deep stability that keeps you in a better state of meditation. The silence, my friends, is your most powerful resource for becoming more and more grounded into these new energies.

You may consider yourself at this time to be pilgrims of fourth density. You shall not see it, but you are part of what is bringing it about. As you yourself begin more and more to live with an open heart, living by fourth-density values of truth, love, wisdom, and justice, you are helping to shift consciousness on this planet so that it may welcome fourth density. With every kind word that you offer, you are softening the difficulty of the transition of the Earth itself. With every open-hearted thought, you are sweetening the golden glow of this transitioning time, so that the sunset becomes the sunrise and the old becomes new.

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. We leave you as we greeted you – in all that there is – the love and the light, the thought and the substance, of the One Infinite Creator. Adonai, my friends. Adonai.

This morning I re-recorded the section on the Stewardship of the Tribe of Humankind from Chapter Seven of 102. Then I called a taxi to take me to Enterprise Car Rental to rent a car since Stanley, my 2005 Outback Subaru, won’t start, and Bachman Subaru said that it will be a month before I can have Stanley towed to them for repairs.

This afternoon I recorded the section on Creation of a New Paradigm from Chapter Seven of 102. Then I went outside and used my trimmer to weed the last half of the Moss Garden and the Striped Lariope Garden in the back yard.

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

April 7

Repentance

I am of the principle of the essential and divine Love that is full consciousness, and I greet you in the name of Christ, hollowed out and filled up from man to Christ in Jesus.

This day we encourage each seeker to forgive, accept, and, if possible, forget the agony of every misdeed, however tiny or large; every error and every misstep.

The Comforter is not named solely as a paradox, for indeed comfort there is in the knowledge that the folly of man can never equal the comfortable Love and divine grace of God in Christ.

We leave you in hope of repentance and new life. In every moment of the pilgrim’s step, such is the reality. 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 Q’uo quote comes from April 18, 2006:

Question from J: In the Law of One series, Ra mentioned several people: Jesus of Nazareth, Edgar Cayce, Taras Bulba, Genghis Khan, and Rasputin. I found out there’s a common trait of these entities, that is, regardless of their polarity, they all learned their ability via the remembering process. This remembering process seems to have an accelerating effect on these entities’ learning and growing process. Is my thinking correct? If it’s correct, I wonder if there are some effective methods to help us to activate such a remembering process. For example, Edgar Cayce’s self-hypnosis or some special type of meditation. And I wonder if Q’uo can describe the practicing details of these methods and also any precaution that we need to be aware of?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you. It is a privilege to be called to your circle of seeking, and we thank you. To be able to share our humble thoughts is our chosen service at this particular time, and you greatly help us by giving us the chance to perform that service. It aids us in our evolution to serve the one infinite Creator in this way. We thank you for taking the time out of your extremely active lives to form this circle of seeking and ask for truth to be shared. As always, we would ask you to monitor your reactions to our thoughts carefully and discriminate between those thoughts that resonate with you and those which do not. Please leave those thoughts that do not resonate behind. They are not for you at this time. If you observe this discrimination then we feel much more comfortable in sharing our thoughts freely, for we would not intrude upon your evolution.

We are aware of the query concerning the various entities who remembered facets of their soul stream’s history, and Q’uo was aware that we wish to know more about what we call the remembering process, so they wanted to offer some general thoughts before they responded to details of our question, for the purpose of third density existence is not to penetrate the veil of forgetting or to know anything of a worldly nature at all, but there are times when it naturally comes to us or to remember details of a past life or to get an impression concerning the background of that entity that we are that has come into incarnation in this lifetime.

However, it is unnecessary in terms of preparing our self for graduation from third density to penetrate the veil of forgetting. Indeed, it is far more important, in preparing for graduation from third density, that one comes finally to the understanding that one knows nothing and can know nothing of the mystery that is the one infinite Creator. Reaching this level of humility and emptiness offers to the seeking student a peace and a confidence that are lacking when one is striving to know more and seek more deeply into the history of the self before this incarnation.

The veil of forgetting was put into place not in order that it may be penetrated but to set up the conditions for a life in which the choice of polarity and the continuing choices of polarity that follow such an initial choice might be played out without any possibility of proof. The choice of service-to-self or service-to-others polarity is intended to be made against the backdrop of unknowing so that one must literally take a leap of faith in order to choose how to respond to the catalyst of everyday life. In each situation where there is a decision to be made that has ethical overtones, the whole point of that veil of forgetting is to clear the canvas of any paint except that which you wish to apply in the present moment. Your choices, then, are made very cleanly—not because you feel there was karma from this or that previous lifetime or because of any other fact that you feel that you have come to know but because, by faith, you wish to choose your manner of being in a way that expresses your heart’s desire.

J’s first question was: “I wonder if there are some effective methods to help us to activate such a remembering process. For example, Edgar Cayce’s self-hypnosis or some special type of meditation. And I wonder if Q’uo can describe the practicing details of these methods and also any precaution that we need to be aware of?” Q’uo began by saying we are aware of the query concerning the various entities who remembered facets of their soul stream’s history, and they were aware that we wish to know more about what we call the remembering process, so they wanted to offer some general thoughts before they responded to details of our question, for the purpose of third density existence is not to penetrate the veil of forgetting or to know anything of a worldly nature at all, but there are times when it naturally comes to us, or to remember details of a past life, or to get an impression concerning the background of that entity that we are that has come into incarnation in this lifetime. Q’uo went on to say that it is unnecessary in terms of preparing our self for graduation from third density to penetrate the veil of forgetting, and it is more important, in preparing for graduation from third density, that we come to the understanding that we can know nothing of the mystery that is the one infinite Creator, and reaching this level of humility offers us a peace and a confidence that are lacking when we are striving to seek more deeply into the history of our self before this incarnation. Then Q’uo said that the veil of forgetting was put into place to set up the conditions for our life in which the choice of polarity, and the continuing choices of polarity that follow such an initial choice, might be played out without any possibility of proof because the choice of service-to-self or service-to-others is intended to be made against the backdrop of unknowing so that we must take a leap of faith in order to choose how to respond to the catalyst of everyday life, and in each situation where there is a decision to be made that has ethical overtones, the point of that veil of forgetting is to clear the canvas of any paint except that which we wish to apply in the present moment so that our choices are made very cleanly—not because we feel there was karma from a previous lifetime or because of any other fact that we feel that we have come to know–but because, by faith, we wish to choose our manner of being in a way that expresses our heart’s desire. On January 9, 2006, Q’uo described the value of the present moment:

It seems to us a fair and lovely thing for each of you to use the tools which you know to craft that which is your very best effort at sharing the light and the awareness that lie within you. We find all that this group has discussed this day to be appropriate. We do not have any desire to limit you in how you wish to present the information. We would only say to you that to balance the intensive dedication of each of you to manifesting, it is a good idea to spend a significant amount of your time becoming aware of the present moment, relaxing all tension or worry, and simply spending time knowing that all is well and that all will be well. Lighten up and find the light touch, the laughter, the bliss, and the joy that are only available when you are focusing on the present moment. Have fun with this, my friends, just as we are having the time of our lives working with you.

Therefore, while we are glad to speak with you concerning ways to penetrate the veil of forgetting, we do so with a careful warning to those who wish to do this. That warning is that that which you know or feel that you know about the larger picture of your soul’s history and its business within this incarnation creates a heavy responsibility. If you know something, you are responsible for that knowledge. Decisions that you make, then and thereafter, need to be made carefully and with utmost focus upon who you are and why you are in incarnation on planet Earth at this time. Any information you feel that you have gained needs to be carefully remembered and carefully applied, for you have gained in responsibility.

We call to this instrument’s mind the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. They were asked not to eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They chose to ignore this request and to eat this fruit. Their eyes were opened to issues about which they had been blessedly unaware of previous to the eating of the fruit of this tree. They became aware that they were in a natural state but that they were not simple beings, free and innocent like the animals and plants—they were entities with an awareness of ethics, morality, good and evil, as the story goes. They immediately began judging themselves; they decided that their natural, naked state was not acceptable. Modesty was born, repression was born, they became responsible for the knowledge that they had acquired.

It is a heavy burden to have knowledge, and it is not necessary to have this kind of knowledge in order to make the choice of service to others or service to self and to persevere in continuing to maintain that choice and that focus throughout the remainder of incarnation, thereby gaining polarity sufficient to graduate from third density. Further, in general we would suggest as a focus for gaining information of a certain type that is helpful within incarnation, we would suggest that a more skillful focus for gaining information is an attempt to get in touch with your guidance system. We have in other sessions discussed in some detail methods for doing this and would refer the one known as J to the information contained in such sessions.

Then Q’uo said while they are glad to speak with us concerning ways to penetrate the veil of forgetting, they do so with a warning to those who wish to do this, and that warning is that which we feel that we know about the larger picture of our soul’s history and its business within this incarnation creates a responsibility, so if we know something, we are responsible for that knowledge, and the decisions that we make then and thereafter need to be made carefully and with focus upon who we are and why we are in incarnation on Earth at this time, and any information we feel that we have gained needs to be remembered and applied, for we have gained in responsibility. Then Q’uo said they call to Carla’s mind the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden who were asked not to eat the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, but they chose to ignore this request and to eat this fruit, and their eyes were opened to issues about which they had been unaware of previous to the eating of the fruit of this tree, so they became aware that they were in a natural state, but they were not simple beings, free and innocent like the animals and plants, but they were entities with an awareness of ethics and good and evil, and they began judging themselves, and they decided that their naked state was not acceptable, so modesty was born and repression was born, and they became responsible for the knowledge that they had acquired. Q’uo went on to say it is a burden to have knowledge, and it is not necessary to have this kind of knowledge in order to make the choice of service to others or service to self and to persevere in continuing to maintain that choice throughout the remainder of our incarnation, thereby gaining polarity sufficient to graduate from third density, so they suggested that it is helpful within our incarnation that a more skillful focus for gaining information is an attempt to get in touch with our guidance system, and they have in other sessions discussed in detail methods for doing this. On September 5, 2010, Carla spoke at our Homecoming Gathering and said:

Now the veil makes free will our guide because nothing is known for sure. So, it’s not that we’re completely on our own. We’re most emphatically not on our own. We have our guidance system, and that includes at least three angels, your higher self, and any additional angels that you have attracted to yourself because of your work or the polarity of your basic vibration. And you can have dozens of angels around you.

A lot of people in my Christian tradition also find they have affinities to saints, and you can ask the saints to come along with you and be a part of your guidance system.

Then, looking at nature, you have all of the nature spirits that are ready to dance with you. If you’ve ever focused on the animal life around you may have discovered your totems, certain animals that come when you’re at a choice-point or you need confirmation on the way you’re thinking.

We would now move to a discussion of the details of ways to get in touch with more information about the self in previous incarnations. There are two basic ways which you may find efficacious in getting in touch with the information concerning past incarnations. The first way is organic and slow. Usually, it involves simply expressing to the self each day the intention of coming—we correct this instrument—of becoming more aware of the experiences that have occurred to the self in other parts of the soul stream before and after this incarnation. It may be helpful to express this intention by looking at the self in the mirror. You may look into the eyes or you may simply look out of focus at the face. Either technique is efficacious for some entities. You may indeed find the image of your face in the mirror beginning to change into different faces as you gaze into that mirror for some time. We would suggest five of your minutes as the appropriate cutoff point. Certainly between thirty seconds and five minutes at a time is enough intensity for you to experience at any one time. We would not suggest doing this more often than once a day. Such work as this may seem slight; however, it is substantive and powerful. When you harness your will and focus it, you are a person of magic and power and that which you desire will come to you.

If you desire to work with this information in a quicker way, the second technique would appeal to you. That technique involves using a professional and highly trained hypnotherapist. The technique involved is to ask the hypnotherapist to take you back, once the hypnotic state has been achieved, beyond birth so that you are not in this incarnation nor are you in any other incarnation. You will have instructed the hypnotherapist to ask you to make contact with your higher self. You will also have offered to the hypnotherapist the question that you wish to ask your higher self. The hypnotherapist may then ask those questions that you would wish to explore and the higher self, then, will respond through you to the question that the hypnotherapist is asking on your behalf. Since you as a person may well find it very difficult to recall what your higher self is saying speaking through you, it is well, if you pursue this avenue of investigation, to use a tape recorder or a CD recorder so that you have a record of that which was said.

Your remaining query had to do with the dangers that might possibly be involved in penetrating the veil of forgetting. We believe that we have expressed a sufficient degree of caution concerning this avenue of exploration. It is entirely up to you as to whether you wish to move forward with this investigation. Certainly, it is fascinating to discover details of past lives and to muse and ponder upon the information that you have gained. There are times that spontaneous information will come to you—we correct this instrument—there are times when such information will come to you spontaneously. When it comes to you spontaneously and organically, it is part of the flow of your natural process of spiritual evolution. It is an indication that your higher self feels that you are capable of being responsible for this information and putting it to excellent use.

If you persist in speeding up the process of penetrating the veil of forgetting, please recall that you need to be very careful to use such information in a spiritually mature way, not judging yourself or spinning tales of adhering karma and dire consequences. We ask that you refrain from moving through such judgmental patterns. Look at the information that you may have gained as a kind of story that will help you to have a larger and a more informed point of view, and remember that it is not what you know that is important but how you respond to the present moment. This incarnation of yours, my brother, is not about acquiring information or wisdom, it is about opening your heart and becoming able to share and carry the maximum amount of Light and Love as it flows from the Creator to the Earth and through your physical and metaphysical bodies. If you can open your heart in this moment, you are doing the maximum amount that you can do to serve the Creator and the creation.

Q’uo went on to say there are two ways which we may find helpful in getting in touch with information concerning past incarnations, and the first way is organic and slow since it involves expressing to our self each day the intention of becoming more aware of the experiences that have occurred to our self in other parts of the soul stream before and after this incarnation, so it may be helpful to express this intention by looking at our self in the mirror, and we may look into our eyes, or we may look out of focus at our face because either technique is helpful for some entities, so we may find the image of our face in the mirror beginning to change into different faces as we gaze into that mirror for some time, so Q’uo suggested five minutes as the appropriate cutoff point, and between thirty seconds and five minutes at a time is enough intensity for us to experience at any one time, but they would not suggest doing this more often than once a day since such work as this may seem slight, but it is powerful, and when we focus our will we are a person of magic and power, and that which we desire will come to us. Q’uo continued by saying if we desire to work with this information in a quicker way, the second technique would appeal to us, and that technique involves using a professional hypnotherapist, and the technique is to ask the hypnotherapist to take us back, once the hypnotic state has been achieved, beyond birth so that we are not in this incarnation, nor are we in any other incarnation, and we will have instructed the hypnotherapist to ask us to make contact with our higher self, and we will also have offered to the hypnotherapist the question that we wish to ask our higher self, so the hypnotherapist may ask those questions that we would wish to explore, and the higher self will respond through us to the question, and since we may find it difficult to recall what our higher self is saying speaking through us it is well to use a tape recorder or a CD recorder so that we have a record of that which was said. Now Q’uo said our remaining query had to do with the dangers that might be involved in penetrating the veil of forgetting, and they believed that they had expressed the kind of caution concerning this avenue of exploration, and it is up to us as to whether we wish to move forward with this investigation because it is fascinating to discover details of past lives and to ponder the information that we have gained, for there are times when such information will come to us spontaneously, and when it comes to us spontaneously it is part of the flow of our natural process of spiritual evolution, and it is an indication that our higher self feels that we are capable of being responsible for this information and putting it to excellent use. Q’uo went on to say if we persist in speeding up the process of penetrating the veil of forgetting, we need to be careful to use such information in a spiritually mature way–not judging our self–so Q’uo asked that we refrain from moving through such judgmental patterns, but we can look at the information that we have gained as a story that will help us to have a larger point of view, and remember that it is not what we know that is important but how we respond to the present moment since this is not about acquiring wisdom, it is about opening our heart and becoming able to share the maximum amount of Light and Love as it flows from the Creator to the Earth and through our physical and metaphysical bodies, so if we can open our heart in this moment, we are doing the maximum amount that we can do to serve the Creator and the creation. On April 2, 1995, Q’uo described the nature of the metaphysical body:

The closest we might come to a general description would then be the electrical body or the metaphysical body. It is a body which is far more densely filled with light and therefore is able to co-exist with the third-density illusion. Most bodies of this type are never visible to those within third-density incarnation, mostly because the entities do not know how to so clothe themselves with third-density material that they may become visible. The body of the one known as Jesus during this time was that body from which his earthly body had been made, the pattern-making body, that is. And this pattern-making or electrical body was simply picked up and put on, shall we say, but with a degree of faith that created manifestation.

You may relate this kind of body to—we search this instrument’s knowledge for the closest manifestation and find that this entity has seen the so-called psychic surgery and has seen such manifestations of electrical or form-making occurrences. They are indistinguishable from normal, physical, illusory bodies. However, their actual arena of living and working is within what we would call the metaphysical universe.

May we ask if there is another query at this time? We are those of Q’uo.

May we ask if there is a further query at this time?

J: During the remembering process, would one see some images in his visual screen or inner eyes?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query. It is usual in cases of the spontaneous penetration of the veil of forgetting that you will come to the information in a non-threatening manner. This usually takes place during the dreaming portion of your sleep. You will have a dream that seems particularly, vivid, and it will constitute the discovery of the way a previous incarnational experience feels or felt. Within the dream, you are simply in the other incarnation and experiencing life from that point of view. The characteristic experience of one who is learning through this bleed-through experience of dreaming is that the dream will seem preternaturally vivid, colorful, and detailed. It is rare that such information streams into the conscious mind while you are awake. Although, certainly under the pressure of a sustained request for such information, it may be that such information will come as in a vision, or in the case of one working with the mirror, seen dimly or with increasing detail in the mirror itself during the experience of looking into the mirror with the eyes out of focus.

May we ask if there is another query at this time?

J: What requirements does one need to activate the remembering process? What is the maximum possible degree of total remembrance that one can achieve?

We are those of Q’uo, and believe that we grasp your query, my brother. The requirements for penetrating the veil of forgetting are a sincere feeling that this is an important piece of information that will help you in your spiritual evolution. If the desire is pointed in the direction of this information, then that activates the process of coming into possession of more information of this type. The maximum degree of penetration of the veil of forgetting is variable. Different entities will be able to bear different percentages of the full weight of the experiences that have been embraced and assimilated by the soul stream. The density and weight of such information is incredibly great.

You, my brother, would find it difficult to believe the amount of information and the kind of information that you have accreted to your soul stream during the very long and busy history of your beingness. You must realize that you have existed since before the planet upon which you now draw breath was created. You are a portion of the Creator Itself. You have experienced all densities within this octave of creation. In the non-local or metaphysical sense, you are even now in all of the densities, accumulating information to yourself to offer up as a gift to the one infinite Creator. Consequently, to know even one percent of your total history would be far too much information for you to bear within incarnation.

J’s third question was: “What requirements does one need to activate the remembering process? What is the maximum possible degree of total remembrance that one can achieve?” Q’uo began by saying the requirement for penetrating the veil of forgetting is a feeling that this is an important piece of information that will help us in our spiritual evolution, so if our desire is pointed in the direction of this information that activates the process of coming into possession of more information of this type, and the degree of penetration of the veil of forgetting is variable as different entities will be able to bear different percentages of the weight of the experiences that have been assimilated by the soul stream, and the weight of such information is great. Then Q’uo said that we would find it difficult to believe the amount and the kind of information that we have added to our soul stream during the long history of our beingness, and we must realize that we have existed since before the planet upon which we now draw breath was created since we are a portion of the Creator Itself, and we have experienced all densities within this octave of creation, and in the metaphysical sense, we are even now in all of the densities, accumulating information to our self to offer up as a gift to the one infinite Creator, so to know even one percent of our total history would be far too much information for us to bear within incarnation. On May 26, 1985, Latwii described the metaphysical sense of our being:

We may suggest that in the metaphysical sense, one deals with a range of appropriateness which provides you with the opportunity for purity. You may do as you wish in whatever case. Each choice bears a fruit. There is in any situation the opportunity to provide a service and the opportunity to ask others to join in that service. Depending on the point of view which is chosen, the correctness, shall we say, will be more or less enhanced. This, of course, you already know and are in this case seeking a more precise declaration or clarification of that which shall be the most efficacious choice.

May we ask if there is a further query, my brother?

J: If one wants to open the gates of intelligent infinity, is it necessary for him to remember all things in his past lives?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. Indeed, it is not necessary at all to remember any of the details of your past lives. In order to achieve harvestability within third density. It is necessary only to intend to love and to allow the self to be loved in return. Loving and being loved are the activity that shall open your heart and create in you a cleanliness, a peace, and a power that expresses the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator in its truth and its beauty.

We thank the one known as J for these queries and for seeking the truth. We thank all of those in this circle for the privilege of being allowed to share our thoughts and for the beauty of your vibrations. We leave you as we found you, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I went outside and pumped half of the water out of the fishpond and refilled it with fresh water. While it was refilling, I came back into my bedroom/office and continued working on a Camelot Journal entry for two days from now. Then I went back outside and put the netting around the fishpond in place. An hour later I looked out my bedroom window and saw water splashing out of the front of the fishpond, so I went outside and discovered that the tube that connects the pump to the fountain had come out of the pump. So, I cut the old duct tape away and retaped the tube to the pump while using the garden hose to refill about 300 gallons of water.

This afternoon I had just finished cleaning the rug in Benny’s apartment when I looked at the fishpond and saw that water was gushing out of the fishpond again just like this morning. So, I went back outside and went through the same process as I did this morning, but I remembered that I needed to put super glue on the first part of the tube that goes into the pump, and then I retaped it and checked to see if it was at the right height of water for the fountain to run without splashing water out of the pond. So far, all is well.

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

April 6

The Springtime Energy Of Cells

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

Your feet shall not stand upon the good earth all the day, yet within the mind and within the heart let yourselves never be removed from that primal energy source. Know that every fiber of your sweet planet’s natural growth, as it burgeons into springtime, expresses its energies in rejoicing and that all who stand amongst the flowering may also feel that energy flowing.

And, indeed, all who can turn in mind to that same blooming may experience and be fed by that same joyous, springtime energy, for you are part of the creation of the Father. Feel within each cell the springtime energy of the creature that you are and bless each tendril of new energy, each lighter spring to the step, offering praise to the Creator of these cycles of life. May each cycle of your life spiral you closer to the consciousness of Christ.

We leave you in that consciousness, in that Love, and in that 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.

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Q’uo quote comes from April 14, 2006:

Question from J: Could you offer a word to those whose energetic profile matches service-to-self entities, who have strongly developed lower and upper chakras and a muted heart chakra, and who are working to effect their positive polarization now on this planet. For example: they have the advantage of possessing a great deal of personal gravity, will, intuitive force and perceptivity. Also, they have significant insight into the machinations of dark force operations now haunting this planet. On the other hand, ingress into the heart of such is a tricky business because it demands the balancing of polarized emotions of immense charge. It’s not so easy to accept one’s complicity in perpetrating the horrors of creation. The first question: can you recommend avenues of restitution and service?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this evening. It is a privilege to be called to your circle of seeking. We thank each of you for reserving these moments of your incarnation for seeking the truth and for calling us to your circle. As always, we would ask of each that care be taken to discriminate in listening to our thoughts. If something seems resonant to you, by all means, use it. However, if our thoughts do not seem resonant to you, please lay them aside. Your cooperation in guarding the gates of your perception is much appreciated for it will allow us to speak freely and not be concerned with abridging your free will or your sacred spiritual process.

Wewould gladly speak a word to those whose profile matches the service-to-self energy pattern of well developed red, orange, and yellow-ray energy centers, and well developed blue and indigo energy centers, but poorly developed green ray. We would suggest that such entities experiencing this pattern of energy expenditure may profitably consider that they may well have chosen to incarnate in third density upon the Earth at this time in order to effect a more harmonious and full balancing of the energies which you may call love, light, power, and peace. We offer these words to indicate the dimensions of love and wisdom, or the lessons of fourth density and fifth density, that are studied in sixth density in order to unify and solidify the point of awareness that contains all of the consciousness that is granted to all aspects of the creative principle.

Those who have experienced a far more comprehensive course of study in wisdom than in compassion move into third density not only to be of service to the planet and to its people but also to tackle a kind of strenuous metaphysical boot camp, if you will, in which your pre-incarnative desire is that you shall effect, within the athanor of incarnation, a more equitable and just integration of the energies of love and the energies of light or wisdom. We wish to indicate that this is not, for an entity overbalanced into wisdom, a beau geste that is particularly easy to grasp or effectuate. The chief stumbling block to one overbalanced in wisdom is a basic attitude with which this instrument is familiar that she calls pride. When she sees this element of character within herself, she confesses her pride.

However, we would perhaps use the term arrogance rather than pride. In pride, there is a conscious element: one is proud of something. There is a quantitative aspect to this concept of emotive structure. We do not wish to indicate that there is any conscious aspect to the structure involved in those who are wise at the expense of love. Therefore, we suggest the term arrogance, for arrogance is an unconscious attribute carried by those who are aware of the efficacy of their thinking processes. We would say to those whose profile matches this distortion that it is time to become willing to be grounded in humility. We would offer one figure before taking further queries. This instrument attended one of its Holy Week services yesterday evening. This particular service was devoted to focusing upon an evening meal held in an upper room tended by thirteen men, including Jesus the Christ.

The first question for this session was: “Question from J: Could you offer a word to those whose energetic profile matches service-to-self entities, who have strongly developed lower and upper chakras and a muted heart chakra, and who are working to effect their positive polarization now on this planet.” Q’uo began by saying they would speak a word to those of us whose profile matches the service-to-self energy pattern of the well-developed red, orange, yellow, blue, and indigo energy centers, but the poorly developed green ray, and they would suggest that entities experiencing this pattern of energy expenditure may consider that we may have chosen to incarnate in third density upon the Earth in order to effect a more harmonious and full balancing of the energies which we may call love, light, power, and peace, and they offered these words to indicate the dimensions of love and wisdom, or the lessons of fourth density and fifth density, that are studied in sixth density in order to unify and solidify the point of awareness that contains all of the consciousness that is granted to all aspects of the creative principle. Q’uo went on to say that we who have experienced a more comprehensive course of study in wisdom than in compassion move into third density, not only to be of service to the planet and to its people, but also to tackle a difficult spiritual journey in which our pre-incarnative desire is that we shall effect, within the refinery of our incarnation, a balancing of the energies of love and light or wisdom, but they wished to indicate that if we are overbalanced in wisdom that this effort is not easy to grasp because the chief stumbling block if we are overbalanced in wisdom is an attitude with which Carla is familiar that she calls pride, so when she sees this element of character within herself, she confesses her pride. Then Q’uo said they would use the term arrogance rather than pride because in pride we are conscious of something to be proud of, and there is a quantitative aspect to this concept of our emotional nature, so Q’uo did not wish to say that there is any conscious aspect to the structure involved in those of us who are wise at the expense of love, so they suggested the term arrogance, for arrogance is an unconscious attribute carried by those of us who are aware of the value of our thinking processes, and they said to those whose profile matches this distortion that it is time to become willing to be grounded in humility, so they offered one figure before taking further queries since Carla attended one of her Holy Week services yesterday evening, and this service was devoted to focusing upon an evening meal held in an upper room tended by thirteen men, including Jesus the Christ. On December 12, 2004, Q’uo spoke of the value of laying down our arrogance as a means of sharing more humility:

So, moving into this sacred space is moving into a safety zone. It is moving into a place where you are loved and where you love. You have the courage and the stamina that may be lacking in the chakra system as a whole at the moment. Moving into green ray is moving into a solid and secure place, a “gated” community, shall we say. You do have to get through your own gate! There are lions at the door of green ray. So lay aside your pride, your arrogance, and your pretensions of all kinds. Metaphysically speaking, drop to your knees, empty yourself and lay down your burdens.

During this meal the one known as Jesus offered two mandates as suggestions for loving each other. His first suggestion is memorialized in what this instrument calls the Holy Eucharist. The teacher known as Jesus took bread, the common, ordinary bread that was the substance of the night’s meal. He blessed it. He broke it. And he shared it with all who were at the table. And he said, “When you break bread, do it in remembrance of me.” And he took the wine, which was their common drink, blessed it and poured it out, sharing it completely with those present. Again, the one known as Jesus said, “When you drink, do this in remembrance of me.”

A second mandate, as a teacher that evening, as recorded in your holy work known as the Bible, was to ask those present to remove their sandals so that he could wash their feet. The one known as Peter at first refused, for he felt that it was far too humble a task for a teacher to offer to his students. But the one known as Jesus said, “Unless I wash you, you shall not be clean.” And so Peter immediately said, “Then, Lord, wash all of me.” The one known as Jesus said, “You are clean and yet it does not hurt to wash the dust of the day off your feet.” Having washed the disciples’ feet, he said to them, “If I am your teacher and I wash your feet, then perhaps you may see your way clear to washing each others’ feet.” The one known as Jesus seldom spoke directly. However, you may see his intention was to indicate not only the value of service to others but also the value of absolute humility. We ask all of those who find themselves wise and who know themselves clever, has it helped you to love? Has it opened your heart? We have often spoken through this instrument of the most difficult journey an entity such as those you have described will ever make. That journey is the fourteen or so inches from your head to your heart.

Then Q’uo said during this meal Jesus offered two mandates as suggestions for loving each other, and His first suggestion is memorialized in what Carla calls the Holy Eucharist when the teacher known as Jesus took bread, and He blessed it, and then He broke it, and He shared it with all who were at the table, so then He said, “When you break bread, do it in remembrance of me.” Then He took the wine and blessed it and poured it out, sharing it with those present, and again Jesus said, “When you drink, do this in remembrance of me.” Q’uo went on to say a second mandate as recorded in the Bible, was to ask those present to remove their sandals so that He could wash their feet, but Peter at first refused, for he felt that it was too humble a task for a teacher to offer to His students, but Jesus said, “Unless I wash you, you shall not be clean.” So, Peter immediately said, “Then, Lord, wash all of me.” Then Jesus said, “You are clean, and yet it does not hurt to wash the dust of the day off your feet.” Having washed the disciples’ feet, He said to them, “If I am your teacher and I wash your feet, then perhaps you may see your way clear to washing each others’ feet.” Jesus seldom spoke directly, so you may see His intention was to indicate not only the value of service to others but also the value of absolute humility, so Q’uo asked all of those who find themselves wise and who know themselves clever, has it helped you to love? Has it opened your heart? We have often spoken through Carla about the most difficult journey an entity such as those you have described will ever make is that journey is the fourteen inches from your head to your heart. On September 5, 2020, Carla spoke of the journey from our head to our heart:

Our service begins with being. When we are most truly ourselves, we have served, immediately and absolutely, because the heart of all of us is one. It is a oneness that is tempered by our uniqueness but the consciousness that we share, that is our true self, is one. We share consciousness. We don’t share minds. We don’t share our biocomputer. We don’t share our choice-making abilities. Those are all unique to each of us. What we share is consciousness. Now, the difference between the mind and consciousness could be said to be the difference between head and heart. The length between the head and the heart is only twelve or fourteen inches, but it’s the longest distance we will ever go in this incarnation.

May we ask for the next query, my brother?

J: Can you make suggestions which make easier the polarization of these ones in particular?

Weare those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. We have perhaps made a modest beginning at suggesting the general strategy for working towards the full integration of wisdom and love. We have talked before about the heart chakra. It is a much misunderstood energy center encompassing two distinct aspects. It is impossible to make a direct assault upon the closed heart. The heart itself is protected within what this instrument would describe as an outer courtyard. The overarching dome of light that signals the presence of consciousness is gently enswathed in the basilica of the inner heart. Outside of that sanctum sanctorum is that place where entities come, in all their dirt, to see if they are ready to enter their own heart. The difficulty that entities find when attempting to enter their heart is that they must needs integrate all of their personality shell into that entity which stands at the door and seeks entrance. All entities carry the full 360 degrees of personality. The entire spectrum of light and dark lives and thrives within each Spirit sent forth by the one infinite Creator before the world was.

For those who carry that arrogance of wisdom, there is subtle work to be done in emptying the pockets of self. It is lonely and unforgiving work to break yourself open to the point where you can see and acknowledge all of the factors that go into what on the surface is a simple and seamless attitude of confidence and self-knowledge. Nevertheless, this is the task ahead of one who wishes to open his heart. It is a difficult thing to grasp because there is no cleverness involved in opening the heart. There is only the acknowledgment of the falsehood of any claim that one may wish to make to true wisdom. For wisdom uninformed by love is not stable or balanced, in terms of that lesson which entities such as yourself incarnated in order to balance.

The wiser an entity is, the more narrow his ability to see beyond his own intelligence. The ability to use higher chakras further confuses the issue, because from the viewpoint of manifestation, there seems to be such a likelihood that such powerful knowledge will be useful to the self, to the Creator, and to the planet. In orienting you and those like you to the actual situation, we would ask each to move back in perspective until there is a broadness that takes in all of the third-density pattern. A pattern involves a choice of how to be and how to serve. In third density, the path to graduation involves a simple choice followed by a series of congruent choices which progressively tune the spirit under such discipline to the point where that spirit is able to surrender to love.

The second question from J: “Can you make suggestions which make easier the polarization of these ones in particular?” Q’uo began by saying they had made a beginning at suggesting the way of working towards the integration of wisdom and love by talking about the heart chakra as it is a misunderstood energy center encompassing two distinct aspects, and it is impossible to make a direct assault upon the closed heart because our heart is protected within what Carla would describe as an outer courtyard so that the overarching dome of light that signals the presence of consciousness is gently bathed in the basilica of our inner heart, and outside of that sanctum sanctorum is that place where we come, in all our dirt, to see if we are ready to enter our heart, but the difficulty that we find when attempting to enter our heart is that we must integrate all of our personality shell as we stand at the door and seek entrance, and all entities carry the full 360 degrees of personality since the entire spectrum of light and dark lives within each Spirit sent forth by the one infinite Creator before the world was. Q’uo went on to say for those of us who carry that arrogance of wisdom, there is subtle work to be done in emptying our pockets because it is lonely and unforgiving work to break our self open to the point where we can acknowledge all of the factors that go into what on the surface is a simple attitude of self-knowledge, but this is the task ahead of us if we wish to open our heart, and it is a difficult thing to grasp because there is no cleverness involved in opening our heart since there is only the acknowledgment of the falsehood of any claim that we may wish to make to true wisdom, for wisdom uninformed by love is not balanced, in terms of that lesson which entities such as we are incarnated in order to balance. Then Q’uo said that the wiser we are, the more narrow is our ability to see beyond our intelligence because our ability to use higher chakras further confuses the issue, since from the viewpoint of manifestation, there seems to be a likelihood that such knowledge will be useful to our self, to the Creator, and to the planet, and in orienting us and those like us to the actual situation, Q’uo asked each of us to move back in perspective until there is a broadness that takes in all of the third-density pattern which involves a choice of how to be and how to serve because in third density the path to graduation involves a choice followed by a series of similar choices which tune our spirit under such discipline to the point where our spirit is able to surrender to love. On February 18, 2007, Q’uo described the path to graduation:

Entities who give themselves over to a religion and accept its dogma simplify their path in a certain way. And if they are able to dwell within that simplified structure of thought without falling into the trap of judgment of the self and other selves when they do not believe as do you, they are very likely to be able to use that religion as a way to the infinite Creator that works well. For each religion teaches the basic love of other people and the love of the one infinite Creator. And if an entity loves the Creator and loves the neighbor as the self, however that is put, the path to graduation from third density is clear. The choices to serve others has been made. The work is good.

The difficulty is in releasing all of the intelligence and knowledge that is so proudly carried and so skillfully used in the outer manifestations of life on planet Earth. In order to dig down into the treasure of self, you must break the container that holds all of that pride or arrogance of accomplishment. When you have released this structure, you will find that you are as vulnerable as a tiny kitten, such as the one that is snuggled up against this instrument’s ankle at this moment. Only when you have become as a tiny child, free of the burden of your wisdom, can you at last break the bunker of self-consciousness.

My brother, how deeply and how truly you seek to do that! And yet how clever are the many, many thoughts and strategies that will gladly entrain your intelligence and distract your will. These forces within you do not wish for you to open your heart. They like having full pockets. They do not want you to empty your pockets of these things which, to the surface personality, seem to suggest selfhood. Yet there is a powerful voice within you that says that this is not true consciousness. And you hunger for that. What is the “I” of a person and of a soul? When consciousness itself is the “I” of you, then shall your heart be free to open and blossom and radiate infinitely. And from that perspective alone shall you at last be able to march from the sanctum sanctorum, fed and strengthened, in full knowledge of who you are for the first time and ready at last to do serious work upon balancing the wisdom which you offered to yourself as a gift and as catalyst. You seek to wend your way from the penumbra of articulated thought to the daylight of love. We wish you every good fortune in your seeking and we commend you for your awareness of the basic situation.

Now Q’uo said the difficulty is in our releasing all of the intelligence that we so proudly carried in the outer manifestations of our life on planet Earth, and in order to dig down into the treasure of our self, we must break the container that holds all of that pride of accomplishment, so when we have released this structure, we will find that we are as vulnerable as a tiny kitten, and only when we have become as a child, free of the burden of our wisdom, can we at break the container of self-consciousness. Then Q’uo said how clever are the many strategies that will gladly entrain our intelligence and distract our will because these forces within us do not wish for us to open our heart since they like having full pockets, and they do not want us to empty our pockets of these things which, to the surface personality, seem to suggest selfhood, but there is a powerful voice within us that says this is not true consciousness, and we hunger for that, and when consciousness itself is the “I” of us, then shall our heart be free to open and radiate infinitely, and then we shall be able to march from the sanctum sanctorum in full knowledge of who we are for the first time and be ready to do work upon balancing the wisdom which we offered to our self as catalyst, and we seek to wend our way from the shadow of articulated thought to the daylight of love, and Q’uo wished us good fortune in our seeking and they commended us for our awareness of the basic situation. On December 20, 1998, Q’uo spoke of the nature of our true consciousness:

Wherever we see the Christ within incarnation that consciousness held by that entity is Lord. One recognizes it as one would recognize an oak tree or a brand of food in your marketplace. It is distinctive. It is perfect of its own kind. And it is a deeply impersonal, infinitely true consciousness in metaphysical location of quality and essence that transcends personality and reidentifies the individual as Love.

This state of consciousness lies within your awareness even in incarnation, in potentiation, and the thirst for that state of consciousness draws you onward. May we say to you, value and treasure that thirst and follow it faithfully, for it is a true thirst, a thirst that will still be there a hundred millennia from now, only more intense, more single-minded, because you will have found out more, experienced more, been more within the changing and shifting illusions of space/time.

May we ask for the next query, my brother?

J: Can you speak of the response on the inner planes to those who choose to relinquish their status as spiritual achievers and surrender their proudly held, imbalanced acquisitions for the common good?

Weare those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. The response to one who has at last been able to lay aside pride, break the pottery of intellect, and offer the naked soul, as it is, to the one Creator in all humility, is embrace, inclusion, comfort, and support. Indeed, these are the responses of your guidance system and those spiritual forces which surround you regardless of your circumstances. However, to one who has indeed cast aside arrogance, the voice of Spirit becomes quite audible and there is a liveness of interchange that is not possible while the egoic structure of the personality shell retains its knowledge of its self-sufficiency. We speak as if there is a “we” and a “they,” a “you” and an “I.” And this is not precisely correct. For there is an ever-flowing movement of energy along lines of force which are created by your thoughts and feelings rather than there being a dynamic of two.

You are experiencing ways of structuring the self so that it may be known to the self. We do not wish to take away every structure of your thoughts in an instant. Rather, we would that you would conceive of this journey as a dance. It is a dance in which your movements express a gradual increase in your ability to be naked and without personality. In the privacy and the intimacy of your silent meditation, allow all to fall away as it will and sit with that which is left until it, too, falls away. And then sit with that which is left until it, too, falls away. Repeat this process until when you sit, you simply sit.

J’s third question was: “Can you speak of the response on the inner planes to those who choose to relinquish their status as spiritual achievers and surrender their proudly held, imbalanced acquisitions for the common good?” Q’uo began by saying the response to one who has been able to lay aside pride, and offer the naked soul to the one Creator in humility is comforted and supported as these are the responses of our guidance system and those spiritual forces which surround us regardless of our circumstances, but to one who has cast aside arrogance the voice of Spirit becomes audible, and there is a liveness of interchange that is not possible while the egoic structure of our personality shell retains its knowledge of its self-sufficiency, and Q’uo spoke as if there is a “we” and a “they,” a “you” and an “I” which is not correct, for there is an ever-flowing movement of energy along lines of force which are created by our thoughts and feelings rather than there being a dynamic of two. Q’uo continued by saying we are experiencing ways of structuring our self so that it may be known to us, and Q’uo did not wish to take away every structure of our thoughts in an instant, but they would hope that we would conceive of this journey as a dance in which our movements express an increase in our ability to be naked and without personality, so in the privacy of our silent meditation: “allow all to fall away as it will and sit with that which is left until it, too, falls away. And then sit with that which is left until it, too, falls away. Repeat this process until when you sit, you simply sit.” On April 20, 1997, Q’uo spoke of the nature of what it means for us to be without personality:

But we would commend to your attention the virtue of confusion, the virtue and helpfulness of being caught, of being puzzled, of being taken out of oneself so that self is revealing self to self in a spontaneous manner. These characteristics of self provide the structure for learning within third density. They present to the seeker carefully orchestrated choices that are subjectively oriented to offer the best opportunity for polarization of consciousness. Without personality but simply with self-awareness and the choice before one the seeker will move without error into full awareness. Yet this awareness teaches nothing. It does not connect with that biological entity in a way which furthers spiritual evolution. It is the foolish personality, the ego, the self that thinks a million thoughts and does a million deeds in its heart, and that foolish entity alone that interacts with free will and finds ever deeper and truer choices that create and recreate and recreate the self ever anew.

May we ask for the next query, my brother?

J: I find in myself a strong affinity for higher-density planes of both polarities and information about them. This and other things have led me to believe that I have wandered through higher-density planes, both positive and negative, and then chosen to hop back into the maelstrom of third density. Could you please verify this and discuss the phenomenon of individuals exploring both polarities into higher densities? Could this be merely a grand way of deferring true polarization?

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. We tread close to the limits of free will as we respond to this question. In our opinion—and we offer it for what it is worth—the pattern which you describe is that of a sixth-density wanderer whose fifth-density experiences were felt by the sixth-density entity to have too marked an effect upon the basic ground of being which is represented by the pallid word “love” and by the activity of the student of fourth density in realizing fully…

[Side one of tape ends.]

…the depths of that ground of being. The Thought that created all that there is was not a thought of wisdom. It was pure, unconditional, love. Consciousness is a Thought which creates and destroys the universe. That consciousness is a consciousness of Love.

It is difficult to bring into focus within third density the function of wisdom. Perhaps the most skillful thing we could offer at this juncture is that which has been noted by all, we feel sure, and that is the difference between the thinking of the intellect and the thinking of the heart. Each entity knows people who seem to think with their hearts. Whether their intellects are great or modest, the solutions to the catalyst within their lives seem to involve the creative aspects of love. Practices which aid an entity in becoming more aware of his own heart are those practices which are very momentary. It is difficult to discipline the self to use the present moment. But it is in the present moment that you may practice opening the heart.

J’s fourth question was: “I find in myself a strong affinity for higher-density planes of both polarities and information about them. This and other things have led me to believe that I have wandered through higher-density planes, both positive and negative, and then chosen to hop back into the maelstrom of third density. Could you please verify this and discuss the phenomenon of individuals exploring both polarities into higher densities? Could this be merely a grand way of deferring true polarization?” Q’uo said they would tread close to the limits of free will as they respond to this question, but in their opinion the pattern which they described was that of a sixth-density wanderer whose fifth-density experiences were felt by the sixth-density entity to have too marked an effect upon the basic ground of being which is represented by the word “love” and by the activity of the student of fourth density in realizing fully…the depths of that ground of being so that the Thought that created all that there is was not a thought of wisdom because It was unconditional Love, and consciousness is a Thought of Love which creates and destroys the universe. Now Q’uo said it is difficult to bring into focus within third density the function of wisdom, and the most skillful thing they could offer at this juncture is that which has been noted by all, and that is the difference between the thinking of our intellect and the thinking of our heart, and each of us knows people who think with their hearts so that whether their intellects are great or modest, the solutions to the catalyst within their lives seem to involve the creative aspects of love, and practices which aid us in becoming more aware of our heart are those practices which are brief because it is difficult to discipline the our self to use the present moment, but it is in the present moment that we may practice opening the heart. On March 20, 1991, Q’uo described the value of the present moment:

Worry not about that which is projected from the present moment into that which shall be a future moment. Do and be in this moment and allow each succeeding moment to be created from the harmony of this moment. It is natural for entities within your third-density illusion to move from the present moment and to reminisce about those previous experiences and to project those that may occur in your future, for the present moment is that which is the most illusory and difficult to comfortably place oneself within, for all of one’s life, then, is contained within that immediacy of experience which the present moment surrounds. And for most entities who have not consciously considered the purpose of the life pattern, the present moment is that which shall be escaped from. Thus, we would recommend that you share your love at each present moment when it is felt and allow the moment to be enough unto itself.

Stop and think about your facial expression. Are you smiling? Are you frowning? Place upon your face the beginnings of a smile and each time that you become aware of your expression, curve up the edges of your lips into a slight smile. Over time, examine the results of this seemingly completely superficial practice. When you become aware that you are entering the presence of another, take a moment to acknowledge, accept, and admire the perfection of that individual. Naturally, that perfection is not apparent to the outer eye in most cases. Do not let that stop you. You know that each entity is the Creator. Take a moment to establish that acknowledgement, acceptance and admiration.  Before you arise from your bed, call for help. Your guidance system cannot begin to act actively in your life unless you call it, not just once but every day and every moment.

Wisdom has a tendency to create within an entity the feeling that he or she is powerful and self-sufficient. In truth, when power has been wedded to peace and light has been wedded to love, true power emerges. And in that power is rest. In that compassion is wisdom. But the ground upon which you stand in order to do this work of reconciling and harmonizing those factors that blend into who you are is love.

Then Q’uo said stop and think about our facial expression, and place upon our face the beginnings of a smile, and each time that we become aware of our expression, curve up the edges of our lips into a smile, and examine the results of this seemingly superficial practice so that when we become aware that we are entering the presence of another, take a moment to acknowledge the perfection of that individual because that perfection is not apparent to our eyes in most cases, but that should not stop us since we know that each entity is the Creator, so we should take a moment to establish that acceptance, and before we arise from our bed, call for help because our guidance system cannot begin to act actively in our life unless we call it, not just once but every day and every moment. Now Q’uo said wisdom has a tendency to create within us the feeling that we are self-sufficient, and when power has been wedded to peace and light has been wedded to love, true power emerges, and in that power is rest and in that compassion is wisdom, but the ground upon which we stand in order to do this work of reconciling and harmonizing those factors that blend into who we are is Love. On June 13, 1976, Hatonn spoke of the nature of true power:

The Spirit, my friends, created all of the creations of the Father, you among them. So, we say to you, yes, find the beauties, and see the services but at the very core, after you have observed the laws of the Father, which are beauty and service, observe the true power—Love itself—that has created all this in its perfection.

It is this spirit that can transform your life. You do not need to struggle from moment to moment, from thought to thought, from action to action. You only think you do, my friends, because you have not been taking your meditation into your life. If you cannot do it all the time, do it once. And then, do it again. Five seconds, one minute of focused concentration in the spirit to are more beneficial to you than you can imagine.

We find that this instrument’s energies are waning, and we would ask for one more query before we leave this instrument.

J: Why is it that fourth and fifth-density negative beings don’t work in conjunction with their higher selves to see where the negative path leads and then switch over to the other polarity? This would seem to be so much more efficient! Is it fondness for the game, the enjoyment of feeling strong, inflowing, apparently fulfilling energies and fear of annihilation or interminable misery that keep them enthralled in their mischief?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. And, indeed, we find that you have offered many fine answers to your own question. Therefore, since this instrument’s energies are waning at this time, we would ask for another query before we leave this instrument.

J: Now that the era of service-to-self activity on this planet is coming to an end, are there scholars in the inner planes who are tallying up the lessons learned? What do we do better to understand now about the lure and the explication of violence and selfishness? From observing such difficult passage of a planet to fourth density, how can we better understand the properties of the service-to-self vortex as it reflects to us a distorted image of unending love?

We are those of Q’uo and are aware of your query, my brother. We thank you for the subtlety and the beauty of this question and, indeed, for the great thought that you have put into all the questions for the session. We truly have no words to offer but only the humility of silence to those who would seek to know the one infinite Creator. When such hopes and desires are expressed, it is time to move to the bare beginnings and to take up with joy a condition of infanthood, and then to surround that beloved, precious, infant spirit self with the greatest of faith that you as an entity may find within your self. For it is faith alone that cleanses the intellect, that simplifies the abstruse, that brings the flight of fancy back to the most simple and profound truth of the one Creator.

Who is counting the beans, my brother? You are. This instrument is. Each entity does it for the self. And as the self acknowledges, accepts and admires with great affection the self, the Creator harvests all of that complexity and strains it into self-awareness that is without vice. That which you seek, my brother, is closer than your breathing. Remove the stumbling block of self, with a small “s” and, as you are able to peel away layers of maya, consciousness shall emerge and you shall become transparent to eternity.

We thank each again for the pleasure of this interaction and for the beauty of your vibrations. We leave you, as we found you, in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I was a guest on Jonathan Tong’s Seattle Law of One Study group, and the topic of this meeting was the ten year anniversary of Carla’s passing into large life that occurred this past Tuesday, April 1^st. I read the eulogy that I wrote for her passing into larger life, and then there were about 15 or 20 questions from the various attendees that covered a wide range such as when I first met Carla, how Carla was able to deal with childhood traumas, how she dealt with the pain of her rheumatoid arthritis, the purpose of our sexual energy exchanges regarding the contact with Ra, her lifelong work on balancing her giving without expectation of return when she was a child with learning to accept the love offerings of others when she was confined to her hospital bed the last few years of her life, and many other heart-felt questions that brought back so many great memories that I had of my time with Carla. I forgot to mention that I read the eulogy to myself for a month after Carla had passed into larger life as a way of remembering her and dealing with my grief of her being gone from my life.

This afternoon I read the section on water from Chapter Seven of 102, and then I went outside and used my trimmer to weed half of the Moss Garden before it started raining again.

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

April 4

The Creator’s Maternal Side

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

How very much you need to focus in upon the nurturing, maternal side of the Creator of you all!

How very much you need to be held and comforted, for within each of you there is that brokenness which needs the arms put round, the comforting, and the embracing.

We ask each of you to trust in that all-accepting and comfortable Love which the Creator has for all of His children. Acknowledge this need for spiritual comfort and open your inner selves to the consolation of the spirit of Jesus the Christ. It is for this reason that this principle or energy has been granted for all times and in all places. We are here for you as you are here for Christ.

We leave you in the peace of Love and union, 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 Q’uo quote comes from March 28, 2006:

Question from T: Q’uo, there is an increasingly popular global trend happening right now. Young people are tending to spend their time playing online games with one another. Some or most of these children may even have the dual-activated bodies of which Ra spoke in the Law of One material. Thus, it seems to me that most of the online gaming is a distraction and a waste of time for children of that nature or any individual, really. My first question is this: What is the influence of online games to this world, especially to young people?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we join your group this evening. Thank you for the privilege and the pleasure of being called to your circle of seeking. It is a great blessing to us to be asked to share our thoughts with you and we thank you for the opportunity. As always, we would ask that you be very careful in discriminating between those thoughts of ours which seem good to you and those which do not. Please discard any thoughts that do not seem accurate or excellent to you. We would not be a stumbling block before you. Thank you for this consideration, as it will allow us to feel quite free to speak with you without being concerned that we would infringe upon your sacred spiritual process.

Firstly, let us look at the status or the estate of young people, spiritually speaking. Entities within your cultures at this time that are young are, as the one known as T mentioned, possessed of bodies in which the fourth-density energies are in potentiation. The double activation creates an atmosphere in which the mind of the person is sensitive to unspoken thoughts and unexpressed emotion. For the most part, these entities have found it somewhat difficult to achieve a sense of peace dwelling within third-density conditions. In this atmosphere of internal turmoil, it is natural for entities to seek means of soothing and calming their troubled natures. The online game which this instrument plays is of a type that has the tendency to entrain those troubled thoughts and allow them a means of relaxation and drifting away. This is the simplest type of game. It is not played with other people, and its purpose is simply to relax the mind and loosen the bonds of tension and stress that have been built up because of the attempt to do intellectual work for a long period of time.

Indeed, for entities of this type, the repetition of the play of the cards or whatever game is being played is as effective as some of your prescriptions which would similarly affect the mind, reducing tension, lowering the blood pressure, and so forth. This type of gaming is, when a part of a lifestyle that is enjoyable to the entity, an acceptable and spiritually neutral part of the coping mechanism of entities such as this instrument. The next aspect of gaming at which we would look is that aspect which expresses hostility. Many of your computer games, whether played by the self or played with others, involve a great deal of dramatic action in which the online characters are embattled. There is a good deal of destruction and mayhem that is a part of the game. It is necessary, in order to play the game, to move through the patterns of aggression, warfare, and the concept of winning over one’s enemies.

The next aspect of gaming at which we would look is that aspect which expresses hostility. Many of your computer games, whether played by the self or played with others, involve a great deal of dramatic action in which the online characters are embattled. There is a good deal of destruction and mayhem that is a part of the game. It is necessary, in order to play the game, to move through the patterns of aggression, warfare and the concept of winning over one’s enemies.

The Question from T was: “My first question is this: What is the influence of online games to this world, especially to young people?” Q’uo began by saying let us look at the estate of young people, spiritually speaking, because there are entities within our cultures at this time that are young and are possessed of bodies in which the fourth-density energies are in potentiation, and the double activation creates an atmosphere in which the mind of the person is sensitive to unspoken thoughts and unexpressed emotion, but for the most part, these entities have found it somewhat difficult to achieve a sense of peace dwelling within third-density conditions because in this atmosphere of internal turmoil, it is natural for us to seek means of soothing and calming our troubled natures, and the online game which Carla plays is of a type that can entrain troubled thoughts and allow them a means of relaxation, and it is not played with other people because its purpose is simply to relax our mind and loosen the bonds of tension and stress that have been built up because of the attempt to do intellectual work for a long period of time. Q’uo went on to say for entities of this type the repetition of whatever game is being played is as effective as some of our prescriptions which would affect the mind by reducing tension and lowering blood pressure, and  this type of gaming is an acceptable and spiritually neutral part of the coping mechanism for entities such as Carla, and the next aspect of gaming which we would look at is that aspect which expresses hostility because many of our computer games, whether played by our self or played with others, involve dramatic action in which the online characters are embattled, and there is destruction and mayhem that is a part of the game, so it is necessary to move through the patterns of aggression, warfare, and the concept of winning over one’s enemies. On March 20, 1983, Hatonn spoke of those experiences which are spiritually neutral:

And as you see those things in your existence which may seem to you to be of a simple nature, of a trouble-free nature, you may think to yourself, “I shall not spend my time thinking and analyzing upon these portions of my life experience, for then, perchance, I should miss the thinking and the contemplation that must be done for these other portions of my life which are not simple and easy.”

There is no one barometer which says that an experience is spiritually neutral, has been handled well, or in need of examination. However, we shall surely tell you this. Each of you has many, many portions of life which are greatly, in your own estimation, in need of work. And in your own estimation, perhaps you feel the time that you have for meditation and contemplation should be spent in these areas. It is as though your life, or as this instrument’s lateness to church, you are ten minutes late to an ever-running appointment with your life. You are forever behind; you are forever attempting to catch up. That which is of the Spirit is not neat nor is it tidy, and unless you are a prophet, you will not find order as you seek the Love and Light of the Creator. In prophecy is order. In Love there is divine confusion, and we come to you as messengers of Love.

Games such as this have a mixed polarity in terms of their effect upon the people who play them. In one sense, there is something to be said for a person who is aware that, within the heart, she has many hostile and aggressive feelings which she cannot, in good conscience, express in the normal course of everyday life. Such a seeker may consciously choose to play such an aggressive game in order to express the shadow side of the self in terms of negative emotions like anger, impatience, judgment, and resentment in a way that does not infringe on anyone’s free will. When played in a conscious way, where the time is dedicated to expressing such feelings in a non-harmful manner, such an entity may experience a psychological release from the opportunity which has been taken to unload the harmful and toxic emotions and remove them from the interior emotional system of the self.

However, it is far more often the case, when entities enter into such games, that quite another psychological structure is being expressed. Rather than there being a conscious awareness of love and a desire to maintain that love by bleeding off negative emotion, the intention of the majority of entities who choose to play such aggressive games is to enjoy the process of being powerful and able to defend the self successfully. This motivation is fear based. There is, in many entities, a very accurate perception that the culture of which they are a part is one in which they do not feel comfortable. Certainly, within this instrument’s feelings and thoughts there is often a reaction to the choices and decisions made by those in power. She wonders what is happening to her world. She is puzzled, and more than puzzled, she is disturbed. These emotions are mild compared to the kind of fear that is generated by eyes that look upon what seems to be a hostile world that is unresponsive to the gentle and sensitive portions of human nature. Fear builds up within such an entity and there is a desire to find an environment in which, even in a game, there is the illusion of being in control.

In the last aspect of which we would speak concerning the online gaming, there is another level of expression which has to do with expression in groups. For many entities there is a feeling of being isolated and apart from any comfort. The outer environment, not just for young people but for people of all ages within your culture, can often seem to be bleak. When the eye gazes upon the outer scene, there seems to be no way to create the atmosphere that is yearned for, the atmosphere which would encourage feelings of relaxation, enjoyment, friendship, companionship, and the desire to come together socially in a positive way. Instead of such a general feeling of trust in social rightness, there is, in many entities, a profound dislocation and distrust of the outer world.

Then Q’uo said games such as this have a mixed polarity in terms of their effect upon the people who play them, so that in one sense, there is something to be said for a person who is aware that, within the heart, we have many aggressive feelings which we cannot, in good conscience, express in the normal course of everyday life, and we may consciously choose to play such an aggressive game in order to express the shadow side of our self in terms of negative emotions like anger and judgment in a way that does not infringe on anyone’s free will, and when played in a conscious way, where time is dedicated to expressing such feelings in a non-harmful manner, we may experience a psychological release from the opportunity which has been taken to unload the toxic emotions and remove them from the interior emotional system of our self. Q’uo went on to say it is far more often the case, when we enter into such games, that another psychological structure is being expressed, and rather than there being a conscious awareness of love and a desire to maintain that love by bleeding off negative emotions, the intention of the majority of entities who choose to play such aggressive games is to enjoy the process of being powerful and able to defend our self successfully, and this motivation is fear based so that there is an accurate perception that the culture of which we are a part is one in which we do not feel comfortable, and within Carla’s feelings and thoughts there is often a reaction to the choices and decisions made by those in power, and she wonders what is happening to her world because she is puzzled and disturbed, but these emotions are mild compared to the kind of fear that is generated by eyes that look upon what seems to be a hostile world that is unresponsive to the gentle and sensitive portions of human nature since fear builds up within such us, and there is a desire to find an environment in which, even in a game, there is the illusion of being in control. Now Q’uo said in the last aspect of which they would speak concerning the online gaming, there is another level of expression which has to do with expression in groups, for many of us there is a feeling of being isolated and apart from any comfort because the outer environment, not just for young people but for people of all ages within our culture, can often seem to be bleak, so when our eye gazes upon the outer scene, there seems to be no way to create the atmosphere that is yearned for, the atmosphere which would encourage feelings of relaxation, friendship, and the desire to come together socially in a positive way, so that instead of a general feeling of trust in social rightness, there is, in many of us, a distrust of the outer world. On September 15, 2018, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the outer world:

However, even the shadow side of the self has much to offer to any seeker of truth. It is the portion of the self that is most often feared and which takes the form of that in the outer world or illusion that then forms itself in the means by which the seeker may be able to utilize this form of fear to grow further into love and light by realizing in truth there is no thing to fear, for all is one. All is one in every aspect—both the positive and the negative. Love and light can be shared with all and benefit all without the need to fear any portion of the allness of one’s being.

However, in an online game there is the joining of a group under rigid rules of play in which there are adventures to be had in a controlled atmosphere. These virtual dramas are absorbing, complicated and self-expressive. There is the opportunity to create the self and then recreate the self anew in another game. There are opportunities for companionship of a certain kind. It is a substitute for the innocent and everyday interactions of people in real life in real situations coming together in groups to play a game of baseball, or do homework together, or other such social opportunities.

We would pull back the vision now and take a look at the society in which these online games are taking place. Certainly, many entities do not dwell in urban situations. However, a large percentage of your people do dwell in groups, in towns, cities, and large groups of cities that form corridors of great density of population. Ironically, the denser the population becomes, the more isolated the people within such populations feel. This instrument was recently speaking with a couple who had lived in the Orient for the past few years. The one known as L was saying to this instrument that when she first arrived in the crowded cities of China and other countries in the Orient, she was struck by the physical closeness of entities. She could not walk on the street without being repeatedly bumped because there were so many people on the streets that there was no room to have one’s own space.

She found, after a certain number of months had gone by, that she had learned how to ignore those souls around her which were passing her on the street. It was necessary for her own sanity and peace of mind that she downplay the presence of other souls within her aura and protect herself against even acknowledging their existence. This is the atmosphere which breeds people who turn within for their recreation and their companionship. The general effect of online gaming is part and parcel of the general effect of the way your culture works. That effect is to deaden the sense of focus and awareness within an entity. This tendency of the culture to deaden or numb the emotions and the thought processes of entities is, from the standpoint of spiritual seeking, unfortunate. You have placed yourself in an environment which is heavily overlaid with cultural encouragement to stay asleep. Whether it gaming or any other aspect of pop culture, the phenomenon involves a great many people aware of a few names, games, events, or social circumstances, and focusing on those few icons to the exclusion of becoming interested in the exploration of the self.

Now Q’uo said in an online game there is the joining of a group under rules of play in which there are adventures to be had in a controlled atmosphere, and these virtual dramas are complicated and self-expressive because there is the opportunity to create our self and then recreate our self anew in another game, and there are opportunities for companionship of a certain kind which are a substitute for the everyday interactions of people in real situations coming together in groups to play a game of baseball or do homework together. Q’uo went on to say they would take a look at the society in which these online games are taking place, and many of us do not live in urban situations, but a large percentage of our people do dwell in towns and large groups of cities that form corridors of the density of population, and ironically the denser the population becomes, the more isolated the people within such populations feel, and Carla was recently speaking with a couple who had lived in the Orient for the past few years, and L was saying to Carla that when she first arrived in the crowded cities of China, she was struck by the physical closeness of entities, and she could not walk on the street without being bumped because there were so many people on the streets that there was no room to have one’s own space. Then Q’uo said she found, after some months had gone by, that she had learned how to ignore those souls around her which were passing her on the street, and it was necessary for her peace of mind that she downplay the presence of other souls within her aura, and  this is the atmosphere which breeds people who turn within for their recreation and their companionship so that the effect of online gaming is part of the general effect of the way our culture works which is to deaden the sense of awareness within us and numb our emotions and the thought processes which is, from the standpoint of spiritual seeking, unfortunate because we have placed our self in an environment which is overlaid with cultural encouragement to stay asleep, so whether it is gaming or any other aspect of pop culture, the phenomenon involves many people who are aware of a few names, games, or social circumstances, and focusing on those few icons to the exclusion of becoming interested in the exploration of the self. On February 10, 2002, Q’uo spoke of the general nature of the pop culture:

The shadow self is a most interesting query, and to begin we would bring to your mind a symbol in this instrument’s mind labeled “pop culture.” It is the ying yang symbol with the S-shaped curve across the circle with one graceful arch being black and the other white, the black having a white dot and the white having a black dot. Certainly, one can see the white from the black. One can also see that they create a spherical being and this is the 360 degree being that we have been talking about. In this instrument’s communion service, which we present to the one known as C as an example of our sense of humor, the wording of the general confession is to be that of claiming the self to be a wretch, and within this instrument’s mind there is often the ironic thought that she regrets that this was ever taken out of the service because it is helpful from time to time to connect with the wretched portion of self-perceived humanity. For it is the glory and the pain of humanity to express and experience two paths for the price of one. This is a density that is rather unusual even for later densities in the strength of the apparent wide chasm or abyss between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. And indeed, there has been a very concerted effort on the part of many to conceive of this as a war and the light workers of the world as warriors that are fighting dark forces.

We find that this is the extent to which we are able to offer thoughts upon this subject. The spiritual principles involved are slight and therefore we find that our commentary is limited.

Is there another query at this time?

T: Do these games bring more positive or negative polarity to this world in general?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. There is very little net gain or loss of polarity because of gaming. Certainly, in some entities who are already negatively polarized, some of the more aggressive and hostile games help them to hone the edge of their anger and rage. But for the most part the net result of these games is distraction and sleep, along the lines of your television, your movies, and your other entertainment.

Is there another query at this time?

T: Does online gaming play any part in the creation and development of a social memory complex?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. The gaming itself does not have the characteristics of building a social memory complex. We would find it interesting to see what entities who are interested in games could do to create a game which has the stated purpose of working with metaphysical principles in order to examine the life, the society, and the age-old questions of, “What is truth? What is beauty? What is goodness? What is justice?” and so forth. The phenomenon of the world-wide web on the internet in general has the characteristic of creating far more of a global awareness for all of the people who are looking for information on the internet and forming a global group. This is, as this instrument has said, a kind of training-wheels exercise, getting people ready to think of all of the tribe of humankind as one tribe. When one is on the internet and bouncing around from site to site, one bounces all over the planet, depending upon the links which one is following. One quickly begins to grasp oneself as a member of the global community.

Further, it seems to be a very friendly, interactive and lively community. Thusly, we would look at the internet itself as an experience with what a social complex feels like rather than confining that to the gaming. Certainly, any large group of entities all getting together to experience one event has that feeling of a global group. However, the events for which entities gather as a global group are fleeting, and therefore there is not the continuous experience of the self as part of a global group when watching, say, the Superbowl or the final playoffs of any of your sports such as soccer or hockey.

T asked: “Does online gaming play any part in the creation and development of a social memory complex?” Q’uo began by saying gaming does not have the characteristics of building a social memory complex, and they found it interesting to see what entities who are interested in games could do to create a game which has the purpose of working with metaphysical principles in order to examine the life and the age-old questions of: “What is truth? What is beauty? What is goodness? What is justice?” So, Q’uo said the phenomenon of the internet creates more of a global awareness for all of the people who are looking for information on the internet and forming a global group, and this is as Carla has said, a training-wheels exercise, getting people ready to think of all of the tribe of humankind as one tribe so that when we are on the internet and bouncing around from site to site, we are bouncing all over the planet, and we quickly begin to grasp our self as a member of the global community. Then Q’uo said it seems to be a friendly, interactive community, so they would look at the internet itself as an experience with what a social complex feels like rather than confining that to the gaming, but any large group of entities getting together to experience one event has that feeling of a global group, but the events for which we gather as a global group are fleeting, and there is not the continuous experience of our self as part of a global group when watching the Superbowl. On November 8, 2008, Q’uo described the general nature of a social complex:

The social memory complex of fourth density grows from the beginnings which are shared by the internet and the consciousness of all those within a fourth-density environment; that is, the shared database of awareness and knowledge. Yet, whereas there is no polarity to an internet database, there is a unified, harmonized polarity to the shared knowledge of a society of seeking souls.

Whereas a database cannot access itself, the social memory complex database, if you will, is accessed by all of those within that society. You, as a third-density society upon Planet Earth, having reached nearly the end of third density, exist now as a social complex. You are fully aware of your global population and the databases and artifacts of that social consciousness, yet you do not have shared memory. You have not yet come together and developed a vector for your desire and your seeking as a people.

Is there another query at this time?

T: Since free will is utmost as a principle for us to respect, what is our proper attitude to take when we talk about online games with kids?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. When dealing with other selves of any age, it is well to meet them where they are. There is a certain amount of time available to your people; a certain number of heartbeats between birth and death. If an entity takes the self too seriously, an entity can attempt to use every minute of every day for the entire lifetime in a positive, constructive, useful way. This attitude, while commendable, results in an incarnation that is dry and arid, emotionally.

Other entities may choose to spend an incarnation doing nothing useful whatsoever. The balance, in our humble opinion, is that unique point where an entity has integrated the desire for play, the desire for good work to do, and the desire for learning with the underlying desire to serve the Creator and to serve humankind. Play, distraction, and recreation are very valid and positive parts of a useful working life. Therefore, we would encourage you to react to a child who wished to do gaming by playing the gaming with him, being a part of his environment, and sharing his recreation.

Ingeneral, we would suggest that the key to dealing with entities who look up to you, as children often do, is to relate to what they are saying, to listen to their concerns, and to enter into their life, not as one who must always be teaching but as one who is listening and learning. See yourself as a partner with this entity, regardless of the difference in your age. You are partners in exploring the dynamics between you. If you are older, naturally, part of the dynamic of your relationship will be the desire to protect, care for, and support that entity. As you deal with children, then, relate with them where they are, remembering always that it is who you are within yourself that the child really “gets” rather than that image of yourself which you may feel that you are putting forward.

Ingeneral, we would suggest that the key to dealing with entities who look up to you, as children often do, is to relate to what they are saying, to listen to their concerns, and to enter into their life, not as one who must always be teaching but as one who is listening and learning. See yourself as a partner with this entity, regardless of the difference in your age. You are partners in exploring the dynamics between you. If you are older, naturally, part of the dynamic of your relationship will be the desire to protect, care for, and support that entity. As you deal with children, then, relate with them where they are, remembering always that it is who you are within yourself that the child really “gets” rather than that image of yourself which you may feel that you are putting forward.

In the end, we simply encourage honesty. You may not be completely accurate or correct in your opinions, but your opinions are your gift to a child with whom you are in relationship. Indeed, this is true of relationships of any age, but your query is about children. And when you are an adult dealing with children there is a special element of the desire to lead them in the right way. Be honest in your opinions. If you find that a game or anything else that a child is interested in has negative or troublesome aspects, discuss them with the child. Be frank and open and share your heart. That way the relationship is clean and clear and the love of the one infinite Creator will find ways to enter into the conversation. Your goal is to be with that child. The direction of the conversation is unimportant. It is the heart listening to another heart, the thoughts interested in another’s thoughts, and the atmosphere created of love, encouragement and support that are important.

T’s next question was: “Since free will is utmost as a principle for us to respect, what is our proper attitude to take when we talk about online games with kids? Q’uo began by saying when  we are dealing with other selves of any age, it is well to meet them where they are since there is a certain amount of time available to our people, and if we take our self too seriously, we can attempt to use every minute of every day for our entire lifetime in a positive way, and this attitude, while commendable, results in an incarnation that is emotionally dry. Then Q’uo said other entities may choose to spend an incarnation doing nothing useful whatsoever, and the balance is that unique point where we have integrated our desire for play and the desire for learning with the underlying desire to serve the Creator and to serve humankind, and play, distraction, and recreation are positive parts of a useful working life, so Q’uo encouraged us to react to a child who wished to do gaming by playing the gaming with him and being a part of his environment. Now Q’uo suggested that the key to dealing with entities who look up to us, as children often do, is to listen to their concerns, and to enter into their life–not as one who must always be teaching–but as one who is listening and learning, and see our self as a partner with this entity because we are partners in exploring the dynamics between us, and if we are older, part of the dynamic of our relationship will be the desire to protect and support that entity, so as we deal with children let us relate to them where they are, remembering that it is who we are within ourself that the child really “gets” rather than that image of our self which we may feel that we are putting forward. Q’uo completed their reply by saying they encouraged honesty because we may not be correct in our opinions, but our opinions are our gift to a child with whom we are in relationship, and this is true of relationships of any age, but our query is about children, and when we are an adult dealing with children there is a special element of the desire to lead them in the right way, so we need to be honest in our opinions, and if we find a game that a child is interested in has negative aspects, discuss them with the child, and be open and share our heart, so the relationship is clear and the Love of the one infinite Creator will find ways to enter into the conversation. On February 24, 2024, Q’uo spoke of the nature of the Love of the one infinite Creator:

That all adversity, all battle or war, all seeming division can be unified by the power of the Love of the One Infinite Creator that flows through each heart in this planetary sphere if each heart is aware that this is possible and asked for such to occur. This is something that must be desired. It must become part of the spiritual path. It must be that which is reflected in each action of each being at all times if possible.

We thank the one known as T especially for asking this question, for in it he expresses his heart.

May we ask if there is another query at this time?

T: Since we’re going to enter the fourth density soon, and all artificial or man-made things will be gone, as Ra told us, what kind of games do souls play in the fourth density? I assume they need to have fun too, right?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. We do not find that this question is one we can answer. We apologize for our inability to respond in a way that is helpful. We may offer some general concepts on the topic of what is fun in higher densities. My brother, when the veil is lifted which hangs so heavily over your eyes and your senses in third density and you behold the creation with the eyes that are unveiled…

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…you will find that it is literally bursting with the most extravagant excitement, passion and joy. The inner workings of your mind are exteriorized. Imagination becomes palpable. What would you do if you could create a shape, a picture, or a story so that others could see it? Would you lack for fun? Again, we are apologetic that we cannot be more specific. However, there are issues of free will involved in this query that are subtle. Yet they stop us as substantively as if it were a brick wall.

Is there another query before we leave this instrument? We are those of Q’uo.

Jim: [Responding on behalf of T.] I believe that’s it, Q’uo.

In that case, we shall leave this instrument and this group, thanking each for dedicating the time to seek the truth. We thank the one known as T also for initiating this session, and we thank each of you for the beauty of your vibrations. We are known to you as the principle of Q’uo, and we leave you in the love, and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai.

This morning I went upstairs and recorded the section on Non-Localized from Chapter Seven of 102. Then I came downstairs and vacuumed the first floor of my home.

This afternoon I went upstairs and recorded the section on Multi-Systems Thinking from Chapter Seven of 102. Then I went outside and used my hedge clippers to cut back the tall stripped grasses in the three areas in my back yard, and I put them in three garbage cans.  

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

April 4

The Creator’s Maternal Side

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

How very much you need to focus in upon the nurturing, maternal side of the Creator of you all!

How very much you need to be held and comforted, for within each of you there is that brokenness which needs the arms put round, the comforting, and the embracing.

We ask each of you to trust in that all-accepting and comfortable Love which the Creator has for all of His children. Acknowledge this need for spiritual comfort and open your inner selves to the consolation of the Spirit of Jesus the Christ. It is for this reason that this principle or energy has been granted for all times and in all places. We are here for you as you are here for Christ.

We leave you in the peace of Love and union, 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 Q’uo quote comes from March 21, 2006:

(Question chosen by PLW poll) In a previous meditation, there was mention of souls from Mars who were unable to finish their third-density cycle there because of the destruction of their environment and who are now acting as stewards of this planet. Could you tell us about how many there are, when did they come here, and what are the majority of them doing today?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and the light of the one infinite Creator, in Whose service we come to you this evening. It is a privilege and a pleasure to be called to your circle of seeking, and we are honored to share our thoughts on your query this day, which has to do with those entities who came to Earth from the Red Planet, Mars. We would, however, as always, ask of each who listens to or reads this material that each take responsibility for discriminating between those thoughts we share that have a meaning to you and seem resonant and those thoughts that we share that do not seem to hit the mark for you at all. If there is no resonance in the thoughts we share this day, please leave them behind. If you will agree to do that, we will feel free to speak with you without being concerned overly much for infringing upon your free will or interfering with the process of your evolution.

Weare happy to share information with you about those entities which came from the planet which you call Mars. We would, however, precede this information with a few words about our understanding concerning the importance of this information. We are those who greatly enjoy speaking concerning spiritual principles that may be of service to you in your seeking. Information concerning where the various populations of your planet come from is fairly dry and mechanical information which we cannot infuse with a great deal of spiritual meaning except by the indirect references to what has occurred with those of the Red Planet and to some extent as to why things might have fallen out the way they did. Therefore, we would ask you to seek this information concerning the what and the when of the immigration from the Red Planet in the knowledge that our voice is a voice of love.

The details are never as important as the source of all the details, which is the one infinite Creator. The love that created the planets and their courses and all the mysteries in the universe has also created each of you, regardless of whence you come or whither you shall go in the worlds of illusion which abound in creation. Therefore, no matter how interesting the details, we ask you to reserve a part of your thoughts for Love Itself, that great Creator that has brought into manifestation all that is, including each of you, whether or not you might have at one time been a part of third density upon the Red Planet.

We shall tell you a story about a series of populations that arrives at Earth for the purpose of joining in the experience of sharing third density with those few people who actually graduated as natives from second-density Earth to the third density Earth. The first and the largest of these populations was that of Mars. The entities of Mars had made some decisions in the practice of governments upon their planet which resulted in the nature of the surface of their planet changing from a planet which was relatively hospitable to third-density physical vehicles to a planet which was not at all hospitable to third-density vehicles. They were not able to finish the cycle of the Density of Choice in third density upon Mars.

The group question for this session was: “In a previous meditation, there was mention of souls from Mars who were unable to finish their third-density cycle there because of the destruction of their environment and who are now acting as stewards of this planet. Could you tell us about how many there are, when did they come here, and what are the majority of them doing today?” Q’uo began by saying we are happy to share information with you about those entities which came from the planet which you call Mars, but Q’uo said that they would speak a few words about their understanding concerning the importance of this information because they are those who enjoy speaking concerning spiritual principles that may be of service to us in our seeking, but information concerning where the various populations of our planet come from is mechanical information which they cannot infuse with much spiritual meaning except by the indirect references to what has occurred with those of the Red Planet and to some extent as to why things might have fallen out the way they did, so they asked us to see this information concerning the nature of the immigration from the Red Planet in the knowledge that our voice is a voice of Love. Q’uo went on to say that the details are never as important as the source of all the details, which is the one infinite Creator because the Love that created the planets and all the mysteries in the universe has also created each of us, regardless of where we come or where we shall go in the worlds of illusion which abound in creation, so no matter how interesting the details, they asked us to reserve a part of our thoughts for Love Itself, that great Creator that has brought into manifestation all that is, including each of us, whether or not we might have at one time been a part of third density upon the Red Planet. Q’uo continued by saying we shall tell you a story about a series of populations that arrives at Earth for the purpose of joining in the experience of sharing third density with those few people who actually graduated as natives from second-density Earth to the third density Earth, and the first and the largest of these populations was that of Mars since the entities of Mars had made some decisions in the practice of governments upon their planet which resulted in the nature of the surface of their planet changing from a planet which was relatively hospitable to third-density physical vehicles to a planet which was not at all hospitable to third-density vehicles, so they were not able to finish the cycle of the Density of Choice in third density upon Mars. In 9.6-.8, Ra spoke of the difficulties upon Mars that caused the planet to be unlivable so that the population was transferred to Earth:

Questioner: The people that we now have— the first people, [inaudible] like us— where did they come from? How did they evolve?

Ra: I am Ra. You speak of third-density experience. The first of those to come here were brought from another planet in your solar system called by you the Red Planet, Mars. This planet’s environment became inhospitable to third-density beings. The first entities, therefore, were of this race, as you may call it, manipulated somewhat by those who were guardians at that time.

Questioner: What race is that, and how did they get from Mars to here?

Ra: I am Ra. The race is a combination of the mind/body/spirit complexes of those of your so-called Red Planet and a careful series of genetical adjustments made by the guardians of that time. These entities arrived, or were preserved, for the experience upon your sphere by a type of birthing which is non-reproductive, but consists of preparing genetic material for the incarnation of the mind/body/spirit complexes of those entities from the Red Planet.

Questioner: Then I’m assuming what you’re saying is that the guardians transferred the race here after the race had died from the physical as we know it on Mars. Is that correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.

The Guardians of this planet went before the Council of Saturn and asked for permission to move that population to Earth. The second-density vehicles available for physical use upon planet Earth at that time were late second-density great-ape bodies, which the Guardians felt might be improved upon by articulating facial features a bit more carefully, by altering the set of the body so it would be able to stand upright, and by improving the dexterity of the physical vehicle, especially in the hands. And by creating a larger capacity within the mind that came with that biological species. In essence they created a new and improved great-ape body which looked a good deal like the one you are now enjoying.

TheGuardians at that time found, within the space of several hundreds of your years, that they had made what they considered an error in creating the new and improved version of the great ape body used by the denizens from Mars and thereafter used by entering souls from planet Earth or from elsewhere, simply because it was indeed a new and improved physical vehicle that looked like it would be handier to use to the entering souls and their guidance systems. The Guardians’ mistake was in creating a better physical vehicle with the attitude that these physical vehicles were better, and that the people that inhabited those physical vehicles were special. Naturally, the Guardians were very fond of the incoming population and felt great love for them, as they were placing them carefully and gently upon planet Earth to take up again their search for love.

What they did not anticipate was that the people themselves would feel that they were special. They were aware that their intellect was more powerful than other great-ape species that inhabited the Earth at that time. They felt privileged and special. And they created within themselves an attitude of “better than.” The energy of the beings from the Red Planet was naturally somewhat progressive and fiery. They had demonstrated this aggression, this ability to wage war on their home planet and had succeeded in destroying the surface of it as an acceptable environment for third-density life. They carried these biases with them into third density upon this planet. The very beginning of your cycle of third density upon planet Earth was nearly 76,000 of your years ago, by your counting. The Martian population incarnated in what you would call the Middle East and parts of Africa first, their thickest area of population in that area of the planet. Gradually they become the populations that you now know of as the Moslems, the Jewish people, the Palestinians, and others of Middle Eastern heritage.

Then Q’uo said the Guardians of this planet went before the Council of Saturn and asked for permission to move that population to Earth, and  the second-density vehicles available for physical use upon planet Earth at that time were late second-density great-ape bodies, which the Guardians felt might be improved upon by articulating facial features, by altering the set of the body so it would be able to stand upright, and by improving the dexterity of the physical vehicle, especially in the hands, so by creating a larger capacity within the mind that came with that biological species, and they created an improved great-ape body which looked like the one you are now enjoying. Q’uo went on to say the Guardians at that time found, within the space of several hundreds of your years, that they had made what they considered an error in creating the new and improved version of the great ape body used by the entities from Mars, and thereafter used by entering souls from planet Earth or from elsewhere, because it was a new and improved physical vehicle that looked like it would be handier to use for the entering souls and their guidance systems, but the Guardians’ mistake was in creating a better physical vehicle that had the attitude that their physical vehicles were better, and that the people that inhabited those physical vehicles were special, so the Guardians felt love for the incoming population as they were placing them carefully upon planet Earth to take up again their search for love. Q’uo continued by saying what they did not anticipate was that the people would feel that they were special because they were aware that their intellect was more powerful than other great-ape species that inhabited the Earth at that time, and they created within themselves an attitude of “better than” so that the energy of the beings from the Red Planet was naturally somewhat progressive and fiery, and they had demonstrated this ability to wage war on their home planet and had succeeded in destroying the surface of it as an acceptable environment for third-density life, so they carried these biases with them into third density upon this planet, and the beginning of your cycle of third density upon planet Earth was nearly 76,000 of your years ago, and the Martian population incarnated in what you would call the Middle East and parts of Africa first, their thickest area of population in that area of the planet, and gradually they become the populations that you now know of as the Moslems, the Jewish people, the Palestinians, and others of Middle Eastern heritage. In 18.21, Ra spoke of how the Guardians of Yahweh created entities that felt they were an elite group:

Questioner: Why did they want larger and stronger organisms?

Ra: The ones of Yahweh were attempting to create an understanding of the Law of One by creating mind/body complexes capable of grasping the Law of One. The experiment was a decided failure from the view of the desired distortions due to the fact that rather than assimilating the Law of One, it was a great temptation to consider the so-called social complex or subcomplex as elite or different and better than other-selves, this one of the techniques of service to self.

As the population settled in and began their cycles of reincarnation to gain experience and learn the lessons of love, they spread out, becoming the populations that you now know as the Russian and Eastern Orthodox churches, the Christian church, and the Christian Protestant church as opposed to the Christian Roman Catholic church. All of these populations are heavily “larded” with those originally from planet Mars. You will note that these entities comprise the bulk of those who believe in one God. The up-side in the belief in one Creator is that it is closer to that mystery of the Creator than the solution which posits many gods. It is our understanding that all things are one, and the infinite Creator is as single as Its universe and creation.

The down-side in believing in one God is that belief that only if you believe in that one God—and believe in a certain way—shall your soul reach heaven. This creates a bias within the religious, and oftentimes the political mind of those who so believe that there is their way or the highway, as this instrument would put it. You will note that in the Moslem church, the Christian church, and in the church of the Jews that there is a strong tendency to exclude certain of their members who do not believe specifically in the points of dogma in which they hold to be true. The tendency of this energy of belief in one God, then, has its challenging aspects when it comes to using that religion as a springboard for the lessons of love.

If you will examine the writings that are at the heart of any of those three religions, you will find a mystical understanding of unity that is very similar between those three churches. However, for the entity that is living an everyday life, the tendency with dogmatic churches is to be very exclusionary and judgmental, so that an entity is told basically, “Either you believe the way we believe or you are consigned to one of the circles of Hell after you are dead.” They then feel that it is permissible and even desirable to proselytize, and attempt to create that bias within those whom they meet. This nest or web of actions is basically the end result of the Guardians, 75,000 years ago, making too many improvements on physical vehicles and creating pride and arrogance as a birthright of the new and improved human species. You may still see those energies playing themselves out in your Earth world at this time.

Now Q’uo said as the population settled in and began their cycles of reincarnation to learn the lessons of love, they spread out, becoming the populations that you know as the Russian and Eastern Orthodox churches, the Christian church, and the Christian Protestant church as opposed to the Christian Roman Catholic church, and all of these populations are composed with those originally from Mars, so you will note that these entities comprise the bulk of those who believe in one God, and  the up-side in the belief in one Creator is that it is closer to that mystery of the Creator than the solution which posits many gods since it is our understanding that all things are one, and the infinite Creator is as single as Its creation. Q’uo went on to say that the down-side in believing in one God is that belief that only if you believe in that one God—and believe in a certain way—shall your soul reach heaven, and this creates a bias within the religious, and oftentimes the dogmatic mind of those who so believe that there is their way or the highway, as Carla would put it, so you will note that in the Moslem church, the Christian church, and in the church of the Jews that there is a strong tendency to exclude certain of their members who do not believe specifically in the points of dogma in which they hold to be true so that the tendency of this energy of belief in one God has its challenging aspects when it comes to using that religion as a springboard for the lessons of love. Now Q’uo said if you will examine the writings that are at the heart of any of those three religions, you will find a mystical understanding of unity that is very similar between those three churches, but for the entity that is living an everyday life, the tendency with dogmatic churches is to be very judgmental, so that an entity is told basically, “Either you believe the way we believe, or you are consigned to one of the circles of Hell after you are dead,” and they feel that it is desirable to proselytize, and attempt to create that bias within those whom they meet, so this web of actions is the end result of the Guardians, 75,000 years ago, making too many improvements on physical vehicles and creating arrogance as a birthright of the new and improved human species, and you may still see those energies playing themselves out in your Earth world at this time. On October 24, 1982, Carla described a mystical experience that she had:

Well, I recently had a mystical experience, I guess you’d call it, in a church service. And for some few minutes, I was no longer consciously in the church, but was consciously seated beside Jesus at the last supper at a wooden table. I could smell, and feel, and see everything that was going on, although it was very hazy, and I think the thing I remember the most was Jesus’ sleeve, big, kind of like a burlap material, reaching across me to offer bread and he was saying, “This is my body,” and I was very puzzled, whoever I was at that point, I was very puzzled that he wanted me to think of this bread as His body. It didn’t make any sense. But I decided I would do it because He said to. I was his disciple. And then after a while I was back in myself, and, the thing that I’m asking is, I’m sure that I’m not the only one who’s had this sort of mystical experience, because that and many other places in the Bible where fairly careful description is given of what Jesus did, that they create in the imagination of a person who is attempting to follow His teachings the possibility of that kind of mystical experience, given that you’re prey to them. Were the people that were actually there that night overlaid and overlaid and overlaid again by all these people from the future who have visited that spot? Should I ask that another way?

What are those of Mars doing these days? As the one known as J said jokingly earlier, they are running your countries, parking your cars, taking care of your children, and doing every other human thing you can think of. For there are millions and millions of those who came from Mars. They are, as are all of those within third density at this time, striving to learn the lessons of love. Many of those who come from the Red Planet have earned the right to graduate into fourth density. They have achieved that shift in consciousness from fear to love, from war to peace, from doubt to faith, and from despair to hope. There is no stigma in being from Mars, anymore than there is a stigma to anyone for being born of a certain genetic heritage.

It is not that the physical vehicle that you inhabit is unimportant. It should be honored, respected, and loved, for it has given its life so that you and your consciousness may walk the planet and learn the lesson that you came to learn. It is that body whose hands reach out to do the service you would do for your fellow human being. It is that voice that sings the praises of the one infinite Creator. Without your body you would be unable to have incarnation. At the same time, it is not well to identify entirely with the body that carries you about. For the body that is carelessly used and not justly appreciated will tend to wish to rule over the mind and spirit. It has strong instincts, not because of genetic changes but because of the inherent second-density heritage. It wishes instinctually to mate, to form a clan for family, to gather resources so that the clan may live, and to protect those resources, and, if necessary, defend them to the death.

We may note that in our humble opinion some of the actions of your governments at this time fall solidly under the influences of those instincts. You are at the end of your third density, moving into that time of graduation. Those who do not choose to graduate will necessarily fall back to the instincts to late second density as they prepare to start another third-density cycle elsewhere. We would ask each of you with a resonance with the history of those of Mars, “Do you wish to take a leap forward, to wake up from the dream of hostility?” If so, then you have every necessary capacity and have probably already made the choice to turn your back on violence and negativity and to choose love as your expression, your being, and your goal. We encourage you to trust yourself and to give all that you have into making this shift. It is not too late. The decision to choose love is a matter of a heartbeat. Each decision to choose love is a matter of a heartbeat.

Q’uo went on to say those of Mars are running your countries, parking your cars, taking care of your children, and doing every other human thing you can think of because there are millions of those who came from Mars, and they are striving to learn the lessons of love, and many of those who come from the Red Planet have earned the right to graduate into fourth density by achieving that shift in consciousness from fear to love, from war to peace, from doubt to faith, and from despair to hope, and there is no stigma in being from Mars, any more than there is a stigma to anyone for being born of a certain genetic heritage. Q’uo went on to say it is not that the physical vehicle that you inhabit is unimportant as it should be honored, respected, and loved, for it has given its life so that you and your consciousness may walk the planet and learn the lesson that you came to learn because it is that body whose hands reach out to do the service you would do for your fellow human being, and it is that voice that sings the praises of the one infinite Creator so that without your body you would be unable to have incarnation, but it is not well to identify entirely with the body that carries you about, for the body that is used carelessly will tend to wish to rule over the mind and spirit, and it has strong instincts because of its second-density heritage to mate, to form a clan for family, to gather resources so that the clan may live, and to protect those resources, and to defend them to the death. Now Q’uo said we may note that in our opinion some of the actions of your governments at this time fall under the influences of those instincts since you are at the end of your third density, moving into that time of graduation, and those who do not choose to graduate will necessarily fall back to the instincts to late second density as they prepare to start another third-density cycle elsewhere, so we would ask each of you as you remember the history of those of Mars, “Do you wish to take a leap forward, to wake up from the dream of hostility?” And if so, then you have every necessary capacity to make the choice to turn your back on violence and negativity and to choose love as your goal, and we encourage you to trust yourself and to give all that you have into making this shift since the decision to choose love is a matter of a heartbeat. On December 29, 1997, Q’uo spoke of the value of our decision to choose love:

All these so-called evils of the world are but love distorted. We encourage you to find ways to choose love over fear, light over darkness, surrender over control, for the attempt to control is a hard service to self. Know as deeply as you can, and as often as you can, who you are, where you are going, and for the rest, trust destiny. For as the one known as M and the one known as L have both said, one is led to the work that has been prepared for you to do. But the greatest work of all, and the work that will harvest this planet in safety, is being who you most deeply are, a child of the Creator, a miniature of the Love that is so powerful that It has created all that there is.

We would ask if there is a follow up question at this time. We are those of Q’uo.

[No further queries.]

We are those of Q’uo. The silence that we hear expresses to us that you have exhausted your questions for this evening. In that case we wish only to express our gratitude for being asked to join your circle of seeking. We are those of Q’uo. We leave you in the love and the light, the peace and the power of the one infinite Creator. Adonai. Adonai, my friends.

This morning went upstairs and rerecorded the first section of Chapter Seven of Living the Law of One 102: The Outer Work, which was the Stewardship of the Tribe of Humankind. Then I went out to the fishpond and cleaned the filters and decided to use the garden hose to put more water into the fish pond because the fountain was shooting too tall. While the water was filling, I went to three areas in the back yard where hosta have begun to grow again and put netting over them to protect them from the deer. Then I went to the area behind the garage where the Striped Solomon’s Seal has begun growing again, and I put netting over them to protect them from the deer.

This afternoon I went across the street to my neighbor’s yard and filled the bird feeders with bird seed, and then I put some bird seed on the ground for the squirrels and deer.

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

April 3

Comfort Ye

I am the spirit of Jesus the Christ and of the principle of full, creative Love. We greet you with thanksgiving and blessing and urge you also to find the blessings in this very hour, in this exact moment which lies before you.

When one thinks with one’s mind and reacts to one’s bodily needs, one is trapped in an area which is finite. Spiritual life is far different. We pray that you may, indeed, be comforted, realizing that the nature of spiritual comfort can be difficult.

For is it not written in the Holy Bible that the Comforter, encouraging the comfort of the people, ate locusts and wild honey and died a petty and horrible death? The Creator’s peace is a peace that knows no end of strife until the breath leaves the body. The principle of Love is of this character.

May you find your peace, your strength, and your courage, as though all events, emotions and occasions were far more alike than different.

“Comfort ye. Comfort ye, my peoples.”

Indeed! Words of comfort, ultimately given from the cross. In resurrection we shall see each other face to face and will know each other for the great comfort that we have been, all to each other.

We leave you in peace, now and always.

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 Q’uo quote comes from March 18, 2006:

Question from A and R: A experiences visitations by a person who is not visible but whose footsteps he can hear. Can you please offer any comments and thoughts you feel might be helpful to learn more about this experience?

(Carla channeling)

We are those known to you as the principle of Q’uo. Greetings in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. We come to you this day as part of our service to the Creator. Thank you for requesting our presence at your circle of seeking. It is a great blessing and privilege to be so called. It has been a pleasure already to rest in the beauty and dedication and we thank you for setting aside this time for seeking the truth. As always, we would ask that you use your discrimination in listening to our thoughts. Be careful to ignore and lay aside any thoughts of ours that do not seem resonant to you. That way, we can offer our opinion without being concerned that we will infringe upon your free will or the sacredness of your evolutionary process.

[Pause]

You ask this day concerning the entities involved in creating the effect of presence for the one known as A, and you wish to know how to deal with this somewhat unsettling phenomenon. Gazing at your situation we see that it falls under the general category of unknown visitors. It is more common than one would think for people living on planet Earth within incarnation to be visited by presences that they cannot explain or see. The inner planes are crowded with entities of all kinds, polarities, orientation, and description. There are points of opportunity where various types of entities can interact with incarnate beings that happen to be sensitive to finer vibrations, shall we say. And this is occurring with the one who is known as A.

We would observe that, in general, there are three categories of visitation. And we do not divide these into three in terms of the particular kind of visitor, but rather the orientation of whatever visitor is being experienced. The first orientation is positive or service-to-others oriented. There are many service-to-others oriented entities that flock around one throughout the incarnation, and as loving hearts are opened and choices are made to increase the polarity of a seeking individual, the crowd of those entities who wish to associate themselves with such a source of light and love becomes larger.

There is a large category of non-polarized contacts. These involve mischievous spirits, passers-by who are basically in the position of kibitzing, looking over your shoulder as you play the game of life and other entities who desire neither to help you nor to harm you, but simply to be witness to that which is occurring with a particular entity.

Thethird category of visitation is that which could be described as negative or service-to-self oriented. The marks of the service-to-self visitor are those energies of discomfort, alienation, discouragement, and irritation. When there is no communication from a service-to-self visitor that is audible or received according to the perceptive way of the individual involved, then the negativity of the contact may be inferred from the discomfort which accompanies such contact.

It is to be remembered that the self is inviolable. There have been in your culture many frightening stories of possession of an incarnate being by those of the inner planes. Ninety-nine percent or more of the stories are heavily skewed. Because of your cultural tendency, when anything is not able to be explained by empirical data there is created in the mind of your particular culture an inborn bias against the validity of such information. Therefore, any visitation that cannot be explained by clearly observable facts will be suspect and even considered perhaps not to be happening at all. This is acceptable to us if those among your people wish to turn your backs upon felt experience. However, we would suggest that it is a more skillful response to such feelings of being accompanied to assume that in some way, shape or form you are indeed being accompanied. The question of why then becomes interesting.

Question from A and R: A experiences visitations by a person who is not visible but whose footsteps he can hear. Can you please offer any comments and thoughts you feel might be helpful to learn more about this experience? Q’uo began by saying we ask this day concerning the entities involved in creating the effect of presence for A, and we wish to know how to deal with this unsettling phenomenon, and Q’uo said as they looked at our situation they saw that it falls under the general category of unknown visitors which is more common than we would think for people living on planet Earth within our incarnation to be visited by presences that we cannot explain or see because the inner planes are crowded with entities of all kinds, and there are points of opportunity where various types of entities can interact with incarnate beings that happen to be sensitive to finer vibrations. Q’uo went on to say they observe that there are three categories of visitation which are determined by the orientation of whatever visitor is being experienced, and the first orientation is service-to-others entities that flock around us throughout the incarnation, and as  our loving hearts are opened and choices are made to increase our wish to associate ourselves with such a source of Light and Love becomes larger. Q’uo continued by saying that there is a large category of non-polarized contacts, and these involve mischievous spirits who are the position of looking over our shoulder as we play the game of life, and other entities who desire neither to help us nor to harm us, but simply to be witness to that which is occurring with us. Now Q’uo said the third category of visitation is that which could be described as negative or service-to-self oriented, and the marks of the service-to-self visitor are those energies of alienation and irritation, and when there is no communication from a service-to-self visitor that is audible according to the perceptions of the individual involved, then the negativity of the contact may be inferred from the discomfort which accompanies such contact. Then Q’uo said it is to be remembered that we are inviolable, and there have been in our culture frightening stories of possession of an incarnate being by those of the inner planes, but ninety-nine percent of the stories are heavily distorted because of our culture’s tendency to have a bias against the validity of such information, so that any visitation that cannot be explained by observable facts will be suspect, and this is acceptable if our people wish to turn our backs upon the experience, but Q’uo  suggested that it is a more skillful response to such feelings of being accompanied to assume that in some way we are being accompanied, so the question of why becomes interesting. On November 13, 2010, Q’uo described the nature of our game of life:

Because you are an old, experienced hand at working with the game of life now. You understand about choices. You understand about love. You understand about the hall of mirrors in which all things speak to you—people, situations and things—and you are comfortable at last in this game, and enthusiastic to play it. It is not that you have become one who controls your life. It is that you have become one who enjoys the surprises of life and who knows that even in the darkest hour, there is Light and Love aplenty for one whose mind is stayed upon the truth of Love.

Each time your heart beats and sends the blood through your veins, it beats in Love. Love is the essence of your being at all levels. Love is the health of your body, the strength of your spirit, the deepener of your emotions. Seek to love and remember to allow yourself to be loved in return. No push, no pull, but a resting, a contemplation of beauty, and a devotion; a thirst and hunger for the Creator’s presence in your life and, my brother, you will make that habit, and you will feel comfortable inside your skin at last. Ask for help. You know we are there, and you know many others are as well.

Further than this we cannot go without infringing upon the free will of the ones known as A and R. And so, we shall at this time ask for the second question. We are those of Q’uo.

Jim: A senses that this being or source is somewhat unfriendly. Please offer spiritual principles and thoughts you feel might be helpful in his determining whether he should try to communicate with this source.

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brothers. As this instrument is well aware, it is a delicate procedure to come into a mutually helpful contact with an unseen entity. Entities from the unseen or inner realms of your planet are many and their interactions with those who are incarnate on your planet are numerous. A large category of the interaction between spirit and flesh is the interaction of the self with the guidance system of that self. Your guidance system is, in the words of this instrument, the Holy Spirit, and in the words of the social memory complex known as Ra, the higher self. It is helpful to think in terms of the latter configuration of words in terms of determining who your guidance system really is, for your guidance system is not an entity other than yourself; rather, it is an access point into your larger self.

Youare part of a soul stream that is not tied to any particular space or time. In the metaphysical world, time/space, all things occur in a circular ubiquity, happening all at once and tending towards being harvested, in terms of any experience that one has towards the middle or the source of your incarnation, so that things that you learn in all incarnations are being harvested into the soul stream’s center. When the march that you experience now through the densities is complete, all of that harvest will be offered to the one infinite Creator. And the Creator will then have learned more about Itself than It knew before. Such is your gift to the one infinite Creator in every moment of your life as you accrete interesting information and gradually digest and understand more and more of that which you see.

However, communication with your higher self is a uniquely protected activity. It is, in fact, the only case in which we would feel quite comfortable recommending that the one known as A or the one known as R pursue the conversation that is possible with one’s guidance system. Such a conversion is occurring completely within one’s own protected heart. There is no outside interference that is possible in this communication. Opening such a communication can be somewhat difficult for those who are not entirely used to moving on instinct, intuition or insight. Avenues of direct perception are almost entirely blocked and denigrated by the values of your culture. Consequently, even those with very sensitive natures, who are aware of much more than they can explain, do not tend to feel confident about opening such a communication. Nevertheless, it is relatively easy to open such communication. It simply requires patience and persistence, once the goal of opening communications with your guidance system has been decided upon.

A senses that this being or source is somewhat unfriendly. Please offer spiritual principles and thoughts you feel might be helpful in his determining whether he should try to communicate with this source. Q’uo began by saying as Carla is aware, it is a delicate procedure to come into a mutually helpful contact with an unseen entity because entities from the inner realms of our planet are many, and their interactions with those who are incarnate on our planet are numerous, so that a large category of the interaction between spirit and flesh is the interaction of our self with the guidance system of that entity, and our guidance system is the Holy Spirit, and in the words of Ra, the higher self, so it is helpful to think in terms of the latter configuration of words in terms of determining who our guidance system really is, for our guidance system is not an entity other than our self, but it is an access point into our larger self. Q’uo went on to say we are part of a soul stream that is not tied to any particular space or time, so in the metaphysical world of time/space all things occur in a circular commonality, happening all at once and tending towards being harvested, and in terms of any experience that we have towards the source of our incarnation the things that we learn in all incarnations are being harvested into our soul stream’s center, and when the march that we experience now through the densities is complete, all of that harvest will be offered to the one infinite Creator, and the Creator will then have learned more about Itself than It knew before, and such is our gift to the one infinite Creator in every moment of our life as we gain interesting information and understand more of that which we see. Q’uo continued by saying communication with our higher self is a protected activity since it is the only case in which Q’uo would feel comfortable recommending that A or R pursue the conversation that is possible with our guidance system, so such a conversion is occurring within our protected heart, and there is no outside interference that is possible in this communication, so opening such a communication can be difficult for those of us who are not used to moving on intuition, but avenues of perception are almost entirely blocked by the values of our culture, so even those of us with sensitive natures, who are aware of more than we can explain, do not feel confident about opening such a communication, so it is easy to open such communication since it requires patience once the goal of opening communication with our guidance system has been decided upon. On December 2, 1979, Hatonn spoke of the nature of our higher self:

Your higher self, my sister, is in the eternal now and is closer to you than any physical part of your being. In this illusion you are a splinter of your eternal Spirit which has been sent into this illusion in order to learn certain lessons and to grow in spirit, and this growth is then added to the higher self, which is eternal. Thus, all that you have learned and all that you will learn are enclosed in your higher self, giving you the benefit of all of your future understanding as well as your past experience. When you are in doubt, if you will pause in meditation and consciously ask that the truth that your higher self knows be made known to you in some way and then release this request, you will find that within the next hours or days through a dream or inner certainty or vision you will be relieved of your problem either by understanding it or by its resolution.

When an energy feels inimical or uncomfortable, the marks of one’s guidance system are not present. And in such a case we would in no way advise the attempt to create a communication with such a source or entity. The reason for this is the relatively unformed nature of any entity’s personality with regard to metaphysical work. There is a very specific discipline which must be approached, grasped, invoked, and pursued before an entity is ready to begin thinking about communicating with any spirit that is perceived. The nature of the human personality is such that unless care is taken, any attempt to open communication will be difficult, faulty or even harmful to the integrated personality shell of the being attempting the opening of the communication.

The need, then, before opening communication of any kind, is to go through a lengthy process wherein an entity discovers himself, defines his nature, and explores thoroughly those principles and central themes for which he is living and for which he would die. When an entity knows himself so well that he knows the ground upon which he stands, he has then become an entity in the metaphysical world of time/space. For the first time he has achieved the discipline of a personality. He has examined the self. He is aware of what he believes; what he loves; that for which he feels most passionate; that for which he lives and that for which he would gladly lose his life if it were necessary. When an entity has come to that extreme of knowledge of self, he is then ready to have conversations with other spirits. He is then able to challenge them and to say, “If you come in the name of that for which I live and that for which I will die, then I will speak with you. If you do not, then you must go away.” And that entity will perforce need to go away if he cannot meet your challenge.

To be able to make that challenge, knowing the self thoroughly, is the work of years. And if the one known as A wishes to communicate with this entity, that work lies before him yet to do. And this in no case a thing to be taken lightly or to be done as a lark or because it might be interesting. This instrument has watched personalities disintegrate under the bludgeoning power of a careless, uncaring inner-planes entity whose delight in breaking through to the physical world was such that that entity did not care what damage it did to the personality of the being whose energies it took over. We would encourage the one known as A to be very careful and thoughtful if it is decided that communication with such an entity as the one he describes would be desirable for him.

Then Q’uo said when an energy feels uncomfortable, the marks of one’s guidance system are not present, and in such a case they would not advise our attempt to create a communication with such an entity, and the reason for this is the unformed nature of our personality with regard to metaphysical work because there is a discipline which must be pursued before we are ready to begin thinking about communicating with any spirit that is perceived because the nature of the human personality is such that unless care is taken, any attempt to open communication will be difficult to the integrated personality shell when we are attempting the opening of the communication. Then Q’uo said the need before opening communication of any kind, is to go through a lengthy process where we discover our nature and explore those principles for which we are living and for which we would die, and when we know our self so well that we know the ground upon which we stand, we have become an entity in the metaphysical world of time/space, and for the first time we have achieved the discipline of our personality, and we are aware of what we believe and that for which we live and that for which we would gladly die if it were necessary, so when we have come to that knowledge of our self, we are then ready to have conversations with other spirits, and we are able to challenge them and to say, “If you come in the name of that for which I live and that for which I will die, then I will speak with you. If you do not, then you must go away.” And it will need to go away if it cannot meet our challenge. Now Q’uo said to be able to make that challenge, knowing our self thoroughly, is the work of years, and if A wishes to communicate with this entity, that work lies before him yet to do, and this not a thing to be taken lightly since Carla has watched personalities disintegrate under the power of an uncaring inner-planes entity whose delight in breaking through to the physical world was such that that it did not care what damage it did to the personality of the being whose energies it took over, and we would encourage A to be careful if it is decided that communication with such an entity as the one he describes would be desirable for him. On July 25, 1976, Hatonn shared a spiritual definition of the physical world:

Love, my friends, is the word which created all that there is. What vibration is to the physical world, Love is to the consciousness that created the physical world. Love is all that there is and all that you see about you, day by day, are manifestations of Love. My friends, it may seem to you often that you are not looking at the manifestations of Love when you look at your relationship with someone with whom you are having difficulty, when your nation looks at other nations with whom it is having difficulty. And yet, we offer to you the precise analogy of vibration in your physical world. It is well known to your scientists that all things are made up of vibration and energy centers. Yet to you, the manifestations of vibration seem many and varied: tables and buildings and trees and human bodies. Yet all of these, my friends, are one thing: energy in motion.

May we ask if there is another query at this time? We are those of Q’uo.

Jim: Please offer any thoughts you feel might be helpful to A and R as to how they can be a helpful part of their young nephews’ spiritual growth.

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. To be a part of the good in a child’s life is a very precious gift and we salute and applaud those entities known as A and R for wishing to be a part of the spiritual development of those children with whom they are associated. Being a part of the good in a child’s life begins with that which the ones known as R and A are already doing, which is simply to love the children involved with all of their hearts and to wish them well. The atmosphere of unconditional Love is a tremendously powerful influence on a young child. In a world in which seldom does anything go unchallenged in terms of the life of a schoolchild and a child in general learning how to be a part of society, such beings as doting uncles are definitely appreciated. Be assured that those whom you love are aware of your energy and feel the sunlight of that love as warmth and healing.

When entities around children are living their lives in a spiritually oriented manner, this has a strong effect upon the children. For the children are able to see that spirituality is a normal part of a daily, everyday life, not something special for Sundays or for holidays but rather part of the routine of living. Entities who are children at this time period in your planet’s evolution are very special entities. They have come for very specific reasons into the Earth’s plane at this time. And for them to bump into those concepts of spending time in the silence each day and dedicating one’s life to service to others is a very helpful experience.

It is not necessary to preach or even to say anything about the things that one is doing. It is only necessary so to live the life that the whole life is seen as sacred. Then when entities such as your nephews come into contact with you, they experience that aura of sacredness to the Light. In a way, it is as subtle and simple as taking oneself seriously, metaphysically speaking, and creating a daily life that reflects the priorities given to the spiritual process. When an entity young in years sees a mature individual spending his free time completely on self-indulgence—food, drink, games, and so forth—an entity begins to assume that that is the sum and substance of Earthly life.

The question was: “Please offer any thoughts you feel might be helpful to A and R as to how they can be a helpful part of their young nephews’ spiritual growth.” Q’uo began by saying to be a part of the good in a child’s life is a very precious gift, and we applaud A and R for wishing to be a part of the spiritual development of those children with whom they are associated, and being a part of the good in a child’s life begins with that which R and A are already doing, which is to love the children involved with all of their hearts and to wish them well because the atmosphere of unconditional Love is a powerful influence on a young child, and in a world in which anything goes unchallenged in terms of the life of a child in general and in learning how to be a part of society, such beings as doting uncles are definitely appreciated, so be assured that those whom you love are aware of your energy and feel the sunlight of that love as warmth and healing. Q’uo went on to say when entities around children are living their lives in a spiritually oriented manner, this has a strong effect upon the children because the children are able to see that spirituality is a normal part of an everyday life, not something special for Sundays, and entities who are children at this time in our planet’s evolution are special entities since they have come for specific reasons into the Earth’s plane, and for them to look into those concepts of spending time in the silence each day and dedicating their life to service to others is a helpful experience. Now Q’uo said that it is not necessary to say anything about the things that you are doing, and it is only necessary so to live the life that is seen as sacred so that when entities such as your nephews come into contact with you, they experience that aura of sacredness to the Light, and it is as simple as taking yourself seriously, metaphysically speaking, and creating a daily life that reflects the priorities given to the spiritual process, so when a child sees a mature individual spending his free time completely on self-indulgence a child begins to assume that is the sum and substance of Earthly life. On February 4, 2007, Q’uo spoke of the value of taking yourself seriously:

It is a misapprehension that as you go deeper and become more closely allied to the Godhead principle that you lose yourself. You cannot lose yourself. You are part of the Creator. You are here to stay. Yet, in letting the boundaries drop and asking for healing and understanding, you find yourself growing in strength, in courage and in that feeling that you have in your heart that may be called respect for yourself. For you are taking yourself seriously, and you are attempting to expand the energies of this incarnation in a profitable and efficient way for the service of the one infinite Creator.

However, when a young child experiences life with one who seeks the silence daily, its vistas and its options open up. And it finds that it has a good array of things from which to choose in spending its time. It is not trapped in the world of materiality as it might be trapped if it did not know people who have refused to live their lives in the material universe entirely. As you live your life sacredly, so shall that energy shine forth for entities such as your nephews to observe. You do not have to preach, as we said before. Indeed, we would encourage you not to say anything more than just a thought here and a thought there. Entities young in years are wise in terms of observational powers. And their interests will be sparked in an organic way as things come up and as they happen to be attentive.

And notice what certain particular time there might be that is just the right time for you to offer them a seed thought. Do not feel that you must lecture or teach but rather be yourself. Keep your heart open and allow the natural radiation of Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator to radiate through you. It is a matter of continuing to be aware of the present moment as you go through your day. Bring yourself back to the awareness of that Love. Allow that Love and Light to remain in your day even when it becomes a matter of routine, of fulfilling the duties of the day. Keep moving back into that space of remembrance where you connect with the core of your being which is wholly involved in the business of sacred living.

For you truly open your life up to the full potential that you have as the spark of the one infinite Creator as a part of the principle of that Creator. You are co-Creator in this universe of Earth, sea, sky, and stars. You can choose a good deal of that which occurs in your experience by focusing with sincerity and dedication on those things that you feel are worthy of remembrance. It is this dedication to right living, shall we say, that will inform your life and crystallize and clarify your energy, so that the children with whom you come in contact know that they are touching into a strong and powerfully positive energy. The natural curiosity of childhood will open up that entity’s mind to wonder what you have, and the relationship will bloom from there in a completely organic manner.

Now Q’uo said when a child experiences life with one who seeks the silence daily its vistas open up, and it finds that it has an array of things from which to choose in spending its time since it is not trapped in the world of materiality as it might be trapped if it did not know people who have refused to live their lives in the material universe entirely, so as you live your life sacredly, so shall that energy shine forth for your nephews to observe, and we would encourage you not to say anything more than just a thought here and there because children are wise in terms of their powers of observation, and their interests will be sparked in an organic way as things come up and as they happen to be attentive. Then Q’uo said notice what time there might be that is just the right time for you to offer them a seed thought, and keep your heart open, and allow the natural radiation of the Love and the Light of the one infinite Creator to radiate through you because it is a matter of continuing to be aware of the present moment as you go through your day, so you can bring yourself back to the awareness of that Love, and allow that Love and Light to remain in your day even when it becomes a matter of fulfilling the duties of the day, so keep moving back into that space of remembrance where you connect with the core of your being which is wholly involved in the business of sacred living. Q’uo continued by saying, for you open your life up to the full potential that you have as the spark of the one infinite Creator as a part of the principle of that Creator since you are co-Creator in this universe of earth, sea, sky, and stars, so you can choose a good deal of that which occurs in your experience by focusing with dedication on those things that you feel are worthy of remembrance, and it is this dedication to right living that will inform your life and curiosity of childhood, so that the children with whom you come in contact know that they are touching into a powerfully positive energy, and the natural curiosity of childhood will open up their mind to wonder what you have, and the relationship will bloom from there in a completely organic manner. On June 18, 1985, Hatonn spoke of how we all are part of the One Creator:

The intensity of the group of three is far, far greater than the intensity of one, for you are unified, and each of you has his will turned unblinkingly towards the face of the Creator who moves across the deep. You are co-creator with the One who has been called the Ancient of Days, and you shall create your days and nights, your incarnation. We wish you the joy of this adventure and urge you both to take very seriously the choices you must make in order to become more positively polarized, and to take with utmost lightness and delicacy the carrying forth of these experiences. The use of discrimination, the use of humor, the use of the larger point of view, shall all aid the seeker and act as a kind of self-encouragement as you do seek in your part of the tunnel, in your walk towards the Light at the end, towards the Love that surrounds all, towards the life that is all creation.

We thank you for the love which informs this question and wish you every opportunity to offer Love and Light to those about you.  Is there another query at this time? We are those of Q’uo.

Jim: The fourth question: R’s ex-partner has moved on and their relationship has ended. However, he remains grateful for the learning received from this relationship. He would like to know any way he can be of a metaphysical help to his ex-partner without infringing on his present life or his free will.

We are those known to you as Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brothers. We appreciate the fastidiousness of the one known as R in asking this question. For it does not often occur to entities that those prayers and wishes for good health and good fortune that entities may offer to each other could have any possibility of being an infringement. There are indeed ways in which free will can be infringed upon by one who is supposedly simply praying, and we will attempt to describe those conditions. When an entity has been unable to release the energetic dynamic that informed a relationship that has ended, it is indeed possible to infringe upon the other entity’s free will in the process of prayer because the entity’s connection with the other entity has not been appropriately broken.

If there is any doubt in the mind of the one known as R that this energetic dynamic has not been fully severed, then we would suggest to the one known as R either that he alone or he and his previous partner together create a ceremony which states an effective and final closure to the relationship. If this is done with the ex-partner, that energetic exercise will be the complete closure. If, on the other hand, this exercise is undertaken by the self and not with the ex-partner, then we would suggest that the ritual of closure be written down, be expressed out loud by the one known as R, and when the ritual that has created full closure has then ended, that he take the piece of paper on which the ritual was written and either burn it to ashes, or bury it in the earth. If there was a difficulty in the separation, it is better to burn the paper to ashes and then blow the ashes away.  

R’s ex-partner has moved on and their relationship has ended. However, he remains grateful for the learning received from this relationship. He would like to know any way he can be of a metaphysical help to his ex-partner without infringing on his present life or his free will. Q’uo began by saying we appreciate  R’s care in asking this question, for it does not often occur to entities that those prayers for good health that entities may offer to each other could have any possibility of being an infringement, but there are ways in which free will can be infringed upon by one who is praying, and we will attempt to describe those conditions so that when an entity has been unable to release the energetic dynamic that formed a relationship that has ended, it is possible to infringe upon the other entity’s free will in the process of prayer because the entity’s connection with the other entity has not been appropriately broken. Q’uo went on to say if there is doubt in the mind of R that this energetic dynamic has not been fully severed, then we would suggest to R either that he alone or he and his previous partner create a ceremony which states a final closure to the relationship, and if this is done with the ex-partner, that energetic exercise will be complete closure, but if this exercise is undertaken by the self and not with the ex-partner, then we would suggest that the ritual of closure be written down, be expressed out loud by R, and when the ritual that has created full closure has ended, that he take the piece of paper on which the ritual was written and either burn it to ashes, or bury it in the earth because if there was a difficulty in the separation, it is better to burn the paper to ashes and then blow the ashes away. On January 23, 2006, Q’uo spoke of how we can achieve complete closure from childhood difficulties:

You may find it helpful to move through early childhood memories with a therapist who is not only fond of you but also trained to guide you through discussion of situations that may be difficult for you to face. This is an issue that is entirely for you to consider. We are not encouraging you to do this. We are saying that you might find complete closure with some of this early childhood material to be helpful in freeing you from some of the strictures within your energy body that you are now experiencing.

We believe the only thought that you need, to bring you at last into a comfortable growth environment within your own inner sanctum, is trust and faith in yourself. As you seek to know more and more who you are, you are going to find that you are discovering the sacred nature of your true self. More and more you are going to be finding reasons to be able to forgive yourself.

Ifthere was no difficulty in the separation, but rather it was agreed upon by both that it was time for the separation so that there are no hard feelings or unhappy endings involved, then it is better simply to give that relationship back to the earth. And that would be the situation in which we would suggest burying the piece of paper on which the ritual of closure was written. In either case, it is well to be absolutely sure that there is energetic closure before one begins an intentional and conscious program of prayers or good wishes for a beloved entity. Again we salute the loving heart of the one known as R in asking this question. It is very well indeed to realize that all entities with whom one has come into contact in a meaningful and a deep way in an incarnation are those entities who have come there as the one known as Ray says, perhaps in this case or that case, there was pain because of such a relationship. This is often the case with any two entities that spend deep time together.

The process of change involves discomfort. And the dynamic of two souls who are attempting to learn together creates many opportunities for growth. Consequently, it is very common in relationships for two entities growing together to experience a good deal of discomfort. This is not because there is incompatibility but rather because of the inevitable effect of spiritual beings learning together. The effect of two such powerful beings, striving together to learn, is that effect which causes each entity to become a mirror for the other entity, so that all of those things which you did not wish to see in yourself, your partner has kindly offered you a mirror so that you may see better. This is seemingly a difficulty, looked at from the spiritual point of view. For in order to enter the open heart, every part of the self that has not yet been loved, accepted and blessed by the self must be brought before the self so that you can do the work of loving your entire self, including that part of your shadow side which does not seem so attractive.

Once the work has been done to sever any lingering energetic dynamic between two people, it is perfectly acceptable to offer prayers at any time for an entity. You are offering prayers to the higher self of that entity rather than to that entity. And that higher self, the Spirit, will direct that loving energy where it needs to go or will lovingly shunt it aside if it is inappropriate. As long as there is not an adhesion of energy between two people this is the spiritual rule that manifests.

Q’uo went on to say if there were no difficulty in the separation, but it was agreed upon by both that it was time for the separation so that there are no hard feelings involved, then it is better to give that relationship back to the earth, and that would be the situation in which we would suggest burying the piece of paper on which the ritual of closure was written, but in either case, it is well to be sure that there is energetic closure before one begins an intentional program of prayers or good wishes for a beloved entity, so we salute the loving heart of R in asking this question because it is well to realize that all entities with whom one has come into contact in a deep way in an incarnation are those entities who have come there as Ray says, perhaps there was pain because of such a relationship, and this is often the case with any two entities that spend deep time together. Q’uo went on to say the process of change involves discomfort, and the dynamic of two souls who are attempting to learn together creates opportunities for growth, so that it is common in relationships for two entities growing together to experience a good deal of discomfort, but this is not because there is incompatibility but because of the two powerful beings, striving together to learn, is that effect which causes each entity to become a mirror for the other entity, so that all of those things which you did not wish to see in yourself, your partner has offered you a mirror so that you may see better which is a difficulty from the spiritual point of view, for in order to enter the open heart, every part of the self that has not yet been loved and accepted by the self must be brought before the self so that you can do the work of loving your self, including that part of your shadow side which does not seem so attractive. Q’uo continued by saying once the work has been done to sever any lingering energetic dynamic between two people, it is perfectly acceptable to offer prayers at any time for an entity because you are offering prayers to the higher self of that entity rather than to that entity, and that higher self will direct that loving energy where it needs to go or will lovingly set it aside if it is inappropriate as long as there is not an adhesion of energy between two people this is the spiritual rule that manifests. In 36.7, Ra gave the basic definition of our higher self:

Questioner: In that case my higher self would, shall we say, have a very large advantage in knowing precisely what was needed since it would know what… as far as I am concerned, what was going to happen. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect, in that this would be an abrogation of free will. The higher self aspect is aware of the lessons learned through the sixth density. The progress rate is fairly well understood. The choices which must be made to achieve the higher self as it is are in the provenance of the mind/body/spirit complex itself.

Thus the higher self is like the map in which the destination is known; the roads are very well known, these roads being designed by intelligent infinity working through intelligent energy. However, the higher self aspect can program only for the lessons and certain predisposing limitations if it wishes. The remainder is completely the free choice of each entity. There is the perfect balance between the known and the unknown.

We find that we have time and this instrument has energy enough for one more query. Is there another query? We are those of Q’uo.

[No further queries.]

We are those of Q’uo, and as we hear through this instrument’s ears that there are no questions, we believe that we have exhausted the questions for this session. May we say what a pleasure it has been. Again we ask that you be careful. Think about that which we say. If there is a false note anywhere, please disregard this information, for we would not wish to be a stumbling block in your way. We are those of Q’uo. We leave you in the love and in the light of the one infinite Creator. Adonai.

This morning I went across the road to my neighbor’s yard and used my hedgeclippers to cut down their tall grasses that are dead so that the new grasses that have just begun to sprout can have room and light to grow. I raked up eight garbage cans full of the grasses and put them on the street for yard waste pickup tomorrow morning

This afternoon I took a friend to the Village Anchor Restaurant for lunch, and then we took a walk through walking trail across the street from the Village Anchor.

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

April 2

Give Thanks!

I am of the consciousness of the Most High. I greet you in the realization of unconditional Love, the consciousness of the Christ.

The morning has come again. For what can you give thanks? If there is no sunshine to praise, then praise the clouds and rain.

If you cannot give thanksgiving for the plenteousness of water and the shade of the trees in an oasis, give thanksgiving instead to the clean, clear, lucid and deep desert wherein may be found plain answers and the untangling of many a mystery. If you seem tossed about on the stormy ocean and find that you cannot praise this condition, praise instead the endlessness of that ocean and the infinity and freedom of the water.

For all things made by the Creator are equally to be praised. All moods, feelings and thoughts of those conscious beings whom He made are equally worthy.

Therefore, in whatever condition you find yourself, give thanks. But chiefly give thanks for the Creator which has made all things. For in all things lies Love; the Love of the consciousness of wholeness, healing and peace which is the gift in embodiment of Jesus the Christ.

May you feel blessed regardless of circumstance, because you are a witness to the creation. You may not understand it, but you may praise it in faith and hope, and in that spirit shall you be consoled.

We leave you in the peace and consolation of the spirit of unconditional and infinite 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.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the passing into larger life of Carla Lisbeth Rueckert, and in her memory I would like to share with my readers the eulogy that I gave at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church here in Anchorage, Kentucky on April 17^th, 2015. Carla said that she wanted to wait until about three weeks after she had left her body to have her funeral because she wanted friends and relatives who might be living a long distance from Anchorage to have a chance to attend her funeral.

Carla Lisbeth Rueckert-McCarty was born on July 16, 1943, in Lake Forest, IL. Carla was a child prodigy. At the age of 3 she could read the newspaper, speak French, and read music. She would have started singing in the adult church choir then, but she wasn’t strong enough to hold the Hymnal all the way through the processional, until the next year when she was four years old. She was also the friendliest little girl her mother had ever seen. When they took the bus to go downtown and shop, little Carla would wander up and down the aisle speaking to everyone who was on the bus. She did not know a stranger. Her mother was mortified.

Carla’s mother was a teacher and enjoyed working with her very intelligent child before school teachers got their hands on her mind. Her mother wanted to explore the world through her child’s eyes, and so she asked Carla to write her thoughts down in response to the question “Who are you?” So, five-year old Carla sat down and, in her childish printing, wrote down that she was a girl, and a daughter, that she was a member of society, a citizen of the world, and she was a child of the Creator.

When she was born her left eye was pointed at her brow, and it was about a year later when surgery was able to correct the defect, and then she started wearing glasses. A fascinating experience occurred because she had to wear glasses at such an early age. One day, when she was 2 years old, and when it was time for her to take her afternoon nap, her mother put her in her crib next to the window and closed the Venetian blinds. Before she went to sleep, Carla took her glasses off and put them between the blinds which were drawn for her nap. Then she laid down and saw that there was light coming through the slit in the Venetian blinds. When it went through her glasses it made a beam of light that she was able to use to slide out of her body and go to what seemed like a magic forest. The animals would communicate with her, colors were more vivid, and when she went to the center of the forest, there she would see Jesus. He didn’t look like the paintings you usually see. His hair was long, matted, and dusty from the road. His robe was dusty too, and he never spoke a word. But when he held her hand and looked into her eyes, she immediately knew what unconditional love was. This experience occurred many times over the next few years. When she was five years old, she told her mom and dad about the experience, and they told her that it was not real. It was in her mind. That she had made it up. So, the experience never happened again. But her devotion to Jesus as her Lord and Savior began then and never wavered throughout her life. And from that point on, love would become her way of looking at the world. Those two parts of this experience never changed for her.

Because of Carla’s intelligence her mom and dad gave her more responsibilities at an early age than most kids would ever have. She babysat her younger brother, Jimmy, when she was only 7 years old. When she was 10, she cooked for the family even though she had to stand on a chair to reach the stove top. Her mom and dad felt that with her high intelligence, she should be pushed to excel more by constructive criticism than by being given praise. So, by the age of 13 she believed that she was a failure, and she prayed to die because she felt that she could not be of service. Since her meeting with Jesus, service to others was the way that she believed that she could express the love that she had felt from Him. And if she couldn’t serve as Jesus had inspired her to do, then she wanted to die. Six months later her kidneys failed, and she had a NDE. She again went to a place where the animals communicated with her. She could see music in the air. A rose twined around her arm, and just over the hill she could see the top of a temple. She knew that her spiritual family and friends were in the temple and waiting for her. But as she proceeded up the hill a clear and heavenly voice told her that it was not her time. It said that she had chosen a great deal to learn in her life, and perhaps she should make another plan that would use another childhood and split the load between two lifetimes. Carla couldn’t stand the thought of having to go through another childhood, so she said that she would go back and complete this life. And immediately she was back in her body, which was racked with pain, and there was a circle of doctors’ and nurses’ faces gathered over her. She chose a hard road in coming back because it offered more chances to serve others, and so she did.

When she graduated from the MacDuffie High School for Girls in Springfield, MA, her test scores were so high that she was offered scholarships from all the Ivy League schools and the Seven Sisters Schools as well. But when she went to Wellesley to see the school, she couldn’t believe how disgusting and preppy the parties were that were used to recruit prized students. So, she returned home to attend the University of Louisville, much to the chagrin of her mom and dad.

Again, because of her high test scores, she was admitted to the University as a junior, under a program that was used only for a couple of years. Her great love in college was philosophy. She was a natural-born philosopher, so one of the first courses she took was a graduate level course in Ethics. After about two weeks of class lectures on various philosophers, the professor gave the first assignment. He said that they had talked about a number of philosophies in the first two weeks, but now he wanted them to write original philosophy on the topic of their choice. He didn’t want to hear any other philosopher quoted back to him. He wanted their original work.

So, Carla went home, got out her 8.5 X 11-inch, yellow legal pad, and her pencil, and wrote on the topic of free will. She filled the front of the sheet, turned it over and wrote halfway down the back side. When she went back to the next class to hand the paper in, she was somewhat shaken when she saw that her classmates, graduate students all, were handing in 20-, 30-, and 40-page type-written papers. She thought maybe she had made an error. When the students came back to class the next week, the professor walked around the room and handed each student his or her paper, and gave out the grade at the same time. D, F, C, D, etc. until all the papers were handed back, except Carla didn’t get her paper back. Then he said, “I gave one A on this assignment, and I’m going to read you the paper”. Then he proceeded to read her page and a half paper on the topic of free will. Then he said, “Now that is original philosophy. That is what I was looking for.”

Just before she got her degree from the University of Louisville she began dating a fellow who said that she was such a sweet little girl, that he wanted to take care of her, because she really didn’t know what the world was like. He told her that it was a rough and mean place, and that she needed protection in order to be safe. That idea upset Carla greatly. She was sure that if you treated people with love, they would treat you with love. So, to test that belief, she dropped out of the University and got a job at a sleazy nightclub in downtown Louisville called The Shack. It was a popular hangout for gamblers, numbers runners, pimps, and prostitutes. Her dad was an engineer by day and a jazz drummer by night, and he convinced the owner to give Carla a job, even though she wouldn’t be a pro like the other girls she would be working with. When guys would ask her for a date, she would politely tell them that she wasn’t a pro, but she could get one of the other girls to go out with them. Or she might just listen to their problems, and give them reassurance and advice. The Shack had live music, and when the band would take a break Carla would get up on the stage and sing folk songs a Capella. She became much beloved, and that was demonstrated one day in a potentially dangerous way. A stranger came into the bar and asked her for a date. She told him that she wasn’t a pro, but that she could get him a date with one of the other girls. But he wouldn’t let her go, and he began giving her a hard time. And then the whole place went silent. You could have heard a pin drop. And then what she did hear, was a beer bottle breaking across the room, and then another, and another. Her friends were about to defend her, but the intruder wisely decided to call it a day and quickly left. For Carla that was validation of her belief that if you gave love, you got love back, even if it came in the form of a broken beer bottle.

Her first husband, who was known as Dee, was the student of a professor who would become central in Carla’s life. Don Elkins was a professor of physics at the University of Louisville, and Dee was taking intro to physics from him. In his off-time Don was in the process of starting a meditation group and invited Dee and 11 of his classmates, to be part of it. Dee asked if he could bring his girlfriend along. Don said, “Sure”. After four years, seven mistresses, and after leaving Carla four times, Dee eventually asked Carla for a divorce, which she happily granted. So, when she went back to the meditation group she began to spend time with Don, and he eventually moved in with her. When Don told her that he knew that they were going be together after meeting her for the first time she asked him why he didn’t tell her that before she married Dee, and Don said, “I knew that you would get a lot of good catalyst and grow from it.” To which Carla replied, “Thanks a lot!”

From that point on she began to work for Don as he was a physics professor by day only. On his own time he was very interested in UFOs and the general field of the paranormal, and he needed someone like Carla that could read the existing literature in the field, take notes, and then compare them to the material that he had collected since the mid-50s. Don was also a pilot, and would fly to different parts of the country to investigate close encounters and reports of abduction. Carla would fly along and take notes. They eventually wrote a book called SECRETS OF THE UFO, which was published in 1977, and it is still considered one of the best in the field.

I met Don and Carla in the fall of 1979, when I was living in the woods of central Kentucky, and was part of a food buying co-op that met monthly to place orders. I had recently heard Don and Carla interviewed on WKQQ radio in Lexington, KY. The topic was UFOs, and I was very interested in meeting these two folks. Later, I discovered, at one of our food co-op meetings, that there was a group of folks living on the other side of the county who knew Don and Carla. They invited me to attend one of Don and Carla’s Sunday meditations that they held in their apartment on Douglass Blvd., here in Louisville. Don and Carla warmly welcomed me to their meditation, and afterward we talked some, and I asked if it would be OK for me to attend the meditations regularly. So, for the next year I drove from Marion County to Louisville on Sundays to meditate with Don and Carla.

Eventually I helped them move from their apartment on Douglass Blvd. to a house on Watterson Trail, in Jeffersontown, where we would soon live together and join our efforts in pursuing their work in meditation, philosophy, metaphysics, and channeling.

Carla had a gift that is sometimes called mediumship or channeling. She could contact intelligent sources of love and inspiration that some people call aliens and others angels. Carla’s real gift though was the discernment of spirits. Whenever we meditated and an unseen spirit wished to speak through her she would always challenge that spirit in the name of Jesus Christ, her Lord and Savior. If the unseen spirit could not say that “Jesus is Lord” Carla would not allow the entity to speak through her.

Throughout her life as a Christian mystic, who had this ability to discern spirits, she always asked her priest to look at her work and let her know if he thought it was acceptable. The first priest she asked this question of was Bishop Marmion. He realized that she was serving people who did not go to church, and so he said to her “Your work is based on giving and receiving love whether it’s done in a church or not. You are Christ to these people. You are their contact with His love. Treat them as sheep of His flock”.

Eventually Carla, Don Elkins, and I were involved in what came to be called the Law of One, or the Ra contact. We completed 106 sessions of this channeled contact, which is the work for which Carla is best known around the world. After Don Elkins died in 1984, Carla and I continued the work of L/L Research with weekly Sunday meditations, further channeling, speaking engagements around the country, and Carla also offered herself as a counselor to those who had questions about their life’s path and how they might be aided by the information that we had been privileged to make available.

All totaled, Carla either authored or channeled over a dozen books during her life, counseled hundreds of seekers of truth, spoke to thousands of people at spiritual gatherings, and in everything that she did, she happily and naturally shared her love of life, and her love of people. In 1987, she and I were married in Calvary Episcopal Church. We were married for 28 years, and together for 35.

Her last five years were spent mostly in a hospital bed at home, attempting to recover from back surgery. Though she experienced a great deal of pain and limitation, she never complained even once about her situation. She faced all of her life with love and a happy heart that she freely shared with all who came her way. She saw all people as souls, no matter the outer behavior, full of love in their true selves, and she loved them without reservation, without limit, and with all her being, for love was the greatest quality that she could channel through her wide-open heart.

The greatest love of her life was Jesus Christ and her spiritual family that lives all over the world and especially here at St. Luke’s. For over a decade she has been a part of the parish of this wonderful church. For the last five years of her life, she was unable to attend in person, but she always felt that she was here in spirit sharing her love for each person within the walls of this family church. She was so grateful to Caroline Edelman for bringing her weekly communion that fed her soul. She chose every part of this memorial service as a means by which to glorify God, in the passing of her earthly life, and as a reaffirmation of her belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and her personal savior. She was truly the love of my life, and I think about her every day.

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

April 1

Cost And Fruit

I am of the principle of the consciousness of divine Love, and I greet you in radiant joy.

It is the season of Easter, the time when Jesus’ emergence from the Earth is held in remembrance and His ascent therefrom rejoiced at. Now is the season of blooming, for just as Jesus grew like a flower from the Earth, so too may we see in each flower that resurrection glory.

In this season may you find much to rejoice at, never regretting the cost of winter but glorying instead in the fullness and promise of spring. Such are the cycles of eternal life. The cycles contain different kinds of blooming and different kinds of growing, but always the pulse of cost and fruit.

We leave you in the peaceful harmony 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.